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The Martyrmade Podcast
Hosted by Darryl Cooper · EN
Mythology & Religion in the Human Story
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#16 – God's Socialist, pt. 6: No Driver At The Wheel
Jun 15, 202002:42:26Tap to summarizeThis was originally intended to be part of the previous episode, but I decided to break them up. Warning: EXTREME LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC CONTENT The student movement is dead. The Black Panther Party is torn apart by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Activism devolves into struggle sessions and terrorism, as the movement for civil rights and social justice is left to "drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen." Treason drives Jim Jones off a cliff. Donate at PayPal using martyrmade @ gmail . com, or support the podcast on Patreon. Available on iTunes, Stitchr, and Spotify as soon as I get around to figuring that out. This series brought to you by the kind folks at CampusPress.
Transcribe →#15 – God's Socialist, pt. 5: The Wounded King
Jun 15, 202004:32:43Tap to summarizeThis 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 into self-help fads and therapy sessions, what remaining energy of the radical left is drained into increasingly bizarre and violent channels. I broke this episode up into two parts, so it ends a bit abruptly. The second segment will be available a few hours after this is released. Donate at PayPal using martyrmade @ gmail . com, or support the podcast on Patreon. Available on iTunes, Stitchr, and Spotify as soon as I get around to figuring that out. This series brought to you by the good folks at CampusPress.
Transcribe →#14 - God's Socialist, pt. 4: Sex, Drugs & Revolution
Feb 10, 202006:37:59Tap to summarizeThis 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 a hotel bathroom while on travel for work. The audio quality has some issues at various points, and I will probably try to redo the whole thing at some point in the future. Hopefully, it's not too bad.
Transcribe →#13 – God's Socialist, pt. 3: Head North, Then Turn Left
Jun 24, 201904:02:20Tap to summarizeIn 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 the northern ghettos.
Transcribe →#12 - God's Socialist, pt. 2: What Child Is This?
Apr 15, 201903:18:04Tap to summarizeThis 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.
Transcribe →#11 - God's Socialist: Prologue
Mar 4, 201901:31:12Tap to summarizeThis 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 along in the next few weeks, and every few weeks after that until we figure out why over 900 people committed suicide in a South American jungle in 1978. Listen on iTunes!
Transcribe →#10 - Anything That Moves - The My Lai Massacre (w/History on Fire)
Mar 8, 201802:21:10Tap to summarizeThis 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 asked me to do a companion episode on My Lai, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity. From his description: "Because I felt like I was ordered to do it, and it seemed like that, at the time I felt like I was doing the right thing." —Private First Class Paul Meadlo explaining his role in the My Lai Massacre. "How do you shoot babies?" Meadlo was then asked. His reply… "I don't know. It's just one of them things." "I felt then and I still do that I acted as I was directed, and I carried out the order that I was given and I do not feel wrong in doing so." — Lieutenant William Calley Jr. addressing his own leadership during the action. "Every Day/ On our fellow man we prey/ Dog eat Dog/ To Get by/ Hope you like my genocide" — The Offspring "Hello darkness, my old friend…" — Simon and Garfunkel "I believe now it is but the commencement of war with this tribe, which must result in their extermination." — Major Jacob Downing "Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! … I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians. … Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice." — Quote attributed to Colonel John Chivington "They were so honorable and so strong, but I felt like they were alone and sometimes when you want to do the right thing, the people that want to do the right thing suffer… even today." —Lorraine Waters about Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer "It was hard to see little children on their knees… having their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized." — Silas Soule I'm not going to lie. This is one of the darkest episodes of History on Fire. But there are reasons for this journey into the heart of darkness. The stories of Sand Creek and My Lai offer an opportunity to explore human agency, the choices separating good and evil, and how some individuals can choose to become sources of light even in the most horrible circumstances. In part B, I hand the microphone to my friend and master podcaster Darryl Cooper (from The Martyrmade Podcast.) Darryl explores the context of the Cold War in order to come to terms with what happened at My Lai, in Vietnam, in 1968. Horror abounds, but if you are looking for heroes in the midst of the horror, you can do a lot worse than hear about the story of Hugh Thompson. Listen on iTunes!
Transcribe →#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny
Aug 31, 201702:54:52Tap to summarize"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 comes to be expressed in action, and so made public, visible, and accessible to our observation." -Inga Clenninden | Aztecs: An Interpretation Human sacrifice is not a human universal. The institution emerges at a specific stage of human sociopolitical development, and recedes when the transition is complete. Rarely found among nomadic hunter-gatherers, ritual homicide is also nearly absent in archaic civilizations (except for a few residual instances such as royal burials). But human beings didn't make the leap from nomadic foragers to pyramid builders overnight. Nestled between was a transitional stage, when newly-settled people faced the monumental task of ditching the ancient kinship system, sacrificing their freedom to kings, and reorganizing themselves into the first states. This fraught transition was imposed by violence, as primitive egalitarianism was replaced by class oppression, and human sacrifice was employed to define social boundaries and to stave off panic with brutal acts of self-assertion. Kings gloried in their total freedom, the less fortunate were terrorized into submission, and the gods looked on with dripping fangs and growling stomachs. If you would like to donate to help put some kibble in my bowl, you can do it at Patreon, or PayPal (email: martyrmade at gmail.com). Thank you to those of you who have donated, I really don't know what to say other than that. Thank you. Check out History on Fire! Listen to this episode on iTunes! Listen to this episode on Stitcher!
Transcribe →#8 - How to Serve Man - Sacrifice & Cannibalism, pt. 1
Jun 27, 201702:44:00Tap to summarizeWho's hungry? Listen on iTunes! Listen on Stitcher! (seems to be some issue here… will try to fix) Visit MartyrMade Facebook page!
Transcribe →#7 - Approaching the Aztecs - A Drunken Introduction
Jun 5, 201701:46:51Tap to summarizeIn 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 conquest of Mexico. If you haven't heard the first episode of his series (available on iTunes and everything else) and the bonus episode he put out (available on his website), you really need to listen to them before you get into what I'm doing here. Cheers, everyone.
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