Snakes & Otters Podcast

Episode 122 ”Movies We Always Watch 3: Beyond Thunderdome”

Robert takes charge and we do a third installment of our movies we always have to watch. We missed our chance to tag this one "Electric Boogaloo" but figured Mad Max would do just as well . . .

Episode 121 ”Our Heroes: Frederick Douglass”

Martin has the conn and we talk orator, statesman and author Frederick Douglass who went from slave to man in Abe's ear. Robert gives some tips to Pulitzer Prize level biographers on how to write while we're at it. 

Episode 120 "Code of Honor September 2021"

Robert sets the controls for the heart of the sun in this Code of Honor episode. Features words of wisdom from Robert Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Voltaire. Bonus wisdom from Saint Thomas More right from Francis' memory too! 

Episode 119 "How Did This Happen? The Rise of Fascism"

Francis takes the conn with this history episode as the guys examine the interwar period and the rise of fanatical ultranationalist movements. 

Episode 118 "I'm Batman. Vigilantism in Media"

Martin takes the big chair this week and the guys run through Mack Bolan, Frank Castle, Bruce Wayne, Paul Kersey and other iconic media vigilantes. Of course we have to figure out how bloodthirsty maniacs out for revenge became cultural icons. 

Episode 117 "Our Heroes: Abraham Lincoln"

"Now he belongs to the ages." Not sure what else we can put in the description. Francis runs the convention here and we talk all things Abe.

Episode 116 "Code of Honor for August 2021: Lincoln"

Robert is captaining the flatboat this week and the guys do Lincoln quotes to delve into the man's influence and character.

Episode 115 "Kiss My Drunk Russian Ass: The Story of the 1991 Russian Coup"

Francis has the Kapitanskoye kreslo (Captain's chair for those who don't savvy the Russian lingo) and thirty years after the event talks the guys through the story of the 1991 Russian Coup attempt.
The guys delve deep into how three days in August that year led to the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union and sent Soviet Communism to the ash heap of history. Martin has been anxiously awaiting this one.