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What does Sputnik have to do with student loans?

How did a set of trembling hands end the Soviet Union?

How did inflation kill moon bases?

And how did a former president decide to run for a second non-consecutive term?

These are among the topics we deal with on the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics Podcast.

We tell stories of history that relate to today's news events.

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On this season of Bad Watchdog, we unpack the project on government oversight's exclusive investigations

uncovering the abuse of people in the Department of Homeland Security's immigration detention.

And how another threat has infiltrated the agency's own ranks.

It only takes one insider to undermine federal law enforcement attempts to go after

crimes, fighters, ladies. Listen and subscribe to Bad Watchdog Season 2 wherever you get your

podcast, starting June 20th. Welcome new listeners and welcome back, loyal fans.

This is historical blindness, the odd past podcast.

And I'm Nathaniel Lloyd, creator, researcher, scriptor, and host, it's just me. I do this.

For a while now, since the Halloween special on Devil Worship that I prepared long in advance of its release,

but still had to coordinate and ended up editing and mixing right up to the deadline,

I've wanted to cover topics that managed to tie in with major holidays.

When I came back from the brief hiatus I took in November, I was thinking about trying to do an episode on the pagan origin of Christmas traditions.

But my episodes on anti-Semitic myths, which I'd been planning a while and felt was still feel as an important topic,

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