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The Left Place
by Ted Millar
If you're a progressive who loves discussing politics, music, books, and history, you've come to the Left Place! This no-frills podcast is a look at the politics, events, culture, and concerns of a forty-something parent, poet, and teacher trying to make sense of all the pandemonium that is America. Become a Patron!
Episodes
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Our Republic is Hanging on by Its Fingernails
Happy Fourth of July! Check out James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's icon speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?" Of course, we're still in the midst of the pandemic, and some students in Alabama have decided to have a little fun by holding "COVID parties" to bet on who gets sick...
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Are all the changes making your head spin yet?
Thank you for tuning in to another episode. What a week! If there was still any doubt Donald Trump is a traitor, there was another example this week when the New York Times published a story about his being briefed on a Russian military intelligence unit offering Taliban-linked militants bounties...
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Happy Juneteenth!
This is our twentieth episode! Thank you, listeners, for your support (and patience). Today is Juneteeth. And if you don't know what that is, click here. Contrary to what Donald Trump said about "nobody had ever heard of it" before he "made Juneteenth very famous", Juneteenth is actually a paid...
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Change is in the air (unfortunately so is the virus)
What a week in America! So much went on. We're still protesting in the streets over police brutality, which the police are meeting with--what else?--more brutality. Something we need to be very mindful of is the government's inclination toward authoritarianism at times of unrest, which we're…
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Kieck Week!
My old friend Frank Kieck joins me this week to read from his forthcoming book The Son of Macabre: The Man With a Thousand Passions and discusses film, music, and writing. Enjoy!
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A Voice of Sanity (?) From the Breach
What an..shall we say, interesting, time to be alive in America. We are simultaneously gripped with a 1918-type pandemic, a 1929-type economic collapse, and 1960s-type civil unrest. I really do think George Floyd's murder at the hand of Minneapolis police officers was the proverbial straw that...
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Emergency Episode: An Open Appeal to Joe Biden
This is a special episode appealing directly to former Vice President Joe Biden. The United States should not be this broken. Our failure to respond proactively to the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has hobbled our already ailing economy and led to the needless deaths of over 100,000 Americans.…
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We Are a Failed State...But We Don't Have to Be
It's 2020, and we're still using our police forces as slave patrols. This week, we lost YET ANOTHER unarmed black man to police violence. As riots ensue all over the nation and the person in the White House posing as a president instigates more violence, we find ourselves at the same point we do...
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This Memorial Day, Let's Include in Our Thoughts All the Victims of Trump's Coronovirus "War"
This Memorial Day, let's remember all the ways the Trump administration is pimping our military. The most recent example: 40,000 National Guard soldiers helping states test residents for the coronavirus and trace infections are being told their deployments will end June 24--one day before they...
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What the hell is going on around here?!
I have titled this episode what I find myself frequently asking. Two racists have finally been arrested for their February lynching of an African American man guilty of jogging while black. I read a draft of a recent poem I completed titled "Latest Episode". In what is sure to perpetuate trumpism...
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Amid the Mess, Canada Proves Civilized Democracies Can Implement Sensible Gun Legislation
One week after reporting the New York Board of Elections screwed all former Democratic contenders for president by cancelling the primary, a NY judge has reinstated it. One week after reporting this year will the hottest in recorded history, a new recent study shows a billion people will live in...
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Pandemic, climate change, and a SERIOUS blow to democracy
Boston Globe: Sanders campaign blasts New York state party after it cancels Democratic presidential primary due to coronavirus New York Times: New York Board of Elections Cancels Democratic Presidential Primary The Guardian: Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began...
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Who's Going to Vote for Trump After His Supporters Die of COVID?
So who's going to vote for Trump when so many of his supporters are falling for the wealthy corporate brainwashing behind the "re-open" movement? Trump and the billionaires who know he's got their back are taking advantage of Trump supporters' ardent dedication by leading them to slaughter. Like...
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Meet the Veteran Who Trekked Across America
This episode features college professor, author, veteran, and activist Tommy Zurhellen. Tommy discusses his cross-country walking journey last year from Oregon to Poughkeepsie, his work with Hudson River Housing, his non-profit organization VetZero, and his writing. As we approach Memorial Day,...
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Starving the postal service to prevent mail-in voting?--Bob Dylan's new song--Biden or bust?
Could a Bush-era law designed to destroy the United States Postal Service really be a Republican strategy to prevent any chance at mail-in voting for the November election? In Trump's 'Merica, don't assume anything is too far fetched. Coming on the heels of his first new song in eight years (and...
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Bernie Bows Out
Sorry if I seem a little dark this week, but Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign. Although this isn't surprising, it's nonetheless both discouraging and encouraging. Of course, we wanted to see Bernie take it all the way the DNC convention this summer, as he did in 2016; but even though it…
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Are you alive or dead?
I hope you liked "Kieck Week" last episode with my buddy, writer Frank Kieck. This week, I discuss the millenia-old stoic concept of "Alive time" vs. "Dead time", and connect it to several prominent artists who used their stay-at-home orders productively instead of just stuffing their faces and...
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Rolling Along As the World Comes Unglued
Today's show is one of the most packed so far. I begin with about 30 seconds of Bob Dylan's first original song in eight years, "Murder Most Foul". Still in the midst of the COVID-19 coronavirus, I update listeners on the latest CDC advisory, news from NY Gov. Cuomo, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus...
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Is this the end or the beginning? Could be.
The COVID-19 coronavirus is bearing down on us as our economy goes into free fall. Could this be our very own Republican Great Depression? If so, we need an FDR to address it. After Sunday's Democratic presidential debate, it seems former Vice President Joe Biden might actually not be the...
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Coronavirus! Democratic primaries! The Census! And Bernie!
It's just me on this one. I open the show with my rant on the coronavirus fiasco and read from my latest piece "All Republicans Own the Coronavirus, Not Just Trump". Then I get into the bogus Census forms the Republican National Committee (RNC) mailed out in a cheap attempt at raising some cash...
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Exclusive with Kristi DiLallo
Today we talk with Kristi DiLallo, lecturer with the School of Humanities & Communication at California State University at Monterey Bay, writer, and editor of The Grief Diaries, an online magazine of art and writing about loss. We talk the coronovirus, her experience as a writer, editor, and...
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The First of (Hopefully) Many
Good morrow! Thank you so much for checking out my podcast. Since this is my first attempt at doing something like this, it's going to be pretty rudimentary. As a matter of fact, at 4:41 the phone rings (it was my mother) to provide a genuine down-home feel! In this episode, I read from my latest...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
If you're a progressive who loves discussing politics, music, books, and history, you've come to the Left Place! This no-frills podcast is a look at the politics, events, culture, and concerns of a forty-something parent, poet, and teacher trying to make sense of all the pandemonium that is America. Become a Patron!
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Ted Millar
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