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back to basics together we're going to take steps one two and three and three in the next hour. But before we do that,

I was, a person came up to play Stump the Archivist and I love to play this game. I want to explain

that by profession before I got too sick to work and I'll get into that in a little bit during the session.

But I'm a chemist by profession with a master's degree in statistics, and I keep thinking that all those years of my drinking and drugging, that it just wiped out that side of my brain.

And I can't even balance an equation anymore, a chemistry equation.

It's all gone.

But this side of my brain, which was history, I never took a history class in my life.

I hated history.

And God has a great sense of humor of making an archivist historian out of somebody who hated history.

But that's the truth.

And this side of my brain seems to be untouched by the alcohol.

And I just have this capacity for learning our history.

And it just seems to be an osmosis.

It just comes. Where did the red dot come from

the uh background on that is first of all a person came into the rooms uh in the room in new york

city named florence rankin and she was our first woman and she was the one that was listening to them talking about the book.

The original title of the book was 100 Men and said,

You can't call this book 100 Men, I'm here.

I want you to call this book 100 men and one woman.

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