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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons hosts the most downloaded sports podcast of all time, with a rotating crew of celebrities, athletes, and media staples, as well as mainstays like Cousin Sal, Joe House, and a slew of other friends and family members who always happen to be suspiciously available.
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In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss how a single broadcast can seed cultural identity, the political and economic consequences of 19th-century leadership, and a bizarrely precise human achievement.
• 📜 On this day in 1963 we explore the premiere of Doctor Who — how that first broadcast created a shared narrative framework, launched long-term intellectual property value, enabled nostalgia-driven monetization, and anchored intergenerational continuity and predictable market demand.
• 🎂 We celebrate birthdays with a focus on Franklin Pierce (1804) — his 1853–1857 presidency, the Kansas–Nebraska Act’s economic and political ripple effects, how policy drove sectional polarization, altered investment and migration decisions, and eroded institutional trust in ways that intensified social conflict.
• 💡 Fact of the day: the world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches — a precise metric that invites analysis of technique, measurement credibility, and how a single exact number becomes a benchmark that motivates and frames competition.
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