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Left Jest
You dig radical politics? You dig jesting? Out of sight, Cool Cat. This sounds like your kinda show. Dig? Left Jest brings all the hippest names in comedy and the American Left to your stupid face every week. Join Brooklyn comedians Anders Lee, Raghav Mehta, and Alex Ptak as they force their filth...
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Last Jest On The Left
On this, our glorious siren song our hosts go over their favorite episodes and biggest problems with the show. They also talk politics because it seem...
The Law! (w/ John Bilancini)
Is NAMBLA real? What are communists up to in Star Wars? Is the constitution any good?
Mysterious law man and comedian John Bilancini join...
Agent Brazilyanov & The Infiltration Game(w/ Renee Paradis)
Are you pro con con? Or con con con? Are DA's bad? Has the Red Bear activated a top agent on the inside? We invite attorney, DSA organizer, and overal...
Bring Back Eugene Debs As A Hologram (w/ Danny Katch)
Fan favorite Danny Katch (socialistworker.org) returns to the program to talk about American Democracy and his new book Why Bad Governments Happen to...
Dangerous Jokes (w/ Sam Ruddy & Kenice Mobley)
NYC comedy mavericks Sam Ruddy (@samlymatters) and Kenice Mobley (@kfmawesomeness) join the show.
We talk the women's convention, the ske...
Shure-fire Healthcare Radio (w/ Natalie Shure)
Natalie Shure (Adam Ruins Everything) joins the podcast to talk a bit about co-pays and issues with America's healthcare system. We decide we don't li...
A Tough Ice Cream To Sprinkle (w/ Irene Hartmann)
Comedian Irene Hartmann (@vontrapplord) joins the team for a discussion of all terrible things under the sun at the Alex Ptak Apartment Studios.
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Podcast of a Down (w/ It's Going Down)
Whoa whoa whoa! With all of the powerful gods of luck aligning, we managed to secure an amazing interview with an anonymous contributor from anticapit...
Threads From The Podcasting Crisis (w/ Kate Evans)
Surprise! We got Kate Evans on the show!
Kate is a cartoonist and author of the new book Threads From The Refugee Crisis. We talk to her...
911 Local Elections (w/ Arish Singh & Francisco Diez)
Have you ever been thrown out of a Trump Rally? Statistically probably not! But Arish Singh has! Arish (@arishish) opens up about the issues of mischa...
A Civilized Antifa Meeting (w/ Jake Flores)
Hillary's got a new book and it's getting a lot of coverage, but we're the only ones with the inside scoop on Lincoln Chafee's! We also talk about Mar...
Official Deep Dish Socialists of America Podcast Part 4: Fetonte's Inferno
Ladies and gentlemen blare your horns! Anders Lee returns triumphant to the Left Jest podcast!
Anders is dying to talk about a fake faceb...
Tale Of Two Rallies (w/ Jack Smith IV and Danny Felts)
It's been a week, but we're gonna do it! We're tackling the rise and fall of Nazis in America. Is it funny? Parts are! First check out Alex's intro wi...
Trans-ition From The Past (w/ Angelica Vice)
Check out this interview recorded last year!
Trans social media diva Angelica Vice comes on the show to talk out her views on sexuality a...
The Immigrant Pod (w/ Dominic Fogarty & Pedro Salinas)
This week Left Jest opens its doors to Dominic Fogarty and Pedro Salinas, two down and out comedians / immigrants looking to forge a better life in th...
The DSA, Race, and Ben Garrison (w/ Jazz Hooks & David Tveite)
It's DSA convention week! We invite on Jazz Hooks, co-writer of the scandalous Afro-Socialist Caucus proposal to discuss misconceptions people might h...
Big Texas Train Show (w/ Kath Barbadoro)
We invite former Austin comic Kath Barbadoro in to tell us about snakes, cowboy hats, performing for Trump supporters, and what the hell is wrong with...
Lena Dunham's Dog Riffs For A Full Hour (w/ David Spector)
There is a spector haunting this episode... the spector of comedian David Spector!
This is a very silly one. We talk the new DCCC slogan...
A Syrias Episode (w/ Loubna Mrie)
Writer and activist Loubna Mrie stops in to educate America's smartest and most talented comedians on the Syrian war. Unfortunately those comedians al...
Mostly Jest (w/ David Tveite)
This one is an old fashioned ho down / bro down. David Tveite (@tveitprivelege)joins us in the legendary Alex Ptak's Apartment Studios to discuss the...
UK Left Rising 34: Reloaded (w/ Andy Palmer)
Alex is out of town so Andy Palmer (Democracy Later Podcast) is locked in to crack open contemporary issues like Train Gate. We follow up on the UK sn...
Prophets of Profit (w/ Nicole Aschoff)
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Kekistan And It's Discontents (w/ Jack Smith IV)
We have Jack Smith IV (mic.com) back on the program to discuss his recent trip to Boston to cover the weird 4chan people. Who are they? Why are they a...
Cyberpunk (w/ Han Cowger & Iain Marcks)
Iain Marcks (American Cinematographer) returns with Hann Cowger (Cinder Block Comedy Festival) to break down the cyberpunk movement.
What...
A New Host
Like Star Wars, get it? A New Host? A New Hope? Like Star Wars?
Raghav Mehta takes the blood oath to become an official host of the podca...
French Election Part Deux! (w/ Matthew Easton & Steve Girard)
On the heels of the French Presidential Election we talk to French-American Comedian Steve Girard and our European Politics Correspondent Matt Easton,...
Crossover Show 2 (w/ Katie Halper & Gabe Pacheco)
Katie Halper (@kthalps) and Gabe Pacheco (@gabe_pacheco) from The Katie Halper Show join in on the fun in the illustrious KPISS studios.
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The Oklahoma City Pod - Ing (w/ Anders Nerheim)
With the arrival of the new Timothy McVeigh doc on Netflix,
the gang tackles the Oklahoma City bombing with Minnesota Man Anders Nerheim (@like...
Media Brunch (w/ Raghav Mehta and Mary Cella)
Comedians and media titans Raghav Mehta (@ACLUofficial) and Mary Cella (@Mary_Cella) pop on down to punk alley on a beautiful Saturday aft of noon to...
Corbynmania! (w/ Alex Nunns and Julian Guarino)
Alex Nunns, author and Jeremy Corbyn expert, steps into the ring to show our two resident Yanks what's what. We talk about his sabotage from the labou...
Real New York Chat (w/ Harris Doran)
We're HIGH ON ALBANY this week, wading through the do's and do not's of NY's corrupt state legislature. Anders makes a sassy phone call to a local rep...
BONUS - Democracy Later / Left Jest -- The Crossover
Andy Palmer and Sean McCarthy from the Democracy Later podcast graciously had us on to do a crossover episode. The riffs. Are. Flaming hot.
Episode 21 - Health Care Bill (w/ Ryan Grim, Hannah Boone, and Bushwick Bill)
Um a lot happens in this one.
First we have on our friend Hannah Boone (@BooneComedy) to talk mental health issues, insurance, and how ex...
Shoot Your Television (w/ Rufat Agayev and Iain Marcks)
Comedian Rufat Agayev (@RufatCamp) and Iain Marcks (American Cinematographer) head into the studio to talk media theory, television's death, internet'...
Muslim Ban (w/ Sarah Harvard)
So here's what happened. The gang has to make a bunch of corrections for the first 15 minutes of the show and frankly the episode becomes very silly....
Privilege Politics (w/ Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Tim Platt)
Phoebe Maltz Bovy (@tweetertation)comes on the show to talk about her new book, The Perils of Privilege, and break down competitive wokeness in the ci...
Socialism Episode (w/ Danny Katch)
SocialistWorker.org's Danny Katch drops in with his daughter to talk about his book (Socialism Seriously) and theorycraft some democratized economies....
Expert Foreign Policy Predictions (w/ Sid Gurung)
In the middle of a blizzard, the boys sit down with Foreign Correspondent Sid Gurung to make some expert predictions on how the next four years are go...
Unsubmissive French Election (w/ Sarah Kennedy and Matthew Easton)
The Left Jest team tackles foreign soil in this episode covering the 2017 French presidential election. Do they know anything about it? Not really, bu...
If Bernie Won (w/ Jaboukie Young White And Jake Flores)
A mysterious tape of Bernie's inauguration speech sends the boys on a rant about other dimensions. Jake Flores (@FeralJokes) and Jaboukie Young White...