American Shrapnel - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Both brilliant and brave.

We might wish we could think of this as distant history. But what's past is prologue, and while the weapons of choice have changed, they’ve only become more efficient, more readily available, more culturally inured, and often glorified. We go about our day to day business oblivious, in a time when murder and hatred abound, masked as piety.

Knowing this story is essential to understanding where America is today, and where it seems to be headed.

I appreciated the depth this podcast went into. It’s so necessary to unpack how people can be radicalized into violence. And to hear directly from victims not just consume their suffering.

I am stunned by those whose reviews express disappointment at the podcast being “political.” What on earth did they think Rudolph’s actions were?

I was in Atlanta when the bombing happened in 1996. While I was not at Centennial Park I do remember how easily people still went about their business the next day. Terrorism doesn’t work. This in-depth podcast reveals things you might not have ever heard before. It’s well done!

A riveting and illuminating deep dive into a time, a place, a series of malicious crimes and the investigations they resulted in, always leading with the personal reflections and memories of the people whose lives were changed and affected. Powerful and illuminating.

This a well polished podcast but as usual with these politically myopic shows definitely had me screaming some for semblance of balance. I wouldn’t recommend it to my daughter but I am experienced enough to separate the wheat from chaff so I enjoyed it.