Show Notes
Apologies for my audio quality in this one. Adobe kept crashing on me, so we had to use the audio Simon was receiving which isn’t ideal. Also a bit under the weather and lost my voice before recording, so maybe for the best that I wasn’t coming through in pristine quality. Next episode will sound much, much better!
In any event, in this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at the real story behind the song In the Air Tonight.
Moving on to the meat of today’s episode, we jump into the fascinating story of one Willie Francis, a young man convicted for murder, executed, then executed again about a year later, despite the fact that it would very much seem as if he was innocent the whole time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start with the rather curious way in which George Eastman, founder of Kodak, died.
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Ever wonder why Austria agreed to give up its sovereignty so readily to Nazi Germany without any semblance of a fight?
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