What Happened To New Vietnam?
Jul 23, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Episode description
A Wikipedia stub about the worst Florida theme park idea ever sends John on a search for the reason it never opened.
Show notes:
- 0:45 - New Vietnam on Wikipedia
- 1:12 - Dolly Parton's Stampede (formerly Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede)
- 2:16 - Carl McIntire on Wikipedia
- 3:52 - Wild West City
- 5:50 - New Vietnam in Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader
- 7:25 - Portable Press
- 8:11 - 20th Century Reformation Hour
- 8:44 - Some clips of the 20th Century Reformation Hour
- 9:37 - Christianity Today, May 2002 (paywall)
- 10:41 - Dr. Randall Balmer's website
- 12:42 - Fred Phelps on YouTube
- 14:54 - The Carl McIntire Collection at Princeton Theological Seminary Library
- 15:55 - Faraday Cage
- 19:03 - "Body Counts" by Dr. Yen Espiritu
- 24:27 - FCC Fairness Doctrine
- 24:46 - Infowars on Wikipedia
- 24:50 - This American Life episode about Alex Jones
- 29:17 - History of the Present (registration required), an article about film theory published in The North American Review in 1976, led us to the Newsweek story about New Vietnam.
- 30:40 - Actually, Newsweek's online archives only go back to 2013
- 30:48 - The September 8, 1975 issue of Newsweek that John bought on eBay
- 37:19 - Florida Today, November 8, 1975
- 39:33 - Ricky Ly's food blog Tasty Chomps