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When are you going to start standing up for yourself?David Slavick + James A. SmithSub on Patreon £3 per month for the eps that are just trailers on here and more
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🔓TPS134 WHY THE BORIS REVOLUTION FAILED | Dominique Samuels UNLOCKED
Previously exclusively available to subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. Help keep actually independent radical media going by helping us out today. Rent-a-gob of Britain's right-wing news, Dominique Samuels joins TPS to discuss why the Boris revolution never happened, COVID...
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TPS132 THE RIGHT NOW | Curt Mills
What is the dissident right's plan for Generation Left? What was populist about overturning Roe v Wade? Are conservatives still 'anti-anti-Putin'? And what red-pilled Tucker Carlson on JFK and Watergate? All on the agenda as contributing editor at the American Conservative Curt Mills returns to…
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TPS130 LESSONS FROM THE TRUCKERS | Gord Magill🔓 UNLOCKED
The Unlocked PART 6 of our new COVID CRITICAL miniseries! Trucker Gord Magill returns to TPS to reflect on the most novel form of resistance thrown out by the COVID-19 pandemic: the Canada Truckers convoy against vaccine mandates. James and Gord discuss Justin Trudeau's invocation of emergency...
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TPS129 WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TIME? | Jay Bhattacharya🔓 UNLOCKED
The Unlocked PART 5 of our new COVID CRITICAL miniseries! Stanford Professor of Medicine and Great Barrington Declaration co-author Jay Bhattacharya joins TPS for a wide-ranging discussion of the lockdown debate, the mistakes in our vaccine policy, the controversy of Long COVID, the false lessons...
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TPS128 WHY ARE WE SICK? | Sunetra Gupta🔓 UNLOCKED
The Unlocked PART 4 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! Oxford epidemiologist and Great Barrington Declaration author Sunetra Gupta returns to TPS to discuss the 'immunity debt' hypothesis that the long impact of lockdown is making us sick now, the return of Strep A/Scarlet Fever as a killer…
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TPS127 NHS AFTER COVID | Robert Freudenthal🔓 UNLOCKED
The Unlocked PART 3 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! NHS psychiatrist Robert Freudenthal returns to TPS to discuss how misconceptions about the structure of the NHS cause us to misread the dynamics both of the NHS during COVID and the NHS strikes of winter 2022. Robert gives an inside view…
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TPS126 CORPORATE COVIDIANS | Jennifer Sey🔓 UNLOCKED
The Unlocked PART 2 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! A view from the corporate offices is provided by Jennifer Sey, Brand President and prospective CEO of Levi's, until her opposition to school closures during COVID cost her her job. Jennifer discusses how Levi's 'woke capitalism' blended...
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TPS125 WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA DO WE WANT? | Jenin Younes🔓 UNLOCKED
The Unlocked PART 1 of our new COVID CRITICAL mini-series! Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance Jenin Younes returns to TPS to discuss the merging of the State and social media companies during COVID. Jenin describes the fallout of her NCLA case against the US government for...
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Merry Christmas from The Popular Show
James jumps on to thank you for listening in 2022, and to consider making 2023 the year you put your hand in your pocket to help independent radical media, arts, organisation and ideas continue at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help our work:...
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🔐TPS COVID CRITICAL: a 6-part miniseries with Jay Bhattacharya, Robert Freudenthal, Sunetra Gupta, Gord Magill, Jennifer Sey, and Jenin Younes TRAILER
NOW WITH PATRONS at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. The amazing sequel to our Christmas 2021 HARMS OF LOCKDOWN miniseries. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL. TPS125 WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA DO WE WANT? | Jenin Younes Litigation Counsel for the New Civil...
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TPS121 THE RIGHT IS CRINGE TOO🔓 UNLOCKED
After a week in which the US midterms proved that the Right is cringe too... we decided to release our Patrons-only show from October 24th where we pointed out just that. "Bumper round-up for Patrons of the UK's latest governmental collapse, Tulsi Gabbard's departure from the Democrats, Kanye's...
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🔐TPS123 TRANS TIPPING POINT AGAIN | Juliet Jacques
The author of a trilogy of transgender memoir, fiction and journalism - Trans: A Memoir, Variations, and Front Lines returns to TPS to discuss political fiction writing, and what the Left might be missing in the changing discourse around transgenderism today. Help us develop The Popular Show and...
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🔐TPS122 EXTREME CENTRES | Tariq Ali
Legend of the old New Left and anti-war movement Tariq Ali joins The Popular Show to discuss Lula's election victory in Brazil, lessons from Afghanistan for Putin and Biden in Ukraine, the anti-Iraq War protest movement, the abject failure of the Western Left to take an autonomous line on the...
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TPS119 RADICAL REVEREND | Cheri DiNovo
Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo performed Canada's first legalized same sex marriage and, as an MPP, passed into law more LGBTQ Bills than anyone in Canadian history. Today, DiNovo is the host of the Radical Reverend Radio Show on CIUT in Toronto. Her most recent book is 'The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist...
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🔐 TPS55 MAKE BARRINGTON GREAT AGAIN | Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan TRAILER
REVISIT pt.5 of our Christmas 'Harms of Lockdown' miniseries. To listen to this series finale, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. The Great Barrington Declaration, calling for an end to lockdowns and a new regime of targeted care was published in October 2020, and immediately…
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🔐TPS112 GRIZZLY MAN | Alex Lee Moyer TRAILER
Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for the full episode. Conspiracy theorist and shock jock Alex Jones is one of the most censored people on the planet, and the subject of Alex Lee Moyer's new film 'Alex's War'. Moyer joins us to talk about Alex's presentational style, what his arguments tell...
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TPS107 PANDEMIC OF THE CARE HOME | Ross Barkan, Mareile Pfannebecker 🔓 UNLOCKED
Originally released to subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod / Video for Sublation Media @ https://youtu.be/xuyWOumI14U Lockdowns and other COVID-19 measures were billed as protecting the most vulnerable in society. Why, then, were nursing homes treated by policy makers as…
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🔐TPS108 HOW PROPAGANDA WORKS: BBC'S 'UNVACCINATED' | Nazarin Veronica TRAILER
Patrons only! Our discussion of the patronising and propogandised way public health is represented in media has been taken down by YouTube (way to prove us wrong...), so we've released the audio to our patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/banned-from-how-69965522 Please like and subscribe to:...
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TPS105 ELVES & HOBBITS | Sophie Hayes
David talks to comedian Sophie Hayes about Curtis Yarvin's bonkers Elves and Hobbits piece from his SubStack, Justin Trudeau's hair and TERF celebrity delusions. Join our community at www.Patreon.com/ThePopularPod Click through to https://www.youtube.com/c/popularitymedia/ and like and subscribe....
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🔐TPS103 NEW RIGHTS ii
Exclusive to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Our ongoing coverage of the changing shape of the right takes in Kemi Badenoch - the "anti-woke" Nigerian-heritage Tory and surprise frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister - and Josh Hawley's Senate Hearing exchange with…
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TPS101 BYE BYE BOJO | Phil Burton-Cartledge
Patriots no longer in control! Your guide to the departure of the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Phil Burton-Cartledge is author of The Conservative party and the Decline of Tory Britain (Verso Books). Video version at Sublation Media. Don't miss James's first response to BoJo's departure...
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🔐TPS100 CRISIS ON CAMPUS | Emma Camp TRAILER
Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod to listen to this and our complete archive of bonus episodes. Assistant editor of Reason magazine, Emma Camp, published 'I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead' in The New York Times to some controversy earlier this year. In this...
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🔐TPS98 SWEDEN AGAINST LOCKDOWN | Johan Anderberg TRAILER
The latest of our COVID critical interviews for Patreon subscribers. Click through to our new YouTube channel for extra footage! How did Sweden go from 'pariah state' in 2020 to relative success story of the COVID-19 pandemic? And how did it resist the irresistible and avoid locking down as the...
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TPS97 ADDRESSING THE ALLEGATIONS... & REPSONDING TO ŽIŽEK | YOUTUBE EPISODE TRAILER
Subscribe to our new YouTube channel and check out the full video! Must we condemn Putin before commenting on the situation in Ukraine? Where does Žižek's NATO op ed go wrong? Where did the 'DumDum Left' come from? What is Žižek thinking? PLUS Boris Johnson, Blairite feminist. Subscribe for loads...
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TPS96 PATRIOTS IN CONTROL pt.1 | Harvey J. Kaye
Don't forget to sub to our new YouTube channel! Historian, author and broadcaster, Professor Harvey J. Kaye joins us to debate whether the American idea is worth saving, and whether progressive patriotism can ever work. The terms of debate swell so much in this hour, that we've decided to make it...
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TPS95 MÉLENCHON WOULD NEVER HAVE ENDORSED BIDEN | Marlon Ettinger & Olly Haynes YOUTUBE EPISODE TRAILER
Click through to hear the full interview! Marlon Ettinger and Olly Haynes join us ON OUR NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL to discuss the 2022 French legislative elections, the over-performance of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left coalition and how his model of left populism differs from that of Bernie Sanders or…
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TPS93 EMPIRE BURLESQUE | Kit Klarenberg, Tara McCormack, Robert Freudenthal
Following allegations that ex-Corbynite journalist Paul Mason sought to conspire with security services and disinformation agencies against anti-imperialists and the left, TPS spoke to one of the authors of the revelations, the Grayzone's Kit Klarenberg, and Tara McCormack, a foreign policy...
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🔐TPS92 LOCKDOWN PSYCHIATRY | Robert Freudenthal TRAILER
A Patreon 'grindset' episode, where we talk to people about their work. Robert Freudenthal is a London-based psychiatrist who writes about COVID policies for the Brownstone Institute. We discuss the effect of lockdown on mental health services and service users, attitudes towards COVID…
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TPS91 MOMENTUM ORGANISERS | Sasha Das Gupta, Matt Hollinshead
Momentum was founded in 2015 to defend the UK Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn from outside the Party, and to provide a hub of extra-parliamentary organising. Today, the organisation stands accused of having failed to adapt to a post-Corbyn political scene, of seeking technocratic fixes within...
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🔐TPS90 PMC TRAITORS | Leighton Woodhouse TRAILER
EXCLUSIVE TO SUBSCRIBERS AT Patreon.com/ThePopularPod: the continuation of our conversation with Leighton Woodhouse, covering the Dave Weigel/Felicia Sonmez meltdown at The Washington Post, and the Amazon trans 'die in' protest, and what they tell us about negotiations between elite companies and...
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TPS89 JANUARY 6TH: CREATING A CONSENSUS | Leighton Woodhouse
James A. Smith is joined by documentary filmmaker and journalist Leighton Woodhouse, to discuss the January 6th Hearings, their mediatization and traumatisation, and how the new idiom of elites in evidence there played out in the week's misadventures at the Washington Post. Subscribe for the full...
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TPS88 IMPERFECT VICTIMS | Natalie Shure
Health researcher and New Republic columnist Natalie Shure joins the boys to talk Depp v Heard and what it tells us (or doesn’t) about the afterlife of #MeToo and generational gender politics, and Havana Syndrome: the psychosomatic chronic illness taking down US Intelligence service workers and...
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🔐 TPS87 LONG COVID | Natalie Shure TRAILER
After many listener requests, we finally tackle Long Covid - the chronic illness described by the Social Sciences and Medicine journal as 'the first created through patients finding one another on Twitter'. Is Long Covid actually 'Long Lockdown', to what extent is it psychosomatic or an instance…
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TPS86 SUBLATION vi: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
"This is insightful" - Briahna Joy Gray. Following the murder of nineteen children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas, James and David ask what has produced the rise of the school shooting in the 21st century, how the left should think about guns, and the question of...
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🔐TPS85 SLOW TRAIN COMING
The boys discuss the inflation crisis, 'Monkey Pox', the WHO Treaty debate, and the 'Hearing Voices' movement who live with the voices in their heads. To hear this episode, support our work and help us continue at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Donations also gratefully received at...
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TPS84 SUBLATION v: UKRAINE WAR
The week when George W. Bush said 'Iraq' instead of 'Ukraine', World Health Organisation members met to debate taking pandemic policy yet further from democratic scrutiny, and the Economist Magazine predicts global famine if the war in Ukraine drags on. Why power today is 'audacious' and what…
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🔐TPS83 COMPONENTS OF THE LEFT NATIONAL CULTURE | Anton Jäger, Cait Doherty, Oliver Eagleton TRAILER
What Oliver had to leave out of the Starmer book! the Jimmy Savile question! The antinomies of Mark Fisher and how they played out in the millennial left! Lawfare of the left and right! The New Left Review today! It's all here in our exclusive Patrons-only continuation episode. Become a patron…
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TPS82 SUBLATION iv | Anton Jäger, Cait Doherty, Oliver Eagleton
Keir Starmer's work with the Obama Administration and UK Foreign Office comes under scrutiny this week, following the release of Oliver Eagleton's The Starmer Project. Along with the author, we welcome New Left Review assistant editor Cait Doherty, plus political historian Anton Jäger, to the...
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TPS81 INTELLIGENCE TEST | Cait Doherty, Oliver Eagleton
A podcast bonus with two editors of the New Left Review, in which we anticipate Sunday's big Sublation Media show on the left's legal turn, Sir Keir Starmer's deep state past, and the condition of the residual left 'Squads' after the defeat of Bernie and Corbyn. Here, we cover the week Starmer...
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TPS79 SUBLATION iii | Angie Speaks, Afeni
Our third public video and podcast episode for Sublation Media features YouTuber and Low Society podcast co-host Angie Speaks, and activist and organiser Afeni. We discuss the Roe v Wade overturn leak, the US's interests in Ukraine, compare the US Disinformation Governance Board and UK Online...
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🔐TPS78 IMPERIAL CORE | Afeni TRAILER
DC-based organiser and activist Afeni rejoins us to discuss the Roe v Wade overturn leak, abortion in the US, diffidence over Ukraine in Black America and the global South, Biden's failures, and strategies for resistance. To hear the full episode, head over to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. For music...
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🔐TPS77 TRACEY ON TOUR | Michael Tracey TRAILER
The patrons-only continuation of our TPS76/Sublation Media chat with renegade journalist Michael Tracey! We discuss the mediatization of President Zelensky and its role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, plus Michael's European tour culminating in his collision with NATO-enthusiast Paul Mason, and…
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TPS76 SUBLATION ii | Michael Tracey, Jenin Younes
On our cool second magazine show for Sublation Media , TPS welcomes civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes and independent journalist (and friend of the show) Michael Tracey, to discuss Elon Musk's Twitter take-over, the blurring of government and social media platforms over COVID-19, and the...
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🔐TPS75 DEVIL'S ADVOCATE | Jenin Younes TRAILER
To hear the full episode, head over to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Jenin Younes is an attorney with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, currently bringing a suit against the US Surgeon General over suppression of free speech around COVID-19. Jenin explains the civil liberties case against vaccine…
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TPS74 BAD T.V. ROUND UP | Sophie Hayes
David teamed up with stand up comedian and 'Dumb Bitch Media' co-host Sophie Hayes to discuss the best bad dating shows: Netflix's 'Dating Around' and 'Ultimatum'... plus what dating show format did David once pitch to MTV? We now have a weekly video show on the Sublation Media YouTube channel -...
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🔐TPS73 DON'T SAY GAY | River Page TRAILER
In the patrons-only continuation of TPS72's discussion with River Page, the guys tackle the continuities and discontinuities of trans rights with previous frontiers of civil rights, Florida's Don't Say Gay bill, and the dangers of Disney's 'liberation from above' in opposing it. Subscribe at...
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TPS72 SUBLATION i | River Page, Carl Shoben
This public episode is the first part of a new collaboration with Sublation/Diet Soap Media, a new platform founded by Doug Lain, former editor of Zer0 Books. Published both on our own podcast feed and as a video version on the Sublation/Diet Soap Media YouTube channel, this will be our main…
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🔐 TPS71 ADIEU LEFT POPULISM | Carl Shoben TRAILER
Become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod to hear the full interview and loads more exclusive episodes. Carl Shoben advised both Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn as a pollster and is now leader of strategic communications for the polling firm Survation. We take the second defeat of Jean-Luc...
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TPS70 SINGING DYLAN | Billy Childish
In the thick of lockdown in March 2021, we spoke to the Greatest Living Englishman, Billy Childish, down the landline phone from his living room in Chatham, Kent. Billy is a punk and blues musician, painter, poet and much else, and has been named as an influence by Kurt Cobain, Kylie Minogue…
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TPS69 GRINDSET | Symeon Brown, Moya Lothian-McLean
We're talking about the work of young people entering the online 'influencer' economy and journalism today. Symeon Brown was shortlisted for an Orwell Prize in 2019 and shortlisted at the 2018 British Journalism Awards and is author of a new book on online influencers, Get Rich or Lie Trying.…
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