When Johann Rahl received the letter on Christmas Day 1776, he put it away to read later.

Maybe he thought it was a season's greeting and wanted to save it for the fireside.

But what it actually was, was a warning, delivered to the Hesian colonel, letting him know that General George Washington was crossing the Delaware and would soon attack his forces.

The next day, when Rawl lost the Battle of Trenton and died from two colonial Boxing Day musket balls, the letter was found, unopened in his vest pocket.

As someone with 15,000 unread emails in his inbox, I feel like there's a lesson there.

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That's Anderson.

I'm our ambitious host for this week.

Top 5 New Orleans movies.

Why New Orleans movies?

Sadso picked by our guest, Florence.

How are you, Florence?

I'm good.

Hi.

It's always so good to see here in person in the studio, as it were. Explain to the people, well, we should get to it at some point, maybe before the top five. I do want to hear your connection in New Orleans. You brought it up before in passing, but where to be, where to come from, we don't have to get it right now. You want to do it as before we get to the top five. Yeah, I'll save it. I'll save it. Percolate on that. Don't tell people to percolate. I don't like it. But it's steep. And then we will also talk. Mollary percolate. You seen the drama? I did. I heard the drama seen by all of us. Yeah, I saw it on Sunday. I can't believe how many people actually took our little bit that we did last week when you got like really mad at me about everything that happened. What happened? Remember when like we were doing that bit where we pretend like your, your wife told you what the drama was about? Oh, sure. And then I was saying that's what you get and like you're getting mad at me. We did that whole like thing she caused like drama well rehearsed yeah and people really thought we were serious

do a spoiler episode after that would be crazy people were like I can't believe that they got

mad at each other and I was like hey guys that was bit we were doing the drama you want to do a

well rehearsed after we got a fucking got to fucking hell out of the drama.

That's all you can talk about.

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