web01.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:35:38 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “George Bush” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/george%20bush Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:45:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 36: I Went Down to the Piraeus Yesterday with Robert Downey Jr.: Watching RDJ's Cocaine '92 Election Doc ft. Josh Bregman https://exhaust.fireside.fm/36 56174f75-6f8e-49de-98bb-49eb3ec51272 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 23:45:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Token Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party. They discuss what has and hasn't changed in the last thirty years. 1:37:50 yes Token Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApvPKrHA37g). They discuss the NGO Industrial Complex, why the culture war is built to be endless, the handoff from the New Left to Gen X, and how RDJ accidentally made Twitter: The Movie in 1992. Subscribe to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) for two extra exclusive episodes a month. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep36bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood x Young Thug - Power (KEIFERGR33N Remix) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/music) clinton, bill clinton, democratic party, pat buchanan, robert downey jr, rdj, politics, american politics, history, culture, oliver stone, mike ruppert, hollywood, george bush Token Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party. They discuss the NGO Industrial Complex, why the culture war is built to be endless, the handoff from the New Left to Gen X, and how RDJ accidentally made Twitter: The Movie in 1992.

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]]> Episode 15: The Jesus Campening of American Politics https://exhaust.fireside.fm/15 d29d5d00-9c17-4a96-974e-b3177c430d4b Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. 51:06 yes We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, a film about a pentecostal Christian summer camp, to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. Unlike our experience when it first came out, we were more disturbed by the film makers than the documentary's content. We talk about how everything feels like Jesus Camp now--both form and content--and then talk about the deadlock of victimhood and moral license in American politics. Bibliography. Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. george bush, christianity, jesus, jesus camp, politics, culture, liberalism, conservatism, narcissism We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, a film about a pentecostal Christian summer camp, to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. Unlike our experience when it first came out, we were more disturbed by the film makers than the documentary's content. We talk about how everything feels like Jesus Camp now--both form and content--and then talk about the deadlock of victimhood and moral license in American politics.

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]]> We revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, a film about a pentecostal Christian summer camp, to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. Unlike our experience when it first came out, we were more disturbed by the film makers than the documentary's content. We talk about how everything feels like Jesus Camp now--both form and content--and then talk about the deadlock of victimhood and moral license in American politics.

Bibliography.

Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

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