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Episodes
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
On July 11th of this year, the streets throughout the island of Cuba erupted with chants of “Libertad! Libertad!”. Immediately, both Cuban communist state media and their leftist allies in the free democracies framed the protests as actually being about such issues as Covid 19 or opposition to the US embargo. Historian and author Victor Triay comes Back By the Woodpile to give us the bigger, clearer picture of what lay at the heart of the peoples’ cries.
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Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Mike Roe of the 77s and Randy Layton of Alternative Records come Back By the Woodpile to talk about the music and work of Robert Vaughn, including the up coming re-release of the seminal album Love and War.
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Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Dr. Carlos Eire is back at the Woodpile to talk about cooperation between church and state in governing, the government helping the ‘deserving’ poor, Charles the 5th’s days of hunting down Protestants before going fishing for the rest of his life and how different political ideologues see their own passions and causes in aspects of the Reformation period.
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Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Singer-songwriter Jeff Graham shares his music and story Back by the Woodpile, telling stories of the legendary Jack's Guitar Bar, the miracle of Dunkirk and that time the police commandeered a guitar amplifier.
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Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
In the early 1960’s as the Castro regime began to transform Cuba into a socialist, militarist regime, part of that including training children to become atheist Marxists soldiers. And so a plan was quietly hatched by those on and off the island to get as many children out as soon as possible. The result was Operation Padro Pan, an exodus of Biblical proportions that helped over 14,000 children flee the increasingly ruthless communist party rule. One of those children, Dr. Carlos Eire, wrote of his experiences in the books Waiting for Snow in Havana and Learning to Die in Miami and joins us Back By the Woodpile to talk about both his experiences and the future of his suffering homeland.
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Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Welcome to the series where mostly old guys share their stories from the 1980s when we were trying to figure life out, with varying degrees of success. This time around we’re talking fashion, crushes and technology with a few D&D tales tagged on
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Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
We’re back with another conversation about the Reformation with Dr. Carlos Eire, who not only teaches this time period at Yale University but wrote a thick book called Reformations which seeks to tell the whole story of all the changes religious, social and political that started in the 1500’s. This time around we talk Zwingli vs. Luther, eating sausage as an act of religious devotion and how thought mobs seem to show up in every generation.
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Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
On this episode we talk judging and bail bonding in upstate New York and a GI in South Korea.
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Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
If you fancy yourself a revolutionary, we've got a nice primer and introduction to the path you've set out on. You'll get to hear about your heroes including Che Guevara, Fidel and Raul Castro, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Chairman Mao, Peng Dehuai, Huey Newton, Maximilien Robespierre, Antifa, Black Lives Matter and so much more!
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Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Wednesday Jun 09, 2021
Five hundred years ago a guy nailed a sheet a paper with a litany of gripes on it, which changed world civilization in dramatic ways that are still with us today. Dr. Carlos Eire comes Back By the Woodpile to tell about what lead up to that man- Martin Luther- causing the event we call the Reformation and other figures both before and during this time frame that also had similar aims.
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Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
We're back in the 1980s talking summer camps and trips, dancing, the film Scarface and the Mariel Boatlift.
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Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Korean-American Sophia Johnson comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about her family's experiences and faith especially in light of the #StopAsianHate news narrative.
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