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EPISODE · Mar 13, 2026 · 12 MIN

Operation Puppet Master [Fiction | Historical] by Sevastian Winters

from Bathroom Breaks & Bedtime Tales · host Sevastian Winters and Brinley Winters

June, 1982. The Pentagon has a problem.Nearly one in four new military recruits can’t read at a functional level. Orders are misinterpreted. Equipment logs are signed with an X. Mistakes aren’t embarrassing—they’re dangerous.Desperate for a solution, a hardened brigadier general does the unthinkable: he reaches outside the military establishment and into the most unexpected corner of American culture.What follows is a tense, darkly funny confrontation between rigid command structure and bright plastic chairs… between national security and children’s television… between a man who wins wars and a group of people who teach the alphabet.Inspired by real events, Operation Puppet Master explores a bizarre and almost-forgotten moment when two very different American institutions collided—and neither side was prepared for the other.Sharp, absurd, and rooted in truth, this story asks a quiet question beneath the humor: What happens when the people who shape young minds refuse to shape soldiers?

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