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Media Roots Radio: Trump’s Fast Track to War with China, Cosby’s Rival Ron Jeremey & Q Implosion w/ Dave DeCamp

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For the first hour of the podcast, Robbie Martin is joined by assistant news editor at Antiwar.com, Dave DeCamp, for a detailed discussion of the dangerous war escalations against China by the Trump administration in the last few months. Narratives about Hong Kong’s Democracy movement and Taiwan’s performance during Covid are examined in a larger context. Later, Robbie continues the podcast solo to discusses the recent sexual assault cases against porn star Ron Jeremy, why people should boycott Spotify and how Trump officials are finally being asked about QAnon.

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Media Roots Radio: Ghost Election: 2020, Defining ‘Cancel Culture’ & the Death of Movies w/ Jack Allison & Leslie Lee

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For the first time both Struggle Session podcast hosts, Jack Allison & Leslie Lee III join Media Roots Radio! Jack, Robbie and Leslie start by discussing the potential death of mega-budget Hollywood films and how Christopher Nolan’s Tenet may be the last original property non-sequel $200mil movie ever to be made. Next the discussion veers to the topic of ‘cancel culture’ and how the term itself needs to be specifically defined and framed differently than in the typical debates most people are currently having about the subject. Concluding the episode Robbie gets Jack and Leslie’s thoughts on the 2020 US Presidential election and they discuss how surreal it feels that there is virtually no energy or momentum leading into this race even though it’s only 3 months away.

Note: This podcast was recorded the day before Joe Biden announced his Vice Presidential pick.

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Media Roots Radio: Robbie’s Top Political Films Countdown

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Robbie goes through his Top 10 Political Satires, Top 10 Political Thrillers & Top 15 Political Scifi/Horror in this Part 1 of Robbie’s favorite political film list.

A bonus Media Roots Radio episode for Patrons only (now unlocked! originally released July 2019)

Warning: Spoilers throughout

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Media Roots Radio: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Michael Brooks

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Abby and Robbie Martin talk about the life and legacy of the late Michael Brooks, and what his work meant to them. From cutting critiques of the Intellectual Dark Web to hilarious political impressions to the notion of true internationalism, we all have a lot to learn from Michael Brooks.

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Media Roots Radio: The Anti-China Pipeline, ‘Classical Liberal’ Civil War Rhetoric, Cool it with QAnon

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Robbie Martin goes solo on this episode of Media Roots Radio to discuss a wide range of issues and stories that slipped through the cracks on earlier episodes, delving into General Flynn’s QAnon oath, Freudian projections of ‘classical liberals’ like Tim Pool who constantly obsess over what they see as an impending civil war, Tucker Carlson’s head writer being fired over comments on a web forum and how his program acts as a pipeline for neocon war propaganda about China. Robbie concludes by going over recent escalations between the US and China and why these asymmetrical warfare maneuvers are largely going under the radar.

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