In this episode, we explore how america barely survived its infancy. So imagine launching a brand new country. Right. Oh, an incredibly stressful thought. Yeah. And within three years, your capital city is evacuated because of a deadly biological virus. Right. Your citizens are in open armed rebellion over the price of whiskey. And your founding fathers are secretly drafting legislation to basically overthrow each other's authority. It really paints a different picture. Welcome to the United States in the 1790s. It completely shatters that mythological painting we all have in our heads, doesn't it? Oh, total. The one where, you know, a group of men in powdered wigs just calmly sign a flawless piece of parchment, step outside and politely hand over this perfectly functioning society. It totally shatters it. And I mean, that actually brings us to our  ...