First, you turn the time circuits on.

I'm Josh Levine, the host of Slate's podcast one year.

In our new season, we're firing up our flux capacitors and taking you way back.

1955.

1955.

It was a year when the suburbs were booming and rock and roll was revving up.

1955.

A year of change of awakening and of opportunity.

But the nation was also gripped by fear.

We must be ready all the time for the atomic bomb.

This season, we'll bring you 1955's weirdest, wildest and most captivating stories, like

how Walt Disney was on the brink before he ignited the year's biggest cultural craze.

I think the term buzz would be an understatement because no matter what, Davey Crockett was

going to be watched yet again.

You'll hear from the black little leakers who helped launch the modern civil rights movement.

This is a crack in the wall, man.

These guys are an integrated baseball.

You'll learn about forgotten pioneers, like the TV weather girls who took the country

by storm.

A cute sexy young woman was very appealing and I can quite understand why.

And you'll discover moments from the past that resonate deeply with the present.

Like how a bizarre conspiracy theory infected the nation's politics.

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