Winners and Losers Show

A Mormon show on Hulu converts Hank and we watch Joe Biden's appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel show (19:52) in which he proves over and over why he's the worst person for the job. Highlights include defending Mitch McConnell, pointing to biracial commercials as a sign of progress and overall being an out-of-touch figurehead for a sclerotic gerontocracy racing towards fascism and collapse. Plus the usual rambling about how capitalism sucks.   Recorded 06.14.22

Note: opinions subject to being forgotten.   READ, WATCH, LISTEN, LEARN Biden on Kimmel | Jun 8 2022 https://youtu.be/ZEtPV-qvLe8   ~~~| FOLLOW! SUPPORT! |~~~ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries TikTok: @WikLok, @BumRushIndustries, @ShelfLifeAquariums   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   SuckProfessor - Games, Shows, Movies YouTube.com/SuckProfessor   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer, animator, video editor, woodworker and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into an show about capitalism, anticapitalism, leftist analysis, news commentary, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. Stop losing and start listening! Today!  

Updates on Hank's arms, his recent turn to TikTok, how money is an abstraction of time, how America getting back to "normal" means getting back to dismissing others and Hank sifts through a pile of political mailers, including one from his former co-worker Michael Shure of The Young Turks, who has been silent about TYT's union-busting, which is the perfect way to lose Hank's vote.   Recorded 06.23.22   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries TikTok: @WikLok, @BumRushIndustries, @ShelfLifeAquariums   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   SuckProfessor - Games, Shows, Movies YouTube.com/SuckProfessor   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer, animator, video editor, woodworker and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!) 

The despair era continues as blood, stress and fascism rapidly accumulate in our land of horrors. On the personal side, Hank's out of work from his arms giving out and is on a journey into the worker's comp system. Don't worry; he bought a plant and might go cottagecore.   Recorded 05.25.22   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries TikTok: @WikLok, @BumRushIndustries, @ShelfLifeAquariums   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   SuckProfessor - Games, Shows, Movies YouTube.com/SuckProfessor   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer, animator, video editor, woodworker and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!) 

Electricity prompts a deep dive into the fundamentals and Joe Biden loves civil asset forfeiture almost as much as Mitch McConnell.   Recorded 02.08.22   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈 Joe Biden: Father Of The Drug War's Asset Forfeiture Program – OpEd: https://www.eurasiareview.com/07032020-joe-biden-father-of-the-drug-wars-asset-forfeiture-program-oped/ New Report Finds Civil Forfeiture Rakes in Billions Each Year, Does Not Fight Crime: https://ij.org/press-release/new-report-finds-civil-forfeiture-rakes-in-billions-each-year-does-not-fight-crime-2/   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries TikTok: @WikLok, @BumRushIndustries, @ShelfLifeAquariums   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   SuckProfessor - Games, Shows, Movies YouTube.com/SuckProfessor   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer, animator, video editor, woodworker and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!) 

Hank gets health insurance and remembers a special eyebrow hair. Thoughts ensue.   Recorded 02.01.22   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries TikTok: @WikLok, @BumRushIndustries, @ShelfLifeAquariums   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   SuckProfessor - Games, Shows, Movies YouTube.com/SuckProfessor   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer, animator, video editor, woodworker and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!) 

A haunted shoe disturbs less than Jimmy Fallon's ape. Impoverished parenting hurts baby brains, a study shows, prompting a dive into the foundation of Hank's lefty politics —preventing childhood trauma and the horror of a world that has no interest in stopping it.   Recorded 01.25.22   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈 Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs on Folding Ideas: https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g Study: Cash aid to poor mothers improved babies' brain functioning: https://www.axios.com/study-cash-payment-baby-brain-development-5ad61fc5-be81-49c8-8297-9e425c7a713b.html   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries TikTok: @WikLok, @BumRushIndustries, @ShelfLifeAquariums   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   SuckProfessor - Games, Shows, Movies YouTube.com/SuckProfessor   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer, animator, video editor, woodworker and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!) 

Making friends on a hill and a massive volcanic eruption gives Hank some thoughts about the absurdity of humans toiling away on a dying planet.   Recorded 01.16.2022   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈 Scientific American — Get Ready for More Volcanic Eruptions as the Planet Warms: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/get-ready-for-more-volcanic-eruptions-as-the-planet-warms/   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries TikTok: @WikLok, @BumRushIndustries, @ShelfLifeAquariums   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   SuckProfessor - Games, Shows, Movies YouTube.com/SuckProfessor   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer, animator, video editor, woodworker and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. "Perfect Union" is the politics wing, featuring spicy takes on the latest horrors and seeks to upend the myths behind America. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!) 

Skip to 24:00 to bypass the opening ramble.   Video version: https://youtu.be/TesMZ6KNtYI   As a former employee of TYT who was part of the union-organizing effort, I was dismayed when the company answered the union with aggressive union-busting tactics, first by rejecting card check, then using nearly every tactic in the union-busting playbook; but especially when they spread a deliberate lie that their workers were part of a conspiracy by Cenk Uygur's political opponent, Christy Smith, to harm his upcoming election for US House of Representatives in CA-25.   Our efforts began several months before Cenk launched his campaign and would have happened had our boss become a politician or not. IATSE endorsing Smith was 100% irrelevant to our right to organize collectively to demand respect and address long-simmering workplace issues, which is the actual truth the company was desperate to avoid.   The conspiracy was further signal-boosted by Ana Kasparian, who tweeted it was "done in bad faith" and was "extremely suspicious."   I watched in horror as the workers whose labor and talent the well-paid high-status careers of Cenk and Ana is built upon were thrown under the bus in order to protect the politician boss's political aspirations. It was heart-breaking, not just for its viciousness or its hypocrisy but for its effectiveness. Confusion, suspicion and malice spread among the TYT audience and satellite entities (Around The Nation, Humanist Report, Progressive Voice), all of whom were misled into questioning the motives of the workers at TYT, simply for the act of standing up as a group to exercise their right to form a labor union.   The trust and good faith of the audience was used against the workers and the only people in charge of the narrative so far has been those who conducted the union-busting campaign.   This podcast aims to change that. This is a worker's perspective.   It also raises the issue of the two management-side law firms TYT hired, as detailed in publicly-available filings with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — Mitchel ,Silberberg & Knupp; and Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, which are explicitly pro-management anti-union operations.   The Young Turks' paying audience believes they are supporting the 'Home of Progressives,' which raises the question: Do they deserve to know if the money they send to TYT to fight for progressive values has been spent on these anti-worker law firms? If so, how much? The Young Turks was not honest when it spread the conspiracy attacking its own workers and it owes its audience a truthful accounting of what happened.   It owes its workers much much more. Shame! *ding ding* Shame!   Intro Ramble - Dogs At Work: 00:00 TYT's Union Busting Intro: 23:42 Congrats TYT Union: 28:59 Who Is This Guy? 36:20 Bumpy Start or Aggressive Union Busting: 42:56 Workers Attacked w/ Wild Conspiracy: 1:02:06 Ana Helps Cenk Mislead The Audience: 1:33:03 The Workers' Perspective: 2:01:29 Cenk's Election Results: 2:12:55 TYT Hires Management-Side Law Firms: 2:23:19 A Plea For Honesty & Wrap-Up: 2:39:08   Recorded 10.18.2021   READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN ~ARTICLES~ Feb 24, 2020 - HuffPost - The Young Turks' Progressive Founder Urged His Staff Not To Unionize by Dave Jamieson https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-young-turks-progressive-founder-urged-his-staff-not-to-unionize_n_5e540686c5b6ad3de3823a32?yqt Mar 5 2020 - In These Times - The Young Turks Union Fight Gets Nastier With… by Hamilton Nolan https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-young-turks-union-cenk-uygur-labor-organizing Mar 5, 2020 - The New Republic - The Myth of the Progressive Boss by Kim Kelly (I'm quoted in this one) https://newrepublic.com/article/156757/myth-progressive-boss Apr 4, 2020 - Politico - Inside the union campaign that roiled left-wing network The Young Turks by Alex Thompson https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/10/union-campaign-that-roiled-the-young-turks-178996   ~VIDEOS~ The Young Turks - HUGE NEWS! IATSE Union and TYT Reach Deal https://youtu.be/g-i8bjUXCgk Progressive Voice - TYT's Cenk Uygur Recognizes TYT Union After "Union Busting" Controversy https://youtu.be/DGgSwYRtCh0   ~TWEETS (partial list)~ @TheYoungTurks Tweet: https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1230939303762522112 @CenkUygur insinuating his workers are conspiring with his political opponent: https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1230954505014931456 Cenk's emails from @AlexThomp: https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1248640947098959882 @AnaKasparian tweet expressing suspicion about TYT Union: https://twitter.com/anakasparian/status/1230959639975489541   FOLLOW! SUPPORT! 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Danielle Puterbaugh of the Puterbaugh Sisters joins me. We talk pandemic survival during dating, our shared Chicago history and her hilarious and brilliant show on YouTube Kitchen Women. Plus a lot more fun.   Recorded 05.04.2021   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈 Kitchen Women - Subscribe & Watch: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnIbkl076U4eJAN19lTlBPA Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dputerbaugh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puterbaughdani   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. "Perfect Union" is the politics wing, featuring spicy takes on the latest horrors and seeks to upend the myths behind America. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   The Winners and Losers Show covers news, politics and bullsh*t.    *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!) 

Walmart kills walmart workers with terrible paid sick leave, a famous boat sinks, Belgium melts guns and glorious litter on Mars and elsewhere.   Recorded 05.01.2021   🠊🠊🠊 READ, WATCH, LISTEN & LEARN 🠈🠈🠈 Walmart Paid Sick Leave: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/28/walmart-coronavirus-covid-19-deaths-paid-sick-leave John Wayne's First Yacht: https://www.soundingsonline.com/news/historic-yacht-sinks-in-the-san-juans Nasa Greenlight's More Mars Flight: https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-mission-extended Belgium Melts Gun Piles: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belgium-melts-down-over-22000-firearms-into-recycled-steel-2021-04-30/   ▼▼▼ FOLLOW! SUPPORT! ▼▼▼ Winners and Losers on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_GZ_DNs0g-DKlBtLhcHNw Patreon: Patreon.com/WinnersAndLosers Instagram: InstaHankThompson, BumRushIndustries   Twitch: Twitch.tv/WinnersAndLosers   Bum Rush Industries: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfmYtmsOWCH7tNnc1o9rrlg Website: BumRushIndustries.com   Twitter: @Hank_Thompson, @WinnerLoserShow   Winners and Losers started in 2010. Hosted by Hank Thompson, a comedian, writer and filmmaker with experience in progressive media (The Young Turks, The Jimmy Dore Show). Its early years center on the Chicago stand up scene but it has evolved into a show about news, culture and baldness as well as conversations with fun, interesting people. "Perfect Union" is the politics wing, featuring spicy takes on the latest horrors and seeks to upend the myths behind America. Stop losing and start listening! Today!   The Winners and Losers Show covers news, politics and bullsh*t.    *in order to choose our own name, we need at least 100 subscribers. YOU could be one of them! (thanks!)