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In this episode Jim speaks with labor historian Harvey Schwartz, author of Labor under Siege: Big Bob McEllrath and the ILWU's Fight for Organized Labor in an Anti-Union Era. Labor Under Siege is is an oral history prepared with Ronald Magden that chronicles how a mature American workers’ organization, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), survived serious challenges in recent decades from employers, government agencies, and even other unions. It won an Independent Publisher Book Awards (aka IPPY) gold medal, a Nautilus Book Awards silver prize, a National Indie Excellence Awards winner designation, and was an Independent Publishers of New England Book Awards finalist. A prior volume, Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers’ Oral History (University of Washington Press), was a Nautilus Book Awards silver winner in 2016. It recounts how ironworkers and other construction craftspeople overcame dangerous job conditions and the hardships of the Great Depression to build one of America’s most iconic bridges. In this interview Jim and Harvey discuss the post-Harry Bridges era of the ILWU, their victories in the anti-union neoliberal era and what lessons the new wave of labor organizers can learn from the historically radical union.

Congratulations! If you're reading this, it means you're still listening after my extended break due to a car accident> What better way to come back than releasing the forgotten Napoleon episode. If there was one movie made for this show, it was Joker Phoenix's take on L'empereur in 2023's Napoleon, a piece of weird incel propaganda by Ridley Scott after he waws clearly driven insane by the success of 2022's Top Gun: Maverick. I'll be back with more when Scott releases his promised director's cut later this year.

James Carey, Activist, Analyst, and Podcast Host of The Left is Dead spoke to Backstory host Rachel Blevins about the US allowing Israel to strike southern Gaza, Israel targeting more hospitals in Gaza, and Biden seemingly being afraid to criticize Israel. James talked about the bombing campaign by Israel and how the American people will normalize the deaths that continue to occur in Gaza, at the hands of Israel.

We watched another movie and boy do they just keep getting worse! This time the documentary film in question is the latest Dinesh D/Souza joint attacking the creeping police state in America. From Hunter Biden smoking crack and a bunch of hogs pretending they didn't cheer the Patriot Act when it passed to Dinesh again proving he is still the real victim of the police state for his girlfriend's husband acting as his straw donor this movie has it all! So buckle in and try to keep up with some of the lamest 'whistleblowers' we've seen since the Project Veritas musical and please keep in mind that you cannot sue the creators of this film or this podcast for any whiplash that could occur due to the constant rapid subject changes.

The Backstory host Rachel Blevins speaks host of The Left is Dead, James Carey about the Israeli threats to invade Gaza, Joe Biden's image around the war, and the Western behavior towards civilian casualties. James details the Western country's position on civilian casualties in Gaza and why the Israeli military has been allowed to do what they wants in Gaza.

Well folks, my PC died and I might've misplaced a flash drive with this audio in my garage somehow but this one is worth the wait. This time Nathan and I dive back into one of our favorite topics: Mormons. On top of the LDS angle, we have it all: giants, bad translations of the bible, and yeah, we got Nephilim folks. So for all of your sake, we got the one guy we knew could help us better understand all this, Dr. Dan McClellan. Dan received a Ph.D. in theology and religion from the University of Exeter and now is one of our favorite scholars. Honestly, he has a long list of credentials but some standouts are his career with the Church of Latter Day Saints working to better understand the original Greek and Hebrew scripture, author of YHWH's Divine Images, one-half of the Data Over Dogma Podcast, and frankly, makes good content.
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