Best Atlas Grey Podcasts (2024)

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UFC 306 at The Sphere | Canelo beats Berlanga | Plant TKOs McCumby | Joshua vs Dubois Prediction 2:50:09

1h ago2:50:09

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Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout along with special guest Teddy Atlas III cover all the action from UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas with main event O'Malley vs Dvalishvili. They also hit on the Canelo Alvarez performance against Edgar Berlanga and a prediction for Anthony Joshua vs Daniel Dubois. Thanks for being with us. The best way to supp…

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What if… The Berlin Wall Hadn’t Fallen? 53:43

28m ago53:43

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Our counterfactuals series moves forward to 1989: David talks to Lea Ypi about what might have happened if the Berlin Wall hadn’t fallen when it did. Was the night it came down really just one big accident? How long could the East German regime have lasted? And what does the fate of non-European communist states tell us about how it could have gone…

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Episode #325 - Your Name. 43:44

2h ago43:44

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And now for something completely different..on this episode we discuss the 2016 anime smash hit YOUR NAME! The intro music is by Richter FM, Paddy's alias for making lofi music. Find him on Spotify, YouTube, TikTok and more: http://richterfm.carrd.co You can find us on Twitter @BigBoysDontPod and you can email us at bigboysdontcrypodcast@gmail.com.…

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What if… The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Had Actually Kept the Peace? 56:08

1d ago56:08

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David talks to historian Margaret MacMillan, author of the prize-winning Peacemakers, about whether the 1919 Paris Peace Conference deserves its reputation as a missed opportunity and the harbinger of another war. Could the peace have been fairer to the Germans? Could the League of Nations have been given real teeth? Could the Bolsheviks have been …

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Inoue TKOs Doheny | Canelo vs Berlanga Prediction | UFC 306 O'Malley vs Dvalishvili Prediction 1:09:45

3d ago1:09:45

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Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout cover the weekend's action including Inoue vs Doheny, Takei vs Higa, Brown vs Bauza, and UFC's Brady and Burns. They then hit on the upcoming fights with Canelo vs Berlanga and UFC 306 with O'Malley vs Dvalishvili. Thanks for being with us. The best way to support is to subscribe, share the episode and check out …

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What If… The Russian Revolution Hadn’t Been Bolshevik? 56:02

5d ago56:02

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Today’s episode is another big early twentieth-century counterfactual: David talks to the historian of Russia Edward Acton about how the Russian Revolution might have unfolded if the Left SRs and not the Bolsheviks had come out on top. Could Lenin have been sidelined? Might the Terror have been avoided? And what would it have meant to the wider wor…

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Hannah Simon, women's winner of the 2024 Silk Road Mountain Race 1:41:57

6d ago1:41:57

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Hannah Simon took the women's win at this year's Silk Road Mountain Race, in a time of 8 days 20 hours and 16 minutes. She navigated the 1939km and 30,000m+ with determination, resilience and grace. Not only was she the first woman home, but also landed 9th overall in an exceptionally deep field. In this episode we talk all about her preparation an…

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What If… Franz Ferdinand Had Survived Sarajevo? 52:14

8d ago52:14

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We return to our series on historical counterfactuals with the big one: how might WWI have been avoided? David talks to Chris Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers, the definitive history of the July crisis of 1914, to explore how it might have turned out differently. What would have happened if Franz Ferdinand had survived the assassination attempt in…

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Canelo Matchups (Pacheco, Berlanga) | UFC 306 | O'Malley Analysis | NFL Picks w Co-Host Teddy III 1:45:01

10d ago1:45:01

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Teddy Atlas is joined by his son Teddy Atlas III as guest co-host today. They discuss the past weekend of action with the card headlined by Pacheco, who stopped Sulecki. They cover Canelo's matchup with Berlanga, Canelo vs Pacheco, and more at 168lbs. They dive into UFC 306, Sean O'Malley's skills as a fighter, and then get into NFL talk. Thanks fo…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Hamilton 55:12

12d ago55:12

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Our Great Political Fictions re-release concludes with a musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wildly popular and increasingly controversial Hamilton (2015). What does it get right and what does it get wrong about America’s founding fathers? How fair is it to judge a Broadway musical by the standards of academic history? And why does a product of the Obama…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: American Wife 53:47

13d ago53:47

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The penultimate episode in our Great Political Fictions re-release is about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife (2008), which re-imagines the life of First Lady Laura Bush.One of the great novels about the intimacy of power and the accidents of politics, it sticks to the historical record while radically retelling it. What does the standard version l…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Line of Beauty 52:29

14d ago52:29

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Today’s Great Political Fiction is Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004), which is set between Thatcher’s two dominant general election victories of 1983 and 1987. A novel about the intersection between gay life and Tory life, high politics and low conduct, beauty and betrayal, it explores the price of power and the risks of liberation. It …

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Handmaid’s Tale 52:05

15d ago52:05

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For the twelfth episode in our Great Political Fictions re-release, David discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), her unforgettable dystopian vision of a future American patriarchy. Where is Gilead? When is Gilead? How did it happen? How can it be stopped? From puritanism and slavery to Iran and Romania, from demography and racism t…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Midnight’s Children 52:38

16d ago52:38

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In today’s Great Political Fiction David explores Salman Rushdie’s 1981 masterpiece Midnight’s Children, the great novel about the life and death of Indian democracy. How can one boy stand in for the whole of India? How can a nation as diverse as India ever have a single politics? And how is a jar of pickle the answer to these questions? Plus, how …

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Episode #324 - Atlas 46:02

20d ago46:02

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J-Lo season concludes with a discussion of the trashy Netflix sci-fi romp ATLAS! The intro music is by Richter FM, Paddy's alias for making lofi music. Find him on Spotify, YouTube, TikTok and more: http://richterfm.carrd.co The outro music is Rob's cover of Goodbye Horses, from his covers album Better Songs By Better People. You can find us on Twi…

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UFC Borralho Beats Cannonier | Picasso Wins | Mayweather Gotti Circus | Inoue vs Doheny Preview 1:31:36

17d ago1:31:36

1:31:36

Teddy Atlas and co-host, Ken Rideout, discuss this weekend's action, starting with David Picasso's win over Hovhannisyan and Floyd Mayweather's theatrics against John Gotti III. In UFC, Mairon Santos knocks out Kaan Ofli and Borralho puts Cannonier down. They finish up with a preview of next week's fights. Thanks for being with us. The best way to …

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Atlas Shrugged 57:45

17d ago57:45

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In today’s episode David discusses Ayn Rand’s insanely long and insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957), the bible of free-market entrepreneurialism and source book to this day for vicious anti-socialist polemics. Why is this novel so adored by Silicon Valley tech titans? How can something so bad have so much lasting power? And what did Rand hav…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mother Courage & Her Children 52:59

18d ago52:59

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Our ninth Great Political Fiction is Bertolt Brecht’s classic anti-war play, written in 1939 at the start of one terrible European war but set in the time of another: the Thirty Years’ War of the 17th century. How did Brecht think a three-hundred-year gap could help us to understand our own capacity for violence and cruelty? Why did he make Mother …

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Time Machine 55:03

19d ago55:03

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Our eighth Great Political Fiction is H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) which isn’t just a book about time travel. It’s also full of late-19th century fear and paranoia about what evolution and progress might do to human beings in the long run. Why will the class struggle turn into savagery and human sacrifice? Who will end up on top? And how wi…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 50:11

20d ago50:11

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Today’s Great Political Fiction is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) - a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. David explores all the ways that Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale confounds our expectations about good and evil. What does Dr Jekyll really want? What are all the men in the book trying to hide? And what has any of this g…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Phineas Redux 53:10

21d ago53:10

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The sixth Great Political Fiction in our summer re-release is Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux (1874), his lightly and luridly fictionalised account of parliamentary polarisation in the age of Gladstone and Disraeli. A tale of political and personal melodrama, it explores what happens when political parties steal each other’s clothes and politician…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 2 49:47

22d ago49:47

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This second episode about George Eliot’s masterpiece explores questions of politics and religion, reputation and deception, truth and public opinion. What is the relationship between personal power and faith in a higher power? Is it ever possible to escape from the gossip of your friends once it turns against you? Who can rescue the ambitious when …

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 1 48:46

22d ago48:46

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Today’s Great Political Fiction is George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872), which has so much going on that it needs two episodes to unpack it. In this episode David discusses the significance of the book being set in 1829-32 and the reasons why Nietzsche was so wrong to characterise it as a moralistic tale. Plus he explains why a book about personal rel…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Fathers and Sons 52:58

23d ago52:58

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Our fourth Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s so chock-full of frustration? Why did Turgenev’s book infuriate his cont…

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Du Plessis submits Adesanya | Mbilli over Derevyanchenko | Hooker over Gamrot | Kara-France TKO Erceg 1:39:12

28d ago1:39:12

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Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout cover the past weekend's action with UFC 305 headlined with Dricus Du Plessis vs Israel Adesanya. They also break down the Christian Mbilli vs Sergiy Derevyanchenko fight from the boxing world. Thanks for being with us. The best way to support is to subscribe, share the episode and check out our sponsors: https:/…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mary Stuart 53:50

24d ago53:50

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Our third Great Political Fiction is Friedrich Schiller’s monumental play Mary Stuart (1800), which lays bare the impossible choices faced by two queens – Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots – in a world of men. Schiller imagines a meeting between them that never took place and unpicks its fearsome consequences. Why does it do such damag…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Gulliver’s Travels 54:04

25d ago54:04

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Today’s episode on the Great Political Fictions is about Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) – part adventure story, part satire of early-eighteenth-century party politics, but above all a coruscating reflection on the failures of human perspective and self-knowledge. Why do we find it so hard to see ourselves for who we really are? What mak…

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Coriolanus 55:45

26d ago55:45

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In the first episode of the summer daily re-release of our series on the Great Political Fictions, David talks about Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (1608-9), the last of his tragedies and perhaps his most politically contentious play. Why has Coriolanus been subject to so many wildly different political interpretations? Is pride really the tragic flaw of…

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What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964? 56:35

26d ago56:35

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What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964? For our latest counterfactual David talks to historian Thant Myint-U about his grandfather U Thant, UN Secretary General for most of the 1960s and the man who might have ended the Vietnam War before it really got started. How close did U Thant get to bringing LBJ and the Vietcong to the negotiating table …

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What If… Wallace not Truman Had Become US President in 1945? 59:18

29d ago59:18

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Today’s episode explores one of the big counterfactuals of twentieth-century American politics: David talks to historian Benn Steil about how close the ultraliberal Henry Wallace came to being FDR’s running mate in 1944 and successor as president in 1945. How near did Wallace get to making it onto the ticket at the 1944 Democratic National Conventi…

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Vergil Ortiz Edges Bohachuk | Leo Brutally KOs Lopez | Mbilli vs Derevyanchenko Preview 1:29:54

1M ago1:29:54

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Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout cover the past weekend's action with Vergil Ortiz narrowly beating Serhii Bohachuk, Angelo Leo flattening Alberto Lopez with a brutal KO, and they finish up with a preview of this weekend's Christian Mbilli vs Sergiy Derevyanchenko. Thanks for being with us. The best way to support is to subscribe, share the epis…

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What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China? 53:03

1M ago53:03

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For our second episode on big historical counterfactuals, David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first? What if there had been an Iranian Napoleon? And how much of our u…

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What If… Science Counterfactuals w/ Adam Rutherford 57:15

1M ago57:15

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To kick off our new series on counterfactual histories David talks to the geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford about whether ‘What Ifs’ make sense in science. If one person doesn’t make the big discovery, will someone else do it? Are scientific breakthroughs the product of genius or of wealth and power? And how might the world have been a …

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Crawford over Madrimov | Robbery in Ruiz vs Miller | Bakole Upsets Anderson | Ortiz Bohachuk Preview 2:07:42

1M ago2:07:42

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Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout discuss this weekend's boxing with main event Terence Crawford vs Israil Madrimov, along with undercard fights with Andy Ruiz and Jarrell Miller robbery, Jared Anderson's upset loss to Martin Bakole and more. They finish up with the UFC's Cory Sandhagen vs Umar Nurmagomedov and a preview of upcoming Vergil Ortiz …

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The Great Political Fictions: Tim Rice on Evita 49:25

1M ago49:25

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Something different for our last episode on the Great Political Fictions as this time David talks to the person who wrote it: Tim Rice, the lyricist of the epic musical about the life of Eva Peron, Evita (co-written with Andrew Lloyd-Webber). Where did the idea for such an unlikely subject come from? Why has it struck a chord with politicians from …

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Episode #323 - Maid in Manhattan 40:48

2M ago40:48

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J-Lo season continues with another early 2000s rom-com, MAID IN MANHATTAN! The intro music is by Richter FM, Paddy's alias for making lofi music. Find him on Spotify, YouTube, TikTok and more: http://richterfm.carrd.co You can find us on Twitter @BigBoysDontPod and you can email us at bigboysdontcrypodcast@gmail.com. If you enjoy our show and want …

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Mateo Paez on racing the 2024 Tour Divide 1:37:26

2M ago1:37:26

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Stoked to catch up with my good friend Mateo Paez. 2022 was Mateo's first attempt at any ultra endurance bikepacking race and that experience quickly changed his life. Over the past two years he's gone head first into the world of ultracycling, writing his own story and tackling these rides with his unique approach, fondly referring to this niche s…

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Malaysia 35:19

2M ago35:19

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In the final episode of the season we’re off to Malaysia with travel writer Marco Ferrarese. Together we explore the country’s idyllic islands, ancient rainforests and vibrant festivals. Tune in for wild orangutans in Borneo, a fruit only for the gutsy and an event to appease restless ghosts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat…

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The Great Political Fictions: Helen Lewis on To Kill A Mockingbird 59:34

2M ago59:34

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David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis about Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), one of the most widely read and best-loved novels of the twentieth century, and in the twenty-first century increasingly one of the most controversial. Is the book an attack on or an apology for Southern racism? How does its view of race relate to…

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UFC 304 Breakdown | Chisora Upsets Joyce | Crawford vs Madrimov & Full Card Preview | World of Atlas 1:38:15

2M ago1:38:15

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Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout cover the action from this past weekend with UFC 304 along with Derek Chisora vs Joe Joyce. They also dive into the full Terence Crawford vs Israel Madrimov card with Teddy giving his picks and predictions. Teddy finishes off by hitting on some other current events in the world of boxing with "World of Atlas"! Th…

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The Great Political Fictions: Lea Ypi on The Wild Duck 59:10

2M ago59:10

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The writer and political philosopher Lea Ypi talks about the impact on her of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (1884), which she first read when she was eight – thinking it was a children’s book (it isn’t!) – and has been returning to ever since. A play about family and betrayal, idealism and disappointment, temptation and self-destruction, is it also …

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The Great Political Poems 54:23

2M ago54:23

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David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of the LRB’s Close Readings poetry podcast, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does context matter? And is it possible to tell political truths in verse? From Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’ to Owen’s ‘Strange Meeting’ to Auden’s ‘Spain 1937’: a conversation abou…

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Catching up with Mel & Quinda: HT550, the art of resupplying and more 1:06:14

2M ago1:06:14

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It's so much fun to have two people in an interview, so I'm stoked to share that you'll be hearing more of Quinda's voice on the show, as she'll be joining as a guest co-host on some upcoming episodes. There will still be plenty of episodes where I'm (Mel) the host, but it's such a joy to have another conversation partner and to collaborate with an…

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Paul TKOs Perry | Vicious Ashton H2O KO | Nakatani KOs Astrolabio | UFC 304 Predictions 1:11:14

2M ago1:11:14

1:11:14

Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout cover this weekend's action including Jake Paul's TKO of Mike Perry, the vicious knockout of Ashton H2O by Bahdi, Pauls' TKO of Heaney, and more. They finish with some picks/predictions with upcoming UFC 304 and main even Leon Edwards vs Belal Muhammad. Thanks for being with us. The best way to support is to subs…

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American Elections: The Republican Convention 59:36

2M ago59:36

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This week we check back in with Gary Gerstle to discuss what’s been happening in American politics after a tumultuous week. What does it say about Trump’s electoral strategy that he picked J.D. Vance as his running mate? How would the Republican party have coped if the assassin’s bullet hadn’t missed? Who might replace Biden at the top of the Democ…

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Alaska 55:01

2M ago55:01

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This week we’re off to Alaska with travel writer Lisa Maloney. It goes without saying we discuss the state’s epic landscapes, dreamy viewpoints and unforgettable hikes. But there are a few surprises too – tune in for walks with regal reindeer, snorkelling adventures and some unexpected insights into the research and development behind bear-proof bi…

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The Great Political Fictions: Hamilton 54:42

2M ago54:42

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Our series concludes with a musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wildly popular and increasingly controversial Hamilton (2015). What does it get right and what does it get wrong about America’s founding fathers? How fair is it to judge a Broadway musical by the standards of academic history? And why does a product of the Obama era still resonate so powerf…

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Meaghan Hackinen, 2024 Women's Winner of the Tour Divide 1:41:13

2M ago1:41:13

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Thrilled to bring you this conversation with your 2024 women's winner of the Tour Divide, Meaghan Hackinen. Meg won this year's women's race in a time of 15 days 23 hours, setting the fastest women's time on a grand depart and the second fastest women's time in history. If you were following this year's race you'll know that the conditions were gna…

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Ennis TKOs Avanesyan | Muratalla beats Farmer | UFC Rose beats Cortez | Jake Paul vs Mike Perry 50:31

2M ago50:31

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Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout cover the weekend's fights starting with Ennis's win over Avanesyan, Muratalla's win over Farmer. They hit on Drew Dober's fight-stopping gash in the UFC, Rose Namajunas Main Event win. They finish up giving predictions and picks on the upcoming Jake Paul vs Mike Perry fight. Thanks for being with us. The best wa…

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The Great Political Fictions: American Wife 54:18

2M ago54:18

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The penultimate episode in our fictions series is about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife (2008), which re-imagines the life of First Lady Laura Bush. One of the great novels about the intimacy of power and the accidents of politics, it sticks to the historical record while radically retelling it. What does the standard version leave out about the …

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