Ronald Reagan Archives - The Brophisticate

The Ten Tracks Mixtape Tasks [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on January 31, 2023
Host Spun Counterguy wrote a book called The Ten Tracks Mixtape Tasks and filmmaker Todd Zeller talks to him about it, including questions from readers....
The Real and Imagined Indiana Jones – A selective history of archaeologist adventurers
By Spun Counterguy on March 18, 2020
German businessman Heinrich Schliemann was so obsessed by the epics of Homer that he read 100 hexagrams of the Iliad at his second wedding (not...
Tryna Herd Cats XXIV [philosophical podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on March 29, 2019
Philisophical haggling of ideas! On this episode we talk the safety of loneliness, the last thoughts before execution, courage to protect others at one’s own...
Riding Around Jamaica Plain [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on December 10, 2018
Jamaica Plain is a unique little neighbor of Boston where some major American Revolutionary action went down, national politicians were (and still are) knighted at...
A Witness to Unfolding History
By Spun Counterguy on November 10, 2017
Former diplomat, Director of the Foreign Service Institute and Al-Qaeda target Nancy McEldowney joins us to talk about her career in the State Department and...
Fluorescent Decade on a Hill XII [1980s podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on July 30, 2017
We go back to another 1980s episode with some stories and performances from The Alarm, embarrass ourselves in front of Melissa Manchester and revisit the song...
A Fluorescent Decade on a Hill VI [1980s podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on June 11, 2016
Another flip through our 1980s back pages, this time around: interning at one of the first hip hop radio stations ever, getting that first kiss...
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...
Tryna Herd Cats VIII [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on September 7, 2015
More chats philosophical, this time getting deep in the Oxford, UK scene as well as some US presidential wisdom.
Subverting Fascism: One Family’s Tradition [podcast]
By Spun Counterguy on June 24, 2015
Most know Germany struggled with two authoritarian regimes in the 20th Century: Hitler’s Nazis and the GDR Communists. The Lappe family was one a handful...