CLASSIC: Are All US Presidents Actually Related?
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In 2012 a student in Salinas, California, startled genealogists when she claimed that all Presidents save one were actually related. Could it be true? Join Ben and Noel in today's classic episode as they dive into this strange claim, separating fact from fiction while tackling what it means, exactly, to be related to someone. (It's all relative.)
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| 0:00.0 | Well folks we have been on a bit of a presidential kick of late. |
| 0:04.8 | Dare we say a tear? |
| 0:06.1 | Dare we say a tear? |
| 0:07.2 | We do, we dare. |
| 0:08.8 | And this classic episode is about a question that popped up in man it must have been early 2018 maybe |
| 0:18.0 | late 2017 are all US presidents actually related? |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, it comes from a student in Salinas, California, |
| 0:28.0 | back in 2012. |
| 0:29.6 | I guess this is before we instituted our historical cutoff, but I guess it has to do with history |
| 0:35.4 | before 1994, so we'll give our past selves a past, pass. |
| 0:42.0 | But yeah, a student in Salinas, California shook the genealogy and presidential |
| 0:46.9 | history world to its core when she claimed that all U.S. presidents, except for one, |
| 0:53.0 | share an ancestor. |
| 0:56.0 | It's all relative. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi, I'm Essie Kup, |
| 1:01.0 | and I've spent my career interviewing people about politics, presidential elections, and some really tough breaking news. |
| 1:08.0 | But now I need a break and I think you do too. |
| 1:11.0 | So on my new podcast Off the the cup I'll still be interviewing people |
| 1:14.6 | usually famous and most likely my friends but about life you know the stuff that |
| 1:19.7 | consumes us when we're not consumed by politics? |
| 1:23.0 | So come join me every Wednesday for some conversational self-care. |
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