The law of unintended consequences is a simple but often misunderstood rule of the universe, and as the world becomes more complicated and interconnected, the potential for unexpected and profound consequences only grows. You're about to listen to a trailer of my new podcast, Flashback from Ozzie, the creators of The Thread. Flashback is a journey through the hidden connections
and ripple effects of history. You'll dive into epic stories from policy making to personal lives, from the workplace to the environment to the courtroom, and together we'll probe the dynamics of unintended consequences and explore the reasons some of our best slaid plans and human history have gone awry. Well you're listening, go subscribe to Flashback so you're the first to hear it when it premiers on May six. You can subscribe for free on the I Heart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening right now. There's a link in the episode notes that will take you there. It's a really fun show that we know you'll love. Enjoy our first teaser for the show right now, and look out for more exclusive content for Thread fans. Coming soon received information regarding a massive car bomb exploded outside of a large federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, shattering
that building, killing children. Twenty five years ago, Timothy McVeigh killed one hundred and sixty eight people, including nineteen children, with a homemade fertilizer bomb in Oklahoma City. McVeigh, who received the death penalty in two thousand and one, was not alone responsible for the worst domestic terror attack in US history. His co conspirator, Terry Nichols, received one hundred and sixty one life sentences for his part. But it
goes deeper than that, much deeper. There's another famous figure from history whose fingerprints are all over the Oklahoma City bombing, one whose name we usually associate with mass production, not mass murder. Henry Ford. In Ford set out to change American culture. Ford was King. Ford was the most wealthy American ever, and nobody says no to that person. Nobody and the poisonous ideas Ford spread would start a ticking time bomb that would blow up seventy five years later.
I'm Sean Braswell, and welcome to Flashback, a new podcast about history's unintended consequences from Ozzy the creators of the thread that aims to bring the pass back to life like never before. I'll be your visiting professor, taking you on a journey through history that will change the way you look at the world today. Stories about disastrous turning points,
dangerous ideas, crazy coincidences, unsung heroes, and forgotten villains. That is George Lincoln Rockwell here on behalf of the white Christian majority of American I think if you had a policeman under every bed in the state of Connecticut, they
still could not prove anything. Flashback unveils the hidden connections and forces underlying history that your teachers and professors never told you about, and without the textbooks, exams, or note taking, just the most compelling and surprising tales about history and human psychology told by those who know the most about them. Opiate sedatives, laxatives, barbiturates, morphine, I mean, you name it. He was pumping the fear of foot of this stuff.
In the first season of Flashback, we will connect the dots in some of the most incredible unintended consequences that history has ever unleashed. We'll learn how the y m c A inadvertently helped fund global terrorism When there's a lot of profits to be had, illegally questionable characters will get involved in it, And how a bold effort to address the dust bowl of the Great Depression created an
even longer lasting environmental problem. Biological science has no good way to predict how these things happen, and you'll hear how these unintended outcomes continue to impact our world today. The transmission of ideas is being faciltated at speeds and volumes that are were previously unthinkable, and what we can do about thing. Essentially, we just need to be wary of quick fixes and silver bullets. They rarely work out
like we think they will. Learn about history's unintended consequences on Flashback, a new podcast from Aussie and I Heart Radio podcast network, find out how some of the best laid plans can go horribly wrong or prove unexpectedly magnificent. On May six, Listen to Flashback on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.