Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Premiere, New York, the Village Voice, and Details. Together with Dan Piepenbring, Tom O'Neill spent 20 years writing Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Se

The Spy and the Traitor

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 36m

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre, is a stunning account of Oleg Gordievsky's work as a double agent for MI6.Macintyre takes the political, historical, and cultural situation of the Cold Wa

Marching Powder

Sep 4th, 2023 1h 35m

Marching Powder, by Rusty Young, is The Astonishing Real-life Story of a Brit Drug Smuggler Banged Up in Bolivia's Most Notorious Jail.Thomas McFadden was busted for attempting to smuggle 5 kilos of cocaine out of Bolivia, and Marching Power i

An Ordinary Man

Jul 18th, 2023 1h 30m

Paul Rusesabagina, hotel manger is a hero of the Rwandan Genocide. Rusesabagina housed over 1,200 refugees in the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali during the 100-day genocide. The genocide resulted in the atrocious murders of an estimated 800

Life Undercover

Jun 18th, 2023 1h 37m

Amaryllis Fox is ex-CIA, advanced operations. She spent the later part of her tenure working as a spy under "non-official cover" recruiting assets and infiltrating terrorist organizations. Fox's book, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA r

Red Notice

May 18th, 2023 1h 28m

Bill Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until the mid-2000s. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice is Browder's personal thriller steeped in business, politics, and Russian corruption.

Runaway Devil

Apr 29th, 2023 2h 54m

Runaway Devil: How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family (2009) is a true to life story about Jasmine Richardson and her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke murdering Jasmine's parents and 8-year-old brother in 2006 in Medicine Hat, Alb

No Domain

Apr 19th, 2023 2h 2m

Mark Eglinton is a Scottish author who tells us to “delete everything you know about John McAfee.” McAfee, well-known for creating the anti-virus software company McAfee Associates, is a math prodigy, a former libertarian presidential candidate

Preface to Season Two

Mar 14th, 2023 1h 38m

Welcome to Season Two of the Enlightened Dirtbags podcast. Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro have eight Crime and Conspiracy themed books, one for each episode. In the Preface to Season Two, the Dirtbags introduce the books as well as s

Zen and the Art, and Zen and Now

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 34m

In the season finale of the Enlightened Dirtbags podcast, Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro read and review both Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Mark Richardson’s Zen and Now:

Hell’s Angels

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 48m

Hunter S. Thompson is an American journalist and writer. He’s famed for spawning gonzo journalism and for riding with the notorious California motorcycle club, the Hell’s Angels. In the ‘60s Thompson spent a year with the Angles and published H

Jupiter’s Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 44m

Ted Simon is a British journalist and writer. In 1973 he left on his first motorcycle trip around the world on a Triumph Tiger 100, and in 2001 he left on his second motorcycle trip around the world on a BMW R80GS. He published Jupiter’s Travel

Lone Rider

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 38m

In the early ‘80s Elspeth Beard, an architecture student, set out on a BMW R60/6 for a two-year motorcycle trip. She published her tape recordings and travel journals as Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World (2018).

One Man Caravan

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 40m

Robert Edison Fulton, Jr. is an American inventor, photographer, and adventurer. One Man Caravan (1937) is Fulton, Jr.’s account of riding a Douglas Twin motorcycle around the world during the interwar years. Throughout the trip he filmed and p

The Motorcycle Diaries

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 19m

In 1952 Alberto Granado and Ernesto “Che” Guevara set out on a motorcycle adventure. Sharing the seat of Alberto’s Norton 500, the two medical students rode throughout South America. Che Guevara’s travel journals would later become published as

A Short History of the Motorcycle

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 28m

Richard Hammond is a TV host, writer, and motorcyclist. You’ll likely know him from the infamous trio of car guys from the shows Top Gear and The Grand Tour. Hammond is a well-known motorcyclist and motorcycle enthusiast, and he wrote A Short H

Preface to Season One

Oct 15th, 2022 1h 27m

This is the Enlightened Dirtbags Podcast. In the first episode Version II (Dylan Knapp) and Jonah Kondro introduce themselves and their reading list for the first season of their new book podcast. Each episode features a different book, and the

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