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The Unsociablists

Phil and Kyle

Unsociable socialists creating sketches and shooting breezes with deadly efficiency.

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01:09:41

Episode 25: N(early) A(lways) T(errorizing) O(ops!)

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2022/04/03

Episode Notes NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization - can't possibly be evil, right? Begun in 1949 as a union to "Keep the Russians out, Keep the Americans in, and Keep the Germans down" (priorities in no particular order), NATO has been a fixture of 20th and 21st century life in the West. But what is NATO? Is it the benevolent, defensive organization that my NPR program has told me it is? Or is it something more; something deeply involved in the internal functions of its member

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01:42:45

Left in the Past: Episode 3 "Managua About Town -...

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2022/03/27

Episode Notes It isn't well-known among most Americans that the U.S. has invaded Nicaragua 12 times in our history. From the filibustering adventurers of the 19th century to funding death-squads in the 1980s, American meddling in Central America has a long history. Today, Phil and Kyle discuss the beginning of the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua that extended from 1912 to 1933, the anti-intervention movement in the United States, and the guerilla fighter who's name has been adopted by the Nicaraguan

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00:59:41

Watchalong Bonus: Party On, Wormy Dude... (Futurama,...

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2022/03/19

Episode Notes Kyle is back after Phil's fantastic solo episode! Today we watch an all-time classic: Futurama. Developed from the mind of Matt Groening and company of Simpsons fame, Futurama begins when a very dumb 20th century man freezes for 1000 years in a cryogenic pod on New Years Eve 1999. When he awakes from his cold, long slumber, he finds himself in the year 3000! Many gags and silly happenings logically follow. Slurm! Highly addictive green sludge that advertises itself as such.

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00:38:31

Philler Content (Variety 3 - Phil's Top 10 Video Games)

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2022/03/13

There's no Kyle for this one. No really, it's just Phil. There's also, like, only 3 minutes of leftism at the end. Sorry folks, Kyle's taking a well-earned vacation, so we're swapping Left in the Past with our variety episode; Phil is doing a good old fashioned Top 10 list. Come listen to a weird nerd rant about video games he likes! ...Or don't, we won't know. If you have any thoughts, suggestions, angry emotes, or whatever that you'd like to send us, please reach out at

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01:42:50

Episode 24: Ceeing I to A

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2022/03/06

Episode Notes The CIA, despite how embedded of an institution it seems today, was not always a facet of American foreign and domestic policy (even if they are technically barred from domestic interference). Before 1947 and the National Defense Act there was no Central Intelligence Agency. President Harry Truman and the increasingly powerful, post-war "military-industrial complex" birthed this aggregated and independent intelligence-gathering organization to rationalize the hundreds of reports that

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01:46:27

Collection: Capital F - Volume 1

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2022/02/27

Episode Notes All the episodes from your favourite family comedy sitcom in one place! Listen as the Balts' grips on reality slip away in the comforting miasma of laugh tracks. Kyle and Phil also have a short discussion on the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine. If you have any thoughts, suggestions, angry emotes, or whatever that you'd like to send us, please reach out at UnsociablistPod@gmail.com or on twitter as @unsociablist. I recognize posting this will bring us spam and I dare you to do

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01:23:19

Unsociablist Cinema Corner: We're All Gonna Die!...

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2022/02/20

Episode Notes Should we really call them "films" these days? What with Netflix being the specific platform for this one, and most of the theater releases having concurrent streaming options, feels like the words "film" or "cinema" are pretty obsolete. I mean, I love movies. I like sitting in the seats and taking in a 100 minute story. Oh well. The world is ending; cinematic experiences going away isn't the worst part of that I suppose. We discuss the movie "Don't Look Up" - a very obvious

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01:35:59

Left in the Past: Episode 2 "Managua About Town -...

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2022/02/13

Managua About Town It isn't well-known among most Americans that the U.S. has invaded Nicaragua 12 times in our history. From the filibustering adventurers of the 19th century to funding death-squads in the 1980s, American meddling in Central America has a long history. Today, Phil and Kyle discuss two particular episodes surrounding the man who tried to reinstate slavery in Nicaragua - the "freebooter" William Walker - and the later coup orchestrated against the liberal reformer and nationalist

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01:34:15

Episode 22: Any Way the Wind Blows

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2022/02/06

Episode Notes Nihilism, a word that we've often heard but rarely discuss. What does it mean to be nihilist? Is it an abdication of responsibility to the world around you, or is it an acceptance to only change what can be changed? As much as anyone can really be an adherent of some philosophy, Kyle and Phil have dabbled in nihilistic beliefs to greater and lesser extents. One thing we've certainly come to realise is that we must focus on the world around us and continue materially help as many

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00:54:51

Episode 21: Zorzon and Oglob's Wacky Galactic Bonanza...

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2022/01/29

Episode Notes From the studio that brought you Capital F comes a new and exciting story about two aliens - pacifist by nature and by training - who must confront the evils of the galaxy in ways they never imagined they could. Zorzon and Oglob take center stage to fight Mokrath, the Depletor, and must make strange alliances to succeed. Can our heroes maintain their commitment to peace and justice as the galaxy is threatened by such a foe? Can their uneasy alliances sustain their efforts? Can

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01:57:08

Making Monkeyshines (Variety: Reading Series)

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2022/01/23

Episode Notes Reading series No. 1: Phil brings us a piece about how we should not complain about being stiffed for our work and Kyle reads a NYT opinion piece about how the conservative right can't use the left's _obvious bad behavior (screaming) to justify their slip into anti-democratic beliefs. Oh, the guys who wrote it? One's a Brookings Institute fellow and the other worked for Reagan and both Bush administrations - so they are definitely the best voices for moderation..._ If you have any

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01:00:49

Watchalong Bonus: Ain't No Party Like a Kenneth Party...

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2022/01/16

Episode Notes One of the best sitcoms of the 2000s and maybe of American Television ever, 30 Rock - for those of you who haven't seen it - is a satirical analogue for working behind the scenes at SNL. As such, the cast draws from former SNL stars and is written and led by alum Tina Fey. It's funny, it's smart, it's got, like, lukewarm lib messages, but whatever enjoy a show for once, jeez. Watchalong begins at 9:59 for those who want to join in. News and discussion begins at 30:26 for those who

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01:37:47

"Jakarta? I Barely Know Ya!" Left in the Past: Episode 1

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2022/01/09

Episode Notes Trigger Warning for those ahead: discussions will include the violence experienced by victims of the anticommunist crusade that American empire waged against the Global South and "Third World" which may be graphic and disturbing. Indonesia, a country that today has in the realm of 270 million inhabitants, is a large island chain to the south of mainland Asia. A long and diverse history precedes the story we retell today, one of kingdoms and conflict and community formation. For us,

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01:41:26

Episode 20: Pigs Flying Directly Into the Sun

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2022/01/02

Episode Notes Why is it that almost every network procedural seems to be centered around cops? Detectives, Navy Investigators, Homicide units - all these cop shows and all these stakes. Through endless coverage and entertainment programming people absorb the belief that cops are always, without question the "good guys." But we know that to be untrue. Policing in America is nothing like NCIS or Bones. Police in America are the edge of the coercive power of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

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01:37:09

Book Club: Is all this Illusion? (Siddhartha)

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2021/12/19

Episode Notes Mutual Aid for people effected by the tornadoes in Kentucky: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YTzQFT4ANDcChivFDfUW9oC0gJWDyT9FHoDrAD2VA7A/htmlview Published in 1922, the novella Siddhartha follows a young man, son of a Brahmin, on his journey through life to find a “true” Self. The boy’s name is one commonly associated with the physical manifestation of the Buddha - Siddhartha Gautama - who makes an appearance in the book as “Gotama, the Illustrious One.” A brief - and maybe

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01:48:25

Episode 19: Jesus $pent

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2021/12/05

Episode Notes Religion, belief, faith - social and personal structures that have followed and intertwined with human development for millennia. It's a broad topic, but we - woefully unqualified as we are - decided to take a stab at it. Do we live in a world where belief is entirely dissolved by capitalism in our supposedly secular society? Or are there other, sinister forces that have taken the place of faith and emerged as a new, "real" god? Let's try to talk it through and see if staring into

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01:41:44

Unsociable Cinema Corner: Squidly Diddly-oo (Review:...

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2021/11/21

Episode Notes We review a fine and dandy show "Squid Game" about playing a bunch of childhood games under the watchful eyes of our capitalist overlords. If you have any Watchalong Suggestions, thoughts, angry emotes, or whatever else that you'd like to send us, please reach out at UnsociablistPod@gmail.com or on Twitter @Unsociablist. I recognize posting this will bring us spam and I dare you to do it. Phil and Kyle would also like to give a shout out to those of us still in the streets fighting

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01:26:12

Episode 18: Living Your Strife to the Fullest

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2021/11/07

Episode Notes How does one self-actualize under the regime of capital and wage relations? Squander your youth and vigor on the menial tasks dictated to you by your boss and employer - that ought to make you feel fulfilled, right? Kyle and Phil discuss the tippy-top of that pyramid in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Self Actualization. After dispensing with physiological and psychological needs, one finds oneself at the gates of true fulfillment. However, even when the most essential demands of human

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01:23:13

Unsociable Cinema Corner: The Decrepit World of the...

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2021/10/24

Episode Notes Batman. He's the most complicated of super-figures. He's got dead parents, a conscience-wielding butler, and a boat load of cash. Maybe not so complicated, I guess. Anyhow, we hop into the 78 minute animated movie and pseudo-detective-flick Batman: the Mask of the Phantasm. Released in 1993 as a longform attachment to the Batman: Animated Series. The film follows Batman as he remembers his fondest relationship to a beautiful, sassy woman named Andrea Beaumont - daughter of a

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01:34:24

Episode 17: Burning the Planet at Both Ends

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2021/10/10

Episode Notes My world's on fire, how 'bout yours? Today we discuss the thing that depresses us the most: climate change. The world's heating up, the water is rising, and there's nothing one person can do about it, which is why this week we really need to remember to share love and solidarity with each other. If you have any thoughts, suggestions, angry emotes, or whatever that you'd like to send us, please reach out at UnsociablistPod@gmail.com or on twitter as @unsociablist. I recognize posting

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