4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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From Roadside Picnic to Fallout, the stories a culture tells about can tell you a lot about the culture. On this bonus episode of War College, Matthew and Jake Hanrahan of the Popular Front podcast sit down to puzzle out what’s going on these days with nuclear culture.
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0:22.0 | The idea of everything needs to be wrecked and destroyed and needs to be rebuilt from the ashes, I think is quite prevalent in kind of fringe culture or extremist |
0:25.9 | subcultures. I think that really says something about the society we're in right now, you know. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. |
0:45.0 | Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt this is a bonus episode of the show, a little special treat. A few |
1:06.1 | weeks ago I sat down with Jake Hanrahan of the Popular Front Podcast, which is an excellent show that focuses on the niche and geeky details of modern war. |
1:15.2 | Jake Hanrahan hosts it and it's great. |
1:17.6 | If you like War College, you'll love Popular Front. |
1:20.7 | What you're about to hear is a conversation between me and Hanrahan, where we take a deep dive in a nuclear pop culture. |
1:26.6 | This is one of my favorite topics and Jake gave me the space to really geek out. |
1:30.8 | That said, I may have made a few mistakes. It happens in off-the-cuff conversations. |
1:36.8 | First of all, Stanislalim is a fantastic science fiction author, but he did not write roadside picnic. That was Arcotti and Boris Stragowski. |
1:45.0 | I'm sorry if I butcher that pronunciation, |
1:47.4 | which I almost surely did. |
1:49.6 | Also, do not listen to me when it comes to North Korean nuclear capabilities. I know a little but the fine folks at arms control wonk.com know a lot more. It's a complicated topic with new information coming in daily and if you want the closest thing to the objective |
2:03.7 | truth you need to look to them at armscontrol wonk.com. Without further ado here's |
2:09.8 | something a little different. Well let me ask let me ask you this how how old are you? I'm 28 I'm a baby. |
2:17.2 | Oh my god you're so much younger than I am that's and I always it always felt like I was |
2:21.7 | young well let me ask you this like growing up, were you afraid of nukes? |
2:25.8 | No, not even. It was not even, it wasn't even there, you know, there was never, the only thing, the only time I ever was interested in |
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