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John Merriman joins Brendon for a frank and in-depth discussion about the art of acting and we discuss some old memories from the wild days in Austin, TX. We call Hellman to see how she's doing and do some acting scenes. This is a golden standard episode. Check out John here: https://merrimanland.com/ Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/worldrecordpodcast Watch videos, buy merch https://worldrecordpodcast.com/

Send us your thoughts! John founded Crown Lane with his wife, back in 2007, and has ensured the business stays ahead of changes in the industry. He loves eating out and spending time with his boys and foster daughter. Today he joins the show to tell us about how he set up and sustains the studio as well as all the brilliant events he runs in the community. Support the show

In the mid-19th century Étienne Cabet had an idea to establish a utopian society in Texas, and he moved his followers from France to do it. Things went badly, but he persisted, and established multiple communities in North America. Research: American Experience. “Timeline: The Early History of the Mormons.” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mormons-timeline/ Beautiful Nauvoo. “Nauvoo German-Icarian History.” https://beautifulnauvoo.com/nauvoo-german-icarian-history/ Christopher E. Guthrie, “Cabet, Étienne,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed September 04, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/cabet-etienne. "Étienne Cabet." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631001065/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=e54772f5. Accessed 29 Aug. 2024. JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER H. "Cabet, Étienne." Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, vol. 1, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006, pp. 337-338. Gale In Context: World History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3446900127/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=2e6d79bb. Accessed 29 Aug. 2024. Kagay, Donald J. “Icaria: An Aborted Utopia on the Texas Frontier.” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly , April, 2013, Vol. 116, No. 4. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24388374 Last, John. “The 19th-Century Novel That Inspired a Communist Utopia on the American Frontier.” Smithsonian. 11/28/2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-19th-century-novel-that-inspired-a-communist-utopia-on-the-american-frontier-icarians-180983302/ Nordhoff, Charles. “The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation.” London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1875. https://www.google.it/books/edition/The_Communistic_Societies_of_the_United/EXsRAAAAYAAJ Rousselière, Damien. “'It Was Not a Failure, and It Will One Day Be Recognized as the Only Right Social Order'. On Icarian Communism.” American Communist History, 22:1-2, 51-67, DOI: 10.1080/14743892.2022.2142020 Shaw, Albert. “Icaria : a chapter in the history of communism.” New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1884. https://archive.org/details/icariachapterinh00shaw/ Sutton, Robert P. “Etienne Cabet and the Nauvoo Icarians: The Mormon Interface.” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal , 2002. Via JSTOR. http://www.jstor.com/stable/43200389 Vallet, Emile. “Communism: history of the experiment at Nauvoo of the Icarian settlement.” Nauvoo, Illinois : Printed by The Nauvoo Rustler. 1917. https://archive.org/details/communismhistory01vall/ Wiegenstein, Steve. “The Icarians and Their Neighbors.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology , September 2006. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20853106 Winnerman, Jim. "Icarians went West in search of utopia: the colonies are long gone, but lowans recall the movement." Wild West, vol. 28, no. 4, Dec. 2015, pp. 20+. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A431578978/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=f46ed77e. Accessed 29 Aug. 2024. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Entre el 18 de marzo y el 28 de mayo de 1871 París se independizó del resto de Francia. Lo hizo por la fuerza tras la derrota del ejército de Napoleón III en la guerra contra Prusia y la proclamación de la tercera república. Fue esa guerra el detonante de todo ya que el grueso del ejército francés había capitulado tras la batalla de Sedán en septiembre de 1870. El emperador en persona fue capturado por el enemigo. Cuando noticia del desastre y de que Napoleón III se encontraba en manos de los prusianos llegó a París una multitud se echó a la calle forzando a la regente, la emperatriz Eugenia de Montijo, a huir precipitadamente de la ciudad. El segundo imperio se vino abajo y los diputados más radicales de la Asamblea Nacional proclamaron la república con la intención de continuar con la guerra. Los prusianos avanzaron hacia París y le pusieron sitio. La ciudad era ya muy grande, tenía dos millones de habitantes con la voluntad firme de resistir. El ejército regular había sido prácticamente neutralizado en el asedio de Metz, pero en el interior de París se fueron formando varias milicias improvisadas compuestas por bomberos y gendarmes que se sumaron a los restos del ejército capitaneado por el general Louis-Jules Trochu, y a la Guardia Nacional, un cuerpo de voluntarios muy radicalizados. Trochu trató de romper el cerco prusiano, pero fue inútil. En el interior de la ciudad los ánimos se exaltaron. El invierno entró muy pronto, las temperaturas se desplomaron por debajo de los -10ºC y el Sena se congeló durante tres semanas. Se acabó la comida y las medicinas. Los prusianos decidieron entonces poner fin al sitio colocando grandes piezas de artillería con las que durante dos meses bombardearon París. En enero la capital estaba ya al borde mismo de la hambruna mientras en el palacio de Versalles Guillermo de Prusia era proclamado emperador de Alemania. El Gobierno republicano, presidido por Adolphe Thiers, decidió rendirse, algo que no aceptaron los mandos de la Guardia Nacional, que se rebelaron contra Thiers y establecieron un Gobierno independiente para la capital. Durante dos meses se constituyó una Comuna en París que, aparte de resistir al intento por parte del Gobierno republicano para recuperar París, instauró un sistema socialista, laico y revolucionario que serviría de ejemplo y referencia a los revolucionarios del siglo XX. Durante esos dos meses los parisinos fueron testigos de un experimento político que concluyó con la llamada “semana sangrienta”, la última del mes de mayo de 1871, cuando el reconstruido ejército francés republicano capitaneado por el mariscal Patrice McMahon entró en la ciudad con 130.000 soldados. Los líderes comuneros reclamaron a los parisinos que se echasen a la calle y montasen barricadas, pero sólo acudieron unos 15.000 entre los que había mujeres y niños. Las tropas de McMahon tenían órdenes de acabar con la Comuna al coste que fuese. Durante esos días París ardió por los cuatro costados, los comuneros fueron eliminados o hechos prisioneros, algunos consiguieron escapar a Bélgica y Suiza, pero fueron los menos. Acabar con la Comuna supuso un gran esfuerzo y dejó zonas enteras de París en ruinas. El palacio de las Tullerías fue incendiado y ya no se volvió a reconstruir, el Louvre estuvo a punto de correr la misma suerte, pero las llamas fueron extinguidas por los bomberos. París perdió un monumento, pero ganó otro. Dos años más tarde el Gobierno encargó la construcción de la basílica del Sagrado Corazón en Montmartre para “expiar los crímenes de la Comuna” entre los que se encontraban el asesinato del arzobispo de París. La de la Comuna fue la última de las revoluciones francesas, un ciclo que había dado comienzo ocho décadas antes en el mismo París. Se convertiría en un símbolo para los socialistas y en una advertencia para quienes no lo eran. Ha pasado más de siglo y medio desde que fue sofocada, pero tanto en Francia como en el extranjero sigue siendo objeto de acalorados debates. En El ContraSello: 01:10:04 - La religión en la historia 01:16:41- La enseñanza de historia en Bolivia 01:22:54 - ¿Hitler consiguió huir del búnker? Bibliografía: - "La historia de la Comuna de París de 1871" de Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray - https://amzn.to/4cacduA - "La Comuna de París" de Roberto Ceamanos - https://amzn.to/4e95Edv - "Masacre" de John Merriman - https://amzn.to/3yQx7Ay - "La Comuna de París" de Edmond de Goncourt - https://amzn.to/3RghHf3 · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria de España. 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The World Record Podcast (Brendon Walsh & Amanda Conrad) collided with planet Office Hours bringing destruction and chaos to Glendale, along with special guest inventor John Merriman sharing some of his latest schemes, the Rant Corner and some possibly illegal prank calls. Watch or listen to another hour of the show with more prank calls, Doug's "Comovieans" game, some very angry hothead hotliners, and get tons of other stuff when you subscribe to OFFICE HOURS+. Get a FREE seven-day trial at patreon.com/officehourslive. Need even more Bee Man and A-Train in your life? Subscribe to the World Record Podcast at worldrecordpodcast.com. Find everything Office Hours including the merch store at officialofficehours.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John M. joins us again to discuss his latest invention "GhostFine"- the app that allows you to communicate with the deceased. Please excuse any confusion caused by John M. being at his day job working customer support during the interview.  John M. https://merrimanland.com/ Join the Patreon for extended episodes and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/worldrecordpodcast Buy merch, watch videos + more at https://worldrecordpodcast.com

The entrepreneur who brought the world the Text Cafe franchise has a new billion dollar idea where you can drive your car using your phone!  See more John here: https://merrimanland.com/  Join the Patreon for extended episodes and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/worldrecordpodcast Buy merch, watch videos + more at https://worldrecordpodcast.com

It's sometimes called "vicious fat" because the type of fat that grows around your abdominal organs is hormonally active and linked to inflammation plus other conditions.  HealthCall's Lee Kelso talks with John Merriman, PhD, about the concerns over visceral fact and why a coaching-based weight loss approach is best for some patients.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Friendship Club goes to the movies. We talk movie memories, favorite movies about friendship, and which movie character would you want to be best friends with? My guests this week are the hilarious John Merriman and Finley Polynice.

Jamie and Jorge conclude their mini-series on the Paris Commune, explaining why the Paris Commune mattered, how women were an integral part of it, and how the Commune got crushed by the French government. Tune in to our next episode for the reason we are making you learn this history: Chapter 3 of Lenin's "The State and Revolution." Stay tuned for our bonus episode on “House of Gucci”, which will be out for patrons later this week! The content of the episode draws from Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune by John Merriman and Socialist Women during the 1871 Paris Commune by Eugene Schulkind New Yorker review of the book (warning: cope and seethe): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris Produced and Edited by Paul (@aufhebenkultur) Intro: Everybody Hates Chris theme song. Image: Young Communards in Prison by Gustave Courbet Sign up as a Comrade to support the show at https://www.patreon.com/everybodylovescommunism or https://fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism

Greetings, Antifada super soldiers! This week, we're cross-posting an episode of Jamie's new show Everybody Loves Communism, wherein she and co-host Jorge do the reading so you don't have to. In this edition, Jamie and Jorge begin their mini-series on the Paris Commune as a prelude to chapter 3 of Lenin's "State and Revolution," because you need to know about it to understand that chapter. It's also just an important event in the history of class struggle; Marx called it "the dawn of the great social revolution which will liberate mankind from the regime of classes forever"(!) The content of the episode draws from Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune by John Merriman. New Yorker Review of the book: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris Produced and Edited by Paul (@aufhebenkultur) Intro: Everybody Hates Chris theme song. Image: The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning by Camille Pissarro Be sure to subscribe at fans.fm/everybodylovescommunism if you want to hear more, and sign up as a supporter if you're feeling generous. Patrons will be rewarded with a fun ep on "Succession" due out next week!

Jamie and Jorge continue their mini-series on the Paris Commune, recounting events up until the communards expelled the national government's army from the city. Tune in next week for the thrilling conclusion, and the week after next for the reason we are making you learn this history: Chapter 3 of Lenin's "The State and Revolution." For something completely different, stay tuned for our bonus episode on HBO's "Succession"! The content of the episode draws from Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune by John Merriman. New Yorker review of the book (warning: cope and seethe): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris Produced and Edited by Paul (@aufhebenkultur) Intro: Everybody Hates Chris theme song. Image: Late 19th century illustration of women defending barricades in North Paris Sign up as a Comrade to support the show!

Jamie and Jorge begin their mini-series on the Paris Commune. They start by recapping the events leading up to the Franco-Prussian War and explain what life was like during the Second French Empire. Tune in to to this mini-series to understand this history and why Lenin thought it was so important to address in Chapter Three of The State and Revolution. The content of the episode draws from Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune by John Merriman. New Yorker Review of the book: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/fires-paris Produced and Edited by Paul (@aufhebenkultur) Intro: Everybody Hates Chris theme song. Image: The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning by Camille Pissarro Sign up as a Comrade to support the show!

Split Picks continues its look into the four American titans of horror. After discussing Tobe Hooper last week, John Carpenter takes his turn in the spotlight. Filmmaker Steve Collins and actor John Merriman join Craig to talk about Carpenter in the '90s. Steve brings In The Mouth of Madness (1994); John brings John Carpenter's Vampires (1998). They talk about Carpenter's attraction to distilled evil on film, how the lovably average working man powers his films, and how his simplistic soundtracks power his films. John, Steve, and Craig pick their ideal spinoff-films from characters introduced in In The Mouth of Madness on their way into the heart of Hobb's End. On Vampires, they break down the pairing of James Woods and Daniel Baldwin as vampire-hunting stars, they contemplate a few of its miscalculations, and how the film is the closest we have to a Carpenter Western film.

150 éve, 1871. május 28-án fojtották vérbe a párizsi kommünt. A munkásmozgalom-történetírás megpróbálta amolyan proto-proletárdiktatúrának láttatni, míg Émile Zola a Második Császárság bomló hullájából támadt dögvésznek tartotta, és a kiéhezett és rémképektől gyötört, patkányokat megevő ostromlottak részeg haláltáncaként írta le a kommünt Az összeomlás című naturalista regényében. A francia-porosz háború elvesztését követően a körbezárt párizsiak úgy döntöttek, hogy ők nem kötnek megalázó békét a III. Napóleon rendszerét elsöprő poroszokkal, ellenálltak, mire az Adolphe Thiers vezette ideiglenes kormány elmenekült. A hatalmi vákuumban a kommünárok – köztük a Párizsban élő szocialista, Frankel Leó – vették át a hatalmat, és egy kettős ostromgyűrűbe zárt világvárosban próbáltak berendezni egy születésekor halálra ítélt szocialisztikus városállamot. Amikor elbuktak, a 19. század legvéresebb megtorlását szenvedték el: a Párizsba behatoló ellenforradalmi csapatok 1871. május 21–28. között egy héten át gyilkolták a „bűnös város” lakóit. Az áldozatok számát egyes történészek több tízezerre teszik, John Merriman, a Yale Egyetem történésze a modernitás egyik ősbűnének tartja a teljesen indokolatlan, véres ellenforradalmi bosszút a The Massacre – The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 című könyvében. A párizsi kommünről és emlékezetéről Csunderlik Péter, az ELTE BTK oktatója és a Politikatörténeti Intézet tudományos munkatársa beszélgetett Balázs Gáborral, Párizsban élő történésszel, a Párizs, szabad város – 1871 című 2020-as könyv szerzőjével és Hahner Péter történésszel, a Rubicon Intézet főigazgatójával, a francia történelem szakértőjével. A beszélgetés fontosabb kérdései: - A párizsi kommün a francia-porosz háborúban elszenvedett francia vereség válságterméke volt, így létrejöttének magyarázata elválaszthatatlan a „kis Napóleon” uralmától. III. Napóleont csak egy Napóleon-paródiaként tartja számon az emlékezet, de vajon igaz az, hogy bár birodalma egy nagyoperának szerette volna mutatni magát, A. J. P. Taylor hasonlatával csak egy Offenbach-operett volt, és az első komolyabb kihívásra össze is omlott? - Mi volt a híres-nevezetes haussmanni városátalakítás szerepe a kommünben? A kommün „radikális városnegyedeit” tényleg III. Napóleon rendszere hozta létre azzal, hogy Párizs átépítésekor a korábbi otthonaikból kiköltöztetett szegény lakókat oda koncentrálták? - Mi volt a párizsi kommün kikiáltásának oka? Párizs népe a háborús ellenállást akarta-e elsősorban, vagy a társadalmi átalakulást? - A munkásmozgalom-történetírás előszeretettel állította be amolyan „proto-proletárdiktatúrának” a párizsi kommünt, de valójában milyen szerepet játszottak benne a munkások? - Mik voltak a párizsi kommün legfontosabb intézkedései, és azokból kirajzolódik-e egy „szocialista városállam” 19. századi utópiája? - Beszélhetünk-e a párizsi kommünárok terrorjáról? - Volt-e esélye a kettős ostromgyűrűben a kommünnek a túlélésre, vagy csak egy „haláltánc” volt ez a 72 nap? Mi volt a kommünárok perspektívája? Volt-e jövőképük? - A történettudomány mai álláspontja szerint hányan estek áldozatul a „véres hét” idején az ellenforradalmi megtorlásnak? POLITIKATÖRTÉNETI INTÉZET HONLAP * FACEBOOK * HÍRLEVÉL * TÁMOGATÁS

It's an ongoing debate among this coming war's historians and enthusiasts: Was Milner most responsible for starting the Second Boer War aka the South African War ... OR were others just as responsible? This episode and the next attempt to give you background to help you work to come to your own conclusion. As a newcomer and an American, I can honestly tell you that I'm not trying to sway you one way or the other. But my podcast episodes are only a start. If you'd like access to all the sources I consulted for these episodes, consider supporting the show below. 1) Get more from the show and help it grow by visiting our Patreon page at patreon.com/forgottenwars 2) If you have show questions or guest suggestions, email us at forgottenwarspodcast@gmail.com

Olympe de Gouges is known primarily for her 1791 pamphlet “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen.” But her writing and political activity went far beyond that one pamphlet, and she was actually executed for a completely different reason. Tracy's Research: Douglas, Allen. "Gouges, Olympe de 1748–1793." Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, edited by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, vol. 2, Macmillan Reference USA, 2007, pp. 657-658. Gale In Context: Global Issues, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2896200277/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=GPS&xid=2979d54d. Accessed 5 Jan. 2021. "Marie-Olympe de Gouges." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, vol. 23, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631008043/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=GPS&xid=01a0e821. Accessed 5 Jan. 2021. HESSE, CARLA. "Gouges, Olympe de." Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, vol. 2, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006, pp. 993-996. Gale In Context: World History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3446900357/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=GPS&xid=a40a2b9c. Accessed 5 Jan. 2021. "Marie-Olympe De Gouges." Historic World Leaders, edited by Anne Commire, Gale, 1994. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1616000246/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=GPS&xid=110589b6. Accessed 5 Jan. 2021. Lyons, Matthew. “Execution of a Feminist.” History Today. Vol. 70, Issue 11, November 2020. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/execution-feminist Columbia College. “Olympe de Gouges.” https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/content/olympe-de-gouges Kuiper, Kathleen et al. “Olympe de Gouges: Additional Information.” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olympe-de-Gouges/additional-info#content-5 Woolfrey, Joan. “Olympe de Gouges (1748—1793).” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/gouges/ “The Trial of Olympe de Gouges,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed January 7, 2021, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/488. Vanpée, Janie. “Performing Justice: The Trials of Olympe de Gouges.” Theatre Journal. Volume 51, Number 1, March 1999. Via Project Muse. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/34586 Diamond, Marie Josephine. “Olympe de Gouges and the French Revolution: Construction of Gender as Critique.” Dialectical Anthropology , 1990, Vol. 15, No. 2/3 (1990). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29790339 Nielsen, Wendy C. “Staging Rousseau's Republic: French Revolutionary Festivals and Olympe de Gouges.” The Eighteenth Century , FALL 2002, Vol. 43. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41467908 Scott, Joan Wallach. “French Feminists and the Rights of 'Man': Olympe de Gouges's Declarations.” History Workshop , Autumn, 1989, No. 28 (Autumn, 1989). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4288921 Brown, Gregory S. “The Self-Fashionings of Olympe de Gouges, 1784-1789.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 34, Number 3, Spring 2001. Via Project Muse. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2001.0019 Mousset, Sophie. “Women's Rights and the French Revolution: A Biography of Olympe De Gouges.” Routledge; 1st edition, July 2017.   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

I’VE GOT ISSUES MOVIE REVIEW Existential dread, despair, and the fate of all mankind are just some of the issues tackled in the new surrealistic comedy by Steve Collins. ‘I’ve Got Issues’ stars Macon Blair, Claire Titelman, John Merriman, Randy E. Aguebor, and Courtney Davis playing multiple characters throughout this short vignette-style saga. Each story… Read More »Screener Squad: I’ve Got Issues

On this week’s On Story, Emmy Award® winning television producer, actor, comedian and writer Larry Wilmore discusses the creation of the influential Bernie Mac Show and his recent collaboration with Issa Rae creating HBO’s Insecure. Larry Wilmore has been an actor, comedian, producer, and writer for more than 25 years. Wilmore’s credits include writing for In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and The Office. In 2001 Wilmore created The Bernie Mac Show for comedian Bernie Mac. The series ran for five seasons and earned Wilmore an Emmy Award and Peabody. Wilmore was a writer for Fox’s groundbreaking In Living Color and created The Bernie Mac Show. In 2016, Wilmore co-created HBO’s Insecure with writer and actress Issa Rae. The comedy series was recently renewed for a fourth season. Wilmore spoke about his career with actor John Merriman in front of a live audience at the Austin Film Festival’s Writers Conference. Clip of Bernie Mac courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Clip of The Original Kings of Comedy courtesy of Paramount Pictures Corporation Clip of The PJ’s courtesy of Touchstone Pictures & Television, a.a.d.o Disney Enterprises, Inc. Clip of An Evening at the Improv courtesy of A&E Network & TeleAmerica Entertainment, Inc. Clip of Insecure courtesy of Home Box Office, Inc. & Issa Rae Productions, Inc.

In this episode, esteemed Yale historian and scholar of European history, Dr. John Merriman, joins Brett to discuss the history of Fascism in the 20th century, and its insurgent RE-rise in the US and Europe today. If you want to hear Dr. Merriman's full history lecture on Fascism, you can find that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRSrSml1Hvw You can find out more about John, including all of his books, here: https://history.yale.edu/people/john-merriman Intro music by Captain Planet. You can find and support his wonderful music here:  https://djcaptainplanet.bandcamp.com ------------ Please Rate and Review our show on iTunes or whatever podcast app you use. This dramatically helps increase our reach. Support the Show and get access to bonus content on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio Follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio This podcast is officially affiliated with The Nebraska Left Coalition, the Nebraska IWW, the Omaha GDC, Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

In 1871, the lower classes of the city of Paris rose up and established a worker-run government. They flew the red flag, championed the rights of women, and separated church and state. The Paris Commune had little time to put into place many of the Communards' ideals before it was violently crushed by the French state.  The bloody repression was meted out on a massive scale, and — historian John Merriman argues — foreshadowed the state violence that was to mark the 20th and 21st centuries. (Encore presentation.) Resources: John Merriman, Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune Basic Books, 2014 The post The Death and Life of the Paris Commune appeared first on KPFA.

For four months in 1871, angry citizens of Paris seized control of the city after a humiliating defeat against the Prussian Empire and the collapse of the Second Empire. The radical and revolutionary government and its brutal suppression was the inspiration for Karl Marx’s “dictatorship of the proletariat.” Although the experimental regime met a violent end, it has become part of the French national narrative. John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale, has just published a book about the Paris Commune that takes a new look at how a radical government managed to find support from rich and poor, conservative and liberal, to try to regain dignity in the face of France’s brutal defeat.

The sweet and funny Kerri Lendo joins us this week to chat about comedy, working on Inside Joke for the Moontower Comedy Festival, her smartphone philosophy, and more! Follow her on Twitter @KerriLendo and check out her website to find out where she'll be performing.   We also talked about Pictures of Superheros, John Merriman, Funniest Person in Austin, Punch, Funniest Filmmaker in Austin, First Date, Ryan Cownie, Matt Bearden, Erin Foley, Etsy, The Onion, Culturemap