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  • Episode 488 - Getting Buffaloed (w/ India Walton)

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    In 2021, DSA candidate India Walton successfully won the Buffalo, NY primary over establishment incumbent mayor Byron Brown. She would have been the first socialist mayor of a large city since Frank Zeidler left office as mayor of Milwaukee in 1960. But she never became mayor. Brown sued to get on the ballot, failed, but then launched a successful write in campaign. Though she was backed by WFP and had secured endorsements from Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and AOC, Governor Hochul declined to endorse Walton, Echoing the current Zohran Mamdani moment. Now, Walton returns to Bad Faith to give her unique perspective on what it's like to win a Democratic Party primary, only to be beaten by the Democratic Party establishment, to offer advice to Zohran Mamdani, who once campaigned for Walton in Buffalo, and to unpack her feelings on the viability of using the Democratic Party as a vehicle for real change.

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    59 min
  • Episode 20: Confucianism vs. Buddhism (first "live show")

    One influential justification for becoming Buddhist is to end suffering, starting (it seems) with the Buddhist practitioner's own suffering. Does this indicate that Buddhist practitioners are selfish? After Buddhism became popular in China, many Confucians argued that Buddhism puts personal salvation before ethics, and is thus selfish in that respect. Some Confucians also objected to the particular sort of compassion that Buddhists were supposed to adopt ("unconditioned compassion"), insisting that it was fundamentally incompatible with the special attachments needed for important human relationships between family members and close friends. 

    In our first show before a live audience, Justin presents two criticisms of Buddhism, Jenny Hung 洪真如 defends Buddhism against the criticisms, and Richard moderates. The show was held at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association, and many wiser scholars in the audience weighed in as well. Join us for the lively (and quite friendly) "debate."

    Many thanks to The Hong Kong Ethics Lab and the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association for sponsoring this podcast series. Thanks also to Dana Jae Audio Collective (especially Casey Hudson and Maüxe Madden) for staging and recording the event, and to Lena Li (LI La 李拉 ) for her editing and mixing. They are consummate professionals.

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    Jenny Hung's website

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    - 4:19: preface to today's discussion, or
    - 5:39: part II

    Co-hosts:
    Richard Kim's website
    Justin Tiwald's website

    1 hr 31 min
  • AI. Don't believe the hype

    AI, we’re told, has the potential to free us from mundane tasks, revolutionise industries, and solve global problems. Linguistics Professor Emily Bender, warns that the big tech companies who promote AI, with an almost spiritual zeal, may be off the mark. The warning? Don’t believe the hype.

    • GUEST: Dr Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington and co-author of “The AI Con. How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
    • PRODUCER: Ali Benton
      • 25 min
    • 947 - Laugh Now, Cry Later feat. Larry Charles (6/30/25)
      Comedy legend Larry Charles (Fridays, Seinfeld, Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm & much more) returns to the show to discuss his new book Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter. We have a wide ranging discussion of Larry’s life in comedy including post-war Brooklyn as a comedy incubator, grinding out avant-garde sketch comedy with Andy Kaufman, the prevalence of coke and other drugs in the comedy writing scene, getting tackled by the Secret Service trying to get a joint to Jimmy Carter’s sister, and the difficulties in comedic creative relationships. Larry also gets candid about his disappointment with the prevalence of zionism among his erstwhile comedy partners, and we talk about the humanizing force of humor in the face tragedy and despair.
      Pick up Comedy Samurai here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/larry-charles/comedy-samurai/9781538771549/?lens=grand-central-publishing
      AND: get your pre-order in for YEAR ZERO: A CHAPO TRAP HOUSE COMICS ANTHOLOGY starting today at www.badegg.co
      1 hr 36 min
    • 6/30/25: Trump 'Beautiful' Bill, Dems Smear Zohran, Gaza Aid Site Massacres, Karen Read Trial & MORE

      Ryan discusses Republican quits Senate while trashing Trump bill, Dems smear Zohran as antisemite, death to IDF chants in the UK, Trump attacks Israeli courts over Bibi charges, Gaza aid site massacres, explosive new details on Karen Read trial.

       

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      Aidan Kearney: https://x.com/DoctorTurtleboy

       

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      2 hr 26 min
    • Democracy Now! 2025-06-17 Tuesday
      Democracy Now! 2025-06-17 Tuesday
      • Headlines for June 17, 2025
      • Preemptive Strike or Act of War? Israel Attacked Iran Amid Sinking Global Support for Assault on Gaza
      • "We Loved Her": MN AG Keith Ellison Mourns His Friend Melissa Hortman, Slams Republican Rhetoric
      • Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Embargo, Trump's Deportations, Israel's War on Iran & Gaza

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        1 hr
      • Democracy Now! 2025-07-01 Tuesday
        Democracy Now! 2025-07-01 Tuesday
        • Headlines for July 01, 2025
        • "Worst Thing I've Ever Seen": U.S. Surgeon Describes Mass Starvation, Injury and Death in Gaza
        • "Trying to Find Food Is a Death Sentence": Palestinian Writer Muhammad Shehada on Gaza Aid Massacres
        • "Ethnic Cleansing": U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Israel's War in Gaza
        • "Damaging and Deadly" Heat Domes Nearly Tripled, from Europe to the U.S.: Climatologist Michael Mann

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          1 hr
        • 7/1/25: DEPORT ELON? Trump GOES NUCLEAR Over ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

          Krystal breaks down Trump going to war with Elon over his 'big beautiful bill' opposition. 

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          18 min
        • NATO Forever

          Nick has on Rob from Podcasting is Praxis to talk about NATO. Daddy's home?

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          1 hr 3 min

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