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Ship ChasingThe Year 2 WRs To Target (& Who To Fade)Pete and Pat go through the sophomore WRs and determine which ones they more likely to breakout and which are trending toward bust. 🐶Use promo code 'SHIP' when you sign up to claim your Special Pick + first time deposit offer up to $250 in bonus cash!🚢Join the Ship Chasing VIP program for access to Stat Chasing live streams, a private discord channel in theDeposit Kingdom server, Youtube badges, custom Youtube emotes, and links to our private drafts.FOLLOW:►Pat ( @legendaryupside )► @PeterOverzet & @DepositKingdom 🔴Discord🔴YT Subscribe🐦Ship Chasing Twitter👕Ship Chasing MerchTimestamps:00:00 - Intro03:03 - Year 2 breakout WRs used to be the biggest edge in fantasy football07:16 - Tier 1: Brian Thomas Jr., Malik Nabers, Ladd McConkey15:36 - Tier 2: Marvin Harrison Jr., Xavier Worthy, Rome Odunze32:05 - Tier 3: Jalen McMillan, Ricky Pearsall, Keon Coleman, Panthers WRs55:50 - Late Fliers: Jordan Whittington, AD Mitchell, Broncos WRs1:04:20 - Latest Fliers: Ja'Lynn Polk, Malik Washington, Roman Wilson1:10:06 - Tight Ends: Brock Bowers, Ja'Tavion Sanders, Ben Sinnott, Theo Johnson1:17:30 - Closing Thoughts
2025-02-211h 20
Unproductive LaborNon-compete Agreements and Corporate Subsidies with Pat GarofaloThis episode I’m pleased to be speaking with Pat Garofalo. Pat is the director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of ‘The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs.” He also writes the Boondoggle substack. We’ll be talking about a grab bag of topics including noncompete agreements and corporate subsidies. Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner, @pete_sinnott Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits Producer: Daniel Fermín Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Hai...
2023-03-1649 min
Unproductive LaborThe Problems and Possibilities of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs with Matteo TiratelliIn this episode, I talk to Matteo Tiratelli about bullshit jobs. Tiratelli recently published an article in the journal Catalyst exploring the problems and insights of David Graeber’s well known theory Tiratelli is a lecturer at UCL's Social Research Institute where he teaches historical and political sociology. His previous research has focussed on the ideological transformation of European socialism, the history of rioting in Britain, and the political economy of crime. He is currently starting a project examining the evolution of the British prison system over the twentieth century. He has an article just out in Poli...
2023-02-0842 min
The ProgressiveEssential Workers and Labor Activism During the Pandemic: An Interview with Jamie McCallum Podcast: Unproductive LaborEpisode: Essential Workers and Labor Activism During the Pandemic: An Interview with Jamie McCallumPub date: 2023-01-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis episode, I talk to sociologist Jamie McCallum about his new book, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. We talk about working conditions and unemployment during the pandemic, labor activism, and glimpses of working class unity. McCallum is a professor of sociology at Middlebury College. His writing has appeared in the Was...
2023-02-0155 min
Unproductive LaborEssential Workers and Labor Activism During the Pandemic: An Interview with Jamie McCallumThis episode, I talk to sociologist Jamie McCallum about his new book, Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice. We talk about working conditions and unemployment during the pandemic, labor activism, and glimpses of working class unity. McCallum is a professor of sociology at Middlebury College. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Mother Jones, Dissent, and Jacobin, and his last book Worked Over looked at the quantity and quality of time we spend on and off the clock. You can get in touch with him through his website: https://www.jamiekmccallum.c...
2023-01-2655 min
Unproductive LaborWe’ll Always Need to Work: An Interview with Alex GourevitchIn this episode, my erstwhile cohost, Luke Mergner, and I talk to Alex Gourevitch who published a piece last year in Catalyst that levied a critique of anti-work discourse and universal basic income. We talk to Alex about what the anti-work and post-work crowd get wrong in their thinking about work and the future. Alex is an associate professor of political science at Brown University. He is currently writing a book on the political ethics of strikes and a book on shared labor socialism. He has written for Jacobin, Dissent, and other publications.
2023-01-1255 min
Unproductive LaborInflation, the Labor Market, and Inequality: Two InterviewsThis week a double episode, first a discussion about inflation and the labor market with Brian Callaci, chief economist at the Open Market Institute. Then an interview with political scientist David Lay Williamas about the inequality today and its place in the history of western political thought. Brian Callaci is the Chief Economist at the Open Markets Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank focused on antimonopoly policy. He co-authored an article in Dissent in July titled “Inflation is No Excuse for Squeezing Workers.” David Lay WIlliams is Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and autho...
2022-11-031h 25
Unproductive LaborViolence and Class Solidarity: How Employers Stuck together to Crush Unions in the 19c, an Interview with Chad PearsonThis episode, Pete interviews Chad Pearson about his new book, Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). They talk about the use of violence to discipline workers, labor battles in the long nineteenth century, the need to study the way business owners organized nationally to fight unionization, and more. Chad Pearson is a labor historian primarily interested in ruling class organizations and violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has authored two books: Capital's Terrorists and Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement (University of Pe...
2022-10-2159 min
Unproductive LaborWhat Austerity Has done to Care Work and Care Workers: An Interview with Emma DowlingIn this episode I talk to Emma Dowling about her book, The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? In the book, Dowling connects the recent history of privatization, austerity, and financialization to the decline in the availability and quality of care. Her book asks us to think about what care is for recipients and care workers, paid and unpaid, and how the influence of social impact investors and other forms of private finance distort and twist the fundamental human need and social function for the sake of extracting profits. Emma Dowling is a so...
2022-05-0655 minUnproductive LaborWhy We Need Unions: A Conversation with Eve LivingstonThis episode I talk to Eve Livingston, author of Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions. We discuss the need to organize unions to meet the challenges of work today and the need to build connections between unions and community organizations outside the workplace. Eve Livingston is a Scotland-based freelance journalist specializing in social affairs, inequalities and industrial relations. She has worked for The Guardian, The Independent, VICE and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism among many others and has appeared on TV and radio including BBC Woman's Hour and ITV News. In 2018 she was one of Young W...
2022-04-0159 min
Unproductive LaborThe Great Resignation, a Delayed ReactionThis week my erstwhile cohost and collaborator, Luke, and I have a free-flowing conversation about the Great Resignation. This was a hot topic last fall as 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs in November 2021 and 4.3 Million in August of 2021. That’s according to reports from the US Department of Labor Statistics. We discuss how varying factors drove this phenomenon in different sectors of the economy, or at least the common narratives that have been deployed to explain this for white and blue collar workers. We also discuss the impact of and the connection or lack of connection to other trends su...
2022-03-1142 minUnproductive LaborAn Interview with Peter Linebaugh on the Commons, Crime, and the Meanings of Industry and IdlenessIn this episode, I’m joined by Peter Linebaugh, a historian whose thinking and writing about the commons spans the entirety of a quite distinguished career. His books include The London Hanged, The Magna Carta Manifesto, Stop Thief, Red Round Globe Hot Burning, and, with Marcus Rediker, The Many Headed Hydra. His writing combines a rigorous historical understanding grounded in the archives with a deep concern for and critique of the present, a difficult balancing act to pull off. We talk about the commons in history and today, the meaning of industry and idleness, crime and the police, and Lin...
2022-02-2555 minUnproductive LaborCompany Unions and Why Voters Don’t Care about Policy: An Interview with Matt BruenigThis episode, I’m talking with Matt Bruenig, founder of the People’s Policy Project or 3Ps, a think tank in Washington D.C. We discuss Marco Rubio’s and Jim Banks’ proposed Teamwork for Employees and Managers bill, a piece of legislation that would make it easier for corporations to establish “employee involvement organizations. The bill is not likely to go anywhere or change very much if it did, so what was the point? Matt and I discuss this bill, company unions, and conservative attempts to appeal to working class voters. The patreon page for 3Ps is here: htt...
2022-02-1140 minUnproductive LaborThe Need for a Shorter Working Week with Kyle Lewis and Will StrongeThis episode, Pete interviews Will Strong and Kyle Lewis about their book Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week. They talk about work time and its connection to feminist and environmental discourses, the pitfalls of talking about work as abstraction, and the benefits of shorter working week for everyone. Kyle is a PhD candidate at the University of West London and a working-time consultant for the think tank Autonomy. Will Stronge is the Director of Research at Autonomy and a post doctoral researcher in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Brighton. You can fi...
2022-01-2858 minUnproductive LaborWhat Weber and Foucault Get Wrong about Institutions: An Interview with Steven Klein about the Welfare StateSteven Klein is a Lecturer of Political Theory in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. His first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (CUP 2020), examines the democratic potential of struggles over welf are institutions. He is also working on a second book project that draws together the thought of Karl Polanyi with the tradition of critical social theory to develop an account of the contemporary politics of finance, debt, and money. Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner, @pete_sinnott Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits ...
2022-01-0755 min
Unproductive LaborCovid Capitalism and Other Topics: An Interview with Jamie McCallumThis week, I talk to sociologist Jamie K. McCallum about his book Worked Over, how the ethos of Silicon Valley shapes our work ethic, the genius and deceptions of Frederick Taylor, what Covid 19 has taught us about work in the 21st Century, and more. McCallum is an author, teacher, and activist, focusing on labor and work issues around the world. He is currently associate professor of sociology at Middlebury College. You can find him on twitter @jamiekmccallum Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner, @pete_sinnott Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits...
2021-12-171h 00
Unproductive LaborThe Long Con: Scarcity and the Origins of VirtueThe threat of scarcity, the promise of wealth, the problematic rhetoric of wage labor as a form of slavery, and the not so straight line between seventeenth century attacks on the commons and neoliberal welfare reform. Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner, @pete_sinnott Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits Producer: Daniel Fermín Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Haines. Artwork: Daniel Fermín What We Talked About Welfare Reform James Suzman A Field in England Eli...
2021-12-0335 min
Unproductive LaborAn Interview about Luddites and LuddismIn his book, Breaking Things at Work, Gavin Meuller argues that we can’t think of technology in the workplace as “just” a tool but always as a tool created for a specific purpose to benefit specific groups and exploit others. As such, breaking machines in the workplace--which means many things--has been and will continue to be an important point of struggle for establishing worker autonomy, solidarity, and fair treatment. Dr. Mueller Mueller is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He’s also a member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint...
2021-11-191h 07
Unproductive LaborThe Origins of Wage LaborWage labor is one of the core principles for organizing our lives in western societies. How did that happen? We attempt to answer that question in 20 minutes, moving backward from Keynes to seventeenth century England to Virgil’s Georgics. It’s quite a ride. We also talk about farming. Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner, @pete_sinnott Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits Producer: Daniel Fermín Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Haines. Artwork: Daniel Fermín What We Talked About John Maynard...
2021-11-0424 min
Unproductive LaborHuman Evolution Has Left Us Ill-PreparedIn this episode, we have a conversation with Emily Guendelsberger, author of What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane. She worked at Philadelphia City Paper, the Onion’s A.V. Club, Philadelphia Weekly, and the Philadelphia Daily News, and has contributed to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, Politico magazine, and Vice. We talked about On the Clock, what it’s like to work in an Amazon warehouse, the abuse call center reps receive from management and customers, and how low-wage work has changed over the last 20 years.
2021-11-041h 17
Unproductive LaborWork Society and Unworked CommunityJames Chamberlain is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Mississippi State University. His dissertation, Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, was published in 2020. It explores some of the normative and theoretical questions around the topic of work. James has also co-edited a forthcoming volume (with Albena Azmanova) exploring a series of critical debates about capitalism titled, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy: Critical Debates. He and Azmanova have also founded a new open access journal called Emancipations. Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits Producer: Katherine Huggins
2021-11-0455 min
Unproductive LaborThe Terrible Consequences of Solving the Economic Problem In this episode, we talk to James Livingston about his book No More Work: Why Full Employment is a Bad Idea, a pithy polemic that questions some of the underlying assumptions about work held by both the Left and the Right. Among other topics we discuss why politicians and policy makers are wrong to see full employment as a panacea, the problems with romanticizing craft and craftsmanship, and the potential and pitfalls of distributing wealth based on need rather than what individuals produce. James Livingston teaches history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He’s written six books on topi...
2021-07-211h 09
Unproductive LaborFor Only $184 million You Can Have a Bespoke Labor Category For Your BusinessIn this episode, we have a conversation with Alex Press, a staff writer at Jacobin magazine who covers a range of topics around labor in the United States, including the gig economy. We talked about the gig economy, what’s at stake for companies in and workers in categorizing workers as employees, contractors, or some new third category, and the divided response from organized labor over gig work.
2021-06-0733 min
Unproductive LaborThe Problem with WorkThis is the first episode of Unproductive Labor, a podcast made with support from Public Seminar. The innovations of the gig economy are not just about technology but change our expectations, and the laws, around what companies owe their workers. This introductory episode of Unproductive Labor will discuss the gig economy, how it may represent the leading edge of the transformation of work, plans for the podcast, and what listeners can expect. The episodes are presented by your hosts, Pete Sinnott and Luke Mergner.
2021-06-0139 min
The Comics PalsEmpyre #0 Review & The Comics Pledge | The Comics Pals Episode 192This week, we reveal the event Marco has to read as punishment for his loss in SSBU on stream, address the latest sexual assault allegations in comics and the #comicspledge, and we review Empyre #0!
00:17:03 - Pals Pulls:
Pete - Fire Power #1
Marco - - Olympia #5, Unpresidented
Cale - Raiders
Phil - Infinite Crisis Omnibus New Edition
Sean - Fire Power #1
News:
00:34:38 - RIP Joe Sinnott:
https://comicbook.com/irl/news/joe-sinnott-dies-dead-93-marvel-comics-inker/?fbclid=IwAR1XN6UnbIBXSi95S7uxE2Xc2Bp_fdAeRvUV68awzRh2koQg2uPhJL92GX4
00:39:08 - Michael Keaton in talks to Return to Batman Role:
https://www.thewrap.com/batman-returns-michael-keaton-bruce-wayne-the-flash-movie/
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