In this episode, we explore how spite and circles created delaware. So I want you to imagine drawing the borders of a brand new state by just like taking a map, stabbing a geometer's compass right into the center of a small colonial town and just sweeping this giant arbitrary circle across the landscape. Right. Just completely ignoring the actual geography. Exactly. Now imagine that that single crude geometric doodle triggers a literal hundred year legal battle and it creates this bizarre border dispute that isn't fully resolved until you know, the 1920s. It's wild because when we think about how the map of the United States was drawn we tend to expect some sort of I don't know, grand design. Yeah, we picture founding fathers pointing at majestic rivers, making these sweeping, destined declarations. But then you look closely at the actual history an ...