Weekly Roundup: The LA Fires, DEI, and the Right's New Slur

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 700-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ In this weekly roundup, Brad and Dan discuss the politicized reactions to recent California wildfires, and critique the rhetoric blaming DEI initiatives and ignoring climate change. They analyze Trump's comments on annexing territories like Greenland, Panama, and Canada, relating his rhetoric to broader themes of fascism and expansionism and emphasize the importance of challenging such rhetoric and examine the implications of these conspiracies for future political landscapes. Additionally, listeners hear about their personal experiences and reasons for hope in troublesome times. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi
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1:01.9	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus here, as always, with my co-host. I'm Brad Onishi, and who are you?
1:05.8	I am Dan Miller, Bradenishi, and I am Veser Religion and Social Thought at Landmark
1:10.7	College.
1:11.3	I think we're both feeling the, you know, some sort of New Year's thing where it's like
1:15.0	your equal parts like, I don't know, excited about something new, but also still fighting
1:20.0	off the entire hangover from 2024, just in time for all the serious stuff in 2025.
1:25.8	So it's nice to be here, take a break from some other stuff and hang out for a few minutes.
1:32.7	Yeah, that was an awkward.
1:34.0	That was definitely an awkward opening.
1:36.5	We've done this like 800 times now, and I don't know why I did that.
1:39.2	I feel like that was one of these moments where we were like at a work conference and we were going to try to go like talk to someone important and I walked up and I was like, hello, this is Dan. What are you doing?
1:51.3	Why are you being weird? You know, it's like when I do the intros to it's in the code and like
1:56.2	the part that I have to redo over and over and over is like the first 30 seconds. And if people could hear all the outtakes of me swearing into the microphone when I realized that I have to redo over and over and over is usually at the first 30 seconds.
2:10.1	And if people could hear all the outtakes of me swearing into the microphone when I realized that I, like, I don't know, forgot to say my name or mispronounced a word or something like that.
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