1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: I'm editor Candice Skipson, joined by staff writer Joshua and Clark. 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: How's it going, Josh? Going pretty well? Candice? How about you? 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: You sound very satisfied. You must have killed yourself a bear. 6 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: That's really funny you should say that. I just I 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 1: did just kill bear with my bare hands. Actually, that 8 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: explains the blood and the and the proud coon skin 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: cap perched atop your head. Yeah. I'm feeling very primal, 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: and I'm also right now feeling very um connected to 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 1: one of my childhood heroes, Mr Davy Crockett. You ever 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: heard of this girl called the Phone? He's one of 13 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: mine too. Yeah. Well, have you ever seen the mini 14 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: series that they launched in nine now at the first air? 15 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: And I know what you're talking about. There was a 16 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: five part mini series produced by Walt Disney and it 17 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: hauled in about a hundred million dollars worth of merchandise, 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: and that um did the afore mentioned coon skin cap, 19 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: like Josh has, as well as the sheet music and 20 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:07,839 Speaker 1: different recordings of the theme song, which Josh has promised 21 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: to hum a few bars of right now, go, I 22 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 1: promise no such thing. Sorry, yeah, but anyway, I love 23 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: Davy Crockett. I always have and um, you know, being 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: covered in this bear's blood and shirtless right now, it's 25 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: really kind of taking me back to my childhood. One 26 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: of the things I always remember hearing about Davy Crocker 27 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: is that he was king of the Wild Frontier. Is 28 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: that is that fact or fiction? I'm gonna go with fact, 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: And that's rude a little bit in my opinion. But 30 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: Davy was just he was a real strapping man, and 31 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: he was sort of like the the George Clooney of 32 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: the American pioneering West, charismatic rugged and he stood for 33 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: a cause. And one particular Davy Crockett quotation stands out 34 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: in my mind, and that was be sure you're right 35 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: and then going go ahead. And he really lived by that. 36 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: He was a congressman in Tennessee for two terms, and 37 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: then by the time his third uh opportunity for reelection 38 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: came around, he had so vehemently opposed President Andrew Jackson's 39 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: American Indian Removal policies that he was sort of, um, well, 40 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: he wasn't reelected and he and that that was actually 41 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: a big reversal for him because he had actually taken 42 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: place in the massacre of an Indian village younger in 43 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: his younger years. So for him to turn around and 44 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: you know, vocally opposed Jackson like that over Indian removal 45 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: and land Gray, I mean that was kind of a 46 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, he really readjusted his moral compass and 47 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,679 Speaker 1: then not only did he sort of self banished to Texas, um, 48 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: I believe his parting words were you may all go 49 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: to Hell, and I will go to Texas where he 50 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: met his demise. Right, he did as a defender of 51 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: the Alamo. So he really did stand for what was right, 52 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: and you know, he went ahead and he went ahead 53 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: to his death. But I think that really makes the 54 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: King of the World Frontier agreed. And plus killing a 55 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: bear too, that'll do it. So now that old Davies 56 00:02:57,280 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: dead and I've just killed myself a bear, and I 57 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: think I'm the king of outfit to you or anything. 58 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: I think. So we're gonna have to amend this article, 59 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: but until we do, you compat it in its original form, 60 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: as was Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier on 61 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:13,079 Speaker 1: competaff Works Dot com. 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