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J from MAKC
@jaybeware.bsky.social
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"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives" - CLR James.

Co-host/Producer at Millennials Are Killing Capitalism & Co-host of The Imperial 80s
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Monday the 19th at 11 AM EST
David Chávez, Steven Osuna, Hiram Rivera, and Alejandro Villalpando join forces to breakdown the first Wrestlemania and the broader impact of the WWF amid the Imperial '80s
www.youtube.com/live/4PvJQxY...
January 17, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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New bonus episode goes live at 8 PM EST on the Imperial 80s patreon. Mtume and I started a watch through of Bill Simmons' Most Rewatchable movies of the 21st Century and had a little fun. Just something fun (hopefully) to thank our patrons
www.patreon.com/posts/148312...
January 16, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Monday at 10 AM EST - The Imperial '80s is back!
Up next: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, John Landis... 1983's Trading Places

Come hang out with us as we dissect it
www.youtube.com/live/8gQK8CK...
January 2, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Monday at 10 AM EST The Imperial 80s will tackle the 1987 "Thanksgiving Comedy" Planes, Trains and Automobiles with Steve Martin & John Candy (written, directed, and produced by John Hughes): www.youtube.com/live/oyN-drV...
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Monday at 10 AM EST The Imperial 80s will tackle the 1987 "Thanksgiving Comedy" Planes, Trains and Automobiles with Steve Martin & John Candy (written, directed, and produced by John Hughes): www.youtube.com/live/oyN-drV...
November 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Monday at 10 AM EST - It is the Imperial 80s episode you've all been waiting for (or didn't know you were)

Lara Steehi & Stephen Sheei will join us to breakdown the zio-imperialist clusterf🤬ck that is the 1986 film 'The Delta Force' starring Chuck Norris
www.youtube.com/live/hvJUY-y...
The Imperial '80s - Lara Sheehi - Stephen Sheehi; in the middle a poster for the 1986 film 'The Delta Force' starring Chuck Norris & Lee Marvin the tag line reads "The Siege... The Ordeal... The Rescue"; MAKC logo, Within Our Gates logo; November 17th at 10 AM EST
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Uploaded a conversation I had with Hanif Abdurraqib in January of 2021 on the passing of MF DOOM
youtu.be/uHENp7z0Q7M?...
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Weds, Nov 12th at 10 AM EST @samanthasketches.bsky.social & @rjohnston815.bsky.social will join me to talk about the critically acclaimed Netflix doc, "The Perfect Neighbor" & asking whether it constitutes a new form of Copaganda
www.youtube.com/live/iMsCdFI...
Title: "Is 'The Perfect Neighbor' A New Form of Copaganda? featuring Renee Johnston & Samantha Youssef; on Everything Else with J & Friends; the post for the documentary in the foreground along with sketches of Samantha Youssef and Renee Johnston; and in the background an image of Susan Lorincz holding her chest as she is interrogated by police officers after killing Ajike "AJ" Owens;
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Monday - November 10th at 10 AM ET

We'll get into the original 'The Running Man" based on Stephen King's novel, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, considered by many to be one of the more prophetic pieces of sci-fi produced in the 1980s.
www.youtube.com/live/u8UNHAu...
The Imperial '80s - The Running Man featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger; Nov 10th at 10 AM ET
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Sunday at 10 AM ET -
The first episode of a brand new series!

"Rap Album Dialectics"

Run-DMC's Debut with Dr. Jared Ball (@imixwhatilike.bsky.social)!

On the 'Everything Else with J & Friends' YT page (make sure you're subscribed👇 with notifications on!)
www.youtube.com/live/vAf3oJe...
text reads "Rap Album Dialectics - Run-DMC's Debut" from 'Everything Else with J & Friends" featuring Dr. Jared Ball; images of Run-DMC performing, the front and back of Run-DMC's debut album; and an image of Run, Jam Master Jay, and DMC walking together on the street; image of Dr. Jared Ball in the foreground;
November 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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On Monday at 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT on The Imperial 80s we'll talk to Charles Xu about the 1987 Steven Spielberg film 'Empire of the Sun'
www.youtube.com/live/9ZzU3rb...
The Imperial '80s "Empire of the Sun" with Charles Xu; Within Our Gates & Millennials Are Killing Capitalism logos and an image of Charles Xu
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL - Nick Estes ( @nicke.bsky.social )
joins us on Friday at 11 AM ET for discussion of the 1988 horror film "The Blob" - We can't wait to talk about this wacky movie with Nick!
www.youtube.com/live/inmyBpb...
THE IMPERIAL '80s - THE BLOB WITH NICK ESTES: "Scream now, while there's still room to breathe" and "Terror has no shape" MAKC and Within Our Gates logos; this is a promotional photo of an episode of Imperial 80s focusing on the 1988 film 'The Blob' in the background photo is an image of 'The Blob' swallowing up a car, flames rise behind the car; image of Nick Estes in the foreground
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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How do we maintain our Psychic Militancy amid the "ceasefire" in Gaza? How do we maintain it when we face repression for organizing or taking a stand?

We'll talk to Dr. Lara Sheehi on @makcapitalism.bsky.social about that and more Wednesday at 10 AM ET -
www.youtube.com/live/8LVrHOQ...
title: "Maintaining Psychic Militancy Amid Repression with Lara Sheehi" shows a woman working at a computer, rubbing her eyes, she looks stressed out; a Palestine flag is in the background; Lara Sheehi smiles in the foreground; MAKC logo at the bottom left corner; Wednesday at 10 AM ET on MAKC's YouTube page
October 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Launch Day: Everything Else with J - NBA, La Cosa Nostra, FanDuel, Chauncey Billups, Kash Patel

Starting Sunday at 11 AM ET
www.youtube.com/live/gk3YntW...
"Did he say La Cosa Nostra?" images of Kash Patel; Chauncey Billups, a graphic on "The Origins of the American Cosa Nostra"; logo "Everything Else with J & Friends"
October 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Starting in 15 minutes with Renee Johnston from Saturdays with Renee! We'll be talking about the HBO documentary The Alabama Solution, which prominently features founders of the Free Alabama Movement (on @makcapitalism.bsky.social ) www.youtube.com/live/rOdidhJ...
October 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Friday at 10 AM ET @justmaybechris.bsky.social joins the Philadelphia Portal (a Philly based media project that @makcapitalism.bsky.social is a part of & currently streams on the MAKC YT channel)

We'll be talking about Philadelphia & the Politics of Black Memory
www.youtube.com/live/RfLhY57...
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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For episode 13 of The Imperial 80s we'll dig into the 1982 "supernatural horror" film 'Poltergeist'

Monday (10/13) at 10 AM ET
www.youtube.com/live/mF9wtLL...
October 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Tuesday, October 7th at 10 AM ET / 5 PM in Palestine

We will be joined by Abdaljawad Omar & Lara Sheehi to discuss October 7th, 2023 with 2 years of hindsight, the last 2 years of resistance & genocide, the current moment, * the future of resistance www.youtube.com/live/vocPxGx...
2 Years of Resistance, 2 Years of Genocide featuring Abdaljawad Omar & Lara Sheehi; image of Palestinians exhilarated by the tearing down of the prison walls around the Gaza Strip concentration camp during Tufan Al Aqsa; images of guests; MAKC logo
October 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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On Monday on Imperial 80s we'll be kicking off our month of 80s horror movies with 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' Renee Johnston of Saturdays with Renee will join us!

stream on @makcapitalism.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/6SFoqu8...
October 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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ICYMI: our latest discussion with Abdaljawad Omar is now up on @makcapitalism.bsky.social
Very grateful to Abboud for sharing so much of his work with us over the last 2 years. I learn a lot every time.
www.youtube.com/live/wwKDHpS...
September 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Today at 10 AM ET I'll be joining @adnanhusain.bsky.social, @nicke.bsky.social, and Sina Rahmani on The East is a Podcast for a livestream. We'll be streaming it on @makcapitalism.bsky.social as well. Tune in youtube.com/live/mP65EPZ...
September 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Now up on our Imperial 80s patreon, our bonus episode with Alex Aviña. We definitely got in some additional laughs. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...
September 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The Imperial '80s, Episode 8:

¡Three Amigos! with Alexander Aviña

Live, this Friday at 11:30 AM EDT
www.youtube.com/live/WNLFl5j...
September 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Tuesday at noon ET (US), 9 AM PT we'll be live again with
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more!
www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...
"T. Hoxha, Casey Goonan, & Defending Direct Action for Palestine with Dylan Rodríguez"; images of T. Hoxha (of the Filton 24) and Casey Goonan, and Dylan Rodríguez; background is a stock image of a pro-Palestine march. MAKC logo in the bottom left
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Tuesday at 10 AM EDT Steven Osuna will join us for our discussion of the original Predator film. We'll talk Vietnam Syndrome, Contras, US-backed Dirty Wars in Central American, & the film's roided out Rainbow Coalition for Empire
youtu.be/BmwPpIRD8LU?...
The Imperial '80s Episode 7: Predator featuring Steven Osuna; image of the poster for Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger it reads "soon the hunt will begin" with Arnold in the sights of the Predator; MAKC logo and Within Our Gates logo;
August 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM