It's a Progressive World

It's a Progressive World is a weekly satirical news & entertainment podcast co-hosted by Kam in the red corner and Sam in the blue corner. They discuss and debate some of the biggest — and least covered — stories from around the world. As friends and sparring partners, they always promise to go light, but every now and then, a good old-fashioned brawl breaks out.

Contact us at sparandbrawl@gmail.com


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Interview With Jared Bauer!

Hi everyone,

We’ll be posting an interview with Jared Bauer tomorrow!!!

I'm sure many of you are familiar with him. He's the co-founder of Wisecrack and currently has a new YouTube channel. Jared has also recently moved to Helsinki and started a new career.

It was a super fun and chilled conversation. We discussed a bunch of different things, such as politics, culture wars, Batman movies, and much more!

Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for the support as always!!
Spar&Brawl.

3 years ago | [YT] | 24

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NEW Interview With Christian Parenti!

Hi everyone,

We’ll be posting a NEW interview with Christian Parenti tomorrow!!!

We had even more fun this time. The conversation was much more free-flowing and two-sided, but we hopefully did not interrupt him too much!

The bulk of the interview is based on a very well researched and cited article on COVID written by Christian Parenti. The article is available on The Grazyone: thegrayzone.com/2022/03/31/left-covid-lockdowns-mi…

But we also discussed a bunch of other stuff, including his time in Iraq!

Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for the support as always!!
Spar&Brawl.

3 years ago | [YT] | 24

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FIRST EPISODE IS OUT!

Hi everyone,

We just wanted to let you know that the first episode of our Frankfurt School series is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxGH3...

And so is the first full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6uhp...

About the Series:

The series is structured chronologically and goes through the different generations and its main thinkers and ideas. So everything from Herbert Marcuse to Habermas to current “Frankfurt School” scholars.

Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for your support as always!!
Spar&Brawl.

3 years ago | [YT] | 20

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Series Announcement!

Hi everyone,

We’re super excited to — finally — let you know that we have recorded a multi-part series on the Frankfurt School that is PACKED with PROFESSORS!!! So it’s not just us two schmucks for once!

We will release the first episode tomorrow. It’s a relatively quick and short overview of the Frankfurt School, featuring three professors.

Professors Featured in the Series:

- Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus, UC Berkeley
- Claudio Corradetti, Associate professor of Political Philosophy and International Relations, University of Rome
- Charles Masquelier, Senior Lecturer (Sociology), University of Exeter
- Gordon Finlayson, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, University of Sussex
- Joel Whitebook, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, Columbia University Center For Psychoanalytic Training and Research
- Alan Sked, Emeritus Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck University of London

We can’t express how grateful we are to all the professors. They were all extremely generous with their time and knowledge. We will post the full interview with each professor once they’ve featured in the series.

The series is structured chronologically and goes through the different generations and its main thinkers and ideas. So everything from Herbert Marcuse to Habermas to current “Frankfurt School” scholars.

We, of course, couldn’t help but to add our two cents — or more — every now and then, and also make as many connections to contemporary culture as possible, but we tried to be more “disciplined” than our usual…

And please Like & Subscribe (and maybe Share? Do it for the professors…)

Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for your support as always!!
Spar&Brawl.

3 years ago | [YT] | 27

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Interview With Christian Parenti!

Hi everyone,

Heads-up: we’ll be posting an interview with Christian Parenti tomorrow!!!

He’s an intimidating and scary man...haha joking...he was EXTREMELY nice to us and gave us a lot of his time. We discussed a bit of everything: New Left VS Old Left, class, the Frankfurt School, and much much more!!

Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for the support as always!!
Spar&Brawl.

3 years ago | [YT] | 27

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Question of the Week:

What's your most conservative position/point of view?

We shared ours here: https://youtu.be/irE4TevQl0s?t=13119

Let us know! Don't be shy!!!!

4 years ago | [YT] | 4

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Interview With Professor Horne!

Hi everyone,

We're super excited to let you know that we've recorded our first interview* -- and it's with Professor Gerald Horne!

It was a super fun -- and, of course, astonishingly insightful -- interview. We discussed a little bit the Virginia election, but focused more on questions relating to the 30 books he's published. We'll be uploading the full interview along with some shorter clips in the coming days. Can't wait to share it with you all!

(*We had done 1 or 2 interviews when we first started.)

Thank you for the support as always!!
Spar&Brawl.

4 years ago | [YT] | 25

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Hi all, going LIVE again tomorrow (on Sunday) at 11:30 am ET!!!!!!

Any topic suggestions?

For now, this is what we have:

- $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill
- Virginia and New Jersey elections
- Briahna Gray and Andrew Sullivan
- The World’s Best Mayor Is a French Communist
- Kyle & TJ Kirk (The Amazing Atheist) Debate Nihilism

Hope to see you tomorrow!!

4 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 22

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Any topic suggestions?? Going LIVE tomorrow (on Sunday) at 12:00 pm ET!!!!!!!!!

On the agenda for now:

- Briahna Gray's Latest Interviews (Including With Yanis Varoufakis)
- Joe Rogan Paternity Leave
- Glenn Greenwald Q&A on Rumble
- "Progressive" Tweets
- And Much, Much More!!

See you tomorrow!!!

4 years ago (edited) | [YT] | 20

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Hi we’re gonna go live at around 11 am ET!!

Today’s agenda:

- Latest News
- The Progressive World
- “Progressive” Tweets

See you then!!

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