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Whether it's bad luck, bad decisions, bad timing, or bad inventions; well-intentioned bad decisions have plagued history for thousands of years. Join us on Historic Hindsight. Where we make fun of historically bad decisions on our weekly Podcast.
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The Federal forces secure a foothold in South Carolina while Grant tests his strength in Missouri!
It's 2021 and I just bought a first generation Microsoft Zune! We do a quick unboxing and discuss the brilliantly flawed and failed tech on our first Historic Tech Playlist!
This week there is some good news for the Union and Sherman sets sail with the largest naval force assembled in the U.S.
This week is full of bad news for the Union and Lincoln is now arresting his generals for being so bad that he thinks they are traitors!
Oh that time F.D.R. crapped on the constitution in order to steal your gold, jack up the price, and bail out his rich banking friends at the expense of the U.S. Dollar!
This week is full of naval activity with both sides introducing Iron Plated Warships!
This week it is Union victory on the high sea's of confederate pirate hunting and on land at Fort Pickens!
The story of North Carolina's Robin Hood that robbed from the Confederate Elite and gave to the free people of color. The story of Henry Berry Lowry.
Another month comes and goes with no substantial battles to speak of and a war that has very much grown kind of cold.
It's 1910 and America is facing a meat shortage...the proposed answer, farming hippo's in the Louisiana bayou. Bonus, two of the men behind it were spies assigned to kill each other!
This week Lexington Falls due to General Fremont failing to send aid....but he does continue his spree of illegal arrests....so there's that!
When the Governor of North Carolina is left no other option then to declare war on the KKK that ran rampant through the state in 1870, you get the Kirk Holden War.
This week Lee tucks tail and runs from the Cheat Mountain Campaign, while things go sideways in Missouri for the Union.
Mother Teresa will forever be canonized in Catholicism as a saint....but should she be? The less than favorable actions taken by the Saint of Calcutta.
This week Union General Fremont free's all the slaves with his emancipation proclamation.....also Kentucky's neutrality is broken by the Confederates.
This week we have three active fronts: Kentucky tells the South to kick rocks, siege of Lexington Missouri begins, and the battle for Kanawha is on with the start of the Cheat Mountain campaign!
Tommy goes on a tirade about flags!
D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs with a program that actually inadvertently got kids to use drugs.....whoops....
This week Union General Fremont free's all the slaves with his emancipation proclamation.....also Kentucky's neutrality is broken by the Confederates.
The true story of Sergei Krikalev, a Russian Cosmonaut that was abandoned in space when the Soviet Union Collapsed.
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