I'm hoping some of you know that John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, the second president of

America, and America's first vice president, was the sixth president of the United States.

Guesting fewer of you, know that he was also a Massachusetts State Senator, a professor

at both Harvard and Brown University, the first US diplomat to live in Russia, the Secretary of

State was a former member of Congress from Massachusetts, winning a seat in the House of

Representatives after losing a presidential reelection bid to Andrew Jackson and serving as a member

of Congress for 17 years until his death. And I'm guessing that even fewer still, probably much,

much, much fewer know that shortly before leaving office as president, he hoped to fund an expedition

by a one Captain John Cleave Sims Jr. who for years had been trying to get funding to take a trip

to the North Pole, where he believed there was a giant opening that led to the center of the Earth

where some mole people potentially lived who he hoped to establish trade with.

Yep, you heard me right. A president of the United States intended to fund an attempt to trade

with mole people living in the center of the Earth. This is history. Work and wait, it's time, Suck.

State to top some.

Okay, full disclaimer up top while you're hearing this, you know, at the at the

ear list in early November, due to moving kind of a busy travel schedule and a lot of other work

and life commitments that's been going on the past few weeks for me, I had to record this episode

prior to the election in October. So that's, I would love to be commenting right now on the results

of the election, you know, at least a little bit, but I have no fucking idea who won,

because right now it's still October for me. So, you know, ideally I want to do a lot of these

as close to the release as possible, but sometimes life just doesn't make that an option.

But I did feel, you know, because of the crazy election that we've been experiencing,

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