Everyone Sucks Here Jerome and Brian

Covid is back on the rise. Everyone is depressed. The boys breakdown the latest Delta Variant wave of the coronavirus pandemic and the time-is-a-flat-circle nature of American history. Then to try to lighten the mood, we talk about the movie Osmosis Jones (2001). From the guys that made There's Something About Mary (1998) comes the niche biological buddy cop comedy about a plucky white blood cell detective and his cold pill partner Drix going toe to toe with a deadly pathogen inside Bill Murray. What is it trying to tell us about society? Listen and find out!

The boys are back and they are (yet again) talkin' dialectics! Joined by the nicest guy in Pittsburgh, Roman from The No Judgement Zone podcast, we take a deep dive into the shifts in American popular music post- 9/11. From the decline of popular counter-culture in rock, to the uber-patriotism of country, to the evil machinations of the record industry to hyper-exploit hip-hop; the superstructure adjusted in the chaos to fix the problems of the Vietnam era and return to an era of censorship, reaction, and jingoism. What did this mean for radio? What did it mean for music? What does it mean for us now? Find out on this episode!

"The boys are back in the saddle and talking Joe Biden. Brian breaks down the central theme to the new administration, a return to American global hegemony and a revamping of US imperialism. 4 years of Donny Deals has damaged American's standing as the big boss of the world and Biden, his handlers in capital and the CIA, are looking to take back the top spot. From Palestine to Peru, Syria to Haiti...we take a look around the world to see where the different theaters of the US efforts to control the planet--as well as why it might not work this time around. It's an episode against the Empire so get on it!"

The boys are back and eating from the trashcan of ideology again. This time doing a very timely and relevant cultural analysis of the Lord of the Rings. We are joined by Lucas from Fake Ritual Podcast to talk about the differences between the movie/book and how both were products of the time they were released--at the end of WWII and the beginning of the War on Terror respectively. We talk Tolkien and his wacky British affinity for both anarcho-primitive tendencies AND the Queen Mother. We try to figure out what the fuck the Hobbits represented and why they didn't just use the One Ring to establish a global Hobbit empire over Middle Earth. And we answer the most important question of all: is Frodo canceled? So cozy up and join us on the long walk to Mordor.

This is a serious episode about how to own the bad things we do as people and heal. The pod took a hiatus to think about how to address an anonymous email, from someone pretending to be a person from Chu’s early childhood, containing allegations (both true and untrue) of sexual assault. As true believers in transformative justice and what that does and does not look like-- we decided to talk together in community and record an interview with Chu as an accountability process in order for him to take responsibility for mistakes made, as well as establish a dialectical understanding of these mistakes as part of a larger cycle of abuse and trauma that stretches throughout his life. In an attempt to keep the conversation honest, we enlisted the help of Nicole Castro, an activist, member of the organization RADTalk and an expert in relational analysis, communication theory and social justice, to guide us through the process. It’s a heavy one, so TW/CW and Don’t Do Bad Stuff.

The pod is back! Chu & Brian return for 2021 with a brand new episode talking about...coup's. Again. Was the fascist insurrection on 1/6 a coup? Was it an attempted coup? What the fuck is a coup? Who was there? Was it a legitimate threat to "democracy" or just a massive LARP for MAGA and QAnon? What does it mean for the MAGAs? What does it mean for the Left? What is the Biden regime going to do? And where do we go from here? We will try to answer these questions and drop a little knowledge on the concept of "Unity of Thought" and Organization with a little help (sic: a lot of help) from Kwame Ture.