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Against Anheiser-Busch-Weed: Francis Interviews Sativa Steve

This week's bonus features Francis interviewing Sativa Steve, a Marine Corps and Navy veteran who works in cannabis plant genomics. They discuss his military service, why he left, how weed works, a...

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Marine Todd Reads Angry Veteran Clickbait

A few years back, there was an insane article getting shared on various online veteran channels. It purported to be a "2019-10-06 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Digital Zine: How I became Radical

The Care packages are out, and here's the most recent Zine. Feel free to download, share, print your own, whatever you want to do with it!

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Francis and Cynthia Review 'Coming to America' (1988)

This week's bonus is a review of the famous 1980s Eddie Murphy film COMING TO AMERICA, which Francis had never seen, and which Cynthia would like you to know is basically a family reunion for just ...

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Francis Interviews a Navy Aviator (UFOs Are Real!)

This week, we decided to get to the bottom of the recent headline that — yes, this is true — a member of Blink 182 shared a UFO video that the Navy confirmed was real. We were fortunate that Jo...

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The Crenshaw Cycle feat. Hasan Piker

Did you hear the one about the Twitch streamer who said mean things about Rep. Dan Crenshaw? Well, it turns out that the story's a bit more complicated than that, and we decided to get to the botto...

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The Safety Brief: Francis Presents MILSPEC Active Shooter Training

Surely you imagine that the military must offer high-speed training for how to respond to an active shooter. It must be something out of the Matrix, right? Actually no, it's pretty common-sense stu...

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September zine

Hello everyone, the September zine is done and will be printed this week. The hope is to have it in the mail by Monday at the latest, and we should be on track for that. Once the mailers are out, t...

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September Q&A Session

Each month, we do a Q&A session in which we answer the questions you asked of us. We have some good ones this month, to include: would you do it again and still join the Army? How do I plant th...

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Giving Yourself Video Game PTSD -- Spec Ops: the Line feat. Brock Wilbur

This week's bonus features returning champion Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) in a discussion about the 2012 game SPEC OPS: THE L...

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It Sucked Being a Soviet Soldier feat. Joe Kassabian

This week's bonus episode features podcast partner, author, and historian Joe Kassabian (@jkass99) — the co-host of the Lions L...

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Francis Reviews 'Generation Kill' (Episode 7 - 'A Bomb in the Garden')

This week, Francis continues his review of the HBO series 'Generation Kill.' This is the final episode, and Francis comments on some of the differences between the original book and the miniseries....

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Hey, I'm Lawyerin' Heah feat. Carey Shockey

In this episode, Francis and labor lawyer Carey Shockey (@shocks) discuss the 1992 lawyering classic, My Cousin Vinny. Why do lawy...

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July Q&A Session

You've got questions for us, and we've of course got some damn answers. Thanks to everyone who submitted these -- we'll definitely get back on track with doing one per month soon (and, as always, f...

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Francis and Brock Review 'Shadow of the Colossus'

Look, it's time to own up to our dad tendencies. We're only going to review video games from 1994-2005, because that's when Francis stopped gaming. At the same time, however, we've got extremely ta...

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Is It Fascist? 'Independence Day: Resurgence' (2016)

It's time for yet another movie review in which Francis and Nate discuss a war film and determine if it's fascist or not. This month, we're reviewing the sequel to the much-beloved 1996 blockbuster...

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Digital Zine

Ok, so it's been a minute and I'm sorry it took so long. In the future the digital version of the zine will come out around the same time as everything else. But here is a PDF of the first one for ...

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Francis Reviews 'Generation Kill' (Episode 6 - 'Stay Frosty')

This week, Francis continues his review of the HBO series 'Generation Kill.' In this episode, the war has moved to a war of occupation, and it's starting to dawn on the viewers that things aren't g...

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Farming Post-Apocalypse feat. Andrea Chandler

In this episode, Francis speaks with Navy veteran and anarcho-communist farmer Andrea Chandler (@neolithicsheep) about farm subsidies,...

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Is It Fascist? 'Robot Jox' (1990)

We live in a world that needs Gundams. We need huge battle-bots to save us, to solve our problems, to make us believe. However, there's also a possibility that having Gundams will turn out badly, l...

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Time Traveling While Black Part II feat. Cynthia Bethea

In the second part of their book discussion, Francis and Cynthia discuss Kiese Laymon's time-travel novel LONG DIVISION. It's a book about going viral, about traveling through time without the bene...

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The Ferengi Will Never Be Communist feat. Riley Dosh

This week, Francis speaks with West Point graduate and Star Trek aficionado Riley Dosh (@Ms_Riley_Guprz) about why the Car...

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Is It Fascist? 'Rambo: First Blood Part II' (1985)

We are humble servants to you, the fans. You voted and said that we should watch Rambo 2. So, we watched it, and boy is it... something. Hope you enjoy our review of this extremely coherent and rea...

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Sensitive Video Game Army Man feat. Brock Wilbur

Brock returns to the show to discuss the 2006 platform game 'Psychonauts,' one of Francis' favorites -- and a game in which you're obligated to explore the neuroses driving people from within. We l...

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May Q&A Session with Francis and Nate

You had questions and we have answers! In this bonus, we discuss things like gardening, or current music playlists, how to move to the UK, and what the US trying to invade Iran would wind up lookin...

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Francis Reviews 'Generation Kill' (Episode 5 - 'Burning Dog')

This week, Francis continues his review of the HBO series 'Generation Kill.' In this episode, we watch the initial seeds of the insurgency getting planted, and Francis asks the most salient of ques...

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Cynthia and Francis Review 'Kindred' by Octavia Butler

This week's bonus features Cynthia and Francis on the topic of the 1979 sci-fi time-travel novel KINDRED by Octavia Butler, a book about black Americans from the modern era forced to return to the ...

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Triple Frontier: Divorced Dad Energy feat. Bryan Quinby

In this week's bonus episode, Francis speaks with Bryan Quinby (@murderbryan) of Street Fight Radio on the topic of the recen...

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Thursday night Live April 25th

This week on the Live, Francis talks about Joe Biden, upcoming bonus episodes, and the coming zine.

If you want just the audio, you can 2019-04-26 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

What the Hell is the Coast Guard? feat. Carey Shockey

This week, Francis speaks with labor lawyer and Coast Guard veteran Carey Shockey (@shocks) about his time on boats, the USCG's ov...

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