Ep. 1788 - Everything Wrong With The America 250 Celebrations
6/1/202644 min
America survived a revolution, a civil war, and a century of turmoil without losing pride in its history. So why, on the eve of its 250th birthday, can’t Americans even celebrate their own country? Ep. 1788
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Matt Walsh· Host0:30
Uh, two years after America's birth as a nation, Boone was in captivity having been taken prisoner by a Shawnee war party. He was imprisoned for months, and then he escaped. Uh, he made a daring escape. He had to travel 160 miles through uncharted wilderness by foot and by horse in just five days, makes it back to his settlement in just enough time to warn them of a coming attack. Now, that story alone could be its own movie. It's al- it's already separated into three acts right there, and there should be dozens of movies about Daniel Boone. Instead, there have been basically none, at least since the 1960s. But that story is just one anecdote from an absolutely amazing, mythic, and yet also real American life. Boone spent decades exploring and charting the wild American frontier. He helped to blaze the wilderness road through the Appalachian Mountains, which would pave the way for settlers to make it into Kentucky, which then became a doorway into the West. Um, just 15 miles