It's a nursery rhyme and a marching song sung throughout schools right across America, but who was Yankee Doodle, why was he riding a pony and how come he has such an interest in pasta? Josh Glanc joins us to find out exactly why Yankee went to town. Hosted by Dave Zwolenski and Matthew (Redd) Peterson.

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It's a nursery rhyme and a marching song sung throughout schools right across America, but who was Yankee Doodle, why was he riding a pony and how come he has such an interest in pasta? Josh Glanc joins us to find out exactly why Yankee went to town. Hosted by Dave Zwolenski and Matthew (Redd) Peterson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Josh Glanc - who was Yankee Doodle?

"We Fact Up" was born out of the notion that before the internet existed people would have to actually try and work things out for themselves when asked a question. Like, "what does 'O.K.' stand for?" or "who invented the high five?". Listeners send in their questions, the gang then try to work the answer out without the help of Google. After a lot of discussion and general stupidity, the team then see how close (or how far off in most cases) they were to the answer - hopefully to hilarious, or mildly amusing, results.

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