Weekly Round-up 8/19/2024

That new fresh feeling

Hi folks,

It’s been a while. Lots of big content over the last few weeks. For paid subscribers exclusively there was a review of the new western Horizon (2024) as well as a (just dropped yesterday) retrospective on Bladerunner 2049, one of my favorite movies.

The biggest piece of content, by far, was my introduction to the Russian Revolution. I’ve written 5 articles on this topic that are designed to provide an outline of the Revolution and its aftermath to readers with no background knowledge at all.

It’s my hope that by having this kind of frame narrative, the documents I post on the Russian Civil War in the months to come will make a lot more sense. You’ll also get a lot more out of books like Always with Honor if you have a basic understanding of the complex situation in and history of Russia. Please, do this for me: Read the 5 articles. It only takes a very short amount of time. Everyone should know this story. I promise they will be of help to you. This stuff is extremely relevant to today.

I’ve been correcting mistakes and adding new footnotes (I just wrote a very long one expanding my explanation of what the Cossacks are) over the last few weeks, so if you already read the articles when they first went out via email, check them out again. You never know when you’ll notice something new. The articles are as follows:

Part 1: The February and October Revolutions
Part 2: Post-Revolution Russian politics/The aftermath of the October Revolution
Part 3: National and ethnic divisions within the Russian Empire/The Ice March
Part 4: Ukraine, Finland, and the Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion/Regicide
Part 5: Disaster for Lenin/Enter Wrangel

And that’s all I’ve got. Working on a few writing projects now (I’m hoping to have summaries of the 1905 Russian Revolution and the 1918 German Civil War soon) and definitely will have a review of Alien: Romulus in the next week or so.

Paid subscribers, I sincerely am grateful for you. Thank you for your trust and support. The comments section on the Bladerunner 2049 episode really is great. It’s a pleasure interacting with you.

Free subscribers, if you’ve read this far down: You’re a lowlife. Fuck you, you disgust me. What’s wrong with you? The upgrade button is right below this. $5 a month, man. It’s not hard. You will NEVER get another podcast episode again, free-riding parasite. I’m going to archive the existing free episodes soon, too. You don’t deserve the good stuff and you won’t be getting it. Die.

Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled):

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Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid)

Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free)

Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a shit on your stupid Civil War 2 fantasy (Free)

Ep4: "The Glorious Cause" is the best book on the American Revolution (that I've found) (Free)

Ep5: Your opinion on The Killer (2023) determines whether or not you have bad taste (Paid)

Ep6: Bitter master director Ridley Scott takes his time shitting out historical epic no one wanted (Free)

Ep7: This is the one (1) movie that you absolutely need to watch literally right now (Paid)

Ep8: Revenge thriller episode (Paid)

Ep9: Ride with the Devil (1999) is the best Civil War movie that I know you haven't seen yet (Free)

Ep10: 🚨ALERT🚨 Japanese launch devastating surprise attack on moviegoers' heartstrings (Paid)

Ep11: Total Recall (1990) was the sci-fi slaughterhouse America needed and deserved (Paid)

Ep12: I watched a bunch of the new DailyWire+ original movies last week... (Paid)

Ep13: If you don't force your family to watch this movie for Christmas, they will despise you (Paid)

Ep14: Emergency surprise free Christmas review of the Prometheus Engineer chronicles (2012) (Free)

Ep15: "A Disease in the Public Mind" is the most important book to read about the Civil War and America today (Free)

Ep16: Someone finally made a good Afghanistan War movie and nobody noticed (Paid)

Ep17: If you don't watch this new movie in theaters, you are betraying me and yourself (Paid)

Ep18: Michael Mann’s Ferrari is the death-song of Esoteric Boomerism (Heat is overrated btw) (Paid)

Ep19: This forgotten Russian Civil War memoir shows why "Ruralite retreat" localism is dumb (Free)

Ep20: "In ‘First Man,’ Triumph for White Male Dreams" -The Harvard Crimson (Paid)

Ep21: Hunt: Showdown is a late 1800s horror-shooter that simulates normal life in Maryland (Paid)

Ep22: COMBAT DROP! Surprise Emergency Free Starship Troopers (1997) Sunday Show (Free)

Ep23: Dune 2 was unironically really bad and you’re actually stupid if you enjoyed it (Free)

Ep24: Witness (1985) is a masterclass in the lost art of the popular thriller (Paid)

Ep25: Returning to the scene of the crime against cinema, the Dune 2 rewatch episode (Paid)

Ep26: I rewatched The Lord of the Rings and all I could think about was how bad Dune 2 was (Paid)

Ep27: The new Road House movie is an obscene act of cultural terrorism (Paid)

Ep28: This is most important Dune 2 podcast episode that you'll ever listen to (Paid)

Ep29: If you don't follow this esoteric health advice you are actually going to die (Paid)

Ep30: Free ($0) sample episode - What is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl about? (Free)

Ep31: Alex Garland's Civil War (2024) is a shocking bland film that says nothing in the most dishonest way possible (Paid)

Ep32: Canadians accidentally made a sci-fi movie about the Ukraine War in 1995 (Paid)

Ep33: The new Fallout TV show is really, really, bad (Paid)

Ep34: I found the single most important American history book for rightwingers to read today (Paid)

Ep35: The differences between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 are a little too relevant to today's problems (Paid)

Ep36: Why exactly has Fallout: New Vegas stuck around for so long? (Paid)

Ep37: The long-awaited/much-demanded review of A Perfect World (1993) (Paid)

Ep38: ($0 free episode) Cyberpunk 2077 is the one game you need to play before the 2024 election (Free)

Ep39: Should you watch Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga? (Paid)

Ep40: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty shows us how to complete a perfect story (Paid)

Ep41: You really *really* need to watch the first Mad Max movie (Paid)

Ep42: You really really *really* need to watch Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Paid)

Ep43: The Bikeriders is an eternal story about cultural decline in a very small place (Paid)

Ep44: Is new western Horizon (2024) the start of Kevin Costner's redemption arc? (Paid)

Ep45: The Ultimate Bladerunner 2049 Retrospective (Paid)

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