Episode 18: Greyhound Racing and the Havana Syndrome

Greyhounds have been around for thousands of years. Humans have been racing them since 1876. Florida recently banned all dog racing in the recent US midterm elections. Thousands of dogs are set to be homeless or worse. After the greyhounds, the Softbrains made their way over to Cuba. Where there have been multiple incidents of mysterious 'sonic attacks' throughout the last two years coined the Thing or the Havana Syndrome. Both CIA officers and state department officials have been effected by this debilitating and targeted attack. We unpack the politics and some of the mystery behind it in Episode 18: Greyhound Racing and the Havana Syndrome.

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Florida Greyhounds racing

Smiling retired Greyhound

"Gray-Hound" in a 1658 English woodcut

A Grayhound racing and doing the double suspension gallop

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Illustration by the New Yorker about the Havana Syndrome

Barack Obama and Raul Castro reestablishing diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba

Jeffery DeLaurentis at the United States Embassy in Havana

Embassy of the United States of America in Cuba in its current, nearly abandoned, state