Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

We had another fantastic interview w/ Professor Sophia McClennen (@mcclennen65) of Penn State who's the foremost authority and satire and politics. We had lively discussions of the firing of Stephen Colbert and the South Park episode showing Trump in bed with Satan, as well as the general role of comedy in taking on Trump. Trump is thin-skinned and has no ability to take a joke, so satirists and comedians have been able to put him into meltdowns . . . .About Our GuestSophia A. McClennen is a professor at Penn State University who focuses on the intersection of culture, politics, and society. She’s the founding director of the Center for Global Studies and a columnist at Salon.com. Her research explores how storytelling, satire, and media shape political consciousness and resistance.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------🎧 Outro Music: "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗Links//📚 Website: https://www.sophiamcclennen.com📝 Article: "Stephen Colbert Wasn't CBS's First Satirical Sacrifice"🎙️ Follow Green and Red🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/M24GyqrS📰 Substack: https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com🌌 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast🎉 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast☕ Donate: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR🌍 Our Networks🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork📻 WAMF (90.3 FM), New Orleans: https://wamf.org🏆 Top 100 Progressive Podcasts (#68): https://bit.ly/432XNJT✊ Unions Power America Sweepstakes: https://unionpowerusa.com🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more radical analysis of U.S. politics, satire, and leftist resistance.

In our latest, we talk to Texas based journalist Candice Bernd (@candicebernd.bsky.social) about the devastating floods that hit the Hill Country on July 4th weekend. We discuss the effect of the floods on locals, failures of early warning systems, how DOGE's cuts to the federal government contributed to it, and how mutual aid has stepped in to support the community. Bio// Candice Bernd is a special investigative correspondent for the Observer covering the climate and ecological crises. She is a freelance journalist based in Austin whose work has also appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, and Earth Island Journal. She’s received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center. ------------------------------------------- Outro-- "Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughn 🔗 Links// *‘I Think We’re Gonna Stay’: Texans Hang On in Tragedy-Stricken Hill Country (https://bit.ly/40FkRho) 🎙️ Follow Green and Red// 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 💬 Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/M24GyqrS 📰 Follow us on Substack: https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com 🌌 Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast// 🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast ☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 🌍 Our Networks// 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org 📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork 📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org 🏆 We're in the Top 100 Progressive Podcasts (#68): https://bit.ly/432XNJT ✊ Unions Power America Sweepstakes: unionpowerusa.com 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production 👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)

In our latest, we start off with an important "This Day in History" and Bob talks about the 79th anniversary of the Irgun's attack on the King David Hotel in Palestine. Then we get into the increasing divisions in the MAGA coalition around Iran, Israel and the Epstein files. We also discuss how this plays into continuing divisions between Trump and the Wall Street elite. We close with a tribute to the late great Ozzy Osbourne. ------------------------------------------------ 🎙️ Follow Green and Red 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 💬 Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/M24GyqrS 📰 Follow us on Substack: https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com 🌌 Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast 🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast ☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org 📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork 📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🏆 We're in the Top 100 Progressive Podcasts (#68): https://bit.ly/432XNJT ✊ Unions Power America Sweepstakes: unionpowerusa.com 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969)✂️ Edited by Scott. 🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.

Bob had a great discussion w/ Mike Elk, founder and senior labor reporter of Payday Report and our Brazil correspondent, about Trump's tariffs on Brazil to retaliate against it for indicting Bolsonaro, and the decision to arrest him for his attempts to overthrow the election and assassinate Lula. They also discussed Lula's political prospects and Brazil's position on Palestine. And finally they briefly talked about the role of U.S. labor in opposing Trump and, of course, Fetterman's latest horrors. ———————————- 🎙️ Follow Green and Red 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 💬 Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/M24GyqrS 📰 Follow us on Substack: https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com 🌌 Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast 🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast ☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org 📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork 📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org 🏆 We're in the Top 100 Progressive Podcasts (#68): https://bit.ly/432XNJT 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production 👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) ✂️ Edited by Bob

Green & Red co-host, professor of history emeritus, and scholar of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the Vietnam War, Bob Buzzanco recently spoke at the Jerusalem Fund/Palestine Center Lunchtime Lecture Series on the way the U.S. subverts liberation movements, with a comparative emphasis on Vietnam and Palestine. In this lecture, he discussed the origins of the Vietnamese and Palestinian revolutions, and especially the importance of land, the initial U.S. interest in both areas due to larger commercial and resource goals, the U.S. "invention" of Israel and South Vietnam, the brutal wars subsidized and fought by the U.S. and the intersection of anti-colonial politics and the Cold War. ----------------------- Follow Green and Red// +G&R Linktree: ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast⁠⁠⁠ +Our rad website: ⁠⁠⁠https://greenandredpodcast.org/⁠⁠⁠ + Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/3a6AX7Qy) +Follow us on Substack (https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com) +Follow us on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social) Support the Green and Red Podcast// +Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/DonateGandR⁠⁠⁠ Our Networks// +We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.laborradionetwork.org/⁠⁠ +We're part of the Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork +Listen to us on WAMF (90.3 FM) in New Orleans (https://wamf.org/) + Check us out! We made it into the top 100 Progressive Podcasts lists (#68) (https://bit.ly/432XNJT) This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).