Podcasts by Stuff What You Tell Me! || Rebellion and Resistance in History, Art and Culture
Stuff What You Tell Me! is a podcast telling stories of rebellion and resistance in history, art and culture. Created by two contrary Australians living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we explore the wider role of rebellion in history, by delving into the experiences of people whose lives and actions were defined by defiance. Release schedule: In keeping with our theme, we resent the imposition of scheduling agendas, so we release episodes whenever we feel like it. We aim for at least one a month, and if you don't like that then hey, stuff you.
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Announcement: Yet another project we've done that is not this one! from 2019-03-12T11:15:05
Stuff What You Tell Me comes out of one of the most remarkable countries on earth: The Netherlands. This underrated, little swamp has, for well over a millennium, punched far above its weight in te...
ListenFree&Fearless - Ep 03 - Execution and Escape from 2019-02-04T03:57:56
On 5 February, 1943, thirteen of the twenty-three defendants from the First Parool Trial were given paper and pens and told to write farewell letters to their families. Hours later, they were execu...
ListenFree&Fearless - Ep 02: The Process from 2019-02-03T02:04:11
After the botched arrest of Arie Addicks in September 1941, the Addicks group was firmly in the sights of the authorities. Over the course of four months, a series of arrests would take place acros...
ListenFree&Fearless - Ep 01: The Addicks Group from 2019-02-02T06:24
After the invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, a group of men from a disbanded socialist youth group called the AJC, came together to fight back against the new Nazi regime. The young members o...
ListenCoup de Pod II: Power to the Pussy Part 2 - Don't Iron While the Strike is Hot from 2018-11-14T08:29
In this episode, we explore the second wave of feminism. Although gains were made around the world for women during the 1910s and 20s, fast forward twenty years, and another global conflict, and by...
ListenThe Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior from 2018-10-24T05:33
On a summer's night in July, 1985 a ship called the Rainbow Warrior lay moored at Marsden Wharf in Auckland, New Zealand. Just before midnight, it suddenly exploded. The bomb which blew it up had b...
ListenAbolishing the Norm - Episode 4: Over John Brown's Body from 2018-08-09T18:56:21
Despite over half a century of abolitionist activity, including subversive activism, dissent, debate, protest and attempts at electoral process, by the end of the 1850s the demise of slavery seemed...
ListenCoup de Pod II: Power to the Pussy Part 1 - Suffering for Suffrage from 2018-07-23T06:30
In the second "Coup de Pod" episode in Stuff What You Tell Me history, the show is finally taken over by someone capable. Awesome storyteller Dominique Reviglio takes us down the path of the histor...
ListenAbolishing the Norm - Episode 3: No Place Like Home from 2018-04-30T05:31
The passing of the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854 opened up a new battlefront in the United States between those for and against the institution of slavery. Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who sponsored t...
ListenAbolishing the Norm - Episode 2: Railroad Rebels from 2018-04-09T01:33
In antebellum United States , chattel slavery was deeply embedded. It was an integral part of the socio-economic systems of the various states and thus protected by the constitution. The 'Railroad ...
ListenRembrandt and the Revolting Batavians from 2018-02-18T14:53
In the years 69-70 CE, the Batavian people, who inhabited the lower reaches of the Rhine and Waal rivers, that form a part of today's Netherlands, went into open revolt against the Roman Empire. Th...
ListenCoup de Pod: When Rebellion Blooms from 2018-01-01T08:00
Stuff What You Tell Me has been taken over this episode for a coup de Pod. Violently imposed upon and hosted by Geert Sillevis, here we explore the story of the rise and fall of the Portuguese dict...
ListenAll Aboard Knowledge from 2017-12-01T06:00
This Episode looks at the journey of western thought from the perspective of Thomas Kuhn's 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Using a (very) extended metaphor, in which all of huma...
ListenYou Are Occupied from 2017-10-30T14:56
In May 1940 German troops occupied Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands and one of the most diverse and liberal cities in Europe. Not only was Amsterdam's large and prosperous Jewish comm...
ListenCompelling and Selling Rebellion from 2017-10-10T09:24
In the late 1970s, a band called the Sex Pistols helped kick off one of the great anti-establishment movements of the modern age; punk rock. It was a decade of social unrest and political uncertain...
ListenGather ‘Round, People: part II (FIXED) from 2017-09-11T07:05
How we tell ourselves about our histories goes a long way to how we form our senses of identity. As societies and as individuals, we work through events and issues, and how we look at them later he...
ListenGather ‘Round, People: Part I from 2017-08-25T05:57
History has come to represent more than just the account of the past. It helps us define who we are, and what we represent. In the 1960s a group of Australian aboriginals went on a strike, demandin...
ListenYou’ve Got Buckley’s from 2017-07-06T20:48
William Buckley, who would at various times also be known as "The Wild White Man" and "The Anglo-Australian giant", was a man who bore little respect for convention, authority, nor the confines of ...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 9: Dividends from 2017-06-02T19:21
What was that crazy story that we just told? How much of it really happened? What does it all mean for our understanding of rebellion and resistance, and for how we perceive the role of defiance in...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 8: Living off the Law of the Land from 2017-05-22T05:15
The VOC is back! Three and a half months after Commander Pelsaert abandoned everybody to a life a brutality and thirst, finally those who have managed to survived may just be rescued. But who of th...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 7: Terra Hayesia from 2017-05-08T08:31
In the history of European military aggression in Australia, this is where it all began. Of the people that remain alive following the doomed voyage of the Batavia, not to mention the shipwreck and...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 6: Bloody Oath from 2017-04-17T05:00
Upper Merchant Francisco Pelsaert, Captain Arjen Jacobsz and about 40 other people are sailing in a longboat north along the immense coast of Het Zuidland. They're on a rescue mission to the fort a...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 5: Jewels and Money First from 2017-04-10T04:55
As all hell breaks loose aboard the sinking ship Batavia, saving the lives of crew and passengers aboard may not be the most important priority. In this episode, we look at how authority handles th...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 4: “Keep Your Eyes Open” from 2017-04-03T04:30
It should be fairly smooth sailing from here on for the Batavia... Were it not for the small matters of a brewing mutiny amidst the crew, divisions and distractions amongst the leaders of the ship ...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 3: Rites of Passage from 2017-03-27T13:56
Life on board a ship in the 1600s was no joyous experience. In this episode, we look at what the crew, soldiers and passengers aboard the Batavia went through, as they made their way from the Unite...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 2: The Price of Spice from 2017-03-20T15:03
In an age when traditional European feudalism was breaking down, the United Provinces of the Netherlands chartered the world's first corporation. The VOC would become a major authority for thousand...
ListenThe Unfortunate Voyage of the Batavia – Episode 1: A “Scents” of the Past from 2017-03-13T11:55
In October, 1628, a merchant ship called Batavia set sail from the Dutch republic bound for an island on the other side of the world called Java. She was the flagship of a fleet of vessels being se...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 9: The Effects from 2017-01-06T02:41
Martin Luther would see immediate impacts of his resistance on the world around him, but he would die before some of the most cataclysmic effects occurred. Arguably, we are still living through the...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 8: Hold! from 2017-01-06T02:18
Like a burning-hot microphone, Luther had dropped his theology onto the stage of European society. The Church was tardy in its response, standing at the back of the crowd, generally just disturbed ...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 7: The Accident of Great Resistance from 2017-01-05T03:27
It's tempting to imagine that Luther dropped a bombshell when he released his theses. However, it was more like he stuck a paper-bag full of theologically important dog-poo outside the Church's fro...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 6: Indulge Me These Theses from 2017-01-05T03:00
Corruption had been given a thousand years to entwine itself within the administrative and dogmatic structure of the Church. Indulgences were an example of money being paid in exchange for spiritua...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 5: The Second Resistance from 2017-01-05T02:48
Between the years 1510-1520 Luther lectured in Wittenberg on the Psalms, the books of Hebrews, Romans and Galatians. This would take him on a mad spiritual trip that would come to reconcile himself...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 4: Temporal Vs Spiritual from 2017-01-05T01:46
Luther lived in the state of the Saxony, within the Holy Roman Empire. The dominance of the Church pervaded through all aspects of the society, but within the framework of the spiritual domain. The...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 3: Luther the Monk from 2017-01-05T01:36
Luther's solution to his over-bearing thoughtfulness about the world was to become a monk. What a radical! His time in the monastery would help shape many things that he would stand for and many th...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 2: The First Resistance from 2017-01-04T23:23
Before he became an earth-shattering theologian, Martin Luther was on the path to becoming a lawyer. But after being struck by perhaps the most influential lightning bolt in history, his life was f...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 1: The Authority from 2017-01-04T21:31
500 years ago Martin Luther stood up to the might and authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Pitted against the most established institution in European history, Luther would bear and wield an ide...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 1: The Authority from 2017-01-04T21:31
500 years ago Martin Luther stood up to the might and authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Pitted against the most established institution in European history, Luther would bear and wield an ide...
ListenSon of Iniquity – Episode 1: The Authority from 2017-01-04T21:31
500 years ago Martin Luther stood up to the might and authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Pitted against the most established institution in European history, Luther would bear and wield an ide...
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