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The hayseed county that begat Richard Nixon and the boysenberry also bestowed the Righteous Brothers’ “blue-eyed soul” and the drive-in church upon the world.

And in the course of this year I gave myself, I got the show “Godspell,” and that begat other things.

With money then breeding its own morality, the era’s capitalist excess naturally begat Trumpian-style corruption.

“Survivor” begat “The Apprentice,” sharing an executive producer in Mark Burnett.

That story begat others, which became the foundation for “Bug Hollow.”