Speaker 1: Received information regarding a massive car bomb exploded outside of
Speaker 1: a large federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, shattering that building,
Speaker 1: killing children. Twenty five years ago, Timothy McVeigh killed one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight people, including nineteen children, with a
Speaker 1: homemade fertilizer bomb in Oklahoma City. McVeigh, who received the
Speaker 1: death penalty in two thousand and one, was not alone
Speaker 1: responsible for the worst domestic terror attack in US history.
Speaker 1: His co conspirator, Terry Nichols, received one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: one life sentences for his part. But it goes deeper
Speaker 1: than that, much deeper. There's another famous figure from history
Speaker 1: whose fingerprints are all over the Oklahoma City bombing, one
Speaker 1: whose name we usually associate with mass production, not mass murder.
Speaker 1: Henry Ford. In Ford set out to change American culture.
Speaker 1: Ford was King Board, was the most wealthy American ever,
Speaker 1: and nobody says no to that person. Nobody and the
Speaker 1: poisonous ideas Ford spread would start a ticking time bomb
Speaker 1: that would blow up seventy five years later. I'm Sean
Speaker 1: Braswell and welcome to Flashback, a new podcast about history's
Speaker 1: unintended consequences From Ozzy. The creators of the thread that
Speaker 1: aims to bring the pass back to life like never before.
Speaker 1: I'll be your visiting professor, taking you on a journey
Speaker 1: through history that will change the way you look at
Speaker 1: the world today. Stories about disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas,
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Rockwell here on behalf of the white Christian majority
Speaker 1: of American I think if you had a policeman under
Speaker 1: every bed in the state of Connecticut, they still could
Speaker 1: not prove anything. Flashback unveils the hidden connections and forces
Speaker 1: underlying history that your teachers and professors never told you about.
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Speaker 1: most compelling and surprising tales about history and human psychology
Speaker 1: told by those who know the most about them. Opiate sedatives, laxatives, barbiturates, morphine,
Speaker 1: I mean, you name it. He was pumping the fear
Speaker 1: of foot of this stuff. In the first season of Flashback,
Speaker 1: we will connect the dots and some of the most incredible,
Speaker 1: unintended consequences that history has ever unleashed. We'll learn how
Speaker 1: the y m c A inadvertently helped fund global terrorism
Speaker 1: when there's a lot of profits to be had, illegally
Speaker 1: questionable curacters will get involved in it, and how a
Speaker 1: bold effort to address the dust bowl of the Great
Speaker 1: Depression created an even longer lasting environmental problem. Biological science
Speaker 1: has no good way to predict how these things happen,
Speaker 1: and you'll hear how these unintended outcomes continue to impact
Speaker 1: our world today. The transmission of ideas is being faciltated
Speaker 1: at speeds and volumes that are were previous were unthinkable,
Speaker 1: and what we can do about things. Essentially, we just
Speaker 1: need to be wary of quick fixes and silver bullets.
Speaker 1: They rarely work out like we think they will. Learn
Speaker 1: about history's unintended consequences on Flashback, a new podcast from
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Speaker 1: some of the best laid plans can go horribly wrong
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