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762 - The Safari Club feat. Brendan James & Noah Kulwin (8/29/23) (Patreon)

Published:
2023-08-29 20:19:19
Edited:
2023-08-29 21:52:06
Imported:
2026-06

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Brendan & Noah a.k.a. The Blowback Boys stop by to discuss their new podcast season, covering 40+ years of covert crimes and international disorder flowing through Afghanistan. We discuss the emergence of political Islam, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Safari Club, BCCI, Charlie Wilson’s War, Rambo III and much more.

Find all things Blowback & subscribe here: https://blowback.show/

Find Ben Clarkson’s amazing animated trailer, discussed in this episode, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb0r5aWGkCI

NYC: Will & Hesse will be hosting a special Movie Mindset 35mm print screening of Howard Hawks’ RIO BRAVO on Saturday, September 2nd at the Roxy Theater! Tix here: https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/rio-bravo/

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Quinn

Was hoping we’d get a Blowback combo pod for this new season 💯

John Leahy

Devastated to learn the Rambo credits aren’t real

Richard Cardenas

Well, well, well if it isn’t the blowback brothers

Ryan Kerr

Fuck yeah it’s the annual podcast about a different podcast

MC Prescott

Season 4 might be the one that has made me hate America the most

Jacob Jones

Brendan and Noah might just become the biggest exports of the left. I recommend Blowback to everyone, regardless of their political situation.

etienne

S2 and S3 were good but there's just something about hearing my guys Cheney and Rumsfeld and Colin Powell

etienne

when Poppy shows up it's like when a show introduces the Giancarlo Esposito guy

Nick Cole

This season of blowback is bangin

Nathan Explosion

new season of blowback is so good in that everything is terrible and now i know more about it

Zack Burke

If you will it, it is no dream

Jack

SPEAK ABOUT DESTRUCTION!

Roy

Hath not a hog snout? If you feed us, do we not squeal?

james

Noah Kulwin stuffed me in a locker back in rabbi school

Bloggystyle

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, BCCI was doing some shady shit, particularly in the S&P futures, where the earned the name Bank of Crooks and Criminals Inc.

George Mitri

I find myself inhaling Season 4, and glowing more and more with anger about how _depraved_ it all got. Sensational season; well done.

Whucko Jaang

52:30 sounds like Amber and Matt are on the mic

etienne

52:55 tragic mp3 collapse at the content factory

LH

Sorry to be earnest in the Patreon comments, but does anyone have any good book recommendations that pair well with the new season of blowback?

m@tt

Sweet double agent effect at 53’

etienne

Reaganland if you want to hear about Brzezinski. sets up the stage for how big of a inferiority complex the US felt it wanted to make up not just about Vietnam but also about a decade of oil inflation, mid east and southam humiliations and fucked vibes

Brendan Kneeland

I’ve not yet read the source material for Blowback but might start this year. I believe they have the books cited in the show description on the Blowback website?

Andrew Ratcliffe

Hope the new blow back is as fun as the original. Remember when they had H Jon Benjamin as Saddam?

Jack

they did the classic comedy bored by what your saying so layer multiple tracks on top of each other bit

ectoslavia

Saddam Hussein Has a Van

Violet

Those of you looking for a fun example of Wikipedia whitewashing may find the Wiki page for BCCI quite instructive. Compare the English version to other languages and note what doesn't ever get mentioned in the English version.

Max Headroom

No hate but is Brendan gay or does he just kinda sound like that?

Degrassi Knoll

Irrelavant. Also, hasn't Lindsay Graham made these discussions all but impossible? Macho macho man 💪

Shane McGonnell

I was listening to this on the shower and said “god dammit my phone got wet”

Shane McGonnell

He’s a funnier character then we are used to

Burlack Sapp

thought it switched to E1 for a minute there

etienne

McJihad but also yeah good pun

Marcus

Who can help me find the clip of Charlie Wilson?

Brian

I’m so fuckin’ confused.

Andrew Cross

hell yeah it’s like… uhhhh… y’know

Gubriel

Not specific to Afghanistan but related, Greg Grandin's Kissinger's Shadow is a great read exploring both his history and connecting his academic work with the cycle of perpetual blowback

Salt M. Bank

Hell yeah Blowback. Unrelated, Chris, any update for the time for my stories show migrating onto the patreon feed?

Gordon Schmidt

Re: the Grand Mosque seizure, a few corrections. Firstly, the guy who led the whole thing didn't claim to be the Mahdi- he said *his cousin* was the Mahdi. The cousin denied it at first, but of course that's exactly what the Mahdi would do. Apparently the dude was badass- went down fighting in the tunnels trying to throw back a grenade. Secondly, the story of the French commandos "converting" is probably fake, but I did hear of an American helicopter pilot who, because they needed a helicopter pilot in Mecca and they couldn't find a Muslim pilot, made him say the Shahada in a half-assed ceremony before he could work. Finally, a group of African-American Muslim converts somehow got involved with the pseudo-Mahdists, and fought in the incident. Allegedly, at least one of them survived and returned to the United States. I wonder if he's still around somewhere. Also, Amin coming to power after killing Taraki and Zia coming into power after killing Bhutto is one of those weird little symmetries of history

Cumtickles

was it really necessary for the Matt and Will to spit roast Felix while they were talking about Hitler

Budget Hireling

Oh my god thank you for finally telling me what they're saying in the blowbois theme. It was actually killing me....

Matthew Dunn

“The Great War for Civilisation” by Robert Fisk. A huge book dealing with many issues but discusses in detail the rise of political Islam including great detail on Iran and Afghanistan.

etienne

I've heard that US military personnel in afghanistan and iraq somtimes have kids trying to trick them into saying the shahaddah just for fun

Jon

I'm sure your dates love that

Ll

Love them Blowback Boys. The new season is their best yet.

Poppy Chulo

I never watched Charlie wilsons war, the pre release piblicity was bizarrely focused on assuring everyone Charlie Wilson was not responsible in any way for the mujahideen/Taliban. It turned me off honestly, because it felt like a lie, like the Blindside with Sandra Bullock.

Jacob Jones

7 years married, and she listens with me. :)

Steve D

If you haven’t yet - please listen to Noah on hinge points.

Jaime Christley

I kinda like CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR lol. Sorkin sucks now but before he was directing his own scripts, his work somehow led to good or great movies.

Julie Baxter

Okay, help me our here. We've got Hank Hill as Reagan, Dale Gribble as Bill Casey, Bill Daunterine as James Watt, and Khan as Pol Pot.

D.O.D

that's nice. I just half to rant half-remembered bits of American imperialism at my wife months later

D.O.D

??? if you can speak English and have more than 20% hearing I'm not sure how you could miss the lyrics

D.O.D

*tiocfaidh ár lá, but yeah, that

No

Bitter Lake

No

The main reason the US went with wahhabi islamism is cause pan-arab nationalism was a threat to hegemony cause Nasser had too much swag.

E

That cofer black ambassador sounds like flye eyes from castlevania anime

Ian H

Dude that speech on his wiki about dismissing the Muslim Brotherhood's call for a legal veil mandate is 1. genuinely funny and 2. really revealing of how modern the current form of political Islam is, when you had a room of hundreds of Egyptian men in 1953 laughing at the idea of making women wear veils.

M

Was listening to this on my morning run and I started to feel my vision vibrating when I got to this and almost fell over on the sidewalk

——

Chapo rules, even when what they’re saying is dumb it’s very funny, but when they sincerely start defending the Soviet Union they really lose me.

David Andrews

Great show. I highly recommend Blowback.

MEAT CLOWN

New Will Menaker mispronunciation just dropped: "Muhajadeen"

J.v.D

more like blowjob boys lol. more like blowjob boys, lol

Post Void

I believe it's Hingepoints S2E4 that discusses how Napoleon almost converted to Islam to become the ruler of Egypt, but declined when he had to convert his entire army to do so. There is a historical precedence for "French armies converting to Islam for political reasons".

Jaime Christley

Double dose of good news today for Mindset fans - assuming a Mann episode is in the pipeline: not just the FERRARI teaser drop, but Arrow Video has announced they’ve got the BLACKHAT DC and are releasing it on Blu-ray, street date October. I’m also hazarding to guess it’s NOT going to be a rip from the FX broadcast, in 720p, with ad breaks.

Major bit me

What I don’t understand and I never understood from the blowback podcast, is if USA and Saudi did 9/11 then why invade Afghanistan

etienne

1) easy 2) near russia 3) more money for pentagon

Major bit me

But why would Saudi want that to happen, and why would Pakistan want that to happen because the podcast made it seem like some operators i. Pakistan knew the invasion was coming before 9/11.

Jaime Christley

don't forget the opium, which helped ramp up the police/carceral state in the US, & consequently the opioid crisis (because we're not in the habit of throwing chemists and Sacklers into the hoosegow)

Jaime Christley

Prighozin gets in under the wire for last week's Thursday ep, now maybe possibly McConnell too? lfg

Jaime Christley

I think understanding Saudi anything would require 1 more season of the show, dense and thorough as it is. That whole region is still dealing with the layers upon layers of consequences following a century+ worth of French, English, and American shitheads drawing lines on the map according to nothing other than what they figured would benefit them* the most, at that time. It's like that thing about how the width of space shuttle rocket boosters somehow dates back to the width of a road in Ancient Rome. * If it's unclear I don't mean the people living there....

Julie Baxter

Check out Stephen Kinzers' books for a lot of good background reading if y'all are getting confused.

Maouriceltic

to put it simply...compared to American involvement in the middle east and afganistan...the legitimate( whether rightly or wrongly) government of Afghanistan asked for Soviet intervention

Chris

Afghanistan would have been a good place for a gas pipeline between Russia and China. Our scapegoats were based there, it puts intense instability and violence on the Russian border, it's a good place to grow poppy, it's hard for people to verify what happens there

Natalie

it actually should be defended in many scenarios and i hope they do it more

Natalie

all the shah's men by stephen kinzer

Natalie

noah and felix have more similar voices than i realized

Natalie

when i listen to blowback i take notes bc it's so dense it goes in one ear and out the other

Natalie

he's featured in the trailer for their new season on twitter, it's very well made

Natalie

why you hatin

——

You’d be one of the first off to the gulag

Max Headroom

It's relevant cause I wanna blow all over his back 🥰

Degrassi Knoll

Asking the important questions, like "what if the Ottomans had AK-47s?" Excellent show.

Ian H

So y'know how nations aren't like a single person with individual moral character, but millions of people being acted upon by material and historic forces beyond their control? And how pretty much every national government that has ever existed has made some decisions that are net "good" some that are "bad" and many, many more that simply seemed unavoidable in the context they were made?

——

That’s another one, off to the gulag !

Ernest Ambrus

Two things can simultaneously be true. The Soviet Union was a categorical good and Chapo/Blowback would’ve done hard labor. It’s always the shit tier compatible left that forgets anti capitalism would’ve been a historical anomaly without the Soviet Union.

——

10 years gulag!!

etienne

both things can be categorically true: the Afghanistan War was an impardonnable crime, *and* the americans successfully baited them into it

Jaime Christley

[guy who can only equivocate constantly, never actually making a solid point about anything] well you see, I can hold two contradictory thoughts in my head at the same time. that’s a true sign of intelligence.

Chris

The world is worse off without the USSR, change my mind

Zach Pierce

“Why is Dan Rather wearing a turban?” Did anyone ever find out?

David Morse

Please interview Whitney Webb, author of One Nation Under Blackmail

Jaime Christley

what do you rec to start with? looks like he's got a LOT of those bad boys.

Jordan Sayre

Whenever these guys are on the episode almost every other uttered phrase is “you know”. Such an annoying verbal filler.

James Proulx

That scene is included in Charlie Wilson's War. Julia Roberts' character clanks her glass just before speaking and says something like, "I just want to say, President Zia did not kill Bhutto" and Tom Hanks character does a spit take.

Jimmy McMillan

I find it annoying when people point out annoying verbal fillers. You're listening to a conversation not someone reciting poetry or giving a speech

Jordan Sayre

Don’t care, still annoying!

Jaime Christley

I was gonna post something snarky but while I can't quite agree, over the past month+ I do this thing when listening to podcasts where, when someone says "you know" I mutter "No, I don't know, you tell ME" like a dickhead cop. Also if someone says "Right?" (think Griffin on Blank Check) I mutter "I dunno, it's your podcast". Or if they say "Ok?" I do the dickhead cop "No, it's NOT ok!" Whatever, I amuse myself, but at the same time I grow less annoyed with the verbal filler phrases and, as for my lil jokey joke replies, I have yet to roll a live hand grenade underneath my own bed, so that's also not fatally annoying. Having said all that, out of all the content I listen to, Brendan and Noah use filler phrases far less, and/or far less annoyingly, than so, so, so many other people.

snafujesus

Why is Felix showing off?

etienne

like I kinda get where you're coming from, I was kinda squirming when Brendan was implying that the russians "had no other options" than to just fucking invade, it's really dangerously close to when libs say that the US "stumbled" into doing intervention in libya or syria because it couldn't picture any other option but ... you gotta think critically about the media you listen and not get your opinions from just one source, and I'm willing to cut him some slack in the context of this comedy show for babies for me the perfect counterpart is Lions Led By Donkey's series about the Russia/Afghanistan war where they get into the details of how criminal and scummy the russians themselves were in afghanistan and how much of a giant self-inflicted fuckup it was

Robert Ditty

His area of expertise has always been the middle east. He doesn't have many chances to talk about it though. I enjoyed his contributions, I think he added a perspective that the other hosts couldn't.

Julie Baxter

I'd get down and dirty with The Brothers to get started with our Cold War fun and games.

Jimmy McMillan

If you don't pay attention to verbal fillers you'll go ear blind to them. I doubt people who complain about this stuff talk eloquently themselves and if you are a perfect talking speech snob, that's even more annoying

Jaime Christley

Fun with ChatGPT, I asked it "if I was the CIA, how would I get heroin from Afghanistan all the way into the US and into inner cities" and it replied, in its Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that syntax, "Sorry but I can't tell you how to do crimes" and I said "baby this is just for entertainment purposes" and it shot back with "why didn't you say so, here's a 9-point explanation of how that's done, wink wink parody etc". Again I'm paraphrasing, it was all very prim and proper - but the way it pivoted was pretty amusing.

Jaime Christley

This was an amusing point: Distribution: Once in the U.S., the CIA operative would need a network to distribute the heroin. This could be through fictional gangs or corrupt individuals in the inner city.

K102.1FM Mornings w/ Jonny Corndogs

Saw the trailer last night, fucking amazing! If they decide to release this on a non-subscription service (everything wants goddamn monthly billings or for you to make YET ANOTHER online account nowadays. Call me an old man but I hate everyone wanting a monthly piece of me and to make another goddamn account I have to keep track of. Let me pay once for a thing and I'll be on my way) please let me know. I heard the pilot episodes for the Iraq and Cuba seasons and they were great!

Jaime Christley

I think they put the episodes on the public feed after a year? Seasons 1-3 are un-paywalled.

Lezli

I paid via the web site and it was $25 for a year subscription. Also very easy to cancel auto-renew so basically pay $25 and get access to all 4 seasons for a year. Worth every penny.

C. Andrew

Bet you won't read Mao's 'On Contradiction'. Contradiction is inevitable and the only sensible thing to do is to sit with them, form an take/action, and recognize you're just gonna create more god damned contradictions. You NEED to hold two conflicting thoughts on your head, because that's how reality unfolds. It's the swamp of entropic decay between two (oh God what if we have to think about more than two, fuck) forces in competition and cooperation.

C. Andrew

Felix is the brains to match the brawn, folks! Many people are saying this.

C. Andrew

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C. Andrew

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣾⠟⠋⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠙⠛⢿⣶⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣾⠟⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠿⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⣸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣷⢀⣴⣶⣦⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⡀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠙⣿⣿⣿⡇ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣶⣄⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⢠⣾⣿⠀ ⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⣻⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⢻⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣏⠀⣠⣴⣾⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⠋⢹⡿⢻⣿⣿⡿⠛⠶⣶⣤⣀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢀⣤⣼⣿⣿⠀⠘⠛⠋⠉⠙⠛⠀⢠⣨⣴⣾⡏⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⡏⠀⠈⠁⠈⠉⠉⠉⠈⢙⣻⣿⠋⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⢸⣿⡀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⡇⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⡿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢉⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣰⡇⢹⠀ ⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡜⠀⠘⡄⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠘ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣧⣰⣦⣘⢲⣴⣶⣿⣿⣶⠀⣻⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢉⣩⣭⡗⢨⣿⣿⣥⡙⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃ ⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣆⣴⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⡿⢿⣽⣿⣿⣶⣦⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇ ⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣽⣶⣦⣥⣌⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿ ⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠘⠷⣶⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⠛⠋⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡋⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡉⢩⡍⢹⣛⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣶⣦⣴⡆⣾⠁⣼⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⠸⢿⣿⣿⠿⠇⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡄⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠙⢿⣿⡇⣷⡀⠀⢸⢻⣿⣿⣷⠀⣄⠀⢀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣦⣘⣈⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⢿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⢿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣀⠈⠛⠛⠿⠟⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

C. Andrew

Chic - Le Freak (Freak Out) but instead of saying Freak Out you say "I'm gay!"

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Christopher Price

Yeah, in a vacuum Afghanistan is a head scratcher but seeing it on a map as a crossroads between Iran, Pakistan, China and the central Asian post-Soviet republics, and everything just clicks. It severs a possible China/Russia link and allows the military to build bases to put pressure on both rivals. It gains access to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, while keeps Pakistan in line.

Nathan Explosion

did anyone mention that jim cameron co wrote rambo first blood pt 2? i feel like that should have come up.

Joe’s fat head

Finally got around to listening to Blowback from the beginning the other day. Very impressed/infuriated. Rad soundtrack too.

Scouse

It’s embarrassing that you talked about Charlie Wilson’s War without having seen it. It contains nearly all the scenes you say are not in it. The Zia party scene is in it literally word for word.

Karl Childers

that animated trailer is insanely cool

Ladan

What’s the name of the closing song

Ladan

And to add, first and this season are so much more superior in my eyes. This is not because of my personal connection (I’m Iranian), but just because of the utter depravity and evil you guys uncover. It’s so layered and so infuriating. Thank you for your services! First time purchasing a blowback season, and will continue to do so from this day on.

Boaz Corey

If they did mention this I didn't catch it: Zbigniew Brzezinski's daughter Mika is an MSNBC host on Morning Joe and was a principle NBC reporter on 9/11, his son Ian is a military and foreign policy expert and worked in the Defense Dept and various think tanks, and his son Mark worked as an NSC director under Clinton, then ambassador to Sweden under Obama, now ambassador to Poland.

Khemith

Darth Vader for a dad.