
479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal
No Such Thing As A Fish
The Story of James Tell
In 1760, a buck was publicly burned in Switzerland because it claimed that William Tell did not exist. When he was tiny, I wrote to Sir Topham Hat and got a letter back from him saying: "It's just small coal." He shot Apple off his son's head. And then they were like, well, how can you get two arrows then? It's quite cool, wasn't it? Because the reason this whole thing started was he was going through this town called Altdorf.
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