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Episode 551: The New Aufhebunga Bunga!

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 09, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Alex Hochuli joins Doug to discuss the upgraded Aufhebunga Bunga podcast, the death of the Millennial Left, and the situation in Gaza. Aufhebunga Bunga Podcast https://bungacast.com/ Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 550: Students and the Capitalist University

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley and Doug discuss generational politics, the Capitalist University, students as a revolutionary class, and the concept of regression in this week's stream.  Join Us for a Second Hour https://www.patreon.com/posts/103806222 Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/d...

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Episode 549: The Left Can't Make Use of the Gaza War?

Diet Soap - a podcast - May 01, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss Benjamin Studebaker's essay for Sublation Magazine entitled "The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War" and Doug reads the opening remarks he gave at the Platypus panel "From Politics to Protest" last week. The Left Cannot Make Use of the Gaza War...

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Episode 548: Was Adorno a Leninist?

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain discuss the essay "Do We Need Adorno?"  The essay was published in Nonsite in 2012 and is included in Cutrone's upcoming book "Marxism and Politics."  Support Sublation Media on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Strange Country Ep. 281: Quest for Immortality

Strange Country - April 25, 2024 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratings
Charles Lindbergh wasn’t only known for that flight, his weird reverence for Nazis and being the public face of America First, he was also interested in literal immortality. In the 1930s, he collaborated with Dr. Alexis Carrel to devise ways to regenerate organs so people could possibly live for...

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Episode 547: Breadtube and Woke/Anti-Woke Politics

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 25, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Peter Coffin joins Douglas Lain to discuss his book "Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism" and the Breadtube controversy regarding plagiarism.  Peter's Book "Woke Ouroboros" on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Ouroboros-Essentialism-Peter-Coffin-ebook/dp/B0BQ3XR447 Support S...

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Episode 546: Highlights After 15 Years: Ben Burgis's Appearance and Beyond

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 24, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
In this episode of the Sublation Magazine Show Ashley and Doug will discuss the 15 hour anniversary stream that we ran last week, tell you how you can still get access to the whole stream, and go over some of the highlights from those 15 hours including the argument Doug had with Ben Bu...

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Episode 545: Blackrock's Lockdown and the Conformist Left

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Fabio Vighi joins the Malinformation channel as Sublation Media prepares to publish his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this episode Fabio critiques Slavoj Zizek's Capitalist Realism and describes how Blackrock is controlling and destroying the ...

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Episode 544: Why Your Stalinism is a Mistake

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 11, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Jack Ross, author of "The Strange Death of American Exceptionalism," discusses the ideas in his book with Ashley Frawley. Jack goes slowly through the history and his own influences and antecdents as he explains how he's dropped the idea that "before their can be a decent left we need a...

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Episode 543: Responding to Midwestern Marxism's Anti-Frankfurt School Rant

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 09, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain respond to Midwestern Marxism's criticisms of the Frankfurt School and discuss Briahna Joy Gray's misstatements regarding the Twitter Files. Join us for a Second Hour on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/102008116 Support Us on Patreon https://patre...

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Episode 542: Why Not Trump, Again?

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 05, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone discusses the third essay in his "Why Not Trump" series in the context of a US election wherein all sides are abandoning the constitutional order. Lawfare, the power of the executive, impeachments, and a many other topics are discussed in this episode of the Cutronezone.  ...

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Devil's Advocate

Tuna Boot - April 04, 2024 19:00 - 47 minutes
Today the boys have some deep discussion in a for-or-against battle for the ages! Who will win? Find out now, in: Devil's Advocate Album Recommendation: Pulp - This is Hardocore (Album) & Razzamatazz (Song) Links: https://linktr.ee/tunaboot Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

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Episode 541: Did Late Capitalism End Already?

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Kyle Baasch is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Minnesota and the author of the essay “Too Late for ‘Late Capitalism’” for Compact Magazine. In this episode of Diet Soap we discuss how the idea of "Late Capitalism" has changed and perhaps been emptied ...

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Episode 540: Fake News, Fake Left, War, Disease, Dogs and Cats Lying Together, Hysteria

Diet Soap - a podcast - April 02, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss how postmodernism lingers on in a political form, and how the remnants of the socialist left might find its way back to politics. Topics included: David Shields' documentary, the 2024 US election and Trump, the Strange Death of the American Creed,...

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Episode 539: Emergency Capitalism-Full Show from Rumble

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 29, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Fabio Vighi joins the Sublation channel as we are publishing his next book: Emergency Capitalism: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy this year. In this new series Fabio will help viewers keep track of the underlying economic conditions that are shaping our world in a time of emergency. Given th...

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Episode 538: The Failure of the European Left

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 28, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Arturo Desimone writings on politics and culture has appeared in CounterPunch, Compact, openDemocracy, the Fortnightly Review, and Sublation Magazine. From 2018 to 2021 he was a co-founding member of the "Peace and International Policy" a subdivision of the "Democracy in Europe Movement...

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Episode 77 - Oscars, Koftas, and Job Offers

Show Yourself Mr. Jasmine! - March 25, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Send us a Text Message. After a hiatus, the three giggling amigos are back with talk of yoga pants, elephants, koftas, dog bites, Thailand, motorways, luck, horse racing, open roads, supermarket trolleys, pound coins, gambling, keeping the economy afloat, WAGs, The Oscars, Grant (Nebraska), exc...

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Strange Country Ep. 280: Gimme Some Credit

Strange Country - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratings
Dear Dash Hounds, join Beth and Kelly as we try to pull the curtain open on the Wonderful Wizard of credit scores. Do you know your credit score? Do you care? Has it ruined your life? We talk about many things on Strange Country from periods to sex to murder and now, the most secretive of things...

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Episode 537: Ukraine from Maidan to War

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 20, 2024 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
This interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko explores the fate of the left in Ukraine. Ishchenko was born in Ukraine in 1982. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Jacobin and the New Left Review. His book "Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War" was published by Verso...

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Episode 536: A TikTok Ban & Gender Affirming Care Reconsidered

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 19, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss criticisms of the WPATH files and the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the TikTok ban).  Join us for a Second Hour in the Parrot Room on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-on-tik-tok-100665450 Supp...

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Episode 535: A Human Solution for Palestine?

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 15, 2024 00:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ron Kelch and Urszula Wislanka are members of the Marxist Humanist group News and Letters. In this episode of Diet Soap they discuss Franklin Dmitryev's essay Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression. Essay "Israel’s war and Hamas attack stoke retrogression" by Franklin Dmitry...

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Episode 534: Free To Be You And Me?

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Ashley Frawley and Douglas Lain discuss the struggle for civil liberties after the WPATH (World Professional Association of Transgender Health) document leak. How do we defend our civil rights and civil liberties even as we address the revelations that "gender affirming care" is more da...

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Episode 533: Trump, Presidents, and the American Revolution

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 08, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
The Last Marxist Chris Cutrone discusses the meaning of the American Revolution, Trump remaining on the ballot, the branches of government, and the meaning of socialism.  Support Sublation Media https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Tuna Takeoverz: Hang in There Calanders

Tuna Boot - March 07, 2024 15:38 - 53 minutes
The reigns are passed on. The shackles of responsibility are lifted. The burden of podcast creating is sub-contracted out for this month's episode as we hand over to the incredible talent at Hang in There Calendars! We will hear from Gordo "The Visionary" Foster, Eddie "The Fixer" Carpenter (pho...

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Episode 532: Putin's Brain and the War in Ukraine

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 07, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Conrad Hamilton explores the anti-imperialist quasi Fascism in Dugin's thought and the history that shaped "Putin's Brain." Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap Read an Excerpt from Hamilton's Essay https://www.sublationmag.com/post/dugin-s-postmodern-denial-of-reality P...

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Episode 531: Debating Marx's Theory of History (ft Sean Sayers and Steve Paxton)

Diet Soap - a podcast - March 04, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Originally Uploaded October 21, 2021 Sean Sayers is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on Hegelian and Marxist philosophy from a Hegelian Marxist perspective. In April of 2020, he appeared on the Zero Books channel in order to disc...

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Strange Country Ep. 279: Robbers Cave Experiment

Strange Country - February 29, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★ - 173 ratings
The mid-20th century was the heyday of figuring out why humans were the worst through the use of social psychological experiments. Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about one such experiment, Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment where Sherif gathered a group of 12 year old boys to ...

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Episode 530: Theory Underground and Learning from Heidegger, Marx, Hegel, & Zizek

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 29, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
David McKerracher from Theory Underground describes his book "TIMEENERGY: Why You Have No Time or Energy" and discusses left philosophy with Douglas Lain Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap TIMENERGY on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/TIMENERGY-Why-Have-Time-Energy/dp/B0C...

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Episode 529: Living In the Imperialist World

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
Chris Cutrone returns for another Cutronezone, this time to explain what it means to live through the highest stage of capitalism.  Support Us on Patreon https://patreon.com/dietsoap

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Episode 528: How Zizek and Columbo Can Help

Diet Soap - a podcast - February 23, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 122 ratings
David Shields's upcoming book "How We Got Here" explores how we've lost sight of the concept of the truth. It walks the reader through the history of Western Epistemology. This video offers up Columbo as one of remaining cultural icons that still stands for truth, even after the postmod...