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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
The early 1990s gave rise to many fads, trends, and subcultures. Riot Grrrl has been dismissed as just another of them, but had far greater ambitions and achieved far greater things. Motivation, inspiration, and cooperation led a group of activists to change the conversation, until the structures they railed against stepped in to change it back. What's the difference between having a message and controlling the narrative? Can the information we're giving you, filtered through the years, be trusted to make an accurate picture of an underground scene that was unfairly covered in the media? How can digital spaces replicate the conditions that fostered Riot Grrrl?
Links!
- Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
- Girl Germs, a podcast about Bratmobile's first album, Pottymouth
- Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
- Jigsaw
- The Riot Grrrl Collection
- Gallery of Zine covers
- Newsweek's infamous Riot Grrrl story
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Tuesday Dec 18, 2018
Tuesday Dec 18, 2018
Brazil's 20th century was turbulent. The rules of government were rewritten often, and coups seized and transferred power regularly. Grant talks about a 20-year period where the military ruled directly, through hand-picked presidents taken from their own top ranks. How can you define "democracy" to defend the suspension of representative government? What responsibility does the United States have to deal with the aftermath of Cold War policy? Why do we keep going back to ideas that were a disaster the first time?
Links!
- Ambassador Gordon's March 31 cable to Washington
- CIA memo on Institutional Act 5
- Grupo Tortura Nunco Mais (Torture Never Again) A Brazilian Human Rights Organization
- Exposing the Legacy of Operation Condor (2014, New York Times)
- Burning Bluebeard at the Neofuturarium
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Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
We've been spending a lot of time with US history and it's time to head abroad. Grant gets meta with an episode that does just that! Japan spent hundreds of years isolating itself (from a certain point of view) until an American fleet gave them the opportunity (from a certain point of view) to open their society to the colonial powers. What's the difference between diplomacy and coercion? How can you maintain tradition in a changing world? Is an equal exchange even possible?
Links!
- Fillmore and Perry's letters to the Emperor, and Perry's letter enclosed with the white flag
- Japanese depictions of Commodore Perry (center) and his fleet
- A thread of images from a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861
- Pacific Overtures, a 1970s musical dramatizing the events discussed
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Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Continuing our string of connected episodes, Grant dives into one of the events referenced in our previous topic: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Among the deadliest events in American history, it was a watershed moment. Disaster relief, seismology, and the city itself all changed completely in 1906. Is efficency more valuable than dignity? Is the region prepared for the next one?
Links!
- Eyewitness reports, compiled by the Museum of the city of an Francisco
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San Francisco Earthquake And Fire - April 18, 1906; a newsreel of footage shot in May, 1906
- Article on temporary "earthquake shacks" still in the housing market
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/
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Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
Tuesday Sep 18, 2018
Grant takes us back to mid-century America to talk about an emblematic episode of the Cold War. During the Second World War, a number of Americans went behind the government's back to aid an ally. Less than ten yers later, two of them were blamed for millions and millions of deaths, and sentenced to death on coerced and extremely tenuous testimony. Can the letter of the law stand against its use as a weapon? Did an act of state cruelty feed further cruelty, and could clemency have reduced fear? Is this just a game of chicken gone wrong?
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Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
Tuesday Aug 21, 2018
In this episode, Grant talks about the United States' Public Broadcasting Service, the most trusted institution in the country. A need for non-commercial programming became a need for a federally-supported structure, which quickly became a national treasure. How does the profit motive shape content? What will it take for public broadcasting to continue? How much time could we spend just reminiscing?
Links!
- PBS
- The Corporation for Public Braodcasting
- Newton Minow's "A Vast Wasteland" speech
- The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
- Fred Rogers' 1969 Senate subcommittee testimony
- PBS Digital Studios
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Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Grant tells us the story of the MS St Louis's cruise in the spring of 1939. A cruise ship filled with 937 passengers left Nai Germany to escape persecution. In the end, most of them returned to it. How do you recognize a genocide before active extermination begins? What is stopping us from caring for those in danger? What does this have to do with 2018 America?
Links!
- Voyage of the Damned (1976 film)
- US Holocaust Museum page on the MS St Louis
- Canada's "Wheel of Conscience" memorial
- Twitter account listing those passengers who were killed
- The US State Department's formal apology
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Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
In the last days of the English empire, the people of Iran wanted to shake off the economic imperialism of British Petroluem. The movement spread, and the Americans got involved to defend the status quo. Grant teaches us about the factions in play, the tactics used, and the beginning of the US's policy of regime change. When has imperialism improved the lives of people living under it? How can we accept the narrative that inciting chaos creates stability? Who's next?
Links!
- Declassified CIA documents
- Confession of a SAVAK torturer
- 1953 British news report
- Support Final Bid on Kickstarter now!
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Tuesday May 22, 2018
Tuesday May 22, 2018
As Dada began to burn itself out in the 1920s, a splinter movement rose from within: Surrealism. What we know now as an art movement began as a mode of thought, a philosophy, a practice. In this episode Grant teaches us about their goals, their political program, and where they all went once the band broke up. Can you exercize control over a movement meant to break boundaries and hierarchies? Is the most famous surrealist the worst at Surrealism? Which art movement would win in a fight?
Links!
- The Gas Heart script
- Breton's (first) Surrealist Manifesto
- Images of the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme
- Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art
- Un Chien Andalou
- Le Violon d'Ingres
- Artaud in Ireland
- Destino
- The Theater of Cruelty
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Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
In 1881, a man killed the President of the United States. In 1901, another man killed another President of the United States. Grant teaches us about these two: their motivations, their preparations, their trials, and the effects of their acts. Is assassination a part of American politics? How do such different people meet at the same conclusion?
Links!
- Charles Guiteau’s reasons for assassinating President Garfield, 1882
- Guiteau's brain at the Mutter Museum
- I am Going to the Lordy
- The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo
- University of Buffalo page on Leon Czolgosz
- The Emma Goldman Papers Project
- Mokey's Instagram
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