{"id":19736,"date":"2021-01-07T08:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T08:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e2ea623633276b945ae2d4b492fc7e53"},"modified":"2021-01-07T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T08:51:55","slug":"episode-35-the-gods-must-be-fcking-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/07\/episode-35-the-gods-must-be-fcking-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 35 &#8211; The Gods Must Be F*cking With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we scheduled an interview with historian & populism expert Thomas Frank, we didn't expect to be recording with a right wing faux-populist coup in the background. Turns out, he was an ideal guest. Frank helped us to understand our current political moment by examining history of populism in this country from the 1890s through the Bernie revolution. Over the course of two action packed \u00a0hours, the author of <em>What's The Matter With Kansas<\/em>, <em>Listen Liberal<\/em>, and <em>The People, No<\/em>\u00a0explains how we got here and how we're most likely to get out of this mess. Virgil and Brie react in real time to the ongoing protests, Brie's groceries spoil, and Paul Robeson sings.<\/p> <p>Find Bad Faith on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/bad-faith\/id1531192509\"  rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0ChLoSMrOmXABeIYcwXcDP?si=pfwBuGwhS9KkUsjtY8OKuA\"  rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/bad-faith\"  rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9iYWRmYWl0aC5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw==\"  rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a>, and our <a href=\"https:\/\/badfaith.libsyn.com\/rss\"  rel= \"nofollow noopener\">RSS feed<\/a>. Follow Bad Faith on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/badfaithpod\"  rel= \"nofollow noopener\">Twitter (@badfaithpod)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/badfaithpod\"  rel= \"nofollow noopener\">Instagram (@badfaithpod)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/c\/badfaithpodcast\"  rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p> <p>Produced by Ben Dalton (@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbend\"  rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wbend<\/a>).<\/p> <p>Theme by Nick Thorburn (@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickfromislands\"  rel= \"nofollow noopener\">nickfromislands<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/45914817\">Bad Faith<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we scheduled an interview with historian &#038; populism expert Thomas Frank, we didn&#8217;t expect to be recording with a right wing faux-populist coup in the background. Turns out, he was an ideal guest. Frank helped us to understand our current political&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19737,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions\/19737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}