The Boiled Leather Audio Hour

In a special, political episode, I talk with political operative Frank Spring about the upcoming presidential elections. If you don’t want politics from me, stay away from this episode :) You have been warned.  Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan on Bluesky. Stefan’s blog.

Sean has written a list of the top ten TV shows of 2023 (https://decider.com/2023/12/29/sean-t-collinss-top-10-tv-shows-of-2023/), and we’re here to talk about it. Take it as your to-do-list, nod along or vehemently disagree! Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

Oppenheimer has been released on BlueRay. Having missed it in cinema and after covering Barbie with Sean, I’ll now took BLAH veteran and nuclear deterrence expert Tim Westmyer to debate why Oppenheimer is such a good movie, to clear up some of the technical questions and to have a deeper look at the genesis of nuclear weapons as portrayed by Christopher Nolan. Download the episode! Torrent Our Patreon Stefan’s blog here.

Ridley Scott’s new epic “Napoleon” sure is divisive and polarizing. It takes two historians to get the definitive judgement on the movie, and it’s greatly helped that we are in agreement: this movie is either way too short or way too long. Either one. Download the episode! Torrent Our Patreon Stefan’s blog here. Steve’s blog here.

BLAH 184 | A Tale of Two Germanies - Democratization, with Jim McGeehin With Zero Hour dealt with, we’re looking at how the Western Allies laid the foundations for the democratization of Western Germany. From the foundation of parties to the Marshall Plan, the Allies were not exactly on the same page. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

In a crossover with Javi Marcos, you’re getting an episode in which he interviews me. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Javi on Twitter.

Jim and I started a new subseries in our ongoing coverage of German history. This time, we will cover the divided Germany after World War II up until reunification. In our first installment, we set the scene in 1945, directly after the war. How did Germany look, and how was its outlook? And what is the myth of Zero Hour? Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

In a surprise twist, we make a BLAC episode available for everyone! Enjoy, and if you do, pledge at the Conversationalist level and get access to 47 other episodes and everything that will come after! Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

With board game designer Bryan Kromrey, I talk about the adaptation of the famous RTS “Company of Heroes”, how the modern Kickstarter economy works and how his process for a second edition went. Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Company of Heroes on Boardgamegeek. Company of Heroes on Kickstarter.

Origin stories are a Hollywood trope. Oftentimes, they’re rote and uninteresting, but if done right, they can recontextualize and enrich characters you never thought would rise above mid-level anti-hero-badassery. Case in point: the Hound, who gives the speech of a lifetime to Sansa in “A Game of Thrones”. Download the episode! Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

Finally, we’re in the home stretch. From the peace of Brest-Litovsk to the Kaiserschlacht offensive to the breakdown of the Central Powers and the winding down of the war in the fall, we’re doing the whole picture. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

In the next installment of our ongoing series, we talk about Bran’s Dream from AGOT, Bran III. It’s a testament to Martin’s abilities as a gardener as well as to our ability to constantly reinterpret the source text. Download the episode! Torrent The text for reference. Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.

We continue into the year 1917! This time, our focus is not on tactics, strategy, weapons and stuff but on the epochal events of the Russian Revolution and the American entry into the war. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

We’re continuing the story of World War I with the year 1916. The battles of Verdun and the Somme are the most famous, and we’re giving them the space they deserve, but the Romanian campaign, the Brusilov offensive and the Battle of Jutland also get their share. To top it off, we delve into the politics of the year, which may surprise you in how consequential they were. Download the episode! Our Patreon page at patreon.com/boiledleatheraudiohour. Torrent Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan’s blog. Jim’s blog Jim on Twitter.

It was only a question of time until we hit one of the most profound and meaningful pieces of text in the whole ASOIAF corpus, but we did it! Sean and I talk Septon Meribald’s “broken men” speech. Follow us along hitting you over the head with deep in-text-analysis. Download the episode! Torrent The text for reference. Our iTunes page. Previous episodes. Podcast RSS feed. Stefan on Twitter. Stefan’s blog. Sean on Twitter.