165/ That One Time the Olympics Were Cool w/ James Stout

The Fire These Times

For episode 165, Elia and Aydın are joined by investigative journalist and anarchist James Stout of the It Could Happen Here podcast to talk about the 1936 anti-fascist Olympics in Barcelona and the fascists who destroyed it. There's a reason you've only heard of the more notorious Berlin one, and we're gonna get into it here.

You can buy James' book: The Popular Front and the Barcelona 1936 Popular Olympics

His NatGeo piece: The brutal story of the 1936 Popular Olympics: a boycott of fascism and Hitler

The 'Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff' Episode on the Spanish Civil War: The Popular Olympics Antifascist Athletes Help Stop a Coup

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Credits:

• Host(s): ⁠⁠Elia Ayoub and Aydın Yıldız

• Guest(s): James Stout

• Music: ⁠⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠

• Sound editor: Elliott Miskovicz

• Episode designer: ⁠⁠Elia J. Ayoub⁠⁠

• Team profile pics: ⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠

• Original TFTT design: ⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠

• TFTT Transcripts: ⁠⁠Antidotezine⁠