

Left Unread
Left Unread
A podcast about history, politics, leftism, weirdness, and crime by two friends trying to make each other laugh.
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Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 46min
70. Oliver Stone’s Nixon feat. Patrick and Ian
This week, we sat down once again with Left Unread Extended Universe guests Ian Miller and Patrick to discuss an Oliver Stone flick - this time it was 1995's Nixon, Stone's second film about how the #CIAkilledJFK. As usual, we use the film to look more broadly at the covert operations carried out by the American deep state and the Nixon resignation's relationship to the Kennedy assassination.
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Theme music courtesy of Ian's project Interesting Times Gang, as well as all other tracks on this episode from Ian's ITG album The Spirit of Science Fiction. You can stream it anywhere or purchase it at itgang.bandcamp.com.

Nov 15, 2022 • 1h 14min
69. THE SEX NUMBER
lol.
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Nov 1, 2022 • 1h 8min
68. Left UNDEAD Halloween Spooktacular
Reuploaded due to technical issues.
This week, we sat down to discuss some ghoulish recent events in the news, and then we go through a hauntingly spooky list of True Facts of Truth and close it out with a particularly bizarre story about a haunted US Navy ship and its unfortunate crew.
At the top of the episode, Evan recounts a Halloween-themed original re-imagining of Twas the Night Before Christmas.
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Oct 20, 2022 • 1h 31min
67. The Queen is Dead...Must the King Long Live?
This week, we explore the latest hip trend that’s sweeping the globe: having your monarch die! Is it just a passing fad, or will dead monarchs become a lasting tradition? We can only hope!
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Oct 3, 2022 • 1h 18min
66. Ancient Mysteries III: Mystery Theologia, Mysticism, and The Cult of Mithras, pt. 1
In the third part of our series on ancient mystery cults, we sat down to talk about the theologia and liturgy of the ancient Mediterranean mystery cults, and then we discussed the understanding of the cults through three lenses: myth, nature allegory, and metaphysics. Finally, we introduce the secretive Cult of Mithras and its anatomy.
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Theme music by Interesting Times Gang. Check them out at: itgang.bandcamp.com
This week's tunes were all from the new Collapse Culture album, Drag Your Coffin My Lord. Check them out, and please consider purchasing the album at collapseculture.bandcamp.com

Sep 14, 2022 • 1h 27min
65. Concerning CERN
This week we discuss the history of, and some of the prevailing conspiracy theories surrounding the Organisation Europeén Pour le Recherche Nucléaire and their Large Hadron Collider, tales of which have captured hearts, minds, and melted brains for decades. Are we all undead lich-people inhabiting a spiritual purgatory since 2012? Find out within!
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Aug 15, 2022 • 1h 36min
64. Ancient Mysteries II: The Cult as Community and the Eastern Mysteries
In the second part of our series on the ancient mystery cults of the Mediterranean, we continue our discussion on the mystery cults in general as we look at how the mysteries shaped and were shaped by their communities, and then we take a deeper look into the eastern mysteries of Anatolia and Egypt.
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Theme music by Interesting Times Gang. Check them out at: itgang.bandcamp.com

Aug 8, 2022 • 2h 15min
63. The Fall of the Aztecs III: A Meeting of Worlds
This week, in a King Sized XXL Doublewide episode, we wrap up our trilogy of episodes concerning the destruction of the Mesoamerican Aztec Empire at the hands of Hernán Cortés and his cobbled-together conquistador ‘army’. We also discover that our trilogy will actually be… a quadrilogy, and the joke is on all of us, because it's not wrapped up at all. Gotcha.
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Special Thanks to friend of the Pod and fellow history enthusiast @Majora__Z for all of their help and hard work towards bringing this particular series to new heights. LU loves you!

Jul 19, 2022 • 1h 10min
62. Ancient Mysteries I: The Anatomy of a Cult and the Greek Mysteries
This week, we begin a short series on the ancient mystery cults of the Mediterranean. In this episode, we go over what an ancient mystery is, who it was practiced by, where the cults could be found, and what sorts of practices and rites were in these cults. Then, we go over in particular a few of the Greek mysteries, including the Eleusinian and Dionysian cults.
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Jul 11, 2022 • 1h 36min
61. The Fall of the Aztecs II: Cortés the Killer
This week, in part 2/3 in our series on the Aztecs, we discuss the end of the Reconquista, the come-up of Imperial Spain, and the meteoric rise of some of the most bloodthirsty, greed-filled, destructive bastards in modern history: the Conquistadores.
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