Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast
News:Politics
Story: DEATH BY UMBRELLA: The Georgi Markov story. A tale of intrigue and covert operations from the late Cold War that John Le Carre couldn't have scripted any better.
Guest: Mike Konczal (@rortybomb), Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and contributor to Vox, The Nation, Dissent, and other fine publications. Mike and I discuss the art of punditry, appearing on TV without pants, the myth of a democratized economy, and stock buybacks. We also do Professor Brothers voices.
Performance by ANDREW BENTLEY. See below for information on Andrew's upcoming live performances in Chicago.
Topic: Why we're living in the Golden Age of Gerrymandering. Hint: It's not just because Republicans are assholes. But it's definitely partly because Republicans are assholes.
Cocktail of the Month: Lime Rickey (aka Gin Rickey, but we'll get into the complicated nomenclature soon enough)
Support Mass for Shut-ins via Patreon. Contact me via Facebook, Twitter (@gin_and_tacos), or the venerable website Gin and Tacos.
Thanks: Mike Konczal, the bands that contribute music (Waxeater, IfIHadAHiFi, The Sump Pumps, Oscar Bait), Zachary Sielaff, Question Cathy, and all Patreon supporters, subscribers, and listeners.
Hear more of Andrew Bentley on 3/31 at the American Writer's Museum as part of International Tom Hanks Day, at Write Club Chicago on 4/17, and on 4/7 at C2E2 in a musical comedy on the Cards Against Humanity stage.
Pop-up Stadium
018 - Amanda Litman of Run for Something / Why You Can't See Out of Your Car
Atlantropa
017 - The Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
Minicast B5: The Cannibal Food Critic
016 - Radical Suburbs / Amanda Kolson Hurley / Diamond Jim Brady
Minicast B4: The Virginia Lottery Buyout Scheme (1992)
015 - How to Hide an Empire / Daniel Immerwahr
Minicast B3: Why Chickens are Chicken but Pigs are Pork
Minicast B2: Naked Came the Stranger
014 - Dr. Rebekah Tromble / Civility on Twitter
013 - Dr. Stephen Pettigrew / The Drunken Inauguration of Andrew Johnson
Minicast B1: The White House Arsonist
012 - Folger Shakespeare Library / How to Run for Local Office
Minicast A6: Nuclear Fracking and Project Plowshare
011 - Special Midterm Election Episode
010 - Ten Cent Beer Night
009 - LIL BUB / Harold Holt
MInicast A5: Why do Trump's Suits Look So Bad?
Minicast A4: The Origins of "Filibuster"
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