The Inebriated Past with Matt Christman (12/21/16)
Added 2016-12-22 01:06:55 +0000 UTCIn this special solo episode, Matt gets soused and tells the tale of August Willich, the German communist who moved to America and commanded the fighting’ 32nd regiment as a general in the Union Army in the Civil War.
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My thoughts exactly.
Yairo Martis
2019-07-17 22:19:59 +0000 UTCFuckin' excellent
Yairo Martis
2019-07-17 22:19:31 +0000 UTCAnybody know where the music is from?
Johannes Böttiger
2018-07-27 01:08:35 +0000 UTCthis episode is fantastic ASMR
Christopher Snape
2017-07-22 12:52:03 +0000 UTCLoved this episode! A really inspiring story. I'd love to hear more like this!
Illegal_Structures
2017-04-17 15:55:04 +0000 UTCawesome episode!
Essie
2017-03-23 23:09:55 +0000 UTCListening to this for I think the 3rd time. More Matt solo bangers would be welcomed.
Seth Gile
2017-03-02 20:02:16 +0000 UTC"goodbye" lmao
Jason Cripps
2017-02-03 21:08:09 +0000 UTCDude. When are you gonna do another?
Kindrid Parker
2017-01-31 04:56:04 +0000 UTCThis was awesome. Cush needs his own podcast of just this shit
Stuart
2017-01-22 02:48:29 +0000 UTCWhat about the claim that a lot of the antislavery sentiment, especially from the American bourgeoisie, was actually intensely racist but in a different way? Jefferson is recorded as being theoretically against slavery even though he personally profited from it, but not due to humanitarian concerns but because he feared black people outnumbering the slavemasters would lead to social upheaval and threaten the European settler republic. The American Colonization Society's venture to "repatriate" African-Americans that eventually resulted in Liberia was founded on the same premise. A lot of public intellectuals active at the time of the Civil War took a similar position, with Whitman as an illuminating example as he managed to unite opposition to slavery with opposition to black citizenship and voting rights (and support for the war on Mexico, or that famous postwar poem celebrating Custer at his death). I guess what I'm trying to get at is that slavery can both be economically dynamic and run counter to the interests of Northern capital in the longer term, even if a large faction of genuine abolitionists existed and almost all progressive forces wound up on the side of the North.
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2017-01-20 20:02:41 +0000 UTCSean Dailey
2017-01-17 16:51:55 +0000 UTCScreaming Void
2017-01-15 17:11:55 +0000 UTC<a href="https://youtu.be/petzEpX3_28" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/petzEpX3_28</a>
tong
2017-01-07 16:25:01 +0000 UTCYeah I'm not a huge fan of the Patreon app and the premium episodes aren't available on Stitcher either.
Justin Doescher
2017-01-04 21:34:43 +0000 UTCnever bitch
NeatHeteroDude
2017-01-04 04:53:33 +0000 UTCI look forward to every episode. But also think that after a period of time you should post the paid ones -- say 3 months? I'd happily remain a grey wolf.
Robert Sussland
2017-01-04 03:20:06 +0000 UTCNo, that's actually people's cards jamming at the end of the month. Happens every month. In any case, we have a new premium ep coming tomorrow.
Chapo Trap House
2017-01-03 20:01:14 +0000 UTCGood shit
Stefan
2017-01-03 02:47:45 +0000 UTCNew EP stat, patrons are dipping
Andrew Jones
2017-01-03 01:03:38 +0000 UTCLove the Monkey kung fun intro music
ah
2016-12-30 01:11:48 +0000 UTCThis was really good, Matt.
nom de guerre
2016-12-28 04:22:38 +0000 UTCFuck it, get Yasha and let him go to town
alejandro sosa
2016-12-27 22:00:15 +0000 UTCI agree. GET DOLAN OR AMES ON THE SHOW ALREADYYYY
Ilias
2016-12-25 01:14:53 +0000 UTCThis episode ruled! I love the more academic take - it's good to see dirtbaggery AND left-wing erudition together in the same pod
Mathieu Debic
2016-12-23 21:09:47 +0000 UTCThe radical impulse must have left him if he volunteered for the Prussian army for the 1870 war.
Patrick Link
2016-12-23 17:35:32 +0000 UTCDrunk history but actually good
leedo
2016-12-23 15:00:28 +0000 UTCSure, it's I Giorni Dell’ira by Riziero Ortolani
DonnieJepp
2016-12-22 22:52:26 +0000 UTCIncredible. Anyone know the song that played at the end?
DD Krumholz
2016-12-22 21:00:31 +0000 UTCdamn, matt got wasted.
Daniel
2016-12-22 20:43:34 +0000 UTCLove it, man
mkepioneer
2016-12-22 20:07:17 +0000 UTC1848! Baden-Palatinate! Engels: Pardon me are you General Willich, sir?
Justin Kolb
2016-12-22 18:17:45 +0000 UTCIt's a half-assed answer, but the Civil War was both a struggle of capitalist expansion and of emancipation. World War II was an imperialist war, but it coincided with a new wave of revolution (China, Yugoslavia) and radical reform in the UK and the US. Not a clarifying solution...
Dan Nance
2016-12-22 17:08:05 +0000 UTC"The Lenz Papers" by Stefan Heym. Epilogue moves from 1848 to the Civil War. I guess authors have felt the way Matt does even if historians don't.
Dan Nance
2016-12-22 17:00:49 +0000 UTCHoward Fast would have agreed with the "new reading" for sure.
Dan Nance
2016-12-22 16:56:41 +0000 UTCJohn Dolan would be a way bigger get than Adam Curtis
Bradford James Carter
2016-12-22 15:56:12 +0000 UTCMore airhorn
David Jones
2016-12-22 15:55:27 +0000 UTCAdd drunk Matt Karp for the next one.
Justin Kolb
2016-12-22 15:30:53 +0000 UTCa Chapo civil war jubilee collaboration with radio war nerd please!
John Hieronymus
2016-12-22 14:15:07 +0000 UTCI ❤ solo eps! Great re-listening value on this one.
Samuel Harvey
2016-12-22 14:10:35 +0000 UTCFuck yeah to all of this!
SwtT
2016-12-22 13:21:33 +0000 UTCYou guys should do a civil war discussion show at least every few months. Both this and the Vast Southern Empire show were great
Nick Alcorn
2016-12-22 13:13:30 +0000 UTCAny plans for Episode 69?
CDK
2016-12-22 09:59:36 +0000 UTCFucking dank. Love the solo show angle, and the left wing scholarship
John Miller
2016-12-22 06:21:35 +0000 UTCThis was fun! More semi-random history bits, please. Also, Gen. Willich would have made a fine 1st president of the Gay Communist Gun Club.
Drunk Dalek
2016-12-22 03:23:17 +0000 UTC
