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A fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with Modibo Kadalie and Andrew Zonneveld, Author and Editor of ‘Intimate Direct Democracy’ covers many topics from the importance of directly democratic history, archeology, and technology to the threads of intimacy and democracy that tie together music, comedy, and conversation.

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Opening Theme Song by Jodi Pongratz:

Closing Theme Song by The Window Smashing Job Creators:
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Links:
Buy the Book ‘Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom’: https://on-our-own-authority-publishing.square.site/product/kadalie-intimate-direct-democracy/26?cs=true&cst=custom

Imagine a world without bosses! The Wrong Boys speak to Michael Albert, author of “No Bosses,” about Participatory Economics, democratic workers councils, fair job complexes, and the process of building a participatory and democratic economy. 

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NO BOSSES: NO BOSSES | No Bosses (nobossesbook.com)

More on Parecon: Participatory Economics | A model for a new economy

This week’s theme song by Brain Tan

IQ demolished. Definitively. Goodbye IQ. You’re not real. Brain numbers are a foolish undertaking, tied to unimaginable suffering and horror. You are not science. Bye bye.

Theme Song by Harpers of the World:
https://fasola.org/

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Links:
Stephen Jay Gould on Intelligence Tests (IQ), the Nature – Nurture Controversy 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wcSSLo9TIs
Study: IQ tests are ‘fundamentally flawed’: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fundamentally-flawed-and-using-them-alone-to-measure-intelligence-is-a-fallacy-study-finds-8425911.html
Radiolabs’ “G” podcast series on Intelligence & IQ: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/projects/radiolab-presents-g
Ted Talk – the dark history of IQ tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2bKaw2AJxs
IQ is largely a Pseudoscientific Swindle by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
What does IQ really measure?: https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-iq-really-measure
“RACE, GENETICS, AND IQ” Richard Nesbitt: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/racegen.pdf
Podcast – My Year in Mensa by Jamie Loftus: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-my-year-in-mensa-55379945/
Video Essay: Debunking The Bell Curve by Shaun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo
Measuring intelligence and IQ, and the problems that presents: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/11/16/measuring-intelligence-iq-problems-present/
Extreme heat and reduced cognitive performance in adults in non-air-conditioned buildings: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180711182748.htm
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J Gould: ISBN-10: 0393314251
IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea by Stephen Murdoch: ISBN-10: 1630268712
The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea by Elof Axel Carlson: ISBN-10: 0879695870
Racism, not Race by Joseph L. Graves & Alan Goodman: ISBN-10: 0231200668
The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund: ISBN-10: 0252074637

This week on the show, the Wrong Boys speak with Canadian Cree-Métis Archaeologist Dr. Paulette Steeves about the evidence for peopling of the Americas, going back at least 60,000 years, but as much as 200,000+ years or more, and talk about the racist colonial biases in Archaeology over the last 100 years that ignored First Nations oral histories in favor of the disproven ‘Clovis-first’ hypothesis.

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Dr. Paulette Steeves on Twitter
https://twitter.com/PauletteSteeves

The Indigenous Paleolithic Database of America
https://tipdba.com/

The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere by Paulette F C Steeves
ISBN 1496202171

Publisher Website
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/

Dr. Steeve’s Book Recommendation:

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert N. Proctor
ISBN 0804759014

This week the Wrong Boys are joined by Joseph L Graves Jr and Alan H Goodman to discuss the pseudoscientific concept of ‘biological race’ and it’s very real roots in colonial racism.

Theme Song by Trái Bơ:
https://traibo.bandcamp.com/

Links:
Get the Book: “Racism, Not Race”: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/racism-not-race/9780231200660
Joseph L Graves Jr on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_L._Graves_Jr.Alan H Goodman on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_H._GoodmanThe Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America by Joseph L Graves: ISBN 0452286581
Race: Are We So Different? by Alan H Goodman: ISBN 0470657146
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibrahim X Kendi: ISBN 0525509283
How Race Survived US History by David Roediger: ISBN 9781844674343
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J Gould: ISBN 0393314251
Why Charles Murray is Odious by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/why-is-charles-murray-odious
Article – The Invention of Whiteness: A Long History of A Dangerous Idea: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea
Podcast – The Invention of Whiteness: A Long History of A Dangerous Idea: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/may/28/the-invention-of-whiteness-the-long-history-of-a-dangerous-idea-podcast
Kathryn Paige Harden’s Genetic Determinist New Yorker Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters

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This week, Shawn interviews leftist candidate for President of the American Library Association Emily Drabinski about the role, her goals in office, and labour issues facing Librarians today.

Emily’s website:
https://www.emilydrabinski.com/

On Vocational Awe:
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

On Library Socialism:
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/24/usufruct-complementarity-irred.html

This is an edited down version of the live variety show we held in discord on Jan 25, 2022. If you want to hear the whole episode, or join us for the next one on March 20, 2022 at 2PM PST, sign up to get access to our discord!

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We are joined by historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss her new book, why America is not ‘a nation of immigrants’, and how this feel-good liberal mythos, created by JFK and exemplified in the musical ‘Hamilton’, obscures America’s settler colonial history

Theme Song by Brain Tan: https://braintan.bandcamp.com/

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Links/Further Reading:
‘This is no ‘nation of immigrants’’ – (article) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz : https://www.uuworld.org/articles/no-nation-immigrants
“Not a Nation of Immigrants” book (Beacon Press): http://www.beacon.org/Not-A-Nation-of-Immigrants-P1641.aspx
‘‘Hamilton’ ignores the statesman’s strategy to fund genocidal warfare against Indigenous Peoples’ by Mark Meuwese: https://theconversation.com/hamilton-ignores-the-statesmans-strategy-to-fund-genocidal-warfare-against-indigenous-peoples-142616
‘New Research Suggests Alexander Hamilton Was a Slave Owner’ by David Kindy (Smithsonian Magazine): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-research-alexander-hamilton-slave-owner-180976260/
“I’m Alexander Hamilton’s Descendant. And He Wasn’t As Perfect As You Think.” by Ariel Clay Schuyler Hamilton Ehrlich: https://medium.com/@AriEhrlich/im-alexander-hamilton-s-direct-descendant-and-he-wasn-t-as-perfect-as-you-think-dbe61f6aab7
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘All the criticisms are valid’ tweet: https://twitter.com/lin_manuel/status/1280120414279290881?lang=en
‘How Hitler found his blueprint for a German empire by looking to the American West’ by David Carroll Cochran : https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/10/hitler-found-blueprint-german-empire-in-the-american-west/
‘The Savage Constitution’ by Gregory Ablavsky: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3412&context=dlj
‘The Transit of Empire’ by Jodie Byrd: https://learningcriticalrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/First-peoples_-New-Directions-in-Indigenous-Studies-Byrd-Jodi-A.-The-transit-of-empire-_-indigenous-critiques-of-colonialism-2011-University-of-Minnesota-Press-libgen.lc_.pdf
“Nothing Ever Dies” by Viet Nguyen (Book Review / Overview): https://usso.uk/book-review-nothing-ever-dies-vietnam-and-the-memory-of-war-by-viet-thanh-nguyen/

CORRECTION: In the episode we call the 1881 Chinese Exclusion Act the first Immigration Law in the US. But there is an earlier law, the 1875 Page Act, which restricted immigration of “prostitutes”, and in practice banned the immigration of Chinese women. More on this subject can be found here: https://www.history.com/news/chinese-immigration-page-act-women

This week, the Wrong Boys team up with the crew from Thiiird Waves to think together about the complexities of workplace and income dynamics and radical politics, touching on the ethics of taking job offers with corporate monopolies, the idea of ‘selling out’, the tensions between collective responsibilities and individual choices, ways in which power can corrupt plans to change things from the inside, and the structure of rejecting unjust orders.

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Theme Song by hunt hunt hunt camp:
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Are human beings innately special little angel babies? “Deep Down” are we good or evil? What does the corrupting influence of power have to do with it? Should we tell loving lies? Does power make us lie even to ourselves about our own lies? All these subjects and more, in this special episode of SRSLY WRONG, for our Donor Community! (This is a preview clip of a full episode.)

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