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at one of the favorite podcast app. Cheers and have a safe tomorrow. Oak Orchard Creek near Lewiston, New York,

at one of the biggest harbors in Lake Ontario,

it can be a thousand feet wide in some spots.

So the name of Crick, I've even seen in the local,

some of the local newspapers, not even sure why it's called a creek.

Like it really should be a river. But it's called a creek like it really should be a river but it's here in

1827 where a man's body is pulled out of the water and who he was or rather who

people thought he was, would change American politics and actually would change it forever. I'm not. It all starts like you're flipping through pages of a textbook and there you come on the 1832 presidential election.

What is this?

You have one state Vermont colored green and it's, this is the anti-Masonic party.

They received seven votes.

First of all, Vermont had seven votes.

Yeah, actually had more electoral votes than twice as many many as it does now.

It's just this one little blip in this one election in this one state

and the party doesn't report at a presidential election after.

It's always been a kind of a weird like with the masons.

There's a Masonic Lodge in my town.

Why would anybody,

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