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The Enlightened Dirtbags are Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro, a couple of lifelong friends that share a passion for motorcycles, history, philosophy, and books. Each podcast season is themed, and each episode features a different book that the hosts discuss. They review what they’ve read, and at the end of each episode, they give the book an 87, 89, 91, or 94 grade octane rating.
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Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Premiere, New York, the Village Voice, and Details. Together with Dan Piepenbring, Tom O'Neill spent 20 years writing Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. The Enlightened Dirtbags review and discuss Chaos in the Season 2 Finale and …
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre, is a stunning account of Oleg Gordievsky's work as a double agent for MI6. Macintyre takes the political, historical, and cultural situation of the Cold War and writes a captivating true narrative of Gordievsky's almost unbelievable contribution to global secur…
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Marching Powder, by Rusty Young, is The Astonishing Real-life Story of a Brit Drug Smuggler Banged Up in Bolivia's Most Notorious Jail. Thomas McFadden was busted for attempting to smuggle 5 kilos of cocaine out of Bolivia, and Marching Power is Thomas's story of surviving and thriving in San Pedro prison. Listen to the Enlightened Dirtbags discuss…
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Paul Rusesabagina, hotel manger is a hero of the Rwandan Genocide. Rusesabagina housed over 1,200 refugees in the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali during the 100-day genocide. The genocide resulted in the atrocious murders of an estimated 800,000 people. An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography is Rusesabagina's personal story of growing up and becoming…
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Amaryllis Fox is ex-CIA, advanced operations. She spent the later part of her tenure working as a spy under "non-official cover" recruiting assets and infiltrating terrorist organizations. Fox's book, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA recounts her experience as a young, female agent and as a new mother while deep undercover. Listen in for T…
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Bill Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until the mid-2000s. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice is Browder's personal thriller steeped in business, politics, and Russian corruption. Listen in for the Enlightened Dirtbags' review of Red Notice. #Russia #Putin #MagnitskyAct #Books #Readin…
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Runaway Devil: How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family (2009) is a true to life story about Jasmine Richardson and her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke murdering Jasmine's parents and 8-year-old brother in 2006 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose, Runaway Devil is not for the passive read…
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Mark Eglinton is a Scottish author who tells us to “delete everything you know about John McAfee.” McAfee, well-known for creating the anti-virus software company McAfee Associates, is a math prodigy, a former libertarian presidential candidate, and an on again off again on again drug user with a self-described excellent “sense of impending doom.” …
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Welcome to Season Two of the Enlightened Dirtbags podcast. Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro have eight Crime and Conspiracy themed books, one for each episode. In the Preface to Season Two, the Dirtbags introduce the books as well as share what they’ve been reading outside of the podcast. Contact the Enlightened Dirtbags on Instagram @enli…
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In the season finale of the Enlightened Dirtbags podcast, Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro read and review both Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Mark Richardson’s Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (2008). Pirsig is an American writer …
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Hunter S. Thompson is an American journalist and writer. He’s famed for spawning gonzo journalism and for riding with the notorious California motorcycle club, the Hell’s Angels. In the ‘60s Thompson spent a year with the Angles and published Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Sage (1967). Version II and Jonah review Thompson’s book and have a b…
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Ted Simon is a British journalist and writer. In 1973 he left on his first motorcycle trip around the world on a Triumph Tiger 100, and in 2001 he left on his second motorcycle trip around the world on a BMW R80GS. He published Jupiter’s Travels (1979) about his first circumnavigation of the globe and Dreaming of Jupiter (2007) after his second. Th…
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In the early ‘80s Elspeth Beard, an architecture student, set out on a BMW R60/6 for a two-year motorcycle trip. She published her tape recordings and travel journals as Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World (2018). In this episode of the podcast, Version II and Jonah discuss their thoughts on Beard’s written account of…
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Robert Edison Fulton, Jr. is an American inventor, photographer, and adventurer. One Man Caravan (1937) is Fulton, Jr.’s account of riding a Douglas Twin motorcycle around the world during the interwar years. Throughout the trip he filmed and photographed his travels and, after publishing a book, released a film about riding around the world. In th…
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In 1952 Alberto Granado and Ernesto “Che” Guevara set out on a motorcycle adventure. Sharing the seat of Alberto’s Norton 500, the two medical students rode throughout South America. Che Guevara’s travel journals would later become published as The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (1993). In this episode of the podcast, Version…
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Richard Hammond is a TV host, writer, and motorcyclist. You’ll likely know him from the infamous trio of car guys from the shows Top Gear and The Grand Tour. Hammond is a well-known motorcyclist and motorcycle enthusiast, and he wrote A Short History of the Motorcycle (2016). In this episode of the podcast the Enlightened Dirtbags review Hammond’s …
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This is the Enlightened Dirtbags Podcast. In the first episode Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro introduce themselves and their reading list for the first season of their new book podcast. Each episode features a different book, and the co-hosts discuss what they’ve read. Version II and Jonah have a passion for riding motorcycles. So it onl…
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