Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry is on standby.

Our phone ready for any issue to arise. We're supposed to text her.

And of course that makes this stuff you should know over 2022.

The too much information addition.

That's right.

And you didn't even say a dish.

A dish. I know. I'm growing up. Look at me.

So how are you doing? Good. How are you?

Good as well. Good.

So Chuck, I'm really excited about this one for a number of reasons.

One, we get to take a really standard universally understood part of American history

and smash it to bits and explain how it really happened and what it really was

and what really went on. I love history stuff like that, don't you?

I do. And this is a good one because it is if you're like someone who enjoys watching

Jeopardy or playing in any sort of trivia nights or trivia games,

trivial pursuit, Stuff You Should Know, trivial pursuit.

Yeah. Available everywhere.

This is just good info. I feel like these kind of questions.

It's the Louisiana purchase is just such sort of a softball kind of thing for trivia games.

And I don't mean that it's easy. I just mean there's just so much in there.

And it's not like people go like, well, how am I supposed to know about the Louisiana purchase?

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