Episode 35: Leon Thotsky w/ Alex Gendler

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

CONTENT WARNING: violence, war trains, choke sex, revisionism, does not pass Bechdel test

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Russian state television created an 8-part miniseries on the life of Leon Trotsky in which he spends half the screen time violently fucking on a war train dressed like a revolutionary leather daddy. And that's the least revisionist aspect of this stunningly anti-Semitic and reactionary tour-de-force.

Alex Gendler, who grew up in the waning years of the USSR, puts this objet d'art into the context of Putin's neoliberal, authoritarian Russia while the rest of us ponder how one man could lay so much pipe and still have time to plot an entire revolution.

Outro - The O'Jays: Love Train

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0:00.0	Oh shit. Do you guys want to talk about this MR large show? Yeah, are we starting?
0:20.0	Yeah, we're starting.
0:21.0	All right. Our guests will come in any moment now, but yeah, welcome to the Antifada.
0:27.2	We're on Russ as best. I'm A.D. Andy. I'm Jamie Peck.
0:31.1	And I'm Sean Kiby. Did you do that little intro for me right now because you could tell I'm tired?
0:35.0	I mean, no, what? I'm not tired. I feel great.
0:38.0	Why, why, why, why, why would you be tired right now? What'd you do today?
0:42.0	Jamie passed out during the MR live show now there's a body double Jamie here.
0:48.0	She hallucinated some of her dead comrades. I saw it.
0:52.0	Oh no. Mohammed yeah, I definitely don't want to go home to my floor mattress right now and
0:58.6	huddle with the cats.
0:59.7	You're still on the floor.
1:01.0	The first thing on my mind. Oh, is Alex here?
1:04.7	I think Alex is here. Should we let him in?
1:07.2	No, let's just...
1:08.2	You know how to knock? Alex Kendler. Uh, yeah, our guest is just a little bit late today.
1:13.7	Alex, it was his...
1:15.2	Well, we'll let him tell you.
1:16.2	Yeah, it was his birthday.
1:17.2	I think he tied one on.
1:18.4	We better get him a hair of the dog.
1:20.1	Ah, Alex Gendler just walked into the room and said I don't even want to
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