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The conclusion to our series on the Shimabara Rebellion! 



Episode 346 - The Shimabara Rebellion: Part 3

Screenwriter and friend of the show Josh Olson stops by to chat about Musk's attempts to purge the government, Trump's new plans for Gaza, and the liberals' response to all that. Then we talk a little bit about Josh's new podcast, The White Canon, which can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-white-canon/id1794073191

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Episode 379: Losers Victory Lap (w/ special guest Josh Olson)

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Joe and Tom are joined by Trashfuture's Milo Edwards to talk about the time a bunch of guys named Mstislav got destroyed by the Mongols.

Sources:

Leo De Hertog. Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World.

Richard Gabriel. Subotai The Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General.

The Chronicle of Novgorod. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/rus/texts/MF1914.pdf

Victor Kamenir. Russian Disaster at the Kalkha River. Military Heritage. Vol 20, no. 6

Robert Rossabi. All the Khan's Horses.

Episode 349 - The Battle of the Kalka River ft. Milo Edwards

Take a break from hearing about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.S. politics to learn about Elon Musk’s pernicious influence in U.K. politics.

Annie Kelly brings us an update on the state of the far right across the pond. Specifically, we learn about political party Reform UK, and its relationship to the UK’s two most prominent far-right figures. Those figures are: Nigel Farage - Mr Brexit himself and Reform’s leader, and Tommy Robinson, the perpetually re-imprisoned anti-Islamic agitator. Elon Musk spent weeks on X boosting the views of Tommy Robinson. This has caused some consternation for Farage, who has tried to distance himself from Robinson’s explicit ethnonationalism. 

This episode features contributions from Joe Mulhall, director of research at Hope Not Hate, the UK's largest antifascist organization.

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LINKS


Web Worm: How Racist Agitator Tommy Robinson Found Support with the World’s Richest Men
https://www.webworm.co/p/tommyrobinson

Hope Not Hate
https://hopenothate.org.uk/ 

Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance by Joe Mulhall https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rebel-Sounds/Joe-Mulhall/9781804441169

Reform UK, Nigel Farage, and Elon Musk (E311)

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Once upon a time, the US went to war against a small tribe in the pacific northwest, and, despite winning due to the massive power imbalance, they managed to get their asses kicked the entire time.

Sources:

Arthur Quinn. Hell With the Fire Out: A History of the Modoc War

Terry Johnston. Devil's Backbone: The Modoc War, 1872–3

Robert McNally. The Modoc War: A Little Indian War Goes Big https://www.historynet.com/the-modoc-war-a-little-indian-war-goes-big/

Kurt Nelson. The Modoc War of 1872.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-modoc-war-of-1872/

https://www.militarymuseum.org/Modoc1.html

https://www.csuchico.edu/alva/projects/2012/the-beginning-of-the-end.shtml

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/labe/intro.htm




Episode 350 - The Modoc War

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Joe is joined by the Zoo Crew to talk about the time Rome hosted the world's largest Goth convention.

Sources:

Zosimus. New History

Michael Kulikowski. Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric.

Ludwig Heinrich Dyck. The Goth Sack of Rome: Barbarians at the Gate in 410 AD. Military Heritage. Volume 7, no 2. 2005.

Herwig Wolfram. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples.

The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 13

Episode 351 - The 410AD Sack of Rome

Welcome to the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. Your companions are two Frenchmen: Julian Feeld and Anthony Mansuy. They attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) so you didn’t have to. Enjoy the CPAC International Summit where leaders like Liz Truss (UK), Eduardo Bolsonaro (Brazil), Morse Tan (South Korea), Steve Bannon (1933 Germany), and representatives from Japan, Australia, Hungary, Mexico, and Israel gathered to plot a far-right international coalition and whine about how their Big Beautiful Boys have been so poorly treated. Join Julian and Anthony as they run into JFK Jr (who is alive and well) as well as a whole lot of January 6 rioters, including one that still has a lot of love for QAnon. This is the first of a two-part episode based on our latest field reporting in Washington DC.

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Anthony Mansuy: https://x.com/AnthonyMansuy

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2 Frenchmen at CPAC (Part One) (E313)

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Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about one the stupidest but certainly bloodiest battle in Texan history.

Sources:

Ted Schwartz. Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution: The Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/medina-battle-of

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gutierrez-magee-expedition

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/magee-augustus-william

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local_news/article/Texas-battle-now-has-three-site-markers-4568808.php



Episode 354 - The 1813 Battle of Medina

After a viral Tik Tok conspiracy claimed there was a “true story” behind the hit series “Squid Game,” Jake goes down the rabbit hole to try to separate fact from fiction.  The Tik Tok people were very wrong, and what we discover instead is far more horrific.  Julian and Brad are forced to cope as Jake tells the devastating story of “Brother’s Home”, an 80s era South Korean so-called ‘Wellness Center’ that turns out to be anything but.  


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SOURCES:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/12/10/secrets-of-south-koreas-house-of-horrors-hidden-in-australia

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/world/asia/korea-abuse-brothers-home.html

https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/asia/south-korea-brothers-home-abuse/index.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52797527



Brother’s Home (E316)

This week we're joined by FT Alphaville writer Alexandra Scaggs (@alexandrascaggs) to discuss all the latest market news from this week: tariffs, reversing the tariffs, reversing the tariff reversals, bond vigilantes, and of course the Art of the Deal

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Episode 388: The Big Beautiful Leap Forward (w/ special guest Alexandra Scaggs)

"Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China," trumpeted The New York Times in 2021. "A New Economic Patriotism Can Help Unite Our Divided Congress," argued Newsweek in 2023. "US cedes ground to China with ‘self-inflicted wound’ of USAid shutdown, analysts say," cautioned The Guardian in 2025. 

In recent years, we’ve been exposed to the latest version of a centuries-old geopolitical message: We all have a common enemy, and we all need to unite to fight it by making our own country stronger. That enemy—most commonly China—is threatening to outpace, if it isn’t already outpacing, the US in infrastructural investment, educational programs, technological development, and elsewhere, and we need to devote millions, billions, even trillions of dollars to restoring the vitality of our institutions in order to reverse this trend. 

But why must defeating an "enemy" be the justification for policy that has the potential to benefit the public? Why should we just accept the premise that there must be an "enemy" to compete against and defeat? Why can’t policy be enacted for the sole purpose of improving people’s lives? And how does this messaging about the threat of a looming adversary serve the ruling class?

On this episode, we detail the timeworn trope of the common enemy as a "unifying" device, looking at how increasingly so-called progressives are appealing to feel-good sentiments of unity and to the genuine needs for sound infrastructure, robust social safety nets, corporate regulation, and functional institutions in order to sell the idea that there is, and always will be, a shadowy bad guy that must be vanquished. 

Our guest is historian, professor and author Greg Grandin.

Episode 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Progressive Causes

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