Hey everyone Jody here. It is hard to believe but we are already into holiday season for 2021

so over the next month or so we're gonna keep doing new shows and we've also got some really cool end of year specials plan.

One thing we're going to do is take a couple episodes and follow up on a bunch of tidbits

from stories that we covered throughout the year.

So if you have something you want us to follow up on, big or small, get in touch. We're also going to give

ourselves the whole team here a little bit of time off and so during those stretches we will

run back some of our favorite conversations from the year. So that's what we're going to do this week,

Thanksgiving week, and then we'll be back with new episodes the Tuesday after

Thanksgiving. We hope you have a great Thanksgiving that you travel and stay safe

and get to spend some time with friends and loved ones and by the way if any of those friends or loved ones say hey you got any podcast recommendations you know what to do.

Okay let's get into it.

Here's one of our favorite episodes from 2021.

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Evergan.

This day, April 22, 1889, about 50,000 people are standing in the middle of, kind of in the middle of nowhere, in what was then referred to as the

unassigned lands in what is modern day Oklahoma. The people lined up on the edge of a nearly 2 million acre tract of land and then right at noon a

gunshot and the mad dash began would be settlers rushed into the territory to

claim their cheap land and establish their territory.

By the end of the day, both Oklahoma City and Guthrie, Oklahoma had established cities of about

10,000 people.

A week later, there were schools.

Within a month, Oklahoma City had five banks, six newspapers.

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