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THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast

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A podcast about music, and politics as told by musicians who sing about politics and his lawyer/journalist best friend

Episodes(40 episodes)

Episode 1508
EP. 879: THE PEANUT BUTTER ECONOMY
MT hosts a panel to discuss the changing job market.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subsc...
Published: May 13, 2026Duration: 3h 17m 18s
Episode 1509
WHAT FRESH HELL EP. 17
Have we reached a ceasefire?   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497 Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these pl...
Published: May 11, 2026Duration: 1h 17m 54s
Episode 1507
EP. 878: ARE WE LIVING IN A PERIOD OF ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM
Is reading really "sexy" or is it performative? Another aesthetic to accommodate your fashion victim attire to become acquired?   Does Gen Z want "more" than the lifestyle influencers are selling them?   We'll discuss.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop/   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus conten...
Published: May 11, 2026Duration: 2h 25m 31s
Episode 1506
THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM: WHEN SELLING OUT GOES EXACTLY TO PLAN
J discusses MJ and Langston Hughes' negro paradox, casual racism, and ridiculous clips. 
Published: May 7, 2026Duration: 4h 41m 27s
Episode 1505
EP. 877: THE YELLOW VESTS AND THE BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY ft. IDA SUSSER
Read Ida's book here: https://www.routledge.com/The.../Susser/p/book/9781032877938   Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of left and right.   Comprehensively exploring the meaning of “les Gilets Jaunes triompheront” (the yellow vests will win), written on the Arc de Triomphe in 2018, The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy details how people of all ages, many f...
Published: May 7, 2026Duration: 1h 0m 16s
Episode 1502
EP. 876: GEN ALPHA MAHA INFLUENCERS
Why are teen girls going all in on MAHA?   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and fo...
Published: May 6, 2026Duration: 1h 37m 32s
Episode 1503
PFTP EP. 106: THE REVOLUTIONARY ARCHITECTURE OF HAITI
Quinn details Haiti's Revolutionary Architecture as Stefan and Kuba look on in amazement at his doctrine Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www...
Published: May 5, 2026Duration: 1h 36m 8s
Episode 1504
WHAT FRESH HELL EP. 16
Kuba is back..   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497 Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well...
Published: May 4, 2026Duration: 1h 15m 42s
Episode 1501
EP. 875: REMEMBERING THE 1992 L.A. RIOTS ft. BILL CODY
I can still remember staring at the screen and listening to the verdict that the officers had been acquitted. I felt utter shock, on one hand, and deja vu, on the other. I, like millions of Americans, watched the video footage ad nauseam of the brutal beating of Rodney King at the hands of the LAPD and thought to myself there was no way these cops would get off. Yet many, including in my neighborhood of Richmond, California, were less sanguine about the prospect of justice being delivered. Such skepticism proved well-founded. The acquittal of the officers involved in the...
Published: May 4, 2026Duration: 2h 9m 28s
Episode 1500
EP. 874: TMZ IS TAILOR MADE FOR AMERICA'S RULING ELITE ft. RYAN ZICKGRAF
Read Ryan's article in UnHerd here https://unherd.com/.../tmz-dc-is-tailor-made-for.../   For years, Harvey Levin has been America’s high priest of low spectacle. His tabloid news operation, TMZ, has camera crews in Hollywood forever lurking for celebrity DUIs, reality-show divorces, and shirtless indiscretions on boats. Yet, in a country where politics increasingly resembles a Bravo show moderated by C-SPAN, perhaps it was only a matter of time before the gossip mongers packed up and left Los Angeles for the nation’s capital.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY...
Published: May 1, 2026Duration: 1h 11m 34s
Episode 1499
THE CHAMPAGNE ROOM: TOY SOLDIERS BTW/ WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT MAN CAMP
Jason expands on issue 23 of the TIR Newsletter--THE TIR SOUNDOFF. Hulk Hogan, Michael Jackson, and American greatness. 
Published: Apr 30, 2026Duration: 2h 28m 1s
Episode 1498
EP. 873: THE CREATION OF THE TEENAGER ft. LAUREN FAIDMAN
Read Lauren's article in Jacobin magazine here: https://jacobin.com/2026/03/the-making-of-the-teenager   The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from ma...
Published: Apr 30, 2026Duration: 1h 3m 16s
Episode 1495
EP. 872: TUPAC: FORGED IN REVOLUTIONARY FIRE ft. HAMZA SHEHRYAR
Read Hamza's article in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/.../tupac-biography-black-panthers.../   Since his death in 1996, Tupac Shakur has existed less as a person than a symbol, flattened by myth, commodified by nostalgia, and recycled endlessly by an industry that thrives on decontextualized images of rebellion. A corrective is long overdue.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and...
Published: Apr 29, 2026Duration: 1h 53m 8s
Episode 1496
PFTP EP. 105: ANTI IMPERIALISM: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
The anti-imperialist movement of the latter half of the 20th century failed as a socialist project, the impulses of nationalism seeming to have little power to defeat international capital and neo-colonialism once these systems gained any subtlety. In the 21st century even the pretense of the anti-imperialist movement being socialist is dropped, and instead socialists tail peripheral and semi peripheral bourgois countries that happen to be on the wrong side of the Evil Empire. Stefan, Quinn and Kuba discuss. Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY T...
Published: Apr 28, 2026Duration: 1h 20m 3s
Episode 1497
WHAT FRESH HELL EP. 15
Someone tried to shoot the president..AGAIN!   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on...
Published: Apr 27, 2026Duration: 1h 10m 12s
Episode 1493
EP. 871: DAVE CHAPPELLE AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF RACE
Dave Chappelle, feels that he has become the ire of the entertainment world not be due to his willingness to play in countries that have commited humanitarian violations, but because he's BLACK!   We'll discuss.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus c...
Published: Apr 27, 2026Duration: 2h 4m 9s
Episode 1494
WHAT FRESH HELL EP. 14
Trump is NOW saying that,"no one should use nuclear weapons.." what is the US's play here? Kuba and friends will be taking your questions.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get...
Published: Apr 24, 2026Duration: 1h 8m 33s
Episode 1491
EP. 870: LENIN AND THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION ft. ALEXANDER HERBERT
Follow Alex and his reading of Lenin's 45 volumes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Lenin_in_45_volumes   You know about the October Revolution, but what do you know about the February revolt? So many revolutions!   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus...
Published: Apr 24, 2026Duration: 1h 47m 23s
Episode 1492
BEYOND THE RED ZONE: 2026 NFL DRAFT PREVIEW
Are the Raiders going to shock the world and NOT take Fernando Mendoza?   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please al...
Published: Apr 23, 2026Duration: 2h 15m 47s
Episode 1489
EP. 869: DOCUMENTING THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY ft. BRAM GIEBEN
Read Bram's series on THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY" here: https://strangeexiles.substack.com/   Bram Gieben invites guests writers for a year long examination of what masculinity looks like in a modern era where young people are influenced by archaic misogynists, capitalisms decline, influencer "looksmaxxing" culture.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so incl...
Published: Apr 22, 2026Duration: 3h 47m 18s