Hey Teresa, are you ready to record a podcast?

Glass, China, and reputation are easily cracked and never well-mended.

Yeah, that doesn't really apply to this. It's Schmanners! Hello internet. I'm your husband host Travis McElroy and I'm your wife

host Teresa McElroy and you're listening to Schmannner. It's extraordinary

etiquette for ordinary occasions. Hello, my dove.

Hello.

How are you?

I'm doing well.

I think that we had a nice Thanksgiving.

And I was thinking.

Okay. I was thinking after the last episode where we mentioned the turkey and Benjamin Franklin

I remember this that we might want to delve into that a little more closely.

Because that fool of turkeys?

Yes, well, you'll find out.

Okay, so maybe. Let me see if I understand this correctly, you might be hinting at that

history is not exactly how I understand it with this whole of Benjamin Franklin thing.

Right. Well, the truth is, he was a prolific writer,

and he did say a lot of things about a lot of things.

But sometimes he didn't say the things we think he said.

I, my knowledge of Benjamin Franklin is as follows.

I, what I know about him as a little kid

is from this alternate reality sci-fi book series

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