Episode 054: The Magical Tragical HIStory Tour of US - Part Fore

In Part 4 of The Magical, Tragical History Tour of US, Jeremiah Gunn continues his sweeping examination of America's origins, tracing the nation's development through the lens of history, faith, philosophy, and the ideas that shaped Western civilization.

Beginning with the arrival of European explorers and settlers, Jeremiah explores the motivations behind exploration, the impact of the Reconquista on Christopher Columbus's voyage, and the competing narratives surrounding Native American societies and European colonization. He challenges modern historical interpretations while encouraging listeners to examine history in its broader context.

The episode also explores the Puritans, the Mayflower Compact, religious liberty, the Protestant Reformation, and the philosophical foundations that eventually influenced the American Revolution. Jeremiah discusses concepts such as personal property rights, self-government, capitalism versus socialism, and the Judeo-Christian principles he believes informed the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States.

Throughout the episode, he draws connections between historical events and contemporary political and cultural debates, arguing that understanding the past is essential to preserving liberty and recognizing recurring patterns throughout history.

Whether listeners agree or disagree, this installment invites them to revisit familiar historical narratives, question accepted assumptions, and continue the pursuit of truth through the study of America's complex and often contested past.

Episode Highlights

•  The historical context surrounding Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration 
•  The Reconquista and its influence on European expansion 
•  Native American civilizations and competing historical narratives 
•  The Puritans, the Mayflower Compact, and religious liberty 
•  The Protestant Reformation and its impact on American thought 
•  The importance of property rights in the founding philosophy of the United States 
•  Connections between history, culture, and modern political debates 
•  Why remembering history matters in understanding the present 

The Jeremiah Gunn Show asks the timeless question: "What is Truth?" Through history, common sense, logic, and the enduring principles of the American experiment, Jeremiah Gunn challenges listeners to think critically, revisit the past, and seek clarity in an increasingly confusing world.

Transcript

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That's it. That was a song called Over There that was written for World War One. And uh World War One was probably a shaping and influencing factor for everything. For everything that came after. It it was called the War to End All Wars, and it probably destroyed the world, or at least set the tone on this slippery slope. So we started with that because we're going to be talking about World War I. Not right off the bat. This is part uh four of the magical tragical history tour, where we're just kind of walking through the United States. I had a request come in that can you explain what the way things used to be, what happened, and what changed. What was it like then versus now, instead of just facts about history, which which I never give anyway. But this is the Jeremiah Gunn Show. The Jeremiah Gunn Show. Uh this is uh Dr. No and Cliff's Notes. Uh you can call me Cliff. Why do why do we say that? Because I have looked around. I've been listening to radio, which predated podcasts, TV, reading books. I've read hundreds, hundreds, five hundred books that are the most important books. But not just read, but study, studying about life. I've been studying life for like 60 years and uh really caring about what happens. And so what the purpose of this show is to, you know, who's my target audience? It's it's you. It's everybody, because everybody will be influenced by America and what we decide to do and what we've done most recently. And, you know, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Same thing goes for those who are taught revisionist past, like CRT, that's not accurate, that doesn't do anything except promote Marxism. So this program's dedicated to Charlie Kirk, who did that with his whole life. And uh it is for him. He motivated somebody twice his age to speak up. And that's what we're doing. We're we're telling you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That's all you'll ever get here. So help me God. That's all that's the old oath, and that's all you'll ever get here. So uh we we started with World War I, but we're gonna back up just a little bit. Because you know, what what's a a threat to us right now is all the isms. Socialism, communism, uh uh con communism, socialism, and uh so I got I gotta can't get rid of these uh cold callers. Anyway. Communism, socialism, anarchism, individualism, uh uh environmentalism, feminism, all these isms that came in, seeped in like a cancer, and uh really destroyed is trying to destroy America. Now we're gonna find out whether it gets destroyed or not. That's what we're gonna find out here. So um let's uh let's go back to socialism, for example. I I think that's been our biggest we talked in last episodes about how social, you know, the word social became socialism, the word community became communism, and race became racism. So those are the kind of the three jackasses of the apocalypse that are trying to destroy our world. So you say people look, we tried socialism in Europe. Europe tried it, it didn't work. By the way, Nazi is a it's not really an acronym, it's national socialism. So don't don't don't believe this stuff that you either get, you know, Bernie Sanders on the left, Karl Marx, or you get Hitler. Uh in other words, on the right. It's not right. It's not left and right, it's not it's right and wrong. And to go to the left is wrong. And so we say it was tried it was tried there. Well, it was tried here, and everything seems to be kind of these multiples, but it was tried here in 1620 when the pilgrims came. They tried it and found out it didn't work. Their colony was failing. It was failing because people didn't want to work. You can get free stuff, you don't want to work. There's a very clever meme going around right now. It says that people that work for a living are being overwhelmed by people that vote for a living. So, you know, that's a problem. That's a that is a real problem for us. And so so they tried so what happened is a governor, I think it was Bradford of the Puritans. And I just saw a little clip come up on YouTube. This guy made a little video called Communism Didn't Even Work. Doesn't work ever. It didn't work for the Puritans, for the pilgrims. Didn't work for them either. So uh so it was tried in 1620, it was tried in not 1720, but 1820, and then 1920. They just keep trying it. And 2020. Just keep trying it. Every every century or so we keep trying to pump life into it. Yeah. So it was tried here in the 1820s, from roughly 1820 to 1830. That was our cultic period of history. That's where all the cults that we know today arose, all of them. Who said, kind of like FDR said, we're we're gonna add on to the this country. We're gonna add on because the founding fathers didn't quite set it up right. I mean, just imagine the hubris, the arrogance of that. Instead of being devoted to them and saying, Yeah, we'll keep this fire burning, we're gonna we're gonna change it. We're gonna change it all. And so so what this this there was a guy named Owens. They had these utopian communities that started up. You know what the word utopia means. As someone said, uh what has exactly made life hell on earth is people trying to make it into heaven. Make the place into heaven. These utopian believers. So there was a guy named Owens, and he started a community called New Haven in Indiana, and they thought he was gonna have this. Well, where's the word come from? Commune. It's a commune. He's gonna have that. So he here's what he wrote. Uh it was basically free free stuff, free sex. You know, in in the hippies of the 1960s, they called the communes free love. But that's we we know we know better now. We should have known better then. It's not love, it's sex. That's all. Just just be honest. That's all we're asking. So this guy, he tried to set this up, and he said it said the community was based on Owens, his name was Owens, I care about his first name. His son will come into play later. The community was based community communism of socialism, of utopian socialism. It was based collectivism, it was based on Owen's rejection of three monstrous evils private property, organized religion, and marriage. Contemplating his socialist ideal, he implemented it in America. Prominent scientists, artists, and educators flocked to the town. Now this important was socialists re uh redistributing collectivists. They collect and then they redistribute. Across the pond, an English philosophical thinker was writing um a little poem. What is a communist, but one who has yearnings for un for equal sharing of unequal earnings? Loafer or idler, or bumbler or idler, or both, which is usually the case, he is willing to fork out his copper and pocket your shilling. If you don't know, I mean I mean a copper is like a penny, and a shilling's like a silver dollar, just for the sake of the metaphor. So he was complaining about communism. I didn't even know the word was that old. But did you know that that m Karl Marx is actually buried in London? That's where he started. So the community was based on Owen's rejection of three monstrous evils private property, just like Mom Dummy, organized religion, and marriage. Those are three things he hated. So he set up these free sex communes with no marriage and true to his word in New Harmony, Indiana, Owen attempted to do away with personal assets. He transformed the harmonists' house of worship. That's the group that preceded him, another culty old age, new age. True to his word in New Harmony, Owen attempted to do away with personal assets. He transformed the harmonist houses of worship into civic centers and discouraged any religious basis for marriage. He envisioned a life in which and then, you know, it failed. They had his central store where they were trying to give out salads for free and the salads wilted because people hoarded them like they did toilet paper during COVID and and uh in a desperate bid to save his failed utopia, Owen allowed for individual property ownership and private enterprise, but it was too late. Yeah, he tried to shut the they had an old saying, he tried to shut the barn door after the horse and the cows were already gone. Good thinking. Good leadership. In a desperate bid to save his failed utopia, Owen allowed for individual property ownership and private enterprise, but it was too late. New harmony collapsed under the weight of its lofty ideals in 1829. Almost made it to that decade of cultism. He squandered his personal fortune paying off the town's debts, but he refused to acknowledge that his vision was a disaster. He refused to acknowledge his vision was a disaster. Now, today, the utopian um demagogues, like uh that guy from New York Bloomberg, and and this guy, this billionaire that's running in California, and Mom Dummy, who's a son of multimillionaires, uh, they all the difference is they're not squandering your fortune. Biden didn't, Obama didn't. They never do. They squander other people's fortune. They don't even fork over their sh their copper, they just take your shilling. Or they print more of it if if that's what they want to do. They do both, actually. He squandered his personal fortune paying off the town's debts and refused to acknowledge his vision was a disaster. So, as a kind of an alibi, he blamed the people who came to New Harmony as being poor human material for his experiments. They always have an excuse to why it didn't work. It'll work this time. Didn't work, but it'll work this time. It says people turned out to be reluctant to work when they saw others who labored little enjoying the same life. So so people turned out to be reluctant to work, huh? When they saw others who labored little enjoying the same life. You know, if these guys had just thought a little bit less about themselves, a little bit more about they would have read that in 1620, 200 years ago, to the day almost, they you know, the the pilgrims said, Hey, look, this isn't working. This communism isn't working. And they they went to the the New Testament of the Bible, the good book. Where else would they go? And they said, Hey, it says in here, if you don't work, you don't eat. So all you shirkers and lazy I use the term strap hanger. It's an image of a subway or a bus and someone's holding onto a strap. They're just going for a ride. They're just riding you. They're just riding you. People turned out to be reluctant to work hard when they saw others who labored little enjoying the same life. Remember, people who work for a living are being outnumbered and overwhelmed by people who vote for a living because of the demagogues that our founding fathers did not want. So his son, Robert Dale Owen, son of the founder, he understood completely where New Harmony went wrong. All cooperative schemes, which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle, must work their own downfall. He wrote of his father's utopia. For by this unjust plan they must of necessity eliminate the value members, the valuable members of society, and retain only the improvident, unskilled, and vicious. I mean what a diagnosis. Let me read it again. All cooperative schemes collectivists, communists, socialists, all cooperative schemes which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious, and the ignorant and idle must work their own downfall. For by this unjust plan they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled, and vicious. America, it seemed, had learned its lesson about socialism, even if its first adherents didn't. Socialism failed a hundred and ninety-five years ago, so there's no reason to believe it could succeed here today, is there? And obviously, no one would be foolish enough to try it, right? Right? Well, they say that young people are pretty into it. Joe Rogan was into uh Bernie before God knows why, thank God, but how did he wake up at the eleventh hour, eleven minutes after the eleventh hour, and go, yes, I'll endorse Trump? I mean, that that kind of indicates his mind, where he's coming from. Bill Maher was complaining to somebody the other day, a leftist uh actor or something, I don't know who the guy is, but uh he was Bill Maher with, you know, and and they always put this headline Bill Maher destroys the left. Bill Maher converted, Bill Maher this. But what does Bill Maher say? He says, We both voted for her. He said that more than once. We both voted for her. Who's the her? Last time it was Hillary, this time it was Kamala Harris. Bill Maher voted for Kamala Harris. So does this tell you what these folks are like? Young people who follow Mom Dummies, uh Fokanis, the Hillaries, the Obamas. As if as if nothing that went before matters at all. So so anyway, that's that's the that's the eight that's the eighteen twenties, we had the sixteen twenties, and yeah, and now we come up, we kind of come up to the 1920s. But before that, uh we we have a series of uh great, great conservative Republican presidents. In fact, we didn't have any Democrats until Woodrow Wilson. We had one named Grover Cleveland, but he was more of a Republican than a Democrat. He was a very good, very good president. And he skipped two terms like Trump did, but he was he was good. He was the last I'm sure he was the last good Democrat. So let's talk about let's talk about these great presidents. We had a a whole succession. We had uh Grover, I'm sorry, we had uh Rutherford B. Hayes Grant, General Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Abram Garfield, McKinley, all these Civil War veterans. All of them were Civil War veterans, a lot of them generals. They were good people. And they brought us up to let's just come up to the w the year kind of 1912 because it was very interesting. But but before we do, let's let's talk about Teddy Roosevelt. He was shot at and got hit just like Trump. A lot of comparisons to Trump. He was very big on the Monroe Doctrine, not apologetic for it. He enforced it, unlike Democrats. Um he took over for McKinley when McKinley was shot by an anarchist. He was a colonel in the Spanish-American War that happened under McKinley. He he kind of left the administration and was a colonel in that war. Um he got a he got a Nobel Peace Prize, a lot of firsts in that guy's life. He got a Nobel Peace Prize uh for solving the war between Russia and Japan. I think it was called the Sino-Russo War or the Nippo-Russo War, and people might call it that. Nippon is the name for Japan. So we got a derogatory term from that, we can't use it. Just like we can't call that race yellow anymore because they used it in a derogatory fashion. So gone. But he got a Nobel Peace Prize, just like Trump would have a closet full if if they had their head on straight. Um Peace through strength. But he, you know, he had a very, very interesting life. He he grew up in privilege. His father, the Roosevelt family, it's a Dutch derivation. They were very rich in New York, very, very wealthy people. And uh he grew up as the son of a guy who worked for Lincoln who did great, great deeds, really good philanthropy and and helped people, helped soldiers. We'll talk about that another time, but um so what happened with Teddy Roosevelt, he goes to Harvard and he's on the boxing team and all. So he was very, very sickly and he tried to toughen himself up through athletics. He really believed in rugged outdoor living and it's so forth. But one day, you know, he had a new wife. He was in Congress in New York, and he had a new wife, and um she gave birth to a baby, and then she died. And then I I don't know, I don't remember which one died first, but his mother and his wife died on the same day. Uh Valentine's Day, just to stick it in the heart a little more. So he just kind of fell apart. He gave his baby girl to his sister to raise, and he went out to the Badlands, Wyoming, South Dakota, et cetera, and uh learned to be a kind of a cowboy and be kind of came an everyman. He really identified, you know, this rich Brahmin cast from Harvard. He he identified with the average guy and he he he broke up a fight. Uh he kind of was a self, well, he was a helper, you know, deputy, deputized by the sheriff in the local town to stop evil. He uh he was the first president to ride in an airplane. Uh his his sons were pilots in World War I. Um some of them were lost, but he had a big, big family. Um he created the Panama Canal. Now, how did he do that? Uh he went he went in and Colombia actually owned Panama. Figure that out. It's kind of sounds like Denmark owning Greenland. I mean it was right. It just means it was so he, you know, with the Monroe Doctrine, he went in and The French were trying and trying and trying to build a Panama Canal. I think they were going to do it in Guatemala, Venezuela not Venezuela, Guatemala, something like that. Anyway, he goes in, uh follows the French and builds the Panama Canal, which was, you know, kind of X wonder of the world. Amazing. The engineering accomplishment of that and overcoming the disease which was keeping the French from building it. So he when he took over for the French to build the Panama Canal, well, first of all, Panama there's a problem. It belonged to Colombia, and Columbia didn't want us doing anything there. So he he knew that Panama wanted to be free, so he kind of fomented a revolution. And uh that happens. It happens if you're a if you're an adult and you you want to do stuff like that. And so they broke away, and then he said, All right, now we'll make a deal and do the canal. And Congress, just like you're hearing today over Iran, Congress was all over him, like, uh, you can't do that, you can't do this, and you can't do that. You can only do what we say you can do. And he he just kind of he was a bully pulpit. He was the first guy, I think, to use that term bully pulpit. He said, Hey, look, uh, I'm going to uh I'm gonna do this. Uh well he said, while Congress is debating me, the work goes on. And there was a lot of speculation about Trump that he threw out this thing say, hey, maybe we'll make Canada 51st, maybe we'll do this, maybe we'll maybe we'll have flying cars, maybe we'll uh build new cities, maybe we'll have an international, I mean American university. All these things, you know, that you can go to online and it'll be better than all these other horrible universities we have. All this stuff that he said he was going to do, uh, he just shotguns it and the press can't keep up. They can't figure out why they hate him today. But uh he basically said, hey, look, uh, while Congress is debating me, the work goes on. He said he followed when he took over for the French, trying to build it. Remember, the French built the Suez Canal. Jules Verne wrote all this visionary stuff. He said, While Congress debates me, the work goes on. But he said, I took over for the French and he he said I followed three decades of conversations. I mean, that's kind of a put down. I mean, they were trying harder than that, but that's the way he saw it. He was a kick-ar sky. He built up the Navy and projected American power around the world. Um that's Spanish-American Wars when we we got the Philippines as a protectorate and then gave them their freedom. Same with Cuba. Um But what he he was what he did do was something that I hoped Trump wouldn't do, and thank God Trump didn't do it, is run as an independent. Because what he ran against, there were three basically progressives. He was a progressive. He cared about, you know, the environment. He's founded our national parks. He cared about the little guy, and he he he uh intervened in labor disputes, and he busted up trusts, you know. And so he was he was a good good man. He cared about immigration the right way. He'd say we don't want a bunch of hyphenated Americans, we just want Americans. But uh he ran when he ran as a bullmoose independent, he broke away. You had, I think, Taft, Woodrow Wilson as a Democrat, Taft and uh Teddy Roosevelt running as kind of really Republicans, but he split off, kind of like Ross Perot did. Ross Perot did that to George H.W. Bush. He stayed in and stayed in and stayed in long enough to suck away enough votes to allow Slick Willie to get in. No Perot, no Slick Willie, and no Teddy Roosevelt, no Woodrow Wilson. Exact same model. Why he couldn't see that? And I so I'm just very, very thankful that you know Taft wasn't horrible. That that's the way elections are. This is something we we might have to repeat here is uh a modern election is the evil of two lessers. All of our elections have been kind of the evil of two lessers since Lincoln or before. Um you know you can say, Well, I'm gonna vote independent. I'm gonna uh you know and all that did was give the victory. Just like what's his name? Ralph Nader, you know, gave the victory probably to uh George W. Bush because he sucked away votes for the Green Party, uh the Green Weenie Party, he sucked away votes from the Democrat and caused the Republican to win. So, you know, Slick Willie didn't get the majority of the votes. He got just enough to put him in. Thank you, Ross Perot. So I'm just glad Trump didn't do that, which Teddy Roosevelt did. So so let's come up to, say, the 1912, kind of a pivotal year. There was uh Olympics in Stockholm. The Olympics had only been going since 1896, so this was a fairly new in its infancy. But anyway, there was a there's a school called Carlisle. There's a boarding college in Pennsylvania, and it was for Indians, Native Americans, Native Siberians, or Manacs, as I call them. Migrant native Asian communities. But anyway, there was this guy named Jim Thorpe, James Thorpe. Jim Thorpe. And he was the greatest athlete in the world. He wound up playing pro football after uh the Olympics. But he went to the Olympics in 1912 and he won the decathlon stuff. He was he was a brilliant he was the Jesse Owens of the day, a minority who just made the U.S. look great. And the king of Sweden is a tradition for the emperor or the king to, or the chancellor in the case of Hitler, to meet the uh great Olympic champions. And and the winner of the decathlon or these races are considered generally considered to be the greatest athlete on earth. So Jim Thorpe, he he was invited to meet this king of Sweden, and the king said, James Thorpe, you are the greatest athlete in the world. And Jim Thorpe famously said, Thanks, King. I just love that. Well, who else was at those Olympics? George Smith Patton, George S. Patton, the famous World War II general. Blood and guts, anyway. He was he was quite an athlete. I think it was the uh pentathlon, where it's five events, um, you know, weird fencing, horsemanship, shooting, uh, stuff like javelin. You know, it's a kind of the warrior event. And he was in it, and he he almost won, he almost won a uh a gold medal. I mean, he put he was such a good shot. He finished real high, but he put you know, in one of the competitions, well, he wanted to use his own pistol, not the actual target pistols that the best shooters used. You know, one of those things. Anyway, it's kind of interesting. And in 1916, around that time, just right before World War I, he wa uh World War I, he was in the uh army working for Pershing when we had to go into Mexico because Mexico was goofing around with guys like Poncho Villa, and they were coming across the border and raiding our towns and our side of the country, our side of the of uh well in our country. And uh you know, one time they had this problem. He was an officer, he wasn't a wasn't a general, but he was uh pretty tough guy. He went into they found out that Ponchovia and these other banditos that you call guerrilla leaders, and they're celebrated like Che today. They're just they're like their founding fathers or something, so we're supposed to believe that. But anyway, he he went into the he found out they were in this town, so he went in in a car. They didn't have tanks or anything, wouldn't have an armored car. He went in and drove in there. I don't even know if he had anybody with him, but he goes in to meet these three leaders of the banditos, you know, these Ponto Villa types, and he he comes back to Pershing's camp and he's got he's got their bodies on the hood of his car. Like I mean, he went in there like he went hunting. He just says, I'll take care of these guys. That's the kind of guy he was. Around the same time, Eisenhower, uh Dwight David Eisenhower, who wound up being the supreme leader in World War II and doing Normandy D-Day and all that stuff, he eventually wound up being president, but he was a young officer and he had he had this uh I think when he when he saw Europe, probably in World War I, he saw that they had they do a really good job with highways. They call them autobonds. And we don't have good roads in America, not at all. It's still the Wild West. No matter what, no matter where you're going, kind of bad once you get out of the East Coast, you know, pretty bad. So he was put, you know, that like the Army Corps of Engineers or whatever. They had him you can watch documentaries about it if you're interested. He he went in a bunch of cars and they tried to drive across the country and figure out what we what we needed to do and give a report, and his report was just that our roads are horrible. So he wound up as president. He w he led the Eisenhower Certainly he saw their beautiful Autobahns in Germany in World War II, for sure. Very impressed. So he created what's called the Eisenhower Highway System. It has this numbers are all coded so that you know whether it goes east to west, into a town, past a town, all that stuff. But he designed the Eisenhower Highway System. And it is said that one out of every five miles is straight so that it can be used as a runway in the event of war. So a little bit. He was he was involved in all those things. Um we had a continuation of great Republican. Great Republican uh presidents. Warren G. Harding. Warren Gamaliel Harding. He was from Ohio. A lot of presidents right up there with Virginia. Ohio has the most. Uh great, great, great president. And they'll say, oh, you know, he was terrible. He was terrible. Teapot dome, et cetera. But he's the one who said, ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country. That's a very famous, as maybe JFK's most famous, or right up there with the top three. But Harding's the one who said that. He also said sit down a minute. If you're driving, be careful. He said, let the black man vote when he proves that he's capable of voting. In other words, voting properly, voting intelligently. And he said, and prohibit the white man from voting when he shows that he's incapable of voting. So, you know, that fl fast forward there was a debate at Oxford, James Baldwin against um activist James Baldwin, against uh uh William F. Buckley Jr., who was a godfather of conservative movement. Um and they had this debate and he basically said, you know, you know, the problem with Mississippi is not that there's not enough blacks voting. Think about that with gerrymandering and all that. He said it's that there are too many of the wrong kind of whites voting. I mean, what percent what percent are black Americans of America today? Not counting the Somalis and they bring it in, but black Americans who who are citizens of this country and what percent? It's it's not high. Even in places like Mississippi, it's not high. So, you know, even if they get if the KKK, the Democrat KKK allowed them to vote, they wouldn't get enough people to overwhelm all the the Democrats that they call white, we're we're voting We're voting uh against them. I mean it's it's just not gonna tip the balance. It's like having a couple of communists and peace and freedom in in in Parliament in Israel or Italy or or England or Canada or whatever. It's it's it's not gonna be enough to make a difference. Makes it feel good, make it feel like we're we representation. But don't work that way. Anyway, he's the guy who said that stuff. And then he died suddenly, and a guy named John Calvin Coolidge, who had been, I think, governor of Massachusetts, he was from Vermont. He was a he was just maybe our greatest, yeah, one of the greatest presidents. He's up there. He's right up there. He's in the top five. He was just a great guy. He came from a little tiny place called Plymouth Notch, Vermont. And his father was a jack of all trades farmer, shopkeeper, uh, and politician, elder, councilman, whatever they kind of had in those days, justice of the peace, whatever. So he kind of took over and excelled past his father. But we went to that little Coolidge house and very modest, very humble. We couldn't even find his headstone in the little, you know, Nathaniel Hawthorne kind of little cemetery. But talk about beautiful place. But anyway, he's so he dies. Uh Warren Gamaliel Harding dies, I think, in San Francisco, and so they get a telegram and say, Hey, guess what, John Calvin Coolidge, you are president. So his father figured it's like three in the morning, somebody trudges out there to bang on the door of their little farmland, their little farm community, and and say, Hey, g Harding's dead, you're president. So his father just grabs an oil lamp and and a Bible and swears him in. He thinks that he thinks that a Justice of the Peace from Plymouth Notch, Vermont can swear in his son. Well, okay. At least he tried. So when they got him back to Washington, they had to do it right. But so he takes over. And he he balanced the he balanced the budget. He he was he was the government that governs least governs best. He was financially prudent. He said that you can't steal people's money to try to do things for them when you're actually doing things against them. He said it's better to kill a bad bill than to pass a good one. So he basically you know they said that about Reagan, that he'd said, for every bill you bring me, bring me two you're gonna eliminate. Give me two. Requirements, procedures, uh mandates that you're gonna get bring me a couple to get ready. You can't keep you just can't keep stacking them on as if that's doing your job. So he, you know, he'd said I'd rather kill a bad bill. It's more important. He might have learned it from his father, or he might have taught this to his father. But he was uh he was a really, really neat guy, great guy. Uh they called him Silent Cal, and there was one story of a socialite who was meeting with him. Well, she was at this party at the White House or something or some event, and uh she said that uh she goes up to him and says, uh so-and-so, this other dignitary, he he he bet me that I can't get you to say more than two words. And Coolidge just looked at her and said, You lose. He was a he was a great guy, really great guy. Only had the the one term because his son, who he loved, he loved his son, I think his name was Calvin or something, he he was playing tennis. He was a uh a kind of son that you a dad could be really proud of. You know, he was playing tennis with one of the members of the cabinet or somebody in the administration at sixteen, and he got a blister on his foot, the White House tennis court. Got a blister on his foot, and he died like really fast, like within weeks. But he he asked his dad, you know, can't you help me? And his dad was so ripped up by that, he he uh he said, you know, here I'm the president of the United States, most powerful man in the world, arguably, and I can't help him. I can't do anything. They didn't know about infection and you know, they didn't have antibiotics that would have treated him. So he died. Yeah, you know how many I mean, losing your family, losing your son, your daughter to your wife in childbirth, this was just a a horrible thing. So it that really much broke him. He couldn't he couldn't serve the country anymore. It's too bad because he got out. But he was very, very good, very good president. And one time, this is another quick story, he was in a hotel uh in some city, might have been New York, and uh some burglar broke in, came through the window or the door, came in and was stealing his stuff. And John Cal Calvin Coolidge is watching him in the dark, and he says, I'd appreciate it if you didn't take that. It was a pocket watch with a fob on it or some sort of engraving. And this guy's probably scared to death, this young burglar. He says, I appreciate it if you wouldn't take that one. Talking about cool, cool. Stay cool with Coolidge, that was the motto. And he says, Read what's on it. And it says, from the people of uh grateful people of Massachusetts to the to the governor, Calvin Coolidge. Uh and so the guy said, Well, you know, we were here, we're I'm I'm in college out of town, and we were here, we didn't have enough we didn't have enough money to get a train fare back, so Coolidge gave him money for a train fare and said, you know, when you get your act together, you can pay me back. I don't think the guy ever did. I don't know, maybe he did, but very cool guy. So then Hoover takes over. Herbert Hoover, who got a really bad, really bad rap. And you know, the depression hit on his watch. And if you listen to great economists like Thomas Sowell, they'll explain to you why that was not really uh not really his fault. And and he and a lot of the stuff that he did that Herbert Hoover did, a lot of it was he i it was the same things FDR did right afterwards, even though FDR, you know, they called the shanties, they called them Hoovervilles and things like that. And they were bad to the veterans of World War I and all that stuff. But he was an engineer educated at Stanford, and he he traveled around the world, Australia, China. He and his wife could speak Chinese, so sometimes in the White House they would wanted to talk about somebody, they'd speak Chinese to each other the way that people that are bilingual will do today, Mexicans or Persians or whatever. They'll they'll they'll speak about somebody in their own tongue, so they don't know it. So he and his wife could do that. But he he he he gets a bad rap. He was not a bad guy. Read a book about him or two. One of the best authors, I don't want to say authorist, but anyway, her name's uh Amity Schlaze. She's just a great writer. She writes a book about the depression called The Forgotten Man, or she wrote about Hoover. She's just a brilliant. If you ever see her interviewed on like uncommon knowledge or the American Mind or something like that, that Stanford and uh Claremont uh Institute put out. So anyway, uh we're up to Calvin Coolidge and Hoover, and then you know, we we begin the demise of America with started under Woodrow Wilson, racist, uh progressive, yes, racist, yes. He segregated, resegregated. It had been by Republicans, it had been desegregated. Washington, D.C. He resegregated it. Um horrible, horrible person. And then something else that happened in 1930. All this stuff that happened in the 1900s, very pivotal. There's a great book I had to read, I think, in high school. It's called The Big Change. Little tiny book, The Big Change, and it talks about America from 1900 to 1950 or something, sixty. Brilliant, brilliant book. But you know, th the uh so many things happened. In nineteen thirteen, I guess the sixteenth amendment, income tax, the Supreme Court had already ruled in 1895 that taxing people's income was unconstitutional. And you'll hear about people today that you'll hear about people today that say, hey, uh that that is truly unconstitutional. Well, you think a s you'd think a country that began with no taxation without representation, which I've had my whole life living in the Confederate States of America Do you think that a country that started over them trying to get ten percent tax rate on us? Do you think that maybe it might be unconstitutional to dream up this idea of the internal revenue service? But boy, they they love it. They love it. They act like these things that were invented out of thin air. Just because SCOTUS said, uh okay. This time, okay. Last time, okay. That's we're gonna do a whole nother show on precedent. CNN was complaining about precedent because of our modern, our current SCOTUS. Oh, they don't like they they claim they're they're good with precedent, but they don't like it, yeah. Precedent means nothing. Unless you precede precedent with the Constitution. So look at SCOTUS, beautiful SCOTUS. 1895, it's unconstitutional, 1913, here we go. Income tax. Sucking out your living. Just exactly what stealing. Just exactly what Jefferson and Adams and everybody, Hamilton, set us up to not have. But uh And then we we I think we talked last time about the the the great Spanish flu that came from Kansas, also in 1919, the great molasses flood in Boston. I think we talked about that. So we you know we come up to anarchism, socialism, all that stuff. We get up to we get up to a thing, a little thing called uh World War Eleven, as Ilhan Omar calls it. We're getting up real close to World War 11. If you don't know about that, I didn't know about it first time I saw a meme that was mocking it, was Ilhan Omar was reading a speech and all the people behind her. You know how they every time they do a speech, at least in my lifetime, if you if you do care and if you do watch, they always go get a bunch of people. You know, get me one of these, get me one of those. They're political handlers. Get me two of these, three of those, four of those. I want the this color in the front, I want that color in the back, I want a guy with a union hard hat, I want to put them all. Everybody does it. Trump does it, Reagan did it. Because well, not Reagan, probably Bush, Gore, because they do it. So you have to. So you see, electorate, if you don't wake up, they're gonna keep treating you like a child. And that's no that's not good. That's not good. So uh you gotta That's what this whole show is about. This Jeremiah Gunn show, it's about waking up, waking up from woke. If you don't wake up and you sleep through this, because uh it does no good to get involved in my future, my liberty, my freedom, my country that they're stealing. Doesn't matter. For whatever motivation you have, whether that's religious or secular or just laziness, it's not good. So you're being warned. You are being warned. Don't say you weren't warned. That's the minimum. This is Jeremiah Gun show, begging for truth and justice in the American way. Or else. That's not a threat for me, that's a fact. Thank you. Thank you.