Podcast appearances and mentions of Ron Rosenbaum

In an episode first reported in 2017, we bring you a look up and down the US nuclear chain of command to find out who gets to authorize their use and who can stand in the way of Armageddon. President Richard Nixon once boasted that at any moment he could pick up a telephone and - in 20 minutes - kill 60 million people.  Such is the power of the US President over the nation's nuclear arsenal.  But what if you were the military officer on the receiving end of that phone call? Could you refuse the order?In this episode, we profile one Air Force Major who asked that question back in the 1970s and learn how the very act of asking it was so dangerous it derailed his career. We also pick up the question ourselves and pose it to veterans both high and low on the nuclear chain of command. Their responses reveal once and for all whether there are any legal checks and balances between us and a phone call for Armageddon.Special thanks to Elaine Scarry, Sam Kean, Ron Rosenbaum, Lisa Perry, Ryan Furtkamp, Robin Perry, Thom Woodroofe, Doreen de Brum, Jackie Conley, Sean Malloy, Ray Peter, Jack D'Annibale, Ryan Pettigrew at the Nixon Presidential Library and Samuel Rushay at the Truman Presidential Library.EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Latiff NasserProduced by - Annie McEwen and Simon Adlerwith help from - Arianne WackSignup for our newsletter! It comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

It's a double whammy of those who have left us today with Ron and Joe, both formerly alive Jewish lawyers who knew Tom. With so much in common, it's no wonder they got along. I mean Ron and Joe. Tom isn't any of those things, although he does know himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, in honor of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion this past week, we rewind nearly10 years back to August 2014 and Mike's interview with Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil. We also listen back to Mike's Wednesday Spiel about the true meaning of … “intifada.” Did you think we were going to say, “Christmas”?    Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Check out Hunter Design Studio.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Was the Stuxnet, "cyberworm," the first iteration of a new era of combat? Strider is scared! When scared, seek to understand.  striderwilson.com patreon.com/striderwilson Sources: spymuseum.org, smithsonianmag.com ‘Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack' by Ron Rosenbaum 2012, wired.com ‘An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World's First Digital Weapon' by Kim Zetter 2014, csoonline.com ‘Stuxnet explained: the first known cyberweapon' by Josh Fruhlinger 2022, britannica.com

With the release of IN DEFENSE OF LOVE: An Argument (Doubleday), Ron Rosenbaum offers up a series of essays to save love from scientizers, extremists, the jaded, and anyone else who doubts whether Amor Vincit Omnia. We get into why love needs a defense and how it's not reducible to chemical surges on an fMRI scan, the overwhelming emotion of Linda Ronstadt's Long Long Time, the beauty of Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb and why Larkin may have been embarrassed by the honesty of its last line ("What will survive of us is love."), and the ways bullshit science can lead people ridiculously astray. We talk about seeing Tolstoy in the light of his late novellas, in which he puts forth an extinction agenda and wants to end human reproduction, the first and last times Ron fell in love, why he included a closing chapter on his own experiences of love & regret, whether dangerous passion outweighs a moderate marriage, and whether one can write about human nature without having a fully human nature. Plus, we talk about Ron's writing career, his arrival during the late days of magazines' golden age, how he discovered his superpower of close reading, why America's greatest love poems come from country music, and a lot more. Follow Ron on Twitter and listen to our 2013 and 2014 conversations • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our Substack

Steve Wozniak aka “The Woz” learned about phreaking from the 1971 Esquire article “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” by Ron Rosenbaum. Half way through the article, Woz called his friend, Steve Jobs, and read it to him. They were fascinated by the exploits of JoyBubble, Captain Crunch, and the underground telephone hackers who were whistling their way into Ma Bell, also known as AT&T, which was the largest company in the world, employing over one million people and controlling almost all U.S. local and long distance service, as well as the equipment in most homes and networks. Listen to the full interview with Woz at https://soundcloud.com/cybercrimemagazine/steve-wozniak-co-founder-apple-computer-inc-phreaking-out. Read the story in Cybercrime Magazine: https://cybersecurityventures.com/steve-woznia…-of-hacking/

Ron Rosenbaum published a book in 1998 discussing how 13 major scholars (and a score of lesser scholars) explained Hitler.  Who was Hitler?  Was he a charlatan just using Jew-hatred to rise to power?  Was he the personification of Evil?  Was he a Christian saint avenging the crucifixion of Christ?  Was he just a victim of German culture?  Did he slide into mass murder as events evolved, or had he planned the Holocaust as early as 1918?  And should we even discuss these issues? This book captured my imagination.  Each of these scholars was uniquely interesting.  I think it will capture your imagination also.  

The House of Madjag Ron Rosenbaum aka R The Connoisseur Choco Chiba and Golds Jim and Raho S06 E04Welcome to Breeders Syndicate 2.0 - This is the new improved Breeders Syndicate fully run and operated by Matthew Riot. Accept no imitations. This is Season 6 Episode 3, Part 4 of the Madjag and Raho Chronicles.Part 4 we decided to give people a little background on some of these old lines we are talking about, and who better to give an assist than R The Connoisseur, Ron Rosenbaum, who was one of the original Smoke Report fellas from High Times. He inspired a generation, but left cannabis writing in 1985 to pursue other academia. We briefly touch on some of his work and his influence on the culture as a whole while also travelling down some interesting 70s weed paths! https://madjag.com/I HIGHLY suggest to anyone who loves this show to visit this page prior to listening, so you truly understand the magnitude of the tale that will be unfolding over the next several weeks,Again, a true blessing and honor... Absolutely humbling to be the guys to help deliver Jim and Raho's tales. I was ear to ear grinning for 2 hours.OUR MERCH STORE IS LIVE!!!! https://www.syndicategear.com - I have to figure out the ssl certificate, when i do itll be more payment options. This is a DTG printing service so we don't make a bunch of money but you all requested it, so we did it!Find Madjag: https://www.madjag.comBREEDERS SYNDICATE LINKS: https://linktr.ee/riotseedsBREEDERS SYNDICATE MERCH! - http://www.syndicategear.comBreeders Syndicate website: http://www.breederpodcast.comIntro / Outro courtesy of Inkha Avail on https://soundcloud.com/inkhamusic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Steve Wozniak aka “The Woz” learned about phreaking from the 1971 Esquire article “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” by Ron Rosenbaum. Half way through the article, Woz called his friend, Steve Jobs, and read it to him. They were fascinated by the exploits of JoyBubble, Captain Crunch, and the underground telephone hackers who were whistling their way into Ma Bell, also known as AT&T, which was the largest company in the world, employing over one million people and controlling almost all U.S. local and long distance service, as well as the equipment in most homes and networks. Listen to this fascinating interview with Woz. Story in Cybercrime Magazine: https://cybersecurityventures.com/steve-wozniak-phreaks-out-on-the-history-of-hacking/

According to a woman writing for Vice, is Billy Joel a steak or a hamburger? What new musical genre did critic Ron Rosenbaum attribute to Joel? Why did Joel once say New York State Of Mind was his favourite song? Join Stevie Nix as he answers all of these questions and more on this episode that manages to leave a tender moment alone.WARNING: This episode contains traces of We Didn't Start The Fire.Featured songs [in alphabetical order]:Honesty [Jay Z]Just The Way You Are [Daft Punk, Katie Noonan]The Longest Time [Holophonics]New York State Of Mind [Ca$his]Piano Man [Flight Of The Conchords]She's Always A Woman [Isak Danielson, Fyfe Dangerfield]The Stranger [Xzibit, Dee La Kream]Vienna [Mac Miller, Logan Threat]Billy Joel PlaylistJoin Stevie on Spotify and Instagramwww.songsungnew.com

The Holocaust was an effort by the Nazi government to exterminate the total Jewish population of Europe.  It is a form of genocide but perhaps the most extreme form of genocide.  There is a separate talk on that topic which you can listen to if you wish.  This talk will walk you through the Holocaust in eight steps.  There is nothing in this talk that is meant to be argumentative.  There are complex issues upon which serious scholars may disagree.  There are also points upon which there is no disagreement.  My goal is to outline those issues for you. In teaching my class on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict I noticed an interesting pattern:  most students, be they Jewish or Palestinian or something else, were able to handle this difficult material with an open mind.  But people who were Holocaust-centric in their thinking about Jews, i.e., they saw Jews through the lens of the Holocaust, were sometimes resistant in a way that other students were not.  I think this period of history is so traumatically horrible and beyond human comprehension that it is exceptionally stressful to hear someone such as me try to discuss it from an academic perspective, without expressing trauma.  On the other hand, students have told me that an academic perspectives is very valuable in helping them think analytically.  I hope it works that way for you. If this topic interests you, you might want to listen to two other podcasts in this series.  One is the podcast on genocide, which discusses the range of definitions and cases;  the  podcast on the Palestinian Refugees of 1948 discusses a different situation.  Are you looking for something to read?  Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler, consists of interviews and profiles of the top Holocaust scholars and how differently they think about what happened and why.  Rosenbaum also discusses some of the controversies and issues that are often unclear.  (Example:  Did Hitler have Jewish ancestry?);  Lucy Dawidowicz's book, The War Against the Jews, is a good single book   I found it very helpful.  Raul Hilberg's book, The Destruction of the European Jews, is considered the best single book.  It is a shortened version of his multi-volume definitive history; Hannah Arendt's  Eichman in Jerusalem is a classic report on the trial of a top Nazi leader.  The excellent film Hannah Arendt shows the vilification directed at this astonishing woman for her report;  and The Reader by Bernhard Schlink tells about a simple young woman who got caught up in the conflict without really understanding what the issues were.  It was also made into a good film.  It raises complex and disturbing issues. This was a talk delivered to a class in the fall of 2020.  I had provided students with a list of names and terms, and with a chronology and some data on the number of Jews who died in different countries.  I try to summarize them for those listening. Welcome to classSome Terms and Names: Raphael Lemkin, Dr. Kastner; Transfer Agreement; Adolph Eichman; Kristallnacht of 1938; Madagascar Plan; Israel as a “gift” of the Holocaust; Biltmore Conference of 1943; Evian Conference of 1938; Munich Conference of 1938; Wansee Conference of 1941 The music, Stockspeaks, was written by G. Kevin Dewey. 

Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss their feelings in the aftermath of the election, the art we use to take solace in dark times with Slate writers Jamelle Bouie and Bryan Lowder, and how to think about Trump and Hitler with Slate contributor and historian Ron Rosenbaum. The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Rocket Mortgage brings the mortgage process into the twenty-first century with an easy online process. Check out Rocket Mortgage today at QuickenLoans.com/culture. And by Boll and Branch. For luxury bedding at a low price, go to BollandBranch.com and use promo code culture for 50 dollars off a set of sheets. And by InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. Take a multi-sensory journey into the InterContinental life, and discover stories that will excite your curiosity by going to Intercontinental.com/life.

Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss their feelings in the aftermath of the election, the art we use to take solace in dark times with Slate writers Jamelle Bouie and Bryan Lowder, and how to think about Trump and Hitler with Slate contributor and historian Ron Rosenbaum. The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Rocket Mortgage brings the mortgage process into the twenty-first century with an easy online process. Check out Rocket Mortgage today at QuickenLoans.com/culture. And by Boll and Branch. For luxury bedding at a low price, go to BollandBranch.com and use promo code culture for 50 dollars off a set of sheets. And by InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. Take a multi-sensory journey into the InterContinental life, and discover stories that will excite your curiosity by going to Intercontinental.com/life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner and Dana Stevens discuss their feelings in the aftermath of the election, the art we use to take solace in dark times with Slate writers Jamelle Bouie and Bryan Lowder, and how to think about Trump and Hitler with Slate contributor and historian Ron Rosenbaum. The Slate Culture Gabfest is brought to you by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Rocket Mortgage brings the mortgage process into the twenty-first century with an easy online process. Check out Rocket Mortgage today at QuickenLoans.com/culture. And by Boll and Branch. For luxury bedding at a low price, go to BollandBranch.com and use promo code culture for 50 dollars off a set of sheets. And by InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. Take a multi-sensory journey into the InterContinental life, and discover stories that will excite your curiosity by going to Intercontinental.com/life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On June 10th, hundreds of people gathered to remember Ron Rosenbaum. The speakers included Dan Barreiro, Audrey Glassman, Jim Rosenbaum, Todd Rapp, Deborah Sitkoff, and Ron's son, Nicholas Rosenbaum. In the words of Joe Friedberg, "if there could be a fitting send off to Ron Rosenbaum, it was. We all miss him. We'll continue to miss him, and it was a way to say goodbye when we couldn't think of any other way." This is the audio from that gathering. Thank you for listening to Holding Court.

LA Times columnist Patt Morrison waxes poetic with Ron Rosenbaum, author of The Shakespeare Wars, on the many interpretations and controversies surrounding the Bard.

We take a look at a few of our favorite recent episodes and feature a portion of the live Dean Strang interview at Sisyphus Brewing conducted by Joe Friedberg and Ron Rosenbaum on the murder case that has been popularized by the Netflix docu-series, Making A Murderer. To hear the full, uncut, 90-minute discussion go to our episode from February 4th. We also look back upon a fascinating conversation with Michael Brodkorb on past comments made by Jason Lewis.

In a sold-out forum at Sisyphus Brewing in Minneapolis, Ron Rosenbaum and Joe Friedberg conduct an interview with Steven Avery's defense attorney, Dean Strang, to discuss the broader implications of the Netflix docu-series "Making A Murderer." Dean holds the audience rapt while he shares his point of view on the trial of Steven Avery and his newfound notoriety as an attorney featured in the film.

Tom Barnard, criminal defense attorney Joe Friedberg, and New York Times sports reporter Pat Borzi join Ron Rosenbaum as he covers topics ranging from the legal side of the Tom Brady #Deflategate saga, the ethics of assisted suicide, and everything inbetween. Plus, Tom, Joe, and Ron talk about legal cases they've worked on and the KQ Morning Show.

We combined a few of Holding Court's very best segments into one compelling, engaging, and fascinating episode. Featuring segments from the powerful Tom Barnard, Tommy Mischke, and Ron Rosenbaum three-part spectacle; Ron and Lucy discussing the Bill Cosby scandal with Tom Barnard; and a very candid and thought-provoking conversation with a man living with terminal cancer.

More than 30 of this year's podcast guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2014! Guests include Maria Alexander, Ashton Applewhite, David Baerwald, Nina Bunjevac, Roz Chast, Sarah Deming, Michael Dirda, Jules Feiffer, Mark Feltskog, Mary Fleener, Nathan Fox, Josh Alan Friedman, Richard Gehr, Paul Gravett, Sam Gross, Rachel Hadas, Kaz, Daniel Levine, Sara Lippmann, Merrill Markoe, Brett Martin, Mimi Pond, George Prochnik, Emily Raboteau, Jonathan Rose, Ron Rosenbaum, Dmitry Samarov, Seth, Katie Skelly, Ron Slate, Maya Stein, Rupert Thomson, and Frank Wilson! Check out the list of books at our site!

Today on the first archive edition of The Gist, a collection of our favorite Hitler material. First, Mike asks Ron Rosenbaum about how a genocidal monster is formed and if the Holocaust would have happened without him. Ron’s the author of Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil. For the Spiel, Dru Johnston reads his essay “I Think I Should Get More Credit for Killing Hitler” from the Occasional. Get The Gist by email as soon as it’s available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Civil rights and police misconduct attorney Bob Bennett joins Ron Rosenbaum as he goes "where angels fear to tread" into the case of Chris V. Lollie. The duo speak with Lollie's police misconduct attorney Andrew Irlbeck and as well as St. Paul Police Officer Paul Ford.

After everyone has had their say, it's time to hear her side of the story. Ron Rosenbaum and Joe Friedberg sit down with GOP endorsed Supreme Court candidate Michelle Macdonald. A wide range of topics are hashed out in this exclusive and personal interview, including the State Fair GOP Booth debacle, the "puppeteers" behind the executive board of the Republican Party, and more.

Today on The Gist, we observe the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I with a feature about the start of World War II. Mike asks Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, about how a genocidal monster is formed, and whether the Holocaust would have happened without him. For the Spiel, all you missed on ABC’s This Week. Get The Gist by email as soon as it’s available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosted by Ron Rosenbaum and Lucy Quinlivan, featuring guests Tommy Mischke and St. Paul Officer Dave Titus. 

Ron Rosenbaum returns to the show to talk about the new edition of his amazing book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil (Da Capo Press)! We talk Hitler, the meaning(s) of evil, determinism and free will, Hitler-as-artist vs. Hitler-as-suicide-bomber, "degenerate art," the tendency to blame Jews for their misfortune, and how internet culture has warped the meaning of Hitler in the 16 years since Ron's book was first published.

Ron Rosenbaum was a prominent radio personality known for hosting shows such as "holding court" on KFXN-FM 100.3 Ron was also a regular guest on the The Dan Barreiro Show where he talked about pressing current issues. At the time of recording this podcast Ron was privately practicing law and enjoying life. Sadly, he recently passed away, but this interesting conversation still remains. July 19 2014

Ron Rosenbaum was a prominent radio personality known for hosting shows such as "holding court" on KFXN-FM 100.3 Ron was also a regular guest on the The Dan Barreiro Show where he talked about pressing current issues. At the time of recording this podcast Ron was privately practicing law and enjoying life. Sadly, he recently passed away, but this interesting conversation still remains. August 31, 2013

In the first episode of Shakespeare Talks, director Davis McCallum sits down with author of The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum to discuss directing Shakespeare, speaking verse, and King Lear.