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Hey and welcome to The Podcast.

Short stuff I should say.

I'm Josh, there's Chuck, there's Jerry, let's get to it.

And they're off.

And another shorty.

So we're about to talk about something I had no idea about previous to this.

Yeah, and this one has a couple of layers that are super interesting to me.

It is an onion for sure.

So we're going to dive into the history of a guy named William Rufus, Devane King.

And he was an early senator.

He was a diplomat for the United States.

Well, I think it was a congressman first.

Then he was a diplomat and then he was a senator for like 29 years or something like

that.

And then eventually he became vice president.

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