What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From Conspiracy Theory to Woke to Centrism and beyond, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into the astonishing secret histories of concepts you thought you knew. Want to support us in making future seasons? There are now two ways you can help out: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/originstorypod . Get early episodes, live zooms and more from just £5 per month. Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/pod ...
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Has Hollywood ruined your favorite comic book franchise? Don't fret, because Not Another Origin Story is here to critique the plot-holes, commend the casting, and certify the source material. Comedians Ben and Pogues, along with a passionate guest or two, assemble with their best jokes and sharpest opinions to take on every comic book film one by one. Subscribe today so you can download, listen, comment, and argue with us! New episodes Thursdays.
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The story of how Eric Rewinkel imagined and started eSopris
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Find out how your favorite musicans got to where they are today. Interviews with musicians of all genres. Follow us on twitter @origstrypodcast
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Welcome to Lioness Origin Story, a special mini-series podcast presented by the Veterans Breakfast Club. Each week co-hosts Shannon Morgan, Army Lioness Vet, and Daria Sommers, Filmmaker/Writer, present, along with special guests, true stories of women who participated in Team Lioness. The goal is to provide an historical counter to Taylor Sheridan’s fictional Special Ops: Lioness. As the hosts and their guests trace the evolution of Lioness Teams into Female Engagement Teams and Cultural Su ...
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The Origin Story is a fortnightly podcast hosted by Paven Gill. The main goal of the show is going through the origin stories of people that fascinate or inspire me and putting their stories out in the world in order to show that everyone has dealt with pain and struggle no matter who they are. Understanding that pain and struggle is the thing that connects everyone and the legacy you leave is the only thing that matters. "Everybody is going to die how you get there is up to you"
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NAOS #185.5 - Minisode 2 Water Something
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The Illuminati – Top of the Plots
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• Join Ian and Dorian for Origin Story Live in London on Tue 7 May. They’ll be looking at how the Conservative Party got addicted to conspiracy theory, and more. This time: The Illuminati were a group of Enlightenment idealists who existed for just a few years in 1780s Bavaria. Or were they? The Illuminati have since been blamed for everything from…
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Apocalypse How? Dorian on the birth of end of the world fiction
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For 1800 years, Western conceptions of the end of the world were dominated by the Book of Revelation: Armageddon, the Millennium, Judgement Day. But in 1816, political upheaval, Enlightenment science and the Romantic imagination converged to give birth to a radical idea: the end of the world without God. When Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Shel…
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NAOS #185 - Madame Web
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Ben, Pogues, and resident Spiderman expert Chris Doom watch Madame Web. They talk ADR'ed bad guy, visions more interesting than the movie, bad acting, and ask why would anyone wear those sunglasses at the end.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #184 5 - Minisode Web
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Ben. Pogues. Minisode. In the amazon while researching spiders.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #184 - Punisher: War Zone
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Ben and Pogues watch Punisher: War Zone. They talk incompetent FBI agents, bad acting, a plot that makes no sense and wonder who ok'ed all these accents?Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #183 5 - Minisode War Zone
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there is a tornado warning i don't have time for thisBen Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 12
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*This episode of Lioness The Origin Story was recorded live on Zoom during a VBC Monday night veteran's storytelling program. The VBC celebrates Women’s History Month with writer, filmmaker and VBC member Daria Sommers hosting a conversation with three remarkable veterans and leaders. Retired USAF Colonel Lorry Fenner, Director of Government Relati…
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NAOS #183 - Guyver: Dark Hero
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Ben and Pogues watch Guyver: Dark Hero. They talk decent monster design, incredibly slow pacing, and Ben reveals how news works in this film.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Ben and Pogues watch Old. They talk bad acting, unnatural dialogue, how stupid the twist is and question of if the baby scene was needed.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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ben and pogues. a shortie....hopefully like the movie.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #181 - Guardians of the Galaxy
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Ben and Pogues watch Guardians of the Galaxy. They talk dance numbers, good story telling and question how they went so long without doing this movie. As there is a surprise game.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 11
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In this episode, we visit with two very special guests: retired Army Colonel Kate Guttormsen and Army Colonel Anastasia Breslow-Kynaston. The highest ranking women in the original Team Lioness group (Ramadi 2003-4), both were captains at the time making them the perfect guests for a look back at the Lioness experience. We discuss what it was like t…
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NAOS #180.5 - Guardians of the Minisode
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its a minisode. get off my back.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #180 - Alien vs Predator: Requiem
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Ben and Pogues watch AVP: Requiem. They talk no lighting, too many characters, and question why alien predators get dreads.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS 179.5 - Minisode Requiem
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Ben. Pogues. Minisode. Mystery not a game game.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #179 0 Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
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Ben and Pogues watch Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. They talk lack of a B story, question the length, wonder why there are so few Guardians and question if they needed that many full length songs.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #178.9 - Minisode The Christmas Special
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Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 10
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With 28 years of service behind her, Army Colonel Ellen Haring, a West Point graduate, realized she’d hit the brass ceiling. As a woman, she’d been excluded from combat arms specialties, a career requirement to reach the military’s senior ranks. Then, in 2011, she read about The Molly Pitcher project. Led by Professor Anne Coughlin at University of…
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Effective Altruism: Morality by numbers
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In the last episode of season four, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey discuss effective altruism. Last month the US entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy related to the dramatic collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried was also a prominent advocate of effective altruism, a philanthropic …
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NAOS #178 - Blue Beetle
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Ben and Pogues watch Blue Beetle. They talk giant orbits as a hiding mechanism, a too long run time, and question if Susan Sarandon really cared.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Eugenics Part Two: The Murderous Science
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In part two of the history of eugenics, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey explain how the pseudo-science of “racial hygiene” seduced everyone from feminist birth-control pioneers and social democrats to the ardent white supremacists whose screeds shaped US immigration laws and influenced Hitler. Then they turn to the rise of eugenics in Germany and how i…
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Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 9
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Our guest today is retired USMC Sgt. Major Raquel Painter whose extraordinary nearly 27 year career landed her at some of the most pivotal moments in Marine Corps history. She has the rare distinction of serving as both an FET (Brigade Headquarters Female Engagement Team Leader) during her 2009 deployment to Afghanistan and as a Lioness during her …
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Eugenics Part One: Gene Genies
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This week, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey get started on the history of eugenics, the idea of finding biological solutions to social problems. Say the word now and it calls to mind skull-measuring cranks or Nazi death camps but for decades it was a mainstream project in many parts of the world, attracting not just white supremacists and elitist snobs …
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Night of the Living Allegory: The Politics of Zombies
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Born in Haitian folklore and inadvertently reinvented by director George A. Romero, the zombie is the most flexible metaphor in horror fiction, if not all of popular culture. It can represent a war, a virus, a natural disaster, terrorism, capitalism, climate change and much more. In fact, it’s hard to tell a zombie story that isn’t political in one…
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NAOS #177.5 - Blue Minisode
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Ben. Pogues. Blue Beetle.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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John Maynard Keynes Part Two: We’re all Keynesians now
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In Part Two of John Maynard Keynes, Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt reconnect with Keynes in the 1930s, as he slowly pulls together his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. This book changed everything for Keynes, and the rest of us, by establishing Keynesianism as a new way to understand both the economy and society. Ian …
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Ben and Pogues watch Whiteout. They talk no pacing, needless flash backs, and wonder how a movie ruins a Kate Beckinsale shower scene.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Study Hall 8: Killers of the Flower Moon
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In this episode of Study Hall, returning guest Joe Ostrander (of The Joeys fame) helps unpack the Killers of the Flower Moon. Does Scorsese still have the juice? When is the best time to pee during this movie? Should Joe be tried at the Hague for his current top ten 2023 movies list? These questions and so much more on the latest episode of Study H…
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John Maynard Keynes Part One: The Establishment Radical
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Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey discuss perhaps the most extraordinary individual they have encountered so far: John Maynard Keynes. The most significant economist since Adam Smith rewrote our understanding of the relationship between the state and the market. But Keynes was also a philosopher, a statesman, an aesthete and a hell of a writer: a one-man…
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NAOS #176.5 - Minisodeout
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Boomers: You never had it so good
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This week, Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt look at the most powerful and divisive generational cohort of them all: boomers. The people born between 1946 and 1964 have been credited, and blamed, for creating the world we live in. They’re the 60s generation, the Me generation, the Reagan generation and the Third Way generation. Where they lead, the world…
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Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 8
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When former 1st. Lt. Colleen Farrell joined the USMC in 2008, becoming a trailblazer was the furthest thing from her mind. But by the time she left active duty four years later, she'd become part of two historic turning points for women in the military. Starting out all she wanted was to serve her country, an ideal that resonated with her Quaker up…
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NAOS #176 - Lady Snowblood
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Ben and Pogues watch Lady Snowblood. They talk beautiful colors, brilliant fight scenes, and lower bodies falling off.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Jacob Geller on the Evolution of Video Essays and Games Criticism
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Jacob Geller is a YouTube video-essayist whose work grapples with video games, history, politics, empathy, and more. Recently his criticism has engaged with the politics of climate change and art in the pre-apocalypse as well as media preservation in the digital age. We talked with him about video essays as an art form and what it means that they a…
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Jordan B Peterson Part Two: The Unravelling
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This week, it’s part two of the riddle of Jordan B Peterson, the bestselling author and culture warrior. Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into his two megasellers, 12 Rules for Life and Beyond Order, and try to understand why these very strange cocktails of self-help advice, comparative mythology and biological essentialism resonated with millions o…
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Jordan B Peterson Part One: Ascension
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Origin Story is back. The critically-acclaimed podcast uncovering the hidden histories of concepts, people and events you thought you knew. To kick off Series 4 Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey turn their sights on Jordan B Peterson, the bestselling author, diehard culture warrior and, allegedly, the most influential intellectual in the western world. I…
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NAOS #175.5 - Lady Minisnow
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NAOS #175 - Captain Marvel
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Ben and Pogues watch Captain Marvel. They talk bad soundtracks, confusing plots, deadpan delivery and wonder about the time frame of it all.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Christine Lai (Landscapes) on How Art Endures Even After Apocalypse
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Christine Lai grew up in Canada and lived in England for six years during graduate studies. She holds a PhD in English Literature from University College London. Landscapes was shortlisted for the inaugural Novel Prize. Christine currently lives in Vancouver. We talk to Christine about Landscapes and our enduring relationship to art - even at the e…
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NAOS #174.5 - Captain Minisode
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Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 7
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For retired Army Warrant Officer Raquel Patrick, an impressive four deployments, one to Somalia and three to Iraq, wasn’t enough. The moment she heard about the Cultural Support Team program she knew it was for her. Motivated by a life-long desire to serve, she was confident she could make a difference. Even her children supported her decision to a…
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NAOS #174 - Term Life
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Ben and Pogues watch Term Life. They talk terrible haircuts, too many openings, and question why all these people agreed to this movie?Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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Lioness The Origin Story Ep. 6
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Today, we are honored to have retired US Army Captain Christina Trembley join us and talk about the eight months she spent as a Cultural Support Team member attached to Special Forces’ elite Operational Detachment Alphas in Northern Afghanistan in 2011. Responding to the needs of the local women and children in various villages, Chris spearheaded a…
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NAOS #173 - The Amazing Spiderman
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Ben and Pogues watch The Amazing Spiderman 2. They talk bizarre uses of Paul Giamatti, surprise Harry Osborne, asking if there was a plot and wondering why exactly someone built a mech rhino in the first place.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #172.5 - Amazing Minisode 2
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Ben and Pogues. Mini.Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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NAOS #172 - Jiu Jitsu
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Ben, Pogues and special guest Seth talk Jiu Jitsu. They talk terrible cgi bullet strikes, confusing military tactics, questionable rules for interstellar death matches, and question what exactly was the plot?Ben Chapman & Matthew 'Pogues' Metzger
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