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Welcome to this week's episode of Two Brains, One Bot.

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Merca Edition.

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Merc Edition, because it is the 4th of July this weekend. What are you up to for the 4th?

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My neighborhood is the best. Oh we have the best setup. So ever since oh gosh, ever since we've moved in, our whole neighborhood does like a neighbor like a streetwide barbecue, and everybody goes in on like fireworks and everybody brings a dish. So we all like like pitch in money. And they also do like uh like we all pitch in money for like a thing for the kids to do.

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So like during the Does someone coordinate that? Like, is there like one person there like everybody Venmo me X amount of dollars?

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This year the men have all coordinated it. Oh, very good. None of the women. So noise. And one of the guys that lives on our street, he's amazing. He is a professional chef. And so I look forward to this every year because his food is top-notch. Wee wee. No more like more like hell yeah, brother.

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Because that's like brother. Oh, you guys are gonna be smoking meats?

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Oh I yeah, my husband is.

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Very good.

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So that's what we do. And like I think last year we did, they got we all chipped in for the kids to have like a like a water, you know, like the inflatable slides, but it was like a water version. So the kids like they had such a good time. Very nice. We're very lucky.

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Do you go to any parades?

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No, definitely not.

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We go to one, I think. Oh I think we'll go to one. No, it's gonna be good. We're gonna hang out with some friends. Nice. Go to a parade. With that in mind, my episode today is about America. Merca! Merca! Don't do that again. Or do, I don't know. I'll cue you if I want you to do that.

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That was an eagle, right?

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Yes.

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Okay, I'm glad that it sounded that way because I definitely tried for it.

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Definitely an eagle.

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We're gonna listen to this back and be like, why does she keep making chicken noises?

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Yeah. Does she think the state bird's a chicken? So yeah, I thought about chatting about or I thought we could chat about some factual things, some weird history, some silly records, talk about what's uniquely American. Alright. That'd be fun. Right on par for T Bob.

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Yep.

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Now, let's be real. In addition to not being an ESPN contributor, or what do we say? Oh, I'm not ESPN.

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Corresponder.

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So, yeah. So I'm not ESPN. Let's all remember that. Let's also remember I'm not a historian or a geographer. Like, I took some classes a long time ago because you you had to.

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Yeah.

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It is interesting. I do like history. I do like geography, but on my own terms. Which are not these terms. I don't know. Good to know. But like I have other interests and talents.

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You do.

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Yeah. But I guess I should have asked you this before I started. So pause. Have you watched any of the World Cup?

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A little bit, yeah.

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Oh.

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Not like with my whole heart, but I've seen soccer.

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Like in the I've seen sports before.

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I heard the names of the countries or whatever.

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I saw sports happening. I did. Oh.

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I do know that the men I've heard a lot are the floppers and like you said.

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So um anyways, that's going on right now. And we watched a penalty kick situation last night, and it was like I hadn't watched any of the game, but like the pen like it, like they were tied at the end, so they had to do penalty kicks and they trade off. Oh jeez. Do they trade off? Yeah, they trade off. They trade off for five times. And then whoever has the most after five wins.

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Or they tie, right? Or they're at the point where they can't tie anymore. They can't tie anymore. Yeah.

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Anyways, it was very it was stressful, and I was like, oh, I'm glad I only watched this part of the game.

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Yeah. But I have heard that.

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But they were devastated. Like the ones that lost, like, of course you're in the World Cup and you're devastated, but especially like the ones that missed the goal, and it's like, oh man, it's I mean, it's just a total crapshoot. Like I mean, you're you're an amazing athlete, and the goalie is an amazing athlete, and it's just Clash of the Titans. Is that what that means? Yeah, sports. Yeah, you're sports. Go sport.

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No, that's not like a that's like a Greek mythology thing.

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Oh.

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The Titans and the I believe you. Yeah. Um, no, uh, I did watch a little bit of it. I have heard like the cool underdog story of Cape Verde. Is it Cape Verde? Oh, I don't know. Oh, they're there's apparently their goalie is like the bomb. Oh. And and they're just like a small little underdog team, and this is their first year in the World Cup.

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And don't they call that something like the Cinderella story?

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Yeah, I think so. Something like that.

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Have they found their shoe or not yet? This shoe's still lost? Doesn't matter. Let's move on. We're not sports. Also, another disclaimer. If this podcast feels all over the place, it's because it is. When I was writing it, it it as what as it always does, it goes in one direction and then it curves.

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I've used the uh expression beautiful little squirrel before. We're just beautiful little squirrels.

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I could do hard things.

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We just see shiny things and we run towards them.

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Yeah. We're pretty.

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That's a good way to kidnap me. It's just like, hey.

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Hey, come over here. Hey, laser pointer.

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Shiny, shiny.

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Okay. Now to put you on the spot. Okay. Do you know where the US ranks on size, like land wise, among other countries? So not population, but like land.

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Girl inches or boy inches.

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Um, let's do girl inches. So actual.

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Actual inches. Okay.

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You don't have to I'm not looking for a number. I'm just saying like all the countries are are ranked one to however many. And what number do you think the US is?

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Like twelve.

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No, three. Three. Yeah, they are the third. The US has the third most land.

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Weird. I was thinking.

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That's a terrible way of saying that. Third best land.

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I was thinking Australia, but is Australia just a continent or is it also a country?

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We're gonna have to cut this.

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Is it?

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I don't know. It's a country, Australia.

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Or is it a continent? Continent. It's not real.

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Let me see. So Australia is a country and a continent.

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Interesting.

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We are only behind Russia and Canada. And like just barely behind Canada as far as Yeah.

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Well they're I mean they're like Yeah.

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But I didn't I didn't realize that. Obviously, we are nowhere near the population of other countries, but the largest by land. Anyways, okay, and then the largest state. Who's the big who's the big boy or big girl out of? Texas. No. Alaska.

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Oh. Yeah. Alaska and Hawaii are those little guys that just are on the corner of the map, so I never really remember.

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And they're always just floating there, and you're like, I don't even know where those live. It does live somewhere. It lives up by Canada.

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Um it's big though, huh?

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It is very big. It is deceptively big, and it's deceptively big because of the distortion from the Mercator projection maps. But did you know that it is bigger than the next three states? So the next, so Alaska's number one, then um Texas, California, Montana. So even Texas, California, and Montana added together is not bigger than Alaska. Yeah. Anyways. There's a fun little uh map on Alaska.org that you can select your state and then it'll superimpose your state over Alaska, and you're like, oh, I'm just a baby.

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Whoa, that's cool.

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But like California stretches from top to bottom of Alaska, but that's it. You know, it's like a skinny guy.

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Yeah.

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And then Texas, same thing kind of top to bottom, maybe like left to right, but I mean it's just I don't know what that is.

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Texas is a is it a star? She she got thick.

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Yeah, Texas thick. But not that thick. Not as big as Alaska.

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There's nothing bigger than Texas.

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Okay, and then my last super hot US Alaska trivia.

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Okay.

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It was purchased in 1867 from Russia. And guess how much?

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$12.

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Well, you would have won if we were playing prices, right? $7.2 million is all.

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Oh, I was so close.

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Which I think I read in like today dollars is like $120 million or something.

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In this c in this economy?

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Yeah, in this economy.

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We just bought an entire state.

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Yeah, and and initially everybody thought it was like a mistake, but it turned out to be great. Alaska.

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Alaska. Oh Alaska. Okay. Makes me want to watch Alone.

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Yeah, Alone's a great show. And that's the only uh state thing I'm gonna tell you about because I just thought that was interesting. So the US is the lar or the third largest country, and then Alaska is the biggest state. Wow. Anyways, let's move on. Two interesting things that I found out about the United States or things that were invented here or just live here, America. Yeah. Okay. So do you know that brand of tater tots? Orida. O-R-E-I-D-A. Okay. They invented tater tots and trademarked it.

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A genius. Yeah. And thank them for their service.

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Yeah, thank you. Do you know what Orida stands for?

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No.

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Oregon, Idaho.

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No freaking way. Yeah.

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Yeah, life changed.

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Whoa. No, I just want some tater tots.

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Yeah, but I just love that I didn't realize that tater tot, like the the term tater tot, um, was trademarked, so yeah, no one else can call any type of fried ball of potato a tater tot. Whoa. Call them tots, but not tater tot.

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Nice tots.

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And it's just as the bald eagle intended. There we go. Thank you.

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Just got a cigarette in one side and a tater tot in the other.

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And cacaoing. Okay. Next fun thing. Teddy bears are named after Teddy Roosevelt. Indeed, because he's squishy. Yes. No. Because one time he was on a bear hunt, as one does, and wasn't able to sack one. Oh. And so people in his group caught one, apparently, because you can catch a bear, tied it to a tree, and was like, Broseph, shoot that. That's awful. And Teddy said, Nardog. That wouldn't be sportsman-like of me.

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Awww.

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So in jest, they named they started calling stuffed bears Teddy. And guess what? He didn't like it.

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It's beautiful.

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Yeah.

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Because it it's also it's so beautiful that his friends trolled the hell out of him with like calling him Teddy. But then it's beautiful that he like.

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First off, they caught a bear for him and then was like, okay, like Teddy hasn't got one yet. Let's just like entertain him. Yeah. He's like the president. Yeah. Anyways, yeah. So Teddy.

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Teddy.

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Okay. Next fun little US trivia thing.

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Okay.

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There was a board game created by a woman, Lizzie Maggie, called the Landlord's Game. Have you heard of the Landlord's Game?

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I have.

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Pretend like you haven't.

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Okay. No, I haven't.

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So in thank you. So in 1904, it was meant to represent the dangers of monopolies and wealth inequality. And she tried to sell it to Parker Brothers, and they said it was too complicated. This is too much for us.

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I'm literally just a baby.

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So she just kind of distributed it herself, like taught people like how the game worked. I don't know if people were like making their own boards or if she was distributing the boards. Not sure. Didn't look that far. But, anyways, so over the next two decades, people were playing this landlord's game, and it was just kind of evolving, and people were like naming the squares, which I think some of that stuff is kind of held, like what they named the squares. Right. Um, then some guy named Charles Darrow learned about the game and copied the concept, like, you know, probably like tweaked one word and then pitched it to Parker Brothers. And wouldn't you know it? They bought it. He mansplained himself into riches.

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How dare he?

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Yeah. And you know what that checks out.

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Yeah, I know that checks out. A man's selling a woman's idea to get some monetization.

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But he changed it to Monopoly. Yeah. Because and and also changed the the intent of the game to be terrible.

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Yeah. I mean, that checks out.

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Yeah. And then sadly on the back side, Parker Brothers bought Maggie's patent of the game because she had a patent on it in 1935 and paid her 500 bucks with no royalties. And essentially erased her from history. Rude. Yeah, super rude. Okay. This one I thought was very interesting. So North and South Dakota were signed into statehood, one right after the other. Same day, same time. But in order to prevent them from like prevent one of them from feeling like the older sibling being like, I came first.

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Yeah.

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The president at the time in uh 1896, Benjamin Harris, like got the papers and just like shuffled them and then signed and then shuffled them. And now nobody knows, not even him, which one you signed first. Oh so I think they just have them named alphabetically. So North Dakota always shows up before South Dakota, but kind of fun that way. But splitting the territory into two states was done to gain political advantage in Congress. Super classic.

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Oh. I never even thought about that. So it was initially supposed to be one large.

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Yeah. But they were like, oh, if we do two, then we can get two representatives. Yeah. And that just feels aggressively American. Yeah. Yeah. Merca. Merca. Okay. Next fun fact, fun fun trivia. Three US presidents died on the same day. Do you know a day?

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No, but I know who they were.

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Oh, do you?

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Do it, lady. Jefferson. Yep. Lincoln.

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No.

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No. Jefferson? Kennedy. No. No. Jefferson Adams. Uh-huh. Oh, Jefferson Adams and somebody else.

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James Monroe. And they all died on the 4th of July. Crazy. And two of them on the exact same day.

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Literal the exact same day.

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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

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And they hated each other, didn't they? Or no, they were buddies. I'm trying to think of my Hamilton like Okay, so I'm not a historian.

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And I also haven't I haven't seen Hamilton.

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What?

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Yeah, I don't know.

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Watch it on the fourth. It'll make you feel like worse.

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So I actually thought it was a joke because on the have you ever seen the Mindy Project? Yeah. So on the Mindy Project, like there's a couple episodes, or maybe one episode, there's at least one episode, where um one of them goes to Hamilton and they get like super into it. And so I thought it was like a joke. Like I didn't I didn't think it was anything to see.

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Like you mean the Broadway play that Yeah. Oh okay.

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And so now I'm like, eh, I don't really get it.

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I have a fun thing about me that I'm learning might be ADHD, and that I have to I I have to be able to hyperfocus if I'm like completing tasks that I think are boring. Uh-huh. And Hamilton, I turn on that soundtrack and I turn into like rain man.

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I'm like so. Can I can I turn on the the soundtrack in your ear right now to get you to lock in?

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Maybe.

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Okay. No, but anyways.

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Alexander.

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Okay. Sorry. So I think it was convincing Lincoln and Kennedy though, because Kennedy had a secretary named No, what am I thinking of?

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Oh, that's like the the Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln and Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. And it might not even be those two names. So do go ahead and fact-check yourself.

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Listen, I'm an American, therefore my education's not on par with the rest of the world.

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Freedom. There we go. Okay. This was kind of fun. Venus flytraps are native only to one place in the world. Do you know where?

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Florida.

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No, the wetlands are around Wilmington, North Carolina, and that kind of touches into South Carolina a little bit. And they're highly protected because they're so rare and it's a felony to poach or still them. Wow. But thank you to science, they're easily produced in a lab and nurseries for public self. That's why. So you can't like take them out of their native habitat, but you can surely lap grow them.

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That's cool. Yeah. Can you make them more resilient to the climate? I bet they do. Yeah, I bet they do too. Because we've we've gotten one before, and there's no way we're no way we're treating that thing right. No, we're not human enough.

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Oh. I'm getting back, I'm getting my green thumb back.

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Okay.

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Next. Next. I thought this was really interesting, sad, but like a little like a touch funny.

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Okay.

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Funny, if funny if you're not involved. So in 1919 in Boston, 21 people were were killed by a molasses flood.

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Oh my god. This is insane that you're bringing this up.

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Why?

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On the way here, like I was voice chatting or like voice texting with one of my friends, and he was like, Oh yeah, this other podcast did this really interesting story about the molasses flood. What? Which and then I replied to him and was like, Yeah, I've heard about that, but it was really fascinating. So this is the third time I've heard this today.

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Oh yeah. I had never heard of it. And we did not talk about this before, truly.

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Wow.

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Yeah. But as you maybe already so you already know the story. Yeah. So known as the Great Molasses Flood or the Boston Molasses Disaster. Molasses disasters.

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Yeah.

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That's what they should have called it.

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On an unseasonably warm day in Boston, a massive 50-foot-tall still storage tank holding 2.3 million gallons of crude molasses ruptured. It was just like structurally not sound, I guess. I don't know.

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Right.

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And the wave, which I initially was like, what are you what are you talking about? A wave. But this wave apparently was like up to 25 feet high and went 35 miles per hour. Isn't there like a funny thing? Like slow as molasses. Yeah. Not slow, man.

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But I think part of it was that it was being kept warm.

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Oh.

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To like not like because once it starts getting colder, is when molasses are fine. Okay, that makes sense then. I think that's why the casualties were so bad for that. If I remember from that episode of the podcast I listened to.

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Yeah, and it ran through a packed neighborhood, and because molasses is so dense and heavy, it crushed structures all along the way, so it was like breaking through buildings, knocking stuff over. Apparently, allegedly even knocked over a train. And sadly, 21 people died and 150 were injured, and several animals died as well.

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Crazy though. That is so crazy.

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But the crazier thing is that you've already talked about this three times today.

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That is pretty crazy.

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You're bored.

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I'm not bored. I'm just like mind is a little bit blown that like really this is. It's called something.

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Oh, I thought you were gonna cough at me.

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Oh yeah.

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America. Freedom. Freedom. Okay. The next few are breaking silly records. Go USA. Let's break some, let's break some weird records. Okay. Okay, go. 2007. Jeremy Harper in Alabama live streamed himself, counting to one million out loud. Bro, do you have a job?

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Get a hobby.

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Guess how many days it took?

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Four.

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Close? 89. And he could get like 11,000 numbers a day. That wasn't close at all. Did he? But why count to a but why count to a million?

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Why?

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Freedom.

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Free.

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That's why I said like your job?

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No, that's what I would know. Like, did he take breaks to eat or something? Oh, I'm sure he did.

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I'm sure he did. But yeah, just counting day after day. Number after number. You have to be like looking at it to like remember where you are.

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And also put me to sleep. This is on the people who watch that live stream. You guys.

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Yeah.

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Because like this is this is giving like your kid making you something, and you're like, oh thanks, and then you know, you throw it away when they go to bed.

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Uh-huh. It's on that kind of I would never, I would never do that to my kids. I have everything that they've ever given me.

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But you know what I mean though? Yeah.

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Yeah. It's like, don't give this an audience.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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But like, what would you do if your like spouse or or like some man that you knew came up to you and was like, hey, I'm gonna live stream me kids to a million.

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I have an idea. This one shouldn't have come out of the group chat. Whoever let this one out of the group chat.

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Seriously.

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Get yourself together.

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You guys are need to come get your grandpa.

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Come get her. Okay. The next one to compete with uh live streaming your self-counting to one million. A California native, Joey Chestnut. You know Joey Chestnut? Because you know I gotta talk about hot dogs.

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Oh yeah.

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Joey Chestnut holds the ultimate competitive eating title, setting his highest official record by eating 76 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. Oh my god. And why do we have to competitively eat hot dogs?

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No.

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Freedom. You got the freedom to eat a bunch of hot dogs.

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It's just so sad. Can you imagine telling somebody from an impoverished country, hey, this guy does eight competitive first of all, number one, that competitive eating is a thing. They're like, what the fuck are you talking about?

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How many hot dogs do you think you could eat?

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How many hot dogs do I think I could eat? Yeah. Like one and a half.

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Okay.

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I think I could eat three. And then be sad about it.

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And then have to go on a hot dog walk.

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And then have to go on my hot dog walk.

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You're gonna fart it all out.

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I would eat three hot dogs and then be like, that was a poor choice. Unless they were good hot dogs, then just one.

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Yeah.

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They'd have to be subpar hot dogs, which they probably are at the no. I think they're actually a good brand. They're like the Nathan's hot dogs.

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At the hot dog eating on this? I don't know. I just remember that episode of The Office where they're they're guests. There's no buttons or something. It's the the beach episode. He's like, just dip it in the water because there's no like condiments or anything.

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No.

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Okay. Good stuff.

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The third silly record. Most toilet seats broken with a head with their head in one minute. 46. Toilet seats broken in 2007.

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Oh, you were asking me how many? Start over.

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No. No, that's fine. You don't have to guess.

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46.

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46, yep. Uh, by a man named Kevin Shelley.

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Kevin.

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Yeah. So I don't know. It just feels like somewhere an eagle shed its shed a tear, a patriotic tear.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

So of those three, and there I'm gonna read you a fourth one, and the fourth one's actually cool.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

But of those three, which is the most American? Live streaming counting to a million, eating 76 hot dogs, or breaking toilet seats? I know what I think. What do you think is the most American?

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Hot dogs are always American.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

I love a hot dog.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

It has to be a good hot dog, though.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

I don't need gross hot dogs.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

You gotta at least buy me dinner first. Gross.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

Okay, and then the last record breaking thing, and I don't think this one's silly. I think actually I think this one's kind of cool as hell, but the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. Oh. A 13-year-old from the US, 13 years and 10 months, I should say. Wow. His name's Jordan Romano in 2010. Um, and his record is likely to like remain as is because after they did it, Peeps looked at it and realistically said, no more babies climbing climbing Mount Everest. No more babies. Just a baby. He can't do that. He was able to climb it because they approached the mount from um one of the sides that had didn't have like an age restriction. So like the main side, whatever side that might be, um, has an age restriction. And they came from the other side. But now that side also has an age restriction because they should. You shouldn't be doing that.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

As someone who doesn't have their like brain fully developed, you shouldn't be just like climbing stuff.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Yeah. And then uh fun fact, the youngest female, so that was the youngest male, the youngest female to climb it was a 13 years and 11 months. So just one month younger, but she was from India, so very cool. Two youngins both under 14, climbing Mount Everest.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

But like, don't do that.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Okay, so what do you think is incredibly American? Like what screams America? Is it ranch dressing? Yeah, big trucks, yeah, driving everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

Yeah. Yeah. I think the thing that's the most incredibly American is like just red, white, and blue stuff everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Oh yeah, that talked about that. Just the flag everywhere being loud.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

I saw somebody, I think it was on a Reddit thread or something where someone was like, one of the weirdest things about going to America was that they had flags everywhere, like ten flags within like the same like half mile.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

And it's like, do you not know where you're at? Like, why do you have to keep reminding yourself?

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Yeah. Flags and like state flags, also, like everybody has their own state flag, which maybe that's I don't know if that's common around the world.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

I mean, they would have provences, right? But I don't think they would have their own flags. I don't know, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Well, I think I also saw online someone was like that everything turns red, white, and blue between July and September, like Labor Day. Yeah. Like every like all your food you're eating is red, white, and blue. Not all your food, but a lot of it.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

And it's like, why do we do this?

SPEAKER_00 25:59

It's weird.

SPEAKER_02 25:59

It's kind of fun though.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

It's fun. It's kind of fun.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Because it's warm and stuff outside, so it's kind of fun to celebrate.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:06

Okay. Well, that is all I have for you on this beautiful July week.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

But I have a final yay or nay. I'm gonna tell you some historical things. Okay. And you're gonna tell me if they should be yay in the history books or nay in the history books. Okay. Okay. Number one. This is really funny.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Like, wait, these are real things. These are real things.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

I didn't make any of these up. The US almost had a hippopotamus industry. So somewhere around 1910, lawmakers seriously discussed importing hippos into Louisiana swamps because they would eat the invasive water hy hyacinths. And they also figured that Americans could eat hippo meat, which promoters wanted to market as no joke, like cow bacon. Oh hey, but someone got taxpayer money to think of all this. Oh, should that should that be in the history books?

SPEAKER_00 27:06

No, don't give them like cow bacon. Well, and maybe as a warning. But can you imagine like trying to dodge hippos?

SPEAKER_02 27:16

Who thought that was a good idea?

SPEAKER_00 27:17

This was in 1910. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

Maybe they didn't realize how big they were.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Hippos are scary.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

And scary and aggressive.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Yeah, they're really aggressive. And they'll just like they'll just like mess you up for the fun of it. They won't even eat you.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

And then laugh at you. Yeah. So wait, what did you say? Yeah, you're nay to putting it in the history books.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

Well, part of me says my initial feeling was nay, but then now I'm like, maybe they should as like a warning, like please don't do stupid things for capitalism. Or elect better people.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

Or would it be in the history book, like along like, you know, the side where they'd be like, haha, fun fact. And then like a little thing. I think it would go good there. Okay. Next one. There are more barrels of bourbon than people in Kentucky. That's a true statement. Yay. Yay. Yeah, you want to put that in there? Yay. Yep. So according to Kentucky Distillers Association, there are more aging barrels of bourbon than people living in Kentucky. It's over 17 million barrels. Whoa. But there are only four and a half million people in Kentucky.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Yay to put in that in the history books. Yeah, yeah. I think it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

Again, I think it could be like a little sidetrack or something.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Okay. Not a flex whatsoever, but Hitler's half-nephew, William Patrick Hitler, served in the US Navy during World War II as a pharmacist's mate, which I'm assuming is like an assistant.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Yeah, that checks out.

unknown 28:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Yay or nay in the history books. Nay. Don't care for those people anymore. No. You you done.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

You're done. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

Guilty.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

Guilty by association, literally. Change your last name, dude.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

He probably has by now because he's dead. I don't know if he's dead. I'm assuming so.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Or he's like.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Or super old. Okay. Okay, last one. Are there more McDonald's or libraries in the US?

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Is there? You told me all these are all true.

SPEAKER_02 29:10

They are true.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Is there more McDonald's or there's probably more libraries? There's more libraries. Good. Yay. Good.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

We should put that in the history books so that it remains true.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

And we should also say libraries are the best. Please go to the library.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

Yeah, they're wonderful. Yep. Okay. Well, happy 4th of July, y'all. And don't forget, stay curious.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Stay human.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Don't let the robots win.

SPEAKER_00 29:32

So they get it?

SPEAKER_02 29:35

It's a 4th of July miracle.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

It is. Happy New Year.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

Go, Christy.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

Go team. Go team. Go sports. Hell yeah, brother.