Badlands Story Hour Ep. 192: Seven Days in May
Chris Paul and Burning Bright dig into Seven Days in May, the 1964 Frankenheimer film from the Nebel and Bailey novel about a Pentagon plot against a sitting president. They open on why the book and movie timing around JFK, Bay of Pigs, and Cuban Missile Crisis still matters, then walk predictive programming, chicken-egg authorship, and whether the story steered suspicion toward generals while intel and the deep state stayed off-camera. The talk lands on Eisenhower's military-industrial warning, treaties as paper, controlled opposition with the Soviet Union, and how true-believer honor inside…
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