Hello,

That's kind of conversation to your soul.

Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison.

And we are very excited to welcome back to the podcast today, the blowback boys, the blowback bros.

And that is, of course, Brendan James and Noah Cohen, who just released their

latest season of the Fantastic Series Blowback, which I have been listening to for years,

and many of you have as well. And link in the show notes, if you haven't gotten this last season.

But this season is on Angola, and we're excited to talk about it. So thanks for joining us, guys.

Thank you. Thanks for having us.

I felt like that was a little drive time morning DJ, so you're welcome. So why don't we just dump,

dump? Why don't we just jump right in and tell us why Angola and maybe how does this fit into

the larger blowback project that you guys have been doing for a while now?

And kind of a thesis has emerged, I think, at least over the seasons.

But I'm curious, how does this fit in?

What do you guys think you're doing with the blowback series in general and all that stuff?

Well, I think one thing we realized this season, because there's a way that it manifests, particularly

with Angola and around the time of this season, is we've been providing a little bit,

at first not knowing it, a history of American Contras, you know, the foot soldiers of the Cold War

that we sort of subcontracted in the different

hot spots across the globe. I mean, in the season on Cuba, we talked about the Cuban exiles,

who became very important in different parts of Latin America. There's obviously the Mujahideen

that we covered in season four.

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