*finishes story and frantically checks the comments, utters a huge sigh of relief* and says: Oh Thank You Lord I Did Not Have a Stroke While Listening to This.
Sadly, my mental capacities do not encompass the ability to pay attention to long info dumps. I am sure it was fascinating, but I have a short attention span when to many facts are thrust upon me. Basically I heard the "Wah, wah, wah" of the Peanuts origin and then... the story was over.
I was pretty certain I either had a stroke or experienced some sort of hop forward in time. While moving around in time might be incredibly awesome, the feeling of having possibly had a little stroke, not so much.
Many people funnier than I have described it far better. I'm just glad my brain is ok.