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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 9 of 1983, the year the world almost ended. |
0:06.0 | Now again, as always, when it comes to these Patreon-only episodes, I'd like to thank you very much for your kind support. |
0:12.0 | Without your support, this series, and indeed the show may not even exist itself. |
0:17.0 | So thank you very much. |
0:19.0 | Now, the original plan, believe it or not, was to release this |
0:21.9 | episode before Christmas. Oh, I know, I know. It's not Christmas. I guess it's Christmas |
0:26.6 | somewhere in the universe, but definitely not here. The episode is terribly late, and I hope the |
0:32.2 | bonus episode on Donald Trump makes up for that, because honestly, I blame Donald Trump |
0:37.4 | and that episode. |
0:38.7 | That's why this took so long. |
0:41.8 | Now, originally, I even had the idea of playing one of my favorite Christmas songs |
0:47.7 | as the song of the week for this episode. |
0:51.2 | But instead, it's a very popular song from 1980, which I think is much more appropriate. |
0:56.1 | This is Neil Diamond, Love on the Rocks, and we'll see in a moment. |
1:00.9 | Okay, so a few episodes back, probably like a year ago or so when I did that one, we mentioned |
1:07.2 | 1949 as a particularly bad year for American foreign policy. Now, if you remember, |
1:13.3 | that was the year the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb and the Chinese |
1:18.0 | communists under the leadership of Mao, pushed the nationalists out of mainland China |
1:23.4 | and essentially won the Chinese Civil War. 1979 was another bleak year. |
1:29.6 | The United States, just six years after Richard Nixon had resigned the presidency, |
1:34.1 | five years after the fall of Saigon, was being battered at home and abroad. |
1:38.6 | Domestically stagflation and high oil prices combined to hit Americans where it hurt their pocketbooks. |
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