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The result of his hunch?
It might even be something thats happening right now.
The podcast takes its time to unfurl the investigation across its eight episodes.
Was the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival a front in all this?
Who else might have known?
before sprawling out to introduce listeners to different layers of the broader political and cultural context.
(That film,Argo, is evoked several times in the podcast.)
Indeed, it almost feels like its beside the point if an American agency actually participated in their creation.
But the notion is played up quite a bit acrossWind of Change, sometimes almost naively.
Listen to a song, go to a movie, turn on the TV.
I mean,Argowas a good movie.
Yes, your entertainment might have ulterior motives.
Still, the series is a really enjoyable listen.
Probably one of the better audio documentaries thats come out this year so far.
Youve got juicy talk of spycraft, subterfuge, international intrigue, and mysterious dinner parties classicle Carre shit.
Hell, you even get a bit of drug-running on the side, just as a treat.
When the vibe propellingWind of Changeforward gets good, it getsreallygood.
Keefe genuinely enjoys the muck of the mind game, the whos playing who?
Suddenly, the spirit of the search curdles.
So on and so on, as what was once a rabbit hole turns into an Escher staircase.
Russian bots, scammers, ideological nutjobs, or just plain ol trolls: Theyre all around us now.
It sounds stupid, she replies, with uneasy laughter that Keefe observes might have some undercurrents of anger.
I hope youre not going to tell me that this is true.
Wind of Change may be a cheesy rock song, but theres a sensitivity to its legacy.
Wind of Changeculminates in an anxious, thrilling meeting with Scorpions front man Klaus Meine.
Keefes odyssey had been building up to that point, driven by the question of What did he know?
