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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

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Music This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories.

The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876 baffled witnesses and scientists alike.

Here's Ashley Lubinsky to share the story of what really fell from the sky on that day.

Ashley is the former co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms.

Here's Ashley.

I want to set a pretty ridiculous scene for you.

So the date is March 3, 1876, in Bath County, Kentucky.

It's a bright, clear morning, and a woman named Mrs. Allen Crouch is outside her farmhouse

in Olympia Springs, and she's working on a batch of homemade soap.

And then, out of nowhere, something happens that will end up in newspapers across the country.

Because without warning, on this beautiful day, pieces of raw meat start falling from the sky.

And you heard me correctly, I did not say rain, it wasn't snow. It wasn't hail.

It wasn't sleet.

It was meat.

Mrs. Crouch later described it as flakes of beef.

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