Reel Politik Podcast

In a previously unreleased episode from 2021, Jack & FFF @soldierpaypig get into the weeds on politics, music & comedy while Jack has a Grateful Dead concert movie playing in the background the entire time.

76 MIN EPISODE AVAILABLE IN FULL @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp312-extra-bash-116309514

Jack talks to author Toby Manning (@TobyManning) about his new book Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music, out now from Repeater Books. Naturally, a very JFR-brained understanding of "pop" is applied to the conversation, which focuses on the Rolling Stones and Paul Weller as case studies in the connections between popular music and political ideology.

(Couldn't resist getting Toby's thoughts on the Tom York situation at the end.)

In a heated debate, the fellas settle the burning question of our time once and for all: is Eric Clapton better - politically, musically and personally - than Tom York of Radio Head.

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Tom York #1 Israel fan + US election (recorded before polling day)

probing the online subculture of the strangest little town in England (2021)

00:00 to 19:23 - Vike Gapes presents CHAOS TALKING (A Sinan Kose stream ft. Jack Frayne-Reid, FFF & nparticipation)

19:23 to end - Reel Politik 205 - Latest Podcast Project, Vol. 1 (ft. FFF)

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you sort of get us in various different combinations on this one - starts off me and Yair, then it's the three of us, then it's Yair and Steffan, then it's the three of us again, then it's me and Steffan. anyway, drawing on Steffan's expertise we sort of interrogate queer identity here - via an incomprehensible tweet about Chappell Roan - in a brand new segment that Yair described to me as "little risqué at times but nothing crossed my own personal lines". i fucking love chopping it up with my boy Shrieking Tinman so this was great fun to record + listen back to - Jack

the Reel Politik podcast review the funniest album of all time in a number of different permutations between 2021-4

00:00:00 - 00:22:12 - Reel Politik 205 ft. FFF - Latest Podcast Project, Vol. 1 (hosts: Jack/Geraint) (2021)

00:22:12 - 00:44:59 - Reel Politik 216 - Latest Podcast Project, Vol. 2 (hosts: Jack/Tom/Yair) (2021)

00:44:59 - 00:53:21 - Reel Politik 228 - Three Non-Bonds (hosts: Jack/Tom/Yair) (2021)

00:53:21 - 01:00:47 - We Don't Talk About The Weather 144 - My Corona (ft. Juliet Jacques & Jack Frayne-Reid) (2021)

01:00:47 - 01:18:38 - RP270 Extra ft. @phased_bemused (hosts: Jack/Geraint) (2023)

01:18:38 - 01:19:41 - Celtic Ligers 054 (ft. Jack Frayne-Reid) (2024)

01:19:41 - Jack covers Crazy Love as part of "Wedding Songs" rehearsal set (2023)

Steffan @phased_bemused returns to the show to stand in for an absent @wariotifo* as we discuss the Mike Amesbury punching scandal, the slight return of Borat, a Jewish community centre protested simply for hosting Tony Blair and multiple other war criminals, and some neocon tosser's latest "final straw" with the left.

*nothing serious, he was just hosting the Top Rope Deep Dive wrestling stream at twitch.com/MarkedAsRed

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from 2019 - @wariotifo's 2nd and 3rd episodes as co-host, on the neoconservative blog Harry's Place. part 2 previously only available @ patreon.com/reelpolitik.

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Original episode descriptions:

PART ONE: BRING IT ON DOWN TO HARRY'S PLACE

Jack is joined by the Reel Politik Podcast's new Director of Strategy & Communications (Mr Seumas Miwne), Geraint (@wariotifo on Twitter), to go back to the mid-00s heyday of the Sensible/Decent Left, the pro-war ideologues who gave us the Euston Manifesto, the website Harry's Place, and various LM Network-style front organisations. We look at how this tendency of the Crank Centre laid the groundwork for much of the centrist hysteria directed today at the Corbynite left for their foreign policy stances, and how they even chillingly predicted many of the concerns & talking points of what would become known as the alt-right. Many stalwart enemies of the show make appearances, such as Nick Cohen and longtime melt enterprise Little Atoms.

PowerBase was an invaluable resource when researching this episode (powerbase.info/index.php/Main_Page) and we'd also like to thank our friend Phil BC for some of his writing on Harry's Place and the hated Decents.

PART TWO: HARRY'S PISS

AND YOU HAVE THE second instalment of our two-parter on the hated Harry's Place, the pro-war shitrag that set the blogosphere alight in the early to mid 2000s. We conclude our discussion on these horrendous hawk bastards - including their hated affiliate Stephen Pollard - before discussing the hated Frank Field's new Birkenhead Social Justice Party and portrayals of class and "the underclass" in cinema. We play the episode out with a song by the legendary Silver Jews, in tribute to the late, and dearly missed, David Berman.

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When he came down to visit last weekend, I was able to persuade (well, more sort of "trap") retired Reel Politik co-founder Tom Foster into appearing on the show again - his only condition being that it be released exclusively on the Patreon rather than to a "mass" audience. This was, in my view, a price worth paying to have the chance to chop it up with my good mate Tom once again after what is probably a good couple of years, and to get his thoughts on Francis Ford Coppola's divisive epic MEGALOPOLIS, as well as the upcoming work of Clint Eastwood and the Nick Love/Danny Dyer axis. I also recount my recent discovery of an old article by centrist thought guru Dorian Lynskey where he uses the n-word.

Peace + love, JFR