The Epoch of Incredulity

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  • Episode 83 - THE PET

    We talk a lot Ukraine in the first half, and the rise of fascism and Neo-Nazis locally and internationally throughout most of the rest of the episode. Scott spends most of the second half complaining. No War/No Sanctions. Thank you for listening and please share.


    Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.

    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

    00:00 - Opening statement/disclaimer
    01:31 - Intro
    03:01 - Things are happening re: Russia/Ukraine/US/NATO
    06:00 - No war/no interventionist/no sanctions
    07:05 - Biden/Putin
    08:09 - Part of why this is happening
    09:30 - Ukrainian Neo-Nazis
    11:15 - The history of the rise of fascism in Ukraine
    14:00 - How US influence factors into this
    16:55 - If war between US and Russia went hot/to ground
    18:45 - Climate Update = It's not good!
    22:15 - Scott complains about things for a while
    23:30 - 2022: The Year of Shut the Fuck Up
    24:00 - Boston is still racist/Neo-Nazis in the city
    29:00 - "Some Thoughts on What Can Be Done to withstand the Neo-Confederate/Neo-Fascist Conquest of Power"
    33:35 - Conservatives got mad at the halftime show
    35:00 - Disney's Storyliving/Companies are the new countries
    40:01 - SEGMENT - You Can't Make This Shit Up w/ Comrade Janus
    47:24 - Outro and social media
    51:44 - Slam recommendation
    56:42 - Extras

    --- Audio credits ---

    All theme music by Contingence

    https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston

    Intro clip (between theme songs) source:

      "Inclusive Patriotism": How Radicals Are Retconned into Liberal Champions of the American Project

      by Citations Needed Podcast

      ~ Posted: Feb 9th, 2022

      ~ Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/inclusive-patriotism-how-radicals-are-retconned-into-liberal-champions-of-the-american-project

    Background music during cutaway monologues:

      Lobby Time

      by Kevin MacLeod

      ~ License: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-license

      ~ Song link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time

    Background music before YCMTSU:

      Opportunity Walks

      by Kevin MacLeod

      ~ License: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-license

      ~ Song link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4173-opportunity-walks

    Slam recommendation:

      Resonances of the Cut and Chopped Heads

      by Craniotomy

      ~ Album: Ripped Out by Violence

      ~ Released: Feb 4th, 2022

      ~ Hometown: Hlohovec, Slovakia

      ~ Album link: https://amputatedveinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ripped-out-by-violence

    58 min
  • MM | Revolutionary Suicide [Excerpt 1/2] ~ Huey P. Newton

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse begins reading from an excerpt published in the Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs: Revolutionary Suicide, by Huey P. Newton.

    Part one covers the foreword and the sections entitled "The Way of Liberation", "Spiritual Death", "Seriousness", and "Redefinition".


    Background music:

        "Phlegethon" prod. NK Music - https://youtu.be/c91-8jOO9qY

    Theme music:

        Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston


    This episode was released to our patrons on January 8th, 2022.

    For early releases and other goodies, become a Patron at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity

    15 min
  • Episode 82 - Medicare Privatization Part Two: "Personal Anus"

    Here is part two of our exanimation into Medicare Privatization. Thank you for listening.


    Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.           

    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

    00:00 - intro
    00:39 - The continued privatization of Medicare, continued
    01:00 - Barack Obama
    09:40 - The funniest thing Jesse has ever said on the podcast
    22:00 - PNHP petition
    22:18 - "scratching each other's dicks."
    23:55 - SEGMENT - You Can't Make This Shit Up w/ Comrade Janus
    32:31 - Outro and social media
    35:31 - Slam recommendation
    38:55 - extras

    --- Audio credits ---

    Opener background music:

        Daydream by KaizanBlu - https://youtu.be/wQ3tL-W2dEo

    Cutaway background music:

        Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod

        Song URL: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4173-opportunity-walks

        License: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-license

    Slam recommendation:

        Song: Stillborn

        Artist: Ingested

        Album: Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering [re-issue]

        Released: 2019-10-18

        Hometown: Manchester, UK

        Bandcamp (album link): https://uniqueleaderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surpassing-the-boundaries-of-human-suffering

    All theme music by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston

    *** SIGN & SHARE THIS PETITION: pnhp.org/StopDCEs ***

    41 min
  • Episode 82 - Medicare Privatization Part One: "Seven-Layer-Dip-Flavored Dorito"
    Hey folks, we're back! We return with the first part of a lengthy exanimation into the continued privatization of Medicare.

    Check out our |Patreon| for bonus content and access to our Discord.           

    Please visit |comrade-rosie.org| for resources in the greater Boston area.

    00:00 - intro
    02:12 - News
    02:52 - No free Community College from Biden
    04:32 - "Lumpent"-proletariat
    06:13 - Americans are toxic
    09:45 - Amnesty International labels Israel an apartheid state
    13:00 - Seven-layer dip
    13:36 - Ukraine
    17:10 - History's worst serial killer
    17:55 - First Michelle Wu mention
    18:30 - Blue States repealing Mask Mandates
    23:54 - The continued privatization of Medicare

    --- Audio credits ---

    Theme music by Contingence: https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston

    Intro clip, Kalama interview, NBC: https://youtu.be/ZIrnKeR-Sm0

    Interview clip c. 15:00, James Woolsey on the Russians' efforts to disrupt elections, Fox: https://youtu.be/SpWai3kZ-gM

    Interview clip background music: Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4173-opportunity-walks

      License: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-license

    WHO explainer background music: Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time

      License: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-license

    Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Prices | Adult Swim UK: https://youtu.be/hJ9yBgTp9UQ

    Outro music: Pieces by After the Fall: https://youtu.be/5RqryYapSAQ

    SIGN THIS PETITION: https://pnhp.salsalabs.org/dcepetitionseptember2021/index.html

    58 min
  • MM | Fascism, Fundamentalism, & Patriarchy [2/2] ~ Anuradha Ghandy

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse finishes out Anuradha Ghandy's 2001 article: Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Patriarchy.

    Part two covers the sections entitled "The State's Patriarchal Communal Outlook", "Women's Organisations of the Hindutva Forces", "Women's Wing of RSS", and "Women Arise, Fight Hindu Fascism".


    Background music:

        "Phrike" prod NK Music - https://youtu.be/A6JYwP5BQdM


    Theme music:

        Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston


    This episode was released to our patrons on January 4th, 2022.

    For early releases and other goodies, subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity


    15 min
  • MM | Fascism, Fundamentalism, & Patriarchy [1/2] ~ Anuradha Ghandy

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse begins reading from Anuradha Ghandy's 2001 article Fascism, Fundamentalism, and Patriarchy.

    Part one covers the foreword and sections entitled "Growing Funadmentalism Worldwide - What it means for women" and "The Indian Context".


    Background music:

        "Peitho" prod. NK Music x sweeps -- https://youtu.be/_cIwnY-3GZE


    Theme music:

        Written and performed by Contingence -- https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston


    This episode was released to our patrons on January 1st, 2022.

    For early releases and other goodies, subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity


    20 min
  • MM | Art for the People's Sake ~ Emory Douglas

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads an excerpt from Black Panther Party's Service to the People Programs: Emory Douglas' speech entitled Art for the People's Sake.


    Background music:

    "Ourea" prod. NK Music & Milkz -- https://youtu.be/wDfU6ZKBN-4


    Theme music:

    Written and performed by Contingence -- https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston


    This episode was released to our patrons on December 26th, 2021.

    For early releases and other goodies, become a Patron at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity


    12 min
  • Episode 81 - Suck My Tender Juices

    ☭ The fearsome foursome has returned. ☭

    Links to the material we discussed are posted separately in {this patreon post}.

    Please support us on {Patreon}.

    Enjoy your epoch, comrades ♥


    --- Timestamps ---

    00:00 Intro

    01:50 We're back! [News overview w/ Joe]
    06:35 Chemical pollution
    09:02 Suck my tender juices (for the greater good)
    10:10 Microsoft acquires Activision-Blizzard
    12:35 FTC antitrust lip service
    15:28 No more big boob
    15:55 Lyft or whatever the shit
    16:43 The nurse question [Janus arrives]
    20:25 Campaign funding and consulting firms
    22:34 Bindi smells good
    24:53 Mass & Cass redux
    25:43 RIP Zencastr
    26:45 DSA proposal gossip
    32:42 Clarification / self-crit
    36:20 How to help with the Mass & Cass response
    43:24 Executive dysfunction
    45:36 One pant at a time
    47:45 The Act of Killing
    49:00 Doin' a Judaism
    50:59 Vax mandate
    52:09 State wants its unemployment benefits back
    53:40 Eugenics and 5G
    56:38 YCMTSU w/ comrade Janus
    1:03:18 Plugs
    1:07:47 Slam recommendation
    1:12:00 Dessert


    --- Audio credits ---

    All theme music:

      Written & performed by Contingence
      https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston

    Intro clip:

      "Indonesia 1967: American reporter for NBC speaks to a genocidaire in Bali"
      https://youtu.be/DI42TlCZcik

    Music during cutaway w/o monologue:

      "Off to Osaka" by Kevin MacLeod
      https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4154-off-to-osaka

    Background music during cutaway w/ monologue:

      "Near the Horizon" by After The Fall
      https://youtu.be/Odg9Z7CpMxA

    Slam recommendation:

      Song title: Revenge of the Injured Beast
      Artist: Human Parasite
      Album: Proud to Build the Insidious Catastrophe (℗ 2011 Soulflesh Collector Records)
      Released: 2010-08-21
      Bandcamp (album link): https://sfcrecords.bandcamp.com/album/proud-to-build-insidious-catastrophe
      Hometown: Besançon, France


    1 hr 14 min
  • MM | Naxalbari Path [1/?] ~ B. Anuradha

    In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads the beginning of Women's Liberation -- Class Struggle -- Naxalbari Path by B. Anuradha.

    Part one will cover some of the context for these writings, the introduction, and the section entitled "Part I: Women's Liberation, Marxist Perspective".


    Background music:

    "Telchines" by NK Music - https://youtu.be/OP7iKNEQSmQ


    Theme music:

    Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston


    This episode was released to our patrons on December 17th, 2021.

    For early releases and other goodies, subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity


    15 min

About The Epoch of Incredulity

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Here in the Boston Commune, we interpret the tumultuous churn of modernity through a Marxist lens. Episodes alternate between analyses of current events -- from the hyperlocal to the international -- and narrations of theoretical texts by communists and anti-imperialists the world over. This project was birthed in a mental health working group during the pandemic and continues in true DIY fashion, without any advertisements or monetization (save for a few generous patrons). Hard to believe, we know; for it is, after all, the Epoch of Incredulity.