May 29 - The Day People Realized the World Was Changing

May 29, 2026 — Today is National Paperclip Day, which somehow ended up fitting a surprisingly reflective episode about the fragile systems holding entire worlds together.Today’s episode looks at the fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire… the solar eclipse experiment that helped confirm Einstein’s theory of relativity… and the strange internet-era panic surrounding the arrival of so-called “murder hornets” in 2020.Plus, the birthday of Bob Hope — the fast-talking entertainer who spent decades helping audiences and soldiers laugh through uncertain times.A lot of today’s stories ended up becoming about moments where people suddenly realized the world might not work the way they thought it did.Anyway… that’s what I ended up finding while working through May 29.