• Mamdani's Cook Book
    Jul 19 2025

    Bonk! You left the hatch open. Big news coming out America and the Hague Group, our favorite group of nations.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • America's Road to Empire - Piero Gleijeses
    Jun 25 2025

    Piero Gleijeses is the foremost expert on Cuban foreign interventions in Africa and was the first non-Cuban scholar given full access to the Cuban archives. He has also produced volumes of research on Latin America and the Caribbean.

    Today we talked about his newest book on the history of the United States' expansion from independence to the cold war.


    Purchase Americas Road to Empire here


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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • Sharks and the Atlantic Slave Trade
    Jun 9 2025

    Palestine, and some historical ichthyology

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Mea culpa is a phrase of Latin origin that means my fault or my mistake
    May 13 2025

    News, Civil Wars past and present, samurai jack

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Papillon, Le Mis, and The Galley-Slave Origins of French Prison
    Mar 25 2025

    Dr. Amélia Fedo joins to explain the modern history of french prisons. Everyone was chained together wtf.

    Music:

    Sanseverino - La danse du bagne

    Tri Yann - Les prisons de Nantes


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    2 hrs and 38 mins
  • The US, DRC, and USAID (1960-1991) with Dr. Jeremy Rich
    Mar 20 2025

    Our guest, Jeremy Rich is the director of the School of Humanities and professor of African, European, and US history at Marywood University.

    Pick up his books:

    Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC: The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa

    Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R.L. Garner, Primate Collector


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    2 hrs
  • Friendship's Death (1987)
    Mar 10 2025

    We talk healthcare and then get to Tilda Swinton's third role where she plays an alien android who accidently lands in Amman, Jordan during the events of Black September. SPOILER: She picks up a gun and fights for Palestine.

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    54 mins
  • Ceasefire, American Empire, and the Feds are Fired: Jure Buljević
    Feb 19 2025

    Ice Age Megafauna

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    1 hr and 45 mins