Sadly, no man with five rusty hooks on his right hand. Paraguay has offically baffled me... Or at least it's leader did. In delusions that is.

2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. 

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sources:
https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html

Episode 181 - The Charge of the Light Brigade

What if your local sports fans attempted a coup

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Sources:
Procopius: JUSTINIAN SUPPRESSES THE NIKA REVOLT, 532

JB Bury. The History of the Later Roman Empire

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-nika-revolt-1788557

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/nika.html

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/war-terraces-nika-riots-mm.html?safari=1

Episode 208 - The Nika Riots

The founder of Scientology had a very stupid naval career 

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Sources:
Russel Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/intro.htm

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/primary-sources-l-ron-hubbard-leaves-the-navy

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/l-ron-hubbard/?safari=1

Episode 209 - The Hilarious Military Career of L Ron Hubbard

Part 1/5. Paraguay picks a fight with an entire continent.

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 210 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 1: Night Demons

Part 2/5. The Paraguayan Army fights a battle against a field of cacti and hardly wins. 

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 211 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 2: Man Vs Cactus

Part 3/5

Suicide canoes, it turned out, would not be the wonder weapon Solano Lopez thought they would be.

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

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Episode 212 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 3: Send in the Canoes!

Part 4/5

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Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 213 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 4: Death Funnel

The conclusion to the war of the triple alliance. 

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Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 214 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 5: I Die With My Country

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The story of how the US poisoned the Marshall Islands with nuclear fallout and did nothing to clean it up.

sources:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/02/27/castle-bravo-the-largest-u-s-nuclear-explosion/

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/castle-bravo

https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/

Zohl De Ishtar "Poisoned Lives, Contaminated Lands: Marshall Islanders Are Paying a High Price for the United States Nuclear Arsenal" Seattle Journal for Social Justice.

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/lost-sea/

https://borgenproject.org/thyroid-cancer-a-radiation-caused-healthcare-crisis-in-the-marshall-islands/

Oishi, Matashichi. "The Day the Sun Rose in the West: The Lucky Dragon, and I." University of Hawaii Press.


*corrections*

FDR died after completing 3 terms in office, barely made it 80 days into his 4th.

Episode 215 - How the US Poisoned the Marshall Islands

The British feed hundreds of Canadian soldiers into a wood chipper for no reason. 

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Sources:
Fowler, Will. Allies at Dieppe.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-jubilee-dieppe-raid-1942

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/battles-and-stages/battle-of-dieppe

https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/dieppe-a-colossal-blunder

Episode 216 - The Dieppe Raid

The US manufactures a war against the indigenous people of the Great Plains. 

Part 1/3

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Sources for the entire series:
Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse

Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876"

Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle. 

He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories.

The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876

Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won. 

Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

Episode 217 - The Battle of Little Bighorn Part 1: Custer, Bad Student

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