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We’re here today with the directors of the 2023 movie Failed State, Christopher Bell and Mitch Blummer.

Listeners will recognize Chris from the episode when we talked about his George W miniseries, Miss Me Yet?

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Failed State will be showing at the Tacoma Film Festival in October.

https://grandcinema.com/tacomafilmfestival/

Follow Chris and see his other work:

https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell

Follow Mitch and see his other work:

https://www.mitchblummer.com

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We’re talking Kim Stanley Robinson today! And that means we’re talking about a lot of the things Kim Stanley Robinson talks about.

Joining us are some KSR experts, Matt Hauske and Hilary Strang, the hosts of Marooned! On Mars.

We get into some fan love of his writing, ingredients to make a utopia, and forcefully separating billionaires from their money!

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Marooned! on Mars:

https://x.com/podcastonmars

https://pod.link/1372460930

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It’s the usual Sean and Jules here, and we’re also joined by long-time guest Karl Mamer.

Karl is back with us to talk about the 1970s, Gold Bugs, and forces that birthed the survivalist movement.

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A good piece of what we’re going to talk about appears in Karl’s upcoming book.

Buy Karl's Books and check out his podcast:

https://www.amazon.com/Skeptics-Book-Lists-Karl-Mamer/dp/177786111X

https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Skeptics-Book-Lists-Conspiracies/dp/B0CK3H4ZZR

http://yrad.com/cs/

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As a long time lover of maps, this conversation was a huge treat!

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**Giovanni's audio got a little wonky a couple of times but it's all totally listenable.**

It’s easy to look at the national borders that we draw on those maps and forget how they got there—or when. One of my favorites is a globe that I got from my grandfather. It’s not that old, maybe 50 years, but there are still probably a dozen countries on it that don’t exist anymore. 

But even though those countries names no longer appear on maps, in many cases what they were continues to exist in the descendants of its citizens for decades if not hundreds of years.

Today, we’re speaking with someone who has created an incredible way to remind us that even though borders may move and names might change, all of that history is very much with us today.

Giovanni Vale is the founder of the Extinguished Countries project. The first book they’ve produced is The Republic of Venice.

Find out more about Extinguished Countries:

https://extinguishedcountries.com/

https://www.instagram.com/extinguishedcountries/

https://twitter.com/excountries

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National Anthem of the Venetian Republic

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Jules and Sean take a step back to process some things. Walz, Vance, and the fact that Harris would be a terrible president.

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It’s been 15 years since Bitcoin was created. After around a decade and a half, there’s still not anything really useful to do with it outside of paying for illegal arms and mail order drugs. Even though it’s basically useless, Bitcoin and crypto in general has a made a few people extremely rich. Worldwide, the crypto sector is valued at around $2.5 trillion.

History shows that as soon as the extremely rich get together, the rest of us suffer.

To talk about some of the ways that Bitcoin mining and cryptomining in general are wrecking things for the rest of us, we’re joined by Jackie Sawicky from the Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining.

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Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining:

https://www.texascoalitionagainstcryptomining.com/

https://x.com/CCofNavarro

Read up:

https://www.nationalcoalitionagainstcryptomining.com/in-the-media/

https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-environmental-impacts

https://earthjustice.org/article/cleaning-up-crypto

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/crypto-industry-2024-election-sec

https://companiesmarketcap.com/bitcoin-mining/largest-bitcoin-mining-companies-by-marketcap/

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The Democrats have discovered the "one weird trick" guaranteed to leave heir enemies speechless—name calling.

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Never mind their complete failure to even try to devise policies that might improve the average voter's life, such as reducing the cost of or improving access to health care or lowering college tuition. Dems plan to crush ballot boxes this November by hopefully just making their enemies' supporters too embarrassed to show up on election day.

Reading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/07/30/republicans-weird/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/us/politics/trump-black-journalists-nabj-interview.html

Watching:

https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1815951829479330211?t=dAO4pAClUX9puXNPxI8qlA&s=09

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Biden’s out and Kamala’s in charge (maybe). Still a couple of weeks until the Dem convention but she’s the odds on favorite to get the nomination. We take a look at how some blue-blooded Dems are reacting and give you the Wetwired VP picks for the Harris ticket.

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Some readin'

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/biden-steps-aside-kamala-harris

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/biden-west-wing-aaron-sorkin.html

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/10/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-swearing-in-ceremony-of-commissioners-for-the-white-house-initiative-on-advancing-educational-equity-excellence-and-economic-opportunity-for-hispanics/

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We said in our last ep that nothing was happening right now with Biden and Trump but anything could happen. Well, it happened and the reactions from the media and pundits to the attempted assassination of Trump have been nothing short of electric!

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Some reading:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240714134334/https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2024/07/13/will-surviving-gunfire-be-donald-trumps-next-appeal-to-black-voters/

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/today-were-all-maga-trump-shooting-assassination/

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/trump-assassination-attempt-violence-politics

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As American democracy recedes as the beacon of democracy for the rest of the world (lol), we’re looking this week at a couple of other elections from across the pond. France and England both tossed out their parliaments and held snap elections.

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Some reading:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/04/keir-starmer-uk-prime-minister/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/02/tories-suspend-david-warburton-amid-claims-over-sexual-harassment-and-drug-use

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/melenchon-macron-france-left-winner

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Nova Beat Estate - The Elixir of Life (CC BY 4.0)

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