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Hosted by Toshio Meronek · society · EN
Covering the end of capitalism from a "far Left" trans/queer POV.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSad Francisco is hosted by Toshio Meronek. The show has published 172 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Feds Dread Benjamin Champagne Song" (27 October 2026, 39 minutes), "Sam Altman is Tech's Biggest Bullshitter with Brian Patrick (pano.dime)" (19 October 2026, 39 minutes), and "Psychic Militancy with Lara Sheehi" (12 October 2026, 41 minutes).
Sad Francisco publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 59 minutes across 172 episodes.
Booking probability for Sad Francisco is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Sad Francisco requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Sad Francisco's contact route on record: verified email.
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Toshio Meronek hosts Sad Francisco, a society podcast with 172 episodes published.
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In June, Benjamin Champagne Song got a 100-year prison sentence for acting against the fascist bootlicking chuds otherwise known as ICE. More evidence US empire and its greed-sick, anti-human pedophile leaders shall be...
Brian Patrick (aka pano.dime) has amassed tons of followers doing something pretty simple: every day he posts a quote from our tech overlords revealing just how much these oligarchs loathe the rest of humanity. We...
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Psychic militancy is the practice of consciously bracing yourself against the war on your mind by entities like the CIA and FBI, which started propagandizing us a little under a century ago. Lara Sheehi is host of the...
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Dina from the Oakland People's Arms Embargo makes an easy case for why the US has to stop supplying Israel with F-16 bomber parts (and other weapons of mass destruction) via hubs like the Oakland Airport, while...
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Trans historian Susan Stryker has been on the podcast to speak on the Compton's cafeteria riot and her documentary about the riot, Screaming Queens , and in March, she came on to speak about the third edition of...
What leads movement groups to dissolve? Three members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) San Francisco talk about the group's split following the Big Pharma-pilled 6th International AIDS Conference in 1990...
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Another rabbit hole of an episode all about San Francisco's billionaire, Zionist, Levi's jeans-heir mayor and his clique. Mostly a bunch of bored billionaires who want to decide the future of San Francisco and if they...
A decade ago, the Google bus was a hard-to-escape symbol of the housing unaffordability crisis in SF, as Manissa Maharawal describes in her new book, Anti-Eviction . Manissa works with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project...
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One of our tech overlords, Mark Zuckerberg recently published a manifesto in the Wall Street Journal describing why we should cheerlead him on his quest for infinite growth and profits. Eddie Kim writes for the...
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What was the filmic movement called mumblecore? Jemma Decristo and dee(dee) c. ardan offer an abridged history of the post-college-centric genre that went mainstream in the early 2000s. One of few mumblecore movies with...
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In 2026, dead internet theory—the idea that most of the internet is bots and AI-generated content—is more reality than theory. Matthew Lawson co-hosts Eating For Free—a podcast critiquing American culture and politics...
The government is putting queers on lists and hunting undocumented people at the Home Depot parking lot. Have you ever felt so seen? Sad Francisco Surveillance State Correspondent Ian Firstenberg returns to talk about...
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The government is putting queers on lists and hunting undocumented people at the Home Depot parking lot. Have you ever felt so seen? Sad Francisco Surveillance State Correspondent Ian Firstenberg returns to talk about...
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THANK YOU to everyone who made it out to our biggest live show ever. The night ended up raising ~$5K for Bay2Gaza Mutual Aid , which will go directly to Gaza (Brooke shares details during the show). The episode was...
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A lot has been happening in the lives of three of this podcast's longtime foes: District Attorney Brooke Jenkins; cafe owner and wannabe supervisor Manny Yekutiel; and the state Senator running for Nancy Pelosi's...
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May 1979: queer protesters set cop cars ablaze in San Francisco's Civic Center, in response to cop-turned-politician Dan White's relatively light sentence for the assassination of gay politician Harvey Milk and the...
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Max Blue is San Francisco's only art critic left in legacy media (see: his column in SF Examiner); he also contributes regularly to Hyperallergic. Max gives the best brief introduction of the big art movements San...
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Brutal honesty is all we have for Boots Riley's overstuffed filmic ode to shoplifters and maybe communism, I Love Boosters. Topics discussed include: The Coup's early work Betrayal by union leaders Megan Ellison, the...
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A monologue revisiting a Truthout piece I wrote back in 2014 for this solo episode and stroll down memory lane featuring a Gay Shame action, crying in eviction court, and one of eviction lawyer Daniel Bornstein's...
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Ian covers local oligarchs and the surveillance state for 48Hills and The Phoenix Project. We talk about FLOCK adding microphones to their camera network, state repression after the anti-cop protests of summer 2020, and...
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