Dana El-Kurd
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4,891 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
Dana El-Kurd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What?
And he was really good at it.
You probably won't believe it either.
I'm telling you.
The guy was a spy.
Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelts, played poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congresswoman?
And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock before writing a hit James Bond film.
How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever?
And what darkness from his covert past seeped into the stories we read as kids?
The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote.
Listen to The Secret World of Roald Dahl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I'm Michael Phillips, an historian and the author of a book about racism in Dallas called White Metropolis, and the co-author, with longtime journalist Betsy Freehoff, of a history of eugenics in Texas called The Purifying Knife.
I'm Stephen Monticelli.
I'm a journalist who specializes in covering political extremism and far-right internet culture for The Texas Observer, The Barbed Wire, and other publications.
Today, we'll be talking about the Fifth Circuit.
And we'll start with a man named James Ho, who on what might have been the biggest day of his judicial career so far, couldn't have picked a creepier setting.
The 52-year-old's legal career has rocketed forward at light speed.
Born in Taiwan and a graduate of Stanford, he signed up as an attorney for the white shoe law firm Gibson Dunn in California.
In 2000, at age 27, he joined a high-powered legal team that forever shaped the history of the United States.
Young and almost entirely unknown outside of legal circles, James Ho joined some of the most famous conservative lawyers in the country in the year 2000 to convince the United States Supreme Court to stop the hotly contested presidential vote count in Florida.
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