Today we are joined by a volunteer from NYC Mesh, a decentralized, community owned and volunteer ran internet service provider in New York City. Rooted in activism, internet access as a human right, and democratizing the internet as a public common, NYC Mesh is challenging the ISP oligopoly from the bottom up. You can learn more and get involved with them at: http://nycmesh.net/ Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education...
Nov 02, 2021•48 min
Public Space Travel Podcast PRIVATE SPACE TRAVEL This episode the pod is hijacked by the evil LASAGNA VULF of PRIVATE SPACE TRAVEL. We discuss billionaire’s dick measuring hobby of space flights, environmental impacts of space tourism, how private space travel won’t save us and will just try to push space imperialism/capitalism and elite exodus, and a few other random topics. Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. C...
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min
This episode is a debrief on: everyone’s thoughts and experiences of playing dnd (but Barim couldn’t make it for this session!), a recap of season 1 events, a few return visits from a few NPCs, and what may happen in pst dnd season 2! If you haven't sat through the hours of dnd we played (don't blame you!) this is a fun episode concisely talking about it. Thanks for the patience folx -- we will back to our old-normal broadcasting soon! Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast ded...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Our Ninth installment of the PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. Funeral Cheese, teleportation, letters to mom, and a shipwreck of an ending to season 1?! Also, for all the Datari simps: maiden is sung! Next time is the conversation episode!! Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Co Hosts this episode and where to follow them: Lazarus – Dungeon Master; @PSTLazarus Luci ...
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Our EIGHTH installment of the PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. PARDON THE AUDIO QUALITY PROBLEMS! Sudema and Aria mysteriously vanish (again again) while the guys take care of some zombies. They then meet the lovely, raspy, potion dude, Ferol, convincing him it is time for his annual audit. Someone is trying to kill some gods, and our heroes may have found what they’re looking for… Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast dedicated...
May 26, 2021•2 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Our SEVENTH installment of PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. Here’s what happens this episode: Are we dialoging with them? Mel Y. Chen “Animacies” – Nipple Protected Area, Deep Titular Pain, A space-jam battle theme, Activate Squirrel mode, TICKLE IS THE WRONG WORD, Activate Ant mode, The party forces Laz to talk to them as a zombie…End has some thoughts on critical perspectives of dnd Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast dedica...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Our Sixth installment of the PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. When the adventurers get their dice, it gets serious. They begin the trek towards the Sassy-vault, run into some rivals who they then uhm befriend? Who knows what future repercussion might occur… Also, how much metal will Barim be able to melt down? Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Co Hosts this episo...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Our fifth installment of PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. Act 2 begins with the entire party reuniting and boarding their ship, The Requiem, to Eiselcross to retrace Birdfuckers steps and find a cure. I hope the buffet dinner has a sneeze guard. Stonks as a side hustle. Baby dragon-shrooms. Those who listen to the end are rewarded with this” Fist bumps activate code switches to the SoCaL-vIbEs. Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podc...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Our four and a half-eth installment of PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. This episode seeks to explain Reticent’s mysterious “disappearance” between episodes 4 and 5… Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-hierarchy podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Co Hosts this episode and where to follow them: Lazarus – Dungeon Master; @PSTLazarus Luci – Datari The Bard; @PSTLuci Lichen – Sudema The Druid Guardian – Barim The...
Feb 22, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 4
TW: This episode has a family/characters finding out about contracting a magical disease and, even though fictional, might be a little much given our real COVID19 pandemic times. Our fourth installment of PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. Barim and Datari head back to town while now Reticent disappears. Sudema is to be found at the village, they all shoot the old man’s rod at a tree, there’s free beer because dwarves look out for each other, Chimer...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Our third installment of PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. Having defeated (or murdered?) some bandits and then forced them into listening to a song, the party finds out where to go to next on their search for an antidote to a mysterious disease. However, Hunty’s character mysteriously disappears, the rest of the party meet the mysterious Quibble who gives him his rod, Reticent acts suspiciously strange, and they get some dwarf’s bridge wet. There’...
Jan 29, 2021•2 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Our second installment of PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. We continue where we left off last time: A combat instance of ambushing some bandits, or maybe they are just elves harmlessly looking for something? Classic cartoon detective moves ensue, Guardian becomes an arsonist while Hunty temporarily becomes a firefighter, Mar(x) possession (is it the specter of communism come haunting?!), and fake cops. ACAB. Public Space Travel is a leftist, anti-...
Jan 16, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our first installment of PST RPG series, a continued narrative role playing series of comedy with friends. This Episode 1 features the introduction of characters played by Mar(x), Lichen, Luci, Hunty, and our new friend Guardian. There a couple audio issues, apologizes! With Lazarus narrating as dungeon master, the party finds themselves at a funeral for Urgon Birdfucker….or was it Ergon…whatever, they’re dead from a freezing disease and now the whole village is under threat. What is this myster...
Jan 03, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Weekly Warp 8(?): Recorded just before the election, but not released until a month or so later, the crew form a feel team 6 unit and discuss COVID and election anxieties, grocery delivery, proud boys gassing themselves, THE MEMORIAL DAY SALE ON TUITION BIDEN PLAN, Trump shows up on the show (not really), and nostalgia for CD players and those pillow headphones. Glad to be back fam. Please help us by becoming a $1, $2, or $5 month sustaining member on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/PublicSpaceTrave...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp 07: Wizard's Grass Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp. This week, join Luci, Lazarus, and Mar(x) as they get a little personal and talk about growing up through 9/11 and the years following, before getting into a Civ 6 hole and more. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression perspective, we aim for progressive/radical left solidarity with brothers/sisters/trans and non...
Sep 17, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp 06: Shut It Down Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp. This week, join Luci, Lazarus, and Kane Koanoa as they discuss the Republican convention, protesting of Bezos, and the sports strike wave. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression perspective, we aim for progressive/radical left solidarity with brothers/sisters/trans and non-binary folk of all stripes. We want to di...
Sep 04, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp 05: Dark Circles Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp: where the news keeps going and we just can't keep up. This week, join Luci, Lichen, and Lazarus as they discuss the Democratic convention, Qanon and the cops, and the lack of sunny skies in California. NOTE: This episode was recorded on August 23, 2020. A lot has already happened since. We want to offer support and solidarity with protesters in Kenosha, WI. Fuck the police and the fascists they protect. Public...
Aug 26, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp 04: I do not associate Margaret Thatcher with pleasure Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp: our new weekly series focusing on current events that catch our eye. This week, join Luci, Lichen, Lazarus, Hunty and special guest Kane Koanoa, as they discuss education in the news: the dangerous, feeble, and inequitable attempt by politicians to reopen schools during the Coronavirus pandemic with neoliberal means and capitalistic ends; and how students and teachers are ...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp pre-03: Glory, Glory Holelujah Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp: our new weekly series focusing on current events that catch our eye. Last week, join the distractable doomer duo of Luci and Mar(x) as they talk about the Portland protests, the use of the PMC formerly known as Blackwater to abduct protesters, UFOs, social distancing glory-holes, and more. Note: this episode was recorded on 7/26/20, so it may be a bit outdated. Public Space Travel is a podcast de...
Aug 08, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp ep 03: Putting the 'ail' in 'mail' Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp: our new weekly series focusing on current events that catch our eye. This week we take a look at the new Postmaster General, Supreme Commander during the Posting Wars of...oh, my mistake...the new Postmaster General of the United States Post Office, Louis DeJoy, who is another Trump crony put in office to dismantle another public apparatus; Trump's war on mail-in voting, and other topics à la...
Aug 05, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp 2: Portland Boogaloo Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp: our new weekly series focusing on current events that catch our eye. This week we look at Trump's weight-lifting routine, how invisibility is the new norm for COVID data, and the anonymous federal crack down on protests in Portland. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression perspective, we aim for progressive/rad...
Jul 25, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Public Space Travel Podcast Weekly Warp Ep 01: I Plague Allegiance... Welcome to PST's Weekly Warp: our new weekly series focusing on current events that catch our eye. This week we look at the murder defense of a bastard, Supreme Court (in)congruity, a country music "performace," the new Plaguelands, and more! Note: this episode was recorded on Sunday, July 12, 2020 so some information pertaining to these stories may have changed. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political c...
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Public Space Travel Podcast Side Quest Apoc World - Ep 0: Lora We begin our PST actual play tabletop role playing series, where we'll play games to create, share, and explore society, culture, and politics through narrative story telling, with Apocalypse World by D. Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker. In this "Episode 0," Mar(x), Lichen, Luci, Hunty, and Lazarus imagine a world of nature and technology, people and lion-people...and catsharks? Wild. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to socia...
Jun 27, 2020•2 hr 14 min
Public Space Travel Podcast Episode 15 - No Justice, No Peace Solidarity with all protesting for George Floyd, against state-sanctioned racial injustice and police brutality. Where you can DONATE: Official George Floyd Memorial Fund Black Lives Matter MUTUAL AID - this twitter thread has links to mutual aid groups in cities protesting List of DSA chapters - contact your local DSA chapter to find out how you can help! Split donation to orgs fighting against racism and police brutality Donate to M...
Jun 02, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Public Space Travel Podcast Episode 14 - Degaussing On this episode of PST, we are joined by friend of the show Rayito de Luz, to discuss examples of the consequences of systemic inequity and the intensification of violence and xenophobia against communities of color due to Covid-19 here in the United States through the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression persp...
Apr 29, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Public Space Travel Podcast Episode 13 - Super Bernio Bothers On this episode of PST, after talking about matching our names to our voices and forgetting to do it anyway, we discuss Bernie suspending his campaign, the problems with the US electoral system, and get easily distracted along the way. Content warning: we mention rape a few times because, you know, Joe Biden, but not in graphic detail. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Comi...
Apr 18, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Public Space Travel Podcast Episode 12 - Cornpop19: Covid19 and a little electoral politics On this episode of PST, a few of us maintained social distancing over the internet to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and went on a slight tangent about the presidential election and how its all bad. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression perspective, we aim for progressive/radical left solidarity with broth...
Mar 24, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Public Space Travel Podcast Episode 11 - Multiple Selves: We take the D&D character alignment quiz On this episode of PST, we take the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition character alignment quiz and learn that Mar(x) isn't so Marxist after all. If you'd like to take the alignment quiz yourself and follow along, you can do so HERE ! Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression perspective, we aim for p...
Mar 17, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Public Space Travel Podcast Episode 10 - I Like Softness: Social-Emotional Learning On this episode of PST, we are joined by Lichen, a graduate student in Educational Psychology, to discuss social-emotional learning curriculum in education and at work. Luci gets up to some witchcraft. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression perspective, we aim for progressive/radical left solidarity with brothers/sis...
Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Episode 09 - Virginia Is For Gunners On this episode of PST, our first published episode with our new co-host Lichen, we talk about the protest of gun-control legislation in Virginia by armed militias incited by right-wing conspiracy internet personalities, while Lazarus Wolf just can't stop thinking about Dungeons and Dragons. Public Space Travel is a podcast dedicated to social/political critique, comedy, and education. Coming from an anti-hierarchy/oppression perspective, we aim for progressi...
Feb 01, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 9
