BLOWBACK: SEASON 5 OUT NOW
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Friday
Here is the official trailer for BLOWBACK Season 5 from me and
@nkulw
. Animation by
@benclarkson
. Music by myself and
@d_boeckner
Drops this Friday, September 20. Sign up now at
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With the passing of Henry Kissinger we would like to announce that season 5 of Blowback will be about Cambodia
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Season 2 comes April 19, on Stitcher Premium
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Happy to announce Blowback's first season recently passed 1 million downloads. Thanks to everyone who listened to and told their friends about the show. We're excited to release season two in April!
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Season 3, Episode 1: Stop Me Before I Kill Again
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SEASON 3 coming July 2022, available for PRE-ORDER at via Supporting Cast. No more Stitcher.
Subscribers will get:
— Ad-free catalog of past seasons
— Extra music from the soundtrack
— Unique discount code for upcoming artwork
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Thanks to all who have been signing up for Season 3.
See you for Season 4 next year.
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South Korea did not sign the armistice. Basic stuff here
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Summer 2022
Pleased to announce
@Blowbackpod
SEASON THREE, coming this summer from me and
@nkulw
Details to come at
Teaser:
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Official portrait of David H. Petraeus, West Point Museum
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Episode 1 - "Snake Eater" is now LIVE, wide-release
And season 4 is available in FULL at
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Three easy steps to speaking at the DNC:
1. Help your government lie its way into the destruction of another country
2. Quit your job and cash in
3. Wait about 15 years
Breaking on
@MSNBC
: Colin Powell will be a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention tonight.
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We're pleased to announce that the first episode of season two — "The Jupiter Menace" — is now available wherever you get your podcasts.
For the second episode, go to and sign up for a monthly plan with the promo code BLOWBACK.
Thank you!
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"In an age when so many podcasts, even ones with massive listenerships, basically consist of someone reading a Wikipedia entry to their friend, it’s clear how much extensive reading and genuine scholarship went into Blowback."
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In leadup to Iraq War, John Bolton threatened to whack the children of a weapons inspector
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Anne Applebaum and David Horowitz held a similarity in tactics and attitudes when they both supported killing a million people in Iraq
This article on the role of David Horowitz - ex-communist, now far-right - in the creation of Trumpism underlines the similarity in tactics and attitudes between the Old Left and the New Right (a theme of my new book)
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Was relistening to Season 3 of
@blowbackpod
and couldn’t believe how good it was. Somehow better than I remembered. I wish there was a new season coming out.
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THE IRAQ WAR DID NOT TAKE PLACE. The final episode of Blowback is out today. Thanks for listening.
This week, the final episode of
@blowbackpod
.
We have all agreed to forget the Iraq War:
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Pardon for the Secret Service agent who alleged suspiciously lax security around John F. Kennedy
JUST IN: President Biden pardoned Abraham Bolden, the Chicago man who was the first Black Secret Service agent to serve on a White House detail, and who maintained charges against him that led to prison time were trumped up.
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Mixing the S2 soundtrack. Comes out June 25th
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Tonight
Pleased to announce
@Blowbackpod
SEASON THREE, coming this summer from me and
@nkulw
Details to come at
Teaser:
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The wide release of Blowback is tomorrow morning. The first episode is called ROSEBUD. It's about the origins of America’s perverse relationship with Iraq, from the Cold War to the Iran-Iraq War.
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Season 2, Episode 10: “Infinite Crisis.” This season’s story ends.
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The final episode of Blowback season 4: "The Phantom Pain"
Trump cuts a deal with the Taliban, Biden withdraws, and the snake eats its tail
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Season 2, episode 2: “Lo Hicimos.” Now available on all platforms. Episodes dropping weekly on Monday mornings.
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Bonus Episode 1 drops tonight, 12am EST on Premium
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S2E10: “Infinite Crisis”
Our story ends. The Cuban Revolution and the US war against it live on.
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Episode 9 - "Cuba Libra". JFK's "peace" and "war" tracks cannot coexist forever.
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Damn that's today
OK. Some news:
On 6/15:
@Blowbackpod
gets its "wide-release." Available on all platforms, episodes dropping weekly, every Monday morning.
Also, on 6/1:
@nkulw
and I will drop the first of 4 weeks of Bonus Episodes (half on Stitcher Premium, half wide-release.)
Thanks much
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We've set S3 wide-release date for Oct 1. Episodes will then come out weekly, over three months. Bonus episodes will remain subscribers-only
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Today’s bonus episode is a collage of interviews about the events of this past summer in Cuba. It might be useful listening for today.
Featuring: José Pertierra, Helen Yaffe and Marta Nuñez-Sarmiento
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👎
BREAKING: A delegation of U.S. lawmakers is visiting Taiwan, just 12 days after a visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that angered China. China responded to Pelosi’s visit by sending missiles, warships and warplanes into the seas and air around Taiwan.
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In Episode 10, this is relevant again
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Next season of Blowback is gonna be a *little* different
Call Her Daddy podcast hosts have ‘turned on each other,’ insider says
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Networks covered the war in Ukraine more than the US invasion of Iraq
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In Jacobin, Meagan Day calls Blowback a "necessary resource for anyone who feels they don’t have the full story" about the Iraq War
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"The noisy Democrats, the extremists, blow hard," Andrew Cuomo says. "You, my friends, have to blow back."
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Episodes will begin airing weekly on 7/12, wherever you get your podcasts
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S4 Episode 6: GROUND ZEROES.
The Afghan jihad spreads to Europe, Asia, Africa, and… America.
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Also, some news: Blowback season 2 will be available wherever you get your podcasts - beginning on July 12.
Bonus episodes begin two weeks after the S2 finale airs on Stitcher Premium next week.
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Here is our new Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the New York Times earlier this year, twisting Biden’s vote to invade Iraq into a vote for “tough diplomacy”
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This episode now available wherever you get your podcasts
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Some old Iraqi dinars from the Saddam era. please President Trump please revalue the Iraqi dinars! You are a businessman and have our support!
#IRAQRV
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The father of an Iraqi boy killed by one of the pardoned Blackwater guards: "I don't know how this is allowed. I don't think that America is built on such principles."
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“We’ll All Meet In Hell.” Season two episode eight, now available on Stitcher Premium. No cake mix included. Sorry.
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Countdown to a crisis. S2 Episode 7 - "Anadyr"
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"Recommend [Blowback] to any malleable dingus you know who was missing George W. Bush over the past four years. " - Defector
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🇨🇺 ♎️ S2E9: “Cuba Libra”
JFK takes two tracks on Cuba — peace and war. They cannot coexist forever.
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S4, Episode 9: "PEACE WALKER"
Obama's "Good War"
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Episode 4, MARS ATTACKS, is now available everywhere. It’s about Colin Powell, the UN, and the invasion itself — and the dark portal it all opened.
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This is our last episode for season two. Thank you everyone who listened.
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Now available to download: S2 Episode 3, "New Normal"
The Cuban revolution's victory is immediately met with a counter-revolution. Newly exiled Cubans team up with the US government and mafia to try and take back control with terror and sabotage.
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Vintage 90's Desert Storm Military T Shirt Size L
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Our subreddit is still up!
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This week on Blowback: S2E8 - "We'll All Meet In Hell"
With the US revelation of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the announcement of an illegal "quarantine" around the island — the White House brings the globe to the edge of annihilation
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Subscribers, check your spam folder for the email from us. Just in case. Thanks
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This episode is available on all podcast platforms. Subscribe at to listen to the entire season right now
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Blowback S2 is an "aural slapper," according to
@BLKBRD_Spyplane
, telling you "what the f**k is really good with CUBA"
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Today on Blowback, S4 episode 5: Afghanistan’s warlord years and the rise of the Taliban
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This week on Blowback, S2E7 - “Anadyr”
The USSR initiates a secret plan to protect Cuba from an American invasion. Camelot gets caught by surprise.
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On sale now: Limited holiday-run of Blowback S2 cover art posters, signed by Brendan and Noah. Art by Josh Lynch (IG:JoshLynchDraws).
Half of all proceeds will be donated to
@EqualFlatbush
.
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In 1963, Saddam’s Baath Party carried out a coup in Iraq. One minister said “we came to power on a CIA train.” Here’s a declassified memo on how the CIA counted on the Baath slaughtering Iraqi Communists:
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RIP
BREAKING: Ed Asner, who played the blustery but lovable newsman Lou Grant in two successful television series, has died. He was 91.
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S2E5: “Fish Is Red”
The US sends its CIA-trained army, Brigade 2506, to take out the Cuban Revolution. Things do not proceed as planned.
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There’s also a free bonus episode out today. It’s about the movies, mostly bad ones, that got made about the Iraq War.
@cushbomb
watched them with us, and came on the show to talk about ‘em.
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He is also Saddam Hussein
you ever notice how coach mcgurk, archer, and bob of bobs burger's are all voiced by h jon benjamin, famous voice actor and comedian known for his roles as coach mcgurk, archer, and bob of bobs burgers
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Two episodes are in wide-release today: The first is DEAD LINKS, the fifth episode of our regular series, which focuses on the media and the case for war.
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Episode four, “SECRET HONOR,” is now available on Stitcher Premium.
Sign up for a monthly plan with the code BLOWBACK at for a month of free Premium listening
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Out today: Episode 6, “YEAR ZERO.” It’s about the CPA, Paul “Jerry” Bremer, the Green Zone, and the disastrous first year of the American occupation of Iraq.
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How the US kept a former friend in line, and then brutalized his country. Episode 2, AMERICAN PSYCHO, now available everywhere.
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9/25
@blowbackpod
When are you guys dropping the soundtrack? I need that track you played at the end of your Chapo episode on repeat.
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Thanks to those flagging a small quiet break in Episodes 5 and 6 -- the glitches have been updated in Apple, Google, Overcast and Pocket Casts, but haven't updated yet in Spotify. Shouldn't be too long though.
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Reminder: Season 2 starts going into wide release, on all podcast platforms, on July 12. See you on Stitcher Premium in two weeks for the beginning of S2 bonus episodes.
Sign up for a monthly plan with the code BLOWBACK to listen now, with a free month
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The birth of Mongoose. S2 Episode 6: "Nothing To Lose"
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"We consider this show unmissable."
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SEASON 3 JULY 25
Blowback season 3 drops July 25. Subscribe now at
Official trailer:
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America's sanctions on Iraq killed hundreds of thousands. We destroyed their electricity and water purification, and a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency report shows we knew this would happen, and wanted it:
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S2E6: “Nothing To Lose”
After the Bay of Pigs, America licks its wounds — briefly. Then the CIA and friends set a new plan for killing the Cuban Revolution: Mongoose.
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To all asking about S2 posters:
We have just sold out of this limited-run, but we will very likely do more art in the future.
Thanks to everyone who grabbed one!
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S2 Bonus Episode 1: The time the US got exactly it what it wanted in Central America, instituting decades of bloody military rule in Guatemala
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2006: Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug
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