1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Bonnie and Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the e I 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: B Network. Great to have you, sir. Hello, ma'am, ma'am, 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's okay, chum. Today is Columbus Day, and 4 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 1: I would like you to talk about Christopher Columbus. Well, 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: I have a stack of Christopher Columbus stuff here. Great. Great, 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: it's not what you're gonna want to hear. Maybe. I 7 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: think he was a great courageous visionary. I think he's 8 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: a great role model for today's youth. He was an entrepreneur. 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: He if he didn't come here, if he didn't bump 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: into America, who knows how the world would be different, 11 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: but it would definitely be different. I know we wouldn't 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: have cigars, that's right, we wouldn't have all this great food. 13 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: We wouldn't have freedom because he really laid the foundation 14 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: for that here. And I'm so frustrated when I hear 15 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: that he all the only the bad things about him 16 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: and all the guard which that's being taught in the 17 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: schools about him. Um. And so I'd like to ask 18 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: everybody to put their flag out today and maybe make 19 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: a good, good dinner for their family and celebrate Columbus Day. 20 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: All right, you bet, I'm glad. I'm glad you called. 21 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: From the Rasmussen Reports web page, twenty four percent of 22 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: Americans believe we should not honor Columbus with a national holiday. 23 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: This is the result of government and multicultural education winning 24 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: from Let's say, where's this? From the Washington Post Voice 25 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: Rendsburger November one, went back to the archives, So this 26 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: is uh what seventeen man, oh man, that's seventeen years ago. 27 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: The chief rival position, called the Columbian theory, argues that 28 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: there was no syphilis in Europe till Columbus took it there. 29 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: Advocates of this view agree that what had been called 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: been called leprosy was a mixture of true leprosy with 31 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: other sexually transmitted diseases, but that none of them was syphilis. 32 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: More likely, they argue, the other disease was gonna rhea, 33 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: which my health teacher in junior high pronounced gungaria. Question, 34 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: did Columbus give the world syphilis? And they've been debating this, 35 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: you know, this is part of the multicultural curriculum. Now 36 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 1: that that Columbus introduced racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, environmental destruction, 37 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: syphilis and horses, which brought their own problems, and so 38 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: they had actually been debating this did Columbus give the 39 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: world syphilis? In the year fifteen dred. Not long after 40 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus and his crews began returning from their voyages 41 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,239 Speaker 1: to the New World, in epidemic epidemic of syphilis erupted 42 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: in Europe. Shortly thereafter, more epidemics flared and swept across 43 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: the continent, raging with much the same impact as AIDS 44 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: does today. And remember this when this story is from 45 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: so the theory there is that Columbus caught syphilis from 46 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 1: the Indians or whoever it was he interacted with down there, 47 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: and he and his crew uh took it back to 48 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: Europe with him. UH. And there are countless stories in 49 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: the stack today about what teachers are teaching kids about Columbus, 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 1: and it's basically the the multicultural curriculum, that he was racist, 51 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: a sexist, and bigoted and homophobic and brought all of 52 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: those things to this country, uh, this the New World, 53 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: on his uh, on his voyage. This is this is 54 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: why I say, you know a lot of your kids 55 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: are in school listening to the traditions and institutions that 56 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: make this country great get trashed each and every day, 57 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: and it's now gotten to the point that think we 58 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: should not honor or have a Christopher Columbus Day.