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History Is Dank

The Great Locomotive Chase

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0584 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Strider always wondered who was awarded the very first Medal of Honor. It was Union Army Private Jacob Parrott who was part of a train heist mission during the American Civil War. There a lot of brave men in this story! 

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Sources: Thoughtco.com ‘American Civil War: Great Locomotive Chase’ by Kennedy Hickman, Myetx.com, Wikipedia.org, Army.mil, Cmohs.org

Transcript

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0:00.0

No worries.

0:07.0

Okay, go for it.

0:11.0

Friggin' what up, dude?

0:13.0

Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast, that's mine.

0:15.0

It's going to be called History is Night.

0:18.0

History is dead with Strider Wilson. is nice. Frigin' Frigan, what up, danktor

0:37.1

with history. I'm your host, Strider, Wilson, dude. I'm your host, Strider Wilson, dude. Fired up for another app of history is danked. I'm your hope, your host, Strider Wilson, dude. We got Aaron. You're also our hope. Thank you. I am your hope. I am your only hope to defeat the empire. Yes, I am born. I am the one. Dude, enough of these, the one stories. Do you like those stories in movies, Aaron? Are we tired of The One, dude?

0:55.9

I mean, Star Wars, I love it. Matrix, I love it. Dune, I love it. I mean, it's hard to beat The One. It's like biblical. True. Like, there's one. It's a story that's age old. It works. Speaking of the one, we got the one and only legend on the sticks.

1:14.0

You, Aaron, dude, what up.

1:15.8

What up?

1:16.9

Dude, can I just tell you right now that I'm happy you're alive?

1:20.8

And for reference, dude, yes. For reference, Aaron and I played in a golf tournament, dude, like true one percenters yesterday on a Monday, just being beast, dude, and it was a beautiful, it was put on by ATC, and Netflix is a joke. It was super awesome. We had a legit for some dude. Frickin me, Aaron, Chad, and JT. Me and Aaron were cart bros cruising around.

1:44.5

Zach, the caddy was an absolute ledge, dude, just housing a tallboy Stella.

1:49.2

I mean, it was just a great day, dude.

1:51.5

But the thing is, is my drive was on.

1:55.5

The rest of my game was not, but I had hubris and just to set the picture here,

2:19.6

the T-box was back. We were playing almost from the tips, but I had hubris and just to set the picture here, the T-box was, was back. We were, like, playing almost from the tips, but pretty far back. And this, like, cart path, like, happened to be, like, you park up front to the left, and, like, maybe, like, you know, 30 yards in front of the T-box. And I was, like, ready to rock and roll. Yeah,'t know I don't I don't even remember what I was doing I don't know I was hanging out by the car just think you were

2:23.4

just checking for a tea or something in your bag just living your life yeah instantly dude and uh you know

2:28.7

chat and jt were just like pulling up and I was like dude my drive's been on fire this thing

2:32.8

you guys are to the left. Everything I do

2:35.0

slices to the right. Like, I'm just going to fucking go ahead and whip this puppy. Like, it's all good. Like, there's, like, the odds of me going towards you guys is super low. So I go up and I absolutely fucking crank this ball, dude. And I pull the shit out of it, dude. And I'm not even kidding you. I'm like, look,

2:50.8

look, I'm lanky. It's just physics, dude.

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