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RocinanteEp 35 - Patriotic Bread Lines w/ Malcom KyeyuneThis week Angela and Sean are joined by comrade Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the triumph of mild social democracy with Twelver characteristics, the importance of packing the security services with loyalists, the peril of cutting food aid to the working poor, and more!
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2025-11-061h 30
RocinanteEp 33 - Night of the Living Pod *PREVIEW*This week we take a slight detour to celebrate the Irish holiday of Halloween. We establish the Rocinante 'anti-being scared' doctrine, discuss food safety and naval power as seen in season one of The Terror, dutch on dutch violence in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, biosecurity totalitarianism in Masque of the Red Death, and more!
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2025-10-3007 min
RocinanteEp 32 - Perfidious Albion Occupation Government *PREVIEW*Angela and Sean discuss the central role of Great Britain in of the horrors of the past and the present through two books:
Roger Casement's "The Crime Against Europe" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14728
John Newsinger's "The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire" https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22826312867
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2025-10-1611 min
RocinanteEp 31 - Remain Deluded w/ Toby ShandyAngela is joined by Toby Shandy to discuss Don Quixote Part 1, the first half of the first modern novel. The invention of the comedic duo and the unreliable narrator reach into the present from the 1600s to teach us the importance of the highest virtue: never allowing anything or anyone to make you less insane.
You can find Toby on Substack: https://tobyshandy.substack.com/
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2025-10-061h 17
RocinanteEp 30 - The Tragedy of Great Power PoliticsThis week Angela and Sean discuss John Mearsheimer's 'The Tragedy of Great Power Politics'. Are we trapped in an endless struggle between regional powers? Is true global hegemony a mirage? Can China peacefully ascend and become the Certified Big Dog of the 21st century?
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2025-10-021h 25
RocinanteEp 29 - UVU what's this? *PREVIEW*Surveying the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing at Utah Valley University this month, Angela and Sean discuss making sense of political killings without coherent politics, guarding your humanity when every app on your phone is Liveleak, right wing Wokeismo, the Tel Aviv connection, and pitch a potentially lucrative X-Files reboot.
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2025-09-2120 min
RocinanteEp 26 - The Fort Bragg Cartel w/ Seth HarpSean is joined by New York Times best-selling author Seth Harp to discuss titular cabal of pipe-hitters, 40 years of the opioid crisis, the drug trade and American foreign policy, and the merits of afghan-style rehab.
Buy the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730414/the-fort-bragg-cartel-by-seth-harp/
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2025-08-271h 06
RocinanteEp 25 - Stable Isotopes of EmpireThis week Sean and Angela discuss cultural decay inside the Imperial Information Technology particle accelerator of the present, and Eddington.
On Weird America by Anton Cebalo
https://novum.substack.com/p/on-weird-america
Why American Society Is Incredibly Stable by Toby Shandy
https://tobyshandy.substack.com/p/american-society-is-incredibly-stable
"Eddington" Conspiracy Cork Board: An AmerIsraeli Years of Lead Western Yarn by Parapower Mapping
https://substack.com/home/post/p-171013029
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2025-08-2608 min
RocinanteEp 24 - The Destiny of CivilizationAngela and Sean discuss Michael Hudson's The Destiny of Civilization. As the triumph of parasitic finance accelerates the decline of the American host organism, can China avoid the same fate? Is this humble podcast up to the task of formalizing the theory and practice of Marxist-Connollyist-Leninist-Maoist-Kaypakkayaist-Hudsonist thought?
You can purchase a copy of The Destiny of Civilization here: https://michael-hudson.com/2022/05/the-destiny-of-civilization/
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2025-08-161h 10
RocinanteEp 23 - Reviving the National Interest w/ Philip CunliffeAngela is joined by Philip Cunliffe to discuss his forthcoming book "The National Interest".
Preorder The National Interest here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-national-interest-politics-after-globalization--9781509561100
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2025-08-071h 06
RocinanteEp 22 - Marco Polo Summer 2049 *PREVIEW*Sean has returned from the Chinese Present with thoughts on our American Future.
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2025-08-0604 min
RocinanteEp 21 - Et tu, Satoshi? w/ Peter RyanWhile Sean is abroad continuing his study of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Angela is joined by Peter Ryan to discuss “Money by Vile Means”, his piece in Compact published today (07/25/2025).
Read Money by Vile Means here: https://www.compactmag.com/article/money-by-vile-means/
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2025-07-251h 21
RocinanteEp 20 - Marco Polo Summer *PREVIEW*Ep 20 - Marco Polo Summer
Before Sean heads to God’s Country to study the Immortal Science for a week, we answer two late breaking questions from the monthly Q&A solicitation, discuss the still unfolding Epstein heel turn, and talk early Angela Nagle Thought.
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2025-07-1817 min
RocinanteEp 19 - Questions and Answers 3 *PREVIEW*Good morning, Sunday morning, you have asked and Sean and Angela have answered. If you would like to submit questions of your own, become a paid subscriber and join the conversation!
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2025-07-1311 min
RocinanteEp 18 - Lucha Mexicana w/ Juan David Rojas
This week Juan David Rojas joins Angela and Sean to discuss Mexico's National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/what-democrats-can-learn-from-morena
juandarojasro.substack.com
https://x.com/rojasrjuand
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2025-07-031h 05
RocinanteEp 17 - Iran War Season Finale/Trust The Plan NYC *EXTENDED PREVIEW*After the "12 Day War" concludes with a series of frantic tweets and the first round victory of mild social democracy over the forces of corporate Clintonism in the New York City mayoral primary, Angela and Sean survey the wreckage.
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2025-06-2717 min
RocinanteEp 16 - The Coming War with IranSean and Angela are joined by returning guest Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the Israeli-American war of aggression against Iran. Can the Trump administration walk away from this or the off ramp in the rearview mirror? Can America survive another million soul human sacrifice in the Middle East? What will the 'Donald the Dove' voters do with all of these Fell For It Again awards?
Malcom Kyeyune: https://unherd.com/author/malcom-kyeyune/
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2025-06-181h 10
RocinanteEp 15 - The Anatomy of Power *Extended Preview*This week, Angela and Sean read The Anatomy of Power By John Kenneth Galbraith. Are we moving backwards into a more brutal age of pure coercion? Does Galbraith's framework make sense three decades after the end of Cold War? Should we find and post the names and home addresses of twitter users who have the incorrect interpretation of Errico Malatesta's Between Peasants: A Dialogue on Anarchy?
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2025-06-1622 min
RocinanteEp 14 - Questions and Answers 2 *PREVIEW*Sean and Angela answer questions asked by our beloved Patreon and Substack subscribers. If you would like to submit questions of your own, become a paid subscriber and join the conversation!
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2025-06-0403 min
RocinanteEp 13 - Roger Casement w/ Donal FallonFellas, is it gay to expose the monstrous crimes of the Belgians? Sean and Angela are joined by Donal Fallon to discuss the life of Roger Casement: the Casement Report, cruising diaries, his participation in the republican struggle for a free Ireland, and more.
Donal Fallon: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/three-castles-burning/id1488547315
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2025-05-281h 08
RocinanteEp 12 - Fast Fashion and its Consequences w/ Louis EltonThis week, Angela is joined by Louis (/ˈluː.i/) Elton to discuss fashion slop, the decline of craft in modern aesthetics, the effects of machine generated content on the human spirit, and a retvrn to artisanal tradition.
Louis Elton: https://nationofartisans.substack.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_(TV_series)
https://www.thomasdenny.co.uk/gallery
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2025-05-211h 07
RocinanteEp 11 - Investigation of a Bag Above Suspicion *PREVIEW*Sean and Angela continue the conversation: Free Speech on the continent, slop mongers imagine EU heads of state hitting the afters on rails, Sir Keir on the shoulders of Irish-American giants, and the hope that the US/Israel relationship can be reshaped by a 747 (with fewer dancing Israelis this time).
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2025-05-1501 min
RocinanteEp 10 - Freedom of SpeechThis week Angela and Sean ponder freedom of speech: is it an inalienable human right, a bourgeois mental illness, a relic of Pax Americana, thin veneer over the color revolution machine, or is a measured approach required for the present age of near-peer competition?
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2025-05-141h 03
RocinanteEp 9 - How China Escaped Shock Therapy Pt. 2 *PREVIEW*Sean and Angela continue the discussion of Isabella M. Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy”, CCP's responsiveness to public pressure, the virtues of a little bit of corruption, and an American Revolution of the Carnations.
How China Escaped Shock Therapy:
https://www.powells.com/book/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-the-market-reform-debate-9781032008493
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2025-05-0802 min
RocinanteEp 8 - How China Escaped Shock Therapy Pt. 1Sean and Angela discuss Isabella M. Weber’s “How China Escaped Shock Therapy”, Dengist Reforms, the importance of heavy industry, price controls, and more in a two part episode.
你介意白人男孩说一点中文吗？
How China Escaped Shock Therapy:
https://www.powells.com/book/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-the-market-reform-debate-9781032008493
Godfather of the Kremlin:
https://www.powells.com/book/godfather-of-the-kremlin-boris-berezovssky-the-looting-of-russia-9780151006212
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2025-05-0758 min
RocinanteEp 7 - Questions and Answers 1 *PREVIEW*Sean and Angela answer questions submitted by our treasured Patreon and Substack subscribers. If you would like to submit questions of your own, become a paid subscriber and join the conversation!
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2025-05-0104 min
RocinanteEp 6 - Behind Frienemy Lines *PREVIEW*Angela and Sean consider the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, Tucker’s induction into Grand Lodge of Ireland, audience capture, the parasocial impulse to milk the lolcow dry, and the rise of center right globe emoji drillers.
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2025-04-2301 min
RocinanteEp 5 - Caravaggio in the Big CitySean and Angela discuss Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, if art can survive the universal solvent of the internet, the dull managers of hard power guiding the antisocial artisan/conduits of soft power, and the rewards (getting paid by the Knights of Malta) and risks (dying of malaria in Tuscany) of Doing the Race.
Caravaggio ~ Robert Hughes Full Documentary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Caravaggio
https://open.substack.com/pub/angelanagle/p/can-you-fight-the-illiterate-future
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2025-04-221h 02
RocinanteEp 4 - Celtic Tigers and Flies with Peter Ryan Pt.2 *PREVIEW*Behind the paywall the conversation with Peter continues: the agony and the ecstasy of controlling the global reserve currency, Chinese economics and Carey thought, state development, economic protectionism, cryptocurrency, Il Duce on the small screen, and more.
https://x.com/_PeterRyan
https://www.ryanresearch.co/
https://substack.com/@ryanresearch
Read John Hely Hutchinson's The Commercial Restraints of Ireland:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38841/38841-h/38841-h.htm
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2025-04-1503 min
RocinanteEp 3 - Celtic Tigers and Flies with Peter Ryan Pt.1Sean and Angela are joined by Peter Ryan of Ryan Research to discuss industrialization and manufacturing as a tool of national liberation and colonial domination, anarchocapitalist elite enclosure past and present, the tariff situation (as it existed at time of recording), Matthew and Henry Carey, and walking the shining path of Hibernian Excellence.
https://x.com/_PeterRyan
https://www.ryanresearch.co/
https://substack.com/@ryanresearch
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2025-04-151h 05
RocinanteEp 2 - The Children of McKinley *PREVIEW**PREVIEW*
In our first bonus episode Sean and Angela try to make sense of the ever-changing tariff situation, consider reproductive technology as the next frontier in the new Cold War, and review this weeks atrocities from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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2025-04-0902 min
RocinanteEp 1 - Inventing a PodcastSean and Angela debut Rocinante with a discussion of Gore Vidal's Inventing a Nation.
Inventing a Nation: https://www.powells.com/book/inventing-a-nation-washington-adams-jefferson-9780300101713
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2025-04-091h 04
RocinanteEp 0 - Doge Day Afternoon with Malcom Kyeyune
This episode was recorded last month before we ironed out all of the details of the show, the first post-christening episodes will release this week. There are several other episodes you can find on Sean and Angela's substacks, linked below.
We get Malcom's take on what is really going on with DOGE, discuss his trip to Washington and compare US versus Chinese military capacities.
You can read his piece in American Affairs here:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/02/americas-national-security-wonderland/
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2025-04-081h 11