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After Hours Schedules

Reading Groups

  • Monday at 7:00 pm EST: The Reading and Writing Workshop
  • Tuesday at 7:00 pm EST: The Read Hour
  • Saturday at 3:00 pm EST: The Reading and Writing Workshop
  • Sunday at 3:00 pm EST: Weekly Marx

Office Hours #121, 29-31 Jul 2022

Friday, 29 July 2022

20:00 (08:00 pm) - Greetings, Salutations and David Takes Your Questions and Abuse

21:30 (09:30 pm) - The Fast Lane

22:00 (10:00 pm) - More Surprise Jon Stewart for David Feldman w/Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate

23:00 (11:00 pm) - A Guided Tour of the Twilight Zone w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

Saturday, 30 July 2022

00:00 (12:00 am) - Available

01:00 (01:00 am) - How Long is My Cucumber? w/Joe in Norway

02:00 (02:00 am) - The Witching Hours. Open dialogue.

03:00 (03:00 am) - Available

04:00 (04:00 am) - Available

05:00 (05:00 am) - Available

06:00 (06:00 am) - Available

07:00 (07:00 am) - Available

Morning Session

8:00 (8:00 am) - Available

9:00 (9:00 am) - Available

10:00 (10:00 am) - Available

11:00 (11:00 am) - Topic Discussion w/the Weekly Marx Bunch

Afternoon Session

12:00 (12:00 pm) - Hammer and Sickle w/Andy, DPA, Falco and Sarah

14:00 (02:00 pm) - Trekking w/Prof. Jon - A Look at a Classic Star Trek Episode (Donate)

16:00 (04:00 pm) - The Red Hour w/Bruce M

The Red Hour. Still talking about time travel with the classic radio show X Minus One, but going to pair it with a modern sci-fi anthology show.

Evening Session

17:00 (05:00 pm) - What is Up With LA’s New 6th Street Bridge? w/Los Angelinos

Per Jorway’s prompt, the topic will be the ongoing takeover of various streets in L.A. by drag racers. This topic might expand to cover other overlapping issues, including race/racing, class, masculinity, frustration, ego, nihilism, lashing out, and self-destruction. Watch some “news” coverage of this phenomenon.

LAPD’s losing battle to control the new 6th Street Bridge Since the new bridge has been opened, locals have overtaken it and turned it into a nighttime drag strip, climbed on it in ways the designers should have anticipated, and otherwise demonstrated that the city has no control of what goes on on this bridge.

18:00 (06:00 pm) - The Story of Skinheads with Don Letts w/Lane

BBC Documentary on the progressive working class interracial movement hijacked by the media and the right wing to divide.

19:00 (07:00 pm) - Available

Sunday, 31 July 2022

15:00 (03:00 pm) - Weekly Marx Reading Group

Note: all times are EST.

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Office Hours #120, 22-24 Jul 2022

Friday, 22 July 2022

20:00 (08:00 pm) - Greetings, Salutations and David Takes Your Questions and Abuse

21:30 (09:30 pm) - The Fast Lane

22:00 (10:00 pm) - Cool and Breezy w/Walter K

Breezy Ran for Mayor of Edmonton and is now working on another project. By popular demand he is joining us for questions and answers.

23:00 (11:00 pm) - A Guided Tour of the Twilight Zone w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

Saturday, 23 July 2022

00:00 (12:00 am) - The Red Hour w/Bruce M

Again we will delve into time travel through the prism of old time radio and the science fiction series X Minus One.

01:00 (01:00 am) - Available

02:00 (02:00 am) - The Witching Hours. Open dialogue.

07:00 (07:00 am) - Over the Fjord and Through the Woods w/Joe in Norway (Donate)

At some point this morning we’ll go on hike somewhere, possibly here, among all these fjords. Will be taking in the views of Straumshornet (the Stream’s Horn) and Brekketindane (the Breaking Teeth) in the Sunnmørsalpene (the Norwegian Alps). Note: we’ll be getting a lazy start so stream will start anytime from 3-7am.

Morning Session

8:00 (8:00 am) - Available

9:00 (9:00 am) - Available

10:00 (10:00 am) - Available

11:00 (11:00 am) - (Why) Is There Marxist Anime? w/the Weekly Marx Bunch

Afternoon Session

12:00 (12:00 pm) - Hammer and Sickle w/Andy, DPA, Falco and Sarah

14:00 (02:00 pm) - Trekking w/Prof. Jon - A Look at a Classic Star Trek Episode (Donate)

16:30 (04:30 pm) - Valley Vox Theatre screens The American Astronaut

We’ll have a live Q & A with our special guest JDobbs from the Twitch channel The Midnight Now.

Contact us at valleyvoxtheatre@gmail.com, or @ValleyVox on Twitter and on Patreon. Zoom link will be posted here on the day of the show.

Evening Session

17:00 (05:00 pm) - Available

18:00 (06:00 pm) - Available

19:00 (07:00 pm) - Available

Sunday, 24 July 2022

15:00 (03:00 pm) - Weekly Marx Reading Group

Note: all times are EST.

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Office Hours #119, 15-17 Jul 2022

Friday, 15 July 2022

20:00 (08:00 pm) - Greetings, Salutations and David Takes Your Questions and Abuse

21:30 (09:30 pm) - The Fast Lane

22:00 (10:00 pm) - A Surprise for David Feldman w/Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate

23:00 (11:00 pm) - A Guided Tour of the Twilight Zone w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

Saturday, 16 July 2022

00:00 (12:00 am) - The Red Hour w/Bruce M

The Red Hour Tonight we will delve further into time travel with another episode of X Minus One and the golden age of radio

01:00 (01:00 am) - Available

02:00 (02:00 am) - The Witching Hours. Open dialogue.

Afternoon Session

12:00 (12:00 pm) - Hammer and Sickle w/Andy, DPA, Falco and Sarah

14:00 (02:00 pm) - Trekking w/Prof. Jon - A Look at a Classic Star Trek Episode (Donate)

16:00 (04:00 pm) - An Update on Hungary w/Anna

Mass protests over new tax law; new energy / gas / water price regulations; EU Commission infringement decisions. Sunday, 17 July 2022

15:00 (03:00 pm) - Weekly Marx Reading Group

20:00 (08:00 pm) - Sunday Movies Night - Game Night w/Nick C.

It’s game night this Sunday. Zoom link to show.

First we have to start with The Rules of the Game (1939), Jean Renoir’s scathing satire of bourgeois blowhards.

Then we’ll watch The Game (1997), David Fincher’s ingenious treatise on unchecked greed and the lack of imagination that poisons the men who have “everything.”

Finally, we’ll watch The Game (1984), another film by Bill Rebane (Blood Harvest) where a bunch of old people run around a “mansion” (that looks susupiciously like a Holiday Inn) and chase around young folks for fun. Some of them get naked. Do I mean the young folks or the old folks? You’ll have to watch to find out.

A NOTE ABOUT THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939): While the film is brilliant in its depiction of upper-crust cruelty, one early scene does involve the killing of actual rabbits and birds during a hunting scene. While the scene is purposeful and intentionally anger-inducing, I figured a warning was warranted.

Note: all times are EST.

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Office Hours #118, 8-10 Jul 2022

Friday, 8 July 2022

20:00 (08:00 pm) - Greetings, Salutations and Free-form Discussion Out the Gate

21:30 (09:30 pm) - The Fast Lane

22:00 (10:00 pm) - Journey to Justice w/Walter K

Journey to Justice: a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada’s unsung heroes in the fight for Black civil rights. Focusing on the 1930s to the 1950s

Viola Desmond, a woman who insisted on keeping her seat at the Roseland movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1946 rather than moving to the section normally reserved for the city’s Black population, and Fred Christie, who took his case to the Supreme Court after being denied service at a Montreal tavern in 1936.

23:00 (11:00 pm) - A Guided Tour of the Twilight Zone w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

Saturday, 9 July 2022

00:00 (12:00 am) - The Red Hour w/Bruce Malm

I will be taking you back to the origins of science fiction in popular culture. Tonight we will be discussing the Golden age of Radio and the series X Minus One

01:00 (01:00 am) - Ultra CRT (tokusatsu fun!) w/Nick C

02:00 (02:00 am) - The Witching Hours. Open dialogue.

Morning Session

8:00 (8:00 am) - Available

9:00 (9:00 am) - Available

10:00 (10:00 am) - Available

11:00 (11:00 am) - Available

Afternoon Session

12:00 (12:00 pm) - Available

15:00 (03:00 pm) - March on Washington Recap w/Kelly in Nebraska

On June 18th, the Poor People’s Campaign held a march on Washington. Kelly is going to talk about the event, how the working poor are organizing, and PPC future actions.

Donate to The Poor People’s Campaign.

16:30 (04:30 pm) - Valley Vox Theatre Presents: Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains

Valley Vox Theatre will screen “Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains”, starring Diane Lane and Laura Dern. We’ll have a live Q & A with our special guest Paula Haifley. Check back here for your free zoom link ticket, and feel free to contact us at valleyvoxtheatRE@gmail.com. Zoom link will be in Discord tomorrow.

Contact us at valleyvoxtheatre@gmail.com, or @ValleyVox on Twitter and on Patreon. Zoom link will be posted here on the day of the show.

21:00 (09:00 pm) - Trekking w/Prof. Jon - A Look at a Classic Star Trek Episode (Donate)

Sunday, 10 July 2022

14:30 (02:30 pm) - Hammer and Sickle w/Andy, DPA, Falco and Sarah

16:30 (04:30 pm) - Weekly Marx Reading Group

Note: all times are EST.

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Office Hours #117, 1-2 Jul 2022

Friday, 1 July 2022

20:00 (08:00 pm) - Greetings, Salutations and David Takes Your Questions and Abuse

22:00 (10:00 pm) - Why Lane is Wrong w/Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate

AI will kill you, but not because it’s self-aware.

23:00 (11:00 pm) - A Guided Tour of the Twilight Zone w/Prof. Jon (Donate)

Saturday, 2 July 2022

00:00 (12:00 am) - An Introduction to Photography w/Falco

01:00 (01:00 am) - Available

The Witching Hours Session

02:00 (02:00 am) - Available

03:00 (03:00 am) - Available

04:00 (04:00 am) - Available

05:00 (05:00 am) - Available

Morning Session

06:00 (06:00 am) - Rained out / Postponed Watching Paint Dry w/Joe in Norway

We have a workshop out on the farm in need of painting. Help jog my memory on how to repair and strip siding and paint that sucker. Heckling welcome. If it’s too boring we’ll go for a mountain hike.

07:00 (07:00 am) - Available

08:00 (08:00 am) - Available

09:00 (09:00 am) - Available

10:00 (10:00 am) - Available

11:00 (11:00 am) - Available

Afternoon Session

12:00 (12:00 pm) - Hammer and Sickle w/Andy, DPA, Falco and Sarah

13:00 (01:00 pm) - More Hammer and Sickle

14:00 (02:00 pm) - Weekly Marx Reading Group

15:00 (03:00 pm) - More Weekly Marx

16:00 (04:00 pm) - Trekking w/Prof. Jon - A Look at a Classic Star Trek Episode (Donate)

Evening Session

17:00 (05:00 pm) - Trekking Cont’d.

18:00 (06:00 pm) - Why Lane is Right w/Anna

I will be talking about polls and how much you can trust them.

19:00 (07:00 pm) - There Will Be Cats! w/John Hays

I don’t know if this involves teaching, but it might include learning about how my cat videos were made.

Sunday, 3 July 2022

13:00 (1:00 pm) - The 3rd of July Marathon w/ Nick C

10+ Hours of non-stop TV/film! (Zoom link)

  • Fraggle Rock / S1E17 - “Marooned”
  • Town Bloody Hall (1979, dir. D.A. Pennebaker)
  • Cowboy Bebop / S1E18 - “Speak Like a Child”
  • Autumn Sonata (1978, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
  • The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson / “February 1, 2011” / w/ Dr. Cornel West & George Clinton
  • Super Mario Bros. (1993, dir. Annabel Jankel / Rocky Morton)
  • Miami Vice / S1E1&2 - “Brother’s Keeper”
  • Blood Harvest / (1987, dir. Bill Rebane)
  • The Outer Limits / S1E26 - “The Guests”

Note: all times are EST.

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