Hey everyone Jody here we are still taking a bit of an early summer break running some of our favorite recent episodes but wait wait wait before you go look we're doing something really cool here that we've wanted to do for a long while

Every once in a while, when we do an episode, we'll get a note from a listener saying,

you know, so-and-so other show at Radiotopia did an episode

about the same topic.

We are, of course, part of Radiotopia which has all

sorts of wonderful shows and a number of them do touch on history and politics and

some of the stuff that we get at in this show, but many of those shows take a different approach. They're more

narrative or more essayistic or more soundscapier or whatever. So when I get a note like that,

I always go and listen to the way that a fellow show has tackled a story, and I always

come away learning something new and thinking how cool it is that a story can be approached

in such a variety of ways, I'm inspired honestly. So for the next few

episodes what we're going to do is run episodes we've done about a story and

then pair that by immediately running another Radiotopia shows approach to the same topic.

This is a bit of an experiment but I think it will make for really cool listening and

really interesting pairings and it will also prove that we are indeed part of a wonderful network of

shows and creative independent radio makers. Okay I think you get it we've got a

number of these lined up. So first up an episode we did about a near-miss nuclear disaster in North Carolina,

and then we're going to pair it with a story from Radio Diaries about a near-miss nuclear disaster in Arkansas.

Here we go.

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia my name is Jody Avergan

This is one of our most requested episodes that we're about to do. I'm really glad we're getting to it but here is the incident

overnight on January 23rd, 1961 in eastern North Carolina, a US Air Force bomber broke in half

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