Episode
Crowbar - Legacy of the Black Cube
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- Myth of the 20th Century
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- Nov 14, 2025
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Summary
Set in the Cold War tensions of the early 1980s American West Coast, ‘Crowbar’ follows a cast of shadowy operatives working the between spaces of black market drugs, guns, and intelligence agency missions. Its author Andrew Edwards joins us tonight for a discussion of his latest work, and why the ‘NOIR’ genre of fiction speaks to men of our generation living in the midst of a rudderless empire in a morally ambiguous time, where good and evil transmogrify between the light and dark into an amorphous gray.. -- Brought to you by -- Very special guest Andrew Edwards - https://x.com/goldengoatguild - https://linktr.ee/GoldenGoatGuild - https://www.theblaze.com/u/andrewedwards - https://goldengoatguild.substack.com/p/crowbar-update - JL review of ‘King of Dogs’: https://www.jameslafond.com/kings-of-dogs-by-andrew-edwards with Adam Smith New: Hard Copies of Exit Strategy now Available! http://www.lulu.com/shop/adam-smith/exit-strategy/paperback/product-24191334.html - http://myth20c.com ~~-- Donations --~~ BTC: 16UQ6ukmTjz4Z7Ce4n23bN6tKGnU7XkPeQ - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/books/ - http://theamericansun.com - http://twitter.com/myth20c - [email protected] - http://gab.ai/myth20c -- References -- - King of Dogs, Edwards (2019) - Exit Strategy, Smith (2019) - Blade Runner, Scott (1982) - First Blood, Kotcheff (1982) - Blood Simple, Coen Brothers (1984) - The Terminator, Cameron (1984) - Fight Club, Fincher (1999) - Silicon Valley, Judge (2014) - Rambo - First Blood, Myth of the 20th Century (2017) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/rambo-first-blood/ - Jay Dyer - Laurel Canyon and the CIA Counter-Culture, Myth of the 20th Century (2018) - https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2018/07/11/jay-dyer-laurel-canyon-and-the-cia-counter-culture/ - King of Dogs: Life is the train…