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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #63: Radical Unschooling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author and unschooling advocate Dayna Martin is the guest this week and we discuss her book Radical Unschooling &#8211; the revolution has begun, the idea of an intellectual or literary canon, the pros and cons of television, and Captain Von Trapp&#8217;s whistle. This episode also contains ignorant chickens, vanished messengers, and reminiscences about family life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/06/27/diet-soap-podcast-63-radical-unschooling/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #62: God and His Demons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Parenti is the guest this week and we discuss his book &#8220;God and His Demons.&#8221; Cornel West has said of Parenti &#8220;[He] is a towering prophetic voice in American life. We need him now more than ever.” Also featured is Pete Seeger singing Joe Hill&#8217;s &#8220;The Preacher and the Slave,&#8221; the theme from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/06/27/diet-soap-podcast-62-god-and-his-demons-2/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #61: A Post-Traumatic Age?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Artist and activist Daniel Shea is the guest this week and we discuss the Vietnam war, post-traumatic stress, and the need for social change. You&#8217;ll also hear the themes from the Mickey Mouse Club, MASH, and Foxtrot Tango Alpha. Jane Fonda and Slavoj Zizek can be heard in this podcast. I also read aloud the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/06/27/diet-soap-podcast-61-a-post-traumatic-age/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap # 60:  Romanticism is a Noun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Short story writer Brett Cox is the guest this week as we discuss publishing, &#8216;zines, and romanticism. Also this week is music from Steve Reich and theme music from the PBS children&#8217;s program Reading Rainbow and the BBC&#8217;s Rainbow. The voices of Philip K. Dick, Robert Crumb, and Isaiah Berlin can be heard. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/06/04/diet-soap-60-romanticism-is-a-noun/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #59: Radical Homemakers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The guest this week is the author Shannon Hayes and we discuss her book Radical Homemakers which leads to more conversation about the need to make real world connections as we seek community as a solution to the multi-dimensional crisis we find ourselves enmeshed in. Also featured are sound collages set to television theme songs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/05/27/diet-soap-podcast-59-radical-homemakers/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #58: Afraid to Fight the Powers That Be?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journalist Margaret Kimberly from blackagendareport.com is the guest this week and we discuss her essay &#8220;Americans afraid to fight the powers that be&#8220;. Also this week you&#8217;ll hear the voice of Slavoj Zizek, the music of Hussalonia, and the pop hit &#8220;Simon Says&#8221; from the 1910 Fruitgum Company. Can we escape from the ideology of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/05/20/diet-soap-podcast-58-afraid-to-fight-the-powers-that-be/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #57: Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Duncombe, the author of the book Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy is the guest this week and we discuss the notion of ethical spectacles, progressive dreams, and the imagination as a political tool. The music of Chris Isto White is featured again this week, including the surreal nonsense song Ceci [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/05/14/diet-soap-podcast-57-dream/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #56: The Church of Life After Shopping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reverend Billy from the Church of Life After Shopping is the guest this week, and I end up putting my hands on my computer screen and receiving the spirit of real life as Billy speaks in tongues. The music this week includes the Beatitudes of Buylessness by the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir and the Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/05/06/diet-soap-podcast-56-the-church-of-life-after-shopping/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #55: The Economics of Needs and Limits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Rotering is the guest this week and we discuss his Economics of Needs and Limits, the limits of Marxism, and the timidity of the intellectual class especially in regards to the official story of 911. Along with a Zulu, Tuvan, and a Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco version of the Internationale, the music this week includes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/04/29/diet-soap-podcast-55-the-economics-of-needs-and-limits/</link>
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		<title>Diet Soap Podcast #54: Just a Gorilla Suit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abduction Researcher and Abstract Expressionist painter Budd Hopkins is on again this week as we conclude our discussion of his book Art, Life, and UFOs. We delve into the abduction subject this time, and even discuss some of my own unusual dreams from childhood. Chris Isto White&#8216;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Build a Sandcastle to the Moon&#8221; is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dietsoap.org/2010/04/23/diet-soap-podcast-54-just-a-gorilla-suit/</link>
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