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Episode 244: “Greetings From the President of the United States” This week Host Dave Bledsoe would be texting random Gen Zers telling them they are to report to the Army ASAP, if he actually knew any. (The young find him creepy and strange) On the show this week, we check our registration status with the Selective Service only to discover we never bothered to sign up. (Oops!) Along the way we discover that we did not come here to talk about Alice, or the restaurant, we came to talk about The Draft. (Again, there is no Draft at the moment!) We go all the way back to before we were a country to see how the brave men of the Colonies used to militia to keep out of actual fighting! (The George W Bush of their day!) Then we look at how the brave men of America reacted to the first REAL draft in history! (They killed a bunch of Black People.) Then we learn how the modern Selective Service System evolved from a crooked bunch of local bigwigs keeping rich kids out of the war into a totally fair and random systems that still keeps rich kids out of the war! (Like create a social class of permanent military and get THEM to volunteer to die in our Forever Wars!) Finally, if things DO go bad, we provide some helpful tips from The Boomers to get out of being drafted! (Thank the Boomers, kids!) Our Sponsor this week is Gord Trembaly Deputy Minister of Apologies, the Government of Canada with a message to future Draft Dodgers. We open this week with an American Icon getting a letter from the President and close with Robin Irene singing a little ditty to help you get out of your duty with the Draft Board! Show Theme: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/david-bledsoe-4 www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/8HEYegwY4NI Citations Needed: The Effective Use of Colonial Militia https://userpages.umbc.edu/~jamie/html/effective_use_of_colonial_mili.html A Common American Soldier https://www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn04/soldier.cfm Twenty-Slave Law https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/twenty-slave_law#start_entry 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft (VERY DATED AND NOT AT ALL WOKE CONTENT!) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miua.2917616.0001.001&view=1up&seq=3

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