Monday Mar 09, 2020
Episode 31 - Excalliper
Podcasting is Praxis
A socialist and anarchist cabal of posters talk about the news and their feelings of existential terror.
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Saturday Feb 29, 2020
Saturday Feb 29, 2020
It's time to gaze across the Atlantic again to the very extremely real country that is the USA, and bask in the complete failure of the melts in the Democrats to fight off an unelectable and divisive socialist in the arena of democracy.
Not only is it good for laughing at the meltdowns, but there are some good lessons to be had from the campaign, and we take a little look at what the Bernie Campaign has done differently from Labour during the Corbyn era that seems to have worked better.
Also, some Comment or Commentariat.
Cast:
David - @SanitaryNaptime
James - @anarchonbury
Jamie - @WizardCubes
Rob - @CountRThe
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Credits:
"Fluffing a Duck"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
One of the organisers of Bristol Transformed, a left-wing festival of politics and culture, joins us to discuss the importance of community organising. We also have a brief round up of the week's news.
Cast:Seb @PCSocialismBen @doesntusetwitter.comJamie @wizardcubesJosh @JCnutter
https://bristoltransformed.org/
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
In this episode we unleash the dragon of chaos to celebrate the recovery of Jordan Peterson, discuss the rat problem infesting the former colonies, behold the new cabinet of bloodless monsters appointed by BoJo and discuss the utter scandal of Windrush and the deportations. It’s bleak, but solidarity and love forever, comrades!
King Missile - Take Stuff From Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIXz_vzROrw
Book recommendation about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes: "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John Carreyrou
Fiona Harvey on post-Brexit environmental regulation: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/12/these-three-post-brexit-bills-bulldoze-a-hole-through-environmental-protections
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
We recorded this episode a few days before the Iowa Caucus, so if you'd like to travel back to a time before ratty pete's app blew up, this is the episode for you!
A Big Structural Episode (emphasis on Big) sees Elijah, James, Rob, and Jamie go over the entirety of the US democratic primary campaign until now, specially summarised for Limey Listeners who don’t have the chutzpah to follow New York Times writers on Twitter. From the esoterica behind the mystical “Eye-Oh-Wah Caucus” and the Democratic selection process, to a rundown of the current candidates and their respective hives of scum and villainy, to a Greatest Hits of the absolute clown-shoes campaigns some of these cretins are running, we’ve got it all. BYOB, you’re gonna need it.Warning- long.NB: USA passport holders can donate to the Bernie Sanders campaign here:https://berniesanders.com/
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Cast
Elijah - @KlezmerRouge
James - @anarchonbury
Rob - @CountRThe
Jamie - @Wizardcubes
Monday Jan 27, 2020
Monday Jan 27, 2020
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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Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
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/
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
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!
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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
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
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
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
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
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
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
This isn't a threat but who knows what could happen if you don't listen