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I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here sitting in for Dave. So this is an official bona to the short stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here sitting in for Dave.

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A big thanks to history ofbread.com.

History.com, our old friends at how stuffworks.com.

And the surprisingly instructive gold metal bakery.

I also want to shout out Mental Floss and Zachary Crockett on Price of and the surprisingly instructive gold metal bakery.com.

I also want to shout out Mental Floss and Zachary Crackett on Priconomics.

Great, because this is about sliced bread.

You've heard the term, of course, the best thing since sliced bread.

And oddly enough, well, not oddly, but sliced bread has been around less than 100 years, even though bread has been around for tens of thousands of years.

Yeah, I think in either a bread episode or a beer episode, we explored whether or not bread was created to make beer portable or a beer starter portable. But regardless, it's been around for a very, very long time.

And yet, what did you say, 30,000 years?

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