SCOUT· 68%1h 28m·2026-06-25·Arts CulturePart Two: Ian Smith: The Prime Minister of Rhodesia
Robert concludes the life story of Ian Smith by explaining the Rhodesian Bush War, and how prejudice led to military disaster. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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“5:57 first ad skip 28:54 second ad skip 1:06:00 Aha! You fell for it! You fools! (I came up with this bit right before going to sleep. Will I come back and finish it? A copypasta perhaps? Or some ASCII art? Perchance even a shady link? Only…”
“"It's not going to snow in Rhodesia on Christmas." Yeah, of course. It's summer there in December. Santa's elves in South African malls wore bikinis.”
“Kind of wild that Kissinger and Thatcher both told him to knock it off (although probably because it wasn't working rather than because it was reprehensible).”
“7:56 I'm so glad that being a person who experienced a genocide and then went on to create an Apartheid state is totally not relevant today”
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