Keep the Door Open feat. Carlo Valle
On this week's bonus episode of What a Hell of a Way to die, Nate speaks with Army and Marine veteran Carlo Valle (@cvalle0625), who's a leftist organizer living ...
2018-12-03 17:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
What a Hell of a Way to Die posts
Just because it's woke doesn't mean it isn't propaganda
By Francis
I have a love/hate relationship with propaganda. Poster recreations from WWII are all over my home office because I love the art style and messages. It’s easy for me to enjoy the propaganda of the past because it’s no longer some ins...
2018-11-30 20:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostA Note from Nate Regarding Our Lineup
Hello everyone,
First of all, thank you so much for your support of our show. It's because of you that we're able to make this a consistent program, and we really do appreciate the fact that you're willing to subscribe.
After a period of deli...
2018-11-26 19:46:21 +0000 UTC View PostA Conversation with the Hosts of 'Speak Freely Podcast'
Adrian interviews Andrew Peppler and Joy Turner of “Speak Freely Podcast”, a veteran-run and veteran-hosted progressive podcast dedicated to encouraging dialogue between different political viewpoints using the shared identity of military service...
2018-11-26 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Plan to Blow Up Outer Space feat. Matthew Borgatti
On this week's bonus, Nate speaks with School of Visual Arts instructor and product designer Matthew Borgatti (@GiantEye ) about defense technology, DARPA's presenc...
2018-11-19 18:11:24 +0000 UTC View PostDispatches from the Rust Belt feat. Joe Kassabian
On this week's bonus episode, Nate speaks with Joe Kassabian ( @jkass99 ) about the Rust Belt, opiate addiction, weird post-industrial fascism, how basically we all ...
2018-11-12 20:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostIs It Fascist? First Blood (1982)
On this installment of our movie review series Is It Fascist?, Francis, Adrian, and Nate review the first film in the Rambo series: First Blood. Francis highlights the differences between the movie and the book, Adrian highlights the fact th...
2018-11-08 19:22:21 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the Right to the Left (With Mike Conyers)
In this bonus episode, Nate speaks with Army veteran Mike Conyers about his transit from a right-wing evangelical to a communist. They discuss enlisting, deployment, Mike's immigration story working-class life after the military, and how medical cann...
2018-10-29 16:40:58 +0000 UTC View PostBook Review: First Blood
Francis discusses the book First Blood by David Morrell in which a young Vietnam Veteran by the name of Rambo goes head to head with a small town sheriff (Hmm, this sounds somewhat familiar...)
2018-10-22 00:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostPolitical extremes (with Carl Forsling)
Francis talks with Marine Veteran and helicopter pilot Carl Forsling about the political extremes of the left and the right, and how it's probably making everything worse.
Read more in Carl's piece for Task and Purpose - 2018-10-14 22:47:06 +0000 UTC View Post
History lessons with Lyle Jeremy Rubin
For today’s episode, we’re joined by USMC veteran of Afghanistan Lyle Jeremy Rubin, a PhD candidate in history at the University of Rochester. Rubin’s published a number of articles for outlets including The Nation, Jacobin, Dissent, The Da...
2018-09-28 03:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostFrom Russia, with Love (feat. Hannah Gais)
A free-wheeling conversation with HANNAH GAIS. Hannah’s a freelance writer and graduate student at Harvard Divinity School, where she ...
2018-09-20 12:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostBook Report: Women in the Military, Flirting with Disaster
Francis reads most of a book from Amber (@Tooterbelle) about why woman are going to ruin the Army and manages to not throw it out a window. Yet
2018-09-07 12:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostOn Why We See So Many Eulogies Of and For John McCain
By Adrian
Reading the various eulogies for and remembrances of John McCain, it’s difficult to escape the mainstream recollections of him as a man of service, as someone who worked on behalf of country and empire, sacrificing hi...
2018-08-31 16:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostInterview with Wesley Morgan
Adrian chats with Wesley Morgan, journalist with Politico Europe and author of a book about the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. Wesley wrote about a little-known agreement between certain host-nation countries in Africa and the US military whereby US...
2018-08-24 16:45:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe Humanity of the Enemy
By Francis Horton
Star Trek: TNG episode I, Borg
You don’t go to war against people. You go against dogs, haji, japs, krauts, charlie, or whatever the racial epithet is for your particular war was. Humanizing the enemy is dangerous. As soon...
2018-08-17 17:55:33 +0000 UTC View PostIs it Fascist? Red Dawn
Nate, Francis, and Adrian watch the classic film Red Dawn and discuss just how fascist it is
2018-08-10 02:11:20 +0000 UTC View PostWhat It's Like Living and Working Authentically, by Amber Mathwig
This is a guest essay written as a response to Adrian's earlier piece. Amber Mathwig is a Navy veteran, a steadfast veteran advocate, and a great friend of the show.
With my personal and professional life wrapped up in my veteran ide...
2018-08-08 01:10:23 +0000 UTC View PostOur Teespring Storefront is Now Open
We're looking to create new t-shirts at least once per month, if not more often, and we're also going to offer coffee mugs and totes when we can. We'll likely announce these on social media, but we'll mention it here as well -- and if you're a curren...
2018-08-04 20:30:23 +0000 UTC View PostBeing Transgender in the Army (feat. Cathrine Schmid)
Francis talks with Cathrine Schmid (@SchmidCathrine), a currently serving transgender Soldier in the Army. They talk about what it's like to transition while still in, the current administration's rulings on transgender soldiers, and why she continue...
2018-08-03 17:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostLocal Progressive Politics in the Age of Trump
Two recent candidates (one of which is Adrian) for state-level seats talk about their experiences running; what they saw, what worked, and what they’d try to do better for the future. A true “dispatch from the front lines” of leftist politics i...
2018-07-27 00:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe very versatile little green book
Francis demonstrates how to use your army green book to open a beer
2018-07-25 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostPodcasts as Leftist Talk Radio, by Nate
My dad got stationed at U.S. European Command in 1990, and because of issues with on-base housing, we wound up living in a small town near Stuttgart, Germany. Although my mom spoke very good German and could watch the local news, American Forces Netw...
2018-07-24 00:53:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe future of Missouri politics with Mark Osmack
Francis talks to progressive candidate for Missouri's second congressional district, Mark Osmack (@mark_osmack). The two talk about the problems facing Missourians around St. Louis and just how to reach everyone across the economic and political spec...
2018-07-22 17:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhat it’s like living and working in a place with urgent purpose by Adrian
Looking back on my time with the infantry, I think it’s most extraordinary that people were able to suppress their individuality without annihilating those quirks that made them who they were. And for the vast majority of folks, that experience of ...
2018-07-19 02:17:08 +0000 UTC View PostAcross the Pond with Mark Allerton
Nate talks British Royal Navy with Mark Allerton (@MarkAAllerton), including being a left leaning veteran in England, the makeup of the UK military, and what one does post service
2018-07-09 12:51:22 +0000 UTC View PostIs it Fascist? Review of Black Hawk Down (feat Spenser Rapone)
Spenser brings his Army Ranger expertise to the Somali murderfest known as Black Hawk Down
2018-06-22 19:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostRiding the big boats with @tooterbelle
Francis has a discussion with a Squid. Amber (https://twitter.com/Tooterbelle) discusses what exactly the Navy is, what it is, and why they do the things they do. It remains a m...
2018-06-15 21:40:43 +0000 UTC View PostA Right to Grief Isn't Conditional: Thoughts on Anthony Bourdain
by Nate Bethea
Cooking is my only hobby and I’m relentless about it. For someone like me, someone prone to overthinking everything, to obsessing and over-analyzing, cooking is incredibly therapeutic: there’s very little time to stare i...
2018-06-10 21:42:23 +0000 UTC View Post