You Can't Win

About You Can't Win

We're Tom and Donald. We are two trolls that are trying to make sense of the world through conversations about the traps and scams that surround us.

Publisher

Donald Hughes

Category

comedy

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

30 Mar 2020

Latest episode

3 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

27 of 146 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 185 - AOR3E6 Liberation

   Host [Host Name] and guest Peter Weiss discuss socialist debates over culture and freedom as liberating armies advance in the final sections of Aesthetics of Resistance Volume III.

2. 

   10 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 184 - AOR3E5 Red Orchestra

   Host [Host Name] explores the anti-fascist underground during WWII, delving into art, class, and destiny as detailed in Peter Weiss's "Aesthetics of Resistance Volume 3."

3. 

   22 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 183 - I Love the Dialectic

   Host Alex and guest Tom discuss their recent reading, including Dostoevsky and Jameson, offering insights into philosophical and literary themes.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 185 - AOR3E6 Liberation

Published 3 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Um, yeah. You know, it's sort of like you contain all of that past history. Like, that's what makes up the present self. Okay. So in order to kind of access it, it's a matter of, like, analyzing... who you are at the moment. And so obviously like this has like a biographical kind of element to it, but I think this applies to their struggle too, like the revolutionary struggle, like in terms of like, how does, you know, you can apply this to like the question of Germany and its national culture. Like that can be a question that, that that lesson applies there too uh or it applies to like communism and the mute the movement for communism right like it can apply in that case as well um there's there's not it's like a false distinction to be made between the the past and present self it's you're you only ever have the current perspective but that perspective is cast back across the history of like the distance that you've traveled you know, in terms of time. […]

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YouTube views

76,844

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

148 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

23 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

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Quality

86

Social presence

0

YouTube

85

Engagement

67

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