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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Secrets of the Founding Fathers, Part I

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today, the Founding Fathers of the United States are some of the most well-known figures in the country's history. They're memorialized in monuments, museums, currency, holidays -- the list goes on. For more than a century they were deified, held up as paragons of statecraft. Yet the way they've been portrayed in textbooks often skips over details that ran counter to the shining image sold to generations of school children. You see, the Founding Fathers had secrets... so many, in fact, that we had to make this a two-part episode.

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0:00.0

I'm Jason Alexander and I'm Peter Togan.

0:01.8

We know you've been pining for a brand new podcast hosted by a beloved television icon.

0:06.2

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0:08.4

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0:09.6

Pine no more because we're the hosts of really no really.

0:12.4

The funny informative show that seeks the answers to things that make us say,

0:15.8

really? No. Really?

0:17.2

You'll lay off your learn and we'll get paid.

0:19.2

That's really no really with Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden on the I Heart radio app

0:23.0

on Apple Podcasts or where you get your podcasts.

0:25.8

And anybody who uses the word pining,

0:27.6

let me know because I don't think it's very interesting.

0:29.6

It's the middle ages. Very common word.

0:31.6

In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police after running away from a reform school

0:37.6

in Mount Meg's Alabama.

0:39.4

I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice.

0:41.8

And in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse that thousands of black children suffered

0:46.8

at the Alabama industrial school for Negro children and how those five girls changed everything.

0:54.2

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0:58.2

or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:01.8

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1:05.8

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