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Malt Liquor Socialists
by Malt Liquor Socialists
We are a Southern Oregon podcast that covers news and politics through a progressive lens.
Episodes
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Episode 090 October 19th, 2026
In this week's episode our two Socialists go over a little bit of our local political news and updates mere weeks before the midterm election deadline. First they go over, and dissect, some social media posts (and one commercial) from two Josephine County Commissioner candidates and one current...
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Episode 089 October 12th, 2026
TRIGGER WARNING This episode is on the topic of toxic masculinity and the culture of rape and hatred towards women that toxic masculinity has cultivated. This episode WILL have language and materials that are triggering for people. Please go into this episode with this knowledge, and please skip...
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Episode 088 October 5th, 2026
In this episode our two Socialists decide to talk about former Commissioner Simon Hare, who is currently running for Josephine County Treasurer. Since there is not a lot of recent videos, news articles, or audio clips of Simon Hare, our two Socialists go over three old videos involving Hare....
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Episode 87, September 28th, 2026
In the second episode of their third season, our two socialists have an interview with a candidate who is running for the Grants Pass City Council during this election cycle... Erin Cook. What deep, dark, mysterious secrets will be revealed...? What salacious skeletons are there in anyone's...
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Episode 86, September 21st, 2026
Our two Socialists are back for the start of their third season/year! In this third season premiere episode, our two Socialists briefly go over a small handful of the local happenstances that occurred during the break, and then they get into an interview JPR gave of Josephine County Commissioner...
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[PREVIEW] Bonus Episode High and Dry in the Alvord Desert
In this bonus episode our Socialists start off recording in the Advord Desert, in Southeastern Oregon, for nearly 40 minutes. They don't discuss much about politics, but instead ponder life, and the mysteries of existence... Or they just spend the time bullshitting. Actually it's mostly that last...
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Episode 85, August 17th, 2026 (Season 2 Finale)
As they wrap up their second season, our two Socialists find themselves in Eastern Oregon in the Alvord Desert. Being a season finale, our two socialists don't really talk too much about politics and news, but take this opportunity to review what they think they did well, what they think they can...
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Episode 84 August 3rd, 2026
In this week's episode our two Socialists listen to, and discuss, a little bit of the coverage of the July 29th Senate hearing (led by infamous chode, Rand Paul) regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci. Join us as we embark on a journey down the Rebpulican's witch hunt rabbit hole in order to distract the US...
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Episode 83 July 27th, 2026
In this week's episode, Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan talk about Flock cameras. Specifically our two Socialists discuss what the flock Flock cameras actually are, why Flock cameras are a risk in our society, and what we can do about them.
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Episode 82 July 20th, 2026
In this week's episode our two Socialists go over our local coverage of the Evan's Creek Fire from July 11th through July 16th, and discuss how the fire has progressed in that period of time. The information of this episode is likely going to be outdated by the time this episode airs, so please…
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Episode 81 July 13th, 2026
In this week's episode our intrepid socialists decide to shift gears a little bit and talk about the present mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani. Specifically, why is he so popular, why is he so hated and feared by both centrist establishment Democrats and MAGAs, and what our two socialists'…
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Episode 80, July 6th, 2026
In this week's episode our two Socialists decide to dip their toes into video content and also go over a specific portion of a Grants Pass City Council meeting from June 17th, 2026. That specific portion of a Grants Pass City Council meeting has to do with the Grants Pass City Council voting to...
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Episode 79 June 29th, 2026
In this week's episode our two socialists interview JJ Scofield and ask him some questions around the ongoing lawsuit that former commissioner Foreskin has against JJ.
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Episode 78 June 22nd, 2026
In this episode our intrepid Socialists discuss ICE activity in Southern Oregon. They go over an article from the Rogue Valley Times, watch a video of a pair of ICE brownshirts detaining an individual who lives in Josephine County, review a Facebook post that identifies one of those ICE...
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[PREVIEW] Paid Bonus Episode June 2026
In our first paid content bonus episode, Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan record out at the Flag Day Protest in Grants Pass in front of the County Courthouse. Our two Socialists spend their time there mostly going over some video clips of the orange shit gibbon's cockfight ring in on the front lawn of...
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Episode 77 June 15th, 2026
In this week's episode our Socialists go over some updates made on Facebook with our local low barrier homeless shelter, Parker's Place. Then they go over an article that addresses one of the issues that cause home owner and rental fees to be so goddamn high.
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Episode 76 June 8th, 2026
In this week's episode our two intrepid Socialists go over a handful of various news clips, a brief comment from a single individual from the prior week's Josephine County Commissioner Business meeting, partake in a back and forth rant about vaccines and anti-vax idiocy... and finish off with an...
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Episode 75 June 1st, 2026
Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan go over the general results of the Oregon primary election, and the results of the local primary election.
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Episode 74 May 25th, 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan interview one Mr. Matt Moser. Mr. Moser was the originator of the ethics complaint against 🤮 for not recusing himself while voting to give the Grants Pass airport a $3 million interest free loan from the county... and our Socialists have…
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Episode 73.5 Matt Spurlock Potluck
Mr. Kieffer and his family went to the potluck supporting Matt Spurlock's run for County Commissioner, and Mr. Kieffer decided to record a conversation with Matt. We hope you enjoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 73 May 18th, 2026
In this weeks episode our socialists go over a couple of articles from the prior week. The first is an article about resigned former commissioner 🤮 from the Daily Courier. We do apologize as there has been an update in this story since we recorded the episode. We will come back to this at a…
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Announcement May 17th, 2026
Our two Socialists announce their first steps dipping their toes into patreon. Is it ready yet? Who knows? Will it be ready soon. Maybe? Probably? We don't know. We're new to this patreon stuff. Also, now. It is available now....
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Malt Liquor Socialists Debut on Patreon
Yes, it's true, we've started a patreon. The goal is to avoid having to use advertising, and possibly get some small amount of income so that we can slowly upgrade our recording gear so that we can create a better show for you... the listener. All of our standard episodes will still be free. We...
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Episode 72.5 May 13th, 2026
In this unusually long bonus episode, our two socialists go over the Josephine County ballot for the current primary election and offer their opinions on who they are voting for and why. They do this from the perspective of voters who received a ballot as a registered Democrat or Independent....
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Episode 72 May 11th, 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan cover an article from the Grants Pass Tribune about some claims that current people running for local office have made that might be red flags. Then our intrepid socialists go over some video from KOBI News Channel 5 regarding planned layoffs that...
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Episode 71 May 4th, 2026
In this week's episode our two Socialists review the answers that hopeful Josephine County Commissioner of Position 2, Chad Handsen, gave at the Candidate's Forum. We won't say he went off script and shouted about how he likes beer, but it wasn't much better than that in our opinion. Hosted on...
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Episode 70.5 April 30th, 2026
In this BONUS episode, Mr. Kieffer decides to torture Mr. Morgan by having them watch, and comment on, an interview that Mike from Mike on Mic gave to former commissioner Foreskin. In this borderline obscenely long episode (just over 2 hours and 30 minutes), Mike comes dangerously close to being...
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Episode 70 April 27th, 2026
In this week's episode our Socialists review the Josephine County Commissioner ruling on the petition of one Mr. and one Mrs. Fascist Santa to remove their property from the library district. Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan go over a few names of note on that petition, then go over the weekly business...
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Episode 69 April 20th, 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan listen to, and comment on, a JPR interview of three of the candidates for the Josephine County Commissioner Position 1. Those three candidates are, in no particular order, Colleen, Tracy, and Foreskin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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Episode 68 April 13th, 2026
In this week's episode our Socialists decide to address an unprecedented social media post by the nation's shit gibbon and chief, then get into an article from the Daily Courier about former commissioner "Commander" Chris. They then wrap up the episode with a discussion about plans to potentially...
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Episode 67 April 6th, 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Morgan setup an interview with a returning guest that also happens to be running for Josephine County Commissioner... Matt Spurlock! Have a listen as our two socialists engage Matt in intriguing conversation and trade mysterious words of potentially investigative…
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Episode 66 March 30th, 2026
In this week's episode, our two Socialists take another look at our local embarrassment of a representative, Dwayne Wank... I mean Yunker. We cover a brief interview Dwayne had from Mike on Mike at an event Dwayne, and a few other MAGA leaning politicians had in Grants Pass, then we cover a...
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Episode 65 March 23rd, 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan go over a news article from the Daily Courier about a lawsuit against some former, and one current, county commissioner. Then Mr. Kieffer attempts to torture Mr. Morgan with a February radio interview of former Commissioner Foreskin. Finally our…
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Episode 64 March 16th, 2026
In this week's episode our socialists review the last bit of legislation that our local state representative, Dwayne diaper stain Yunker, spoke on during our states short legislative meetup, and the results of the subsequent votes. Though Dwayne speaks about a few things, he ends up speaking...
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Episode 63 March 9th, 2026
In this week's episode our two Socialists go back a short way and take a look at a little bit of our new County Commissioners. They review a few comments from the peanut gallery of their first business meeting, then address the fact that the newly selected Commissioners (and Commissioner Smith)...
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Episode 62.5 March 4th , 2026
In the continuation of this week's episode, Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan stay on task and resume going over Oregon State Representative Dwayne, Diaper Stain, Yunker's addressing of certain state legislation. Does Mr. Kieffer get his shit together and correctly let Mr. Morgan and the listener know...
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Episode 62 March 2nd , 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan acknowledge that we have two new assigned county commissioners to replace the two assholes who were recalled and resigned. Then, after a couple of announcements, our two Socialists discuss one of our local state representatives in the Oregon...
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Episode 61 February 16th, 2026
In this week's episode, Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan interview Vicky Palmerton, an individual who has been active in the recall petition against former Commissioners 🤮 and Barnett, and is an admin on the local Rogue Indivisible Facebook group. After this episode, we are going to have a little bit…
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Episode 60 February 9th, 2026
In this week's episode our Socialists take a look at a brief video posted by our homophobic representative, Dwayne Yunker, listing legislation that will be debated on this month in the Oregon Government. Then Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan have some fun (we use that term loosely) poking at a more...
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Episode 59 February 2nd, 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan quickly go over "Commander" Chris' resignation... video? Wait really, that pompous chode did a resignation video? Well shit, it looks like he did... So, our Socialists review that brief video, then go over some video of a really awesome ICE…
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Episode 58 January 26th, 2026
This week our Socialist have a new topic, totally unrelated to the drama with the County Commissioners, to talk about... Just kidding. Unfortunately there is still plenty of drama as Barnett's lackeys continue to push propaganda to try to convince the local populace that the recall petition was...
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Episode 57 January 19th, 2026
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan go over the first evening Josephine County Commissioner Business meeting in OVER. A. YEAR. There were lots of commenter in this meeting, and we mean a-LOT. Despite cutting what we thought would be really redundant comments, our two Socialists…
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Episode 56 January 12th, 2026
In this episode, Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan partake in libations in celebration of the successful vote to recall "Commander" Chris from the position of Commissioner. Our socialists will go over the County Commissioner Weekly Business meeting, an Administrative Workshop, and another Fireside Chat...
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Episode 55 January 5th, 2026
In today's episode our Socialists are ditching any local topics to discuss something on the national level. This is in part because the recall election will be over the day after this episode airs, and our Socialists do not want to provide any last minute speculation or do a last minute, "VOTE!...
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Episode 54.5 December 31st, 2025
In their follow up episode for the week, Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan interviewed a local journalist and owner of the Grants Pass Tribune, John Oliver Rico. Our socialists start with some questions to get a feel for who John is. After getting some background they turn their questions to some more...
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Episode 54 December 29th, 2025
Our socialists are back and have a lot to go over from the past two weeks. There is so much to go over, in fact, that Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan have split this week's episode into two parts. The first, longer part, airing today... and the follow up (which will be an interview) airing on…
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Announcement 003, December 22nd, 2025
Our two Socialists don't have a new episode this week, but they do have some brief ponderings about the holiday, followed by a quick but important reminder. We hope you enjoy this announcement, and have a happy holiday! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 53 December 15th, 2025
In this week's episode, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Kieffer watch "Commander" Chris' very bizarre one man meeting that somehow wasn't a meeting and turned into an information session for the public that somehow was mostly "Commander" Chris trying to negotiate the meaning of statutes and the county charter...
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Episode 52 December 8th, 2025
This week has been a really busy week for Josephine county, with lots of stuff to go over. Unfortunately our two socialists have limited time so we decided to cover the most recent developments in the ongoing Josephine County Commissioner recall petition. Barnett does an... interview... we…
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Episode 51 December 1st, 2025
In this week's episode Mr. Kieffer and Mr. Morgan talk about a written post Josephine County Commissioner "Commander" Chris made in response to the recall petition. Then our intrepid socialists listen to a couple of videos from one of our more hard right Conservatives and muse a little about how...
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