Blowback

By BlowBack

Society & Culture

What's Blowback about?

A podcast about American Empire.

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S4 Episode 1 - "Snake Eater"

08.25.2023

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Blowback episodes:

08.25.2023 S4 Episode 1 - "Snake Eater" Welcome to Season 4: Afghanistan. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
11.28.2022 S3 Episode 10 - "The Host" The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. But a peace treaty never comes. As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
11.21.2022 S3 Episode 9 - "No More Targets" Stalemate on the battlefield does not stop the United States from obliterating North Korea. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
11.14.2022 S3 Episode 8 - "American Caesar" President Truman and his “Big General in the Far East” enter their final standoff over the war. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
11.07.2022 S3 Episode 7 - "Mao's Poem" The US threatens to cross the Yalu. The Chinese leadership debates its options in Korea. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.31.2022 S3 Episode 6 - "National Smile Week" Gen. MacArthur executes his revenge. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.24.2022 S3 Episode 5 - “Train to Busan” With a rightwing, US-backed klepto-case to his South, Kim Il-Sung bets the house. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.17.2022 S3 Episode 4 - "Red Island" The war before the war on a self-reliant island off South Korea. Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.10.2022 S3 Episode 3 - "The Blue House" After a flash of hope post-WWII Korea is divided into North and South. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.01.2022 S3 Episode 2 - “The Uninvited” A pocket-sized history of the Korean peninsula, the upstart US and Japanese empires, and World War II. Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
07.25.2022 S3 Episode 1 - “Stop Me Before I Kill Again” A new season, a new story: The Korean War. To listen to the rest of season 3 right now, visit www.blowback.show Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
04.12.2022 Coming Soon: Blowback Season Three The third season of Blowback — the story of the Korean War — arrives July 2022. Pre-order and listening details at https://blowback.supportingcast.fm Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
11.15.2021 S2 Bonus 10 - "Havana (Derangement) Syndrome" Guests Helen Yaffe, José Pertierra and Marta Núñez Sarmiento discuss the protests in Cuba during July 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
11.08.2021 S2 Bonus 9 - "The Most Beautiful Cause" A rundown of the Cuban revolution's foreign policy in Africa with guest, Cuban diplomat Oscar Oramas-Oliva. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
11.01.2021 S2 Bonus 8 - "The Capital of Terrorism" Noah talks with José Pertierra, a Cuban-American immigration attorney who has long tangled with right-wing Miami Cubans in the media and in court. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.25.2021 S2 Bonus 7 - "Sweet Dirty Tony's Baadasssss Song" Guest Bill Corbett (Mystery Science Theater 3000, Rifftrax) and Brendan hang out and talk about some bad Cuba movies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.18.2021 S2 Bonus 6 - “Neverland” A discussion of Operation Peter Pan with Prof. Nelson Valdes, with a detour into Hungary, 1956. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.11.2021 S2 Bonus 5 - "Massive Retaliation" A brief overview of how American nuclear weapons strategy ran parallel to the story in our main narrative. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
10.04.2021 S2 Bonus 4 - "CIAin't Kiddin'" Guest Luna Olavarria-Gallegos explains how the US government infiltrated and co-opted the hip-hop scene in Cuba. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
09.27.2021 S2 Bonus 3 - "Watch Out For That Boy" We talk to activists and historians about Cuba, black radicalism, and how the Revolution attacked the problem of racism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
09.20.2021 S2 Bonus 2 - "Lo Distinto Se Parece" Interviews with history professor Michelle Chase and Cuban scholar Marta Nuñez Sarmiento. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
09.13.2021 S2 Bonus 1 - "Red-Handed Sleight of Hand" Guatemala: an origin story, inspiration, and cautionary tale just a few hundred miles from our main story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
09.06.2021 S2 Episode 10 - "Infinite Crisis" After the Kennedy assassination, US-Cuba diplomacy wanes and the embargo continues. To this day. Our story ends. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
08.30.2021 S2 Episode 9 - "Cuba Libra" Castro, Khrushchev, and Kennedy take tentative steps toward the path of peace post-Crisis. Cuban exile groups, and their CIA sponsors, are not pleased. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
08.23.2021 S2 Episode 8 - “We’ll All Meet In Hell” The USA announces to the world there are missiles in Cuba. Fidel prepares for war. Khrushchev secretly haggles with Kennedy. Americans enjoy Betty Crocker Super Moist Cake Mix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
08.16.2021 S2 Episode 7 - "Anadyr" Fearing another American invasion — "the big one" — Soviet and Cuban leaders plot a secret response. Camelot never sees it coming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
08.09.2021 S2 Episode 6 - "Nothing To Lose" Smarting from failure at the Bay of Pigs, the White House sets in motion a new plan to thwart the Cuban Revolution: Operation Mongoose. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
08.02.2021 S2 Episode 5 - "Fish Is Red" The CIA and the Cuban exiles get their long-awaited shot at taking out Castro and the Revolution. The subsequent battle in Cuba sends shockwaves around the world. Also: The Blowback S2 official soundtrack is now out on Spotify, Apple, Bandcamp, ...
07.26.2021 S2 Episode 4 - "Secret Honor" JFK outmuscles Richard Nixon on Cuba and into the White House. The CIA begins training Cuban exiles in Central America for an invasion. And Fidel pays a visit to Harlem. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & ...
07.19.2021 S2 Episode 3 - "New Normal" The Cuban Revolution takes power and the counter-revolution begins. The U.S. government, organized crime, and Cuban exiles carry out a campaign of terrorism, assassination, sabotage and psy-ops to turn back the clock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands ...
07.12.2021 S2 Episode 2 - "Lo Hicimos" A long short history of Cuba’s relationship with the United States, climaxing with the Cuban revolutionaries’ war to liberate the island from the dictator Batista and his backers in the United States. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands ...
04.19.2021 S2 Episode 1 - "The Jupiter Menace" Welcome back. Brendan and Noah reveal this season’s subject, explore the USA’s unrelenting Cuba mania, and introduce the cast of characters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
04.12.2021 Coming Soon: Blowback Season 2 New episodes drop on April 19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
08.20.2020 S1 Bonus - "Shock Corridor feat. Naomi Klein" Author Naomi Klein joins us to discuss the American exploitation-fest in Iraq, her own experience coming up during the Bush years, the rehabilitation of the Bush administration, and its continuities with the Trump gang. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising ...
08.19.2020 S1 Bonus - "Iraqi Horror Picture Show feat. Matt Christman" Brendan and Noah survey the underwhelming landscape of Iraq War cinema with special guest Matt Christman. They dissect both Hollywood's hits and flops — neither of which were very good — and recommend very few flicks worth watching. See omnystudio.com/listener ...
08.18.2020 S1 Bonus - "Our Man In Baghdad feat. Dahr Jamail" In this first bonus episode, Noah talks to author and journalist Dahr Jamail, one of the few journalists who covered the occupation of Iraq, on the ground, without being embedded with the US military or its allies. Dahr is the ...
08.17.2020 S1 Episode 10 - "The Iraq War Did Not Take Place" Invading Iraq means never having to say you’re sorry. The end of Bush, the broken promise of Obama, and the rise of ISIS and Donald Trump. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
08.10.2020 S1 Episode 9 - "How Do You Fuck That Up?" The empire strikes back. As Iraq deteriorates into civil war, the Bush administration taps a new man to lead a new American strategy. Which means saying goodbye to an old friend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy ...
08.03.2020 S1 Episode 8 - "Electioneering" The American public votes to give Bush another term, right before a big dose of buyers’ remorse. In Iraq, the new "democracy" struggles to get elections off the ground as the situation careens toward civil war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
07.27.2020 S1 Episode 7 - "#Resistance" Somehow not expecting it, the Americans now face an insurgency problem, as both Sunni and Shi'a militants emerge to kick us out. War crimes and atrocities in Fallujah, Sadr City and Abu Ghraib fuel the flames of anti-American resistance. See ...
07.20.2020 S1 Episode 6 - "Year Zero" Welcome to the Green Zone, where America rules from Saddam’s old palace. The US occupation begins the destruction of Iraq, Rudy Giuliani almost becomes Viceroy, and Halliburton hunts and kills baby kittens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands ...
07.13.2020 S1 Episode 5 - "Dead Links feat. Will Menaker" The media episode, breaking down some of the journalistic fuck-ups and pundit idiocy that steered us toward war in Iraq. Featuring special guest Will Menaker. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
07.06.2020 S1 Episode 4 - "Mars Attacks" America sends Colin Powell, Good Cop, to the UN for one last PR stunt before we invade Iraq. The portal to Gozer the Destructor is opened and the war begins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & ...
06.29.2020 S1 Episode 3 - "Curveball" September 11th gives America the perfect excuse to finish our hit job on Iraq. We put together the Bush administration's case for war — WMD and al-Qaeda — and take it apart piece by piece. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ...
06.22.2020 S1 Episode 2 - "American Psycho" Before George W. Bush, there was Daddy Bush and Bill Clinton, who killed thousands of Iraqis and pushed the country to the brink of famine. The Gulf War, brutal sanctions, and the End of History. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ...
06.15.2020 S1 Episode 1 - "Rosebud" We trace the origins of America’s perverse relationship with Iraq, from the Cold War to the Iran-Iraq War in the 80s. Assassinations, coups, counter-coups, and the rise of Saddam. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: ...
03.17.2020 S1 Episode 0 - "Iraqnophobia" feat. H. Jon Benjamin & James Adomian Brendan and Noah drag the Iraq War out of America’s memory hole to see how it shaped our hellworld today. Meet the rogues’ gallery of George W. Bush’s administration and Saddam Hussein’s family. Featuring special guests James Adomian and H. ...
03.09.2020 New Podcast Coming Soon: Blowback The Iraq War did not take place. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Blowback episodes:

S4 Episode 1 - "Snake Eater"

S3 Episode 10 - "The Host"

S3 Episode 9 - "No More Targets"

S3 Episode 8 - "American Caesar"

S3 Episode 7 - "Mao's Poem"

S3 Episode 6 - "National Smile Week"

S3 Episode 5 - “Train to Busan”

S3 Episode 4 - "Red Island"

S3 Episode 3 - "The Blue House"

S3 Episode 2 - “The Uninvited”

S3 Episode 1 - “Stop Me Before I Kill Again”

Coming Soon: Blowback Season Three

S2 Bonus 10 - "Havana (Derangement) Syndrome"

S2 Bonus 9 - "The Most Beautiful Cause"

S2 Bonus 8 - "The Capital of Terrorism"

S2 Bonus 7 - "Sweet Dirty Tony's Baadasssss Song"

S2 Bonus 6 - “Neverland”

S2 Bonus 5 - "Massive Retaliation"

S2 Bonus 4 - "CIAin't Kiddin'"

S2 Bonus 3 - "Watch Out For That Boy"

S2 Bonus 2 - "Lo Distinto Se Parece"

S2 Bonus 1 - "Red-Handed Sleight of Hand"

S2 Episode 10 - "Infinite Crisis"

S2 Episode 9 - "Cuba Libra"

S2 Episode 8 - “We’ll All Meet In Hell”

S2 Episode 7 - "Anadyr"

S2 Episode 6 - "Nothing To Lose"

S2 Episode 5 - "Fish Is Red"

S2 Episode 4 - "Secret Honor"

S2 Episode 3 - "New Normal"

S2 Episode 2 - "Lo Hicimos"

S2 Episode 1 - "The Jupiter Menace"

Coming Soon: Blowback Season 2

S1 Bonus - "Shock Corridor feat. Naomi Klein"

S1 Bonus - "Iraqi Horror Picture Show feat. Matt Christman"

S1 Bonus - "Our Man In Baghdad feat. Dahr Jamail"

S1 Episode 10 - "The Iraq War Did Not Take Place"

S1 Episode 9 - "How Do You Fuck That Up?"

S1 Episode 8 - "Electioneering"

S1 Episode 7 - "#Resistance"

S1 Episode 6 - "Year Zero"

S1 Episode 5 - "Dead Links feat. Will Menaker"

S1 Episode 4 - "Mars Attacks"

S1 Episode 3 - "Curveball"

S1 Episode 2 - "American Psycho"

S1 Episode 1 - "Rosebud"

S1 Episode 0 - "Iraqnophobia" feat. H. Jon Benjamin & James Adomian

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