TUSA | Reactions to Zohran Mamdani's Primary Election Win [EXPLICIT]

One democratic socialist candidate wins a Democratic NYC Mayoral primary election, and the ruling class has a collective aneurysm.

Ethan Schmidt (He/They)

Jul 06, 2025

Transcript

Hey friend,

It’s nice to cover a good electoral victory for once, even if it may amount to nothing.

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I was unable to share those pleasant thoughts on Radio Free Nashville on Thursday.

Given the passage of the ~~“Welcome to Hell, America!” Act~~ the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” we’re probably not gonna have time to discuss this on the airwaves next week, so…here it is!

Same show, different station

It’s still the show that you know and love: Roughly one hour of the left-leaning political commentary you’ve come to expect from me, and one hour of mostly punk and rap music.

The show broadcasts every Thursday, 4-6 PM on Radio Free Nashville—WRFN-LP 103.7 and 107.1 FM.

Radio Free Nashville is a 100-watt low-powered community radio station, meaning that you’re not gonna pick up the signal on your FM radio if you’re outside of the Nashville area.

The good news is that you can still tune in online here!

Can’t tune in at that time? Stop by The Kennel to check out the uncensored video recordings of the commentary segments!

Unfortunately, copyright law prohibits me from sharing a recording of the DJ sessions 😒

You know your friends wanna be spammed with political podcasts episodes. SHARE THIS SHIT!🐶

From Radio Free Nashville’s Facebook Page

Why Stick with the ‘ol Radio? And Why Radio Free Nashville?

From a purely apolitical perspective, producing such a show in a context where others are expecting me to get an episode out at a certain time makes me directly accountable to others for getting an episode produced each week. A radio station, profit or non-profit, is well-structured for facilitating that accountability.

But why Radio Free Nashville?

For one, it’s a non-profit low-powered community radio station. It is legally barred from trying to sell listeners a bunch of products, and alleviates itself of having to boost profit margins. Rather, the goal is to provide quality, entertaining, and/or informative radio programming for the local community. For those familiar with my views on the systemic issues plaguing our news media outlets right now, this is the sort of motive that I want to be producing a political commentary show with.

Moreover, while some of these community stations don’t explicitly intend to counteract corporate control of the airwaves, RFN does. As it details on its “About Us” page, the radio industry (like virtually all industries in our hyper-capitalist hellscape) is consolidated to a comical extent, left in the hands of a few media conglomerates like iHeartMedia.

RFN sticks its middle fingers up to those companies that are suffocating our airwaves, and instead, opts to provide a healthy mix of locally-produced community shows like this, and larger syndicated programs like Democracy Now!, Code Pink, The Thom Hartmann Program, and more.

Sure, with the current FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatening baseless investigations into PBS and NPR over suspicions of illegal advertising, and with Congress continuing to ignore the disastrous effects of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, there is little hope to feel for any improvements to this shitshow.

Nonetheless, RFN is waging a noble battle, and I couldn’t be more proud to join that fight with them.