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Welcome back for another episode of the Ross Bullin podcast.

I am Ross Bullin here with Jared Boroslow

for another episode full of laughter and almost as importantly invaluable knowledge and wisdom.

Before we bring in our guest for today, Jared, I would like to quickly do a segment.

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Good stuff. Good stuff. Today's the Toledo War.

The Toledo War went down 1835 to 1836, also known as the Great Toledo War, the Michigan Ohio War,

the Ohio Michigan War. It was an almost bloodless boundary dispute between the US state of Ohio

and the adjoining territory of Michigan. A, we recently talked about how we think states should

be allowed to go to war with each other. That maybe what this country needs is more good in

fighting. That you're going to say bloodshed. Not a full blown civil war, but you know, just a few

one-on-one state-on-state wars going down simultaneously to East tensions. We think that maybe

that's what America needs. And you could bet on it too. Turns out that's actually happened.

Poor geographical understanding of the Great Lakes helped produce conflicting state and

federal legislation between 1787 and 1805 and varying interpretations of the laws led the

governments of Ohio and Michigan to both claim jurisdiction over the same 468 square mile

region along the border, now known as the Toledo Strip. The situation came to a head when Michigan

petitioned for statehood in 1835 and sought to include the disputed territory within its boundaries.

Both sides passed legislation attempting to force the other sides capitulation while Ohio

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