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The Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 12: FALC: A New BeginningToday we're reading chapter 12, "FALC: A New Beginning," and it begins by immediately addressing the profound and complicated relationship between technology and politics, asserting, "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral". Rather, the context from which technology is conceived, created, and utilized—specifically the political, ethical, and social contexts—determines its impact and benefit. While technology may not determine history, it certainly possesses the capacity to disrupt and shape it, making "the history of technology... the most relevant". The chapter posits that the Third Disruption, characterized by innovations like AI, renewable energy, and...
2025-11-1933 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 11: Reforging the Capitalist StateChapter 11, titled "Reforging the Capitalist State," delves into the necessary economic and political transformation required to facilitate the transition to Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC). The chapter initiates this discussion by evaluating the viability of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), noting that it is conceptually radical because it presents a "wage without work" that could undermine capitalism's disciplinary control over labor. However, UBI is critiqued as being politically ambiguous—supported by both progressive groups and neoliberal thinkers like Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek—and potentially leading to the complete marketization of the welfare state.
2025-11-1727 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 10: The Break with NeoliberalismToday we're reading Chapter 10, "Fundamental Principles: The Break with Neoliberalism," and we're getting down to the actual groundwork. The central message here is that while the ultimate goal is Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC), we can’t wait decades to start. The immediate, critical task is to stop the current system—neoliberalism—which is built on privatization, precarious labor, and falling wages. This chapter uses vivid examples, like the chaos caused by the collapse of the outsourcing giant Carillion and the absolute absurdity of the East Coast Main Line railway repeatedly being nationalized and th...
2025-11-1426 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 9: Popular Support: Luxury PopulismChapter 9 is where we stop talking about machines and start talking about politics. The core dilemma the book throws out is that while technology "makes history," it doesn't set the rules for that history. If we just let the exponential abundance of the Third Disruption unfold unchecked, the predictable result is just going to be "novel forms of profiteering" instead of widespread liberation. We’re left with a huge question: How do we actually translate these incredible technological possibilities into tangible political power so that the needs of people—not just maximizing profit—are met? That t...
2025-11-1220 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 8: Food without Animals: Post-Scarcity in SustenanceToday we're reading Chapter 8 of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. It starts by arguing that we are facing a civilizational cliff edge because of how we eat, specifically pointing out that the world's population is expected to hit 9.6 billion by 2050, requiring a massive 70% increase in food production. But here’s the kicker: humanity is already consuming the resources of 1.6 Earths annually, and meeting that future demand would require over two planets under our current systems. The chapter pins the ecological disaster directly on our plates: the intense demand for meat and dairy in wealthier countries, which strains the pl...
2025-11-1024 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 7: Editing Destiny: Age and Post-Scarcity in HealthToday we're discussing chapter 7 of Fully Automated Luxury Communism, titled "Editing Destiny: Age and Post-Scarcity in Health". This chapter addresses the enormous societal challenge posed by the fact that for the first time in human history, there will soon be more people over the age of sixty-five than under the age of five, a shift which is referred to as the "crowning achievement of our species". This longevity, however, raises critical questions about the viability of collective insurance programs, such as public pensions and socialized elderly care, as these traditionally rely on a larger "working age" population compared to...
2025-11-0735 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 6: Mining the Sky: Post-Scarcity in ResourcesChapter 6, titled "Mining the Sky: Post-Scarcity in Resources," is the third chapter under Part II, "New Travellers," a section dedicated to examining how advances in automation, energy, resources, health, and food are creating the foundation for a society that moves "beyond both scarcity and work". This chapter introduces the crucial argument that alongside climate change, resource depletion represents one of the central challenges of the age, particularly noting that the minerals required for sustaining a post-carbon world are ultimately finite. Although Chapter 5 addressed the potential for limitless power from solar energy, the transition would still be constrained by materials...
2025-11-0528 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 5: Limitless Power: Post-Scarcity in EnergyChapter 5, "Limitless Power: Post-Scarcity in Energy," falls under Part II, titled "New Travellers," which explores emerging technologies in areas such as automation, energy, resources, health, and food to show how the foundations are cohering for a society that moves "beyond both scarcity and work". The chapter introduces the profound role that energy and its sources have played in shaping the previous historical shifts, known as disruptions. The First Disruption, marked by agriculture around 12,000 years ago, saw humans rely on domesticated animals, their own bodies, and elements for power. This was succeeded by the Second Disruption starting in the late...
2025-11-0329 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 4: Full Automation: Post-Scarcity in LabourChapter 4, "Full Automation: Post-Scarcity in Labour," is the first chapter under Part II, titled "New Travellers". This section of the book examines what the world "is, or rather as it is becoming," by looking at seemingly disparate technologies in automation, energy, resources, health, and food, before concluding that these foundations are cohering for a society that moves "beyond both scarcity and work". This chapter delves directly into the implications of full automation by posing a key question from The Economist: "What happens when ... machines are smart enough to become workers? In other words, when capital becomes labour?". This technological...
2025-10-3121 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 3: What Is Fully Automated Luxury Communism?In the third episode of season 5 of Antifa Book Club, we're reading chapter 3 titled "What Is Fully Automated Luxury Communism?" It serves to introduce and define the central political project of the book, designated as FALC. The chapter immediately addresses why the term "communism" is used, acknowledging that many view it as a failed 20th-century experiment. The author clarifies that "communism" is employed precisely for its precision, denoting a society where work is eliminated, scarcity is replaced by abundance, and labor and leisure merge. This vision is presented as being technologically possible now due to the possibilities...
2025-10-2931 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 2: The Three DisruptionsIn the second episode of season five of the Antifa Book Club, we're reading chapter 2, of Fully Automated Luxury Communism, titled "The Three Disruptions." It provides a historical framework for understanding the profound societal changes currently underway, arguing that they are comparable to the two most momentous shifts in human history. The chapter establishes that change is not uniform, distinguishing between simple progress and disruptive ruptures that alter the very meaning of what it means to be human. The First Disruption, occurring approximately twelve thousand years ago, was the transition to settled agriculture through the domestication of...
2025-10-2729 minThe Antifa Book ClubFully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani - Chapter 1: The Great DisorderFor the fifth season of Antifa Book Club, we are going to read Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, written by Aaron Bastani, presents a political project intended to leverage the potential abundance created by technological advancement to build a society beyond scarcity and work. The book’s Introduction, titled "Six Characters in Search of a Future," sets the stage by using six fictional accounts (featuring characters like Yang, Chris, Leia, Peter, Federica, and Doug) to explore current trends that feel like science fiction but are rooted in contemporary facts. These vignettes touch upon subjects such as au...
2025-10-2445 minThe Antifa Book ClubFull Book Review: Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul HanWelcome to the season 4 finale of the Antifa Book Club: The Full Book review of Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics. The central argument he presents is that contemporary neoliberal society is governed by a psychopolitics that operates through positive motivation and voluntary self-exploitation, fundamentally differing from the disciplinary power and biopolitics described by Foucault, which relied on negativity and coercion. Han contends that this new regime exploits freedom, emotions, and personal data (Big Data) to maximize productivity, leading to a profound crisis of freedom where individuals willingly participate in their own subjugation, transforming into "projects" rather than subjects. Key themes analyzed include the sh...
2025-10-2228 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 13: IdiotismChapter 13 of Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power is titled "Idiotism," and it introduces the concept of the "idiot" as a profound figure of resistance and a pathway to liberation from the ubiquitous control of neoliberal psychopolitics. The chapter posits that the very function of philosophy, from its inception, has been to "play the fool," suggesting that any philosopher who has forged a new way of thinking has, by necessity, been an "idiot" with unique access to the "wholly Other" and a field of immanence that defies subjectivation and psychologization. In stark...
2025-10-2018 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics chapter 12: Beyond the SubjectChapter 12 of Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power is titled "Beyond the Subject," and it explores pathways to liberation from the pervasive control mechanisms of neoliberal psychopolitics by challenging the very notion of the subject. The chapter introduces the concept of the "event," drawing on Nietzsche's idea of "naturification," which includes a "readiness for what is absolutely sudden and thwarting," representing something incalculable and abrupt that defies all prediction and annuls the standing order to open new spaces for action. Following Nietzsche, Foucault also conceived of the "event" as a "reversal of...
2025-10-1714 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 11: Big DataChapter 11, titled "Big Data," delves into how this ubiquitous digital phenomenon acts as a paramount instrument of control, surveillance, and economic exploitation, prompting the crucial question of whether it represents the "Columbus's egg" for the digital control society, a system even more effective than Bentham's panopticon in its capacity for psychopolitical steering. The chapter introduces "Dataism" as a new faith that everything measurable should be measured, heralded as a "second Enlightenment" that promises to "foretell the future" by filtering out emotion and ideology, yet which Han argues is ironically leading to a "digital totalitarianism" and the "barbarism of data"...
2025-10-1520 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 10: GamificationChapter 10 of Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power is titled "Gamification," and it critically explores how emotional capitalism extends its reach by enlisting the very concepts of playing and games, paradoxically turning them into tools for heightened productivity. The chapter opens by highlighting this fundamental contradiction, asserting that playing should, in fact, represent the "Other of Work," its inherent opposite.Han argues that emotional capitalism is actively gamifying the life and working world, infusing work with an emotional, indeed a dramatic, charge to generate increased motivation. This strategy is effective because games...
2025-10-1311 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 9: Emotional CapitalismChapter 9 of Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power is titled "Emotional Capitalism" and initiates a crucial inquiry into the contemporary proliferation of discourse and research surrounding feelings and emotions. The chapter directly confronts the question of where this sudden interest in emotions originates, contending that many academic disciplines researching emotion erroneously overlook its fundamental driver: a profound economic process. This oversight, Han argues, leads to considerable conceptual confusion, where terms such as "emotion," "feeling," and "affect" are frequently used interchangeably by researchers.To address this conceptual ambiguity, the chapter meticulously differentiates these...
2025-10-1012 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 8: Friendly Big BrotherChapter 8 of Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power is titled "Friendly Big Brother" and serves to draw a sharp contrast between George Orwell's vision of a surveillance state in 1984 and the contemporary digital control society. This chapter introduces the core argument that while Orwell's state operated through explicit negativity, repression, and the destruction of language, today's power functions through a more insidious positivity and the exploitation of freedom itself.Orwell's surveillance state, as depicted in 1984, was characterized by its reliance on negativity, enmity, and overt repression. It aimed to restrict free thought through "Newspeak,"...
2025-10-0811 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 7: How Modern Control Flatters Our Free WillChapter 7, "Shock," contrasts two figures of "Doctor Shock" to dissect Naomi Klein's theory and differentiate between disciplinary power and neoliberal psychopolitics.The chapter introduces Dr. Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist who used violent electroshocks to "de-brand" and "re-brand" the psyche during the Cold War, representing an immunological, negative, and forceful intervention against an "Other" or "Enemy". It then presents Milton Friedman, who advocated using the "shock" of catastrophes to return societies to "pure capitalism" through "painful shocks".However, the chapter argues that Klein's theory of shock fails to grasp the true nature of neoliberal...
2025-10-0608 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 6: Healing As Killing - The Targeting Of Attention And Private LifeChapter 6, "Healing as Killing," reveals how neoliberal psychopolitics employs increasingly refined forms of exploitation, targeting the "integral human being" beyond just working time, including their attention and entire life. It argues that the pervasive imperative of self-optimization, driven by systemic and market logic, seeks to therapeutically eliminate weaknesses and enhance efficiency and performance within the system. The chapter critically states that this perpetual self-optimization, though presented as "healing" in contemporary self-help culture, is ultimately destructive, leading to mental collapse and effectively "killing" the human soul by negating essential aspects of human experience and contributing to...
2025-10-0311 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 5: Foucault's Dilemma And Big Data Used To Exploit Our Inner LivesChapter 5, "Foucault’s Dilemma," critically examines the limitations of Michel Foucault's biopolitics in understanding contemporary neoliberal society. While Foucault recognized a shift in power dynamics, he failed to fully transition from biopolitics to psychopolitics in his analyses of neoliberal forms of government, remaining anchored to concepts like population and the body.The chapter argues that biopolitics, which focuses on the administration and discipline of the physical body and populations for industrial production, is ill-suited to the neoliberal regime. Neoliberalism, as a mutated form of capitalism, has instead discovered the psyche as a primary pr...
2025-10-0113 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 4: BiopoliticsChapter 4, "Biopolitics," describes Foucault's concept of power shifting from sovereign power to disciplinary power, which focuses on "invest[ing] life through and through" rather than dealing death. This disciplinary power, a biopolitical regime, carefully administers bodies and populations by yoking individuals into norms, eliminating deviations, and facilitating industrial production. However, the chapter argues that this biopolitical approach, which relies on population statistics, is insufficient for understanding the neoliberal regime because it is too crude to penetrate and exploit the deeper layers of the psyche, unlike the digital psychopolitics that emerges later.
2025-09-2911 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 3: The Mole and the Snake - The Transition Into A Control SocietyChapter 3, "The Mole and the Snake," employs a central metaphor to illustrate the transition from disciplinary society to neoliberal control society.The "mole" represents the subjugated subject of disciplinary society, confined within institutions like schools and factories, operating in predetermined spaces with limited productivity. In contrast, the "snake" symbolizes the "project" of neoliberal control society, an entrepreneurial figure who creates their own space through movement, embodying the drive for motivation, competition, and optimization. This shift signifies a mutation and intensification of capitalism to generate greater productivity by moving beyond the limitations of disciplinary methods and...
2025-09-2609 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 2: Friendly Fascism A New Form Of Smart PowerChapter 2, titled "Smart Power," delves into a new, highly efficient form of power that operates in contemporary neoliberal society. Unlike traditional disciplinary power, which relies on negativity, violence, coercion, and prohibition, smart power is characterized by its positivity, permissiveness, and friendliness. It escapes visibility, making individuals unaware of their own subjugation, and instead guides their will to its own benefit.This power is insidious because it exploits freedom itself, stimulating desires and using positive emotions to activate, motivate, and optimize individuals. Individuals willingly subordinate themselves by consuming and communicating, with the "Like button"...
2025-09-2410 minThe Antifa Book ClubByung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics Chapter 1: The Crisis of FreedomChapter 1, "The Crisis of Freedom," introduces the central paradox of Byung-Chul Han's "Psychopolitics": that freedom itself, under neoliberalism, is generating new forms of compulsion and constraint. We are no longer deemed subjugated subjects but "projects" tasked with endless self-refashioning, leading to self-subjugation and compulsive achievement. This system is described as a highly efficient way to exploit freedom, where individuals willingly exploit themselves as "absolute slaves" without an external master, transforming class struggle into an inner conflict. The chapter also highlights how technologies like the internet, initially perceived as liberating, have evolved into a...
2025-09-2216 minThe Antifa Book ClubInventing The Future Full Book Review & Book Notes Deep DiveWelcome to Antifa Book Club, the season 3 finale: the full book review of "Inventing the Future".Srnicek and Williams kick things off with a stark observation: the future feels "cancelled," and the left is struggling to build a better world despite widespread discontent. They attribute this to what they call "folk politics". Imagine a common-sense approach on the contemporary left that prioritizes the local, the immediate, the small-scale, and personal experience over big-picture, systematic change. Think temporary protests, direct action, and a focus on building small, autonomous communities. While these efforts can foster solidarity and awareness, the...
2025-09-191h 02The Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 8: How to build the collective force necessary to realize a post-work societyChapter 8 of INVENTING THE FUTURE, Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, "Building Power," addresses the crucial question of how to build the collective force necessary to implement a post-work society and overcome the left's current state of weakness and aversion to power. The chapter argues that three essential components are required: a mass populist movement, a healthy ecosystem of organizations, and an analysis of points of leverage. A populist movement is envisioned as a strategy to knit together a new collective "we" from diverse interests and experiences, moving beyond the fragmented traditional working class. This...
2025-09-1736 minThe Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 7: Forging a Post-Work WorldChapter 7 of INVENTING THE FUTURE, Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, "A New Common Sense," shifts from critiquing the contemporary left to elaborating an escape route from its current condition, arguing that a counter-hegemonic strategy is necessary to overturn dominant neoliberal common sense and rejuvenate the collective imagination. Recognizing the dire state of the left and the deeply entrenched nature of capitalism, the chapter advocates for a long-term project that prepares for moments of full-scale struggle and aims to install a new common sense organized around the crisis of work. This strategy involves three primary...
2025-09-1519 minThe Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 6: What a post-work world could mean in practiceChapter 6 of INVENTING THE FUTURE: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, "Post-Work Imaginaries," outlines what a post-work world could mean in practice and advances broad demands to build a platform for such a society. These proposals are described as non-reformist reforms, possessing a utopian edge that pushes the limits of what capitalism can concede, while also being grounded in current global tendencies and aiming to shift the existing political equilibrium. The chapter charts a way forward by advocating for fully automating the economy, reducing the working week, implementing a universal basic income (UBI), and achieving...
2025-09-1249 minThe Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 5: Left Modernity Reclaiming the Future from the Crisis of WorkChapter 5 of "Inventing the Future," titled "The Future Isn’t Working," shifts the book's focus to a conjunctural analysis of contemporary capitalism through the lens of work. This chapter argues that a fundamental crisis of work is emerging, making a post-work future increasingly necessary.The authors define "work" as wage labor—the time and effort sold for an income, which is not under one's control. They contend that capitalism is progressively unable to provide sufficient, stable jobs for the global population, leading to an expanding surplus population. This surplus arises from several interconnected mechanisms:Rapid auto...
2025-09-1050 minThe Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 4: Reimagining Work in the Age of AutomationChapter 4 of "Inventing the Future," titled "Left Modernity," marks a crucial turning point in the book. Moving beyond critiques of the left's "folk politics" and neoliberalism, this chapter lays the philosophical groundwork for a positive path forward.The authors argue that the left must reclaim and redefine "modernity", transforming its meaning from something associated with capitalist modernization to a force for progress, reason, freedom, and democracy. A key concept introduced is "hyperstitional" progress, which posits a future that is "different from and better than the past," a future that can be actively brought into existence...
2025-09-0841 minThe Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 3: The Engineered Ascendance of Neoliberalism / Why They Are Winning and What We Can LearnChapter 3 of Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams's "Inventing the Future," titled "Why Are They Winning? The Making of Neoliberal Hegemony," shifts the focus from critiquing the left's "folk politics" (as established in Chapter 1 and detailed in Chapter 2) to examining the strategies and historical processes that enabled neoliberalism to achieve its dominant position as a global common sense. The authors contend that neoliberalism's success was not a natural or inevitable outcome of capitalism, but rather a "political construction" born from "contingencies, struggle, concentrated action, patience and grand-scale strategic thinking".This chapter argues that, contrary to popular...
2025-09-0538 minThe Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 2: The Paradox of Progress and the Long Game of Systemic ChangeChapter 2 of "Inventing the Future," titled "Why Aren’t We Winning? A Critique of Today’s Left," scrutinizes the limitations of contemporary left-wing strategies, particularly those shaped by "folk-political assumptions". The authors argue that despite widespread mobilization, movements have failed to achieve significant political change due to inherent problems within their approaches, rather than solely external repression.The chapter identifies and critiques three dominant strands of radical left politics over the past fifteen years:Horizontalism: While praised for addressing diverse forms of domination beyond state and capital, its emphasis on direct democracy, prefigurative politics, and dire...
2025-09-0352 minThe Antifa Book ClubPostcapitalism and a World Without Work Chapter 1: Why Our Politics Is Stuck and How to Escape Folk PoliticsChapter 1 of Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams's "Inventing the Future", titled "Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics," lays the groundwork for the book's central critique by introducing the concept of folk politics. The authors define this as a "constellation of ideas and intuitions within the contemporary left that informs the common-sense ways of organising, acting and thinking politics". This initial chapter argues that despite widespread mobilization in recent decades, from anti-globalization efforts to Occupy movements, these struggles often result in minimal change, leading to apathy and a sense of defeat. The critique...
2025-09-0128 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Review: Behind the Screens of War's Cinematic EvolutionWelcome back for the grand finale of our series on Paul Virilio's groundbreaking War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. Having journeyed through chapters one to seven, we now pull back the curtain on the book's essential Notes section.In this culminating episode, "The Perception Log: Behind the Screens of War's Cinematic Evolution," we treat these notes as the "special features commentary" and "deleted scenes" of the entire work, uncovering how they deepen our understanding of Virilio's core arguments.Join us as we reveal how Goebbels’ obsession with the "American perceptual arsenal", the "derealization" of ba...
2025-08-2029 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Chapter 7: The Automated War's Dromoscopic GazeIn this episode, we tackle the final chapter of Paul Virilio's War and Cinema, which we're calling: "The Seeing Weapon: From Spy Balloons to Automated War's Dromoscopic Gaze."Join us as we trace the evolution of military perception from 1904, the "first year of the ‘war of light’" and the inaugural use of searchlights in warfare, which illuminated a future where "observation and destruction would develop at the same pace". We'll explore the "deadly harmony that always establishes itself between the functions of eye and weapon", from early aerial reconnaissance using camera-balloons and aircraft, to the urge...
2025-08-1830 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Chapter 6: War's Cinematic Deception and the Automated Battlefield.In this episode, we're diving deep into Chapter 6 of Paul Virilio's groundbreaking work, War and Cinema, a chapter aptly titled 'Sicut Prior est Tempore ita quo Potior Iure' – a Roman adage meaning 'Priority in time gives priority in law'. We're calling this episode: "War's Cinematic Deception: Time, Illusion, and the Automated Battlefield."Prepare to have your understanding of warfare challenged, as we explore how the battlefield transformed into a meticulously staged illusion. Virilio reveals how the British, for example, employed "Hollywood-style props" and "enormous film lots" to simulate a non-existent invasion fleet, using "ov...
2025-08-1525 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Chapter 5: The Dictator as Director and Staging Total War as Cinematic SpectacleWelcome to the Antifa Book Club season two where we delve into Paul Virilio's War and Cinema. This episode, we step onto the terrifying set of Chapter 5: 'The ‘Fern Andra’ Cinema,' where Virilio lays bare his chilling thesis: modern warfare transformed into a grand cinematic production, with dictators acting as the ultimate directors.We'll explore how figures like Mussolini and Hitler cultivated a charismatic infallibility, mirroring Hollywood moguls such as Cecil B. De Mille, who literally imagined himself as God leading his people. Discover how Hitler, with his "extraordinary technical knowledge of stage-direction, trick phot...
2025-08-1321 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Chapter 4: When War Becomes Ubiquitous SpectacleIn this episode of the Antifa Book Club, we discuss Chapter 4 of Paul Virilio's War and Cinema, titled 'The Imposture of Immediacy'. Virilio unravels how the relentless pursuit of speed and ubiquitous vision has profoundly reshaped modern warfare, collapsing geographical distance and transforming the very perception of reality.We explore his argument that the battlefield, once a physical space, is increasingly experienced as a simulated "show" by new recruits, leading to a derealization of military engagement where the soldier becomes an "actor and spectator of a living cinema". From the architectural marvels of...
2025-08-1129 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Chapter 3: How Cinema Became War's New ReligionWelcome to Antifa Book Club season two, where we delve into Paul Virilio's War and Cinema. This time, we discuss Chapter 3: 'Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter the Hell of Images,' a chilling exploration of the profound osmosis between industrialized warfare and cinema.Virilio argues that after the devastation of the World Wars, cinema palaces rose as new "deconsecrated sanctuaries," replacing monuments to the dead and offering a terrifying new form of "pure visions". This era fostered a "new collective memory" or "paramnesia," where the state's existence became a "visual hallucination". We explore how "...
2025-08-0848 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Chapter 2: The Cinematic Battlefield and the Armed EyeIn the second episode of season two in the Antifa Book Club, we delve into Chapter 2, 'Cinema Isn't I See, It's I Fly,' of Paul Virilio's War and Cinema, tracing the radical transformation of perception in warfare. We explore how direct vision became a thing of the past as military conflict moved from traditional ground-level observation to the intensive use of chronophotography and cinematography aboard reconnaissance aircraft.The chapter reveals how the battlefield itself was re-imagined as a 'cinema location' or 'film set,' with the camera's peep-hole serving as an indirect sighting device...
2025-08-0626 minThe Antifa Book ClubWar and Cinema Chapter 1: When War Becomes CinemaIn this first episode of season 2 of the Antifa Book club, we dive into Paul Virilio's "War and Cinema," exploring the profound connection between military conflict and cinematic techniques as presented in the book's Preface, "The Sight Machine," and Chapter 1, "Military Force Is Based upon Deception." We uncover Virilio's core argument that warfare in the twentieth century increasingly relied on the systematic use of cinema techniques.From the emergence of military photography in the American Civil War to today’s video surveillance of the battlefield, the camera transformed into an indirect sighting device complementing weapons of...
2025-08-0428 minThe Antifa Book ClubAesthetics And Politics Review: Notes On Reacting on Fascism, Thought Legacies, and Lingering QuestionsIn this concluding episode of "Aesthetics and Politics," we turn our attention to the often-overlooked yet profoundly illuminating notes at the end of the book and recap the book as a whole.These notes are far more than mere footnotes; they act as a vital supplementary text, providing crucial context, clarifying ambiguities, and revealing personal insights that enrich our understanding of the intense debates between Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, and Georg Lukács.Finally, we'll offer a succinct overview of the unique contributions of each towering intellectual figure featured in this v...
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2025-07-291h 05The Antifa Book ClubAesthetics and Politics Chapter 4. From Ash to Iron Curtain: Art's Battle for Truth in a Divided Post-War EuropeThis episode dives into the heated intellectual battle that shaped Marxist aesthetics in the aftermath of World War II, primarily between Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, and Bertolt Brecht. As German émigrés reassembled amidst the onset of the Cold War and the division of Europe, these thinkers grappled with the fundamental question of art's role in society.Georg Lukács, a central philosopher of the age, fiercely advocated for realism, encompassing 'critical realism' and 'socialist realism'. He contended that major European modernists were afflicted by a philosophical 'ontologism' leading to subjectivism and formalism, which distorted or atte...
2025-07-2825 minThe Antifa Book ClubAesthetics and Politics Chapter 3: The Benjamin-Adorno Debate on Modern Art's Psychologistic Subjectivism, Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction, and the Arcades ProjectIn this episode, we delve into the highly significant correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno from 1935-1939, a dialogue that represents "one of the most important aesthetic exchanges of the thirties anywhere in Europe". Set against the backdrop of the Nazi seizure of power and their respective exiles in Paris and Oxford/New York, this exchange reveals two of Marxism's most brilliant minds grappling with the profound challenges to art and culture in an age of fascism and nascent mass society.Presentation III illuminates the complex intellectual "field of tension" between Benjamin and Adorno...
2025-07-2520 minThe Antifa Book ClubAesthetics and Politics Chapter 2: Brecht and Lukàcs Redefining Realism and Popular ArtThis episode plunges into the intense, often unacknowledged, theoretical clashes between Bertolt Brecht and Georg Lukács during the late 1930s, particularly in 1938. These "successive exchanges" is the second chapter in the book we're covering in The Antifa Book Club: "Aesthetics and Politics", a volume that brings together key texts by prominent Marxist thinkers, assembled for "the coherence of their inter-relationships". Our focus today is on Presentation II, which sets the stage for Brecht's trenchant counter-attacks against Lukács. Brecht argued that Lukács's theory was "exclusively based on the form of a few bourgeois nov...
2025-07-2322 minThe Antifa Book ClubAesthetics and Politics Chapter 1: Bloch and Lukács on ExpressionismThe book, "Aesthetics and Politics," brings together key texts by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, and Georg Lukács, with an afterword by Fredric Jameson. These texts were "assembled for the coherence of their inter-relationships," with "brief presentations designed to provide the Anglo-Saxon reader with biographical and cultural background" to these "successive exchanges". These presentations were prepared by Rodney Livingstone, Perry Anderson, and Francis Mulhern.This first episode of the Antifa Book Club delves into the profound 1938 debate between Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács over Expressionism, a pivotal moment in modern German letters an...
2025-07-2124 min
DrMcPharmaEp. 12. Life’s Essential 8: The Eight Keys to a Longer, Healthier LifeCardiovascular disease (CVD) persists as the foremost cause of mortality globally, underscoring the critical need for effective prevention and management strategies. The American Heart Association (AHA) has a long-standing commitment to mitigating the burden of CVD, with historical efforts contributing significantly to reducing mortality rates from these conditions. However, the evolving landscape of health and disease necessitates a continuous refinement of public health approaches.Recognizing this, there has been a significant evolution in strategy, moving beyond a primary focus on treating established disease towards a more encompassing model of positive health promotion and preservation throughout an individual's...
2025-05-2127 min
It's the Liquor TalkingWhisk(e)y Wednesday Teralato / CVH w/ Peter Semple & Kyle McHugh June 5th 2024Whisk(e)y Wednesday Teralato / CVH w/ Peter Semple & Kyle McHugh June 5th 2024
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TASTING LINE-UP
Bunnahabhain 12yr
Bunnahabhain 12yr Cask Strength
Bunnahabhain 18yr
Ledaig 10yr
Tobermory 12yr
Deanston 12yr
Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 14yr Ruby Port Finish
Ledaig Triple Wood
2024-06-061h 19
Analyze ScriptsEpisode 81 - "Pippi Longstocking" An Inside Look at the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary with Jennifer HubbardWelcome back to Analyze Scripts, where a psychiatrist and a therapist analyze what Hollywood gets right and wrong about mental health. Today, we are spending time with the incredible Jennifer Hubbard, founder and president of the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary. Jenny takes us through some of the many parts of CVH like their seniors program, animal adoption events, education opportunities and their belief in creating compassion and healing through the human-animal connection. Jenny reflects on noticing Catherine's love for animals early on and her curious spirit that can be seen in Pippi Longstocking. Catherine lost her life tragically...
2024-05-2338 min
Only The Greatest89. The Best Quality Beef For A Healthy Diet! Ft. Cvh FarmsWe all know the old saying, "we are what we eat," right?
In episode 89 of the podcast, we had the pleasure of sitting down with the owner/operators from CVH Farms in Woodville, Texas. As strong advocates for better living conditions for the animals that sustain us, this couple has been working tirelessly to achieve this goal and help us achieve a healthy lifestyle. They provide large pastures for their cows to roam freely, without the use of growth hormones. Their genuine love and care for the well-being of the cows ensures that the...
2023-08-181h 08
SUHSD All-StarsSUHSD ALL-STARS - Episode 7: Chula Vista High School's Parent Center with guest hosts Principal Julio Alcalá, AP Elizabeth Wong, and Community Relations Facilitator at CVH Janelle Lopez!In today's 7th episode of the SUHSD All-Stars Podcast, listeners will have an in-depth learning experience about all of the amazing opportunities available for families and students taking place at Chula Vista High School’s Parent Center! Our special guest hosts include Home of Champions Principal Julio Alcalá, Assistant Principal of Parent Engagement, Elizabeth Wong, and Community Relations Facilitator at CVH Janelle Lopez!
2023-04-0742 min
Entre Flores | Conteúdo florido toda semana!31 – Univeling e UniEduk - A força do conhecimento em prol do agronegócio.A Univeling - plataforma de educação coorporativa da CVH, nasceu da necessidade de levar até seus Cooperados, Clientes e Colaboradores treinamentos específicos para cada público, utilizando-se de todo o conhecimento adquirido no dia a dia da Cooperativa. Ao longo dessa caminhada a plataforma ganhou força, recebendo inúmeras colaborações de profissionais e instituições com cursos, palestras e formações. No início deste ano a Univeling deu mais um passo, solidificando uma importante parceria com o grupo UniEduk.“O objetivo desta cooperação é melhorar cada vez mais o desenvolvimento e a estratégia de toda...
2022-03-1118 min
Entre Flores | Conteúdo florido toda semana!#27 – Plano Estratégico 2025 PE2025 – Cinco importantes apostas irão nortear os projetos da CVHO mercado está cada vez mais desafiador e competitivo, e é preciso ter pensamentos estratégicos a fim de definir os rumos para os próximos anos. A gestora Adriana Delafina, do departamento Pessoas & Gestão e nosso CEO, Jorge Possato Teixeira, são nossos convidados de hoje e explicam como foi o processo de elaboração deste importante estudo lançado no início deste mês e que traz mudanças significativas, como, a renovação do conceito da Missão, Visão, Valores e Propósito Máximo de Transformação da CVH, e a apresentação das cinco apostas que...
2021-12-2435 min
Entre Flores | Conteúdo florido toda semana!#25 – Mulheres Cooperativistas – A força feminina em prol do CoopAs mulheres vêm ocupando cada vez mais espaços dentro do mundo cooperativista. A atuação feminina tem se destacado nas últimas décadas dentro das produções da CVH e na formação dos conselhos administrativos e fiscal da Cooperativa, e agora chega desempenhando mais um importante papel na formação de um cooperativismo cada vez mais participativo e inclusivo, o grupo Mulheres Cooperativistas CVH. No episódio de hoje vamos conhecer um pouco mais sobre o grupo com nossas cooperadas Deborah Acosta (Acosta Plantas) e Andrea Cosi (Giardino di Cosi), integrantes do comitê de mulheres da CVH. Acompanhe...
2021-12-1019 min
Entre Flores | Conteúdo florido toda semana!#21: Programa de Ideias – Inova Day CVHProporcionar aos colaboradores a oportunidade de serem protagonistas de ideias que agreguem valor, sustentabilidade e inovação à Cooperativa, é o mote deste Programa recém-lançado pela CVH. Uma iniciativa que veio para reforçar o apoio às sugestões de melhoria que são percebidas por nossos colaboradores durante suas atividades no dia a dia, não só em seu próprio ambiente de trabalho, mas de forma sistêmica, sendo um agente de transformação, criando uma cultura de inovação e senso de pertença, tendo liberdade de expressão e podendo contribuir efetivamente para o melhor desempenho dos vário...
2021-10-2914 min
2021-10-2508 minPastoral Bachillerato11 Oct 21. Reflexión del evangelioSalmo 107. Alaben a Dios porque para siempre es su misericordia.
2021-10-1104 min2021-10-0203 minPastoral Bachillerato27 Sep. 21. Reflexión del EvangelioLectio Divina.Maestro hemos visto a uno que expulsaba demonios en tu nombre... Les aseguro que el que les dé beber un vaso de agua, no quedará sin recompensa.
2021-09-2807 minPastoral Bachillerato22 Sep 21. Ejercicio de respiración y atención.Seguimiento a la respiración. Quizá te has dado cuenta de que tu mente esta vagando, pero tan pronto como te des cuenta de ello, sigue al seguimiento de tu respiración.
2021-09-2210 minPastoral Bachillerato19 Septiembre de 2021Parece que a los discípulos, nos puede gustar más el protagonismo. El que quiera ser el primero, que sea el servidor de todos.
2021-09-1905 minPastoral Bachillerato15 Sep 21. Ejercicio de respiraciónLa profesora Adriana Martínez, nos comparte este ejercicio de respiración, llevándonos a tener mayor atención.
2021-09-1505 min
Entre Flores | Conteúdo florido toda semana!#17: Programa Humanize – Acolhimento cooperativista aos colaboradores CVHOs novos tempos e a vida moderna trouxeram muitos avanços, entretanto, também acabaram causaram muitos impactos à nossa saúde e bem-estar. Diante das situações enfrentadas, agravadas ainda mais no decorrer da pandemia, as fragilidades humanas ficaram mais evidentes e vieram à tona. Este cenário levou a um olhar mais atento por parte da Cooperativa Veiling e fez surgiu uma iniciativa para apoiar e dar suporte emocional aos Colaboradores, o programa Humanize. O projeto busca acolher e auxiliar os colaboradores quanto à saúde mental, emocional e à qualidade de vida. Entre outras ações, está o atendimento remoto com psicólogos...
2021-09-1012 min
2021-08-1000 min
Up In Your BusinessThe Creation of Recovery Homes w/ CVHThis episode is a truly amazing one! We had the pleasure of talking with Bernard and Georgia of Central Village Housing in Minnesota. They own 2 recovery homes and also teach others how to start and grow their own recovery homes based on the success they’ve had. They’re doing incredible work; helping to make a big impact in people’s lives and help them return to a healthy and positive road.
To learn more about what they’re doing, visit them online at cvhrecovery.com or head to their Instagram @cvh.recovery
2021-03-241h 02
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing: The BeatIn Their Own Words: Dr. Billy CaceresSexual Identity, Adverse Life Experiences, and Cardiovascular Health in Women
Caceres, Billy A. PhD, RN, AGPCNP-BC; Markovic, Nina PhD; Edmondson, Donald PhD; Hughes, Tonda L. PhD, RN, FAAN
The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing: 9/10 2019 - Volume 34 - Issue 5 - p 380-389
doi: 10.1097/JCN.0000000000000588
Abstract
Background:
Adverse life experiences (ALE; eg, discrimination and sexual abuse) may contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in sexual minority women (SMW), but few studies have tested whether ALE explain the association of sexual identity with cardiovascular health (CVH) markers in women.
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2021-02-1202 min
Pastoral BachilleratoPadre Nuestro 1¿Entendemos las palabras PADRE NUESTRO?. En estos podcast hablaremos sobre pistas para entender mejor esta fabulosa oración.
2020-08-0401 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseMy Sister's Keeper...“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” ― audre lorde
When I started this podcast last year, I started with a vision of centering the narratives of Black women around menopause and ageing that resonated with me. Of course that meant that as cisgender, Black, heterosexual woman born and raised in the American South I needed to check myself on the fact that menopause, and all of the complexities that comes with it and ageing, doesn't just happen to cis hetero...
2020-07-3159 min
Starter Set - A Card Game Review Podcast[LC Archive] - CVH Returns to Legends Cast!On episode 19 Mark and DBN get a chance to hang out with CVH from Bethesda! This is also the first episode they also add full segments for the show. Join them as they cover the latest TESL news, arena changes, this week's gauntlet, Q&A with CVH, some CVH trivia, and they close it all up with Mark's final thoughts. This is not an episode to miss because it gives some insight into the life of Bethesda, the design philosophy behind gauntlet, and what goes on behind the scenes on release day.
2019-10-181h 54
Starter Set - A Card Game Review Podcast[LC Archive] - Special Guest CVH from Bethesda! State of the game and QuakeCon 2019.This episode Mark gets too interview and talk with CVH, the ESL community manager from Bethesda. If you care about TESL and are wondering about the meta and the games future this episode is a must listen. They talk about CVH’s history with gaming that brought him to Bethesda, the masters series, QuakeCon, a ton of stuff about what goes into making a digital card game, helpful and unhelpful feedback, and the bright future for TESL.
2019-07-241h 34
The New York DoseEP. 83-A | Part Of Your WorldIt’s a rare/intimate episode with your favorite hosts. Tune in as Adaloso & DJ discuss America’s Independence day, lost/loved ones, queer music artists & a black “Little Mermaid”.
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2019-07-0939 min
Ask The Expert Presents Hemophilia on BalanceEp. 28: Gender Bias in Healthcare w/ - Christie VanHorne - June 24, 2019Did you know that women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with a mental health condition when presenting cardiovascular symptoms? Or that, on average, it takes women ten years to be diagnosed with endometriosis? On the latest episode of Ask the Expert, we dive into this topic and the long history of women feeling dismissed or ignored when it comes to their health. We are joined by Christie VanHorne, a consultant with CVH Consulting, who has developed training modules to demystify gender bias in healthcare. Christie walks us through the tools of how to identify gender...
2019-06-2456 min
Public Health Epidemiology ConversationsInterview with Christie VanHorne, CVH ConsultingIn this episode, you will meet the CEO of CVH Consulting, Christie VanHorn. If her name sounds familiar to you, then you may remember her from the very first Public Health Consulting and Entrepreneurship Expo that I held, where she was one of my cohosts. She joins me on this episode to talk about her public health journey, from employee to consultant. She talks about who she serves in her business, her ideal client, the types of services she provides, and what she loves about her role as a consultant. She also has a few ti...
2019-06-0430 min
Fun & Interactive: A TESL PodcastFUN & INTERACTIVE Podcast: Episode 30 - CVHThis week, we talk with CVH about the recent balance patch. Mantikora and Nix-Ox are covered, as well as the monthly reward card.
2018-05-042h 17
Fun & Interactive: A TESL PodcastFUN & INTERACTIVE Podcast: Episode 18 - Special Guest CVHThis week, we talk with CVH about our experiences with the game, where the game is going, and a bunch of random stuff in our longest podcast yet.
2018-01-152h 45
Salute Your Sports'97 Heisman Race, Basketball News, Russia BannedCVH and Court turn back the clock to discuss the 1997 Heisman Trophy race and the careers of Charles Woodson, Peyton Manning, and Randy Moss and the spectacular bust, Ryan Leaf. Then they discuss the ongoing Ball brother sag, the Brooklyn Nets landing another lottery pick with the Jahlil Okafor trade and Russia being banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics.
2017-12-0953 minSalute Your SportsHome Cooking - NFL, UM v OSU, Pistons!Finally awake from the their Thanksgiving food comas, Court and CVH are back with a heaping helping of their own home cooking. This week's episode centers around the Detroit Lions' dismal Thanksgiving, UofM's lose to Ohio State, and the surging Detroit Pistons. Dig in!
2017-12-0159 minSalute Your SportsNFL Week 11, Early Season NBA RecapCVH and Court are back after their RADICAL SABBATICAL. This week they are covering the NFL after Week 11. Every team has played 10 games and the Playoff picture is starting to take shape. Also, the NBA is here and still the most fun league going. The holidays are upon us and Court and CVH are thrilled to be spending them with you.
2017-11-221h 16Salute Your SportsTom Petty, NFL Week 4CVH and Court jump into this week's epsiode with some thoughts on the passing of Tom Petty and his place in the all-time Rock n' Roll pantheon. From there they dive into an extensive recap of NFL Week 4, the Detroit Lion's impressive defense, and Kareem Hunt's eye-popping first 4 games.
2017-10-061h 14Salute Your SportsStick To SportsA very fine episode. Big episode. Huge episode.
Politics infiltrates the tranquil land of sports this week as the anthem protests takes center stage and a grumpy septagenarian picks fights with a group of people who would definitely win a fight or any sort of contest against said grumpy septagenarian. Court and CVH are here to take your mind of all that madness with a recap of the wild NFL Week 3 and all the NBA happenings as Carmelo finally gets traded and Dwyane takes his talents to The Land.
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2017-09-281h 22
Both Wonderful And StrangePart 18Christopher and Amelia discuss Part 18, the finale of Twin Peaks: The Return.
2017-09-201h 10Salute Your SportsNFL Week 1Here we go! The NFL Season is upon us. Court is excited and CVH is trying to reign him in as they go deep into the details of Week 1. The conversation is wide ranging and covers everything from the Week 1 results, Week 2 picks, a brief detour to discuss the college football and landscape, and a discussion of The Commish v. NYPD Blue.
2017-09-131h 07Both Wonderful And StrangePart 17Amelia and Christopher discuss the penultimate episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 17 - "The Past Dictates The Future".
2017-09-091h 20Salute Your SportsNFL Season PreviewCVH and Court are deep diving into the upcoming NFL Season. They give their parting thoughts on this year's Hard Knocks and Court gushes over ESPN's "Being PJ Fleck". With TV talk out of the way the Salute Your Sports crew goes deep into the upcoming NFL season, offering win total predictions for every team and a full breakdown of what they think will happen in the Playoffs.
2017-09-071h 21Both Wonderful And StrangeParts 15&16We are approaching the end of Twin Peaks: The Return. This week's episode of Both Wonderful & Strange has Amelia and Christopher recapping Parts 15&16. These were two incredible episodes packed with big reveals, all kinds of emotion, and some serious plot momentum.
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2017-09-011h 30Both Wonderful And StrangeParts 13&14Parts 13 & 14 are dense and layered and exceptional. Chris and Amelia are back with a full recap of two episodes that take us all across the western United States. We finally get to see Jackrabbit's Palace, we get a nice check in with the Detectives Fucscoe, and last, and almost certainly least, we are treated to a very special night of music at The Roadhouse featuring the musical stylings of "The Always Been Cool" James Hurley.
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2017-08-251h 28Salute Your SportsKyrie To Boston, Hard KnocksThe NBA never sleeps! Court and CVH are here to breakdown the biggest NBA trade in years as the Cavs send Kyrie Irving to the Celtics for a massive haul including Isaiah Thomas and the last of the mythic Brooklyn picks. Who won the trade? What does it mean for the East? Does it matter in the face of the Warriors juggenaut?
Stick around for a recap of episodes 2 and 3 of Hard Knocks. The Bucs have the talent, but do they have the poise? They certainly don't have the kicking. They do have Chris Baker, and that's reason enough...
2017-08-241h 02Salute Your SportsHard Knocks, Elliott's Suspension, Court vs. StaffordIt's Hard Knocks time. Court and CVH love Hard Knocks. This week's episode kicks off with a discussion of their intiial impressions of this year's Hard Knocks participant, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Gerald McCoy is a hero, Jameis can move, but is kind of bland, and Dirk Koetter seems like a half as cool Pete Carroll. It's going to be a fun year. The rest of the episode is NFL-centric as CVH breaks down the Ezekeil Elliott's suspension and Court goes on an anti-Matt Stafford tirade. Football is coming.
2017-08-151h 05Salute Your SportsFootball Is Coming, Vince Wilfork, Jay CutlerThe first week of August is maybe the most quiet sports week of the year. CVH and Court are looking into the farthest corners of the sporting world to bring you this week's topics. Vince Wilfork joins team "RIB", also retires. Jay Cutler unretires, has great hair, also a questionable work ethic. In the words of House Smoots "Footbal Is Coming".
2017-08-0848 minBoth Wonderful And StrangePart 12Part 12 of Twin Peaks: The Return marks a special occassion for Both Wonderful and Strange. Christopher and Amelia are in the same place and able to bring their thoughts on this somewhat challenging episode. We are finally reunited with an old favorite, and then immediately introduced to many, many more offscreen characters. To all you Angelas, Marys, Pauls, Chucks, and Billys out there.....Let's Rock.
2017-08-0651 minBoth Wonderful And StrangePart 11 & Fire Walk With MeChristopher and Amelia, siblings who are almost on the level of the Mitchum brothers, are back with a breakdown and discussion of the fabulous Part 11 of Twin Peaks: The Return. Then, as a special treat, Amelia leads a discussion on David Lynch's Twin Peaks prequel film, Fire Walk With Me.
2017-08-041h 17Both Wonderful And StrangeParts 9 & 10Amelia and Chris are back with their thorough and excited breakdown of the happenings of Parts 9 & 10 of Twin Peaks: The Return. After the shattering madness of Part 8, these two episodes are a return to wide-ranging narratives running through this series. The plotlines are tightening, our understanding is growing, and yet Lynch still keeps us laughing, cringing, guessing, and glued to the screen.
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2017-07-281h 30Both Wonderful And StrangeParts 7&8Parts 7 and 8 of Twin Peaks:The Return offer a fascinating look at the duality of Twin Peaks and David Lynch. Part 7 is a mostly by the books advancement of the narrative of the show with some nice character beats and even a little fan service. Part 8.....well Part 8 is pure Lynch madness and it was wonderful. Amelia Van Howe returns this week to join Chris with a full recap of these two episodes. This is their best conversation yet.
2017-06-301h 24Both Wonderful And StrangeParts 5&6Amelia Van Howe is back. She and Chris offer a comprehensive deep dive into Twin Peaks: The Return Parts 5&6.
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2017-06-271h 05Both Wonderful And StrangeParts 3&4Both Wonderful and Strange returns to break down Parts 3 and 4 of Twin Peaks: The Return. Amelia Van Howe is the guest this week and she and Chris give a deep recap of the first four parts. A bunch of narrative threads have emerged and the two of them were so excited to dive in, compare notes, and share their favorite scenes. Chris gives his thoughts on Mark Frost's "The Secret History of Twin Peaks and how Twin Peaks: The Return has handle the aging and, in some cases, the passing of its actors.
2017-06-031h 06
The Most Basic Cable PodcastEpisode 110 - And A Rookie QB Shall Lead ThemCVH and Court are talking loads of football this week. The NFL has two exciting rookie QB’s, a ton of parity, and some coaches ready to get canned. College Football has been brilliant this year and its only getting better. This weekend features three Top-10 matchups, led by a battle of the two most electric Quarterbacks in the country when Louisville and Clemson clash on Saturday night. CVH gives us his World Cup of Hockey update and Court, CVH, and a mic’d up Producer JC imagine a bar fight between the teams of captains leading their teams into the...
2016-09-281h 08The Most Basic Cable PodcastEpisode 109 - All The QuarterbacksFootball..football as far as the eye can see…. This week’s The Most Basic Cable is football centric as CVH and Court dive into Week 3 of College Football and Week 2 of the NFL. Early returns show that college football is “way more fun” and “worth watching”, whereas NFL football can be “kind of a drag” and is mostly “just a bunch of flags and injuries”. From football your hosts and Producer JC move on to Hoosiers 30th anniversary and their favorite sports movies. Finally, Court, who must’ve lost a bet or something, lets CVH give his World Cup of Hockey update.
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2016-09-2057 min