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Episode 29: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, How far left we gotta go?

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Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A Magnitogorsk of a cross country trip.

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The Ladies and gentlemen welcome the world presentations episode 29 Lewis and Clark how left we got a go

0:26.8

we are going to be taking a look at the Lewis and Clark expedition which happened from

0:38.0

August 31st 1803 to September 25th 1806.

0:41.6

If you didn't know that, I didn't know what it was either. I didn't know. I just knew Lewis and Clark as like a pop culture reference and I think

0:48.4

we might have covered in sixth grade maybe I was really trying to think about, why don't I know about this at all?

0:55.0

And I just, that's all. I know that two dudes went, they like, as far as I knew before I looked into it, it was two guys walked across the country to the Pacific Ocean.

1:05.0

And then Sakagia was in there somewhere because I remember they made the dollar gold coin out of her.

1:11.0

I don't know if that was national or just in Jersey, but I remember they had him on the PACO line for a minute.

1:15.0

And that was, if you pressed me on it, that's pretty much all I knew.

1:19.0

And then I would start naming Oregon Trail facts from the video game.

1:22.0

If you, if I was still in that conversation,

1:24.6

I had to start lying about shit I knew about.

1:26.4

I would just start incorporating Oregon Trail knowledge,

1:29.9

whatever I could remember from that video game.

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Also it was hard for me to like get in to learn about Lewis and Clark because I liked that

1:36.8

video game so it watches a kid.

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I realized that after looking into it for a minute I was like, I't know I couldn't I couldn't get behind

1:43.5

Lewis and Clark as like interesting I was kind of worried that like as much

1:46.6

to be boring and that I realized I was like I think it's just because you have

1:49.5

in your head you have like a bias against it because you're too loyal to the Oregon Trail video game.

1:56.0

I only have one like room for one American story of exploration in the West or in like the 1800s. So I was happy to find that in my head and be like,

2:06.4

all right, stop being an idiot. Keep looking at Lewis and Clark dude. So we're going to be covering the expedition,

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