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Air Date: 1/14/2026
Being a bad person who doesn't care about others is helpful in one's pursuit of becoming wealthy. However, becoming wealthy is also helpful in becoming a bad person who doesn't care about others, not that anyone sets out with this as a goal but it is a natural byproduct of wealth and the normal functioning of our market economy. What this means is that the nature of money, market dynamics, and wealth to corrode morality is a systemic problem, not a collection of individual failings, and should be addressed as such.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: The Truth About Income Inequality No One Told You - UNFTR Media - Air Date 7-21-25
KP 4: The Capitalist Mindset - The Market Exit - Air Date 12-9-25
KP 5: How Power Corrupts Part 1 - The Art of Manliness - Air Date 4-6-22
KP 6: Where Are Americas Leaders? - Robert Reich and Inequality Media Civic Action - Air Date 1-6-26
KP 7: Why WORKERS Should OWN Companies - The Market Exit - Air Date 4-30-25
(00:48:50) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On all the reasons we need to squash wealth inequality
DEEPER DIVES
(01:02:59) SECTION A: THE EFFECTS OF WEALTH INEQUALITY
A2: The Shocking Truth About Wealth Inequality in America - Established Context - Air Date 2-22-2025
A3: How Wealth Corrupts Democracy with Christy McGillivray - Head in the Office - Air Date 10-24-25
A4: How Power Corrupts Part 2 - The Art of Manliness - Air Date 4-6-22
A5: UK Budget - The End of Democracy? Part 1 - Garys Economics - Air Date 11-23-25
(01:42:01) SECTION B: THE MINDSET OF THE RICH & POWERFUL
B1: RESOURCE WARS and the Economics of Scarcity with Richard D Wolff - Jacobin - Air Date 9-4-24
B2: Tax Is Not Theft: Why the "It's My Money" Argument Is Wrong - Richard J Murphy - Air Date 12-18-25
B4: The Fraud Behind Our 'Thought Leaders' - The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel - Air Date 1-5-26
(02:18:09) SECTION C: TAX THE RICH
C2: UK Budget - The End of Democracy? Part 2 - Garys Economics - Air Date 11-23-25
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Air Date: 1/9/2026
The Republican Party has been angry about every government service and regulation designed to help average people for at least the past 90 years. And, given any opportunity to hobble or destroy any of those services or regulations in the past decades, they've done just that. Now, after 15 years of striving to destroy the Affordable Care Act - itself originally a conservative plan from the Heritage Foundation (not joking) - they're using the cult-like hold that Trump has on the party to move faster and more recklessly than they are usually able. And again, average people are going to pay the price in both dollars and deaths.
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KEY POINTS
KP 4: TrumpRx - Today, Explained - Air Date 10-6-25
KP 5: Agonizing Choices on ACA Deadline Day Part 1 - Brian Lehrer_ A Daily Podcast - Air Date 12-15-25
KP 6: Medicare For All Non-Negotiable #3 Part 1 - UNFTR - Air Date 2-8-25
KP 7: Its Time for Medicare for All Part 1 - Solutions with Henry Blodget - Air Date 11-10-25
(00:56:07) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On how our health system harms everyone except the owners
DEEPER DIVES
(01:05:14) SECTION A: ACA SUBSIDIES
A1: Republicans and Obamacare, Again - Start Making Sense - Air Date 12-10-25
A3: Agonizing Choices on ACA Deadline Day Part 2 - Brian Lehrer A Daily Podcast - Air Date 12-15-25
A5: Money Is What Matters (to Republicans) Part 1 The Hartmann Report - Air Date 12-30-25
A6: Medicare For All Is Still The Solution! Part 1 - Current Affairs - Air Date 1-15-25
(01:57:02) SECTION B: DRUG PRICING
B1: TrumpRx Part 2 - Today, Explained - Air Date 10-6-25
B2: Its Time for Medicare for All Part 2 - Solutions with Henry Blodget - Air Date 11-10-25
(02:16:13) SECTION C: HEALTHCARE REFORM
C1: Medicare For All Is Still The Solution! Part 2 - Current Affairs - Air Date 1-15-25
C3: Medicare For All Non-Negotiable #3 Part 2 - UNFTR - Air Date 2-8-25
C4: Money Is What Matters (to Republicans) Part 2 - The Hartmann Report - Air Date 12-30-25
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Original Air Date: 2/8/2019 Amid the ongoing fallout of a contested presidential election, we take a look back, briefly, at the last 100 years of Venezuelan history to understand how they went from oil riches and inequality to revolution and social progress only to run afoul of American imperialism.
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Sharmini Peries hosts a wide-ranging conversation about the US-backed attempted coup in Venezuela
Ch. 2: How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor - The Inquiry - Air Date 5-10-17
Venezuela was split between the rich and poor. Politicians lead the way to oil reliance.
Topics Include: Hugo Chavez, the Constituent Assembly, the opposition, the Venezuelan Communes, the concept of dual power, Jacobin Magazine and the Bolivarian Revolution
Ch. 4: Is Donald Trump waging a coup in Venezuela? - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date 1-25-19
You need to be paying attention to what's happening in Venezuela. Eva Golinger joins Michael Brooks and the Majority Report crew to discuss this.
Ivan Briscoe, Latin America and Caribbean program director for Crisis Group, joins Ring of Fire's Sam Seder, to talk about Maduro's corruption and Venezuela's economic disaster.
Writer Jorge Martin examines the two futures of Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution. Jorge wrote the article "Maduro Wins Presidential Election, Despite Imperialist Meddling – What Next?"
This push for regime change in Venezuela did not appear in a vacuum. The CIA has been plotting with so-called rebels in Venezuela from the early days of the Trump administration.
Investigative journalist Allan Nairn explains many aspects of the US attempts at a coup in Venezuela
Ch. 9: Many Countries at UN Oppose Trump Interference in Venezuela - @TheRealNews - Air Date 1-29-19
Larry Wilkerson joins Paul Jay discuss why countries that claim to support the UN and international law are supportive of US imperialistic escapades
Ch. 10. Bonus Edition #137 Propaganda by poem and whole lot more about Venezuela
Jay shares a ton of additional content on Venezuela and muses on the developing pattern of the Trump administration using poem-based propaganda
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Air Date: 1/3/2026
Imperialism is best thought of as a "Wealth Pump," extracting wealth from one country and depositing it in another. Venezuela has wealth and wealth is the only thing Trump cares about, his willingness to break his promise of being the peace president and go along with traditional Republican hawks is not a complicated mystery.
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KEY POINTS
(00:48:15) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the structure of imperialism
DEEPER DIVES
(01:02:10) SECTION A: DRUG WAR BS
(01:41:05) SECTION B: THE MONROE DOCTRINE 2.0
B2: Trump's Piracy in the Caribbean - The Real News Podcast - Air Date 12-23-25
B3: Why Do Horrible People Keep Winning Nobel Peace Prizes? - Overzealots - Air Date 11-15-25
(02:20:52) SECTION C: NIGERIA BOMBING
C1: Inside Nigeria's Bombed Border Communities - Focus on Africa - Air Date 12-29-25
(02:37:40) SECTION D: WAR WITH VENEZUELA
D2: They Finally Admitted Its All Fake - Chris Norlund - Air Date 12-29-25
D4: Venezuela? I Hardly Knew Ya - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 12-12-25
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Air Date: 12-23-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
Ch. 1 - Why everything is so ugly these days
Ch. 2 - The story of "Millennial Gray" and how our personal spaces are impacted by beauty
Ch. 3 - How government intervention and regulation does (and could) impact the beauty in our surroundings
Ch. 4 - How beauty impacts sustainability as well as our very important feelings of belonging
BACKSTAGE: Beyond the Algorithm: Why people around the globe are unhappy despite increasing wealth and progress
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REFERENCES
Why Do All Fast Food Chains Look Like Boring Gray Boxes Now? - Delish
How Did The World Get So Ugly? (YouTube video) -Sheehan Quirke
Why Millenial's Have No Taste (Youtube video) - Answer in Progress
Trump executive order mandates classical architecture for federal buildings, discourages brutalism - CNN
'We're doing arch': Trump says his plan for DC's answer to the Arc de Triomphe is moving forward - The Independent
Zoning Incentives Mandate Private Developers Create Public Open Space - Sustainability
The Impact of Architectural Guidelines on Shaping Our Cities - Plusurbia
The most sustainable building is one too beautiful to tear down. - Lloyd Alter on Substack
Building, Beauty, and Belonging - The Public Discourse
BACKSTAGE:
The Psychological Reason You Can't Seem to Stay Happy - Very Well Mind
The world has gotten richer — so, why aren't we happier? - Vox
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Best of the Left #1758 - "Why Dictators Are Lunatics and Their Followers are Fools"
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Air Date 12/30/2025
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we start with the infrastructure of imperial violence—from Dick Cheney's legacy to the arms race to Sudan's genocide. Then we expose how power exploits ordinary people through predation and financialized desperation. But here's the thing: resistance is working and the facade is crumbling. From courtroom wins to Mamdani's victory to young Republicans fleeing and conspiracies consuming the right, we end on the insight that authoritarian control is far more fragile than it pretends.
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PART 1: THE WEIGHT OF EMPIRE
(00:02:43) None - #1756 War Criminal Dick Cheney's Guide to Ethical Governance and Saving Democracy
3: Dick Cheney Invades Hell - Colonial Outcasts - Air Date 11-4-25
(00:26:25) None - #1752 Reigniting the Nuclear Arms Race: Fat Man, Little Boy, and Donald Trump
4: Marshall Islands: Paradise Interrupted Part 1 - At the Brink - Air Date 12-5-23
6: Trump's Nuclear Arms Race - 7am - Air Date 11-6-25
(00:51:53) None - #1758 Why you think the Sudanese civil war doesn't involve you
8: Sudan Civil War the Terrifying Escape From El Fasher - Global News Podcast - Air Date 12-1-25
PART 2: EXTRACTION AND EXPLOITATION
(01:02:44) None - #1754 The Epstein Files and Donald Trump, Our Predator-in-Chief
9: 1992 Tape Of Trump And Epstein - The Day That Was - MS Now - Air Date 7-18-19
(01:24:21) None - #1757 Life is But a Game (that you can now bet on)
12: Welcome to the Casino Economy - On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti - Air Date 11-13-25
13: Kalshi's Extremely Dark Vision For The Future - The Majority Report W/ Sam Seder - Air Date 12-4-25
14: Big Tech Is Betting on Gambling and Scams - Voidzilla - Air Date 12-5-25
PART 3: RESISTANCE THAT'S WORKING
(01:50:41) None - #1753 What the Shutdown and Weaponized Hunger Exposed About Our Asymmetric Morality
16: What Its Like Suing Trump in Court Over SNAP Funding - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 11-13-25
17: Senator Sanders Slams The Surrender Dems - What A Day - Air Date 11-11-25
(02:14:38) None - #1755 Affordability: Actual Economic Populism is the Kryptonite to Fake Populism
18: Can Zohran's NYC Win Spark a New Era for Democratic Socialism? - UNFTR Media - Air Date 11-6-25
PART 4: THE FACADE CRUMBLING
(02:36:05) None - #1760 Hot Mess: Conservative Chaos Below the Surface of Trump's Authoritarian Regime
21: The Republicans Bucking Trump Part 1 - Today, Explained - Air Date 12-9-25
22: Candace Owens at a Turning Point Part 1 - What Next - Air Date 12-17-25
(02:54:31) None - #1759 Why Dictators Are Lunatics and Their Followers are Fools
23: Trump Centers Himself at Kennedy Center Honors - The Beat with Ari Melber - Air Date 12-8-25
24: Trumps Ballroom Is a Lie - The Drey Dossier - Air Date 12-15-25
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Air Date 12/26/2025
Authoritarian governments are always very focused on making it look like they have everything on absolute lock down. Everyone in lockstep, everything proceeding according to plan. But they do this for propaganda purposes, not because it has anything to do with reality. In fact, the opposite is always true. All of which is to say that conservatives are not in chaos because Trump is particularly chaotic, though he is. They're in chaos because that is the natural result of attempting to enforce monolithic thinking and ideological conformity.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: The Republicans Bucking Trump Part 1 - Today, Explained - Air Date 12-9-25
KP 5: The Republican Party's 'Civil War' Part 1 - On The Media - Air Date 11-12-25
KP 6: Candace Owens at a Turning Point Part 1 - What Next - Air Date 12-17-25
(00:56:36) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On why chaos is endemic to authoritarian governments
DEEPER DIVES
(01:02:30) SECTION A: GOP LAWMAKERS
A1: Marjorie Taylor Greene Vs Donald Trump Part 1 - Americast - Air Date 11-21-25
A5: Marjorie Taylor Greene Vs Donald Trump Part 2 - Americast - Air Date 11-21-25
(01:45:12) SECTION B: STATE POLITICS
B2: The Republicans Bucking Trump Part 2 - Today, Explained - Air Date 12-9-25
(02:01:08) SECTION C: CLASHING IDEOLOGIES
C1: The Republican Party's 'Civil War' Part 2 - On The Media - Air Date 11-12-25
(02:57:28) SECTION D: CANDACE OWENS
D1: Candace Owens at a Turning Point Part 2 - What Next - Air Date 12-17-25
D2: Candace Owens Is Not Your Friend - Hysteria - Air Date 9-25-25
D3: This Toxic Feud Just Got WAY Worse - The Majority Report - Air Date 12-22-25
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Original Air Date: 7/4/2022
Today, for this milestone episode, I attempted to squeeze in as many clever and interesting ideas as I could and ended up writing a starter guide to understand the United States. Plus, there are jingles!
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(00:01:30) Ch. 1: Political Structures of Our Country
Tracking the political eras that proceeded our current situation and looking at what may come next.
Jingle 1: Strawman
(00:13:09) Ch. 2: Progressives and Progress
Looking at a progressive perspective of the last 20 years and the process of progress itself
Jingle 2: Defer to Authority
(00:24:25) Ch. 3: Understanding Race, Gender, Privilege and Power
Understanding why our understanding of the world is often insufficiently complicated
Jingle 3: Just Asking Questions
(00:37:06) Ch. 4: Progressives in Politics
Tracing the fissures on the political left from Bush to Biden
Jingle 4: Manipulating Data
(00:46:45) Ch. 5: Republican Transformation
Tracing conservatism from mid-century Republicans to 21st-century insurrectionists
Jingle 5: Appeal to Emotion
(00:59:32) Ch. 6: Foreign/Power
Looking at various forms of power and how they play out on the international stage
Jingle 6: Passive Voice
(01:08:52) Ch. 7: The Progress Trap
The progress traps of new technology and why we're not defending against them
Jingle 7: Clickbait
(01:19:07) Ch. 8: Structural Thinking and the Alternative
What happens when an individualist thinker is faced with problems that only structural thinking can handle?
Jingle 8: Conspiracy Theories
Jingles: Concept and Some Lyrics by Jay Tomlinson, Music and Most Lyrics by Jonathan Mann
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Air Date 12/22/2025
It's said that mockery is one of the most effective weapons against dictators. I guess it depends on your goal, but still, there's truth there. And the good thing in that regard is that they are so very mockable. No really nice, likable, non-clownish people make themselves dictators and so the people who do are, without exception, absolutely ridiculous lunatics who deserve all the mockery and disdain in the world.
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KEY POINTS
KP 2: Why Is Trump so Obsessed with the Kennedy Center? - Post Reports - Air Date 8-14-25
KP 4: A Guide to Propaganda - Shawn Grenier | The Canvas - Air Date 1-29-23
KP 5: How Dictators Really Control the World I Anne Applebaum Part 1 - Brad Carr - Air Date 9-18-25
KP 6: On The Epstein Loop and Parallel Improvisation - Robert Arnold - Air Date 12-20-25
(00:47:46) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On Trump's narcissism
DEEPER DIVES
(00:55:26) SECTION A: MADE UP AWARDS
(01:18:24) SECTION B: MONUMENTS TO SELF
(01:40:40) SECTION C: PROPAGANDA WORKS
(02:08:56) SECTION D: DICTATORS ARE ALL THE SAME MAN
(03:04:50) SECTION E: DICTATORSHIPS ALWAYS END
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Re-Air Date: 12–18-25
Unless you were a member in December of 2024, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! If you were a member back then, THANK YOU and this one is worth a re-listen. We're slowing down production for a little bit to reorganize our production processes, so enjoy this episode from our archives (and before YouTube) where Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
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Confessions of a Former Carnivore - The New Republic
For Our Movements to Win, We Must Learn How Not to Let Our Grief Destroy Us - TruthOut
You Are Going to Die - The Atlantic
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00:50:04 - Best of the Left Ep. #1672 - "Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out' (11-26-24)
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