The Enlightened Dirtbags Podcast

Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Premiere, New York, the Village Voice, and Details. Together with Dan Piepenbring, Tom O'Neill spent 20 years writing Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.

The Enlightened Dirtbags review and discuss Chaos in the Season 2 Finale and have a surprising Octane rating for O'Neill's work. To celebrate the "boss level" book, V2 has a giveaway that you'll have to listen in for to get the secret details.

#Books #Chaos #CharlesManson #TateLaBianca #CIA #Murder #Conspiracy

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre, is a stunning account of Oleg Gordievsky's work as a double agent for MI6.

Macintyre takes the political, historical, and cultural situation of the Cold War and writes a captivating true narrative of Gordievsky's almost unbelievable contribution to global security.

Marching Powder, by Rusty Young, is The Astonishing Real-life Story of a Brit Drug Smuggler Banged Up in Bolivia's Most Notorious Jail.

Thomas McFadden was busted for attempting to smuggle 5 kilos of cocaine out of Bolivia, and Marching Power is Thomas's story of surviving and thriving in San Pedro prison.

Listen to the Enlightened Dirtbags discuss the funny, depressing, and stunning details of life inside San Pedro prison.

#Books #Reading #Cocaine #Prison #Boliva #SanPedro #Enlightened #Dirtbags

Paul Rusesabagina, hotel manger is a hero of the Rwandan Genocide. Rusesabagina housed over 1,200 refugees in the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali during the 100-day genocide. The genocide resulted in the atrocious murders of an estimated 800,000 people.

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography is Rusesabagina's personal story of growing up and becoming a hotel manger in Kigali, and persevering during the Rwandan Civil War and Genocide.

Listen to the Enlightened Dirtbags discuss the horrific details of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

#Books #Reading #Rwanda #Genocide #Murder #Africa #Enlightened #Dirtbags

Amaryllis Fox is ex-CIA, advanced operations. She spent the later part of her tenure working as a spy under "non-official cover" recruiting assets and infiltrating terrorist organizations. Fox's book, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA recounts her experience as a young, female agent and as a new mother while deep undercover.

Listen in for The Enlightened Dirtbags' review of Amaryllis Fox's Life Undercover.

#CIA #Spy #UnderCover #Books #Reading #Enlightened #Dirtbags

Bill Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until the mid-2000s. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice is Browder's personal thriller steeped in business, politics, and Russian corruption. Listen in for the Enlightened Dirtbags' review of Red Notice.

#Russia #Putin #MagnitskyAct #Books #Reading #Dirtbags #Enlightened

Runaway Devil: How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family (2009) is a true to life story about Jasmine Richardson and her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke murdering Jasmine's parents and 8-year-old brother in 2006 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose, Runaway Devil is not for the passive reader. Reading this book might f*** you up.

#Murder #Medicine Hat #SpecialGuest #Books #Reading #Dirtbags #Enlightened

Mark Eglinton is a Scottish author who tells us to “delete everything you know about John McAfee.” McAfee, well-known for creating the anti-virus software company McAfee Associates, is a math prodigy, a former libertarian presidential candidate, and an on again off again on again drug user with a self-described excellent “sense of impending doom.” No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes (2021) is Eglinton’s transcribed Skype conversations with McAfee when he is on the run from the CIA.

The Enlightened Dirtbags are found on Instagram @enlightened_dirtbag and @jonahkondro. And they love to hear opinions on their episodes and would love to hear what you’re reading.

#McAfee #Computers #Libertarian #Books #Reading #Dirtbags #Enlightened

Welcome to Season Two of the Enlightened Dirtbags podcast. Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro have eight Crime and Conspiracy themed books, one for each episode. In the Preface to Season Two, the Dirtbags introduce the books as well as share what they’ve been reading outside of the podcast.

In the season finale of the Enlightened Dirtbags podcast, Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro read and review both Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Mark Richardson’s Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (2008). Pirsig is an American writer and philosopher, and Richardson is a Canadian journalist and writer. Listen to the episode for the Enlightened Dirtbags’ octane rating for each book and to get a hint of what’s coming in the second season of their podcast.

Find the hosts on Instagram @enlightened_dirtbag and @jonahkondro. Share your thoughts on the first season and your suggestions for the next season’s reading list.

#RobertPirsig #HondaSuperHawk #MarkRichardson #SuzukiDR600 #Motorcycles #Books #Reading #Travel #History #Philosophy #Dirtbags #Enlightened