Cool War - Dispatches from the Iron Curtain

Hi. This is Greg Hallmark. Or, at least, the AI version of me. I want to tell you about a new podcast I’m doing called “The Robert March Chronicles”. The first season, entitled Jump, is being rolled out now. It’s a drama, a thriller.

Here’s a summary:

“Silicon Valley tech titan and army veteran Robert March is on a major losing streak: his wife and son have been killed in a tragic accident, his company has crashed and burned, his friends and business partners have deserted him. He has decided that it’s time to end his life, and end it in a very public and spectacular manner. But just as he’s about to take the final step that will bring an end to his personal hell, he gets a phone call that pulls him back from the edge, only to plunge him into a tangled conspiracy surrounding a secret military project called Operation Sideball.

What he learns about his true identity, and the truth about his past, will change the course of human history, both here — and elsewhere.

Jump, Volume One of The Robert March Chronicles, introduces you to the story world of Robert March. The five volume series will explore the complex and fascinating web of deceit behind Operation Sideball, its major players, and their exploitation of the many worlds of Robert March.”

So check it out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or visit TheRobertMarch.com for more details.

Into the East. The Fulda Gap. The Grenze.

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US-Wachturm am Point Alpha (Rhön). Photo in the public domain from Wikipedia.

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All music by Lobo Loco: www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Do You Remember Shadow Man Vulkano Lake

The dam is cracked, the levee breeched.

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Berlin, 1991

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All music by Lobo Loco: www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Way out of Hades Flight over the Atlantic Meet You Last Summer Waiting out of Time

The ancient. The modern. The familiar. The foreign.

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Bad Kissingen Partie am Kurgarten street scene, 1904.

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All music by Lobo Loco: www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Drunken Sailesmen Footrace trough the Moor Beauty After Midnight Hopefully After Burning B By By River

Over the hills and through the woods.

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Wirmsthal, Germany.

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All music by Lobo Loco: www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Arround the Cliffs Mystique lands BEG

The winners write the history books, except when they don't.

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Ostalgie: nostalgia for aspects of life in Communist East Germany. It is a portmanteau of the German words Ost (east) and Nostalgie (nostalgia). From Wikipedia in the public domain.

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All Music by Lobo Loco: www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Light at the End of the Tunnel Piano Parapentes Walk to the vorbidden district

East. West. Us. Them.

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Your host, somewhere near Wildflecken, Federal Republic of Germany, 1977.

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resound by Julie Licata is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Julie_Licata/resound__unsound/resound_1269 Drone Bombing by C.I.A. Debutante is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIA_Debutante/Burn_The_Evidence/Drone_Bombing Stank Voor Dank / Bozar / Spuit Elf Geeft Modder by Vermisst Susi is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Vermisst_Susi/Jeuk/Vermisst_Susi_-_B4_-_Stank_Voor_Dank_-_Bozar_-_Spuit_Elf_Geeft_Modder Cataract by Dariusz Jackowski & Filmy Ghost is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. Based on a work at https://humanfobia.jimdo.com/filmy-ghost/ Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://humanfobia.jimdo.com/filmy-ghost/. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dariusz_Jackowski__Filmy_Ghost/Glaucoma/02_-_Cataract sednoseterces by Hinterheim is licensed under a Attribution License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hinterheim/face_b/01-sednoseterces-hinterheim Cue 3 - Dark-Tense-Dramatic-Building-Deep-Pounding drums (Trailer For A Nonexistent Film 3) by Soularflair is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soularflair/CUES_for_film_TV_games_etc_DARK/Cue_3_-_Dark-Tense-Dramatic-Building-Deep-Pounding_drums_Trailer_For_A_Nonexistent_Film_3_1121

Watching. Waiting. The mystery of The East.

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A Blackhorse Trooper on the border. Photo in the public domain from Wikipedia.

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All music by Lobo Loco: www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Electron Paramagnetic Resoncance Outsite of the Battle In Another World Catch The Killer

Beginnings. Joining. Basic. West Germany. Blackhorse.

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Allright in Lousiana by Lobo Loco: www.musikbrause.de Creative Commons License (by-nc-nd) Conversations by C.I.A. Debutante Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.