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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factory.
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Is about today? Today is August the twenty fifth. Now,
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my co host today is just cool as hell. One
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of the most creative people anywhere you'll find. Somehow she
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has time to turn all that creativity TV, films, podcasts, music,
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immersive immersive development experiences and all kinds of stuff. I
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don't know how she does it all, but hey, why
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don't you go ahead and introduce yourself there, Daphney.
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Hey, how are you today? Are Daphne Weeks. I'm CEO
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and founder of Twisted Grills Productions, executive producer for Bader
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Brothers Productions, and CEO and founder of High State's University.
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I'm a busy gal.
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Well the first. When everybody starts out on their own,
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I always asking them, so what got you to take
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that step about?
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Oh?
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Man, you know I got a divorce. Well I separated
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and it was just kind of time. I'm almost fifty
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and I was like, you know, you only go around
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a couple of times here, so I just kind of
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jumped in full force and I'm like, what do I
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want to do? And I bought a house and a
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ghost on I just kind of sek myself up to
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just do it all in, totally all in. So there
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really wasn't a plan. I just sort of decided it
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was time to do a second you know, second chance
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of life.
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I guess you could say, well, you didn't start small
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when you started twisted twisted reels, man, you went all
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in with all kinds of different, different sorts of media too.
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I did.
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Yeah, it was really exciting. I sort of just started
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finding stuff I liked. I really enjoyed series creation, and
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so I started, you know, building up a nice slate
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of you know, TV series, and then that sort of
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rolled into podcasts and then soundtracking. I call myself a
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soundtrack alchemist. I just I absolutely love putting soundtracks together
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for anything I can get my hands on. And that
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just of led into a whole bunch of other projects,
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and I built a team, got amazing air i AI
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artists on my team. Now we're creating incredible music, some
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new shows. Just yeah, lots of exciting stuff. It just
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sort of all happened, happenstance. I don't know, it just
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sort of fell fell together.
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I guess you could say nothing and then you just
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got done with an epic journey literally coast to ghost
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it did.
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It was the most epic journey. It was a trip
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to go get my dog. I left him down in
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California while I was making a move to Delaware. And
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big long story, but basically I ended up going from
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Philadelphia to Vegas. I rented a car in Vegas, drove
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it down to near Colexico, Mexico, and then turned around
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and drove from there to Delaware. And here I am.
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I'm now a resident of Delaware.
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Do you like kicking big moves? Do you like putting
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your feet up and having an adult beverage once in
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a while? I did?
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I did you? Actually? Were you there? That's exactly what
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I did. Yes, I had my feet in the window,
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redneck stile. It was great?
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All right, what's awesome? All right, Well let's celebrate them today.
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Now I'll take my whiskey shower shit barside after hours
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thinking how can I get over?
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Yes?
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The love was never hour? Shall I know you got
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my message, all my exes and my os and it
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kills me by the hour.
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Now I take my whiskey sour Now, today is National
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Whiskey Sour Day. Now you don't have to be as
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mellow as cane Brown was there. You can actually have
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some fun. So what exactly is a whiskey sour. Well,
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it's got whiskey, then it's usually bourbon. Then you put
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in some lemon juice and some sugar. You shake it
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and serve it over ice, with a garnish of orange
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and then a cherry.
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Eighteen seventy, it was delightful.
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You a whiskey sour fan.
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I am a whiskey sour fan. I'll take too.
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It was eighteen seventy of Wisconsin newspaper though Wakashi Plains Dealer.
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They printed the first story about the whiskey sour. They
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claimed that a guy named Elliott Stubb actually invented it.
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Now it doesn't have the punch of just straight whiskey,
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but it'll still kick your ass though if you drink
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too many of it. Now, if you're not into a
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whiskey sours today, today is actually also banana split day,
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so I didn't really talk about it because normally Derrek
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Queen has deals on it. No one's having deals today.
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So I guess you can have a whiskey sour and
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then if you get the munchies, have yourself a Banana split.
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I ran for both. Let's do it.
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It's kind of a unique combination. I guess you would say.
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That might be an upset stomach waiting to happen, but
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I'm willing to try.
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All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on
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August twenty fifth, Let's go back here. In nineteen ninety
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three number one album was a Sleepless in Seattle movie soundtrack.
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You'd Be forty had the number one song with Can't
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Help Falling in Love. Only Tracy Lawrence had the numb
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one country song with Can't Break It to My Heart.
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Yes, frill Down, the Flowing It.
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I just.
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Now Twisted Reels. You have an internet radio station, right,
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I do.
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I have Twisted Reels Radio. Yeah, and it can be
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found on Life three sixty five on their app. It's
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it's great. I would love everybody to check it.
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Out, and we'll have a link at it at the
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end of the show. I'm not going to say that
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throughout the whole show. Just remember everything that she talks about. Yeah,
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there will be a link to hood on that show
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notes at the end.
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Fantastic, Yes, come check us out. I would love it
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all right.
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The number one book was With That Remorse by Tom Clancy.
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The top movie was The Fugitive, a doctor he's falsely
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accused of murdering his wife, so he has to go
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try and find the real killer while he's involved in
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a nationwide manhunt after him. That's led by a US Marshall.
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Stars Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones. That was nominated for
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a Best Picture Oscar Tommy Lee Jones. He actually won
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the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in there.
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Wow, I love that movie. I did not realize that
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he won for that. He should much deserving.
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Yeah, that's kind of a shock. Most of them nowadays
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you don't even know who's Do you know any of
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the movies anymore?
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No, I don't know anybody at all. I look at
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People Magazine and I'm like, these are strangers to me.
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I know who these people.
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Are now on twisted reels. All your stuff, whether it's
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the films or the music or whatever. I've noticed that
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you do a lot of paid a lot of attention
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to your quality, the production quality.
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Yeah, we absolutely, yeah. I mean I'm a real stickler
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for that. I just think there's a lot of stuff
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out there that could be a lot better. Especially say
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post production. You know, there's a lot of little things
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that you can do, and so yeah, we pride ourselves.
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I'm really taking the time to pay attention to detail
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and really put the right team members on the project.
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So yeah, I think we pretduced good stuff.
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Thank you do too. And I notice a lot of
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your stuff has to do with resilience.
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Yeah, I'm actually a certified anger management specialist and then
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also a resiliency trader. It's kind of goes through all
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through my work. I mean it's like the roots of
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everything is resiliency and strength. So it's kind of an
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ethos I guess you could say around the Twisted Reels
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world our projects. Yeah, totally.
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Well it's something everybody needs, that's for sure.
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Yeah. Oh especially now, Yeah, we can all use some resiliency,
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a little a little something, a little extra host from right.
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Let's see what happened On August the twenty fifth, fifteen
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to fifteen Spanish conquistador Diego of Vasquez di Sili he
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founded the city f Havana on the island of Cuba.
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Now he built it on the southern coast of Cuba,
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and it really sucked. You know, it was kind of swamping.
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It was full of mosquitoes, so he wasn't there. But
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after four years, in fifteen nineteen, all the people living
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they just got up and moved the whole city to
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where it is today. You ever been to Cuba.
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I have not been to Cuba. I would love to
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go to Havana. I'm fascinated by the culture. The food,
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off the chain, off the chain.
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I know that's got it. The beats and the food.
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Yes, exactly, and yeah, totally. He's the dancing, the whole culture,
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the cars. Oh, just amazing. Sign me up, let's go.
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Well that'd be pretty easy, and we'll just have to
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have a twisted reels movie that takes place in Havana.
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Yes, oh see, now you've got my creator, Jesus flowing.
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I get to write something that takes place in Havana. Absolutely, yes, let's.
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Do that too. In sixteen oh nine, now he didn't
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invent it, but Galileo he demonstrated the first telescope that
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he had built. Now hands Lipper Hay he actually invented
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the telescope, but Galileo he made so many improvements to it.
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He increased the magnification by thirty times. Then he started
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a little profitable business he was building and selling telescope. Now, yesterday,
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I told you that in eighteen four teen, in the
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War of eighteen twelve, Dolly Madison and her slaves they
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were able to prevent the White House from being burnt
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to the ground in the war. Yeah, the British tried it.
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Today they weren't around. So the British they burned the
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Library of Congress to the ground, over three thousand books inside. Yeah,
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they were completely destroyed.
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Ah, that's horrible.
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Then you knew who filled it after the war was over,
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Thomas Jefferson.
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Now I'm dying to find out. Really. Yeah, Wow, that's fascinating.
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I had no idea.
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He gave his personal collection of like over five thousand
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books to reestablish it.
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Eighteen sixty two, the United States Secretary of War, Edward Stanton,
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he officially authorized black soldiers to be able to fight
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for the North in the Civil War. Of course, they'd
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been fighting all along, but it wasn't official. Now the
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first all black unit, it was for him today. It
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was the first South Carolina Volunteers, made up of mostly
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escaped slaves from South Carolina and Florida. Now their biggest
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badass woman. She was Harriet Tubman. She was their nurse, cook, spy,
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and scout. This is kind of a bad transition, but
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you're going from California to Delaware? Are you? Do you
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like the ocean that I'm assuming I do?
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Actually I lived in the desert time when I live
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in California, But I'm a big ocean fan.
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Yes, absolutely, I didn't have to be in the ocean.
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You like to swim, oh, I love to swim. I do.
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In fact, it's funny you had mentioned swimming because I'm
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not sure if you're aware, but in eighteen seventy five,
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Britain's Matthew Webb was actually the first person to swim
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across the English Channel. It actually took him about twenty
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one hours forty five minutes or so. The record today
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was set in twenty twenty three. Guy did it in
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six hours and forty five minutes, an impressive speed if
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you ask me. But I think a guy being able
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to swim for twenty one hours is more impressive than
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swimming for under somen So that's my personal opinion.
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That might doo.
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Yeah. Another interesting factoid that you might want to want
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to want to share is that in nineteen ten, John
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Hurtz formed Yellow Cab, and you would have thought that
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it was in New York, but it's actually in Chicago.
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So that was a little chotting to me with a
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little checkered thing. I would have thought, for sure, neew York,
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but no Chicago.
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Yeah, it's crazy, Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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Hey here's another one for you. See, I got all
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kinds of facts for you today. Did you know that
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in World War Two that Paris was liberated from the
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Nazi German occupation it was mostly the American army. Yeah,
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I know it's true. It was mostly the American Army
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that liberated the city, along with some French resistance fighters
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that kicked the Germans out of Paris, and the French
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general Charles de Gaulle didn't have anything to do with it,
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but he sure claimed the victory. So the real hero
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in this story was actually the German commander of the
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German army who occupied Paris, Dietrich Vaughan Chalite. I think
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is I've heard his name said, But yeah, this guy,