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Episode 03 | FDR: The Splendid Deception

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2615215/fan_mail/new] Koji Steven Sakai takes the “Dead Air” machine into the darkest hours of American leadership. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the ultimate screen director of his own image, masking his wheelchair from a desperate nation. But as Koji points out, the real deception wasn't his health—it was his conscience. In this raw, deeply personal episode, Koji holds FDR accountable for the human math behind Executive Order 9066, the turning away of Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis, and an executive betrayal of Black civil rights. THE AUDIT TRAIL Executive Order 9066 & Incarceration * The Munson Report: The pre-war intelligence briefing confirming Japanese American loyalty: The Munson Report of 1941 [https://www.archives.gov/] * The Personal Cost: Direct testimony regarding the assembly centers and conditions at camps like Manzanar and Tule Lake: Densho Digital Repository [https://densho.org/] The Global & Domestic Compromises * The MS St. Louis: The tragic account of the 937 Jewish refugees turned away from American shores in 1939: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [https://www.ushmm.org/] * The Anti-Lynching Filibuster: FDR's strategic choice to abandon the Costigan-Wagner Bill to appease Southern Dixiecrats: NAACP History: The Fight for Federal Anti-Lynching Laws [https://naacp.org/] The Private Leader * The Stamp Collection: A look inside FDR's lifelong, million-stamp escape from the burdens of statecraft: Smithsonian National Postal Museum [https://postalmuseum.si.edu/] * The White House Press Pact: How the media and the Secret Service actively guarded the image of presidential physical perfection: The FDR Presidential Library & Museum [https://www.fdrlibrary.org/] SOUND CREDITS * Gravel Footsteps (Sassaby): https://freesound.org/s/827831/ [https://www.google.com/search?q=https://freesound.org/s/827831/] * Vicki Hamilton: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/394326/ [https://www.google.com/search?q=https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/394326/] * Freesound Community: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/48537/ [https://www.google.com/search?q=https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/48537/] * Freesound Community: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/34545/ [https://www.google.com/search?q=https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/34545/] * Pixabay Effect 240674: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/240674/ [https://www.google.com/search?q=https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/240674/] Next Episode: Koji shifts the dial to examine the icons who built empires of moral authority on foundations of sand. Subscribe, review, and drop an audit of your own on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

Episode 02 | Mother Teresa: The Saint’s Secret Ledger

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2615215/fan_mail/new] Koji Steven Sakai tunes the “Dead Air” signal to 1997 to pull the world’s most untouchable brand into a South Pasadena garage for an audit. Mother Teresa built a legacy on the "beauty of suffering," but the receipts tell a different story. From running 14th-century-style plague wards while seeking world-class cardiac care for herself, to her cozy relationships with dictators and a $1.25 million thrift-store scandal, Koji cross-examines the "small pencil" to see if her moral ledger actually balances out. THE AUDIT TRAIL Medical Standards & The "Philosophy of Suffering" * The Lancet Report: A medical critique of the "hospice" standards in Calcutta: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(94)92353-1/fulltext [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(94)92353-1/fulltext] * The Scripps Clinic: Details on Mother Teresa's high-end heart treatments in California: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/08/world/mother-teresa-is-hospitalized-with-pneumonia-and-heart-illness.html [https://www.google.com/search?q=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/08/world/mother-teresa-is-hospitalized-with-pneumonia-and-heart-illness.html] * The "Kiss of Jesus": The primary critique of her views on pain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position:_Mother_Teresa_in_Theory_and_Practice [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position:_Mother_Teresa_in_Theory_and_Practice] The Dictators & The Donors * The Duvalier Connection: Her 1981 visit to Haiti to praise the "Baby Doc" regime: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/mother-teresa-sainthood-charles-keating/ * The Keating Letter: The actual letter sent by the prosecutor asking Mother Teresa to return stolen money: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/10/the-fanatic-fraudulent-mother-teresa.html The Faith Audit * The Crisis of Faith: Her private letters revealing 50 years of feeling "no God": https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Teresa-Come-My-Light/dp/0307332078 * The Monica Besra "Miracle": The controversial medical evidence behind her canonization: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/20/india.religion SOUND CREDITS * Gravel Footsteps (Sassaby): https://freesound.org/s/827831/ * Vicki Hamilton: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/394326/ * Freesound Community: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/48537/ * Freesound Community: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/34545/ * Pixabay Effect 240674: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/search/240674/ Next Episode: Koji goes back to the 1940s to audit FDR and the "Splendid Deception" behind Executive Order 9066. Subscribe and leave an audit (review) on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

Un-History Ep 1 | Thomas Jefferson: The 600-Person Plot Hole

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2615215/fan_mail/new] Koji Steven Sakai drags Thomas Jefferson into a South Pasadena garage for a long-overdue audit. Using the “Dead Air” signal, Koji cross-examines the Founding Father on the massive plot holes in his legacy—from his 600-person forced labor camp to the massive debts that kept his own children in the service entrance. It’s a deep dive into the man who wrote the script for freedom but couldn't afford to live it. The Audit Trail (References) Slavery & Labor: * The Nailery: Monticello's "Nail Boys" [https://search.proquest.com/openview/23769dd44e55c6469aa4953dcf8b4229/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750] * Sally Hemings: Life at Monticello [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/hemings-sally-1773-1835/] | PBS NewsHour [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/unearthing-sally-hemings-legacy-at-monticello] * 1800 Election: The Three-Fifths Clause [https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/three-fifths-historian/] Financials & Gadgets: * Jefferson Bible: The "Razor and Glue" Gospels [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible] * The Mammoth Cheese: 1,200lbs of Symbolism [https://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-12-number-3/thomas-jefferson-and-mammoth-cheese] * The Polygraph: The 18th Century CC Machine [https://www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/portable-polygraph-owned-thomas-jefferson] * Weather Logs: 50 Years of Daily Data [https://jefferson-weather-records.org/documents] Sound Credits Pixabay: freesound_community [https://pixabay.com/users/freesound_community-46691455/], Vicki Hamilton [https://pixabay.com/users/flutie8211-17475707/], Hasin Amanda [https://pixabay.com/users/hasin2004-46173687/] Freesound.org: Gravel Footsteps [https://freesound.org/s/827831/] by Sassaby (CC0)