WEBVTT - A Book Episode (with Rush Limbaugh) 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:08.960 Oh man, it's Behind the Bastards, a podcast about the 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:14.000 worst people in all of history. That sometimes, boy, there's 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:15.640 a lot of books that I have to read for 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.239 this podcast, and that that is exhausting. So every now 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.800 and then we like to do a little bitty episode 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.680 that is easier because I don't have to read a book. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.400 I just have to read a book, but in this case, 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.720 I get to read it live to my friends Katie 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:39.279 Stole and Cody Johnston More Slash even More News multiverse, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.760 which is a lot like the Marvel multiverse, and that 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.760 Chris Evans is heavily involved in both. Yeah, it's the same. 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:48.800 They're part of the same universe, part of the same universe. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:54.400 That's right, Cody, you are famously playing she Hulk uh 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.840 In in a new series of movies. Um, and Katie, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.440 a lot of people don't know this Iron Man's stunt 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.600 doutble and in all of the original Iron Man for 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:10.120 the last twenty years. That's right. Um, sorry that that 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.800 dried up for you, Yeah it does. It is a 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.039 shame that there's no more Iron Man roles. But I 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.759 have a feeling we're all gonna do fine in this 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.120 new career. We have in which we're going to be 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.240 reading a very special book by Rush Limbaugh titled Rush 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:32.080 Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. Wait so wait a second. Wait, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.920 fuck you man, hold on when you when you show 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.840 me this book, I didn't realize he wrote it. I 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:42.840 mean bizarre like fan fiction that you know. I'm like, no, 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.160 look at this, Look at this cover. I want you 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:51.000 to look at this fucking cover. Stare into its novel 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:56.800 kind of between this person and their horse. Yeah, it's 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.520 You've got like a bigheaded caricature drawing of Rush Limbaugh 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.800 in colonial garb and his horse. And I know because 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.720 I've read a couple of reviews of this that's his sidekick. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:11.920 He's a talking horse boy. The plot of these stories, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.120 as far as I have learned from reviews. I haven't 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.120 read the book yet, but I've read some reviews, is that, uh, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.280 Rush Revere is like is like a history teacher at 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.800 a public school and he goes back in time to 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.359 teach kids the history of the United States of America. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.880 This isn't amazing. Yeah, I mean, these are number one 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.680 New York Times best selling books. And one of the 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.640 things there's a lot of liar like what I hate 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.520 about them is that they're they're really quality printing jobs, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.079 Like people talked about that in the reviews, but like no, 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.640 like look at this, look at like beautiful illustrations like 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.640 these are this. It's a really well photos put together book, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:57.960 well but feeling book, Like I hate all of the 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.680 resources that clearly went into making this very well put 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.440 together book on an aesthetic level. And then look at 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.760 this fucking back cover, Like it's like Rush Limbaugh an 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.880 actual picture of him, like standing and smiling. I mean, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.560 we need he's wearing. He's wearing a fucking leather je 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.640 He looks like the substitute teacher who like comes in 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.639 in a leather jacket with a helmet and like tells 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.480 you he's ridden a motorcycle to work. But then like 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.320 later in the day, one of the kids makes fun 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.239 of his name and he just like slaps the kid, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.000 and then you have to have like a meeting with 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.919 the principle about how he's not going to be allowed 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.920 to because, to borrow a phrase from Cody, it's very 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.880 weekend dad. It's very weekend dad. And then I think 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:44.520 the thing that we have um failed to to describe 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.520 for our listeners is that the cover the Paul Revere 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.760 and the horse, it is Rush Limbaugh's face on Paul 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.040 Revere's body, if I'm not mistaken, right, So it certainly is. Yeah, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.080 no doubt that that um cherub like face with a 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:03.840 jaunty pilgrim hat and talking horse apparently do your time's 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.800 best seller A. So I got this in the mail. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.280 I did not purchase this book. I got this in 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.440 the mail with this card, which is covered in a 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.960 bunch of obscure wounds in a drawing of cathulu Um 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.520 and inside the card, I'm gonna read this. It's from 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.840 Kimberly and Thor. My husband and I are huge fans 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.520 of the show. We have learned so much and also 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.800 died inside from how shitty humanity can be. We were 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.320 at a thrift store recently and saw this book amongst 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.919 the hard back copies of individual books and knew it 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.400 was perfect for you. In the gang Um and then 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.840 she says, the author's note had me in stitches. So 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.920 I feel like we have to start, and first off, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.480 Kimberly and Thor, I want to I want to thank you. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.279 It's so thoughtful. We haven't even read the bookyet, and 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.440 I know you nailed it with the hammer of thor. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.680 I might instead of saying thank you, say for thank you, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.039 like like a mix of fuck you and thank you, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:03.240 thank you if thank you? Yeah? Um, interestingly, so this 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.680 is in the Brave Pilgrims. Okay, so we've got it. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.719 Starts off. We've got a drawing of the Mayflower that, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.600 as far as I can tell, is pretty pretty and 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:18.200 pretty accurate drawings, little notes that seems fine. A note 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.440 from the author. We live in the greatest country on Earth, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.559 the United States of America. But what makes it so great? 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.440 Why do some call the United States and mirape? How 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.200 did we become such a tremendous country in such a 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.480 short period of time. I'm gonna answer that. For your 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:39.240 Russian the answer is genocide. Several genocides, one of which 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.320 was an enslaving genocide. Yeah. Um, so that's good. But 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.760 he does not, he says. Instead of after that saying genocide, 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.039 he says, after all, the United States is less than 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.800 two hundred and fifty years old. I want to try 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.840 and help you understand what American exceptionalism and greatness is 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.800 all about. It does not mean that we Americans are 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.520 better than anyone else. It doesn't mean that that is 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.680 that is literally what we said, because he's like, it 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.520 doesn't mean that there's anything different to us as human 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.080 beings or that we've never faced problems. American exceptionalism and 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.440 greatness means that America is special because it is different 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:20.280 from all other countries. It's different. It's you're not saying that, 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.080 say it's not special because we're inherently better. We're just 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.120 different in a way that's exceptional. And that's not saying 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:32.280 that we're better. We're just exceptionally different. We're exceptionally it's 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.360 like a special difference that is like above are not, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:42.040 We're just more exceptional. The Roman Empire practiced chattel slavery 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.719 on a massive scale, and the Mongolians carried out a 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.039 series of horrific genocides in order to colonize large areas 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.599 of land. But those are different than what the United 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:56.520 States did because the people spoke different languages. See, they 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:02.279 were speaking like Latin and whatever, and we did that 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.680 stuff when we while speaking English, which means it's fine, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.920 it's okay, it's good that we did. That's what makes 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.559 us special is that we spoke English. The words, the words, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.200 the words that the words more or less. But yeah, 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.960 absolutely the same meanings but different words. Different Yeah, different sounds, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.240 that's all. So I'm going to continue with Rush here. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.280 It is a land built on true freedom and individual liberty, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.840 and it defends both around the world. So there's another 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.480 I have notes on this one as well. Um, I 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.240 might refer people to our episodes on the CIA or 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.160 on Henry Kissinger and all of the different times that 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.480 the United States. But Rush was a big fan of 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.280 all of the democracies we overthrew because they were they 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.400 were generally left wing. Um, I don't know, this is 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.040 what's what's kind of One of the things I read 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.560 when I was prepping for this was a Chicago Tribune 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.400 review of this book, um, which I might pull up 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.360 for a second, but basically the author was like, yeah, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.680 Rush Limbaugh is like a right wing idealogue. But the 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.440 book's actually fine. It doesn't have, you know, much that's 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.760 objectionable in the history is okay, and it's like a 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.960 pretty good children's book. And like, as soon as reading it, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.760 what I think is dangerous about this is that Rush 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.560 is obviously doing this to groom children, right, Like, that's 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.160 the reason you write a book like this is to 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:25.040 like children left towards full of groomers. Well, we can 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.280 talk about the age of women that rush Limbaugh tend 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.920 to do approach, but um, he's attempting to like inculcaid 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.000 kids with his ideas, and he's doing it, I think, 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.720 pretty intelligently. And the fact that a guy who I 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.040 think is probably more or less disinterest at the Chicago 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.840 Tribune could read this and be like, well, this isn't 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.839 very political is evidence of how politicized to the right 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.959 our history education is. Because like one of the things 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.880 that guy I have to bring up, the Chicago Trip 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.520 being an article because there's a quote from it. Uh, 0:08:54.559 --> 0:09:00.400 that is I think like emblematic of kind of the 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.679 some of the things that most Americans just tend to 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.000 kind of like accept as red and uh that I 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.480 found kind of like unsettling. Um, here's the exact line. 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.840 Russia's political viewpoints certainly shows up, but less than you 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.200 might expect. He even defines American exceptionalism in a matter 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.880 unlikely to offend Rachel matt Out, which I guess you 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.240 might be right because she might not be offended, but 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.240 also she just she just made a statement about how 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.160 she likes hanging out with Tucker Carlson. Again, there's a 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.600 lot to say. I missed that. Yeah, she loves running 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.520 into him. He's they're all nice people to each other, 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.679 people to each other exactly. Yeah, um, which is for 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.520 all of his flaws. One of the things I like 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.880 about I'll always like about Jon Stewart is he does 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:50.680 not pretend to like people like Tucker Carlson. Yeah. But 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:55.400 but anyway, why because it's good for money, because they're 0:09:55.400 --> 0:10:01.360 all basically whatever whatever as as anyway, Um, the role 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.600 of the United States is to encourage individuals to be 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.079 the best that they can be, to try to improve 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.679 their lives, to reach their goals, and make their dreams 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.080 come true. In most parts of the world, dreams never 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.199 become more than dreams. In the United States, they've become 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.640 true every day. There are So I had a friend 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.840 with a dream of dying, Well it was a nightmare, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.880 but it was a nightmare of dying from lack of 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.720 affordable insulin. And then they did that's a dream, a 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.360 nightmare that came true. That could think, Cody. That couldn't 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.800 have happened. Do you think that would have happened in Denmark? 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.800 Do you think people are dying from lack of insulin 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.720 in Denmark. That is a dream that will not come 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:45.160 true in Denmark. Those are those are specifically American dreams, right, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:54.720 American dream that is the exceptional American dream the world. Katie. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.840 I know you like poetry. You must have read A 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.920 Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, which is a poet about 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.719 how dreams only come true in America. If I'm remembering 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.920 it properly. Yeah, that's that's exactly right, Roberts. That's what 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:15.080 was getting on about. We are a page into this book. No, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.120 this is a note from the author. Forward is kind 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.839 of ghost. I hope that. I hope it talks about 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:30.160 like his titles, like I was thinking about, like Limball Revere. Os. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.719 I would completely change my opinion on this book if 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:43.240 he'd had the courage to call his character Limball Revere. Wow, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.240 that was a lot of hits right in a row there. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.480 All right, I'm gonna continue. The sad reality is that 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.319 since the beginning of time, most citizens of the world 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:56.200 have not been free. I wonder I wonder some sort 0:11:56.240 --> 0:12:03.440 of where they weren't free free people in them? Is he? 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.880 Are you going to elaborate on the ways in Whish 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.719 people weren't free in your book. No, I don't think 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.760 they're going to. For hundreds and thousands of years, many 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.320 people in other civilizations and countries were serving to their kings, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.480 leaders and governments. Now, I guess it's true that the 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.520 first four of the five first presidents being slaveholders means 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.040 they didn't have servants, they had slaves, And he does not. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.880 He does not list slaves on here, So maybe that 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.360 a search fine like upload this'sf and then I'm sure 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.240 there's a kindle version, but I'm not going to pay 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.280 for it. Um, we're reading this again. I have to 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.720 say it was an author a very well printed book. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.440 I hate how high quality the printing of this book is, 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.280 um because it's like, also, like are the pages aged 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:53.880 or is that just like what it looks like? No? No, no, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.800 that's just what it looks like. It's they did a 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.840 pretty nice for like the year. Um, it's very recent 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.360 because I can as a conservative like kid when I 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.760 was like nine or ten, I can imagine having getting 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.440 this book from a family member or something, and like 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:13.280 two because there's two books in this and this this 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:18.079 is a collection. It's an anthology first to Rush Revere novels. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:24.320 Oh oh, how nice for him. Yeah. So we're talking 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.240 about the people who, for thousands of years, We're certain 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:33.040 if you look up the adventures of the category is 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:39.200 adventure series gathered dren this idea of like, oh I 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.480 need a new adventure novels by Rush Limbaugh. I mean 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.680 there's like there's like he got through like seven of 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:52.400 these before finally. Yeah. Yeah. Um. So we're talking about 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.600 the people who, for thousands of years were servants to 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.520 their king's leaders in government. It didn't matter how hard 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.000 these people work to improve their lives, because their lives 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:05.480 were not their own. Imagine that. What a horror. They 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.120 often feared for their lives and could not get out 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:15.520 from under a ruling class no matter how this guy. Yes, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.920 this is inconceivable to an American living in bondage to 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.080 a ruling class that responds with violence anytime you try 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:27.080 to get out from under them. Something we can't comprehend here. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.680 There's an unfathomable situation. Is this still the author's note? Yes, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.280 this is still the author's note. We're barely making it 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.960 sentenced by sentence. Many of these people lived and continue 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.680 to live in extreme poverty, with no clean water, limited food, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.320 and none of the luxuries that we often take for granted. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.720 Many citizens in the world were punished, sometimes severely, for 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.720 having their own ideas, beliefs, and hopes for a better future. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.960 The United States of America is unique because it is 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.760 the exception to all. This country is the first country 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.520 ever to be founded on the principle that all human 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.920 beings are created as free people. The founders of this 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.960 phenomenal country believe that all people were born to be 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.400 free as into Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.960 I'm just circling back to what you've already mentioned. This 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:21.240 article a pretty accurate description. The author's note is completely false. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:26.240 It's all it's all lies, But these are also he is. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.960 What he's doing successfully here is he is reframing his 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:36.480 specific line of right wing bullshit, which most centrists dislike Russia. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.360 Limbaugh is not a guy who had a big listenership 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.880 of centrists, and he's reframing it in a way that 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.440 is very familiar to anyone who had an American grade 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.600 school education, and thus is like pretty inoffensive, um because 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.040 people are kind of used to hearing it written. This way, like, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.280 I can see how people who were not regular listeners 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.760 of the Russia Limbaugh Show could read that. I don't 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.400 think any of them would buy it because I what 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.800 I will say, and this kind of mitigates the danger 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.800 of this book. The only people who are going to 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.680 see Rush Limball in a book's cover and buy it 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.880 for their kids or right wingers. But I can see 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.480 how some like kind of centrist book reviewer could read 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.080 this big Oh, it's actually not that bad because like 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:20.400 he's not he's he's saying like he's saying what is right? Yes, well, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.440 and it's just like this is yeah, it's it's it's cool. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:29.000 It's cool that he's he's he's doing this. Um uh yeah. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.200 I mean then there's also there's some like weird Thatcher 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.440 right here stuff here, America is a place where the 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.040 individual person serves himself and his family, not the king 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.880 or ruling class or government, which is like Margaret Thatcher's 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.840 big things like we don't have a society. There's no 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.040 such thing as society. Their individuals and their families, right. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.640 And this is like a very central conservative idea, in 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.960 part because conservatism rests heavily on the atomization of the 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.640 individual from other individuals, and like the best way to 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.520 do that is to separate people into this false idea 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.880 of a nuclear family that's like the building block of 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.000 civilization as opposed to communities of people like engaging with 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.879 each other for mutual benefit with in support, which is 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.200 like what what where things actually happened. But if you 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.720 get everyone atomized into this like no, you you and 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.320 your family are plotting like plot looking thinking because what 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.199 he talks about here when people have the freedom to 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.919 look for a better future, what he means is that 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.840 you as an individual have a freedom to try and 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.600 earn a better future for your family, but you, as 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.280 a person who is part of a collective, as part 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.480 of a class, don't have any like that is not 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.840 part of the conservative vision of freedom, which is part 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.240 of why like they love ship like the suburbs, because 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.919 when you live in the fucking burbs, you are inherently 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.280 separated from people who don't live there, right, Like you're atomized, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.880 that's anyway, even in the suburbs, you're on a smaller, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.400 like smaller level, you're separated from all your neighbors too. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.280 Yeah yeah, yeah, um, this book on the Pilgrims is 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.520 part of the great tale how the United States came 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.679 to be. The Pilgrims came to our shores more than 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.880 a century and a half before our country was established 0:17:59.920 --> 0:18:02.639 in seventeen seventy six. But there are reasons for coming 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.560 to the New World. Helped to sow the seeds of 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.720 our nation. The story of the Pilgrims and their arrival 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.720 in the New World has been taught for hundreds of years, 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.960 and then that time, the story has been tweaked and 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.399 changed by people, to the point that it is often misunderstood. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:19.840 I want you to know the real story. Okay, yeah, 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:21.480 And I bet all of our listeners want to know 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:22.919 the real story. 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That's 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.159 because she thinks that all of the brave men on 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:22.399 the Edmund Fitzgerald deserve to die. Sophie along. Wow, Wow, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:30.440 the worst thing. Robert's accused me. All right, okay, so 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.679 a wow. So I was just praising the construction of 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:35.960 this book, and most of like the illustrations are pretty 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.400 well put in this one. This one is not. This 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:44.120 one's not great. It I'm looking it's it is a 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.960 very crude photoshop of like a ruddy faced pill addict 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.760 Rush Limbaugh's head on a colonial body chip jab it's 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.359 from and in his head he's got a little map 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.360 and it says it's listing like the northeast coast. It's 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.520 got like Newfoundland, Cape Cod, New England, Virginia. But instead 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.359 of spelling Plymouth, right, I want you to see, Cody, 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.080 can you read out how he's spelled Plymouth or can 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.719 you see it's all reversed. It's all gonna be reversed 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.600 on the thing. He l I M O T H 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:26.800 Wait wait yeah yeah, buddy, Because nobody cared that much 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.520 about the facts. They wanted to make this look enticing 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.880 to kids, and I think it does. Again, it's a color, 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.240 but yeah, yeah, it's bad. It's bad. Nobody read it 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.439 and Karen yeah no, I mean it was a New 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.600 York Times bestseller. These were all number one on the 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:43.880 best seller list when they dropped. Yeah, but nobody cares, 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.480 we hope. Yeah, I mean they're like, well, I mean, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.600 I can't speak for this book. I don't know the details, 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.119 but a lot of these books, especially somebody like Russia Limbaugh, 0:20:54.320 --> 0:21:00.200 will buy them in bulk. Yes, that it is unclear year. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.359 I mean again, Rush was on every day when I 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.840 was a kid, so like a lot of people worshiped 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.879 this dudeen and fourteen is a little bit past his 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.239 his best of date, but he was still influential. I mean, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.560 I don't really know. I can't obviously, because of things 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.800 like that, because of how like effect of the Right 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.720 is at gaming the New York Times bestseller list, I 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.440 cannot tell you how actually influential these books were. But 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.040 I mean I I just as a kid who listened 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:31.040 to him almost every day for years and years, I 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.359 do feel like there's a pretty decent chance there's a 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:36.399 lot of kids who were like because if you were 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.480 nine or ten back when this book came out, you're 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.520 eighteen or nineteen right now. We gotta have some listeners 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.919 that have read these books because like for middle schoolers 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:49.280 and stuff. So yeah, I'm thinkary ten to twelve, thirteen, 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:51.320 fourteen maybe is kind of like the age for this, 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.320 maybe like nine to twelve something like that. But I 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.800 kind of suspect there's a lot of like Graper types 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:01.720 who encountered these books when they were kids. Um, we'll see, 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.240 we'll see. Um. Yeah, I'm trying to find the because 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:07.520 they have usually in the New York Times on their 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:09.879 best seller list, they have a little icon next to 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.240 books on the list to indicate if a lot of 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.080 them have been bought in bulk, because they know that 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.040 that's one of the one of the they probably didn't 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.399 have that they probably didn't have it back then. I 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:22.400 do need to I need to note real quick, sorry, 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:24.480 the jib jab photo of him inside the book that 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:28.280 you showed us the express the face the face of him, 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:30.760 and you can confirm this for me if you could. 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.879 It's the same photo from the cover his head um 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:38.760 and it's the same head from the second and third 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.080 book cover as well. Yeah, I think they just keep 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:46.280 sticking and they just pop it on, which is inconsequential, 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.560 but you know, yeah, it's a big detail. So the 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.760 book opens with our character Rush Revere on the deck 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:56.840 of the Mayflower like vomiting over the side, or trying 0:22:56.920 --> 0:22:59.320 not to vomit. He's like sick and queasy. He's just 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.119 telepo ordered to the year sixteen twenty and only been 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:03.960 on the boat a little while. I tell you, when 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.680 I think of Russia, Limba, I assume he's vomiting. I'm 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:12.159 also I have to say, that is the only believable 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:19.000 way to introduce the story. Now, the best way, the most, 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:21.520 the most believable way for this to open is if 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:25.000 he starts off vomiting, then guzzles down another three or 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:28.680 four ox eyes and starts weekly masturbating to like a 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:32.040