Bastille Day

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt and special guest Tom Lum explore why Bastille Day is secretly incredibly fascinating.

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0:00.0	Bastille Day, known for being a holiday.
0:04.4	Fimos for being French holiday.
0:07.7	Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.
0:10.5	Let's find out why Bast think it is.
0:41.2	My name is Alec Schmidt and I'm not alone. Also, my wonderful co-host, Katie Golden, she is taking the week off. She'll be back soon.
0:49.2	And I'm joined by a wonderful guest for this week's topic. Please welcome Tom Lum of Let's Learn Everything and so many other great things.
0:56.4	I always want to sing the theme song, but then I realize if it's still fading in, I'm like, that's going to be horrible to listen to.
1:09.1	Hello.
1:10.1	They're like three quarters of a tone off. It's just everyone's throwing their headphones. Hello. They're like three quarters of a tone off.
1:12.4	It's just everyone's throwing their headphones.
1:15.2	It's a real polyrhythm going on.
1:17.8	You all recently did an episode with that wonderful pianist, right?
1:21.2	David Bennett?
1:22.4	Yes, yes.
1:23.4	Because he, I pulled his stuff for our Paca Bell's canon episode.
1:27.1	Oh, amazing. And then just watch like his wholeaca Bell's canon episode. Oh, amazing.
1:28.2	And then just watch like his whole channel because it's great.
1:30.4	Yeah, yeah.
1:30.9	So I'm thinking about music with you too.
1:32.7	Love a good source appreciator.
1:34.9	And if anyone is, it's y'all.
1:37.7	Oh.
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