Transcripts
As of December 20, 2025, Death Panel is supported by 1,991 paid Patreon members. Our goal is to reach 2500 patrons—at which point we can reliably publish full transcripts for every main feed episode as a standard part of the show.
Right now, transcripts are available for select episodes. We are steadily working through the back and current catalog of releases, but our capacity to make the show fully accessible is shaped by material conditions—not a lack of interest or commitment.
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Social Murder with Nate Holdren (Unlocked)
Death Panel podcast co-hosts, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, speak with Nate Holdren about Friedrich Engels' concept of "social murder" and the social and political processes that have enabled the pandemic to be portrayed as if nothing more could be done.
Abolition and the Pandemic w/ Dan Berger
Dan Berger joins the Panel, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant and Phil Rocco, for a detailed overview of how the pandemic has demonstrated the need for carceral abolition, how little has been done in the last two years to protect incarcerated people, and why prisons and policing are antithetical to public health.
Covid Year Two (12/13/2021)
Death Panel co-hosts, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, and Phil Rocco, review the year 2021 in the U.S. covid response, and the profound miscalculations on the part of the government and the media that have played a direct role in keeping this crisis ongoing. While this episode is retrospective, we have covered the pandemic quite closely day in day out since March 2020. If you’d like to listen to some of shows we released reacting in real time to some of the events described in Covid Year Two; start with our episodes “Meaning Production at 500,000 Dead” from February, “A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” from July, “Operation Enduring Virus” from September, or “Bracing for the Wave” from December. Suffice it to say it has been a terrible year.
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