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Gladio Free Europe
by Gladio Free Europe
a sort of movie, sort of history podcast https://www.patreon.com/GladioFreeEurope
Episodes
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E127 - America A and America B ft. Grace Cathedral Park
As far back as the Neolithic, the rhythms of life in city and country have led to vastly divergent attitudes, anxieties, and aspirations. But what happens when new technologies of communication and commerce begin applying these sets of characteristics not to entire communities, but to individual...
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E126 Homer and the Hittites P. 2 ft. Alexander Thatcher
Support us on Patreon --- Gladio Free Europe returns to the lofty walls of Troy for a continuing discussion of the Bronze Age background of the Greek epic tradition with Alexander Thatcher @ThatchEffendi. Calling in from Turkey, Alexander explores the Anatolian, Balkan…
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E126 America A & America B ft. Grace Cathedral Park
Support us on Patreon --- As far back as the Neolithic, the rhythms of life in city and country have led to vastly divergent attitudes, anxieties, and aspirations. But what happens when new technologies of communication and commerce begin applying these sets of…
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E125 Homer and the Hittites ft. Alexander Thatcher
Support us on Patreon --- Renowned Caucasus correspondent Alexander Thatcher joins Gladio Free Europe from the land Anatolia for the first of several episodes examining the historic bronze-age context of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Written in the 8th or 7th century BC but…
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E124 Arthurian Romance
Support us on Patreon --- At the court of a French princess in the middle of the 12th century, an obscure poet named Chrétien de Troyes would begin to write and distribute fanciful stories of the Knights of the Round Table. In doing so, he would propel the figure of King...
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E123 The Birth of Arthur
Support us on Patreon --- In the sixth century, the island of Britain was quite possibly the most miserable place on earth. A decades-long combination of civil war, imperial neglect, seaborne savagery, and the great freeze of 536 contributed to a level of deprivation beyond…
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E122 The Wyrd World of Beowulf
Support us on Patreon --- Just over one thousand years ago, an unknown scribe committed to vellum a fantastical tale of swordsmen and sea monsters, set not in contemporary Anglo-Saxon England, but instead in the distant swamps of Denmark, hundreds of years in the past and...
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E121 Yiddish In Bloom ft. Wilf
Support us on Patreon --- At the dawning of the 20th century, new songs of an ancient nation rang across the world. Yiddish, the native language of the Ashkenazi Jews, had assumed the status of a literary standard and was at the center of a political movement...
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E120 Historical Jesus
Support us on Patreon --- Across the world, over two billion people believe that a human being is God. This confession of faith lies at the very heart of Christianity, a movement that exalts the life of a single individual far beyond that of any other world…
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E119 Herod the Great
Support us on Patreon --- "Herod the king, in his raging, charged he hath this day: his men of might, in his own sight, all young children to slay." So goes the Coventry Carol, a traditional English Christmas song commemorating the Massacre of the Innocents in...
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E118 The Birth of Yiddish ft. Wilf
Support us on Patreon --- At the dawn of the Middle Ages, small numbers of Jewish families ventured across the frozen Alps, seeking a new life in a foreign land they called Ashkenaz. In their workshops, at the market, and around the shabbat table, these people…
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E117 The Making of Modern Florida ft. Grace Cathedral Park
Support us on Patreon --- From 1880 to 1930, life on Earth was reshaped in ways previously inconceivable. Nowhere was this transformation more total than in Florida. In a single generation, a peninsula hardly charted since the days of Ponce de Leon was molded into a...
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E116 The Devil in America
Support us on Patreon --- Since the first European settlers took unsteady steps on its alien shores, America has been haunted by the Devil. Fears of Satan and his human confederates have long since lurked in our psyche, and played an overlooked role in the cultural…
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E115 Early American Florida and the Seminole Wars ft. Grace Cathedral Park
Support us on Patreon --- American troops descend into a humid jungle, sniped at from the trees from an invisible enemy. Unable to discern insurgents from civilians, the army begins burning villages and destroying entire communities. After years of failures on the...
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E114 Colonial Florida ft. Grace Cathedral Park
Support us on Patreon --- Over five centuries ago, fabled conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon became the first European to place his espadrille on North American soil... yet it would take three more of those centuries the steamy, sunny peninsula he claimed would be host to...
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E113 Cane Fire and the Colonization of Hawai'i
Support us on Patreon --- The Pacific Ocean is not all that separates the 50th state from the American mainland. The Hawaiian islands remain a place apart, with a distinct culture and national identity borne out of the cyclone of colonial exploitation. Liam and Russian...
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E112 Ass Worship
Support us on Patreon --- You read that right. 1800 years ago, a Roman youngster etched a taunting cartoon of a classmate raising his hand to salute a figure on a cross. This graffito, labeled "Alexamenos worshipping his god," is remarkable for two reasons: it is the...
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E111 The Catholic Church in the Spanish Civil War ft. James
Support us on Patreon --- At the dawning of the modern era, Spain was the most Catholic country on the planet. Desite the turbulence of the Reconquista, the conquest of America, the invasion of Napoleon, and the loss of every New World colony from California to Cuba, the...
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E110 The Commune of Zoar ft. Jern
Support us on Patreon --- In the winter of 1817, a caravan of half-starved Swabians crossed through miles of frozen forests to find their promised land: Ohio. In accordance with their egalitarian ethos and inspired by apocalyptic prophecy, these men and women rejected...
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E109 The Haitian Empire ft. Sebastian
Support us on Patreon --- The story of the Haitian Revolution is well-known. From the oath at Bois Caiman to the large-scale slave revolt which birthed the nation and subsequent war against the Napoleonic invasion force, the revolution is filled with cinematic moments of...
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E108 American Utopias and the New Moral World ft. Grace Cathedral Park
Support us on Patreon --- "And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need." King James Bible, Acts 2:44 "And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain...
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E107 Neo-Druidism and The Wicker Man
Support us on Patreon --- 2000 years ago, Roman began a campaign of suppression against the defiant sages of barbarian Gaul. Yet millennia later, these druids survive. Their memory would inspire generations of alchemists, aristocrats, alternative-spiritualists, and...
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E106 The Druids
Support us on Patreon --- Unique among the barbarians of ancient Europe, the Celtic tribes of Britain and Gaul were led by a sophisticated priesthood. The druids, who left us no writing of their own, fascinated and frightened their literate neighbors in Greece and Rome....
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E105 William Tell and the Origins of Switzerland
Support us on Patreon --- Ready your crossbow as we venture up high into the Swiss Alps, a tyrannous bailiff might be nearby! This week we explore the William Tell, a national symbol of Switzerland, and the very real history which inspired his story. Join us as we venture…
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E104 Artisans and the Birth of Capitalism ft. Grace Cathedral Park
Support us on Patreon --- Every aspect of our modern lives is commodified and decimalized, from the minutes of our labor to the food upon our table. All goods and services we consume are produced and handled by professionals, who spend their lives developing their mobile...
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E103 History of the Zombie
Support us on Patreon --- Brains. Rot. A shambling gait. Everyone knows the tropes that make up zombie, but how did this strange cocktail come to be? Liam and Russian Sam paddle through dark and torrid waters in this week's episode of Gladio Free Europe to chart the origins of...
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E102 12-Step Programs and the Origins of Alcoholism ft. Jon
Support us on Patreon --- Humans have been consuming alcohol for as long as we've been human, yet the identification of alcoholism as a chronic addiction is startlingly modern. The history of alcoholism, and the various ways to solve it, provide a great look at the shifting...
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E101 American Centennials
Support us on Patreon --- The United States has a fairly long and established history for a state, long enough that the country is approaching its 250th anniversary in just a few years. Much has changed in that time, while other things have failed to progress far enough. To look...
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E100 Gladio Free Europe: A Retrospective
Support us on Patreon --- Many podcasts were conceived during the pandemic, but few have proved as long-lasting as our humble broadcasts. After over three years of honing the craft and sharing so many stories, the whole gang reunites to assess our body of work. Liam, Abram, and…
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E99 The Birth of the Middle Ages and Henri Pirenne
Support us on Patreon --- Liam and Russian Sam continue their exploration of the fall of the Roman world, as described by revolutionary historian Henri Pirenne. Writing between the world wars, the great Belgian scholar used cutting-edge research methods to analyze changes in the...
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E98 The Fall of Rome and Henri Pirenne
Support us on Patreon --- On September 4, 476 the barbarian general Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor in the West and proclaimed himself king of Italy. After 500 years of existence, the Western Roman Empire was gone. But if you were living there at the time, would you have even...
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E97 B. Traven and the Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Support us on Patreon --- Liam and Russian Sam tunnel beneath the hills of Mexico to uncover the remarkable history behind the 1948 film "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and its creators. Based on a 1927 novel about three American gold-hunters torn apart by greed, The Treasure of the...
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E96 Ármin Vámbéry and Hungarian Orientalism ft. Turan Explorer
Support us on Patreon --- Liam, Russian Sam, and Turan Explorer continue their journey across the vast steppe of Hungarian Turanism in this episode on Ármin Vámbéry, the all-time Orientalist white boy whose remarkable wanderings were fundamental to the development of the Hungarian...
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E95 The Origins of Hungarian Turanism ft. Turan Explorer
Support us on Patreon --- This week, we have a very special guest coming to us from the steppe via transfer in Central Europe. This episode is all about the constitutive elements of Hungarian Turanism, the ideology that traces Hungarian origins back into Asia and often comes with…
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E94 The Long 2014 ft. Grace Cathedral Park
Support us on Patreon --- There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen. Vladimir Lenin surprisingly did not say these words about 2014, a year that saw monumental pivots in culture, technology, and world events and arguably never ended at all....
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E93 Frank Herbert: The Dune Behind Dune
Support us on Patreon --- The Dune series has gone through a revival of late thanks to the film adaptations of Denis Villeneuve, but what are we to make of it? In this episode we explore Dune through the lens of its author, Frank Herbert. His beliefs defy easy political...
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E92 Irish Latin Americans and the San Patricio Battalion
Support us on Patreon --- Since the 17th century, nearly 10 million Irish people left their homes for an uncertain life abroad. While stories of Irish settlement in the United States and Canada are well-known, the lives of tens of thousands of Irish people who settled in Latin…
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E91 King Philip's War and the End of Native Sovereignty
Support us on Patreon --- In 1675, the Puritan colonies in North America were fighting for their lives. A brilliant young commander named Metacomet assembled a Native American coalition that upended a half-century of colonialism, pushed the English back to the coast, and would come...
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E90 After the First Thanksgiving
Support us on Patreon --- In November 1622, the great diplomat Squanto died while leading a trade expedition with his English allies. Only a year had passed since he formed a treaty between the Pilgrims of Plymouth and the indigenous Wampanoag people. While the early years of...
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E89 Katherina Kepler and the European Witch Hunts
Support us on Patreon --- In 1615, just days before the New Year, famed astronomer Johannes Kepler received the news that would change his life. His mother Katharina had been accused as a witch. Over the next 6 years, the Keplers would battle these charges with every means at their...
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E88 Krampus and the Demons of the Alps
Support us on Patreon --- Each Christmas season, the mountain peoples of Europe are beset by monsters. Fearsome figures like Krampus, Perchta, and the Kuker descend into quaint hilltop villages, sometimes to spread holiday cheer, sometimes to hasten the coming of spring, and sometimes...
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E87 The Meiji Restoration and Hokkaido ft. John Bellamy Poster
Support us on Patreon --- This week, friend of the pod John Bellamy Poster commandeered a gunship and made his way onto Gladio Free Europe to discuss 19th century Japanese history in the backdrop of the unique historical manga Golden Kamuy. Exploring the pivotal moments that reshaped...
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E86 Transylvania P. 2
Support us on Patreon --- We return to the dark foothills of the Carpathians in our continuing history of Transylvania. This episode focuses on Europe's most infamous countess, Elizabeth Bathory, accused of torturing and killing up to 600 hundred young girls gathered from across Central...
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E85 Transylvania P. 1
Support us on Patreon --- Americans are known for many things. Geographic insight of Eastern Europe is not one of them. Yet every American over age six can tell you which Romanian region is the home of Count Dracula. Thanks to the incredible popularity of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel,...
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E84 The Ainu Before Japan
Support us on Patreon --- In 1869, the Meiji Emperor declared the northern island of Hokkaido to be sovereign territory of Japan. In a process direclty inspired by American colonization, Japanese settlers were brought in to "civilize" the territory, a process which would have terrible...
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E83 Fritz Lang's Fury and the Brooke Hart Kidnapping
Support us on Patreon --- In 1936, acclaimed German exile director Fritz Lang made his American debut: Fury. The ripped-from-the-headlines story of a deadly false accusation was acclaimed by critics as the best drama of the year, but audiences and studio executives shunned the film for its...
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E82 God-Kings of Southeast Asia
Support us on Patreon --- Put on your rubber boots, we're continuing our exploration of Southeast Asia as we excavate the deep jungle ruins of the Classical Age. From the Khmer Empire to Champa to Srivijaya and beyond, the early medieval period of Southeast Asian history is marked by the...
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E81 The Start of Southeast Asia
Support us on Patreon --- For thousands of years, voyagers from all across the known world have docked their ships in the harbors of Southeast Asia. The diverse countries that make up this region have played an essential role in human history, witnessing the first waves of migration out of...
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E80 Los Angeles Labor War p. 2
Support us on Patreon --- It's October 1910 and Los Angeles is on fire. The California labor war had reached its highest level of violence with the bombing of the LA Times Building, and now the world wanted to know who was responsible. Some thought radical anarchists planted the bombs while...
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E79 Los Angeles Labor War p. 1
Support us on Patreon --- On September 30, 1910, the L.A. Times declared that anarchism has been defeated in California. The city of Los Angeles would be rid of trade unionists. Less than 12 hours later, these same anarchists and trade unionists would strike back in the grandest act of terror...
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