Hi and welcome once again to History Dweaves. I am Tim, and the topic of our podcast

day is the execution of Private Eddie Slavic, who was the last American to be executed for desertion.

And that happened back in 1945,

toward the end of the Second World War.

We're going to talk about Eddie and his story.

But before we do, let me introduce our panel.

I am joined, as always, to my left,

by the very lovely, the very talented um the queen ameen the empress of

evil the mistress of the macab satan's dirty little secrets right what randy how are you today brandy

i'm all right timmy how are you well i'm doing well I'm all right, Timmy. How are you? Well, I'm doing well. I'm very, um, very pumped up. I'm going to Chicago this weekend. I'm covering for you, so I know. I am. I'm going to a music festival in Chicago. So any friends in Chicago? Hold on what music festival? I'm not sure. You should have told me it's probably the one Twin Peaks is playing. I could have got your backstage passes. It's Linda Loveless. When, yeah, it's the Lydia. It's the Pitchfork Festival. Lydia Loveless. It plays there, but it might be, it's a whole, yeah, it's a whole festival. It's not just her. I'm going to have to see her specific.

Twin Peaks.

My boy's in a band. You know that, and his best friend, Kadyen, their band is headlighted. Oh, give me free tickets then. Well, you should have told me. You don't ever tell anybody what you're doing. You sneak around like you're in the CIA and whatnot. I'm a man of mystery.

Yeah, like Austin Power. whatnot. I'm a man of mystery.

You are?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm just telling 10,000 people what I'm doing this weekend.

He is like Austin Powers.

Yeah, he is.

Yeah, baby.

He's out there shagging and whatnot.

Shagging.

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