Podbit · 2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer
The man who invented the meter — 1 millionth of the distance between Earth and the North Pole — unveiled it on a velvet table to a room full of bewildered dignitaries, then got guillotined for it. The French Revolution didn't just kill criminals; it killed anybody who made people scratch their chins.
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The Shopify read frames the platform as the business partner YMH Studios wishes they'd had from the start, noting it powers 10% of US e-commerce. Bert then delivers a deeply personal Hims ad, detailing his hair-loss journey: he only started paying attention to thinning after he lost weight and had nothing else to fixate on. He's been using finasteride and minoxidil from Hims for three months and reports significant regrowth at the crown. The read is characteristic Bert — self-deprecating, specific, and convincing precisely because it's so nakedly honest. He notes the product works in three to six months based on clinical studies, and he claims he's personally seeing results after three.
Tom Segura breaks down the Netflix American Revolution documentary and the story of Daniel Boone — a man so capable he established the largest settlement in Kentucky, trained his daughter to be a marksman, and then watched her leave fabric trails while being kidnapped at 14 to help rescuers find her. Bert keeps confusing him with Davy Crockett.
Bert Kreischer reported significant hair regrowth at the top of his scalp after three months on Hims's finasteride and minoxidil treatment.
Factories that replaced coal engines with electric ones in the early 1900s got only 6% efficiency gains. Those that redesigned their entire factory around electricity got a 3x productivity improvement. Swapping AI tools into your existing structure will give you 6%. Rebuilding around AI will give you 10x.
Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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