Doomed to Repeat It

Leila and Tristan return at long last to debate whether Franco was more of an iguana or a chicken farmer, whether or not you should punch your local fascist, and what, if anything, we can learn from the Spanish Civil War. You can view the images referenced in the podcast here.

Leila asks Tristan to tell her about a civil war that raged from 1936-1939. Tristan begins his answer in 1492. This is why we can't have nice things, but can have another two-parter episode. Join us again next month for the gut-wrenching conclusion to the Spanish Civil War.

Witold Pilecki (1901 - 1948) As a young cavalry officer (~1920) With wife and son (1930) Induction at Auschwitz (1940) Captured by Soviets (1947) Trial (1948) Episode 19, in which Leila discovers: -Baltic geography. - the history of the Polish scouting movement. - the triumphant peaks and depraved valleys of recorded human experience. This one gets a bit heavier as it goes on. And in which Tristan: - is present.

Episode 13, in which Leila discovers: - That when your revolutionary motto is "Revive the [Chinese government], exterminate the foreigners," calling it a "rebellion" might be a biiiit rich - That she has yet another German to add to her kick-in-the-shin-via-time-machine list And in which Tristan: - Gives serious consideration to changing the name of the podcast to "the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Co-Hosts"

Episode 12, in which Leila discovers: - That it's really German vampires who pronounce "the" as "zee", and not, as she had hoped, Joseph Stalin - That hackneyed jokes about Soviet paranoia are a halfway decent way of understanding the Great Purge And in which Tristan is forced to admit: - Thatit's a lot easier to scoff at the failed Soviet science of Lysenkoism than it is to know one single thing about Gregor Mendel. He's the one who made plants have sex on...charts?