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S2E8 - X Have Over 500 Words For X

Good Morning Mayberry - February 21, 2021 10:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Audrey Sterling breaks down the impacts of whiteness on white people, surveillance tech, and intellectual prosthetic connection to transhumanist inventions. Shift bitches about people binging data and using each other as vomitoriums. Lament the open field World Wide Web turning into a technofa...

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Episode 35: A Tale of Two Banquets, Matthew 14: 1-21

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - February 19, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes
The rich and the powerful party at the expense of the poor, but the common poor can create their own new society of abundance for all!

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S2E7 - I'm Not Good Enough

Good Morning Mayberry - February 15, 2021 15:41 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Have a short chat with Shift about the work of keeping ships relating, how resistance of our own passions can convert into delusions of mediocrity, and pushing through feelings of abandonment and inadequacy to show up for the program. Shift opens up about his emotional preciousness and reactiv...

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S2E6 - Mercury: a vucking fampire

Good Morning Mayberry - February 08, 2021 09:19 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Shift pushes through the cosmic weather to talk a bit about: Mercury haterade Britney Spears’ conservatorship Exhibition culture, cannibalism & Armie Hammer Boots Riley is hella chill Occupy Oakland celebrity stories Pop culture activists And we swear Shift only goes off for one mome...

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S2E5 - Sister Mary HotTakes Spills Fauci's Tea

Good Morning Mayberry - January 31, 2021 11:57 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
What does Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet) have to do with Anthony Fauci? “Sister Mary HotTakes” Blake is back to pour all the tea for you and Shift Orion. In this episode, Blake talks about having to cancel his trip to hug Shift before getting into the similarities of the historic AIDS crisis ...

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S2E4 - Cancel Culture Club Features Nikki Aliah's Earth Is Ghetto

Good Morning Mayberry - January 24, 2021 04:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Nikki Aliah's Earth Is Ghetto, a soulful new song about escaping the planet, has launched into viral revere! In this episode, Shift Orion gives the wheel to Black Literature expert Larry Lyons who jettisons our agenda about Britney Spears to take us on a voyage through Afrofuturism, practical ti...

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Special Episode: Jesus Against the Power of Temples and Priests

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - January 23, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour
This is a long episode, but a very important one. In this episode, I make clear something that I have been saying throughout the series, that Jesus, as portrayed in Matthew, is opposed to the power of Temples and Priests (all of them, not just in Israel).  This episode contains longer musical i...

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Asking For A Planet In Labor Part 2 w/ Eugene Steele - BONUS

Good Morning Mayberry - January 19, 2021 12:02 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In part 2 of this bonus set, we are getting into a topic about a recent livestream broadcast that was brought to Shift’s attention by Eugene. The original video has been removed. It’s extremely violent and not in any way satirical, ironic, or disingenuous. We’ve got a link to a deconstruction of...

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Asking For A Planet In Labor Part 1 w/ Mo Garvey - BONUS

Good Morning Mayberry - January 19, 2021 00:15 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Mo Garvey returns to talk about the momentum of the Twitter conflict over what a “real leftist” is or isn’t. Shift declares himself the Leftist Purity Test in the leftier-than-thou game, then manages to make reference to Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now and Robert Evan’s Behind The Bastards.  ...

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S2E3 - Rock Boat, Force Vote

Good Morning Mayberry - January 17, 2021 08:50 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Monique Garvey joins a spacey Shift Orion to talk about sociopolitical confusion, parasocial relationships, and anti-sycophantic avoidance. We dissect the logic of some statist trajectories and ideas. We scratch the surface on the essence and utility of the word “coon” and the awkward soft cen...

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Episode 34: The Great Scribal Reversal, Matthew 13:44-58

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - January 16, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes
This episode concludes a chapter in which Jesus speaks in riddles, revealing the hidden things, the wonderful secrets of the new society. Again, nothing is as it seems. Jesus attempts a great scribal reversal, making the peasants scribes, and leaving the scribal class on the outside, lacking und...

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Special Event, Sunday, January 17, 3:30-4:30 p.m. PST: Indigenous Solidarity

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - January 15, 2021 20:00 - 3 minutes
Epiphany indeed shed light on toxic White Supremacy, challenging us to go deeper in our discipleship of decolonization and racial justice. The upcoming Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute 2021 online next month, invites you to the second of two pre-Institute “stepping stone” programs, on Sunday Januar...

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BONUS - So, We Just Wanna Say That We Told Y'all So

Good Morning Mayberry - January 14, 2021 08:09 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In 2011, Shift and Blake, aka Bakesale, aka Sister Mary HotTakes, met on the street, there was an immediate connection, and now in 2021 they have ripped a wormhole into the past to bring you back hot, hot tea for your apocalypse buffet. Join us in a comparison of social movements, mainstream med...

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PREVIEW - "ironically unfascist" clip from bonus episode - So, We Just Wanna Say That We Told Y'all So

Good Morning Mayberry - January 13, 2021 08:05 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Preview of tomorrow's bonus episode with Shift and Sister Mary HotTakes, a.k.a Bakesale, a.k.a. Blake. 

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PREVIEW - "ironically unfascist" clip from bonus episode - So, We Just Wanna Say That We Told Y'all So

Good Morning Mayberry - January 13, 2021 08:05 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Preview of tomorrow's bonus episode with Shift and Sister Mary HotTakes, a.k.a Bakesale, a.k.a. Blake. 

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S2E2 - The Difference An Idea Can Be

Good Morning Mayberry - January 10, 2021 08:39 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Today's episode was recorded a month ago and the mood is a dated fresh breath of some kind of air. Your good ol host Shift is joined by Eugene Steele in California and Yolanda Fulmer in Alaska to have a soberingly psychedelic discussion about community, responsibility, restorative communication,...


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Episode 33: Parables of the Wheat and Weeds, Mustard Seed, and Leaven

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - January 09, 2021 06:00 - 23 minutes
The movement for the New Society is sneaky and spreads through the unwashed masses. Support the show (https://paypal.me/ParodySubversion?locale.x=en_US)

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So These People Have Stormed The Capitol - Bonus

Good Morning Mayberry - January 09, 2021 02:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this steaming hot take bonus episode, learn about how Shift got a unicorn coloring book and 152 crayons and that's the biggest news of the week. Ryan, however, saw many hours of mainstream news so he's here to discuss the sycophantic coverage of the most boring wannabe coup ever. Shift info...

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Special 3 Kings Day Episode; The Magi Revisited

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - January 06, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes
A little review of episode 4, about the Magi, and a little new information. I recorded this one "free form" (no script), so not as polished, but I hope that you'll enjoy it nonetheless. Support the show (https://paypal.me/ParodySubversion?locale.x=en_US)

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PREVIEW - "Manifest Casual Flex" clip from S2E2 - Got Faith?

Good Morning Mayberry - January 06, 2021 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this preview of next Sunday's episode, Shift tells Yolanda and Eugene about Good Morning Mayberry slamming its one month milestone download goal.

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PREVIEW - "Why I Do" clip from S2E2 - Got Faith?

Good Morning Mayberry - January 05, 2021 23:34 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
A preview from next Sunday's upcoming episode wherein Shift Orion connects with Yolanda Fulmer in Alaska and Eugene Steele in California to discuss recovery from religious abuse, spirituality, activism, and radical healing practices. 

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PREVIEW - "Why I Do" clip from S2E2 - Got Faith?

Good Morning Mayberry - January 05, 2021 23:34 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
A preview from next Sunday's upcoming episode wherein Shift Orion connects with Yolanda Fulmar in Alaska and Eugene Steele in California to discuss recovery from religious abuse, spirituality, activism, and radical healing practices. 

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S02E1 - Is White Fragility A Personality Disorder?

Good Morning Mayberry - January 03, 2021 17:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Shift, Bec, and Ryan talk about what it means to "do the work", mutual aid, advanced White Nonsense Roundups, and self-motivated direct action reparations. Bec talks about the mental and spiritual fortitude they've gained in confronting racism in their family and hometown. Shift gripes about whi...

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S2E1 - Is White Fragility A Personality Disorder?

Good Morning Mayberry - January 03, 2021 17:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Shift, Bec, and Ryan talk about what it means to "do the work", mutual aid, advanced White Nonsense Roundups, and self-motivated direct action reparations. Bec talks about the mental and spiritual fortitude they've gained in confronting racism in their family and hometown. Shift gripes about whi...

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Episode 32: Parable of the Sower, Matthew 12:46 - 13:23

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - January 02, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes
Jesus starts talking in riddles to hide the wonderful secrets of the new society from those who would destroy it, but the wise will understand. This episode and the next two regular episodes, numbers 33 and 34, explore the parables discourse of chapter 13 (which begins at the end of chapter 12)...

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Let It Be Resolved (short)

Good Morning Mayberry - January 02, 2021 09:49 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this short, Shift tells you and Ryan real quick about the genius that struck 10 minutes before 2021 New Year's Day closed out on the West Coast. Come get inspiration for resolving your constitution of consternation with bigot ass bullshit.

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Storyteller - Bonus

Good Morning Mayberry - December 28, 2020 08:24 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Shift tells a story about telling stories, touts psychedelics as a medicine and creative tool for himself, describes an unexpected encounter from a visitor, and weaves it all into a soapbox sermon about challenging his trauma-based narratives of personal and community potential.

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Deescalate Christmas - (Not) Another Bonus Episode

Good Morning Mayberry - December 23, 2020 11:25 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 6 ratings
Heaux, heaux, heaux, y'all! We've got yet another bonus episode, recorded on the Winter Solstice Grand Conjunction with Shift and Christine Warda to discuss the clusterfuck holiday that is occurring in 2020 USA. Christy talks about parenting without Santa, simplifying concepts, and devil's advoc...

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Tween Season Bonus Episode

Good Morning Mayberry - December 20, 2020 10:08 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
The 1st half of this episode is one thing. Tiana & Shift tried to do a short episode but, alas, they talk. Tiana talks up people who ask "what's your bandwidth?" before they begin with you and billionaires giving away billions of dollars. Shift announces the Good Morning Mayberry merch shop bein...

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