The Truth About America They Never Told You | David Barton

Discover the hidden truths about America’s founding fathers, the Bible in schools, and the real story behind separation of church and state. David Barton reveals shocking documents and forgotten history…

From America’s 250-year legacy as the longest-running constitutional republic to the untold role of faith in shaping laws, education, and freedom, this conversation uncovers what most history books leave out. You’ll hear stories of courage, slavery’s complex history, black elected officials before 1900, the founding of political parties, and powerful moments from World War II to modern policy battles.

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00:00:02:02 - 00:00:18:08 Unknown This is a neat addition to the Holy Scripture for the use of schools. I thought Vernon fathers didn't want the Bible in schools. What do you do with this? This is where it gets a lot of fun. If you start looking for documents, they did and what you said rather than what the narrative is about them today. What's the average length of a consultation history for the research? 00:00:18:09 - 00:00:36:15 Unknown Average length is 17 years. You were about to punch 250 on our constitution. We're the longest ongoing constitutional republic in the history of the world. The number one source with the Bible. 34 quotes of all of the quotes the Founding Fathers came out of the Bible, if you can name it. Five individuals who signed the declaration give this gift card. 00:00:36:16 - 00:00:59:15 Unknown Of the 56 who signed the declaration, 29 had what we call seminary degrees. Graduated from schools at 2529. We're a biblical nation. United States and Congress assembled recommend this edition of the Bible. The heavens United States Jefferson Gazette letter. Who uses that famous phrase a wall of separation of church and state? Their concern is the government is going to come in and shut us down because we're Baptist up here in a congregational state. 00:00:59:16 - 00:01:25:05 Unknown If all you know is the bad stuff, then you want to fundamentally reshape the nation. Are all of the founding fathers. Do they want to build a racist nation? Well, first off, all right, I'm here with David Barton. This is an incredible man of God, and he has a passion for rebuilding our country's history. And so we're going to take a look around at his incredible museum, which is, I saw his first museum, and I was in awe. 00:01:25:05 - 00:01:42:23 Unknown And he's like, you know what? Come check out my second museum. And we are here in this, beautiful, place that is filled with an unlimited amount of stories. And so we're going to have a conversation today on the podcast about our, our nation's history, how it was founded, some things that a lot of people do not know. 00:01:42:27 - 00:02:08:22 Unknown And, you will your mind will be blown and you will hear things you've never heard before. So let's dive in. Where do you wanna start? Well, since we're coming up on the 250th anniversary, and that's a big deal, and it should be a big deal. When you look all right, we're a constitutional republic. When you look over the history of the world by 1500 years, recorded history over that period of time, there's thousands of nations, 193 nations due in this year. 00:02:08:24 - 00:02:30:03 Unknown So when you take and look at those nations, University of Chicago Law School and University of Illinois said, hey, what's the average length of a constitution, history of the world? And they went back and did the research. Average length is 17 years. Wow. We're about to punch to 50 on our constitutional republic. We're the longest ongoing to public in the history of the world. 00:02:30:06 - 00:02:53:14 Unknown We're special. We had different ideas. We had different beliefs. We incorporated those different philosophy. Ideas have consequences. Clearly, we came up with ideas that were not being used back then. So that's the starting place. Now when you say what I what ideas made a special university? Houston said, well, let's see what the founders read. And use and what they quoted when they made this government. 00:02:53:16 - 00:03:17:20 Unknown And so they took 15,000 writings out of the founding era, a bunch. That's a big sample. They went back and it took them ten years, but they went all the way through. And every time they found the Founding Fathers making a quote, they they noted that it took them ten years. They found the source of every quote. So, as it turns out, the number one most cited individual when the Founding Fathers built our government is a guy named James Montesquieu or Charles Montesquieu. 00:03:17:22 - 00:03:40:24 Unknown He's a French philosopher. Two volume set that he did in 1750 on spirit was number one cited individual. Number two cited individual is William Blackstone. He's an attorney. English attorney for William Law, said Americans love that. Thomas Jefferson said Americans read Blackstone's Commentaries like Muslims read the Koran. Such a big book for us. The third is John Locke The True Truths of Government. 00:03:40:24 - 00:03:59:03 Unknown He did in 1690. That was the book on which they built the declaration. So that's your top three sources. Top three individuals, the number one source with the Bible, 34 quotes of all of the quotes the Founding fathers came out of the Bible. So you have. We are a Christian nation and I would say not Christian. We're biblical. 00:03:59:05 - 00:04:14:21 Unknown Yeah. And there's a big difference because there's a lot of Christians are not biblical. That's good. And so we're a biblical nation. Yeah. We got things wrong, but we got out of it faster than any other nation. You know, people like to point to slavery. And yeah, we had slavery. But show me, any nation in the world in that era that did not have slavery. 00:04:14:24 - 00:04:33:00 Unknown And do you have an issue? You have some of the, some original founding document. Oh, yeah. Well, let me let me just point this, okay. You're in a place now where when you see this wall over here, that's the only place in America that we know of right now where you can go and see a document from every single sign of the declaration and every single sign of the Constitution. 00:04:33:02 - 00:04:55:11 Unknown So national Archives has all these guys. They don't display them. So the Library of Congress, all these guys, this is the only place displayed where you can see all of the 56 hours of declaration, all the 39 signers, Constitution. That's the reason 250 years. So that's when we celebrate 250. Now, the trick is who are those guys? And this is where it gets really interesting. 00:04:55:11 - 00:05:16:03 Unknown We do a lot of universities and and, Tim, my son, he speaks all over universities. He's got this this gift card, his head, and he says, it's you can name it. Five individuals who signed the declaration. Here's a picture of him. Show big slide name five. If you name five, we give this gift card $20 gift card. 00:05:16:05 - 00:05:34:03 Unknown He said. At nine years, nobody can. So everybody knows one or 2 or 3. We don't know these guys and they all have stories. They all made remarkable contributions. Seven of these guys never lived to see the freedom they signed for. So there's a lot of sacrifices there. But there's a lot of ministers there too, which is interesting. 00:05:34:05 - 00:05:55:05 Unknown Of the 56 guys who signed this declaration, 29 had what we call seminary degrees, graduated from schools at 29. So there's this nonsense about, oh, they're a bunch of atheist agnostics. Well, you only know 1 or 2, and you probably know the two that at least religious. How about the rest of them? How about Benjamin Rush? And how about John Witherspoon, all these other guys? 00:05:55:07 - 00:06:19:01 Unknown So this is where America gets fun. When you start seeing American history, you get the biographies of these guys and what they went through and what they did. It's just it's really remarkable. So that's a good starting place. Is the 250. What document would you say is the most interesting or maybe what what where do people get our, you know, get our do they get our foundation wrong like our, our founding fathers are right here. 00:06:19:01 - 00:06:37:18 Unknown And so where what's what are some interesting stories that are maybe, counter to what people have originally heard? Let me take you to a document. Now, there's some fun stories to bump to a document in the sense that, okay, these these are our founding fathers. And I mentioned that people think that basically they're secular. They're not religious, etc.. 00:06:37:21 - 00:07:02:14 Unknown So one of the fun documents that then I'll, I'll take you to over here is this document right here. Yeah. This happens to be one of the rarest books in the world. Originally when this was printed in 1782, they printed 10,000, and there's only 32 or 33 left, and most of them are in the hands of Smithsonian and Library of Congress. 00:07:02:16 - 00:07:25:16 Unknown There's only like 7 or 8 in private hands. And here's two of them right there. So this is a Bible that was done. And on the inside of this Bible, interestingly enough, it has an endorsement by Congress in the front of this. And there it is. The United States and Congress assembled recommend this edition of the Bible, the heavens United States. 00:07:25:18 - 00:07:45:29 Unknown So our founding father in Congress print it. Now, why would they do that? Well, once you go to the records Congress, it says that this is a neat addition to the Holy Scripture for the use of schools. Now, I thought Vernon fathers didn't want the Bible in schools. What do you do with this? So this is where it gets a lot of fun is you start looking at the documents they did and what they said, rather than what the narrative is about them today. 00:07:46:02 - 00:08:06:26 Unknown And so many, many things. So this is this is a fun piece because it right up front is too ambitious. They thought the Bible was really important. This is what Congress this is the first Bible printed in America because in 1781 we're still fighting the British. And there was a British law that made it illegal to print any Bible in English in America, because the King tells you what it's got to be. 00:08:07:04 - 00:08:25:02 Unknown I mean, we had a state religion. The king says we're all Anglicans or whatever. If you're in France or Spain, you're going to be Catholic. If you're in England, you're going to be Anglican. If you're in Germany, you're going to be Lutheran. State tells you. Yep, not in America. So we say everybody needs to know the Bible. So what do you what do you do with, the separation of church and state then? 00:08:25:05 - 00:08:44:28 Unknown I love the separation of church and state to talk about it. Yeah. Because it goes back to a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote when he was president in the United States. So let's go back a little further. When George Washington becomes president, there are no political parties. And in his administration, you start having a difference of philosophy. 00:08:45:00 - 00:09:02:11 Unknown You have John Adams, who thinks maybe the government should do more, and you have Thomas Jefferson, who thinks it is less. And so Jefferson is the secretary of state. And John, Mr. Vice President. And people kind of gravitate to both of those views. Government needs to do less, government needs to do more. And so the government needs to do more. 00:09:02:11 - 00:09:24:21 Unknown Kind of guys. That became the Federalist Party. They're pro federal. They think central government is a good deal. The Thomas Jefferson guys or called the Anti-Federalists, we want less government. Let the states do it. Let the local communities do it. So that starts two political parties. Now, what is that? That starts best? 1792 okay, so right, I mean, very well, three years. 00:09:24:24 - 00:09:49:27 Unknown Wow. Look, we tend to coalesce into groups. Yeah. So that's why there's so many nominations in America. We tend to make groups. And so Washington is just about to start a second term. Now you get two kind of internal groups fighting and so when George Washington retires after two terms, Adams and Jefferson run. And now you've got two political parties fighting the Federalist versus the Anti-Federalist. 00:09:50:00 - 00:10:19:28 Unknown And that goes with campaigns, the Anti-Federalist. Talk about The Federalist. They they're big government guys, and that's John Adams and and the John Adams guys talk about Jefferson. Oh, they're they don't like the federal government doing stuff and they're not even very religious. So what happens is denomination split. And what happens is the Baptists and a lot of those dominations get behind Thomas Jefferson and the Congregationalist and a lot of the what you would call more northeastern denominations get behind John Adams. 00:10:20:01 - 00:10:39:14 Unknown And so you've got minister support and both guys and ministers attacking the other ministers on the other side. And so what happens is, in the case of of the badness, they love Jefferson because Jefferson is an Anglican guy, but he's in Virginia, and Virginia is one of the 13 colonies that still has a state established church in Virginia. 00:10:39:14 - 00:10:57:12 Unknown The Anglican church is a state church. And so in Virginia, the Anglicans mistreat the Baptists. They mistreat the Quakers, they mistreat all sorts of folks who are not there to nomination. And Jefferson went to bat for all those other groups. As an Anglican guy. He went to bat for the Baptists. He went to bat for the Presbyterians, for the Quakers, for the Jews. 00:10:57:15 - 00:11:17:22 Unknown And so what happens is now up in New England. You got a bunch of Baptist in a Congregational area where John Adams is, and these Baptist say, hey, if John Adams gets his way, he's going to shut our churches down. We love Jefferson. Yeah. And so when Jefferson gets elected, these Baptists in Connecticut write him a letter and said, we are so glad you won the election. 00:11:17:22 - 00:11:39:23 Unknown God raised you up for this. What a great thing. And they said, but we're really we're really concerned that the government might try to come in and shut us down. And so Jefferson gets that letter. It's written to him in November, October, November 1801. He responds back, January the 1st, 1802. And this is where he uses that, that famous phrase, a wall of separation, church and state. 00:11:39:26 - 00:11:56:02 Unknown Now remember, their concern is the government is going to come in and shut us down because we're Baptists up here in a congregational state. Yeah. And Jefferson says you don't have to worry about that. There's a wall of separation between church and state. And he goes on to explain it. So the wall of separation is what keeps the government from shutting down religious activities. 00:11:56:04 - 00:12:21:24 Unknown His letter is 233 words long. It's three paragraphs really clear since 1947, actually, 4748 two court decisions. The courts have not quoted more than eight words out of the 233 word letter. It says in court the whole letter. But everybody here, separation of church and state, they say, oh, you can't have Bible schools and you can't have a nativity scene up and you can't pray in public separation. 00:12:21:26 - 00:12:46:20 Unknown No separation of church and state means the government won't stop your religious activity. And so it's exactly and great example that was if you tell that's accurate that's all. Yeah that's accurate okay. Because take Jefferson for example. He's now press the United States. So as press the United States, he actually uses federal funds to pay for the Kaskaskia Indians to have a missionary come teach them the gospel in Jefferson funds. 00:12:46:21 - 00:13:11:28 Unknown I've got the tree. We got the Trinity from 1803. Jefferson funds Christian missionaries to go with the Kaskaskia Indians because they want someone to teach them the gospel. You've also got Thomas Jefferson that back when Jefferson is in charge of the way out of Washington, D.C. because when Washington is president, we're in New York City, has our first capital, next ten years of Philadelphia, and we're building Washington, D.C. in that time. 00:13:11:28 - 00:13:32:21 Unknown And Jefferson was the secretary of state in Washington building Washington, DC. So when we move into Washington, D.C., Jefferson is the first person to have a full term in Washington, D.C.. Interesting. You'll find that in the records of Congress, December the 4th, 1800. They have now moved into the brand new building. And so Thomas Jefferson is vice president at that point. 00:13:32:23 - 00:13:50:23 Unknown And they decide that on every Sunday, we're going to take the biggest room we have in the Capitol, which is the hall of the House represents, and we're going to turn it into a church every Sunday. We're going to have church in the Capitol, every Jefferson endorsing that. Yeah. And then Jefferson started going to church in the Capitol every Sunday. 00:13:50:26 - 00:14:10:26 Unknown So Jefferson becomes a big proponent of the church with capital. He said when the first woman purchased the capital, Dorothy Ripley, just all sorts of first. But with Jefferson going to that church of the capital. So he writes this letter to the Danbury Baptist on Friday. On Sunday, he said, church in the capital. And he's talking about separation of church and state. 00:14:11:03 - 00:14:32:12 Unknown What's he doing with church at the federal capital? What's going on with that? And then, just like what's happened now in Washington, D.C., the president is head of Washington, D.C. under the Constitution now in the 1960s, they passed laws, said local government. So now you have a mayor in D.C., but he used to be the president was the head of D.C. as well as the head of the United States. 00:14:32:14 - 00:14:49:11 Unknown So back in that day, by the way, we've seen that even as President Trump has gone in and said, hey, if I need to become mayor, I'm going to become mayor, we're going to get crime. Stop. So he's taken over the work right now that he there because the Constitution allows him to do that under the Constitution. He's in charge of D.C.. 00:14:49:11 - 00:15:09:02 Unknown Yeah. So Jefferson's in charge of D.C. as well. And to see the things that happen, for example, he's in charge of the school board of Washington, D.C. he's actually made the president of the school board in Washington, D.C. while he's president, the United States. Well, this is a brand new city, brand new schools. Jefferson authors their plan of education. 00:15:09:04 - 00:15:29:20 Unknown In that plan of education, Thomas Jefferson put the Bible as the primary reading textbook in public schools in Washington, D.C.. Beautiful. Where's the separation? Got it. Separation means the government can't stop it. It does. Separation means the government cannot stop it. There's a separation church and state, because that's what it was in Europe. The government came in and told you what the faith is going to be, how you practice it, what you do. 00:15:29:22 - 00:15:52:28 Unknown Government can't tell us what to do with our faith. We can practice it. We can show it everywhere. So it's more faith. It's not a force, not established religion. Yep, yep. Exactly. Okay. What? Any document. So we had a conversation, the last time I was at your the museum around. Right. That our country being is our country an inherently racist country, meaning our all of the founding fathers. 00:15:52:28 - 00:16:16:20 Unknown Did we did they drive and want to build a racist nation? Well, when you go to the 1619 project that came out 1619 on the 40th anniversary of Jamestown, there there was America's been racist from the beginning. Look at this. 1619 slavery comes to Jamestown. That's what's defined us all the way through. Yeah. Well, first of all, slavery didn't come to Jamestown 1619. 00:16:16:27 - 00:16:35:08 Unknown Matter of fact, there was a kind of what we call a privateer, which is kind of a private pirate. And there they were able to take and capture a ship that was a slave ship going down to the Caribbean or Cuba. Don't know which one. It was headed that direction. And by the way, while we're having this conversation, are there any documents tied into some. 00:16:35:09 - 00:16:54:08 Unknown Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah there are. We'll we'll get we'll go look at some of those documents as well. And so what happens is privateers, they captured the slave ship and then they've got all this booty to that. Then they have one included a bunch of slaves. They don't want slaves because they are robbing ships. So they go to the nearest town they can find in this Jamestown. 00:16:54:14 - 00:17:11:00 Unknown And they said, we've got 19 slaves here. We want to sell their slaves in Jamestown. So slavery is illegal in Jamestown. You can't sell us. So slaves, what do you do? What? We have indentured servants here all over. That's just a form of making a contract that I'll work for you. Seven years, if you'll pay my way or whatever. 00:17:11:02 - 00:17:36:11 Unknown So they get to Jamestown, they become indentured servants. Every single one of those 19 slaves ends up being being a free landowner in Virginia. Because after you serve indentured, you become a free land on the first time you see slavery in Virginia is is 1653 when one of those those blacks who had become a slave owner, he he actually what happens is he indentures other people. 00:17:36:11 - 00:17:54:21 Unknown And one of the people he indentured was another black man named John Kaiser. And so and then in 1653, he said, look, I've had this guy indentured, and he's not working very hard for me. He needs to work for me the rest of his life. If I'm going to get my money back from this guy. And and he asked the court, can I own this guy for the rest of his life? 00:17:54:21 - 00:18:14:07 Unknown And of course said, yes. And so the first occasion, slavery in America in Jamestown, in 1653, when a black man sued on another black man and the court said, yes, you can do that. There's documentation around that. Oh, yeah, there's there's lots of legal documentation. So the 1619 project oral and the other part that they didn't do, they pointed everything at Jamestown. 00:18:14:10 - 00:18:31:28 Unknown So I'm pointing everything at James. How about the other colony up there? The Plymouth Colony, where the pilgrims landed, 1641. They made slavery illegal. They made it a camp. They swore to the Bible to make owning a slave. And what they called man stealing. If you go steal someone to bring them here, a slave that's a capital fence. 00:18:32:01 - 00:18:51:04 Unknown And so when a slave ship arrived there, they sent us, the people there and the people said, wait a minute, everybody else has slavery. We didn't know. And they said, okay, we'll let you go, but don't ever bring slaves back here, because now you know. So you have the pilgrims who were anti-slavery from the very beginning, and you're saying, wait a minute, that's not the part of the story we hear anymore. 00:18:51:10 - 00:19:10:29 Unknown What happens is that New England area all becomes anti-slavery. Yeah. And this thing is a history books, right? At our schools teach something different. They do, right? They do. And so that's where go back to these founding fathers. Yeah. What you find is that all of the northern colonies abolished slavery by 1804. That gets to new Jersey, which is kind of a middle colony. 00:19:10:29 - 00:19:32:25 Unknown Okay. So all the northern colonies abolished slavery by 1804. Now, it took the southern states till 1865 to do that. And the constitutional amendment, the 13th amendment. But there was no region of the world that abolished slavery before the New England area did. They're the first in the world to do it. When America abolished slavery in 1865, we were the fourth nation in the world out of 128 nations. 00:19:32:29 - 00:19:52:09 Unknown So we're still in the elite category. So those who say, oh, America's so terrible. Now, we were way ahead. And by the way, 193 nations we have today, 94 still have not abolished. Slavery is still not a crime. And 94 nations, there are 40 million active slaves in the world today. That's more than all the slave trade for 400 years combined. 00:19:52:16 - 00:20:10:00 Unknown So we get more slaves today. Nobody's talking about that. So when you look at founding fathers, those guys from New England, oh, yeah, some of them owned slaves. But overwhelmingly they were anti-slavery. When you look at many of the founders in the South, in the South tend to be pro-slavery. But that's where the least population is. There weren't many founders from there. 00:20:10:03 - 00:20:33:12 Unknown And then you look at the middle ones, like Virginia. You got George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. They owned slaves. Yeah, they did, and they didn't want to buy state laws and legal to free their own slaves. So they passed federal laws to help end slavery, anti-slavery laws. They couldn't do it in their own state. That's where Washington freed his slaves on his death, because in 1782, Virginia, for the first time said, okay, we'll let you free slaves on your death. 00:20:33:12 - 00:20:51:01 Unknown So Washington in 1799. And then they said, what are we thinking? And they repealed that law. So Jefferson couldn't free his slaves on his death. So there's a lot of complications to the law. The people don't know and don't study, but it's documented. What would you say? Let's look at some black history stuff. Okay. Let's do it. So I'd love to see what it was. 00:20:51:01 - 00:21:14:15 Unknown Some of some of the, most incredible, artifacts that you have here and pieces I would love. There's some story. It's a lot of fun. So let's go back. So, talking about the pilgrims and the Jamestown colony, this is an 1888 kind of a school map. It'd be a wall board. They would have a classroom. And if you look at it, you see the two different colonies over here. 00:21:14:15 - 00:21:48:01 Unknown There's Jamestown there, and there is Plymouth up there and down here. It has a circle. It says $1 and says Mammon, which is money. So this is a money colony up here. It says Bible. And they both had an influence on America. And you see God's curse of slavery coming out here. And they have all these negative things, avarice in the lust and ignorance and superstition, secession and rebellion and the Dred Scott decision, Kansas, Nebraska, fugitive slave law, all these bad things came out of that Jamestown are worth all the good stuff that came out from the Bible area, and we never talk about that. 00:21:48:01 - 00:22:05:24 Unknown We want to make 1619 the story. That's part of the story. But the real story is this up here and all the good things that came out of there. And so that's that's the other part. Now, when you look at the difference between here and there and the way they handle things, a good example are these documents right here. 00:22:05:27 - 00:22:28:16 Unknown Now these documents right down here are signed at the bottom. And they say what's chasuble. Well so what who is he. Well he's a black man. Elected office in 1768, in New Hampshire, one of the founding fathers in New Hampshire. He is credited with starting their school system as well as their library system. Up there. He made a Paul Revere kind of a ride. 00:22:28:16 - 00:22:45:11 Unknown He was a patriot in the revolution, and he was in the white community. So black guy elected in white community. He was reelected for 49 years. He held nine different political positions. Somebody ought to be talking about that in history somewhere. But we don't get any of that at all. Now, he's not the first black man elected in America. 00:22:45:13 - 00:23:10:09 Unknown You got to back up. The 1641 Matthias de Sousa is elected in Maryland. Black man elected in a white community in Maryland back in 1641. Well, then, if you'll take these guys on that back there, there's first seven elected to the federal Congress. On the left is Hiram Rhodes, rebels, first black U.S. senator, then Benjamin Turner, and on across. 00:23:10:12 - 00:23:33:26 Unknown And so by the time you get to 1876, we've had more than a thousand black elected officials in America. Now, just to put that in perspective, once, the first time that Great Britain elected a black to office, it's 1987, once the first time Russia elected black to office. 2010 was the first time Italy elected black to office. 2013. 00:23:33:28 - 00:23:52:14 Unknown Wait a minute. We got a thousand by 1876. And somehow we're the racist nation of the world. So we have so much history that people just talk, even know about. Yeah. And so when you know who these black folks are and what they've done, just the remarkable things that and even the civil rights records, these are some of the original civil rights laws passed by Congress. 00:23:52:16 - 00:24:20:23 Unknown But between 1861 and 1876, you had 23 civil rights laws passed. This one. Let's see. This is, this is establishing the Freedmen's Bureau. This is to equalize the pay of white and black soldiers. This one is, everybody gets treated the same in the courts. These are all civil rights laws that came in the Civil War time, and nobody even talks about that aspect of it's all about slavery. 00:24:20:25 - 00:24:41:02 Unknown No, no, no. There was an area of the country that was pro-slavery, and there's a whole big area of the country that wasn't. And so as a result, we tend to know the bad and the ugly. We know very little about the good. And so even the fact that, you know, again, a thousand black elected officials, yeah, by 1876, who in America knows that, you know, going back to 1641 even. 00:24:41:08 - 00:25:04:27 Unknown Let's take a look at this. You have some, original, defender, some documents in here for right here. Right there. This is the first draft. This is the first printing of Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Wow. So when the Declaration of Independence is done, what happened in Congress was on the 7th of June. 00:25:05:00 - 00:25:22:08 Unknown Richard Henry Lee of Virginia made a motion, said, let's separate from Great Britain. And Congress said, let's table that motion because they didn't have a document ready to say why they were going to separate. So they table that motion. Then they appointed five people to write the Declaration of Independence. And so this is the draft out of that committee of five. 00:25:22:10 - 00:25:39:22 Unknown This is all in Jefferson's hand. Jefferson was the key guy out of the five committee members. Adams said, Tom, you got to do this. And so Jefferson wrote it. Then he passed it to the other guys for their edits. And so it's kind of cool over here. You'll see if you can see right there it says Doctor Franklin. 00:25:39:25 - 00:26:01:14 Unknown Yep. And Mr. Adams, it's kind of like a Google doc. This is where Franklin scratched that out and put his words up there. And this is where Adams scratched it out and said, why don't you say this? So this is the Committee of Five editing the Declaration of Independence. So this is the rough draft of it. Now, what happens here is there's 24 grievances and there's 27 grievances in the final declaration. 00:26:01:14 - 00:26:22:27 Unknown But there's 24 here. And the largest grievance is right here that you see over here. There's two lines here. There's four lines here. There's four lines here, two lines here. This grievance right here is Thomas Jefferson. And he says, we've been trying to end the slave trade. And King George the Third keep striking down every anti-slavery law we do. 00:26:23:00 - 00:26:41:28 Unknown If we're going to end the slave trade, we're going to get free from Great Britain. So the longest grievance in the declaration is an anti-slavery clause written by Thomas Jefferson, explaining why we got to separate from Great Britain so we can end slavery well. And that's that's the original dream. And you see here, man, people say, well, he he didn't think blacks were men. 00:26:42:00 - 00:27:09:20 Unknown He capitalized it right there to make sure they knew men should be free regardless of color. So that's that's the original draft, the declaration. Well so this book right here is signed by Lemuel Hands. Lemons is a black pastor with a white congregation in New England. He's part of the American War for independence. He this is one of his sermons that he preached in a church there. 00:27:09:23 - 00:27:34:13 Unknown And just this is this is his Bible book. But again, the black and white community thing in New England, just common black pastor. It wasn't unusual. I can't say it's common because there wasn't high population blacks there, but the blacks that were there, it was not the same thing you see in the South. So the population was not large, but there was a lot of equality over here, a lot of World War Two stuff, World War two stuff, kind of fun stuff. 00:27:34:15 - 00:28:00:12 Unknown So when Japanese hit Pearl Harbor, we're at war now. We're going to have soldiers. So we start recruiting soldiers. And when you get recruited, you get a Bible. This is given to you as part of your recruitment package. Now, Brown is for Army and blue is for navy. So he joined the army here and on the inside. When you open this up, it has here a message from Franklin Roosevelt about how you really need to read the Bible. 00:28:00:12 - 00:28:19:14 Unknown Guys, this is really important stuff. And so that's the message from Franklin Roosevelt. But when you look at the Navy Bible and you see the American flag here, and by the way, you see a big flag back there. So that's a battleship flag from back World War two days, all the way through Korea. War. But when you open up over here, you still get the same thing with Franklin Roosevelt. 00:28:19:14 - 00:28:39:03 Unknown But notice the Christian flag is flying higher. Now, that's like, hey, you can't do that. Nothing. Flash on the American flag to this day in the flag code, the only flag that can't fly higher than the American flag is a call to divine service. And so that's what you see on that pennant right there. That pin on the wall is what they would flag on the ships calling you to divine service twice a day. 00:28:39:03 - 00:28:58:16 Unknown So let's get together and pray. So military wise. And by the way, that flag back there is a flag from D-Day that landed on that is that's the D-Day. Yes. That was the third ship in on D-Day. I love it. You got to see the, you have a flag just like that. Yeah. And it's got shrapnel all over it. 00:28:58:23 - 00:29:21:00 Unknown They talked about how they were just getting pounded by by the the German stuff coming in. And this when we did D-Day, the way that president, Roosevelt announced D-Day. Big operation, 7000 660,000 troops, he announced that by saying, guys, they're landing right now. Let's pray. So he led the nation in a six minute prayer. This is his prayer that he did. 00:29:21:06 - 00:29:44:13 Unknown This is 1944. This is the prayer he did. It became the Christmas card for the white House. That is the white House Christmas card in 1944, which says D-Day prayer. So that's what you find on that D-Day prayer. Then when we ended the war, here's the call for a day of prayer signed by Harry Truman to end the war. 00:29:44:15 - 00:30:07:24 Unknown The integration of faith. All the way in our history. And it's incredible the amount of work that's being done to remove it. And we're seeing a resurgence right now, which is quite, quite beautiful. And by the way, I mentioned this couple things earlier. So this these are pretty amazing. This if you open this out, this is a map. 00:30:07:26 - 00:30:31:15 Unknown This happens to be an Asian area. There's different maps of different areas. These are all silk maps. And what happened to these silk maps is whenever we send a warrior into action, we send a map with them. And so on. D-Day, when you had the 21,000 paratroopers landing on D-Day, they all and 160,000 troops, they all had a map of Germany and a France and the whole region. 00:30:31:15 - 00:30:46:14 Unknown And they rolled it up, put it in other colors. So this is rolled up and put in the colors. And the reason was that if they captured you jumpscared, they can first frisk and take you got everything, but they want to check your color. And it was a state map that shows you where everything is and how to get away. 00:30:46:19 - 00:31:07:15 Unknown 16,000 allied troops use these maps to escape after D-Day. After they were captured. Well, so these are these are pretty fun as well. And then over here, when they went in on D-Day, the 21,000 paratroopers landed behind German lines. They're behind the German lines to keep the Germans from rushing to the beach because we surprised them. They didn't think that was the beach. 00:31:07:15 - 00:31:22:12 Unknown They thought, we're going to land at Dover. We land a couple hundred miles away in Normandy. So the Germans are going to come rushing. So the paratroopers there to keep the Germans back while they're behind German lines and they don't speak German. I guys know very few speak German. So you don't yell out, hey, where are you guys? 00:31:22:12 - 00:31:42:16 Unknown What they will do the 101st airborne would use these and you would. And if you heard that and this American rounded, you would answer. And so you don't have any any words going back and forth. Well, the 82nd airborne also parachuted in on that day. And they said we both us and the commander, 82nd airborne, said, no, no, no, no. 00:31:42:16 - 00:32:00:22 Unknown If you've got room for that, you got room for two extra bullets in your pocket. You're not taking this. And so what happened was they went to the toy shops and got this. You see on there, says Pinocchio. Yeah, the movie just came out. Disney movie. Okay, so that was a little kid. And so the 82nd airborne use this. 00:32:00:22 - 00:32:22:02 Unknown And that's what they used when they, when they hit. So again that click you listen for that. If you hear that because those guys they didn't have the weather prediction we do now and they didn't have the chutes that were real controllable. And a lot of those guys blew miles away from where they were dropped. And so that's why those became real important was gathering together afterwards. 00:32:22:05 - 00:32:46:14 Unknown So some World War Two stuff's a lot of fun. This is a cool story. This is the first real offensive mission we did in World War Two. The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, and that's a B20. B 25 Mitchell and we launched 16 of those off an aircraft carrier. Now, what makes it interesting is those planes. It takes some 1300 feet of runway to take off. 00:32:46:16 - 00:33:07:15 Unknown Aircraft carrier has 450ft. So how do you get that off an aircraft carrier and how do you get it on an aircraft carrier, for that matter? And so the mission was, if we can have long range bombers, we can reach out and touch Japan from a long way away. We want to let Japan know that we're awake. You've awakened a certain now, and we're coming after you later. 00:33:07:17 - 00:33:24:20 Unknown And so at this point, we can't get an aircraft carrier close enough to get a plane. They're off a carrier because they'll just destroy the rest of our carriers like they did at Pearl Harbor without carriers. But the rest of the ships. And so they figured, well, we can get a long range ship. We can get within reach of Japan, send these long range ships, and they can bomb Japan. 00:33:24:23 - 00:33:42:29 Unknown So what happened? 1680? There's five men on each crew. So 80 guys, 16. These planes, they modified them. Take off an aircraft carrier with only 450ft. So they took nearly all the bombs out of them. They each only had four bombs rather than the big bomb load they had. They took the, the ammo, the the machine guns. 00:33:42:29 - 00:34:00:02 Unknown There's a machine gun in the tail back there. They took getting all the ammo out, and they put extra fuel tanks in and they made it light enough. They could get off the the get off the aircraft carrier. So they fly to Japan, they bomb Japan, and then they fly to China, which is an ally back then. And they land in China and then they work their way back. 00:34:00:04 - 00:34:21:17 Unknown So as they land, none of them had enough gas to make it. They all crashed before China. They had to find their way in. The Japanese are in China in many places. And so three of the crews were were captured or taken and and if eventually most of them work their way back. But there were there were two crews that bailed out and the Japanese got them. 00:34:21:19 - 00:34:40:26 Unknown And two of the guys died on the bailout. And the other prisoners. And then they executed some of those guys, and they held the others and tortured them throughout the war. And and one of those guys there was Jake the sergeant and Bob Hite, both of were Doolittle Raiders, and they came out with such and bitterness. The Japanese is so abused, them so tortured them. 00:34:40:29 - 00:35:02:27 Unknown And as it turns out, the guy who led the attack on Pearl, her Pearl Harbor, is this man here. This guy here, his message of Ashira. He led the attack. He's he's the best naval aviator. And he ends up become a Christian after the war. He bumps into these two guys that had been in prison there and won. 00:35:02:29 - 00:35:21:22 Unknown Both them eventually become Christians, very evangelical Christians. And so they get together after the war and hold crusades together, and Japanese and American crusades after the war. And so all over Japan is MacArthur is doing reconstruction. He's trying to get the Bible back in. And so that's that's a fun one. He says, I bombed Pearl Harbor, and that's exactly it. 00:35:21:25 - 00:35:41:28 Unknown And so I was a prisoner of Japan. You see these guys? This is this is some of that reconciliation after the war. What's over here? The Hitler, nomination. That's quite interesting. Yeah. This is a ballot back here. It's a German election ballot. Hitler came to power, and and, in 1933. And you see the ballot back there? 00:35:41:28 - 00:35:57:21 Unknown It's a vote for Hitler. And by the way, all the other names blow it off Hitler. That's kind of like his teams. Like voting for president, vice president, secretary of state. It's all this cabinet, guess. But you only have one choice. That's Hitler. And so it's. Well, why have a ballot now? Because they have free and fair elections. 00:35:57:21 - 00:36:16:22 Unknown And so it was only one can and that's all you allowed. So this is World War two stuff. This is a lot of the Holocaust type stuff. We have so much from the Holocaust. What they went through. We have letters, this letter right here describing some of the barbarities they found in the camps. We knew stuff was going on. 00:36:16:22 - 00:36:34:27 Unknown We just didn't know the depth of depravity till we were able to go in and see it and free a lot of prisoners. There was one camp where 28,000 died. After we read them. They were in such bad shape, they were not able to recover, and they were just so emaciated and so starved that even after we freedom, 28,000 more died in that camp. 00:36:35:00 - 00:37:05:08 Unknown So it was it was pretty, pretty rough and unbelievable. And and people who don't think it was that bad, they need to see see the description, see what's there. Yeah. I'd love to see. So you have some Bibles for you. Some cool Bibles? Yeah. You know, again, going back to the notion the Founding fathers weren't very religious, you go, well, that's kind of interesting, because if you take John Witherspoon, who's a sign of the declaration, this guy right here, this, this Bible right here, he died in 1791. 00:37:05:08 - 00:37:23:20 Unknown This is called America's first family Bible. Signed the declaration. He was also the president of Princeton University. And by the way, this is one of the many sermons he preached. This is a sermon by John Witherspoon right there. So here's a founding father that that is a pastor. A preacher came out with America's very first family Bible. 00:37:23:22 - 00:37:40:05 Unknown This man over here, this is another sign of the declaration. This is Charles Curl of Carrollton. He's the final surviving sign of the declaration. Of all, 56 is the last one to die. And and here he talks about on the mercy of my Redeemer, I will, after salvation and on his merits, not on the works I've done. 00:37:40:05 - 00:38:04:26 Unknown Obedience, his precepts. Very evangelical sounding. Founding father. Yep. You take over here. This is a founding father, Benjamin Rush. Benjamin Rush actually started the first Bible society in America. He started the Sunday school movement. America. Sign of the declaration. This is the Bible that he did this in the first mass produced Bible done in America. This is the real institution for the very first Bible society in America from Benjamin Rush. 00:38:04:29 - 00:38:27:27 Unknown This Bible down here is called a Heart Press Bible came out in 1808. It's called the John Thompson Bible. And this particular Bible, there were about roughly I think it was about 21 founding fathers who helped fund the prediction production of this Bible. Consider the largest Bible of America done to that point. They use high technology, which was called hot pressed technology. 00:38:27:27 - 00:38:51:04 Unknown They actually heated the ink. The 21 founding fathers of do that, we have Bibles over here that that also were part of the founding Fathers. We have Bible from Francis Hopkinson, signer of the declaration. John, Dickinson. And another sign of our document. So really fun stuff. And this this is called watch him not this is kind of fun because what's hymnal? 00:38:51:07 - 00:39:09:16 Unknown The same book right here. This is Isaac. Watch. You put 150 Psalms music. But the way you did music back then, there's no musical notation. So you had a cantor who would sing the melody. You would have the words, they were singing the melody. Then you repeat the melody like beatboxing. There you go. That's exactly it. That's exactly it. 00:39:09:18 - 00:39:32:10 Unknown So this is the way it had been. But that changed with a sign of the declaration right here. This sign with the declaration right here is Francis Hopkinson. This is the first purely American hymn book. He's the first guy to sit the entire book of the Book of Psalms to music in America. So and this is the first time we have the musical notation. 00:39:32:15 - 00:39:55:11 Unknown It doesn't have the staff like we have it today. Every node is the same value, but at least you can see it. The music's doing. But what's fun here? He said that he was a music director of his church in Philadelphia, Christchurch, Philadelphia signed the declaration. He did Psalms 119. That's 40 pages in the hymn book. You must be going to Church of Singapore. 00:39:55:11 - 00:40:14:02 Unknown He page him, you know, and that's that's what he did. So this so many founding fathers here, that's the first president Congress who's the president of the American Bible Society? This is a book that he did attacking Thomas Paine. When Thomas Paine said, God has no place. So these are just all founding fathers and so much of what they do. 00:40:14:02 - 00:40:39:29 Unknown So I have a so, so after how many years have you been collecting men? Probably 35, maybe 35 years. And what was the reason you decided to get in? Because I hated history. I stayed out of history. Tell me. I have a school principal. I taught math and science, coach basketball. And in school, when I was going through school, I was taught history, and I didn't like it. 00:40:40:01 - 00:41:01:08 Unknown I had a sixth grade look. I got white hair. This goes back a long time. I had a sixth grade history teacher who told me that George Washington had 26 illegitimate children, giving new meaning to the phrase Washington schlep here. How about, that's the American founding. I'm not interested. And so I just turned it off and I went through, I learned how bad the founders were. 00:41:01:08 - 00:41:25:08 Unknown Atheists, agnostics, deist. I'm a guy of faith I didn't like. And so that's what I had learned. And then I came across two really old documents and their history documents, and I read them and they dealt with parts of history. I'd been taught that these were originals, and they were opposite to everything I've been taught in school. One of them was a Supreme Court case from 1844. 00:41:25:11 - 00:41:47:22 Unknown Daniel Webster was arguing the case at the court, and it was whether we should have Bible in schools and an eight zero decision. The U.S. Supreme Court said, of course, we're going to have, but we can not take the Bible. How crazy is that? And whoa, I was all these guys atheist, agnostic. So now we got a unanimous Supreme Court decision saying, if you're going to be a government funded school, you will teach the Bible. 00:41:47:24 - 00:42:13:05 Unknown That's not what I was taught. And then I found George Washington's farewell address, 1796. I read it. It used to be required reading in every class. We have records that there were states that would require, every year for the first eight years of school, you took a test on four documents, and it was the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, the state constitution, and Washington's farewell address. 00:42:13:07 - 00:42:32:05 Unknown So everybody had to know that. And you go through a man. It's got about 13 years of really powerful recommendations to keep the country on track. And one of them is, don't ever let the country become secular, said religion and morality. The only supports of government. And it said, don't let someone call themselves a patriot. They try to take religion morality out. 00:42:32:08 - 00:42:49:19 Unknown But you're the guy. That was it more you took out the head 26, a little kid. So now you're telling us to be more. Now, look, you didn't have a lot of children, but I was taught that he did. And so the more I got into the old stuff, the more interesting it got, because the more counter-narrative it was to everything I was taught. 00:42:49:22 - 00:43:10:16 Unknown And so we started looking for more and finding more, and it was out there floating around and easy to get. And so now we've got about 160,000 ideas from about any, any aspect of history you want. And America's made it the good, the bad, the ugly. There's plenty of bad, plenty ugly. I can proudly point out more than the critics on the left side, but what I can also do is point out the good and there's more good. 00:43:10:16 - 00:43:31:26 Unknown In America. There is bad and ugly, and that's what people don't know what today is the good part of it, the wholesome part of it, the civil rights part of it. It's not there. How many blacks held office and and the great relationship that exists between most blacks and whites and and really how that the racial relations got tense over politics, not over race so much as over politics. 00:43:31:26 - 00:43:48:11 Unknown There's just so many stories that are unfinished that people don't know about. That's what got me going on it. So now I love history. And so why, why, why lie about American history? Why do people lie about that or what? What would be their intention? And I know the answer, but I would love to hear from your perspective is you can't. 00:43:48:13 - 00:44:08:12 Unknown It's easier to change something you think is flawed, inherently flawed. And so if you can make America inherently flawed, you can say, hey, we've got to fix this now. If you back off like we talked at the beginning, if you point out that this is the longest ongoing constitutional republic in the history of the world, if you like stability, this is a good deal. 00:44:08:12 - 00:44:25:28 Unknown Where did it come from, by the way? We're the most prosperous nation in any modern nation, if you like that. Where that come from, by the way, there's more creativity. We have more copyrights, patent protection, more stuff created in America each year than the rest of the world combined. Where did that come from? So what happens is we know the good stuff. 00:44:25:28 - 00:44:45:25 Unknown You wonder where it come from, where it came from, what I can do to preserve it. If all you know is the bad stuff, then you want to fundamentally change that. You want to get rid of that and you want something different that'll work different. And if you go to school and if all you've been taught is the bad and the negative and how unjust and how, then you're open for substantive change to fundamentally reshape the nation. 00:44:45:25 - 00:45:12:11 Unknown We have a generation that really, at a core level, wants to change everything about our country. How do you fix that? You fix that? I think by storytelling, okay, if I can reintroduce you to people across history, if I can tell you the story of Annie Oakley, if I can tell you the story, and Jedediah Smith, if I can tell you the story, people you've never heard and how great they were and actually how much impact they had on the nation, you go, man, I've never heard that before. 00:45:12:13 - 00:45:33:00 Unknown And it's interesting to me, historically speaking, the historian look at the Bible. What year did David kill Goliath? Don't have a clue. Why? Because it's not in the Bible. Why? Because God didn't think it's important enough to put there. Why? Because that's not what matters. See what happens today with American history, dates, names, and places. We're not just stories anymore. 00:45:33:02 - 00:46:04:14 Unknown The Bible is full of stories and we can connect to stories. I don't care what generation it is. I can find courage and some generation model myself after that. Find leadership, integrity, whatever. And so the Bible is full of stories and not what we do in America. The trivial stuff that doesn't matter. And so through storytelling, I think I can pretty much reconnect anybody, whatever their interest is, whatever their race is, whatever their perspective is, I can find a story that will draw you in to how remarkable this nation is and how blessed by God has been. 00:46:04:16 - 00:46:22:06 Unknown And I say that because it's been a very God blessed nation. It hasn't been a secular nation, as we've been taught. And quite literally, this is that this problem we face, even right now, there's 22 states that have introduced a bill to put the Ten Commandments back up in classrooms. Is a 2222 wow and passed by that's introduced okay. 00:46:22:06 - 00:46:43:23 Unknown It's past now I think in four states. Okay. So for Texas, the first to know first is Louisiana. Then then it came to Arkansas, then Texas and Kentucky. Has just decided to put this back up. Not by law, because they had it up in 1980 as a Supreme Court decision took it down. And the court just I guess it's now three years ago, the Supreme Court said, you know, we got it all wrong back then. 00:46:44:01 - 00:47:01:23 Unknown And as part of that, we'll put it back up. So with them, they didn't have to pass a law. They already had one pastor back in 80. So that's that's that stuff is going back up. But the narrative right now is no, no, no, no, it's unconstitutional separation of church and state. Well, that only works because you redefine separation is something it never was. 00:47:01:23 - 00:47:19:09 Unknown The founding fathers said separation is what keeps it from becoming secular. Now you've used it to for secular. And so this is where history becomes a lot of fun, because when you pull it back into policy and in 19 are in 2022, the Supreme Court came out with the decision. So what we call the lemon test is now vacated. 00:47:19:09 - 00:47:38:05 Unknown They said the new test is if it's historical and traditional, we're going to assume that it's constitutional. Now, that's the way it had been until the activism of the 1960s and 70s. Two court decisions there. The court said, you know, we have no precedent, but we're going to take prayer and Bob last schools because we just think it's time to do something different. 00:47:38:05 - 00:47:55:26 Unknown I mean, literally they said, no pressure. Well, now everybody thinks prayer in Bob law schools is constitutionally mandated. Even, even, Christians even are a Christian, even Christian, because they've been told that, you know, that the old acts and there's nothing so absurd, but that if you repeat it often enough, people believe it. Yeah. And that's really where we are. 00:47:55:28 - 00:48:14:03 Unknown And so the court has said, no, we got all that wrong. We're getting away from from activism. We're going back to history and tradition and so history. And that's why they left up the that's why they left up the word moral cross. And Bladensburg. That's why they told coach candidates, okay. If you pray at football games, that's why it's okay to have nativity scenes. 00:48:14:03 - 00:48:42:09 Unknown But that's history. Tradition. That's what we've been doing since we've been a nation. We've been taught that that was wrong. But that's where history helps put us back on the right track and the right kind of narratives for the Christians that don't believe that Bibles should be in school because of the separation of church and state. Right. From the perspective of, hey, what what what what in the church or the state be pushing a certain church, right? 00:48:42:09 - 00:49:05:09 Unknown The Bible say, what happens is people confuse morality with doctrine. And there are certain moral behaviors that you want in a culture. I mean, we just had this in the, I speak it a lot of legislatures on various pieces of legislation. So when we're doing Ten Commandments bills, it's okay. Yeah, I agree, do not kill. It comes out of the Bible. 00:49:05:11 - 00:49:30:26 Unknown Is that doctrine or is that good behavior? Do you object to do not kill being on the walls of classrooms because it's a doctrine and the church state is pushing a doctrine, or is it that you just don't like anything that has religious underpinnings because the state already believes do not kill? That's why if you take the Ten Commandments, if I go to the US Supreme Court in DC, I can show you 53 depictions of the Ten Commandments inside the US Supreme Court, 53in the Supreme Court. 00:49:30:26 - 00:49:50:22 Unknown That's more than a church house that I know of. And I can take you right around the corner next door to the Library of Congress. Walk right in and there's Moses holding the Ten Commandments, and they'll take you across the street to the US House of Representatives who walked in the House. Right inside there's a Ten Commandments. When you get inside, look back over your head, and there's Moses above you, and then I'll take you to that national archives. 00:49:50:23 - 00:50:08:15 Unknown As you look at the Constitution declaration, look down. There's the Ten Commandments. Wait a minute. This is this is all government stuff. That's not a church that's done that. That's why there are more than 300 cases where that the courts have said the Ten Commandments are the basis of our civil laws. They even say this isn't from them. 00:50:08:18 - 00:50:29:21 Unknown They say even our modern laws on cattle rustling are based on the Ten Commandments. Our election fraud laws are based on the ten. And they go through all these things that they say are based on ten commandments. So is that teaching doctrine or is that just teaching good behavior? And is it possible that the moral behavior in the Bible is in the best for a nation, regardless of what your doctrine is? 00:50:29:23 - 00:50:44:26 Unknown I don't care what your doctrine is. I think it's a good deal that you don't steal, that you don't perjure yourself, that you don't kill. I don't care what your doctrine is. That's good behavior for our nation. And so that's what we're starting to get back to. And that's what we use to understand. Just because it's religious doesn't mean it's doctrinal. 00:50:44:29 - 00:51:03:04 Unknown And just because it's religious doesn't mean a particular church is pushing it weird. I mean, to this day, all 50 states still today have on the books Good Samaritan laws. If you start. I'm not a surgeon, but if I see you in a car wreck, I'm going to try to help you. And if I don't do the right thing, I'm trying to help you. 00:51:03:04 - 00:51:25:28 Unknown And maybe I'm not a surgeon. I did the wrong thing. Good Samaritan laws protect those who are trying in good faith to help others. And they're called Good Samaritan laws. To this day, that's directly out of Jesus teaching. And Matthew is a doctrine or set just good behavior. And so that's where people get confused. Just because it's religious doesn't mean it's a doctrine, doesn't mean it's church and state doesn't mean a lot of this stuff is just common sense. 00:51:25:28 - 00:51:47:22 Unknown It's good behavior. And that's what's made America so special. We had that moral underpinning that transcended Catholic and Protestant and Atheist and everybody else. When even Thomas Paine, who is not a God guy, still thought that you had good commands in the Bible. And that's why I had this. This kind of blows people's mind when he was in the French Revolution trying to help them. 00:51:47:22 - 00:52:05:18 Unknown He was actually elected in France. Thomas Paine, who's, you know, kind of called the American founding father. He's not. But he was there in the American founding. Thomas Paine actually did a lecture over in France to their educators, said, you guys are crazy. You should be teaching creation science. You should be teaching this kids that there is a creator. 00:52:05:18 - 00:52:24:02 Unknown Because we don't teach as a creator, there is no purpose to life. So here's the least religious one in that era. Thomas Paine is giving this big lecture to educators in France about don't be secular, don't don't teach it the big Bang stuff. You have a creator and one that just blows people's mind today to see something like that. 00:52:24:04 - 00:52:44:20 Unknown But even back then, the anti-religious were smart enough to know that so much behavior came from the Bible and from moral teachings, and that was good for everybody. Well, what, and your involvement and I love to cruise around a couple more things, but your involvement has been pretty significant I think in. Right in, in policy. 00:52:44:20 - 00:53:05:23 Unknown Right. So tell it, tell us about what you do and what you're so obviously you love collecting and this is the that's your parish. That's your passion. What do you, what's your involvement? What, like, what are you doing to continue to, Yeah. Bring good behavior back into our country and to save our country. I know you're heavily involved politically. 00:53:05:26 - 00:53:30:19 Unknown Yeah, well, one thing is education, because you behave on the basis of what you know, and your actions reflect what you know. So if you have bad knowledge, you're going to have bad, bad results of that. And that's what we've had with so many colleges, right. The typical, college graduate is believes our country, needs to be reconstructed and disassembled so they can tell you every bad thing that's happened. 00:53:30:19 - 00:53:52:10 Unknown Can't tell the good things. And they can't compare us to other nations, either. You know, there is at this point in time, we do we do a lot of policy work. So we have a there's 7500 elected state legislators across the US, about a thousand member network that we have. And we monitored any given year, there may be 152,000 pieces of state legislation introduced. 00:53:52:10 - 00:54:20:20 Unknown All 50 states will monitor that, and we'll keep up with that. And what goes on. So we work with policymakers on a very regular basis is that their wall builder is wall bill. Right. And what would the website so people well, when I first checked out the website it was incredible. So if you're curious about our nation's history, you have a ton of information on there where you can go see the actual documents and really dig in to see what was our past really about and how were we founded. 00:54:20:20 - 00:54:44:13 Unknown What's the reality? Not just what they teach in schools. So well? Baucom and this is a vision we call pro-family legislative network. Okay. So the network of legislators there, but when you change people, what people know and change the policies that they want and policies as a result of what you know or believe or thank you believe, and if you can change that, if you can get back to more truth than what actually works. 00:54:44:19 - 00:55:09:03 Unknown And going back to that is right now, we mentioned earlier that you've got 193 nations now, but in history the world has been thousands, 50, 200 years of history. And you cannot find a single instance where a socialistic nation has endured and prospered just doesn't exist. And yet right now, current stats. And because we are in public policy, we do lots of polling and we keep up with polling. 00:55:09:06 - 00:55:27:27 Unknown But right now what you have is 75% of college students want the free market system gone and socialism to take its place. Now what's the basis. And that's statistic. That's that's based on what you are saying. That's just not 71% of millennials want socialism of a free market. And 75% of college students right now want socialism free market. 00:55:28:05 - 00:55:52:05 Unknown So that's because you haven't heard the story. Because the story is socialism is never worked in 50, 800 years to provide an enduring and a prosperous people. So that's where education becomes so important. If you don't change what people know, you don't change the policies. And so since we work in trying to educate people on what's out there website, we've put that stuff out there for people and see it, then it's easier to change policy. 00:55:52:07 - 00:56:11:09 Unknown That's why we're seeing 2223 states introduced ten commandments laws. How come? Because the knowledge now changes okay. To do these things we've been told for 50 years, we can't do this now. We're finding out we can't do this. So we're introduced. So when you change what people know, you change the way they behave and you change their expectations. 00:56:11:11 - 00:56:29:17 Unknown And so that's that's they change the way they vote. You change the way they vote. Yeah. Because once you change expectations, you'll change policy and vote. Voting is what makes policy. Policy is personnel is not parties is personnel. No parties are very involved. I've been involved with politics. A good part of my life in elected office and elected five times here in Texas. 00:56:29:20 - 00:56:46:17 Unknown So Partizan office. So I've been involved in that and I know how that works. But I also know that you can't lead people where they don't want to go or what they don't know. You can't live in what they don't know. So you have to change what they know. And then you can change the candidates, and then you can change the policies. 00:56:46:20 - 00:57:06:20 Unknown And that's a that's a slow process. But it's part of it. Yeah we're seeing a shift. And so yeah I appreciate all that you do. It's necessary. There's not a there's not a lot of great storytellers, that actually can have the evidence and the stories to be able to back that, kind of everything we talked about on the podcast today. 00:57:06:22 - 00:57:24:12 Unknown And, I'm a huge fan of biographical history. You know, founding fathers are some of my favorite guys. Yeah, because they do so many little things. I love it, you know, John Hart was one of those guys. He's an old man. Sign the declaration. An old man. But when the British came after him, he knew they'd kill him. 00:57:24:15 - 00:57:43:12 Unknown And so family and others urged Moran, and he was at the bedside of his wife, who was very sick and friends got him out, and they hit him, and his wife ends up dying. All these kids disappear. He didn't see them again. He lived the next one year. I never spent two nights in a row in the same place. 00:57:43:12 - 00:58:01:17 Unknown He even stayed in a dog house where the British were hunting them one time, and with the dog and sleeping trees and whatever. And he said, old man, and going through all this kind of stuff. And who's ever heard of John Hart? You know, even the people who live in new Jersey don't even know John or and you start going to these guys, man, that's a lot of courage. 00:58:01:17 - 00:58:23:21 Unknown It's a conviction that his family and the more you know, the more interesting it becomes and the more you accept what these guys had to say on the positive side and say, hey, he didn't know what he was talking about. You know, he went through a lot of stuff. And there's just there's just so many remarkable stories. These guys, you know, the even the wives who are made prisoners of war and tortured by the British. 00:58:23:21 - 00:58:52:15 Unknown We didn't know about the wives of signers anymore. You know, they're they're an innocuous. Yeah, they're never founding fathers. No. They're people. They're people who went to just what we did. What are a couple other other, interesting, interesting stuff. Yeah. Over here. This fun stuff here. The first major war we get into after the American Revolution is against 30s, 32 years of fighting Muslim terrorists. 00:58:52:17 - 00:59:12:08 Unknown So the Barbary Powers War. Yeah. What happened isn't in the Constitution. Constitution forbids America from having a permanent military. Everybody thinks we got a permanent one. It's not the NDAA, the National defense Authorization Act. Every two years, we bring the military back into existence every two years. Constitution does not allow the military to last more than two years. 00:59:12:08 - 00:59:31:12 Unknown I think a lot of people know they don't know that. And it goes back to founding fathers. They hated what were called standing armies because standing armies always backed the king. Napoleon, whoever. And you could use the army to conquer the people. And and we didn't want that. That's why we were all militias and states and communities. And everybody had a gun, and everybody went and defended everything. 00:59:31:14 - 00:59:56:20 Unknown So what happens is we didn't want a military until 1795 and 1795 and Washington's last year, he says, I've had it up to here because wherever American ships were going, Muslims were attacking them to kill and enslave them. There's about 1.3 million taken by Muslims, across that period of time. Well, white slaves were taken and people think it's just black and white slavery. 00:59:56:22 - 01:00:12:29 Unknown I mean, just black slavery is black and white. And so we have all the. And what what Muslims do say. Well, we'll let you have these guys back if you pay us so much. And so what happens is we start paying massive amounts of money and that funds their jobs. And so we're actually paying for them to attack. 01:00:13:02 - 01:00:36:17 Unknown And so what happens is right here I'll show you this document from 1789. Now the reason this is fun. This is the front page of the newspaper, 1789. You see that right there? That little area that is the entire first federal budget. That's everything in the federal budget and the newspaper. This year it was 2500 pages, the federal budget. 01:00:36:17 - 01:01:03:16 Unknown So, so at that time with George Washington, our number one expense was paying Muslim terrorists. 15% of the federal budget was 15%. And Washington's. That's all that's on there. It shows up again. So Washington says his line is, would to God, I had a navy able to crush these enemies of mankind into nonexistence. And so, for the first time, Congress appropriates money to build a Navy. 01:01:03:16 - 01:01:19:00 Unknown Okay, so they built the Navy under John Adams, but John Adams does not use it to go to war against the Muslims because he said, look up and negotiate these guys for 20 years, back to 1784. As soon as we get down to the American Revolution, we start having to go shoot with Muslims who are attacking us, he says. 01:01:19:00 - 01:01:37:19 Unknown These guys have a long term mindset. They think in decades they don't think in years, he said. The American people don't understand that if we go to war against Muslims, it's going to last for years and years and years. And he said, I'd rather pay them than, than fight them. So at the end of John Adams turned, 20% of the federal budget was being spent to pay Muslims. 01:01:37:22 - 01:01:56:15 Unknown And Jefferson comes in and says, ain't no way. And so he took that new Navy. He loaded it up. He sent it to Tripoli, which this is the map. There were five Muslim nations attacking this at that point in time. This is a map and disappeared. Met French say this is Spain and Portugal, and there's a stretch of Gibraltar. 01:01:56:18 - 01:02:16:09 Unknown But you can see across here you got Morocco and you got Algiers, and you got Tunis. And this is the nation Tripoli, which would be Libya. And this is Barak, Egypt. So these nations across North Africa are attacking us. And so we go right into Tripoli. And this is where the marine come him comes from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. 01:02:16:12 - 01:02:34:23 Unknown That's when we went for the first time with the Navy and went and whacked these guys and said, you're not going to keep taking our people because they had enslave so many of our people. And so what happens with it when we're fighting over there? We've really never fought against the Muslims before. We fought western, western powers, France or England, whatever. 01:02:34:25 - 01:02:55:19 Unknown And this this is part of what was going on here. This is a muslim sword from that period of time. They call that a quick sword. It is super sharp even now, several hundred years later. But they're really good for beheading. And so as a result, we come out with this, we come out with leather collars. This is where you get the term leathernecks. 01:02:55:19 - 01:03:14:17 Unknown So the Marines, this is where the Marines got the leather. Next was fighting Muslim terrorists in the war on terror. Back in under Thomas Jefferson. So from the halls of Montezuma, on the shores of Tripoli, that's our first major war. And nobody ever thinks about that being. We're not even aware of that. For 32 years we had that that conflict going. 01:03:14:20 - 01:03:36:20 Unknown And by the way, this is a this musket right here. This is a British American musket. And they got captured by Muslims and they kind of bedazzled it. So this is, you know, the silver plating all over it. But this is one that would was, would have been used in that that time period, that time frame in fighting Muslims. 01:03:36:20 - 01:03:58:17 Unknown This is one that they again took off American or British, one of the other, because it was a British musket and we were using British muskets as well. But that's now been been for that war. So some documents from that and that's a, that's a fun period of time that doesn't get much coverage. And it's a lot of fun to cover. 01:03:58:20 - 01:04:23:25 Unknown Yeah. This is. This is an interesting piece. So you can see in close on that. Can you see what that is. Hair. Yeah. It's George Washington's hair. Okay. He died. Wow. I cut that off and gave that to Alexander Hamilton. And it came down from Alexander Hamilton's kids. So that's. George was just like a hair from first. 01:04:23:28 - 01:04:50:02 Unknown So that's fun to, This is fun. This is if you if you look up how George Washington died, they're given the name is these. But he really died with that stuff. This is the aspirin for that day. So if you see here these are all razor blades. And what happened is, if you had a fever, the doctors back then said fever is an over excitement of the blood. 01:04:50:04 - 01:05:08:19 Unknown So if you have a fever, your blood is too excited. We need to take some blood out of you and the fever will go down. So what happened with Washington? That he came in, had a high fever, and he said, I need to get rid of some blood. So he took about 32oz out thereabouts. Then the doctors got there and they said that wasn't enough. 01:05:08:21 - 01:05:31:07 Unknown So essentially they took about 40% of his blood trying to get his fever to come down. So that's that's how George Washington died was medical treatment as opposed to something else. But about 40% of his blood was drawn from him. So I appreciate our medicine today, even though we'll probably still got a long way to go and a lot of things to learn. 01:05:31:09 - 01:05:56:07 Unknown That's not what it was back then, for sure. So old Bibles, there's a painting back there that's a you find that inside the rotunda, US Capitol. This is the picture of the pilgrims coming to the New World. So they gather around here. This is their pastor, John Robinson. This is a Bible we gather. And if you see how big that book is there, that is called the world's first pocket Bible. 01:05:56:10 - 01:06:19:00 Unknown And it's a big book. Well, this is what you're looking at, this book right here. This is this is that Geneva Bible. Now, the Geneva Bible, what makes us into this is the first Bible ever printed in the English language. This is from 1590. It has the birth and death dates of various people born in 16, 31, 1633, 1634, 16. 01:06:19:05 - 01:06:40:05 Unknown So this is the family history and what makes this Bible interesting? It's the first Bible print in the English language. So it was printed in Geneva and it's called a Geneva Bible because of that. But what's interesting is we've now gone through the Reformation, which is people said, hey, wait a minute, the Bible says this. I know the King's been telling us this, but this is what the Bible says. 01:06:40:05 - 01:06:58:09 Unknown And so the Reformation was a back to the Bible movement. And so as a result, that's where you start seeing the rise of elected governments. This is where you start seeing the end of state established churches, etc.. And these commentaries out here, all these little lines out there, these are all commentaries from major reformers in what's called the Reformation. 01:06:58:12 - 01:07:22:02 Unknown So these guys go through and say, guys, here's what I'm doing. But look what the Bible says here. And we've been doing it wrong. And so this challenges the culture and the narrative. And so page after page after page, you get these commentaries. Well, it's interesting, this, this is where the pilgrims got the, the anti-slavery stuff, the death penalty for, for slave trade. 01:07:22:05 - 01:07:39:18 Unknown This is where if you go to the Supreme Court, I've been in 13 cases, involved 13 cases, the US Supreme Court and Justice Stephen Breyer, I think, is one of the most secular justices we've ever had on the court. And even a decision he did. He said, well, of course, we all know the due process clauses come out of the Bible. 01:07:39:20 - 01:08:10:01 Unknown Do it. And so I went and looked at the citation had in the case, and it went back to federal practice procedure and in federal practice and procedure, it talked about how that the right to confront, you know, the due process rights as a fourth of the Eighth Amendment, the Constitution, so the right to confront your accuser, etc., right to confront your accuser came out of John 810 and here and then you start finding said, oh, no, the right to compel witnesses in your behalf is Proverbs 1817. 01:08:10:04 - 01:08:32:08 Unknown And there are so many other of the rights to speak in your own defense. Acts 22 one so many is due process, right? So we have came out of the Bible, the economic system the pilgrims used, first, first Timothy five eight, second signs, 310, Matthew 20, Luke 19, Matthew 25 to build what we call the free market system, first free market system thousand years pilgrims. 01:08:32:11 - 01:08:55:01 Unknown And they said when they went away from socialism, went to the free market within two years, said productivity increased sevenfold. And that's the pilgrims. And so this is where you find the first education laws. As brought from here. And the laws aren't here, but the basis of the local laws are. So the pilgrims, they use this book, which is what you see, I'm getting run over there to completely reshape the culture. 01:08:55:04 - 01:09:12:12 Unknown And so the Kings didn't like that. And the result is this. This is the King James Bible. It came out in 1611. This is a 1612 version. 1611 is really big. But when you get on the inside notice it has no commentaries. You guys are used to doing it the way we do it. Just you don't need commentaries. 01:09:12:15 - 01:09:33:02 Unknown And so it's it's essentially the same words, but it doesn't have the commentaries on it. And so that's the difference between the King James and Geneva. But this is what the pilgrims use to really reshape the world and reshape the country. And knowledge of that Bible is really, really important. So looking at that, the history of political parties, you got two major parties. 01:09:33:02 - 01:09:57:08 Unknown Now the Democrats get started about 1837, Andrew Jackson, the Republicans started in May of 1854. And it's because the Democrats pushed through three laws that just absolutely they thought were abominable. You had the Kansas-Nebraska act, which said, we're going to allow slavery in a place that has never had it before, the Kansas Territory. You had the Fugitive Slave Law says no slave can be free anywhere in the United States. 01:09:57:08 - 01:10:14:06 Unknown If they escape anywhere, we can get them, bring them back with power. Federal government to do that. So you cannot escape and be in a free state. And if you go to a free state like Massachusetts, you still have to come back in slavery. And so all these laws went through, and at that point in time, and was from the Democrats, from the Democrats, they were all Democrat lost. 01:10:14:09 - 01:10:35:16 Unknown And a bunch of third party guys got together. The Whigs, the Free Soil, Earth, emancipation settlers. They said, why don't we go back to the principles of a republic? So they called it a Republican party. Let's go back to what the founding fathers wanted. And so what happens is you start seeing things come like, this is the platform of 1864, where it compares the Republicans and the Democrats. 01:10:35:16 - 01:10:53:27 Unknown So you have side by side. This is Lincoln's second election. He is the first Republican elected as president. So the party has started 1854 and 1860, when he ran that we have the 1860 platform, but there's only like nine planks on it, and seven of the nine are civil rights. And that's what Lincoln ran on. We're going to end slavery. 01:10:53:27 - 01:11:14:07 Unknown We're going to make sure everybody's free. Then this is his reelection platform and the same kind of thing here. So just I mean, it was just real clear race and equality and everybody is going to be the same. So if you take the Dred Scott decision, this is a decision Supreme Court that said no blacks have any rights which a white man is bound to respect. 01:11:14:11 - 01:11:32:29 Unknown So this is a huge is a repeal of all. And it actually was repeal of civil rights laws. And so what happens with that? This is an issue which is what the Supreme Court is. But if you look at this as a whole bunch of them that say New York, now why would they say New York, not Washington? 01:11:33:01 - 01:11:56:12 Unknown Because that was the headquarters of the National Democratic Party at the time. And so what happened was Democrats printed. Dred Scott gave it out with their 1860 platform when they ran against Lincoln, said, look, the Supreme Court has said we're right on the race issue. There's no right to the white men bound respect from the black person. So it was a very racially divided, campaign literally by the documents. 01:11:56:14 - 01:12:21:14 Unknown So Lincoln won that come up to 1864. It's still got the same issues, still race 1865. We passed the 13th them to abolish slavery. 100% of Republicans abolished a vote to abolish slavery. Only 23% of northern Democrats. Well, all of a sudden, the Democrats have already seceded. They've gone with the South. You have only the Northern Democrats and only 23% of Northern Democrats vote to abolish slavery. 01:12:21:17 - 01:12:48:01 Unknown You come to the 14th amendment, which gives equal rights to blacks and whites. Democrats didn't support that. And now the civil war is over. This is 1868. You come to 1870 voting rights for blacks, not a single Democrat voted for the 15th amendment. Voting rights for blacks. It's a very clear issue. And so as you look at the first 23 civil rights laws passed between 1861 to 1876, they're Partizan all the way through. 01:12:48:01 - 01:13:11:00 Unknown Republicans support them, Democrats oppose them. So when you come to this, this is actually a campaign piece. And what happen when the Republican Party was in power in Alabama? Now, if you can see that picture, there's a whole lot of black faces in there. And by the way, let me pull one here. So if you look at this, there's a whole lot of black folks. 01:13:11:00 - 01:13:31:08 Unknown This is what happened with Republican Partizan power in Alabama. So this is a reconstruction blacks and whites. And by the way, this is from South Carolina. Now this is a Ku Klux Klan card. This is what they gave out so they would know who's a to lynch. And on the back it tells you the names of these 6063 individuals. 01:13:31:10 - 01:13:56:02 Unknown And so what you have here. And by the way, let's go back to the founding of the Klan in 1865. We have in the congressional hearings, they did in 1875 about the Klan. The Klan says we were founded to take back power from the Republican Party. I thought it was all about race. It was about Republican Party. And so this is a Klan card that came out in 1868, and it has 63 Republicans. 01:13:56:02 - 01:14:20:26 Unknown These are all the Republicans, the South Carolina legislature. There's 50 black Republicans, 13 white Republicans. They're all in the hit list for the cards. And if you look at the numbers between 1882 and about 1962, when it goes to lynchings, this is about 4800 Klan lynchings in that time, all lynchings, Klan lenses and 3500 of blacks and 1300 of whites, one out of every four lynchings was of a white guy. 01:14:20:29 - 01:14:46:21 Unknown Why was that? Because we're after Republicans. We're not after just blacks, any black. It's fine. The blacks are going to be a Republican. But you can't see why because some are Democrats so liberal. This is what was going on. So when you read this here, it says the above is a photograph of the Alabama legislature of 1872, when the Republican Party was in power, in Alabama, the Negroes in the above picture were members of the legislature. 01:14:46:23 - 01:15:10:08 Unknown Then it says down here, if you're willing to risk a Republican legislature in Alabama like the legislature of 1870, to vote for Herbert Hoover, the Republican president, if you believe in white supremacy, vote the straight Democrat ticket on November 6th. This is put up by the Democrat Party, the Democrats. This is their piece. This is not Republicans making fun of Democrats calling them racist. 01:15:10:10 - 01:15:31:06 Unknown This is the Democrat piece. And they say if you believe in white supremacy. So that's another part that gets folded. That was all Republicans are all bunch of racists. They've always been that way. No. And which you know nothing about history. Now, if you want to argue that Republicans are racist today, I said that argument, but don't make it on the basis of history and how things were founded, because there just wasn't part of it. 01:15:31:08 - 01:15:54:11 Unknown So that's why when you look at this, we talked earlier about the thousand black elected officials. None of them were Democrats. By 1876. We don't know of a single Democrat elected official that was elected by 1876, although there were a thousand blacks selected, some of them in the founding era. Certainly weren't Republican or Democrat, but the overwhelming majority, over 900, were Republicans that elected in that period of time. 01:15:54:14 - 01:16:17:08 Unknown And that's just a part of history. Nobody gets well. So with World War Two, when everything's going on, one of the big problems we get into is bad weather in Europe. And patent man, from the time the patent arrives in North Africa, he just rolls and he's just an awesome commander as far as winning battles goes. And when he is rolling into Germany, he gets in the bad weather. 01:16:17:08 - 01:16:32:22 Unknown And at that point in time, our American Sherman tanks weren't very good against the German tanks. We we got in the World War two. We were still used in World War One tanks. We weren't ready for war. We didn't want to go to war. We believe that if we weren't a threat to anybody, nobody would come after us. 01:16:32:22 - 01:16:51:07 Unknown And that proved me wrong. So when the war starts, it was 11 months from the time we got attacked at the time that we did anything, because it took 11 months to get enough people in the military to train them to go to enough tanks, build enough planes. We were still flying by planes from World War One when World War Two started, so we weren't in good shape at all. 01:16:51:14 - 01:17:17:14 Unknown 11 months, we just kind of were waiting for stuff to get done. So when Patton goes over and lands in North Africa, now we start going across North Africa. He has tanks. Sherman tanks aren't that great. The Tigers and Panzers just blow them out. The way we handle their tanks was our aircraft P-51 Mustangs, P-40s, P-47 saw that we could blow their tanks up, and then our tanks were good against machine guns and against bazookas and other stuff. 01:17:17:16 - 01:17:37:21 Unknown But we needed planes in the air. And so Patent's just rolling. But he gets in the period of about three months where he can't get a plane off the ground. Hardly. Is it just bad weather? Just bad weather. And he keeps saying, what's the forecast? Well, it's always like this in Europe this time of year. Over in Germany, in France it's bad weather and it just keeps going and going and going. 01:17:37:21 - 01:17:56:21 Unknown And he finally calls in the chaplain, James O'Neill, and says, chaplain, he said, do you have a prayer for this weather? And chaplain said, I'll check the prayer books. Get back. You got back. Said, don't have a prayer for this. I'll write you one. And he said, the patent then turned his back on him. Went over, went the one that looked at the one to all the rain. 01:17:56:24 - 01:18:21:06 Unknown And he said, Pat, he said, chaplain, he said, Amen. Pray he said, yes, sir. That's why we have chaplains. I didn't ask the chaplains prayer. I don't know if the men are praying. They said, well, there's no atheists in foxholes. No, I want to I want every man in this army praying. And so chaplain O'Neill wrote out a prayer for whether the God would change the weather patterns, said, I want that distributed all 250,000 of our men. 01:18:21:08 - 01:18:38:13 Unknown That happened as he was going into the battle of the bulge. And what happened is Patton was going into the battle bulge, which is a turning point battle and World War two. If the Germans had won that war would have been on a long time war. So Patton had a habit to see was going across Europe, taking all these places. 01:18:38:15 - 01:18:57:06 Unknown He would stop at churches and churches. All business people know that armies would come in through there, away from it, and he would go into churches in their hot what are called high church. So they have a lot of statues, a lot of stained glass, a lot of visual stuff, high ceilings, high church tradition. A lot of American churches were low churches, just kind of casual stuff. 01:18:57:08 - 01:19:10:12 Unknown And so he would walk in and his officers would go with him. He would take his helmet off and stand in front of the statue. Jesus and Jesus, a briefing, he'd say, sir, here's what we did last week. I will take this. And it would go through telling Jesus what he had done. They said, now here's where I'm going to be next week. 01:19:10:12 - 01:19:30:00 Unknown Need your help. When I get and you just talk to him like like it's like he was briefing Eisenhower. And they said that when he got to the battle of the bulge, he stopped Luxembourg, which is his headquarters. He went into the church and his staff were with them. And they said that the prayer that the report he gave Jesus so unusual, they wrote it down. 01:19:30:00 - 01:19:43:20 Unknown And afterwards they said, is this what you said? He said, yes. And he got really ticked and he told Jesus, I'm not sure who side the road. He said, I've had this weather for three months, and if you'd give me good weather, I could get rid of the Germans and in this war and stop the killing. But you haven't given me a good weather. 01:19:43:20 - 01:20:00:02 Unknown I keep asking the chaplain to give good weather, and they're not. And he just goes off on Jesus, essentially. And and so they wrote it down. Well, the next day when he came out, he passed out this prayer card. This is the prayer card that they made a sign of a patent on the back, because this is what happened to Christmas. 01:20:00:05 - 01:20:24:11 Unknown So they gave out this prayer card on the 22nd of December, 22nd, 23rd of December, 1945. So it's Merry Christmas from from your General Patton. On the other side is the prayer, and this is what chapel O'Neill wrote out. The 250 guys, 250,000 guys started praying. This is Almighty God, our merciful, most merciful father. We humbly beseech thee of that great goodness to restrain this moderate range. 01:20:24:14 - 01:20:45:22 Unknown And through those. So they started praying that on the 22nd, on the 24th. And he told he told Jesus in the church, he said, if you give me four days of good weather, he said, I will send you more germs and your book in heaven can keep up with just give me four days. So on the 23rd, start praying 22nd, 23rd, on the 24th, the work, the weather reports. 01:20:45:22 - 01:21:05:15 Unknown And it's interesting, six days in a row of completely clear skies and the weather reports, we have the after action reports, a third Army SS miraculous. Another miracle again today. The weather report called for bad weather and they kept having clear skies. And so he got planes in the air. He took care of the tanks. They won the battle balls and into World War Two. 01:21:05:15 - 01:21:26:26 Unknown It stops the killing. But this prayer right here, Patent's prayer is considered to be a turning point in that war with the battle of the balls. Wow, wow. And then it goes back and tells how it went back. Oh, yeah. Yeah. As they were as as they were leaving Luxembourg. Patent stop. Back to the church again. One for Jesus and apologize that, you know, you had this after all. 01:21:26:26 - 01:21:54:16 Unknown You had it planned a lot better than I did, you know, thanks for your help. And so it was an apology. The patent didn't apologize to anybody, but he did it. Jesus. So from all this, as we close out from this year, many years of experience and collection collecting in your heart for Christ, and all the work that you've done in politics, like, you have a wealth of knowledge of you have more than really anybody that I honestly ever met. 01:21:54:18 - 01:22:16:18 Unknown Your level of knowledge and your intelligence, what would you say is, 1 or 2 key lessons that you've learned that you'd want to transfer over to, the people watching it, watching and listening to this, the Bible says proof all things and hold fast that which is true. And I don't care how close your friend is, you need to check it out, see if it's right. 01:22:16:23 - 01:22:34:02 Unknown The things you get told often are not right. And it's not because people are malicious. They're just repeating what they've heard. And so you have to know truth for yourself. You have to go find truth. You have to determine truth. Truth is the only thing that will sustain and lasts forever. So Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 01:22:34:02 - 01:22:53:00 Unknown All of us have been misinformed on a number of things, some maliciously, some not maliciously. You have to go find the truth, search the truth, seek out the truth. And then when you do, you have to conform your life to it. You may find truth challenges. You do some things you didn't want to do, and it's not what I believe is not what I was taught. 01:22:53:00 - 01:23:13:17 Unknown It's not what school taught me. Great. What are you going to do now that you've seen the truth? And so you have to have the courage to do something. So truth, seek truth is the first thing. Independently verify truth not by your opinions. Go to primary source stuff. Then have the courage to conform to what that truth is and then you have to get involved. 01:23:13:19 - 01:23:30:02 Unknown The or remember the story in the Old Testament where those four lepers sat there said, what's that we hear till we die? You know, we can't just keep sitting here. And now then once you turn the battle they went and found the enemy was gone. And so people, I'm just one person. What can I do? There's 340 million. 01:23:30:05 - 01:23:53:05 Unknown That's right. But one person can do something. And you know, in all these battles and things, we see people made a difference. And so maybe you don't make a vast difference. Maybe you just change one person, but maybe that one person is the person that changes everything else. And I point to Abraham Lincoln. Nobody knows who the Reverend James Smith is, but they should because he's the guy who made Abraham Lincoln. 01:23:53:05 - 01:24:13:26 Unknown Lincoln was a great atheist. He had memorized the Bible, could debate every pastor that was out there. A couple of crises happened in his life. He lost some kids. He read the writings of this guy. Nobody knows this James Smith. And he gave all these great arguments for atheism. And Lincoln says, wow, I've never heard that before. 01:24:13:28 - 01:24:31:08 Unknown And a few years later he went and got John Smith said, I need somebody help me get back to God. I think you're right. And so James Smith brought him back to God and was his pastor. When Lincoln is in office, when Lincoln actually becomes a Christian, Lincoln says this after he was president, that he became a Christian and all goes to one guy. 01:24:31:11 - 01:24:52:26 Unknown And so we look at what Lincoln did, all the civil rights stuff he did one guy. So it's nobody knows who Smith is, but Lincoln wouldn't be who he was without Smith. So find somebody, mentor somebody, take him and kind of take him on your wing and help them. Just commit yourself to relationship with somebody that you can help instruct them in some way. 01:24:52:28 - 01:25:10:05 Unknown And so that's that's the key. Jesus said, make disciples of all people. Go find somebody you can disciple, find somebody you can lead in the right direction. Then you can share truth through it. You don't have to have a huge following. Just go find one person that may make all the difference. David, it has been a blessing. 01:25:10:06 - 01:25:28:20 Unknown Thank you so much for your time. Such an incredible. We have not only collection, but your stories, your wisdom, hopefully that, the guys and are women that are listening to this will have, a different perspective of our nation's history, but then also go do something about it. Yeah. That's right. Thanks again. Thanks, brother. 01:25:28:20 - 01:25:49:08 Unknown Fisher. So what do we got over here? Well, there's a lot of Bibles here. There's here's a Bible from World War two, and it's got a steel plate on the outside of a bullet. Hit it. Got that. And we actually had two guys in here that their lives were saved by bullets hitting that world of faith. Shield of faith. 01:25:49:10 - 01:26:08:00 Unknown This is called the world's smallest Bible. So it's kind of cool. And then you open it up and you go, oh my goodness, how do you typeset or print that either one and be able to read it? These are kids Bibles. They call them thumb Bibles. Early 1800s, late 1700s. So these are little Bible stories for kids. 01:26:08:00 - 01:26:29:21 Unknown So they have their own book. There's this is a Bible from 1400s. Check this out. This is this is pretty cool. This is a Coptic Bible. So Christians in Egypt, this is their their language and their Bible. And the artwork is pretty amazing. Although don't rub your finger across the grain. That's arsenic. That's how they colored it was what they didn't know what it was at that point in time. 01:26:29:21 - 01:26:51:25 Unknown So, that's arsenic down there. So fun stuff there. These are other Bibles. This is a fun Bible here. Now, see how big this is? Try carrying that to church with you someday. Except this, this Bibles, eight volumes. So it goes from here to here. And you open it up and on the inside. As it turns out, it's race letter. 01:26:51:25 - 01:27:10:05 Unknown This is for the blind. And so it's is before Braille. And they had this. And then they went to Braille. And they still did this afterwards. But you run you know, I, I've tried this I cannot distinguish a single letter. And it just amazes me what the blind can do with this. But this is a Bible for the blind. 01:27:10:07 - 01:27:30:02 Unknown But eight volumes to to have the whole Bible. Wow. Can you can you distinguishing literal that. Absolutely not. You know, just. Yeah. And I just watch I watch them go over and read it. This is awesome. So some more fun Bibles. So this is really the first picture you have of the US Capitol. This is the year after it's done. 01:27:30:04 - 01:27:54:01 Unknown But look at the Washington Monument because it was still wasn't done. It was right here. That was what it was drawn to look like. And then when they finished it out in 88, they never did that stuff. They're on it. So that's all. Smithsonian John Quincy Adams set up the original Smithsonian. But if you look here, the Capitol here, when you see the this coming down here, the Potomac, that was a canal that went up to the Capitol. 01:27:54:01 - 01:28:13:24 Unknown You can take a boat right to the steps of the Capitol. White House is over the side right here. So in 1902, they moved the whole river and a half mile this way. So now you have the the Lincoln, the, the Lincoln Monument here and Jefferson Memorial here. But all of this, this Washington actually helped build that tunnel. 01:28:13:26 - 01:28:34:23 Unknown And that was how you got the Capitol right up Canal Street, which is now Constitution Avenue. And that's that's independence over there. So a little different. But Jefferson is the guy in charge of laying that out when he's secretary of state. And then here's here's when they finished the Washington Monument, the Washington Monument. So that's what it was designed to look like. 01:28:34:23 - 01:28:46:03 Unknown They ran out of money. And so that's what they ended up having it look like