Similidudes

Episode 36: The Cold War Is like the Fireball Spell in D&D


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00:00 Introduction

02:31 Consumption Corner– Albert Camus “The Stranger” and “The Mersault Investigation” by Kamel Daoud.  YouTube, Dr Mike’s Rocky Summaries and the History of blood-doping

6:52 Similitude Proper “The Cold War is like Fireball in D&D”

Drew misses the date of the Cuban Missile Crisis by a month.  Bat guano magic?  Contra (but not the video game)

The News

16:08 – Stanislav Petrov the man who saved the world 

Sting’s Russians

24:42 Eyes on Belgium– Nato headquarters, ugly tapestries in the land of wolves.

37:55 Soviet Video Games– Businessman, learn the perils of capitalism.  A Tetris too-far.

47:14 Videogames Overthought– Street Fighter II is our historiography 

50:48 Name That Cold War Movie

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