@js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine on "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry" (@haymarketbooks.org).
We also had 'This Week's Hangover Cure,' 'Rotten History' and shared your answers to the 'Question from Hell!'
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JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine on 'Tech Oligarchy' | This Is Hell!
JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine, authors of, "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry." Together JS and
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October 14, 2026 at 1:57 AM
@js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine on "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry" (@haymarketbooks.org).
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We also had 'This Week's Hangover Cure,' 'Rotten History' and shared your answers to the 'Question from Hell!'
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Tuesday, live at 10AM CDT and podcast after @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine join us to discuss "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry" (@haymarketbooks.org).
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This Week in Hell! Tech Oligrachs and You! | This Is Hell!
Tuesday, our guests are JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine, authors of, "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Ind
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Tuesday, live at 10AM CDT and podcast after @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine join us to discuss "Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry" (@haymarketbooks.org).
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The email bag is bursting so on This is Hell! today we're relieving the pressure by sharing what we're being told by listeners from around the world.
We caught this image of a listener in the wilds of Nova Scotia with a This is Hell! camping mug.
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We caught this image of a listener in the wilds of Nova Scotia with a This is Hell! camping mug.
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October 14, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Today's 'Virus Monologue' livestreamed and podcast on June 19, 2020, but never aired as Northwestern University and WNUR's studios were in lockdown.
At the time, conservatives were complaining about cancel culture after cancelling culture for generations.
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Virus Monologue: The Canceling of This is Hell! | This Is Hell!
It's June 19, 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the powerful for who and what they are, and the violence of the structures and in
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While the world wages wars, police beat students, democeacy and dissent being criminalized, lies becoming truth, an epidemic of rape and sex abuse, the "unjustified" shooting of someone attmepting to escape ICE... Trump and Putin are attacking the ICC.
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9 Circles of Hell! War, Death, Violence and Rape as US and Russia Attack ICC | This Is Hell!
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October 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
While the world wages wars, police beat students, democeacy and dissent being criminalized, lies becoming truth, an epidemic of rape and sex abuse, the "unjustified" shooting of someone attmepting to escape ICE... Trump and Putin are attacking the ICC.
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NEW Question from Hell!
"What should Iran nuke next?"
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Sunday Funnies and Not So Funny! | This Is Hell!
Begin every week with the "Sunday Funnies and No So Funny." This week, Trump, empire, Flock, AI, alligators and socialism. See them all an
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@phillydsa.bsky.social's @resistrun.bsky.social discusses the connection between US wars, Gaza's genocide, and the rape culture at Cornell.
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@phillydsa.bsky.social's @resistrun.bsky.social discusses the connection between US wars, Gaza's genocide, and the rape culture at Cornell.
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NEW HELL! Sudip Bhattacharya on US Empire, Genocide, and Rape Culture | This Is Hell!
writer Sudip Bhattacharya, a member of Philly DSA and the managing editor for DSA’s Socialist Forum, returns to This is Hell! Sudip is a do
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October 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
New Free Hell!
@phillydsa.bsky.social's @resistrun.bsky.social discusses the connection between US wars, Gaza's genocide, and the rape culture at Cornell.
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@phillydsa.bsky.social's @resistrun.bsky.social discusses the connection between US wars, Gaza's genocide, and the rape culture at Cornell.
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October 2, 2026 at 3:17 AM
NEW FREE HELL!
Ray Rainbolt Memorial Shooting Club's Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social on their case, immigration, labor, free speech, anarchism, democracy, colonialism, racism, inequality, liberation and everything else we're being told to not talk about.
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Ray Rainbolt Memorial Shooting Club's Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social on their case, immigration, labor, free speech, anarchism, democracy, colonialism, racism, inequality, liberation and everything else we're being told to not talk about.
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New Free Hell!: The Minnesota 15's Fight for Free Speech and Real Democracy | This Is Hell!
Callum Robinet (they/he) is a union organizer, low voltage technician, and security professional who works to bridge the gap between digital
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October 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
NEW FREE HELL!
Ray Rainbolt Memorial Shooting Club's Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social on their case, immigration, labor, free speech, anarchism, democracy, colonialism, racism, inequality, liberation and everything else we're being told to not talk about.
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Ray Rainbolt Memorial Shooting Club's Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social on their case, immigration, labor, free speech, anarchism, democracy, colonialism, racism, inequality, liberation and everything else we're being told to not talk about.
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October 2, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Chuck makes his case for the 2020s sucking worse than most decades but finds reasons for hope (kinda), and a talk from 25 days after 9/11 with grieving parents who lost their son that day and were opposed to the War on Terror.
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Chuck makes his case for the 2020s sucking worse than most decades but finds reasons for hope (kinda), and a talk from 25 days after 9/11 with grieving parents who lost their son that day and were opposed to the War on Terror.
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Bonus Hell!: Our Lousy Decade PLUS Being Anti-War On Terror After 9/11 | This Is Hell!
Chuck here. After last week's special exit interview of Cary's Lounge former owner Pete Valavanis and a debriefing that include a discussio
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October 8, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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the funniest thing Assassin's Creed Valhall does is that it saves your games cross-platform on the cloud BUT it doesn't let you access DLC cross platform so if you play the game on your PC and then want to continue it on playstation where you don't have the DLC you need to purchase it again.
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Tuesday, @phillydsa.bsky.social's @resistrun.bsky.social discusses “There is No Socialism Without the End of U.S. Empire,” and “The Case for Dismantling the Israeli State."
Wednesday, we'll speak with Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social.
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Wednesday, we'll speak with Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social.
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This Week in Hell! Empire, Israel and the Minnesota 15 | This Is Hell!
We stream live on Tuesday and Wednesday at 10AM CDT at thisishel.com where we are podcast shortly after. We broadcast on our over-the-air as
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October 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Tuesday, @phillydsa.bsky.social's @resistrun.bsky.social discusses “There is No Socialism Without the End of U.S. Empire,” and “The Case for Dismantling the Israeli State."
Wednesday, we'll speak with Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social.
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Wednesday, we'll speak with Cal Robinet of the @minnesota15.bsky.social.
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Sunday Funnies and Not So Funny!: Laughs from the Apocalypse to the Execution Chamber | This Is Hell!
Good morning! Every Sunday paying supporters get access to the funniest or most insightful political cartoons we stumbled upon the previous
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October 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Hired a moving company to help make the move smooth… it was not smooth, not because of the movers themselves but whomever that’s behind logistics/planning
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Hired a moving company to help make the move smooth… it was not smooth, not because of the movers themselves but whomever that’s behind logistics/planning
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October 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Currently moving to a new apartment.
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Hired a moving company to help make the move smooth… it was not smooth, not because of the movers themselves but whomever that’s behind logistics/planning
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New Old Free Hell!
Four years ago today, we spoke with Lyndsie Bourgon about her book, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (@littlebrown.bsky.social).
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Four years ago today, we spoke with Lyndsie Bourgon about her book, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (@littlebrown.bsky.social).
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Four Years Ago in Hell!: "Tree Thieves" | This Is Hell!
In the final episode of our series, "This Week in Hell... over the past decade" we go back to October 3, 2022, when we spoke with researcher
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October 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
New Old Free Hell!
Four years ago today, we spoke with Lyndsie Bourgon about her book, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (@littlebrown.bsky.social).
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Four years ago today, we spoke with Lyndsie Bourgon about her book, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (@littlebrown.bsky.social).
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Before the far-right co-opted the Movement for Black Lives and rebranded it 'Woke,' before liberals exploited the movement and joined progressives in abandoning it, there was hope for reform if not abolition like there has been since there's been police.
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Virus Monologue #35: The Police Killing of a Black Icon | This Is Hell!
In the latest installment of "The Virus Monologues," it's June 18, 2020, and the uprising against deadly police violence -- and the white su
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October 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Before the far-right co-opted the Movement for Black Lives and rebranded it 'Woke,' before liberals exploited the movement and joined progressives in abandoning it, there was hope for reform if not abolition like there has been since there's been police.
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US coups, Russia's nuke warning and stunning war dead, Yemeni food shortage, campus cops' "unlawful force" against pro-Gaza students, Cornell's terrible sex assault record, widespread sex trafficking by retail mogul, and melting sea Ice "is a now problem."
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9 Circles of Hell! US Coups in Brazil and Cuba, Russian Nukes and Troop Deaths, Conflict Famine, Police Violence, Gang Rape, Sex Trafficking, and Climate's "Now Problem" | This Is Hell!
Become a paying subscriber and get access to the most hellish news we could find this week which includes... Brazilian Intel Says US Engage
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October 2, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Two years ago today, @icijaponesport.bsky.social's @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social joined @thisishellradio to discuss "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy" (@broadleafbooks.bsky.social).
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Two years ago today, @icijaponesport.bsky.social's @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social joined @thisishellradio to discuss "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy" (@broadleafbooks.bsky.social).
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Two Years Ago in Hell! Matthew D. Taylor on God's Intervention in US Politics | This Is Hell!
In our penultimate episode of our series, "This Week in Hell!... over the past decade," we go back to October 2, 2024, when we spoke with re
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October 2, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Two years ago today, @icijaponesport.bsky.social's @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social joined @thisishellradio to discuss "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy" (@broadleafbooks.bsky.social).
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New Old Free Hell!
On October 1, 2018, This is Hell! hosted the great mystery novelist Walter Mosley. He was on back then to discuss his latest, a non-fiction work called "Folding the Red into the Black" (@orbooks.bsky.social).
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On October 1, 2018, This is Hell! hosted the great mystery novelist Walter Mosley. He was on back then to discuss his latest, a non-fiction work called "Folding the Red into the Black" (@orbooks.bsky.social).
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Eight Years Ago in Hell! Walter Mosely on 'Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century' | This Is Hell!
On October 1, 2018, award-winning mystery writer Walter Mosley discussed his non-fiction title, “Folding the Red into the Black: Or, Develop
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I'm celebrating my birthday with a gift for you: free access to this week's special Patreon podcast featuring a live in-studio conversation on the past, present and futue of the Chicago tavern with Cary's Lounge now former owner Pete Valavanis!
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The Past, Present and Future of the Chicago Tavern with Pete Valavanis | This Is Hell!
While our bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show, live stream and podcast host Chuck Mertz enjoys his birthday week "off" from the show,
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October 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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On this day in 2020, we discussed "The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization" (@simonschusteruk.bsky.social) with author Fabian Scheidler.
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Six Years Ago on TiH!: Our Failing Civilization with Fabian Scheidler | This Is Hell!
"This Week in Hell!... over the past decade... " begins with our talk from six years ago today when we spoke with writer for print media, te
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September 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
On this day in 2020, we discussed "The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization" (@simonschusteruk.bsky.social) with author Fabian Scheidler.
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Nine years ago today, Henry Giroux was warning us about President Trump ushering in a new era of American authoritarianism when. we discussed his book, "The Public in Peril" (@routledgebooks.bsky.social).
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Nine Years Ago in Hell! Henry Giroux on 'Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism' | This Is Hell!
On September 30, 2017, a little more than eight months after President Trump's first term in office, we were joined by several-time guest He
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This week, 'A Brief History of Failing Civilization,' 'Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism,' 'Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century,'
'The Christian Movement That's Threatening Democracy.'
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This Week in Hell!... and then, The Fall | This Is Hell!
Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show, podcast and live stream host Chuck Mertz -- that's me! -- is celebrating the changing of the
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September 28, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This week, 'A Brief History of Failing Civilization,' 'Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism,' 'Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century,'
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