Hello, Tim Halford here, and please allow me a brief moment to share some news about a fellow

Pushkin podcast. This season on revisionist history, Malcolm Gladwell, is diving into one of the

most infuriating corners of American life. Guns. The six episode series looks at America's gun

problem through topics such as TV Westerns, the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and the insanity

of the Supreme Court. The series begins on August 31. You can binge listen to all six episodes early

and ad-free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus on Apple podcasts, or by visiting pushkin.fm-plus,

or you can hear the episodes each week in the revisionist history podcast feed.

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In the final months of the Second World War, the Nazis began to use a dreadful rocket powered

bomb. It traveled faster than the speed of sound, which meant that you couldn't hear it coming.

One moment you were queuing up at a store or enjoying a pint at the pub, and the next moment,

well, there was no next moment. It was a cruel, spiteful weapon.

Technologically, it was a miracle. But economically and militarily, the V2 rocket was a total

disaster for Nazi Germany. How did this terrible weapon come into existence? Why were so many of the

people it hurt, not the people you might expect? And what lessons can we learn from the V2 rocket

even today? I'm very excited to introduce my new three-part series on the V2 rocket,

in which I investigate the answers to those questions. All the episodes are available now,

ad-free for Pushkin Plus subscribers. But the mini-series was inspired by former and founding

cautionary tales producer Ryan Dilly, the OG producer of cautionary tales. Ryan is also a resident

V2 expert, and while I've been able to cover the rocket weapon in depth, I haven't yet had the

chance to geek out with Ryan on the topic. And today, Ryan Dilly joins me. Welcome back to cautionary

tales, Ryan. It's so lovely to be back on the other side of the glass in the studio part rather

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