'21 Favorite: The Cussing Parrot (1845)
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Heading into 2022, we’re re-airing a couple favorite episodes from the year, and bringing you a couple special episodes. We’ll be back live in the new year with a brand new slate. Thanks for all your support this year, if you’d like to become a member of Radiotopia you can do so on our website thisdaypod.com
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It’s June 10th. This day in 1845, at the funeral of Andrew Jackson, his parrot “Poll” had to be removed from the room for excessive swearing.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss Poll’s uncouth behavior, what kinds of swear words may have been uttered, and the history of other notable presidential pets.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone Jody here it is that week between Christmas and New Year's |
| 0:04.0 | We're going to be running some special episodes a couple favorites from 2021 and then a two-part special |
| 0:09.6 | We recorded looking back at the year following up on some of the stuff we missed. |
| 0:14.9 | Now one quick note, it is the end of the year so I would be remiss if I didn't point out that |
| 0:19.6 | we couldn't make this show without the direct support of our listeners, |
| 0:24.0 | consider becoming a member of Radiotopia |
| 0:27.0 | and supporting this show and all the other shows on the network. |
| 0:29.8 | You can find a form on our website, this day dot com if you want to become a member anyway |
| 0:37.8 | thank you for listening thank you for supporting throughout the year here we go |
| 0:41.8 | hello throughout the year here we go. Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
| 0:48.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:51.0 | This day June 10th, 1845, the funeral of former President Andrew Jackson. |
| 0:58.7 | And you know what? Sometimes I like to just outsource my intro to accounts at the time so I will now read from the account of one person in attendance |
| 1:06.7 | the Reverend William Meniffy Normant. So Reverend Normant writes and I quote |
| 1:12.6 | Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, |
| 1:15.2 | a wicked parrot that was a household pet |
| 1:18.0 | got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long |
| 1:21.6 | as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house. |
| 1:25.0 | The presidential parrot was excited by the multitude and let loose perfect gusts of cuss words. |
| 1:31.0 | People were horrified and awed at the bird's lack of reverence." |
| 1:36.1 | End quote. |
| 1:37.1 | Intro over. |
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