The American civilian-military divide is stark. Only about 1 percent of the U.S. population has served in the military. We here at Angry Planet like to do what we can to bridge that divide and have found that the easiest way to do that … is just to talk to veterans and service members.

That’s why you should listen to the podcast Tracer Burnout, a show where a pair of Army vets talk to other vets about their service. The guys at the center of it are Dan and Roger, two friends who both grew up as Army brats. On this episode of Angry Planet, Dan and Roger stop by the show to tell us about Tracer Burnout and what it was like to grow up on American military bases.

• The origins of Tracer Burnout
• How Fury inspired a veteran to start a podcast
• Psychic soldiers in Fury
• The difference between the branches
• The changing relationship between the military and the American civilian population
• Californians in Texas
• The life of a military brat
• Frontier re-enactors
• Hardtack
• The anti-authoritarian streak in veterans
• What happens when the Army makes you to learn a language
• Life as a personal trainer in the Army
• Submariners
• Where the name comes from

Listen to the Tracer Burnout podcast here

https://tracerburnout.com/

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This week on the show we’re honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nathan Thrall on the show. His 2023 book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama cuts to the heart of daily life in and around Jerusalem.

In 2012, 5-year old Milad Salama was excited for a school field trip to a theme park. When his school bus hit a semi trailer, it upended the lives of everyone on the bus. What followed was a nightmare of bureaucracy that encapsulates what life is like for people living on the wrong side of the walls Israeli Arabs are forced to live behind.

Masha Gessen and Nathan Thrall on The Whole Story of Israel and Palestine

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

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Hello and welcome to another conversation about conflict on an Angry Planet. Thanks for letting us kick up our heels this August, it was a rough one. We may not have been releasing, but we WERE recording.

The first episode upon our return is with terrorism and vice presidency expert Aaron Mannes. Mannes is lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and was one of the first people to use big data sets to study terrorist group behavior. These days he’s really into vice presidents. We sat down with him for a wide-ranging conversation that covered everything from Aaron Burr to the Bonus Army.

• Why are America and Israel all-in on assassination?
• International relations versus the domestic tensions
• Stats out of dead bodies
• Assassination: Obama Style
• The terrorist’s dilemma
• Matthew immediately figures out how wrong he is
• The case for Aaron Burr
• The Bonus Army
• Taking a shot at the vice president
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Analyzing Assassination Plots Against VPs

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