John: Well, this is a screwball tip. This is something I didn’t think I’d ever do, but I’m gonna do it. I’m going to recommend that people go watch a PBS show. And you can get it over on Amazon Prime. They have it over there and it’s on the PBS site too. You can dig it up, but it is a terrific show that everyone who listens to No Agenda should watch.
It’s a recent American experience called Hard Hat Riot. It’s about the hard hat riots in New York in the late 60s, early 70s, which is a history I was completely unaware of. A lot of the stories were suppressed. They were not in the media, but it’s the genesis during the Nixon administration of the working class moving toward the Republican Party. It shows how it all came about, how the Democrats had switched over to pretty much supporting the banker class right in that moment, when the CIA came in, as pointed out in Russ Baker’s book, and was behind the Watergate scandal that got Nixon kicked out. He had to quit, and so they got back on track.
It’s one of the best histories I’ve seen. I know part of it—I was there, pretty much—but I’m watching this going, this is all news to me. It’s fascinating.
Adam: Huh. Is that like the OG people sick day? Is that kind of what that is?
John: No, not at all. It’s an unimaginably good documentary on the American experience.
Adam: Considering it’s from PBS and you’re promoting it, it really must be a doozy.
John: It’s a doozy, it’s a killer.