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#194: Jesse Ventura

Primo Radical - September 21, 2019 20:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Jesse Ventura is a statesman, actor, author, television host and former professional wrestler. He served in the Navy SEALs and as the 38th Governor of Minnesota. On the show we discuss his experiences with Hunter S. Thompson, being a bodyguard for the Rolling Stones, trying to unionize Vince McM...

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#193: Mike Gravel

Primo Radical - September 14, 2019 18:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Former Senator Mike Gravel returns to share his thoughts on the third Democratic presidential debates. Gravel discusses the two Democrats who he has endorsed -- Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders -- as well as US foreign policy and Venezuela. Gravel also responds to whether he knew about an email ...

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#192: Tulsi Gabbard

Primo Radical - September 08, 2019 19:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
U.S. Congresswoman and 2020 Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard returns to PRIMO NUTMEG to discuss the questionable DNC polling system that has excluded her from this week's Democratic debates. Gabbard shares her thoughts on the corporate media bias against her, as well as student loan and medi...

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#191: The Amazon Fires w/ Gustavo Faleiros

Primo Radical - September 08, 2019 01:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
On this very special episode of PRIMO NUTMEG filmed in São Paulo, Brazil, InfoAmazonia founder Gustavo Faleiros gives insight on the fires raging in the Amazon. Faleiros explains the recent history of Amazon deforestation, the political and economic forces in play, the impact on indigenous Amazo...

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#190: Vermin Supreme

Primo Radical - September 03, 2019 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Vermin Supreme is a performance artist and activist who best known for his outlandish Presidential campaigns where he advocated for zombie-preparedness, time-travel research, mandatory toothbrush laws, and free ponies. In 2020, he is seeking the Libertarian Party's nomination. On the show we dis...

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#189: Richard Wolff

Primo Radical - August 18, 2019 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Acclaimed Marxist economist, "Economic Update" host and Democracy At Work founder Richard D. Wolff returns to PRIMO NUTMEG to discuss how real socialism can be achieved through worker cooperatives. During this extended interview we cover the alternative definitions of "capitalism" and "socialism...

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#188: The Rise & Fall of RussiaGate

Primo Radical - August 12, 2019 03:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
In this 4th Annual Clip Show, we relive the paranoid, NeoMcCarthyist saga that was RussiaGate! Take a look back at the delusional world of a DNC server that the FBI never examined, Facebook ads for Bernie Sanders coloring books, a Red Scare over the Green Party, and Russian agents who actually h...

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#187: (The Real) Mike Gravel

Primo Radical - August 07, 2019 01:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Mike Gravel returns to PRIMO NUTMEG in order to explain that he is endorsing both Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic primaries. Gravel clarifies that he would like either Gabbard or Sanders to win the presidential nomination and that he would act as a surrogate for both. Gra...

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#186: Niko House

Primo Radical - August 06, 2019 03:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Niko House is an activist, independent journalist, and initial organizer for the DNC Fraud lawsuit. House hosts the show “Mi Casa Es Su Casa” and is the founder of the MCSC Network. Here we discuss Tulsi Gabbard's takedown of Kamala Harris at the second Democratic debates, social media censorshi...

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#185: Lee Camp

Primo Radical - August 01, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Comedian and "Redacted Tonight" host Lee Camp joins me to discuss the anticlimactic end to the RussiaGate saga as embodied by Robert Mueller's lethargic Congressional testimony. Camp highlights some of the big moments from the hearing including questions around Joseph Mifsud and Konstantin Kilim...

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#184: Modern Anarchy w/ Kevin Carson

Primo Radical - July 26, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Kevin Carson is a senior fellow of the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) and holds the Center's Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory. On the show we discuss contemporary anarchist thinkers including Noam Chomsky, David Graeber, Michael Albert, Bob Black, John Zerzan, Gary Chartier, Roderick Long...

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#183: Fear & Loathing w/ Timothy Denevi

Primo Radical - July 18, 2019 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Timothy Denevi is the author of Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism. On the show we discuss legendary Hunter Thompson's politics as expressed in his gonzo journalism, his letters, interviews and audio recordings. We go through Fear & Loathing in La...

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#182: Ian Schlakman

Primo Radical - July 11, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Ian Schlakman is a candidate running for the Green Party's 2020 presidential nomination. On the show we discuss how to grow the Green Party, US foreign policy, the United Nations, RussiaGate, Julian Assange, tech censorship, socialism, and fellow Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins. Get access ...

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#181: Nick Gillespie

Primo Radical - July 02, 2019 22:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Nick Gillespie is the editor-at-large for the libertarian media outlet Reason. On the show we discuss last week's Democratic debates, with a focus on Tulsi Gabbard's non-interventionism, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Gillespie also gives his thoughts on Donald Trump, Julian Assange, RussiaGate, ...

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#180: Ray McGovern

Primo Radical - June 28, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst who headed the CIA's Soviet Foreign Policy Branch. He is also currently a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). On the show we delve into recent events near Iran as well as some giant plot holes in the RussiaGate narrative. McGovern ...

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#179: Justin Jackson

Primo Radical - June 21, 2019 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Justin Jackson is a running back for the Los Angeles Chargers as well as the leading rusher in Northwestern University history. On the show we discuss his rookie year in the NFL, getting roasted by Jimmy Fallon, the 2020 election, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Gravel, Rus...

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#178: Mike Gravel

Primo Radical - June 15, 2019 19:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Mike Gravel is a former US Senator from Alaska who made history in 1971 when he read the Pentagon Papers into the public record. Gravel reemerged in 2008 when he ran an unorthodox, viral-video-fueled campaign for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Gravel is once again running for Pr...

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#177: Ron Placone

Primo Radical - June 07, 2019 20:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Ron Placone is a comedian who can be seen regularly on "The Jimmy Dore Show." He also hosts the world’s first viewer-curated streaming news show, "Get Your News On With Ron."  In this interview we discuss net neutrality, Julian Assange's arrest, and the 2020 election. Support, Subscribe, and jo...

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#176: Matt Taibbi

Primo Radical - June 01, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Matt Taibbi is a political writer for Rolling Stone magazine, as well as the author of I CAN'T BREATHE, INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT, GRIFTOPIA, and numerous other acclaimed works. On the show we discuss the Mueller Report, the corporate media's obsession with the RussiaGate conspiracy theory, NeoMcCa...

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#175: Howie Hawkins

Primo Radical - May 23, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Howie Hawkins is a co-founder of the Green Party as well as a prospective 2020 presidential candidate. On the show we discuss his activist background, his relationship with anarchist Murray Bookchin, the history of the Green Party, libertarian socialism and eco-socialism, alternative currencies,...

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#174. David D. Friedman

Primo Radical - May 16, 2019 22:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
David D. Friedman is an acclaimed anarcho-capitalist economist and libertarian theorist, as well as the son of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. He is best known for his book The Machinery of Freedom. On the show Friedman contrasts his consequentialist philosophy with other forms of...

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#173: Jen Hobbs

Primo Radical - April 19, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Jen Hobbs is the author of "American Hemp" as well as a contributor to "Jesse Ventura’s Marijuana Manifesto." On the show we discuss how marijuana and hemp became illegal, the differences between the plants, how laws have changed over recent years, and why hemp has boundless potential for medici...

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#172: Jill Stein

Primo Radical - April 09, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Former Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein returns to PRIMO NUTMEG to discuss Venezuela, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, third party politics, the corporate media's RussiaGate smears against her, the details of her 2015 appearance with Vladimir Putin at the RT dinner in Moscow, her th...

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#171: Tulsi Gabbard

Primo Radical - March 30, 2019 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
U.S. Congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard tackles an array of controversial issues ranging from the corporate media's coverage of RussiaGate to trust-busting Big Tech, and from protection of whistle-blowers to what's happening in Venezuela. Support, Subscribe, ...

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#170: Ron Paul

Primo Radical - March 22, 2019 21:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Ron Paul returns to discuss the biggest political issues of March 2019! Dr. Paul tackles subjects ranging from Venezuela and Bernie Sanders, to Tulsi Gabbard and RussiaGate. He also gives his thoughts on Noam Chomsky and libertarian socialism. Support, Subscribe, and join the mailing list! htt...

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#169: Noam Chomsky

Primo Radical - March 19, 2019 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
The living legend Noam Chomsky returns to PRIMO NUTMEG to discuss the biggest issues of March 2019! Chomsky tackles everything from Bernie Sanders and the 2020 election to the challenges posed by Big Tech. Don't miss this one! Support, Subscribe, and join the mailing list! https://www.primonut...

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#168: Jeff Pilson

Primo Radical - March 10, 2019 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Jeff Pilson is the current bass guitarist for the legendary rock band Foreigner. Over his illustrious career Jeff has also been a member of Dokken, Dio, MSG, War & Peace, Lynch/Pilson, and The End Machine. On the show we discuss Foreigner's current tour, his time in Dokken, The End Machine's upc...

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#167: Matt Taibbi

Primo Radical - March 06, 2019 14:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi returns to PRIMO NUTMEG to discuss Bernie Sanders' foreign policy, why there's a smear campaign against Tulsi Gabbard, what comes next after RussiaGate implodes, hysterical social media censorship, and what to do about Alex Jones. Support, Subscribe, and joi...

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#166: Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds)

Primo Radical - March 01, 2019 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and longtime Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty returns to the show to give updates on the band, discuss its legacy of legendary guitarists (Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page), talk about the Yardbirds' influence on Pink Floyd, and give his thoughts on how the musi...

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#164: Ron Placone

Primo Radical - February 08, 2019 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Ron Placone is a comedian who can be regularly seen on The Jimmy Dore Show and The Young Turks, as well as his own program which he hosts, Get Your News On With Ron. On this episode we discuss his comedy career, Jimmy Dore, social media censorship, RussiaGate, Tulsi Gabbard, and how corporate me...

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