I'm Ramtin Adab-Louis, and you've been listening to ThruLine from NPR.

This episode was produced by me.

And me. And Jamie York. Lawrence Wu.

Lane Kaplan-Levinson. Julie Kane. Victoria Whitley-Berry. Barth

Shah.

Fact-checking for this episode was done by Kevin Voeckel.

Thanks to Andrew Robertson, history professor at the Graduate Center at City University of New York, who you heard at the very beginning. He told the story about George Washington getting everyone wasted, and he was a big help in making this episode happen. And

thank you to Abe Selby, Brian McCabe, Parth Shaw, Lawrence Wu, J.C. Howard, Jamie York, Travis Lux, Jesse Hardman, Alex Curley, and Dominique Munoz for their voiceover work. Thanks

also to Beth Donovan and Anya Gunny. Our

music was composed by Ramteen and his band, Drop Electric, which includes...

Naveed Marvi, Cho Fujiwara, Anya

Mizani. Some of the fiddle music you heard at the beginning of the episode comes from a video made by Chester Simpson and is played by musicians Dave McNew, Al Keller, Thanks also to Beth Donovan and Anya Gunny. Susan Waller, and Fern Hoffman. If

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