The Fire These Times 165/ That One Time the Olympics Were Cool w/ James Stout
For episode 165, Elia and Aydın are joined by investigative journalist and anarchist James Stout of the It Could Happen Here podcast to talk about the 1936 anti-fascist Olympics in Barcelona and the fascists who destroyed it. There's a reason you've only heard of the more notorious Berlin one, and we're gonna get into it here.
You can buy James' book: The Popular Front and the Barcelona 1936 Popular Olympics
His NatGeo piece: The brutal story of the 1936 Popular Olympics: a boycott of fascism and Hitler
The 'Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff' Episode on the Spanish Civil War: The Popular Olympics Antifascist Athletes Help Stop a Coup
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Credits:
Host(s): Elia Ayoub and Aydın Yıldız
Guest(s): James Stout
Music: Rap and Revenge
Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz
Episode designer: Elia J. Ayoub
Team profile pics: Molly Crabapple
Original TFTT design: Wenyi Geng
TFTT Transcripts: Antidotezine