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PODCAST AIN’T PLAYED NOBODY: Armageddon and the Airline Conference

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Two PAPN episodes in one day? Yep! That’s what happens when a reader question takes us in such a strange direction that it just doesn’t fit with the rest of the episode. So consider this bonus content, or part two, or whatever. Just come with as we take a time machine back to 1959.

It’s a time of upheaval and social change. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper just died in a plane crash, The Coasters’ “Charlie Brown” is a hit, Rio Bravo is a hit at the box office, and USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Washington, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt, and some combination of Syracuse, Duke, Georgia Tech, and the service academies are thinking about forming a super-conference.

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