The Risktory Podcast

Coming up this week, it’s the final regular episode of the Risktory Podcast for 2019. To round out the year, I will be looking at the, very curious, 1942 Battle of Los Angeles.

On the evening of February 24 1942, just months after the US had entered World War II, it looked like Los Angeles was about to come under attack by the Japanese. US forces immediately mobilized to take on the threat and to defend the city… and then…. nothing happened.

In this week’s episode, I will explore the concept of imagined risk. Risk that doesn’t exist but which appears real enough, and present enough, that we act. Next week, via the 1942 Battle of Los Angeles, I’ll take you through how imagined risk is triggered. How it manifests. And what we – as practitioners – can do to avoid the utterly avoidable.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written, produced and hosted by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Related Episodes
https://www.spreaker.com/user/jacintheagalpin/pearl-harbor-part-1
https://www.spreaker.com/user/jacintheagalpin/pearl-harbor-part-2

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak – Sun

Sound Effects (sourced from www.freesound.org)
https://freesound.org/people/fmagrao/sounds/80761/
https://freesound.org/people/alanmcki/sounds/326442/

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
https://www.history.com/news/world-war-iis-bizarre-battle-of-los-angeles
https://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-fw-archives-1942-battle-la-20170221-story.html
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/7_things_you_didnt_know_a
https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/2017/02/19/ufos-or-no-battle-of-los-angeles-nears-75th-anniversary/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/battle-of-los-angeles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

Coming up this week, the final double episode of 2019 and this is a cracking tale to round out the year. This week, I will take you through Sydney’s Razor Wars.

The Sydney Australia crime scene of the 1920s was pure helter-skelter. Drugs. Prostitution. Immense and unapologetic violence. In response, the New South Wales government introduced a raft of legislative measures that it thought would tame Sydney: prohibition of drugs, prohibition of street prostitution, the closing of all pubs at six pm every night, and the criminalization of
handguns.

The government’s measures did nothing to stem the tide of illegal activity: if anything it emboldened Sydney’s criminals who – in true contrarian Australian fashion – doubled down. We’re gonna do the drugs. We’ll move our prostitutes off the streets and into brothels. We’ll set up speak-easies, or sly grogs, as they’re called in Australia. And if you’re gonna take our guns, we’ll use razors against our enemies.

Sydney’s criminal fraternity took what was already an out of control scene, and turned it up to 11: triggering the now famous, Razor Wars.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Devine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Leigh
https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/magazine/galleries/tilly-devine-and-the-razor-gang-wars
http://www.sydneycrimemuseum.com/crime-stories/1920s-the-razor-wars/
http://passingparade-2009.blogspot.com/2011/11/sydneys-razor-gang-wars-1925-to-1935.html
https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi276
https://razorhurst.com.au
(Documentary) Tough Nuts: Australia’s Hardest Criminals (Tilly Devine)

Coming up this week, the final double episode of 2019 and this is a cracking tale to round out the year. This week, I will take you through Sydney’s Razor Wars.

The Sydney Australia crime scene of the 1920s was pure helter-skelter. Drugs. Prostitution. Immense and unapologetic violence. In response, the New South Wales government introduced a raft of legislative measures that it thought would tame Sydney: prohibition of drugs, prohibition of street prostitution, the closing of all pubs at six pm every night, and the criminalization of handguns.

The government’s measures did nothing to stem the tide of illegal activity: if anything it emboldened Sydney’s criminals who – in true contrarian Australian fashion – doubled down. We’re gonna do the drugs. We’ll move our prostitutes off the streets and into brothels. We’ll set up speak-easies, or sly grogs, as they’re called in Australia. And if you’re gonna take our guns, we’ll use razors against our enemies.

Sydney’s criminal fraternity took what was already an out of control scene, and turned it up to 11: triggering the now famous, Razor Wars.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_gang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Devine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Leigh
https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/magazine/galleries/tilly-devine-and-the-razor-gang-wars
http://www.sydneycrimemuseum.com/crime-stories/1920s-the-razor-wars/
http://passingparade-2009.blogspot.com/2011/11/sydneys-razor-gang-wars-1925-to-1935.html
https://aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi276
https://razorhurst.com.au
(Documentary) Tough Nuts: Australia’s Hardest Criminals (Tilly Devine)

Coming up on this week’s episode, the life and times of the legendary British soldier, Mad Jack Churchill.

Churchill didn’t invent anything. He didn’t disrupt anything. But his understanding of risk. His taking on of opportunity. His capacity to read his context, instantly understand the pros and cons, and formulate a strategy….

Mad Jack Churchill is one of the greats when it comes to taking action on the unknown. And that’s because, and I will go into this in some depth during this week’s episode, he brings to life the idea of the risk ‘everyman’. The idea that anyone can manage risk effectively. That every tool, every technique, ever method available to manage the unknown… Mad Jack illustrates that we all have the capacity to successfully entreat with the unknown.

Plus, dude fought the Nazis with a sword.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mad-jack-churchill
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvqbek/the-strange-tale-of-the-british-soldier-who-killed-nazis-with-a-sword-and-a-longbow
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/mad-jack-churchill.html
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2019/01/07/mad-jack-churchill-a-rare-breed-of-warrior/
https://museumhack.com/mad-jack-churchill/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733516/Lieutenant-Colonel-Jack-Churchill.html

Coming up this week, an episode looking at how opportunity doesn’t always just magically appear. Sometimes, opportunity can be built.

Such is the case with one of my favorite places on earth: Dollywood. Dollywood was established by the legendary Dolly Parton in 1986. As you’ll find out in this week’s episode, Dolly was told by those that ought to know – accountants, lawyers, business advisors - that the idea of a family friendly theme park nestled in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee was not a good idea. That she would lose and she would lose big.

This week, I’ll take you through how Dolly Parton saw potential where others didn’t. How she turned that potential into opportunity. And how she throttled that opportunity to create – in 2019 - the number one ticketed tourist attraction in Tennessee.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollywood
https://www.dollywood.com/About-Us/Dollywood-History
https://www.pigeonforgechamber.com/this-history-of-dollywood/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/travel/dolly-parton-dollywood-wildwood.html
https://www.wideopencountry.com/dolly-parton-dollywood-rides/
https://smokymountains.com/dollywood/blog/7-things-dollywood-probably-dont-know-yet/
https://ew.com/article/2010/07/02/dolly-parton-dollywood-interview/

Coming up on this week’s episode, I will be looking at the Acoustic Kitty Project. During the 1960s, when the Cold War was running red hot, the US Central Intelligence Agency decided to up their spy game against the Soviets by …. you guessed it….. deploying cats as intelligence gatherers.

Not unexpectedly, for anyone who knows cats, Acoustic Kitty failed spectacularly, but there are lessons in its incarnation, incubation and deployment that we can leverage, from a risk perspective, in 2019.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-experimented-animals-1960s-too-just-ask-acoustic-kitty-180964313/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
https://www.history.com/news/cia-spy-cat-espionage-fail
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/5-government-experiments2.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/11/worlddispatch https://unredacted.com/2010/03/05/document-friday-acoustic-kitty/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27790/cia-plan-use-cats-spies-and-taxi-ruined-it

Coming up this week, it’s double episode time! Last month, I spoke at Alexei Sidorenko’s 2019 Risk Awareness Week talking about my favorite historical figure – Napoleon Bonaparte – tracking his trajectory from good to bad decision making.

In this week’s double episode, I will be repurposing that presentation for the Risktory Podcast. From the time Napoleon was an exceptional risk manager to the time he wasn’t so good at managing risk. And to use Napoleon’s trajectory to illustrate what good decision making looks like versus what bad decision making looks like.

If you want to see my presentation at 2019 Risk Awareness Week, and gain access to the slide deck that accompanies the presentation, then please head on over to 2019.riskawarenessweek.com. You’ll also find, on the 2019 Risk Awareness Week site, presentations from some great risk thinkers including two Risktorians: Alexei Sidorenko and Christian Hunt.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Napoleonic_era
https://www.vmfa.museum/learn/resources/napoleons-rise-fall-illustrated-timeline/
http://emperornapoleon.com/timeline.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_1.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_3.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_4.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_12.html
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/napoleon-dies-in-exile
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_josephine/courtship/page_1.html

Coming up this week, it’s double episode time! Last month, I spoke at Alexei Sidorenko’s 2019 Risk Awareness Week talking about my favorite historical figure – Napoleon Bonaparte – tracking his trajectory from good to bad decision making.

In this week’s double episode, I will be repurposing that presentation for the Risktory Podcast. From the time Napoleon was an exceptional risk manager to the time he wasn’t so good at managing risk. And to use Napoleon’s trajectory to illustrate what good decision making looks like versus what bad decision making looks like.

If you want to see my presentation at 2019 Risk Awareness Week, and gain access to the slide deck that accompanies the presentation, then please head on over to 2019.riskawarenessweek.com. You’ll also find, on the 2019 Risk Awareness Week site, presentations from some great risk thinkers including two Risktorians: Alexei Sidorenko and Christian Hunt.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Napoleonic_era
https://www.vmfa.museum/learn/resources/napoleons-rise-fall-illustrated-timeline/
http://emperornapoleon.com/timeline.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_1.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_3.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_4.html
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_12.html
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/napoleon-dies-in-exile
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_josephine/courtship/page_1.html

Coming up on this week’s episode, I am going to look at the life and times of English novelist, Emily Bronte, best known for the classic tome, Wuthering Heights.

Emily Bronte was a disruptor, innovating a style of writing that was unlike anything that had come before, a style of writing that would, eventually, revolutionize the writing world.
But she was a quiet disruptor. An ‘easter egg’ disruptor. She wasn’t a Thomas Edison, or Ray Kurzweil or even Elon Musk, who were and are larger than life behemoths in the world of disruption. Bronte innovated from the shadows, hiding her disruption in her poetic prose and lyrical words. Comfortable being an introvert and never feeling compelled to be anything other than what she was.

In this week’s episode, I’ll explore the life of the quiet disruptor, Emily Bronte, and how she came to write one of the most innovative, fascinating and revolutionary books of all time.

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade
Alan Spiljak – Clouds
Alan Spiljak – Forgotten
Alan Spiljak – Light Blue
Alan Spiljak – Empty Days
Alan Spiljak – Stars Above
Alan Spiljak – Not the End
Alan Spiljak - Sun

Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB
https://www.biography.com/writer/emily-bronte
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-bronte
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/10-things-you-didn-t-know-about-emily-bront%C3%AB/
https://www.notablebiographies.com/Br-Ca/Bront-Emily.html

Coming up today, it’s the October Risktorian of the month: Valerie Franco.

Continuing to build on the theme of resilience and reinvention, I talk to Valerie - a resilience leadership coach - on everything from what it takes to be a resilient leader, the mistakes leaders make, and how to make and serve grits.

Valerie's thoughtful and insightful perspectives on leadership are much needed in today's world. I know you will enjoy this episode.

You can find Valerie on her website: www.valeriewfranco.com

The Risktory Podcast is created, written and produced by Jacinthe A Galpin.

Soundtrack (sourced from www.freemusicarchive.org)
Podington Bear - Elephants on Parade