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Introducing Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto

Jun 7th, 2023 33m 29s

Chapter 1: Bug’s Plan. It’s 2014. Adelanto is a bankrupt city in the California desert known for its massive detention centers and not much else. Then, a stranger comes to town with a wild idea to make Adelanto great again: Become the first cit

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Introducing Stiffed: Good Girls Walk Into a Porn Manager

Apr 17th, 2023 33m 50s

New York City, 1973. Bob Guccione, founder of the men’s magazine Penthouse, is about to drop his latest project, and it’s not quite what anyone is expecting. Enter Viva, an erotic magazine for women published by a porn king but staffed by – dru

Bonus: Radical Family Histories (A Crossover with I Was Never There)

Nov 17th, 2022 39m 18s

Zayd sits down with his mom, Bernardine Dohrn, along with Jamie and Karen Zelermyer of Wonder Media Network’s I Was Never There to look back at the process of making a show so deeply rooted in personal family history. Jamie and Zayd interview t

Chapter 10: Inheritance

Jul 28th, 2022 55m 54s

Zayd connects to other children of the underground. Out of the shards of the radical movements of the 1970s, a new generation fights to build a better future.For more of the story, check out: Chesa Boudin, Letters from Young Activists: Toda

Chapter 9: Revolutionary Suicide

1 Jul 21st, 2022 49m

Former members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carry out one last action together, with deadly consequences that reverberate across generations. For more of the story, check out: Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiogra

Chapter 8: Hard Times

1 Jul 14th, 2022 48m 32s

The end of the Vietnam War means the end of the Weather Underground. Zayd’s parents and their radical comrades, still on the run from the FBI, plan a different kind of future. For more of the story, check out: Emile de Antonio, Underground (

Chapter 7: The Belly of the Beast, Part II

Jul 7th, 2022 32m 28s

The Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army go to war with the United States government.For more of the story, check out: The BLA, Black Liberation Army Papers (1963-1998)Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Jamal Joseph

Chapter 6: The Belly of the Beast, Part I

Jun 30th, 2022 32m 58s

The FBI targets the Weather Underground, and a split in the Black Panther Party gives rise to a new, more militant organization - the Black Liberation Army. For more of the story, check out: The Weather Underground, Prairie Fire: The Politi

Chapter 5: New Morning

Jun 23rd, 2022 44m 30s

The Weathermen go underground, and become famous - and infamous - as counter-culture outlaws.For more of the story, check out: Thai Jones, A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground (2004)Timothy Leary, The Psychedel

Chapter 4: Bring the War Home

Jun 16th, 2022 42m 7s

The Weathermen decide to bring the horrors of the Vietnam War back to America’s doorstep, planning an action that will change the future of the organization, and Zayd’s family, forever.For more of the story, check out: Bill Ayers, Fugitive D

Chapter 2: Days of Rage

Jun 9th, 2022 50m 38s

Zayd’s father Bill Ayers joins the Weathermen, and he and his friends teach themselves to be revolutionaries, gearing up to build bombs and brawl with police on the streets of Chicago.For more of the story, check out: Gillo Pontecorvo, The B

Chapter 3: I Am A Revolutionary

Jun 9th, 2022 47m 41s

Jamal Joseph is radicalized at 15, and joins the New York Black Panthers. And a deadly attack by Chicago Police puts both Panthers and Weathermen on a path towards violent revolution. For more of the story, check out: Jamal Joseph, Panther B

Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

Jun 9th, 2022 56m 15s

In 1970, a former law student named Bernardine Dohrn declared war on the United States government. Decades later, her son Zayd Ayers Dohrn tells the story of how his mother was radicalized, and became the most wanted woman in America. For mor

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Introducing Mother Country Radicals

May 24th, 2022 3m 21s

Zayd Dohrn was born underground - his parents were founders of the Weather Underground organization, and on the run from the FBI. Now Zayd takes us back to the 1970s, when his parents and their young friends brawled with riot cops on the street