On September 26, 1983, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Soviet army saved the world.
When the Oko nuclear-warning system erroneously reported an incoming barrage of American missiles, Stanislov Petrov chose not to alert his superiors, and averted the apocalypse. But what if he had made a different decision? Would civilization still exist? What would the world look like today?
Join the boys as they examine the uniquely human obsession with revising history, and take a journey down the "what if" rabbit hole.
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Episode Transcript
Social Media Meltdowns: The Rise and Fall of MySpace, the Teetering of TikTok, and the Twitter Apocalypse
Mysterious Cases of Lost and Found Media
Ghosts of Christmases Past: The Pagan Origins of Christmas
Public Executions and Capital Punishment
The Weird, Uncomfortable, Creepy History of Clowns
Animals with Superpowers
Mummies and Death Rituals
Filth and Fury: The History and Legacy of Punk Music
The Skeptic’s Guide to Astrology
Gladiators and the History of Human Combat
The Most-Frequently Misused Words in the English Language
Deadly Plants: From Belladonna to the Gympie-Gympie
*Full Episode* After Midnight: The Top 5 Greatest Movie Sequels
Designer Babies and Dystopian Hellscapes: The Future of Gene Editing With CRISPR
Real-Life Mad Scientists
“High Class Freaks”: The Globetrotting History of Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Spectral Evidence and Satanic Panic: The Salem Witch Trials
H.H. Holmes: Myths and Murder Castles
Megafauna: Titans of the Past and Present
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