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Sages and the Madman

Nideesh Vasu

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Nideesh Vasu reads from the writings of saints and sages from across time and tries to make sense of it for the modern day seeker. He helps you demystify the knowledge these mystics have left us to unravel in this age, to help us evolve and rise on our spiritual journey.
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The madman's attic

Paul Devereaux

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The crazy shit I keep in my imaginary attic. You can’t find anything like that anywhere else. Enjoy! Links to my books on Amazon. FREE with Kindle Unlimited: Stories I Wrote While Being Suicidal https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089NNDD2M Blood Black https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079GX7FFR
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The Asylum

Elijah Hareid

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A podcast about the Nonfictional bestseller, The Professor and the Madman, where we get into great detail about the book, the characters, and what we think about it. Cover art photo provided by Bia Andrade on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@biawashere
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THIS MONTH IN HISTORY

Paul Letters and Noreen Mir (RTHK Radio 3)

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Each month historian Paul Letters delves back into events from This Month in History. The focus is on modern history, with anaylsis of how historical events shape our modern world. For example, we talked to the US fighter pilot who stepped into the March 1969 conflict between China and the USSR which caused the "Madman" nuclear alert.
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Sonic Gravity

Seeing the Universe Through the Eyes of a Madman

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I invite you inside my mind to view the universe through the eyes of a madman. I am a bipolar autistic psychopath with ADHD and PTSD—a retired military officer, an engineer, a lawyer, a husband, and a father; I am an objectivist observing the universe. I didn't create this podcast to advance an agenda, sell an ideology, or challenge your beliefs, I like you just the way you are. And, if you surrender your consciousness to my Sonic Gravity and spend one episode in my orbit—what you see will c ...
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Short Stories from the Mind of a Madman

Antonio Garcia

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Antonio Garcia is the author of several books, and now he writes New Short Stories weekly. This podcast is the audio versions of those short stories. You can watch video versions on Youtube, follow him on Facebook/AntonioGarciaBooks. You can order signed copies of his novels at www.AntonioGarciaBooks.com
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Ridiculous Rock Record Reviews

Jason Doncis

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A podcast in which a group of music fans picks a rock album (anything from soft rock to hard rock to heavy metal) and spends the episode talking about it and reviewing it. Informative, opinionated, and occasionally funny, the show highlights our genuine love (or hate) for the music discussed. Frequently guests ("co-pilots") co-host the show with with our regular rotating panel. Rock on!
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The Bridge

Kristen Killilea

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Created by high school students at MBS. A collection of improvised stories, sports topics, pop culture musings, and more. Cover art photo provided by kyler trautner on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@kylertrautner
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Podcast Guys Talking ErraticErrata

The Long Price

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Do you love a Practical Guide to Evil? Have you felt the urge to do a reread ever since Pale Lights started up and you remembered the sweet sweet ambrosia and nectar that is EE's every word? Is overwrought analysis and faux-erudite discussion right up your alley? Then tune in for a weekly podcast series, Podcast Guys Talking Erratic Errata! PGTEE is a whirlwind reread of a Practical Guide to Evil where a historian and a literature scholar tackle the big questions about one of the greatest no ...
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RadiOblivion

Professor Michael T

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Podcasting from Middle Tennessee to the entire galaxy in 128kbs of Glorious, Lifelike Stereophonic sound - this is RadiOblivion with Professor Michael T - where I provide Better Living Through Discarded Music with Wild Sounds and Rock 'n' Roll right here at RadiOblivion.com on yer internet dial.
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A Scary Home Companion

Nathaniel Hensley

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Drinking whiskey in the kitchen and telling scary stories around the fire. Music and mayhem, fearful fiction and furious fact, tall tales and terrible truths. A Scary Home Companion is a sinister variety show, featuring original stories and original music
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Creep Street Podcast

Creep Street Podcast

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Welcome to Creep Street! Hosts Dylan Hackworth and Maureen Boughey are two Chicago comedians who love discussing all things strange and macabre. Each week they will discuss a new topic, be it cults, ghosts, UFO's, conspiracy theories, or serial killers. Creep Street will take listeners to some very frightening places, but remember, we're in this together! New Episode every Monday!
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Joey Season Podcast

Joey Akan

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Your madman podcast! Discussing the world as I see it, making you scream. Joey Season Podcast delves into trending topics happening all around the world discussing Media, Celebrities, Lifestyle, Sex, Sports, Politics, Tech, Religion, Movies and TV, Radio, Music and much more. It is hosted by journalist Joey Akan. Email: joeyseasonpodcast@gmail.com
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Mrs. McShoogle, Scotland’s Second Finest Actress. Starring Carolyn Pickles.

jonathanfortingall

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Meet Mrs. McShoogle, ‘iconic’ actress turned landlady to the stars. Canny and courageous, tender and just a tad outrageous, this extraordinary luminary recalls her “intimate friendships” with the giants of theatre, television and film, including “more Dames than you can shake a stick at… and Olly Murs”. From first-night feuds to royal revelations and her infamous outburst at the Scottish Drama Awards, The Tartan Tammies, this is the frankly unbelievable tale of a small-town lassie with big d ...
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The GreenCast

Mr Greentexts

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The Greencast is a podcast by MrGreentexts, a dude who reads stuff from 4chan and shitposts on the internet. Usually episodes consist of ramblings of a madman to himself in his bedroom, but he is sometimes joined by other fellow Youtubers/shitposters.
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Project Unabom

Apple TV+ / Pineapple Street Studios

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Decades after Ted Kaczynski was caught, society is still asking some of the same questions about him: Is Ted a genius who went astray? Or simply a madman who murdered three people in cold blood? Project Unabom takes an in-depth look back at the Unabomber saga and Ted Kaczynski's legacy from the perspective of FBI agents who worked to solve the case, his brother who turned him in, and Ted’s very own writings. New episodes out every Monday. Project Unabom is an Apple Original podcast, produced ...
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The Deep Dive

Gratia Novum

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A podcast dedicated to spiritual ascension through the dissemination of esoteric knowledge, spirit messages, guided meditation, and joyful banter. Through connection we all ascend ❤️❤️❤️
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Just Another Fanboy

Steeven R. Orr

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Just Another Fanboy is a celebration of all the great loves in my life: Family, comics, TV, movies, music, books, writing, and even other podcasts. But it's mostly about comics, comics, and also comics.
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Promethean Onion

Misha & Bobby

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Join two curious STEM students on a journey to peel back the layers of some of the most complex and divisive philosophical questions. They will tackle their many disagreements through logical, fiery debate which will illuminate the truth and burn away the falsehoods. Get ready for wild opinions, unexpected arguments, and a genuine sense of camaraderie.
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Madman in the White House? 1:03:48

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Did Woodrow Wilson's daddy issues cause World War II? And what might this teach us about our contemporary political plight? Jordan Osserman talks with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and historian Patrick Weil about The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Harvard UP, 2023). Wh…
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The Terminator and Palestine: Unraveling Parallels in Conflict and Survival 3:26

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Dive into the compelling comparison between the Palestine conflict and The Terminator series. Examine the themes of relentless struggle, power imbalances, and the impact of technology on these enduring battles for survival and identity. Mentioned in this episode: Palestine ICC Decision then what ?By Abdullah
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Kathleen DuVal, "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America" (Random House, 2024) 58:18

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In this sweeping new history, esteemed University of North Carolina historian Kathleen DuVal makes the case for the ongoing, ancient, and dynamic history of Native nationhood as a critical component of global history. In Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House, 2024), DuVal covers a thousand years of continental history, buildin…
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RAGECAST 469: BROKEN TOOLS 3:46:50

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When you find out that they're lying to you and hurting you on purpose - there's no going back. 🪖STREAM LINKS: Entropy (https://entropystream.live/RagingDissident) Rumble (https://rumble.com/c/RagingDissident) Odysee (https://odysee.com/@RagingDissident:0) Kick (https://kick.com/ragingdissident) GTV (https://goyimtv.com/l/1867512913/RageCast-469) "…
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Travis Baldree | Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes 27:37

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Molly talks with Travis Baldree about his book, "Legends & Lattes". About Legends & Lattes After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success — not to mention t…
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William W. Hagen, "Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2018) 1:34:57

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Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish statehood out of World War I and Polish-Soviet War. In Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2018), William W. Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of scenarios dramatizing popular anti-Je…
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Sally Stocksdale, "When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate" (McFarland, 2022) 1:00:26

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Linked by declarations of emancipation within the same five-year period, two countries shared human rights issues on two distinct continents. In When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate (McFarland, 2022), readers will find a case-study comparison of the emancipation of Russian serfs on the Yazykov…
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Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024) 56:44

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How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths. In Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers (Pan Macmillan, 2024), Dr Paulina Rowinska em…
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Anat Kidron and Shuli Linder Yarkony, "The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine: The Story of a Forgotten Community" (de Gruyter, 2024) 1:09:08

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For a brief moment in the history of Acre, there was a Hebrew community that linked old and new settlements. It had a national-Zionist orientation and consisted of Jews of local and Mizrachic origin. This community is no longer visible in the cityscape, and its history has disappeared from the collective Zionist memory - but it played a role in bui…
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RAGECAST 468: PIGS AT THE BEACH 3:34:04

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Give me your money so I can fight for Can- I mean, build a luxury villa in a foreign country? All you PPC bros can apologize to Diagolon now and you should probably just concede our bullshit radar is the best in the game. 🪖STREAM LINKS: Entropy (https://entropystream.live/RagingDissident) Rumble (https://rumble.com/c/RagingDissident) Odysee (https:…
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Episode 317 - Ozzy Osborne - Diary of a Madman 1:51:25

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JD, Prof, Ian, and Lou are joined by R4 Patreon Legend "The Punk Guy" Dan Huston as we stay focused across the pond and review Ozzy's 1981 release Diary of a Madman. Rock On! Theme: Trance by The Steepwater Band used by permission - Follow them at www.steepwater.com or follow @steepwaterband Website: https://ridiculousrockrecordreviews.buzzsprout.c…
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Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen, "Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond" (Ohio UP, 2023) 36:02

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Scholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio Valley possesses some of the most resource-rich terrain in the world. Its settlement by humans was thus consequential not only for shaping the geograp…
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Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 44:27

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Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Harry McCarthy provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical cul…
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Test Subjects 41:03

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Season Two erupts in our ears with a film-noir soundscape—an eerie voice utters strange and disjointed phrases and echoing footsteps lead to sirens and gunshots. What on Earth are we listening to? We unravel the mystery with NYU media professor Mara Mills who studies the historical relationship between disability and media technologies. In Episode …
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Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 44:42

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Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies - Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States - Hannah Forsyth argues that the …
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Todd H. Weir, "Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 36:59

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Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 (Cambridge UP, 2023) is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their h…
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Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023) 53:57

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In the early modern era, seemingly impossible stories of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft were common and believable. The important question of the time was not if these things happened, but why. This was particularly true as the rise of Protestantism began to challenge Catholic beliefs in miracles and continued to be the case even after scie…
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Madman in the White House? 1:03:48

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Did Woodrow Wilson's daddy issues cause World War II? And what might this teach us about our contemporary political plight? Jordan Osserman talks with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and historian Patrick Weil about The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Harvard UP, 2023). Wh…
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Madman in the White House? 1:03:48

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Did Woodrow Wilson's daddy issues cause World War II? And what might this teach us about our contemporary political plight? Jordan Osserman talks with psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and historian Patrick Weil about The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Harvard UP, 2023). Wh…
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John Soluri, "Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States" (U Texas Press, 2021) 1:14:22

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Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-…
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The Questing Beast: Dramatizations of the Mind 45:30

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In this episode , we unravel the myth of the questing beast, a medieval tale mystified by vivid imaginations and rumours of the time. And don't worry, Misha's narrative skills weave a story that will leave a very satisfying aftertaste, so do stick around to the end. Rather often in human history, reality lends itself to be supremely overexaggerated…
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Klas-Göran Karlsson, "Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events" (Academic Studies Press, 2024) 1:13:04

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Lessons of history are often referred to in public discourse, but seldom in scholarly discussions. Klas-Göran Karlsson's book Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline Events (Academic Studies Press, 2024) seeks to change this by introducing an innovative scholarly, analytical model of historical lessons, starting from the b…
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023) 51:04

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Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal edu…
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Laurence M. Geary, "The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting" (Cork UP, 2023) 27:59

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In this interview, he discusses his new book The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting (Cork UP, 2023), a collection of interconnected essays on different aspects of agrarian agitation in 1870s and 1880s Ireland. The Land War in Ireland addresses perceived lacunae in the historiography of the Land War in late nineteenth-century…
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RAGECAST 467: CRUSADE 3:15:33

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I don't know what a water baron is but it sounds important. The people of Calgary had better listen to him too if they want to have any water, they'd better find a way to get rid of Gondek! Some minor sperging about the moon and a substantially negative slant on people putting things in their butts and riding around naked. I also learned tonight th…
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Six Degrees of Mutilation 34:49

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A taut, nail-biting thriller that starts simply enough -- with a girl in the park playing hopscotch -- then spirals into a twisted web of lies, deception, abduction, and murder. THIS EPISODE IS IN NO WAY ENDORSED BY ORANGE JULIUS (but if you want to buy ad space, give a call!) This episode featured Evangeline Hensley as Kassi Lake and Savannah Hens…
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Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) 51:35

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Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. In Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Gordon Chang establishes these “idea systems” as an academic concept. Through three intense episodes of manipul…
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Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024) 58:23

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Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central, 2024). The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainst…
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Sidney Xu Lu, "The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 1:17:26

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Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “Malthusian expansionism” at the center of Japanese settler colonialism around the Pacific. For Japan’s imperial apologists and the discursive architecture they disseminated, alleged overpopulation―or m…
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Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024) 58:23

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Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central, 2024). The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainst…
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Christopher William England, "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023) 41:41

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Henry George’s Progress and Poverty was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century, and his ideas were taken up by by powerful figures as diverse as Sun Yat-sen, Leo Tolstoy, and Theodor Herzl. Yet, in the 21st century, George is often reduced to a footnote in the history of the Gilded Age. In Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting …
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Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024) 1:04:58

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In Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers (Headpress, 2024), Jared Stearns tells the untold story of the world's most famous X-rated star, who rose to fame as the face of Ivory Snow and the star of Behind the Green Door but struggled to find her true self in a world of sex, scandal, and shattered dreams. Marilyn Chambers was the embodimen…
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Lydia Walker, "States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 45:55

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Dr. Lydia Walker's deeply researched and carefully narrated debut monograph, States-in-Waiting: A Counter Narrative of Global Decolonization (Cambridge University Press, 2024) traces “the un-endings of decolonization” – the messy and improvised ways in which the 20th-century state-centric international order replaced empire as the default mode of p…
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Israel-Palestine Conflict and The Terminator 3:26

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This analysis draws intriguing parallels between the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict and the dystopian narrative of the Terminator movie series. Both scenarios depict a persistent struggle for survival and dominance, characterized by deeply entrenched hostilities and a cyclical nature of violence. In the Israel-Palestine conflict, historical grie…
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Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024) 44:53

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Italy's resurrection from 20 years of fascism, three years of war, and two years of civil war is one of the 20th century's great, under-told stories. It's a history of a decade of clashes and compromises between two mass movements - Communism and Christian Democracy - backed offstage by two superpowers. Above all, it's about the party management of…
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Gale L. Kenny, "Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire" (NYU Press, 2024) 1:00:26

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Amidst the global instability of the early twentieth century, white Christian American women embraced the idea of an “empire of Christ” that was racially diverse, but which they believed they were uniquely qualified to manage. America’s burgeoning power, combined with women’s rising roles within the church, led to white Protestant women adopting a …
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Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 52:36

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Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–…
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Is it a disaster? Is it perfect? Is it a perfect disaster? Am I referring to the stream or the state of Canada? Both? Is it the same? Will there be any periods or any other grammatical devices used to end sentences other than question marks? Is that a no? Is Phillip behind this? Yes. 🪖STREAM LINKS: Entropy (https://entropystream.live/RagingDissiden…
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