Short Stuff: Poe Toaster

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

For at least sixty years a mysterious person (or persons) showed up at Edgar Allen Poe’s grave to toast the master on his birthday. No one ever found out who this legendary figure was.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:34.7	Hey and welcome to the short stuff.
0:36.2	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and it's just the two of us, just a couple of haunches,
0:42.3	couple of ombre's just doing our thing, rattling off facts in a super speedy manner
0:48.6	with a limited amount of time.
0:51.2	So this is short stuff.
0:53.8	So we don't want to waste time with long intros saying unnecessary things.
0:59.1	Right.
1:00.1	Exactly.
1:01.1	So the potoster, huh?
1:03.4	Is this the beginning of our spooky content?
1:06.0	Yes it is.
1:07.0	If that's okay with you.
1:09.2	Yeah, it's our favorite month.
1:11.0	I love October.
1:12.0	I love Halloween.
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