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Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Citizens armed only with Molotov cocktails battle with Russian tanks on the streets of… Budapest. In November of 1956 Russian troops invaded Hungary. The revolution was crushed and thousands of Hungarians fled. Will history repeat itself? We talk with Réka Pigniczky about her memory project, a film series dedicated to the Hungarian revolution. Also: Branko Marcetic compares America’s response to the events of 1956 with our current posturing over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

ps. Your host will be visiting Hungary this August to report on 1956 for our upcoming 8 part mini series, get in touch if you have any Budapest tips

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
0:05.1	At Radio Topia, we now have a select group of amazing supporters that help us make all our shows possible.
0:12.8	If you would like to have your company or product sponsor this podcast,
0:17.1	then get in touch.
0:18.4	Drop a line to sponsor at radiotopia.fm.
0:22.7	Thanks.
0:23.6	Hello, I'm super excited to tell you about a new show coming to Radio Topia.
0:28.8	It's called Weight For It.
0:30.9	Not weight, like, weight for me, or weight, weight, don't tell me,
0:35.2	but weight, that thing that many in our society are concerned with gaining or losing.
0:40.9	Weight For It is a narrative show that tells the story of folks who can't stop thinking about their weight.
0:46.8	Creator and host Ronald Young Jr.
0:49.8	is seeking to have the conversations about our bodies that are often understated and sometimes flat out unsaid.
0:57.1	He kicks the show off with his own story, wondering if he can ever truly be desirable as a fat man.
1:03.4	He then brings us stories of all types of folks, fat and straight-sized,
1:08.4	who can't seem to keep weight off their minds.
1:11.5	New episodes starting August 17th.
1:14.2	Subscribe to Weight For It today, wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:28.0	When Russian tanks started rolling into Ukraine in the spring of 2022,
1:38.6	I couldn't help but see a number of striking similarities and parallels to November 1956.
1:47.3	Now, I've mentioned this a few times now, but here at TOEHQ,
1:52.4	I'm hard at work on a story that set in the second half of the 1950s during the Cold War.
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