Hey everybody it's Brendan before we start the show this week I just wanted to

announce the blowback soundtrack is now available anywhere you stream your music

Spotify Apple it's also available on bandcamp if you want to purchase the album

and support us these are full tracks fully fleshed out versions of the musical

themes and cues that you've been hearing this season music's composed by yours

truly under the pseudonym the great Vorelli I co-produced it with Marty

Solkow and Joe Valley of the band WET who also have an album coming out soon by

the way and there's a very special track co-written and co-performed by the

synth profetus Robin Hatch so if you like the music in the show go check it

out it's streaming everywhere Spotify Apple the blowback soundtrack for season 2

all right welcome to blowback I'm Brendan James and this is bonus episode 6

Neverland in this episode we will be talking a bit more about a particularly

shocking and quite tragic event that followed the Cuban revolution one we

mentioned back in the main run of the show episode 3 I believe that's

Operation Peter Pan or Pedro Pan this was a massive project instigated we

now know by the US government to transfer about 14,000 Cuban children out of

the island and into the United States following false rumors that the

revolutionary government planned to seize all children on the island from their

parents we will be speaking with someone who was one of those children sent to

America our guest Nelson Valdes professor emeritus at the University of New

Mexico has in addition to that personal experience written extensively about Cuba

and about Pedro Pan in particular but before we get to that I wanted to

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