Hello everyone! Welcome to the Past and the Curious! My name is Mick Sullivan. Maybe you

have heard the good news. Let me put it this way. I didn't think that the underwear chronicles

was going to be a book. Was I right? I was worse than right. I was wrong. Yes, it's going to be called

IC Lincoln's Underpants and it's going to be out in the back half of this year. So late 2022,

if all things go according to plan, so keep your fingers crossed for us. In the meantime,

we have launched a Kickstarter and we're treating it like a pre-sale. It's doing really well. We

announced it when we did the reading of the meat shower on March 3rd and we have already doubled our

goal. But there are some things that we can do if more people join. Plus, it's a cool opportunity

to get some extra bonus options if you would like to do that. So you can find out more at Kickstarter

to search the Past and the Curious or you can go to our website. And since the book is going to

be called IC Lincoln's Underpants, I only felt that it was appropriate to have this week's episode

be about Abraham Lincoln. So enjoy Abraham Lincoln and his underwear. And I'll tell you more about

the book at the end. When he was young, Abraham Lincoln's family was packed into their cramped one

bedroom cabin like smelly sardines in a tiny tin can. If everyone else in the family had just

walked out the door and left the little guy alone, it still would have been a tight space for baby

Abe. Luckily, cramped quarters were not something he'd have to deal with as an adult. His last home,

the White House, was definitely roomy enough for him to stretch out his full ground six foot four

inch frame. And today, he towers above the rest as the tallest president America has ever looked

up to. But no matter where he hung his stove pipette or how fancy his oversized outerwear might have

been, his underwear never really changed much. From the back wards of Kentucky to the halls of

Washington DC, his simple homemade drawers were as honest and plain as the man who wore them.

At least that's what the evidence we have seems to indicate. The few surprise appearances his

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