Hello, delicious friends and welcome to a very special bonus 4th of July episode of Who Did What Now, the History Podcast, that's not your history class, with me, your host,lwood history harlot and reader of books it is that time of

you again where the united states of america celebrates its independence from the british empire

something that many other countries have done and it has an official day of celebration

like many other countries have done

because the British Empire

it had quite a big reach

empires as a general rule tend to

you know they tend to spread out

and so every year

the United States of America celebrate this with like fireworks

and hot dogs. If the movies have anything to tell me, and everyone wears red, white and blue,

which coincidentally is also the colours of the British flag and the French. But I'm just saying

that there's only so many colours. There's only so

many colours. And, you know, dye wasn't cheap back in the day, I'm just saying. Anyway,

I thought, what better way to celebrate, you know, the 4th of July with my amazing American friends, followers and foes,

then to talk about the first man to be executed for treason in the United States.

What can I say? It just seemed like a very, very interesting piece of American history.

And like, I had no idea who John Brown was. Like, I mean, I had a very vague notion.

Like, I had a consideration of who John Brown was. I was like, oh, he's that guy who got executed for treason, right? That was it.

That was my entire wealth of knowledge on John Brown. And I was informed about him when I was in

LA, Los Angeles. And I don't know if it was like, I know I was in a car and I don't know if it was

when I was being picked up from the airport or when I was traveling to my show, my live show.

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