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Sean, Andy, and Dr. Z celebrate our favorite holiday by sharing our thoughts on the horror of You Can See Everything, Ken Russell's The Devils, and the post-Digger discourse around political cinema For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage ILC Halloween party rsvp: partiful.com/e/La8RUfmMXdYMRHdtfhDM?c=iD-TRXTI ILC Dumber and Worse movie night: https://www.instagram.com/p/De7EoF2q-IR/

CAPITAL CITY author Samuel Stein returns to the show for the first time in seven years to chat about his new book A Right To Housing? Our discussion looks at the challenges of making progress on housing rights in New York, let alone decommodifying housing, and how to keep the faith against all doubts. Interview with Woodbine: https://woodbinenyc.substack.com/p/take-back-the-city-an-interview-with Song: Iggy and the Stooges - I Got A Right

On October 17th at Woodbine in Manhattan Sean KB of the Independent Labor Club of New York City hosted the following public assembly. Guests were Gregory Butler of Gangbox News and IUOE, Leroy of IBEW Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Tom of TWU 100 and Transit Workers for a Fighting Union, and Joe M of Local Union 20 (Staten Island) and Carpenters Rank and File Together. Join the Independent Labor Club, we have chapters in NYC, NJ, Chicago, Philadelphia, Puget Sound and Columbia River and are looking to start more with your help: https://ilclabor.com/

Sean and Varn continue to discuss the current energy crisis, broadening out from current events to talk about the context and ramifications: US blob's energy war against BRICS, European industrial collapse and bankruptcy of the Atlanticist center, bond market chaos and more. This is an extended preview of a much longer episode. To access the full episode and tons of other bonus content become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage

Joshua Frank, an investigative journalist and editor at Counterpunch, talks to us about his new book Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future! Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage for the FUN HALF! in which we give our takes on the climate satire that's driving X dead-enders insane: DIGGER! More from Joshua Frank at Counterpunch Jasper Bernes piece mentioned: https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/ Thea Riofrancos piece mentioned: https://viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/plan-mood-battlefield-reflections-on-the-green-new-deal/ Song: Juice WRLD - Bad Energy

Get the Zine at https://www.patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Follow CommuNoid on X and read more at https://parapowermapper.substack.com/ and https://parapowermapping.com/ Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage Song: Anamanaguchi - Territorial Pissings (Nirvana Cover)

Our French correspondent, Henry JK Wallis calls in to talk about the student riots throughout France. For the full episdoe, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production. The essay explains how technical expertise is divided within the capitalist production process, and how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution for the construction of communism. Support our show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage Read the essay at Heatwavemag.info: https://heatwavemag.info/magazine/issue03/black-box-of-production/ Subscribe to Heatwave! https://www.patreon.com/HeatwaveMag Check out FOREST AND FACTORY: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/forest-and-factory and our episode on it: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/e236-forest-and-96073396 Song: The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

Sean and Varn discuss the ongoing crisis in the Persian Gulf, bond market chaos and much more. This is an extended preview of a much longer episode. To access the full episode and tons of other bonus content become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage

for full episode SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE An epic and impressively realistic depiction of the 1381 British Peasant's Revolt, or an anachronistic origin story of Robin as anti-Trump cautionary tale? British history enthusiasts Ross and Susannah watch THE UPRISING with us to help us decide! for full episode SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE Rodney Hilton - Bond Men Made Free https://archive.org/details/bondmenmadefreem0000hilt Jacobin review: https://jacobin.com/2026/09/film-uprising-peasants-revolt-liberalism Greengrass & Garfield interview: https://deadline.com/2026/09/the-uprising-paul-greengrass-andrew-garfield-interview-1237068407/ SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE

NEWS EP! AI apocalypse and regulation scenarios. Global shipping disrupted big time. Xi winning. Flights are grounded; nature is healing. AFD surge in Germany. All hail the Great and Powerful Theil! SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE Show notes: Riley on AI vs market capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/blind-guesses China's AI Great leap forward: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/business/china-ai-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Global shipping in crisis: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/5761d9f3-1150-4323-ab8e-41c9a56e3099 AI doomsday scenarios: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/17/tech/how-will-ai-exterminate-humanity-cec European Jet Fuel shortage: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europe-faces-q4-jet-fuel-supply-deficit-even-south-korea-becomes-latest-big-2026-09-21/ Karp audio: https://youtu.be/2YVCdwvG548?si=PJJLcaHdDeeb6SUs&t=447 Xi rolls Trump on trade: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/xi-rolls-into-trump-summit-with-chinas-trade-engine-roaring-2026-09-21/ Ukraine / Russia war analysis: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-battlefield/ German elections: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/world/europe/germany-merz-pressure-afd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share Song: Johnny Cash - Legend of John Henry SUPPORT THE SHOW AT HTTP://PATREON.COM/THISWRECKAGE

In this bonus episode Andy and Sean are joined by roving media correspondent, Rax King, to get into some of the 80s/90s urtexts that created 21st century American culture: spoken word and standup comedy by Generation X luminaries Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins and Denis Leary. What do these cultural artifacts from a bygone era tell us about how all the highlights of organized American political life in this millennium - from Bush to Obama to Trump - came into being? Which aspects of what they critiqued are still discernable and which would be incomprehensible to a post-GFC, post-literate society? This is the first episode of a new mini-series exploring the dark recesses of the Gen X mind. To listen to the entire episode and all of our great bonus content, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage to support our work.

Sean and Andy are joined by historian Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his recent book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 out now from University of Chicago Press. Without the taxes and jobs generated by wealthy firms and households, we are told, our communities cannot survive. But what if the costs of elite-driven growth outweighed its benefits? What if the wealthy were not the fiscal saviors of American cities, but their assassins? What if relying on the rich to “take care of everyone else” was neither politically nor financially sustainable? And what would all this mean for how our communities should develop economically? His history is particularly timely as the Mamdani administration tries, within the bounds of political economy, to open up what Daniel calls the 'fiscal imaginary' of what is possible on a municipal level. Song: Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part II

&y, &ers Lee & a special SECRET guest (Jake Flores) compare some Zoomer 9/11 takes (via the Daily Wire) and the post-9/11 hot takes that got Susan Sontag, Amiri Baraka in some trouble. For the full episode support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

Brooklyn vs. Dallas. Brownstones vs McMansions. Jelly Roll Morton vs. Jelly Roll. The Braves vs. The Savannah Bananas. The authors of "Alphabet America" (Liam and Jackson) claim that their theory of a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B is "the most explanatory method of understanding the cultural divide," and that " the vast majority of people, whether they can name it or not, experience life in America this way more than they do under any other schema of social categorization we have seen." We define the two Americas, pick apart their origins, speculate on if they're heading towards a civil war, and question how to engage with this specific type of polarization. Alphabet America: https://newmoralworld.substack.com/p/alphabet-america Gladio Free Europe: https://www.patreon.com/GladioFreeEurope Phil Neel interview about Hinterland: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/field-notes/PHIL-NEEL-with-Paul-Mattick/ Songs: Dolly Parton - Tennessee Homesick Blues & Coat of Many Colors