While listening to a podcast in Overcast, tap the Share icon to pull up the sharing menu. Thats just part of the game. Who were their Generals? Join Brandon, Scott, Quintin, and T.J. as we laugh and learn a thing or two about the world and just maybe ourselves. Related Stories James: Theres a book, Neo-Colonialism, by the former president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, and in it, he outlines the basic idea, which is that the neo part is essentially presenting the illusion of sovereignty where it usually wasnt even pretended before. Amir, Chase, Tim & Doug discuss the season premiere of Game of Thrones, Season 5. It might seem at first like a typical intra-left difference in temperament. Slow Burn allows space for figures like the late anti-Saddam Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, and, yes, Donald Rumsfeld, to speak for themselves, either in the present or through the historical record, and invites the listener to draw their own conclusions. The Chinese leadership debates its options in Korea. We live in a destabilizing time and people have a different relationship with the government now, as every octogenarian Ive interviewed has reminded me (at least the American ones). We have confirmed that much. Like the multiple attempted hits on Fidel Castro by Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli in partnership with the CIA. As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Stalemate on the battlefield does not stop the United States from obliterating North Korea.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, President Truman and his Big General in the Far East enter their final standoff over the war.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The US threatens to cross the Yalu. We'll be using some of the same steps for getting a full episode transcript later on, so it's a good place to start. Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. But ultimately, the heart of Season Two is the interviews with people like Cuban academic Marta Nez Sarmiento and diplomat Raul Roa-Kouri. What do you hope people take away from this season in terms of following Americas current exploits abroad? Starring: Amir (the doctor), Chase (the lawyer), Chris (the tech expert) and Doug (the Dutchman). Hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin discuss the CIA's dalliances with organized crime, interviewing Cubans about the Revolution, and challenging America's canned narratives. The difference between the two stories is ultimately in what they offer: clarity, in the case of Blowback, and nuance, in much of Slow Burn. Clarity simplifies the complicated; it galvanizes the cowed or intimidated, it gives ballast to moral instinct. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Each story takes on something essential about California -- its progressiveness, its reputation as a home for dreamers and schemers, its heartbreaking inequality, its varied and diverse communities, its unique combination of dense cities and wild places -- and each season breaks it down into multiple 20-40 minute episodes that will be released sequentially. Warfare minus two thousand years. Malone depicts Chalabi as a skilled flatterer with an ample supply of cultural (and financial) capital to cash in with Western powers who had their own reasons to yearn for Saddams scalp. The sanctions are still in place, were not moving toward an end of the embargo and were making up shit like sonic attacks in Havana that have no basis in reality. To an extent, it is: Both shows are painstakingly researched, and tell the same cautionary tale. There are millions of people who, with executive action, could have their lives improved drastically. But the generation thats inheriting it doesnt quite agree on how the narrative fits together. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Its like when you see an Amazon ad with a smiling worker saying, I can go to the bathroom any time I want! And its shot beautifully, it looks like a vodka commercial, but its trying to manage something deeply authoritarian, unjust, and evil. Kulwin: And to that point, critics will say, Well, Cuba doesnt have freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and they will point to the many dissident artist movements. But I think one thing were trying to do is expose how that happens and, in some cases, reveal the mirror image that the United States is projecting every time it describes the horrors of communism. But its difficult. Featuring special guests James Adomian and H. Jon Benjamin.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, We trace the origins of Americas perverse relationship with Iraq, from the Cold War to the Iran-Iraq War in the 80s. They still fund organizations dedicated to painting Cuba as a totalitarian state where people are unthinking and have a perverse way of life. Soundtrack:https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, A new season, a new story: The Korean War. Were not political organizers, but if were channeling any message, its to say, Your anti-imperialist antenna should always be raised.. Some were downright tasteless. A show about people whove done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. . Signup to sync subscriptions across devices. The things they did instead of intelligence gathering are the stuff of organized crime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The media episode, breaking down some of the journalistic fuck-ups and pundit idiocy that steered us toward war in Iraq. Filmmaker Dan Taberski was a Slimmons regular and a friend of Richards. The difference might seem stylistic, not substantial. The Iraq War is history. Kulwin: I would say Fidel Castro is cast as a villain on the level of Saddam Hussein in America. Books used throughout Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, 2005 Fidel: A Critical Portrait, Tad Szulc, 1983 Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, Peter Wyden, 1979 Well done. a couple of years ago that had a young ex-pat Venezuelan comedian say like, Hey, all you Twitter bro-cialists, stop trying to tell me whether or not America should invade my country. It hit all the right notes to paint anyone I mean, Noah and I are disgusting, bro-cialist guys from Brooklyn, but discount that for a second who makes any case against American imperialism as white dudes who have too much time on their hands. edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. Assassinations, coups, counter-coups, and the rise of Saddam. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. But a peace treaty never comes. Kulwin: Theres a myth about the CIA and other agencies during this period being rogue, and it persists today. The neo-colonial method is to present a front of neutrality to countries that are really under the American thumb due to economic, social, and political pressures we force on them. A weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions. The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. "Blowback" is didactic, its hosts bombarding the listener with their sturm-und-drang argument about the Iraq War as a portal to hell that directly caused our modern-day political ills. And in fact, other countries take cues from us on how to discipline their restive populations. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time It can also blinker one to the Butterfly Effect-like systems of cause-and-effect behind something as vast and amorphous as American public life. Season Two of Blowback, the first episode of which arrives on all platforms Monday, April 19th (the first two episodes are available on Stitcher Premium), is brimming with intrigue: dissections of events like the CIAs scheming with organized crime, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and, yes, how all this may or may not tie in with the assassination of John F. Kennedy (All will be revealed, James quips). Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Even the concept of blowback is a convenient excuse a lot of the time, he says. And what happens after in Guatemala? Theres a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eleven million people live there. They bring that same high quality analysis & rescue from the memory hole to the other stories they cover. So, this slick messaging that happens around these things is very clever and insidious, but I hope its not a terribly effective way of manufacturing consent around these things in 2021. Meet the rogues gallery of George W. Bushs administration and Saddam Husseins family. How did you try to navigate that space? Derek Robertson is the digital editor for Indianapolis Monthly. Imperfect Paradise is a longform narrative podcast showcasing California stories with universal significance. The Chinese leadership debates its options in Korea.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Gen. MacArthur executes his revenge.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, With a rightwing, US-backed klepto-case to his South, Kim Il-Sung bets the house.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The war before the war on a self-reliant island off South Korea. New Podcasts e , was informed that Bob Woodward once enjoyed a moment in the Office of Naval Intelligence, which isnt the most coherent detail if youre telling a story about an intrepid journalist squaring off against the powerful institutions of the American government. As the pair note in an early episode, even former CIA director Allen Dulles didnt think Fidel Castro had any communist leanings after he came to power in 1959; that changed a few months later when Cubas government began reclaiming Cuban land from American corporations like United Fruit and King Ranch. And sure, he may have been a leader who had flaws, but what Fidel Castro did was lead a movement that led to the transformation of a country from a neo-colony, where the majority of people were poor and illiterate, to a state that is successful and healthy by any fair and modern standard. An excellent detailed podcast professionally done without all the unnecessary corny jokes, drinking & clueless knowledge of the subject matter; I was born in 1955 and this let me know the entire world (except maybe Greenland, Iceland?) Join Brandon, Scott, Quintin, and T.J. as we laugh and learn a thing or two about the world and just maybe ourselves.New Podcasts every Friday at 6/9ET am. Season 3 tells us how being sentenced to ten years in a North Korean prison camp (along with all of your family) was a breeze as there was plenty of rodents to hunt and sometimes you got released (ep 10). Its okay; but its akin to hack-comedy. The Bay of Pigs was not successful, but it was in Guatemala. That might sound like an analysis better suited for a mid-level rhetoric class than our political discourse. Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date. Sadly, i'm on episode 3 and i can confirm that this is maybe the release with the editing problems someone already mention around here (there is a couple of volume issues and you can hear a third voice saying "cut" or something like that). Having lived thru the Iraq war and followed the news closely at the time, I can vouch for the accuracy and thoroughness of Blowbacks account & I learned a lot of new stuff. The military history podcast specialists, looking at all aspects of war through the ages. Blowback Season 3 Teaser COMING SUMMER 2022 The entirety of season three ten main narrative episodes, ten bonus episodes is available all at once to Blowback subscribers, for the price of $24.99. What was life like for the earliest soldiers? As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent. The immense, Shakespearean tragedy of Iraq means that, like Watergate, it will lace those narratives for decades. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The war before the war on a self-reliant island off South Korea. What do you think are the defining qualities of that kind of empire and how do they still persist today? Blowback Podcast John Street Productions, The USCHoops.com Blowback Podcast: The Curse Sneak Peak (April 8, 2018), The USCHoops.com Blowback Podcast: April 14, 2018, The Blowback Quiz Game Podcast (March 10, 2018), Game of Thrones Talk (HBO): Season 5, Episode 1. To listen to the rest of season 3 right now, visit www.blowback.show Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The third season of Blowback the story of the Korean War arrives July 2022. Truthfully, I dont remember his exact words, neither do I care. I think the Obama process [of normalizing relations with Cuba] in 2014 created a real problem where he initiated something and then left it in suspension. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. [Ed. He stopped teaching his regular exercise class at Slimmons, cut off his closest friends, and removed himself from the public eye after decades as one of the most accessible celebrities in the world. If that sounds like a simple recounting of lefty conventional wisdom, it is. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands The reality is, Cuban exiles have committed crimes like the detonation of an airplane and a hotel bombing in the Nineties. Theres a cinematic quality to how they tell the story, with explicit audio references to crowd-pleasing movie classics, and the chatty, impassioned, late-night-party quality of the series creates a sense of community that makes the listener feel privy to a newer, truer American narrative. Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. I am sure next season will tell us how evil America caused the the fair and just USSR to invade Hungary or Afghanistan. To give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. 1 2 3 4 5 But were working to verify a lot of the rest. But when the National Endowment for Democracy produces evidence on countries on our naughty list, its solemnly reported on. One would be wrong. Were using a lot of, hopefully, honest research by people who have spent their whole lives trying to get to the bottom of this stuff, and we respect that a lot. Put this image on your website to promote the show -, S3 Episode 1 - Stop Me Before I Kill Again, Report inappropriate content or request to remove this page. note: This story was shared by noted film historian Joseph McBride, who said he had this conversation with Pakula.] But what felt crazy was, they articulated this country, this government and this revolution that was doing things like teaching people how to read. James: Additionally, this totalitarian system produces only poverty and hunger, and these poor, hungry people hightail it to the United States. Now that Biden has reentered office, the assumption is that theres some reversion to the status quo happening, but it isnt. When Donald Rumsfeld died this week, in-memoriams for the former secretary of defense who led the charge to war in Iraq were as blunt as the man himself. Sign up free. To listen to the rest of season 3 right now, visit www.blowback.showAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy. The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. Like, Oh, were just this bumbling giant and we accidentally gave those guys Stinger missiles, and oop, it bit us in the ass., Or, as Kulwin puts it, The things we would call fuck-ups, errors of American empire, are part of a self-sustaining system. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Theres a lot of great journalism [by Jack Colhoun, Mary Ferrell, Warren Hinckle, and William Turner] thats done about as much as you can to make these things concrete. Any questions? Combined with the rueful present-day recollections of then-hawks, like Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias, as well as those who remained stalwartly and consistently against the war, like the journalist Mark Danner, the effect is to provide a sobering reminder of the power of narrative and motivated reasoning in institutions ranging from the State Department to the New York Times. They were trying this radical new policy program, and imagine if we had bothered to try learning from them. Soundtrack:https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, S3 Episode 1 - Stop Me Before I Kill Again, A new season, a new story: The Korean War. The Blowback is a semi-regular, hour-long podcast featuring four transplants from the South, West, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest to New York, giving their insights and irreverent opinions on the funniest, most interesting and unusual news stories of the day. Dec 21, 2022 A flagship anti-corruption drive under the tenure of US-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Kadhimi used incommunicado detention, torture and sexual violence to extract confessions from senior Iraqi officials and businessmen. But a peace treaty never comes. And part of that is because of movement failures, and part of that is because the government did its darndest to kill it. A five-part series from the makers of Serial and The New York Times. The chaos that followed led to the rise of ISIS and the Syrian Civil War, President Barack Obamas ineffective response to such violence, and the unrest and backlash that led to the election of Donald Trump. By Blowback. Kulwin: I watched the MLK/FBI documentary recently, and in it, James Comey talks about how on his desk as FBI director, he kept a letter that [J. Edgar] Hoover sent MLK urging him to commit suicide. As a matter of fact, that war in Korea never ended. Shackled: The Devastating Reality of Childbirth Behind Bars Here, the limitations of Slow Burns more traditionally measured framing come into sharp relief: It does not confront or challenge Miller in any meaningful way. podcast pages. Its penultimate episode centers around an interview with Judith Miller, the Times now-infamous former national security reporter who credulously repeated Bush administration hype over weapons of mass destruction into the public record. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Noah talks with Jos Pertierra, a Cuban-American immigration attorney who has long tangled with right-wing Miami Cubans in the media and in court. 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