{"podcast":{"title":"Fourth Reich Archaeology","slug":"fourth-reich-archaeology-6979150","podcast_index_feed_id":6979150,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f94a82ac/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fourth-reich-archaeology","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41724099/41724099-1722440624254-1317a74232baf.jpg","author":"Fourth Reich Archaeology","episode_count":103,"summary":"Do you ever feel like life in the United States doesn’t make any sense? Is the daily barrage of hypocrisy and lies you’re being fed getting to you? Do you feel sick, agitated, or anxious, and don’t know why? Join your hosts Dick and Don as they excavate the contemporary capitalist hellscape in which we find ourselves in search of the cause of our collective malaise. Follow along as we dig deep into historical persons, places, and events to expose what’s been concealed, and reveal the US-led global order for what it truly is: the Fourth Reich.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T14:20:18.557878+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fourth-reich-archaeology-6979150"},"episode":{"title":"#079 - Contra Iran, Side B","slug":"079-contra-iran-side-b","published_at":"2026-01-19T04:58:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fourth-reich-archaeology-6979150/079-contra-iran-side-b","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fourth-reich-archaeology-6979150","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fourth-reich-archaeology/episodes/079---Contra-Iran--Side-B-e3drr0o","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f94a82ac/podcast/play/114207192/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-19%2Fc5b6a947-669e-70a0-73bf-cd0159e94094.mp3","summary":"In Side A (listen if you haven't already!), we went all the way back to the country’s entree into modernity and its role as a nominally independent nation amidst and between competing empires in The Great Game. We also go a bit deeper into the political forces that gave rise to the first Shah of Iran, which is a real Fourth Reich fairytale involving Nazis, Brits, and of course that black gold, oil. You know we dug into the rise and fall of the great lost hope for democracy, Mohammed Mossadegh. All he wanted was for Iran to get half the profits from his country’s oil, and instead he got ousted and replaced by a 26-year long dictatorship, replaced by the Islamic Republic in 1979. Basically we cover about 250 years of Iranian history and tell a story that we just have not been hearing in the news these days. In Side B, we take it to the present day and give our analysis on the current protests and the factional formations popping up to prepare a hostile takeover of the roiling nation. It is a time for clear thinking, for historical understanding, for only through consciousness of our role in reality can we act in history. And act we must.","meta_description":"In Side A (listen if you haven't already!), we went all the way back to the country’s entree into modernity and its role as a nominally independent nation…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4665,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fourth-reich-archaeology-6979150/episodes/079-contra-iran-side-b/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fourth-reich-archaeology-6979150/079-contra-iran-side-b.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}