Podcasting is Praxis

Episode 26 - Controls on Space Immigration

Its our first cultural commentary episode, and it's Star Wars.
 
David (@SanitaryNaptime), James (@anarchonbury) & Jamie (@WizardCubes) try to piece together what the narrative is of the Skywalker Saga as a whole, both in good and bad faith, a wider discussion on the importance and power of narratives within society, and of course the tragedy of the Colombian Grebe.
 
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Episode 25 - Segway to Davos

Four very professional podcasters waste your time for an hour and a half(ish) [Ed note:nearly two hours].  Rob (@CountRthe),  Elijah (@KlezmerRouge), Ben, and Jamie (@WizardCubes) talk about the news, the Labour leadership contest, make discoveries in pronunciation, and depress themselves with the Davos conference. Includes the ever enraging Comment Or Commentariat and facts about vampires.
 
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Book recommendation: Winner Take All by Anand Giridharadas 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winners-Take-All-Charade-Changing/dp/0451493249
 
The Davos Manifesto (for the sickos): https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/why-we-need-the-davos-manifesto-for-better-kind-of-capitalism/

Episode 24 - Podcasting is Praxis 2: The Returnening

We’re back with season 2 of Podcasting is Praxis; it’ll be grittier, darker and probably all downhill from here - a perfect mirror for reality.
David (@SanitaryNaptime), Rob (@CountRthe), Jamie (@Wizardcubes), and James (@BrovineOfBored) talk Iran, discuss the Labour leadership election, and Rob loses his mind at Polly Toynbee’s middlebrow garbage. Also, we start scoring Comment or Commentariat to find out whomst among us is the greatest connoisseur of trash takes! 
 
Links: 
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2013 New Yorker profile of Qassem Soleimani: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
Register to become a Labour member before Jan 20 to vote in the leadership election: https://join.labour.org.uk

Episode 23 - Rise Like Lions

That didn't go the way we hoped.
 
After a short but contemplative break, we're back, and we're looking forward. What can we do in the aftermath? Is there any point in trying?
 
Yes. Yes there is.
 
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Cast:
Elijah - http://twitter.com/KlezmerRouge
Rob - http://twitter.com/CountRThe
Seb - http://twitter.com/pcsocialism
Jon - http://twitter.com/Tsietisin
 

Episode 22 - Vote.

It's almost time.
It's almost HAPPENING.
Elijah, James, Matt & Jamie take a look at some of the last things to come out of the winter election, and think back to some of the dumbest highlights of the whole long and painful time, and then the collective has a bit of a think about who, as individuals, we'll be voting for. More importantly, why.
 
To intro the show, we have a musical treat supplied by Elijah, so do enjoy Toxic Ephex feat. The Black Cat Workers Collective - Referendum Lies
Site: https://blackcat.coop/toxik/
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/h1FF3wqBFm4
Bandcamp: https://blackcatrecordsaberdeen.bandcamp.com/album/referendum-lies (Go here for a free download link to the song!)
 
LIVESTREAM
http://twitch.tv/Praxiscast at 21:30 on Thursday 12th. Be there, but not until you've voted!
 
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Cast
Elijah - @KlezmerRouge
James - @BrovineofBored
Matt - @mfcrocker
Jamie - free geordiegoblin

Episode 21 - Uru, Uru Ahim!

Content Warning - Antisemitism
 
Very Special Guest Nate Bethea of @trashfuturepod and @HellOfAWay joins regulars David, Alasdair, Ben, and Elijah to discuss Judaism, Jewdar, and the bizarre ubiquity of antisemitism in current British politics. We've kept the Yiddish to a minimum.
 
LIVESTREAM ALERT
Join us from 21:30 GMT on Thursday 12th December on twitch at twitch.tv/Praxiscast as we cover the exit poll and everything else that happens through the night!
 
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Cast
David - @SanitaryNaptime
Alasdair - @sa_ballistari
Elijah - @KlezmerRouge
Ben
Nate - @inthesedeserts
 
Intro & Outro performed by Elijah @KlezmerRouge

Episode 20 - Transforming Ignorance

Content Warning: TERFs, Transphobia
 
In this episode, Natalie, Matt and James run David through a few aspects of the challenges and barriers that society - and some of the worst in it - puts up for people who aren't cisgender. They also explain the type of help that's actually available, and how it's woefully incapable of operating at anything close to the necessary capacity.
One of the reasons we're keen to do these types of episodes - and there will be more down the line - is to confront our ignorance, listen to some people with a bit more knowledge, and engage with it. It's about trying to make ourselves more rounded people, and better allies to others. We hope that if you're in a similar position to David, you come out of this episode feeling more confident in your understanding of a subject you may know very little about: the struggles that trans people go through.
Also in a first for this podcast, we talk Scottish Pol- no wait, don't go! James gives us a good rundown of how they see transphobia taking hold within the Scottish political establishment across a multitude of parties, a topic they will expand upon in more detail on another episode...
Relevant Link: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/
 
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Cast
David - http://twitter.com/SanitaryNaptime
James - http://twitter.com/anarchonbury
Matt - http://twitter.com/mfcrocker
Natalie
 

Episode 19 - Jo Swinson's Gritty Reboot of the Tufty Club

Polls! Polls? Polls.
 
Rather than have a big obsessive panic about number go up, number go down, we take a look at what MRP actually means, and the reasons that polling is a bit pointless until the only poll that matters; the exit poll.
Also, we take a brief look back over the Climate Change debate, a fun jaunt into the CUKTIG Manifesto Pamphlet and enjoy the fightback against media bias through twitter antics that have forced Jo Swinson to carefully avoid denying allegations that she's a squirrel murderer (again, we live for this) (also, RIP Richard Miller)
 
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Cast:
Rob - http://twitter.com/CountRThe
Alasdair - http://twitter.com/SA_Ballistari
James (Original flavour) - http://twitter.com/BrovineofBored
Jamie - F
Andrew

Episode 18 (Part 2/2) - Mainly Manifesto Mutterings

Part 2 of our extremely over running episode on the labour manifesto is here for your listening pleasure, topped off with a brain melting round of Comment or Commentariat!
 
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Cast
David http://twitter.com/SanitaryNaptime
Alicia http://twitter.com/aliciajumman
Jon http://twitter.com/Tsietisin
Natalie
Jamie
 
Look out for our Election Livestream on 12th December! It's nearly time!
 

Episode 18 (Part 1/2) - I wanna be. the sensiblest, like no-one ever was...

We're on a roll!
 
In part one of our first ever two part episode, we cast our minds back to when Johnson and Swinson lived out their personal nightmares on live TV.* We also chat voter registration and the baffling state of the BBC turning full propagandist, before pivoting hard left towards the Labour Manifesto.
 
When we recorded this we originally intended to just run for the usual one episode length, but it turns out that when you give a load of socialists good policies to get out there, we don't shut up, so that's why you've got a two parter.
 
Follow us at http://twitter.com/Praxiscast for further episode updates AND also information on our upcoming Election Night Livestream!
 
Cast
David - http://twitter.com/SanitaryNaptime
Jon - http://twitter.com/Tsietisin
Alicia - http://twitter.com/aliciajumman
Natalie
Jamie - all complaints to http://twitter.com/jack
 
*(Not the one where squirrels replace everyone that you've ever loved, the other one Jo, where you watch your electoral hopes and dreams die in real time)