Episode 93 - Afghanistan Blowing The Back Out Of Empires (Ft. Blowback)

As you all know, podcasters are required to fight to the death when in each other's presence. We made an exception this time to talk to Brendan and Noah of the fantastic Blowback pod.
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[@Barneto]

2 Episoden in a row? Magnitude 10 gamer moment

[@Maoistan]

They'd better still drop one next week too, if they know what's gd😂😂

[@noname772fp2]

I’m already 5 episodes in to season 4 and if somehow any of you haven’t listened to blowback yet, DO IT. Seriously it’s great

[@ThomasSorensen1]

I still hum the season 1 music to myself sometimes

[@chase2873]

2 episodes in 2 days let’s goooooo

[@shushunk00]

It was for the promotion of the new season blowback

[@EchtInnviertler1996]

JT can afford his own office??? We should call him "Rich Texan"

[@limerslimer]

Our oil baron : )

[@saintbeau2779]

need him to start dressing like Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood

[@goutamboppana961]

our engels

[@internalizedhappyness9774]

Wait Texas is real! I thought it was a lie made by Republican think tank’s!

[@saintbeau2779]

@@goutamboppana961 need hakim and yugo to start sending him heartfelt letters begging for cash lol

[@RedScareClair]

JT pointing out that some of you weren't around yet for 9/11 made me feel ancient. You could see the smoke from my high school. I was a junior. Pardon me while I grab my Bengay and walker 😭😭😭

[@SecondThought]

lol don’t worry, I was around. What I meant was that some listeners may be too young to remember or may not have been born yet. I was pretty young myself, but I remember that day vividly

[@mxderntimes]

love the blowback boys, was hoping to get a special episode this week for their release week! really enjoyed this grouping, thanks guys!

[@jj_ali9654]

I love how this episode is more or less the Hakim Afganistan episode with a with a white guy in an american accent talking instead

[@michaelslowmin]

So you mean exactly the same thing (  ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@shushunk00]

Some producer should fund their operation make an animation tv series(or even a web series) of their audio series.

[@Mornings]

Woah woah woah let's not do capitalism now the viewers can pay for that

[@mileswilliams9737]

My loudest laugh from this show yet - yugopnik saying if they record in the same room the sexual tension would turn this into an asmr show XD hoooly fukk!

[@Panasonicy0uth]

As an American who grew up during the Afghan War and even has family from that part of the world, I found this episode super enlightening. Y’all are doing fantastic work, fellas ❤

[@MiguelFaria96]

2 long ass episodes in 2 days??? This is like Christmas in August

[@dannya1854]

I honestly don't know what could have been done differently on the Soviet's part regarding Afghanistan.

[@dylanrodrigues]

Not invade another country?

[@dannya1854]

@@dylanrodrigues You think peace would have happened in Afghanistan if they didn't occupy? The CIA was already funding the Mujahideen to topple the government and cause a civil war, and the government at the time was run by a maniac who was making the situation worse. The only upside to Soviets not occupying the country would be a potentially faster war which would have ended with the Mujahideen in power anyways.

[@orion10x10]

congrats on the studio, JT!

[@paradise8061]

you're spoiling us this week, comrades

[@Katyusha780]

Perfect for walking all the way to your house after a long day of work/school! Thanks for the video! Is a great one!

[@PoolNoodleGundam]

I interrupt my marathon of Blowback to watch Blowback guesting on another show before I resume listening to Blowback

[@___.51]

What a title 😅

[@JamesJohn-tg2jg]

Thanks

[@gabrielt.3181]

Great episode

[@dannydenison6253]

I'm soooo pumped

[@firelordOzai3]

Cannot say how happy I am to hear Brendan and Noah!

[@gryphonsong4082]

Love it when you laugh. 😊

[@ghostmobiil]

Yooo! 2 episodes? Nice!

[@erbderbs]

An important element that wasn't mentioned is that the taliban called china their greatest ally. If they get involved, they are experts at lifting poor rural populations out of poverty and are already working with the uighurs across the border. It really will be interesting what afghanistan looks like in 20 years

[@YouHaveAnApeHead]

2 episodes in a row, Hakim and Yugopnik are working overtime in JT's basement

[@bertbaker7067]

Solidarité

[@astonersteve5310]

gratz JT

[@RedYellowBird6889]

This should be fun Also, that's a hell of a title you got there.

[@colonel__klink7548]

I just finished the blowback season 2 about Cuba and the interesting thing is that the Afghani case really... demonstrates how the US went about Cuba (to achieve it's immoral objectives) all wrong... You think about what the US did for years, basically Jihadi style terror attacks to cause suffering and harm. Well... if you keep attacking a people are they ever going to surrender to your ideology? I can't believe Kennedy didn't look at his staff and call them freaking morons from the start, attacking civilians to cause enough suffering for the government to collapse No, the people will back the government harder to fight the enemy that you have made yourself into... The Marxist revolution in Afghanistan shows the path they should have taken. The Soviet Union trained the 1980s Afghan army, the US trained it's civil service. The Soviet Union didn't attack them and terrorize them, they just offered training and technical assistance and slowly won over the minds of enough men with guns near the King of the country that the revolt was inevitable even if they hadn't intended for there to be one in the first place. Now the Afghani Marxists were doomed because they didn't care one bit about the thoughts or opinions of the tribes / clans ect that make up Afghanistan and it's a rural country which means... The power lies there not in the city. HOWEVER the success of the revolt of seizing the government shows where the US could have gone in Cuba... Instead of terror attacks they should have offered "help" and each year slowly winning over the right people in the government by training them in the US until... it flips. I think the Cuba situation, the bay of pigs ect really demonstrates the utter absolute incompetence of the CIA and the US leadership over the past 80 years. TBH I think the CIA campaign of terror basically cemented the stability of the government in Cuba... Any time someone tries to pull the "CIA was this huge threat to the Soviet Union and undermined it at every angle" line I snort. It's like trying to convince me that Joseph Stalin was haunted and defeated by Ronald Mcdonnald and his gang of Hamburglers...

[@shushunk00]

16:33 even that Pakistan the t in it is softer like in spanish. Sane goes for Afghanistan ufh guh neestan. Just do ur best as u can,u dont have to be perfect 😅

[@adamthethird4753]

Wait wut!?! Sweet!

[@homieslice1996]

This is supposed to be episode 93, but the thumbnail says episode 94. Glad y’all uploaded the 2 podcasts though!

[@kwaksea]

Time to resubacribe Blowback!

[@zainmudassir2964]

Yoooo! Blowback boys are BACK!!

[@User_01273]

Ngl blowback s5 should be china

[@Orrphoiz]

As a German I gotta say that there is no good joke from Deutschland

[@Comrade_Uraqi]

Love ur episodes However, consider BadEmpanada, he'd be a great guest

[@___.51]

He’s such a bully tho…

[@KekusMagnus]

no he wouldn't, yall have to stop spamming every episode wih that

[@Barneto]

​@@KekusMagnuswhy?

[@stuart6552]

Yea BE is good for a video essay, but gotdamn his personality is...bleh

[@sentientnatalie]

@@KekusMagnus He gets on well enough with Yugopnik, why wouldn't he with the other two?

[@deathmagneto-soy]

Anyone know who does the outro music on this episode?

[@vincent9068]

It's the full Deprogram theme they had commissioned by Sam Kužel kzbin.info/www/bejne/iae1h6SFhcaDrK8

[@deathmagneto-soy]

@@vincent9068 - Nice. Do they get all their music custom made?

[@chrisbean9663]

Please would you guys review together The movie "Team America world police" have all 3 of you watch it at the same time I saw shows like it but thouse were for kids this is probably gonna be the last one they ever make. Make sure a that Hakeem takes the proper medication hes bound to get offended along with everybody else

[@evilthatmendo]

Let's G

[@ianrodriguez7667]

Time to start accusing JT of being a champagne socialist

[@Gropylol]

thumbnail "episode 94" title "episode 93" Is this a pshyop?

[@thematronsmilitia]

Is it anticommunist to include the USSR in that "graveyard of empires"? It seems like, particularly given how the phrase was coined, that it is implicitly included.

[@dylanrodrigues]

No. Considering how many countries and ethnic minorities the USSR subjugated and its invasion of another country to impose a friendly regime… and then getting its ass irrevocably beat by the Afghanis…

[@WarpPotato]

That should be changed to "Floor LEGO for the intruders". Probably ain't a killing blow, but quite painful sting

[@ceterfo]

I don't hear hakim. Oh yeah nope makes sense.

[@thoughtteaanna6052]

There's someone I know that is always trying to correct people's pronunciation of things because it's not AmErICaN eNgLiSh sounding enough, and I keep telling them once the idea that someone is trying to communicate has been semantically processed and you know what the person meant... why be so anal about the pronunciation?? It's kinda pretentious.

[@viktormedvedev3992]

¿tWo EpIsOdEs iN a rOw?

[@chase2873]

First ayy

[@jdpartyhat4067]

I would like to remind you gentlemen ----- I am a boomer ---- what of it?

[@milkdrinker7]

hahah old

[@Ren33469]

Commies talking about afghanistan🤣 Also, afghanis is the currency, afghans are the people. It should really be pronounced "afghon-iston". Guess they are doing that russian thing of writing with As and sounding it with an Os, or vice versa...

[@gwynbleidd1917]

Yugopnik, turn your audio up, brother slav!