Hey Y'all! I'm back again with a long episode about the new album, detailing the poetry, stories, and meaning behind the songs, along with snarky remarks unpalatable for the other project channels. If you have not already, I'd be both honored and delighted if you checked out the new album at the link below: Listen Here: Jules Taylor - Whiskey Clear Also, I had said at the top of the episode that I would play back the album in its entirety, but let's be real here - that would make this episode too long and I think listeners would prefer to keep the deliberate listening of music and podcasts separate. Like you come to me for chats and not to play music but I would also like to give you the option to take in my music. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Hey Y'all, I am still on hiatus here on this platform, but I wanted to take a moment and introduce a different podcast that I am a co-host on. This is a really special project I was invited to spearhead with my friends Jimmy Willden (Director, Songwriter, Film Composer) and Garrett Wieland (Songwriter and Old West Fanatic). We are about 11 episodes in at this point, and I am finding that I fit in a lot of philosophical concepts there as they relate to songwriting. This is such a joy for me to take part in, and since there was the tiniest bit of overlap, I've decided to give y'all a taste here in hopes some of you will make it over to the Corpus Christi Songwriter Podcast Feed. And! I have a new album out, available now at all streaming links. Click here to listen to Whiskey Clear New episodes coming in a little while. See y'all soon. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

GoFundMe for Relocating Kristen's Family to Virginia WKRN - Mom of trans teen moving out of Tennessee after new law banning gender-affirming care Jules speaks with writer, artist, performer, and storyteller Kristen Chapman Gibbons about her journey from preacher's daughter to community cultivator. Kristen Chapman Gibbons on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Kristen Chapman Gibbons' Website Art by Kristen Madison on my Mind True Stories Let Loose on Soundcloud Performances by Kristen Performance at the Tennessee Women's Theater Festival Other stories by Kristen https://youtu.be/hrDjfiTVeEA https://youtu.be/3b7xOcLbJdo https://youtu.be/6xewdFiWmsY https://youtu.be/Jal7Ry6OX4E https://youtu.be/Habm2XPsjVs Things we mentioned during the conversation Wikipedia page for Nellie Bly National Women's History      Museum Nellie Bly Max Alvarez's Podcast: https://bit.ly/workingpod Outro Music: Kestra - 'Better World' --- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon --- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support --- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 --- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic --- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com --- Music provided by: Self-Taut  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

  We’re joined by Daniel Tutt once again, and this time we’re speaking about his newest work- Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation.  Daniel is a professor and philosopher of psychoanalysis and Marxist thought, and he is the convener of Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and politics, a public learning platform that offers study groups, seminars, and podcasts.    Daniel Tutt – Twitter, Patreon, Website Daniel’s podcast – Jouissance Vampires Study Groups on Psychoanalysis and Politics on YouTube Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation by Daniel Tutt Conver/gences presents “Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel” for Zer0 Books and No Easy Answers   Consider tossing us a buck or two to keep the lights on:   No Easy Answers on Patreon   And send us your feedback noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com   And consider leaving us a 5 star review.  I said consider it I didn’t mean actually do it.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Dr. Richard Barbrook is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Media Freedom (Pluto, 1995) and Imaginary Futures (Pluto, 2007).  His other important writings  include The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, Cyber-communism, The Regulation of Liberty and The Class of the New, and today with Jules he is discussing his prophetic 1995 essay "The Californian Ideology".    In the essay, Dr. Barbrook and Andy Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 90s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism.  This new amalgamated ideology combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like Wired Magazine to promulgate their ideas.  This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.    The original promise of the Californian Ideology was that computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destinies. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or change.   Additional Info/Links Below…   The Californian Ideology pdf  Dr. Richard Barbrook - Twitter, Website, GoodReads Imaginary Futures:  From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, by Richard Barbrook The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron The Class of the New by Richard Barbrook The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook Support this podcast and unlock bonus content: www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Jules sits down with professor of economics and author Rob Larson to discuss Friedrich Hayek's work The Road to Serfdom. Additional Links / Info Below… Rob Larson is a Professor of Economics and author of Bleakonomics and Capitalism vs. Freedom from Zero Books. He writes for a variety of venues including Jacobin, In These Times, Current Affairs, and Dollars & Sense. Rob Larson on Twitter, Goodreads Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley by Rob Larson Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom by Rob      Larson Bleakonomics:      A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and      Environmental Destruction by Rob Larson "Bill Gates’s      Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket" by Rob Larson for Jacobin "Trillions and Trillions: The      Selective Blindness on Endless Economic Growth" by Rob Larson for Current Affairs Permanent Links Below Follow us on Social Media - Twitter Send us a message -      noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Support this podcast on Patreon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Let's talk about Foucault part 1 Jules is driving and having some thoughts about the philosopher Michel Foucault, as his projects relates to the project of Karl Marx. Cited in this episode are previous interviews with Gabriel Rockhill(episode 33) and Todd May(episode 16). The Philosophy of Foucault by Todd May The End of Policing by Alex Vitale In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Permanent Links Below… Follow us on      Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon Join the      discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast Send in a voice      message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message Visit our      Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers Hang out with us      on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 One-off      Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic Comments,      concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com Music provided      by: Self-Taut  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

In today's episode, Jules speaks with Michelle Acciavatti. Michelle is a funeral director and an End of Life Specialist working in Vermont. She is a board member of the National Funeral Home Alliance, president, and co-founder of Vermont Natural Burial, she is president of Green Burial Vermont, and she is a founding member of the Collective for Radial Death Studies. She and I spoke about her role as a death doula, her role as a funeral director, and the general labor of death. As you'll hear in our conversation, we talk about death from many angles, from the arranging of a funeral to guiding people through their end of life transition, and there's even some radical politics thrown in there. For Further Reading Thinking About Having a 'Green' Funeral? Here's What to Know Helping Vermonters Prepare For 'Their Own Good Death' The National Home Funeral Alliance Michelle's Links Michelle's website | Ending-Well Green Burial Vermont Collective for Radical Death Studies  Vermont Natural Burial Incorporated Follow Ending-Well on Twitter, and Follow Green Burial Vermont on Twitter --- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon --- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support --- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5 --- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic --- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com --- Music provided by: Self-Taut  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Jules sits down with Professor Todd May and asks him questions about politics, philosophy, and the human condition. A sprawling conversation that spans from the indifference of the cosmos to why we should say hello to the cat. Articles Mentioned: Todd May interviewed by George Yancy for the New York Times Books by Todd May Books mentioned by Todd - Why Civil Resistance Works  --- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon --- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support --- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers --- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic --- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: noeasyanswerspodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support