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Episode 516: Red, Red Whine
Episode 516: Red, Red Whine
This week Host Dave Bledsoe woke up brutally hungover behind a trash dumpster in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia meaning a whole New Year has started. (It’s tradition) On the show this week, we end our hiatus without actually going on hiatus. (Turns out Dave was just sad) We start our generational pivot with the first leg of the tripod that holds up the Baby Boomers, the Red Scare!
Along the way we discover that Dave isn’t a communist (Turns out their parties are not his kind of parties) then we dive right into the history of international Communism with its bearded Daddy, Karl Marx. We breeze past the first Red Scare and honestly most of the second one, focusing on the major players. (Oddly, mostly Republicans) We talked about why they were looking for a communist under their beds (because they didn’t like Jews) and why they had to persecute anyone who might be a communist. (Again, they don’t like the Jews). Then we take a quick look at the impact of the Red Scare on American society and how it formed the Boomer generation. (It is why so many of them don’t like the Jews)
Our sponsor this week is Your Local Communist Party, there are six of us, how scary can we be? We open with a 50s newsreel about international Communism and close with Kuerdas who prefer reds.
Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
The Show on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social
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The Show Line: 347 687 9601
Closing Music: https://youtu.be/K3eobcILO3Q?si=_9vnBoQtYy5gvSjA
Buy Our Stuff: https://www.seltzerkings.com/shop
Citations Needed:
Britannica: Karl Marx
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx
Wikipedia: The Communist Manifesto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
“Enemies from Within”: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s Accusations of Disloyalty
https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456
Anti-Communism in the 1950s
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/anti-communism-1950s
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By Dave Bledsoe
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Episode 516: Red, Red Whine
This week Host Dave Bledsoe woke up brutally hungover behind a trash dumpster in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia meaning a whole New Year has started. (It’s tradition) On the show this week, we end our hiatus without actually going on hiatus. (Turns out Dave was just sad) We start our generational pivot with the first leg of the tripod that holds up the Baby Boomers, the Red Scare!
Along the way we discover that Dave isn’t a communist (Turns out their parties are not his kind of parties) then we dive right into the history of international Communism with its bearded Daddy, Karl Marx. We breeze past the first Red Scare and honestly most of the second one, focusing on the major players. (Oddly, mostly Republicans) We talked about why they were looking for a communist under their beds (because they didn’t like Jews) and why they had to persecute anyone who might be a communist. (Again, they don’t like the Jews). Then we take a quick look at the impact of the Red Scare on American society and how it formed the Boomer generation. (It is why so many of them don’t like the Jews)
Our sponsor this week is Your Local Communist Party, there are six of us, how scary can we be? We open with a 50s newsreel about international Communism and close with Kuerdas who prefer reds.
Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
The Show on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social
The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/
The Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ
The Show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatthehellwereyouthinkingpod/
Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kHmmrjptrq
Our Website: https://www.whatthehellpodcast.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast
The Show Line: 347 687 9601
Closing Music: https://youtu.be/K3eobcILO3Q?si=_9vnBoQtYy5gvSjA
Buy Our Stuff: https://www.seltzerkings.com/shop
Citations Needed:
Britannica: Karl Marx
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx
Wikipedia: The Communist Manifesto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto
“Enemies from Within”: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s Accusations of Disloyalty
https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456
Anti-Communism in the 1950s
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/anti-communism-1950s
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