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Episode 179 - The Inebriated Past Part 3: SDS and the Weather Underground (1/25/18)

Added 2018-01-25 20:17:45 +0000 UTC

It's the third installment of our absolutely original series where Professor Cushbomb gets hammered and teaches us about left wing history. This week, we'll learn all about the radical leftist student movements of the 1960's and 70's, their successes and failures, and how Marx can teach us that post-war America is similar to mid-19th century French peasantry. Come for dirt on Bill Ayers, stay for Matt's patented "tube of Pringles" theory.

Episode 179 - The Inebriated Past Part 3: SDS and the Weather Underground (1/25/18)

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Mark Rudd had the honesty to acknowledge the disproportionate presence of young Jews in the Weather Underground. By completely overlooking this glaringly obvious fact you've dishonored an important part of Jewish history. Do over and do better. https://www.markrudd.com/indexcd39.html

E Joseph Weixel

2023-07-19 10:58:50 +0000 UTC

Nice

Smooth Shrek

2023-07-18 19:24:58 +0000 UTC

Let him cook. Damn. Who cares how it sounds?

Jessica Rios

2023-06-22 20:45:23 +0000 UTC

What you said about something being on the tip of my tongue and then Matt articulates it perfectly is why I would join any cult Matt started. lol. Not kidding

Jessica Rios

2023-06-22 19:47:37 +0000 UTC

Top notch

Jessica Rios

2023-06-22 19:42:03 +0000 UTC

Fucking banger

Greg

2021-09-13 04:48:30 +0000 UTC

You have to listen on another platform. I finally followed the tech instructions to get the show on a decent platform like ITunes. The Patreon platform is shockingly bad. It is so bad that it makes me wonder if the people promoting it are running some kind of scam and in six months the site will shut down and the perps running Patreon leave the country with all the creators money and all of our donations. With the amount of money flowing through Patreon, they should be able to afford a functional audio stream. I only come over here to post for other Chapo heads. Patreon is a superfund level disaster. Something is not right about this. The hustlers running the site are not investing it in improving their product. They may just be asset-stripping the fan base before skipping town. No one who actually cared about the product would let it be this truly defective.

Zen Ben

2018-03-27 08:05:46 +0000 UTC

You nailed it.

Zen Ben

2018-03-01 09:31:31 +0000 UTC

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEImW6ViMdg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEImW6ViMdg</a>

Scot Forsythe

2018-02-26 00:04:42 +0000 UTC

Pringle Theory is great

Takoma

2018-02-20 04:51:10 +0000 UTC

Thanks!!!

Tyler Ogilvie

2018-02-15 03:58:13 +0000 UTC

Go to the patreon overview site for the pod on your phones browser and under the overview tab you should see the link for the RSS feed as well as a text url. Works in Chrome can't speak for Safari.

Chris B

2018-02-15 03:56:27 +0000 UTC

woah. i actually learned something, y'all.

TV Marty Tonight

2018-02-14 23:21:21 +0000 UTC

Hey can someone repost the RSS link somewhere? New phone and can't find the original email... cheers.

Tyler Ogilvie

2018-02-13 15:57:52 +0000 UTC

You've made up proud bro ... stellar work my cracka!!!!

Incog Negro

2018-02-06 09:56:14 +0000 UTC

That's a good question. I'm sure someone on the reddit knows. Felix did one I remember

Jake

2018-02-06 06:37:05 +0000 UTC

Outstanding!!! Where are the other two segments?

Chris Mackay

2018-02-03 16:33:27 +0000 UTC

iiiiiii wouuuullllld liiiiiike a newww episooooooode

Dick Shitley

2018-02-02 04:20:24 +0000 UTC

I can't speak for Moses in particular, but there definitely was a political element to the extending of mortgage credit and suburbanization of working class housing. Two quotes from Leo Panith and Sam Gindin's book The Making of Global Capitalism bring out this point nicely: "This was especially significant given that one major response to the urban riots of the mid 1960s, drawing on the long-standing identification of home-ownership as contributing to social stability, had been to answer the cry of “Burn, baby, burn,” with “Build, baby, build,” as one prominent mortgage banker put it. The extension of mortgage credit to marginalized communities—rather than the renewal and massive extension of public housing—would become the central means of coping with inequality in the decades to come. The basis for the subprime crisis needs to be dated all the way back to this moment." "With investment in residential housing rising eleven-fold in the five years after the war, William J. Levitt, who supervised the building of the paradigmatic working-class suburb, Levittown, declared in 1948 that “no man who owns his own house and lot can be a communist."

Chase Burghgrave

2018-02-01 15:20:01 +0000 UTC

Really enjoyed the episode! Question for Matt and the room: did the architects of postwar American suburbanization (I’m thinking Robert Moses) ever expressly link their efforts to disperse Americans geographically with anti-Marxist, anti-Communist efforts, especially in terms of removing that horizontal social connectivity that leads to rising class consciousness in Marx’s view? I mean did Moses et al say so ever, in a speech or memoir or whatever, hitting the “this hits Marx where he lives” notes rather than the “rah rah pro-capital a chicken in every smallhold” notes? That’s my q - thanks for the awesome work chapos, keep going further.

Conrad Rushing

2018-02-01 14:20:13 +0000 UTC

Ahem, the "wind blowing" was the coming violence, not the SDS kids.

cartoondiablo

2018-02-01 04:31:40 +0000 UTC

This ep is still on my mind. Like it's one of those times where there's something on the tip of my tongue that I can't quite articulate and then I heard this and it was a total "Holy shit!" moment. I second all the requests to make this public cause it's that good and I want more more people to hear it.

Frishle

2018-02-01 00:40:36 +0000 UTC

Amber and Matt are standouts for sure

Woke Batou

2018-01-31 18:18:51 +0000 UTC

just gonna add to the agreement that history/theory/analysis with Matt rules

VYM

2018-01-31 04:57:33 +0000 UTC

The moral is that media is bad ... ? I think you missed something. Maybe listen a couple more times. And if you don’t like this kinda badass love mixed in with yer comedy, that’s a pity but to each her own, I guess.

Elise

2018-01-30 21:33:43 +0000 UTC

This is the kind of thing that keeps me subscribing. I learn a lot from Matt.

Brandon Kuhl

2018-01-30 18:47:55 +0000 UTC

these are the best episodes. the other gentlemen and lady are solid as a rock but drunk matt is a diamond. i'm trying to positively reinforce this behavior

Danny Catwell

2018-01-30 18:29:53 +0000 UTC

Very good episode, though the rest of my comments are to Matt about the gaming debate. Just wanted to say to Matt, you absolutely won the debate. The surrogacy that gaming provides to the hardcore gamer, and the abstraction from the real world and tangible consequence, is the most pernicious aspect of gaming culture. I appreciated that you also worked in how gaming can function as an opiate and disperse energies that could otherwise be directed toward effecting social change. I say all this with full disclosure as someone who is a casual gamer, and who even wrote games in the past. Moderation and the ability to disentangle gaming from real life are crucial.

Howard Kistler

2018-01-30 15:54:46 +0000 UTC

Extraordinary ending

Andrew Richardson

2018-01-29 19:01:14 +0000 UTC

Really digging Pringle Theory here Matt but for the love of god take a throat lozenge before you start this shit hahaha

@noam_praszky

2018-01-29 15:52:49 +0000 UTC

Well that was worth waiting for!

Phil S Stein

2018-01-29 03:36:17 +0000 UTC

This is fantastic. Great work Matt.

John S

2018-01-28 23:55:52 +0000 UTC

I really enjoyed the Pringles in a can analogy

Mike

2018-01-28 23:30:04 +0000 UTC

So good

Anthony

2018-01-28 22:55:25 +0000 UTC

Great stuff Matt. A small criticism however: your vocal fry seemed to be way worse than usual here, but it may have been whatever mic you were using having an effect. Not sure.

TheLatchkeyKid

2018-01-28 21:06:39 +0000 UTC

This is fantastic. It starts off strong and only gets better as it goes. Please make it public.

2018-01-28 18:38:33 +0000 UTC

MATT DO MORE OF THIS

Alex Hobbs

2018-01-28 17:49:24 +0000 UTC

This made me straight

mateo de la torre

2018-01-28 15:21:06 +0000 UTC

I think this is too important to keep behind the pay wall

Elbows Unique

2018-01-28 06:01:02 +0000 UTC

this made me gay

Ben Poop

2018-01-27 23:57:36 +0000 UTC

As a veteran of the SDS, prior to the hostile takeover by the Weather Undergound dead-enders, Matt’s account rings true. Cushbomb is doing a public service with his calm, rational introduction to neo-Marxist ideology and praxis. Good work!

Zen Ben

2018-01-27 22:20:41 +0000 UTC

Matt, this is the best. Please do more!

Angelica

2018-01-27 17:48:50 +0000 UTC

the way I had them cataloged they are episodes 66 and 117B

JT Ross

2018-01-27 16:24:48 +0000 UTC

Matt definitely the best when it comes to leftist theoretical D I S C O U R S E

Hamud

2018-01-27 13:53:12 +0000 UTC

Where are parts 1 and 2?

BJ Breen

2018-01-27 13:49:43 +0000 UTC

Ep rules, easily best of all the drunk histories and the others are good

Robert Trump

2018-01-27 13:48:36 +0000 UTC

Make it public!

Michael Barsana

2018-01-27 08:45:34 +0000 UTC

Hell yes it's time for TIP

Rhys J

2018-01-27 00:57:17 +0000 UTC

awesome ep, and much-appreciated breakdown of SDS's history, but I would've liked the exposition at the end re: post-war society/French peasantry to be like 3 hours longer.

Tom May

2018-01-26 22:16:21 +0000 UTC

insane that this isn't more well known, especially since it is such recent history.

Daniel Whittaker

2018-01-26 20:10:21 +0000 UTC

This is terrific.

Adam

2018-01-26 19:13:29 +0000 UTC

Nicely done. I think a lot of the 60’s radicals may have been red diaper babies who were motivated in part by a desire to win the approval of their parents, some of whom had been persecuted or had their careers destroyed.

Ellen Harold

2018-01-26 18:42:27 +0000 UTC

Jesus Matt this is excellent. Very informative and digestible as a listener. I vote to make this free if it’s cool with y’all:)

man

2018-01-26 18:37:50 +0000 UTC

Make this one public so we can share with comrades!

Alex Davis

2018-01-26 18:18:10 +0000 UTC

a pretty shit article, but the phenomenon is interesting in light of what Cush talks about here: <a href="https://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00455/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00455/</a>

Michael Hollitscher

2018-01-26 18:16:18 +0000 UTC

@Christian extremely Steve Albini voice

Brian Williams

2018-01-26 17:05:01 +0000 UTC

I laughed very hard one time at the pringles line and it was worth every second. Well done Matt

max viesel

2018-01-26 17:02:25 +0000 UTC

Matt this was fantastic. What books have you read on the subject that you can recommend?

Carson Stones

2018-01-26 16:51:37 +0000 UTC

It sounds tite and who gives a rip about pronunciation you fusty old ladies. Blow 'er out yer asses! Great ep.

Matthew Paul Soucie

2018-01-26 16:41:02 +0000 UTC

It's beyond just EQ, he needs some kind of de-esser.

Ben Patey

2018-01-26 16:36:52 +0000 UTC

Matt, look into the equalizer function on your Audiomulch or whatever

Erik Weissengruber

2018-01-26 16:12:15 +0000 UTC

The harsh sibilance seems to be caused in part by harsh digital compression and in part by the microphone. Good content though!

Ben Patey

2018-01-26 15:23:51 +0000 UTC

It can sound punk without feeling amateur

Christian Emanuel

2018-01-26 14:29:15 +0000 UTC

I disagree with the usage of this audio filter. The S sounds require use of a serious "deesser" and filling back in on the low end. Listening on headphones, the mix is headache inducing.

Christian Emanuel

2018-01-26 14:28:56 +0000 UTC

Inebriate listening to Inebriated History is always a good idea. Leaving comment in that state is not ....

Mark Chassy

2018-01-26 14:04:18 +0000 UTC

Nobody cares

Michael Barsana

2018-01-26 12:37:34 +0000 UTC

Where is my chapo? No opening song? And the moral he seems to be saying is that media is bad because... Reasons! (not a bad show, just no comedy which is was what I was here for)

Adam Perez

2018-01-26 11:50:47 +0000 UTC

Matt is a king, a pimp and a nasty hoe. This episode should be become open to all listeners.

Edwin Rodriguez

2018-01-26 11:30:48 +0000 UTC

Fucking excellent episode. The reason I came to love chapo is its style of analysis and critique of ideology that makes it kin with Adam Curtis.

Kyle LoPinto

2018-01-26 11:03:06 +0000 UTC