Jack Barsky
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you grow into that kind of an environment,
What are you going to do?
You don't know anything else.
There's no other opinions.
The only thing that went across borders was shortwave radio.
But we didn't listen to shortwave talk.
We listened to rock and roll.
Do you remember any bands you were listening to at that time?
Initially, it was a couple of singers, Americans, who sang in German.
Gus Backus and Bill Ramsey.
That was Bill Ramsey.
But one day I heard a band called The Beatles.
Yeah, they'll change your life, The Beatles.
And it doesn't matter how communist we were, so to speak.
We all loved that music.
This is this is fascinating.
I wanted to talk about the pop culture that you were absorbing, not just Western things, but things coming out of the Soviet Union and East Germany, particularly movies.
You know, the spy stories have always been such a rich part of cinematic storytelling.