To continue our look at LGBTQ+ history let's talk about Sappho! While we cannot put modern definitions onto ancient people, we do assume that Sappho had relationships with women based on her love poems to women. She ran a school for women on the isle of Lesbos (you get it) and we are still discovering fragments of her work! 

Join us as Taylor reads Farz a love poem, and he says 'Sorry, I zoned out.

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Let's talk about the true story behind the movie 'The Terminal' it's not nearly as romantic IRL! Mehran Karimi Nasseri was trying to get to the UK from Iran when some paperwork needed to be filled out in France... and he just, didn't do it. For 18 years. If you're like anyone else in the world, you hate being at the airport overnight - so this is actually a tragedy of mental illness and less of a bureaucratic nightmare.

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Have I said before that I think that we think that talking about plane crashes would just make our deaths in one TOO ironic? So this is saving our lives. Let's talk about the horror of the short trip that was Japan Airlines Flight 123 - A fully filled, gigantic plane with over 500 people- that lost control 12 minutes into the flight, then they wobbled around in the sky for THIRTY MINUTES before crashing.

Learn more about this horrible tragedy with us! 

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Today we dive into the oft-requested story of the dueling, opera singing, bi-sexual Julie d'Aubigny! We'll tell the tale of her remarkable life, from a court mistress, to dueling on the streets of Paris, to burning the body of a nun to run away with her girlfriend! Lots of twists in this one!

Happy Pride! 

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Today, we dig into the 80s culture of celebrity charity work! From Live Aid to 'We Are the World', we started a trend where massive movements were spearheaded by celebrities. USA for Africa, the organization responsible for We Are the World & Hands Across America, stands for 'United Support of Artists for Africa' (we wouldn't have guessed that, because it makes no sense).

What IS Hands Across America, you ask? It's exactly what you sound like, a human chain of people holding hands, for 15 mins, for $10 a person. It did end up raising money to fight hunger in America - it did not cover the entire country. Taylor argues that people in the pictures are standing WAY too close together - you need to be outstretched hand to outstretched hand, and they could have doubled their mileage. 

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Let's talk about the unlucky crew of the Tuna Fishing ship Lucky Dragon #5. Thousands of miles from Japan, the crew was laying lines when the US tested its Castle Bravo nuclear bomb in Bikini Atoll. The Lucky Dragon was well within the 'Safety Zone,' which we know is not a thing. They ended up trudging back to Japan, only to slowly succumb to all the radiation they experienced. We ALSO talk about Hisashi Ouchi, who was hit with the largest dose of radiation in history in the Tokaimura nuclear accident.

Asking for a friend, why is nuclear power super safe?

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Today we travel to the darker side of organ transplants - when demand is greater than supply, that creates a market, right? Well, yes, but also this time people have to be cut open. 

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Let's talk about the most expensive disaster of all time! The meltdown at Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. A safety test that was anything but 'routine' ended in an explosion of radioactive material, and everything became poison. We'll talk about the USSR, Nuclear Power, the disaster itself, and the aftermath.

This is episode 200!! We are so excited to have gotten this far, thank you so much for listening!! 

Sources:

The Chernobyl Disaster [Ben Fogle] - Parts 1-3 (Documentary 2022) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsr3vxsgjnA

'This is my home': Life inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone | VOANews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MokT_Y0YDhw

Chernobyl: Flourishing lives in the dead zone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYxO7iGO6b0

Chernobyl mini series - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/?ref_=ttch_ov_i

Midnight in Chernobyl  / Adam Higgenbotham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_in_Chernobyl

Chernobyl: Minute by Minute | Full Film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGw3kRGX35s

Inside Chernobyl's Abandoned Ghost Town | Pripyat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_3DFTm8ioA

Frequently Asked Chernobyl Questions - https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/chernobyl/faqs

Exploring Chernobyl: A Stalker's Unseen Journey Inside The Exclusion Zone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-ef7wi_TQ

The Elephant's Foot - Corpse of Chernobyl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIWu8rbWLGo

 Cary Elwes's memoir, 

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

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Sources - 

Movie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room

Book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_(book)

For this episode, Taylor got to read the book behind her favorite documentary of all time - 2005's "The Smartest Guys in the Room" - That's right, liars and grifters, we're stuffing money in offshore accounts and shredding the paperwork - we're talking Enron!!!

From the meteoric rise of "The World's Leading Company" (whatever that means!) to stock prices tumbling and eventually jail time, this is such an interesting and multi-layered story! 

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Today, in part 1 of Organ Donations, we talk about the history and the rules behind giving someone your organs. It does get a little gross when we learn that lungs come apart into 'lobes' but it's probably still a good thing to know!

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