Hi everybody! This is a snippet of our new bonus episode where I interview my

dad, Gov, a historian about all your history questions that you submitted and he

gives us a bunch of his mistakes that his students have made over the years

that are hilarious. The full episode is on our Patreon. If you want to listen to it

that's patreon.com slash benchtopia. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy this little snippet.

For 20 plus years, I've been collecting bloopers from my students midterms,

papers, and final exams because sometimes they're just laugh out loud in accurate.

So if you want me to read a couple of them. Yeah, read a couple of them. In 1096 the

Crusaders brought furry down on the Jews of the Rhine. Furries? Furry instead of

furry. So that's what happens to fury when you add an extra heart. They brought

furries down. Aren't furries like some weird cult movement or something? Yes, yes.

They're the people who dress up as like fuzzy animals. After World War II,

Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary became puppy governments controlled by

the Soviet Union. Puppy. They meant to say puppet. Instead of puppet governments.

That's kind of cute. Christian hatred of Jews extended to rumors that Jewish people

needed Christian blood to make some of their famous Jewish snacks.

Wait, where did they get that? Our famous Jewish snacks are matzo, of course.

Wait, where did they get that we needed their blood to make snacks? Because of the ritual murder

legend. But we were making snacks, even in the virtuals. It was the legend was that Jews

around Easter time and Passover time would murder Christian children to use the

blood for their moths as for ritual purposes that were nefariously anti-Christian,

which was a first snack in the first place. But I love how they just said we needed

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