Show Notes Episode 499.5: “Was It Something We Said?”

Part 1 of Summer Series 2025

This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to convince the other barflies to stage a coup against the bartender and take over the bar for themselves. (Turns out three old drunks against one bartender lose every time.) On the show this week we kick off Summer Series 2025 “You Can Have A LIttle War, As A Treat” with the prelude of all the little wars, the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Along the way we discover that Dave is not one to hold a grudge. (A lot of time he can’t remember why he was even mad, mostly because he blacked out. Again.) Then we dive into the long history of Iran, from the Persian Empire to the Islamic Republic.  We discover that Iranians have some pretty good reasons for not liking America. (Sorry about that coup thing) Then we dip into how a deposed king dying of cancer led to Ronald Reagan getting elected and four decades of increasingly bad relations with Iran.  FInally we draw a tenuous connection between Iran and the topic of our Summer Series.

Our Sponsor this week is The Special Relationship, even when it is a really bad idea, we stand together.  We open our show with news coverage of the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran and close Vince Vance offering foreign policy advice.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

Nothing new in the world

https://web.archive.org/web/20040915080838/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FI15Ak03.html

The Reason Iran Turned Out to Be So Repressive

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/iran-mahsa-amini-protests-islam-ayatollah-ruhollah-khomeini/671624/

Wikipedia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi

The Iran Hostage Crisis

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/29/the-iran-hostage-crisis/

Jimmy Carter and the Iran Hostage Crisis

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/jimmy-carter-and-the-iran-hostage-crisis

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