This is an IHeart podcast.

I always thought it was called a buck strap, but that's not what it is.

It's a flank strap.

Yeah.

And the, you know, people think that it squeezes their balls.

Sure.

That's actually not true.

So you're saying there's an opening there for a new product.

That might make them buck a little harder.

I don't know.

Hey there.

I'm Ed Helms and welcome to Snafu.

And I'm Cal Penn and welcome to Here We Go again.

This week we are here together doing a special joint episode of our shows because, hey, we're both funny guys who love history and storytelling.

And you know what that means.

It's synergy, people.

It means synergy.

First, I'm going to take you through a wild snafu about a town that decided to throw caution to the wind and secede from the Union way back in 1850, only to realize it would leave them a little thirsty or perhaps a little high and dry.

And then I'm going to walk us through a discussion with journalist and historian Richard Kreitner about the continued and very recent secession movements today.

Think about like Cal Exit or Texit or the Greater Idaho Movement, which sounds like a brewery, but really isn't.

Let's see why this same shit keeps

happening again and again and again. This really feels like synergy. This is like our podcasts,

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