Pex Lives: A Doctor Who Podcast (general)
James Murphy and Kevin Burns are both Certified Minor Internet Personalities with a shared love of Doctor Who. Explore the history of the show with them, as they watch classic serials and chat with each other each month about them. Each month, the pair will pick a classic serial to watch and then break down, exploring the themes, characters and production of the given story. There will also be jokes. Sometimes they may barely mention the show. New episodes every month.

Kit and James are back! And they brought someone - the brilliant Andrew Matey - who knows what they're talking about for this, the second real episode of We Learned More From A Three Minute Record. This one goes in deep on Bruce Springsteen's sophomore album, the Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. The songs? Dissected. The good? Passionately loved. The sacred cows? Delicious burger meat. 

Direct download: Wild_EDIT.mp3
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Hey, Bobby Dylan, we recorded you a 'cast.

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No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die! Please. We hated every minute of this movie. Deeply. 

DISCLAIMER: Since this podcast's release, several people have accused Sam Maleski of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. In solidarity with Maleski's victims, Christine and Kit have severed ties with their former co-host. Eventually, Christine, James, and Kit will record new podcasts covering the first four James Bond films.

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Christine, Sam, and Kit are joined by the brilliant Chris O'Leary for a hoot of a podcast on From Russia With Love. They talk about thriller storytelling, the politics of espionage, tanning, and microdosing 

DISCLAIMER: Since this podcast's release, several people have accused Sam Maleski of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. In solidarity with Maleski's victims, Christine and Kit have severed ties with their former co-host. Eventually, Christine, James, and Kit will record new podcasts covering the first four James Bond films.

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Kit Power, Sam Maleski, and Christine Kelley embark on their journey to discuss every Eon Productions-filmed James Bond movie. 

DISCLAIMER: Since this podcast's release, several people have accused Sam Maleski of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct. In solidarity with Maleski's victims, Christine and Kit have severed ties with their former co-host. Eventually, Christine, James, and Kit will record new podcasts covering the first four James Bond films.

Direct download: OHB01_DrNo.mp3
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Your friends at Pex Lives sat down to chat some Doctor Who.... and then didn't. Look forward to part two, where we will!

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El is joined by Annie Fish for a discussion that tries very hard to be about The Witchfinders. Find Annie on Patreon here

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El sits down with Deb Stanish of the Verity! podcast to talk about one of Doctor Who's most troubling episodes in memory.

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El decides she needs a token cis dude on the podcast, so reluctantly sits down with Jack Graham to talk Demons of the Punjab.

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El sits down with Kate Orman to discuss Rosa.

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El and Caitlin sit down to discuss the dawn of the Chibnall era. 

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Jack reads 'Lukundoo' by Edward Lucas White.

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In this exciting one-off hear James trying to wing his way through a conversation he should have done more preparation for with the lovely and charming Mr Conrad Slater (@conradslater) about all things Mr Men. Lots of interesting stuff from Conrad on this little discussed phenomenon. I've sat on this recording for many months because the audio is a bit poorer than I like, but I think it's worth a listen. Enjoy.

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Phil sits down with Alex Reed of the band Seeming (they do our theme music!) to talk about his new album Sol. Features numerous clips from the album, including previews of three songs that haven't been publicly heard anywhere else yet. 

You can pre-order Sol on Bandcamp.

Direct download: Alex_Reed_-_Sol.mp3
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Phil sits down with John Higgs to talk about The Doctor Falls, then stays sat down to interview him about his new book Watling Street.

Direct download: Eruditorum_Presscast_10.12_-_The_Doctor_Falls.mp3
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Phil sits down with Chris O'Leary to talk Mondasian Cybermen and many things that are off topic.

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Phil and Elliot Chapman sit down to talk The Eaters of Light.

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Phil sits down with Ian McDuffie to talk Gatiss. One of them volunteered for this job.

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Phil sits down with Kit Gonzo to chat mind control, monks, and Toby Whithouse.

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A podcast discussing the Doctor Who episode "The Pyramid at the End of the World."

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Phil and Jack talk Extremis from within your computer. 

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Phil and Shana sit down to talk about Oxygen. 

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Our scheduled guest couldn't make it, and so Seth Aaron Hershman steps into the breach at short notice and gets rewarded for his trouble by an episode that's easier to complain about than praise, and easier still to just fail to have anything to say about at all. How do we do talking about it for an hour? You tell us.

Direct download: Eruditorum_Presscast_10.04_-_Knock_Knock.mp3
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Phil! Caitlin! Punching racists! What more could you possibly want out of your morning commute other than the abolition of capitalism and with it the basic idea of a commute?

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In which Daniel Harper and Phil Sandifer find much more to grouse about than smile about.

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Kicking off our weekly series of podcasts on Doctor Who Series 10, Phil and Jane talk "The Pilot." 

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Phil Sandifer sits down with Kieron Gillen to talk about his new series Uber: Invasion, the second part of his alternate history World War II story, which sees Nazi superhumans invade the US. So yeah, that's a little on the nose.

This podcast is in part to promote The Last War in Albion, Phil's new book on the early work of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. You can buy that here.

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Kevin is joined in the Pex Lives recording bunker with friends-of-the-show Gene and Kim to begin answering the question: after the election, what is to be done?
 
A statement From Gene, Kim and Kevin:
 
We should not only organize on the basis of reacting to events as they transpire, but we must take the initiative and not allow them to keep us on the back foot. We will defend our existing gains by demanding more, by rejecting complacency. We need to build a movement around those demands in order to create the conditions for the new society. We should not stand for the mere restoration of liberalism, but for supplanting it. We should seek to secure not just the familiar rights, but real liberation founded on material equality. The immediate, short-term struggles must be understood in light of the long struggle. We have to demand what they cannot deliver. 
 
Amelioration is our priority, but we must not substitute reformism for reform. we have no interest in rescuing the Democratic Party from itself. We can use the party for as much as it is useful, but we must remember it is not a neutral tool, and neither is the state. These are organs of the ruling class. Their very structure presupposes rule by the capitalist class. So we must take care.
 
We don’t have all the answers. We can see the broad sweep, but We're just as disoriented as anyone. We may come across as alarmist in the podcast. We don't mean to. We think we should prepare for the worst and consider what we’d do if it came to that, but we can't tell the future, and there are reasons to be optimistic. 
 
We also don't want to get anybody killed or hurt. Assessing risk and figuring out what you can do—that’s not for us or anyone to do for you. Just remember that whatever you can contribute will be useful, and stay safe. Your local organizations will probably have better ideas than we do.
 
Oh, and one last thing: a shoutout to @PissPigGrandDad, who’s fighting for the revolution in Rojava. Solidarity with the YPG.
 
Links:
 
-Where Does the Left Go From Here? Jezebel. Particularly check out Roqayah Chamseddine's insights.
-Interview with @PissPigGranddad. Civil Defence Units.
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Phil sits down with David J Haskins of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets to completely ignore both of those things in favor of talking about magic and Haskins's work with Alan Moore, including V for Vendetta, "March of the Sinister Ducks," The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, and The Birth Caul

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At last that guy who sings the unsettling theme music about burning down the world shows up for an interview, in which we completely fail to talk about him because this month we're just promoting Neoreaction a Basilisk. So instead we talk about accelerationism, hyperstition, and the end of the world.

Neoreaction a Basilisk remains available on Kickstarter all May. 

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Phil is joined by Eruditorum Press's very own Jane Campbell to talk about the gnostic and mystical implications of Neoreaction a Basilisk, which as I'm sure you know by now is available on Kickstarter all through May. And if you enjoy these podcasts, you should really back it, because holy crap the hosting bill this month is mental.

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Phil sits down with Sam Keeper of Storming the Ivory Tower to talk about Neoreaction a Basilisk, it's gnostic structure, and his secret traumatic origin story.

Neoreaction a Basilisk is currently available on Kickstarter.

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Phil continues his self-indulgent Neoreaction a Basilisk book tour with Eruditorum Press's very own Jack Graham, where we sit down and have the two-and-a-half hour conversation about horror philosophy, leftist politics, and the alt-right that you'd expect us to. Also a bunch of Hugo Awards stuff, and generally one of the best Sandifer/Graham rambles to date.

You can get Neoreaction a Basilisk on Kickstarter all through May.

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This month, a special series of Eruditorum Presscasts as Phil sits down with various guests to be interviewed about his new book, Neoreaction a Basilisk. This week he's joined by David Gerard, who read the book in 2000 word chunks serialized as Phil was writing it, and who spent time in the trenches of LessWrong and reading neoreactionaries before it was cool.

You can back Neoreaction a Basilisk on Kickstarter. 

Direct download: Neoreaction_a_Basilisk_Podcast_1.mp3
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Phil is joined by Noah Berlatsky, author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics to talk about Grant Morrison's new Wonder Woman graphic novel and the usual motley of off-topic subjects.

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