Almost Impossible

Cola Buskirk joins Craig on this episode to talk about our favorite parts from The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear.

Cola Buskirk joins Tim on this episode to talk about our favorite parts from Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes.

We talk about our favorite parts from American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

We talk about how the Euro came to be and the consequences of merging the financial futures of differing nations.

We talk about the creation of modern Las Vegas: The Mob, Howard Hughes, Kirk Kerkorian, Jay Sarno, Steve Wynn, and more.

We explore how building The Hoover Dam made Vegas

Our second episode is about the Wright Brothers inventing the airplane.

Our first episode is about Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, the secret weapons program that built the atomic bomb.

We'll tell stories of how people achieved something almost impossible and then draw lessons on how we might accomplish similar things today.