The “ah of course China Bad” stuff was tough last episode.
Then there’s Liam repeating “I’m an anarchist” and when compared to everything else he says (which is getting quite authoritarian, tsk tsk!) it sounds like a mantra he’s just repeating to convince himself. idk
Great episode otherwise imo. Enjoying Victoria’s contributions. Devon remains GOATed. truly a land of contrasts.
I have always hated this stupid ass podcast. They are your gold standard of “podcast that claims to be about X/Y/Z but actually it will be 45 minutes of really awful riffing/jokes/loud laughter and 45 minutes of us basically reading the wikipedia article for the topic at hand”. And sure, that’s every podcast (which is why I don’t listen to any regularly) but oh my god I just wanna hear about the bridge collapse that your episode is titled after I don’t care about some tweet you saw why are you talking about tweets you’re an engineering disaster podcast
For this very reason Blowback is the only podcast I actually keep up with
Proles pod :)
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is one of the few unscripted podcasts I can stomach because the hosts know what the fuck they’re talking about, articulate their thoughts clearly, and actually stick to the topic at hand. What a concept!that’s every podcast
There’s some podcasts, generally ones with only one host, that have none of that. That’s why I love The History of Rome, it’s basically all content, and none of that fluff.
Haven’t paid these losers any attention since they spent an entire episode shitting on the USSR with an actual Nazi as the guest
Whoa what? Who was that?
‘Adam Something’ iirc , big Azov supporter, defended
for having loli and bestiality hentai, arguably buying into great replacement theories and other 
takesHaving him as a guest(and not disavowing him after even more shit as come to light)and Liam’s increasingly shitty NATO-‘anarchist’ takes, Nova’s constant interrupting and talking over people, and engaging in more anti-communism than anti-fascism, Rocz seeming to have good stances on most things but afraid to speak up and push back against his friends, caused me to stop listening a while ago
If it went back to being an engineering disaster/urbanism pod hosted by Rocz and Liam’s dad I’d consider listening again
Luv 2 make vague allusions to “Venezuela not actually socialist, Maduro steal election” that perfectly line up with the propaganda used to justify his kidnapping while discussing his kidnapping. Like at this point I’m waiting for the next episode where they talk about how while the US carpet bombings are bad, literally everyone in Iran has already been killed by the government so you know, no good guys here and the smart thing to do is sit on the fence while amplifying one side’s narratives.
And god help them if the subject of Russia/Ukraine comes up.
Hello, I am a serious marxist. Here is how serious leftists analyze the news:
If two different newspapers report the same propaganda allegations about a country it must be credible. If a US funded NGO also reports it, it must be true.
This only applies to the rules based international community which can be trusted.
The perfidious zones outside that green belt of enlightenment haven’t developed their news understanding capabilties and so can’t be trusted. They have not leveled up their FreedomScore™ enough to have credible sources. Anything they say is only true if repeated by two credible news organizations and/or an NGO.
Also, if of a country or their leader outside the truth zone gives you bad vibes, then this is a good indication that every bad thing you’ve heard about them is true, and that their country should sanctioned, starved, and then apart by bombs and bullets. This may result in a lot of unpleasantness, but afterwards their FreedomScore™ will go up, so don’t worry about it. One day they too might be able to count themselves as part of the international community.
Don’t mistake this as racism or chauvanism, which it totally isn’t.
Sincerely,
A propaganda understanderer
Has it ever been explained why she’s so into the Ukrainian cause? Like I understand having sympathy for civilians and workers caught in the middle of a conflict they really didn’t get a say over but she seems like she just uncritically supports Zelensky and Azov and shit.
The vibe i got is she has ukrainian/polish/baltic handler and/or just huffs guardian every hour, that’s the scope of the takes.
I basically listen for Rocz, at this point I have no expectations of the other two I just miss my sardonic city developer guy. Real Franklin heads know.
I miss the Franklin series and wtyp never landed for me because basically everyone else irritated the shit out of me on the episodes I tried
Had to stop listening after the episode where both Liam and Nova were both seriously considering converting to catholicism. Really? The most pedophilic organized religion? “Oh but at least they have cool gold shit” shut the fuck up.
My hatred of papistry is only exceeded by my hatred of amerikkkan protestantism
Rocz is cool and good. I stopped listening at least 3 yeaea ago cause I couldnt stand Liam
WTYP is a great premise, but the hosts are simply bad at podcasting
Even disregarding the liberalism the pod is too often simply insufferable to listen to because 70% of the runtime is taken up by Liam and Nova’s infinite tight fives. I feel so bad for the guests when they’re trying to explain something and are just being talked over by those two making nearly identical variations of each others jokes. They’re always joking about how long the episodes are, and there’s nothing wrong with long form content, but it gets pretty tiring and unfunny when there are only 45 minutes that are actually on topic in an episode that’s 3 hours long. Sucks because it’s a great concept for a podcast, they just execute it so shamefully.
petit bougie mentality from london dweller - no, that can’t be.
Doesn’t she live in Scotland?
From what I remember of opening banter from Trashfuture, she has moved back to London around a year ago.
I think she still lives in Glasgow. She was trying to move to London a few times. But she attended that thing in Glasgow where a transfem got kicked in the balls one last time before bottom surgery and also met the trans doctor who got all the harassment.
i was making a joke, dunno. podcasters are petit bougie, and the longer patreon goes on, the more obvious it corrupts them
They aren’t petite bourgeois if they don’t have employees. If they’ve got a patreon gravy train but no employees, they’re labor aristocrats.
since when? that’s what makes them petit bougie in first place
Petite bourgeois isn’t a tax bracket or an attitude, it’s a relation to the means of production. The petite bourgeois aren’t just overcompensated proles, they are people who use private ownership of means of production to extract labor value from employees but still need to work themselves.
No, that’s small business owners, petit bourgeoisie are owning their own means of production, shopkeepers of 19th century and the like
No, “small business owner” is not a term that is describing things on the proletarian - petite bourgeois - bourgeois spectrum, and is not part of Marx’s analysis, even if using it can be useful in various contexts.
Someone who owns a tiny bit of the means of production, has employees, and still needs to work themselves is 100% the most textbook definition of petite bourgeois. The point of the term is that “bourgeois” refers to someone whose income is principally from the excess labor value of others (accomplished via their ownership of the means of production), while proletarians need to sell their own labor, and the petite bourgeois are people who have both qualities.
shopkeepers of 19th century and the like
So … people who owned small businesses?
As a funny trans woman with occasional bad opinions I like seeing myself represented.
But I’ve never really been able to get in WTYP, but I do listen to KJB and No Gods No Mayors, it’s nice to listen to podcasts where all the hosts are trans.
I loved their episode on the Vulcan Bridge, and the premise of the podcast is great, but yeah western libs gonna western lib, decent political takes are rare in both mainstream and more “radical” media here in the Anglosphere.
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They have a few good episodes when they shut up and let the guests speak, the mexican train one was pretty great. I have a hard time respecting these so called “professional” podcasters who see the large amount of money they recieve as validation for their ego rather than a reason to improve their “art”.
Are there any good theory podcasts? Like a podcast with people who actually know what they are talking about discussing theory without trying to force bits out of it every 5 seconds. My problem with the current crop of left wing podcasts is that, as an English speaker, they are usually just current events discussion (often about minute details of American or British politics or some extremely online thing) that often devolves into in-jokes and bits. The episodes of WTYP that I geniunely loved are the ones with expert guests, thats what I feel most of these current affairs podcasts are missing, because when you have the same three or four people every week you very quickly leave the scope of their knowledge. The constant need for content to keep that petty bourgeoisie gold mine going leads to them either filling the the space with inane personal details or small talk that they should have got out of the way before beginning to record. I dont need a podcast every week or on a schedule, I need a podcast that makes something because they have something of substance to say.
Rev Left Radio and Red Menace are both very good for this in my opinion. Breht and Alyson are very knowledgeable and professional and manage to host some of the few podcasts that don’t succumb to the more jokes than content disease.
We’re Not So Different is a rare intersection of good politics and informality. Dr Eleanor Janega is a medievalist and one of the more prominent historical materialists of our current time, Luke Waters is an non practising lawyer who likes star wars and Marxism-Leninism.
They talk about history (mostly medieval but not always) in a conversational manner.
Not explicitly theory but Aaron Good’s American Exception podcast is excellent.
Haven’t listened in ages but Partially Examined Life. They cover philosophy and aren’t explicitly political, I don’t even remember if they’re leftist or anything. But they don’t really joke about it and discuss the topic at hand quite thoroughly imo. I learned a lot from them.
Varn vlog, despite very acerbic personality, has a lot of bangers (if you want to avoid current discussions completely, that’s more for interviews) and while suffering from same super structural disease of western marxists (you more likely hear about why heidegger is a dipshit than why cobalt prices margins has to stay low, but the scope is so big of western philosophy shenanigans, there is always something interesting). (well, there is some distaste to ml-s, china and (american) anarchists, but that’s whatever, one has to hear comradely critique)
And alpha2omega, best boy (if misguided) about cybernetics in podcast form
Are there any good theory podcasts? Like a podcast with people who actually know what they are talking about discussing theory without trying to force bits out of it every 5 seconds.
Jacobin’s podcast feed is pretty good IMO. Especially The Dig.
Liam’s trot dad appearing in the comments to call his son a lib is pretty funny tho
I gave up on it awhile back too. Too long, not that good, Rocz should try doing his own thing.
He used to, and it was literally some of the most high quality content I have ever seen. This has been a huge downgrade for him and I stopped listening a long time ago because they would just riff forever before getting to the actual meat of the episode.
I really dropped off on listening, they’ve had some good episodes but Liam (and Nova to a lesser extent) really grated on me. I miss the Franklin series, still a little salty that WTYP killed it off
