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Episode 512: Jack Parsons Part I - The Suicide Squad

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The Suicide Squad and Jack Parsons Explosive Weapons

In the 1930s, Los Angeles was under the thumb of a corrupt mayor named Frank Shaw. The suicide squad and particularly Jack Parsons expertise and explosives would have real world consequences in the world of true crime and civic corruption. In another fuck up, they tested a rocket in the staircase of the Galset building and it spread a corrosive fog that left a layer of rust on every metal surface. When someone heard any sort of loud pop on campus, they'd run to their window to see if one of the squad had accidentally killed themselves.

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