Today explained Sean Ramosferm, I went to see some live music in Edinburgh

Scotland late last year and when I entered the venue I was somehow surprised to see

a seven-piece band full of dudes and kilts, very literally Scottish you guys, but then I was even more

surprised by what they were playing. Everyone knows this super regionally specific slice of Americana John Denver dropped in 1971.

Then I was talking to my cousin in Sri Lanka and he said,

Yeah man, everyone knows country roads.

And I was like, do they?

But then, the more I looked into it, the more I realized cousin was right.

The Germans know these roads.

The Japanese.

By the time I heard the French-Canadian country roads, I had to know how this happened.

So just in time for Independence Day, we're going to find out on Today Explained.

Hi, it's Achelly.

Hi, it's Ashley C. Ford.

I'm the host of Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.

I'm so excited to share that Into the Mix is back with four stories that take you beyond the

headlines and introduce you to the real people meeting some of today's greatest fights for

justice.

First up, we're heading to St. Louis

to meet Einez Fordow, a nurse and mother of four,

and a very proud Scorpio.

When a court error sent her life into a seven-year

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