Pack up your folders and put on your construction paper tri-corner hats, it’s time for the American Revolution!In this episode we take a look at how the relationship between the American Colonies and the British Empire broke up. Even though they both really really liked certain parts of each other’s personalities, it was just tough to make it work after a certain amount of time. 

// Time for some Guess and Check //Given the film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival Version of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the goal was to try and understand the story of the play as completely as possible according to the following rules:- I was only allowed to watch the full play one time.- During that one time, I was only allowed to hit pause two times, but was allowed to use those two pauses whenever.- I was not allowed to rewind or rewatch any part of the play.- I was allowed to take all the notes I could while the play was running.The first half of the episode is my best guess at understanding the plot from the play, the second part is an actual plot summary of Oedipus Rex to check and see how we did.  

Was planning to cover where the water comes from when you take a hot shower in both South Jersey and West Philly, but I nerded out so hard once I found out how a water tower works that when I sat down to record just the South Jersey part and it ended up being like 45 minutes long so we just went with that.  At the end the West Philly difference is grazed over, but honestly not in great detail.  Low level science got me charged up on this one.