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Crew member Wosny Lambre (@BigWos) joins us to discuss the launch of his new venture, Leverage the Chat, including his new podcast 'Wos Speaks,' and touch on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Ta-Nehesi Coates.

Then, Hunter Maats (@HunterMaats) of the Mixed Mental Arts podcast joins us to break down all the problems with IQ as a metric of intelligence.

Postgame for the October 3, 2017 edition of The Michael Brooks Show with guest Briahna Joy Gray (@BrieBrieJoy).

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We found a recording of Nation of Islam Obama's calls to the families of fallen troops.

We break down Hillary Clinton’s claim that what happened to her was the equivalent of a “cyber 9/11."

Nando Vila (@nadorvila) host from Fusion (@fusiontv) calls in to talk about the worst dressed leftist Pablo Yglesias and provides us with a deeper understanding of the political and historical conditions in Catalonia.

Al-Jazeera UN Correspondent Mike Hanna (@mjahanna) helps us decipher what President Trump is talking about when he says he is decertifying the Iran Deal and the impact of Trump's disrespect of international convention on future international agreements.

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This week’s show:

We have found audio of Obama challenging John Kerry to an IQ test in a 2014 cabinet meeting. 

We break down Milo’s exposed emails and the relationship between him, the Mercer family, Breitbart, and alt-right trolls. 

Author of “Why Buddhism is True” Robert Wright (@robertwrighter) calls in to talk about Buddhism and how we can bring cognitive empathy and mindfulness to politics.   

Woke Susan Collins welcomes Bob Corker to the Resistance.   

Trevor Beaulieu (@Rickyrawls), host of Champagne Sharks (@champagnesharks), joins us in studio and talks about what is often missed in typical conversations about identity, race, and class. 

Read Trevor's piece in The Intercept on the Kaepernick protest.

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This week’s show:
Bernie connects left politics to a global perspective and speaks truth about US imperialism.

News From Nowhere (patreon.com/newsfromnowhere) host and writer Corey Pein (@coreypein) joins us to talk us through the gains of the far-right AFD in Germany, the media’s obsession with covering the right’s social media metrics, and Narendra Modi’s worrying authoritarianism.

Maoist Bernie Sanders dreams about Cassidy and Graham’s experience in the gulag and reveals what he really thinks about accommodationist Klobuchar.

Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House (@cushbomb) is live in studio talking about mangria, failed comedian Steve Crowder, and why conservatives are not funny.

Postgame:

In the postgame, we discuss China, strategies to fight right-rhetoric, the most woke sports league and take your calls and IMS!

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Tonight on The Michael Brooks Show, Adam Proctor of the Dead Pundits Society podcast (@DeadPundits) joins us to talk about historical defeatism and confidence on the left. Then, Alyona Minkovski (@AlyonaMink) joins us in studio!
Ana Navarro gets thrown into a pyramid.
Explaining Rohingya.
Also, a word from Abe Lincoln and 5% Obama.

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TODAY:

Maoist Bernie thanks centrists for joining him in the fight for single-payer. Bannon is the rightful ideological air to Reagan's GOP. Hillary is cuckoo. 

Brittany Sneers (@Bluepurplerain) joins us to talk about Juggalos being named a gang.

Bhaskar Sunkara (@SunraySunray) joins us to discuss trends in socialist organizing and the new Ta-Nahesi Coates piece on Trump as the first white POTUS.

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Bernie-or-Bust Bill Clinton with a special bulletin in which he leaks excerpts from Hillary's awful upcoming book.

Trump ends DACA as his administration is fascist.

Brittany Sneers (@Bluepurplerain) of the Institute for Progressive Memetics joins us to discuss dunking on Peter Daou.

Then @RickyRawls phones in to talk about the democrats, liberals, and identity politics.

Then, Wosny Lambre (@BigWos) joins us to talk Hillary and throw Peter Daou in the pyramid.

And finally, Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) joins us to look into the tarot futures of Seb Gorka, Sam Harris, and more.

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Corey Pein (@CoreyPein) joins us to talk about the deep history of racism and fascism in Silicon Valley. Railroad robber-baron and university-founder Leland Stanford’s importation of racism and eugenics to what is now Silicon Valley. Nazis Werner Von Braun and Otto von Bolschwing come to America. William Shockley, Bell Labs manager-turned quack race scientist. And Peter Thiel and our current Silicon Valley right wing.