Episodes
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PODCAST 233
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: US mid-term elections, shifting demographics in flyover country and red states, nuclear threats against Iran, Iran’s preparation for being attacked by nuclear weapons, UK on the warpath,...
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PODCAST 232
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The anti-capitalists who can’t find socialism, a sudden worldwide warning to prepare for a three-day emergency, Trump’s mysterious new gay rhetoric, Norway and Finland PMs call Putin, Israel to…
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PODCAST 231
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: upcoming documentary about Terry Ork, theft of the mid-term elections? Saudi Arabia-Yemen conflict, managing imperial decline, decline of the US empire? -->it must be demons, lizard people and…
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PODCAST 230
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Brecht Jonkers. Music track: “Matchbox Blues” by Blind Lemon Jefferson (public domain). See Aesthetic Resistance on Substack for links to some sources mentioned in the discussion.
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PODCAST 229
Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The EU and China talk about their trade deficit, asset stripping of Europe, the botched execution of Christa Pike, Hegseth wants a televised execution, Zionism gone global, Brazil turns right,...
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PODCAST 228
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The botched execution of Christa Pike, the death-defying, reality-defying Lie Dubai flight to Tel Aviv, Mossad-staged protests in Iran (2026/01), the arrogant Western drive to fix the flaws of other...
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PODCAST 227
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Tommy Tuberville and the furries, no protest as Trump violates the UN Charter in his speech to the General Assembly, Arc de Tr(i)ump for America, US think tanks call for moving US bases farther back...
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PODCAST 226
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ed Sheeran misreads the public mood on Zionist atrocities, Kash Patel’s unusual testimony in the US Senate, the history of Yemen and the Saudi-Yemen conflict, the importance of “meaningless” social...
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PODCAST 225
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump in the rubble on 9/11, 2001? purge at the Smithsonian, the compatible left, the loss of cinema literacy, the problematic history of the IAEA, two histories of American empire—continental and...
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PODCAST 224
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches
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PODCAST 223
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: children flying kites targeted in Gaza, writer for The Guardian admits he fabricated malicious lies about Iran, the fate of America with a president who is a malignant narcissist with dementia, the...
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PODCAST 222
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent brutality, frauds in academia, mutiny on the USS Abraham Lincoln, the US failure to prepare for rivals in possession of precision weapons arsenals, Senator Ossoff takes aim…
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PODCAST 221
Participants: John Steppling, Jeptha Storm, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent excesses, mutiny on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Trump dodges assassination on Air Force One? Ukraine headed for its “South Vietnam (1975/04/30) moment”, Fauci still revered, still has…
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PODCAST 220
Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent excesses, the demonization of Ibrahim Traore, the rehabilitation of Freud’s work, demonization of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, no bang for the buck from the US...
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Lecture 14
A Conversation with Guy Zimmerman & John Steppling: Theatre and Culture (Part 6) (Lecture 14)
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PODCAST 219
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent murderers and detention center abuses, the demonization of Ibrahim Traore, debunking liberal democracy as the pinnacle of socio-political evolution, plans to hand over the organizing of the...
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PODCAST 218
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent murderers, the “Cuban threat to America”, Testosterone Pete’s Workout Videos, the Middle East protection racket fails to protect, the decline of reading and teaching to read, the rise and...
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PODCAST 217
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the 2026 World Cup: the fix is in, NATO summit in Ankara, the wars are back on again, the MoU was a farce, Jacques-Louis David’s “The Death of Marat”. Music track “Motherless Children Have a Hard…
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PODCAST 216
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the 2026 World Cup: the fix is in? Trump administration rejoices in the departure of the Iranian team, NATO leaders proud of their role in the war on Iran, the Western governance clown show,...
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PODCAST 215
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Zionist sadism, how Israel is worse than apartheid, questionable calls by referees in the 2026 World Cup, Israel calls out antisemitism everywhere but Ukraine—not a word about its glorification of…
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PODCAST 214
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: billionaires’ escape plans, the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, 2026 World Cup, the upside of social media. Music track: “Baby Please Don’t Go” by Big Bill Broonzy (public domain).
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A Conversation on Theatre with John Steppling & Guy Zimmerman (Part Five)(Lecture 13)
A Conversation on Theatre with John Steppling & Guy Zimmerman (Part Five)(Lecture 13) by John Steppling
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PODCAST 213
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Albania’s Sazan Island, Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry at Tribeca, the drones and missiles stalemate of contemporary war, the science fiction notion of runaway A.I., computer wargaming in 1951, death of legacy news...
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PODCAST 212
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Albania and Bolivia fight back against the Trump family takeover, the death of CBS News, Zionism boasts of going global, the evolution of political consciousness since the end of the USSR, ecological...
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PODCAST 211
Participants: John Steppling, Ray Hosseini, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The mysterious data center construction boom, the history of antisemitism, Trump links the Abraham Accords to a deal with Iran, late-stage capitalism and the looting of what’s left,...
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PODCAST 210
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The mysterious data center construction boom, the US thinks it can indict Raul Castro for terrorism, unanswered questions about the true intent of the attack on Iran, the fascist cults of billionaires, the writing…
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PODCAST 209
Participants: John Steppling, Ray Hosseini, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Strait of Hormuz supply shock kind of looks like the sanctions suffered by Iran for decades, UN charter’s “enemy state” clause and the 2+4 treaty concerning German reunification in 1990, what’s behind...
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PODCAST 208
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: opposition to data centers, data centers claimed to be national security assets, Japan’s militarization and growing protests against it, Bill Gates “ticks” all the boxes as a loathsome plague on the health of...
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A Conversation on Theatre with John Steppling & Guy Zimmerman (Part Four)(Lecture 12)
Fourth installment of a discussion between Guy Zimmerman and John Steppling.
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PODCAST 207
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, USS Gerald Ford sails home, Marxism and environmentalism, data centers and electricity supply, A.I. proven mathematically to lead to rapid economic...
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PODCAST 206
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, food shortages on US Navy ships, Western Marxism, the forgotten US-Iran Algiers Accord of 1981, oil refineries exploding everywhere, the mysterious deaths...
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PODCAST 205
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, responsibility of the Western NGO complex for supporting excuses for the war, the failure of the bad faith ceasefire, blockade upon blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,...
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PODCAST 204
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Iran-US+Israel ceasefire? Zionist refugees flee to Cyprus and Argentina, “Heaven’s Gate” and the end, in 1980, of an era in film-making, Hollywood done with Cimino, Friedkin and other directors who…
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PODCAST 203
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Jonathan the 193-year-old tortoise, Bertrand Russell, Napoleon and ancient the tortoises on St. Helena Island, Trump’s falling star, No Kings protests—performance art with no demands, US allies back away nervously...
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PODCAST 202
Participants: John Steppling, Luna Nguyen, EJ Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Cory Morningstar and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The branding and marketing of US military organizations, the aesthetics and excesses of military and ICE agent uniforms, military propaganda embedded in all entertainment…
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PODCAST 201
Participants: John Steppling, Ray Hosseini, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Contradictory retroactive justifications for war, the struggling U.S. Navy fleet, Trump administration meltdown and clown show, clown shoes. Israeli officials missing in action, A.I. fakes as proof of...
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PODCAST-200
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Contradictory retroactive justifications for war, migrant workers stranded in the Gulf States, Erika Kirk qualified for high-level public office? Western Asian states jostle for position in the...
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PODCAST-199
Topics covered: The liberal left’s conditional criticism of the war against Iran, the problem with the liberal attack on the “illiberalism of the Iranian regime”, Jon Stewart recycles stale anti-Muslim jokes from 2001, pretends not to know why Iran attacked US bases in the Gulf States, the...
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PODCAST 198
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the hybrid war on Iran, US Navy within stinking distance near Iran, report from Cuba, report from Vietnam, the Epstein Regime, ICE and the prison industrial complex, Los Angeles lawyer Harry Weiss’...
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PODCAST 197
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the buildup for war against Iran, Vietnam’s long war for independence, Marco Rubio and AOC do the Munich Security Conference, Epstein files, the labor and materiel shortages and the ecological limits of nuclear...
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Iranian Voices--February 2026
This is a panel discussion with four Iranian citizens who live in Japan. They wanted to expresses a dissenting view of the present state of Iran to counter what has been said in official channels about the recent challenges faced by the Iranian government. Participants: Ray Hosseini, Zeinab...
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PODCAST 196
PODCAST 196 by John Steppling
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PODCAST 195
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, John Bower and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: extra ICE in the Minnesota winter, Greenland, Iran, Palestine, Davos, Mark Carney, Michael Parenti. Music track: “Trouble Trouble (Every Time I Speak My Mind)” by Betty Roche (public domain).
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PODCAST 194
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Venezuela, ICE, gestapo, Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, Palestine, Argentina. Music track: “Deep Sea Blues” by Clara Smith (public domain).
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PODCAST 193
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling, John Bower and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Venezuela, ICE, Minnesota, Greenland. Music track: “Blue in Green” by Miles Davis (public domain).
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Conversation with Guy Zimmerman (Lecture 11)
This is the third conversation between Guy Zimmerman and John Steppling, following the previous ones on theater, the work of Murray Mednick, and the Padua theater group.
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PODCAST 192
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, John Bower and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Aging and dead celebrities, working for the man, covert and overt funding of the arts during the cold war and post-cold war period, self-censoring artists, celebrities shilling for Zionism,...
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Further discussion of Murray Mednick and Padua (Lecture 10)
John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman continue their conversation in tribute to their recently departed friend and collaborator, Murray Mednick. They discuss the Padua theater group, the history of art and philosophy, and the devolution of American culture, among other topics.
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PODCAST 191
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Venezuela, Hegseth, Bondi Beach shootings, Israel—“heed our warning”, Gaza floods, Who’s watching CBS News? backpackers, digital nomads, migrants, guest workers, exiles, and expats. Music track:...
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PODCAST 190
Participants: John Steppling, John Bower, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: US proxy war in Ukraine more likely a war against Europe (F. the EU from beginning to end), deaths in custody of people seized by ICE agents, Israel's conflicting messages in its attempt to polish its...