Un-History is just me—Koji Steven Sakai, a writer and producer from South Pasadena—sitting in my garage with a weird piece of analog hardware that somehow picks up the "Dead Air." It turns out the legends of history are stuck on a dead frequency waiting for their final edit, and I figured it was time someone actually audited their scripts. Armed with a few microphones and actual historical receipts, I pull people like Thomas Jefferson and Mother Teresa onto the hot seat to ask them about the massive, hypocritical plot holes their biographers conveniently left out. It’s not a history lesson; it’s just a guy who is tired of bad writing cross-examining the people who spent their whole lives faking it for the textbooks.
Send us Fan Mail In this chilling episode of Un-History, host Koji Steven Sakai dials the "Dead Air" machine to 1941 to pull America’s first modern media darling out of the clouds. Charles Lindbergh was universally mythologized as the pinnacle of American courage and technological progress after his historic 1927 solo transatlantic flight. But behind the aviator goggles and boyish grin lay a dark, meticulous obsession with racial engineering and genetic purity. Koji rips through the standard ...
17 Jun 2026
Episode 04: The Great Soul’s Shadow
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Un-History, host Koji Steven Sakai pulls the ultimate architect of non-violent resistance, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, into his South Pasadena garage via the "Dead Air" machine. While Gandhi's pristine global image has long been synonymous with peace, humility, and moral perfection, Koji digs past the carefully curated branding to audit the messy receipts of his private scripts. Through an intense historical cross-examination, the episode unpacks the ...
3 Jun 2026
Episode 03 | FDR: The Splendid Deception
Send us Fan Mail Koji Steven Sakai takes the “Dead Air” machine into the darkest hours of American leadership. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the ultimate screen director of his own image, masking his wheelchair from a desperate nation. But as Koji points out, the real deception wasn't his health—it was his conscience. In this raw, deeply personal episode, Koji holds FDR accountable for the human math behind Executive Order 9066, the turning away of Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis, and an ...
20 May 2026
Episode 02 | Mother Teresa: The Saint’s Secret Ledger
Send us Fan Mail Koji Steven Sakai tunes the “Dead Air” signal to 1997 to pull the world’s most untouchable brand into a South Pasadena garage for an audit. Mother Teresa built a legacy on the "beauty of suffering," but the receipts tell a different story. From running 14th-century-style plague wards while seeking world-class cardiac care for herself, to her cozy relationships with dictators and a $1.25 million thrift-store scandal, Koji cross-examines the "small pencil" to see if her moral l...
6 May 2026
Un-History Ep 1 | Thomas Jefferson: The 600-Person Plot Hole
Send us Fan Mail Koji Steven Sakai drags Thomas Jefferson into a South Pasadena garage for a long-overdue audit. Using the “Dead Air” signal, Koji cross-examines the Founding Father on the massive plot holes in his legacy—from his 600-person forced labor camp to the massive debts that kept his own children in the service entrance. It’s a deep dive into the man who wrote the script for freedom but couldn't afford to live it. The Audit Trail (References) Slavery & Labor: The Nailery: Montic...
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