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Tonight we're going to cover the butcher baker, Robert Hanson,

and Meg is gonna start.

All right, all right.

So Robert Christian Hansen, which what a middle name

for the kind of human being this was.

I thought the same thing.

He was born the day after Valentine's Day in 1939. So he's an Aquarius

too? Yes. Aye. Esterville, Iowa.

His father had immigrated to the US

and opened a bakery.

And Robert, even as a small child, worked very long hours in this bakery.

He was a baker by trade, hence the butcher baker nickname.

He was a baker.

His dad was a very strict disciplinarian and even though he was left-handed he was forced to use his right hand and I know that seems like a weird thing to include but apparently this caused him to have a stutter.

Yeah, I read that.

I was like, can that do that?

But I guess if someone's forcing you to do something that's not, I don't know.

Yeah.

It's like your brain kind of struggles with it because you're like this is not what I, and like you

have to focus so hard on like doing it, yeah, because it's the right way according to your dad.

So he had the stutter as a young teen. He also had pretty bad acne he was relentlessly bullied for all of these things

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