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The United States of Amnesia206: Tea, Drugs, and Jesus - Vinegar Joe and the GeneralissimoMike leads our discussion of the American experience in China during World War II. Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin Roosevelt, and General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell are the central figures in this episode, which explores many aspects of the war's often-overlooked China-Burma-India Theater and introduces us to the Flying Tigers, the Burma Road, Merrill’s Marauders, and the “Over the Hump” cargo flights from India to China. Roosevelt’s postwar goals for China, differing advice FDR gets as to how to handle Chiang, and Stilwell’s fraught relationship with Chiang drive our narrative as issues of military strategy, operations, logistics, and reform lead to disagr...
2026-03-041h 00
The United States of Amnesia205: Tea, Drugs, and Jesus - The Soong DynastyMarshall, Blake, and Mike discuss America’s view of China from the 1920s through the early 1940s and the strong influence Americans raised by missionaries in China, notably Henry Luce and Pearl Buck, had on that view. Chiang Kai-shek emerges as the leader of the Republic of China, and Americans contribute money to Chiang and his in-laws, the Soongs – who have become China's new "dynasty" – in the belief that they will use it to modernize China. But Chinese corruption, Chiang’s inability to gain control of the entire country from warlords and Mao Tse-tung’s Communists, and war with both the C...
2026-02-181h 18
The United States of Amnesia204: Tea, Drugs, and Jesus - The Harmonious FistsMike walks us through the events of the Boxer Rebellion, a conflict in which Chinese rebels attempted to slaughter all foreigners and Chinese Christians in China. Marshall then explains how this drove missionaries into isolated compounds, from which they could look out on the Chinese — and judge them — without gaining any real knowledge of the Chinese people or their culture. Marshall also introduces us to Henry Luce, a child of American missionaries who used his innovative approaches to journalism in the 1920s to give America a narrative of China reflective more of his own views than of Chinese reality.
2026-02-0456 min
The United States of Amnesia203: Tea, Drugs, and Jesus - Rebellion Follows FaithAs the Manchu dynasty weakens during the 19th century, U.S. missionaries arrive. Christian evangelization leads to the outbreak of the long, bloody, brutal, and genocidal Taiping Rebellion, whose leader claims to be the younger brother of Jesus, and (not for the last time) an American official gets fired for assessing accurately what it all means. Americans fear the “Yellow Peril” as Chinese immigration to the United States rises with the California Gold Rush and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, and in China the Boxer Rebellion breaks out with a goal of killing all foreigners. Meanwhile, the U.S. m...
2026-01-211h 25
The United States of Amnesia202: Tea, Drugs, and Jesus - Conflict Follows TradeWhere trade goes, conflict follows! While Britain and the East India Company focus on the opium trade with China, Americans of the first half of the 19th century try to break into the Chinese market with...well...opium, but also with ginseng, sandalwood, furs, and even sea cucumbers. After the British crush the Chinese in the First Opium War, few Americans (other than John Quincy Adams) approve of British aggression. But the war’s results open up China to the West like never before, and Americans respond by increasing trade, and by sending Christian missionaries to China to spread th...
2026-01-071h 21
The United States of Amnesia201: Tea, Drugs and Jesus - The Flag Follows TradeBen Franklin got China wrong, and America still does today! Marshall again will lead our discussion in a new series, “Tea, Drugs, and Jesus,” looking at how the United States keeps misunderstanding China, in no small part because American political leaders often refuse to listen to experts on Chinese affairs. In the first episode, we set the stage for what is to come by exploring the environment in which the United States became involved in the China trade in the 19th century. We discuss China’s isolationism and stagnation, Britain and the East India Company, tea and silver, silk and po...
2025-12-2455 min
The United States of AmnesiaEpisode 106: America First - Part 6 (Conclusion)Marshall, Blake, and Mike wrap up the America First series by dissecting the America First principles of non-involvement in World War II, then discussing the effect on America of the shockingly rapid 1940 fall of France, American support to Britain through Lend-Lease, Charles Lindbergh’s ascent to the leadership of the America First movement, the postwar lack of a reckoning for America Firsters, and the staying power of “America First” views. We conclude by sharing some final thoughts on how “America First” has never been what it might seem to be.For a more immersive experience while you listen, vi...
2025-12-101h 09
The United States of AmnesiaEpisode 105: America First - Part 5Marshall leads our discussion of the disorganized and dispersed nature of mid-1930s America First opposition to FDR, the 1936 presidential election, Republican opposition to New Deal reforms and help to Americans during the Great Depression, Nazi Germany's penetration of German-American cultural groups and influence over some American politicians, and Roosevelt’s moves to prepare America for war. We conclude with the appearance of the final pre-war incarnation of America First as an isolationist movement opposed to involvement in World War II.For a more immersive experience while you listen, visit our image gallery for this series at ht...
2025-11-2652 min
The United States of AmnesiaEpisode 104: America First - Part 4Marshall, Blake, and Mike discuss the America First movement in the 1930s, including its relation to racial policies and lynchings. Marshall describes how World War I cast its long shadow over 1930s America and how new America First leaders and organizations arose to lead their followers in opposition to the New Deal. We also resume our narrative of the career of Charles Lindbergh, whose celebrity gave him a reputation for expertise in a wide variety of subjects and laid the foundation for his prominence in the America First movement.For a more immersive experience while you listen...
2025-11-121h 02
The United States of AmnesiaEpisode 103: America First - Part 3After a failed attempt at a Swedish accent, Marshall leads our discussion of the America First movement as it related to the 1928 election, the onset of the Great Depression, the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, the Dust Bowl, FDR and the New Deal, the end of Prohibition, and the 1930's decline of the Ku Klux Klan.For a more immersive experience while you listen, visit our image gallery for this series at https://www.usofamnesia.com/blog/photo-gallery-for-america-first/.Check out our website to learn more about us: www.usofamnesia.com
2025-10-2951 min
The United States of AmnesiaEpisode 102: America First - Part 2Marshall, Blake, and Mike discuss how "America First" supporters influenced – and were influenced by – the Russian Revolution, the 1920 Wall Street bombing, anarchists and the Palmer Raids, the aftermath of World War I, The Great Gatsby, the elections of 1920 and 1924, Prohibition, the growth of cities, restrictions on immigration, and the Ku Klux Klan’s rise to national prominence in the 1920s. Charles Lindbergh enters the story – as does Fred Trump!For a more immersive experience while you listen, visit our image gallery for this series at https://www.usofamnesia.com/blog/photo-gallery-for-america-first/.Check out our website to learn...
2025-10-1551 min
Blue Jays TalkJTP: Tom Henke, Chris Colabello & Red Sox or Yankees?Blake Murphy and Julia Kreuz are joined by former Blue Jays pitcher Tom Henke to discuss the runs in the early 90’s and watching Toronto become baseball crazy. Former Blue Jay Chris Colabello (24:59) discusses finding calm in pressure situations and the 2015 Blue Jays. Afterwards, Fangraphs’ Ben Clemens (51:24) bounces around the wild matchups. Lastly, MLB Network’s Jon Morosi (1:15:29) breaks down the memorable Game 1s from Tarik Skubal and Garrett Crochet, along with who’s a better matchup for Toronto between Boston and New York. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guest...
2025-10-011h 39
The United States of AmnesiaEpisode 101: America First - Part 1In our premiere episode, Marshall, Blake, and Mike begin a series on the America First movement. Marshall takes us through the movement’s development from the earliest use of the term “America First” in the 1880s, when it advocated the protection of economic and business interests, to a growing emphasis on deeper issues of American identity, notions of American cultural and ethnic purity and a yearning for a return to an earlier, more rural time in the face of increasing immigration, the rise of organized labor, entanglements in European affairs, The Birth of a Nation, the rise of the “second”...
2025-09-301h 05
MTB-News.de – Mountainbike Video-PodcastVideo der Woche: Amir Kabbani´s Fade Away Session 2012Ranking top 5:
1st Thomas Genon
2nd Xavier Pasamonte
3rd Szymon Godziek
4th Peter Henke
5th Blake Samson
Best Trick of the day: Szymon Godziek
Pumptrackwinner: Daniel Weiler
filmed.edited. directed by Lukas Tielke
additional filming/ aerial filming by Marcus Gelhardt ( facebook.com/Zebraworkz )
graphics by Joel Rieger ( wraymedia / facebook.com/wraymedia )
2012-10-0803 min