PREMIUM 320: Cold Puerto Rico (w/ Special Guest: Steve Sladkowski)
Added 2024-08-21 04:10:32 +0000 UTCTom enlists a Canadian rocker (one who is a Kentucky Colonel, though) of all people to talk half-watching night one of the DNC.
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prison is a company town.
hellurr
2024-08-25 13:05:42 +0000 UTCcan we peep your highly-regarded Chapo/TrueAnon delegate video? update: it's been posted
cinchal
2024-08-25 11:47:19 +0000 UTCRe: free episode EKY video stores Leslie county had Pearl’s. It wasn’t in town, it was up stinnett, convenient to me and ever friend I had. Pearl was a gay older man and he had a younger bf. No one seemed to care. Adult videos and tanning beds in the back. Full size pepsi for trick or treat. Every sleepover I ever had included a trip to Pearl’s. The building is still there but the video store is no more.
stephanie morgan
2024-08-25 01:55:06 +0000 UTCGet ur weeping pants on buddy we gonna be crying one way or the other
stephanie morgan
2024-08-25 01:35:54 +0000 UTCBillion-dollar prison industry; 14-year old nephew coded the funny-money system. "I just put a minus-symbol in front of the amount" is the level of hacking you would see in the in-game banking system of an Apple II game. //I looked it up, and the streaming service is called Jpay. I came across a few "get your independent music on more platforms, aka, Jpay" outfits, but the actual details of what goes on there is a little murky. Independent artists with clean-lyrics can submit directly to Jpay, but there's also options for inmates to request "acts such as the Beatles, Taylor Swift, etc". There are several articles in the New York Times and NPR about this, and they all feature very popular music like Taylor Swift, but don't go into the nitty gritty about exactly how that works. My guess is that whatever label that holds these artists can work directly with Jpay for licensing (at what's presumably a pretty good return). I spent about half an hour trying to get into how it actually works, but it feels purposefully opaque, and I'm also not equipped enough to parse legal documents (for music or anything else) anyway. So my guess is that on a low-level, independent artists submit their stuff to Jpay like they would Itunes or similar, and on a high level like Beyonce, "your music gets licensed to be listened to in prison" is probably so far-removed from the artist that it can't be construed as some kind of political stance either way. in short, I think "big artists" are probably licensed out on a per-song-basis, at a very favorable price; both to off-set the risk to your reputation by being associated with prisons, but also because for-profit-prisons are ruthlessly predatory and obviously morally bankrupt. So It wouldn't surprise me if the family of an inmate has paid the equivalent of 200 dollars through Jpay tokens for an mp3 of "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)". ...Obviously conjecture, but everything I've heard about US for-profit-prison closed-loop economics is that the baseline pricing for just about anything is "hotel mini-bar" (12 dollar coke, etc). I see no reason why digital purchases wouldn't be equally arbitrary/predatory. //EDIT2: Also found this on Prisonpolicy.com (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2019/03/07/free-tablets/) "In 2017, the Florida Department of Corrections transitioned from MP3 players to tablets and people who had bought hundreds or thousands of dollars of music lost access to the music on the MP3 players, as they were confiscated as contraband when replaced with tablets." Looks like Florida Corrections took the Nintendo-approach when transitioning platforms.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-08-24 11:59:49 +0000 UTCNot relevant to this episode, but your guy in Elden Ring is “a lowly tarnished of no renown.” You are just some no name dipshit who got dragged into things by following Godfrey.
Richard Cochnar
2024-08-23 21:56:45 +0000 UTCgonna need that tofu recipe, tom.
rndll
2024-08-23 16:35:05 +0000 UTCWhat Evangelicalism does to a mf
Lucy McGillicuddy
2024-08-22 04:33:40 +0000 UTCGreat ep. Very chill.
Gregory Packet
2024-08-21 23:55:18 +0000 UTCHey guys— I don’t know if you read these but I couldn’t find an email— but I have a lead on a story you should cover. It’s not getting any mainstream news coverage. It takes place in WV. Jim Justice, the fat nepo baby former democrat/former billionaire/former WV governor & future senator who owns 300k acres of WV including 30 major coal mines and every grain farm bought the Greenbrier resort during the financial crash. He took out $30 million in COVID PPP loans he never paid off. He has not paid millions in property taxes so the state put the Greenbrier up for auction— but his crony judges are halting it. Here’s the real kicker: his 2000 hotel employees have been having healthcare costs deducted from their wages BUT NONE OF THAT MONEY WENT TO THE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY SO ALL OF HIS EMPLOYEES ARE LOSING THEIR INSURANCE. We live in absolute fucking hell because of these villainous, soulless billionaires who scam the system, defraud good people, and endanger the lives of laborers for the sake of profit.
Sarah Rupp
2024-08-21 23:30:45 +0000 UTCas a Philadelphian...I don't like seeing Joe Carter. poor Mitch.
carl
2024-08-21 23:14:41 +0000 UTCSteve Sladkowski seems to be a friend of every podcast I really enjoy
Drew Reed-Moutray
2024-08-21 20:54:07 +0000 UTCI really enjoyed this episode, you guys. Thank you 🌟
Danielle
2024-08-21 20:44:27 +0000 UTCIt's crazy to listen to a whole episode with a guy from a band I love and not know it's him til the last 2 minutes
Beef
2024-08-21 19:23:09 +0000 UTCThis is how Trump gets back in the game. He does a VP style Apprentice. He gets JD on TV and fires his ass on live television without telling him why he's on the show. Then people start trying out for the VP slot.
_tarrvis
2024-08-21 19:04:01 +0000 UTCRe: the last free episode 355: rhizome vs ribosome
SF
2024-08-21 18:03:16 +0000 UTCI literally moved from Ohio to Minnesota this year to do labor work. Can confirm.
not jd3
2024-08-21 17:35:43 +0000 UTCIf Tom could just introduce himself as Tom Sexy, that would be great
fuck
2024-08-21 17:35:06 +0000 UTCI had the same experience on voting day in 2016 except with a line full of UK frat boys
Jackman Ochs
2024-08-21 16:50:20 +0000 UTCWell said
Matt jbg
2024-08-21 16:43:31 +0000 UTCAs a music nerd who’s been seething since Tarence said some not nice things about emo and insinuated Taking Back Sunday did not age well, having Steve from PUP on did a lot for me. I’m kidding about the seething part! Love the pod, great episode as always!!!
Marie
2024-08-21 14:42:05 +0000 UTCI totally agree about the Midwest/Ontario connections but also think there are profound differences between Minnesota and Ohio. It mostly boils down to labor being more valued in MN and Ohio has less monoculture. Minnesotans are also very proud, sometimes smug, while Ohio thinks their state is a dump but they love it anyway.
Nick
2024-08-21 14:26:39 +0000 UTCFuckin Reds.
Justin E Dickerson
2024-08-21 13:17:06 +0000 UTCBut Biden was the most progressive president since FDR!!! 🤡
Guy Incognito
2024-08-21 13:03:38 +0000 UTCGREAT LAKES SOCIALIST REPUBLIC RISE UP
David Exelby
2024-08-21 12:38:01 +0000 UTCJust started listening but I wanted to say regarding the Dems framing Trump as the incumbent, The Pod Save guys just talked in an episode about how that was Kamala’s strategy as well. It seems to be working but it’s insane that the actual Democratic line is that Biden was Trumps second term.
Thomas Stevens
2024-08-21 12:19:07 +0000 UTC1:30 the people who suffer from Slacklung
Andrew Dunn
2024-08-21 12:11:29 +0000 UTCIt was about right. TrueAnon did a three hour episode this week I can’t even remember what it was about
SoldierBlue
2024-08-21 12:01:56 +0000 UTCTarrence maplephobic confirmed.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-08-21 11:45:41 +0000 UTCI can understand the hometown pride - I don’t give a shit about Chicago sports but FUCK the packers, the Vikings, and the cardinals, in no particular order
William
2024-08-21 11:33:32 +0000 UTCI’m pretty sure tarence sees visions of nuclear fire, from time to time
William
2024-08-21 11:21:18 +0000 UTCHalf-watching one night of the DNC is about right these days
Tom's Trips Official
2024-08-21 11:13:42 +0000 UTCPeople who think drug abuse is a moral failing should be injected with heroin and go off it cold turkey to prove their point
William
2024-08-21 11:01:27 +0000 UTCIf This Tour Doesn’t Kill You then I Will mf
Dame
2024-08-21 10:59:23 +0000 UTCSometimes you just gotta set down, have a rest, and have a chat
William
2024-08-21 10:49:07 +0000 UTCImpressive that Tom could find a guest who’s more pessimistic than Tarrance
SoldierBlue
2024-08-21 08:51:51 +0000 UTCA little slow but really enjoyed the content and analysis in the convo 💖
MallSoft 95
2024-08-21 07:29:46 +0000 UTCThank you for the episode brother Tom. I hope your comrades are doing okay. Even a dim light does better than no light in a lighthouse, and you boys are nothing if not a guiding light to many in these troubling times. Even if it may not always feel like it, you boys matter
Thomas
2024-08-21 05:15:59 +0000 UTCCan confirm that Chicago is a late town. I have had some of the most fun and WILD nights of my life in Chicago.
Jessica Rios
2024-08-21 05:06:02 +0000 UTC
