Today I am joined by returning guests Jay and Athenian Stranger to begin a series of discussions reminiscing about 80's action movies. This episode explores the genesis of the genre with a primary focus on First Blood and First Blood Part II, but we also discuss Swarzenegger and his films, comparing and contrasting the two stars and their movies. We mention more or less all of their 80's films, but spend most of our time on Rambo, Conan, Commando, Predator, Cobra, and Tango and Cash. In the future we plan to have episodes on Mel Gibson, Steven Segal, and Vandamme, and then round out the series with the fate of the 80's hero and big action films as they bled over into the 90's.
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Europe's Pagan Roots
Kulak joins me to discuss Europes pagan roots, and the tension throughout Europes history of pagan and Christian values. Among other things we touch on Shakespeare, King Arthur, Milton, and moreFollow Kulak on Substack Follow me on Substack
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Ingmar Bergman's "Persona"
Josh and I discuss Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece, PersonaFollow Josh on Substack at PsychopoliticsFollow me on Substack at Astral Flight Simulation
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Shiloh Hendricks and the Word of Power
Shiloh Hendricks was caught on video calling a man, and was accused of calling a child, “the N word” with a “hard R.” In other words, she broke the “alpha taboo” of language. She set up a GiveSendGo to help fund the looming legal battle she knows is coming. We support her, and explain why in todays episode, but more importantly, we also explore why we both believe this is a watershed moment in the history of race relations in America going back to the Civil Rights era.John wrote what I consider to be the quintessential essay on both the event itself and race relations in the fallout from the Austin Metcalf murder and Shiloh Hendricks affair.Read his article here: Stripping The Word Of It’s Power and follow him on SubstackAnd follow me on Substack for way more content!
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The Years of Great Silence: The Plight of Ethnic Germans in Bolshevik Russia
Today Josh Neal returns to interview J. Otto Pohl on his landmark - but woefully under appreciated - work of historical scholarship The Years of Great Silence. Buy Ottos book here. Follow him on twitter.Buy Josh’s book here. Follow him on twitter.Follow me on Substack!From the back of the book: “This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in the Volga, Black Sea, and other regions in 1764, tracing their development and Tsarist state policies towards them up until 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet policy towards its ethnic Germans varied. It shifted from a generally favorable policy in the 1920s to a much more oppressive one in the 1930s, i.e. already before the Soviet-German war.J. Otto Pohl traces the development of Soviet repression of ethnic Germans. In particular, he focuses on the years 1941 to 1955 during which this oppression reached its peak. These years became known as “the Years of Great Silence” (“die Jahre des grossen Schweigens”). In fact, until the era of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (rebuilding) in the late 1980s, the events that defined these years for the Soviet Germans could not be legally researched, written about, or even publicly spoken about, within the USSR.”
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