Comics critic Douglas Wolk ("All of the Marvels") and guests take a weekly trip through the Marvel Comics history of Doctor Doom: hero of Latveria, master of science and sorcery, roboticist supreme, and arch-rival of the Fantastic Four's accursed Reed Richards. The Voice of Latveria is a project of the Cynthia Von Doom Memorial Foundation. Our motto: "We will always tell you the truth... as Doom sees it."
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The Weird History Podcast explores the out-of-the-way, obscure, weird, and overlooked corners of history. New episodes appear every Thursday.
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The Cicadas have invaded the Chicagoland area, and let me tell you, their loud!! In our fourth installment of "The Symphony of Sounds alll Around Us", host Peter Kreten captured their sounds. Music Credit:Frost Waltz(Alternative) Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http:/creativecommons.org/license/by/3.…
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237 A Danger Shared with Bill Lascher
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A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War is the latest book from Portland journalist and author Bill Lascher. Bill joined us to talk about WWII in Asia through the eyes of journalist Melville Jacoby, his own connection with Jacoby, and what he learned from going through an archive of images that included Macau, the Philippines…
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On the third installment of 'The Symphony of Sounds all Around Us', host Peter Kreten highlights the sound of snow crunching underneath your feet on a walk. Music Credit:Frost Waltz(Alternative) Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http:/creativecommons.org/license/by/3.0/…
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On the second installment of 'The Symphony of Sounds all Around Us', host Peter Kreten records the sounds underneath his feet on a morning walk.Music Credit:Frost Waltz(Alternative) Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http:/creativecommons.org/license/by/3.0/…
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On a recent walk in the rain, host Peter Kreten had a minor insight. We don't appreciate the natural sounds all around us. Simple sounds. Sounds we hear everyday, but don't think much of. So, for two minutes, he recorded the sound of his walk in the rain, and captured raindrops hitting his umbrella.Music Credit:Frost Waltz(Alternative) Kevin MacLeo…
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236 Piracy in the South China Sea with Rita Chang-Eppig
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By all reasonable metrics Shek Yeung, who raided the South China Sea in the early 1800s, is one of the most successful pirates of all time. In her new novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea author Rita Chang-Eppig tells a fictionalized version of the pirate queen’s life, her rise to power, and her relationship with powers both temporal and spiritual…
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235 Shakespeare Versus Hedgehogs
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William Shakespeare seems to have hated hedgehogs. We don’t quite know why, but it could have something to do with how the tiny animal is depicted by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. Special Thanks to Jamie Jeffers of The British History Podcast and Miles Stokes of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men for providing voicework for this episode.…
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For The Love Of Wrestling
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On this episode of the Looking Glass, Pete welcomes Kevin Kellam, Pat Creed, Katie Cascone, and Chris "Pooch" Puchmelter to the program for a very special roundtable discussion on how we all fell in love with pro-wrestling, and why we are still fans today.Music Credit:Frost Waltz(Alternative) Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Co…
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Before Valentine’s Day, ancient Romans celebrated a festival of fertility in the shadow of the Palatine Hill. Lupercalia was a popular holiday that featured blood, goat sacrifice, and getting whipped by naked guys.โดย Joe Streckert
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David Sax And Why We Need The Future to be Analog
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We've been told for decades that the future is digital. That computers and the internet will solve all of our problems. But what if we were wrong? What if the answer to our problems is analog and more human interactions. In his new book, The Future is Analog- How to Create a More Human World, Canadian based journalist David Sax explore these and ot…
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Happy 2023!! Peter Kreten is back, with a show announcement.Music Credit:Frost Waltz(Alternative) Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http:/creativecommons.org/license/by/3.0/โดย Looking Glass Podcast
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233 The Golden Fortress with Bill Lascher
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During the Dust Bowl city officials in Los Angeles, fueled by anti-communist paranoia and xenophobia, were determined to keep migrants out of California. To that end, they dispatched the LAPD to remote border crossing points far outside the city in order to keep out anyone who looked like they were fleeing blight or didn’t have work. Author Bill La…
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232 Navigating the Asian Maritime World with Eric Tagliacozzo
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Eric Tagliacozzo is a professor of history at Cornell University, and his new book In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds From Yemen to Yokohama outlines five centuries of maritime history in the Asian world. In this wide-ranging interview, we discussed how China created trade routes that stretched all the way to Africa’s Swahili coast, the ocean-going hi…
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Douglas Wolk and All of the Marvels Interview
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Since 1961, Marvel comics has published over 27,000+ issues of superhero comics. But has anyone ever read them? All 27,000+ issues of the Marvel Comic Universe. Author and journalist Douglas Wolk has, and he recently sat down with Peter Kreten to discuss his new book 'All of the Marvels'.Music Credit:Frost Waltz(Alternative) Kevin MacLeod(incompete…
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231 The History of Archaeology with Ann R. Williams
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Archaeology has changed considerably over the past century. In this episode, we spoke with Ann R. Williams of National Geographic about the new book Lost Cities Ancient Tombs, significant discoveries from the past century, and what it means to dig up the past.โดย Joe Streckert
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230 The Adventures of Mussolini’s Corpse
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After his death in 1945, Mussolini’s corpse was autopsied and thrown into a pauper’s grave. But, that was just the beginning of the cadaver’s posthumous career. Eventually the body was stolen by neofascists, hidden away for over a decade, and used as a political bargaining chip in postwar Italy.โดย Joe Streckert
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229 Douglas Wolk on All of the Marvels
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The Marvel Universe is massive. Marvel comics go back well over half a century, and span thousands upon thousands of pages. Reading all of them would be a Herculean undertaking. And one man, Douglas Wolk, did exactly that, and wrote a book about it. We talked his new release All of the Marvels, and about how one of the most well-known fictional uni…
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S1E30 - 30: Come Sing a Searing Song of Vengeance! (with James Kakalios)
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Professor James Kakalios, the author of "The Physics of Superheroes," joins Douglas Wolk to discuss Warlock #4-7, featuring a very different Victor Von Doom. Topics discussed include whether Counter-Earth has a moon, how Kate Pryde's powers might work (and why the Flash's powers definitely don't), whether astrophysicists would know about Counter-Ea…
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S1E29 - 29: The Prisoner - the Power - and - Dr. Doom! (with Graeme McMillan)
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Graeme McMillan (of Wait, What?) joins Douglas to discuss Doctor Doom's appearances in Thor #182-183. Topics include Stan Lee's curious ideas about how jobs work in the real world, what surgeons do, the world's smallest political demonstration, the identity of the scientist in "This Man, This Monster," the background behind O'Bengh from "What If?,"…
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S1E28 - 28: Doomsmasque! (with Joe Streckert)
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Joe Streckert, the host of the Weird History Podcast, joins Douglas Wolk to discuss Sub-Mariner #47-49. Topics include how much Doctor Doom loves drama, the difference between "Kirk Drift" and "Flanderization," The Journal of M.O.D.O.K. Studies, Gene Colan's fondness for drawing very wide punches, what kind of a boss Doom is, the light in the movie…
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In 1907 French waiters went on strike, and won the right to wear facial hair.โดย Joe Streckert
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Bob Calhoun, the author of "The Murders That Made Us," joins Douglas Wolk to discuss Fantastic Four #116. Topics include Doctor Doom's résumé, what Mike Royer had to say about why inking New Gods was easier than inking Fantastic Four, the power of Evil Reed, and the resemblance between Victor Von Doom and the founders of the San Francisco Chronicle…
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S1E26 - 26: ...Though Some Call It Magic! (with Gerry Conway and Joshua Glenn)
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Gerry Conway, who wrote the Doctor Doom story in 1971's Astonishing Tales #8 at the age of 18, discusses it with Douglas--and writer/editor/semiotician Joshua Glenn shares his story of how he discovered that issue. Topics include the inspiration of Conway's Catholic upbringing, the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby relationship (Conway worked directly with both …
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227 The Rasputin Disclaimer
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Nearly every English-language movie has a disclaimer in the credits that says something like “This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.” Obviously this isn’t true. Historical epics, biopics, and other movies are clearly based on real people. Why does this disclaimer preten…
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S1E25 - 25: The Tentacles of the Tyrant! (with Margaret Pride)
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Retired U.S. diplomat Margaret Pride joins Douglas Wolk to discuss the Doctor Doom stories in Astonishing Tales #6-7... or, rather, to touch on them rather briefly, and then discuss how the relationship between Victor Von Doom and T'Challa is and is not like the relationship between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, how exactly diplomatic immunity work…
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Writer, artist and cartoonist K. Thor Jensen joins Douglas Wolk to discuss Doctor Doom's appearances in The Incredible Hulk #143-144. Topics include Doc Samson's haircut, Doom's signature weapon in Marvel vs. Capcom games, strange flags, the number of times Valeria has appeared, what cocktail conversations are like at parties Doom attends, Doom's m…
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