Chapter
Stuff on Social Media
00:00 - 02:29 (02:29)
Revisiting the early days of social media through the people who lived it, including the collapse of the first major social media company.
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Let's Start a Coup explores the story of Smedley Butler, a marine who stopped a group of powerful tycoons in the United States attempting to start a coup while Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace, by Joanne McNeil, dives into the rise and fall of the first major social media company.
00:00 - 01:03 (01:03)
Politics, Social Media
Summary
Let's Start a Coup explores the story of Smedley Butler, a marine who stopped a group of powerful tycoons in the United States attempting to start a coup while Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace, by Joanne McNeil, dives into the rise and fall of the first major social media company.
ChapterStuff on Social Media
EpisodeSelects: Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub
PodcastStuff You Should Know
In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, hosts Josh and Chuck talk about Project Azorian- a CIA-led mission in 1974 to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the Pacific Ocean.
01:03 - 02:29 (01:25)
Project Azorian
Summary
In this episode of Stuff You Should Know, hosts Josh and Chuck talk about Project Azorian- a CIA-led mission in 1974 to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the Pacific Ocean. They dive deep into the well-executed plan which involved a gigantic claw, cold war espionage, and a valuable scoop for the US government.