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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh.

There's Chuck Dave's hearing spirit.

So that's a short stuff quorum that's all you need and this is short stuff.

That's right.

And we're here to dispel the rumor that Christopher Columbus discovered America.

You knew.

That's so old.

That is pretty old.

Are we really going to talk about that?

No, no, we don't have to do that.

That was definitely a 2008-2009-ish kind of thing to say.

What are we going to dispel?

Well, so I think one of the things we should at least say, because not everybody knows

this, is like the first Europeans definitively to reach North America were the Vikings.

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