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The Red Nation Podcast

On John Carpenter's They Live (1988) w/ Sina Rahmani

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

History, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

***TRN Podcast host Nick Estes did an episode with producer Sina Rahmani for an episode on his new SubStack project, Red Scare. This is a preview. To listen/watch the entire episode, subscribe to Red Scare***


Nick Estes in conversation with TRN Podcast producer and host of The East is a Podcast Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) explore what John Carpenter's They Live (1988) can teach us how the ruling class uses ideaology to govern our everyday—and how to break free of that control!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings podcast listeners.

0:01.4

This is your host, Nick Estes.

0:03.5

Here's a sneak peek of a new side project that I've been working on called Red Scare.

0:08.9

It is a substack with a podcast.

0:13.0

You can subscribe for as little as $4 a month or for free to get access to the text version,

0:18.5

but to get access to the audio where I interview people

0:21.9

like Sina Rachmani in the latest episode on John Carpenter's classic horror sci-fi called

0:29.0

They Live. You can subscribe for as little as $4 a month, and you can get access to all the

0:36.1

previous podcast episodes that I've done on people like

0:40.2

Crazy Horse and John Marshall and thinking about anti-imperialism and the Red Power movement.

0:49.5

That's Red Scare on Substack.

0:51.9

You can Google it with my name.

0:53.6

Thanks so much for your support.

0:54.8

I hope you enjoy this sneak peek, and I hope you find your way over to the new project website.

1:00.1

Thanks. I'm I'm I'm

1:11.6

I'm So welcome to Red Scare.

1:34.8

I was actually thinking about this podcast because Red Scare has multiple meanings.

1:40.9

I think a lot of people associated it with the anti-communist scare and obviously there's the double

1:47.3

entendre of anti-indigenous anti-communist, but also I love horror movies and I love science fiction.

1:55.0

So it's like a boo, a red scare as well.

1:59.0

Surprise! You thought this was hard-hitting analysis now we're going to do some

2:03.0

cultural critique but today we're we're talking I'm joined by a Sina producer friend

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