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A podcast about history, politics, leftism, weirdness, and crime by two friends trying to make each other laugh.
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Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
The LU Boys are joined this week by Dick and Don of the Fourth Reich Archaeology podcast for part one of a two part series on Guy Debord’s 1967 work The Society of the Spectacle and his 1988 followup Comments on the Society of the Spectacle. We use these works as a lens to decrypt the first year of the Trump 2 administration and the explosion of violence and confusion that has followed in its wake.
All interstitial music provided by the excellent Angleton’s Orchids (Don).
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Saturday Sep 27, 2025
Saturday Sep 27, 2025
We're too busy noticing THE PATTERN
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Friday Sep 12, 2025
Friday Sep 12, 2025
This week was full of events. Within this episode, those events are discussed. In a fairly measured fashion, for us. Enjoy.
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Friday Sep 05, 2025
Friday Sep 05, 2025
We're a 7 on the Bristol Cool Chart
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Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
more like snore of the worlds gottem
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Thursday Jul 31, 2025
Thursday Jul 31, 2025
This week we return to Iberia in the late 11th century to see how our old pal Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is handling his second brush with exile from the royal court of Alfonso VI. He learned a lot during his first brush with freelance mercenary work, and this time we'll see him put those skills to work as he attempts to realize his loftier ambitions.
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And I swear, that isn't my real nickname :'(
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
Saturday Jul 19, 2025
And even if it WAS real, I'm not on it.
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Friday Jul 11, 2025
Friday Jul 11, 2025
This week, we put the pedal to the metal and embrace...THE SPEED.
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Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
This week we settle in to talk movies; specifically, the 1961 historical epic 'El Cid'. Directed by Anthony Mann, and produced by Franco-collaborator Samuel Bronston, this hard-to-find technicolor classic is a prime example of political propaganda on the big screen. Shot largely on-scene in Spain, with 60's heavy-hitters Charlton Heston and Sofia Loren leading a cast that included hundreds of actual Francoist soldiers on loan as extras, there was plenty to admire and critique in equal measure.
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Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
This week we continue our look at the life and times of famed Reconquista-era knight and mercenary Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known to posterity by the epithet El Cid. This week we will discuss the Christian response to the collapse of the Caliphate, the rise of the Almoravids, and begin to explore more deeply El Cid’s life and deeds, insofar as we know of them, and will attempt to sift apart truth from legend.
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