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Oral Presentations

Episode 64 - The Oregon Trail and Lithuanian Mysticism

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

***Things I forgot: Gun accidents were responsible for a bunch of KO’s on the Oregon Trail. A lot of first time firearm owners had a similar attitude as my 6th grade self when hitting the General Store and bought way too many guns before they set out. Because of this, by the end in 1869 it was not uncommon to find firearms discarded along the trail. Also The Oregon Trail did end in 1869, the Transcontinental railroad was completed. This linked East to West by rail so nobody was wa...

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0:00.0

And the Ladies and gentlemen welcome to oral presentations podcast episode 64 the Oregon

0:25.2

Trail and Lithuanian mysticism how have you been it's been a minute since I've had a public episode out that's new. I've released a couple of

0:35.7

patrons as publics because I've been sick. I technically still have pneumonia right now, but

0:41.0

I'm on antibiotics for it and you can't get it through sound

0:44.0

and I don't do I sound that bad I think I'm all right I weese in the morning like a

0:49.5

cat but it's going away.

0:55.0

So, I mean, I thought it was going about a week ago, and then it, yeah, it just got worse.

0:57.0

I don't know if I didn't drink water someday or something,

1:00.0

but it got worse.

1:01.0

So it's been a minute.

1:02.0

I hope you're doing all right. I missed the New Year's thing. Hope you had a nice new year. I think I remember to say Merry Christmas to you guys on here, but if not I hope your Christmas went well. But anyway, 2021, we're here. How's it going, huh?

1:16.0

Either way, you're about to get some Oregon Trail facts. Now we I I knew I wanted to do the Oregon

1:24.9

Trail for the first episode of the year because I am a Christmas ham and I was like

1:29.9

Oregon Trail new adventure 2021 new, let's figure it out.

1:35.0

And also, I don't think they do this anymore, but I'm, look, I'm 34.

1:42.0

When I was in middle school, we had computer lab,

1:45.0

and it was all desktops.

1:46.4

The way this room was set up, there's like 26th graders together,

1:51.0

and then there's lines of desktop computers big monitors like you couldn't see

1:56.2

it was impossible for the computer aid to watch everybody and so you would all go down for an hour

2:02.4

and you would play the Oregon Trail, which is an old computer game.

2:07.0

Hopefully you know about it. I didn't play it for this, but I looked it up.

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