Episode 282: Fighting Times
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🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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We’re joined by Jonathan Melrod, author of the new autobiography “Fighting Times.” We talk about the factory turn of the 1960s, SDS/RYM II, encounters with the Red Squad, and his 13 years fighting in American auto plants and as an activist in the UAW.
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| 0:00.0 | Someone tweeted that you and I should have done the voices for Mario and Peaches. Peaches. Peaches. No, it should be peach. Me doing the voice for Peaches. Yeah, you should do. Can you do it for us right now? We've been singing a lot in the intros later. I don't remember the song. Wasn't it just the teachers of peaches? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. None, no, no, no, no. No, no. |
| 0:25.0 | It was actually I would prefer. I don't remember the song. Wasn't it just the teachers of peaches? Sucking on my tini like you want. |
| 0:37.2 | It was actually I would prefer if you. Teachers of peaches. Yeah, don't say the other parts. Yeah. I'll do it. No, please don't do it. I'll do it. But do it in, no, no, do it in Mario voice. All right. Where is it? Oh, no, this is the Peaches song by lyrics, Peaches. |
| 0:38.2 | What's the teach? |
| 0:38.7 | What's this? |
| 0:40.3 | It's teachers of peaches. |
| 1:17.4 | Fuck the pain away. Oh, that's it. Sacking. Wait, I can't do. What's Mario's voice? It's a me. It's a me. A me. My name. Like you wanted me. The next question Jeffrey Raston I'm going to be able to be able Joe Thank you. My husband My husband My apologies to any My apologies to any members of our guest family who had to listen to that intro. |
| 1:18.3 | Yes. |
| 1:23.4 | But we actually do, a lot of people don't know that me and Liz actually do vocal warm-ups before we record. |
| 1:25.3 | And we usually sing. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | And we usually sing beaches. That and we usually sing peaches. |
| 1:30.3 | That's what it is. |
| 1:32.6 | We spent about 45 minutes singing peaches. |
| 1:37.8 | And Brace spent the first 30 minutes of that 45 minutes, Googling the lyrics. |
| 1:38.3 | Yes. |
| 1:42.0 | And a lot of the times before we record, too, I try to do one push-up. |
| 2:00.9 | And this can take anywhere between two hours and, I don't know, like 30 seconds or whatever. But that's because you're really focusing on the decline. I'm focusing on decline. So you're trying to like really slow it down. And I do what's called a diamond pushup. And then I start thinking about diamonds. And I go, that drives me. You know how I get it on jewels. I go crazy. |
| 2:01.9 | Yeah, you go crazy around jewels and other, I mean, just general shiny things. |
| 2:05.7 | Gold? |
| 2:07.1 | My thing is this, it's 1320, right? |
| 2:12.1 | The year? |
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