EP328: The Story Of Benjamin Franklin's Longest Lasting Persona and The Cleveland Indians' The “Ten Cent Beer Night” Riot
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, we hear about how the 25-year publication started out of a need when someone pulled their publication and turned into an international phenomenon... which Mark Twain HATED! The History Guy tells how on June 4, 1974, in Cleveland, trouble was a brewin', the bleachers were loaded, and there was a distinct buzz in the air.
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00:00 - The Story Of Benjamin Franklin's Longest Lasting Persona
37:00 - The Cleveland Indians' The “Ten Cent Beer Night” Riot
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, from the arts to sports and from business to history and everything in between, including your story. |
| 0:21.7 | Send them to Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:24.6 | They're some of our favorites. |
| 0:26.1 | And this next story is about Benjamin Franklin. |
| 0:29.6 | And you're about to, well, learn more about one of his most famous publications. |
| 0:35.4 | Here's Robbie. |
| 0:39.1 | You've probably heard of poor Richards Almanac. |
| 0:42.3 | You definitely know the effects of eating an apple a day. |
| 0:45.5 | But where did it all come from? |
| 0:47.5 | Here's Benjamin Franklin impersonator, Mitchell Kramer. |
| 0:51.2 | Well, it really is purely practical. |
| 0:53.1 | You know, he's got a printing house in Philadelphia, and he's got a rival, Andrew Bradford. |
| 0:58.9 | It's the early 1730s, so he's had his printing press for a few years. |
| 1:04.5 | He's printing other people's almanacs. |
| 1:07.4 | The one that's really specific is Thomas Godfrey, because Thomas Godfrey is an actual friend of his. |
| 1:13.6 | And he gets into this weird fight with Godfrey. |
| 1:19.5 | And it's really a silly fight. |
| 1:23.1 | Head librarian of the library company, Jim Green. |
| 1:26.9 | Franklin and Godfrey were close friends, |
| 1:29.3 | so close that he invited Godfrey and his wife and children to live with him. |
| 1:33.3 | This was all fine, but Franklin realized he needed a wife. |
| 1:36.3 | Now it happened that Mrs. Godfrey had a relative who was looking for a husband, |
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