Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, July 26, 1995. We've done Jimmy Carter fending off a crazed rabbit while fishing

in a Georgia swamp. Today we are going to look at the time that former president George H.W. Bush nearly

drowned in a peat bog during a fishing trip in Canada. So we really on this

podcast have the presidents in peril while fishing market totally covered. Here to discuss this story are as

always Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello

Jody. Hey there. And we want to thank, I think think is the right word,

listener Xavier for recommending this story. There was a one line email from Xavier

and it says, here's a good obscure story with a link to an L.A. Times article which was like

five lines long so that's the start of this story and we'll see how much more there is

but you know the L. the LA Times article, very straightforward,

does not answer to my mind the key basic questions, which is, what is a bog? Can you fish

in a bog? How do you get stuck in a bog? I mean, there a lot of bog related stuff that I want to get out of the way before we get into the massive political ramifications of this

To either of you know what a lot of assumed knowledge. Yeah, I assume it's like a swamp right I mean it's sort of like a marshy

yucky probably gross ground that you think is probably solid until you step into it and realize it's not.

Yeah, I mean it's like a thick swamp, right? Like it's like a mulch-filled swamp so that it

looks like just like a mul multi patch and then you step in it and like

quicksand you're sucked down. Yes and you know one one good definition of

Bog is it is something that would look like solid ground to a former president.

But meaning it is not like a marshland it is thicker it is basically an accumulation of peat and deposits of dead plant materials,

often moss and so forth.

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