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A David Brooks 4th (from 2020)

Two years ago we spent the 4th of July with David Brooks. Thank God things have gotten better since then This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit endtalk.substack.com [https://endtalk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Breaking Open the Occult, Conspiracy, and 2012 w/ Daniel Pinchbeck

Re-sharing a conversation we did with Daniel Pinchbeck [https://twitter.com/DanielPinchbeck], for the new feed! I found Pinchbeck’s 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl highly influential when I read it in 2015, for the most part a sober and strange accounting of the crack-up of materialist reality we’re all living. Fifteen years after the book was published, I’d say that much of Pinchbeck’s conception of the moment we are living through is vindicated.  About a year ago, we had a fascinating conversation about materialism, consciousness, and the blurry line between the mythic and the real. Enjoyable talk: check it out. Also: Pinchbeck posts regular essays on Substack, and just shared a free chapter from 2012 in audiobook form. Check that out here [https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/audiobook-free-chapter]. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit endtalk.substack.com [https://endtalk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Come On Kids

Last year, for its 20th anniversary, we recorded a conversation on Radiohead’s 2000 album Kid A. It is impossible to neatly convey how essential that album is, but in our conversation we give it a shot, discussing the album itself, its place in Radiohead’s discography, and its relation to the world then and now. Well—Radiohead has just put out a new reissue, Kid A Mnesia, containing both Kid A and its immediate successor (almost twin) Amnesiac, as well as unreleased material from those sessions. Hopefully we’ll have a follow-up conversation soon… but in the meantime, have a listen to our chat about Kid A. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit endtalk.substack.com [https://endtalk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Obama and the Destruction of Libya, w/ Eric Draitser (recorded 11/2020)

This Halloween marks a decade since the *formal* end of the devastating 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, and in light of that anniversary we want to re-share a conversation we had with Eric Draitser [https://www.patreon.com/ericdraitser] of Counterpunch about a year ago. We discussed the legacy of the intervention, both in the devastation and horror that have defined Libya since, and in the apathy and absence of memory that define the memory of that intervention now in the West. The episode was based off an excellent article [https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/09/08/the-plot-against-libya/] Eric wrote on these same topics in Counterpunch last year. Take a listen, and follow/support Eric on Twitter [https://twitter.com/stopimperialism] and Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/ericdraitser]. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit endtalk.substack.com [https://endtalk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

Post 9-11 // Boston Indie Music of the 2000s

We begin by discussing the cynical nihilism of the post 9-11 period… and then segway into a conversation about the Boston indie music scene in the late 2000s. How did the aftermath of 9-11 inform local music scenes? Why was it such a special time in Boston? What have social media and a consolidating media atmosphere done to local music? (This episode was recorded on 9/11/2021.) Songs in order of appearance: * Push Push (Lady Lightning) — Bang Camaro * God Is Going to Get Sick of Me — Aberdeen City * What We Need — Bon Savants * Cover It Up — Soft Pyramids * Nobody Is Listening — The Campaign For Real Time This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit endtalk.substack.com [https://endtalk.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]