The Atomic Whoops: When the US Air Force Bombed South Carolina

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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During the height of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR constantly ran drills in anticipation of a possible nuclear conflict. While the Gregg family of Mars Bluff, South Carolina knew the Cold War was in full swing, they had no idea that they would be

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0:00.0	Music
0:24.0	Boom!
0:25.0	Or...
0:26.0	Not to boom.
0:27.0	Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen.
0:28.5	My name is Ben.
0:29.5	You startled me.
0:30.5	I'm sorry, Noel.
0:31.5	It was not my intention to startle you.
0:33.5	You startled me so much that I forgot to announce my name, but you did it for me, so
0:36.9	thank you for that.
0:37.9	I know how you did that, though.
0:39.8	You dropped a bomb on me, Ben.
0:41.3	You dropped the bomb on me, right?
0:43.7	Just go beat.
0:44.7	Just go beat.
0:46.2	And of course, we would be remiss if we did not shout out our super producer, good friend,
0:51.1	Casey Pegrum, who is sipping a coffee and gave us a cheerful nod and toast.
0:57.5	A good day.
0:58.5	A good day, yeah.
0:59.5	And we're at the very end of the years we record this, right?
1:03.5	Yeah, yeah.
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