Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how
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Speaker 1: I'm editor Candice Skipson, joined by staff writer Joshua and Clark.
Speaker 1: How's it going, Josh? Going pretty well? Candice? How about you?
Speaker 1: You sound very satisfied. You must have killed yourself a bear.
Speaker 1: That's really funny you should say that. I just I
Speaker 1: did just kill bear with my bare hands. Actually, that
Speaker 1: explains the blood and the and the proud coon skin
Speaker 1: cap perched atop your head. Yeah. I'm feeling very primal,
Speaker 1: and I'm also right now feeling very um connected to
Speaker 1: one of my childhood heroes, Mr Davy Crockett. You ever
Speaker 1: heard of this girl called the Phone? He's one of
Speaker 1: mine too. Yeah. Well, have you ever seen the mini
Speaker 1: series that they launched in nine now at the first air?
Speaker 1: And I know what you're talking about. There was a
Speaker 1: five part mini series produced by Walt Disney and it
Speaker 1: hauled in about a hundred million dollars worth of merchandise,
Speaker 1: and that um did the afore mentioned coon skin cap,
Speaker 1: like Josh has, as well as the sheet music and
Speaker 1: different recordings of the theme song, which Josh has promised
Speaker 1: to hum a few bars of right now, go, I
Speaker 1: promise no such thing. Sorry, yeah, but anyway, I love
Speaker 1: Davy Crockett. I always have and um, you know, being
Speaker 1: covered in this bear's blood and shirtless right now, it's
Speaker 1: really kind of taking me back to my childhood. One
Speaker 1: of the things I always remember hearing about Davy Crocker
Speaker 1: is that he was king of the Wild Frontier. Is
Speaker 1: that is that fact or fiction? I'm gonna go with fact,
Speaker 1: And that's rude a little bit in my opinion. But
Speaker 1: Davy was just he was a real strapping man, and
Speaker 1: he was sort of like the the George Clooney of
Speaker 1: the American pioneering West, charismatic rugged and he stood for
Speaker 1: a cause. And one particular Davy Crockett quotation stands out
Speaker 1: in my mind, and that was be sure you're right
Speaker 1: and then going go ahead. And he really lived by that.
Speaker 1: He was a congressman in Tennessee for two terms, and
Speaker 1: then by the time his third uh opportunity for reelection
Speaker 1: came around, he had so vehemently opposed President Andrew Jackson's
Speaker 1: American Indian Removal policies that he was sort of, um, well,
Speaker 1: he wasn't reelected and he and that that was actually
Speaker 1: a big reversal for him because he had actually taken
Speaker 1: place in the massacre of an Indian village younger in
Speaker 1: his younger years. So for him to turn around and
Speaker 1: you know, vocally opposed Jackson like that over Indian removal
Speaker 1: and land Gray, I mean that was kind of a
Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, he really readjusted his moral compass and
Speaker 1: then not only did he sort of self banished to Texas, um,
Speaker 1: I believe his parting words were you may all go
Speaker 1: to Hell, and I will go to Texas where he
Speaker 1: met his demise. Right, he did as a defender of
Speaker 1: the Alamo. So he really did stand for what was right,
Speaker 1: and you know, he went ahead and he went ahead
Speaker 1: to his death. But I think that really makes the
Speaker 1: King of the World Frontier agreed. And plus killing a
Speaker 1: bear too, that'll do it. So now that old Davies
Speaker 1: dead and I've just killed myself a bear, and I
Speaker 1: think I'm the king of outfit to you or anything.
Speaker 1: I think. So we're gonna have to amend this article,
Speaker 1: but until we do, you compat it in its original form,
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