Steven Rinella
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That's tart.
And it's coming from seeds, right?
Yeah.
That's what happens.
If you graft an apple tree, if you graft an apple tree, let's say you have a Honeycrisp.
You graft that apple tree, you're going to get that same apple.
Exactly.
That's exactly right.
And it was this version of basically because of cross pollination, you had no idea whatever seed you put in the ground, you had no idea what kind of apple you'd get, but they were usually small and they were usually tart.
And despite what Disney teaches you in melody time, which I won't sing the song because we don't have the rights to it.
But if you, if you are a kid that grew up, especially around church, you'll remember the Lord's been good to me.
And so I think the Lord forgiving me, the things I need, the birds and the bees and the apple seeds, the Lord's been good to me.
It is very much all about apple tarts for the settlers.
It's all about apple pies.
It's all about this wholesome American story of westward expansion, which again, after his death, he kind of becomes the Mickey Mouse of westward expansion.
So we can kind of ignore the brutality and the bloodshed that went into that.
But it's not true.
Every single apple, the seeds that he got even came from cideries.
And the apples he was making were all for alcohol.