Hello and welcome to a history of the United States.

Episode 95, Benjamin Franklin.

Electricity, yeah you can all thank me, took some lightning, a kite and a fat brass key putting up street lights in gay Perry.

You're welcome from our young nation

I'm the only American

The French want to say

They call me a genius

I can't disagree

They have guns, they have funds they can set us free invest in my reputation

and do you know who the fuck I am yeah do you know who the fuck I am I am do you know who the fuck I am?

Do you know who the fuck I am?

I am for Richard's Almanac riding Benjamin fucking Franklin. Yeah, I'm so happy we're in the bit of history that I can use Hamilton.

So happy.

Benjamin Franklin is the first of the founding fathers that we will deal with.

Although he was of an older generation to the others.

Mike Duncan, in his Revolutions series, refers to Franklin

as America's founding grandfather, and I think this is a brilliant nickname, so I'm going to

unshammedly steal it. Sealing with pride has always been my motto, a motto I invented, no less.

Benjamin Franklin was born in January 1706, the son of Josiah Franklin,

and Abaya Fulga in Boston. Josiah left England for religious reasons in 1683, while Abaya was a descendant of the earliest settlers of New England.

Benjamin has little to save his mother, but was full of admiration for his father.

Benjamin was Josiah's youngest son. He had 17 children in total, seven with the first wife, and then 10 with a buyer.

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