95: Billy Possum and The Thing
500 Open Tabs · Nov 12, 2025 · 1:27:08
500 Open Tabs · Nov 12, 2025 · 1:27:08
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This week we deep dive into how a political cartoon of William Howard Taft inspired Billy Possum who once tried to take control of the plush market from the Teddy Bear and how a listening device within a seemingly innocent gift from the Soviets during the Yalta Conference inspired the modern day RFID. A listener email shows us a TV portal to the past.
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Episode Tabs:
Politics and Possum Feasts: Presidents Who Ate Opossums
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2019/09/politics-and-possum-feasts-presidents-who-ate-opossums/
Leon Theremin Changed Spying FOREVER with this 1940s invention!
https://youtu.be/GyryQltyDwA?si=5xtxJGadvhtLxyH3
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