A NSFW, detailed and funny long-form podcast about The Cold War.
Latest episodes
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10 min
CW 318 — The Politics of Illusion (Free Preview)
The CIA's plan for the Bay of Pigs was, in short, to land a brigade of exiles, hope the Cuban people spontaneously rose up, and call it a day. No backup plan. One in three odds of…
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33 min
CW 318 — The Politics of Illusion
The CIA's plan for the Bay of Pigs was, in short, to land a brigade of exiles, hope the Cuban people spontaneously rose up, and call it a day. No backup plan. One in three odds of…
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14 min
CW 317 — The John Wayne Complex (Free Preview)
The CIA's original plan for Cuba was a slow, subtle guerrilla operation.... then someone started adding things. A combined air and sea assault. A march on Havana. Possibly US troop…
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38 min
CW 317 — The John Wayne Complex
The CIA's original plan for Cuba was a slow, subtle guerrilla operation.... then someone started adding things. A combined air and sea assault. A march on Havana. Possibly US troop…
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12 min
CW 316 — "I Cannot Wait For You" (Free Preview)
The CIA's master plan for the Bay of Pigs invasion was, apparently, a cakewalk. The frogmen hit the coral reef they thought was seaweed, a light shorted out and alerted the shore,…
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38 min
CW 316 — "I Cannot Wait For You"
The CIA's master plan for the Bay of Pigs invasion was, apparently, a cakewalk. The frogmen hit the coral reef they thought was seaweed, a light shorted out and alerted the shore,…
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16 min
CW 315 — Like an Iron Filing to a Magnet (Free Preview)
Castro expropriated every American-owned asset in Cuba, got kicked out of his New York hotel for looking like a credit risk, and ended up hosting Malcolm X in a rundown place in Ha…
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58 min
CW 315 — Like an Iron Filing to a Magnet
Castro expropriated every American-owned asset in Cuba, got kicked out of his New York hotel for looking like a credit risk, and ended up hosting Malcolm X in a rundown place in Ha…
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14 min
CW 314 — The Coffins of United Fruit (Free Preview)
Eisenhower signs off on a covert plan to overthrow Castro in March 1960.... a plan which, to be clear, is literally titled "Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime." Sub…
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49 min
CW 314 — The Coffins of United Fruit
Eisenhower signs off on a covert plan to overthrow Castro in March 1960.... a plan which, to be clear, is literally titled "Program of Covert Action Against the Castro Regime." Sub…
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12 min
CW 313 — Pick Up the Gun (Free Preview)
The CIA didn't want Cuba buying weapons from Britain, so Allen Dulles quietly leaned on the British ambassador to kill the deal.... hoping Cuba would get desperate enough to buy fr…
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38 min
CW 313 — Pick Up the Gun
The CIA didn't want Cuba buying weapons from Britain, so Allen Dulles quietly leaned on the British ambassador to kill the deal.... hoping Cuba would get desperate enough to buy fr…
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17 min
CW 312 — Fatherland or Death (Free Preview)
A Belgian munitions ship called La Coubre blows up in Havana Harbour, killing somewhere between 75 and 100 people.... and Castro immediately points the finger at Washington, which…
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32 min
CW 312 — Fatherland or Death
A Belgian munitions ship called La Coubre blows up in Havana Harbour, killing somewhere between 75 and 100 people.... and Castro immediately points the finger at Washington, which…
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19 min
CW 311 — Coletillas (Free Preview)
Mikoyan, Soviet deputy premier and ice cream king, rolls into Havana in February 1960 with a 40-person delegation, a science exhibit, and advice for Castro to just take all the Ame…
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45 min
CW 311 — Coletillas
Mikoyan, Soviet deputy premier and ice cream king, rolls into Havana in February 1960 with a 40-person delegation, a science exhibit, and advice for Castro to just take all the Ame…
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28 min
CW 310 — Ice Cream and Ideology (Free Preview)
Cuba, 1959/1960, and Fidel Castro is desperately trying to walk the middle path.... no communism, no capitalism, just "humanism" - liberty with bread, bread without terror. Meanwhi…
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CW 310 — Ice Cream and Ideology
Cuba, 1959/1960, and Fidel Castro is desperately trying to walk the middle path.... no communism, no capitalism, just "humanism" - liberty with bread, bread without terror. Meanwhi…
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31 min
CW 309 — The Man Who Owned Everything (Free Preview)
This week we dig into the fallout from Castro's agrarian reform law — the land grabs, the diplomatic notes flying between Havana and Washington, and the moment a Texas cattle baron…
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55 min
CW 309 — The Man Who Owned Everything
This week we dig into the fallout from Castro's agrarian reform law — the land grabs, the diplomatic notes flying between Havana and Washington, and the moment a Texas cattle baron…