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Give Them An Argument

By: Ben Burgis
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  • Give Them An Argument is a YouTube show and podcast dedicated to building a smarter, funnier and more strategic Left. New episodes are live on YouTube on Monday nights with an exclusive postgame for GTAA patrons after the main show. (To become a patron, go to patreon.com/benburgis and sign up for the monthly cost of a milkshake at a 50s nostalgia diner in 1994.) Past guests have included Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, David Pizarro, Gregory Sadler, Glenn Greenwald, Krystal Ball, Bhaskar Sunkara, Sam Seder, Ana Kasparian, Emma Vigeland, Matt Christman, and Amber Frost. The show has also featured debates between host Ben Burgis and opponents ranging from Walter Block to Charlie Kirk.Ben is a philosophy professor, Jacobin columnist, and frequent debater. He did a regular "Debunk" segment on the Michael Brooks Show until 2020. He's appeared on the Debate Night with Charlie Kirk, System Update with Glenn Greenwald, Rising, Krystal, Kyle & Friends, the Majority Report w/Sam Seder & the Joe Rogan Experience.benburgis.compatreon.com/benburgis
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  • Season 6 Episode 14: Alexander Herbert on Lenin/Ben on WABC/Watching Tucker in the Postgame

    Season 6 Episode 14: Alexander Herbert on Lenin/Ben on WABC/Watching Tucker in the Postgame
    Apr 26 2024

    Alexander Herbert, a historian of the Soviet Union, joins us to chat about his Substack essay "Do We Really Need Lenin Today?" Before that, Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew listen to some of Ben's recent appearance on the WABC show "The Other Side of Midnight" where he answers some questions from host Frank Marano about objections to his views on Gaza. In the postgame for patrons, we watch Tucker Carlson's deeply strange appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience

    Read Alex's essay:

    https://alexherbert.substack.com/p/do-we-really-need-lenin-today

    Follow Alex on Twitter: @alextherbert

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

    patreon.com/benburgis

    Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

    benburgis.substack.com
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    2 hrs and 10 mins
  • Season 6 Episode 12: Jay Ponti on QAnon, Trump, and "Neo-Fascism"

    Season 6 Episode 12: Jay Ponti on QAnon, Trump, and "Neo-Fascism"
    Apr 12 2024

    Jay Ponti, the author of "Be The Revolution: How Occupy Wall Street and the Bernie Sanders Movement Reshaped American Politics" joins Ben Burgis to talk about the chapter on QAnon, Trump, and "neo-fascism"--including some surprising personal connections. Before that, Ben and the crew will be joined joined by the great RM Brown to watch, among other things, Charlie Kirk lose his mind on the subject of Haitian voodo.

    Order Jay's book:

    https://www.amazon.com/Be-Revolution-Movement-Reshaped-American/dp/B0CLJXZ5Q5

    Follow him on Twitter: @jayponti

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

    patreon.com/benburgis

    Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

    benburgis.substack.com
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • Thursday Night Debate Breakdown: Sam Seder vs. Majority Report Caller On Social Security

    Thursday Night Debate Breakdown: Sam Seder vs. Majority Report Caller On Social Security
    Apr 9 2024

    Ben Burgis and J. Andrew World continue the weekly series of Thursday Night Debate Breakdowns by watching Sam Seder debate a Majority Report caller who called him a "f---ing idiot" on Twitter for his position on Social Security.

    Follow Andy on Twitter: @rightaboutnow2

    Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis

    Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show

    Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:

    patreon.com/benburgis

    Read the weekly philosophy Substack:

    benburgis.substack.com
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    1 hr and 28 mins
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Fantastic Podcast

I highly recommend it. Mr. Burgis does a wonderful job enlightening listeners to the myriad of topics on the benefits of Socialism.

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