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The Mariel Boatlift with Victor Triay [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on October 14, 2022
In early 1980, a city bus crashed into the Peruvian embassy in Havana Cuba. Somehow this incident would lead to the mass exodus of over...
Sculpted Hope with Natalie Plasencia [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on February 26, 2021
Artist Natalie Plasencia comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about her work, faith, the oppressed, her family’s escape from Castro’s Cuba and that time...
As Beautiful as February Flowers with Fan Wu [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on February 13, 2021
Fan Wu is the Chinese-American author of February Flowers and Beautiful As Yesterday. She comes Back By the Woodpile to talk about how different audiences...
From 天津市 to the Bluegrass State [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on March 5, 2019
A story of one woman’s journey from Mao’s Revolutionary China to rural Kentucky. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To hear on iTunes, click here!
From the Ukraine to Nashville [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on May 21, 2016
As Jews, Geralda & Yuri Zhislin’s parents miraculously survived the Nazi invasion of the Ukraine only to next feel the persecution of the Soviet Union’s...