This week on the show, the Wrong Boys speak with Canadian Cree-Métis Archaeologist Dr. Paulette Steeves about the evidence for peopling of the Americas, going back at least 60,000 years, but as...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 8Ep. 252
This week the Wrong Boys are joined by Joseph L Graves Jr and Alan H Goodman to discuss the pseudoscientific concept of ‘biological race’ and it’s very real roots in colonial racism....
Mar 09, 2022•2 hr 38 min•Season 8Ep. 251
This week, Shawn interviews leftist candidate for President of the American Library Association Emily Drabinski about the role, her goals in office, and labour issues facing Librarians today. Emily’s website:https://www.emilydrabinski.com/ On Vocational...
Feb 25, 2022•42 min•Season 8Ep. 250
This is an edited down version of the live variety show we held in discord on Jan 25, 2022. If you want to hear the whole episode, or join us for the...
Feb 17, 2022•19 min•Season 8Ep. 249
We are joined by historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss her new book, why America is not ‘a nation of immigrants’, and how this feel-good liberal mythos, created by JFK and exemplified in...
Feb 07, 2022•2 hr 47 min•Season 8Ep. 248
This week, the Wrong Boys team up with the crew from Thiiird Waves to think together about the complexities of workplace and income dynamics and radical politics, touching on the ethics of...
Jan 05, 2022•2 hr 47 min•Season 8Ep. 247
Are human beings innately special little angel babies? “Deep Down” are we good or evil? What does the corrupting influence of power have to do with it? Should we tell loving lies?...
Dec 22, 2021•18 min•Season 8Ep. 246
This is a deep dive reading of Malatesta’s “An Anarchist Programme” with Zoe Baker. Support the show!http://patreon.com/srslywrong Opening Theme Song by Dope Creature: https://soundcloud.com/dopecreatureClosing Theme Song by The Window Smashing Job Creators:...
Dec 12, 2021•2 hr 47 min•Season 8Ep. 245
This week Lateef Mcleod joins the Wrong Boys to discuss the principles of Disability Justice, why accessibility is important for everyone, and how capitalism systematically reduces people to our labor power, denying...
Nov 23, 2021•2 hr 39 min•Season 8Ep. 244
This episode is a deep dive into what it means to build prefigurative institutions that can help us actualize the transition to a better society. Special guest Anark and the Wrong Boys...
Nov 05, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Season 8Ep. 243
The Wrong Boys are joined by David Wengrow to talk about changing human history (starting with the past) and his new book, co-authored with the late David Graeber, on myths about the...
Oct 18, 2021•2 hr 50 min•Season 8Ep. 242
Drawing plentifully from the writings of various Black anarchists, this wide ranging discussion touches on the relevance of anarchism to colonized people, self-determination, the Black Panthers, prefiguration, care work, raising children, white...
Oct 01, 2021•2 hr 58 min•Season 8Ep. 241
In this thrilling conclusion to the saga of the Wrong Boys ill-fated attempt to change one person’s mind about election fraud, our intrepid investigators catch a glimpse of the structure that holds...
Sep 14, 2021•2 hr 5 min•Season 8Ep. 240
In this special episode for our patreon community, we explore two potential “killer apps” that could slowly but surely erode capitalism & build a Library Socialist society in it’s place. listen to...
Sep 07, 2021•13 min•Season 8Ep. 239
In this episode the Wrong Boys put on their fact checking hats, as a personal conflict with an online friend leads them down a strange spiral into the minutia of the wacky...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 8Ep. 238
Online platforms have quickly become a major force in society, mediating the human social sphere in ways never before possible. Currently, this is being used to benefit those at the top, but...
Aug 09, 2021•15 min•Ep. 237
In this Srsly Weeds crossover we talk about the ins and outs of a library socialist society and what it means to do things ‘sweetie pie’ Check out Ironweeds Theme song by...
Jul 23, 2021•2 hr 55 min•Season 8Ep. 236
Once upon a time, a man named Garret Hardin dreamed up a spooky story about common property and proposed a horrifying question: “What if this always inevitably happens?” Turns out, it doesn’t...
Jul 16, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Season 8Ep. 235
Most people spend most of their waking hours at work, being told what to do, as well as how and when to do it without any opportunity to help make those decisions...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 8Ep. 234
In these unprecedented and (in many ways) awful times, it can be difficult to make sense of the world in a way that is fruitful and beneficial In this special panel discussion,...
Jun 14, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Season 8Ep. 233
Nothing lays bare the stark unfreedom of the wage labor system quite like a bleak monday morning. A day that represents monotony, drudgery, and the end of fun. Many say that it...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 8Ep. 232
The King is dead, but the revolution is just getting started. Robespierre and the Jacobins have a plan: using the means of State Terror, they will create a Republic of Virtue, complete...
May 25, 2021•2 hr 58 min•Ep. 181
Why do the rich have so much influence over policy? Is it all because of corporations lobbying politicians? Or is there a more fundamental dynamic at play — one that activists can...
May 17, 2021•2 hr 46 min•Season 8Ep. 231
Spring is here – a time to feast, dance around the maypole, and organize the working class to achieve a more just society for everyone This episode explores May Day, it’s history,...
Apr 30, 2021•2 hr 59 min•Season 8Ep. 230
Interview Shawn did with Laborwave Radio imagining how something like a shopping mall might look in a future Library Socialist society Link to Aaron’s youtube stream about Ted Kaczinski’s Articlehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDWowH_Vvc Support Srsly...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 14 min
This formerly patron-only episode is now up for all King Louis XVI of France was beheaded by guillotine on January 21, 1793 – a pivotal event in (the often quite unsafe) birth...
Apr 03, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 180
According to Webster’s Dictionary, sheeple are “people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced”. According to Natural News, science has proven that 95% of people are sheeple. Wrong Boys investigate. Theme song...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 229
Once upon a time, there was a town called Wrongtown. This is how their story begins. This episode collects sketches from episodes 74, 86, 111, 133, 134, and 136, as well as...
Feb 20, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 7Ep. 228
This Simpsons has had an enormous impact on American culture. By analyzing its past, present, and potential for the future, the Wrong Boys hope to answer the question of whether this formative...
Feb 03, 2021•49 min•Season 7Ep. 227
For centuries political chartographers have pondered the question – What is the true shape of politics? A line from left to right? Or maybe a square with four quadrants? Or is it,...
Jan 23, 2021•2 hr 56 min•Season 7Ep. 226