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Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Daniel Mainwaring

”Welcome to ’Fascinating People, Fascinating Places,’ the engaging bi-weekly documentary podcast that takes you on an immersive journey through the realms of news, history, politics, religion, and social justice. Join us as we delve into the depths of these critical subjects with leading experts and celebrity guests who bring their unique insights to the table. If you’re passionate about history, news, or social consciousness, this podcast is your essential guide. Discover moving stories and hear

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30:06

The Killing Fields: Surviving The Cambodian Genocide

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2023/08/18

In 1975, 9-year-old Sarah Pol-Lim saw her family's life descend into horror when the Communist Party of Kampuchea -- better known as the Khmer Rouge ( ខ្មែរក្រហម) seized power in Cambodia. Initially backed by the North Vietnamese government, the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot sought to reset the country to year zero. Replacing all elements of colonialism, capitalism, culture, and the class divided by society with an agrarian utopia. The wealthy, the middle class, the educated, the religious, and ethnic

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39:05

Pinochet: Chilean Tyrant & ”Friend” of the West

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2023/08/12

On 2 May 1973, the Chilean national football team took on Peru in a crucial world cup qualifier at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago. The victory coupled with success in a subsequent playoff meant that only the Soviet Union stood between Chile and a place at the world cup finals. That game, against a nation whose government had friendly ties with Chilean President Allende would take place in November at the same venue. But Chileans would come to remember 1973 for more important reasons than football

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37:31

The Business of Sex Part Two: Paying for Sex

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2023/08/03

In parts of Nevada, you can openly stroll into a publicly advertised brothel and legally engage in sexual activities with a willing provider. But venture a few miles away and the same activity could land you and the provider in jail. In this episode, I speak with two women who consciously chose to become sex workers. One where it is legal, one where it is not. Olivia LaRue a self-described courtesan and madam, operates her trade in Nevada. Rose, lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri where police

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32:23

The Business of Sex: The Only Fans Wife Next Door

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2023/07/26

This episode contains adult content and is not suitable for young listeners. In this episode, I speak with Kiki Smith — not her real name. But she is a stay at home mom and a married woman who makes a quite lucrative living posting as KS Wifey on websites including Only Fans, many vids and even her own domain: kswifey.com. What led her into this industry? How does it affect her relationship with her husband? What are the pitfalls and perks? A candid discussion about a growing yet controversial

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31:52

The Vow: A Love Story and The Holocaust

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2023/07/14

Author Michael Ruskin’s powerful new book “The Vow: A Love Story and The Holocaust,” tells the heart-breaking yet inspirational story of his own family’s experiences during the Holocaust. His Parents David and Dora Ruskin lived in Lithuania at the outbreak of World War II. Initially, the area fell under Soviet control as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. However, Hitler soon broke that agreement and sent Nazi storm troopers into Lithuania. Like countless other Jews living in Europe, the

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01:44

Preview: Chile, the CIA and the Disappeared

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2023/07/10

Coming on 11 August, I speak with Professor Kristin Sorenson of Bentley University and an expert on Chile about the American involvement in over throwing a democratically elected government in Chile and replacing it with a fascist dictatorship that killed, tortured and tormented tens of thousands.

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32:32

POISONOUS WORDS: LORD HAW HAW THE NAZI PROPAGANDA TOOL

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2023/06/30

During World War II, a new medium gave people on the homefront the kind of insight into the frontlines they had lacked during World War I: Radio. This relatively new technology enabled political figures such as Winston Churchill to warn of the dangers on Nazism even before the war. But radiowaves are not confined by national boundaries and the British were not the only ones to see the usefulness of this technology during war time. In 1939, listeners in the UK began hearing seemingly British yet

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34:23

Solidarność: Solidarity and the End of Communism in...

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2023/06/16

In 1981, American journalist David Ost attended an extraordinary meeting in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz. Just decades earlier, it had been a majority German city, in the German empire and had a German name: Bromberg. Two world wars, the Holocaust, mass movement of people and two border realignments had seen it end up behind the proverbial iron curtain in 1945. The meeting was organized by a group named Solidarity which became the first legally sanctioned trade union in the Warsaw pact. It was a

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29:01

The Science of Scrying (Mirror Gazing)

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2023/06/02

Featuring Ellen Evert Hopman, Lucya Starza and Dr. Giovanni Caputo In more ancient parts of the world our ancestors developed methods for (as they believed) viewing the past, the future and contacting beings or entities be they living or deceased from other realms. This was serious business. The way a priest interpreted a reflection could be the difference of life and death if you were a potential foe of an emperor. More recently, the Christian church and individuals such as the self-appointed

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30:00

Reincarnation Explored: Featuring Ellie Garnham

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2023/05/19

Scientists tell us that as we die our senses cease to function. The last sense to die is touch. Perhaps this attachment to physicality explains our preoccupation with the 3D world. Any police wanted list or database Ny site profile tends to begin with physical traits such as our height, weight, observable age, hair and eye color. But what if our physical form was a dispensable vessel distinct from our true intellectual and spiritual selves? The idea of reincarnation is nothing new. It’s been a key

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38:48

Lead To Win: The Real Top Gun Rear Admiral (Retired)...

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2023/05/05

Around the time Tom Cruise was introducing the general public to a Hollywood version of the high-octane life of a Top Gun pilot, Mike Manazir was the real thing. In his new book Lead To Win he provides practical advice for leaders in any field drawn from his distinguished career in the military and his post-naval career as a Vice President at Boeing. In this episode, Mike recounts his experiences flying the F-14A/D Tomcat and the F-18E/F Super Hornet — the high points and the near disasters. The

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33:31

The Second Anglo-Boer War

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2023/04/21

On 3 January 1896, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany sent a congratulatory telegram to Paul Kruger President of the Transvaal Republic. The Dutch settlers or “Boers” had just successfully fended off an attack by 600 British irregulars under the command of Leander Starr Jameson. The telegram caused alarm in Britain as Germany flexed its muscles on the world stage. More immediately it empowered Kruger and his allies as they attempted to remain independent and outside the vast British Empire. In this

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32:53

The King and I? First came Narai

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2023/04/06

The 1956 Hollywood version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, popularized King Mongkut of Siam, who from a Western perspective was a hitherto obscure figure. In the musical, an English teacher played by Deborah Kerr, drags the monarch of a seemingly insulated and somewhat backward country into the modern world. As is so often the case. The Hollywood version of history was far from the truth. Though Mongkut did embrace science and technology he wasn’t the first Siamese ruler to do

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27:42

Eva Peron (Evita) in Life and Death

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2023/03/24

In July 1952, some 3 million people gathered in the heart of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. They had come to pay their last respects to Eva Peron the President’s wife. Overcome by emotion, the frenzied crowd poured forward leading to a crush in which 8 people were killed and thousands injured. Despite the huge crowds, Eva Peron or Evita as she was known was a divisive figure and her death was a milestone in rather than the end of her political influence in Argentina. In this episode, I explore

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38:44

Eisenhower: President and General

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2023/03/09

By June 1944, the winds of war had changed. The German High Command was bracing for an invasion of mainland Europe by a liberating multi-national force. Kansas native, Dwight D Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander of Operation Neptune (D-Day). The successful operation was a turning point in the war, and in Eisenhower’s life. Less than a decade later he made the switch from civilian to military leadership when he was sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. In this episode I speak

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30:04

Nixon & Watergate

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2023/02/24

On 8 August 1974, US President Richard Nixon announced his intention to resign from office. This signaled the end of a scandal-plagued period in office. The release of the so-called “smoking gun” audio recording had implicated Nixon in attempts to cover-up his surrogate’s illegal break-in at the DNC national headquarters two years earlier. But why did Nixon do what he did? What was the role, if any of the FBI and CIA in the crime or the cover-up? Were Nixon’s “dirty tricks” anything unusual in US

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24:06

Boko Haram (Islamic Terrorism in Western Africa)

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2023/02/10

Boko Haram (Arabic: جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد) is a Nigerian-based Islamic militant group founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2002. The group seeks to impose its strict version of Islam across a swathe of Africa. Primarily active in the border area around Lake Chad, its violent insurgency has led to millions being displaced and the deaths of over 300,000 children. More recently, the failure of central governments in both Mali and Burkina Faso to tackle the threat led to military coups in both those

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28:17

Satan and The Exorcists (Part 2 of 2)

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2023/01/27

Kenneth Dukofsky is an exorcist. Raised in the Jewish faith, his experiences with the seemingly supernatural led him to adopt a scientific approach to the supernatural. He also became ordained in the Universal Life Church though he no longer participates in what he refers to as “man-made religions.” In this episode, I talk to Kenneth about his work as an exorcist. I also speak with Father Vincent Lampert a Vatican-ordained exorcist and Roman Catholic Priest about his ecnounters with the demonic

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30:37

Satan and the Exorcists (Part 1 of 2)

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2023/01/13

Friday 13th …. A few years ago, the Barna Group – a market research firm specializing in religious beliefs conducted a survey in which it emerged that more Americans believe Satan is real than believe in God. On a superficial level, the results seem counterintuitive. In a nominally Christian society, God and Satan seem to go hand in hand. But it’s important to remember that the Satan figure of the Bible appears in Islam and Judaism, and that demons whether real or imagined pre-date the Abrahamic

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29:58

The Göring Brothers: Albert and Hermann

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2023/01/05

In 1945, the Allied powers prepared to hold the Nazi leaders accountable for the crimes committed during world war II. Richard Sonnenfeldt sat down with a man whose name was as synonymous with Nazism as Hitler or Himmler. The subject of the interview, Göring, denied any culpability for the holocaust or the war. Sonnenfeldt dismissed him as a hand wringing witness who was trying to whitewash his past. But Göring continued with his denials even producing a list of Jews he had helped escape the Nazis

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