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- Episode 105 - Debt Lemon
This week on the Epoch we cover bureaucracy, redtape, coups, and other bullshit. We talk about the government shutdown and try to make sense of the debt ceiling once again, the endless rounds of votes that finally saw Kevin McCarthy become Speaker of the House, the fail coup attempt/temper tantrum of January 8th in Brasília, the rise in political violence in Peru, and how it ties to the history of anti-communism and the Third World. Thanks for listening.
00:00 - Intro
01:28 - "Why Saving Kids Is Bad Business in America" - New York Times.03:50 - Scott talks about the new Three Body adaptation from Tencent Video05:40 - The Government Shutdown (yet again)14:46 - Alabama Tornado19:19 - We need to talk about Kevin, Kevin McCarthy.22:30 - January 8th, 2023, Brasília.23:40 - Technical difficulties32:45 - Peru44:30 - Indonesian47:20 - MassHealth bullshit51:25 - The Embrace54:02 - Outro and social media.55:23 - Slam Recommendation58:05 - Extras[ AUDIO CREDITS ]
-- Intro clip --
"Peru's violent protests show no signs of slowing down"
Uploaded on January 18th, 2023 by CBS Mornings
https://youtu.be/B2QFZjPsQDo
-- Cutaway: Dead Cat Bounce --
Source video:
"Trump Spent $1.5 Trillion For A Pointless Hour-Long Stock Bounce"
Uploaded on March 13th, 2020 by The Ring of Fire
https://youtu.be/tzNagWv8rKI
Background music:
"Lobby Time" by Kevin MacLeod
https://filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
(License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)
-- Cutaway: Moore, Oklahoma --
"Scylla" prod. NK Music
https://youtu.be/CoZ7R5vJWYM
-- Cutaway: Technical Difficulties --
"Local Forecast" by Kevin MacLeod
https://filmmusic.io/song/3989-local-forecast
(License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)
-- Cutaway: SUGAR --
"Black Ops" prod. NK Music
https://youtu.be/Xf97nfPfXn0
-- Cutaway: Jan 8th --
"Lobby Time" by Kevin MacLeod
https://filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
(License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)
-- Cutaway: Peru --
"A Tribe Called West" prod. DeBox Beats
https://youtu.be/39gOAeiQyFI
-- Transition Music (x2) --
"Cardboard Houses" by HRVRD
Album: From the Bird's Cage
℗ 2013 Enjoy the Ride Records, under exclusive license to Equal Vision Records, Inc.
Released: February 19th, 2013
https://youtu.be/4tDSg6vySI0
-- Slam Recommendation --
Title: Rationing the Sacred Human Remains (feat. Andrew Smith)
Artist: Parasitic Ejaculation
Album: Rationing the Sacred Human Remains
Released: July 22nd, 2013
Bandcamp: https://parasiticejaculation.bandcamp.com/album/rationing-the-sacred-human-remains
Hometown: Santa Cruz, California
-- All theme music --
Written & performed by Contingence
https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston
1 hr - MM | Blackshirts & Reds | Ch. 2 ~ Michael Parenti
In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Michael Parenti's 1997 text, Blackshirts & Reds.
The reading will cover Chapter Two, entitled "Let Us Now Praise Revolution".Source material -- Reading begins on page 23 (PDF page #36):
https://studycommune.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism-1.pdfBackground music:
"Crocotta" prod. NK Music - https://youtu.be/JOhA2E55dFI"Trapped" prod. NK Music - https://youtu.be/J8WuSPARYZUTheme music:
Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingencebostonThis episode was released to our patrons on August 27th, 2022.
For early releases and other goodies, subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity38 min - Episode 104 - Shittin' BRICS (Dogs Are Vibe Experts)
After a bit of an extended hiatus, The Epoch of Incredulity has returned for the first episode of 2023! We tackle a wide range of topics; Private prisons, the disappointing Omnibus bill, Zelenskyy's increasing fascist tendencies, Video Game Unions, and Tesla's dire financials. In the second half, we move our focus internationally and discuss Indonesia's new criminal code, the success of the Yuan-Ruble, BRICS, the ousting of Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, and we end things with sorry state of Jair Bolsonaro, sleeping in a Minions bed, in Orlando. Thank you for listening, please share, and visit our Patreon, patreon.com/epicincredulity/
---Timestamp---00:00:00 - Cold Open: Drew's grandparent's racist dog00:02:32 - intro00:03:58 - Jeremy Renner will survive00:06:00 - Private prisons00:06:56 - The Omnibus bill is not great00:14:08 - "Zelemskyy" and a weird discussion about media licenses00:21:09 - Proletariat Studios unionizes00:26:30 - Tesla losing all the money00:35:40 - Indonesia00:53:40 - Yuan-Ruble00:59:45 - BRICS01:06:16 - Peru01:11:10 - Bolsonaro01:18:25 - Outro and social media(?)01:20:40 - Slam recommendation01:27:22 - Extras===| AUDIO CREDITS |===
-- Intro clip --
"my favorite conservative meme" by Little Joel
Video URL: https://youtu.be/imGrVjErizY
-- Background music for all cutaways --
"Lobby Time" by Kevin MacLeod
Song URL: https://filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
-- Slam recommendation --
"Exospheric Decomposition" by Gravitational Distortion
Album: The Void Between Worlds
Label: Inherited Suffering Records
Released: September 28th, 2015
Bandcamp: https://inheritedsufferingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gravitational-distortion-the-void-between-worlds
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
-- All theme music --
Written & performed by Contingence
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston
1 hr 29 min - MM | Blackshirts & Reds | Ch. 1, pt. 2 ~ Michael Parenti
*** LISTEN TO PART ONE { ANCHOR | PATREON | SPOTIFY } ***
In this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Michael Parenti's 1997 text, Blackshirts & Reds.
The reading will cover the second half of Chapter 1: "Rational Fascism".Source material -- reading begins on page 11 (or PDF page #24):
https://studycommune.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds-rational-fascism-and-the-overthrow-of-communism-1.pdfBackground music:
"Aeniania" prod NK Music - https://youtu.be/myNYLKLvCXUTheme music:
Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingencebostonThis episode was released to our patrons on August 15th, 2022.
For more early releases and other goodies, please visit our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity25 min - SweatyWife's Story Corner: Model Home Invasion [SPECIAL]
Happy Holidays, everyone! We're doing something special this week on The Epoch, as our hosts have returned home for season, we decided to release reading of one of Scott's short horror stories. Please enjoy, any feedback is welcome. Happy Holidays and Merry New Year, everyone!
Model Home Invasion © 2022 by Scott Andrew McArthur.Music by Contingence -- https://soundcloud.com/contingenceboston
Subscribe to our Patreon: https://patreon.com/epicincredulity
8 min - MM | Imperialism | Ch. 10 ~ Vladimir LeninIn this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse reads the conclusion of Lenin's Imperialism pamphlet.The reading covers Chapter Ten: The Place of Imperialism in History.Source material [begins on page 92]:https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdfBackground music:"Yourself" prod. NK Music - https://youtu.be/BWyfTFoC-q4Theme music:Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingencebostonThis episode was released to our patrons on June 18th, 2022.For early releases and other goodies, subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity16 min
- Episode 103 - Pigs, they just wanna befriend spiders.
Been a rough week for The Epoch but we still managed to deliver your episode for the week! After a cold open we jump into many different topics; the rail strike, the disappointment of The Squad, how the system alienates us and makes us all think we are middle class, how The Pentagon, and as always, Elon Musk. Drew briefly brings us video game news with The ZeniMax Union. The end of the show becomes a bit of an open discussion on books, horror, Hitler, and Kanye West. Jesse wraps things up with an exanimation of dreadful state of care work in Massachusetts. Also, we don't care about The Twitter Files. Check out our Patreon: patreon.com/epicincredulity and thank you for listening.
00:00:00 - Cold Open -- Having a rough week, plus updates from our latest Chill with Comrades00:05:53 - Railway and Labor Act00:07:10 - Terrible rail contracts in America00:11:17 - Who voted against the strike (The Squad)00:14:16 - Can't change the system from within/we all think we're middle class00:20:12 - ZeniMax Union (Today's Video Games with Drew Graham)00:21:41 - The Pentagon is a mess00:29:45 - Every episode we talk about Elon Musk00:37:00 - And Kanye West00:40:00 - Scott compares Kanye West to Don DeLillo's White Noise00:43:05 - Alex Jones has to pay even more00:46:20 - Star Wars discussion00:47:35 - Book/horror discussion00:50:50- Care workers in Massachusetts00:58:00 - We don't care about The Twitter Files01:00:00 - Outro and social media01:06:16 - Extras-={ AUDIO CREDITS }=-
-- Intro clip on white supremacy --
Video Title: Lecturing Ignorant Knowitall on Basics of Racism & Settler Colonialism (feat. BadMouse)
Channel: BadEmpanada 2
Video URL: https://youtu.be/ukMFSPzDz4o
-- Background music during rail strike/media monologue --
"Dreadful" prod. NK Music
https://youtu.be/dIKhmSTGO00
-- Background music during Drew's ZeniMax monologue --
"Black Ops" prod. NK Music
https://youtu.be/Xf97nfPfXn0
-- Background music during Lovecraft apologia --
"Off to Osaka" by Kevin MacLeod
Song URL: https://filmmusic.io/song/4154-off-to-osaka
License URL: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
-- Slam recommendation --
Song #1 Title: Gigantic Dildo Constructed from Putrid Human Body Parts Stolen from a Local Cemetary
Song #2 Title: Orgasm Achieved by Disemboweling Pregnant Woman and Inserting Decapitated Fetuses into Hairy Anus
Artist: Hymenotomy
Album: Some Necrophiles Having Sex with Naked Autopsied Bodies in the Morgue
Released: November 23rd, 2016
Hometown: Tallinn, Estonia
Bandcamp (Album URL): https://newstandardelite.bandcamp.com/album/hymenotomy-some-necrophiles-having-sex-with-naked-autopsied-bodies-at-the-morgue
1 hr 8 min - MM | Imperialism | Ch. 9, pt. 2 ~ Vladimir LeninIn this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Lenin's Imperialism pamphlet.The reading covers the second half of Chapter Nine: "Critique of Imperialism".Source material (begins on page 87):https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdfBackground music:"Smaragos" prod. NK Music - https://youtu.be/_Mp1wqiZzYMTheme music:Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingencebostonThis episode was released to our patrons on June 14th, 2022.For early releases and other goodies, subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity19 min
- Episode 102 - Pressured, Prodded, and Harassed
After an elongated and very loose cold open, this episode of the Epoch dives into the most recent Crypto scandal, FTX, and the general insanity of Cryptocurrency. We follow the continuing story of Elon Musk and all the freaks he's allowing back on Twitter. We cover The Biden Administrations pathetic efforts to provide Student Debt Relief, and how The Senate sucks all around -- Did you know the Pandemic is legally over? We briefly touch on the controversy with Ticketmaster. We also discuss The Q Nightclub shooting, the online cryptofash sphere of influence which ties back to Elon and Twitter, gun violence, and Working Class gun ownership. Lastly, we end on some positive labor news of the incoming rail strike. Please visit our patreon: patreon.com/epicincredulity and thank you for listening.
00:00:00 - Cold Open! Topics include: drugs and drugs policy, addiction, video games, the time people get out of bed, sleeping, audiobooks.00:10:00 - Intro00:11:33 - FTX, Crypto00:29:36 - The continuing story of one Elon Musk.00:37:00 - All the freaks Elon's allowed back to Twitter.00:42:27 - Biden and student debt00:47:26 - The Senate sucks00:51:10 - The Pandemic is (legally) over00:53:00 - Scott guesses a ballot questions, Joe ruins it.00:53:35 - Swifties vs. Ticketmaster00:55:30 - Q Club nightclub shooting/Gun violence01:01:46 - Rail Strike01:06:40 - Outro and social media01:08:20 - SLAM RECOMMENDATION01:13:38 - Extra=== AUDIO CREDITS ===
-- Intro clip --
"Same-Sex Couples Hold Out Hope For The Passage Of The 'Respect For Marriage' Act"
CBS Miami
https://youtu.be/22zjrN8NDVk
-- Transition music --
"Pueblo Cicada" by Lower Definition
The Greatest Of All Lost Arts
℗ 2008 Ferret Music, LLC
-- Marty Walsh cutaway --
Video:
"Mayor Walsh reads Good Night Mouse"
City of Boston
https://youtu.be/NgvQ5mlWTpU
Background music:
"Lobby Time" by Kevin MacLeod
https://filmmusic.io/song/3986-lobby-time
CC BY 4.0 License -- https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
-- Slam recommendation --
Song title: Slamming The Shattered Deceased
Artist: Intestinal Pestilence
Album: Rotten Cadaver Forsaken
Released: November 15th, 2021
Bandcamp: https://intestinalpestilence.bandcamp.com/album/rotten-cadaver-forsaken-2
Hometown: León, Guanajuato, Mexico
-- All theme music --
Written & performed by Contingence
https://soundcloud.com/contingenceBoston
1 hr 15 min - MM | Imperialism | Ch. 9, pt. 1 ~ Vladimir LeninIn this installment of Marxist Menagerie, comrade Jesse continues to read from Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism pamphlet.The reading covers the first half of Chapter Nine: Critique of Imperialism.Source material (begins on page 82):https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/imperialism.pdfBackground music:"Syntribos" prod NK Music - https://youtu.be/GJrjw46gJhoTheme music:Written and performed by Contingence - https://soundcloud.com/contingencebostonThis episode was released to our patrons on June 10th, 2022.For early releases and other goodies, subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/epicincredulity20 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.
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