History Blitz

Welcome back History nerds!!! We have been gone a year due to......Covid. We were forced to shut the cast down and we have not seen eachother in a year, BUT WE ARE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!! New concept and new stories!!!

Mike and Dylan talk about the Great Chinese Famine and the Four Pests Campaign. Chairman Mao had huge plans for China. He figured if he bolstered the agriculutural output and industrialized most of his country, China would be #1 again. But a few slip ups here and there can lead to a false sense of security followed by a real sense of regret. https://www.npr.org/2012/11/10/164732497/a-grim-chronicle-of-chinas-great-faminehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaignhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120822081443/http://io9.com/5927112/chinas-worst-self+inflicted-disaster-the-campaign-to-wipe-out-the-common-sparrowhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Industrializationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine#Extenthttps://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-four-pests-campaign-objectives-execution-failure-and-consequences.htmlhttps://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/the-great-sparrow-campaign-was-the-start-of-the-greatest-masshttps://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/26/1958-mao-zedong-ordered-sparrows-killed-ate-much-grain-caused-one-worst-environmental-disasters-history/

Dylan and Mike welcome guest and friend of the show Jake Jekyll from Bitter sweet revenge and Engineer of Signal Flow Studios, We talk about the capture of Guam

Dylan and Mike are joined by local artist and live painter Amanda Luisi aka "5" We talk about Japanese fire balloons and the attack on American soil.

Dylan and Mike talk about John the liver eating Johnston