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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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Recounting two apple-themed cities in my travels this episode. You might even learn some trivia about one of our foremost planters of apple trees. New York state, too, home of Lycurgus, is also an apple-growing state. In fact, according to the New York Apple Association (real), NY grows more apple varieties than any other state!
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1:14.1 | Michael Ian Black, literary mansplainer in chief. I should clarify, I'm not mansplaining about |
1:20.0 | everything, just things that I don't know anything about. I'm just returned from Appleton, Wisconsin. And it was my first time in Appleton, Wisconsin. |
1:32.6 | And if you've never been to Appleton, Wisconsin, it's fine. You don't need to go. Totally fine if you don't go. |
1:40.3 | Nothing wrong with Appleton, Wisconsin, but by golly, if you're looking for a place to go, |
1:47.0 | that's probably not it. Before that, Fort Wayne, Indiana, I was in for one day, in Appleton for one day. |
1:54.7 | Fort Wayne, Indiana, home of Johnny Appleseed. And, by the way, Appleton, lest you think |
2:00.8 | nothing good ever came out of Appleton, |
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