LA dystopia
Friday, March 22, 2024

Since we’ve talked a lot Los Angeles on our last three episodes (here and here and here) we figured we should throw up some of Evgenia’s photos and videos from our last trip there — a sort of visual scrapbook/essay, a meditation on the highs and lows of that place. .. read more..

Catching up
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

We catch up on a bunch of things: Our trip to LA, Evgenia’s reassessment of Sophia Coppola’s class honesty, Jonathan Glazer and the Oscars, our strep throat infections, a Pussy Riot art event… A note of warning: this is a very low energy pod made by sick people. I fell asleep in... .. read more..

Pistachio Wars, our last ask
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Just want to put out a quick request: If you’ve liked my work on Oligarch Valley and California’s extractionist billionaire farmers, please consider supporting our last push to get our Pistachio Wars film done. We now need to pay for the archival footage we use in the film in order to... .. read more..

Not safe here?
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Saw an interview with Joe Biden that should raise a few eyebrows. He went on Seth Meyers’s show (mainly to dispel “rumors” that he’s senile and unfit to rule and scare liberal with Trump) and then suddenly blurted out that he thinks “were there no Israel, no Jew in t... .. read more..

The Hollywood System
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Sitting in East Hollywood, we continue our conversation about the eugenics-y Hollywood caste system, where everyone is slotted and mated according to their function in the entertainment machine. Then Yasha recounts his experiences trying and failing to get several TV shows made and the insights t... .. read more..

California pistachio billionaires helping out the occupation
Monday, February 19, 2024

I was looking through my notes and was reminded of something: Lynda and Stewart Resnick — the Beverly Hills billionaire climate criminals — are big fans of the IDF. .. read more..

It’s easier to imagine the end of Israel than the end of Zionism
Friday, February 16, 2024

The dangerous solipsism of Zionist Jews. .. read more..

Putin's Lecture to America
Thursday, February 15, 2024

We watch the two-hour Tucker-Putin face off and discuss Putin’s newfound confidence and swagger, his grievances, his Russian nationalist view of history, and the things he doesn’t talk about. But before we get to that we talk about David Lynch and the dark side of LA’s caste sys... .. read more..

The Exodus of the mind
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Exodus — a novel published in 1958 and turned into a big Hollywood movie starting Paul Newman just a few years later — was a massive influence on American Jews. .. read more..

Kovda and Levine on Komar and Melamid
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Listen now | We drove all the way to Jersey to catch the retrospective of two Soviet-American artists... .. read more..

Exiled and Loving It with Shaul Magid
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Listen now | What is Jewish identity without zionism? We talk to professor and rabbi of Fire Island Shaul Magid about the big question that’s dividing Jews all around the world. .. read more..

The myth of the Jewish Lobby
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

If the imperial consensus began to break down and started to shift to a position where Israel is seen as liability rather than an asset, I think we’d see a lot more fractures and fights over the Israel issue. And if the consensus ever turned against Israel, I guarantee you that the power of... .. read more..

Against the Vortex book launch
Friday, January 19, 2024

This is a recording of a book launch of Anthony Galluzzo’s Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today — in which he examines our society’s techno-utopianism and attempts to chart a new way forward past our dead-end productivist society. .. read more..

Class traitors with Fergie Chambers
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Listen now (62 mins) | We talk to Fergie Chambers of the Cox family about class traitors and the failure of individualist ideology to provide meaning. .. read more..

Autochthonous Wars
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

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Human Shields
Monday, January 8, 2024

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Book Talk: Cults and Degrowth and Zardoz
Sunday, January 7, 2024

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The dialectics of nationalism
Friday, January 5, 2024

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The waning cult of California
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

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Secular Jewish messianism
Friday, December 15, 2023

Belief in the age of modernity and assimilation. .. read more..

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