On this episode of Our American Stories, Richard Muniz tells a story that one of his friends told him about a coffee incident that took place on the USS Enterprise. Matt Parker, a comedian and mathematician from Australia, tells the story of the time Michael Larson was shockingly good at the game show "Press Your Luck," and gives a look into why computers can’t be random. Buried beneath the St. Patrick’s Day symbols of shamrocks, leprechauns, and green beer, lies the story of a man determined to share a message with a people who made him a slave.
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Time Codes:
00:00 - An Army Moves On Its Stomach... And Lots of Coffee
10:00 - The Time The Game Show “Press Your Luck” Didn’t Require Much Luck
23:00 - A Brief History of St. Patrick's Day
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