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The Unsociablists
by Phil and Kyle
Unsociable socialists creating sketches and shooting breezes with deadly efficiency.
Episodes
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BONUS: World On Ice
Episode Notes Here come the boys with holes in their brains to fill you in on: ICE in Minneapolis, Maduro's Kidnapping, Iranian Protests, and the general turn of world systems as we approach Kaiju-level Time of Monsters. Please find resources to help your communities and yourself. Building a…
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S2E10: Elect a Nicer Fascist!
Episode Notes Phil and Kyle are joined by our friend Josh to discuss the lack of democratic controls in the American system.
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BONUS: Back of the Centipede
Episode Notes Well maybe I'm eating this sht, but at least I get to sht in someone else's mouth too. We talk the news of the last few weeks/months. The formation of Kyle's Praetorian Guard is underway - soon he will get into whichever bathroom he so desires. Free Palestine, End the Genocide.
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S2E9: Classroom Warfare
Episode Notes We are joined by Charlie of "Of the Eldest Gods," "The Bits," and "Mystery in the Machine" Podcasts to discuss the American education system and how it prepares us to join a world of alienation. The world is a scary place. The only way forward is to band together and face it with…
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BONUS: Seeing Red!
Episode Notes In the time since the election things have somehow kept happening! We discuss the election, Turkey Day, Hunter Biden, and a whole lot of stuff and still somehow there is more to discuss again! Free Palestine. End the Genocide. Episode art from @Swarthy_Bastard.
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S2E8: Join My Cult-ure
Episode Notes Kyle and Phil are back on their propaganda sh*t. Two doofuses enter, both leave content in the knowledge of their shared friendship after discussing the messages and ideological training received by we who enjoy cultural ephemera - whether in music, movies, television, or dreaded...
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S2 BONUS: Electile Dysfunction
Episode Notes Kyle and Phil are back! The next installment in our propaganda is coming! However, this is not that. Today we are catching up on all the ridiculous nothing that's been going around in the last month: The Debate, The Trump Not-Getting-Shot, Kamala's Coconut-Pilled Candidacy, and…
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S2E7: Oops! All Ads!
Episode Notes Kyle and Phil are back on their propaganda sh*t. Two doofuses enter, both leave content in the knowledge of their shared friendship after discussing the messages and ideological training received via advertisement and commercial mInD CoNtRoL! This episode focuses on advertisement....
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S2E6: Send New(d)s
Episode Notes Kyle and Phil are back on their propaganda sh*t. Two doofuses enter, both leave content in the knowledge of their shared friendship after discussing the messages and ideological training received in the news, This episode focuses on news consumption and tactics of receiving...
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S2E5: Zorzon & Oglob Compilation!
Episode Notes Welcome back! This month we collected all of our previous Z&O episodes. Please enjoy the comical and philosophical stylings of our two interstellar friends. We also talk news! If you'd like to skip to the news please scroll to 2:14:30.
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S2E4: WARNING! Propaganda (deez ****) Ahead!
Episode Notes Kyle and Phil are back on their propaganda sh*t. Two doofuses enter, both leave content in the knowledge of their shared friendship after discussing the messages and ideological training received in the news, through media consumption, and from your apple-munching teachers. Recorded...
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Philler Content: More Games!
Episode Notes Things are tough in this world, for the two of us and for all of you. Why not sit down, crack open a beverage, and play a game? Kyle is unavailable for this one, but Phil takes us all through a new list of fantastical and entertaining games to occupy what free time you have between...
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S2E3: Must Be Something in the Water...
Welcome to the End Times! We have non-potable water, hot winds, and flash floods - all the attractions one might desire! Kyle and Phil discuss the state of air and water in the rapidly worsening climate crisis and comb through the news of the day, week, month, whatever it is. It's important,...
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S2E2: The Unsociablists Get Booked
Episode Notes Book-learning's for suckers! Or, so you may think! Christina Kann of Deus Ex Media and Wilding Press joins the Unsociablists to discuss literature, left politics, and their intersections in the modern industry. Find Christina's work here and please follow along for writing tips and...
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S2E1: Let Me Sell You On Anti-Capitalism... Wait
Episode Notes Back with another edition of the Unsociablist Podcast! Today we go over a few key topics and general understandings of what it means to be anti-capitalist. What is capitalism? How does the world system, as it is currently formed, exist as a product and enforcer of the capitalist...
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Season Two Trailer!
Episode Notes The Boys are Back! Welcome to The Unsociablist Podcast, Season Two! A brief announcement before we get back to things in a more regular kind of way. Love and Solidarity, and please remember to subscribe and tell your friends if you enjoy what you hear. Find out more at...
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Special! Zorzon and Oglob's Wacky Galactic Bonanza, Part Two!
Episode Notes Kyle and Phil emerge from their cocoons, slimy and visibly uncomfortable, to bring you the thrilling conclusion of Zorzon and Oglob's Wacky Galactic Bonanza! It's been a long time coming, but finally we conclude the epic tale of two interstellar pals' confrontation with true evil:...
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Preview! Zorzon and Oglob's Wacky Galactic Bonanza, Part Two!
Episode Notes Back and stranger than ever! Kyle and Phil emerge from their cocoons, slimy and visibly uncomfortable, to bring you the thrilling conclusion of Zorzon and Oglob's Wacky Galactic Bonanza! Look out for the full episode this coming week! As always, you can contact us through email at:...
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Watchalong Bonus: Blind as a Billionaire (Batman Animated Series)
Episode Notes Hey All! Hope you had a great summer, the coolest summer of the rest of your lives! We are releasing a watchalong for Batman the Animated Series S1E54 (if you're on HBOMax) or S1E59 (if you have the DVD or, y'know, whatever). Catch up with us and the news of the day! Find out more…
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Bonus: Fourth Reich of July
Episode Notes Hey everyone, did you miss us? We're not back to a regular schedule yet, but we'd be remiss if we missed an opportunity to show our support for the most American holiday, especially with what a great job our country is doing lately at not dooming us all. With women going back to…
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Hiatus Announcement
Episode Notes Kyle and Phil have decided to take a while away from the pod. As Phil says in the announcement, we are looking forward to coming back with more Lefts In the Past, the Continuing Adventures of Zorzon and Oglob, and other parts of this podcast that we really love. Both of us have been...
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Episode 25: N(early) A(lways) T(errorizing) O(ops!)
Episode Notes NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization - can't possibly be evil, right? Begun in 1949 as a union to "Keep the Russians out, Keep the Americans in, and Keep the Germans down" (priorities in no particular order), NATO has been a fixture of 20th and 21st century life in the West.…
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Left in the Past: Episode 3 "Managua About Town - Part 2"
Episode Notes It isn't well-known among most Americans that the U.S. has invaded Nicaragua 12 times in our history. From the filibustering adventurers of the 19th century to funding death-squads in the 1980s, American meddling in Central America has a long history. Today, Phil and Kyle discuss…
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Watchalong Bonus: Party On, Wormy Dude... (Futurama, Slurm)
Episode Notes Kyle is back after Phil's fantastic solo episode! Today we watch an all-time classic: Futurama. Developed from the mind of Matt Groening and company of Simpsons fame, Futurama begins when a very dumb 20th century man freezes for 1000 years in a cryogenic pod on New Years Eve 1999....
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Philler Content (Variety 3 - Phil's Top 10 Video Games)
There's no Kyle for this one. No really, it's just Phil. There's also, like, only 3 minutes of leftism at the end. Sorry folks, Kyle's taking a well-earned vacation, so we're swapping Left in the Past with our variety episode; Phil is doing a good old fashioned Top 10 list. Come listen to a weird...
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Episode 24: Ceeing I to A
Episode Notes The CIA, despite how embedded of an institution it seems today, was not always a facet of American foreign and domestic policy (even if they are technically barred from domestic interference). Before 1947 and the National Defense Act there was no Central Intelligence Agency.…
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Collection: Capital F - Volume 1
Episode Notes All the episodes from your favourite family comedy sitcom in one place! Listen as the Balts' grips on reality slip away in the comforting miasma of laugh tracks. Kyle and Phil also have a short discussion on the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine. If you have any thoughts, suggestions,...
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Unsociablist Cinema Corner: We're All Gonna Die! (Review: Don't Look Up)
Episode Notes Should we really call them "films" these days? What with Netflix being the specific platform for this one, and most of the theater releases having concurrent streaming options, feels like the words "film" or "cinema" are pretty obsolete. I mean, I love movies. I like sitting in the...
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Left in the Past: Episode 2 "Managua About Town - Part 1"
Managua About Town It isn't well-known among most Americans that the U.S. has invaded Nicaragua 12 times in our history. From the filibustering adventurers of the 19th century to funding death-squads in the 1980s, American meddling in Central America has a long history. Today, Phil and Kyle…
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Episode 22: Any Way the Wind Blows
Episode Notes Nihilism, a word that we've often heard but rarely discuss. What does it mean to be nihilist? Is it an abdication of responsibility to the world around you, or is it an acceptance to only change what can be changed? As much as anyone can really be an adherent of some philosophy…
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Episode 21: Zorzon and Oglob's Wacky Galactic Bonanza - Part One (Special!)
Episode Notes From the studio that brought you Capital F comes a new and exciting story about two aliens - pacifist by nature and by training - who must confront the evils of the galaxy in ways they never imagined they could. Zorzon and Oglob take center stage to fight Mokrath, the Depletor, and...
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Making Monkeyshines (Variety: Reading Series)
Episode Notes Reading series No. 1: Phil brings us a piece about how we should not complain about being stiffed for our work and Kyle reads a NYT opinion piece about how the conservative right can't use the left's _obvious bad behavior (screaming) to justify their slip into anti-democratic…
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Watchalong Bonus: Ain't No Party Like a Kenneth Party (30 Rock)
Episode Notes One of the best sitcoms of the 2000s and maybe of American Television ever, 30 Rock - for those of you who haven't seen it - is a satirical analogue for working behind the scenes at SNL. As such, the cast draws from former SNL stars and is written and led by alum Tina Fey. It's…
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"Jakarta? I Barely Know Ya!" Left in the Past: Episode 1
Episode Notes Trigger Warning for those ahead: discussions will include the violence experienced by victims of the anticommunist crusade that American empire waged against the Global South and "Third World" which may be graphic and disturbing. Indonesia, a country that today has in the realm of…
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Episode 20: Pigs Flying Directly Into the Sun
Episode Notes Why is it that almost every network procedural seems to be centered around cops? Detectives, Navy Investigators, Homicide units - all these cop shows and all these stakes. Through endless coverage and entertainment programming people absorb the belief that cops are always, without...
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Book Club: Is all this Illusion? (Siddhartha)
Episode Notes Mutual Aid for people effected by the tornadoes in Kentucky: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YTzQFT4ANDcChivFDfUW9oC0gJWDyT9FHoDrAD2VA7A/htmlview Published in 1922, the novella Siddhartha follows a young man, son of a Brahmin, on his journey through life to find a “true”…
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Episode 19: Jesus $pent
Episode Notes Religion, belief, faith - social and personal structures that have followed and intertwined with human development for millennia. It's a broad topic, but we - woefully unqualified as we are - decided to take a stab at it. Do we live in a world where belief is entirely dissolved by...
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Unsociable Cinema Corner: Squidly Diddly-oo (Review: Squid Game)
Episode Notes We review a fine and dandy show "Squid Game" about playing a bunch of childhood games under the watchful eyes of our capitalist overlords. If you have any Watchalong Suggestions, thoughts, angry emotes, or whatever else that you'd like to send us, please reach out at...
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Episode 18: Living Your Strife to the Fullest
Episode Notes How does one self-actualize under the regime of capital and wage relations? Squander your youth and vigor on the menial tasks dictated to you by your boss and employer - that ought to make you feel fulfilled, right? Kyle and Phil discuss the tippy-top of that pyramid in Maslow's...
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Unsociable Cinema Corner: The Decrepit World of the Future! (Movie Review: Batman and the Mask of the Phantasm)
Episode Notes Batman. He's the most complicated of super-figures. He's got dead parents, a conscience-wielding butler, and a boat load of cash. Maybe not so complicated, I guess. Anyhow, we hop into the 78 minute animated movie and pseudo-detective-flick Batman: the Mask of the Phantasm. Released...
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Episode 17: Burning the Planet at Both Ends
Episode Notes My world's on fire, how 'bout yours? Today we discuss the thing that depresses us the most: climate change. The world's heating up, the water is rising, and there's nothing one person can do about it, which is why this week we really need to remember to share love and solidarity…
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Watchalong Bonus: Cows on Ice! (Doug)
Episode Notes In this Unsociablist Watchalong, Phil and Kyle revisit an old favourite of the two's childhoods: Doug. An empathetic child making his way through junior high with an eclectic cast of fellow students whose troubles tend toward the silly. The art style is fun, the music is great, and...
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Episode 16: Shmociété du Shmectacle
Episode Notes Phil and Kyle talk about the distorting effects of mediated reality, a society of individuals creating their own versions of the world, and the self absorption of those enmeshed in our Spectacle. Kyle has been reading; it's a terrible habit. Don't do it kids. Definitely don't…
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Watchalong Bonus: Gotta Get Back, Back to the Past (Samurai Jack)
Episode Notes One of the seminal features of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup, Samurai Jack was and remains one of the coolest kid's shows to ever exist. Look, I'm old now, but this show is still neat. Themes of life and death and tragedy and conquest and sacrifice - this show is a righteous...
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Episode 15: No Hagues Barred
Episode Notes A romp through the memory-holed times following 9/11 and the American war machine on auto-pilot. The American Service Members Protection Act is a direct refutation of the UN's institution of the International Criminal Court. This 2002 Bill sponsored by Jesse Helms in the Senate and...
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Episode 14: SPECIAL Capital F Pilot "Welcome to the (Two) Party (System)"
Episode Notes When we spell Family, we spell it with a Capital "F." Welcome to the inaugural, full-sized pilot episode of Capital F. The plucky Balt family will continue to weather through some of the worst and most ideologically baffled times in America, and you'll get to enjoy their sorrows and...
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Unsociable Cinema Corner: Put Your F*cking Hands Up (Movie Review: "Inside")
Episode Notes Welcome to the Internet! Phil and Kyle are having a look around. Today we review the stand-out "standup" special from music man Bo Burnham. Confronting once again the question, does culture mean anything? This is the first in an upcoming, sporadic series of Unsociablist Cinema…
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Episode 13: PanDemo Expired; Buy the Full Version Now!
Episode Notes who is outside my window yelling "WE ARE BACK TO NORMAL"? show yourself. coward. i will never be normal. We revisit the through-line that has connected this podcast from its humble beginnings to the towering heights upon which we now stand. How normal have things been for you? Well...
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Watchalong Bonus: Draw Pretty Pictures in the Ruins of Earth (Cowboy Bebop)
Episode Notes Session Nine: Jamming With Edward. Click play at 7:10 to watch along! Cowboy Bebop, a magnificently animated show about bounty hunters and their tangles with love, death, despair, humor, and the unknowable. Far and away one of the most beautiful animes ever created, Bebop takes...
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Episode 12: Laborers of Fortune
Episode Notes What happens when union participation is at a near historic low? Precarit-ization and neofeudal constructs are asserting themselves more forcefully in the First World economy. While these relations have always existed at the periphery of capitalist empire and in the exploited Global...
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