Episode 053: The Magical Tragical HIStory Tour of US - Part Free

In the third installment of The Magical, Tragical History Tour of US, Jeremiah Gunn continues his sweeping examination of American history, tracing the ideas, events, and individuals that shaped the United States. From the earliest European exploration and settlement to the foundations of religious liberty, property rights, and constitutional government, this episode challenges listeners to reconsider the historical narratives they have been taught.

Jeremiah explores the significance of the Pilgrims, the Puritans, Christopher Columbus, Spanish missions, Native American civilizations, and the competing philosophies that influenced the New World. He argues that understanding America's origins is essential to understanding its present challenges, emphasizing that memory and history are indispensable to preserving a free society.

The discussion also examines the influence of the Protestant Reformation, the Declaration of Independence, private property, capitalism, and the moral principles that guided the Founding Fathers. Throughout the episode, Jeremiah contrasts competing worldviews while encouraging listeners to study history firsthand and think critically about modern interpretations of America's past.

As Part Three concludes, the journey sets the stage for a deeper exploration of religious freedom, compromise, and the constitutional principles that would define the American experiment.

Topics include:

•  Why history matters and the importance of collective memory 
•  Christopher Columbus and the opening of the New World 
•  Native American civilizations and early European settlement 
•  The Spanish missions and the origins of California 
•  The Pilgrims, Puritans, and religious liberty 
•  The Protestant Reformation and its influence on America 
•  The Declaration of Independence and the sanctity of property rights 
•  The philosophical foundations of the American Revolution 
•  How competing historical narratives shape modern culture 

Join Jeremiah Gunn as he continues The Magical, Tragical History Tour of US, connecting the past to the present in the ongoing pursuit of truth, reason, and common sense.

Transcript

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We we we just haven't had it in a long time. So this is this is part three of uh the magical, tragical history tour of us. Us. Whenever I say us, it's the United States. This program's dedicated to Charlie Kirk. Always will be. God bless Charlie Kirk and everything he did for us. The United States of America. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The Republic, the Republic, a Republic, madam, if you can keep it. We're gonna keep saying that because there are gonna be a lot of shows about democracy. This is not a democracy. We're continuing on this magical history tour just to kind of walk through the whole history of the United States. And I think we left off at the Civil War, which kind of started with border ruffians going into Kansas. Kansas is always the bleeding edge, and that's where John Brown came from, the first martyr that tried to end Civil War, uh, tried to end slavery for God's sake, and uh was taken out by the Democrats, and uh, you know, kind of the rest is history. So before we talk about the Civil War, th that's kind of the stuff that led up to it. And the Republican Party was born to get rid of slavery. Uh Mr. Lincoln was not very popular, but he got involved in politics when he saw that we were not going to deal with slavery. We didn't deal with it in the Constitution originally, and we didn't deal with it in all the people that preceded him, all the Democrats. So I'd like to talk about the spirit of the Civil War and not what the point of it was. One of one of which is a beautiful song called The Minstrel Boy, that uh if you watch a great movie called uh Gettysburg, there there is a uh soliloquy by the one of the great heroes, a professor from Maine, named uh Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. And when we went to Little Roundtop, which was kind of the uh high water mark of the Civil War and the turning point of the Civil War when the South came into the North to try to bring the war to us, and they were gonna after winning in Gettysburg, they were gonna turn right and head east into Washington, D.C. and just capture it. And probably would have, because we government didn't work any better then than it does now. So uh So anyway, let's let's get into this. Uh The Minstrel Boy was a Irish song about an Irish hero and a martyr who played the harp for his unit, and um and and th these words are just beautiful, and these these two lovely young ladies who sing it. Um have a listen to it. Actually, uh there's another great movie called Rough Riders that uh features uh the story of Teddy Roosevelt, and they adopted for their their battalion, squadron, whatever it was, that Colonel Roosevelt led uh in the war in Cuba against Spain. They adopted it as their anthem. So it comes to us from Ireland through the uh through the Union Army, and let's see if we can do this. But as you'll find out, the the Democrats screwed it up. But there's two great movies, at least, that made about the Civil War. One of them is Lincoln by Spielberg. Could have been better, but not bad. It was based on uh Doris Kearns Goodwin's book called Uh Team of Rivals. The other book, uh the other book that was made into a movie was called The Killer Angels by Michael Sherra or something. Anyway, he made a movie, uh Ted Turner actually made a movie for TV and then released it in the theaters. We saw it in the theaters, but it's called Gettysburg. The second the the sequel to that called Gods and Generals that had Robert Duvall as Robert E. Lee, not good. Not not just not anywhere near as good. But this one there was a hero who got the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was a professor from Bowdoin College in Maine. I worked with a couple of guys, engineers from Bowdoin College in Maine. He was the uh wound up being the president and wound up being the governor of Maine, but he was just a professor who asked for sabbatical to go into the Civil War. A lot of professors fought in the Civil War. There's a scene in Gettysburg where they meet at the battle of in Gettysburg, and that was around the Fourth of July. I think it was culminated on the Fourth of July. So pretty pretty fascinating um connection to our history because I think if they had lost Gettysburg probably would have had to settle the war and and give slavery to the Democrats. Um Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was his professor who uh asked for a sabbatical and he was gonna go in the Civil War. He felt like it was his duty as a manly man to uh fight for what the founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor for. And he would uh read books on the military at at night in the trenches. In fact, in one battle he was wounded, but in one battle he stacked up the dead comrades to like sandbags, and it was so cold that he pulled one of their the dead bodies coat over him to stay warm. So a professor of religion and logic and uh or applied rhetoric or something like that at Bowdoin College winds up being a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor because at night he studied military manuals and uh he understood what the fight was for. This is a there's two excellent well, there's a lot of wonderful soliloquies in the movie Gettysburg. One of them is by a sergeant named uh Buster Kilrain, and he talks about we're gonna include that in uh the show on one of the shows on race, but uh Marvelous. Just just magnificent. This one is Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's, and just just to set it up, he was from Maine, uh uh 54th. No, 20th Maine. And uh these unit these people tended to stick with the people from their state that they uh enlisted with. But at one point a Pennsylvania unit or something met him and said, Look, we got these guys who wanna they wanna desert, they want to quit. They said that their that their uh enlistment agreement was to fight with their guys from Maine, with their unit. And when they got transferred to another unit, uh they said, that's it. I mean, you're breaking our deal, so we're we're gonna go home. They also were very very disappointed in the leadership that they had. So uh they hand them over to Colonel Chamberlain, who's in charge of all the main units and and uh 20th Main, and then they said, Hey, these guys are yours, and if they don't cooperate, you can shoot them because they're essentially deserters. They felt like there was a break breach in the contract. So let me see if I can cue this up. I actually went to Little Roundtop and stood on a hallowed ground where he made sort of a last stand here. Thank you. That's that's that's that's not working out here. Let's take a okay.

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Here we go. He assembles the troops that are thinking that they want to uh desert or go back to main in their mind. And we make this little speech to them to tell them what this war is all about. And I'll think there's a better one to describe it to the board and what it is.

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I've been talking with uh private buck when he's told me about your problem. There's nothing I can do today. We're moving on in a few minutes. We'll be moving on today. I've been ordered to take you in with me. I've done a lot of hesitation. But if you don't, I can choose you know I want to do that. Somebody else. Uh here's the uh situation. So this is tough time for an argument like this. I think we could surely use you, fellas, who are now well below half strength. Whether you're fight or not, that's it's up to you. Whether you come along and it's well. You know who we are, what we're doing here, but if you're gonna fight alongside us, there's a few things I want you to know. This regiment was formed last summer in Maine. There were a thousand of us then. There are less than three hundred of us now. All of us volunteered to fight for the Union, Mr. Junior. Some came mainly because we were born at home. Thought this looked like it might be fun. Some came because we were ashamed not to. Many of us came because it was the right thing to do. All of us have seen men done. This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history, you will see men fighting for pain, women, some of the kind of loot, fight for land, power. Because a king leads them more, just because they like killing. We are here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground. All of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free, all the way, from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bottle. No man born of royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be stuck. Go ahead. Nothing more will be said by anybody anywhere. If you uh choose not to join us, well, you can come along and be gone hard in one minutes and all over and we'll do what I can do. Do you get a fair treatment for now? I think if we lose this fight.

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I'll be personally very grateful.

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Well, you know, I I listened to that the other day in preparation for the show, and and Buster Colrain's little speech, and and I I gotta tell you, I I have to be honest with you, it's hard for me not to cry. I don't cry, but it's hard for me not to weep. That performance is a wrong. It's not to get lost, Gemini. It's hard for me not to get choked up to hear that, because no one said it better. Lincoln Lincoln said it as well. But this was one of the upper cast, a professor talking to fishermen, farmers, shipbuilders, mechanics, tanners Maybe congressmen, I don't know. But but just uh like he said, we're fighting for each other. A plurbazunum for us. And you know, when I first started thinking about the Civil War, I I've been interested in it my whole life. My parents bought me a book on it when I was nine or ten for Christmas. American Heritage series, anyway. Um something captivating about that about that conflict. Uh, because you know, they'll they'll tell you if you go to school, they'll tell you all these useless things, horrible things, like, for example that they'll tell you that i it's it you know, Lincoln really didn't want to free the slave, but you know, why did those men join the Union and fight? Well, he kind of described it. He described it. It the Democrats wanted all the states, you know, each state to have uh their own decision on whether they would be slave or free. That was the whole reason that Lincoln got in politics. He could not he was about to get out, but then the Fugitive Slave Act and all of these horrible precedents that Democrat chief justices on SCOTUS would do. You know, some of this is too much, it's just for another show, but anyway. He explained that we we can't let that happen. We can't let we can't let this happen to us, United States of America, because it would end the country. The Democrats in the southern states, agrarian philosophy as we covered last time, plantation aristocracy structure compared to uh the everyman. Uh if they uh if they were allowed to continue this and treat their fellow Americans and take United States assets, bases, ports, cities, states, they didn't belong to them. They had no right. Had no right. As Ben Franklin said with his counterparts from Virginia, he said, if we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately. The United States would have been broken up. And that's why that's why Lincoln got involved. So So the Civil War, you know, uh was born to end slavery. Got zero Democrat votes, the Democrats in the North, it wasn't North and South. Just don't believe these lies and silly, stupid juvenile arguments. Lincoln had a great VP, vice president, first term. It was a guy from Maine. I think his name is Hannibal Hamlin. And uh if he had kept him in a second term, 1864, three years into the war, we would things would have been a lot different. But the only reason that he won is because there was a faction called the War Democrats in the North. And remember, there were no Democrats in Congress from the South during the Civil War. But there were a lot in the North. And he actually they ran a they ran a uh the Democrats ran a general, a horrible general, just like all the horrible generals that they gave politically. These were political appointments. They're the ones who caused the war to drag on. And there was one named McClellan. It was very popular with his troops because he never did anything. In fact, he told I think uh Lincoln called his army of the Potomac, he called him McClellan's bodyguard. He was always writing sending telegraphs to uh to Lincoln saying, uh, you know, we we we we're greatly outnumbered, we need more men, we need more troops, we need more stuff, we need more engineering to cross these rivers. Uh we're gonna we're gonna bivouac here, we're not gonna attack. Just Lincoln had to go see him and just practically beg him to do something. One point McClellan told him that uh our our horses are too tired, and he said, uh, what what could they possibly have done to make them tired? He just couldn't stand. He had to fire him. Uh McClellan hated Lincoln. He was very arrogant, racist Democrat and he he thought he could run against him. He called Lincoln things like the original gorilla and the great baboon. One time Lincoln went to visit him and he just came into his house and went upstairs and went to bed, just ignored Lincoln. Commander in chief. Kind of like Millie, it sounds like. So he ran against him in eighteen sixty-four, and you know, almost Lincoln almost lost. But he won because the war democrats and they were in favor of the war, and maybe they were profiting from it. Maybe that was the original military industrial complex, but they wanted the war. But they wanted to be Democrats, so they made Lincoln choose The military governor of Tennessee, a guy named Andrew Johnson. Kind of like Lyndon Johnson, a lot like Lyndon Johnson. But he took over when a Democrat actor shot Lincoln right after the war was over. And uh he took over and he pretty much undid everything, everything that that's why he got impeached by the Republican Congress, because he he undid all of the wins and the blood and suffering to free the slaves. He undid it all. He was a racist. He believed in slavery, but he wanted to prosecute the war and kind of achieve Lincoln's wishes. But he he wanted to put it back, it basically put back de facto slavery, recreated the KKK, all these things. The Democrat Party. I mean, I I say this a lot, but it's it's really true. So anyway, he thought Lincoln thought he was gonna lose, but fortunately the soldiers put him over the top. And so anyway, we we move up past the Civil War and we get into the The Civil War was followed by a sequence of Republican generals, really. You had Rutherford B. Hayes, you had first you had Hiram Ulysses Grant. That was his name, Hiram Ulysses Grant, he became Sam Grant or U.S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Sam Grant, because they they just when he got to West Point, they said, You you look like a Sam, and they gave him the nickname Sam. They said, I think his I think his name's Sam, so that that's where it became U.S. Grant, which he he turned that into unconditional surrender. But he had uh his life up till then was uh bankruptcy and failure. In fact, it's really interesting. This guy that wound up being one of his paw pallbearers when Lincoln discovered uh Grant was in charge of the war in the West. And he was a really good man. He he his wife was uh his wife came from slave owners and didn't understand why Grant was not into slavery. He's from Ohio. But he he but just about everything he tried to do, I think he tried to be a tanner and a storekeeper and all this. I mean, he failed at all these things until he succeeded in the military. But he had to uh he he was in charge of the war the war in the West. So he laid siege to places like Vic Burg Vicksburg, Mississippi, and things like that. And he was he was a pretty good fighter. Uh uh ultimately Lincoln said, I can't spare this man. He fights. And uh so he anyway, he laid siege to this fort and and uh and eventually the commander of the fort asked for terms, and he said, No terms but unconditional surrendered. Well, the commander of that fort was a guy who bailed him out the first one of the many times he went bankrupt and failed in his business. So he had to go to his savior and tell him unconditional surrender. Anyway, that guy wound up being one of his pallbearers when Grant died from uh throat cancer. Mark Twain wrote his autobiography and uh he was General Hiram Ulysses Grant, he was just a great, great man. So he became president, but then there was a succession. All the presidents were Republican, and they were mostly war heroes, generals. Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Burchard Hayes, and then uh uh James Abram Garfield, uh, reading a great book about him right now, Destiny of the Republic. Uh I think Netflix made a series about him, but I think he could write with one hand in Latin and one hand in Greek or Hebrew at the same time. The guy was just a brilliant guy. He he he got uh he got into college by being a janitor to pay his way through. Sort of uh I think Booker T. Washington did the same thing. But anyway, he wound up being such a great student and such a great person that he wound up being becoming one of the professors, and they'd asked him if he could teach more and more classes, wound up being the president of that university. But he was a general in the Civil War that basically saved Kentucky from the from the Democrats. And Kentucky was pivotal, absolutely pivotal. So you you had uh all the way down to um there was only one Democrat who was really a Republican, and that was uh that was uh Grover Cleveland, the guy that skipped two terms just like Trump did. But uh uh McKinley was a great, great man, very did a lot of things for black people, great president. He was shot by an anarchist named Leon Colgaj, who was from uh where else? Cleveland, Chicago, you know, that that kind of stuff. Anarchist. Anyway, we'll talk about that later. So on 1876, interesting time, he had Custer's Last Stand. Um it's called uh Little Big Man. And again, it's it's you know, it's got a lot of sex and violence, okay? And more sex than violence for whatever reason. But uh Dustin Hoffman started it. It's about a scout who worked uh he would he would work for Custer's unit, and then he would work for uh they'd go back to the Indians. He kind of was raised by the Indians, kidnapped by the Indians, raised by the Indians, back and forth anyway. But he's talking to this old mentor, this grandfather, he just called him grandfather, this Indian, and and uh he mentions that he had been a scout for Custer most recently, and uh he said uh General George Armstrong Custer or whatever, and grandpa grandfather, this wise old noble savage, he says, Where did he get this name? And he said, Oh, he got it in the war between the white men to free the black men, grandfather. And the grandfather says, Oh yes. Now he had gone blind by this time, but he said, Oh yes, the black white men, I have seen one. You know, it's pretty it's pretty interesting. So when I was in college, well, I think on the first day of a history class, or the professor said, you know, go to the library, go to the microfiche section, down in the basement or something. Microfiche was kind of like an internet, you know, you could look stuff up, little films that were kept, that's how they kept records. And they said, go to this date, go to the Salt Lake City Star and read this article on this date. So I go, I'm probably the only one in the class that did it. I went down there when I had a few minutes and I looked it up. The Salt Lake City Star this particular date. Now, Salt Lake City is a lot, a long way from um little Little Bighorn, where Custer was massacred by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse and all of these Sioux that that uh that m banded together to to attack and kill him. Uh and and and the article read just like what was kind of winding down at the time was the Vietnam War. I mean, it said U.S. troops massacred at Little Bighorn, and it was a couple of weeks after the actual battle because it took a while for news to travel, even with telegraph. But uh anyway, they they uh I just read this whole article. It told the names of the troops and how many were killed and all that. So it was just pretty interesting to see something uh and this was this was real close to our uh bicentennial, so in 1976, which would be hundred years from 1876 when when that kind of happened. Um other things happened, uh a lot of technology fascinating. Alexander Graham Bell was around the same. That's when he invented the telephone, which came after the uh the Morse Code. Uh the story of Morse Code is fascinating. Um maybe we'll talk about that or another time. But Alexander Graham Bell came here, uh, you know, he was Scottish, and um he his his father and he they worked trying to help the deaf to talk, and there was a really, really fascinating book I read about him that talked about what he really wanted to do. The the the the thing I didn't realize is that he did not want sign language, AMSLAM or whatever it's called, American Sign Language ASL. He did not want that. So there were these two factions in the in the deaf community. He did not want them to do sign language. He thought that would be sort of degrading that to turn them into these, you know, Indians use sign language, savages use sign language, you know, and and so the book was written from the perspective of a woman whose grandmother was deaf, and and they if a lot of that community, I don't know if it's still that way, I think kind of indicated that it was, but if they showed a picture of Alexander Grambell, they would think it was they would have the same visceral reaction as if it was a picture of Hitler to Jews or or even just decent people. And because he was so he was so I think his daughter was his daughter uh deaf as well, but his wife or something. But he he and his dad actually built like robots of a face so they could make the mouth shape the phonetics as they talked into it. So this is the kind of stuff this is kind of how he got started. He he was starting, he thought he could make them a device that could allow them to speak. And so he thought that it was sort of like uh quitting to just learn sign language. So he kind of had good motives. It was a very, very interesting, very fascinating man to read about. Um he actually, I I I believe he actually kind of experimented with fiber optics all the way back then. And then you had the oil boom. You know, oil was oil was discovered actually in Pennsylvania, not Texas or Oklahoma or anything else. Certainly not Saudi Arabia. We brought it to them. But uh Rockefeller became these, you know, barons and the history of these people, Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla, Hershey, who made chocolate and became this uh tremendous philanthropist who took care of orphans and built a whole city just on candy, but he failed, he failed, he failed, he failed. Read a biography of him or listen to one. Fascinating. Thomas Edison was was homeschooled because his mother was a teacher, but the public school told her he's a failure. He had a problem hearing because he was a he was a little a boy who worked as an errand boy on a train and he was late and he was running, and the guy pulled him up to the train by his ears to kind of punish him and snapped one of them. So he he he had a hard time hearing. But the his teachers, his public school teachers, told him that uh you he's never gonna amount to anything. So she she was a school teacher, so she tried homeschooling. Yeah, most of the people on Mount Rushmore were homeschooled. Uh yeah. Not bad. So we had uh we had assassinations and and uh uh of by these Democrat devils that just turned our country into the thing that it was. And, you know, they continue they continue to character assassinate people. You know, when uh when Obla Blah got in office, you know, one of the things he did was he he changed Mount McKinley to a Denali, to Denali, which is the name of some local tribe, one that he chose, you know, he always picked winners and losers. I'm sure that other tribes called it something else. But you know, when whenever it is with these native languages, it just means something like big pile of dirt. You know, they didn't call it the Hudson River, they called it the the river that runs or the water that gets that opens up at the sea or something. It's just you know, it's primitive, but m uh McKinley was a good man. He did great things. He did great things for the country. And and for minorities, for blacks too. But you know, Obama has to change it back. You know, just pandering. The Black Pander Party, you know, have to pander to the native Siberians and go, well, I'm changing it back to I'm gonna change it back to Dinali. Dinali means big, big pile of dirt. Yeah, that's that's nice. That really helps everybody, especially when you're singling out one tribe that probably was warring with the neighbor tribes who had a different name for it. It doesn't matter. As long as you virtue signal and tear down Republican heroes. I I think McKinley was, you know. He was instrumental, I think, in um desegregating places like Washington, DC. Woodrow Wilson, the good Democrat, he resegregated it. He was such a racist. Racist Democrat. Uh but I repeat myself. So one thing that the Civil War caused was it caused some horrible um I mean, a lot of women run households, just like the war on poverty and the Great Society did. It kind of converted I mean, the men were dead. The brothers, fathers, uncles, sons. And so, you know, you had you had people that became socially conscious, caring nurturers, you know. The story of Wizard of Oz, written around that time. And that's considered one of the first stories where uh the a woman is a heroine, is the heroine of the for some of you that are a little bit younger, heroine doesn't mean heroine. It's a female hero. Now we have to say things like actor. We have to call a woman an actor. We can't call her an actress. So I I guess I'm trying to think this through. By taking the name of a man, you're getting some kind of equality. And so what do they I always wondered what do they do when do they have an award? They used to have best actress, an Oscar, an Emmy, best actress, best actor. Now I guess they have best actor for a female actor. I don't know. They don't think about these things, they just do them. But anyway, the Wizard of Oz was about the gold standard, which was a big thing. William Jennings Bryant, who wound up running for president several times as a Democrat, he was a hyper, you know, religious guy, and he wanted America on the gold standard, not the uh or the silver standard, not the gold standard, or something like that. But that's why it's the fall of the Yellow Brick Road and and and all these symbols and and all these things are in this story. It's uh it's really sort of a thinly veiled thing, sort of like Lord of the Rings or um Chronicles of Narnia is less veiled, but it's kind of like that. It's kind of a parable about the gold standard. He William Jennings Bryant's most famous speech was you're not going to crucify uh us on a us the United States on a cross of gold. So they had a big problem because I I guess farmers and average Joe had more silver than they had gold. Gold was for the rich, so don't make gold our standard. So very, very weird stuff that went on. So but you know the the idea is that you know you'd we heard things growing up like if women round the world, there would be no wars. Well that's not that's just not true, you know. And universal suffrage uh suffrage means the right to vote. And people wrote about this long, long ago, all the way from Socrates to Frederick Bastiat and and and John Adams. And that you know, universal suffrage winds up in universal suffererage. And so, you know, this was kind of the we're we're at right now, we're at the centennial of that. 1920 universal suffrage. We're at the We're at the centennial of that, right? Six years ago. And you know, like Dr. Phil says, how's that working out for you? No offense. No offense. I I'm not I'm not trying to knock anybody. Especially when you can't even say what a woman is anymore. But the the Founding Fathers didn't want everybody voting. They didn't want everybody voting, because when you when you do, you get suicidal sympathy, suicidal empathy, you get the gender gap, you get the pity party, these these caring nurturers that all of a sudden are without natural affection, as a good book says. They all of a sudden they don't like men, they don't like children, they don't like women. They can't figure out what they want. They just want power. And the Daughters of the Confederacy, you know, they're the ones who made all of these racist statues. They're the ones who made all these racist statues. I talked about one on one of the shows that we saw in Mississippi near the gigantic Vatican-like Confederate graveyard, but they were called the Daughters of the Confederacy, and they they're the ones who really, you know, kept the same. They they built a lot of those monuments like Stone Mountain and stuff, like in the 50s, because they kind of just get worried that civil rights were gonna become a thing. So they kind of that kind of bothered them. So now we're up to around, that's 1870s, all the way up to, you know, raised guys like Woodrow Wilson. And we had this uh university system from Germany. We had a kind of a we didn't have a PhD kind of or university system here. We had the Ivy Leagues, where Harvard is our oldest institution, but that those were started to be seminaries. Those were for seminaries. Dartmouth, which I think is in New Hampshire, that's uh they were started as a seminary to reach the uh the Indians, the Native Americans, to create missionaries to send out to them, as the French had done when they came here. But um in 1919 we had uh we had the great Spanish flu, the great pandemic. Uh you know, we talked about that on other programs, but basically that was a first time where the government began to take control of your life. Like they did not nothing like they did this one, but it was a hundred years from that they did the same thing with with COVID. Yeah, used it as an opportunity to just take over your life, and that's what they do. Another interesting thing that happened in in 1919, actually January 15th, uh in Boston. Um there's a saying there used to be saying as slow as molasses in January, and they say that came from from the south where they made a lot of molasses, and it was w when it was really cold, it didn't run as well because of the viscosity affected by the cold. But anyway, in Boston there was this 2.3 million gallon tank of molasses just north of the city. And you know, Boston is a little bit like San Francisco, not as bad, but it's kind of hilly. You know, you go there, walk the Freedom Trail in the in the winter, you could slide pretty good. It's uh I have, it's not fun. But anyway, um, so they had this 1919, January 15th. Interesting, you know, slow as molasses in January, but this wasn't very slow. 2.3 million gallon tank. You can look it up online. That's that's 27 million pounds. It's 13.5 tons. It's about 10,000 cars come flooding out of there. And you go, how much how much damage could how much damage could molasses do? My God. But it it's quite heavier than water. Uh it resulted in 21 dead and 150 injured, and a lot of property damage. They said that in summers, subsequent summers to follow, you still smelled molasses. In the air when you went to that part of town. The other thing we had was anarchists. We had anarchists come. And it was an anarchist that shot McKinley a few years prior. And you know, there was a lot of concern about immigration. I know we talk about Emma Lazarus, you know, give me your tour, poor, you're tired. We just watched an old movie made in 1941, and they they actually made that little poem more important than uh life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that's exactly what happened. They thought that, you know, what she meant was, you know, anybody, anybody, anything goes, anybody come. But we had a concern. Actually, SCOTUS was so afraid of anarchists that they actually ruled that anybody who announces in public that they're an anarchist is bre breaking the law. Today, fast forward, I like to watch Gutfeld sometimes, Greg Gutfeld, and he has this guest who has a podcast named Michael Malice, who's you know, an interesting little guy, and he he he he says, I'm an anarchist. I'm an anarchist. I'm an anarchist. So what were they doing? What were the anarchists doing? In Europe, they were killing, they were assassinating people, and we had only had two, Lincoln and Garfield. Until this one shot McKinley. He was the he was the he was an anarchist. Uh you you could argue that John Mooksbooth. But anyway, they were blowing things up like Obama's friend Bill Eyre. They were blowing up buildings. And Sacco and Vanzetti and all this stuff that they'll taught, try to tug at your heartstrings about these poor guys just because they were immigrants. Same thing with the Rosenbergs who were spies for the Soviet Union. So we didn't particularly like socialists. But as we talked about in other shows, you know, we we went to the word social. You know, we we it used to mean like a church social or the so society page or social, and we turned it into, yeah, no, no, no, no, socialism is good. Socialism is good. And that and that's that's when it started happening. So I'm gonna read some things. Well, it's gonna have to wait till next time. But uh socialism is not good. It's not good. It's it's it's actually horrible. It's actually what was not wanted. And when this country founded, when this country was founded, uh it was founded on anything but socialism. Because and when I talk about founded, I'm I'm not talking about Edmund Burke, who was uh you know, animated our our thinkers and that set up our constitution and so forth. I'm talking about although he does, I'm talking about the the Mayflower Compact, which saved our original country, where they said, no, uh you don't work, you don't eat. So we're gonna talk about socialism in the next one. Thank you for listening. This Jeremiah Gunn show saying thank you. Thank you for listening. I really appreciate it. Um this is really important. I I don't hear anybody saying all of this. Nobody. We're trying to tell the truth. Whole truth, nothing but the truth. And the truth will make you free. You want to be free, don't you? Please? You're gonna lose it.