49th Parahell

Jan 19 2025 100 ep. 71 mins 2.7k

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where we explore the hellish nightmare world of modern reality together

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107: Justin Trudon't (with Jeremy Appel)

Jan 19 2025 91 mins

Jeremy Appel joins the show to talk about Justin Trudeau stepping down as Liberal leader, his legacy, where this country is headed, the failures of neoliberalism and much more. support this show on Patreon http://patreon.com/robrousseau catch TRRS live at http://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau

106: Trials & Denazification (with Duncan Kinney)

Dec 03 2024 53 mins

49th Parahell is back again and so is returning guest Duncan Kinney, host of the Progress Report, to discuss Canadian Nazi monuments, our disturbing and mostly-hidden fascist history, and how he himself has become a part of this story after being charged with vandalizing one of these monuments in Edmonton a few years ago. Support the Duncan Kinney legal defense fund Support the w

105: Empire of Mediocrity (with Vijay Prashad)

Mar 15 2024 87 mins

Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental Institute and author of books such as Washington Bullets and The Darker Nations joins the show for a wide ranging conversation that touches on everything from The Kate Middleton Conspiracy, the absurdity of the coming Biden/Trump rematch, the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, the threat a declining United States poses to the rest of the world

104: Truth to Power (with Sarah Jama)

Feb 22 2024 56 mins

Newly-independent Hamilton MPP Sarah Jama joined me to talk about her censure in Ontario Parliament and expulsion from the NDP caucus following the statement she released shortly after Oct 7th, how Canadian political culture stifles free expression, some of the things she's hoping to accomplish as an independent, and the constant bad faith discourse surrounding Israel/Palestine in

103: Canada is Cooked (with Camila Escalante)

Dec 20 2023 66 mins

I talked with Camila Escalante (TeleSUR, Kawsachun News) about Canada and the rest of the Anglo American Empire's ongoing decline, our western values, the global south, with some additional analysis on the Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute and what it means to be "sovereign." Support the work I do on Patreon http://patreon.com/robrousseau follow Camila here: https://twitter.co

102: A Tale of Two Michaels (with Jesse Hawken)

Nov 28 2023 70 mins

Jesse Hawken of the Junk Filter podcast joins the show to talk about the latest chapter in the ongoing Two Michaels saga that has captivated the nation. Were the Michaels two good old Canadian lads who were unjustly held captive by a totalitarian, authoritarian regime? Is this latest story a cynical ploy on the part of our media to pit Michael against Michael? Or was the Chinese go

101: Gaza Holocaust (with Justin Podur and Jon Elmer)

Nov 20 2023 76 mins

Hello. Yes, it's true. The podcast is back. I spoke with Justin Podur of the Anti-Empire Project and Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada about the unfolding horrific violence in Gaza. support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/robrousseau

100: Series Finale (with Karen Geier, Nora Loreto, Sam Knight and Michael Bueckert)

Aug 13 2021 94 mins

Yes, you read that right. It's the last episode of 49th Parahell. Moving forward I am going to be doing all my interviews and commentary on my live show on Twitch, with an audio version coming soon, so this week I brought back several friends of the show to talk about Doug Ford, the pandemic, Quebec's social solidarity, Joe Biden, Canada's relationship to Israel/Palestine and much

99: Abolish Canada (with Abdul Malik)

Jul 01 2021 96 mins

I talked to writer and low-key hustle guy Abdul Malik about the Toronto Raptors as an avatar for Canadian nationalism, the climate crisis, how taking a day off is good but celebrating genocide is bad, and much more. www.patreon.com/robrousseau

98: Dark Chapter (with Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and Kai Nagata)

Jun 03 2021 68 mins

The uncovering of a mass grave outside a former "residential school" in Kamloops has made international headlines and once again forced people in what we know as Canada to talk about the brutal violence, cruelty and genocide that this nation is founded on and continues to engage in. Harbinger Media board member Kai Nagata and Kolin Sutherland-Wilson of the Gitxsan Nation join the s