History Defeats Itself

The crew discusses ASMR, which is basically how people get oddly pleasurable feelings from mundane sounds like shispering or listening to someone eat sushi. Hey, whatever floats your boat.

In honor of Halloween, Kevin conjures up a spooky tale of vampires and a town gone mad. Also, Greg drinks a White Claw.

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John discusses a NASA math blunder that took out a satellite. (Hint: they forgot to carry the one.)

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They say war is hell. And no one knows that better than the Australians. In 1932 they waged war against a fighting force that is still undefeated to this day. The force? Emus. On this episode Greg discusses the great Australian Emu War of 1932. Come for the knowledge…stay for the accents.

Sources:

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/australia/great-emu-war-how-australia-started-a-war-against-flightless-birds-and-lost.html

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They say war is hell. And no one knows that better than the Australians. In 1932 they waged war against a fighting force that is still undefeated to this day. The force? Emus. On this episode Greg discusses the great Australian Emu War of 1932. Come for the knowledge...stay for the accents.

Sources:

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/australia/great-emu-war-how-australia-started-a-war-against-flightless-birds-and-lost.html

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HDI is back! On an early fall day in Arkansas, 1980 the sky was blue, the birds were chirping, school was just back in session, and a three megaton nuclear bomb nearly decimated a chunk of the state. How could this happen? We'll talk about that and Kevin's high level safe word on our latest episode.

Sources:

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/1980-titan-ii-disaster-fallen-socket-wrench-triggers-explosion-of-armed-nuclear-missile

https://ualrexhibits.org/zerohour/titan-ii/

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Hey Mistorians! We are taking a much needed summer break. We are also going to do some retooling of the show. We are confident that it will be bigger than 10 Super Bowls. But let’s not oversell it. We’re on hiatus for the month of August, returning in September. Have a wonderful summer and go out and make some history! Or babies. Or elotes. Or bathtub gin. We don’t care what you do. Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

Hey Mistorians! We are taking a much needed summer break. We are also going to do some retooling of the show. We are confident that it will be bigger than 10 Super Bowls. But let's not oversell it. We're on hiatus for the month of August, returning in September. Have a wonderful summer and go out and make some history! Or babies. Or elotes. Or bathtub gin. We don't care what you do.

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"Guns don't kill people. People kill people." But as the great Eddie Izzard once said...the gun helps. On the latest episode of HDI John talks guns. And holy shit he knows a lot about them for a pacifist! You'll laugh...you'll cry...you'll learn...then you'll probably cry some more because America's gun problem shows no signs of getting better. at lease we're on a Canadian podcast network. Keep those couches warm for us, Sonar.

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As most of us know five conservative judges from the US Supreme Court recently took it upon themselves to drop their collective pants and shit all over women's rights by making it so that abortion is no longer a guaranteed right. This is, of course, after some judges said they wouldn't do that in their confirmation hearings. Yes, even judges can be lying pieces of shit hellbent on promoting their personal, religious agenda. On the latest episode of HDI we get fiery over this and other human rights the court may try to take away. Because if there's one thing we know about people in power, they rarely give a shit about the rest of us.

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