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[i]Larry crisscrosses the nation, going totally off the beaten path to find the people, places and things that define this nation's unique history. Each episode uncovers surprising information about America's history from the story of how moonshine-making during Prohibition gave rise to one of America's most celebrated past times -- NASCAR racing -- to the history of etiquette from Emily Post's heirs in Vermont, complete with a lesson in good manners. From panning for gold in the hills of California to leading a cavalry charge in a Civil War reenactment in Virginia, Larry gives history a fun, down-home twist.[/i]
[i]On his visit to NASA, he got in a flight simulator with astronaut Clayton Anderson. "They have a digital read-out that shows you your score when you land. I actually did better than Clay, which scares me about the astronaut program," he jokes. We've seen the cut of this episode, and that's not in it. We do, however, see him get to the bottom of the $23 million toilet astronauts use in space. Explanation? "I got to ask questions that I'm curious about, and I think a lot of people have that same question: How do you go to the bathroom in space? I mean, What do you do? Does it float around? Do you gotta catch it? Well, now we know. They got a toilet that sucks it right out of you. You got to strap on to it. Who would have thought? We thought that was a lot more interesting than the space shuttle," he says, laughing. "People know the space shuttle goes up by rocket boosters, they have no idea how you suck your waste out of yourself into a bag. To me, that's a show. That should have been a whole hour."[/i]
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