The Flag, Elvis, Aliens (1977) w/ Josh Levin

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s August 15th. This episode, we discuss three notable events from this day in 1977: a young woman’s protest over the pledge of allegiance; a scramble for photos of Elvis’s dead body; and possible alien contact.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Slate’s Josh Levin, host of the new series “One Year.” He has an episode devoted to these three events, and the series as a whole takes a look at why 1977 was such a consequential and interesting year.

You can listen to “One Year” from Slate right now, wherever you get your podcasts. And make sure to catch the episode on Alex Haley’s “Roots,” which features our own Kellie Carter Jackson!

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.6	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.8	This day, August 16th, 1977, listeners, let me let you in on a little secret.
0:17.0	On this show we discuss one thing that happens on each day, but the truth is, I know this will shock you,
0:22.0	a lot of things happen on every day.
0:24.0	And today we are going to talk about three things that happened on August 16,
0:29.0	1977 in part because that is the premise of a new episode of the excellent
0:33.4	podcast one year from slate. It is hosted by our pal Josh Levine and it looks at a
0:38.1	number of consequential events in the year 1977 and this particular episode looks at August 16th.
0:46.0	Elvis's death and the rise of tabloid journalism, a battle over the pledge of allegiance
0:50.4	and sure why not possible contact from alien life forms all of that took
0:54.6	place. Josh Levine does all sorts of things at Slate including having hosted
0:59.2	the season of Sloburn on David Duke so So Josh, congrats on the first season of one year and welcome back to the show.
1:07.6	Thank you, Jody. It's great to be here. And am I right that the last time you were on the show we also did and maybe it was the only other time we've done an episode on a number of things that happened on one day together?
1:18.6	We did, yeah.
1:20.0	It was I think, was it a 1968 triple header?
1:23.1	I think that's right.
1:23.6	So you are official, several things happened
1:26.1	correspondent for the show from now on.
1:28.5	Whenever you need me, I'm here.
1:30.3	Yeah, okay.
1:31.6	And of course we were joined as always by Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley.
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