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Robert Peatling was stranded in Arnhem during the Battle of Arnhem Bridge. For six weeks he was hiding from the 9th SS Battalion struggling for survival before finding the Nederlands Verzet (Dutch Resistance) and making his way home. Listen to his heartbreaking recollection as we discuss his tale utilizing an Interview from 1999.

Robert Peatling's book on his time in World War 2, of which his estate will receive the proceeds. - https://bantersavvy.com/WITHOUT-TRADITION

A Bridge Too Far, starring Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, & Michael Caine, telling the story of Arnhem Bridge - https://bantersavvy.com/A-BRIDGE-TOO-FAR

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Listen as we talk about The Sarco Suicide Pod, invented by euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke. 



The concept of a capsule that could produce a rapid decrease in oxygen level, while maintaining a low CO2 level, (the conditions for a peaceful, even euphoric death) was the belief behind the Sarco. The Sarco pod is a euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation. "Sarco" is short for "sarcophagus" It is used in conjunction with an inert gas (nitrogen) which prevents the panic, sense of suffocation and struggling before unconsciousness, known as the hypercapnic alarm response  caused by the presence of high carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood. The design of the device was a collaboration between Nitschke and Dutch industrial designer Alexander Bannink. Sarco is 3D-printed in sections measuring 1,000 by 500 by 500 millimetres (39 by 20 by 20 in). The design software allows for devices of different sizes to be made according to the client's dimensions. Philip Nitsche is a former medical doctor and in 1996 he helped four of his terminally I'll patients to die using Australia's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. Philip has designed several end of life machines. the deliverance machine is on permanent display in the British science Museum in London. Nitschke has said that the design is intended to resemble that of a spaceship, in order to give users the feel that they are traveling to the "great beyond."

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America’s very first Olympics in 1904, St. Louis. Alongside the 1904 World Fair, you’d imagine quite the spectacle, but no one expected what happened here at the Marathon, with the event nearly being the last in Olympic history. We discuss Fred Lorz & Thomas Hicks, the use of Strichnyne (stimulant or powerful rat poison?), the Russian delegation's lateness, the research on the athletes into dehydration, South Africa’s first Olympic entrants EVER, & Felix Carbajal whom was easily the classiest participant.

We all had a great laugh at what we see as a story too ridiculous for fiction from start to finish. A race course deemed by an official as “the most difficult a human being was ever asked to run over” makes things a bit less funny, but all the same still entertaining. We hope you enjoy the story.

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Dennis Rader, or BTK, standing for Bind Them, Torture Them, Kill them. a Prolific killer from Kansas city who eluded capture from 1974 to 2005 when he was arrested due to a clever misunderstanding set up by the Kansas City Police.

In this episode; we speak about the Otero family including their surviving son, Charlie Otero, who made a film released in July of 2010 at the Fantasia International Film Festival called I Survived BTK. We speak about how he was caught - a floppy disk of all things. We go into detail about his upbringing, his early attention at physical violence towards women, his head injuries and his time in high school and community college. We talk about how he stalked women and harassed them in his time as a compliance officer. We finally speak about how he was caught - a pap smear from his daughter by Kansas State University providing a familial match between Rader and the Wegerle victim.


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A little late to the November 11th party - thanks Descript for the technical issue causing the delay! This episode, you'll hear about WWI Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John Mcrae's In Flanders Fields poem and it's origins focusing on the poppy flower - which is surprisingly orange? We were shocked, anyway, we thought it was red. Additionally, we discuss the appropriate ritual of the moment of silence according to the Royal British Legion and it's origins in South Africa with Sir Harry Hands. 

Next, we have a sad laugh about the Dam Screamer incident on May 4th 2010 where dozens of people were injured in a crowd of 20,000 in Amsterdam due to the actions of one negligent citizen.

We briefly touch on the yellow jacket womanhunt for the person who caused the Tour De France crash.

And lastly, we discuss nanotech poppies - the result of a easily flustered society and comical ignorance. 

"And you wonder why our war isn't going too well." - John Pike, security and military analyst at Globalsecurity.org

"We knew loose lips sink ships, but loose change....?" - Bernard Etzinger, Canadian embassy spokesperson
"That story about Canadians planting coins in the pockets of defence contractors will not go away." - Luc Portelance, now Deputy Director for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.



In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

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