The Skubalacast
by Skubala Posting
A perhaps weekly Holy shitcast, I’m tossing into the void of the internet. It’s about the Evangelical Hellscape and other goodly and godly things for 21st century followers of Jesus to reckon with while we hurtle through the maw of space on a giant rock spaceship. Hosted by Benjamin R. Well into a seasons discussing the stewy tar pit that is leftist politicking and the churchCatch us on IG: @skubalapostingClubhouse: @BenjothefoolLeave us a voice message, maybe we'll get to it. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skubalacast/support
Episodes
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The Krampuscast Vol 2 (2/2) Ep 2 part 2 Like A Good Neighbour Krampus Is There
Dropping in in the middle of the night just like krampus would. The reading is Philippians 1:9-11! I realise i didnt share the reading in the notes for last episode. Maybe I will but maybe I won't.
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The Krampuscast Ep 1 (1/2): The Revolt of The Earth
Oh hi, it's me, Krampus Paul. So sorry I died. I'm in Hell now. I missed you so much. I'm happy here, so I'm not coming home. Anyway, I'm back and I've got a new job we love it here, my recording spot is sick so were happy. Also I lie to you in this episode, I'm gunna release the second episode...
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The Skubalacast Ep. 36 - I Couldn't Think of A Clever Title, But Skubs Is Going To The Shire Soon
The one where the gang reads and reflects on Friederich Engles's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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The Boozelacast ep. 2 ??? -- Hybrid Things 5 the Valley of Gruner Vecnaliner
It’s a sad one as the boys go solo and try to do a wine podcast while America Burns. Fuck all this shit please continue to donate to abortion funds. In other news, there is a ton of incredible wine in the middle of the country. This is why we did the season, but holy shit is it hard to think…
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The Skubalacast Ep. 35 - The Red Right Hand of Marx's Wage Labour and Capital
This episode is a reflection on Marx's Wage Labour and Capital. You can read it before the episode here. I love you so much, BOOTPFB.
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The Skubalacast ep. 34 - Season 12 is here! Skubala Paul is Dead and We Have Killed Him! : "Liberal Feminism" by Anuradha Ghandy
Comrade Paul is here, trying out something new. We are reading and reflecting on "Liberal Feminism," a chapter from Anuradha Ghandy's Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement.
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The Skubalacast ep. 32 - So You Wanna Talk About Commie Christians
Christianity and communism? Well that's why the fuck where here! Why is communism even a thing? What common interests might Christians and communists share? What can the one learn from the other, and vice versa? Tune in or DONT to find out or NOT
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The Skubalacast ep 31: OMGZ L to the OG, Privitise Me Zaddy Plox.
Let's talk privatization! The de-privatization of the early Christians, the privatizing tendencies of mainstream Christian theologies and praxis, and the contemporary privatization of what could be our shared, social goods. ALSO PSA: I have SIX WHOLE episodes lined up where Skubala Paul takes a...
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The Skubalacast ep. 30: Please, Imagine a Different Way of Being Human Or I Will Do The Evil Laugh Again
Acts 2 and 4 is about to light us up! (Be thankful I didnt do a fall out boy song to start, but thankfully i also hate that song so would never have happened) To start off this new lil' chunk we'll ask, What did it really mean to hold all things in common for the early Christians? What might…
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The Skubalacast ep. 29: Short but Sweet Plea for Creation pt. 4.
Why is capitalism harming, violating, killing, the beloved creation? F*ck if i know. And how might capital and the God of the first creation story value the Earth, human and nonhuman creatures, and the entirety of the cosmos differently? What tensions does this create? If we hope to curb climate...
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The Skubalacast ep. 28: Chaka Khan Is With Us In The Fight Against Lenders pt. 3
Debt cancellation, the freeing of slaves, and the redistribution of land! Honestly F*CK YOU for lending money to people. Oh does the cop in your head not want to get the short end of a stick? Oh boo hoo. wah wah. Do you want to get back more than what you gave? You make me sick! What does your...
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The Skubalacast ep. 27: Amazon Labour is Kicking Bezo's Ass Should Be The New Greatest Commandment Of Capitalism Pt. 2
If only there was a hellcast that asked and responded to questions like "have we always fuckin' needed to sell our labour to the rich? And If wage labour is "fair" then why do I feel like a hollowed out pumpkin? And why do I hate my boss who is a pretty kind person? Why am I as a wage labourer…
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The Skubalacast ep. 26 - Religious Overtones (of Capitalism) by David Byrne and Brian Eno pt. 1
We start with the religious overtones of capitalism and you hear me frustrated but maybe you cant tell
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The Skubalacast ep 25 - The Heavy One in Two Parts: Emergents WWCMMS pt 2.
It's 3 materially grounded ways that capitalism has contributed to the production of the conditions in which these recurring violent events have emergered.
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The Skubalacast ep 24 - The Heavy One in Two Parts: Emergent WWCMMS pt 1.
This episode tries to broach a conversation that discusses the lack of attention given to capitalism, class, and material conditions in Christian conversations concerning the emergence of White Working Class Male M*ss Sh*otings. Burn Babylon down. This one is in two parts
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The Skubalacast ep. 23 - The Chamber of Hidden Social Reproduction pt 2.
I really wanted to call this one "Crouching Tiger Hidden Labour of Social Reproduction" but I obviously didn't. Any this is the one where we ask and respond to questions such as, What is reproductive work? How has capitalism shaped our understanding of and relation to the labor of social...
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The Skubalacast ep. 22 - The Chamber of Hidden Social reproductive Labour pt.1
In this episode we read through the book of Ruth and ask how this story might help us think about capitalism’s tendency to regulate, devalue, and hide reproductive work and the people who disproportionately perform this labor
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The Adventuscast ep. 5 - G*d is Fuckin' Intense Like Encampments, Or What Radical Solidarity Could Feel Like
We are bringing 2021 on the fuck home with our fourth and Final Sunday of Advent. This episode could have also just been called tents. Periodt. Because that's pretty much all we talk about. Shout out to my dude, Tobi Taofik Ife Agdebite Ibraheem.
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The Adventuscast ep. 4 - Stop Trying to Make the Middle Class a Thing. You Are a Labourer. You're Embarassing Yourself
Holy Shit!. The lectionary gods were not fucking about! Who are "the oppressed"? What are people mourning? What must be done in light of the people's faint spirit? Are we just trying to reform the world and make this union "more perfect"? Can I both hate and love? Is Mary really just a total…
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The Adventuscast ep. 3 - JESUS. It's called "Everytime We Touch" also J*ff B*zos Go F*CK Yourself
THIS SUNDAY IS A HELL OF A SUNDAY. From justice to comfort to finitude. I think there's something about inevitability and nihilism too. Also i forgot to do a Devo but thats ok I give up. Shout out to the Tik Tok Queen, SD.
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The Adventuscast ep. 2 - First Sunday of Advent: On Boiling to Shake Up Status Quo and Mary Did Know
Yo ADVENT IS HERE! YA HEARD! It's a Boiling Hot Ass Time of Year Ya feel me? In this little ditty, we talk a little rupture, a lot of hope and conviction, and of course some good old fashion militancy... like you know discipline, self-criticism, and good ole participation. I would like to thank...
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The Adventuscast ep. 1: A Precursor to The First
SOOOO yeah we basically rethink advent theology so Communists and Socialists can observe and it's cool and arguably better and based.
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The Skubalacast ep. 21 - Beyonce's Irreplaceable (Capitalism edition)
So we've come to the end of the road. The one where we question the proclamation that there are no alternatives to capitalism. We look at how the cross is an absolutist claim of top down power. We look at how the cross of Jesus could be seen as a hope killer, then we ground it all in solidarity.
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The Skubalacast ep 20 - I Activate Pot of Greed, Now I Get To Exploit 3,000+ Workers. Now I End My Turn.
That was a Yu-Gi-Oh reference. Yeah I grew up in the 90's and swept the floor in tournaments for cash, but now I've changed my ways and I am extremely online. "The problem is greed." We've all fuckin heard it, but might there be more to "the problem" than individual greed? This episode reflects…
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The Skubalacast ep. 19 - "What Is That One Tom Petty Song? Oh Yeah I'm Freeeee Freeeer Than Any Other County Because America Is Capitalist" Love That Song.
Yeah yeah yeah I get it already...we would under dictatorship if it weren't for capitalism! SIKE FOOL. The one where we reflect on the Col 3's "Peace of Christ" and think about the common ways of understanding freedom under capitalism. Then for dessert offer an alternative way of thinking about...
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The Skubalacast ep. 18 - Industry Baby Only Gets Paid For A Portion Of Their Labour
This is the one where for some reason were hungover in Brooklyn with Lil Nas X and labour exploitation on the mind. We scritch around wondering if employees are paid for all their work and where the hell empl*yers get their profits from. Then we hit Isaiah real hard and think about how we ought…
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The Skubalacast ep. 17 - I Had A Professor of OT Who Always Said "Roll Tide" And For Some Reason It Always Felt Racist To Me, Even Though It Was A Sports Thing, But I'm Ready to Admit That Now.
This Episode has considerably less saturation of terrible county accents, but a CONSIDERABLY concentrated anti-capitalist sentiment. We question the notion that when capitalists get wealthy it's better for all of us. We talk worker-productivity-wage gap, winners and losers in capitalist economies...
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The Skubalacast ep. 16 - If You Were A Rich Man... Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na No Chance You're Seeing The Kingdom of God
The one where we talk capitalist social harmony, maximum wealth production, private-capitalism, and Jesus's cute little run in with the Rich Man in the Gospel According to Mark. Also I say "Shut up and eat your mayonnaise" only once this episode sorry to all the yt's. If you care enough about…
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The Skubalacast ep 15 - "Um The Way Things F*cking Are.. Uh HA, I Don't Know Maybe It's Not Gunna Be Called That. You'll See In The Title"
We talk about adversarial faith and how Jesus was a dick and then he was reminded to be better. Call back to mount Sinai anybody?!?
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The Skubalacast ep 0.2 S*an, You Can Go Feucht Yourself (Bonus)
Yooo we passed the 20th anniversary of 9/11. To commemorate this religiouys holiday the worship leader and failed Republican politician S*an F*ucht, of Bethel Church fame, threw an event at the national mall in DC. The event was part of his “let us w*rship” tour that has been taking place around...
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The Skubalacast ep. 14 - sO yOu WaNnA tAlK aBoUt uNeMpLoYmEnT!?!
The one where we talk more about unemployment and incarcerated peoples.
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The Skubalacast ep. 13 - Pixar's The Disposables 2
We wax poetic on the similarities of the story of Tamar and Judah and the Employer Employee relations. I also super didn't edit it. So if there are spaces. Tough luck.
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The Skubalacast ep. 0.1 - The Labour Episode (Bonus)
Um Music by Christian Scott Atunde Adujah. The two songs are called Huntress (for Cara) and Songs She Never Heard. "In the Church’s preaching of the Gospel message of justice and liberation, a denunciation of existing injustices is necessarily implied. What we are concerned with here is not this...
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The Skubalacast ep. 12 - Talking the Exploitus
Dumb pun. Good ep.
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The Skubalacast ep. 11 - The Educational One w/ Accents
I talk just a little bit about production distribution relationships and class inequality. Also i do alot of weird voices. Also shout out to my man Kenan Harper that guy dropped enough hints so now this shitty episode is online. Thank him (or yell at him if you hate it).
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The Skubalacast ep. 10 - New York Fascist Week, Christo-Trumpism and The End
It's finally over! Oh Frabjous day! Callooh Callay! The skubala cast season one is done. I just ate an expired Rx Bar and I'm manifesting health and wealth. And if not, see y'all in heaven. This is Fascism and it's bleak. I'll finish this caption and the resources tomorrow or something but I'm...
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The Skubalacast ep. 9 - Do You Take Conflict Sugar Cane with your Tea Party Populism, you MF Theocrat.
Holy Saturday. God-damned Theocratic tendencies, You lied to me so good. I almost said I love you. -To the Tune of Lana Del Ray's God-Damned Man-child. This what alternative reality does to a group of people. We take a look at populist theology and how it when properly manipulated creates...
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The Skubalacast ep. 8 - A Persecution Papi on the Streets and a Jesus Freak in the Sheets
Good Friday Episode. Nothing about this ep is actually Good Friday themed and if there was, I would like to decline from making those connection for both of our sakes. We talk about the persecution reverse revenge fantasy and martyr fetish that informs so much of the conservative evangelical...
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The Skubalacast ep. 7 - The Gang Faces-off w/ Sexual Edward, The Purity Vulture, and Christian Cringecore
Awwww shit. We're talking about purity culture. The Character of Benjos curse a lot and talks about the cringe destruction that Evangelix culture wreaks on the lives of young impressionable baby Christians. What's new? Seriously though, this isn't an episode trying to explain the theological...
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The Skubalacast ep. 6 - Marvel Avengers, Age of Ultra-Conservative-Southern-Baptist-R*ligious R*ght-tron
This is the Marvel x Skubala podcast where I cut out the part where I say "Thanos should have killed us all" in regards to how the church put out so much shitty material in response to last summer and I ramble about "Thanos Truck" for 5 minutes. I cut it out and mentioned it here to honour the...
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The Skubalacast ep. 5 - Creationism, Bananas, and B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Half way through Seabon 1. The gang gets to listen to creationists prattle on about dragons and Adam and Steve while not owning up to their brain melting intellectual dishonesties as they form a coalition with anti-integrationist movements. My hunch is that Creationism is still alive and well in...
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The Skubalacast ep. 4 - The Righteous and Holy Order of the Small-Brain
AKA. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Small-Brain. This is the one where the gang wades in the acid-filled bathtub that is the racist origins of "Christian Education" just to pull the fucking plug on it and find space to kick it to the curb. You can still date that…
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PREVIEW: The Boozelacast Ep 1: "The Wet Run" Where The Gang Goes Drip to Hard
This got way out of hand way too quick. Tobi get's some things off his chest and we have the high ground. You can donate money for booze to us on Venmo @benjo-razon We can't promise the content will be worth anything, but we can guarantee to waste your time.'' Duel of the Fates is the song from...
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The Skubalacast ep. 3 - Eating The Planet Like It's Groceries
It's 30 putrid minutes about the evangelical capitalist resonance machine. We take a trip on down to Darktown, USA and look at the bleak prospects for our planet because the evangelix machines chews up the planet like it was getting paid to masticate. Referenced Figures: American…
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The Boozelacast ep. 0 - The Dry Run Where The Gang Goes "Drip to Hard"
The "Dry Run" of The Booze-lacast... Tobi and Benjo hit the ground running and talk about dog piss, alcohol + POC parents, surfing, and more. They do ALL THIS while sober as nails. If you want in on the merrymaking for a bona fide bacchanalia, leave a voice message on the anchor page or DM...
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The Skubalacast ep. 2 - Kinky Evangelix Wet Dreams of Death Cults
Number 2 people. This is the one where the gang gets intimate in the saucy wet heart of the evangelix. They look it in the eye to try and see why the end of the world turns them on so damn much. The title is a bit much but that's the vibe Oh yeah, Burn Babylon Down. References: Ernest Sandeen -...
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The Skubalacast ep. 1 - The Monster I Grew Up With
Inaugural Episode of the Skubalacast. This is the one where the gang looks at the general context of the evangelical death monster and goes in deep to to reckon with the grotesque spectre of this fundamental American faith. Oh yeah, Burn Babylon Down. Referenced Material: Hannah Arrendt…
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The Skubalacast ep. 0 - The One Where He Opens A Beer And Introduces Himself
The song in the background is Beware by Death Grips. Benjo wants you to know he was in the top .01% of their listenership last year and that you ought to beware of the vibe of the podcast before you dive in. The first few episodes will sounds different because i wasn't sure i'd commit. But…
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About this show
A perhaps weekly Holy shitcast, I’m tossing into the void of the internet. It’s about the Evangelical Hellscape and other goodly and godly things for 21st century followers of Jesus to reckon with while we hurtle through the maw of space on a giant rock spaceship. Hosted by Benjamin R. Well into a seasons discussing the stewy tar pit that is leftist politicking and the churchCatch us on IG: @skubalapostingClubhouse: @BenjothefoolLeave us a voice message, maybe we'll get to it. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skubalacast/support
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