Podcast by John Steppling
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Nov 14, 2026 · 1:36:50
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Hegseth fails basic military decorum, Democratic Congress fails its first…
Nov 6, 2026 · 1:33:59
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: US mid-term elections, shifting demographics in flyover country and red states,…
Oct 30, 2026 · 1:14:32
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The anti-capitalists who can’t find socialism, a sudden worldwide warning to…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1:24:39
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: upcoming documentary about Terry Ork, theft of the mid-term elections? Saudi…
Oct 18, 2026 · 1:34:36
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Brecht Jonkers. Music track: “Matchbox Blues” by Blind Lemon Jefferson (public domain). See Aesthetic Resistance on Substack…
Oct 10, 2026 · 1:27:30
Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The EU and China talk about their trade deficit, asset stripping of Europe, the…
Oct 4, 2026 · 1:25:59
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The botched execution of Christa Pike, the death-defying, reality-defying Lie…
Sep 25, 2026 · 1:21:21
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Tommy Tuberville and the furries, no protest as Trump violates the UN Charter in…
Sep 18, 2026 · 1:33:54
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ed Sheeran misreads the public mood on Zionist atrocities, Kash Patel’s unusual…
Sep 11, 2026 · 1:31:00
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump in the rubble on 9/11, 2001? purge at the Smithsonian, the compatible…
Sep 6, 2026 · 1:10:52
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, and Dennis Riches
Aug 28, 2026 · 1:20:57
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: children flying kites targeted in Gaza, writer for The Guardian admits he…
Aug 21, 2026 · 1:25:12
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent brutality, frauds in academia, mutiny on the USS…
Aug 14, 2026 · 1:19:41
Participants: John Steppling, Jeptha Storm, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent excesses, mutiny on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Trump dodges assassination…
Aug 7, 2026 · 1:28:04
Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent excesses, the demonization of Ibrahim Traore, the…
Aug 3, 2026 · 1:13:25
A Conversation with Guy Zimmerman & John Steppling: Theatre and Culture (Part 6) (Lecture 14)
Jul 31, 2026 · 1:10:13
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent murderers and detention center abuses, the demonization of Ibrahim…
Jul 26, 2026 · 1:32:28
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE agent murderers, the “Cuban threat to America”, Testosterone Pete’s Workout…
Jul 12, 2026 · 1:44:17
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the 2026 World Cup: the fix is in, NATO summit in Ankara, the wars are back on…
Jul 4, 2026 · 1:26:09
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the 2026 World Cup: the fix is in? Trump administration rejoices in the…
Jun 27, 2026 · 1:42:28
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Zionist sadism, how Israel is worse than apartheid, questionable calls by…
Jun 20, 2026 · 1:27:31
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: billionaires’ escape plans, the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding, 2026 World…
Jun 18, 2026 · 1:10:36
A Conversation on Theatre with John Steppling & Guy Zimmerman (Part Five)(Lecture 13) by John Steppling
Jun 13, 2026 · 1:16:25
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Albania’s Sazan Island, Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry at Tribeca, the drones and missiles…
Jun 6, 2026 · 1:39:31
Participants: John Steppling, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Albania and Bolivia fight back against the Trump family takeover, the death of…
May 31, 2026 · 1:27:05
Participants: John Steppling, Ray Hosseini, Brecht Jonkers, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The mysterious data center construction boom, the history of…
May 22, 2026 · 1:14:01
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The mysterious data center construction boom, the US thinks it can indict Raul Castro for…
May 15, 2026 · 1:24:44
Participants: John Steppling, Ray Hosseini, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Strait of Hormuz supply shock kind of looks like the sanctions suffered by Iran…
May 8, 2026 · 1:31:56
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: opposition to data centers, data centers claimed to be national security assets, Japan’s…
May 4, 2026 · 1:04:17
Fourth installment of a discussion between Guy Zimmerman and John Steppling.
May 1, 2026 · 1:25:17
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, USS Gerald Ford sails home,…
Apr 25, 2026 · 1:24:18
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, food shortages on US Navy ships,…
Apr 18, 2026 · 1:27:38
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran, responsibility of the Western NGO complex for…
Apr 10, 2026 · 1:26:24
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Iran-US+Israel ceasefire? Zionist refugees flee to Cyprus and Argentina, “Heaven’s…
Apr 3, 2026 · 1:32:59
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Jonathan the 193-year-old tortoise, Bertrand Russell, Napoleon and ancient the tortoises on St.…
Mar 27, 2026 · 1:24:32
Participants: John Steppling, Luna Nguyen, EJ Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Cory Morningstar and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The branding and marketing of US military…
Mar 20, 2026 · 1:30:23
Participants: John Steppling, Ray Hosseini, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Contradictory retroactive justifications for war, the struggling U.S. Navy fleet,…
Mar 14, 2026 · 1:37:35
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Contradictory retroactive justifications for war, migrant workers stranded in…
Mar 7, 2026 · 1:19:55
Topics covered: The liberal left’s conditional criticism of the war against Iran, the problem with the liberal attack on the “illiberalism of the Iranian regime”, Jon Stewart…
Feb 28, 2026 · 1:25:31
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the hybrid war on Iran, US Navy within stinking distance near Iran, report…
Feb 20, 2026 · 1:18:12
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the buildup for war against Iran, Vietnam’s long war for independence, Marco Rubio and AOC do…
Feb 8, 2026 · 1:22:05
This is a panel discussion with four Iranian citizens who live in Japan. They wanted to expresses a dissenting view of the present state of Iran to counter what has been said in…
Feb 6, 2026 · 1:15:27
PODCAST 196 by John Steppling
Jan 30, 2026 · 1:24:58
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, John Bower and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: extra ICE in the Minnesota winter, Greenland, Iran, Palestine, Davos,…
Jan 16, 2026 · 1:09:23
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Venezuela, ICE, gestapo, Minnesota, Greenland, Iran, Palestine, Argentina.…
Jan 10, 2026 · 1:32:37
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling, John Bower and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Venezuela, ICE, Minnesota, Greenland. Music track:…
Jan 7, 2026 · 1:06:47
This is the third conversation between Guy Zimmerman and John Steppling, following the previous ones on theater, the work of Murray Mednick, and the Padua theater group.
Jan 3, 2026 · 1:23:02
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Ray Hosseini, John Bower and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Aging and dead celebrities, working for the man, covert and overt…
Dec 23, 2025 · 1:08:17
John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman continue their conversation in tribute to their recently departed friend and collaborator, Murray Mednick. They discuss the Padua theater group,…
Dec 20, 2025 · 1:43:40
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Venezuela, Hegseth, Bondi Beach shootings, Israel—“heed our warning”, Gaza…
Dec 13, 2025 · 1:24:43
Participants: John Steppling, John Bower, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: US proxy war in Ukraine more likely a war against Europe (F. the EU from beginning…
Dec 10, 2025 · 57:06
John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman talk about their memories of Murray Mednick, the Padua Playwrights and other related subjects. See also http://murraymednick.com/
Dec 5, 2025 · 1:22:27
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Hegseth in the spotlight as a war criminal, the end game in Ukraine, the US…
Nov 30, 2025 · 1:36:35
Participants: John Steppling, Ray Hosseini, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: A.I. demands massive nuclear power expansion, the A.I. bubble,…
Nov 21, 2025 · 1:27:40
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, John Bower and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Putting the burden of saving the planet on the little guy, color revolutions ain’t…
Nov 16, 2025 · 1:29:37
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Jennifer Matsui and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: senescent dotard presidents in the White House, the stalled Venezuela invasion,…
Nov 8, 2025 · 1:34:09
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Jennifer Matsui and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Walter Benjamin’s essay “Capitalism as Religion,” America’s Venezuela problem,…
Nov 1, 2025 · 1:23:20
Participants: John Steppling, John Bower, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, the purpose of public assassinations, Walter…
Oct 24, 2025 · 1:30:37
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, John Bower, Daniel Broudy, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Is civil war possible in the US? the No Kings…
Oct 19, 2025 · 1:26:15
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Digital ID, federal troops in American cities, the dead end of the Ukraine war, the mysterious…
Oct 11, 2025 · 1:30:35
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: gangs of Chicago, the Gaza ceasefire deal, Charlie Kirk & Erika Kirk—the…
Oct 4, 2025 · 1:15:10
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: media personalities who mock the Gaza flotilla, the military escort of Spain…
Sep 27, 2025 · 1:24:16
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump’s speech at the UN, US prepares to do something to Venezuela, Christopher…
Sep 20, 2025 · 1:18:09
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, John Bower, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the martyred podcaster, MAGA’s free speech…
Sep 12, 2025 · 1:25:33
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Daniel Broudy, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: assassination in Utah, Israeli attack on Qatar, the history and…
Sep 6, 2025 · 1:21:40
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Bari Weiss gets a $100-million deal to work for CBS, Western media freaked out…
Aug 29, 2025 · 1:30:37
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Adult journalists lose their minds over Taylor Swift’s engagement ring, US…
Aug 23, 2025 · 1:26:07
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: fake meat, cows rejecting fake feed, Russophobia on the rise after the Alaska…
Aug 18, 2025 · 1:22:35
Participants: John Steppling, Jennifer Matsui, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the rise of adjustment therapy in Western culture, Zionist sex crimes, the war…
Aug 10, 2025 · 1:23:41
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, John Bower, Lex Steppling and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Accessories to the crime of genocide promise “recognition of…
Jul 27, 2025 · 1:21:11
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Genocide in Palestine, artists against apartheid, artists against Zionism, historically…
Jul 19, 2025 · 1:16:56
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the importance of outdoor sports in childhood, why are there still politicians in the closet,…
Jul 13, 2025 · 1:16:00
Participants: John Steppling, John Bower, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the disappearing Epstein file, Shakespeare’s atypical tragedy “Coriolanus”, what’s…
Jul 5, 2025 · 1:22:45
Participants: John Steppling, Aghogho Akpome, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the new artists against apartheid: summer rock festivals express the popular…
Jun 28, 2025 · 1:22:27
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: ICE, the “Mara Lago look” of Trump’s appointees, theater of war/war as theater, ritualized…
Jun 21, 2025 · 1:47:58
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump becomes Bush, the pale criminal, Franz Fanon on colonial war and mental disorders, is the…
Jun 14, 2025 · 1:34:55
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Daniel Broudy, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, a few words in honor of the life of Christopher Black, police actions…
Jun 7, 2025 · 1:30:09
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, US backtracks on General Langley’s hostile rhetoric about Burkina Faso, US plays dumb…
May 31, 2025 · 1:29:02
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: A.I. apocalypse or A.I. decline? Who still sees a purpose in art? Ann Carson, OSLO Freedom…
May 25, 2025 · 1:30:25
Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Normalization of punishment of dissidents, the end of free speech protections, A.I. companions,…
May 17, 2025 · 1:46:23
Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ann Carson’s lecture on handwriting, poetry and living with Parkinson's, Trump’s…
May 10, 2025 · 1:33:31
Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ann Carson’s lecture on cursive writing, poetry and living with Parkinsons,…
May 3, 2025 · 1:37:08
Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ibrahim Traoré, Canadian federal election, is entertainment…
Apr 26, 2025 · 1:38:47
Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The history of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, Seymour Hersh’s “The Samson…
Apr 19, 2025 · 1:13:43
Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Cory Morningstar and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: A.I. promoters want an expansion of nuclear energy, the use and…
Apr 12, 2025 · 1:37:57
Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The “hands off NATO” protests against Trump, anti-NATO protests in Belgrade,…
Apr 6, 2025 · 1:42:29
Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, war fever in Europe while the US turns away,…
Mar 28, 2025 · 1:44:11
Participants: John Steppling, Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, war fever in Europe while the US turns away (dog wags the tail,…
Mar 23, 2025 · 1:36:01
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Newly released information in the JFK assassination files, the normalization of scriptwriting by…
Mar 15, 2025 · 1:29:16
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the ceasefire arrangement made by the US and Ukraine, driving cab in New York and Vancouver,…
Mar 15, 2025 · 42:51
This track consists of excerpts from a previous podcast episode. Edited together, these excerpts form the second lecture that attempts to sort out the confusion in contemporary…
Mar 8, 2025 · 1:34:13
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The Trump-Zelenski feud, Freud and the working class, Russell Jacoby and…
Mar 1, 2025 · 1:30:15
Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the death of sports under capitalism with American characteristics,…
Feb 26, 2025 · 1:34:10
Participants: John Steppling (writer of “Rambo III”), Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Phase 2 of the American war against Europe, documentary film…
Feb 15, 2025 · 1:52:05
Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump Derangement Syndrome: the sequel. Liberals hating Trump for…
Feb 9, 2025 · 1:36:48
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Gaza to be under “new ownership”, rebuilding on…
Jan 31, 2025 · 1:40:18
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Do the Democrats understand why they lost? Does Trump understand…
Jan 25, 2025 · 1:34:59
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Aghogho Akpome, Lex Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. The passage read aloud at 1:24:10 is by Luciano…
Jan 18, 2025 · 1:27:38
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: confirmation hearings for Trump’s appointees, Trump’s Greater Israel ambitions,…
Jan 11, 2025 · 1:44:06
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Aghogho Akpome, Daniel Broudy, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. First podcast of 2025. Topics covered: Los Angeles…
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