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Recording of the Roast Your Reps live show, June 15th 2018 at the Lyric Hyperion Theater in Los Angeles. Featuring Andrew Dismukes, Anna Valenzuela, Megan Koester, Daniel Rugg Webb, Chris Fairbanks, Drew Nutter and Sara June roasting Steve Knight, Adam Schiff, Tony Cardenas, Brad Sherman, Ted Lieu, Jimmy Gomez, Jerry Brown, Dianne Feinstein and more. http://www.leftcoastpodcast.com  

Texan comedian Daniel Rugg Webb joins us to get some recommendations for the California general election (both ballot measures and representatives). Plus, standout suicides, bubbling bodies, the Folsom Street Fair, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, LA's typhus outbreak, Joey "The Clown" Lombardo, Scooby Doo slashfic and more.   Watch Daniel's half-hour special: https://www.epix.com/series/epix-presents-unprotected-sets/season/1/episode/3/daniel-webb SOME DSA CHAPTER VOTER GUIDES Los Angeles: https://www.dsa-la.org/2018_general_election_voter_guide San Francisco: https://dsasf.org/dsa-sf-announces-endorsements-for-june-5-2018-election/ Portland: https://portlanddsa.org/assets/images/uploads/dsa-2018-ballot-measure-guide.pdf Other: https://www.thisisinsider.com/california-mega-farms-food-sinking-land-toxic-water-2018-10 http://projects.scpr.org/interactives/fullerton-nimby/  

A lil news roundup! Fascism in Socal and Brazil, Robot Okies, Fitbit murders, the Millennium trash pile, 50 years of Olympics massacres and the next installment in Know Your Billionaire. Also, stop telling us to register to vote. https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ Links: http://theoverdosages.bandcamp.com/ https://story.californiasunday.com/matt-black-undocumented-migrant-farmers https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/technology/california-beach-access-khosla.html https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Why-sinking-SF-tower-is-now-a-top-tourist-13231133.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/U-S-s-first-robotic-farm-opens-in-the-Bay-Area-13276847.php https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/charlottesville-california-riot-charges.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-map-showing-the-users-of-fitness-devices-lets-the-world-see-where-us-soldiers-are-and-what-they-are-doing/2018/01/28/86915662-0441-11e8-aa61-f3391373867e_story.html  

Sara and Drew read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher so you don't have to. It's a short book but it goes hard. Plus, Nietzsche predicts irony boys, Twitter breaks our brains and we discover that the best things in life are free. Listen, leave a tip or make a request for a future INGFRT at www.leftcoastpodcast.com

Oh hi didn't see you there! New cohost, Patreon update, midterm elections and the blue wave in this mini-episode!

Portland Queer Comedy Festival director and Dyke March organizer Belinda Carroll joins me in Portland's Funhouse Lounge to talk cheap weed, first tattoos, Stonewall, lesbian direct action and five dollar waffles. **In this episode we incorrectly refer to Marsha Johnson as Martha Johnson. SORRY MARSHA!!!!!**  https://portlandqueercomedyfestival.com/ https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ 

Paste assistant comedy editor Seth Simons (@sasimons) weighs in on exploitation of artistic labor both in UCB improv house teams and in comedy at large. Plus, the IOC targets our friends, the proles kill the vibe and we name all the types of comedy there are.  https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/  https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod

We wrap up our Amazon in Seattle trilogy with a look to the future: what innocent American city will receive Jeffy's tax-free succubus next? Plus, Alexa in Arkansas, dead ice bears and Hitler's car. Follow @dannyfelts and his podcast Mr Cleo. https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/  https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod

Danny Felts goes deep into the history of one of tech's biggest idols, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Long story short, he a freak, and tax evasion is the only way he can cum. Get to know your local billionaire and sub to the Patreon, wyrms (am I findomming right?): https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/

Comedian Danny Felts gets deep into Seattle's history as a whites-only company town for airplane manufacturer Boeing and how this laid the groundwork for Amazon's current clusterfuck. Plus, baroque nightmare music, Jimi Hendrix statues, I Love the 30s, "thoroughbred horses" and more. https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod

DSA-SF's Mia (@buttpraxis) joins Sara in Oakland to follow the money behind San Francisco's upcoming ballot measure H, which would allow cops to taser pretty much anyone anytime - VOTE NO. San Francisco doesn't want it, the SFPD doesn't want it, so why is it on the ballot at all? Listen to find out. Boner content will soon become Patreon only, so subscribe: https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ 

Jen Snyder and Faiq Raza of DSA San Francisco fill Sara in on the convoluted shitshow that is Bay Area housing and propose the beginning of a solution: Proposition F, which would guarantee ANYONE in the city facing eviction a FREE LAWYER. It's on the ballot for the June 5 California primary election, as is Proposition H, which would give cops the right to taser anyone for any reason. You can probably guess how we feel about that one. Plus, Sister Act behind the scenes, startup spiders, what emojis are verboten on Venmo. https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/  https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod  

Comedian Jake Flores (@feraljokes) got visited by the Department of Homeland Security after making a joke about killing ICE agents on Twitter. He calls in from Brooklyn to tell us about it. (This was recorded before Jake went on Chapo, in which he references this interview.) This bonus content/boner content will soon become Patreon subcriber-only, so subscribe! https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ 

LA's premiere alt-weekly newspaper was bought out in November by a team of mostly secret, highly incompetent neocons who immediately got busy firing all the writers and tanking the paper. Music writers Jeff Weiss (@passionweiss) and Paul Thompson (@paulxt) come on to tell us what these Trump donors are doing with our former paper (mostly not reporting the news) and why you should join the Boycott of the LA Weekly. Plus: are Whoopi Goldberg's shoes holding her back? What is GoFundMe's fourth estate? And how much DMT does it take to save journalism?  boycottLAweekly.com https://t.co/fkPtvikyb7 https://www.passionweiss.com/ https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ 

History boy Drew Nutter returns as the podcast's very first repeat guest to tell us about left-wing terrorism from around the world, from the Black Hand to the Weathermen. We talk bump stocks, bank robberies, blood museums and Bob's Big Boy. Plus, there's a FREE Mother's Day gift hidden in this episode we guarantee will make her love you!!! Shoutout to the Homeland Security agents listening to this xoxo subscribe to the Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/  

DSA-LA Housing and Homelessness Chair Kristina Meshelski gracefully outlines the big ugly monster that is California's housing crisis. Why has LA's homeless population gone up so dramatically in the last few years? Why is rent so expensive? What can renters do to fight back? What is SB 527? Is Christopher Dorner hiding out in the Valley? All the answers lie within. Support us and get bonus content for just $5 a month at https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ 

DSA-LA comrade "noah" dissects autism, ability, identity and oppression on this fucking episode of fucking Left Coast. They also tell tales of teenage libertarianism, political epiphany triggered by existential crisis and Olympia's anarchist port blockade, then receive extremely useful advice for college life.  https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod  

Carley Towne of DSA-LA's Anti-Oppression Committee gives us the Cliff's Notes on Marxism, feminism and their beautiful love child. Crack a Croix and burn a bra as we explore domestic labor and the gig economy, the reinvention of child labor in our current dystopian hellscape, the politics of reproduction, the difference between Marxist feminism and neoliberal feminism, and more more more.  https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod  

Milo Edwards (Trash Future podcast) visits LA for the first time and gives us the scoop on UK politics, cryptocurrency and the upcoming Russian election. At what temperature do British teeth shatter? Will you get killed by a Moscow cabdriver for not liking bluegrass enough? Could Ryan Seacrest successfully run for president? Who's Putin anyway? Lots of bad (from us) and good (from Milo) Russian accents on this episode. Будем здоровы! https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod  

Kelsey Goldberg joins us from the DSA-LA steering committee to talk about the nuts and bolts of getting involved in a political/activist organization when you've never done it before. We walk through what happens at a new member meeting, what Kelsey's learned over her year in the chapter and the difference between friends and comrades. Kelsey's story is invaluable to anyone who wants to help but has no time, money or idea where to start. Plus, MORE ASMR, our respective ~writing processes~, Jackass, Election Night 2016 and what kind of music Woody Allen hears in his head. https://www.leftcoastpodcast.com/ https://www.patreon.com/leftcoastpod