Uncovering Roots: Palestinians In Paraguay -- The Untold Story
Uncovering Roots by Max Saakyan made an impact in December 2023 with its three-part series about the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and beyond by the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey). In those two years of the genocide, over 1.2 million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert. In addition, about 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam and integrated into Muslim households.
Uncovering Roots is an independently produced (Indie) podcast, a moving and powerful new show that gives a voice to lesser-known people whose stories need to be heard.
The Paraguay Scheme culminated in a shooting in 1970. But the story didn't end there. It took 34 years for the truth to break out, and it came from an unexpected source.
In the final episode of Palestinians in Paraguay, Max Saakyan traces how the scheme was buried, how it resurfaced, and what the word "transfer" has always really meant.
These four episodes were co-produced by Maxim Saakyan, Nadeen Shaker, and Nada El-Kouny, with Story editing by Maxim Saakyan and Nadeen Shaker, and Sound Design by Maxim Saakyan.
This four-part documentary of Uncovering Roots is another example of the artistic craftsmanship of podcaster Max Saakyan. His documentary style is absolutely captivating, and he liquifies geopolitical events into the personal, the tragic, and the painful.
The Industry Podcast Returns
The Industry podcast, sponsored by MovieMaker magazine, has been around since 2018, producing a compact 6–10 episodes a year. MovieMaker is a magazine, website, and podcast network focused on the art and business of filmmaking with a special emphasis on independent film. The magazine is published quarterly.
What's the podcast about? In a sentence, the stories of filmmaking that you've probably never heard of. Director Elaine May and her temporary theft of unedited movie film for 11 weeks. The chaos on the set of The Wages of Fear, directed by William Friedkin, was fresh off two dazzling successes: The French Connection and The Exorcist.
These tales of filmmaking gone very wrong are expertly conveyed by veteran podcaster Dan Delgado. In a deep, gravelly voice dripping with portent and intent, Delgado crafts the narrative in every episode so that listeners are kept on the edge of their seats, so wrapped up in the episode that they are listening at work instead of, well, working.
After a year of waiting, Dan has released a new episode about the 1967 film, Bonnie and Clyde. When the film was released in 1967, it sparked a fierce debate among film critics. At the center of that debate was New York Times
critic Bosley Crowther, who publicly opposed the film even as its
reputation grew. This episode looks at Crowther’s battle with the movie,
the critics who disagreed with him, and what the controversy reveals
about a changing era in American cinema.
His choice of oddball and long forgotten tales of filmmaking chaos are a rollicking good time and gossip candy for movie fans. The episodes are short, averaging 25 to 30 minutes. Dan makes his words count.
Check out this latest episode of The Industry by Dan Delgado.
The Life Shift Podcast Begins Its Fifth Season
The Podcast Built From a Father's Worst Conversation With His Son Enters Its Fifth Season
When Matt Gilhooly was eight years old, his father sat him down and told him his mother had been killed in a motorcycle accident. There was no roadmap for what came next. No one in his life knew how to hold that kind of grief with a child, and so for the next two decades, he carried it mostly alone.
That experience and the long, imperfect work of learning to live differently after it are the reasons The Life Shift Podcast exists.
Founded in March 2022, The Life Shift is built around a single premise: that the moments which crack a life open deserve more than silence. Each episode centers on one line-in-the-sand moment, the instant when everything becomes before-and-after, and follows the emotional reality of what it takes to keep going once the story changes. Four seasons and over 200 episodes later, the show has grown entirely through word of mouth, no network, no publicist, no growth playbook, only listeners passing it to the one person in their life who needed to hear it.
On March 24, The Life Shift opens Season Five, and the first episode features Chris Magleby, cofounder of Mindless Labs, who shares the night in 2017 when a cannabis edible triggered a psychotic episode in his front yard and left him hospitalized, believing his mind was permanently broken. He was 36, happily married, raising three kids, running a successful tech company. By every outward measure, life was working. Then it wasn't.
"I woke up the next morning and felt like my life had changed forever. I thought I had lost my mind. And that's actually where the name Mindless Labs comes from. It's a tribute to that process of feeling like you're losing your mind."
What followed was two and a half years of intense anxiety, therapy, manic and depressive episodes, and the slow work of learning that the way out of anxiety is not to think your way through it, but to stop and be present with what is right in front of you. That journey eventually became Mindless Labs, a mental health resource platform built in partnership with mental health professionals to help people find support before they reach a breaking point.
"There was too much lava underneath the surface of this volcano for it to not come up at some point."
Chris's episode opens a season built with more intention in every story, honoring the full weight of what each guest brings and the listeners around the world who will hear themselves in it and feel a little less alone.
"I know what hell feels like. And there are a lot of people out there who feel it. One in five adults in the US suffers from some type of mental illness, and only half of them receive treatment. If I can help any of those people, I will do everything I can."
"Every episode of this show is a privilege," says Gilhooly. "Someone is trusting me with the moment that changed everything for them. Season Five is about making sure each of those stories gets exactly the care it deserves, so it can reach the person who needs it most."
Upcoming episodes in Season Five continue with conversations about childhood loss and late-life truth, caregiving, aphasia, and life after stroke.
I highly recommend The Life Shift. It is one of the best independent podcasts in the industry. Strike that. It is one of the best podcasts in the industry, indie or network-financed.
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