One of Black History Month's key historical figures is George Washington Carver.

The scientist, an agricultural pioneer who became a national sensation when he testified in 1921

before Congress about the power of the peanut, convincing the government that

America needed to protect this vital resource and invest in unlocking its biochemical

properties.

What they didn't tell us in grade school about George Washington Carver is that he came

across as unapologetically queer. Carver spoke to the flowers

every morning. He shared a bed with his male lover, and he rubbed out the sore muscles of college

athletes with his therapeutic hot peanut oil massage. Today, comedian Matt Brown joins us to take a look

at the scientist and mystic George Washington Carver.

His pen pal friendships with married women, his romance with Tuskegee scientist Austin Curtis Jr.

And working as a nutritional advisor to Gandhi.

Plus, Black Lives Matter, Stacey Abrams, and Jared Kushner all get nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Hollywood sign gets altered to read Holly Boob.

And Dolly Parton turned down the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump twice.

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Dr. Carver, do you consider yourself a chemist?

We have to be very careful unless the ego comes in. A person that can bake a reasonably good

cake or a reasonably good pan of biscuit, can't go out

and put up a shingle and say that they are good goups, but they simply use the kettle or pan

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