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Curtis Eller is a banjo player, songwriter and rock & roll singer who's songs describe a dreamlike vision of American history where all points in time have collapsed into one. A twenty-year show business veteran, Eller has developed a devoted international following with his band, The American Circus.

I'm giving away two tickets to see Curtis in Cleveland on Saturday, July 15th at the Wizbang Circus School and Theater. To enter, just share this episode and follow Curtis on social media and send a link to your post or a screenshot to bzlistening@gmail.com. All Patreon supporters will automatically be entered. The winner will be announced on July 12th.

Links to follow and support Curtis Eller:

https://www.curtiseller.com/

https://curtiseller.bandcamp.com/

https://www.patreon.com/curtiseller

https://twitter.com/CurtisEller

Songs used in this episode:


"Sweatshop Fire" (Fireside Chat no. 13)
"Busby Berkeley Funeral" (NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2015)
"Poison Melody" (Official Video)
"Conscientious Objector" (NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2022)
"After the Soil Fails" (Barn Session)
"Save Me Joe Louis" (Live at The Ferret, Preston UK, 2019)

Jimmy Falun Gong is the pseudonymous host of the podcast “Programmed to Chill”, which describes itself as a show about “business, crime, parapolitics, and esoterica”. Jimmy does multi-part deep dives into the history of intelligence agencies, who financed hitler, the industrialists who profited and persisted after WWI and II, international spycraft, and it only gets darker and weirder from there. He’s got a wry and dry dry style of breaking down his research on dark and slippery topics that I enjoy quite a bit.

We talk about our paths to paranoia, why more people should be more paranoid and attentive to local issues, some of his podcast’s greatest hits, the origins and reasoning for Jimmy’s cheeky alias, and much more.

P2Chill Links: https://linktr.ee/ProgrammedtoChill

Unedited episode available to Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/bzdouglas

In part 2 of my interview with Philip Fairbanks we discuss Walking the Wire,  a new podcast series releasing in April that will re-examine  David Simon's groundbreaking series, "The Wire", episode by episode.  This Friday at 9pm EST Philip will be joining me for a livestream Q&A on YouTube, Facebook, or via Twitter Spaces.



Follow Walking The Wire on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/walkingwirepod

Q&A Livestream Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WjQH5Zq4M
https://www.facebook.com/236989935076585/posts/333705115405066
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAGRkbkWPyJl?s=20

Look for part 2 of this interview in a couple days. This Friday at 9pm EST Philip will be joining me for a livestream Q&A.

If you're a Patreon supporter, a PDF copy of Fairbanks book is available for you at https://www.patreon.com/bzdouglas. 

FOOTNOTES:


https://philfairbanks.com/
Fairbanks' recent "Reverse Madoff" story
Pedogate Primer: The Politics of Pedophilia
CIA Memo on "Conspiracy Theory"
Lance deHaven-Smith on State Crimes Against Democracy

I recently watched the excellent video essay, "A Modern Anarchism Part 1" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag9EcQsqP_8), and immediately reached out to the creator, Anark, to schedule an interview. On today's episode, we dive right into discussing how we each came to adopt anarchy as our political identities, how we practice anarchy individually, and then swim around in some philosophical waters as we envision the many facets of a modern anarchism.

Anark's video is described as follows:

"This video is the first in a several part series where I am developing a modern synthesis of anarchism. It is not intended as an introduction to anarchism, but instead a broad coverage of anarchist ideas, discussing the state, Capital as Power, kyriarchy, the mega-machine, queer anarchism, Black anarchism, social ecology, decolonial ideas, and much more... Here we will lay out the anarchist mode of structural critique and apply this theory of power to a variety of hierarchical power structures."

Follow and Subscribe to Anark: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/Anark
https://www.patreon.com/Anark
https://twitter.com/AnarkYouTube

It's time for a review of 2021 and what the major events of the last year mean for us going forward in 2022.

Original Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swh9G2qxlsc

*** PANELISTS ***


Contraband
https://www.thecontrabandwagon.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoqBnhnfqzB6GFPdode6pbg

Progressive American
https://progressive-american.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheProgressiveAmerican
https://twitter.com/conor_politics

Brenton Lengel
https://twitter.com/BrentonLengel
https://www.youtube.com/user/Despanan

Mustache Bob
https://twitter.com/MustacheBob2
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUYQqszpbFSIvFKWPNcE9pg