Friday, 26 June 2026

Episode 113 - The Academics and the Exploding Fonzie

You gotta be a fan of the podcast to get that title.

We've got the FBI.

We've got the ATF.

We've got the LAPD.

We've got USCG.

Sadly no BB King, BBC or Doris Day.

We've got the DIA, wait, not the CIA?  Well whatever, but we've got an alphabet soup of agencies this week.

Classic bungling federal agencies in a 70s show, a clear sign of the times.

The selling bad weapons thing, that happened, more than once.  Not just weapons either.  There's a subplot in the TV show 'The Americans' about this.  

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1 comment:

  1. Lane Smith defenders unite!

    He played an undisputable good guy on Lois and Clark, that show's version of Perry White, and was possibly the best thing about the show.

    And he was the prosecutor in My Cousin Vinny, who was obviously on the wrong side and obviously wrong, but who also played by the rules and was first to congratulate Joe Pesci at the end of the movie.

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