It's very funny to me that his location of exile was California but I can't find out what he was doing there or what his day-to-day was like. I would love to read more about it if anyone has a source.

From the article:

"I got SO tired of writing about dead kids," he said. "Just constantly having to prove to Washington that these children actually died and then watching nothing happen."

Casey's work function included document- ing the humanitarian and political land- scape through classified cables, research and reporting. But his disillusionment wasn't sudden. It was a slow accumulation of bureaucratic betrayals - each report dismissed, each humanitarian concern bulldozed by political expediency

"We would write daily updates on Gaza," he said. Colleagues used to joke, he said, that they could attach cash to the reports and still nobody would read them.

I think there was a sentence with Pol Pot, Phnom Penh, and policy or power and I had to pause and take a breather after that.

Hi, really really want to get the song that plays at the end of S1E4. Anyone know if those have been released?

Last year a friend of mine turned me on to the podcast and it was really freaky to hear about Iraq, at the time I was a litteral baby/child so I vaguely recollect a lot of the W. Bush administration but all I knew was that 'it was bad' Afghanistan was a really disgusting one too as that had been something I knew pretty much nothing about throughout all of school... kinda gives me the creeps that Obama came to give a speech at my high-school.

Cuba and Korea was genuinely fascinating and equally scary but strangely hopeful. Recently re-listened to Korea and decided to take the plunge into S5. No spoilers but WOW Nixon genuinely might be the worst. Absolute madman and to think Regan was a revive of Nixon ideas is chilling...

Looking forward to getting some new posters and maybe some merch soon-ish, hope ya'll are ready for Cambodia 🇰🇭

still the best podcast out there