Welcome to Interesting If True, the podcast that helps you lose weight through the proper application of diet, no exercise, and radiation! I'm your host this week, Aaron, and with me is Shea! I'm Shea, and this week I learned that The Joker movie is the Passion of the Christ for Juggalos. This Week's Beer Twisted Lemon Wheat - River Rat Brewery South Carolina Donated by Steve-E Style:Wheat Beer - American Pale * Ranked #275ABV:5.2%Score:82* Ranked #53,967Avg:3.7 | pDev: 15.14%* Aaron: 7* Shea: 8 Speaking of show beers, we’re getting close to running low. So if you have a suggestion, or want to make a donation, let us know! We can’t always find every beer out there, but we sure can accept them in the mail, so send us a message on the site, facebook, or at 513-760--0463! Atomic Brewing! No, not Atomik, we already did that story in episode 56! Long-time listeners will recall some of my stories about people living, brewing, and for patrons, gardening, with radiation. It was the "light" in your delighting watch-face. The bomba in your very nearly Earth-shattering Czar. And, the nuka in your cola. Which is where we're at today - can you really nuke that cola and survive it? Nuka-Coors! Ah the 1950's. It was an age of wonder... wondering if you were going to explode in a rain of nuclear fire that is. But don't worry, between blasts Uncle Sam had you best interests at heart. He even made sure that the post-apocalyptic wasteland his armed forces were so keen to deploy had certain creature comforts... like beer! What would Mad Max-world beer taste like? Would it still be carbonated? Would it give you bone cancer? These are the hard hitting questions that Alex Wellerstein found the answers to after unearthing a 1957 U.S. Government study called *The Effect Of Nuclear Explosions on Commercially Packaged Beverage," because we'd run out of other meaningful science to do, but we still had all those darn nukes and they weren't just going to sit around and collect dust if the 50's had anything to say about it. Written by executives, of course, from the Can Manufacturers Institute and the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute for the Federal Civil Defense Administration. So... the most critical members of team "don't get blown up" I'm sure. The study isn't clear on weather or not the executives were super duper sure that their special tins could withstand a nuclear blast or if they just had one too many bombs laying around and it was the can-people's turn to set one off, but either way they somehow got permission to place cans of soda and beer next to an atomic test site. And, because it was the U.S. Department of Energy in the 1950's it needed a cutiesy name like, just spitballing here, but how about "Operation Teapot" on the count of no tea actually being used it's the perfect ruse to keep those pesky Redcoats off your radioactive trail! Operations Teapot, somehow, managed to detonate 14 nuclear bombs with a straight face. And, as part of those tests, on at least two occasions, they blew up someone's Friday Afternoon Club. Operation Cue was part of Teapot. Cue, was an "open" project. Meaning that the press was allowed to see the government blow up a "survival town" or a town made of mannequins like the one Indiana Jones survives in the my Mystery of The Crystal Skull's Inability to Write a Script. Or whatever it was called.