The longest Shortest Flight of Rudolf Hess (remix)

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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On May 10th 1941 Rudolf Hess flew from Germany to Scotland. He hoped to bring the Nazis and the British together. He failed. But the details behind his flight remain one of the greatest mysteries of World War II. Historians and Amateur scholars have spent decades trying to unravel this mystery. On this episode we look into one of the strangest theories of them all.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
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0:23.5	Ear Hustle, the award-winning radio-topia podcast featuring sounds and stories that come from American Prison Life, is back with a brand new season.
0:33.5	And they're also celebrating their 100th episode.
0:37.5	In the new season, the show revisits its very first episode, a listener favorite called Sellies, about the relationships formed inside a prison cell.
0:47.0	But this time, the whole episode takes place inside a woman's prison.
0:51.5	The producers also spent a marathon 14 hours out on the road at San Quentin for this season.
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1:09.5	Listen to Ear Hustle, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.5	Dear TOE listeners, it is December 1st, 2020, as I sit down to record this intro.
1:20.5	That means there is one month left in this hateful year in which many of us have lost so much.
1:28.5	My thoughts go out to every single one of you out there who's had a difficult time this year.
1:33.5	And I truly hope that things will turn around soon for all of us.
1:38.5	As for me, I'm hoping to get back home to New York sooner than later, but I am hard at work on some new episodes.
1:48.5	The first of which is set in May of 1945.
1:52.5	In some ways, it's kind of a companion piece to this episode, which I put out the last week of February 2020, just as everything was falling apart.
2:03.5	So I imagine that there's many of you out there in listener land who saw this 50 minute episode about Nazis drop into the feed and decided to pass.
2:15.5	And I totally see why you would make that decision.
2:19.5	But I am hoping that now you can give this one another chance because I think it's one of the best episodes that I've done on the show.
2:28.5	And as I just mentioned, it's kind of a starting point for where we're going next.
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