#125 – The Berlin Blockade
The fault of the Berlin Blockade is often laid at the feet of Stalin. But the truth is a little more complicated. By 1948, the situation in Germany was still messy. The Four Powers (USA, USSR, UK, France) in control of Germany couldn’t agree on a path forwards....
#121 – Truman’s Hysteria
In 1950 Harry Truman complained about a “great wave of hysteria” sweeping the nation – the Red Scare. He should know. He was really largely responsible for creating it. Between the launching of his “loyalty program” in March 1947 and it’s...
#92 – The Truman Doctrine
* And so on March 12, 1947, before a joint session of Congress, President Truman articulated, for the first time, a comprehensive American foreign policy for the postwar world. * He did not mention the Soviet Union by name, or refer to the need to contain its power in...
#87 – The Aftermath Part 2
* The military had long declared that radiation dissipated quickly in the atomic cities and posed little threat to the soldiers. * A 1980 Defense Nuclear Agency report concluded, “Medical science believes multiple myeloma has a borderline relationship with exposure to...
Hunter standing next to me at the gym: what are you laughing at?
Me: Listening to Ray and I playing a Flava Flav clip in a podcast about Caligula.
Hunter: Who is Flava Flav?
Ten minutes later.... he’s walking around the gym singing UNGA BUNGA BUNGA BOYYYYY!
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