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

Podcast: Thoughts on Ukraine

Hey everybody. Many of you have asked for my thoughts on the crisis in Ukraine, so here they are. I am away from home, and away from my normal recording setup, so please forgive the less than stellar audio (it’s not as bad as when it’s really bad, though).Here are some links I mention in the show:The Snipers Massacre On MaidanHow the West Sowed the Seeds of War in Ukraine, by Pedro GonzalezMy Twitter thread on the Rand Corporation’s strategy white paperScott Horton’s recent speech on the Ukraine crisisThanks 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

Epstein... Jeff Epstein

In this and the next episode, I will go over the evidence that notorious child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was a foreign intelligence agent. The follow-up episode will be a little too spicy for public release, so it will be available in about a week, for paid subscribers only. 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

The Kyle Rittenhouse Trial

My mostly-unfiltered thoughts on the Jacob Blake police shooting, the riots in Kenosha, WI, the shootings involving Kyle Rittenhouse, and the subsequent trial.Happy to discuss in the comments. 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

Human Forever, pt. 1

This is the first of a series of explorations jumping off from an upcoming book by author James Poulos, called Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War.I recently wrote a short review, - the review really doesn’t touch the meat of the book - some of which I drew on in this episode. Sorry for the delay, been a crazy week.More to come. This is a topic I am going to be exploring with interviews and more individual podcasts, and I would love you guys to participate. Get in the comments, suggest readings, ask questions… This is a very difficult and complicated topic, but a very important one, I think.Poulos’s book, btw, will be out soon, and is very good. Highly recommended. You’ll hear from the author himself in the next week or two.(Hope you paid subscribers will let me off the hook for making this one public. I want as many people as possible to hear about James’s book.) 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

MartyrMade Special Announcement

This is a special announcement from The MartyrMade Podcast. I have been doing this podcast for several years now, and I think we probably have between 80-100 hours of material up. The kind of podcasts I do take a lot of work. I don't have research assistants, I don't have editors (obviously), and I don't have anyone helping with the back-end, website, sound, or business operations (such as they are). This is a one-man show. For years, I was using pretty much every free moment I had - before work, during lunch, waiting for meetings to start, and late into the night - to work on these episodes. Well, recently I made the plunge to start doing this full-time. I left behind a very secure job with good benefits and a solid retirement plan, and I am officially out in the wild. That means I am going to be able to do a lot more things than I've been able to do in the past, but it also means that it's time to professionalize this operation. Podcasting doesn't come with health insurance or a retirement plan, and so my future and the future of this podcast is now a matter of my relationship to all of you. And so to that end, here is the announcement:I am going to be moving over to Substack, and will use that website as my one-stop shop for podcasting, writing, and listener interaction. The regular podcast feed will be available on all the normal platforms, free of charge, same as always, but I'm going to be doing a lot of subscribers-only content at Substack. There will be regular, subscribers-only podcast episodes, as well as written content from myself and some (carefully curated) guest writers. The subscriber-only episodes will come in all shapes and sizes - segments based on notes that don't make it into a regular episode, commentary on current events and social issues, answering listener questions, as well interviews (also carefully curated). Subscribers will also get a discount on all MartyrMade t-shirts and other gear. Oh, and subscribers will be able to comment on posts, and I'm going to be moving a lot of my online activity away from social media and into the Substack comments and other tools.If you'd like to help support the show, it is just $5 p/month, or $50 p/year, BUT anyone who signs up by October 31 will pay only $4 p/month or $40 p/year forever. That's not a first-month, or first-year offer, you will pay the lower rate as long as you keep your subscription. I know the world is a crazy place right now, and not everyone can contribute. I also know that there is a mountain of amazing content available for free on the internet. I even know that, probably, someone will pirate the subscriber-only episodes and post them somewhere you can find them with a little work. I understand all of these things, and yet nevertheless, if you can manage it without trouble, and if you've enjoyed this podcast up to now, I hope you'll consider subscribing. If you do, and it's before October 31, don't forget to use the special offer link in the show notes. I'll also put it on the website, and on Twitter and Facebook. If you don't care about the $1 p/month discount, you can just head over to martyrmade.substack.com and sign up there.Link to subscription discount: https://martyrmade.substack.com/ce198d71 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