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Hey, hello everyone. I am Jeff and welcome to History
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and Facto. It's about today. It is March the third,
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now my co host today. He is a hilarious comedian.
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I guess that's going to redund it. That's true. He
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is Jim. I want to go ahead and introduce yourself.
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Sure, Hi, what's up everybody? This is Jim Search stand
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up comedian, writer, podcaster, name the you name it as
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far as the world of entertainment, and I've probably done
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it or know somebody who does. So. Well, you're right.
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Let's just get to what got you on stage that
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first time?
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Wow? Well got me on stage? That's a good question. Man. Well,
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I feel like I was. How old was that I
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started to understand up? I was twenty eight years old.
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I'd always felt like, you know, cliches aside. I'd been
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like the funny funny guy, the funny person in the
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in the room, my friend group, and I was like,
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you know what, I don't have anything holding me back
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as far as you know life. So I was like,
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let me get on stage and see if I got it.
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And well, you got it, that's for sure.
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Thanks man, I appreciate it.
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Do you know what we're celebrating on March the third.
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We got a lot you know, there's a lot of
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different things we can celebrate here.
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How about if we start off with this one. We're
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forty four forty four, Get some cool cut, col cut,
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get some cool cut. Do So you featly had any
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no icky wits?
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Is?
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Do you? I know? The shuffle? Uh?
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Yeah? That was one of Geiko's better commercials. Now, whether
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you call them cold cuts, lunch meat, delli meat, sandwich meat,
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you celebrate the day with a sandwich. Now, basically it
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started back in the BC time. It was a way
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to preserve meat. But they've come a long way since then.
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Now they actually have them in ham and chicken and turkey. Now,
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get this, they started out in China about nine thousand BC,
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and they got to Europe about thirty five hundred BC,
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got to the United States around eighteen hundred something like that.
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So you know what you do is you grab yourself
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some cold cuts and your bread, make yourself a dag
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with sandwich, kind of relax and enjoy nice Monday. So
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do you have any favorite cold cuts? If you stay away?
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Are you a healthy guy?
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I mean you know what, I I'm a turkey. Guy,
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If I have to pick, what kind of cold cut?
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But as of late, I have been trying to watch
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what I eat and be a little bit more healthy.
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So Turkey. If I have to pick, however, I try
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and shy away from it.
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You know, I'm right there with you, but I would
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be wrong. I would not believe this the number one
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cold cut still today. Baloney baloney, Yeah, I would have
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thought we passed blooney by.
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Well, that's bloney.
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All right, that'sy is going on to entertainment on marks.
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The third let's back to nineteen ninety eight. Number one
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album was the Titanic movie soundtrack Sleulane Dion. She had
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a song from that. It was called My Heart Goes On.
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It was number one. George Straight had the number one
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country song roundabout.
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Way, okay, around around about.
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The number one book was The Street Lawyer by John Grisham.
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The top movie was a Titanic. An unsinkable ship sinks
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and it takes over three hours to do it. Now,
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I know it's one of the biggest movies of all time.
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I'm just not a fan, including the theater. Never been
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able to watch the whole thing without falling asleep. You're
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a Titanic fan.
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You know what. I'm kind of there with you. Man,
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I've never seen it. I mean, I know like the
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cultural references behind it. But like now, I'll be honest
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with you, man, I never saw it, and you know
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what my life went on exactly. I still is able
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to live my life despite having not seen it.
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Well, I know you're in New York City. Now, are
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you originally from upstate?
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I am, Yes, I am from Binghamton, New York born
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and raised.
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Oh okay, so I had to go to the big city.
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Huh yeah, I mean you know, it's it's funny. Binghamton
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is like one of like the bigger cities in like
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around Like it's like a Binghamton is considered like the
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city around the smaller cities around it. But obviously comparatively speaking,
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Binghamton is not compared to New York City.
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Well, it's funny because just like two days ago, my
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mom has dementia' so I've watched TV with her and
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we were watching Lottery dream Home. Do you ever see that?
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I haven't, but I think I think I know what
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it's about.
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Yeah, this guy goes people win the lottery and he
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goes and he finds my house. Well he was just
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in Bingham bind these people a house who want to
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scratch off?
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Wow? Man, imagine god my, what what I would do
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if if I were a lottery winner? Man?
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Well, I know people say, what kind of comedy do
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you have? Well, it's always evolving and there's no set thing.
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It's not like rock or country or something. But what
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would you say your your comedy is basically about?
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Uh?
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I would say, like, it's a little bit of like
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my life and just kind of like my my story
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if you will. And then you know, I get into
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like some observation stuff too, not like seinfode, like wo's
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the deal with hot dogs? Or whatever the fuck said?
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So like, yeah, some observation stuff. I do some storytelling
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to like kind of like a little bit of like
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a long form story sometimes and yeah, just shit that
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people will find funny.
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So you said that you were always kind of the
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funny one of your friends. So when you're on stage
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and you tell a story to your friends that say, hey, man,
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why'd you talk about that?
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Oh? Like do it like when I like make fun
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of my friends on stage and they're like, hey, what
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the fuck?
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Right?
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You know, it's funny. I do. Like I have a
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joke about a friend of mine who says satrical instead
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of satirical, and he's never heard it, and the day
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I the day he does, then I'll probably have some explanation,
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or he may not even know it's about him, which
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would be even better. Exactly want to have that conversation.
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Well, let's see what happened on March third. Over the years, now,
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some of the foreign aid that we're giving out today
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to other countries, he has getting kind of scrutinized, I
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guess you'd say. But in eighteen twelve, the United States
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passed his first four and eight bill. We get fifty
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thousand dollars to earthquake victims over in Venezuela. Well, happy birthday, Florida,
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it was today. In eighteen forty five, Florida became the
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twenty seventh state. Now PAULK. Staleone he named Florida when
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he landed there in fifteen thirteen, called it eh La Florida.
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It means place up flowers. So have you ever gotten
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down to Florida and done any of your act.
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I haven't, but I have been to Florida before.
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Well, the capital was Tallahassee. Highest point is Britain Hill, oh,
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three hundred and forty feet high. Now, the Florida state bird,
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it's the Northern mockingbird. Flower is the orange blossom fish.
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They have a bunch of largemouth bass, Atlantic selfish. Well
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stuff there tree is the sable pamento. Our mammals are
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the Florida panther, manitee, bottlenosed dolphin and cracker horse, reptiles, alligator,
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loggerhead turtle, and gopher. Florida state drink surprisingly as orange juice.
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Their food is key line pie. Now, some people born
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in Florida Jim Morrison, Tom Petty, Deon Sanders, Debbie Harry,
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bet Bull, Lamar Jackson, Eva Mendez, Ariana Grond. Yeah, just
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some of the people born in the Sunshine State. Now
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this might surprise you. Actually Colorado gets more Sunday days
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than they do in Florida because we don't get much rain.
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In eighteen fifty five, Congress approved thirty thousand dollars to
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test camels for military use. Yeah, that would be about
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one point one million a day. Figured out it didn't work,
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So do you think that'd be something that does would find?
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I mean, they've they've got some real there's some real uh,
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there's some real ideas coming out of that administration. Man.
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But you think about it, I mean, that's actually not
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that stupid when you really think about it. Because camels,
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I mean, you know, I was eighteen fifty five, why
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not use camels instead of horses? You wouldn't need much water.
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So it's not that stupid. It just sounds kind of
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silly nowadays.
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Well, yeah, I guess it's I guess it's climate specific, right,
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Like you know what camels do well in winter? Sorry,
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in like a tundra? Probably not.
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Yeah, the camels might be okay in Mexico, but not
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so much calf Canada.
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Right.
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In eighteen seventy three, Congress they enacted the Commstacklough eighteen
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seventy three. Now what it did. It made it illegal
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to send any obscene lute or Lascivia's books or reading
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material through the mail. And you also couldn't send contraceptives
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or any information about contraceptives. Now that was actually repealed
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nineteen fifty seven. Playboy they were allowed to start sending
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their magazine through the mail. In eighteen ninety nine, the
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United States Navy created a new rink. We'll call it admiral,
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say the US Navy, their first admiral was George Dewey.
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Before then they called it a commodore, and they just
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did away with that. In nineteen twenty nine, Ripley's Believe
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it or not, they had a cartoon that pointed out
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that the United States did not have a national anthem.
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That created quite the public outcry. Everybody said, we want
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a national anthem so today. In nineteen thirty one star
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Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Keaty came the national anthem.
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Do you have any idea what the music is?
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What the what the music is like? The what is it? Sean?
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Yeah? How they came up with the music for his poem.
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It's actually they actually did it from a Yeah, it's
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from an old British drinking song in nineteen three foot
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I know got your independence from him and then you
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take the one of their drinking songs, so your national anthem.
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In nineteen forty three, Britain they had their largest depth
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toll of civilians during World War Two. Now they kept
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it real quiet. They didn't let it get out at
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all in a world why well, during a German air
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raid one hundred and seventy three civilians died, but they
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weren't from the bombing. They actually got killed when they
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stampeded into an air raid shelter. Yeah, they got trampled.
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Nineteen sixty nine the United States, the Naval Fighting Weapons
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Skull was established in mirror More outside of San Diego.
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You know this top gun. Nineteen ninety one, several Los
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Angeles police officers were videotape beating motors Rodney King. Now
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that's going to set off a whole series events, and
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we'll talk about him over as they happen. But just
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as a spoiler alert, the police officers get off, sixty
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three people dying writing and the writing cost over a
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million books. All right, now, we're doing a podcast here
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and thank you for being here. But you got a
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couple podcasts of your.
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Own, indeed I do. There is one what I got
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is called Understanding up State. It is co hosted by
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myself and Rob Adlert, and we talk about everything going
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on in upstate New York as far as like history goes,
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you know, events that are going on up there, influential
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people from upstate New Ork. So definitely go check that
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out as available everywhere where you get your podcasts. And
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the other podcast I have is called Open Bar Talk Podcast,
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which is a podcast dedicated to interviewing bartenders because they
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live a very wild lifestyle and I'm very interested in
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what they have to say about it. So that one's
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on a little bit of a hiatus right now. But
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you definitely should go check out the old back catalog
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because I got some really great episodes out there. Some
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of my bartending friends go listen to all of them.
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What thig and that might? That might be something we
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need to check out because I saw that you did
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a little reality TV, didn't you? Weren't you on bar Rescue?
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I sure was. I was on a bar rescue? What
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was it? Episode? Tanked and Toasty was the episode I
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was on? Season six, episode thirty one.
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Is that guy whos big a jerk as he comes across?
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You know, I'll be honest with you. I he was
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cool to me because I was a guest on the show,
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but I would definitely not want to work for him.
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That would not be something I would want to get into.
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And thedn't look too pleasant.
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I guess no he doesn't. Yeah, he's he's got he's
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got a quick temper. Mister Taffer does not.
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One that you really want to make fun of on