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David and James discuss the summer plans of the narcissists and perverts that pass for a ruling class: the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, Obama's birthday party, the IPCC Climate Change Report, the lawsuit against Prince Andrew, and Tucker Carlson's visit to Hungary. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere! 

Find and Follow us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow. Help us continue and get exclusive episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod. As protests in Cuba prompt the Biden administration to reiterate the extremism towards Cuba of the Trump years, we call on Cuba-expert Keith Bolender to tell the story of America's long and violent history of trying to control the island. We get Keith's account of recent changes in Cuba's governance, the generational changes in how Cubans view the revolution, and what the US and UK left get wrong about anti-Imperialism.

This is our latest interview with the political figures grappling with what happens when a right-wing party succeeds with an economically populist offer. Jake Berry is Conservative Member of Parliament for Rossendale and Darwen, and leads the Northern Research Group - the collection of Tory MPs representing constituencies in the traditionally Labour-dominated north of England. The NRG seeks to petition its party to make good on the higher spending 'side-of-the-bus' populism of Brexit. We ask whether Boris Johnson's Conservative Party really differs from previous incarnations, how the Jeremy Corbyn moment looked from the other side, and get Jake's view of new left experimentation in local government in the north, such as the 'Preston Model'. Help us continue! Follow us everywhere! 

This was originally a Patreon subscribers-only episode, which we have now made public. Help us build the project by subscribing today. In the run-up to the 2020 US Presidential Election, Tara Reade accused the eventual winner, Joe Biden, of a sexual assault, which she alleged took place in 1992, when Reade was working for his Biden's Senate Office. What happened next was a chilling series of events, exposing the interrelations between the Biden administration and the NGO complex, Hollywood and the Democratic Party, and the dark side of #MeToo. We were privileged to speak to Tara Reade about what happens to a person after they make an accusation like this. Follow us everywhere, and spread the Popular word: https://linktr.ee/thepopularshow

This is the unlocked pt.1 of a 2-part interview. In our Patreon subscribers-only pt.2, we discuss the 2021 Capitol Uprising and 2020 election as 'deep events', plus Peter Dale Scott's current thinking on the Kennedy Assassination and 9/11, and what he left out of his previous writings on them. Scott also speaks about his collaboration with the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, and the long view of human history he takes as a poet and literary scholar. Unlocked pt.1: In a rare interview, Peter Dale Scott spoke to us about his half century-long project investigating the anti-democratic 'deep events' structuring the American Order: from the Kennedy Assassination to 9/11. We get his response to the right-wing appropriation of his work - from Alex Jones to Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - his candid appraisal of Noam Chomsky, and his intuitions about the direction the 'deep state' is taking today. Follow us everywhere and spread the Popular word: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow

We're joined by the digital editor of The American Conservative, J. Arthur Bloom, for a wide-ranging discussion of the lab leak hypothesis, media 'fact checkers', and the Non-Profits cultivating progressive causes for elite ends. Get on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for part 2, on the cancellation of Ellie Kemper, and the question of where the dissident Right and dissident Left can find common cause. Follow us everywhere and spread the word! https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow !

This is a preview of a patrons-only episode, available to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod Check out the free unlocked pt.1 here on your podcast app. In the subscribers-only second part of our Peter Dale Scott interview, we discuss the 2020 election and 2021 Capitol uprising as 'deep events', plus Peter's current thinking on the Kennedy Assassination and 9/11, and what he left out of his previous writings on them. Scott also speaks about his 1960s collaboration with the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, and concludes with a spellbinding improvised lecture on the long view of human history he takes as a poet and literary scholar. Follow us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/thepopularshow

This episode previously appeared as a premium patrons-only episode. Part 2 - 'Enjoy Your Castration' - remains exclusive to subscribers on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Freudian psychoanalysis has a reputation as both an elite indulgence and as sexually normative and prescriptive. So what could it have to offer either trans people today or the poor immigrant residents of America's barrios? Argentine psychoanalyst Patricia Gherovici specialises in working with trans patients, as well bringing the perspective of South American "psychoanalysis for the people", which holds the exploration of the unconscious as a radically democratic act. In the first part of a two-part interview, David and James discuss how psychoanalysis can break us out of liberal platitudes in today's debates on trans. Find all our stuff and spread the word here: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow

A UK Labour Party update with economist, Joe Guinan, and the Last Good Man in Labour, leader of Preston City Council, Matthew Brown. We discuss what happens when a Left party goes Right, responding to Biden and Boris's spending splurges and the demands of the new Northern Right, PLUS how economic democracy and community wealth building might qualify demands to 'Defund the Police'. Help us out: www.Patreon.com/ThePopularPod  Follow us everywhere, and spread the Popular word: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow

In Part 2 of our interview with Lacanian analyst Patricia Gherovici, we discuss the Black Mountain Institute director Joshua Wolf Shenk's exposure of himself while on a Zoom meeting in the bath, and Joe Biden as castrated father. This episode is a premium patrons-only episode, exclusive to subscribers on Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Pt. 1, 'Trans Psychoanalysis', is now unlocked on your podcast app.  We appreciate your support of The Popular Show. For more ways to get involved, see our new link page: https://linktr.ee/ThePopularShow