Best Jason Herbert Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 139: Black Hawk Down with Dr. Jonathan Carroll 1:52:26

7d ago1:52:26

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This week military historian Dr. Jonathan Carroll drops in to talk about Black Hawk Down and his new book Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995. About our guest: Jonathan Carroll is a former officer in the Irish Defence Forces who earned a PhD from Texas A&M University. He is an associate profes…

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Yolŋu Power puts Yirrkala art front and centre 25:15

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Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is not just an art exhibition, but a field of ancestral presence. It's a space of authority and deep listening that shows what art can be when it is inseparable from land, from water, from Law, and from the unbroken chain of Yolŋu knowledge. It's also the featured Winter exhib…

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Episode 138: The Comanches Are Coming! 29:49

8d ago29:49

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Talking about my weekend trip with Comanche youths, along with some of my experiences with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Kiowa Tribe, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

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Shanysa McConville looks back over 65000 years of art 25:15

8d ago25:15

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For much of the last century, in museums, the works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists were treated as something outside the main story — consigned to a footnote of history or a side room in major galleries. A new exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art wants to put the record straight. Titled 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australia…

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The Princess Bride with John Wyatt Greenlee, Elizabeth Andersen, and Jillian Forsberg 1:41:23

14d ago1:41:23

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This week John Wyatt Greenlee returns as guest host and he’s looking for a six fingered man.By Jason Herbert

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Grace Herbert tees off on the unnecessary lines between art and sport 25:16

15d ago25:16

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From feminist beginnings to kitsch commercialism, minigolf has a rich history. But what happens when you let artists loose to design their own holes? Forget white walls and hushed tones—today we're heading to a golf course. Curator Grace Herbert explains the ideas behind Swingers, where putters are swapped for latex tails and square balls add a uni…

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Episode 136: Diggstown and How Boxing became a Battleground for Black Manhood with Dr. Lou Moore 1:07:10

21d ago1:07:10

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This week, our friend Dr Lou Moore drops in to talk about Diggstown and his work tracing black boxing from the end of the Civil War into the 20th century.By Jason Herbert

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Arcangelo Sassolino embraces the possibility of change 25:15

22d ago25:15

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Arcangelo Sassolino's work captures a suspended instant: just before collapse, just after ignition. At the 2022 Venice Biennale, Sassolino paid homage to Caravaggio's Beheading of Saint John the Baptist. But where Caravaggio painted light and shadow, Sassolino sculpts with fire and steel: molten light heated to 1500 degrees, falling from above into…

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Episode 135: Saving Private Ryan with Dr. Paul Thomas Chamberlin 1:07:23

27d ago1:07:23

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This week Dr. Paul Thomas Chamberlin drops in to talk about the history behind Operation Overlord and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. About our guest: Paul Chamberlin specializes in twentieth century international history with a focus on U.S. foreign relations and the Middle East. His first book, The Global Offensive: The United States, the…

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Episode 134: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein with Dr. Kieran Fox 55:02

29d ago55:02

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Today neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Kieran Fox joins in to talk about the spiritual journey of Albert Einstein. About our guest: Dr. Kieran Fox is a neuroscientist (PhD 2016) and doctor (MD 2023), currently training to be a psychiatrist in the Research Resident Training Program at the University of California San Francisco. His research over …

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Del Kathryn Barton’s creative world-building project imagines empowered, spirited women 25:15

29d ago25:15

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Del Kathryn Barton exorcised her rage in her critically acclaimed feature film Blaze, but its aftermath is grief. You wouldn't know it if you cast your eye around her Paddington studio: wide-eyed sylphs, sibyls and sages emerge from minutely detailed canvases where chequerboards, dots and strawberries are laden with new meaning. Much like a cinema …

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Episode 133: Mission Impossible: The Reckoningest Pod Ever with Justin Rawlins and Craig Bruce Smith 1:27:21

1M ago1:27:21

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This week Justin Rawlins and Craig Bruce Smith drop in to talk about Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning and their thoughts on the MI franchise.By Jason Herbert

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Drawing with sound underground: Jason Maling’s magnum opus Diagrammatica 25:15

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Jason Maling works in the expanded field where — through the interface of technology, screens and a sound system — the sonic and the visual are conducted before a live audience. Diagrammatica was inspired by physics diagrams, but it's grown into a beast: part drawing, part durational performance and part musical composition. And it all takes place …

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Episode 132: Conversations with Women Filmmakers with Kevin Smokler 1:12:08

1M ago1:12:08

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Writer and filmmaker Kevin Smokler returns to the pod to talk about his discussions with 25 different women filmmakers. About our guest: Kevin Smokler is a writer, documentary filmmaker and event host focused on our relationship as human beings with pop culture. His most recent book BREAK THE FRAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN FILMMAKERS contains 24 c…

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Thai-Australian artist Nathan Beard’s ironic take on museum artefacts 25:15

1M ago25:15

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Recently on the show we met Filipino artist Pio Abad to hear about his Turner Prize nominated exhibition 'To Those Sitting in Darkness' which re-presented museum objects to reveal hidden histories and the deep legacies of colonialism. Thai-Australian multidisciplinary artist Nathan Beard takes a different, less didactic, approach but, like Pio Abad…

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Episode 131: The history of axe murder with Rachel McCarthy James 1:35:41

1M ago1:35:41

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Today Rachel McCarthy James drops in to talk about the development of the axe and the myriad of ways it has been used to dispatch people and empires over the years. About our guest: Rachel McCarthy James was born and raised in Kansas, the daughter of baseball’s Bill James and artist Susan McCarthy. She graduated from Hollins University in Roanoke, …

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Welcome to Reckoning with Jason Herbert 9:13

1M ago9:13

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It's a new day here at the podcast. Historians At The Movies Podcast is now Reckoning with Jason Herbert. We're opening up our focus and the things we talk about here.

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Emergency Pod: The Majesty of Andor with Dr. Alan Malfavon 1:18:17

2M ago1:18:17

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Andor is the greatest Star Wars we've ever seen on any screen and it's not close. My close friend Alan Malfavon joins in to talk about the brilliance of this show, what it means to us, and what we hope to see next. About our guest: Alan Malfavon resituates Mexico’s socio-political, cultural, and economic networks with the Atlantic World and the Gre…

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Episode 130: Robin Hood in film and history with Dr. Amy S. Kaufman 55:39

2M ago55:39

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This week Dr. Amy S. Kaufman drops in to talk about our favorite representations of Robin Hood, how he has changed through history, and her new novel, The Traitor of Sherwood Forest. About our guest: Amy S. Kaufman is the author of The Traitor of Sherwood Forest, a Robin Hood retelling based on the medieval ballads (Penguin Books, 2025). Amy holds …

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Frank by name: Dale Frank on taxidermy and his greatest living artwork 25:14

2M ago25:14

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Although he's one of Australia's most established, commercially successful and prolific artists, Dale Frank is a reluctant interview subject. Eccentric, reclusive, visionary, trailblazer — a sublime colourist, even a likeable arsehole — these are just some of the ways he's described. Which makes it even more remarkable that he agreed to be the subj…

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Episode 129: Defiance and the Holocaust in Belarus and Ukraine with Dr. Waitman Beorn 1:25:38

2M ago1:25:38

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This week Dr. Waitman Beorn drops in to talk about Defiance (2008) and his work researching the Holocaust in Europe during World War II. About our guest: Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn is an associate professor in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Dr. Beorn was previously the Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond…

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Olfactory artist Nadia Vitlin infuses her artwork with scent 25:14

2M ago25:14

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Sydney-based artist Nadia Vitlin works with olfaction — our sense of smell — infusing her artwork, whether it be clay or paint, to create bespoke pieces that mimic the transportive power of scent: one of the most evocative, deeply personal and memory-laden senses humans possess. She experiments in the fourth dimension, and it all began with leaves …

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Episode 128: Dogma and What People Get Right (and Wrong) about the Bible with Dr. Dan McClellan 1:16:01

2M ago1:16:01

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This week Bible scholar and TikTok superstar Dr. Dan McClellan drops in to talk about Ken Smith's 1999 thought piece on Catholicism and Dan's new book, The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) about Scripture's Most Controversial Issues.By Jason Herbert

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Pio Abad on his 2024 Turner Prize nominated body of work 25:11

2M ago25:11

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Just as historical objects in museum collections embody certain histories — of British imperialism and modernity — they also map loss and disappearance for those in former colonial states. Pio Abad, whose work is "concerned with the personal and political entanglements of objects," has mined the stories embedded in certain cultural material such as…

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Reckoning: Making Sense of Slavery with Dr. Scott Spillman 1:16:20

2M ago1:16:20

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Today Dr. Scott Spillman joins in to talk about how historians have conceptualized slavery and its role in the development of the United States. Get ready for a history of the history of slavery. About our guest: Scott Spillman is an American historian and the author of the book Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding E…

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Episode 127: Is Sinners the Best Film of the 21st Century with Dr. Zandria Robinson 1:28:38

2M ago1:28:38

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Today Dr. Zandria Robinson drops in to talk about Sinners and why it might be the best movie of the 21st century. We have a spoiler free introduction, a pause, and then a spoiler filled conversation about the Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, WWI, Chicago, Mississippi, the Ku Klux Klan, sex, music, and of course THAT SCENE. This conversation is …

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One of Australia's most successful art partnerships 25:14

2M ago25:14

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They used to lay-buy contemporary art together when they were low-paid gallery workers, forging a business relationship early on. Now, Ursula Sullivan and Joanna Strumpf are one of Australia's most successful art partnerships in terms of the cultural impact of the artists they represent — Tony Albert, Lindy Lee, Polly Borland, ex de Medici, Sam Lea…

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Reckoning: Pope Francis and the History of the Papacy with Dr. Matthew Gabriele 50:38

2M ago50:38

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News broke yesterday of Pope Francis' death at the age of 88. Matt Gabriele joins in to talk about the man, the history of the papacy, and what comes next. About our guest: Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. His research and teaching generally explore religion, violence, n…

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