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  • Li'l Thanks Episode 2

    Tina and Hillary call Mucksters who have received their full COVID-19 vaccinations to thank them for caring about their families and communities.

    We talk to Emma Collum, Chair of Ruth's List Florida, Gabriela Wisniewski, Science Geek and Friend of the Pod, and Barefoot Lobo, co-host of podcast Hell is Full of Dads and our number one fan.

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    35 min
  • Li'l Muck Episode 33: Maya Gurantz

    Hillary and Tina interview artist, writer, and podcaster, Maya Gurantz.

    Maya Gurantz is an artist and writer whose work interrogates social imaginaries of American culture, and how constructions of gender, race, class, and progress operate in our shared myths, public rituals, and private desires.

    Maya’s videos, performances, installations, and social practice projects have been shown and commissioned by (solo): Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Grand Central Art Center, Catharine Clark Gallery, Greenleaf Gallery, Pieter PASD; (group) the Museum of Contemporary Art Utah, Angels Gate Cultural Center, the Oakland Museum of California, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Navel LA, Art Center College of Design, The Goat Farm Atlanta, The Great Wall of Oakland, High Desert Test Sites, Autonomie Gallery, and Movement Research at Judson Church, among others.

    She is the recipient of the inaugural Pieter Performance Grant for Dancemakers and an Artist Residency at the McColl Center For Art + Innovation.

    Maya is a regular contributor to The LA Review of Books (where her essay, Kompromat, was the most-read article of 2019), and has written for This American Life, The Frame at KPCC, The Awl, Notes on Looking, Avidly, Acid-Free, Baumtest Quarterly, RECAPS Magazine, and an anthology, CRuDE, published by the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Bourges. She co-translated Be My Knife and Someone to Run With by Israeli novelist David Grossman. In 2018 she received a grant from the UC Humanities Research Institute for “Out of the Archive,” an ongoing project making archives more widely accessible to citizen-researchers. She co-hosts the culture and politics podcast, The Sauce.

    For show notes and links to our sources, please click here.

    Special Guest: Maya Gurantz.

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    44 min
  • Li'l Thanks Episode 1

    Tina and Hillary call Mucksters who have received their full COVID-19 vaccinations to thank them for caring about their families and communities.

    We talk to Alfredo Olvera, President of the Dolphin Democrats, Kelly Raben, Assistant to Broward County School Board Member Sarah Leonardi, and Joe Hosking, co-host of the Keeping Up with the Cardassians podcast.

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    23 min
  • Li'l Muck Episode 32: Zachary Durand and David Fry

    Hillary and Tina interview self-proclaimed UFO enthusiasts Zachary Durant and David Fry.

    Zachary Durand is a south Florida native, an aide to the mayor of Fort Lauderdale, a volunteer for local democratic organizations, and an amateur astronomer.

    His interest in the phenomenon has been lifelong but was significantly elevated in 2017 when the New York Times broke the story of the Pentagon's secret UFO program. He has spoken at a variety of institutions, including NYU and Pace University, and strives to lead by example as a face for a younger generation of public servants.

    David Fry practices law as an Assistant Public Defender and is a former history teacher with absolutely zero formal training in engineering or physics. That said, much of his legal practice exists among more the nebulous concepts of perspective, bias, and intent -- those pesky human attributes that all so often creep into "knowledge" and obscure what would otherwise be universally observable as "truth." His passions have always been directed toward the unknown, wherever it may exist in time or space, with a particular focus as to how humans develop knowledge about ourselves and the universe in which we exist. In defending his clients, David has learned to question the basis of what experts or lay individuals call fact by probing to question their basis of knowledge and processes for ascertaining a conclusion.

    For show notes and links to our sources, please click here.

    Special Guests: David Fry and Zachary Durand .

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    52 min
  • Li'l Muck Episode 31: Lucy Sedgwick

    Hillary and Tina interview President and CEO of Ruth’s List Florida, Lucy Sedgwick.

    Lucy has dedicated her career to building movements and training the next generation of Democratic leadership.

    In 2020, she led Colorado’s Abortion Access for All campaign, a state-wide coalition that defeated a high-profile initiative to ban abortion later in pregnancy.

    Through her work, Lucy has trained hundreds of organizers, campaign staff and candidates. She served as National Training Director for Warren for President and National Training Director for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, where she taught Democratic candidates at all levels how to run and win campaigns. Lucy is based in St. Petersburg, FL.

    For show notes and links to our sources, please click here.

    Special Guest: Lucy Sedgwick.

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    28 min

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A weekly podcast where the dark, and sometimes weird, true stories in American politics are discussed.