1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short Stuff. I'm Josh and 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: Chucks here too, and so's Jerry sitting in for Dave, 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: which makes this short stuff. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been singing Ween all day because of this one. 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, are we talking about molluscs? 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 2: No, from the song Freedom of seventy six when they 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 2: sing about the liberty bell. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: I don't know that one liberty bell cracked in half 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: is mine? 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: So it's that's been on a loop in my head. Okay, 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 2: I'll bet bake a bacon steak a perfect match. 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: You know, it's been on a loop in my head. 13 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: Either the final countdown or that one you were whistling 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: the other day that drove it. Yep in Vega, you 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: can gear worm it with the best of them. Yes, 16 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 2: you know. 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: I was thinking about Ween the other day. I was like, 18 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: I need to find something new to like get into, 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, Ween's got a pretty 20 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: extensive collection, and I never really got into him. Not 21 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: because I don't like him, I just never got into him. 22 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure think I'll go see if I can get 23 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: into Wien a little bit. 24 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: Well, I continue the book on how to do that. 25 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 2: In the order of operation okay, please do yeah, please do. 26 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: I need to send you a canister of nitrius too, though, 27 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 2: that's fine. I'm not sure if you can do that 28 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 2: through the mail. 29 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: Please do. So we're talking liberty bell, that's right. And 30 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: the reason why we're talking liberty bell is because well 31 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: there's no good reason, but let's talk about the liberty 32 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: bell anyway, because it's actually pretty interesting. The liberty bell, 33 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: we think of today as the liberty Bell, is a fraud. 34 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's go back in time a little bit 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,559 Speaker 2: to seventeen fifty one. Let's hop in the old wayback machine. 36 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: This is, oh boy, dusty as can be. 37 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: Don't get too close to this fide. 38 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is very dusty, but it still fires up. 39 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: Look at that the flex capacitor is flexing. And off 40 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: we go to seventeen fifty one to the State House 41 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania State House, where they have just 42 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: brought in the bell. And even though it's not named 43 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 2: the liberty Bell at this point, that would come along well, 44 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 2: as we see much later, it's a bell and it 45 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 2: was used, although it had very a lot of causes 46 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 2: and purposes through the years. Sure, at first it was 47 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 2: just a bell. We ring it when someone important dies, 48 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 2: or we need to call the government together, like the 49 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: reasons you ring a town bell. 50 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: Someone won at Bingo. 51 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, ring that bell. 52 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: They called it initially the State House Bell, which is 53 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 1: on the nose but appropriate because it was originally commissioned 54 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: by the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly to be the bell in 55 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. They didn't even call 56 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: that Independence Hall. It was the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. 57 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: Everything was very business like, bureaucratically named, and it told 58 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 1: you what it did and what it was, and that's 59 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:01,519 Speaker 1: how they liked it. 60 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: That's right. The bell itself was cast by Lester and 61 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: Pack Company out of London with the words proclaim liberty, 62 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 2: throw out all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof 63 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: which is apparently referenced a reference to Leviticus in the 64 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: Old Bible. Duh. And it was about three feet high, 65 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 2: a circumference of twelve feet late, about twenty one one 66 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,119 Speaker 2: hundred pounds twenty one hundred pounds. And like I said, 67 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 2: it was just a bell. And here's the thing about 68 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 2: the Liberty bell on that crack is no one really 69 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 2: agrees on exactly how that happened. 70 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: No, but some historians think that it cracked the first 71 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: time it was used in seventeen fifty two, after it 72 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: was installed, like the first time. 73 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, and Lester and Pack were like, I don't know 74 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 2: what you're talking about. 75 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: All right, Actually it's pretty cool. They made good on replacement. 76 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: So the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly said Pack, Lester fellaws, we 77 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: need a replacement bell, and we're not going to pay 78 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 1: for it, okay, And they said that's fine, we'll send 79 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: you another bell. And the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly was like, 80 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: well do you I mean, you want the correct one back? 81 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: Do you want us to send a picture of it 82 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: or something. They're like, you just keep it. Do whatever 83 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: you want with it. Make belt buckles out of it, munitions, 84 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: hat buckles, if you're still into the pilgrim thing, shoe buckles, 85 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: shoe buckles, all the any kind of buckle you want 86 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: to make. You go ahead and use that belt. And 87 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: they said, you know what, we're going to actually use 88 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: this bell to make a replacement bell while we wait 89 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: for the real replacement bell. And this is where it 90 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 1: gets confusing, unnecessarily, and I say we take a break. 91 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: Just let all that sink in. 92 00:04:39,120 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 2: All right, let's do it st ja all right, So 93 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 2: if I am understanding this correctly, you now have two bells. 94 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: Technically three eventually, but one doesn't exist any longer. But 95 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: it does because it's now been melted into the second bell. 96 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 2: Okay. But you also have the replacement bell, right. 97 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, and they were both apparently in the Pennsylvania Statehouse. 98 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: They're both used. But who knows what happened to the 99 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: replacement bell that pack and lester scent. 100 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 2: Oh okay, so that's the one that wasn't officially hung 101 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 2: or hanged. I'm not sure what you would say there. 102 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: I would say hung, but then you would correct me. 103 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 2: Okay. So it was the one that they melted down 104 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 2: and fixed the and redid the original that is the 105 00:05:58,279 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 2: official one. 106 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 1: Then that's what we call liberty bell, yes, okay, all right, 107 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 1: But they didn't call it the liberty bell back then again, 108 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: they called the Statehouse bell. And then they were like 109 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: which one. They're like, the original one. They're like, I 110 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: thought that one was melted down. They're like, yes, this 111 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: is the one that we melted down from the original. Yeah. 112 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 1: It went on a lot every time somebody asked about it. 113 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 2: So they're belling this thing up. They're using it as 114 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 2: you would use a bell. In seventeen seventy seven, when 115 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 2: the British were encroaching, they removed the bell because they 116 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 2: didn't want it captured and melted down into bullets basically 117 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 2: or buckles. They hit it again later on in a church. 118 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, they hit it in the church, then in Allentown, 119 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 2: and then seventeen eighty five they raised it again, and 120 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 2: it was really just a bell until eighteen twenty four 121 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: are when Marquis de Lafayette was the last general of 122 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 2: the Revolution that survived, when on a tour of the 123 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 2: United States and America, that's when America was like, hey, 124 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 2: let's rename this place Independence Hall, and let's call this thing. Well, actually, 125 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 2: it took another eleven years to call it the Liberty Bell. 126 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: Even Yeah, it was some abolitionists who were like, oh, 127 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: you got a liberty bell. Huh, you know who? The 128 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: liberty bell isn't ring for enslaved people, So let's do 129 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: away with slavery. And they actually used the liberty bell 130 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: and the new National pride around it and really kind 131 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: of point out just how slavery is a terrible thing. 132 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: And we need to do away with it. 133 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, so here's where it gets really interesting. That first 134 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 2: bell is damaged and cracked, so they melt it down 135 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,239 Speaker 2: make this new one. The new bell cracks as well. 136 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 2: And they're not exactly sure how this happened either, but 137 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 2: they think it was in eighteen thirty five when it 138 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: was rung to mark the death of John Marshall, chief 139 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 2: Justice of the United States, to mark his passing, and 140 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 2: other people say, you know, now, it was really the 141 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 2: eighteen forties during the Fourth of July when things got 142 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 2: really rowdy, or other people said, no, it was on 143 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 2: February twenty third, when we were getting hammered celebrating George 144 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 2: Washington's birthday. Like people are just ringing the heck out 145 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,559 Speaker 2: of this thing, and no one's really sure. The National 146 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 2: Park Service, for their point of view, just says, you know, 147 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 2: it just cracked after ninety years of use, like quit asking, just. 148 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: Be quiet, just take the templeate and be quiet exactly. 149 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: But apparently there's some researchers who in nineteen seventy five 150 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: were like, actually, it wasn't just like hard use. This 151 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: bell was destined to crack. And the reason why is 152 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: because they're high tink content. It's like a quarter ten 153 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: almost that you don't want to use that in a 154 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 1: bell that peals maybe a decorative bell something you find 155 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: it like kirk Clans or something that it's not meant 156 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 1: to ring. Sure, make that out of tent, but you're 157 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: using like a functional workhorse bell. Do not put twenty 158 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: in that thing. 159 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 2: No, you've been telling me that for years. 160 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: Sure. 161 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 2: The bell they tried to fix in eighteen forty six 162 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 2: because Washington's birthday was rolling around again, and they're like, listen, 163 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 2: you know what we do here in Philly. We get drunk, 164 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 2: We ring this bell. We act incredibly inhospitable for our 165 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 2: professional sports teams and the teams that play them. 166 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: Don't get us started on Santa Claus. 167 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 2: And they use something called stop drilling, which in which 168 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 2: they actually widened the crack. The crack now is twenty 169 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 2: one inches long and about an inch a couple of 170 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 2: centimeters wide, and they would widen it so basically when 171 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 2: it was wrong that the two sides would not touch 172 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 2: each other at all and create this awful buzz. Yeah exactly, 173 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: So they widened it so they it wouldn't touch. But 174 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 2: another crack developed and they were like, we got to 175 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 2: find a better way to celebrate Washington's birthday. We can't 176 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 2: ring this thing anymore. 177 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: They forget it. Forget it. I'm done with this stupid bell, 178 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: That's what they said. Yeah, so it became a true 179 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: symbol after that point. They just stopped ringing it. And 180 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: apparently over the years people have been like, we got 181 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: to fix that thing, we got to ring that thing again. 182 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: It's a big deal, and other people are like, don't 183 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: even bother. It's like better as a symbol, And in fact, 184 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: it proved it's worth pretty quickly on as a symbol. 185 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: During World War One, I guess it went on a 186 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 1: whistle stop tour of the United States on the back 187 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: of a train and drummed up enthusiasm and support for 188 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: liberty bonds, like they were called liberty bonds because the 189 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: liberty bell was basically the mascot of this bond drive 190 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: to raise money for the US to fight World War One, 191 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: and they ended up raising in today's dollars, billions of 192 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: dollars from liberty bonds thanks to that cute little bell 193 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: with the crack in it. 194 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty good earned it's worth. 195 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, they think a quarter of the United States saw 196 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: the Liberty Bell during that tour. That's how popular it was. 197 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: People just thronged to see it. 198 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, pretty neatre, do you neat? But if 199 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 2: anyone is emailing me right now, oh yeah, well the 200 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 2: Phillies own the braves the past two years. That's exactly 201 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. 202 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, get out of sports radio. It's toxic. You got 203 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: anything else? 204 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 2: I got nothing else? 205 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, since checks of that short stuff's out. 206 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: Stuff you should know is a production of iHeartRadio. 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