Sex therapists Julia Postema and Jeremiah Gibson join Christophe and Liz for conversation about sex, including a discussion about the far-reaching political and social implications of America's ignorance and miseducation of human sexuality. Julia and Jeremiah are co-hosts of the podcast Sexvangelicals: The Sex Education the Church Didn't Want You t…

We have an off-the-cuff chat about how events, like the recent shooting of Ralph Yarl, affect Black folks in America. We discuss how marginalized groups feel the emotional impact of seeing people like them being treated as less than human, and talk about how to show up as a real ally. ____________________________________________________ Connect wit…

In our second episode of “the water we grew up in” Christophe shines a light on the racist dog-whistles that are commonly used to deflect from real issues. ____________________________________________________ Connect with us: Email – [email protected] Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/radically__human/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.…

This episode kicks off a new series called “The Water We Grew Up In.” The series examines aspects of White supremacy and patriarchy that even we progressives don't generally notice because they are so fully integrated into the systems of our daily lives. We're like fish in water. We're talking about the sorts of intolerance that are more subtle and…

Difo & Liz talk about the moralization of capitalistic “success.” Why does society judge the unhoused, those living in poverty, and feel entitled to police the way they spend their time and money? How can we, as progressives, recognize our own programming, and move past it? ____________________________________________________ Connect with us: Email…

What can menstrual cycles teach us about allyship? In this episode, Liz & Christophe discuss how centering experiences of traditionally “othered” folks leads to a more equitable and just world. Learning about periods really CAN make men better allies. How can we extend that to racial justice? And beyond?_____________________________________________…

EP 100 - This is your brain on capitalism Liz and Difo welcome the new year with a check-in. They discuss the perils of capitalist culture, how we can live our best lives within these systems, and the problem with free will. ____________________________________________________ Connect with us: Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/radically__human/…

EP 99 - How to talk to your racist uncle/ kitchen table activism Liz and Difo talk about the holidays - traditions, mental health, difficulties, joys. They share strategies for standing up for their progressive values at the dinner table and how to have fruitful social justice conversations with family over the holidays. ___________________________…

EP 98 - Midterms and the Importance of Hope (aka the *new* greatest generation) Christophe and Liz react to the 2022 midterm results, and discuss the importance of hope: reasons they still have it, and how to keep it alive. ___________________________________________________ Show notes: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/americas-electoral-fu…

We discuss Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” and how it applies to our work as progressives. We also share our thoughts (and stress!) about the upcoming midterms. —----------------------------------------------------------------- Show Notes: “The Paradox of Tolerance” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Where to vote – https://w…

Difo & Liz talk with Sandra Fraser-Maurer about how the overturning of Roe is impacting mental health in America. —----------------------------------------------------------------- Sandra Fraser-Maurer, MA, CD, E-RYT - Clinical Mental Health Counselor and trauma-informed Yoga Teacher Find her on instagram @sandrafmaurer Sandra’s Counseling Website …

Difo and Liz react to the protests that have erupted in Iran after the "morality police" murdered a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini, and they compare the oppressive systems in Iran to those in the United States. Difo and Liz also discuss why most self-identified "White Liberals" are really "White Moderates" and they consider how everyda…

Difo and Liz connect with Zoe Heath to expose the GOP's war on the LGBTQ+ community, and to discuss what Zoe is doing, and what we allies should be doing, to fight back. ______________________________ Zoe Heath, Sussex County Pride founder and executive director Find on Instagram at @zoequality and on Twitter and tiktok @zoequalitynj Support your p…

Christophe and Liz discuss how the relentless anxiety of life in a capitalist environment can undermine happiness starting at the individual level and scaling up to the societal level. ______________________________ Patreon Email: [email protected] Instagram: @radical_secular Facebook Twitter: @RadicalSecular Podcast All standard podcast …

Christophe and Liz react to the victory in Kansas on abortion rights and the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, consider why it's so important to find reasons to hope, and reflect on this episode's Self Care Tip Of the Day. ______________________________ Show notes: ‘No’ prevails: Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution U…

Christophe and Liz define "Radical Empathy" in the context of social justice. Before that, they reflect on the surprising lack of catastrophic news over the previous two weeks. And they discuss what average people can do to fight for social justice, including how to support friend of the podcast, Coral Anika Theill's, fight against theocracy and pa…

Christophe introduces the podcast's transition into a new phase. Christophe and Liz discuss the emotional and practical challenges of navigating the post Roe, post truth, post democracy (?) environment in which we progressives find ourselves.By Christophe Difo and Liz Wilson

Abortion and Juneteenth The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro & T-shirts (06:23) Christophe, Liz and Sean react to the overturning of Roe v Wade. (46:40) Difo and Liz. Gun policy. Catching up about Alaska. Appreciating the little things. (01:01:59) Juneteenth. (01:15:54) The consequences of ideological purity. (01:…

Body Count The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (6:45) Gun violence death statistics and rationalizations. Economic impact. Survivor guilt. America's violent history. Domestic violence. (21:53) Examining the "why?" How many weapons do Americans own? A public health analysis. Comparison to other nation…

Intergenerational Trauma and Buffalo The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (8:11) Difo and Liz - Christophe Difo and Liz Wilson. The psychological toll of recent events. Radical empathy. Holding pain without being destroyed by it. Genetic changes caused by trauma. Black culture as a survival strategy. …

The War on Women and Children, with special guest Kevin Bolling The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro (02:20) Roe v. Wade, a democratic post-mortem. How we lost the Supreme Court and endangered every human right we hold dear. Creating second-class citizens. (14:55) Coming to terms with not only climate, but our bur…

Radically Rethinking Drug Use The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts (08:12) Earth Day, the climate crisis, Elon Musk buys Twitter. The demagoguery of the "free speech" canard. (21:20) Christophe interviews Meg Fazzi about drug policy. His own struggle with drugs. Meg's family issues related to drug use…

Bodyscapes of Power The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts (05:34) Why have we accepted intersex surgeries that mutilate children? Modernism recognized that traditions often brutalized the body. Post-modernism as a reaction against the failures of modernism to prevent the atrocities of the 20th century.…

I'm Out - with Sirena Prophet (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (03:23) Barriers to justice and reasons people refuse to confront human evil. Whataboutism, bothsidesism, and conspiracy theories. Holding people accountable. Moral deflection to provocations, victim blaming. Post-truth. (09:10) The war, and the slap. (32:56) Joe Occhipinti opens the conversa…

Putin's Christian War (00:00) Intro and t-shirts. (5:59) Current news highlighting the issues around the pandemic, climate change and inflation and the need to stay informed. (14:49) The situation on the ground in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. What’s at stake. (25:17) The principles of secularism and the need to challenge religious authoritarianism…

Women's Work with Liz Wilson The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts (05:36) Ukraine: Joe and Sean join Christophe in reacting to the first week of the Putin war in Ukraine. (26:48) Ukraine: Christophe, Joe and Sean identify the silver linings associated with the Putin war in Ukraine. (38:30) Women’s Inv…

Resilience and Hope in an Age of Crisis The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts (9:39) How should you feel? What has kept you up at night? What has really challenged your strength and courage? (20:52) Whataboutism. Complexity. Avoiding lazy black and white thinking. (26:45) Lack of understanding of world…

Embracing the EV Future The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co. (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts (07:05) The importance and complexity of energy. Why it's so fraught with controversy. The breakdown of global carbon emissions by sector. (20:11) Why are there such strong feelings against electric vehicles? (24:30) The ten biggest EV lies,…

A Radical Workplace - with Nilou Khonsari The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co., Jersey City, NJ (00:00) Open and introduce guest. (03:06) Guest segment. Nilou Khonsari is the founder of Pangea Legal Services, focusing on immigration law. She is a first-generation immigrant from Iran. The legal structure of the US immigration sy…

Attack from Within The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co., Jersey City, NJ (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (09:10) Joe, Christophe and Sean answer viewer/listener questions from Episode 76 on the topic of the film "Don't Look Up." (24:42) Lessons from January sixth. Viewing the January 6, 2021 insurrection in the context of the long h…

The Comet is Definitely Coming The Radical Secular is sponsored in part by Kanibal & Co., Jersey City, NJ (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts. (05:30) Christophe, Joe and Sean and special guest Pen Occhipinti analyze the #1 global Netflix hit film "Don't Look Up." We discuss the social, political implications of the film, as applied to the climate crisis. (…

Labor Rights Now! (00:00) Intro & T-Shirts (06:35) "Colin in Black and White." In-depth discussion of the Netflix docudrama series about the life of Colin Kaepernick, its connection to our shared history, and its implications for race and class and labor in America. (40:02) Labor and politics and race. The history and importance and decline of labo…

Fascism in Today's America - Abortion and Power (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts (03:26) Abortion rights at unprecedented risk. Christophe leads Joe and Sean in a discussion of the legal history of Roe v. Wade and SCOTUS jurisprudence. Judicial vs. legislative protection for the right to privacy which includes abortion and birth control. The viability st…

Oh...My...Cron - Fighting Omicron and White Male Fragility (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (06:07) Omicron: Joe explains what we know about the Omicron variant so far. Christophe and Joe discuss the role global capitalism and old imperial dynamics have played in the character of the COVID-19 pandemic. (26:35) Family Dynamics: Christophe and Joe discuss …

A Theocracy of Disinfo - with Jim Stewartson (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (03:25) The global reactionary assault on democracy and secularism. The irrevocable loss of the "old America" and the end of the post-war era. The end of traditional electoral politics and policy-driven constituencies. (17:09) The multi-decade liberal campaign to control firear…

Of God, Climate, and Countries (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts (03:09) Sean discusses his article in The Radical Secular Journal titled "God Doesn't Matter." The irrelevancy of God. The moral collapse of the "New Atheists." Further defining the Conservative Moral Hierarchy. The significance of calling oneself an "atheist." (20:31) Joe and Sean debunk th…

Is There Any Hope for the Democratic Party? with Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg The hosts of Brain Trust Live join The Radical Secular team for a spirited panel discussion about recent Democratic losses. (00:00) Intro and T-shirts. (09:21) How do we keep losing to these clowns??? Are we doomed to lose the House in 2022, and to the GOP installin…

Stop Sitting Out Local Elections - with Scott Paul Scott Paul is a candidate on the November 2, 2021 ballot in Sussex County, New Jersey, for a three-year term as county commissioner. He is an entrepreneur and longtime social justice activist, and a hip-hop artist. (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (04:12) The story of Lauren Jones-Rabbit, the H3AL coalit…

You and Chappelle Need Therapy - with Stephanie Roth-Goldberg (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (04:00) Capitalism’s Bait and Switch: Sean walks the audience through a summary of his most recent article at The Radical Secular Journal. (07:50) Dave Chappelle’s Anti-Trans Rhetoric: Christophe, Sean, and Joe dispel all delusions that Chappelle’s “comedy” is …

Workers of the World, What's Up? (00:00) Intro & T-Shirts (03:58) Drew plugs his appearance on the Toy Migos podcast. (05:32) Sean plugs his appearance on NarativTV with @ZevShalev, @jimstewartson, and @Heidi_Cuda, and discusses white Christian grievance, apocalypticism, and theocratic rule. (11:24) A personal perspective from Joe on the issue of c…

The World's Most Destructive Organization (00:00) Intro and T-Shirts with Joe and Sean. (4:00) The Debt Ceiling fight. (10:26) The January 6 Commission subpoenas. Rick Wilson on the incredibly high stakes of enforcement. (22:00) Rising tensions between Taiwan and China. (30:47) Antifascist activist Jim Stewartson @jimstewartson exposed on Twitter t…

A Constitutional Software Upgrade: with Alan Dechert Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, Alan Dechert noticed an incomprehensible paradox. Humanity had seen incredible progress in many ways, but civilization was still in poor condition. Wars, violence, famine, environmental catastrophes, inequities, and corruption dominated the news. In the 1970s, w…

Trumpism of the '80s in Yonkers, NY (00:00) Intro and T-shirts. News segment: (05:42) Covid madness. The Herman Cain Award. ICU vigilantes. (15:04) The GOP Arizona "Fraudit" shows an even bigger win for Biden. (26:25) China's crypto ban, and the horror of Chinese authoritarianism. (35:29) David Simon threatens to pull his next series from Texas ove…

The Liberal Media's "Both Sides" Problem: with Doug Berger News segment with Sean, Joe, and Drew: (00:00) Intro and T-shirts. (06:38) The California recall results and reform proposals. (14:20) Unhinged Joe Biden conspiracy theories vs. 9/11 conspiracies. (19:02) The Bob Woodward and Robert Costa book "Peril." (24:17) Florida's clownish governor. (…

An Infantryman in Afghanistan: with Almir Osmanovic (00:00) Intro and T-shirts. (08:45) Guest Segment: Almir joins Christophe and Sean in gushing about tacos, motorcycles and motorcycle riding. (21:11) Almir’s Background: Almir describes how he came to live in Western New Jersey, including his flight from Bosnia and entrance to the United States as…

Secular Left with Doug Berger Happy Labor Day!! The Radical Secular team is off for the long weekend, so we bring you an encore presentation of Secular Left podcast episode 25 with Doug Berger, featuring an audio interview with The Radical Secular co-hosts Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet. (00:00) Intro. (01:41) What is The Radical Secular podcast?…

The Point of the Spear: Religious Fundamentalism (and Radical Transformation) (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (05:33) The news. Afghanistan and Covid updates. (21:09) Joe, Sean and Drew define secularism. Examining why nations and groups want to establish theocracies and oppose secularism. Dramatic drop in god-belief and religious adherence in the young…

A Struggle to be Seen: Women in Afghanistan & Non-Binary Folks in the United States (00:00) Intro and T-shirts (06:26) Afghanistan vs. Vietnam: Christophe describes the Taliban’s leaders and history as well as the strategy the Islamic militants executed during their stunning recapture of Afghanistan. Christophe, Joe, and Drew compare and contrast t…

Simon Says: "Show Me A Hero" Drew Scott, Joe Occhipinti, and Sean Prophet break down the first two episodes of HBO's David Simon political drama "Show Me A Hero." The six-part 2015 miniseries covers the story of mayor Nick Wasicsko, local hero in Yonkers, New York, and his battle to erect court-ordered public housing over the objections of white re…

Capital Punishment and Social Control Our fourth and final installment covering Richard Wrangham's book The Goodness Paradox. Which is the true story of human self-domestication through the formation of coalitions, who transformed and evolved our species to eliminate high levels of reactive aggression, by executing bullies and troublemakers. (00:00…