Displaying 6 items of ex.haust with the tag "trump".
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Episode 88: Oceania Has Always Been At Culture War With Eastasia ft. Michael Cuenco
September 23rd, 2022 | 1 hr 13 mins
conspiracy theory, culture war, end of history, marshall mccluhan, neoliberalism, oligarchy, populism, trump
Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more!
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Episode 87: The King and the Duke: So Long, Vince McMahon ft. Oliver Bateman
August 19th, 2022 | 58 mins 11 secs
con artist, huck finn, kayfabe, pro wrestling, scandal, trump, vince mcmahon, wrestling, wwe
King of The Work and co-host of What's Left, Oliver Bateman joins Emmet to talk about the illustrious career of pro-wrestling mogul Vince McMahon after he stepped down from WWE. They talk about the hustler and con man as American architects, the intimacy of kayfabe, what people get wrong about their stale "politics as pro wrestling" takes, and more!
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Episode 78: The Political Biography of a Zoomer ft. James Lynch
February 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
bernie, big tech, blm, crt, culture war, dnc, gop, liberalism, new right, populism, trump, woke
James Lynch, a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age as a zoomer, the deficits and merits of left and right, what the "crisis of masculinity" really means, what to do about Big Tech, and more!
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Episode 74: Welcome to the Desert of the Political ft. Anton Jager
January 18th, 2022 | 56 mins 32 secs
blm, covid, fandom, george floyd, political theory, politics, populism, social media, trump
Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more!
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Episode 14: Two Piece: Con Jobs in Coal Country and Foxconn Jobs in Wisconsin
December 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
flyover country, foxconn, kentucky, trump, wisconsin
We read two articles: one about a failed jobs program in coal country and another about a bad deal with Foxconn in Wisconsin.
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Episode 2: American Dharma ft. Canada Mike
September 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
2016 elections, bannon, errol morris, hilllary, russiagate, trump
Our friend Canada Mike joins us to review Errol Morris's American Dharma, his movie about Steven Bannon. Once we finish dunking on what turned out to be a disappointing movie, we try to understand The Bannon Moment.