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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to stuff Mom never told you?

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Speaker 1: From House stuff Works dot Com. Hello, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Caroline and I'm Kristin Kristen. If I

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Speaker 1: had asked you a week ago what you thought were

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Speaker 1: the origins of Springbreak, what would have been your guests?

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Speaker 1: Someone had a hose, and someone was wearing what a

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Speaker 1: T shirt? A what T shirt contest? Maybe, and then

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Speaker 1: got what Yeah, someone ran through a sprinkler on a

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Speaker 1: beach somehow, and someone was serving jello and accidentally like whoops,

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Speaker 1: and Daisy poured a lot of vodka into it. I

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Speaker 1: like it that that's creative, but it's not at all

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Speaker 1: close to the origins of Springbreak in real life. Not

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Speaker 1: not a bunch of just happenstance mistakes that leads to

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Speaker 1: happy accident more like one happy accident. And then once

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Speaker 1: upon a time we had the casino pool in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Speaker 1: And so backing up a little bit, I'm getting ahead

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Speaker 1: of myself. It was cold up at Colgate University and

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Speaker 1: first Olympic sized pool in Florida. It had been built

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties. And so we did. So. All

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Speaker 1: these swimmers come down to Fort Lauderdale and they're enjoying

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Speaker 1: tends to do, words spread among college students that this

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Speaker 1: Ingram first springs that Colgate University swim team down. I

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Speaker 1: had no idea that spring break, yeah, in the thirties,

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Speaker 1: and this casino pool and Sam Ingram, who was yeah,

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Speaker 1: according to the New York Times, a bucan All was born. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The first mention of spring Break in Time magazine happened

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Speaker 1: And then in nineteen sixty spring break really enters into

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Speaker 1: So the thing that I was expecting with this idea

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Speaker 1: Right because cements this idea in our our young and

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