Follow Camila's work here: https://kawsachun.com/ What's going on in Venezuela? Is the end of USAID good news for Latin America? We discuss with Camila Escalante. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus conte...
May 29, 2025•55 min•Ep. 1199
Stefan joins special guest Jason Myles to discuss 'selling out', and whether the notion even makes sense in the contemporary moment, where we are all always already sold out, and to the degree that this is alienating it just makes it even more saleable Read the essay here https://benburgis.substack.com/p/all-we-ever-wanted-was-everything Subscribe to Ben's substack here benburgis.substack.com/subscribe Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterla...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 1198
Read Roger's piece in Common Dreams here: https://www.commondreams.org/opi.../was-pope-francis-radical Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a pa...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 1197
Read Jason's article in Damage Magazine here: https://damagemag.com/ Steroid use is up, especially among young people seeking to display a particular physique onle. The Turin of the mae upon itself represents a radical form of alienation and one with some nasty side effect to boot. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you ...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 1196
Read Ralph's article here: https://unherd.com/.../trumps-film-tariffs-will-backfire.../ With the financial failure of the streaming industry, to cut costs, many movies and television shows are shot outside of the U.S. for a fraction of the cost (and less work restrictions). While this was common for lower budget productions bigger budget films are being made in Canada, Mexico, Europe--is this attempt to "Make Film Great Again" backfire on "the Donald"? Trump has replaced his famous "you're fired...
May 24, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1194
Read Alex's article here: https://www.compactmag.com/.../the-techno-populist.../ For more than a decade, we have been told that insurgent populists are challenging a complacent post-political technocratic establishment. Combatants on both sides testify to this polarization. Poland’s Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council and the country’s current prime minister, stated back in 2017 that “we must challenge the populists”—and he did so, defeating the right-wing Law and Justice Party...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1193
It's been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. We'll take a look at the causes for its start and its end, and what we learned or have yet to learn with historian Bob Buzzanco. Listen to Bob on the Green and Red Podcast here: https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and ...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 1195
Get Natasha's book, "Another World Is Possible" here: https://www.natashahakimizapata.com/ Read Natasha's Jacobin piece here: https://jacobin.com/.../05/la-fires-singapore-public-housing Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1191
Ben and Stefan discuss the charge of "Class Reductionism" and the related charge of "Class Abstractionism" and whether these point to real phenomena or are strawman. Read Ben's essay: https://open.substack.com/pub/benburgis/p/class-reductionism-is-a-straw-man Subscribe to the Substack: https://benburgis.substack.com/subscribe Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 1192
Purchase Rebel Queen here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/.../9781538757291/... Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Polgar would emerge as the one of the greatest female chess players the world has ever seen. While still a teenager, she became the first woman to qualify for the men’s World Chess Championship cycle. She went on to become the highest rated female chess player on the planet and, at age 21, the first woman to earn the men’s Grandmaster title—chess’ highest designat...
May 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 1190
Read the article here: https://jsis.washington.edu/.../06/14/abuses-in-the-air/ Every week, thousands of migrants are shackled at the hands and feet and forced onto deportation flights to destinations across the globe. While the flights are contracted by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), most are run by a shadowy network of private charter companies that operate with no effective oversight. In some cases, migrants are beaten or brutalized aboard the plane. In others, the planes tr...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 1189
Get Andrew's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/K/bo245100866.html In Karl Marx in America, historian Andrew Hartman argues that even though Karl Marx never visited America, the country has been infused, shaped, and transformed by him. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Marx has been a specter in the American machine. During the Gilded Age, socialists read Marx as an antidote to the unchecked power of corporations. In the Great Depression, communists turned to Marx in hopes of ...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 1187
We tried to watch Deadly Force (1983) and YouTube wouldn't let us.
May 15, 2025•56 min•Ep. 1188
For a genre and a media ecosystem that has perceived itself to be "rebellious" has cutting against the grain created an unintentional pathway to misogyny? We'll discuss. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonu...
May 14, 2025•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 1186
Read Djene's piece in Compact Magazine here: https://www.compactmag.com/.../neoliberalism-with.../... For many Syrians, the events of December 2024 had a surreal quality. After nearly a decade and a half of brutal civil war, it had seemed that the regime of Bashar al-Assad had fended off any serious challenges to its authority. Assad and his supporters may not have been able to deliver a killing blow to the various opposition forces in the country, but they had managed to confine them to the cou...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1185
With their early exist from the playoffs, will Lebron finally call it quits? Will the Lakers part ways with their inexperienced head coach? We'll discuss. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from ...
May 11, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 1184
Jason and J.G. watch nude scenes from "Hello Mary Lou Prom Night II" with the gang.
May 08, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1183
Watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=281y-3dGE1M J.G. Michael and I sit down with director Derich Heath and discuss his behind scenes making of the cult class, "Hello Mary Lou, Prom Night II" Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a ...
May 08, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 1182
All of the TIR clan come together to have a serious talk that will be led by master Varn.. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now htt...
May 07, 2025•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 1180
Ben and Stefan discuss where another Ben ranks on the right wing mega popular charlatan scale in his account of the history of Philosophy Read (our) Ben's essay here: benburgis.substack.com/p/ben-shapiro-as-a-historian-of-philosophy ...and subscribe to the Substack here: http://benburgis.substack.com/subscribe Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 1181
Jason gets personal in the champagne room before the insanity starts
May 06, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 1179
Get Claudia's book here: https://store.abramsbooks.com/products/wards-of-the-state Wards of the State starts with the story of Maryanne who had been arrested for murder by the time she was 16. In and out of foster and adoptive homes since age 10, she’d run away, been trafficked and assaulted, and finally pointed a gun at the latest man to take her into his car. She pulled the trigger and fled. But with no family to turn to and few reliable friends, it didn’t take long for the police to catch up ...
May 05, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 1178
Is Trump 2.0 marking a new world order? Pascal will interrogate this issue with professor Steve Maher. Read Steve's latest in New Left Review here: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/new-order... Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron o...
May 04, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 1177
We opened up our phone lines asked the people who gets to say it?
May 02, 2025•3 hr 20 min•Ep. 1176
There have been players before that dictated where they wanted, or didn't want to go, both of those more high profile players (John Elway, Eli Manning) had high profile fathers that were influential in their decision making. Why is Shedeur Sanders any different? Is it as simple as race--or is it something more? What role does the NIL play in all of this? We'll discuss. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys aga...
May 02, 2025•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 1173
Who gets to say it? Why do you want to say it? Why do you care? How often do you really hear it? What on God's green earth is an "N" word pass? Who wants to go to a goddamn cookout? We'll discuss. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only ...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 1175
Read the work from many of the voices at Revol Press here: https://revolpress.substack.com/ Do we need more theory podcasts critiquing a non existent left? We'll discuss. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bon...
May 01, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1174
MAGA will bring back manly factory jobs that men don't want We'll discuss. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 1172
Jason and Alex discuss the danceability of 70s music from pop to rock.
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 1170
Sign up for Alex's course here: https://www.patreon.com/courseswithalex/shop/introduction-to-political-economy-3-20-1424227?utm_campaign=productshare_fan "Political Economy" is precisely what the name implies: a unity between political and economic policy. It is the father of modern economics, joined with the mother (cousin?) of history and political science. As the scientific study of economics emerged, it was integrally tied to political incentives and, by extension, questions of morality. We ...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 1169
