Blown Away (feat. Clare Malone)
Unclear and Present Danger
Jamelle Bouie
4.7 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
What do you get when you mix Boston, bad accents and a lot of explosions? The 1994 thriller “Blown Away” starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones! Jamelle and John are joined by Clare Malone of The New Yorker to talk Irish-American identity, Irish nationalism, the racial politics of Boston and much, much more.
Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here's what we've got to have. |
| 0:03.0 | We are being bombed. |
| 0:05.0 | Fett, you're coming up with zeros. |
| 0:09.0 | Looks like our boys are mystery, man. |
| 0:12.0 | There's no mystery. |
| 0:14.0 | His name's Ryan Garrity. |
| 0:17.0 | According to the report, the guy can build bombs out of biscuit. |
| 0:27.6 | I've come here to create a new country for you called chaos and a new government called anarchy. |
| 0:31.6 | All for you. ... Your shirmen and end up the monster |
| 0:38.3 | Jesus |
| 0:39.3 | war |
| 0:40.3 | We're |
| 0:41.3 | the the world and be a man who |
| 0:59.0 | life and king One and a one. A lot of me. A lot of |
| 1:13.6 | The Welcome to Unclear and Present Danger, a podcast about the political and military thrillers of the 1990s and what they say about the politics of that decade. |
| 1:47.1 | I'm Jamel Bowie. |
| 1:48.2 | I'm a columnist for the New York Times opinion section. |
| 1:50.7 | My name is John Gans. |
| 1:51.9 | I write a substack newsletter called Unpopular Front, and I'm working on a book about American politics in the early 1990s. |
| 1:59.7 | We have a guest for this episode. We have Claire Malone of The New Yorker in the early 1990s. We have a guest for this episode. |
| 2:02.1 | We have Claire Malone of The New Yorker and the podcast Just Like Us, the tabloids that |
| 2:06.3 | changed America. |
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