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Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Holly shares a story of accidentally taking ephedrine. Tracy shares her delight at a pronunciation of the word catastrophe.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.8	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.8	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:16.3	Hello and welcome to the Friday edition of Stuff You Miss in History Class. I'm Holly Fry.
0:22.0	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:24.0	We talked about drugs this week.
0:25.9	We talked, yeah, we talked a lot more explicitly about drugs than we normally do on this podcast.
0:33.0	Yeah. Because it's such a, I mean, it's such a fascinating moment in history
0:39.6	in terms of how much people are still learning about the various ways
0:43.9	that militaries have deployed stimulant use.
0:49.2	There is one thing that I want to myth bust a little right out of the gate.
0:53.4	Okay.
0:54.6	There is footage of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Olympic Games that has been shown in a number
1:03.3	of places with a number of people weighing in, and a lot of people are like, oh, he's 100%
1:07.1	tweaking.
1:07.8	He's on meth at this point.
1:10.0	That does not actually appear to be the case.
1:12.5	Oh, yeah? Hitler was a mess in many ways.
1:14.8	However, 1936 was before Purvinton was developed.
1:18.7	Okay.
1:19.5	He certainly was probably on some stimulants, although it looks like that video is probably
1:24.7	looped. It's also worth noting that he had idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
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