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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | There was this point a few months before we were headed to Washington DC and we were |
0:06.0 | talking about which museums to visit etc when I realized something and I am ashamed to admit that it took me as long as it did. |
0:17.8 | I had no idea what the quoteunquote Smithsonian was. |
0:24.0 | Not no idea, Hannah. |
0:28.0 | Yeah, okay. Not no idea, like it is museums they are museums I like a museum spread across a bunch of |
0:41.0 | different places. |
0:43.0 | And then, of course, I got to thinking |
0:44.2 | about the sheer number of times |
0:46.4 | that I have seen that Smithsonian logo on things. |
0:49.1 | Do you know the one I'm talking about? |
0:50.6 | Yeah, like that blue circle with a yellow thing inside. It's everywhere in DC. |
0:55.0 | Not just DC all over the country, and that yellow thing, Nick, is the sun, which has a lot to do with the whole point of the Smithsonian but it is everywhere. |
1:07.7 | I was recently checking out the USS Constitution in the |
1:15.0 | and I was walking into the museum and there it was |
1:17.0 | and while we are on the subject of my home state |
1:19.0 | I have seen it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on an observatory. I have seen it in Springfield, I've seen it in Plymouth, I've seen |
1:26.7 | it in Lowell. And for those of you not afflicted with the myopia that is being from Massachusetts? |
1:32.3 | Yeah, it's true. that is being from Massachusetts? |
1:32.6 | Yeah, it's true. |
1:35.0 | I cannot be the one to make an episode about the Kennedy family. |
1:38.7 | I have found in my own family's archives a Christmas card that has the Pope on one side and |
1:44.1 | JFK on the other. Camelot aside I'm pretty sure if you wanted to find a |
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