Effigy: An Audio Folly

History with detours.

Season One, "Ludlow, story of a strike," now streaming across the pod-o-verse.

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Before Victor Milner became the renowned cinematographer on such pre-code classics as "Design For Living" and "Trouble in Paradise," he was a newsreel photographer for Pathe.

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We’d also excruciatingly extend the production cycle by months or years by adding original sound design of 100 percent human origin. Which is to say, while you continue to wait for Effigy Season Two, please enjoy this ‘cast in all its abundance.

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Halal, shabach, and yadah to the great Bible Lore podcast by @haydentank. A fantastically rich and expansive guided journey through one of the weirdest books in the game. The kind of podcast we would make if he had the expertise, the interview chops, and slightly milder ADHD.

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Our frontal lobes were hardly instruments of love and light before Covid-19 came along.

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Thugs and goons have been beating, raping and murdering with impunity for as long as we've been a country, often under the full protection of a military uniform or deputy's badge.

https://t.co/UwuHCWc9lx

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

It’s common knowledge that both policing and the military already over select for people with certain traits:

- high threat sensitivity
- comfort with hierarchy
- rule based cognition
- obedience over ambiguity
- identity anchored in authority

This was true long before COVID.

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A hopeful tale in its improbability at a time when both are at a historically high premium. (and perhaps a tonic for listeners of Effigy Season One, who were not bequeathed much in the hope department.)

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Remarkable and highly recommend podcast miniseries on the formation of the Kickstarter United tech union in the years just before the Covid pandemic.

https://t.co/pojcGquUAE

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Incredible depth and detail of the step-by-step trials and wins of the organizers, working in an employment culture much more universally skeptical of (if not downright hostile to) the importance of organized labor and collective bargaining power.

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The news from Sopris, June 6, 1903

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Maxo Vanka's "The Capitalist" from S1:E7, "The Bosom of Abraham."

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Episode 8, "Firing Squad Ambitions," closes out our Season One tale. Enjoy it with your whole glandular system!

https://t.co/C59VAs9oEd

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With Episode 8, Effigy Season One is now fully bingeable. If you were waiting for that "gapless experience," tarry no more!

https://t.co/49R3IruQfr

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Last epidode of Season One drops tomorrow morning. It's been a minute—need a refresher?

https://t.co/49R3IruQfr

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Read, or listen, as the case may be.

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

Writing off “some coal miner in WV” as inherently bad or reactionary is classist liberal thinking, don’t fall into that trap. Also, I’m begging more leftists (and everyone else) to READ SOME GODDAMN LABOR HISTORY