Centuries Collide TBN Version

Cody Crouch: BROS | Centuries Collide

December 4, 2024 | S2:E6

Host Cody Crouch takes us on an unforgettable ride through the moments that made the U.S.A. the country it is today.

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Centuries Collide TBN Version | Cody Crouch: BROS | Centuries Collide | December 4, 2024

♪♪
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I am cody crouch. on my new show centuries collide
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American history,
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I'm traveling across the united states uncovering
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The incredibly true history of what makes our
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Nation so great.
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We're recreating some of american history's
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Greatest moments exactly how they happened.
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Didn't you think the rock would be bigger?
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Welcome to the craziest, strangest, most whatever-est
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Crash course on american history.
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Buckle up.
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It's time for centuries collide.
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What's up everybody?
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I'm here in philadelphia, pennsylvania, the city
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Of brotherly love because
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Today we're talking about bros.
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Now, if you're thinking like the hemsworth
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Brothers or the winklevoss twins, let me
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Help expand your bro-cabulary starting with
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The word philadelphia.
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The word philadelphia is a combination of two
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Greek words, phileo, meaning love and adelphos,
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Meaning brother. philadelphia.
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William penn, the founder of this city, envisioned
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Building a community where bros treated each
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Other with dignity no matter what their
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Differences might be.
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And this is more than a fancy hashtag, too.
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Penn hoped to live at peace even with the
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Native americans and was known to pay them fairly
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For their land, which is pretty cool for the time.
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So what better place to talk about some of
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America's most influential bros? from
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Dream teams to epic rivals,
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We're going to look back at some of the bros who
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Build america.
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Buckle up.
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It's time for centuries collide.
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♪♪
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Our first set of brothers took brotherly love to
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Soaring new heights, but before they were flying
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High, they were just a bunch of biker dudes.
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We're just a couple of bros.
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You got that right.
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We're not twins though.
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Yeah, i'm talking about the wright brothers.
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Orville and wilbur wright grew up right here in
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Dayton, ohio in the mid 1800's, and
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According to them, had a really great childhood.
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Orville once said this,
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We were raised in an environment where there
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Was always much encouragement to children
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To pursue intellectual interests. in a different
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Kind of environment,
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Our curiosity could have been nipped long before
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It could have born fruit.
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You almost done? [flatulence]
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No, not yet.
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Their father, milton was a circuit preacher, a man
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Of faith who orville and wilbur looked up to their
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Entire lives.
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He'd ride from town to town on horseback
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Preaching, and when he would return home--
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Honey, i'm home!
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He would always bring the kids a new toy.
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Father! father, what did you bring us back this time?
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Tiddly wink.
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On one trip, their dad came home with a
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Flying bat.
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A flying bat!
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This toy which had been inspired by the mini
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Helicopter designs of a french guy named alphonse.
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Penaud was basically a propeller attached to a
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Rubber band.
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When the rubber band was pulled tight and then
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Released, the toy would shoot into the air.
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It was kind of like flying... ish.
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The boys were obsessed, but their dad wasn't the
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Only one sparking their mechanical brains
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Into action.
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Their mother, susan, grew up on a farm where she
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Learned to work with tools.
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She had enough know-how to build and design her
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Own appliances.
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This was one inventive family, which is probably
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How orville and wilbur ended up in the
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Newspaper business.
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Before the wright brothers were known for
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Their bikes or their planes, they were known
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For their newspaper.
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In 1889, the brothers started their very first
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Venture, the west side news. ♪ west side story....
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♪ get the latest, west side, story, get the latest...
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Shouldn't we be riffing on newsies?
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Neither one of the brothers had finished
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High school, but that didn't stop them from
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Aiming high. orville and wilbur decided to build
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Their own printing press.
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They built it using parts of an old buggy household
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Odds and ends, and get this, even a broken tombstone.
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♪♪ what?
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Their printing press was so successful that they
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Were commissioned to build them for
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Other people.
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Hey, hey, what about this one?
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Dude?
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Didn't you used to date her?
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Yeah.
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A year into running the west side news, the
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Brothers realized that they were actually in the
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Wrong business.
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Their real passion was biking.
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Do you know what i hate?
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Well, you hate, bro?
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The news bro, i hate the news.
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I haven't fact checked in weeks.
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The only part i love is biking around and
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Throwing papers at people's doors.
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Yeah, that part's the best.
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I wish we could just do that.
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Do what?
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Just ride bikes. are you thinking
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What i'm thinking?
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Open a sandwich shop.
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Bike store. [together] bike store.
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Long before the automobile, if you didn't
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Want to walk, ride a horse or a train,
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Bicycles were the thing.
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And these two brothers were really into biking.
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In fact, all of their friends brought their
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Bikes to them to get fixed.
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So they figured why not open up our own
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Bicycle shop?
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And so in 1892, the wright cycle company was born
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Right here in dayton, ohio.
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[cheering]
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Orville and wilbur would make their own innovative
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Bicycles and become the bros in the biker world,
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At least here in dayton.
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While the brothers were busy working on their
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Bikes, a german man by the name of otto
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Lilinthal was making breakthroughs
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In manned flight.
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Now, when i say manned flight, this guy was
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Basically strapping glider wings to himself
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And jumping off of cliffs.
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On august 9th, 1896, lilienthal crashed,
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Broke his back and died the next day.
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It was a tragedy, but the brothers saw his death by
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Flight as a sign.
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It was time to fly.
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The wright brothers realized that the biggest
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Issue with lilienthal's design was the lack
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Of control.
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If they could come up with a way to steer the
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Craft, then they might be able to master the
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Science of flying.
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If we could figure out a way to steer the craft, we
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Could really master the science of flying.
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The us government was also throwing crazy money
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At the development of manned flight, and the
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Competition got pretty fierce, too.
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People like alexander graham bell and samuel
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Langley, an astrophysicist who is
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Secretary of the smithsonian institute,
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Were trying to invent their own
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Flying machines.
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So of course, the brothers got into
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Bird watching... because they fly.
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They studied the flight of birds, the size,
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Movement, and shape of their wings.
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They even created their own wind tunnel to test
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Their theories.
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To learn more about these inventive bros, i need to
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Chat with national park ranger chip walton here at
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The home of the very first flight, kittyhawk,
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North carolina. captain walden,
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Thanks for being with us on centuries collide.
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What did the wright brothers figure out that
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No one else did before?
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Well, prior to 1903, no one had figured how to
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Roll an aircraft.
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Now, an airplane moves on three axes.
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It has pitch, yaw, and roll.
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No one had figured out how to turn or balance an
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Aircraft in flight.
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Think about it.
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To be able to effectively ride a bicycle, you have
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To understand balance and equilibrium, and that
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Gave them an advantage over other scientists and
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Experimenters of the day.
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And they understood that to turn a bike, you don't
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Simply just turn the handlebar, you kind of
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Have to lean in or balance into a turn.
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And the same principle applies to an airplane.
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So the brothers were keen observers of the
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Natural world.
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They would watch turkey buzzards along the miami
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River and notice how as soaring birds turned,
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They would increase the angle on one wing tip and
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Decrease the angle of attack on the other.
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So it would cause the bird to roll into a turn.
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The story goes in 1899, they owned a bicycle shop
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And he's fidgeting with the inner tube box,
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Shaped much like a spaghetti box in
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Your cupboard.
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And as he's twisting the ends, he had an a-ha
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Moment, an epiphany, if you will.
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And he realized that the box ends turned very much
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Like the wing tips of a bird.
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And he thought that perhaps the wings could
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Warp or twist and of course, turn or roll the
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Aircraft just like a bird.
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So they developed a five foot kite, flew it along
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The miami river there in dayton, and the kite
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Performed brilliantly.
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The wing warping system reacted just like he
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Thought it should.
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So he convinced orville to build a full size
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Glider, but they didn't have the winds in dayton
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That they thought they would need.
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So they wrote to the national weather service,
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And they got a list of the windiest places.
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The united states, of course, chicago is number
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One, but kittyhawk, a place that they never
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Heard of was six on the list.
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So they wrote the weather station here in kittyhawk
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And asked that we're looking for a place with
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Wind, sand, and isolation. wind to improve the
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Aerodynamic efficiency of the wing--
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They wanted sand because they knew where they were
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Going to crash, so they wanted the soft landing.
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And then of course, they wanted the isolation
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Because they didn't want the distraction, the
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Press or a lot of people looking on because they
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Thought they were onto something here.
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They thought they were going to be able to solve
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This puzzle of flight.
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Would they have been involved in every aspect of
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The building of the wright flyer?
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Every aspect.
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All of this is the work of two
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Outstanding craftsmen.
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They built that eight and a half foot propeller out
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Of laminated spruce with hand tools and the draw
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Knife. every aspect, they touch.
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And you'll notice as you look at the flyer,
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There's a tremendous amount of influence from
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Their bicycle background.
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You'll notice bicycle chains and the sprockets.
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You'll notice that on the left side, the chain
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Is twisted.
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They understood torque effect and they realized
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That two slow moving props is better than one
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Fast moving prop.
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So they understood torque in gyroscopic procession.
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They had the propellers move in a counter
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Rotating method.
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The struts are all made of spruce.
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The ribs are made of ash.
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15 gauge spoke wire that stabilized the struts and
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The wings and allowed for the wing warping of the
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Wings as they turned.
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Talk to us about the legacy of the wright brothers.
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I mean, the brothers made over 2200 glider flights
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Before that faithful flight on december 17th.
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Orville saw the sound barrier get broken by
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Chuck yeager in 1947.
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So indeed, and within 66 years from 1903 to 1969,
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We're walking on the moon.
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Yeah, amazing, awesome, amazing.
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Captain walton, thank you, sir.
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Thank you, cody.
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Appreciate it.
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December 17th, 1903, right here in kittyhawk,
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North carolina,
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The wright brothers would make history. after
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Winning a coin toss-- yes!
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Orville piloted the wright flyer 10 feet in
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The air for 12 whole seconds traveling a
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Whopping 120 feet.
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Although that first fight wasn't exactly a flight
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From la to new york, it was still a really,
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Really big deal and everybody was freaking
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Out about it, right?
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Actually, no.
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In fact, newspapers wouldn't even print
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The story
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Stating had their flight been 59 minutes, that
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Would've been a real story.
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But instead, their final flight that day ended up
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Being 59 seconds.
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So they weren't media sensations yet, but that
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Wasn't going to stop these inventive bros.
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They took their wright flyer to washington to
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Get some governmental attention, and even then,
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They weren't received with the type of
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Enthusiasm that they expected, but
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They persisted.
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By 1905, orville and wilbur had managed to
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Catch air for 39 minutes at huffman prairie, ohio,
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And eventually the us government came around.
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They offered the wright brothers $30,000 for a
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Plane that could hold a pilot and a passenger.
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Ha ha! we'll take it!
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But could also fly at a mind-blowing speed of
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40 miles per hour.
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In 1909, the wright military flyer
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Took to the skies.
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While it looks like a giant kite by today's
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Standards, back then it was state of the art.
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Shortly after the military flyer took off,
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Wilbur wright died of typhoid fever
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On may 30th, 1912.
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I guess you could say after his brother's death,
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Orville lost that lovin' feeling and
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Sold his stake in the company.
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At the end of his life, he continued to consult
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With a government agency that would one day become
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Nasa.
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Orville also fiercely defended the legacy of
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The wright flyer.
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For decades, the smithsonian institute
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Claimed that the wright bros were not the first
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Ones to achieve flight.
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Instead, they gave the credit to samuel langley
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Until finally the truth won out.
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The smithsonian institute issued a retraction and
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The wright brothers finally got their proper
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Credit ensuring that all north carolina license
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Plates would proudly proclaim first in flight.
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The wright brothers paved the way for other
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Pioneers in the sky, like neil armstrong,
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Who carried a piece of the wright flyer
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With him to the moon.
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The wright brothers were cut from the same
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Wholesome, all-american cloth, loyal, committed,
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Creative, the type of bros that you hope
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Your bros will be.
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Unfortunately, not everybody in history
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Exemplified the bro code.
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Introducing the prentiss brothers.
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Spoiler alert, these brothers didn't get along.
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If you want to secede from the union,
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Then why aren't you just secede from this family?
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All right, i will.
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I'm taking the dog,
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I'm taking aunt's inez's fine china,
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And i'm going to take your silverware and cup.
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That's my favorite cup!
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My cup.
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Now, a little sibling rivalry is perfectly
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Natural, right?
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Who gets the better grades, the bigger bedroom,
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Who gets to control the remote.
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But william and clifton prentiss,
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They fought over who would control the country.
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One fought for the north, aka, the good guys;
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And one fought for the south,
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The not so good guys.
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Yep, here.
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Ah! get back here!
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America's civil war lasted four bitter years,
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From 1861 to 1865, and it's often been called
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A brother's war and for good reason.
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The war split family ties by pitting father against
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Son and brother against brother.
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Some sided with the union and some fought for the
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Confederacy. in total, the war cost over
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600,000 american lives.
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In many of those deadly battles,
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Brothers from the same family would stand on
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Opposite sides of the fight.
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That's exactly what happened with the
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Prentiss brothers.
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One of the brothers, clifton,
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Rose to the rank of major in the union army,
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While william enlisted as a private
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For the confederacy.
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These brothers parted ways at the beginning of
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The war and would not see each other again
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Until april 2nd, 1865,
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Just one week before the war would end.
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Early on the morning of april 2nd,
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General grant launched a massive attack on
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Robert e. lee's lines here at petersburg, virginia.
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Clifton was leading the sixth maryland
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Union regiment.
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He was the first officer to enter the confederates
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Defensive when he took a bullet to the chest that
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Ripped away part of his sternum.
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As fate would have it, william was defending the
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Attack led by his brother and was also wounded.
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He was struck by an artillery shell fragment
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Just above the knee.
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Later, william was found by one of clifton's men.
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Upon learning of his own brother's wounds,
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He asked to be taken to him and delivered a
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Major burn to his confederate brother.
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I have no brother...
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Who would turn his back on his nation's flag!
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That had to hurt.
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Even with all the anger between them,
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Both men understood that the bond of brotherhood
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Transcends political divides, and finally,
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William reached out to his brother.
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They both broke down in tears for a
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Battlefield reconciliation.
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These brothers were bros again.
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They would both share an experience with a
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Mysterious man who described himself as an
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Army hospital visitor.
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After his visit, he wrote this.
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It was in the first battle that both were hit.
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One was a strong unionist,
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The other secesh.
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Both fought for their respective sides,
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Both badly wounded, and both brought together
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Here after a separation of four years.
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Each died for his cause.
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And that mysterious visitor was none other
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Than america's most famous poet,
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Walt whitman.
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His words perfectly summarized this painful
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Chapter in america's history,
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Reminding us that not all set of brothers
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Get a hollywood ending.
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But our next set of brothers sure do; in fact,
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They practically invented the hollywood ending.
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Allow me to introduce a set of four brothers who
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Dared to make their dreams come true.
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Ladies and gentlemen, harry, albert,
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Sam and jack.
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The warner brothers were jewish polish immigrants
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And like so many before them, they came to america in
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The 1800's to escape religious persecution.
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And like so many kids today,
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They were total nickelodeon junkies,
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And i'm not talking like spongebob squarepants.
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Nickelodeons were like rudimentary jukeboxes.
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You pop in a nickel and it plays you a song.
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And as you can see, it's incredibly exciting.
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And i bet even kids today would love it.
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And it gets better really.
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They even had nickelodeon movie machines.
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You pop in a nickel and it shows you an
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Illustrated song, a moving picture,
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Or a slide show.
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The warner brothers loved their nickelodeons and
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Certainly found a lot of inspiration in them,
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So while they were busy doing research and
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Development, their dad sold his gold watch to
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Fund the brothers' first entry into the movie biz.
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He also had to sell bob the family horse who
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Pulled his meat delivery wagon.
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Now, if i were to tell you that there were four
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Young men on the streets of philadelphia charging
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People 5 cents to show them their flickers,
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Well, i know what you'd be thinking,
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But flickers is what they used to call movies,
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Which is where we get the term flix,
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As in netflix.
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The warner brothers opened their first
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Theater in 1903 in newcastle, pennsylvania.
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1903. what else was happening then?
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Oh yeah, the wright brothers!
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Soon after the wright brothers took flight,
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The warner brothers founded the duquesne
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Amusement and supply company to distribute
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Films, and by the start of world war i,
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They began making their own.
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Picture this, the year is 1918,
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Hollywood, california, sunset boulevard,
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Four polish brothers open up warner brothers
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Studios, and they release their first big flicker,
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A silent black and white war movie called
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My four years in germany.
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Sure, it's silent and it's black and white,
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But it's a classic.
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And i bet plenty of kids today would pay
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A nickel to see that.
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Would we though?
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So what was the secret to the warner
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Brothers success?
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Well, it seemed from the very beginning,
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They knew just what their audience wanted to see.
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Like dogs, specifically, a rescue dog named
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Rin-tin-tin.
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Audiences loved his first movie,
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Where the north begins.
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This lovable german shepherd was rescued on
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The battlefield in france by an american soldier.
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Jack warner, known as the good looking bro,
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Signed the dog to a $1,000 a week contract
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To star in several more movies.
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And sure, that might not sound like a whole lot of
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Money in today's world, but i mean,
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How much does your dog make?
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My dog makes poop.
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If you think about it, a dog is the perfect star
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For a silent film.
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No lines.
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But by 1925, the silent movie era was coming to a
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Close. sam warner, the third brother,
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Really wanted to add sound to their movies.
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But harry, the fuddy duddy older brother,
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Just didn't get it.
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I mean, who wants to hear actors talk in movies,
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Right? as it turns out, sam was right.
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But unfortunately, he died before the era of
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Talkies took off.
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His three brothers missed the premiere of
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Their first talkie, the jazz singer,
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To be at his funeral.
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And that's all folks.
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Talkies were all the rage and still are.
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I mean, who doesn't love a good talkie,
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Flicker and chill?
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That's how the saying goes, right?
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So anyway, the 1930s were a loony time for the
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Warner brothers.
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Porky pig became their first animated star.
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But once again, the warner bros didn't
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Really agree on things.
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You know how i feel about pigs and short cartoons.
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We know, we know.
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It drives you loony.
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Jack warner may have been good looking,
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But he didn't like porky pig and wasn't a fan of
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Short cartoons.
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He was more into long form talkie flickers.
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Thankfully, jack lost the argument,
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Which is why we know bugs bunny,
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Daffy and tweedy and all the other
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Loony tunes gang today.
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By 1942, warner brothers cartoons were bigger than
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Walt disney studios.
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So let's recap on what it takes to
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Make it big in hollywood.
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Big dreams, dogs, lots of nickels, and now pigs.
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Is there anything else that could catapult
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These brothers to greater success?
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Turns out there was, and it's a major plot twist.
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The warner brothers got a new brother.
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the
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Fifth warner brother, betty davis.
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I would like to thank the warner brothers
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For adding me to their lineup,
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As it is a tremendous honor.
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I would also like to say you're welcome to the
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Warner brothers for allowing you to
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Capitalize off of my momentum as a
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Rising american legend.
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Betty davis became the biggest box office
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Draw in the warner brothers catalog.
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She even became known as the fifth warner brother.
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So how did this happen?
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In the 1930s, the warner brothers made so many
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Violent crime pictures that they were known as
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The gangster studio, and then along came an
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Old fud and not the animated one.
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This fud was a presbyterian minister
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Named will h. hays.
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He helped develop the dreaded hays code,
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Which essentially banned all the movies the warner
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Brothers were making.
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No nudity, no violence, nothing rated r.
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It is another great turn.
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So what are the warner brothers going to do?
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Well, reinvent themselves of course.
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They started making glossier classic films
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That introduced the world to such stars as
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Humphrey bogart, doris day, audrey hepburn,
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And yes, betty davis.
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The warner brothers film library is now the
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World's largest with over 6800 films,
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Including 22 academy award-winning best pictures.
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Eventually, the supreme court ended the hayes
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Code and the warner brothers could make
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Any movie they wanted.
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But had it not been for that dreaded restriction,
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I doubt we'd have all of the classic films
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We know and love today.
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Four immigrant brothers escaping their homeland
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For religious freedom.
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Their father sells a horse.
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They meet a stray dog, throw a pig in there,
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And you got yourselves four bona fide
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Hollywood superstars.
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I mean, does it get any more american than that?
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The wright brothers show us that working together
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Can take us to soaring new heights.
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America!
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The prentiss brothers show us the high cost of
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Strife, not only between brothers,
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But between a nation.
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Land of the free!
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And the warner brothers are the embodiment
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Of the american dream.
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Home of the bros!
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At least the hollywood version.
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We'll see you next time.
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Cody Crouch: BROS | Centuries Collide

December 4, 2024 | S2:E6

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