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Episode One

345 - American Strife: The Battle of Four Corners [Patreon Preview]

Episode One

Episode One

Comedy

4.8858 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

History buffs Please Phillips (Branson) and Edwin Gramble Friction (Charles) discuss a little-known incident in the 1930s in which Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona briefly went to war over a single park bench. Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109261180

Transcript

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0:00.0

Once the plug from that, you know, the bottom of that bench was undone, the helium just started

0:05.6

spraying everywhere.

0:06.9

And this isn't just some like bullshit birthday party balloon helium.

0:10.5

This is high grade green helium.

0:13.0

And they were sitting on this incredible reservoir of this.

0:16.1

And it started to affect the battle in interesting ways.

0:19.0

Yeah.

0:19.3

You can see immediately, this was very strange to the National Guardsman.

0:25.9

Some report later on that, you know, the battle itself took upon the feeling of this awful

0:33.7

apocalyptic fever dream, where nothing was as it seems and nothing was being taken

0:39.1

seriously. People said that there was no dignity anywhere nearby. No grace was allotted to any

0:46.7

soldier on that day. And there were reports of screams, high-pitched helium-inflected screams cascading all over the

0:59.0

Holbrook Basin.

1:00.9

We actually do have some audio, some early audio that was recorded here.

1:07.9

Edwin, let's go ahead and take a listen to that now.

1:12.1

Have that the great state of Colorado.

1:17.8

I will honor by aiming my cult 45 pistol at you.

1:22.3

Well, I too shall aim my gun at you, sir, to defend the honor of my state, which I'm going to pull the trigger now.

1:31.8

That was a miss?

1:34.0

Yeah!

1:35.7

No, I missed you, I missed you actually.

1:37.9

Oh, well, I just felt, you know, maybe that was like a phantom pain.

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