{"id":12734,"date":"2018-11-21T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=12734"},"modified":"2018-11-21T22:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T03:21:48","slug":"podcast-my-east-german-interrogation-comedy-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/podcast-my-east-german-interrogation-comedy-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: My East German Interrogation Comedy Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I screwed up in one of my illegal jaunts behind the Iron Curtain.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But at least there&#8217;s a funny story about how I was able to eventually bluster my way out of a long interrogation at the Czechoslovakian &#8211; East German border in the Erzgebirge mountains.\u00a0 This broadcast includes my novel pronunciation of German as well as my unique translation of\u00a0 <em>Ach Du Liebe Himmel<\/em> as &#8220;holy shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My latest podcast from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tzmiJgtvObc\">Future of Freedom Foundation<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Freedom Frauds: My Biggest East Bloc Bust\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzmiJgtvObc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/freedomfrauds.libsyn.com\/website\/my-biggest-east-bloc-bust-some-changes-are-not-yet-saved\"><strong>audio-only version of this podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/12\/new-york-times-silent-spring-in-eastern-europe-1987\/\">New York Times article on the East Bloc&#8217;s environmental collapse<\/a> <\/strong>I wrote a few weeks after returning to the U.S. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>****************<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After posting the story of my 1987 East German interrogation, I&#39;m deluged with of complaints from Berlin &amp; Bonn accusing me of mis-translating &quot;holy shit&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MVHerxE1s3\">https:\/\/t.co\/MVHerxE1s3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1065388215589322752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OK, so &quot;Ach Du Liebe Himmel!&quot; does not precisely translate as &quot;holy shit.&quot; So  you never a typo like that? German purists, geez.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MVHerxE1s3\">https:\/\/t.co\/MVHerxE1s3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1065391130173468673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Across from the U.S. embassy in Prague sat a communist Czech military officer, looking like a maniac troll out of Monty Python who raged at all who neared his footbridge.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MVHerxE1s3\">https:\/\/t.co\/MVHerxE1s3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1065432201972654080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just a country boy on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/podcast-East-German-smaller-for-featured-image-on-blog-Picture-317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12737\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/podcast-East-German-smaller-for-featured-image-on-blog-Picture-317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/podcast-East-German-smaller-for-featured-image-on-blog-Picture-317.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/podcast-East-German-smaller-for-featured-image-on-blog-Picture-317-150x110.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more details and less profanity on this adventure, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\"><strong>Public Policy Hooligan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I screwed up in one of my illegal jaunts behind the Iron Curtain.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But at least there&#8217;s a funny story about how I was able to eventually bluster my way out of a long interrogation at the Czechoslovakian &#8211; East German border in the Erzgebirge mountains.\u00a0 This broadcast includes my novel pronunciation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1810,1809,1374,1198,1811,1814,1256,1812,1813],"class_list":["post-12734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-berlin-wall","tag-blunder","tag-czechoslovakia","tag-east-germany","tag-environmental-problem","tag-monty-python","tag-new-york-times","tag-readers-digest","tag-zinnenwald"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12746,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions\/12746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}