The Unsociablists
Unsociable socialists creating sketches and shooting breezes with deadly efficiency.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 67
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 25: N(early) A(lways) T(errorizing) O(ops!)
Episode Notes
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization - can't possibly be evil, right?
Begun in 1949 as a union to "Keep the Russians out, Keep the Americans in, and Keep the Germans down" (priorit…
Left in the Past: Episode 3 "Managua About Town - Part 2"
Episode Notes
It isn't well-known among most Americans that the U.S. has invaded Nicaragua 12 times in our history. From the filibustering adventurers of the 19th century to funding death-squads in t…
Watchalong Bonus: Party On, Wormy Dude... (Futurama, Slurm)
Episode Notes
Kyle is back after Phil's fantastic solo episode!
Today we watch an all-time classic: Futurama. Developed from the mind of Matt Groening and company of Simpsons fame, Futurama begins w…
Philler Content (Variety 3 - Phil's Top 10 Video Games)
There's no Kyle for this one. No really, it's just Phil. There's also, like, only 3 minutes of leftism at the end. Sorry folks, Kyle's taking a well-earned vacation, so we're swapping Left in the …
Episode 24: Ceeing I to A
Episode Notes
The CIA, despite how embedded of an institution it seems today, was not always a facet of American foreign and domestic policy (even if they are technically barred from domestic interfe…
Collection: Capital F - Volume 1
Episode Notes
All the episodes from your favourite family comedy sitcom in one place! Listen as the Balts' grips on reality slip away in the comforting miasma of laugh tracks.
Kyle and Phil also h…
Unsociablist Cinema Corner: We're All Gonna Die! (Review: Don't Look Up)
Episode Notes
Should we really call them "films" these days? What with Netflix being the specific platform for this one, and most of the theater releases having concurrent streaming options, feels l…
Left in the Past: Episode 2 "Managua About Town - Part 1"
Managua About Town
It isn't well-known among most Americans that the U.S. has invaded Nicaragua 12 times in our history. From the filibustering adventurers of the 19th century to funding death-squad…
Episode 22: Any Way the Wind Blows
Episode Notes
Nihilism, a word that we've often heard but rarely discuss. What does it mean to be nihilist? Is it an abdication of responsibility to the world around you, or is it an acceptance to …
Episode 21: Zorzon and Oglob's Wacky Galactic Bonanza - Part One (Special!)
Episode Notes
From the studio that brought you Capital F comes a new and exciting story about two aliens - pacifist by nature and by training - who must confront the evils of the galaxy in ways they …
Making Monkeyshines (Variety: Reading Series)
Episode Notes
Reading series No. 1: Phil brings us a piece about how we should not complain about being stiffed for our work and Kyle reads a NYT opinion piece about how the conservative right can't …
Watchalong Bonus: Ain't No Party Like a Kenneth Party (30 Rock)
Episode Notes
One of the best sitcoms of the 2000s and maybe of American Television ever, 30 Rock - for those of you who haven't seen it - is a satirical analogue for working behind the scenes at SNL…
"Jakarta? I Barely Know Ya!" Left in the Past: Episode 1
Episode Notes
Trigger Warning for those ahead: discussions will include the violence experienced by victims of the anticommunist crusade that American empire waged against the Global South and "Third…
Episode 20: Pigs Flying Directly Into the Sun
Episode Notes
Why is it that almost every network procedural seems to be centered around cops? Detectives, Navy Investigators, Homicide units - all these cop shows and all these stakes. Through end…
Book Club: Is all this Illusion? (Siddhartha)
Episode Notes
Mutual Aid for people effected by the tornadoes in Kentucky: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YTzQFT4ANDcChivFDfUW9oC0gJWDyT9FHoDrAD2VA7A/htmlview
Published in 1922, the novella …
Episode 19: Jesus $pent
Episode Notes
Religion, belief, faith - social and personal structures that have followed and intertwined with human development for millennia. It's a broad topic, but we - woefully unqualified as w…
Unsociable Cinema Corner: Squidly Diddly-oo (Review: Squid Game)
Episode Notes
We review a fine and dandy show "Squid Game" about playing a bunch of childhood games under the watchful eyes of our capitalist overlords.
If you have any Watchalong Suggestions, though…
Episode 18: Living Your Strife to the Fullest
Episode Notes
How does one self-actualize under the regime of capital and wage relations? Squander your youth and vigor on the menial tasks dictated to you by your boss and employer - that ought to …
Unsociable Cinema Corner: The Decrepit World of the Future! (Movie Review: Batman and the Mask of the Phantasm)
Episode Notes
Batman. He's the most complicated of super-figures. He's got dead parents, a conscience-wielding butler, and a boat load of cash.
Maybe not so complicated, I guess. Anyhow, we hop …
Episode 17: Burning the Planet at Both Ends
Episode Notes
My world's on fire, how 'bout yours? Today we discuss the thing that depresses us the most: climate change. The world's heating up, the water is rising, and there's nothing one person…