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Speaker 1: just in case somebody you know, five years from now

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Speaker 1: was listening to this episode not two thousand seventeen. This

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Speaker 1: is not true yourself two thousand seventeen. Sorry, okay, a

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Speaker 1: mystery short stories of things we simply don't know the

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Speaker 1: answers to, Hey, guys, things Side with podcast is Devin,

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Speaker 1: joined as per usual by Steve Joe. That's the team

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Speaker 1: Jeems Sideways, as we've been calling ourselves as of late.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another short episode, bonus bonus if you will.

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Speaker 1: Not so long ago, we talked about the somehow still

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Speaker 1: mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe. If you haven't listened

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Speaker 1: to it already, go listen to it. I'll wait. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think they've listened to Welcome Back Today. We're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about another somehow still mystery surrounding Poe. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and that is the Poe toaster. Is that like the

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Speaker 1: one that I have in my house? Because I've never

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Speaker 1: seen the Poe brand of toaster. I'm really trying hard.

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Speaker 1: It's not working. The Poe Toaster is the name the

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Speaker 1: media has given to somebody who's probably a man, and

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Speaker 1: actually probably at least two men, maybe three, who for

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Speaker 1: maybe more like seventy five. It's hard to tell. It's conflicting.

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Speaker 1: Some people say it started in nineteen thirties. Yeah, on

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Speaker 1: the eve of pose birthday, which is January nineteen, had

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Speaker 1: Joe said, or maybe the nineteen forties, but definitely by

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Speaker 1: the centennial of post birth in ninety nine. A shadowy

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Speaker 1: pour himself a glass of Martel Konnac and raise a

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Speaker 1: toast in pose memory Martell French pricey French bucks a bottle. No,

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Speaker 1: I think it's more than that. Yeah, the lore is

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Speaker 1: so I can't tell you for sure. But that important anyway,

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Speaker 1: do you think about it? Yeah, the figure placed three

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Speaker 1: roses in quote a distinctive pattern. Although what that pattern is,

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Speaker 1: the faux Yeah, the impostor toasters. What on his Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and this is not his actual grave, No, this was

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Speaker 1: on the marker of his original burial spot. He the

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Speaker 1: po toaster would then place the unfinished bottle of kognac

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Speaker 1: and then could quote vanish into the night. Um and

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Speaker 1: In the nineteen nineties, the toaster began to leave notes.

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Speaker 1: At first, it was just kind of simple, almost like

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Speaker 1: love letters that you know, things like Edgar, I haven't

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Speaker 1: Allan Poe. In n ninety three, the note that was

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Speaker 1: left a mystery. Well, that probably explains why this guy decided,

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Speaker 1: between Poe and Kognak. Right, he wouldn't really necessarily be toasted.

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Speaker 1: because it's been close to the public since two thousand twelve,

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