Ohio V. The World Evergreen Podcasts

Broken Rings: Israel, Palestine and the Munich Olympic Massacre
EPISODE 3: Ohio v. Terrorism. Alex recounts the tragedy of the 1972 Munich Massacre and the murder of Cleveland’s David Berger. We look at the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and its role in the death of David Berger and his fellow Olympic athletes. 
We’re joined by author and professor David Clay Large to discuss the events of September 1972 and his great book Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror and Triumph at the Olympic Games. See link below. David takes us through the events of the 20th Summer Olympiad in West Germany and the terrorist attack on the Israeli athletes on September 5-6, 1972. David outlines the attack, the demands and the failed rescue attempt that claimed 9 of the 11 Israeli lives. 
Ori Yehudai, author and professor at The Ohio State University unravels a quarter century of Israeli-Palestinian history from the bloody birth of the State of Israel in 1948 to the Black September terrorists attack at the ’72 Olympics. We discuss the tangled web that is the first 25 years of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the possibility of peace in this never-ending cycle of violence and reprisals. Alex and Ori discuss his book Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel After World War II. Link below. 
Dr. Sean Martin, the curator for Jewish History at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The life of David Berger is discussed, his weightlifting career and his youth in Shaker Heights, Ohio. We analyze the rich history of the Jewish people in Cleveland and how the city mourned and remembered David after his tragic murder at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. 
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Western Reserve Historical Society: www.wrhs.org
David Clay Large’s Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror and Triumph at the Olympic Games. Buy it here https://www.amazon.com/Munich-1972-Tragedy-Triumph-Olympic/dp/0742567397
Ori Yehudai’s Leaving Zion. Buy it here https://www.amazon.com/Leaving-Zion-Ori-Yehudai/dp/1108478344
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Episode 2: Ohio v. the Universe: Are we alone? We analyze the Wow! Signal, what many consider the first legitimate contact with an extraterrestrial source, which happened in Ohio in August 1977. Alex goes all in on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), the history, the science and the most fascinating moment in SETI at the Ohio State Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio.
We sit down with the director and writer of the documentary Wow Signal, Bob Dawson and Michael Shaw, respectively. We discuss their excellent movie, “the SETI life” and attempt to debunk the source of the Wow Signal: 6EQUJ5. Alex meets with radio astronomer, Bob Dixon, who spent 49 years at Ohio State and headed up the Ohio State Radio Telescope that may have made first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. Our 4th guest and one of my favorite interviews of all time, Tom Burns, the former director of the Perkins Observatory and professor at Ohio Wesleyan University. Tom talks about the Big Ear telescope, the Wow Signal and the recent UAP sightings and Congressional hearings. Tom also gets our listeners ready for the total solar eclipse next week in North America and going directly over Ohio.
LINKS to our GUESTS:
Check out the Wow! Signal now streaming on Peacock. Bob Dawson and Michael Shaw’s Next Future Films website. https://www.nextfuturefilms.com/
Perkins Observatory click for history and programming information. https://www.owu.edu/about/offices-services-directory/perkins-observatory/
Book Recommendation of the episode: UFO by Garrett Graff (2023). Click here for this fantastic read on the history of UFOs in the US since the 1930s. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/UFO/Garrett-M-Graff/9781982196776
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Alex details the rise of anti-semitic and fascist groups during the Depression in America. These groups hatred of Jews, FDR and core American values spreads across the country and its roots begin in Ohio and the entire Midwest. The Radio Priest, Father Charles Coughlin, becomes the most popular media figure in US history. His demagoguery propels these anti-semitic ideas into the mainstream. Guest Andrew Layton of the Coughlin-based hit podcast Radioactive, joins the program to discuss the power of Coughlin and his hate filled radio sermons, especially in Cleveland. Bradley Hart and Mike Cikraji detail the forgotten pro-Nazi group, the German American Bund and how such a group of outcasts could actually sell out Madison Square Garden for a "Pro-American Rally" in 1939. This episode is more rise than fall but make sure you listen to Part One first before going to Part 2.
LINKS to our GUESTS:
Bradley W. Hart's new podcast the Star Spangled Fascism Podcast is out NOW. Link here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/star-spangled-fascism-podcast/id1729473516
Bradley W. Hart's fantastic book Hitler's American Friends (2018) buy it HERE. https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Friends-Reichs-Supporters/dp/1250148952?asin=1250871883&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
Andrew Lapin's hit podcast Radioactive, download here or wherever you get your podcasts https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/radioactive
Samantha Seiple's book, Nazi Saboteurs, is available on Audible or buy in print here https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/nazi-saboteurs-9781338259148.html
Mike Cikraji's in depth and fantastic book History of the Cleveland Nazis can bought here https://www.amazon.com/History-Cleveland-Nazis-1933-1945/dp/1500872792
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Part Two: Ohio v. Fascism. The cautionary tale of the rise and fall of American Fascism in the 1930s is explored in detail in Part Two of our Season 8 premiere. Nazi Germany and her allies in the US are defeated as World War II begins in Europe but not without a fight. The propaganda effort finds an effective home on Capitol Hill with George Sylvester Viereck and a group of sympathetic Congressmen. The America First Committee finds massive support stateside with the help of celebrity members and none more important than American hero, Charles Lindbergh. Lindbergh and the AFC's conspiratorial and anti-semitic rhetoric further divides the country until a historic attack on America unites the country like never before. An Ohioan, back in the Reich, helps lead a failed sabotage mission on US soil that has dire consequences for the saboteurs.
LINKS to our guests:
Bradley W. Hart's new podcast the Star Spangled Fascism Podcast is out NOW. Link here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/star-spangled-fascism-podcast/id1729473516
Bradley W. Hart's fantastic book Hitler's American Friends (2018) buy it HERE. https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Friends-Reichs-Supporters/dp/1250148952?asin=1250871883&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
Andrew Lapin's hit podcast Radioactive, download here or wherever you get your podcasts https://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/radioactive
Samantha Seiple's book, Nazi Saboteurs, is available on Audible or buy in print here https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/nazi-saboteurs-9781338259148.html
Mike Cikraji's in depth and fantastic book History of the Cleveland Nazis can bought here https://www.amazon.com/History-Cleveland-Nazis-1933-1945/dp/1500872792
Contact the show at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com or on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Evergreen Podcast Network for Ohio v. the World and hundreds of other great podcasts here. www.evergreenpodcasts.com.
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We're back! Season 8 of Ohio v. the World drops on March 5, 2024. Thanks for being patient through our 2023 hiatus but Season 8 is in production and on its way to your ears.
Go back and listen to all of our 99 episodes on the Evergreen Podcast Network https://evergreenpodcasts.com/ohio-v-the-world
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FyreFest, Altamont, Woodstock '99, Astroworld are some of the biggest festival disasters in American history, today we'll look at some of the most flawed festivals in Ohio history in our Season 7 Finale.
We start with BalloonFest '86 a fatally flawed world record setting balloon release festival in Downtown Cleveland. We relive the ecological disaster and dangerous consequences of the City of Cleveland's releasing of 1.5 million balloons in September 1986. We're joined by Cleveland sports personality and Twitter legend Chris McNeill, better known as Reflog_18 on Twitter to discuss 1980s Cleveland and the ill-fated BalloonFest '86. We'll also talk about Chris McNeill's leading role in the "Perfect Season Parade" to protest the Cleveland Browns winless 2017 NFL season. Follow Reflog_18 on Twitter and check out his Ohio-based weekly sports show, the BIGPLAY Reflog Show here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjqGMjGtAUKxlthtZ7hXt7Q
Next we revisit the economic disaster that was AmeriFlora '92 in Columbus, Ohio. This horticultural exhibition was everything and nothing. Part theme park, part flower show, part mixed message branding nightmare. This $95 million boondoggle projected some 5+ million visitors but fell way short of those numbers. Tim Trad, the creator of onlyincbus, details the big swing and miss that was AmeriFlora '92. Follow @onlyincbus on Instagram and check out Tim's incredibly interesting content here www.onlyincbus.com
We go all the way back to the 1950s for one of the first failed music festivals in American history. We replay an interview from a previous episode with Jerry DePizzo of the famous Ohio rock band O.A.R. about 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland. The rock n' roll concert was hosted by the famous radio DJ Alan Freed, the man credited with popularizing the phrase rock n' roll. We follow Alan Freed's career and his disastrous event at the Cleveland Arena in March 1952, regarded by many as the first rock festival in the United States.
Lastly, we sit down with friend of the show Vince Tornero to discuss the wildly successful concert series the World Series of Rock in Cleveland during the 1970s. We hear clips from his great new podcast season for the Evergreen Podcast Network show PrOHfiles called The Wrath of the Buzzard. His show documents the meteoric rise and fall of 100.7 WMMS - the iconic Cleveland FM rock station that proved to be one of the most influential radio stations of all time. We also discuss the disasterous 1979 World Series of Rock that resulted in violence and even the breakup of the famous band Aerosmith following their headlining performance at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Check out The Wrath of the Buzzard here https://evergreenpodcasts.com/prohfiles
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