🎧 Inventing Bond: Wiretapping
🎧 Patented: History of Inventions • 35m
We live in a world where everything is bugged. We all know we are being monitored. The surprising thing is that this is nothing new.
From tapped telegraph wires to bugged Martini olives, Dallas is finding out about the history of Wiretapping with Brian Hochman, author of The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States.
Before that though Dallas chats to comedian, writer and masterful impersonator Anil Desai. Can Dallas finally learn how to do a Sean Connery impression?
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