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Anecdotes for Awkward Folks: Season One, Ep. 1
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Anecdotes for Awkward Folks: Season One, Ep. 1
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Today's episode is about the greatest meth binge in history, and what led to the circumstances that allowed it to happen. We hope you like it! Also, we promise the audio and editing quality will get better, we're just new to it. :)
Please join us on a fun and sometimes horrifying historical journey! New episodes drop every other Monday.
Sources for today's episode:
Ohler, Norman, and Whiteside. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Scan from Finnish Magazine Article About Aimo Koivunen: http://kansataisteli.sshs.fi/Tekstit/1978/Kansa_Taisteli_04_1978.pdf
Moukheiber, Zina. “Merck Cocaine: Behind Some of Those Fabulous Rolling Stones Songs.” Forbes, 24 Dec. 2010, https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2010/12/24/merck-cocaine-behind-some-of-those-fabulous-rolling-stones-songs/?sh=72ecdd223296
Montanari, Giulia. “The Crazy Crystal Meth Adventure of a Finnish Soldier.” Medium, 8 Aug. 2022, https://medium.com/exploring-history/the-crazy-crystal-meth-adventure-of-a-finnish-soldier-1cae54a1238f
The scientist who first synthesized amphetamine: Lazar Edeleanu
(We are super sorry for all of the name butchering, we'll get better)