Podcasting is Praxis

Episode 9 - A Smooth Brain Bouncing Around a Frictionless Skull

We're back!
 
Sorry for the late release, but we're back with an almost full episode. We recorded this before Parliament's Super Saturday, so we've just chopped out the Brexit update, so instead, we've got some of the lesser reported parts of last week's news, as well as an article in which Toby Young starts with a fair point and ends with brain spiders, Comment or Commentariat, and a bunch of promises on our part that we really hope aren't hollow!
 
On this week:
David - http://twitter.com/sanitarynaptime
Alasdair - http://twitter.com/SA_Ballistari
Michael - http://twitter.com/mehall
Sam - too good for twitter
 
Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/Praxiscast
 

Episode 8 - What if the planet, but on fire?

We did it, we finally got some time and a break in the news to do a climate change episode! Hooray! Come join Natalie, Rob, Matty, James, and Dan for a wonderful adventure into the burning hellworld that is our planet.
 
As well as a look at how capitalism ruins everything it touches, there's a dip into climate activism - from the mass engagement of Gen Z with FridaysforFuture, to the mass engagement of Extinction Rebellion activists with the police - a raft of potential solutions to climate change including the idea of the Green New Deal, and in place of Comment or Commentariat, a game of Capitalist or Supervillian (but I repeat myself)
 
Links:
Naomi Klein: 'Let Them Drown: the violence of othering in a warming world'
Earth Strike

Episode 7 - Atomic Kitten Malthusian

To cap off Conference Season, it's unfortunately time to cover the Tories. Join us for a look at the absolutely baffling lack of new ideas, and the horrifying doubling down on some of the older stuff.
 
On this week's episode, Jon makes his first appearance alongside Alasdair, Jamie, Rob & David, not just for the conference, but for some coverage of the news (there's good stuff this week!), an article that combines bootlicking with being horny on main, and Comment or Commentariat.
 
Trusswaffle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_wkO4hk07o
Music used has been taken from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/
 
Follow us at http://twitter.com/PraxisCast
David: http://twitter.com/SanitaryNaptime
Alasdair: http://twitter.com/SA_Ballistari
Jamie: http://twitter.com/geordiegoblin
Rob: http://twitter.com/CountRThe
Jon: http://twitter.com/Tsietisin
 

Episode 6 - A Spectre is Haunting Progress

In this week's episode, Alasdair (@SA_Ballistari), David (@SanitaryNaptime), Ben (smart man who doesn't use twitter), Seb (@PCSocialism) and Xander (@xjmaw) tackle Tom Watson's narrowly avoiding being dissolved in acid, the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling on the prorogation of parliament, the collapse of Thomas Cook a la every other mega conglomerated business like Carillion, Joris Bohnson's relationship with an American business woman that is bad, but not for the reason everyone is saying it is; and the big topic this week, Labour conference, with all the extremely good stuff that's been coming from The World Transformed fringe manifesto and the actual conference itself. Main highlights there are the Green New Deal (https://www.labourgnd.uk/) and all the actual policies that were announced by all our favourites from the Labour Party. We also follow up with another article that further sends Alasdair into the realm of the mad god, and another round of Comment or Commentariat, with some of our favourite friends of the show.

Episode 5 - The Swinter of Our Discontent

Rob and Elijah join a further expanded cast with Seb and Kirby on an unfortunate expedition into just what Lib Dem policy actually is, have a meltdown over a terrible article, and play another game of Comment or Commentariat.

Episode 4 - A Parcel of Prorogues

BONUS EP!
 
We delve into the proroguing of parliament, ponder an extremely brainspider infested article about the supremacy of Jo Swinson's Lib Dems and do some Comment or Commentariat.

Episode 3 - Judged On Your Record

Content Warning: DWP & Poverty experience
 
The group talk about the experiences of one of our own surviving a changing welfare system in the UK under the yoke of austerity and Tory rule.
Not going to lie to you, this one does get a bit heavy at points. We cover a long decline in standards of welfare, with a lot of first hand accounts from Fargle in his debut on the podcast. The ministers responsible, the aims of the system and the struggles present in it.
It wouldn't be a socialist podcast if we didn't put some sort of hopeful slant on it though, and we touch on a potential solution in the long term, and cover some individual coping techniques and support services available to anyone in need, including an aid document by the Something Awful UK Megathread's incredibly cool and good Ferrosol.
Also making their debut on the podcast is Natalie (we finally got a woman on, patriarchy rest in piss), and Rob, our very own unelected Brussels Bureaucrat!
Cast
Fargle
Natalie
Rob
Elijah - http://twitter.com/KlezmerRouge
Xander - http://twitter.com/XJMaw
 
Useful Links
Ferrosol's Benefit Advice (A living document still being added to) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EbktH6DuKkKC4_ECZPm8M5fKDGKvBfRpEa18bX1wlvE/edit?usp=sharing
Citizens Advice - 03444 111 444 - https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/
Samaritans - 116 123 - https://www.samaritans.org/
Mental Health - https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/your-mental-health/getting-help
General Help Links - https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/where-to-get-help-and-advice-about-benefits
 
Upcoming Bonus Episode
Episode 4 is coming much sooner than you think, so stay tuned!

Episode 2 - Mr BoJo's Wild Ride

After an eventful week in parliament, and the probable imminent death of the tories, we're back to bring you a round-up of the comedy of errors. Parliamentary procedure, terrible speeches, and unity in opposition all get a look-in, followed by an awful article written by our favourite jauntily-angled former tory, Rory Stewart - and of course, a trip to the hot take mines for another game of Comment or Commentariat.
This week's cast:Alasdair - http://twitter.com/SA_BallistariMichael - http://twitter.com/mehallBen - He doesn't do twitter, smart man.Jamie - http://twitter.com/JimBobFreemanDavid - http://twitter.com/SanitaryNaptime
Useful links:
An article in which Jeremy Vine is inexplicably released from his Virtual Reality Hell Prison and meets Boris Johnson twice:https://reaction.life/jeremy-vine-my-boris-story/
 Rory Stewart's terrible tweet:
https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1167046610167181312?s=20
Actual footage of Michael Gove attempting to mimic human movement:
http://i.imgur.com/i4ViZT4.gifv

Episode 1 - Eternal Brexit of the Smoothest Mind

In our opening episode, the content we want to do is held hostage by the news and we’re left with no choice but to talk about Brexit, a little of the fun that it’ll bring for us all, and the hyperthunk brains that have brought it to us.
 
This weeks cast:
David - http://twitter.com/SanitaryNaptime
Elijah - http://twitter.com/KlezmerRouge
Alasdair - http://twitter.com/SA_Ballistari
Xander - http://twitter.com/xjmaw