Each episode, hosts Kaveh Taherian and Hannah Hillam choose one of their countless open browser tabs and finally take the time to read and discuss its contents until they gain enough strength to close that tab once and for all.
This week we deep dive into how the Woman's Army Corps proved to be a safe space for closeted lesbians during WW2 and how after a trade deal with the Soviet Union in 1989, Pepsi briefly possessed the sixth-largest fleet in the world. A listener email informs us of Japan's Colonel Sanders curse.
Episode Tabs:
Allan Berube Interviews of WAC soldiers
https://tinyurl.com/ep71sources
The Doomed Voyage of Pepsi’s Soviet Navy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/27/pepsi-navy-soviet-ussr/
Listener Tabs:
Hadacol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadacol
The Curse of Colonel Sanders
https://www.thehanshintigers.com/team-history/top-10-infamous-moments/the-curse-of-colonel-sanders/
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