Podcast
Bad Friends
During a plane conversation, Andrew Santino brought up the title, noting it examined the Holocaust’s brutal eugenics programs and even described a bizarre experiment where victims were injected with a potion and thrown from a slingshot in an attempt to make them fly. He highlighted how the book details the twisted mindset behind Nazi scientific atrocities. The discussion was informative but informal, serving mainly as a striking anecdote rather than a strong endorsement.
Episode: Fat Face Five w/ Chris Distefano
It was read on a plane and discussed; the book details the horrors of the Holocaust, including experiments where Jewish people were thrown from a slingshot after being injected with a potion, in a failed attempt to make them fly.
And the whole time you're just going...
I was sitting next to a woman. I didn't realize... I was always in the aisle seat so she could see the cover because I was like that.
And there was a part in this book, The Nazi Symbiosis, which is really about... It's kind of about Nazi and the eugenics and how their minds turned into doing what they did.
So one part... But they would talk about the horrors of the Holocaust and there's a part in the Holocaust where they...
They wanted to... Hitler and- Goebbels. Himmler. Well, Goebbels is the propaganda minister. Himmler was really like- Right, Himmler. Himmler was the propaganda. They were the ones that were doing the experiments and they had one experiment where they wanted to... They were going to try to invent something where Nazis could fly, some type of flying power.