The Problem We All Have

Stole John Armstrong’s research without acknowledgement

Revisado: 04-18-25

First, it took 3.5 minutes to start the podcast which is only 20 minutes long. Stop wasting my time. But more importantly, almost the entire content is lifted completely from John Armstrong’s research and articles from his website and book, without any acknowledgement. I am happy to see younger people become involved in Oswald research, but you cannot steal other people’s work and present it as your own. It’s pretty common practice unfortunately.

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Best VL Bio

Revisado: 03-05-25

This is the best bio of Viv. Outstanding. Lyndsy does a wonderful job of providing a fresh perspective by shuffling the timeline, while fleshing out a complete portrait. It’s a sensitive, accurate analysis of VL’s battle, compared to others who just label her as ‘schizophrenic’ or ‘manic depressive’. It’s a bit more complicated, as we learn more about mental health. Most importantly the author treats everyone with dignity, rather than simply highlighting the scandalous episodes.

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Half-Memoir, Half-Investigation

Revisado: 03-04-25

I personally don’t care for investigative journalism that features the author as the main character. However I’m glad she highlighted many of the horrible murders Virginia has endured. and the ensuing lackluster investigations. She did a good job exposing the frameup of Rice. And for those not aware, UVA finally got a match for the dna on the duct tape, but the guy had died in prison years ago. He also assaulted other women before he was caught. He never faced justice for L&J. I’d like to see Ms.Miles do another edition of this book with the ending that was so long overdue.

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An adequate popular history, marred by narration

Revisado: 06-03-22

Chaikin’s history of the Apollo program is competent, nothing exciting, but a good introduction for beginners.
Mr.Pinchot also is a competent narrator, but I have two issues.
The way he pronounces ‘moon’ as ‘mun’. It’s going to be a long, long listening experience.
His manufactured, lifeless, disingenuous emoting on key words makes me feel he’s looking at the pages for the first time, and is defaulting to ‘expressiveness 101’ by emphasizing the adjectives, and has no passion for the work.
There are far worse narrators out there, but Mr.Pinchot did not give his best here.

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Readers Digest would have been better than this.

Revisado: 04-29-22

This is one of the least revealing bios I’ve ever heard. If the author didn’t insist that he knew Neil personally, I’d guess that he got all his information online.
The Apollo 11 section is especially hollow. I’d recommend the Flight Director audio if you want to hear what was left out, which was much more interesting than the version were given here.
There’s really no reason for this book to exist. It adds nothing that wasn’t there before. It’s like a Readers Digest version of a genuine biography.

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Mostly rehash, not much new here

Revisado: 04-28-22

Overall- mostly rehashing stuff already covered very thoroughly that we didn’t need to hear one more time- mkultra, Hemming, the Raleigh call, the Mary’s monkey thing, some of it already debunked, etc. very little new material. One gets the feeling that the author listened to a bunch of Black Ops Radio episodes.
Performance- ok, except for numerous peculiar mispronunciations such as ‘Dulls’ for ‘Dulles’. One wonders why no one bothered to correct them.
Story- if you take the good parts, namely the ‘Webster’ bits, separate from the rehashing, you’d have a decent little contribution to the research. It’s great to have a comparison of the Chicago, Miami, Dallas routes and players and defectors. Those are tangible elements, not speculation, unlike the unfortunate mkultra section.
The Nags Head ONI defector program has been long overdue for investigation, sadly nothing is added here.
The author touches briefly on Mark Lane being compromised, which is so often overlooked.
I could have done without the modern references to pop culture, such as ‘Stranger Things’ etc. it’s awkward and will not age well.

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Too much backstory

Revisado: 04-25-22

Skip to the middle of the book if you want to learn about the actual adventure. The entire first half is just biographies of the participants, and frankly not compelling. There are better versions of this story.
Also if you’re not used to reading exploration NF, there are loads of animal deaths, including about 30 dogs.
If you speed up the playback the narration becomes listenable.

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A Franco-Chinese production. RIP journalism.

Revisado: 01-02-22

Garbage Pure speculation based on Facebook (lol) and forum posts. Her one-sided theories are rejected by any professional pilot with a sense of decency.
I note that the author ignores the in-real-time reports out of China that 370 landed safely in China, and Especially the significance of such misinformation. I also note that she ignores any possibility that China was (and remains) extremely interested in studying US reaction to Pacific ‘incidents’.
I urge any journalist, historian or researcher to exercise the utmost caution before allying yourself to any Internet theory, which these days are backed by Russia, China, or Saudi Arabia to further their own agendas. Or at the very least disclose your personal allegiances. RIP journalism.

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Doesn’t work as an audiobook

Revisado: 01-01-22

Somewhat disingenuously described as ‘narrated by full cast’ it is largely ‘performed’ by subpar voice actors more suitable to the video game industry. Very few of the original participants return to voice their contributions. There’s one particular female actor here that does the majority of the female voices, and she reads every part the exact same way, ad nauseum. You’ll know it when you hear her.
This is an ok timeline book on its own, there’s better, more coherent ones out there, but it definitely doesn’t work as an audiobook. Using voice actors to perform one-sentence sections is way too choppy and disruptive. It’s easier to digest by reading it yourself.
If I was a survivor or loved one, I wouldn’t be impressed with this performance piece at all.
As a historical timeline, it’s not that compelling. Same problem, it’s too chopped up into fragments of one-sentence reminiscences. It would work better as an oral history if the ‘author’ had compiled the stories by person, instead of hacking their stories into fragments.
I seem to be in the minority here but I’m fine with that.

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Excellent

Revisado: 01-01-22

Deep dive into sopranos analysis. They got it mostly right, a few things I’d disagree with, but overall dead on.
Also I think this was Joe Barrett’s best narration. He’s not my favorite narrator, but he did a great job here.

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