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But in this case, I get to read it live to my friends Katie Stoll and Cody. Johnston? Or slash even more news multiverse, which is a lot like the Marvel Multiverse, and that Chris Evans is heavily involved in both. Yeah, it's the same. They're part of the same universe. Part of the same universe. That's right, Cody, you are famously playing she Hulk in in a new series of movies. And Katie, a lot of people don't know this iron man's stunt double in in all of the the original Iron Man movies for the last 20 years. The last 20 years. That's right. Sorry that that dried up for you. Yeah, it does it. It is a shame that there's no more Iron Man roles, but I have a feeling we're all going to do fine in this new career we have, in which we're going to be reading a very special book by Rush Limbaugh titled Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. Hey, so wait a second. Wait. **** you man. Hold on. Yeah, when you when you show me this book. I didn't realize he wrote it. Oh, I mean allegedly bizarre. Like fanfiction that you know, I'm like no, look at this, look at this cover. I want you to look at this ******* cover. Stare into it. Looks like a robot Manson novel. Kind of between this person and their horse. Yeah, it's you've got like a big headed caricature drawing of. Rush Limbaugh in colonial garb and his horse, and I know because I've read a couple reviews of this. That's his sidekick. He's a talking horse boy. Lot of these stories, as far as I have learned from reviews. I haven't read the book yet, but I've read some reviews is that rush Revere is like A is like a A history teacher at a public school and he goes back in time to teach kids the history of the United States of America. Yeah, yeah. I mean, these are #1 New York Times best selling books. And one of the things there's a lot you liar you why you lie. Like, what I hate about them is that they're they're really quality printing jobs. Like people talked about that in the reviews, but like, no, like, look at this, look at it. Like beautiful illustrations. Oht yeah. Photos like these are this. It's a really well the photos put together book well. He hired feels nice. But feeling book like, I Hate all of the resources that. Clearly went into making this very well put together book on an aesthetic level, and then look at this ******* back cover like, it's like Rush Limbaugh, an actual picture of him like standing and smiling. I mean, we need to also clarify jacket. He looks like he's wearing, he's wearing a ******* leather jacket. He looks like the substitute teacher who like comes in in a leather jacket with a helmet and like tells you he's ridden a motorcycle to work. But then like later in the day one of the kids makes fun of his name and he just like slaps the kid and then you have to have. Like, I'm meeting with the principal about how he's not going to be allowed to be, to borrow a phrase from Cody, it's very weekend Dad. It's very weekend dad. And then I think the thing that we have failed to to describe for our listeners is that the cover, the Paul Revere and the horse, it is Rush Limbaugh's face on Paul Revere's body, if I'm not mistaken. Right. It's certainly is. Yeah. There's no doubting that that cherub like face with a jaunty Pilgrim hat. And he's talking horse, apparently. New York Times bestseller, eh? So I got this in the mail. I did not purchase this book. I I got this in the mail with this card, which is covered in a bunch of obscure ruins and a drawing of cathulu. And inside the card I'm going to read this. It's from Kimberly and Thor. My husband and I are huge fans of the show. We have learned so much and also died inside from how ****** humanity can be. We were at a thrift store. Recently and saw this book amongst the hardback copies of individual books and knew it was perfect for you and the gang. And then she says the authors note had me in stitches. So I feel like we have to start with that authors note. First off, Kimberly and Thor, I want to, I want to thank you. Thoughtful. We haven't even read the book yet. And I know you nailed it with the hammer of Thor. I might instead of saying thank you, say thank you like like a mix of **** you and thank you. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, interestingly. So this is in the brave pilgrims. OK, so we've got it starts off, we've got a drawing of the Mayflower that, as far as I can tell, is, is pretty, pretty and pretty accurate. Draw like a legend. It's got like a little notes. That seems fine. From the author. We live in the greatest country on Earth, the United States of America. But what makes it so great? Why do some call the United States a miracle? How did we become such a tremendous country in such a short period of time? I'm going to answer that for you, Russian. The answer is genocide. Several genocides, one of which was an enslaving genocide. Yeah, so that's good, but he does not, he says. Instead of after that saying genocide. He says. After all, the United States is less than 250 years old. I want to try and help you understand what American exceptionalism and greatness is all about. It does not mean that we Americans are better than anyone else. It doesn't mean that they're better than everyone else. That is. That is literally what we said. Because he's like it doesn't mean there's anything different. This human being, so that we've never faced problems, American exceptionalism and greatness means that America is special because it is different from all other countries. And it's it's different. It's no coding. It's you're not saying the same. It's not special because we're inherently better. We're just different in a way that's exceptional. And that's not saying that we're better. We're just exceptionally different. We're exceptionally, it's like a special difference that is like above everybody, like we're not. Just more exceptional. The Roman Empire practiced chattel slavery on a massive scale, and the Mongolians carried out a series of horrific genocides in order to colonize large areas of land. But those are different than what the United States did because the people spoke different languages. They were speaking like Latin and whatever it Mongolian. No, we did it. We did that stuff when we spoke while speaking English, which means it's fine. It's OK. It's good that we did it so much more. That's what makes U.S. special, is that we spoke English. The words, the words that we use, the words that we say, meanings of the words, more or less. But yeah, absolutely the same meanings, but different words, different, yeah, different sounds. That's all that matters. So I'm going to continue with Rush here. It is a land built on true freedom and individual liberty and it defends both around the world. So there's another I have notes on this one as well. I might refer people to our episodes on the CIA or on Henry Kissinger and sure all of the different times that the United States. But Rush was a big fan of all of the democracies we overthrew because they were they were generally left wing. I don't know. This is what's what's kind of one of the things I read when I was prepping for this was a Chicago Tribune review of this book. Which I might pull up for a second, but basically the author was like. Yeah, Rush Limbaugh is like a right wing ideologue, but the books actually fine. It doesn't have, you know, much that's objectionable in the histories. OK. And it's like a pretty good children's book and like as soon as reading it, what I think is dangerous about this is that Russia is obviously doing this to groom children, right. Like that's the reason you write a book like this is to like grandchildren. Left was full of groomers. Well, we could talk about the age of women that Rush Limbaugh tend to do approach, but. He's attempting to, like, inculcate kids with his ideas and he's doing it, I think, pretty intelligently. And the fact that a guy who I think is probably more or less disinterested at the Chicago Tribune could read this and be like, well, this isn't very political, is evidence of how politicized to the right our history education is because like one of the things that guy, I have to bring up the Chicago Tribune article because there's a quote from it that is. I think like emblematic of. Kind of the some of the things that most Americans just tend to kind of like, accept as red and and, uh, that I found kind of like, unsettling. Here's the exact line. Russia's political viewpoint certainly shows up, but less than you might expect. He even defines American exceptionalism in a matter unlikely to offend Rachel Maddow, which I guess you might be right because she might not be offended, but also she just she just made a statement about how she likes hanging out with Tucker Carlson. Yeah, again, there's a lot to say. See, I missed that. Yeah. She loves running into him. He's they're all nice people to each other. People to each other. Exactly. Yeah. Which is for all of his flaws, one of the things I like about I'll always like about John Stewart is he he does not pretend to like people like Tucker Carlson. Why would you? Yeah, but but anyway, I know why they would. Why they? Because it's good for money. Yeah, because they're all basically whatever. Whatever. As anyway. The role of the United States is to encourage individuals to be the best that they can be, to try to improve their lives, to reach their goals and make their dreams come true. In most parts of the world, dreams never become more than dreams. In the United States, they become true every day there are. So I had a friend with a dream of dying. Well, it was a nightmare, but it was a nightmare of dying from lack of of affordable insulin. And then they did. That's a dream. A nightmare that came true that. I don't think, Cody, that couldn't have happened. Do you think that would have happened in Denmark? Do you think people are dying from lack of insulin in Denmark? I think that that is a dream that will not come true in Denmark. Those are those are specifically American dreams. Right there in American Dream Baby is the exceptional American dream. Like places in the world. Katie, I know you like poetry. You must have read a dream deferred by Langston Hughes, which is a poet, about how dreams only come true in America. Yeah, if I'm remembering it properly. Yeah, that's that's exactly right, Robert. That's that's what likes it was getting on about. We are a page into this book. We are even past the forward. No, this is a note from the author. Forward is kind of gauche. I hope that. I hope it talks about like his other titles, like I was thinking about, like Limbaugh Revere. Paul Rush here. Honestly, a lot of options. Completely changed my opinion on this book. If he'd had the courage to call his character Limbal Revere, if he had the gall to do that, he had the Limbaugh balls. Yes. Wow. That was a lot of hits right in a row there. All right, I'm going to continue. The sad reality is that since the beginning of time, most citizens of the world have not been free. I wonder, I wonder some sort of where they weren't free, which places in the world? People in them is he. Are you going to elaborate on the ways in which people weren't free in your book? No, I don't think they're going to. Katie Ohk OK. For hundreds and thousands of years, many people in other civilizations and countries were servants to their kings, leaders and governments now. I guess it's true that the first four of the five first presidents being slaveholders means they didn't have servants, they had slaves, and he does not, he does not list slaves on here. So maybe that I would love to do like a search find like, yeah, upload this to like a PDF. And then I'm sure there's a Kindle version, but I'm not going to pay for it. Doing this again, I have to say really, they're already paid as well as an author, a very well printed book. I hate how high quality the printing of this book is. Yeah, well, because it's like also like are the pages aged or is that just like what it looks like? No, no, no, that's just what it looks like. If they did a pretty nice for like a year, was this published? It's very recent because I can as a conservative like kid when I was like 9 or 10, I can imagine having getting this book from a family member or something and like 2013, 2014. OK, because there's two books in this and this this this is a collection. It's an anthology of the 1st 2 Rush Revere novels. Ohh, how nice for him. Yeah. So we're we're talking about the people who for thousands of years. We're certainly if you look up the adventures of Shafir, the category is adventure series. Gathered children. And you still love this idea of, like, oh, I need a new adventure novels. Yeah. Yeah. By Rush Limbaugh. I mean, there's like there's like he got through like seven of these before he finally now he's got. Yeah. Yeah. So we're talking about the people who for thousands of years were servants to their kings, leaders and government. It didn't matter how hard these people work to improve their lives because their lives were not their own. Imagine that. What a horror they often feared for their lives and could not get out from under a ruling class, no matter how hard they try. You can't with this guy. Yes, this is inconceivable to an American living in ******* to a ruling class that responds with violence anytime you try to get out from under them. Something we can't comprehend here, there's an unfathomable situation. Is this still the authors note? Yes. This is still the author's note. We're we're barely making it, sentence by sentence. Many of these people lived and continue to live in extreme poverty, with no clean water, limited food, and none of the luxuries that we often take for granted. Many citizens in the world were punished, sometimes severely, for having their own ideas, beliefs, and hopes for a better future. the United States of America is unique because it is the exception to all this. Our country is the first country ever to be founded on the principle that all human beings are created as free people. The founders of this phenomenal country believe that all people were born to be free as individuals. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just circling back to what you've already mentioned. But this article, a pretty accurate description, the authors note, is completely false. It's all it's all lies in adventure tale, but it's these are also. He is what what he's doing successfully here is he is reframing his specific line of of right wing ******** which most centrists dislike. Rush Limbaugh is not a guy who had a big listenership of centrists, and he's reframing it in a way that is very familiar to anyone who had an American grade school education and thus is like pretty inoffensive because people are kind of used to hearing it written this way. Like I can see how people who are not regular listeners of the Rush Limbaugh. You know could read the I don't think any of them would buy it because I what I will say and this kind of mitigates the danger of this book, the only people who are going to see Rush Limbaugh on a books cover and buy it for their kids or right wingers. But I can see how some like kind of centrist book reviewer could read this big oh, it's actually not that bad because like he's not he's he's saying like he's saying what is what is the party line, right. Yes. Well and it's just like this is. Yeah it's it's it's cool. It's cool that he's he's he's doing this. Yeah, I I I mean, then there's also, there's some, like, weird Thatcher right here stuff here. America is a place where the individual person serves himself and his family, not the king or ruling class or government, which is like Margaret Thatcher's big thing is like, we don't have a society. There's no such thing as society. There are individuals and their families. Right. And this is like a very central conservative idea, in part because conservatism rests heavily on the atomization of the individual from other individuals. And, like the best way to do that is to separate people into this. False idea of a nuclear family. That's like the building block of civilization, as opposed to communities, of people, like engaging with each other for mutual benefit and support, which is like what? What? Where things actually happen. But if you get everyone atomized into this like, no, you, you and your family are plotted like plot looking, thinking. Because what he talks about here, when people have the freedom to look for a better future, what he means is that you as an individual have a freedom to try and earn a better future for your family, but you as a person who is part of a collective. Is part of a class. Don't have any like that. Is not part of the conservative vision of freedom, which is part of why? Like, they love **** like the suburbs. Because when you live in the ******* burbs, you are inherently separated from people who don't live there, right? Like you're atomized, that's anyway. Even in the suburbs. You're on a smaller, like smaller level. You're separated from all your neighbors, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This book on the Pilgrims, as part of the Great tale of how the United States came to be, the pilgrims came to our shores more than a century. And 1/2 before our country was established in 1776. But their reasons for coming to the new World helped to sow the seeds of our nation. The story of the Pilgrims and their arrival in the New world has been taught for hundreds of years. And in that time, the story has been tweaked and changed by people to the point that it is often misunderstood. I want you to know the real story. OK. Oh, boy. I bet you do not. Yeah. And I bet all of our listeners want to know the real story. But you know what they want to listen to more. Huh? Ads for these products and services now. Sure. Through products and adventure, through products and services. Our primary sponsor for this week is my favorite sponsor, which is the organization with the plot to nuke the Great Lakes region, which I I think we can all agree is a noble endeavor. 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I'm, you know, it's it is a very crude Photoshop of like a Ruddy faced pill addict. Rush Limbaugh's head on a colonial body. Jab, jab, jab from ******. And in his head he's the best body. He's got a little map and it says. It's listening out like the Northeast coast. It's got like Newfoundland, Cape Cod, New England, Virginia. But instead of spelling Plymouth, right, I want you to see Cody. Can you read out how he spelled Plymouth, or can you see it's all reversed on the thing? What the hell? I'll read it. It's all going to be reversed on the thing. PLIMO TH. Wait. No, wait. Yeah. What is my mom, buddy? Because nobody cared that much about the facts. They wanted to make this look enticing to kids, and I think it does. Again, it's a colorful book, but yeah, that ****. Yeah, it's bad. It's bad. Nobody read it and cared. Yeah, no, I mean, it was a New York Times bestseller. These were all number one on the bestseller list when they dropped. Yeah, but nobody cares. Well, hope, yeah. I mean, like, well, I mean, I can't speak for this book. I don't know the details, but a lot of these books, especially somebody like Rush Limbaugh, will buy them in bulk. Yes, they get on that. It is unclear. I mean, again, Rush was on every day when I was a kid, so, like, a lot of people worshipped this dude. 2013 and 14 is a little bit past his his best of date, but he was still influential. I mean, I don't really know. I can't. I obviously because of things like that. Because of how? Like effect of the right is at gaming the New York Times bestseller list. I cannot tell you how actually influential these books were, but I mean, I I just as a kid who listened to him almost every day for years and years, I do feel like there's a pretty decent chance there's a lot of kids who are like, because if you were nine or 10 back when this book came out, you're 18 or 19 right now. We gotta have some listeners that have read these books actually, because it's like for middle schoolers and stuff. So yeah. Yeah, I put they put them in school libraries, 10 to 1213. Fourteen maybe is kind of like the age for this, maybe like 9 to 12, something like that. But I kind of suspect there's a lot of like graper types who encountered these books when they were kids. Yeah yeah got, but we'll see, we'll see. I mean, I'm trying to find the because they have usually the New York Times on their best seller list, they have a little icon next to books on the list to indicate if a lot of them have been bought in bulk because they know that. That's one of the. One of the they probably didn't have that back then. They probably didn't have it back then. I do need to. I need to note real quick, sorry. The Jibjab photo of him inside the book that you showed us. The the face, the face of him. And you can confirm this for me if you could. It's the same photo from the cover. His head. Yeah. And it's the same head from the second and third book cover as well. Yeah. I think they just keep sticking the same head, same expression, and they just pop it on, which is inconsequential. But, you know, yeah, it's a perfect detail. So the the book opens with our character rush Revere on the deck of the Mayflower, like vomiting over the side or trying not to vomit. He's like, sick and queasy. He's just teleported to the year 1620 and only been on the boat a little while. I tell you when I think of rush. I assume he's vomiting. I'm also. He also makes me. Just say that is the only believable way to introduce the story with Rush Limbaugh by it, historically accurate. I'm in now. The best way, the most the most believable way for this to open is if he starts off vomiting, then guzzles down another three or four oxys and starts weekly ************ to like a 40 year old Sports Illustrated magazine. That's that's really the intro to rush that I believe the most. Well, we'll see what happens next, I guess. This was not my first encounter with someone from the past, although I was feeling extremely queasy. I tipped my hat and introduced myself while trying not to fall over. I'm not a St or a separate. The guy has asked him, like we should throw all. Yeah, whatever. I'm rush Revere, I said. I'm a history teacher from the 21st century. I've come to the 24th century. Blimey, you're mad, the whole lot of you. You think I care if you make it to New England at the sailor laughed. So this is a sailor who doesn't care about the people who are on the Mayflower because they're all religious extremists. Which, yeah. Guess fair. Umm, so, OK, he pukes on this guy for middle schoolers threatened, and he probably didn't even write it, but that's really terrible. Well, it's all terrible. So he pukes on this sailor, and the sailor threatens to beat him up, and so he runs to his horse, who is named Liberty for help. Now, Cody, I know you have a lot of questions. The book's about to answer them now. Look, I know what you're thinking. What's a horse doing on the deck of a Mayflower in the middle of a storm? Trustee tosee good. Questioned the truth is my liberty is no ordinary horse. Alright? And then I actually was wondering that I'm going to be honest. The surf and stuff yadda yadda yadda. The guys threatening. OK, so this dude is coming after him and he finds his horse and his horse says I hope you can fly and oh, OK. Oh yes, liberty can talk, yes, Oh yes, liberty can talk rights. Rush, I told you who wasn't an ordinary horse. Before the man could even turn around to see who had spoken, Liberty kicked his hind legs and sent the sailors. Failing high into the eye. And then he fell into the air. And then he fell into a web of Nets. Perfect Shot, Liberty said. You appeared in the nick of time. I said, starting to feel sick again. Leaping into the Mayflower in the middle of a storm wasn't my idea, Liberty said, speaking very fast. Yes, I can leap to different times in American history, but I'm not the. OK, so the horse is the time traveling, I see. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. You know, look, he's at least getting to the point here. Yeah. He's also very hungry, which I'm not going to read all of the. That's apparently the thing. That's obvious that he only know the horse, though. Yeah. Yeah. This is hungry for pills. This is the first book. Yes Cody I know like it's you know it's customary recommend it's a good idea to like start in the middle of your action. You know like there's and like this is a really bad way to start this book series it is. So one of the things we learned here is the horse as because he gets so sick takes him back to modern day America. So there's there's medicine. Well in order to travel through time the horse has to say a catch phrase there's two different ones I think there's. So to get back to the modern time, it has to say rush, rush rushing from history and then I'm guessing to history as the other way it works. But reasonable guess, yeah, that's the prologue. Now we're in chapter one where he's back at his job as a high school or middle school or whatever. DJ. Yeah, yeah. Middle school. Yep, Yep. The school bell rings, yada, yada. Principal Sherman also comes into the class. Oh boy. I wonder if Sherman's going to be the bad guy because Sherman beat the Confederacy. I don't know. We'll see if this principle winds up sucking pin in that one. The principal of Manchester Middle School was not a small man. If the door frame were any smaller, the principal would have to duck his head and twist his way into the classroom. I stood outside in the hallway as the door closed, but watched and heard my pair of her door. Small window. Everyone, please take your seats, said the principal with authority. He stood at the front of the classroom, hands at his sides, while his eyes scanned the desks and chairs. I have an important announcement. The room went silent. It was apparent that the principal Sherman did not tolerate disrespect. I have some unfortunate news, he said. Your teacher, Miss Borrington, needed some extra time away from the Academy to help care for a sick family member in that the Academy. Nobody calls them middle school in Cademy Academy. OK, whatever. Anyway, he's introducing his Subs insurance. And if nurses were covered, she wouldn't have to take time off from school. But yeah, doesn't rush, like, not think people should take time off and like, would want this, like, teachers and stuff? And he does not explain this. He just calls it a middle school. But the fact that he says it's an Academy and the principal announces that they have only the best teachers here, I think this is a fancy private school for rich kids. Only the best teachers, yes, only the very best of teachers. They said the exceptional teachers, I would say actually an exceptional school. Wow. So they're exceptional than others. There's like a whole diatribe in here about the name rush and how it's not a weird name. So he comes in and he, like, writes his name on the school board or on the chalkboard before I even had. And then, like, a girl raises her hand after he writes his name on the chalkboard. Before I had a chance to even call on her, she asked, your first name is Rush. That's weird. And why are you dressed like that? She said. I could tell that this student was all business if there were a pecking order in this class. You would probably be at the top of the food chain and my seating chart and replied. Thank you, Elizabeth. Do you go by, Liz? She rolled her eyes and nearly grunted. No, unlike some people, I have a real name. It's Elizabeth. It's a lovely name if you like. 4 syllables, I said. Write, winking if you must know. My real name is Rusty. But when I was your age, my favorite class was history. In fact, I found myself rushing to history class every day I had it. I would rush from my home, rush down the street and rushed to the school until it was sitting boy, he told her. I bet she's my teacher. Started calling me Russian. Stuck. Is this a true story from his? No, that's not his actual rush. His given name is Rush. Yes, that's his actual given rush Hudson Limbaugh. Yes, that's his name. Hudson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that. That's yeah, the third. Rush Hudson, Limbaugh the third. Yes. Rusty. **** you, rush. Yeah, it's that. It's ******* unbelievable. Like First off, absolutely not. That's nobody's back story. Like, just like. Boy, you guys were so horrified. I would say. Well, I Katie, I thought you were trying to slander the number one achievement in American artistic history, the film Hudson Hawk, which I will not stand for. I want. No, no, no, no. Bruce Willis is greatest Nate's only contribution to civilization. The film Hudson Hawk. We're talking. I'm going to let it slide, but. Uh, watch Hudson hawk people? Uhm great film, so yeah. He then explains why he's dressed. Apparently he's dressed, obviously the way he's dressed in the jib jab clip art on the cover as like a colonial dude, so he explains that. Can you anyone guess who I'm dressed as? Students raise their hands. They guess George Washington. Good guess. But no. However, I am dressed as someone who fought in the same Revolutionary War as George Washington, and they assuredly knew each other. Are you Thomas Jefferson? Asked another student. Sure. No. However, another good guess. Yada, yada, yada. He's Paul reviewed, right? Keep saying more white men because they can't tell the difference, yes. Yes, it's ******* Paul Revere. So he has he has ******* interactions with these schoolchildren. Which boy, we just don't need to talk about that. Umm, OK then he brings his horse into class. Liberty. Umm, yeah, I get the horse. I don't think we're ever going to explain how he got the horse. I'm sure at some point we're going to learn where the horse came from, but yeah, but it'll be like we'll learn it through like somebody asking where do you get the horse? And he'll. Clean it and that'll be that. All the girls are all the kids. Bring your horse to school. Except for a girl named Freedom. Well, I did. I did once go to a school where kids rode their school. Yeah, but that was it. Was for a bit. Yeah, it was for a bit. OK, so let's let's move past this school section because, boy, we just don't need this goes on for pages. They're just talking. Get to the history. What the heck? We don't need any of this. So Jesus God, OK, finally, finally. He takes a bunch of kids with him into the past. Uh, yeah. They go rush, rush, rushing to history parents and the horse and slip for that. I don't know. I don't. I don't. I don't think about that. I think all. I think actually. I assume all children and their parents consent to go back in time if the teacher can time travel if asked. Yeah, yeah, that that actually does seem fair. The trip through the time tragic school bus. Right, guys? Thank God we're cutting that can. No, we're just. We're just cancelling it. For that one, the trip through the time portal was like jumping through a hoop instantaneously. We landed in Holland. I quickly surveyed the geography, discovered we were in a field not far from the Dutch port of Delfshaven. Thankfully, we were alone while so he doesn't get to decide where he's going. He just hops on the horse and then like pops over to somewhere sometime. Yeah, he's in ******* I guess Holland. Because that's where the they they set off from the he's looking for. Pilgrim well, Puritans, right? Yeah, right. OK oh, good. And now he's whitewashing the Puritans. This is great. The woman turned in my direction, but didn't stop walking. She stared at me as if I were some strange animal at a zoo. She quickly replied. If you're looking for Puritans, you found us these the Puritans. I had always imagined the pilgrims, as in clothing that was black, white, and Gray. However, these people wore clothing that was die in every color of the rainbow. A yellow shirt, blue britches, green stockings, a red dress, a purple knitted stocking cap. I was sorely mistaken to think that I knew what the pilgrims. For every day, it was time to get my class involved. Class, I said. These are the real pilgrims. I pointed the lens of my smartphone towards the large group that had gathered. I guess they're watching it through his phone or some ****. I'm sorry he is not taking into account. How? You're responsible. This is to just all of these children in a different time. I mean, you could drastically change the the events of history. I mean, that would be the best case scenario, right? If they somehow got these people killed and so they didn't colonize the northeast. Yeah. Yeah. Give him a few more years to to get ready. All right, so we're learning about the ******* pilgrims and, boy, I just do not want to. No, no, I absolutely do not want to, because I know there's some weird socialism shaming coming in the part. About the actual colony and a that they make. And yeah, so let's let's let's skip forward to that a bit here. Boy, this has been like 10 pages of him talking about how cool the Puritans are because they separated from the Church of England and how they they really just loved liberty, as opposed to being weird religious extremists who wanted to be able to oppress people without being having to live under anyone else's rules anyway. I guess it makes sense that he would want to white. Watch them for that, right? Yeah. So he travels back into the present, into the classroom, to talk to the kids about what they've learned. And then Principal Sherman walks in. Yeah, and it's it's it's a whole thing. The UM, the principal demands an explanation because he's heard some weird ****. An explanation? I stalled. Well, yes, of course. I realized that Principal Sherman would eventually find a yellow wooden shoe outside the classroom window. So I began. We were discussing the Pilgrims and how they left England to escape religious persecution and settled in Holland along their journey to the New World. I brought a wooden Dutch shoe from my trip to the Netherlands as a bit of show and tell, and Principal Sherman interrupted me and said, pointing. You mean like the one that's broken and splintered on the floor here? I had forgotten about that one. Yes, said. Apparently wooden shoes are not. Very sturdy. Principal Sherman walked over to the window and saw the second shoe lying on the grass near a big oak tree. And yet that one looks just fine. I joined him at the window and said I'm OK, so this is all very boring. Boring. It's very boring. It's very boring and bad. OK. Wow. When do it's it's taking. When do we get there? Fireworks. There are stuff. They're surprisingly more random classroom ******** and discussion of Puritans in here than there is actual narrative action going on. Why? Yeah, I was told this was an adventure series. Yeah. Where's the adventure getting? Oh, OK. But we it looks like we're going to get some explanation here. So he has this kid Tommy who's like the little **** and the class starts, like, bagging on him for his horse. And yeah, OK, so. OK, here's him explaining. This is the explanation for how the horse can travel through time. It appears that lightning may have struck liberty and created a supernatural phenomenon or a time portal that thrust him forward in time to our day. The electrical properties that charge through his body and the vortex that sent him to the future changed him physically and mentally. He can not only talk and disappear, but he's also. I paused, trying to formulate the right words. Freedom finished my sentence and said a time machine. What? Tommy said, confused. Did I miss something? Did you just say time machine? He's more like a time portal, I said. To clarify, he has the ability to momentarily open a time door anywhere in history. Well, more specifically, anything that touches American history. Tommy started laughing. OK, this is a joke. I'm on to you. This is summary TV reality TV show called the Biggest Bozo who believes in right. Where are the cameras? Right. He started looking around the room. He then looked back at freedom and back at me. Both of us were dead serious. You believe this guy? Tommy asked. Freedom. Sticking his thumb out. Wait a second. Wait, wait, wait. What? I thought the horse was named Liberty. The horse's liberty. Freedom is the girl in the class who likes Russian. Oh my God. So come on, you didn't catch that, Cody. You didn't catch that. You didn't catch that. That. Oh yeah, no, but maybe I skipped ahead a little much, but yes, freedom is the girl who's immediately on board for all of his his weird *** ********. That's great. **** man. Cody, it's called subtext. It's called subtext. OK, Cody, I know that. You don't. You are. You aren't. You aren't. You aren't an author like me, so you don't understand the complexities of literature. But when you want to say that a character is good, you name her liberty and then people or freedom. I forget which. But either way, people know they're a good guy. Do you see? Subliminal? It's exactly, exactly. It's like, it's like, I don't know if I say it's like Nietzsche, enough people probably haven't read niche that they'll just assume that I'm not lying. So it's like, say it's like Nietzsche. Yeah. No, it's like. 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Like he's he is in the text of his book sweatily defending the time travel mechanism that he's written into it. Also, Rush just have this substitute teacher be an inventor who made like you can. He can also have a talking horse sidekick. Why is the horse have to be? And she do it that's just sweaty and stupid. And it causes all of these questions that could be answered by saying I built a time machine, right? Not right. And I made my horse smart, because you know what? If you established that this character is an inventor who's built a time machine, I'll believe that he has a talking horse that he scienced to. It's fine. It's fine. That is not going to be my problem with your work if you do it that way. That wouldn't be complicated enough. Struck by lightning. And so he can only travel. Through American history, but he also just traveled to Holland. So again, does it just mean that, like, where is the line go there, right? But because the people who were in Hollands, some of them later went to the northeast, but none of them ever lived in the United States. But it was like American pre. But does that mean that, like, you could go back to ancient Rome because the founding fathers based a lot of our Republic on the way the Romans did things? Like, what does that mean when you go back to Africa, right, you know? Yeah, could you travel back to when, like, the Portuguese first started exploiting slaves from Africa? Because that's as much a part of the history of this country as the landing on Plymouth. Not explained by Rush Limbaugh, but, boy, he doesn't go like Chris, like the birth place of Christopher Columbus and just, like, hang out there like, yeah. Is he going to, like Genoa? Yeah. That is all. This is all part of American history. Is he, for example, going back further than the 1600s to like, you know, indigenous like to Cahokia? Right. And like, modern day, like, Missouri, Illinois area and like, talking, you know, I'm guessing he's not. I mean, you probably, like, can you go to, like, ******* Greece because you talk about democracy, like, right. Yeah. Are you are you going to China because they invented gunpowder and that played a crucial role in the colonization of North America? Hmm. None of this will be answered. Well, that's all decided by the hordes. So Tommy and freedom and Rush continue their argument. Hey, I might be crazy, but I'm not that crazy, OK? Tommy said. He got up from his desk and started pacing the floor. He took off his baseball cap and combed his fingers through his blonde hair. He sighed. I have to think about this for a minute. We probably shouldn't show them the other thing I can do. Should we? I mean, he seems a little freaked out right now. Liberty said no. I said firmly. I took a deep breath. I need to finish our story. I believe the. Lightning Creek at the time. Portal that brought me to the modern day. Oh my God, Tommy put his face. Sorry. I'm sorry. God. Arguing about the lightning. This is like, again, just say magic and we're done. Just say magic. Good magic. Science. It's fine. But also, like anything yet very fancy Academy, that kid cannot wear a baseball cap inside. Sufferable uniform. Yes. And again, probably not horses allowed inside either, but we'll let it slide also. Like it's a talking horse. Yeah, it it it it is a talking ************* horse, Ed. That's the one that talked, right? Yes, it is. OK. It's one of the two famous horses that can talk. The other one is Liberty, Liberty Limbaugh adventure. How foolish of me to forget. Yes, he keeps, he keeps. This is now like 2 pages of arguing with this child about the lightning bolt that did his sword handle. Not arguing. I think it's amazing that you can't explain in a room full of inquisitive children. Hey, Tommy, put his baseball cap back on and said, OK, OK, maybe it is possible. I mean, I don't think the lightning hit him directly. Technically, a direct hit would have killed him, but I guess there's a possibility that several bolts could have simultaneous. What is it? What is hell? There is that possibility get electrostatic prism and maybe the positive and negative charge carriers combined with the acoustic shockwaves create of some kind of tie moments and liberty. What is the conversation they're having? Again, this is this is a history adventure book. This isn't even like, it's because it's not even like he figured it out and he's like, got like an explanation for it. It's just like the character guessing. Yeah. And it's not even ways. Right. And we're just we're now explaining how like liberty, when they came for the future, met Rush and like how shocking the world was. This is my point. There's the ******* book in the past with this magic horse and then do this like, whole sequence, like show him meeting the horse. Yeah, it's like just do the. Not going to do that, I know. Yeah, we're we're absolutely not going to do that. We have an illustration on this. Next pay it again. This is all just liberty explaining how they met. Boy, there doesn't seem to be any explanation for this at all. There's just a picture of him holding an A modern day ice tea can with an American flag that says two if by T underneath it. I don't know why that was put in here. What's happening on the page opposite from it? Like he's talking. Liberty and Liberty are talking about *******. Uh, how about he met his ******* horse, right? How his horse came through time and they made are we on right now in the book 45? My God, my God, if I bought this. You bought this book. So your children something, presumably. And so far it's just been nonsense. Electromagnetic. So far we have learned that the Puritans were just a bunch of nice people who wanted religious freedom as opposed to religious extremists and what we thought and we have had. Spent pages talking about how lightning strikes could conceivably give Morse the ability to time travel. That is, that is the primary fact dump we've gotten so far. Really lacks dress code at this Academy. Yeah, it's now they're talking about when football happened, because Tommy is a football player, even though he knows a lot about lightning. That's a boy. This is just, this is just ridiculous. We don't need. We don't know this. And, like, when does the history start? That's a great question. Oh, good. So Tommy gets on the horse. Now we've got a picture of Tommy writing back in time on the horse. So I'm going to guess that's what happens in the pages I've skipped. He's sitting on the back of Russia, bears horses bigger and better. Patient to the other. Yeah. So they are trying to land undetected on the Mayflower. The time Portal opened just as it did moments. Wait, what did you do with all the other kids? Are they just leave unattended? Uh-huh. Look, Katie, you're going to have some open questions about this, because I am not going through every ******* page of this stupid. *** **** it. No, it makes sense. Yeah. OK. The picture doesn't explain, therefore I cannot tell you. I am. We're not going to be hitting every plot point here. The time Portal opened just as it did. Moments earlier, as clearly as possible, I pronounced each word. September 6th, 1620, Plymouth, England. The launching of the Mayflower. I had found that, give it that. Giving the exact date, location, and name of the historical event event helped liberty get us to where we needed. Of course, like, you don't need to explain that I understand why you would do that in any way. The sensation of jumping through time was always the same. The rush of air sent goosebumps over my body, the hair on my arms stood on end, and for a second it feels like it does when you're swinging backwards on a siata, yadda yadda. OK, so they're orgasm. Yeah, it does. It does sound like he's coming, like he should. Like, never use the word rush unless you're referring to your character. Yeah. So they they have liberty. Go into stealth mode and pretend not to be a talking horse so they can sneak on the the the Mayflower. Which is easy because some of the Pilgrims had second thoughts. One of the pilgrims, he's William Bradford, who he met in Holland, remembers him and says Rush Revere. It does my heart good to see you again. Yeah. And is this the person you were waiting for in Holland? He smiled affectionately while straightening Tommy's brown leather hat. Yes, this is Tommy. I said as I put my arm around Tommy's shoulder. His parents are gone, so I'll be caring for him on this voyage. It's a pleasure to meet you, Tommy, Bradford said as he reached out his hand to Tommy, who shook it. William turned back to me and said let's talk some more. After the ship set sail, the captain is very eager to leave. OK, oring boring. Some public domain. We got like 4 pages of public domain photos of the ******* Mayflower, like drawings of it and **** like it was your question about Tommy. I mean, we're not going to have an answer for it, but is Tommy just wearing 2013? No, no, no. He's dressed leather cap on. They gave, they gave him. They found clothes for him in a baseball hat. I am, I am going to fill in a blank here and say Rush Revere traveled forward in time, found a Pilgrim child separated from his family, cut his throat with a straight razor and took the clothing. It makes sense, yeah. It's a little, little bit of a this is also an Assassin's Creed. It's like half of the chapters are like really boring, but about aliens and stuff. Does Rush Limbaugh and his hoodie running around? Speaking of by the way, Speaking of fiction stories that did not need to explain things as much as they wound up doing. Assassin's Creed made the same mistake as the Rush Revere novels. Nobody needed any of that. You don't need that section at all. People just want to murder folks in different time periods. You don't need to do a whole thing like that's not necessary. I wasn't confused. I didn't have a questions. It's like if the Grand Theft Auto series like added as very sweaty. Like whole ******* series of missions about how you're like a time traveling superpowered person and that's why you never die in the car accident. We don't. We don't need that. None of that's necessary. That's not why I'm here. Yeah, not here for the lore. Sorry. Yeah, not not here for the lore. OK, so Puritans, boy. Just a lot more Puritans traveling on a boat. With most of this is not history. It appears to be like them encountering random people. And like, there's like 3 pages where Tommy meets the Pilgrim kid who has a puppy and they talk about puppies. They talk about how uncomfortable boats are, which I don't. Yeah, it's it's great. This is this is a **** book, guys. This is a real ****. Really bad. Like, not like as a history book and as an adventure book. Yeah. Yes. And it's like just like. Get children's. I mean, like, does he ever? What does he? What are what am I supposed to learn from this? Like, what am I supposed to be being? You're not supposed to learn anything from this. And look, I'm not going to keep digging through this, but there is one thing I wanted to hit that I read when I was reading reviews of this. No, it's kind of about some of the weird politics. And so I think we'll close on that, but I would be doing, I would be doing a disservice if I didn't like bring it up. Yeah, here we go. Oh boy. This this is a different review than the one I've read, but I have to read it. This is from a review that some like home schooling Mom wrote. I think reading the series has given us a nice break from traditional schooling. My kids automatically preferred it over textbooks or looking at encyclopedias. They were drawn into the story of Rush Revere at the middle school he teaches and his students. They liked that there was time travel involved. Yeah, although she says she she had a hard time getting into the series when it came to the history and the books, the narrative narrative did tend to get a bit bookish. On one hand, we got to know many of the real characters that shaped America, yadda yadda. On the other hand, the series characters would sometimes seemed to go on a rant, spending a good time, amount of time explaining historical events and facts a bit unnaturally through chunks of dialogue. That's because all of the bits where he's explaining history read like ******* like Wikipedia pages that were just, like, copied, and she doesn't like the part where you're teaching. Children something. Well, yeah. I mean, I think because it's bad writing. Like give her that. It's it's not it is bad. Yeah. It sounds like she wasn't interested in like learning that much. Yeah, but and it's poorly written and it's it's a it's bad. It's a bad book series. But yeah, so like one of the there there's a because it's Rush Limbaugh, there's like a weird bit of anti collectivist **** in here. I'm going to read from that Chicago Tribune article anyway. Or again. Limbaugh, like other conservatives, seizes upon the Pilgrim story as an example that of the terrible things that can happen when people pool their resources in a collectivist manner. The author seems particularly offended by the idea of a common house at Plymouth. To him, the Pilgrim suffered, suffered from the evils of communism and survived only by belatedly. Rejecting individualism and free enterprise into their settlement. And like, the basis of this is that they used to have the pilgrims had common ownership of like, food and and fields and stuff when they came and eventually, like, decided to give families their own land. And that caused people to produce more corn or something. And this is all bits of history that that people take out and politicize. But yeah, so he's, he's, he's, there's definitely pieces of this that he takes out for his lesson. But I think most of this is basically him writing this weird sweaty. Sci-fi story about a middle school teacher and occasionally, like, cribbing and rewriting chunks of Wikipedia pages and, like, throwing them into the mouths of historical figures like William Bradford to infodump about the most boring aspects of history anyway, that's that's that's the book. It's this, like, sweaty mix of propaganda and horse lightning debates. I mean, I'm thrilled that you invited us to to participate in this. Did you all learn something I learned about liberty and freedom? I learned about liberty and. That's just the the horse and the student, the people that yeah the the the characters. I hope he doesn't change his mind and think I don't think he does, Cody. Because Tommy, Tommy is the one who provided us with our our scientific explanation for the time travel that we absolutely needed. Otherwise, where would we be right now? Yeah, otherwise, where would we be right now? Well, you know, where we are right now is at the point in the episode where y'all plug your ************* pluggable cell. Yeah, we got stuff to plug. Check out our YouTube channel. Some more news. Do that we got it out three hour episode about Jordan Peterson. You sure do. They do. You do have a 3 hour episode about Jordan Peterson. So check that out. Go spend 3 hours with Jordan Peterson just like those doctors in Russia who who pays for days and days, many days with them while he was unconscious after they weren't allowed to do that going going cold Turkey on benzos. He's great. He doesn't. If you take, if you look at a picture of him from 2017 and a picture of him from this year, it doesn't look like he's lost £70 and also his mind and like 90. Yeah, not at all. Yeah, he doesn't look like he's aged 25 years in the last three, doesn't look at all like he picked up the wrong Grail. There's there's nothing unsettling about his tendency to periodically cry at random moments. He's doing very fine. We have other episodes too, to be clear, but that is one of them anyway. Thanks. Thanks. Out online. I I love you all. Like rush. Revere loves his horse. Liberty. More freedom with everyone. Isn't the girl is lightning horse? Yeah. Is lightning Shockwave power to. I mean, there's nothing. They opened up a portal with lightning. There's only one line I can responsibly end on which I'm glad he's dead. I continue to be glad he's dead. If it weren't for everything else, he would deserve to die for writing this book and book two and three and four and all of the like seven or five, however many. There's too many of them. Robert. Sometimes you really surprise me. I know what you're going to say, and it gives me just the most joy and genuine reaction. Yeah, look, I'm, I'm glad he's dead and I'll go ahead and say it. You know, hunt down the illustrator from this book, figure out who did the jib jab and and take him down to find jib or jab. Not sure which one, but it's one of them. Ohhh God. Alright, we're done. We're done by. Behind the ******** is a production of cool zone media. For more from cool Zone Media, visit our website coolzonemedia.com, or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, I'm Erica Kelly from the podcast Southern Fried True crime, and if you want to go from podcast fan to podcast host, do what I did and check out spreaker from iheart. I was working in accounting and hating it. Then after just 18 months of podcasting with Spreaker, I was able to. At my day job, follow your podcasting dreams. Let's break your handle the hosting, creation, distribution, and monetization of your podcast. Go to spreaker.com. That's spreaker.com. 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