Behind the Scenes Minis: Balloons and the Mixed Bag
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Tracy shares how the recent wave of spy balloon news inspired this week's episode, and the hosts talk about the technology of war balloons. They also talk about G.K. Chesterton, his anti-eugenics writing, and his anti-Semitism.
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| 0:05.6 | Let's start a coup. Back in the 1930s, a marine named Smetley Butler was all that stood between the US and fascism. |
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| 0:23.5 | Listen to Let's Start A coup on the IHR radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you find your favorite shows. |
| 0:30.0 | Did you know Lance Bass is a Russian train astronaut that he went through training in a secret facility |
| 0:36.2 | outside Moscow hoping to become the youngest person to go to space? Well, I ought to know because |
| 0:43.9 | I'm Lance Bass and I'm hosting a new podcast that tells my crazy story and an even crazier story |
| 0:50.4 | about a Russian astronaut who found himself stuck in space with no country to bring him down. |
| 0:56.6 | With the Soviet Union collapsing around him, he orbited the Earth for 313 days that changed the world. |
| 1:04.6 | Listen to the last Soviet on the IHR radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:12.8 | What if I told you that much of the forensic science you see on shows like CSI? |
| 1:18.0 | I isn't based on actual science and the wrongly convicted pay a horrific price. |
| 1:26.0 | Two distances in a life without parole. My youngest I was incarcerated two days after her first birthday. |
| 1:32.4 | Listen to CSI on trial on the IHR radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:39.4 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of IHR radio. |
| 1:53.5 | Hello and happy Friday, I'm Tracy V Wilson and I'm Holly Fry. One of our episodes this week was about |
| 1:59.6 | balloons, not in the fun sense, not not exactly. So I had some stuff going on when the whole |
| 2:11.1 | Chinese balloon news was happening. I was not paying attention to the news at all, |
| 2:17.9 | but it was very difficult to not notice that there was just a ton of conversation about balloons |
| 2:24.5 | happening. I had this still vague awareness that there was some kind of balloon. |
| 2:28.0 | I was seeing headlines that said things like why people are freaking out about spy balloons and I was |
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