The Popular Show

The patrons-only continuation of our track-by-track analysis of Bob Dylan's Shadow Kingdom with rock writer Allison Rapp. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Our engagement with the late work of Bob Dylan continues with a track-by-track analysis of Shadow Kingdom, the newly-released soundtrack album to the pandemic-era film of the same name, in which Dylan reimagines thirteen of his early songs. To help us is Allison Rapp, assistant editor of Ultimate Classic Rock magazine and among the zoomers offering a new interpretation of the great boomer artists.  Support us at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for part 2 ('hitting the harder stuff'), plus the complete video version of our discussion with Alison. Bob Dylan recordings featured in this episode:  Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine) (Shadow Kingdom version) When I Paint My Masterpiece (Shadow Kingdom version) When I Paint My Masterpiece (live bootleg, 1997) Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine) (live bootleg 2022) Queen Jane Approximately (live bootleg 1993)  I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (live bootleg 2023)  Tombstone Blues (Shadow Kingdom version) To Be Alone with You (live bootleg, 1991)

David and James reunite to discuss the cancellation of Roger Waters, the ongoing weaponisation of antisemitism against a sitting mayor in the UK Labour Party, RFK jnr. and Israel PLUS Hannah Gadsby's 'Pablomatic' Picasso exhibition. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical  and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and  activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now  releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults,  exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84070725/ Oxford epidemiologist and Great Barrington Declaration author Sunetra Gupta returns to TPS to discuss the 'immunity debt' hypothesis that the long impact of lockdown is making us sick now, the return of Strep A/Scarlet Fever as a killer in Britain, and whether US cities are right to demand a return to public masking. Sunetra speaks candidly about advising Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak and about how COVID could have been different with the principles of Jeremy Corbyn's 2019 manifesto. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a burst of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83684992 NHS psychiatrist Robert Freudenthal returns to TPS to discuss how misconceptions about the structure of the NHS cause us to misread the dynamics both of the NHS during COVID and the NHS strikes of winter 2022. Robert gives an inside view of how medical practitioners view their work, and how it caused much of their leadership to miss the significance of the relationship between medicine and power that was so expanded during COVID. TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL. Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

The Patrons-only continuation of our discussion with Alexander McKay, on the significance of Ron DeSantis, the Right after Trump and Boris, wokewashing and anti-wokewashing, and the coming Starmer disaster... plus! Dinner with Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Wrong-footed by 'the blob' of the Civil Service and the UK's capitalist institutions, the UK Right watches enviously as Ron DeSantis launches his presidential bid using the dysfunctional 'Twitter Spaces'! This is the first part of an outstanding Marxist-Leninist interpretation of the current condition of the transatlantic left and right, with Alexander McKay, of the Marx Engels Lenin Institute. Part 2 (plus video for Part 1!) is exclusive to Patreon subscribers of The Popular Show! Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Originally released to the public as a series of audio podcasts over Christmas 2022, COVID Critical is a series of interviews with medical and legal professionals, government advisers, epidemiologists and activists, who had opposed elements of the COVID-19 regime. TPS now releases the unedited video of those interviews from our vaults, exclusively for our Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82925426/ A view from the corporate offices is provided by Jennifer Sey, Brand President and prospective CEO of Levi's, until her opposition to school closures during COVID cost her her job. Jennifer discusses how Levi's 'woke capitalism' blended seamlessly with its siding with maximalist COVID measures, how the US upper class sees education, and the generational dynamic in the corporate world's attitude to social justice today.TPS would like to thank Collateral Global for their support for TPS COVID CRITICAL.

A taste for patrons of a major series from TPS, coming this summer, reassessing the liberal left's new idiom of race. Remi Adekoya lectures at the University of York, UK, and is the author of 'It's Not About Whiteness, It's About Wealth' Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Leo Damrosch - Havard Prof and biographer of Giacomo Casanova - joins TPS to discuss the work of the notorious eighteenth-century serial lover, amateur philosopher, sometime diplomat, prison-breaker, gambler and memoirist, and the relationship between sex and Enlightenment in Casanova's life. Full video also available for Patreon subscribers: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tps151-greatest-82359681 Help us develop The Popular Show and get extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow