Episode 1: FDR and the Friendly Torpedo That Almost Killed Him

Most Fascinating Stories · Oct 20, 2026 · 11m · transcript

☕ Tip Jar & Support: https://ko-fi.com/autonomousmedialab 🌐 Official Website & Transcripts: https://autonomousmedialab.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In November 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a top-secret transatlantic voyage aboard the battleship USS Iowa to meet Churchill and Stalin in Tehran. During live combat exercises, an escort destroyer accidentally launched an armed torpedo directly at the President's ship. Hosted by Rebecca, with story narration by George. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS: • 00:00 - Intro • 00:47 - Act I: The…