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Well, hello there, fancy meetingyou here on Independence Day.
I hope you're having a great 4thof July so far.
But if you need a little help getting into the spirit, I have
just the thing. That's right, it's an episode
all about my life, produced by the Bus 1 Trivia Podcast.
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As our nation's 16th president and the only president to ever
get their own full episode, I amhonored to present to you the
Bus 1 Trivia rerun of Episode 54, Abraham Lincoln.
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Welcome aboard Bus 1. We're on our way to Washington,
DC, and we've got some time to kill.
Let's play some trivia contestants, please introduce
yourselves. Hi, I'm Brooke.
Like a good neighbor. I'm John.
And I'm Logan. Hi Brooke, John and Logan, are
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you guys ready to head to DC andand on the way there play some
trivia? Yeah, sure.
I don't want this to be about politics.
Alec. You legally have to tell me this
is the President's Day episode. President.
'S day just happened. That's just a fact of something.
I learned about presidential happening after it already.
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You learned about it yesterday when you were out in that dinner
with me and Brooke. Guys, we have an order to things
here and 1st I see the rules. OK, so the rules are that
there's 3 levels with five questions in each level.
The questions at level 1 would be worth one point, level 2
would be worth 2 points and Level 3 would be worth 3 points.
We are not using a buzzer today because we're we think we can.
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We're changing up it's free form.
We're gonna, but we will have a challenge question.
Once during this game I will lieand give you an answer that is
not factually correct. If you think I am capping to
you, you. Can chat.
Did you write that down? Did.
You did you type that like you read it off a in a Google doc to
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read off for you in the future, OK.
Now I have to reset. If you think I am capping to
you, you can challenge TM the fake answer.
If you challenge a fake answer, you'll be awarded 3 points.
If you challenge any other answer, you will lose 3 points.
The most points at the end will win.
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And no Googling OK. John, John.
John. No any.
Questions Are the skeletons partof it?
Part of it. Part of it, Speaking of John,
can you do the points because it's like what you do?
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Yes, I have it written down right here.
Wow. I have no responsibilities, no
point keeping, no buzzer, no buzzer.
I. Don't.
Have enough windows open on here?
OK, so does anyone want to guessthe topic?
It's it's the. It's it's about presidents.
I am losing for sure. Presidents of the United States.
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If it's the topic I'm boycotting.
The the the topic is not president.
Is it just generally? It is.
It is. President, President Abraham
Lincoln, you know I. Thought you guys seen Illinois
favorite son? You guys all like Abraham
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Lincoln, right? So.
That's. Our.
Uniting scene here, yeah. Is that we all?
Tear precedent? No in truth I was like they all
like sci-fi books and stuff. I should do that.
And I should wait. A minute do I don't read enough
to post an episode about but. You do read enough about
Abraham. Abraham Lincoln.
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Obviously, we're all instead. I read a lot about Abraham
Lincoln. Alec Alec Palm 6 textbooks on
the life of Abraham Lincoln on his desk.
Mostly just the entire Encyclopedia Britannica page
about Abraham. Lincoln, Just that.
The entire encyclopedia. Let me.
Yeah, let me no Googling OK, however.
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Right. So who's ready to learn about
Abraham? Lincoln, I am ready.
I'm so excited. Round one humble beginnings.
Oh my God, no buzzer on this so.Just kind of answer when the
vibes like happens, OK. Question 1 Abraham Lincoln, son
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of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, wasborn on February 12th 18 O 9 in
which US state. Was Indiana.
Illinois. Kentucky.
You guys, he sure John was right.
He. Sure lived in all of those
states though. He.
Sure, lived in all of those states.
But he was born in Kentucky. I didn't know he was born.
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And then he spent his he spent his boyhood in Indiana, and then
he moved to Illinois. I've seen his, I've seen his
little house. So wait.
So I think his. His boyhood home.
Illinois really called themselves the Land of Lincoln,
and he's not even born there. Yeah, but he was their senator.
He that's where he was like, yeah, he spent most of his.
Life. It's like how Barack Obama was
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born in Hawaii, but he was Illinois senator.
It's just the things, not. Do we don't call Hawaii?
A couple 100 years, we'll see what happens.
All right, Good job, John. Yeah.
Lincoln was born in a backwoods cabin in Hardin County.
That's Kentucky. How do you know?
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Question 2. After a legal battle over his
father's ownership of their land, Abe moved with his family
to southwestern Indiana in 1816,where they squatted on public
land and took shelter in a lean to for a while before his father
could build a proper cabin. Abe described frontier Indiana
as quote, a wild region with many bears and other wild
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animals still in the woods. A couple years later, when Abe
was only 9, tragedy propel his family.
Can I ask? A clarifying question.
What kind? What kind of bears?
We don't have bears. No more, no more, no more.
What happened to the Bears? The biography OK this.
One's multiple choice, John. Have you looked behind you?
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OK, this one's a multiple choice.
A couple years later, when Abe was only 9, tragedy befell his
family. What happened?
Hey. What happened?
Multiple choice so it can just happen?
Who's closest? His mother died B.
His younger brother died C His sister went blind in a wolf
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attack or D His father went missing.
This is just an excuse for you to push the wolf attack's
Twitter page. Yeah, I'm, I'm skeptical of that
question. Attack.
Whether they do, whether it was Lincoln's sister, you'll have to
find out. Wolf's attack.
Wow. So mother, brother, Blind sister
and what was the fourth option? His father went missing.
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Oh, spooky. I would have gone with the blind
sister but apparently you have abackground with wolf attacks so
now I feel like that's. For yeah.
So maybe that's why I chose. This to be a.
Yeah, well, I, I'm almost thinking it's like, oh, well,
that's how he would know to makethis a question.
But I'm going to go too close. I'm going to go as I don't know
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anything about a Blinken's family other than I think he had
a son that died in the White House when he was president.
I think that's true. I don't have a question about
that so. I'm going to I'm going to guess
that his mother died. I'm going with the brother.
And I'll spice it up and say that the father went missing.
Is it the wolf attack? It better not be the blind
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sister it is attack. It is that his mother died, so
that goes to Logan. Good job, Logan.
She died of milk sickness and was buried in the woods.
Milk. Milk sickness is when a cow eats
this one specific root and I guess that it has like poisonous
milk. It's not, so it's bad.
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That's cool. Yeah, poisonous.
Luckily, Thomas soon remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston, who took
in the Lincoln children as her own.
Good job, great job, Sarah Bush Johnston.
His younger brother, he had a younger brother that did die.
A younger brother. He was a baby, yeah.
So it doesn't. And that was before they moved
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to Indiana. OK, OK.
Question 3. Abe grew up with hardly any
proper schooling, but borrowed books when he could.
Eventually he grew up to be a big, strong young man.
How tall was Abraham Lincoln? Oh this is a good question
because I feel like everyone thinks he's pretty tall, but was
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he pretty tall for back then? I was actually pretty tall.
I'm I'm pretty tall myself and Iknow that I'm taller than
Abraham Lincoln, so I'm going tosay 6 foot 4.
That's. What I was going to say, but I'm
going to say 6. As a tall as a tall person.
Box him out, Brooke. So John says 6/4. 6/2.
Logan says 63. Brooke says 62 is the worst.
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In fact, Abraham Lincoln was 6 feet tall. 6 feet.
That came by most accounts that which I guess was just tall back
but. He's like 6-6 with his.
Top hat. Oh, with the hat.
Little do our contestants know that this was the fake answer.
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Looks like they were fooled thistime.
So that's Brooks. Enjoy that point.
Brooks Point. Wow.
Just 6 foot really. I'm going to make a note so I
can Google that later. Not.
Now, Joe. Later Abraham Lincoln height
question mark. Abraham Lincoln short King
question mark. Well, I did not.
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Abraham Lincoln platform shoes question mark.
OK, I have nothing else to say on the topic.
Question 4. In 1830, his family migrated to
Illinois where Lincoln tried hishand at many occupations before
finally deciding to be a lawyer.Which of the following jobs did
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Lincoln not do? A Rail splitter B.
Boatman, C postmaster, D storekeeper, E surveyor, or F
Blacksmith. Whoa, rails.
It took everything in me to not say I barely know her after rail
splitter. I get rail splitter like we had
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enough time after rail splitter that like we all made eye
contact. I I think Brooke is right in
that it's Blacksmith that was like that one.
Seems. Like the he's not like burly
enough. No, I feel like we would have.
Heard of Abraham like it was a blacksmith, right?
I know he was a storekeeper at some point.
Well, I think. Yeah.
Which ones do you do you know? Do you guys know?
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Any storekeeper. There's a lot of waterways in
Illinois there. Is water.
They do have that. I've seen it.
Brown, I'm gonna cross off, but whatever, right?
Does everyone have a have a guess?
No, because I forget what they are.
Blacksmith. Yeah, yeah.
Blacksmith, storekeeper, rail splitter, boatman, postmaster
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and surveyor. I'm.
Going to say all of those exceptfor one.
I'm going to say Postman. OK, wait a minute, Mr. Post, SO
and Brooke and John both say blacksmith.
Blacksmith. OK blacksmith, is the correct
answer good. Great job, terrible vibe.
He was not a black tape. This vibe do you?
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Guys know what a rail splitter is.
Yeah. Because I didn't know.
I think it's funny that we thought he wasn't burly enough
for Blacksmith, but we're like rail.
Splitter he could. Drive.
Yeah, he was Dr. Rails. He was like known as being a
rail splitter. Oh yeah, he was.
No, he chops wood. That's a rail splitter.
Is a chop a wood chopper? A wood chopper.
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You could use whatever euphemismAlec we all know.
He can split my rails any day any.
Day. Except he's dead.
Oh, sorry, sorry. We haven't gotten to the end of
his life yet. That's.
Not around. Free.
The final is Abraham Lincoln. Alive dad question.
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How did? And are you?
Sure, who's buried in Ulysses S grants too, OK.
Question 5. After teaching himself law as
you do, Lincoln passed the bar exam and started practicing in
Springfield, IL. Within a few years, he became
fairly successful. According to Encyclopedia
Britannica, he made 1200 to $1500 annually as a lawyer,
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which was more than the governorgot paid at the time.
How much is $1500 in 1840 worth in today's money 18. 1800, you
say? 18. 40 No like how much money
did he have? Oh, 1500 is the one I'm asking.
1500. 1500. Man.
One point 5K. Yeah.
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So what do you think it's gone wide that is worth in 2023?
A lot. I think it is.
I'm trying to do math in my head, but I'm realizing I don't
know what equations to use. Yeah, I know.
I'm just like my wheels are spinning.
I'm. Just trying to like 200 I mean.
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Inflation, inflation is different, like the rate of
inflation has differed a lot in the last 200 years, so.
I said 220,000, but I'm going togo lower.
I'm going to go 100. And 80. 110,000.
No 180 all. Right 180.
I'll sit above Logan. I'll do 250K2. 150K All right,
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Brooke. 250K and a dollar. I will.
Yeah, I I gotta. Do I can respect strategy?
I can respect that. OK, I.
Would say a solid 300K. OK, OK, OK.
Well, in fact, $1500 in 1840 would only be worth $50,000
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today. Really.
Yes, So I feel like whenever I hear about inflation surprise as
well 1970, it feels like an absurd amount, let alone yeah
like 18 Ford. Balloons, right?
There is actually a while in theearly 1900s where there was
deflation. So it's not just like, not just
like pure exponential growth waslike.
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Right. Was that like the around the
time of the depression like in? That's what I was thinking.
I don't know, I didn't like lookthat close.
That's like Mechanica didn't have that page.
It wasn't in the Abe Lincoln section.
It wasn't in the Abe. Lincoln.
Section, I did go to another source to do the inflation
adjustment interest, yeah. So $50,000 was apparently a
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pretty good salary at that time.I guess there was like less to
buy, yeah. You probably didn't have to
worry about like car insurance. Or yeah.
I mean. Like he lived in that a box, so
I don't. Know there's there's no you.
Didn't have an electric bill. Yeah.
But as a as a lawyer, his largest fee he ever received was
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in a lawsuit for the Illinois Central Railroad where he made
$5000 which today would be worth170K so.
Wait. OK, wait.
Oh. Yeah, that's more.
That was his largest. That was like his biggest.
He. Made he made like 1200.
His big gift? He annually made 1200 to 1500,
but he got 5000 once and that was like a big deal.
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Did a. Did Logan, just as in my
official capacity of scorekeeper, did Logan get a
point for that or are we saying that?
Logan got a point for that, because closest.
Closest. Get about points for every
question but but so Abraham Lincoln was actually the eighth
poorest president when you ingest for inflation as well.
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Good for him. Interesting.
Metric who was most of the presidents had had the net worth
a current net worth of like over1,000,000.
Dollars for money Who? Was Donald Trump is a
billionaire so. Supposedly, who was the poorest?
I don't remember. Because who do you think was
the? Poorest Joe, Who do you think
was the poorest president? His successor was the was the
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7th poorest Johnson his. Andrew.
Johnson, Andrew. Johnson was a little bit poorer.
Okay, for President question Mark.
Okay, well anyways, that's the end of round one.
Humble beginnings, so could we please have a score update at
this point in Lincoln? It's a it's a dead heat.
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We all have two points. Dead heat.
A dead heat? How is that possible?
Because questions. Because Brooke and John answered
the same thing. Yeah, we all missed one, and
then Brooke and I got points offthe same question, and then
Logan got the last one. You guys are all equally experts
on Abraham Lincoln. That's great.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, let's roll right along into Round 2, the rise to the
presidency. Oh my gosh.
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Oh God. Trigger warning it might get
slightly historically political here.
Oh no are. You going to make us all say
that slavery was bad? We should.
Questions. We can.
We can do that right now. Yeah, we can.
We can get that checked off the list.
Let's get this out of the way. Let's see if we can do it.
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Question 6. Even before coming a lawyer,
Lincoln was already dabbling in politics.
What was the first elected position and Lincoln ever held?
City Council question. Mark.
City Council. City Council, Exclamation point?
No, I'll do. City Council Semi Colon.
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Probably not school board. They didn't have schools.
This was before. Schools.
I'm trying to think of other like local government positions,
City Council. If you if you were to start
running for government, where would you start?
School not. That that would school.
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That's the right answer, but. I'm I, I don't.
It's not mayor. City Council is so tempting.
Brooke City Council exclamation point.
OK. I'm going to say, what do you
say? A state representative starting.
Joking right to Rep. Like in Congress or like in?
In the state legislature, state representative, not US
Congressman. OK, so we got two City Council
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and one state legislation. Slightly higher.
So, John, that is correct. He his first elected position
was the Illinois State legislature.
Everybody. Loves local politics.
He ran for the first time and lost because he didn't campaign
for very long. But then he ran three more times
and won all three times. He did like 3 terms and in the
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Illinois State list I knew he could do so.
I'm so. Proud of him.
I mean, he's Abraham Lincoln. We know how the story ends.
Happily, he got there after he's.
Fine, he's fine, I promise. He's.
Fine. He's still.
Killing. He's not.
Vampires, right? Yeah, he's he's out there
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killing vampires, I guess. Abe Lincoln, vampire hunter.
I've never seen that movie. I did, but I forgot.
Spoilers Question 7. From his early days as a
politician, Lincoln was tactful during his campaigns and gained
support from members of opposingpolitical parties.
What were the two dominant parties during the time of
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Lincoln's early political career, circa 1840?
Come on, you guys go to school parties.
Can I? Well, John's out there thinking
it's like, oh, like, I wonder which of the 10 political
parties I can make. Yeah, I'm.
I'm. Some things around in my head I.
Tried to not make this round like John Sweep.
Like, there's the the did the wigs exist for very long after
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they started? Like, were they still around in
the 1840s? I don't know.
I'd love to help you. Republican.
Democrat. Well weren't the I'm so scared
to say it sound horrible? I think I have my answers but.
Obviously no one really knows, so just take a guess.
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Republicans and Democrats one party early on.
The Democratic Republicans. Yeah.
And they were opposed to the Federalists, but that was that
was early days. Abe Lincoln was wow.
I started that really confident and I realized that way through.
John's holding. Back I'm holding back I want to
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see what these two yahoos come up with and then I'm going to
like completely sink my own bid so we'll.
See, I'm going to say Republicanand Democrat.
OK. How could you take that, Logan
North and South? I'm joking.
No. I mean, there were, there were
like Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.
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They were. At the time of the Civil War,
they were. True.
I mean, there were up until likethe 1960s.
Yeah, the Dixiecrats are a real thing.
I literally just can't think of another real thing besides
Republicans and. Democrats OK.
I just, John, come on. I'm going to go with Republicans
and Democrats. You know it.
I think it's just. Republicans.
Democrats. Oh, you think I'm just trying to
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be tricky on you? I think so.
Too. OK, I hope so.
Everybody says Republicans and Democrats.
I'm going to give you all one point because it was the wigs
and the Democrats. She's Logan.
She's so wigs. This was at Lincoln's early
political career. Republicans didn't the the new
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Republican Party did not exist. Yet OK the.
Democratic Republicans, which were sometimes called the
Republicans, have not been a thing for a while.
Like you said, that was early days.
During the early days if. You've seen Hamilton.
Hamilton that was. That was what Hamilton was
about. Yeah, so wigs were for more
federal economic regulation. They wanted a National Bank,
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tariffs and public railroad and Hwy. projects.
While the Democrats largely wanted the federal government to
stay out of economics. They were more the states rights
party at that. The parties end up flipping
platforms here in the next couple of decades, so if that
sounds back. Bunch of stuff happens and they
kind of flip. Reconstruction occurs and
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everybody has a lot of opinions.Yeah, it happened very gradually
over like a century. So.
But Lincoln was a wig. Believe it or not, that's what's
under no. He had a hat.
Nope, he no he is. He's literally a wig.
I know what he has under that. We all know what's under that
she got under. That.
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It's the. Radal on wig We voted along wig
party lines in the Illinois State legislature as well as
when he was a congressman for one term.
Later, yeah. Okay, okay.
Guys, we all get one point. You all get one point for.
That consider it distributed. Wigs and Democrats, Democratic
wig. This will be on the exam, by the
way. Okay, Question 8.
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It's the 1850s and more white people are starting to realize
slavery is evil. The Democratic Party split based
on the issue of slavery, the Whig Party died entirely, and a
new Republican Party was born torally those who opposed slavery.
Or at least it's spread to the western territories.
This is multiple choice, which was Lincoln's belief at the
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time. A.
He thought black people should have equal rights to white
people. B.
He thought black land owners should be allowed to vote C He
thought slavery should be abolished, but blacks and whites
could not have equal rights D Hethought slavery should not be
allowed to spread West, but couldn't be abolished where it
already existed. Can I ask a clarifying question?
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Yeah. What was his personal belief or
what was his policy position at the time?
So this is all what his beliefs were or what his policy ideas
were at the time all comes from like writings of like letters or
like campaign things he did. So it's kind of hard to tell
exactly what he thought personally, but kind of this is
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what he publicly made known as at that time, what his.
This is ultimately what his early legacy was, yeah.
I have heard that he did do some.
I was going to say pancaking flip.
Flopping. Waffling, you wanted to say.
Waffling. On this, on this like particular
issue, like early on, I'm going to say.
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DI also like DD. If D is not expanding it, but it
couldn't be abolished where it already was, that's what I would
have chosen. That sounds like it because his
his view evolves over time. Yeah, I tried to rank it from
like a being like the most progressive to D being like the
most conservative, right he could have had.
And you guys are all right. D is what he thought during his
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early political career. Talking about point.
Inflation he actually like campaign like used as a platform
against he like spoke out against Martin Van Buren because
we all. Did that earlier.
But he spoke out against Martin Van Buren because he like, one
time said that black people should be allowed to vote in New
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York. And he was like, that's too
progressive or something like that.
Yeah, he said a lot of things, but he really did not want it to
spread well. Luckily, they didn't know it's.
Like Twitter. His hard line.
It would have been cancelled. Twitter.
Back in the day was standing on tree stumps and arguing with
each other, so that was a whole.Different thing.
Yeah, I thought that was kind ofinteresting.
Just you always think of him like you know.
Yeah, I have her savior. Of the slaves, but he didn't
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even think that slavery should be abolished.
Yeah. And I mean, yeah, his ultimate
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was like slightly
reluctant, which is not a fun fact to know nowadays.
It's not OK. So, question 9.
Lincoln ran for Senate as a Republican and lost, but gained
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enough national recognition to be nominated as the Republican
presidential candidate in 1860. By this point, the country was
seriously divided on the issue of slavery.
The election was a crowded race,so Lincoln managed to win with
virtually no support from Southern voters.
What percentage of the popular vote did Lincoln receive?
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When he won the presidency. When he won the first his first
term. Well, he had to be missing at
least at least like half of it. Yeah, no way.
He won a true majority of the popular vote.
Why not? Because he wasn't getting
support from the South. Right.
But I think the North was a lot more popular than this.
Well, and Alec, Alec just said that it was a crowded race,
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right? There were 4.
The general election was a crowded race.
You must say you still got a majority, like 55. 55.
High 30. Am I allowed to ask another
clarifying question? Sure.
Did all four candidates win electoral votes?
I have no idea. OK, sorry.
That's OK. OK, so Logan says 55, Brooke
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said. High 30s.
That is what she said. I didn't hear her say that, so
cool. I'll say 48%. 48%, I'm going to
give it to Brooke because it's 40%.
There you go. Really high 30s I think would be
closer. Do you know what?
Yes, that's how that works. People got by chance.
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I don't Alec. You can you can Google this
right now. Right.
You want me to do it right now? I kind of do one of those.
Demanding. OK, OK, election of 1860.
So he was the Republican. There was both a northern
Democrat and a Southern Democrat.
OK. And then I'm trying to, I don't
remember what the 4th 1 was. There was the Constitutional
Union party had a person in thisrace.
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So Lincoln got 40%, the SouthernDemocrats got 18%, the Northern
Democrats got 30%, and the Constitutional Union got 12%.
I thought it would still be kindof like now where you get like
the two other candidates get a very low percentage, which is
why I still guess like majority,right?
Yeah, like it's third parties nowadays.
Or not what they used to be. So.
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Cool. Good job, Brooke.
Cool. Great job, Brooke.
Great job, Constitutional Union Freddy.
What? Question are we on?
We're on question 10, OK, 10. We're on question 10 now.
Lincoln's president now. Cool.
Question 10. Oops, that just.
Basically. So that.
Are you tapping right? Now.
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That would be wild if I just forced Alec to like, riff on the
spot about election results thathe had fully made-up.
Let me look at. Fantastic.
Sweating. OK, Question 10.
Basically, as soon as he became president, Lincoln found himself
at the helm of a sinking ship, metaphorically, because the
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Civil War had started. Lincoln made it clear.
Lincoln made it clear that his goal was never to fight to free
the slaves, but to preserve the Union by any means necessary.
OK, what a what a lukewarm take.About to do a quote my paramount
of. Oh, it's an an accent.
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My my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,
and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I
would do it, and if I could saveit by freeing.
All the. Slaves I would do it, and if I
could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would
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also do that. That's all three options.
I would also do that. That's all three options.
The point is he would do anything he.
Just cares about the union. Yeah, but did he have to like
give 3 examples after that though?
I would do that. He's a.
Practical. I do whatever.
What those options are? However, public anti slavery
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sentiment was rising and Lincolnbegan to see how emancipation
could weaken the Confederacy. How long after making that
previous statement I just said did Abraham Lincoln issue the
famous Emancipation Proclamation?
Well, it was while he was president.
It was just after he got president.
He said that very at the very early part of the Civil War.
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Yeah, OK. Well then.
Which civil war broke out in 1860?
161 so. Then a year.
Wasn't it? Wasn't it 64?
Three years. I'll say four years.
Two years. There, we've all given.
It away. What's what's everyone's guess
three years? What's everyone's guess?
432 and four, I thought. The 61 to 64 was.
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In fact, OK, wait, sorry, I I lied to you.
So he said this. He said this in 1862.
Does that change anyone's answer?
Do we all want to subtract 1 three years?
OK. One year.
I just feel like I should be honest.
I should be honest like Abe and tell you that I lied at first.
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It was in 1861. It was 1862, OK, And the
Emancipation Proclamation, his initial proclamation was in
September of 1862, one month after he said that.
Really. So he kind of changed his mind
really very quickly. So basically the September 1862
proclamation stated that if the Confederacy doesn't surrender by
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January 1st, all the slaves willbe free.
And then on January 1st, 1863 was the Emancipation
Proclamation that freed all the slaves, but only the ones in the
Confederacy in areas still controlled by the Confederacy.
OK, so as I just. Extremely.
Wrong about when I thought the Civil War was, was it not 61 to
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64 was? I mean.
The end of the Civil War officially was in 186565.
Well, so the Civil War is from was 4 happened over the course
of four years from like it's four years and three months is
how long? I guess I just, I guess I
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thought the Emancipation Proclamation was nearer the end
of the war than it actually. Yeah, no, it was like in the
middle. I mean, Logan, are you thinking
about Juneteenth, where the lastgroup of slaves were finally
informed that they were made free in like Galveston, TX?
OK, well that's all I have. I don't know when Juneteenth
was. I didn't.
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Because I initially thought it was 1862 and then everyone
guessed so high that I got scared and.
Then now I moved a bunch of numbers around.
I tricked. My answer higher and then
everyone made their answer lowerso I got to.
Well, you still get the points, Brooke.
So really, because you were the lowest.
Yeah, I'm just showing that I'm a follower and can't stand my
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ground for my principles so. Well, there you go.
Me and. On Buzzard, does it makes
everyone do groupthink, answer very similarly, But that's OK.
You still get the points. And that's the end of round two.
Nice. Lincoln's president now.
He rose. He rose.
He rose, he rose, he ascended. So what is the scores now for
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Lincoln? Hold on, Lincoln time.
I don't know. I'm doing some quick math.
Brooke is currently in the lead with 9, I am on her tail with 7,
and Logan is on my tail with five.
Really. Guys all on each other.
We got a nice little, we got a nice little conga line.
Well, this is the time when we're supposed to do an ad.
Do you want to? Do you want to sell the people
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on your wolf attacks Twitter? That's a good idea, yeah.
Go follow at actual attacks on Twitter.
I tweet once every two years giving you a real wolf attack
that happened throughout history.
But it has a good aesthetic. It's a fantastic.
Great aesthetic and. You just went or you just went
through and like liked about 5 of my tweets from the last two
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years and that was a real confidence boost on my I don't.
Have a personal Twitter anymore?Actual attacks is my only
Twitter account that I own. Anyways while you're while
you're following at actual attacks, go follow at bus 1
trivia on Twitter. Got em and TikTok and Instagram.
You legally have to. OK, time for Round 3, which we
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are calling Lincoln's legacy. He's not said yet.
Just go with it, OK? Question 11.
The bloody Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 served as a turning
point in the war. At the dedication of the
cemetery, Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address, which
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was 272 words and lasted only two minutes.
I know you all learned about it in school, so let's see who can
recite the most quotes from the Gettysburg Address.
I knew you were going to say it as soon as you mentioned it, and
it's going to be one of those things that I can't think of at
all. And as soon as someone starts.
Saying it, I'm going to be like,Oh yeah.
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Yeah. 4 score seven years ago. Claim 4 score and seven years
ago our forefathers. Cool.
I've got it in front of me. I'm like highlighting.
As regards of the. Name at no.
No. Two nice try hallowed resting
place. Wait, hold on.
Hold. On Control F, Control F.
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The word hallow is in here. Can I take that?
Should I count that? What you count?
How? And resting place.
Soldiers. All right, I need more.
I need more buzzwords. OK, these.
Brave. Young man turning out the way I
thought he. Was brave young men brave?
Men the. Brave Men is in here.
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So far I think I still have to give it to Brooke because she
said 4 score and seven years agoright away.
Well, we all know 4 scores 7 years ago.
But did you? I don't know.
That's the that's the same. No buzzer, but she still said it
first. The Union.
This, this, this great nation. Wait, hold on.
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I don't see this greater nation.Perfect Union 4.
Score and seven years ago or. Something that's.
The Constitution. Something about.
Something about. Liberty the preamble you're
trying. You're trying to write about the
more perfect union. That's something else.
There's there's one other section I thought you guys
wouldn't know is it and it's the.
All men are men equal. Nope, that's the declaration of
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no no. No, no, it's what?
Did you say? All men are created equal.
That's also an Emancipation Proclamation.
That's not what we're talking about.
Gettysburg. That all men are created equal?
No, I think you're right. He does mention that. 4 score 7.
Years ago he does. Say blah blah blah blah blah
blah. All, yeah, all men are created.
Equal. All men are created equal is in
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there. I'll color that Logan's color.
I'm I'm all out now. I've said all.
Crosswords. I don't know Gettysburg.
Actually doesn't say Gettysburg.In the Gettysburg I knew he
didn't say Gettysburg. OK, well I think I'm going to
give the point to Brooke for saying 4 scripts years ago.
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She's she's getting you guys three points for saying the most
famous bit. I really thought you guys would
know more. No.
Giant paws where no one said anything so I hadn't years ago.
I had to take it. She took it.
She took. Advantage 4 scores 7 years ago.
You guys don't know the end. No.
Amen. Amen.
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He doesn't say that he's not. Afraid it's a speech.
OK, God bless him. There.
Yeah, just read it. Yeah, give your Abraham Lincoln
voice. OK, OK, 4 score and seven years
ago that's. So much worse.
Why do you sound like Alvis Dumble?
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Forgot. I forgot how I did it.
OK, 4 score. And seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in
liberty, liberty, liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal. That's two things.
Now we are engaged in the great Civil War testing whether that
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nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can
long endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field as a finalresting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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But in a larger sense, we cannotdedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor
long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what
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they did here. It is for us, the living, rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that causefor which they here gave the
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last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolved
that these dead shall not have died in vain.
That this nation under God shallhave a new birth of freedom, and
that government of the people bythe people, for the people shall
not perish from the earth. Amen.
That came. Back to me now you.
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Guys didn't know government of the people, by the people, for
people. I know that, so I don't have the
treasure. That sounds like it should be in
another another document earlieron not to get his breath.
I mean the all men and created equal stuff was in there, true,
but the government of the people, by the people, for the
people was. That was like a Lincoln
original. That's a straight bar.
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That was you spat. I do remember the They shall not
long remember what we say here 'cause that's always like the
joke. Yeah, it's like, and there are
also, remember, there are also things that we probably could
have like guessed if we went on for a little bit longer, like
they shall not have died in vain.
Yeah, we could have like riffed on battle.
I did remember that part once you.
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I'm still giving it to Brooklyn.She had the longest consecutive
string of words by by word. Count who got the most.
Resting place is hyphenated so that this is 1 hallow and brave
men so John got. Four.
I also had four fathers. They don't say forefathers, they
just. Say fathers well. 4 score and
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seven years ago that all men arecreated equal.
Vote 6. That all men are created equal.
I don't think he said that. I highlighted all men created.
Oh no. Maybe the end of the?
Water. No one deserves.
Three points for whatever that deserves. 3 Brooke deserves the
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one. OK, how's that?
OK, I'll tell you guys. Need to study up on your
Gettysburg Address? I will not because it's not
going to be a topic from here. I.
Tried. I tried to make a different
question related to the Gettysburg Address but I was
like I have no idea what. That well, you just read the
whole thing, so I'm there's probably not much more.
Yeah, let's move on Question 12.Only a few days after the
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Confederacy surrendered, Lincolnwas famously assassinated at
Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathist.
Which of the following facts surrounding Lincoln's
assassination is not true? Interesting.
A. The day Lincoln was assassinated
was the same day he signed the legislation creating the Secret
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Service. B There were also assassination
attempts on the Vice President and Secretary of State at the
same time. C Booth's original plan was to
kidnap Lincoln until he heard Lincoln give a speech where he
mentioned he would be in favor of extending voting rights to
some black citizens or D4 of Booth's conspirators were hanged
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in July of 1865, including the first white woman to ever be
executed by the US government. Can you repeat?
C Booth's original plan was to kidnap Lincoln, until you heard
Lincoln give a speech where he mentioned he would be in favor
of extending voting rights to black people to some black
people. Interesting execution of that
plan. So instead he got more mad.
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Well. Yeah, he changed his.
He changed his mind and then didthe thing he set out to do so.
So one of those isn't true. What do you think?
Well, first I thought it would be B because I kind of thought
of John Wilkes Booth as like a, a lone, a lone assassin or
whatever. But then you said D and he had
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conspirators. No, I definitely think B&D are
correct. Well, what was a?
The link the day Lincoln was assassinated was the same day he
signed the legislation creating the Secret Service.
Man it would suck if it was likeNope, actually it was the day
before. Yeah.
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Gotcha. Didn't make him soon enough I'm.
Going to say B I think. I think.
Brooke don't think that. OK, Brooke, what do you say I.
Just feel like I would have heard of that if that's true.
I'm still thinking. I've stumped you guys on a few,
yeah. Yeah.
Stump play the stump sound effect.
You just got stumped. Stump sound.
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Effect, I don't know, but it's playing right now.
Look at it but it just happened,don't know what it.
Is just. We'll find out in a couple of
weeks. From here on, every time anyone
says man, I'm stopped. Whatever the sound was.
I'm thinking like a like a like a heavy stomp slash fart noise.
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I was thinking of like the bonk sound effect.
Like. Pitched way down, but pitched
way. OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I'm gonna, yeah, we're gonnalike layer multiple things and
it'll be like a unique. Experience.
Yeah, You guys aren't? Ready A true a truly different
auditory flavor. So to review, we have Secret
Service signing other assassination attacks.
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Co conspirators happening. Co conspirators getting change
of. Plans from kidnapping Co
conspirators, getting hanged. Oh, change of.
Yeah. How would you kidnap the
President of the United States? Well, I wouldn't do.
It, that's for damn sure. The big sack.
Is that what he said? Yeah.
Big sack. Well, yeah, he's 6 foot tall.
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Yeah, he could fit in a sack easy.
How many Logan's could I fit in my Abe Lincoln kidnapping set?
OK, but that made me I just convinced myself that it might
be C because if he was trying tokidnap him, why would he go to a
theater in public? Because.
That was that was a different thing.
He changed his plan way earlier.OK, he changed.
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His plan at all? Oh my gosh.
I I feel like I've been the first to answer every time.
Brooke saying. A Brooke, said A.
I'll spread it around. I'll say C spread it around.
OK, so ABC OK, the the the thingthat wasn't true is that there
were also assassination attemptson the vice president and
Secretary of State at the same time.
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But there were other attempts onother members of the cabinet.
So there were supposed to be assassinated and there nice
supposed to be assassination attempts on the other ones
because he you know, he was conspiring.
But the guy who was supposed to attack the vice president
chickened out. He literally was at the bar of
the hotel where the vice president was staying and like
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just drank himself silly becausehe was too scared to do.
True, but there was an attempt on the secretary of.
State. Didn't that involve a train?
But it didn't. Work.
Yeah. A train the Secretary of State
was injured in a horse carriage accident.
It's not He was like bedridden when the murderer guy came in
and was slashing about with a knife and didn't kill him.
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He like. You had a stationary.
You had a. Stationary turn but he like
maimed a bunch of other people that were in the house.
Wow, so interesting. Yeah, no, he had a bunch of
conspirators and their original plan was to kidnap Lincoln and,
like, hold him for ransom and, you know, try to keep the
Confederacy going. But a?
Little late for that. Yep.
Did they have like a competency test before that?
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And they're like, OK, John Wilkes Booth, obviously the best
at this. Give him the president.
He'll go do that, but he's not competent enough to kidnap the
president. He was definitely like the
ringleader. So I think he and then once he
heard that speech about how Lincoln might want to extend
voting rights to them, he was hewas like, that's.
It he's going down. That's it.
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He's dying tonight and I don't know if it was the same day, but
then he found out that he was going to the first.
Probably a little later. Because he shot him.
And it was actually really easy.He shot him in the back of the
head in the press box his bodyguard left.
Because the Secret Service didn't quite exist yet.
It was. It was in the process of
becoming real. But as he had a bodyguard, he
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just left his post to go to the bar, and was likely at the bar
at the same time that Booth was there before he went to kill
Lincoln. And so then Booth shot him,
jumped out of the press box ontothe stage, ran out the back
door. He had a force already there and
he took off. Did he broke his, did he break
his leg or did he like really screw up his ankle?
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He he broke his leg because he had to.
He had to, later in the night, go to one of his doctor friends
and get his legs set. So that.
He could, like, keep going. And that was 1.
Of my first. Legal cases like establishing
protection for doctors, being like, we can't, yeah.
Yeah, so the doctor actually wasnot one of the ones that was
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hanged, but he was sentenced to life in prison.
Oh my. Gosh.
But the vice president pardoned him like a few years later.
Thanks Andrew Johnson. Famously well liked President
Andrew Johnson. But four of his conspirators
were hanged, so. Yay white women being the first
to being. Murdered.
Finally and the. It's about time it's.
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About time the feminism alive and well in the 1860s.
White men can be hanged. We had to be there to cut.
This. And the reason?
She was hanged was because she was the one whose house they met
at to like drop their plans. So she got hanged.
For that Outrageous. Though, I mean, are you letting
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plots against the president happen under your roof?
No, I wouldn't tell you if I was.
Exactly. Our Yeah, can we have our weekly
poker night here? And she's like, oh, sure.
Thing it was like pretty clear she.
Was she was on it her? Her husband was one of the other
conspirators. Oh, OK, yeah.
Yeah. Did she own the house?
But yeah, she owned that. She it was her boarding house.
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Oh, OK. That they met at.
Yeah, I did a lot of research onthis.
Also, the Secret Service was that he signed the document for
was originally just to track down people making counterfeit
money. Yeah, they were.
They were from the Treasury Department originally, yeah.
Because apparently at that time a third of all money in the US
was counterfeit. It was really easy.
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When OSHA, it's like a whole bunch of ink on paper.
None of that fun stuff in there.They didn't.
Have the. National Bank yet?
No, they had they well, they hadbills, but it wasn't centralized
yet. Well, OK, they had to wrangle
that together eventually. OK, let's let's talk about does
Logan get does Logan? Get a point.
Logan got points. For that, right, Yeah, Logan got
three points. You got the right answer.
That's such a such a relief. All right, Question 13.
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In 1909, Lincolns 100th birthdaywas honored with the release of
the Lincoln penny. This was the first time a
historical figure appeared on a coin.
Since then, dozens of historicalfigures have appeared on coins
in a round Robin order Name historical figures who have
appeared on the US coin. Last one standing gets the.
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Port on a on AUS coin. On AUS.
Coin on AUS. Coin this is going to.
Be George Washington. I've got the list.
OK, correct. So yeah, we don't have a, we
didn't buzz in, so we'll have to.
Just Logan, said. George Washington.
I'll say FDR. Yeah, that is correct.
Name a person on a coin Brooke besides Lincoln, George
Washington, or FDR. It's it's on the tip of my
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tongue and it's just not there. Jackson No, sorry.
Jefferson. Dang it, that's what I was going
to say. Jeff Thomas Jefferson, correct?
OK. So we got he's on the standard,
the standard penny we got, the standard nickel we got.
Quarter we got, said George Rogers on the quarter.
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We got the What did you say? I said FDR, he's on the dime.
MDR on the dime. The dime.
Run out. I'm running out of coins.
Who is I'm including including all, any and all commemorative
coins ever printed. The US.
Okay. Oh, we're in.
It Jane. Yeah, well.
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We're in it. Well, I said.
There's dozens. We're in.
Yeah, well, this is this name. Something Logan.
Name it you can. Probably name you last person
and they were probably on a coin.
Adam's the 1st. John Adam, let me scroll up.
That's that's true. He is on the $1.00 coin.
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OK, I'm. Going to say Sacagawea.
Correct. She's a historical figure and
she's also on a $1.00 coin. I already said Jefferson.
Yes. Oh my gosh, I should just move
on from the person that I'm trying to think of or sorry, you
said. I said FDR.
Said FDR. Yeah.
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There's more than one. I'll count it.
Roosevelt Okay, so here's the thing.
Every president has been on a coin so.
I don't think that Joe Biden. Has not been on a coin.
Well, not yet, but all of the all of the US presidents are on
the gold, the gold dollar coin. So their their name is.
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Not their name is not their US presidents.
You got to say you got. To say the name as presidents
appear. Well, I know, I'm just saying we
can go. Obama's not on the presidents.
Obama's So we said Washington. John Adams.
We already said Thomas JeffersonMadison.
See the next one. Madison, James Madison.
Scrolling down, scrolling down, he is on a dollar.
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Coin JFK, Good job. JFK, he's on the half dollar.
Franklin. Rank like Benjamin.
Yes, noted U.S. President.
Sorry, Brooke. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, Hold on, hold on, Standby.
He's only $100. I'm on I'm I'm on the list of
coins in circulation, but there's also a list.
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Franklin was on a dollar, was on1/2 dollar from 1948 to 19.
Interesting. He had a good run.
All right, Logan. Who was after James Max?
If you know this guy, I'll give you a crisp high 5 the next time
I see you. So he's obscure.
Oh yeah. Obscure president he was from.
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Virginia. OK, I don't know.
I know. I know.
Near this time was the next Adams, Next John Adams, The
second one. What's his middle name?
John. Feel like you have to give.
You have to. It's it's what he went by.
I know what it is, but the firstthe first word that came to my
mind was quiver. You're so close to say the.
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Name it's. I know, John.
Quincy Adams, John. Quincy Adams.
He is on a dollar coin. I feel like we need to just call
it no more presidents because. I'm going to that's most.
I'm going to do a 5A5 second countdown from now on.
My gosh. 5 James Monroe. Or my. 5th U.S.
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President James Monroe Yeah 5. Andrew Jackson.
Tort. Correct, this is so much 5 3. 3.
Interesting. Ulysses.
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Ulysses. Ulysses.
Correct. He's on a dollar bye.
James Buchanan. Yes, he's on a dollar 5.
My gosh. 4. Has there been time for Nixon?
No, because he was not Nixon. Hold on, Nixon.
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I don't think Nixon's been on a coin.
Those How far have the golden dollars gone?
I think they've gone like most. There is no there is no Nixon
coin. I'm so sorry.
Just hold that thought. Eliminated Eliminated Logan, you
have 5. Seconds Logan 4.
Ronald Reagan 3. Oh, OK.
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And then? If when he's wrong, can I just
go down the list of things I have written here just to see if
I'm? Wrong.
Ronald Reagan's not on a coin yet.
What? OK.
Nothing's not on a coin. Reagan's not well.
Here's the I thought like all ofthe gold coins have gone up
until like. Like George W.
Bush. And then they just skip Nixon
because of just controversial reasons.
(56:29):
Yeah. Unfortunately, your host, who is
supposedly knowledgeable of the subjects, uses some faulty
information to judge this question.
Both Nixon and Reagan do appear on commemorative U.S. dollar
coins, and in fact, all deceasedUS presidents appear on a dollar
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coin. Let this be a lesson to leverage
Trust a Wikipedia article on itsown, no matter how legit it
seems that clicker Audi. Is it safe to say that
Rutherford, B Hayes, Andrew Johnson, Martin Van Buren,
William Henry, Harrison Fillmore, and Polk are all still
on coins? I don't know.
The list is an alphabetical order.
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I would have to jump around a lot.
To confirm, at some point there,I was just going to name US
presidents whose names were James.
My my next guy on deck I did James Monroe, James Buchanan,
and my next one was going to be James K Polk.
A hack you could have done is that on the back of the South
Dakota quarter is Mount Rushmore.
So you couldn't be. Anyone on Mount Rushmore True?
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Damn, But we did get a couple ofthose guys already.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Teddy Roosevelt
being one of. Them Thomas Jefferson and.
Abraham Lincoln, that's. The three, we got them early.
Yeah, you got them? Got them.
OK, wow, great job, John. Three points.
I survived and I was a doozy. I I did.
My best. You did.
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Really. Well, you tried.
I'm proud. Of it OK.
Let's do it. Let's do it, question. 14 Babe,
wake up. It's 1922 and the Lincoln
Memorial just dropped. How tall is the statue of
Abraham Lincoln? Like standing up, We're sitting.
Down. Great question.
Good, good question. If he were to stand up, how
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tall? If he were to stand up, if he.
Were to stand up. Oh my God, and.
His and this is on the National Park.
Website so there's an accurate oh wow.
Or at least an official answer to this.
And I have a hint. I can tell you how tall.
He is sitting. I would love to hear how tall he
is seated. No, you shouldn't.
You shouldn't tell us. Give us a lower.
Limit right? No.
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You shouldn't. So we're not like 30 feet and
he's like, I'm telling that's how big sitting down will.
All be like very similar in our guesses.
We should just guess blind. Do you do you think we all just
like, know the? Estimation for how much taller
someone gets when they stand up blind.
It's more interesting to have. No reference.
I'm going to tell you then. Go hint he is. 19.
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Feet tall when sitting, He's only 19 feet tall.
He's I'm going. To say 38, he's 19.
Feet tall when I. Would have gotten that wrong.
I was guessing a lot more. What'd you say?
Logan, 30. 7. 37. John John's doing an Experiment
27. Yeah, I think I went too high.
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Brooke, did you say an answer? I was gonna think.
'Cause the way. I'm thinking about it is like
how many stories tall he would be?
He's probably not much more thanthree stories tall, so 30.
So how a story is? 10 about 10, right?
John said. 27. So you would be going right in
between John and I, so yeah, 30.One feet.
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John gets that one. He's 28 feet tall, stands up
every night when he comes to life because of Night in the
Museum, because. Of the tablet of Akman Raw,
yeah. We've all seen.
Night at the museum, too, but noone's.
Seen Night at the museum Three. Yeah.
I haven't. No one talked about this.
No one. Knows the plot all right.
Time for question. 15 Speaking of movies, in 2012, Abraham
(01:00:10):
Lincoln Vampire Hunter was released in theaters, amassing
116 million at the box office. Which of these following similar
titles was not a real movie? Abraham Lincoln versus zombies
Jesus Christ vampire hunter. Hansel and Gretel witch hunters
or Queen Victoria Demon Hunter. See Jesus Christ One.
(01:00:32):
Jesus. Jesus Christ, you're all.
Wrong. It's Queen Victoria Demon I'd
like. To see that though movie.
I have. I feel like I I.
Feel like. I'd.
Heard of the 1st 2:00 but I hadn't heard of the last two.
I knew that Hansel, Jesus Christ.
Hunters. Yeah, yeah, Hansel and Gretel,
witch hunters. Jeremy.
Renner. Is there that?
Movie. Wow.
Victoria Demon. Hunter is.
(01:00:53):
Just a book hasn't been adapted into a movie yet.
It's just man. OK, that's it.
That's the end of Lincoln's. Legacy From now until
forevermore, we can celebrate Lincoln.
I love that the ending of his legacy is.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire empire hunter.
Yeah, that's how all the kids know.
About him these days. Not not the new.
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Lincoln movie that came out so not the new Lincoln movie by
what's? The.
What's? The.
What's the big deal with the points, John?
What's the deal? The points?
So by my. Calculation I.
I'm. Moved things around a little
bit, so just like to make sure Iknew what I was doing while we
were talking about Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria.
(01:01:36):
I drew a lot of lines. He he gave some points.
So I. Moved them from Logan's savings
account to my. Savings.
It's all very above board. Logan is last with eight, Brooke
is in second with 10, and I barely took the lead with 13.
That's a three-point, you know. Hey, there's a challenge
question out there somewhere. I capped, I capped to you guys
(01:01:58):
capped in there. When did I cap to you?
Oh. You cap.
This is. The biggest?
Challenge of the challenge. Question is always just
remembering what questions were asked.
Yeah, OK. We're going to go through them.
One Abraham Lincoln later, I really hope that those are all
real. Movies.
Are you making us challenge? Yeah, I mean, yes.
(01:02:20):
I think it should be a rule if you're.
In the in the lead you have. To challenge.
I hate that. Well, Brooke is only three.
Points away, right? So she could challenge in time.
Yeah, I. Famously hate.
Challenging. Well, John is 13.
I have 13. Yeah, it could, if everyone.
Challenges. There's a six point swing that
could happen so I could and put you up.
No matter who gets. This wins.
(01:02:42):
If we all choose different things, yeah.
But there's no guarantee you guys will get it right.
I know. You might all get it wrong.
We could all get it wrong. I am choosing the last.
Question. I was going to choose that one.
You think Queen Victoria demon hunt if we all?
If we all choose that and reallyput all.
Our cash on Queen Victoria, thenI'm choosing something else.
If you. There you go.
Yeah. Because then it would all stay
the same either. Way I did.
(01:03:02):
Want to choose that one? But I guess is it?
Is there anything else like standing out?
To to you. Everyone's just stuck.
Was that a hint demon hunt? I was thinking about the.
Height 1. I mean.
Everyone's only talked about thelast question, so I was.
Thinking about the height and I was thinking about the.
Mom dying. All right.
What's your official challenges?Put them in the ring.
Lincoln's mom question Queen Victoria.
(01:03:24):
'S mom Vic. John, are you challenging?
I'm going. To pass what?
Boo. This is the.
Word. I hate challenging guys
especially. When I'm at such.
Like I'm at such a. Strategic position?
I don't know. This is the one instance I'm
going to. Be right and I won't matter when
because of you. Yeah.
That's how. That's how that game works.
(01:03:45):
Logan, in reality, the question I capped.
To you about was height. Oh, how tall was he?
He's 644. 6/4 I was going to see.
That was. My. 2nd.
Guess was the one I knew I was because I thought I could say
that he. Was only 6 foot and you.
Guys would be like, well, I guess he was just pretty tall
for the time. Donald Trump was it.
(01:04:06):
Sounds like one of those it. Sounds like one of those things
that's like, oh, it's an interesting thought because it's
less than what you think. I know I really wanted.
You to guess that one anyways. Yeah, sorry, Queen Victoria is
not a movie yet. Queen Victoria a demon, but we
can make it so. OK.
Well, with that, John. Still.
Wins with however many points hehas 14.
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Congratulations. You are the Abraham Lincoln
vampire hunter. I am the congratulations.
You. You.
Are Abraham Lincoln. Thank you.
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Bert, I forgot.
Well, hello there, fancy meetingyou here on Independence Day.
I hope you're having a great 4thof July so far.
But if you need a little help getting into the spirit, I have
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As our nation's 16th president and the only president to ever
get their own full episode, I amhonored to present to you the
Bus 1 Trivia rerun of Episode 54, Abraham Lincoln.
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Welcome aboard Bus 1. We're on our way to Washington,
DC, and we've got some time to kill.
Let's play some trivia contestants, please introduce
yourselves. Hi, I'm Brooke.
Like a good neighbor. I'm John.
And I'm Logan. Hi Brooke, John and Logan, are
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you guys ready to head to DC andand on the way there play some
trivia? Yeah, sure.
I don't want this to be about politics.
Alec. You legally have to tell me this
is the President's Day episode. President.
'S day just happened. That's just a fact of something.
I learned about presidential happening after it already.
(01:37):
You learned about it yesterday when you were out in that dinner
with me and Brooke. Guys, we have an order to things
here and 1st I see the rules. OK, so the rules are that
there's 3 levels with five questions in each level.
The questions at level 1 would be worth one point, level 2
would be worth 2 points and Level 3 would be worth 3 points.
We are not using a buzzer today because we're we think we can.
(02:01):
We're changing up it's free form.
We're gonna, but we will have a challenge question.
Once during this game I will lieand give you an answer that is
not factually correct. If you think I am capping to
you, you. Can chat.
Did you write that down? Did.
You did you type that like you read it off a in a Google doc to
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read off for you in the future, OK.
Now I have to reset. If you think I am capping to
you, you can challenge TM the fake answer.
If you challenge a fake answer, you'll be awarded 3 points.
If you challenge any other answer, you will lose 3 points.
The most points at the end will win.
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And no Googling OK. John, John.
John. No any.
Questions Are the skeletons partof it?
Part of it. Part of it, Speaking of John,
can you do the points because it's like what you do?
(03:07):
Yes, I have it written down right here.
Wow. I have no responsibilities, no
point keeping, no buzzer, no buzzer.
I. Don't.
Have enough windows open on here?
OK, so does anyone want to guessthe topic?
It's it's the. It's it's about presidents.
I am losing for sure. Presidents of the United States.
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If it's the topic I'm boycotting.
The the the topic is not president.
Is it just generally? It is.
It is. President, President Abraham
Lincoln, you know I. Thought you guys seen Illinois
favorite son? You guys all like Abraham
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Lincoln, right? So.
That's. Our.
Uniting scene here, yeah. Is that we all?
Tear precedent? No in truth I was like they all
like sci-fi books and stuff. I should do that.
And I should wait. A minute do I don't read enough
to post an episode about but. You do read enough about
Abraham. Abraham Lincoln.
(04:13):
Obviously, we're all instead. I read a lot about Abraham
Lincoln. Alec Alec Palm 6 textbooks on
the life of Abraham Lincoln on his desk.
Mostly just the entire Encyclopedia Britannica page
about Abraham. Lincoln, Just that.
The entire encyclopedia. Let me.
Yeah, let me no Googling OK, however.
(04:36):
Right. So who's ready to learn about
Abraham? Lincoln, I am ready.
I'm so excited. Round one humble beginnings.
Oh my God, no buzzer on this so.Just kind of answer when the
vibes like happens, OK. Question 1 Abraham Lincoln, son
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of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln, wasborn on February 12th 18 O 9 in
which US state. Was Indiana.
Illinois. Kentucky.
You guys, he sure John was right.
He. Sure lived in all of those
states though. He.
Sure, lived in all of those states.
But he was born in Kentucky. I didn't know he was born.
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And then he spent his he spent his boyhood in Indiana, and then
he moved to Illinois. I've seen his, I've seen his
little house. So wait.
So I think his. His boyhood home.
Illinois really called themselves the Land of Lincoln,
and he's not even born there. Yeah, but he was their senator.
He that's where he was like, yeah, he spent most of his.
Life. It's like how Barack Obama was
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born in Hawaii, but he was Illinois senator.
It's just the things, not. Do we don't call Hawaii?
A couple 100 years, we'll see what happens.
All right, Good job, John. Yeah.
Lincoln was born in a backwoods cabin in Hardin County.
That's Kentucky. How do you know?
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Question 2. After a legal battle over his
father's ownership of their land, Abe moved with his family
to southwestern Indiana in 1816,where they squatted on public
land and took shelter in a lean to for a while before his father
could build a proper cabin. Abe described frontier Indiana
as quote, a wild region with many bears and other wild
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animals still in the woods. A couple years later, when Abe
was only 9, tragedy propel his family.
Can I ask? A clarifying question.
What kind? What kind of bears?
We don't have bears. No more, no more, no more.
What happened to the Bears? The biography OK this.
One's multiple choice, John. Have you looked behind you?
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OK, this one's a multiple choice.
A couple years later, when Abe was only 9, tragedy befell his
family. What happened?
Hey. What happened?
Multiple choice so it can just happen?
Who's closest? His mother died B.
His younger brother died C His sister went blind in a wolf
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attack or D His father went missing.
This is just an excuse for you to push the wolf attack's
Twitter page. Yeah, I'm, I'm skeptical of that
question. Attack.
Whether they do, whether it was Lincoln's sister, you'll have to
find out. Wolf's attack.
Wow. So mother, brother, Blind sister
and what was the fourth option? His father went missing.
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Oh, spooky. I would have gone with the blind
sister but apparently you have abackground with wolf attacks so
now I feel like that's. For yeah.
So maybe that's why I chose. This to be a.
Yeah, well, I, I'm almost thinking it's like, oh, well,
that's how he would know to makethis a question.
But I'm going to go too close. I'm going to go as I don't know
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anything about a Blinken's family other than I think he had
a son that died in the White House when he was president.
I think that's true. I don't have a question about
that so. I'm going to I'm going to guess
that his mother died. I'm going with the brother.
And I'll spice it up and say that the father went missing.
Is it the wolf attack? It better not be the blind
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sister it is attack. It is that his mother died, so
that goes to Logan. Good job, Logan.
She died of milk sickness and was buried in the woods.
Milk. Milk sickness is when a cow eats
this one specific root and I guess that it has like poisonous
milk. It's not, so it's bad.
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That's cool. Yeah, poisonous.
Luckily, Thomas soon remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston, who took
in the Lincoln children as her own.
Good job, great job, Sarah Bush Johnston.
His younger brother, he had a younger brother that did die.
A younger brother. He was a baby, yeah.
So it doesn't. And that was before they moved
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to Indiana. OK, OK.
Question 3. Abe grew up with hardly any
proper schooling, but borrowed books when he could.
Eventually he grew up to be a big, strong young man.
How tall was Abraham Lincoln? Oh this is a good question
because I feel like everyone thinks he's pretty tall, but was
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he pretty tall for back then? I was actually pretty tall.
I'm I'm pretty tall myself and Iknow that I'm taller than
Abraham Lincoln, so I'm going tosay 6 foot 4.
That's. What I was going to say, but I'm
going to say 6. As a tall as a tall person.
Box him out, Brooke. So John says 6/4. 6/2.
Logan says 63. Brooke says 62 is the worst.
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In fact, Abraham Lincoln was 6 feet tall. 6 feet.
That came by most accounts that which I guess was just tall back
but. He's like 6-6 with his.
Top hat. Oh, with the hat.
Little do our contestants know that this was the fake answer.
(10:13):
Looks like they were fooled thistime.
So that's Brooks. Enjoy that point.
Brooks Point. Wow.
Just 6 foot really. I'm going to make a note so I
can Google that later. Not.
Now, Joe. Later Abraham Lincoln height
question mark. Abraham Lincoln short King
question mark. Well, I did not.
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Abraham Lincoln platform shoes question mark.
OK, I have nothing else to say on the topic.
Question 4. In 1830, his family migrated to
Illinois where Lincoln tried hishand at many occupations before
finally deciding to be a lawyer.Which of the following jobs did
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Lincoln not do? A Rail splitter B.
Boatman, C postmaster, D storekeeper, E surveyor, or F
Blacksmith. Whoa, rails.
It took everything in me to not say I barely know her after rail
splitter. I get rail splitter like we had
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enough time after rail splitter that like we all made eye
contact. I I think Brooke is right in
that it's Blacksmith that was like that one.
Seems. Like the he's not like burly
enough. No, I feel like we would have.
Heard of Abraham like it was a blacksmith, right?
I know he was a storekeeper at some point.
Well, I think. Yeah.
Which ones do you do you know? Do you guys know?
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Any storekeeper. There's a lot of waterways in
Illinois there. Is water.
They do have that. I've seen it.
Brown, I'm gonna cross off, but whatever, right?
Does everyone have a have a guess?
No, because I forget what they are.
Blacksmith. Yeah, yeah.
Blacksmith, storekeeper, rail splitter, boatman, postmaster
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and surveyor. I'm.
Going to say all of those exceptfor one.
I'm going to say Postman. OK, wait a minute, Mr. Post, SO
and Brooke and John both say blacksmith.
Blacksmith. OK blacksmith, is the correct
answer good. Great job, terrible vibe.
He was not a black tape. This vibe do you?
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Guys know what a rail splitter is.
Yeah. Because I didn't know.
I think it's funny that we thought he wasn't burly enough
for Blacksmith, but we're like rail.
Splitter he could. Drive.
Yeah, he was Dr. Rails. He was like known as being a
rail splitter. Oh yeah, he was.
No, he chops wood. That's a rail splitter.
Is a chop a wood chopper? A wood chopper.
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You could use whatever euphemismAlec we all know.
He can split my rails any day any.
Day. Except he's dead.
Oh, sorry, sorry. We haven't gotten to the end of
his life yet. That's.
Not around. Free.
The final is Abraham Lincoln. Alive dad question.
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How did? And are you?
Sure, who's buried in Ulysses S grants too, OK.
Question 5. After teaching himself law as
you do, Lincoln passed the bar exam and started practicing in
Springfield, IL. Within a few years, he became
fairly successful. According to Encyclopedia
Britannica, he made 1200 to $1500 annually as a lawyer,
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which was more than the governorgot paid at the time.
How much is $1500 in 1840 worth in today's money 18. 1800, you
say? 18. 40 No like how much money
did he have? Oh, 1500 is the one I'm asking.
1500. 1500. Man.
One point 5K. Yeah.
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So what do you think it's gone wide that is worth in 2023?
A lot. I think it is.
I'm trying to do math in my head, but I'm realizing I don't
know what equations to use. Yeah, I know.
I'm just like my wheels are spinning.
I'm. Just trying to like 200 I mean.
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Inflation, inflation is different, like the rate of
inflation has differed a lot in the last 200 years, so.
I said 220,000, but I'm going togo lower.
I'm going to go 100. And 80. 110,000.
No 180 all. Right 180.
I'll sit above Logan. I'll do 250K2. 150K All right,
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Brooke. 250K and a dollar. I will.
Yeah, I I gotta. Do I can respect strategy?
I can respect that. OK, I.
Would say a solid 300K. OK, OK, OK.
Well, in fact, $1500 in 1840 would only be worth $50,000
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today. Really.
Yes, So I feel like whenever I hear about inflation surprise as
well 1970, it feels like an absurd amount, let alone yeah
like 18 Ford. Balloons, right?
There is actually a while in theearly 1900s where there was
deflation. So it's not just like, not just
like pure exponential growth waslike.
(15:20):
Right. Was that like the around the
time of the depression like in? That's what I was thinking.
I don't know, I didn't like lookthat close.
That's like Mechanica didn't have that page.
It wasn't in the Abe Lincoln section.
It wasn't in the Abe. Lincoln.
Section, I did go to another source to do the inflation
adjustment interest, yeah. So $50,000 was apparently a
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pretty good salary at that time.I guess there was like less to
buy, yeah. You probably didn't have to
worry about like car insurance. Or yeah.
I mean. Like he lived in that a box, so
I don't. Know there's there's no you.
Didn't have an electric bill. Yeah.
But as a as a lawyer, his largest fee he ever received was
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in a lawsuit for the Illinois Central Railroad where he made
$5000 which today would be worth170K so.
Wait. OK, wait.
Oh. Yeah, that's more.
That was his largest. That was like his biggest.
He. Made he made like 1200.
His big gift? He annually made 1200 to 1500,
but he got 5000 once and that was like a big deal.
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Did a. Did Logan, just as in my
official capacity of scorekeeper, did Logan get a
point for that or are we saying that?
Logan got a point for that, because closest.
Closest. Get about points for every
question but but so Abraham Lincoln was actually the eighth
poorest president when you ingest for inflation as well.
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Good for him. Interesting.
Metric who was most of the presidents had had the net worth
a current net worth of like over1,000,000.
Dollars for money Who? Was Donald Trump is a
billionaire so. Supposedly, who was the poorest?
I don't remember. Because who do you think was
the? Poorest Joe, Who do you think
was the poorest president? His successor was the was the
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7th poorest Johnson his. Andrew.
Johnson, Andrew. Johnson was a little bit poorer.
Okay, for President question Mark.
Okay, well anyways, that's the end of round one.
Humble beginnings, so could we please have a score update at
this point in Lincoln? It's a it's a dead heat.
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We all have two points. Dead heat.
A dead heat? How is that possible?
Because questions. Because Brooke and John answered
the same thing. Yeah, we all missed one, and
then Brooke and I got points offthe same question, and then
Logan got the last one. You guys are all equally experts
on Abraham Lincoln. That's great.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, let's roll right along into Round 2, the rise to the
presidency. Oh my gosh.
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Oh God. Trigger warning it might get
slightly historically political here.
Oh no are. You going to make us all say
that slavery was bad? We should.
Questions. We can.
We can do that right now. Yeah, we can.
We can get that checked off the list.
Let's get this out of the way. Let's see if we can do it.
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Question 6. Even before coming a lawyer,
Lincoln was already dabbling in politics.
What was the first elected position and Lincoln ever held?
City Council question. Mark.
City Council. City Council, Exclamation point?
No, I'll do. City Council Semi Colon.
(18:41):
Probably not school board. They didn't have schools.
This was before. Schools.
I'm trying to think of other like local government positions,
City Council. If you if you were to start
running for government, where would you start?
School not. That that would school.
(19:02):
That's the right answer, but. I'm I, I don't.
It's not mayor. City Council is so tempting.
Brooke City Council exclamation point.
OK. I'm going to say, what do you
say? A state representative starting.
Joking right to Rep. Like in Congress or like in?
In the state legislature, state representative, not US
Congressman. OK, so we got two City Council
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and one state legislation. Slightly higher.
So, John, that is correct. He his first elected position
was the Illinois State legislature.
Everybody. Loves local politics.
He ran for the first time and lost because he didn't campaign
for very long. But then he ran three more times
and won all three times. He did like 3 terms and in the
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Illinois State list I knew he could do so.
I'm so. Proud of him.
I mean, he's Abraham Lincoln. We know how the story ends.
Happily, he got there after he's.
Fine, he's fine, I promise. He's.
Fine. He's still.
Killing. He's not.
Vampires, right? Yeah, he's he's out there
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killing vampires, I guess. Abe Lincoln, vampire hunter.
I've never seen that movie. I did, but I forgot.
Spoilers Question 7. From his early days as a
politician, Lincoln was tactful during his campaigns and gained
support from members of opposingpolitical parties.
What were the two dominant parties during the time of
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Lincoln's early political career, circa 1840?
Come on, you guys go to school parties.
Can I? Well, John's out there thinking
it's like, oh, like, I wonder which of the 10 political
parties I can make. Yeah, I'm.
I'm. Some things around in my head I.
Tried to not make this round like John Sweep.
Like, there's the the did the wigs exist for very long after
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they started? Like, were they still around in
the 1840s? I don't know.
I'd love to help you. Republican.
Democrat. Well weren't the I'm so scared
to say it sound horrible? I think I have my answers but.
Obviously no one really knows, so just take a guess.
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Republicans and Democrats one party early on.
The Democratic Republicans. Yeah.
And they were opposed to the Federalists, but that was that
was early days. Abe Lincoln was wow.
I started that really confident and I realized that way through.
John's holding. Back I'm holding back I want to
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see what these two yahoos come up with and then I'm going to
like completely sink my own bid so we'll.
See, I'm going to say Republicanand Democrat.
OK. How could you take that, Logan
North and South? I'm joking.
No. I mean, there were, there were
like Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.
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They were. At the time of the Civil War,
they were. True.
I mean, there were up until likethe 1960s.
Yeah, the Dixiecrats are a real thing.
I literally just can't think of another real thing besides
Republicans and. Democrats OK.
I just, John, come on. I'm going to go with Republicans
and Democrats. You know it.
I think it's just. Republicans.
Democrats. Oh, you think I'm just trying to
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be tricky on you? I think so.
Too. OK, I hope so.
Everybody says Republicans and Democrats.
I'm going to give you all one point because it was the wigs
and the Democrats. She's Logan.
She's so wigs. This was at Lincoln's early
political career. Republicans didn't the the new
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Republican Party did not exist. Yet OK the.
Democratic Republicans, which were sometimes called the
Republicans, have not been a thing for a while.
Like you said, that was early days.
During the early days if. You've seen Hamilton.
Hamilton that was. That was what Hamilton was
about. Yeah, so wigs were for more
federal economic regulation. They wanted a National Bank,
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tariffs and public railroad and Hwy. projects.
While the Democrats largely wanted the federal government to
stay out of economics. They were more the states rights
party at that. The parties end up flipping
platforms here in the next couple of decades, so if that
sounds back. Bunch of stuff happens and they
kind of flip. Reconstruction occurs and
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everybody has a lot of opinions.Yeah, it happened very gradually
over like a century. So.
But Lincoln was a wig. Believe it or not, that's what's
under no. He had a hat.
Nope, he no he is. He's literally a wig.
I know what he has under that. We all know what's under that
she got under. That.
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It's the. Radal on wig We voted along wig
party lines in the Illinois State legislature as well as
when he was a congressman for one term.
Later, yeah. Okay, okay.
Guys, we all get one point. You all get one point for.
That consider it distributed. Wigs and Democrats, Democratic
wig. This will be on the exam, by the
way. Okay, Question 8.
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It's the 1850s and more white people are starting to realize
slavery is evil. The Democratic Party split based
on the issue of slavery, the Whig Party died entirely, and a
new Republican Party was born torally those who opposed slavery.
Or at least it's spread to the western territories.
This is multiple choice, which was Lincoln's belief at the
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time. A.
He thought black people should have equal rights to white
people. B.
He thought black land owners should be allowed to vote C He
thought slavery should be abolished, but blacks and whites
could not have equal rights D Hethought slavery should not be
allowed to spread West, but couldn't be abolished where it
already existed. Can I ask a clarifying question?
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Yeah. What was his personal belief or
what was his policy position at the time?
So this is all what his beliefs were or what his policy ideas
were at the time all comes from like writings of like letters or
like campaign things he did. So it's kind of hard to tell
exactly what he thought personally, but kind of this is
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what he publicly made known as at that time, what his.
This is ultimately what his early legacy was, yeah.
I have heard that he did do some.
I was going to say pancaking flip.
Flopping. Waffling, you wanted to say.
Waffling. On this, on this like particular
issue, like early on, I'm going to say.
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DI also like DD. If D is not expanding it, but it
couldn't be abolished where it already was, that's what I would
have chosen. That sounds like it because his
his view evolves over time. Yeah, I tried to rank it from
like a being like the most progressive to D being like the
most conservative, right he could have had.
And you guys are all right. D is what he thought during his
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early political career. Talking about point.
Inflation he actually like campaign like used as a platform
against he like spoke out against Martin Van Buren because
we all. Did that earlier.
But he spoke out against Martin Van Buren because he like, one
time said that black people should be allowed to vote in New
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York. And he was like, that's too
progressive or something like that.
Yeah, he said a lot of things, but he really did not want it to
spread well. Luckily, they didn't know it's.
Like Twitter. His hard line.
It would have been cancelled. Twitter.
Back in the day was standing on tree stumps and arguing with
each other, so that was a whole.Different thing.
Yeah, I thought that was kind ofinteresting.
Just you always think of him like you know.
Yeah, I have her savior. Of the slaves, but he didn't
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even think that slavery should be abolished.
Yeah. And I mean, yeah, his ultimate
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was like slightly
reluctant, which is not a fun fact to know nowadays.
It's not OK. So, question 9.
Lincoln ran for Senate as a Republican and lost, but gained
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enough national recognition to be nominated as the Republican
presidential candidate in 1860. By this point, the country was
seriously divided on the issue of slavery.
The election was a crowded race,so Lincoln managed to win with
virtually no support from Southern voters.
What percentage of the popular vote did Lincoln receive?
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When he won the presidency. When he won the first his first
term. Well, he had to be missing at
least at least like half of it. Yeah, no way.
He won a true majority of the popular vote.
Why not? Because he wasn't getting
support from the South. Right.
But I think the North was a lot more popular than this.
Well, and Alec, Alec just said that it was a crowded race,
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right? There were 4.
The general election was a crowded race.
You must say you still got a majority, like 55. 55.
High 30. Am I allowed to ask another
clarifying question? Sure.
Did all four candidates win electoral votes?
I have no idea. OK, sorry.
That's OK. OK, so Logan says 55, Brooke
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said. High 30s.
That is what she said. I didn't hear her say that, so
cool. I'll say 48%. 48%, I'm going to
give it to Brooke because it's 40%.
There you go. Really high 30s I think would be
closer. Do you know what?
Yes, that's how that works. People got by chance.
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I don't Alec. You can you can Google this
right now. Right.
You want me to do it right now? I kind of do one of those.
Demanding. OK, OK, election of 1860.
So he was the Republican. There was both a northern
Democrat and a Southern Democrat.
OK. And then I'm trying to, I don't
remember what the 4th 1 was. There was the Constitutional
Union party had a person in thisrace.
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So Lincoln got 40%, the SouthernDemocrats got 18%, the Northern
Democrats got 30%, and the Constitutional Union got 12%.
I thought it would still be kindof like now where you get like
the two other candidates get a very low percentage, which is
why I still guess like majority,right?
Yeah, like it's third parties nowadays.
Or not what they used to be. So.
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Cool. Good job, Brooke.
Cool. Great job, Brooke.
Great job, Constitutional Union Freddy.
What? Question are we on?
We're on question 10, OK, 10. We're on question 10 now.
Lincoln's president now. Cool.
Question 10. Oops, that just.
Basically. So that.
Are you tapping right? Now.
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That would be wild if I just forced Alec to like, riff on the
spot about election results thathe had fully made-up.
Let me look at. Fantastic.
Sweating. OK, Question 10.
Basically, as soon as he became president, Lincoln found himself
at the helm of a sinking ship, metaphorically, because the
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Civil War had started. Lincoln made it clear.
Lincoln made it clear that his goal was never to fight to free
the slaves, but to preserve the Union by any means necessary.
OK, what a what a lukewarm take.About to do a quote my paramount
of. Oh, it's an an accent.
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My my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union,
and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery.
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I
would do it, and if I could saveit by freeing.
All the. Slaves I would do it, and if I
could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would
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also do that. That's all three options.
I would also do that. That's all three options.
The point is he would do anything he.
Just cares about the union. Yeah, but did he have to like
give 3 examples after that though?
I would do that. He's a.
Practical. I do whatever.
What those options are? However, public anti slavery
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sentiment was rising and Lincolnbegan to see how emancipation
could weaken the Confederacy. How long after making that
previous statement I just said did Abraham Lincoln issue the
famous Emancipation Proclamation?
Well, it was while he was president.
It was just after he got president.
He said that very at the very early part of the Civil War.
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Yeah, OK. Well then.
Which civil war broke out in 1860?
161 so. Then a year.
Wasn't it? Wasn't it 64?
Three years. I'll say four years.
Two years. There, we've all given.
It away. What's what's everyone's guess
three years? What's everyone's guess?
432 and four, I thought. The 61 to 64 was.
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In fact, OK, wait, sorry, I I lied to you.
So he said this. He said this in 1862.
Does that change anyone's answer?
Do we all want to subtract 1 three years?
OK. One year.
I just feel like I should be honest.
I should be honest like Abe and tell you that I lied at first.
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It was in 1861. It was 1862, OK, And the
Emancipation Proclamation, his initial proclamation was in
September of 1862, one month after he said that.
Really. So he kind of changed his mind
really very quickly. So basically the September 1862
proclamation stated that if the Confederacy doesn't surrender by
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January 1st, all the slaves willbe free.
And then on January 1st, 1863 was the Emancipation
Proclamation that freed all the slaves, but only the ones in the
Confederacy in areas still controlled by the Confederacy.
OK, so as I just. Extremely.
Wrong about when I thought the Civil War was, was it not 61 to
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64 was? I mean.
The end of the Civil War officially was in 186565.
Well, so the Civil War is from was 4 happened over the course
of four years from like it's four years and three months is
how long? I guess I just, I guess I
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thought the Emancipation Proclamation was nearer the end
of the war than it actually. Yeah, no, it was like in the
middle. I mean, Logan, are you thinking
about Juneteenth, where the lastgroup of slaves were finally
informed that they were made free in like Galveston, TX?
OK, well that's all I have. I don't know when Juneteenth
was. I didn't.
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Because I initially thought it was 1862 and then everyone
guessed so high that I got scared and.
Then now I moved a bunch of numbers around.
I tricked. My answer higher and then
everyone made their answer lowerso I got to.
Well, you still get the points, Brooke.
So really, because you were the lowest.
Yeah, I'm just showing that I'm a follower and can't stand my
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ground for my principles so. Well, there you go.
Me and. On Buzzard, does it makes
everyone do groupthink, answer very similarly, But that's OK.
You still get the points. And that's the end of round two.
Nice. Lincoln's president now.
He rose. He rose.
He rose, he rose, he ascended. So what is the scores now for
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Lincoln? Hold on, Lincoln time.
I don't know. I'm doing some quick math.
Brooke is currently in the lead with 9, I am on her tail with 7,
and Logan is on my tail with five.
Really. Guys all on each other.
We got a nice little, we got a nice little conga line.
Well, this is the time when we're supposed to do an ad.
Do you want to? Do you want to sell the people
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on your wolf attacks Twitter? That's a good idea, yeah.
Go follow at actual attacks on Twitter.
I tweet once every two years giving you a real wolf attack
that happened throughout history.
But it has a good aesthetic. It's a fantastic.
Great aesthetic and. You just went or you just went
through and like liked about 5 of my tweets from the last two
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years and that was a real confidence boost on my I don't.
Have a personal Twitter anymore?Actual attacks is my only
Twitter account that I own. Anyways while you're while
you're following at actual attacks, go follow at bus 1
trivia on Twitter. Got em and TikTok and Instagram.
You legally have to. OK, time for Round 3, which we
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are calling Lincoln's legacy. He's not said yet.
Just go with it, OK? Question 11.
The bloody Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 served as a turning
point in the war. At the dedication of the
cemetery, Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address, which
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was 272 words and lasted only two minutes.
I know you all learned about it in school, so let's see who can
recite the most quotes from the Gettysburg Address.
I knew you were going to say it as soon as you mentioned it, and
it's going to be one of those things that I can't think of at
all. And as soon as someone starts.
Saying it, I'm going to be like,Oh yeah.
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Yeah. 4 score seven years ago. Claim 4 score and seven years
ago our forefathers. Cool.
I've got it in front of me. I'm like highlighting.
As regards of the. Name at no.
No. Two nice try hallowed resting
place. Wait, hold on.
Hold. On Control F, Control F.
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The word hallow is in here. Can I take that?
Should I count that? What you count?
How? And resting place.
Soldiers. All right, I need more.
I need more buzzwords. OK, these.
Brave. Young man turning out the way I
thought he. Was brave young men brave?
Men the. Brave Men is in here.
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So far I think I still have to give it to Brooke because she
said 4 score and seven years agoright away.
Well, we all know 4 scores 7 years ago.
But did you? I don't know.
That's the that's the same. No buzzer, but she still said it
first. The Union.
This, this, this great nation. Wait, hold on.
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I don't see this greater nation.Perfect Union 4.
Score and seven years ago or. Something that's.
The Constitution. Something about.
Something about. Liberty the preamble you're
trying. You're trying to write about the
more perfect union. That's something else.
There's there's one other section I thought you guys
wouldn't know is it and it's the.
All men are men equal. Nope, that's the declaration of
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no no. No, no, it's what?
Did you say? All men are created equal.
That's also an Emancipation Proclamation.
That's not what we're talking about.
Gettysburg. That all men are created equal?
No, I think you're right. He does mention that. 4 score 7.
Years ago he does. Say blah blah blah blah blah
blah. All, yeah, all men are created.
Equal. All men are created equal is in
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there. I'll color that Logan's color.
I'm I'm all out now. I've said all.
Crosswords. I don't know Gettysburg.
Actually doesn't say Gettysburg.In the Gettysburg I knew he
didn't say Gettysburg. OK, well I think I'm going to
give the point to Brooke for saying 4 scripts years ago.
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She's she's getting you guys three points for saying the most
famous bit. I really thought you guys would
know more. No.
Giant paws where no one said anything so I hadn't years ago.
I had to take it. She took it.
She took. Advantage 4 scores 7 years ago.
You guys don't know the end. No.
Amen. Amen.
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He doesn't say that he's not. Afraid it's a speech.
OK, God bless him. There.
Yeah, just read it. Yeah, give your Abraham Lincoln
voice. OK, OK, 4 score and seven years
ago that's. So much worse.
Why do you sound like Alvis Dumble?
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Forgot. I forgot how I did it.
OK, 4 score. And seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in
liberty, liberty, liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal. That's two things.
Now we are engaged in the great Civil War testing whether that
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nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can
long endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field as a finalresting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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But in a larger sense, we cannotdedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated it far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor
long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what
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they did here. It is for us, the living, rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that causefor which they here gave the
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last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolved
that these dead shall not have died in vain.
That this nation under God shallhave a new birth of freedom, and
that government of the people bythe people, for the people shall
not perish from the earth. Amen.
That came. Back to me now you.
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Guys didn't know government of the people, by the people, for
people. I know that, so I don't have the
treasure. That sounds like it should be in
another another document earlieron not to get his breath.
I mean the all men and created equal stuff was in there, true,
but the government of the people, by the people, for the
people was. That was like a Lincoln
original. That's a straight bar.
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That was you spat. I do remember the They shall not
long remember what we say here 'cause that's always like the
joke. Yeah, it's like, and there are
also, remember, there are also things that we probably could
have like guessed if we went on for a little bit longer, like
they shall not have died in vain.
Yeah, we could have like riffed on battle.
I did remember that part once you.
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I'm still giving it to Brooklyn.She had the longest consecutive
string of words by by word. Count who got the most.
Resting place is hyphenated so that this is 1 hallow and brave
men so John got. Four.
I also had four fathers. They don't say forefathers, they
just. Say fathers well. 4 score and
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seven years ago that all men arecreated equal.
Vote 6. That all men are created equal.
I don't think he said that. I highlighted all men created.
Oh no. Maybe the end of the?
Water. No one deserves.
Three points for whatever that deserves. 3 Brooke deserves the
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one. OK, how's that?
OK, I'll tell you guys. Need to study up on your
Gettysburg Address? I will not because it's not
going to be a topic from here. I.
Tried. I tried to make a different
question related to the Gettysburg Address but I was
like I have no idea what. That well, you just read the
whole thing, so I'm there's probably not much more.
Yeah, let's move on Question 12.Only a few days after the
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Confederacy surrendered, Lincolnwas famously assassinated at
Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathist.
Which of the following facts surrounding Lincoln's
assassination is not true? Interesting.
A. The day Lincoln was assassinated
was the same day he signed the legislation creating the Secret
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Service. B There were also assassination
attempts on the Vice President and Secretary of State at the
same time. C Booth's original plan was to
kidnap Lincoln until he heard Lincoln give a speech where he
mentioned he would be in favor of extending voting rights to
some black citizens or D4 of Booth's conspirators were hanged
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in July of 1865, including the first white woman to ever be
executed by the US government. Can you repeat?
C Booth's original plan was to kidnap Lincoln, until you heard
Lincoln give a speech where he mentioned he would be in favor
of extending voting rights to black people to some black
people. Interesting execution of that
plan. So instead he got more mad.
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Well. Yeah, he changed his.
He changed his mind and then didthe thing he set out to do so.
So one of those isn't true. What do you think?
Well, first I thought it would be B because I kind of thought
of John Wilkes Booth as like a, a lone, a lone assassin or
whatever. But then you said D and he had
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conspirators. No, I definitely think B&D are
correct. Well, what was a?
The link the day Lincoln was assassinated was the same day he
signed the legislation creating the Secret Service.
Man it would suck if it was likeNope, actually it was the day
before. Yeah.
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Gotcha. Didn't make him soon enough I'm.
Going to say B I think. I think.
Brooke don't think that. OK, Brooke, what do you say I.
Just feel like I would have heard of that if that's true.
I'm still thinking. I've stumped you guys on a few,
yeah. Yeah.
Stump play the stump sound effect.
You just got stumped. Stump sound.
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Effect, I don't know, but it's playing right now.
Look at it but it just happened,don't know what it.
Is just. We'll find out in a couple of
weeks. From here on, every time anyone
says man, I'm stopped. Whatever the sound was.
I'm thinking like a like a like a heavy stomp slash fart noise.
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I was thinking of like the bonk sound effect.
Like. Pitched way down, but pitched
way. OK, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I'm gonna, yeah, we're gonnalike layer multiple things and
it'll be like a unique. Experience.
Yeah, You guys aren't? Ready A true a truly different
auditory flavor. So to review, we have Secret
Service signing other assassination attacks.
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Co conspirators happening. Co conspirators getting change
of. Plans from kidnapping Co
conspirators, getting hanged. Oh, change of.
Yeah. How would you kidnap the
President of the United States? Well, I wouldn't do.
It, that's for damn sure. The big sack.
Is that what he said? Yeah.
Big sack. Well, yeah, he's 6 foot tall.
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Yeah, he could fit in a sack easy.
How many Logan's could I fit in my Abe Lincoln kidnapping set?
OK, but that made me I just convinced myself that it might
be C because if he was trying tokidnap him, why would he go to a
theater in public? Because.
That was that was a different thing.
He changed his plan way earlier.OK, he changed.
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His plan at all? Oh my gosh.
I I feel like I've been the first to answer every time.
Brooke saying. A Brooke, said A.
I'll spread it around. I'll say C spread it around.
OK, so ABC OK, the the the thingthat wasn't true is that there
were also assassination attemptson the vice president and
Secretary of State at the same time.
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But there were other attempts onother members of the cabinet.
So there were supposed to be assassinated and there nice
supposed to be assassination attempts on the other ones
because he you know, he was conspiring.
But the guy who was supposed to attack the vice president
chickened out. He literally was at the bar of
the hotel where the vice president was staying and like
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just drank himself silly becausehe was too scared to do.
True, but there was an attempt on the secretary of.
State. Didn't that involve a train?
But it didn't. Work.
Yeah. A train the Secretary of State
was injured in a horse carriage accident.
It's not He was like bedridden when the murderer guy came in
and was slashing about with a knife and didn't kill him.
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He like. You had a stationary.
You had a. Stationary turn but he like
maimed a bunch of other people that were in the house.
Wow, so interesting. Yeah, no, he had a bunch of
conspirators and their original plan was to kidnap Lincoln and,
like, hold him for ransom and, you know, try to keep the
Confederacy going. But a?
Little late for that. Yep.
Did they have like a competency test before that?
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And they're like, OK, John Wilkes Booth, obviously the best
at this. Give him the president.
He'll go do that, but he's not competent enough to kidnap the
president. He was definitely like the
ringleader. So I think he and then once he
heard that speech about how Lincoln might want to extend
voting rights to them, he was hewas like, that's.
It he's going down. That's it.
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He's dying tonight and I don't know if it was the same day, but
then he found out that he was going to the first.
Probably a little later. Because he shot him.
And it was actually really easy.He shot him in the back of the
head in the press box his bodyguard left.
Because the Secret Service didn't quite exist yet.
It was. It was in the process of
becoming real. But as he had a bodyguard, he
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just left his post to go to the bar, and was likely at the bar
at the same time that Booth was there before he went to kill
Lincoln. And so then Booth shot him,
jumped out of the press box ontothe stage, ran out the back
door. He had a force already there and
he took off. Did he broke his, did he break
his leg or did he like really screw up his ankle?
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He he broke his leg because he had to.
He had to, later in the night, go to one of his doctor friends
and get his legs set. So that.
He could, like, keep going. And that was 1.
Of my first. Legal cases like establishing
protection for doctors, being like, we can't, yeah.
Yeah, so the doctor actually wasnot one of the ones that was
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hanged, but he was sentenced to life in prison.
Oh my. Gosh.
But the vice president pardoned him like a few years later.
Thanks Andrew Johnson. Famously well liked President
Andrew Johnson. But four of his conspirators
were hanged, so. Yay white women being the first
to being. Murdered.
Finally and the. It's about time it's.
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About time the feminism alive and well in the 1860s.
White men can be hanged. We had to be there to cut.
This. And the reason?
She was hanged was because she was the one whose house they met
at to like drop their plans. So she got hanged.
For that Outrageous. Though, I mean, are you letting
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plots against the president happen under your roof?
No, I wouldn't tell you if I was.
Exactly. Our Yeah, can we have our weekly
poker night here? And she's like, oh, sure.
Thing it was like pretty clear she.
Was she was on it her? Her husband was one of the other
conspirators. Oh, OK, yeah.
Yeah. Did she own the house?
But yeah, she owned that. She it was her boarding house.
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Oh, OK. That they met at.
Yeah, I did a lot of research onthis.
Also, the Secret Service was that he signed the document for
was originally just to track down people making counterfeit
money. Yeah, they were.
They were from the Treasury Department originally, yeah.
Because apparently at that time a third of all money in the US
was counterfeit. It was really easy.
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When OSHA, it's like a whole bunch of ink on paper.
None of that fun stuff in there.They didn't.
Have the. National Bank yet?
No, they had they well, they hadbills, but it wasn't centralized
yet. Well, OK, they had to wrangle
that together eventually. OK, let's let's talk about does
Logan get does Logan? Get a point.
Logan got points. For that, right, Yeah, Logan got
three points. You got the right answer.
That's such a such a relief. All right, Question 13.
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In 1909, Lincolns 100th birthdaywas honored with the release of
the Lincoln penny. This was the first time a
historical figure appeared on a coin.
Since then, dozens of historicalfigures have appeared on coins
in a round Robin order Name historical figures who have
appeared on the US coin. Last one standing gets the.
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Port on a on AUS coin. On AUS.
Coin on AUS. Coin this is going to.
Be George Washington. I've got the list.
OK, correct. So yeah, we don't have a, we
didn't buzz in, so we'll have to.
Just Logan, said. George Washington.
I'll say FDR. Yeah, that is correct.
Name a person on a coin Brooke besides Lincoln, George
Washington, or FDR. It's it's on the tip of my
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tongue and it's just not there. Jackson No, sorry.
Jefferson. Dang it, that's what I was going
to say. Jeff Thomas Jefferson, correct?
OK. So we got he's on the standard,
the standard penny we got, the standard nickel we got.
Quarter we got, said George Rogers on the quarter.
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We got the What did you say? I said FDR, he's on the dime.
MDR on the dime. The dime.
Run out. I'm running out of coins.
Who is I'm including including all, any and all commemorative
coins ever printed. The US.
Okay. Oh, we're in.
It Jane. Yeah, well.
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We're in it. Well, I said.
There's dozens. We're in.
Yeah, well, this is this name. Something Logan.
Name it you can. Probably name you last person
and they were probably on a coin.
Adam's the 1st. John Adam, let me scroll up.
That's that's true. He is on the $1.00 coin.
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OK, I'm. Going to say Sacagawea.
Correct. She's a historical figure and
she's also on a $1.00 coin. I already said Jefferson.
Yes. Oh my gosh, I should just move
on from the person that I'm trying to think of or sorry, you
said. I said FDR.
Said FDR. Yeah.
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There's more than one. I'll count it.
Roosevelt Okay, so here's the thing.
Every president has been on a coin so.
I don't think that Joe Biden. Has not been on a coin.
Well, not yet, but all of the all of the US presidents are on
the gold, the gold dollar coin. So their their name is.
(53:14):
Not their name is not their US presidents.
You got to say you got. To say the name as presidents
appear. Well, I know, I'm just saying we
can go. Obama's not on the presidents.
Obama's So we said Washington. John Adams.
We already said Thomas JeffersonMadison.
See the next one. Madison, James Madison.
Scrolling down, scrolling down, he is on a dollar.
(53:35):
Coin JFK, Good job. JFK, he's on the half dollar.
Franklin. Rank like Benjamin.
Yes, noted U.S. President.
Sorry, Brooke. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on, Hold on, hold on, Standby.
He's only $100. I'm on I'm I'm on the list of
coins in circulation, but there's also a list.
(53:56):
Franklin was on a dollar, was on1/2 dollar from 1948 to 19.
Interesting. He had a good run.
All right, Logan. Who was after James Max?
If you know this guy, I'll give you a crisp high 5 the next time
I see you. So he's obscure.
Oh yeah. Obscure president he was from.
(54:21):
Virginia. OK, I don't know.
I know. I know.
Near this time was the next Adams, Next John Adams, The
second one. What's his middle name?
John. Feel like you have to give.
You have to. It's it's what he went by.
I know what it is, but the firstthe first word that came to my
mind was quiver. You're so close to say the.
(54:44):
Name it's. I know, John.
Quincy Adams, John. Quincy Adams.
He is on a dollar coin. I feel like we need to just call
it no more presidents because. I'm going to that's most.
I'm going to do a 5A5 second countdown from now on.
My gosh. 5 James Monroe. Or my. 5th U.S.
(55:06):
President James Monroe Yeah 5. Andrew Jackson.
Tort. Correct, this is so much 5 3. 3.
Interesting. Ulysses.
(55:27):
Ulysses. Ulysses.
Correct. He's on a dollar bye.
James Buchanan. Yes, he's on a dollar 5.
My gosh. 4. Has there been time for Nixon?
No, because he was not Nixon. Hold on, Nixon.
(55:47):
I don't think Nixon's been on a coin.
Those How far have the golden dollars gone?
I think they've gone like most. There is no there is no Nixon
coin. I'm so sorry.
Just hold that thought. Eliminated Eliminated Logan, you
have 5. Seconds Logan 4.
Ronald Reagan 3. Oh, OK.
(56:08):
And then? If when he's wrong, can I just
go down the list of things I have written here just to see if
I'm? Wrong.
Ronald Reagan's not on a coin yet.
What? OK.
Nothing's not on a coin. Reagan's not well.
Here's the I thought like all ofthe gold coins have gone up
until like. Like George W.
Bush. And then they just skip Nixon
because of just controversial reasons.
(56:29):
Yeah. Unfortunately, your host, who is
supposedly knowledgeable of the subjects, uses some faulty
information to judge this question.
Both Nixon and Reagan do appear on commemorative U.S. dollar
coins, and in fact, all deceasedUS presidents appear on a dollar
(56:53):
coin. Let this be a lesson to leverage
Trust a Wikipedia article on itsown, no matter how legit it
seems that clicker Audi. Is it safe to say that
Rutherford, B Hayes, Andrew Johnson, Martin Van Buren,
William Henry, Harrison Fillmore, and Polk are all still
on coins? I don't know.
The list is an alphabetical order.
(57:14):
I would have to jump around a lot.
To confirm, at some point there,I was just going to name US
presidents whose names were James.
My my next guy on deck I did James Monroe, James Buchanan,
and my next one was going to be James K Polk.
A hack you could have done is that on the back of the South
Dakota quarter is Mount Rushmore.
So you couldn't be. Anyone on Mount Rushmore True?
(57:35):
Damn, But we did get a couple ofthose guys already.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Teddy Roosevelt
being one of. Them Thomas Jefferson and.
Abraham Lincoln, that's. The three, we got them early.
Yeah, you got them? Got them.
OK, wow, great job, John. Three points.
I survived and I was a doozy. I I did.
My best. You did.
(57:55):
Really. Well, you tried.
I'm proud. Of it OK.
Let's do it. Let's do it, question. 14 Babe,
wake up. It's 1922 and the Lincoln
Memorial just dropped. How tall is the statue of
Abraham Lincoln? Like standing up, We're sitting.
Down. Great question.
Good, good question. If he were to stand up, how
(58:18):
tall? If he were to stand up, if he.
Were to stand up. Oh my God, and.
His and this is on the National Park.
Website so there's an accurate oh wow.
Or at least an official answer to this.
And I have a hint. I can tell you how tall.
He is sitting. I would love to hear how tall he
is seated. No, you shouldn't.
You shouldn't tell us. Give us a lower.
Limit right? No.
(58:38):
You shouldn't. So we're not like 30 feet and
he's like, I'm telling that's how big sitting down will.
All be like very similar in our guesses.
We should just guess blind. Do you do you think we all just
like, know the? Estimation for how much taller
someone gets when they stand up blind.
It's more interesting to have. No reference.
I'm going to tell you then. Go hint he is. 19.
(59:00):
Feet tall when sitting, He's only 19 feet tall.
He's I'm going. To say 38, he's 19.
Feet tall when I. Would have gotten that wrong.
I was guessing a lot more. What'd you say?
Logan, 30. 7. 37. John John's doing an Experiment
27. Yeah, I think I went too high.
(59:22):
Brooke, did you say an answer? I was gonna think.
'Cause the way. I'm thinking about it is like
how many stories tall he would be?
He's probably not much more thanthree stories tall, so 30.
So how a story is? 10 about 10, right?
John said. 27. So you would be going right in
between John and I, so yeah, 30.One feet.
(59:46):
John gets that one. He's 28 feet tall, stands up
every night when he comes to life because of Night in the
Museum, because. Of the tablet of Akman Raw,
yeah. We've all seen.
Night at the museum, too, but noone's.
Seen Night at the museum Three. Yeah.
I haven't. No one talked about this.
No one. Knows the plot all right.
Time for question. 15 Speaking of movies, in 2012, Abraham
(01:00:10):
Lincoln Vampire Hunter was released in theaters, amassing
116 million at the box office. Which of these following similar
titles was not a real movie? Abraham Lincoln versus zombies
Jesus Christ vampire hunter. Hansel and Gretel witch hunters
or Queen Victoria Demon Hunter. See Jesus Christ One.
(01:00:32):
Jesus. Jesus Christ, you're all.
Wrong. It's Queen Victoria Demon I'd
like. To see that though movie.
I have. I feel like I I.
Feel like. I'd.
Heard of the 1st 2:00 but I hadn't heard of the last two.
I knew that Hansel, Jesus Christ.
Hunters. Yeah, yeah, Hansel and Gretel,
witch hunters. Jeremy.
Renner. Is there that?
Movie. Wow.
Victoria Demon. Hunter is.
(01:00:53):
Just a book hasn't been adapted into a movie yet.
It's just man. OK, that's it.
That's the end of Lincoln's. Legacy From now until
forevermore, we can celebrate Lincoln.
I love that the ending of his legacy is.
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire empire hunter.
Yeah, that's how all the kids know.
About him these days. Not not the new.
(01:01:15):
Lincoln movie that came out so not the new Lincoln movie by
what's? The.
What's? The.
What's the big deal with the points, John?
What's the deal? The points?
So by my. Calculation I.
I'm. Moved things around a little
bit, so just like to make sure Iknew what I was doing while we
were talking about Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria.
(01:01:36):
I drew a lot of lines. He he gave some points.
So I. Moved them from Logan's savings
account to my. Savings.
It's all very above board. Logan is last with eight, Brooke
is in second with 10, and I barely took the lead with 13.
That's a three-point, you know. Hey, there's a challenge
question out there somewhere. I capped, I capped to you guys
(01:01:58):
capped in there. When did I cap to you?
Oh. You cap.
This is. The biggest?
Challenge of the challenge. Question is always just
remembering what questions were asked.
Yeah, OK. We're going to go through them.
One Abraham Lincoln later, I really hope that those are all
real. Movies.
Are you making us challenge? Yeah, I mean, yes.
(01:02:20):
I think it should be a rule if you're.
In the in the lead you have. To challenge.
I hate that. Well, Brooke is only three.
Points away, right? So she could challenge in time.
Yeah, I. Famously hate.
Challenging. Well, John is 13.
I have 13. Yeah, it could, if everyone.
Challenges. There's a six point swing that
could happen so I could and put you up.
No matter who gets. This wins.
(01:02:42):
If we all choose different things, yeah.
But there's no guarantee you guys will get it right.
I know. You might all get it wrong.
We could all get it wrong. I am choosing the last.
Question. I was going to choose that one.
You think Queen Victoria demon hunt if we all?
If we all choose that and reallyput all.
Our cash on Queen Victoria, thenI'm choosing something else.
If you. There you go.
Yeah. Because then it would all stay
the same either. Way I did.
(01:03:02):
Want to choose that one? But I guess is it?
Is there anything else like standing out?
To to you. Everyone's just stuck.
Was that a hint demon hunt? I was thinking about the.
Height 1. I mean.
Everyone's only talked about thelast question, so I was.
Thinking about the height and I was thinking about the.
Mom dying. All right.
What's your official challenges?Put them in the ring.
Lincoln's mom question Queen Victoria.
(01:03:24):
'S mom Vic. John, are you challenging?
I'm going. To pass what?
Boo. This is the.
Word. I hate challenging guys
especially. When I'm at such.
Like I'm at such a. Strategic position?
I don't know. This is the one instance I'm
going to. Be right and I won't matter when
because of you. Yeah.
That's how. That's how that game works.
(01:03:45):
Logan, in reality, the question I capped.
To you about was height. Oh, how tall was he?
He's 644. 6/4 I was going to see.
That was. My. 2nd.
Guess was the one I knew I was because I thought I could say
that he. Was only 6 foot and you.
Guys would be like, well, I guess he was just pretty tall
for the time. Donald Trump was it.
(01:04:06):
Sounds like one of those it. Sounds like one of those things
that's like, oh, it's an interesting thought because it's
less than what you think. I know I really wanted.
You to guess that one anyways. Yeah, sorry, Queen Victoria is
not a movie yet. Queen Victoria a demon, but we
can make it so. OK.
Well, with that, John. Still.
Wins with however many points hehas 14.
(01:04:27):
Congratulations. You are the Abraham Lincoln
vampire hunter. I am the congratulations.
You. You.
Are Abraham Lincoln. Thank you.
Thank you. Well, folks.
Looks like we've. Rolled into this station at our
nation's capital. So that's all the time we have.
If you enjoyed your ride on Bus 1 today, we'd really appreciate
(01:04:48):
it if you told your friends about us.
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(01:05:10):
Finally, we'd like to thank Vertfor the use of our theme song
5978, which bangs so hard but also so sweetly.
Did you just salute? He just saluted when he said
that. Thanks for writing Bus 1.
We'll see you next week. Play us out.
Bert, I forgot.
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