The Martyr Made Podcast

The Martyr Made Podcast episodes:

• 03.31.2024

  Easter Message

  Hi everybody. This is a short Easter message I put together a year or two ago. It's been up on the Martyr Made Substack (https://martyrmade.substack.com/) - which you should all go subscribe to at your earliest convenience - but I...

  
• 01.31.2024

  The Prodigal Sons - Nietzsche and Dostoevsky (Novitate Conference, Nov 2023)

  Hi everyone. Here is a talk I gave about Nietzsche and Dostoevsky at the first inaugural Novitate Conference (https://novitateconference.org/) in Washington, DC. Novitate was created by Luke Burgis (https://read.lukeburgis.com/) to explore and celebrate the work of French scholar René Girard. Luke is the author...

  
• 11.30.2023

  Blacks and Jews (Complete Series)

  Hi everybody. This is the audio version of a six-part essay series called Blacks and Jews. I wrote it for my Substack a while back, so if it sounds like I’m reading instead of speaking naturally, it’s because in this...

  
• 11.25.2023

  The Complete Jeffrey Epstein Series

  I'm re-uploading all the podcasts from a new hosting service, so I thought I'd go ahead and put the full Epstein series up while I was at it. This series deals with some very dark material. It is not for listening...

  
• 11.11.2023

  War All the Time: Israel vs. Palestine, 1948-82 (Bonus Episode)

  This episode will cover the period from 1948 - the year of Israeli independence and the Palestinian Nakba - to the Lebanon War of 1982. It is not meant to be a thorough history of that period, as Fear &...

  
• 06.26.2023

  Sticky: #23 – Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

  The Great Migration of 1915-1960 saw over six million African Americans move from the rural South to the big cities of the North and West. It was one of the largest mass migrations in human history, and one whose consequences...

  
• 09.09.2022

  #22 – Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

  In August 1921, 10,000-20,000 armed coal miners marched on Mingo County, West Virginia to lift the martial law imposed there, free their jailed brethren, and avenge the assassination of one of their local heroes. At least 20,000 more wives, young...

  
• 05.23.2022

  #21 – Whose America?: Prologue

  Hi everyone. Here is the first episode – well, the prologue – for a brand new Martyr Made series called Whose America?, on the American labor wars. This is a series I’ve been working on for a while, and a...

  
• 03.14.2022

  Thoughts on Ukraine (Updated and Remastered)

  Hey everybody. Many of you have asked for my thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine, so here they are. I re-recorded it because the audio was trash the first time around. Sorry about that.This is the kind of content I...

  
• 08.31.2021

  #20 – The Underground Spirit

  There’s a quote always attributed to Winston Churchill – falsely, I think? – that goes something like, “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by 30, you have no brain.” I’ve...

  
• 05.31.2021

  #19 – The Anti-Humans

  History is replete with examples of leaders, nations, and empires who left a trail of blood behind them. But with the Bolshevik takeover of Russia after the First World War, something new crawled from the depths of the earth onto...

  
• 11.11.2020

  #18 – The Madame Butterfly Effect (bonus episode)

  This is a short piece I did for Daniele's History on Fire podcast. Many of you may have already heard it, but I thought I'd put it on the main feed just in case. It was a fun break from...

  
• 10.17.2020

  #17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End

  Jim Jones and Peoples Temple follow the remnants of the 1970s radical left into the fire.WARNING: Extreme language and disturbing content.Thank you to www.campuspress.com for sponsoring this series.Support the show by subscribing to the MartyrMade Substack.Huge thanks to the folks...

  
• 06.15.2020

  #16 – God’s Socialist, pt. 6: No Driver At The Wheel

  This was originally intended to be part of the previous episode, but I decided to break them up.Warning: EXTREME LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC CONTENTThe student movement is dead. The Black Panther Party is torn apart by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Activism...

  
• 06.15.2020

  #15 - God’s Socialist, pt. 5: The Wounded King

  This episode begins where the '60s end, when the radicalism of that decade crash headlong into the diminishing expectations of 1970s America. The Weather Underground veers off toward its explosive climax. As the idealism of the student movement is shunted...

  
• 02.10.2020

  #14 - God's Socialist, pt. 4: Sex, Drugs & Revolution

  This episode discusses the beginning of Peoples' Temple's slide into radicalism after Jim Jones leads his people to California. We also talk about the development of 1960s radical political movements, and Jonestown conspiracy theories.I had to record this episode in...

  
• 06.24.2019

  #13 – God’s Socialist, pt. 3: Head North, Then Turn Left

  In this episode I trace the trajectory of the civil rights movement through the 1960s, and the gradual shift in emphasis and leadership from the stoic southern marchers following Martin Luther King, Jr to the militant Black Power soldiers of...

  
• 04.15.2019

  #12 - God's Socialist, pt. 2: What Child Is This?

  This is part 2 of a podcast series on Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple movement. An eccentric loner as a child, Jim Jones finds purpose in the fight for racial and economic justice.

  
• 03.04.2019

  #11 - God's Socialist: Prologue

  This is the first episode of a series exploring Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. This episode is only a prologue, a few stories and ideas to serve as a backdrop for everything to come. The next episode will be...

  
• 03.08.2018

  #10 - Anything That Moves - The My Lai Massacre (w/History on Fire)

  This is part 2 of a series I’ve been working on with Daniele Bolelli. In part 1, he covered the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre carried out by the US Army. I was working on my next major series when Daniele...

  
• 08.31.2017

  #9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny

  “Mexica ‘beliefs’ have been discussed confidently enough, but academics being natural theologians, usually at an unnaturally abstract pitch. My interest is not in belief at this formal level, but in sensibility: the emotional, moral, and aesthetic nexus through which thought...

  
• 06.27.2017

  #8 - How to Serve Man - Sacrifice & Cannibalism, pt. 1

  Who’s hungry?Listen on iTunes!Listen on Stitcher! (seems to be some issue here… will try to fix)Visit MartyrMade Facebook page!

  
• 06.05.2017

  #7 - Approaching the Aztecs - A Drunken Introduction

  In which I take a break from banging out my human sacrifice episode to check in with my patient listeners.I’m working on a series of companion episodes to go along with Daniele Bolelli’s History on Fire series on the Spanish...

  
• 12.20.2016

  #6 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Never Again

  Modern Zionism began in the late 19th century with idealistic calls for spiritual renewal; by 1939, it had transformed into a desperate play for bare survival. Young revolutionaries do combat with Zionist elder statesmen for the soul of the movement....

  
• 04.16.2016

  #5 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Things Fall Apart...

  Riots. Massacres. The end of the world and everything in it. Palestinian Arabs finally find a voice in the wake of the 1929 massacres. Unable and unwilling to find a place for the Jews, Europe’s autoimmune disorder begins to tear...

  
• 11.23.2015

  #4 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 3

  Hi everyone. Been a long time. My day job has been downright abusive the last 2-3 months, but we’re back with Episode 4 of Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem. As the Middle Eastern regional order is hammered into...

  
• 07.18.2015

  #3 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Nostalgia and Naivety in Honor Culture

  We’re halfway through Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, the history of Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (If you haven’t listened to the first two episodes, you might want to do that for background, but this episode is an...

  
• 06.19.2015

  #2 - Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 2

  The Arabs and the Zionists in Palestine struggle to get their bearings in a ruined world. The smell of gunsmoke still lays thick over the landscape, and the ink is still wet on the Balfour Declaration and the several new...

  
• 03.19.2015

  #1 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 1

  The conflict between Israel and Palestine can often seem like a permanent feature of the global order. The wars, intifadas, refugees camps, suicide vests, UN resolutions, and peace talks have been painfully burned into our collective consciousness. But how could...