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Speaker 1: truth is, my Liberty is no ordinary horse, all right?

425
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: And then I actually I'm going to be honest. The

426
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: surf and stuff, YadA, YadA, YadA. The guy's threatening. Okay,

427
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: so this dude is coming after him, and he finds

428
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 1: his horse, and his horse says, I hope you can fly,

429
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 1: and okay, oh yes, one can talk, yes, oh yes,

430
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: and he can talk, writes Rush, I told you who

431
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: wasn't an ordinary horse. Before the man could even turn

432
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: around to see who had spoken, Liberty kicked his hind

433
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: legs and sent the sailors sailing high into the eye.

434
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: And then he fell into the air, and then he

435
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: fell into a web of nets. Perfect shot. Liberty said,

436
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 1: you appeared in the nick of time, I said, starting

437
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 1: to feel sick again. Leaping into the mayflower in the

438
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 1: middle of a storm wasn't my idea, Liberty said, speaking

439
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: very fast. Yes, I can leap to different times in

440
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: American history, but I'm not. Okay, So the horse is

441
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: the time, you know. Look, he's at least getting to

442
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 1: the point here. Yeah, he's also very hungry, which I'm

443
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: not going to read all of that. That's apparently the

444
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: thing which the horse, Yeah, hungry for pills. This is

445
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: the first book, Yes, Cody, I know, like it's you know,

446
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: it's customary recommend it's a good idea to like start

447
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: in the middle of your action, you know, like it's

448
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: and like, this is a really bad way to start

449
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 1: this book. It is. So one of the things is

450
00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 1: the horse as because he gets so sick, takes him

451
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: act to modern day America. So there's there's well, in

452
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: order to travel through time, the horse has to say

453
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: a catch phrase. There's two different ones. I think there's

454
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: to get back to the modern time, it has to

455
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: say rush rush, rushing from history. And then I'm guessing too,

456
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,640
Speaker 1: history is the other way it works. But yeah, that's

457
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 1: the prologue. Now we're in chapter one where he's back

458
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: at his job as a high school or middle school.

459
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, middle school. Yep, yep. Um the school bell rings, YadA, YadA.

460
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: Principle Sherman also comes into the class. Um. Oh boy.

461
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,360
Speaker 1: I wonder if Sherman is going to be the bad

462
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,480
Speaker 1: guy because Sherman beat the Confederacy. I don't know. We'll

463
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: see if this principle winds up sucking um on the

464
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: principle of Manchester Middle School was not a small man.

465
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: If the door frame were any smaller, the principal would

466
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: have to duck his head and twist his way into

467
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: the classroom. I stood outside in the hallway as the

468
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: door closed, but watched in her hair of the door,

469
00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: small window. Everyone meaning, please take your seats, said the

470
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: principal with authority. He stood at the front of the classroom,

471
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: hands at his sides while his eyes scanned the desks

472
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: and chairs. I have an important announcement. The room went silent.

473
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 1: It was apparent that the principal Sherman, did not tolerate disrespect.

474
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: I have some unfortunate news, he said, Your teacher, Miss Borrington,

475
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: needed some extra time away from the academy to help

476
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: care for a sick family member in the academy. Nobody

477
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: calls him a middle school. The academy, Um, okay, whatever. Anyway,

478
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: he's introducing his substance wealth insurance and if nurses were covered,

479
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: she wouldn't have to take time off from school. But

480
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 1: doesn't rush, I think people should take time off and

481
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,639
Speaker 1: like I would want this, like teachers and stuff. And

482
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: he does not explain this. He just calls it a

483
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: middle school. But the fact that he says it's an

484
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: academy and the principal announces that they have only the

485
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: best teachers here I think this is a fancy private

486
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: school for rich kids. Only the best teachers. Yes, only

487
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: the very best of teachers. Um, the exceptional teachers, I

488
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: would say, actually an exceptional Wow. So there's exceptional. There's

489
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: like a whole diet tribe in here about the name

490
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: Rush and how it's not a weird name. Um. So

491
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: he comes in and he like writes his name on

492
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: the school board or on the chalkboard before I even

493
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: and then like a girl, raises her hand after he

494
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: writes his name on the chalkboard. Before I had a

495
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: chance to even call on her, she asked, your first

496
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: name is Rush. That's weird, and why are you dressed

497
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: like that? She said, I could tell that this student

498
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: was all business. If there were a pecking order in

499
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: this class, she would probably be at the top of

500
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: the food chain. My seating charge and replied, thank you, Elizabeth.

501
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: Do you go by Liz? She rolled her eyes and

502
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: nearly grunted. No, unlike some people, I have a real name.

503
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: It's Elizabeth. It's a lovely name if you like four syllables,

504
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: I said, rate winking. If you must know, my real

505
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: name is Rusty. But when I was your age, my

506
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: favorite class was history. In fact, I found myself rushing

507
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: to history class every day I had it, and when

508
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: rushed from my home, rushed down the street and rushed

509
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: through the school until it was sitting. Eventually my teacher

510
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: started calling me Rush and it's stuck. Is this a

511
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: true story from his that's not his actual Rush. His

512
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: given name is Rush. Yes, that's his actual given Hudson Limbaugh.

513
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: Yes names Hudson. Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's yeah,

514
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: the third Rush Hudson Limba, the third Yes, Rusty, Yeah,

515
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: it's that. It's fucking unbelievable. Like, first off, absolutely not

516
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: nobody's backstory, Like like, but you guys were so horrified.

517
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: I would say, well, I, Katie, I thought you were

518
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: trying to slander the number one achievement in American artistic history,

519
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: the film Hudson Hawk, which I will not stand for, no, no, no, no,

520
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: Bruce Willis is greatest, name only contribution to civilization, the

521
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: film Hudson Hawk. Um, we're talking. I'm gonna let it slide,

522
00:29:54,360 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: but watch Hudson Hawk people, Um, great film. So yeah.

523
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: He then explains why he's dressed. Apparently he's dressed obviously

524
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,479
Speaker 1: the way he's dressed in the gym chip clip art

525
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: on the cover as like a colonial dude. So he

526
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: explains that, um, can you anyone guess who I am dressed?

527
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: As students raise their hands, they guess George Washington. Good guests,

528
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: but no, however, I am dressed as someone who fought

529
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: in the same revolutionary war. Is George Washington? And they

530
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: assuredly knew each other. Are you Thomas Jefferson asked another student? Sure. No, however,

531
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: another good guess, YadA, YadA, YadA. He's paid. They keep saying,

532
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: more white men because they can't tell the difference. Yes, yes,

533
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: it's fucking Paul Revere. Um. So he has he has

534
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: fucking interactions with these school children, which, boy, we just

535
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: don't need to talk about that. Um okay. Then he

536
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: brings his horse into class Liberty. Um, yeah, I don't

537
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: think we're ever going to explain how he got the horse.

538
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure at some point we're going to learn where

539
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: the horse came from. Um, but yeah, it'll be like

540
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: through like somebody asking where do you get the horse?

541
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: And he'll explain it. And I don't mean that all

542
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: the girls, all the kids horse except for a girl

543
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: named Freedom. Well I did I did once to go

544
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: to a school where kids road there. School. Um, but

545
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: that was it was for a bit. Yeah, it was

546
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: for a bit. Um. Okay, so let's let's move past

547
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: this school section, because boy, we just don't need this

548
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: goes on for pages. They're just talking get to the history.

549
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: What the heck, we don't need any of this. Um,

550
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: so Jesus God. Okay. Finally, finally, uh, he takes a

551
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: bunch of kids with him into the past. Uh. Yeah,

552
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: they go rush, rush, rushing to history. I don't I

553
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: don't think about that. I think all I think Actually,

554
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: I assume all children and their parents consent to go

555
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: back in time if the teacher can time trap if asked. Yeah, yeah,

556
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: that that actually does seem fair. The magic school bus, right, guys,

557
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: thank god, we're cutting that. We're just we're just canceling

558
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: for that one. Um. The trip through the time portal

559
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: was like jumping through a hoop. Instantaneously we landed in Holland.

560
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: I quickly surveyed the geography and discovered we were in

561
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: a field not far from the Dutch port of Delf shopping. Thankfully,

562
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: we were alone, so he doesn't get to decide where

563
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: he's going he just hops on the horse and then

564
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: like pops over to somewhere sometime. Yeah, he's in fucking

565
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: I guess Holland, because that's where they set off from

566
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: the he's looking for pilgrim well, Puritans, Um right, right, okay,

567
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: oh good, and now he's whitewashing the Puritans. This is great. Um.

568
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: The woman turned in my direction, but didn't stop walking.

569
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: She stared at me as if I were some strange

570
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: animal at a zoo. She quickly replied, if you're looking

571
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: for Puritans, you found us. These the Puritans. I had

572
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: always amag sin the Pilgrims in clothing that was black, white,

573
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: and gray. However, these people wore clothing that was dye

574
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: in every color of the rainbow. A yellow shirt, blue britches,

575
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: green stockings, a red dress, a purple knitted stocking cap.

576
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: I was certainly mistaken to think that I knew what

577
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: the Pilgrims were every day. It was time to get

578
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: my class involved. Class, I said, these are the real Pilgrims.

579
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: I pointed the lens of my smartphone towards the large

580
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: group that had gathered. I guess they're watching it through

581
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: his phone or some ship. I'm sorry, he is not

582
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: taking into account how irresponsible this is to just all

583
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: of these children in a different time. I mean, you

584
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: could drastically change the events of history. I mean that

585
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: would be the best case scenario, right, if they somehow

586
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: got these people killed and so they didn't colonize the North. Yeah. Yeah,

587
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: give him a few more years to to get ready. Um,

588
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: all right, so we're learning about the fucking Pilgrims, and boy,

589
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: I just do not want to, absolutely do not want to,

590
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: because I know there's some weird socialism shaming coming uh

591
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: in the part about the actual colony and uh that

592
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: they make and yeah, so let's let's let's skip forward

593
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: to that a bit here. Um. Boy, this this has

594
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: been like ten pages of him talking about how cool

595
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,919
Speaker 1: the Puritans are, um because they separated from the Church

596
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: of England, um, and how they really just loved liberty

597
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: as opposed to being weird religious extremists who wanted to

598
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: be able to oppress people without being having to live

599
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: under anyone else's rules. Um. Anyway, I guess it makes

600
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: sense that he would want to whitewash them for that, right. Um. Yeah,

601
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: So he travels back into the present, into the classroom

602
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: to talk to the kids about what they've learned, and

603
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: then Principal Sherman walks in, Um, yeah, and it's it's

604
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: it's a whole thing. Uh uh Um. The Principle demands

605
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: an explanation because he's heard some weird shit. Uh an explanation,

606
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: I stalled, well, yes, of course, I realized that Principle

607
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: Sherman would eventually find a yellow wooden shoe outside the

608
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: classroom windows, so I began. We were discuss the Pilgrims

609
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: and how they left England to escape religious persecution and

610
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: settled in Holland along the journey to the New World.

611
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: I brought a wooden Dutch shoe from my trip to

612
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: the Netherlands as a bit of show and tell, and

613
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 1: Principal Sherman interrupted me and said, pointing, you mean, like

614
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: the one that's broken and splintered on the floor here.

615
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: I had forgotten about that one. Yes, and apparently wooden

616
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: shoes are not very sturdy. Principle Sherman walked over to

617
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: the window and saw the second shoe lying on the

618
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: grass near a big oak tree, and yet that one

619
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: looks just fine. I joined him at the window and said, um, okay,

620
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: so this is all very boring, boring, boring, It's very

621
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: boring and bad. Uh that's okay. They're surprisingly more random

622
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: classroom bullshit and discussion of Puritans in here than there

623
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 1: is actual narrative action going on why this was an

624
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: adventure series. There getting okay, but we it looks like

625
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: we're going to get some explanation here. So he has

626
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 1: this kid, Tommy, who's like the little it in the

627
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: class um starts like bagging on him for his horse.

628
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, okay, so do um okay. Here's him

629
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: explaining this is the explanation for how the horse can

630
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: travel through time. It appears that lightning may have struck

631
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: Liberty and created a supernatural phenomenon or a time portal

632
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: that thrust him forward in time to our day. The

633
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,280
Speaker 1: electrical properties that charged through his body and the vortex

634
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 1: that sent him to the future changed him physically and mentally.

635
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 1: He can not only talk and disappear, but he's also

636
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 1: I paused, trying to formulate the right words Freedom finished

637
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: my sentence and said a time machine. Tommy said, confused,

638
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: Did I miss something? Did you just say time machine?

639
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: He's more like a time portal, I said, to clarify,

640
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: he has the ability to momentarily open a time door

641
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: anywhere in history, well more specifically, anything that touches American history.

642
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: Tommy started laughing, Okay, this is a joke. I'm onto you.

643
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: This is some TV reality TV show called The Biggest

644
00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 1: Bozo Who Believes? And where the cameras been? Looking around

645
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: the room. He then looked back at Freedom and back

646
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: at me. But the US were dead serious. You believe

647
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: this guy, Tommy asked Freedom, sticking his thumb out at

648
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: Wait a second, wait, wait, wait what I thought the

649
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: horse was named Liberty, the horses Liberty. Freedom is the

650
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: girl in the class who likes rush. Oh my god,

651
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: come on, I didn't catch that, Cody. You didn't catch that.

652
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but maybe I skipped ahead a little much.

653
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: But yes, Freedom is the girl who's immediately on board

654
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: his weird ass bullshit. That's great, Cody. It's called subtext.

655
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: It's called subtext. Okay, Cody, I know that. You don't.

656
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: It's called you are You aren't You aren't. You aren't

657
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: an author like me, so you don't understand the complexities

658
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: of literature. But when you want to say that a

659
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: character you name her Liberty, and then people or Freedom.

660
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: I forget which, but either way, people know they're a

661
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: good I do see it subliminal, it's exactly exactly. It's like, um,

662
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know if I say it's like

663
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: Nietzsche enough people probably haven't read Netzsche that they'll just

664
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: assume that I'm not lying. So it's like, say, it's

665
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: like Nietzsche. Yeah, No, it's like you fucking name your

666
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: character Shepherd or whatever. Yeah, exactly exactly. You name your

667
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 1: character Shepherd because he's hot and he focks like a stallion.

668
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: That's that's why you would do that. As an ally's

669
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: very wuly. So you know it's probably time for another advert.

670
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: Let's just do let's just get the funk out of

671
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: your Rush we're back. Um. So Freedom tries to convince

672
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: Tommy that Rush isn't lying about his time traveling. Tommy

673
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: is the hero of this story. Also, like Rush just

674
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: say magic, Oh boy, something's going on here. Yeah. I

675
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: love that he's he's now like he's he is in

676
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 1: the text of his book sweatily defending the time travel

677
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: mechanism that he's written into it. Also, Rush just have

678
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: this substitute teacher be an inventor. Who made like you know,

679
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: he can also have a talking horse sidekick. Why is

680
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: the horse have to be that's just sweaty and stupid,

681
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: and it causes all of these questions that could be

682
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: answered by saying I built a time machine and I

683
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: made my horse smart. Because you know what, if you

684
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: established that this character is an inventor who's built a

685
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: time machine, all believe that he has a talking horse

686
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: that he sites. It's fine, It's fine. That is not

687
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: going to be my problem with your work. If you

688
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: do it, that wouldn't be complicated. And that he was

689
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: struck by lightning, and so he can only travel through

690
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 1: American history. But he also just traveled to Holland. So again,

691
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,040
Speaker 1: does it just mean that, like where is the I

692
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: go there? Right? Because the people who were in Hollands,

693
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: some of them later went to the Northeast, but none

694
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: of them ever lived in the United States. But it

695
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: was like American. But does that mean that, like you

696
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: could go back to ancient Rome because the founding fathers

697
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: based a lot of our republic on the way the

698
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: Romans did things like you go back to Africa? Right,

699
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: you know, could you travel back to when like the

700
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: Portuguese first started exploring slaves from Africa, because that's as

701
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: much a part of the history of this country as

702
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: the landing on Plymouth. Um. Not explained by Rush Limbaugh.

703
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: But he doesn't like the birthplace of Christopher Columbus and

704
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: just like hang out there, like, yeah, is he going

705
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,439
Speaker 1: like Genoa? Yeah? That is all this is all part

706
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: of American history. Is he, for example, going back further

707
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: than the sixteen hundreds to like, you know, indigital like

708
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: to co Kia right in like modern day like Missouri,

709
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: Illinois area, and like talking, you know, I'm guessing he's not.

710
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,320
Speaker 1: I mean you probably like can you go to like

711
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: fucking Greece because you talk about democracy? Like right, yeah,

712
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: are you? Are you going to China? Because they invented

713
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: gunpowder and played a crucial role in the colonization of

714
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: North America. Um, none of this will be answered. That's

715
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: all decided by the horse. So Tommy and Freedom and

716
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 1: Rush continue their argument. Hey, I might be crazy, but

717
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: I'm not that crazy, Okay, Tommy said. He got up

718
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: from his desk and started pacing the floor. He took

719
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: off his baseball cap and combed his fingers through his

720
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: blonde hair. He sighed, I have to think about this

721
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: for a minute. We probably shouldn't show them the other

722
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: thing I can do, should we? I mean, he seems

723
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: a little freaked out right now, Liberty said no, I

724
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: said firmly. I took a deep breath. I need to

725
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: finish our story. I believe the lightning creed at the

726
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: time portal to the modern day. Tommy put his sorry, sorry.

727
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: Arguing about the lightning this is like again, just say magic,

728
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: and we're just say magic, God, magic science. It's fine,

729
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: but also anything yet very fancy academy. That kid cannot

730
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: wear a baseball cap inside. No, no, there are in

731
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 1: sufferable uniform, yes exactly, and again probably not horses a

732
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 1: loud inside either, but we'll let it slide. Also like

733
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: it's a talking horse, Yeah, it is a talking motherfuckers.

734
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: Mr Ed, that's the one not talking. Yes it is.

735
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: It's one of the two famous horses that can talk,

736
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: you know. The other one is Liberty. He keeps. This

737
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: is now like two pages of arguing with this child

738
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 1: about the lightning handle not arguing, I think a room

739
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: full of children. Tommy put his baseball cap back on

740
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: and said, okay, okay, maybe it is possible I mean,

741
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: I don't think the lightning hit him directly. Technically, a

742
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: direct hit would have killed him, But I guess there's

743
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 1: a possibility that several bolts of what is where is it?

744
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: Electrostatic prism and the possitive and negative charge carriers, combined

745
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: with the acoustic shock waves create him some kind of

746
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,280
Speaker 1: time hole. But ce Liberty, what is the conversation they're having?

747
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: This is a history adventure. It's because it's not even

748
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: like he figured it out and he's like like an

749
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: explanation for it. It's just like a character guessing, yeah,

750
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: it's way, and we're just we're now explaining how like

751
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: Liberty when they came for the future met Rush and

752
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,919
Speaker 1: like how shocking the world was. This is my point.

753
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 1: There's a fucking book in the past with his magic horse,

754
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: and then do this like whole sequence like show him

755
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: meeting the horse. Yeah, it's like, we're not going to

756
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: do that. Um yeah, we're absolutely not going to do that.

757
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: We have an illustration on this next page. It again,

758
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: this is all just Liberty explaining how they met. Um boy,

759
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: there doesn't seem to be any explanation for this at all.

760
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: There's just a picture of him holding a modern day

761
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: I see can with an American flag that says too

762
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: if by tea underneath it. I don't know why that

763
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 1: was put in here. What's happening on the page opposite

764
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,439
Speaker 1: from it? Like he's talking liberty and liberty are talking

765
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: about fucking how he met his fucking horse, right, how

766
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: his horse came through time? What page are we on

767
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: right now in the book? My god, my god, if

768
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: I bought this, you bought this book. So we go

769
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: children something, presumably, and so far it's just been nonsense.

770
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: So far we have learned that the Puritans were just

771
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: a bunch of nice people who wanted religious freedom as

772
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: opposed to thought. And we have had spent pages talking

773
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: about how lightning strikes could conceivably give horse the ability

774
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: to time travel. That is, that is the primary fact

775
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: dump we've gotten so far. Dress code at this academy. Yeah,

776
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: it's uh. They're talking about when football happened, because Tommy's

777
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: a football player, even though he knows a lot about lightning.

778
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: That's a boy. This is just this is just ridiculous.

779
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: We don't need we don't know. And when does the

780
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: history start? That's a great question. Oh good, So Tommy

781
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,320
Speaker 1: gets on the horse. Now we've got a picture of

782
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: Tommy riding back in time on the horse. So I'm

783
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: in a cause that's what happens in the pages I've skipped.

784
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: He's sitting in relation to the other Yeah, so they

785
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: are trying to land undetected on the Mayflower. The time

786
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: portal opened just as it did momentsary. What do you

787
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: do with all the other kids, Katie, You're gonna have

788
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: some open questions about this because I am not going

789
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,720
Speaker 1: through every fucking page of this stupid yea makes sense, Okay,

790
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: the picture doesn't explain. Therefore, I cannot tell you I am.

791
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: We're not gonna be hitting every plot point here. The

792
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: time portal opened just as it did moments earlier. As

793
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: clearly as possible, I pronounced each word, September six, Plymouth, England,

794
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 1: the launching of the Mayflower. I had found given that

795
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: giving the exact date, location a name of the historical

796
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 1: event event helped liberty get us to where we needed.

797
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: Of course, like you don't need to, I understand why

798
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: you would do that in any way. The sensation of

799
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: jumping grew time was always the same. The rush of

800
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: air sent goose bumps over my body. The hair on

801
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: my arms stood on end, and for a second, it

802
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: feels like it does when you're swinging backwards on the sciata.

803
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: YadA YadA. Um. Okay, so they're like, it does it

804
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: does sound like he's coming. Like, never use the word

805
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: rush unless you're referring to your character. Yeah. So they

806
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: have liberty go into stealth mode and pretend not to

807
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: be a talking horse so they can sneak on the Mayflower,

808
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: which is easy because some of the pilgrims had second thoughts. Um.

809
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: One of the pilgrims, he's William Bradford, who he met

810
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 1: in Holland, remembers him and says, Rush Revere, it does

811
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: my heart good to see you again. And is this

812
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: the person you were waiting for in Holland? He smiled

813
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: affectionately while straightening Tommy's brown leather hat. Yes, this is Tommy,

814
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: I said, as I put my arm around Tommy's shoulder.

815
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: His parents are gone, so be caring for him on

816
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: this voyage. It's a pleasure to meet you, Tommy, Bradford said,

817
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: as he reached out his hand to Tommy, who shook it.

818
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: William turned back to me and said let's talk some

819
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: more after the ship set sale, the captain is very

820
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: eager to leave. Okay, boring, get get some plic domain.

821
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: We got like four pages of public domain photos of

822
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: the fucking Mayflower, like drawings of it and ships. Your

823
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: question about Tommy, I mean, we're not going to have

824
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: an answer for it. But it's Tommy just wearing two

825
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen. No, no, no, he's dressed. They gave, they gave,

826
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: they found clothes for him. I'm gonna I am. I

827
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: Am going to fill in a blank here and say,

828
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: Rush Revere traveled forward in time, found a pilgrim child,

829
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: separated from his family, cut his throat with a straight razor,

830
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: and took the clothing from him. Makes sense, Yeah, it's

831
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: a little a little bit of a This is also

832
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: an Assassin's Creed. Uh, just like half of the chapters

833
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: are like really boring, but about aliens and something Rush

834
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 1: limbine his hoodie running speaking of by the way, speaking

835
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: of fiction stories that did not need to explain things

836
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: as much as they wound up doing, Assassin's Creed made

837
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: the same mistake as the Rushed Revere novels. Nobody needed

838
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: any of that. You don't need that section at all.

839
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 1: People just want to murder folks in different time periods.

840
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 1: You don't need to do a whole thing like that's

841
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: not necessary. I wasn't confused. I didn't have questions. It's

842
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: like if the Grand Theft Auto series like added as

843
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: very sweaty, like whole fucking series of missions about how

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00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: you're like a time traveling, superpowered person and that's why

845
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 1: you never die in the car, Like, we don't. We

846
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: don't need that. No, no, that's necessary. So I'm here. Yeah,

847
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: I'm not here for the sorry, yeah, not not here

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00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: for the lore. Um okay. So Puritan's Boy just a

849
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: lot more Puritans traveling on a boat. Um, with most

850
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: of this is not history. It appears to be like

851
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,240
Speaker 1: them encountering random people. And like there's like three pages

852
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: where Tommy meets a pilgrim kid who has a puppy

853
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: and they talk about puppies. They talk about how uncomfortable

854
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: boats are, which I don't. Yeah, it's it's great. Um,

855
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: this is this is a ship book, guys, this is

856
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: a real ship is really bad, like not like as

857
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: a history book and as an adventure book. Yeah yes,

858
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: and just like a children I mean like does he ever?

859
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: What is he? What am I supposed to learn from this?

860
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: What am I? You're not supposed to learn anything from this?

861
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: And look, I'm not going to keep digging through this.

862
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: But there is one thing I wanted to hit um

863
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: that I read when I was reading reviews of this. No,

864
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: it's kind of about some of the weird politics. Um,

865
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Speaker 1: and so I think we'll close on that. But I

866
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: would be doing I would be doing a disservice if

867
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: I didn't like bring it up. Um yeah, uh here

868
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: we go. Oh boy, um uh this this is a

869
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 1: different review than the one I've read, but I have

870
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: to read it. This is from a review that some

871
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: like homeschooling Mom wrote, I think reading the series has

872
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: given us a nice break from traditional schooling. My kids

873
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: automatically preferred it over textbooks are looking at encyclopedias. They

874
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: were drawn into the story of rush Revere at the

875
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: middle school he teaches in his students. They like that

876
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Speaker 1: there was time travel involved. Um yeah. Although she says

877
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: she she had a hard time getting into the series

878
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: when it came to the history in the books, that

879
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: narrative narrative did tend to get a bit bookish. On

880
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: one hand, we got to know many of the real

881
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: characters that shaped America, YadA YadA. On the other hand,

882
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: the series the characters would sometimes seem to go on

883
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: a rant, spending a good time amount of time explaining

884
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: historical events and facts a bit unnaturally through chunks of dialogue.

885
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: That's because all of the bits where he's explaining history

886
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: read like fucking uh like Wikipedia pages that were just

887
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: like copied. And she doesn't like the part where you're

888
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: teaching your children something. Well, yeah, I mean I think

889
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,319
Speaker 1: because it's bad writing, like give her that it's it's

890
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:25,479
Speaker 1: not yeah, it sounds like interested in like learning that much. Yeah,

891
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: and it's poorly written, and it's it's a it's bad.

892
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: It's a bad book series. Um but yeah. So like

893
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: one of the there there's a because it's Rush Limbaugh,

894
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 1: there's like a weird bit of uh anti collectivist ship

895
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: in here. I'm gonna read from that Chicago Tribune article

896
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: anyway or again. Limbaugh, like other conservatives, seizes upon the

897
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: Pilgrim story is an example that of the terrible things

898
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: that can happen when people pool their resources in a

899
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: collectivist manner. The author seems particularly offended by the idea

900
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 1: of a common house at Plymouth. To him, the Pilgrims suffered,

901
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: suffered from the fulls of commonism, and survived only by

902
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: belatedly injecting individualism and free enterprise into their settlement. And

903
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: like the basis of this is that they used to

904
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: have the Pilgrims had common ownership of like food and

905
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 1: fields and stuff when they came and eventually like decided

906
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 1: to give families their own land, and that caused people

907
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: to produce more corn or something. And this is all

908
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: bits of history that that people take out and politicize.

909
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, so he's he's, he's there's definitely pieces of

910
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: this that he takes out for his lesson, But I

911
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: think most of this is basically him writing this weird,

912
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,880
Speaker 1: sweaty sci fi story about a middle school teacher and

913
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,800
Speaker 1: occasionally like cribbing and rewriting chunks of Wikipedia pages and

914
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: like throwing them into the mouths of historical figures like

915
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:48,760
Speaker 1: William Bradford info dump about the most boring aspects of history. Um, anyway,

916
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the book. It's this sweaty mix of

917
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: propaganda and horse lightning debates. Um, I mean, I'm thrilled

918
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: that you invited us to participate in this. Did you

919
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 1: all learn something I learned about liberty and the people that? Yeah?

920
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: That the characters? Um, yeah, Tommy, I hope he doesn't

921
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: change his mind and think I don't think he does,

922
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: because Tommy, Tommy is the one who provided us with

923
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: our our scientific explanation for the time travel that we

924
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: absolutely needed. Yeah, otherwise where would we be right now? Yeah?

925
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: Otherwise where would we be right now? Well, you know

926
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: where we are right now is at the point in

927
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:34,919
Speaker 1: the episode where y'all plug your mother fucking plug doubles. Yeah,

928
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,320
Speaker 1: we got stuff to plug. Um, check out our YouTube

929
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: channel somewhere news. Do that we got get out three

930
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: hour episode about Jordan. Do you do have a three

931
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: hour episode about Jordan Peterson? Um? So check that out.

932
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,919
Speaker 1: Go spend three hours with Jordan Peterson, just like those

933
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: doctors in Russia who who many days with him while

934
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 1: he such conscious after they weren't allowed to do that,

935
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 1: going going cold turkey on Penzo's and think nothing's fine,

936
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 1: He's great. He doesn't. If you take if you look

937
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: at a picture of him from two thousand seventeen and

938
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: a picture of him from this year, it doesn't look

939
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: like he's lost seventy pounds and also his mind and

940
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: not at all. Yeah, he doesn't look like he's aged

941
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: twenty five years in the last three. It doesn't look

942
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: at all like he picked up the wrong grail. Yeah,

943
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: there's there's nothing unsettling about his tendency to periodically cry

944
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: at random moments. Very fine, but but that is one

945
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 1: of them. Anyway, Thanks, I love you all. Like Rush

946
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:58,240
Speaker 1: Revere loves his horse, everyone isn't a girl his lightning horse.

947
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no opened up a portal with the lightning.

948
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: There's only one line I can responsibly end on which

949
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's dead. I continue to be glad he

950
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: step if it weren't for everything else he would deserve

951
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: to die for writing this book and book two and

952
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 1: three and four, and from all of the like seven

953
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: or five. How are many? There's too many of them, Robert.

954
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 1: Sometimes you really surprised me, and I know what we're

955
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: gonna say, and it gives me just the most reaction. Look,

956
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's dead, and I'll go ahead and say it,

957
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: you know, hunt down the illustrator from this book, figure

958
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: out who did the jib Jab and take him down Jab.

959
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: I'm not sure which one, but it's one of them. God, alright,

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Speaker 1: We're done by. Behind the Bastards is a production of

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Speaker 1: cool Zone Media. For more from cool zone Media, visit

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00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: our website cool zone media dot com, or check us

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