Jacobin Show: Why the Media Sucks w/ Matt Christman & AFSCME Contract Fight w/ Ernest Garrett
Jacobin Radio
Jacobin
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from June 16, 2021 with Jen Pan and Paul Prescod hosting.
Chapo Trap House co-host Matt Christman joins us to discuss the role of the media under capitalism and the rise of alternative outlets—but more importantly—why the politics surrounding the media matters less than you think. We're also joined by Ernest Garrett, president of AFSCME D.C. 33, to talk about the union's upcoming contract fight.
Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT
Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jacobin Show. I'm Jen Pan. I'm here with Paul Prescott, |
| 0:23.5 | who you may have noticed has been MIA for the last two weeks. Paul, explain yourself. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm sorry, I have a job, you know, stuff to do. But last week I was at some of my students |
| 0:36.2 | graduation. So that was nice, but it is good to be back. And the graduation also means that |
| 0:43.4 | your official job is over. So you now have no more excuses, at least for the summer. Yes, I'm on |
| 0:49.7 | summer break. So you might, I might look well rested now. I hope I do unlike times before. But |
| 0:56.2 | yeah, so now full commitment to the Jackman show. I will never do anything else ever. It's only |
| 1:02.1 | YouTube propaganda from here on out. That's right. Speaking of which, we have a great show today. |
| 1:09.2 | Matt Christman, who of course is co-host of Chapo Trap House in a friend of the show. He's been on |
| 1:13.5 | the channel before. He will be joining us a little later to talk about why the media sucks |
| 1:18.6 | in a nutshell. We'll unpack that a little more when he comes on. And Paul, what else is on your mind |
| 1:24.2 | this week? Well, also will announce. People should also stick around that Ernest Garrett, |
| 1:29.2 | who is a president of AFSCME District Council 33 municipal workers in Philadelphia will be coming |
| 1:34.4 | on for a short little labor Paul segment to talk about their contract fights. So definitely stick |
| 1:38.8 | around after Matt is done. Yeah, it's like a very special labor Paul episode. It is. Yeah, but you |
| 1:44.6 | can still submit labor Paul questions that I will answer next week. So, but yeah, an article caught |
| 1:51.2 | my eye and I had to talk about it. It was almost terror made for the Jackman show, but the article |
| 1:56.2 | was written just to troll you. It was. I think it was. Combined all elements of education, identity, |
| 2:02.9 | Koch brothers. So this interesting article in the New Yorker that talks about this strange |
| 2:08.1 | new alliance between black parents who are advocating for homeschooling and the Koch-backed |
| 2:13.1 | Walton Foundation. And so there's been this sharp rise in homeschooling since the start of the |
| 2:18.0 | pandemic. And it actually shows that especially among black families, more so than white families. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacobin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jacobin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.