Podcast Friday—
What I’m listening to. Origins for Contemporary Conspiracies; The Right Podcast.

#PodcastFriday #Podcast

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C'est #PodcastFriday! #VendrediBalado!

La STM en balado - Planification et construction du métro de Montréal
https://podcastaddict.com/la-stm-en-balado/episode/152658274

Une courte histoire orale de la planification et de la construction du Métro de Montréal. On y entend quelques architectes et politiciens qui ont parlé de comment ils ont poussé certaines décisions cruciales au design et à la construction du métro. On y entend aussi un travailleur qui était sur le chantier avec ses mains et outils, de quoi avait l'air la sécurité à l'époque, et aussi sa fierté à travailler sur un tel projet.

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#PodcastFriday est un mot-clic où les gens recommandent un épisode particulièrement bon d'un balado. Le but de ce mot-clic n'est PAS de recommander des balados en entier - il y a trop de balados et nos listes d'écoute sont déjà trop longues, alors abstenez-vous. Recommandons simplement la crème de la crème, les épisodes qui vous ont fait exploser la cervelle ou fait rire comme une folle. On pourrait utiliser le mot-clic #VendrediBalado pour se limiter aux balados en français, mais bon.

#balado #STM #métro #metro #subway #Montréal #Montreal #transport #PublicTransit #TransportEnCommun #TransportCollectif

It's time for #PodcastFriday !

All Things Palestinian Canadian - Rana Nazzal: Research, Human Rights, Art and Activism
https://podcastaddict.com/all-things-palestinian-canadian/episode/154850641

The CJPME has a podcast, which I've started listening to once in a while. This episode featured Rana Nazzal, a Palestinian-Canadian artist. She discusses making political art, making art for a specific audience, and the difference between how her art is received in Palestine itself and in Canada. I think she could have talked about how "Canadianized" the reaction to her art in Canada is but she was being constructive rather than bitchy ;) She's currently finishing a documentary on cemeteries of numbers, places where Israel keeps dead Palestinian bodies (sometimes under the excuse of continuing to serve prison terms!) since the Israeli supreme court has allowed the withholding of dead bodies in 2015.

Modoweiss article:
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/12/west-bank-dispatch-populating-the-cemetery-of-numbers/

A related article, more broadly about Israel necropolitics and desecration of Palestinian bodies, at Al Jazeera.:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/2/24/israel-slammed-for-necroviolence-on-bodies-of-palestinians

#Podcast #PodcastFriday #Palestine #Necropolitics #CJPME #RanaNazzal #HumanRights #Palestinian #Canadian #Mondoweiss

#PodcastFriday - Race Against Climate Change, Episode 1: How We Eat
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/129791193

This is a podcast series from the National Observer (a great Canadian environmental activism publication) that's about 18 months old. I thought I knew a fair bit about the impacts of agriculture on climate change, but it turns out I had a lot more to learn from this episode. They get into the details and they bring on a number of farming actors to talk about this stuff. Turns out that there are a lot of low-hanging fruit that could be done to drastically lower the carbon footprint of our agricultural industry.

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#PodcastFriday - The Dig: The Politics and Practice of Tenant Organizing

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/152647006

This is a two-hour-long discussion with four experienced tenant organizers (plus host Daniel Denvir is a tenant organizer himself, so really, five). It's just great to hear experienced activists/organizers think out loud, get into the nitty-gritty of their craft. I don't know much about tenant organizing but this made me realize that I need to build more bridges within my housing coop even as a mere member (and huh, re/current board member). Plus this René Moya guy has a special voice... It's not a Spanish accent, but his voice is clearly inflected by his Spanish fluency and it just resonates really well with me. Some people could just talk their way into my pants.

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#PodcastFriday is a tag where people recommend a particularly good episode from a podcast. The point of this tag is NOT to recommend entire podcasts--there are too many podcasts out there, and our queues are already too long, so don't do that. Let's just recommend the cream of the crop, the episodes that made you *brainsplode* or laugh like crazy.

#PodcastFriday: A Conversation with Retired Forest Ranger Peter Romkey
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/144457008

Shared Ground is a podcast I've started listening to recently, looking at the relationship between humans and the environment in Mikmaq'i, i.e. Nova Scotia. I find the podcast generally a little light, but this interview with a retired forester was really fascinating, in particular the importance of decomposing boles (trunks) in a healthy forest, and impacts of clear cutting and other forms of "enlightened" forestry. That sounds a bit nerdy but I thought it was pretty fascinating.

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#PodcastFriday: The Dark Fleet
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/146017614

The CBC and the LA Times have teamed up to publish this short-run podcast titled The Outlaw Ocean, looking into what happens at sea when you're outside legal oversight.

In Episode 2: The Dark Fleet, host Ian Urbina starts following the Dark Fleet, fishing boats that turn off their transponders and go on overfishing in international and sometimes national waters of other nations. He does so aboard the Bob Barker, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's flagship. The crew of the Barker have decided to target The Thunder, the world's most nefarious illegal fishing ship. (It's on an Interpol list.) When they first meet and it's clear that there's going to be an encounter, the ship ditches its nets and decided to run for it. When a secondary Shepherd crew tries to pull the net out of the water (to keep it for evidence), it takes hours and hours to pull everything in because it's so long. So begins this long pursuit...

You can read the transcript here. But reading "intense music" doesn't live up to hearing the great sound production in this series. :)
https://www.theoutlawocean.com/the-outlaw-ocean-podcast/the-dark-fleet/

Anyway, I'm at episode 4 now and it's a pretty intense podcast... There's been murders and slavery so far, so listener beware.

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There seems to be a trend for alliterative daily hashtags. So applying #GrimmsLaw, I declare it to be #PodcastFriday. Recommend me a podcast!

Christmas probably won't come early, but #podcastfriday does! This week, I talk to Chris Cargill, president and CEO of the Mountain States Policy Center. #idedu #idleg #idpol https://soundcloud.com/idaho-education-news/episode-81?si=c2811186f8b3482ba23cad0b7f06127e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

#PodcastFriday: The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur - The Meng Wanzhou Victory Lap. September 29, 2021

This episode circles back on the Meng Wenzhou saga in Canada… One thing I hadn’t heard anywhere else is an in-depth recap of how illegitimate her detention by the Canadian government was, what lies were told to the court and to the media to justify keeping her here. I have little sympathy for Huawei as a tool of Chinese foreign overreach but this was such an unnecessary action by the Canadian government, which could have achieved almost nothing even if the Chinese hadn’t kidnapped two of our own citizens to get her back.

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/129158175

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#PodcastFriday: From Embers - Surrealism and Anarchy. May 30, 2018

“An interview with anarchist and surrealist author Ron Sakolsky.

We discuss his life, free jazz, academia, the intersections of surrealism and anarchy, mutual acquiescence, maroon communities, and his day to day life on Denman Island, BC.

Ron's latest book "In Search of the Masterless Men of Newfoundland" is available from Little Black Cart.”

A nice gem of a meandering interview.

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/60399921

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#PodcastFriday: The Backbench - The Catastrophe Commissioner. July 26, 2022

“In this episode, Jerry DeMarco, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, delves into the Canadian federal response to climate change, and why our response is still insufficient. DeMarco unpacks 30 years of failed climate progress and offers an analysis of our government’s actions and inactions to deal with our seemingly impending doom.” We’re so fucked and we keep on making things worse.

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/142944812

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#PodcastFriday: The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur - The Meng Wanzhou Victory Lap</a>. September 29, 2021

This episode circles back on the Meng Wenzhou saga in Canada… One thing I hadn’t heard anywhere else is an in-depth recap of how illegitimate her detention by the Canadian government was, what lies were told to the court and to the media to justify keeping her here. I have little sympathy for Huawei as a tool of Chinese foreign overreach but this was such an unnecessary action by the Canadian government, which could have achieved almost nothing even if the Chinese hadn’t kidnapped two of our own citizens to get her back.

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/129158175

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#PodcastFriday: David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Beyond Reorganization of Production. September 22, 2022.

In a previous episode, Harvey called our current form of capitalism “too big to fail”, and he circles back on that. He looks at the Scandinavian model, he looks at the Argentinian factories where workers have literally seized the means of production, and comments that they still have to work within the market system. He looks at Apple and the chip manufacturers (Intel, Samsung, TSMC), and posits that if we were to keep producing computers under some sort of worker control, other than redistributing the profits, we probably wouldn’t change the system very much because it’s very well optimized as it is, and there are few examples of state-controlled corporations doing better than the private sector that way. So he asks the questions about how we go about this. He doesn’t have answers, obviously, but it’s an interesting discussion. Marx also saw the problem but did not have to face the complexity of social organization that capitalism undergirds today.

https://podcastaddict.com/episode/145553589

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Here is my favorite podcast of the week for #PodcastFriday.

If you want to understand the #crime panic hysteria in #SanFrancisco that drove the recall of reform D.A. Chesa Boudin, who is the son of former members of the Weather Underground, this podcast does a really good job covering it especially, for people outside of the San Francisco #BayArea.

It is a concise yet, comprehensive look at what happened and whether crime in San Francisco has gone down under the new D.A.
There is a good discussion of the forces behind the recall including a Silicon Valley mogul, #DavidSacks and why these moneyed interests wanted Boudin out.

Links to listen here: https://newrepublic.com/article/168502/fall-san-francisco-progressive-prosecutor-chesa-boudin

#PodcastFriday: Maintenance Phase - Is Being Fat Bad For You?https://podcastaddict.com/episode/131336993

I’ve long been hearing from various lefty friends that the obsession on excess weight as an indicator of bad health is bunk. I’ve read on Twitter countless stories of people’s clearly unrelated health problems being ignored because their doctor focuses on their “excess” weight and can’t see anything else. Heck, that’s happened to me as well. But I was still kind of buying into it. Also, I’m very sedentary and I know that that is a problem which correlates with weight and health but is not the same thing. (On the other hand, being fairly vegan does wonders to my cholesterol levels.) So when another trusted source recommended this episode on this topic, I added it to my queue. And well. You can listen to history of the battle between Flugel and Willett and their differing methodologies (spoiler: one side cuts out a lot of data that doesn’t prove their point), or you can take this TL;DR away: There is higher mortality among thin people and very overweight people, but there is no large wave of death caused by obesity. Plus it’s complicated, because different diseases and medications for disease have serious impacts on body weight which are the cause of the fluctuation, not the other way around. Plus race is a big factor that is often written out of studies. But you should still listen to the episode if you’re interested in the details. There are also a ton of related links on the episode page if you prefer to read other articles about this rather than a podcast.

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What I’m listening to on #PodcastFriday
Jacob Silverman discusses Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the politics of the PayPal Mafia tech billionaires, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and how they’re trying to reshape US political discourse to serve themselves.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1A70GEHyC1447o3xEGzGu5

🍎: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tech-wont-save-us/id1507621076?i=1000584893939

#PodcastFriday #Kurdistan #JinJiyanAzadi #JinaAmini #MahsiAmini #podcast

Al Monitor’s On the Middle East - Kurdish struggle critical linchpin of Iran protests, says BBC Persian correspondent Jiyar Gol
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/146468984

Al Monitor is a kind of think-tanky (no, not tankie!!) middle eastern news/analysis site but they have some very interesting characters come on, and here a journalist from BBC Persian comes to explain the situation in Iran with an interesting section on the armed Kurdish groups in Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan, in Iran). This was a good summary of what’s happened so far with a look at future possibilities.

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#PodcastFriday #BluesBrothers #Métis #podcast

Métis In Space - S5E7 The Blues Brothers
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125276794

Métis in Space has decided to review some of their favourite films beyond their usual sci-fi-episodes-with-indigenous-people range. In this episode, they watch The Blues Brothers, and it’s a load of fun. I particularly enjoyed the discussion of whether The Pope got to watch a special Vatican cut of the film or not. Either way, the Holy See apparently approves of the film.

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#PodcastFriday #Yemen #podcasts

The Brief Podcast - Destroying Yemen
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/140829866

This episode brings Isa Blumi, author of Destroying Yemen: What chaos in Arabia tells us about the world, to talk about the origins of the Yemen conflict, how foreign powers have intervened in all kinds of ways, and how Yemenis who were at loggerheads before have come together to fight them. This is the most informative podcast episode I’ve heard on the conflict so far.

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