This week we're traveling back to. . . well, it's not totally clear, but we're talking about Cold War history with Top Secret! Join us as we learn about that weird heel click salute, Ripple, surf rock, the fascinating history of the phrase "that sucks", and more!

Sources:

"Churchill Broadcast on the Soviet-German War (June 1941)" https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/churchill-broadcast-on-the-soviet-german-war-june-1941 Daniel Thomas Curtin, The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-war, (1917) https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Land_of_Deepening_Shadow/jxEyAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Sarah Wagner and Thomas Matyók, "Monumental Change: The Shifting Politics of Obligation at the Tomb of the Unknowns," History and Memory 30, no.1 (2018): 40-75.

"Desalination history" https://www.water.vic.gov.au/water-grid-and-markets/desalination/desalination-background/desalination-history David Sedlak, "Turning to the Sea for Drinking Water," Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource, 217-37 (Yale University Press, 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vksm5.15 E. Delyannis, "Historic background of desalination and renewable energies," Solar Energy, 75, no.5 (2003): 357-66. Andreas N. Angelakis, Mohammad Valipour, Kwang-Ho Choo, Abdelkader T. Ahmed, Alper Baba, Rohitashw Kumar, Gurpal S. Toor, and Zhiwei Want, "Desalination: From Ancient to Present and Future," Water 13 (2021).

"Why suck is a dirty word | | The Guardian" https://amp.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/sep/13/guardianletters4 Gillian Frank, "Discophobia: Antigay Prejudice and the 1979 Backlash against Disco," Journal of the History of Sexuality, 16, no.2 (2007): 276-306. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30114235 Dear and Peter Kemp, (eds.) "sucking the monkey," The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (Oxford University Press, 2007). John Ayto and John Simpson, "suck," The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (Oxford University Press, 2013). BBC Learning English, "Suck it and see," https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the-english-we-speak/ep-170404

Billboard Magazine, June 29 1963: https://books.google.com/books?id=XgsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q&f=false Beach Boys "Surfin'" 1961: https://youtu.be/3jIdYAAO7cM Ben Finney, "Surfing in Ancient Hawaii," The Journal of Polynesian Society 68, 4 (1959) RL Rutsky, "Surfing the Other: Ideology on the Beach," Film Quarterly 52, 4 (1999) Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren, "Making Surfboards: Emergence of a Trans-Pacific Cultural Industry," Journal of Pacific History 49, 1 (2014) https://drunkard.com/55-dead-end-drinks/