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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

So this episode was a gear change because I was working on something else that I was being frustrated with. And then I was

having a conversation with friend of the show, Brian Young, while he and I were recording our

Star Wars podcast, full of Sith, which IHeheart very kindly lets me record, because it's not

part of IHeart. And then he mentioned Rebecca Raccoon, because we also talk about history when

we're not talking about Star Wars. And that got me thinking about the odd pets that lived in the

White House and how that would be fun. So thanks, Brian, for that idea. Some of these pets that

we're talking about today

were mentioned very briefly

in the second part of a 2010 two-parter

that Sarah and Katie did on the show

on interesting historical animals,

but their stories didn't get a lot of attention.

It was kind of just like their names

and the fact that presidents kept them.

It's kind of a list.

Yeah.

And like in that particular moment, they're whipping through like a list.

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