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TOURING HISTORY PODCAST - JUNE 1ST SCRIPT

INTRO SEGMENT

LANE: Welcome back to Touring History, the podcast where we dig through the dusty archives of human civilization so you don't have to. I'm Lane.

DAVE: And I'm Dave, still wondering why we thought becoming history podcasters was a good career move when TikTok exists.

LANE: Today we're exploring June 1st throughout history, a date that's seen everything from state formations to Beatles albums to... well, some truly spectacular crashes, both corporate and literal.

DAVE: Speaking of not crashing, today's episode is brought to you by Death Wish Coffee. Because unlike my attempts at understanding cryptocurrency, Death Wish actually delivers on their promises of quality and performance.

LANE: That's right - Death Wish Coffee combines bold flavor, smooth finish, and enough caffeine to power small nations in ways that frankly make the rest of us look bad at basic functioning. But more on that later.

BIRTHDAY SEGMENT: "THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX"

DAVE: But first, let's celebrate some June 1st birthdays, because nothing says "comprehensive historical analysis" like arbitrarily celebrating people based on their emergence from wombs on specific calendar dates.

LANE: Today we're honoring Darryl Miner, SVP of CTV for iHeartMedia, who's probably the only person alive who truly understands what CTV stands for and why we should care.

DAVE: Also born today: Marilyn Monroe in 1926, proving that even in the Coolidge administration, star power was being manufactured. Morgan Freeman in 1937, whose voice has convinced more people of things than all of human rhetoric combined.

LANE: Alanis Morissette arrived in 1974, later to gift us the philosophical question of whether anything in her most famous song is actually ironic. Spoiler alert: it's mostly just unfortunate coincidences, but we love her anyway.

DAVE: Heidi Klum was born in 1973, eventually becoming so successful at judging things that she made careers out of telling people their dreams weren't good enough. And Amy Schumer entered the world in 1981, proving that comedy timing starts from birth.

LANE: Now that we've properly acknowledged the arbitrary nature of birthday celebrations, let's dive into the actual history, arranged chronologically because we're nothing if not obsessively organized about the past.

1792: "KENTUCKY'S BIG MOMENT"

DAVE: We begin in 1792, when Kentucky became the 15th U.S. state. Yes, Kentucky - the place that would eventually give us both bourbon and KFC, proving that every state finds its own path to cultural significance.

LANE: This was actually a pretty big deal. Kentucky was carved out of Virginia, which at the time was roughly the size of Montana and about as easy to govern effectively.

DAVE: The admission of Kentucky also meant the United States now had an odd number of states, which as any middle school student can tell you, makes group projects awkward and Senate arithmetic interesting.

1796: "TENNESSEE JOINS THE PARTY"

LANE: Just four years later, in 1796, Tennessee decided it also wanted in on this whole "statehood" thing and became the 16th state. Because apparently the 1790s were the decade of western expansion and optimistic governance.

DAVE: Tennessee's path to statehood was slightly more complicated than Kentucky's, involving disputed territories, political maneuvering, and the kind of bureaucratic drama that would make modern congressional proceedings look like a peaceful book club.

LANE: Fun fact: Tennessee was originally going to be called "Franklin," after Ben Franklin, but apparently someone realized that naming a state after a