Adam and Jeff talk to comedian Joe Kaye about all the reasons why textbooks will eventually remember 2014 as the point in history when everything changed for the worse.

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Reference Links

The Ebola Virus Epidemic

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6819268/Pandemic-Playbook.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/

Black Lives Matter vs. Blue Lives Matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lives_Matter

The Start of the “Trump Era”

2014 Central American Migrant Crisis/Obama Requests $3.7 Billion to Build Immigrant Detention Centers

Scottish Independence Referendum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_referendum

ISIS Emerges In Iraq

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/isis-origins-anbari-zarqawi/577030/

Russia Annexes Crimea/Obama Sanctions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/18/six-years-20-billion-russian-investment-later-crimeans-are-happy-with-russian-annexation/

Gamergate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/14/the-only-guide-to-gamergate-you-will-ever-need-to-read/

https://www.salon.com/2016/09/15/gamergater/

The Bundy Standoff 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/ammon-bundy-oregon-seige-white-privilege

https://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/militia-network-spurred-by-covid-has-spread-to-16-states-report-says/article_5befd716-f2da-537c-b6f9-36cf2164b164.html

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and 17

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/29/is-there-a-future-for-malaysia-airlines

The 2014 Venezuela Protests

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article4636689.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/02/venezuela-gripped-by-weeks-of-anti-government-protest/100689/

The First Hong Kong Protests

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/30/-sp-hong-kong-umbrella-revolution-pro-democracy-protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests

Flint Changed Its Water Source

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/465545378/lead-laced-water-in-flint-a-step-by-step-look-at-the-makings-of-a-crisis

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