The Martyr Made Podcast (private feed for redspade@gmail.com)

We Should Record This, w/Daniele Bolelli

Hi everyone. My good friend Daniele Bolelli and I recorded this when I visited a week or so before the crisis erupted in Gaza. We start off talking about paleolithic man, the invention of grandparents, tribalism and community… and then I bust out my hammer and sickle and start complaining about capitalism. Hopefully, you need a break from the news out of the Middle East as much as I do. Enjoy.If you don’t know, Daniele is the host of a top 3 history podcast, History on Fire. He and I have collaborated on episodes in the past - the short episode I did about the Japanese Red Army was part of an anthology he put out, and my My Lai episode was a two-parter with his episode on the massacre at Sand Creek. Anyway, I love DB, and you will too. Check out his Substack. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Short lecture by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy (27 mins)

Hi everyone. I know, what with all the chaos in the Middle East, many of you have been wondering where I’ve been. Life has been imposing itself on me in ways I couldn’t wriggle out of, but that’s about over now. I’ve got a couple interviews scheduled this week, and will release an expanded an updated version of The Administration of Savagery (on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 1948-82) soon. After that, I will release another long-form episode on the post-1982 period, with a focus on Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas.In the meantime, I wanted to share this lecture by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. I hope everyone will listen to it.Thanks again for your patience. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Immigration Discussion w/Lafayette Lee, Indian Bronson, and Dr. Ben Braddock

Hey everyone. A few days ago, I posted a Twitter thread to explain a comment I had made on the topic of immigration. Essentially, I said that I thought we’d passed the threshold where any meaningful reform was really possible at the federal level, and that people would be better off focusing their political efforts on states and localities that are winnable and defensible. The thread drew the ire of immigration hawks on right-wing Twitter, and so I thought I’d bring in a few interesting guys with different perspectives to discuss it.My guests today are Lafayette Lee (Twitter handle @partisan_O, his Substack is ruins.substack.com), Dr. Ben Braddock (Twitter handle @graduatedben, his Substack is benjaminbraddock.substack.com), and Indian Bronson (Twitter handle @lndian_Bronson, his Substack is indianbronson.substack.com). Lee and Dr. Ben are both editors at IM-1776, a dissident publication I follow with interest, and Bronson is the founder of Keeper, a dating app focused on creating new families, not just new hookups.While I am still skeptical of the possibility of large-scale radical immigration reform at the federal level, the conversation left me feeling much better than I did going in, because it helps just to know there are intelligent people like these three thinking through these issues.Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Sunday Night Story Time: The Ballad of Sekou Odinga, pt. 2

Hey everyone, here is part 2 of the Sunday Night Story Time reading. I highly recommend listening to part 1, if you haven’t heard it, because it’s all one story and you’ll be missing a lot if you jump in here.I have a lot to do over the next few days, and I was going to hold this until Sunday to pace the release and buy myself a little time, but what the hell. I’ll release it now because I know a lot of you have already listened to part 1 and are jonesing for this.I’m gonna keep up the Sunday Night Story Time from now on. They won’t all be long like this one, but I’ll always pick stories I think you’ll really enjoy. After this one, Sunday Night Story Time will be added one of the features available only to paid subscribers.Thanks as always for your support. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe

Sunday Night Story Time: The Ballad of Sekou Odinga, pt. 1

I’m spending most of my time working on two bigger projects, so I thought I would read you a little story tonight. In fact, if you guys like this, I might make Sunday Night Story Time a new tradition here at the Substack.All the readings are from Bryan Burrough’s great book, Days of Rage. Some of it you’ll be familiar with from God’s Socialist, but since this story takes part during the Lindsay administration shortly after the 1968 New York City teachers’ strikes, this will provide some more depth on what was going down at the time. Many of the neighborhoods mentioned also came up in the Blacks & Jews series, including Brownsville (in Brooklyn), where the school that sparked the teachers’ strikes was located, and where Norman Podhoretz had grown up back when it had been a mixed area.Thanks for listening. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit subscribe.martyrmade.com/subscribe