In “The 250th Episode” | Episode 244 of The Black Lincoln Collective Comedy Podcast, the crew celebrates America’s 250th birthday week with the dignity, accuracy, and historical responsibility you would expect from absolutely nobody involved. Parker, Fred, and Allan kick things off with patriotic confusion, Johnny Carson references, rejected national anthem energy, and Fred’s “250 four facts” about July 4th history. The list includes American independence, the Erie Canal, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Shaka Zulu, the Trans-Pacific telegraph cable, Teddy Roosevelt’s alleged telegraph behavior, and NASA’s Pathfinder Rover landing on Mars. Then Abraham Lincoln himself appears to deliver a BLC-style Gettysburg Address for podcasts, farts, freedom, and the sacred battlefield of stinky bananas. It’s American history, bad math, fake reverence, and comedy that probably should not be taught in schools. Listen now: https://americasfavoritepodcast.com
In “The 250th Episode” | Episode 244 of The Black Lincoln Collective Comedy Podcast, the crew celebrates the week of America’s 250th birthday by proudly naming their 244th episode “The 250th Episode,” because math has never been part of the brand promise.
The show opens with the usual BLC ceremony: a little confusion, some Johnny Carson nostalgia, Allan being introduced from a legally safe distance, and an attempted national anthem moment that gets shut down almost immediately. Parker explains that this episode is tied to America’s big 250th anniversary, or season, or whatever it is when a country has been running too long and still somehow has not been canceled.
To honor the occasion, Fred brings what he calls “250 four facts” about things that happened on July 4th. The facts begin with the obvious one — America declaring independence in 1776 — before moving into the Erie Canal beginning construction in 1817. Fred explains the canal with just enough confidence to sound educational and just enough uncertainty to remind everyone this is not PBS.
Next up is Walt Whitman publishing Leaves of Grass in 1855, which leads the crew into a confused discussion about whether Walt Whitman was connected to chocolate samplers, poetry, or possibly national boredom. Fred even reads part of a Whitman poem, and Allan reacts like a man watching a hostage situation unfold in verse.
The historical tour continues with Shaka Zulu, the British, the Battle of Ulundi, and a few deeply American misunderstandings about non-American history. Then Fred covers the first Trans-Pacific telegraph cable, which somehow becomes a Teddy Roosevelt joke almost immediately. To round things out, Fred adds NASA’s Pathfinder Rover landing on Mars on July 4, 1997, while Parker remembers getting “fat white guy wasted,” which feels historically important in its own way.
Then the episode reaches peak patriotism when Abraham Lincoln himself appears to deliver a BLC-style Gettysburg Address about podcasts, farts, freedom, and stinky bananas. It is emotional, ridiculous, and exactly the kind of presidential moment this country deserves.
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Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
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A lie, a lie, a lie.
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Black Lincoln Collective Podcast.
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Oh, it's gonna be fun. We can stay up late, swapping manly stories in the morning.
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Your hosts are featuring the sultry sounds of Fred and also Alan on the board.
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Oh, let's start the fan show.
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Welcome, welcome, one and all, to the 244th edition of the BLC Podcast, which is titled the 250th episode of the BLC Podcast.
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There you go.
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Thank you to all of our listeners all over the world.
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Please rate and review the show.
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We're proudly broadcasting to you from all over the place.
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And you can, of course, check us out on YouTube, Facebook, Insta, sometimes on Blue Sky, probably not.
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And all your favorite podcast platforms at AmericasFavoritePodcast.com.
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And now it's America's Sweetheart.
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It's Freddy.
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Hey!
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Hello!
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That's how Johnny Carter used to do it.
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Every man, every man.
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Hello!
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That's Johnny Carter!
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Johnny Carter.
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I'm fucking old, I'm fucking old, man.
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I remember that in passing.
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It was like a kid.
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Like, I don't remember that.
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I remember really watching it.
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Here's Johnny!
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Yeah!
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And he'd do the gulf thing.
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Yeah, man.
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Da-da-da-da-da.
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Yeah, and as always, the man behind me, but not too close, Allen O.T.B.
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Yeah!
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That's right.
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Yeah!
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Hey, let's phase it out.
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the National Anthem.
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No!
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No!
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No!
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No!
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No!
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No!
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We're going to get, no!
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Stop doing that!
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Proud to be an American!
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I've never been so proud to know the words of that song, because I was like, hey, I know
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I'm better than that person.
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So, barely.
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Welcome, Fred.
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Thank you, everyone.
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You feel free to...
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Yeah.
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...be preservers.
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We reached out to Mr. Byrds and asked him, could he, uh...
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Yeah, he was like, no, I'll do it.
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I got it, guys.
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Don't worry about it.
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Ruin this for a while.
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Well, Fred, this is our episode.
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It's not...
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It's coming out a little bit before, but it's the week of America's 250th episode, or year.
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What?
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Anniversary.
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200th year.
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Season.
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It's our 250th season.
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Whatever, dude.
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It's really gone downhill lately.
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America, you get fucked.
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We heard the season 15.
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They haven't extended it.
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That's right.
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They're like, we are...
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We're not signing on the next week.
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I can't look away.
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It's like a train wreck.
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But, you know, it's what we got.
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It's here.
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It's here.
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We're doing it.
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250 years.
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And because of 250 years, Fred, you decided that you would treat our listeners to 250 four facts.
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That's right.
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250 four facts.
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Four facts.
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So there's 250, exactly, Alan, four facts.
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There you go.
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Four facts.
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So I just want to give some, you know, some July 4th, other things that may have happened
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on the 4th of July that, you know, might not have known about it.
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Like, did you know, in 1776, the United States declared its independence from England?
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I did know that, actually.
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These are the things I'm talking about.
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These are things that, you know, happened on the 4th of July.
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And this is going to be in kind of chronological order.
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So in 1817.
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That is after 1776.
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He's right.
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That is.
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It is.
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The construction of the Erie Canal began.
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That's in Michigan, right?
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No, it's in New York.
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It was from, like, New York down.
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It was, like, from the top of New York down to, like, the city.
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You know what I mean?
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But that was actually America's first biggest engineering marvel before the Industrial Age.
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So, like, yeah, they did all that shit, like, cleared the land, the rocks, and the trees, and built, like, I mean, it's a really intricate canal system.
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Like, because, you know, a canal, like, they have to, like, bring the ship in, fill it up with water.
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And then sink it, you know, drain it, and then, you know what I'm saying?
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So it goes down the hill.
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So, but, yeah, they did all that by hand.
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Like, I mean, not, I don't know.
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Like, yeah.
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I was like slave labor.
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I mean, I don't want to be.
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You have to be frank about America's history here, Fred.
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We hope to our listeners.
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We know who did and didn't do it.
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We all know.
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We all know.
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We all know.
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We planned it.
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You know, we all had a part in it.
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You know what I mean?
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Not my people.
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That's true.
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So did Matt, you ever read the book Leaves of Grass?
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I have never heard of a book.
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I've never heard of that book.
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Never heard of that book.
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Well, me either.
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But in 1855, Walt Whitman published.
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Oh.
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Walt Whitman known for his Whitman samplers.
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I love the Whitman samplers.
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Right.
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I love it.
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If he's not an American icon for that, I don't know what he's possibly going to do.
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That's like, I mean, you're going to get chocolate for Valentine's Day.
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If it's not Whitman's, it's shitman's.
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If it's not Whitman's, it's shitman's.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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You can have that one for free.
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Well, Matt, I know you heard of Shaka Zulu.
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No way.
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What about the Walt Whitman story?
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Hold on.
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What?
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What happened?
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He just wrote a book.
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He published the book.
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Oh, I thought you were going to tell us what the book was.
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What was the book about?
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I guess it's about.
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No, it's about.
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It's a book of poems.
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It's just a poem.
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It's more than 400 poems.
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Oh, it's a poem.
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Yeah, but.
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It's a poem book.
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You know what I mean?
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I'm not going to romantic.
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It's 400 poems.
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Do you want me to read them?
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400 poems.
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Go ahead.
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Read Whitman.
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All right.
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I'm going to read you one.
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Give me a sample of Whitman's.
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Give us a.
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A young man came to me with.
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This is a shortish one.
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A young man came to him.
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This is a longer one.
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They died, Pike.
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No.
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Let's go with it.
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All right.
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A young man came to me with a message from his brother.
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How should the young man know whether or when of his brother?
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Tell him to send me the signs.
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And I stood before the young man face to face and took his right hand in my left hand.
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Left hand in my right hand.
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I answered for his brother.
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It is right, man.
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And I answered for the poet.
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And sent these signs.
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Him all wait for.
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Him all yield to.
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His word is decisive and final.
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Him all.
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Him they accept.
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In him lay.
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In him perceive themselves a mid-light.
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Him they immerse.
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And he immerses them.
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What?
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Beautiful women.
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The haughtiest nations.
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Now we're talking.
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Laws.
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The landscape.
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People and animals.
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Oh, my God.
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The found earth and its attributes.
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And the unquiet ocean.
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So much more of this poem.
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It's probably better.
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I think that we're, uh, we're about to wait to the floor.
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I think, uh, Alan's playing you off.
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Great poem.
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Very loud.
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Thank you, technical director.
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Alan just walked away.
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And, like, break it up.
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I was like, I don't want to hear this poem.
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Yeah.
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They want to.
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Yeah.
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It was like, it's a poem.
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I don't want to listen to that.
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They must have been bored as hell in 1855.
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It was a lot of poem.
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I don't know what that poem was about.
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I heard it, but I was reading it word for word.
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So that was July 4th, 1855.
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That's right.
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1855.
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That's right.
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People were like, they were like so excited for July 4th and all this stuff.
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And Walt Whitman was promising things.
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And they're like, Whitman promises it.
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You know, it's candy related.
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And then he dropped this fucking book of points.
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Suicide rates.
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Maybe that's how he got his books.
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So with like every book you bought, you get like a sample of Whitman.
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You buy candy.
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That's where it's in the book.
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They got a sample.
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Yeah.
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It came with a sample.
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And the sample was better than the book.
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Fuck the book.
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You just get the samples.
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Yeah.
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Finally, after that, he was like, we'll just do the samples.
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No.
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We'll just do the, yeah.
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We'll just do the candy.
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And so, uh, okay, man.
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So now you've heard of Shaka Zulu, right?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Shaka Zulu.
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Well, the British forces won the battle of Ulandi is the battle fought between the British
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and the Zulu army.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Shaka Zulu was a badass, wasn't he?
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Wasn't Shaka Zulu?
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Shaka Zulu was a badass.
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Oh, no.
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I'm sorry.
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That's Shaka Khan.
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Oh, I thought you was talking, I thought you were going to say Mandingo.
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Yeah, no.
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I thought it was Shaka Khan.
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Are you talking about Mandingo?
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No, I mean Shaka Khan.
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Not Shaka Khan.
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No, Shaka Zulu was like king of the Zulus back in the day in 18 and somethings, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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King of the Zulus.
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Yeah.
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And he was a badass.
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Mm-hmm.
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They fought the British army.
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Right.
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Like I said, you know, just with what they had, you know, spears and shields, I mean, they
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were defeated, but like, you know, they put up a hell of a battle.
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They showed them they could fight.
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There you go.
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But they didn't win.
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So.
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They didn't win.
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You know what I mean?
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But they fought.
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Alan, sometimes you win by losing.
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It's better.
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It's better to, what is it, to die on your back than to live on your knees.
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Ain't that how it goes?
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How to stay?
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Yeah.
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Something like that.
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Yeah.
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It's better to die on your back than live.
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It's better to take it on your back than on your knees, Alan.
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No.
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I'm not taking it.
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That's what it sounds like to me.
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Whatever it is, that's what you got to do.
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I got to do it.
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I got to do it.
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And I think I'll pass.
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I think, no, this should be four.
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I think this is the fourth fact.
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This is the fourth fact.
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So, happy 4th of July.
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The first Trans-Pacific Telegraph cable was completed in 1903.
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It connected, the cable connected the islands of Honolulu, Guam, Midway, Manila.
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt sent the first telegraph over this cable.
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So, there you go.
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It was a picture of his dick.
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How long was it?
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I wonder how long that was.
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It was cold.
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It was in war.
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It was like...
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It was in the balls right now.
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Yeah.
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A couple of hair things sticking out.
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It was like...
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It works.
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Finally, yeah.
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Finally.
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Now, I can show all these Pacific Islanders what an American fan.
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Happy July 4th, America.
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Happy America.
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Enjoy.
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Enjoy my bush.
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Stay around with a sign.
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You know Teddy Roosevelt had an airy bush because...
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Yeah.
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He was a hunter.
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He liked it wild.
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He liked it beaver.
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Yeah.
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He was like...
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This helps you blend into nature.
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Free mustache rides.
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I can feel it.
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Yeah.
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Big mustache.
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Big mustache.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, dude.
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Yeah.
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The huge one.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, that was my Freddy's 254th facts.
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Oh, Mr. Freddy.
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254 facts.
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That's right, Fred.
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254 facts.
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You had 254 facts about America.
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There you go.
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Well, sort of America.
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Well, not about America, but...
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I thought they would be about...
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Well...
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Now, in retrospect, I really thought they would be more American.
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What?
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But...
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It wasn't, right?
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You know what, Fred?
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That was pretty...
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Yeah.
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And pretty close.
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Sometimes good enough.
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Who's going to fact check me?
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Right.
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Who would ever think to do that?
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Not me.
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Exactly.
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I don't even remember what one of the...
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I remember...
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Yeah.
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I remember the chocolate dude.
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Okay.
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Walt Whitman.
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Walt Whitman.
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Jocko Zulu.
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Erie Canal.
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America's birth as a nation, which is...
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Duh.
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Right.
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Erie Canal.
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Erie Canal.
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So, okay.
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One more then.
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There you go.
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NASA's Pathfinder Rover.
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Lands on Mars.
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Today?
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July 4th, 1997.
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There you go.
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Look at that.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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There you go.
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I got wasted July 4th, 1997.
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Did you?
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Probably.
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You get white girl wasted?
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I got fat white guy wasted.
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Which is the second...
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Which is pretty close to white girl wasted.
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It's about half a step over.
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It's been Lincoln drinking.
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Wasted.
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You know, it's all over when we go out drinking.
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George Schlossington.
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Exactly.
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So, Fred, I'm going to take a phone call, but I heard you guys might have a special guest
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after I leave, but I don't know.
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So, you might want to introduce somebody.
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Okay.
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And I'll be back after a quick phone call with our bosses.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the tallest president to ever have lived, Mr. President Abraham Lincoln,
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our namesake.
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Welcome, President Lincoln.
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Four and four episodes ago, our show's daddy brought forth on this internet, a new podcast,
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conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and farts.
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Now, we are engaged in a great stinky banana, testing whether this podcast or any podcast so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
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We are met on the great battlefield of that banana.
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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their time that a podcast might live.
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It's altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, but in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
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The brave listeners, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what we did here.
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It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced.
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It's rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.
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That from these honored dead, we can take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that they have.
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Preach it!
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We are here, highly resolved that these dead shall not have died in vain.
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That this podcast, under Fox, shall have a new birth of freedom!
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Yes!
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And that a podcast of the people!
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Of the people!
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Out of people!
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And for the people shall not perish from the earth!
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No!
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BLCU!
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BLCU in hell!
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Fuck BLC!
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BLC!
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Linkin' out!
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BLC!
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BLC!
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BLC!
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BLC!
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I wish I had somebody help me say it.
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It's so good, it's so good.
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America!
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I love you!
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I got gay Charles and Greg Brown singing!
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That was emotional, whatever just happened to you.
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You guys, I came back in and it was a very emotionally charged scene.
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Yeah!
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So I'm glad, whatever, management just wanted to tell me that they liked the farts.
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Oh, they did.
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I knew that.
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I thought we already knew that, but, you know, they answer, or they call you answer, you know
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what I mean?
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That's it.
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So speaking of Fred, speaking of answering the call, well, Fred.