The Four Cornered Room

Moxy O'Brien, Cody Clark, Ian Compton & Abe Zito

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SOCIETY & CULTURE
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The Four Cornered Room

Join the Boys and get Hep Twice a Week. On Mondays, get heavy down on the little-talked about parts of American history. On Fridays, jam out with episodes about music, and questions fielded from You - the fans! Cody, Ian, Moxy and Abe are sitting in a Four Cornered Room Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

08/27/2021

Music to the Week of August 23th, 2021

Thank you everyone for tuning in to The Four Cornered Room. This is our season 3 finale. We would like to thank all of our guests and fans for interacting with our medium. If you want to contact us, make sure to email us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com As always, thank you to our musical guests for giving us permission to play your songs. If you enjoyed what we played today, here are their song links. Internal Bleeding Minority Threat Intonate Amenra --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

1h 33m
08/23/2021

S.3 Ep.15 Land Back & Residential Schools w/ Alex Reid

On the last History Episode of Season Three, we pivot to discuss a topic we've seen quite a lot in the News lately, Residential Schools. We've seen much coverage of the Canadian Residential School System, so Moxy will be breaking down the history of the United States' Residential School program. Mox will also be joined by friend and activist Alex Reid to discuss the Canadian Residential School tragedy, the LandBack Manifesto, and the often overlooked issues of today's Native People. Thank you all so much for tuning in every Monday this season, it has been a pleasure and an honor. Here are our sources for today's topics https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/native-americans-decry-unmarked-graves-untold-history-boarding-schools-2021-06-22/ https://landback.org/manifesto/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

2h 18m
08/20/2021

Music to the Week of August 16th, 2021

Content Warning: Misogyny, Sexual Coercion, and Assault are mentioned. As well as Violence, Murder and Drug Abuse. Today's episode we have some discussions about Punk Rock, The Disaster that is Woodstock '99 and have some musical birthdays to sweeten the conversation, except for Dimebag. As always, if you like what you hear share it with our show with a friend, or if you would like to contact us please email us at thefourcorneredroom@gmail.com Thank you to the Bands that gave us permission to enjoy and share their music! Make sure to follow them and give them your support! The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die Zulu Blindfolded and Led to the Woods --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

1h 3m
08/16/2021

S.3 Ep.13 The Case For Reparations

On today's episode, Moxy gives the gang the run down on how the continuation of racist policy undoes the little progress made for the enslaved populations shortly after the Civil War of America and how without addressing the shortcomings that were manifested by the Government of that era and societal opinion, the oppressive nature simply changed to more cryptic ideology and their silent agreements that lead to curation of Sundown Towns. If a slave were to become a freed man, the tyranny they faced was that of bureaucratic exclusion, and negligence from a system and a people that purely relied on their exploitable existence up to this point. Our Sources for today are as follows; Sundown Towns Emancipation https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/special-field-orders-no-15/ https://newrepublic.com/article/161496/slavery-reparations-joe-biden-bruce-bartlett https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/ Independent- How the U.S. Gov. Destroyed Black Neighborhoods Slavery by Another Name is Sharecropping Sanford Food History- Sharecropping The Atlantic Article on The Freedman's Bureau Freedman's Bureau USDA Reports --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

1h 31m
08/13/2021

S.3 Ep.12 The Myth of Meritocracy pt. 2: HOAs and Modern Segregation

Today, we discuss how housing associations and redlining contribute to the modern racial wealth disparity in the US, and how these actions taken throughout history prove that America is not a country where "hard work" means success. Thank you for Listening to The Four Cornered Room, stay Hydrated and stay Hep. Today's Sources: A Republic of Equals - Jonathan Rothwell The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates Examining The Black-white wealth gap Systematic Inequality - Center for American Progress Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

1h 21m
08/09/2021

S.3 Ep.11 The Myth of Meritocracy part 1: Meritocracy and Austerity

Content Warning: Today's episode includes racial violence and historical quotes with highly racist content & mentions of sexual assault and hate crimes We discuss the historical evidence that people do not advance or gain power in America by influence, but by force and the use of White Supremacy. We also discuss how White supremacy shifted focus after the Civil War to a more insidious method of oppression. Today's Sources are: The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy - Vanessa Williamson The Sum of Us- Heather McGhee The Meritocracy Trap - Daniel Markovits As always, thank you for listening and if you learned something today, share it with a friend, or let them about this podcast. Stay Hep out there. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

1h 20m
08/06/2021

Music to the Week of August 2nd, 2021

On today's episode we welcome back our friend Ian to further dive into his question from last week and discuss unreleased albums that left us with an crystal case sized hole in our hearts. Are CD's still relevant? Or am I slowly losing my cool. We also look that losses that the music community had over the last few weeks and talk about how Slipknot and Joey Jordison paved a way for Metal in the mainstream. Thanks to all the artists that gave us the go ahead for today's music, we have some rad musical contributions to today's episode of the pod. fallfifftyfeet (wheeling, wv usa) Days N Daze (Houston, TX) Septage (Copenhagen, Denmark) Frontierer (Scotland, UK) SLUGSS (PGH, PA USA) MouthBreather (Boston, MA USA) Ether Coven (New Orleans, LA USA) Thank you again for supporting this podcast, and if you liked it share it with a friend! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

1h 33m
08/02/2021

S.3 Ep.9 Henry Ford and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Trigger Warning, This episode's discussion includes anti-semetic ideologies. Today Moxy leads us through the deep propaganda of The Protocols of the Elder of Zion, an anti-Semitic document that has a long history of being recycle to be used as a tool of influence against whichever group that Colonizers of the time sought fit to exploit. I hate Nazi's. Oh, and why is ol' Henry Ford involved with the Protocols of E.o.Z? He printed and distributed it just about everywhere his cars could reach. We also talk Fordism..which is a clever term for Fascism. As always, thanks for listening and if you like what you heard, share it with a friend and maybe they'll share it with their friend. That would be great. Lets unlearn together! Here's an Article from the Washington Post that we refer to within the show. Thanks again! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

1h 22m

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Join the Boys and get Hep Twice a Week. On Mondays, get heavy down on the little-talked about parts of American history. On Fridays, jam out with episodes about music, and questions fielded from You - the fans! Cody, Ian, Moxy and Abe are sitting in a Four Cornered Room Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefourcorneredroom/support

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