Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 1

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our new series, Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew. Over the next few weeks we’ll take a journey through the Decade of Defiance, with all its scandals and secrets.

As the decade devolved into war at home and abroad, Apollo 13 flew high above earth with the hope of landing safely on the surface of the moon. But then: disaster struck, and time was on no one’s side. Meanwhile, thousands of miles below the Apollo 13 spacecraft, a nationwide uprising among college students ended in disaster at Kent State and Jackson State Universities. With special guest Apollo 13 astronaut, Fred Haise.

Writer, Host, and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Writers and Researchers: Amy Watkin, Mandy Reid, and Kari Anton

Production Coordinator: Andrea Champoux

Thank you to the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Patrick Stewart and I've written a memoir making it so.
0:06.6	In it I revisit my life from my earliest memories growing up in Yorkshire to acting on the
0:12.7	stage, to Star Trek, to X-Men and Hollywood.
0:17.2	It's a life lived far beyond my expectations and I so hope you enjoy reading it.
0:24.4	Making it so by Patrick Stewart is out now in all good bookshops and as an audiobook
0:29.2	from Audible.
1:00.2	What about Magpie, the vegan pie truck that needed a bit of help from GoDaddy.
1:03.9	One day the owners are like, this business hasn't reached this potential and the other one goes,
1:08.4	we need a bigger piece of the pie and then it hits her.
1:11.6	We need GoDaddy, look, we can get a domain name and create an online store so we can sell
1:15.8	to more customers.
1:16.8	Now they've gone from serving a couple of pies to vlogging nationwide and now everyone's
1:22.1	like, vegan pies are the new thing around here.
1:25.5	Wait, no me.
1:26.7	Take the next step on your business journey with GoDaddy.
1:34.7	We lost the 0-2 tank to pressure.
1:38.4	Okay, we've had a problem here.
1:41.1	This is Houston Sagan, please.
1:47.2	Hello friends, welcome, welcome to our new series where we are set to explore a bit more than
1:53.6	Shag carpet, smiley face pans and bell bottoms.
1:57.1	We're going to look at what was happening politically and socially in this decade that brought
2:02.4	so many advancements, setbacks and controversies.
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