489 Sarah Vowell American Hawaii; Rick Mercer Canada 150; Winning the Palio

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🗓️ 1 July 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Author and This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell tells us what she's recently learned about the Americanization of the Hawaiian islands. Then say "Happy 150th birthday" to Canada with one of its top TV personalities, Rick Mercer. Plus, a tour guide from Siena tells us how her adopted neighborhood won last year's Palio horse race — twice.

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0:00.0	This is a really big anniversary year for Canada.
0:03.0	Coming up, TV host Rick Mercer wants to make sure that his neighbors in the USA know a few things about his country that he's pretty sure they aren't aware of.
0:12.0	I would guess that that comes as a shock to most Americans.
0:15.0	Canada is actually physically larger.
0:17.0	Author Sarah Valle explores how the Hawaiian Islands became American Territory.
0:22.0	She explains why not everybody at the time thought it was a great idea.
0:25.6	I don't know that Hawaiians will be particularly excited about me saying this.
0:30.0	And hear how the luck of the she-wolf brought an unexpected win for Anna
0:34.0	Pipporado's team in the Palio horse race in Tuscany.
0:37.8	Our jockey does a brilliant move. He moves on the inside and
0:41.7	everyone is going absolutely crazy.
0:43.9	I have goosebumps right now.
0:45.3	My heart is pounding.
0:46.7	We won after 27 years.
0:50.5	Feel the passions of Italy, get friendly with Canada, and grapple with American history in Hawaii in the hour ahead.
0:56.0	It's Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:00.0	It's Prime Time for Summer Holidays, and you can celebrate a few of them with us today on Travel with Rick Steeves.
1:06.0	Canadian TV host Rick Mercer joins us for this year's big Canada day observance in a bit,
1:11.0	and we'll hear what it's like to win the famous
1:13.6	polio horse race in Tuscany. It was only a few days after the 4th of July in
1:19.0	1898 when Hawaii became an American territory.
1:23.0	Author Sarah Valle investigates how it happened in her book, Un Familiar Fishes.
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