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dot UK slash ad-free podcasts to catch up on the latest episodes without the ads. Could the challenger

disaster have been avoided? Why was the space shuttle program almost cancelled so many times? And is there a Mandela

effect here? Do you really actually remember watching the Challenger explode? Today, Rad, 80s,

90s history is looking podcast looking at the last two decades of the 20th century.

I'm your host, Brian McCullough.

Usually, I say it's a history of the last time things were relatively normal and chill, but today

we're going to be talking about something that was definitely not chill, and in fact, might

maybe be the emblematic traumatic, traumatic news event for folks who grew up in the 1980s.

To talk about this today, my special guest is Farhad Manjou. Farhad has been a New York Times

columnist.

I mean, he's been a columnist as long as I've been reading people on the internet slate all over the place.

Farhad, thanks for coming on the show.

Hey, thanks so much for having me.

I really look forward to this.

Do you remember where you were when the Challenger blew up, by the way?

There's definitely Mandela effect there because I was actually in South Africa, which is where I'm from, and we came here like two years after the Challenger exploded.

And so I can't imagine – I have a distinct memory of watching it in a

classroom, but I don't think that actually happened because I don't think we would have watched

it in South Africa. Please save that because I, I have done a little research into that and I have

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