Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio six.
Speaker 1: Simper Tyratus. Welcome to the show, everybody, This is Ridiculous History.
Speaker 1: My name is Ben, My name is What was that six,
Speaker 1: Simper Tyrannus. Yes, something about tyranny, something about a tyrant. Yes,
Speaker 1: thus to all tyrants. Oh, you're talking about old Johnny
Speaker 1: Wilkes booth when he when he put one in Abe
Speaker 1: Lincoln's Dome at the old theater production of our Country, gentleman,
Speaker 1: our American cousins. Whatever difference you got, you got pretty close. Yes,
Speaker 1: the spirit of it was with one of my favorite
Speaker 1: terrible one liners in elementary school. Other than that, Mrs Lincoln,
Speaker 1: how is the play? But it's never too soon to
Speaker 1: introduce our our compatriot, our brother in arms. Uh, the
Speaker 1: our third half of the podcast if don't think about
Speaker 1: the math too much. That's our super producer, Casey Peckram.
Speaker 1: Who is back. You were missed, my friends, You were missed.
Speaker 1: It's good to be back. How are your travels, sir?
Speaker 1: It was a whirlwind, but it was it was a
Speaker 1: good time. Did you not hang out with NICKI six?
Speaker 1: Is that true? We did? Yeah? We um I got
Speaker 1: to high five Nikki six. I got to hear some
Speaker 1: some great stories off air that I can't share here.
Speaker 1: How is this high five? It was solid man, solid
Speaker 1: high five technique. That counts for a lot. Also, just
Speaker 1: to be clear, you mean it was a whirlwind and
Speaker 1: that things were happening in quick succession, not that you
Speaker 1: were in a whirlwind with Nikki six. That is correct. Yes,
Speaker 1: we was just a very action packed few days and
Speaker 1: Big Apple, Ah and the Big Apple. By way of segue,
Speaker 1: New York comes up a little bit intoday's story. You
Speaker 1: heard Noel and I alluding to the assassination of President
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln on April four, eighteen sixty. The President was
Speaker 1: attending a play I think it's my American cousin at
Speaker 1: Ford's Theater in Washington, d C. And that evening, while
Speaker 1: watching the play, he is assassinated by the man you
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, Noel John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth scream
Speaker 1: six temper tyrannis, thus to all tyrants, or thus always
Speaker 1: to tyrants. And according to John Wilkes Booth, that is
Speaker 1: what he shouted after he shot the president. In part
Speaker 1: because it was associated with the assassination of Caesar However,
Speaker 1: while we all know, at least here in the States
Speaker 1: kind of the story of John Wilkes Booth, what a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know is that John Wilkes Booth
Speaker 1: had siblings. We've been doing a lot of this lately,
Speaker 1: haven't we, Like the lesser known siblings of famous historical figures.
Speaker 1: Have we done more than one? I swear we have.
Speaker 1: We did. We've done George Washington's brother, We've done Jimmy
Speaker 1: Carter's uncle, Jimmy Carter's uncle. Now we're doing John Wilkes
Speaker 1: Booth's brother, doing John Wilkes Booth's brother and Abraham Lincoln's
Speaker 1: eldest son in a sort of a star crossed star
Speaker 1: cross might be No, I'm good with that. I'm going
Speaker 1: with the star cross situation where folks from different, like
Speaker 1: diametrically opposed worlds somehow intersect to make a difference in
Speaker 1: each other's lives for good or for ill. Right, kind
Speaker 1: of a cloud Atlas thing. We've got the references, don't
Speaker 1: don't know it. I would say the film is imperfect.
Speaker 1: Book is great, you're into it. Yeah, the film had
Speaker 1: some really bad accents. Is that a thing? Uh? You know,
Speaker 1: the thing is part of the film takes place in
Speaker 1: the future, and so some of those accent you're hearing
Speaker 1: are future accents, so I you know, yeah, there were
Speaker 1: some silly parts. The one I'm remembering most specifically is
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, God bless that amazing man to his from
Speaker 1: his bones to his soul and beyond. Has has an
Speaker 1: accent that did pull me out of the story. When
Speaker 1: it's in the far future. They talked about things like
Speaker 1: the True True and the Big True True. It's weird
Speaker 1: that reminds me, reminds me of Battlefield Earth. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: they say some weird stuff like that, like you slap
Speaker 1: happy something or other, like I don't know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot based on this scientology and absolutely, yeah, there was
Speaker 1: a movie that Alron Hubbard wanted to get made for
Speaker 1: a long time and John Travolta made that happen for him.
Speaker 1: Was it forced Whittaker in that force Whittakers in it?
Speaker 1: John Travolta is in uh, what's that guy's name, Barry Pepper.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the case of John Wilkes Booth's brother.
Speaker 1: So we know that John Wilkes Booth was a well
Speaker 1: known actor in his time, right, He was regularly landing
Speaker 1: these lead roles at the theaters, and our Kentucky gentlemen,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, our American cousin cousin, was he in it.
Speaker 1: He was not performing in the play that night, which
Speaker 1: makes sense because he would have to sneak off stage
Speaker 1: right to perform the assassination. But he was known about
Speaker 1: the theater scene right, so he was probably hanging out
Speaker 1: at this theater and other theaters on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: His brothers Edwin and Junius Junior love the name Junius.
Speaker 1: I love the Junior on it. Junius Junior, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I don't not even get so caught up
Speaker 1: in Junius. That's brilliant. It's j Junius Jr. Edwin and
Speaker 1: Junius were also actors, and Edwin was actually more famous
Speaker 1: than his brother John, at least before the assassination, and
Speaker 1: he was Edwin Booth was often listed as one of
Speaker 1: the best American stage actors in history. And our story
Speaker 1: doesn't take place, and the that fateful night in the
Speaker 1: Ford Theater doesn't know It starts somewhere in what late
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four early eighteen sixty five, on a train
Speaker 1: platform in New Jersey, Jersey City, New Jersey. Twenty one
Speaker 1: year old Robert Lincoln was trying to buy himself a
Speaker 1: ticket for a train journey in a sleeper car um
Speaker 1: and he was part of a big crowd and was
Speaker 1: kind of smushed up against the idoling train car um
Speaker 1: waiting to get this ticket. And as the train began
Speaker 1: to move, he actually he fell out of the platform,
Speaker 1: which is a fear. They don't how they say mind
Speaker 1: the gap, that's what they mean. That's why they tell
Speaker 1: you to mind the gap, so things like this don't happen.
Speaker 1: But he was kind of being pushed up against it
Speaker 1: and then he lost his footing and he fell into
Speaker 1: the tracks. Thank god, it wasn't like subway where you
Speaker 1: hit that third rail on your toast right. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: this still means that serious injury or death could be
Speaker 1: in the cards for the unlucky Robert Lincoln until that is.
Speaker 1: And imagine some inspiring heroic music playing here. Someone from
Speaker 1: the crowd reaches out and they grab Robert Lincoln by
Speaker 1: his collar and they haul him back up to safety.
Speaker 1: And Robert Lincoln turns around, and who does he see
Speaker 1: but Edwin Booth, one of the most famous actors of
Speaker 1: the time Robert Lincoln instantly recognizes Edwin Booth. This is again,
Speaker 1: uh a few months before he recognizes him for his
Speaker 1: acting prowess, right, not for being related the guy who
Speaker 1: will one day kill his father. That would have required
Speaker 1: some sort of gift of sight, which we have no
Speaker 1: record that he had. It's strange because history tells us
Speaker 1: that Edwin when he later learned that the man whose
Speaker 1: life he saved was Robert Lincoln, Edwin was pretty was
Speaker 1: pretty happy with that because his brother was a Confederate
Speaker 1: sympathizer right not above assassination, which makes it functionally as Harris.
Speaker 1: But Edwin was a New York resident and he was
Speaker 1: a huge supporter of the Union cause they had a
Speaker 1: they had a pretty complex relationship. I mean, Edwin Booth
Speaker 1: voted for Abraham Lincoln in eighteen sixty four, and his brother,
Speaker 1: John Wilkes Booth was incredibly disappointed by his brother's vote
Speaker 1: and he lectured him. And Edwin was thirty one years
Speaker 1: old at the time of that election, but it was
Speaker 1: his first time voting, and he felt this amazing pride
Speaker 1: swell up inside him because he felt like he was
Speaker 1: finally doing what an American citizen is supposed to do.
Speaker 1: He wrote to his friend Emma F. Carry in November
Speaker 1: of eighteen sixty four, saying, I voted for Lincoln the
Speaker 1: other day. That is the apostrophe other the first vote
Speaker 1: I ever cast, and I suppose now I am an
Speaker 1: American citizen all over as I have ever been in
Speaker 1: my heart. So here he got a little southern towards
Speaker 1: the end there because he was moved acting acting there was, uh, hey,
Speaker 1: do you remember the first time you voted? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I voted for I think you had something stupid,
Speaker 1: like voted for Nader or something. Do you vote your conscience?
Speaker 1: I don't know. They call that throwing away your vote.
Speaker 1: I think it's what that's called. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: voted for some third party like Green Party candidators, and
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was. It's irrelevant. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: do remember. It was in a high school gym, not
Speaker 1: particularly remarkable, I guess, where a lot of people vote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you don't. You don't get anything when it's your
Speaker 1: first time voting, which I was. I enjoyed it. I
Speaker 1: felt like I was doing the right thing. Always grew
Speaker 1: up very civic minded, but I kind of thought you
Speaker 1: know someone would care. That was my first time voting.
Speaker 1: But the people at the counter where your register, they
Speaker 1: just wanted the day to be over. They were very nice,
Speaker 1: but it's a very long day. What was it like
Speaker 1: back then? Did you punch the ticket? You punched it
Speaker 1: with like a little pen like okay, like it's like
Speaker 1: a like a pokey thing on the front, isn't how
Speaker 1: it was? Oh in my day you had to You
Speaker 1: had to cut your hands and bleed out onto the
Speaker 1: into your candidate of choices. Right, Yeah, that's what they
Speaker 1: mean when they say, oh you're conscious, that's what they mean.
Speaker 1: That's that's where the that's where the phrase drives. But
Speaker 1: you get a sticker though, you do get something. But
Speaker 1: everyone gets that. You always get a stick even even
Speaker 1: back in those days, you ever thought about just getting
Speaker 1: the sticker and not actually voting? You know? Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna share this with everyone. There's an unethical life hack
Speaker 1: tip that I have done for years. I routinely vote.
Speaker 1: I like the feeling and participating in these sorts of
Speaker 1: systems and institutions, but I don't put the sticker on.
Speaker 1: When I get sticker, I keep it your stockpile stickers
Speaker 1: stockpile stickers just in case they don't make it for
Speaker 1: a vote. I've never had to use it. You just
Speaker 1: outed yourself sign that's because I've never had to use it.
Speaker 1: I actually vote. Okay, Well, hook me up with some
Speaker 1: of those you know. I'm a voter, dude. I'm a
Speaker 1: civic minded guy, just like you know, the best of us. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like Edwin Booth. Edwin indeed, So here's the thing I mean.
Speaker 1: Edwin Booth really was kind of beloved because, like he said,
Speaker 1: he was a Union supporter, as were his parents, Junius
Speaker 1: and Mary Um. He was not anything like his much
Speaker 1: more fringe e what we will look at now looking back,
Speaker 1: more like terrorist e kind of brother, John Um. And
Speaker 1: John was deeply disappointed that his brother voted for the Union. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is strange. When we say deeply disappointed, we don't
Speaker 1: mean tis tiss. We mean that John looks. Booth apparently
Speaker 1: became livid and said something along the lines of you fool.
Speaker 1: One day, that man will make himself king of this country.
Speaker 1: That's right. When we say the Union, of course, we
Speaker 1: mean Abraham Lincoln Um and our star crossed heroes for
Speaker 1: today's story. Well, it might seem like an absolute coincidence,
Speaker 1: Maybe not so much, right, There's there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more to the story, right, yeah, yeah, So we've run
Speaker 1: into this in the past. Sometimes you'll hear historical anecdotes
Speaker 1: that sound just too good really to to be to
Speaker 1: be true. And this may be one of the exceptions
Speaker 1: to that rule. We do know that it really happened.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe there's still some question about the particulars. But
Speaker 1: in a letter to the editor of Century magazine, a
Speaker 1: guy named Richard Gilder nine Robert Todd Lincoln himself tells
Speaker 1: the story of how Edwin Booth had saved his life.
Speaker 1: Guilder had wanted to know whether the story was true
Speaker 1: because it had already been written about a number of
Speaker 1: times up until that point, especially when Booth died. But
Speaker 1: the weird thing about it is, in those days, fact
Speaker 1: checking was not prioritized as highly as it is today
Speaker 1: in theory. As a matter of fact, one could argue
Speaker 1: that we're getting back to the days where facts take
Speaker 1: the back seat to a good story. We have an
Speaker 1: excerpt from Robert Lincoln's version of the story of Edwin
Speaker 1: Booth saving his life, and this recollection goes as follows.
Speaker 1: The incident occurred while a group of passengers were late
Speaker 1: at night purchasing their sleeping car places from the conductor
Speaker 1: who stood on the station platform at the entrance of
Speaker 1: the car. Some intense descriptive language here, if I if
Speaker 1: I do say so myself. The platform was about the
Speaker 1: height of the car floor, and there was of course
Speaker 1: a narrow space the gap between the platform and the
Speaker 1: car body. There was some crowding, and I happened to
Speaker 1: be pressed by it against the car body while waiting turn.
Speaker 1: This is amazing that this is so visceral. In this situation,
Speaker 1: the train began to move, and by the motion I
Speaker 1: was twisted off my feet and had dropped somewhat with
Speaker 1: feet downward into the open space, and was personally helpless
Speaker 1: when my coat collar was vigorously seized and I was
Speaker 1: quickly pulled up out to a secure footing on the platform.
Speaker 1: Upon turning to thank my rescuer, I saw it was
Speaker 1: Edwin Booth, whose face was of course well known to me,
Speaker 1: and I expressed my gratitude to him, and in doing
Speaker 1: so called him by name, which is a weird detail
Speaker 1: to end on, isn't it. It's like end In doing
Speaker 1: so called him by name. Sure did thank you, Edwin Booth.
Speaker 1: Edwin Booth my hero. Well, it's not for your vigorous
Speaker 1: collar pool. Yes, exactly know what I'm saying though, Like
Speaker 1: the language is so over the top, area diet and descriptive.
Speaker 1: I love it. So we can see the human moment
Speaker 1: shining through here. Like imagine that you had so anything
Speaker 1: like this, because we've all been around subways before. So
Speaker 1: imagine that you are almost falling into the path of
Speaker 1: a subway and all of a sudden someone yanks you
Speaker 1: from behind and saves your life, and you turn around
Speaker 1: and you realize, WHOA, it's Cheryl Crow or something like that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just working in a Cheryl Crow reference
Speaker 1: here because it's been a while, or it's the Quister,
Speaker 1: or it's I don't know, Tom Hanks, somebody. You now
Speaker 1: have this great anecdote about a celebrity. And as we said,
Speaker 1: for a while, Edwin Booth had no idea that he
Speaker 1: had saved the life of one of Lincoln's children. He
Speaker 1: just thought he was being a stand up dude. He
Speaker 1: didn't find out about it until he received a letter
Speaker 1: from a Colonel Adam Badeaux, a friend of Booths and
Speaker 1: Robert Lincoln had told the colonel this story, and both
Speaker 1: Robert Lincoln and Bideaux were members of General Grant's staff
Speaker 1: at the time. So here's the question. This is a
Speaker 1: little bit of myth busting. We hate to be the
Speaker 1: party poopers in the room, but the truth is important.
Speaker 1: Did boots action really qualify as saving Robert Lincoln's life?
Speaker 1: Lincoln backed away from his claims a little bit later
Speaker 1: in his years, and he said that the train had
Speaker 1: come to a stop when he fell, so he was
Speaker 1: only in danger of falling from the platform to the ground.
Speaker 1: And he said, I probably would have been injured, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been seriously injured. Not that I'm not grateful,
Speaker 1: very grateful, And I love this story. It's an amazing
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's an amazing thing to tell people
Speaker 1: when I'm when I'm hanging out at dinner parties. So
Speaker 1: maybe it was a little bit exaggerated in the beginning,
Speaker 1: but you know what wasn't exaggerated the troubles Edwin booth
Speaker 1: encountered after his brother shot the president. So after the assassination, Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, dude, they had to have seen it coming
Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean, this guy was obviously espousing
Speaker 1: all of this anti union rhetoric, and he was clearly
Speaker 1: the black sheep of the family. But his action John
Speaker 1: Wilkes Booths actions at that theater absolutely dragged his family
Speaker 1: name through the mud. They were all by proxy persona
Speaker 1: non grata. Um. He lost his brother, you know, actually
Speaker 1: the life of his brother. Um lost his candidate, his president,
Speaker 1: his man who he truly believed in. And he essentially
Speaker 1: was almost personally ruined because no one wanted to touch
Speaker 1: him with a ten foot pole because he had the
Speaker 1: stink of his brother's treason all over him. Right. His
Speaker 1: engagement got canceled though family of his fiancee forced her
Speaker 1: to break it off. Jeez man. Yeah, and he was
Speaker 1: quote stricken to the ground, and only with time and
Speaker 1: aid of his friends was he able to make a recovery.
Speaker 1: It's it's strange because what they're describing sounds like anywhere
Speaker 1: from a nervous breakdown to deep, deep depression. He was
Speaker 1: essentially on suicide watch for a while. Yeah. Um. And
Speaker 1: even though he and his parents had absolutely nothing to
Speaker 1: do with his brother's actions, idiologically, it couldn't have been
Speaker 1: further away from him. They were actually arrested by federal officials,
Speaker 1: and the public just treated them like lepers, you know, um,
Speaker 1: all because of what John Wilkes Booth did. And this
Speaker 1: was immediately after he was identified as the assassin. What
Speaker 1: a rough lot man like, you know. It's terrible guilt
Speaker 1: by association exactly. Edwin eventually makes it back in the
Speaker 1: stage and tries to resurrect his career about eight months
Speaker 1: after the assassination, which may have been a little too soon,
Speaker 1: you think, for sure. I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the time limit on that would be.
Speaker 1: But he came back in January of eighteen sixty six.
Speaker 1: And while Edwin was trying to put the pieces back together,
Speaker 1: his family withdrew from public life for you and years
Speaker 1: and years, and they continue to live with this black
Speaker 1: mark on their social record, I guess, their socio political
Speaker 1: record for the rest of their lives, despite being ardent
Speaker 1: supporters of Lincoln and the Union. While this is still happening.
Speaker 1: While all this is happening on one hand, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, Edwin is on a mission to get his
Speaker 1: brother's remains so that they can bury him at the
Speaker 1: family plot. Pretty sad story, and it takes three years
Speaker 1: for him to get those remains released. Brother, they grew
Speaker 1: up together, They loved each other. I mean, obviously there
Speaker 1: was some distance between them, but it does not There's
Speaker 1: nothing that indicates that anybody in their family suspected that
Speaker 1: he would do anything as radical as he did. And
Speaker 1: we do have some documentation about the way that John's
Speaker 1: Confederate leanings kind of put put a wedge between him
Speaker 1: and his family members. I love the languag in this one.
Speaker 1: So he's writing a letter to a guy named Nahame
Speaker 1: Capin in a h U. M. Capin in eighteen eighty
Speaker 1: one is what we're talking about right where he's describing
Speaker 1: his brother. Okay, so all things aside, the language of
Speaker 1: this and is amazing. Uh, Dear sir, I can give
Speaker 1: you very little information regarding my brother John. I seldom
Speaker 1: saw him since early boyhood in Baltimore. He was a
Speaker 1: rattle pated fellow filled with exotic notions. While at the
Speaker 1: farm in Maryland, he would charge on horseback through the woods,
Speaker 1: spouting heroic speeches with a lance in his hand, a
Speaker 1: relic of the Mexican War given to father by some
Speaker 1: soldier who had served under Taylor. We regarded him as
Speaker 1: a good hearted, harmless, the wild brained boy, and used
Speaker 1: to laugh at his patriotic froth whenever his secession was
Speaker 1: discussed that he was insane. On that one point, no
Speaker 1: one who knew him well can doubt. What is rattle painted? Me?
Speaker 1: Is it like being Twitter painted? Is it? Yeah? Like
Speaker 1: so a paint would be what like your head? Uh?
Speaker 1: But isn't twitter painted a thing? Yeah? Twitter page is
Speaker 1: when you're very excited. When you're excited, rattle paid, it
Speaker 1: means you're very rattled. Maybe I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the context? How's it used here? Yeah? Okay, So
Speaker 1: he was a rattle painted fellow with quixotic, quixotic notions,
Speaker 1: So I guess that would mean quirky, lofty ideals kind of.
Speaker 1: So maybe rattle painted. Maybe it just means kind of
Speaker 1: a freaking weirdo. Yeah yeah, maybe a little like jittery,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what the word makes me think of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like one edge right, like well, like like prone to
Speaker 1: wild outbursts and quixotic notion. According to my very cursory search,
Speaker 1: it means lacking discretion. Yeah, exactly. Okay, I like it though,
Speaker 1: I love I love it. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: could pull that off in conversation. Yeah, you might get
Speaker 1: called out on that one, well, because then you would
Speaker 1: have to explain it, and then people would say why,
Speaker 1: And then we would say, well, you know, me and
Speaker 1: my pal's do this show on the internet and we
Speaker 1: I'm trying to bring back archaic curse words. I don't know,
Speaker 1: and they'll just like be like, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go yeah, that's like, that's a word. Yeah, in fact,
Speaker 1: you should have to pay for the privilege of using
Speaker 1: that word. But I love it and fearing yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, someone else will be able to bring
Speaker 1: back rattle paid. Well, maybe this just isn't our fight,
Speaker 1: but we do know that when he was talking about
Speaker 1: his brother, you can see you can see the affection
Speaker 1: that he felt, and you can see the distance and
Speaker 1: the rest of his letter, which still long to read,
Speaker 1: here is him explaining how that politics drove a wedge
Speaker 1: between them and also how little he felt they knew
Speaker 1: each other. In the end, he always thinks of them
Speaker 1: as that poor crazy boy, that poor crazy rattle paided boy,
Speaker 1: Rattle paid. That's right, and thus ends our episode, but
Speaker 1: not our show. You're right, No, we have been. We
Speaker 1: have been establishing a little bit of a pattern of
Speaker 1: looking at lesser known relatives of historical figures. I'm okay
Speaker 1: with it. I'm okay with it too. Have we reached
Speaker 1: two d episodes? Yeah? You know what we were talking
Speaker 1: about this? Did we ever talked about this on their
Speaker 1: We did? Or not? Okay? Because I know it was
Speaker 1: always we're king up on it, ek eking up eking
Speaker 1: e king we're eating up on it. We're we're getting
Speaker 1: to the precipice. This might be to oh one. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure because I think Casey planted out that we
Speaker 1: had released a few creature feature features in the feed,
Speaker 1: which up to our number, but we're not going to
Speaker 1: count those towards our towards our total. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think we should do something fun. Yeah, like what
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like go to fun hats, go to
Speaker 1: Dave and Busters, do a live podcast from David. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go to a history museum. I love the New York
Speaker 1: Museum of Natural History. That's a great one. I haven't
Speaker 1: been to that one in a long time. It's great,
Speaker 1: it's a whole we can celebrate separately. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: we're both on the road where we're going to be
Speaker 1: doing a little traveling together here. Off, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to spill the beans on this one that you've got
Speaker 1: a serious adventure coming up, don't you got a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff I gotta do and I gotta go home
Speaker 1: involving sonar pack masks and you're so nar and my sonar. Yes,
Speaker 1: but all will be revealed in time. The conversation doesn't
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Speaker 1: us out as part of a s summer Um. What
Speaker 1: do you call it, like a work study kind of
Speaker 1: situation right for his degree? Yeah, that's right. That's why
Speaker 1: Ryan has such a an authoritative scholarly air because he
Speaker 1: is a scholar, is in need a scholar, whereas we
Speaker 1: are armchair scholars at best rattle we are rattle paided
Speaker 1: uh fake Herman Miller Aaron chair Uh scholars, that's what
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Speaker 1: Those were some fun episodes, UM, So thanks to you, Ryan,
Speaker 1: here's to you, and here's to your your master's degree
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