What does it mean to love your country?
To wave its flag, or to challenge its failures?
To march in step — or to speak when others fall silent?
Tonight on International Flavor: Where the Truth Just Tastes Better, we explore the raw, complicated, often dangerous idea of patriotism. Not the kind that sells T-shirts — the kind that costs something. The kind that makes you a target. The kind that gets you remembered... or erased.
Vladimir Vysotsky and Mark Twain — voices of satire, song, pain, and resistance. One sang through Soviet censorship. The other laughed through American hypocrisy. Both cut deeper than bullets.
And finally, we honor those whose patriotism got them jailed, mocked, or killed:
Frederick Douglass, Maya Angelou, Henry Thoreau, Woody Guthrie, Eugene Debs, John Lewis, Pussy Riot, and more.
This is not a comfortable episode. But it’s a necessary one.
Because sometimes, the greatest act of patriotism… is dissent.
Thanks for listening to International Flavor with Samuel Trapp, where truth crosses borders and censorship ends at the mic.
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