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The Great Stork Derby - Do Go On Mini

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

History, Comedy, Fact, Facts

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When Canadian lawyer Charles Vance Millar died, he set up a bizarre will that would give his fortune to the woman that gave birth to the most children over the next ten years. The strangest contest in history, this is the story of The Great Stork Derby.


This is the podcast version of episode seven of our new web series that we made with Stupid Old Studios. You can watch the video of the episode complete with animations, props and lots and lots of regret face right now on The Stupid Old Channel YouTube page (link below).


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References and further reading:

https://torontoist.com/2016/10/historicist-the-stork-derby/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-great-stork-derby/

https://boingboing.net/2018/11/21/the-great-stork-derby-rewarded.html

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/transcript


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's Dave and Jess here, dropping into your feed.

0:04.7

Hello, we are just dropping into let you know that, I mean, we've let you know several

0:10.4

times, surely by now you know, but we have a brand new web series up on YouTube and what

0:16.6

you're about to hear is a little taste of that web series.

0:20.4

That's right, the audio only version.

0:22.0

So this totally works as a podcast, but if you want to see the visuals, our faces, some

0:26.3

animation, lots of sexy stuff this way.

0:29.0

Oh my god, it's gonna be almost a little too sexy.

0:33.1

Yeah, I thought, oh boy.

0:35.7

Yeah, for some of you, the audio may be enough, but if you want to see more of it, you can

0:38.8

click the, in the description of this episode, there's a very easy link to click and it'll

0:42.9

take you straight to the web series.

0:44.2

And this week, I'm doing a report, as I'm about to tell you, on the great stalk Derby

0:49.0

slash Derby, and it is a wild time.

0:51.9

It's a lot of fun.

0:52.9

This is a very fun episode.

0:54.0

And there's a couple more episodes of the web series still to come.

0:58.7

But we've had a lot of fun with it and we hope you've enjoyed listening slash watching

1:02.2

them.

1:03.2

All right, thanks so much.

1:04.6

Bye-bye.

1:06.9

How far would you go to win a bet?

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