36 Washington Emileigh

Okay, getting myself set up here, okay, um, yeah, re-listen. We're trying. Oh, hey. Oh, hey. TVD. No. Uh, it, it's pro-okay, listen. It's gonna be a wild ride on the Brady side because on the 22nd, we're having Cousins Christmas. So that's my dad's siblings, like, kids, just us cousins. So there'll be like six of us there. Maybe kids, I don't know yet. That's always a good time. And then the next day is my uncle on my mom's side's Christmas, and we're gonna go hang out with him and his kids up in, like, Knoxville. So that's over an hour away. And that's the next day. So then the next day is Christmas Eve, which we will be spending with my mom and her side of the family, my parents. I made it sound like my parents are divorced. They're not. It's my parents' side of the family. And then the next day, we'll spend the morning by ourselves with us and then go to Nick's side after that. And then the 26th, I have a birthday cake to make for someone's 21st birthday because I overdo it sometimes. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you. I will be drinking. So what are your plans, Morgan? How are you feeling? Mm-hmm. Oh, God. Yay. Yeah. Please do. After the 26th or the 26th. Yeah, that's fine. If that hones it down for you at all. I mean, listen, you can come. You know, you just get toted around with the rest of us. So it's fine. It's like a third kid in the backseat back there. I know. But you're younger than Nick, so it counts. It's like a weird stepmom situation. He's not. He's not. Well, he's four and a half years older than me, so he just turned 35. Mm-hmm. It's okay. Yeah. 13 years later. It's fine. I love your family. I love all of our families. Well, we hope that everyone had a good time with their family or your chosen family. Or if you had it in solitude, I hope it was peaceful and restful and wonderful, regardless of how you did it. So, yeah. Yeah. I feel like I can't feel my hands anymore. Oh, hold on. I'm trying to be a soldier. I need to roughen it up a little bit. I feel like I can't feel my hands anymore. What I would give to be home, the wife making dinner, and my young'uns running around my feet in front of my fireplace. I? Why are we still here at this wretched river? Don't they know a Nor'easter is about to blow in? I can feel it in my bones. On your feet now, new commands from the general. We're crossing this river at nightfall. We can and we will, general's orders. We're going to surprise those damn Hessians and finally earn a victory. Doesn't matter now. This revolution is failing, and we only have a week until we can go back home. I need you to put some really epic music in the end of this, just like. Please do. Thank you. But not the, like, drummer boy stuff, because remember how, like, high-pitched that stuff was? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. Sorry. If I had to take a gander, I would say that it's probably Washington crossing the Delaware. Yay! The bare minimum. Go me. Okay. Okay. Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Also, sorry, let's just, I just want to say, let's keep in mind that our heroes are people, too, and that they might not always do the best thing. It's like Susan B. Anthony had her faults as well, but she is an American icon in the women's right to vote thing. So, like, let's just keep in mind that just because he did so many good things, he might not necessarily have been, like, a perfect person or made decisions that we would feel would be the right decisions now. You also have to take into account that the time back then wasn't always right either, so. But he did a lot of good, so he's worth a lot. You've paused again. Morgan, come back. Any kind of fool could see. Oh, there you are. I was wrong. Okay. I just can't pod without you. You're welcome for that. If you want to leave it in, it's fine. Go ahead. Oh, damn, I should have been doing that, too. Okay. I'll start doing that. I'll start doing it now. Yes. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. Right. Right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Without representation. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Ooh. We're having a party. Yeah. Yep. Mm-hmm. A child. Mm-hmm. Damn. That's so many. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Wow. In five months? Damn. Wow. Okay. That's rude. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, those are inspiring, aren't they? Wow. Very inspiring words. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Wow. Wow. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He's just like, oh, it's like he's – I'm getting the imagery of what he thinks is like an adult holding the head of, like, a child who's swinging at them, like just holding them at arm's length, and he's just like, eh, whatever. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. It's probably because he was a dick. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. What's a pig iron? Cool. Got it. Yeah. Good Lord. Wow. I'm sorry, I'm putting that into reference. Our gooseneck trailers that could hold at a minimum just like two Jeeps, you might be able to squeeze a third one on there, were 40 feet long. 20 extra feet on those bitches? Holy shit. Yeah. Yeah. So he's going to lose his army. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Of course it didn't. Oh, God. Oh, so they're already three hours late. Yeah. Oh, my God. Could you imagine just rowing a boat next to a horse? Oh, my God, sorry. And a blizzard. Yeah. 12 hours. Hey! Oh, my God. Mm-hmm. Like they all sank or they just couldn't make it? Okay. Yeah. Smart. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Hold on. So he was asking for help with these smaller attacks, and then when the big one comes, he's like, it's fine, we got it, this will be all right. False sense of security, my dude. Yeah. I mean, that's fair. When you can't sleep well knowing that, like, an attack could come at any minute, that ain't good. Right. Yeah. Wow. Good. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And how many did they have? Okay. Damn. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Right. Yeah. Okay. Why didn't they just stay? Oh. It's getting worse. Probably. I'm just imagining, and we fight for this country, and we do all this, and you have to fight, and then, like, crickets. And then he's like, and I'll give you $10. They're like, we'll fight. Shoot. Wow. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. Okay. I think I remember this. Okay. Continue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're all sneaking out the back door. That's hilarious. I love that. Okay. Damn it. Right. Yeah. Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. It does not look good. Right. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Damn. Yeah. Yes. I see it. Yes. Okay. Why would you sell that? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's like a quarter the size of what you just described. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Right. Yeah. I do have an opinion. I just think it's funny to think that all these men are working so hard to row this rowboat and Washington's just standing there. And a power post for 11 hours. He's like, I'm showing up to the shore, even though no one's on the other side to see him. That's in his head. Yeah, I know. He's holding on. Like, his life depends on it. He might be like one bump into an iceberg away from falling into this river. Like, you don't know. Also, there are horses in the background. Did you notice that? Yeah. No. And I see, like, this guy in the front is pushing icebergs away. I could definitely see that as being a thing. And also, I didn't notice, there's no snow or storm going on right now. Yeah. Yeah. I guess you couldn't paint that, though. It'd just be white. Yeah. True. True. It's just your imagination, people. So you're telling me that the boat that he painted was life-size? What the? Yeah. Oh, my God. Almost. Damn. You mean the people would be about the right size? I'm Googling this. I'm... Images. Damn. That thing is huge. Yeah. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. That would make sense. Yeah. Wow. Well, that didn't stop Washington. I know. I know. I'm sure it does, yeah. Damn. The fleet, yeah. Thank God. Yeah. Well, that's awesome. Right. Cute. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Just a different Washington. Yeah. How can you track that? Well, thank you. I learned a lot. I didn't know he crossed, like, a million times. Could you imagine paddling? You're just like, God damn it. I'm so tired of this, like, grumbling the whole time. It's cold. I can't feel my fingers. Seriously, just two? Water is beautiful and dangerous, and you have to have a healthy respect. I've been swimming my entire life, and I have a very healthy respect for water. You do not mess with water. Yeah. You also need it for life, so it's kind of truly. You drink it, it drown you. There you go. Yeah. Right. Right. Oh, very good. I would volunteer if I was close by. It does. It does. I did play Pilgrim a couple weeks ago, and I never posted about it, so I might do that. Yeah. I forgot. I didn't mean to volunteer. I got bullied into it by Shelby. Thanks, Shelby. But she's like, hey, I need to do some volunteer hours for school. Do you want to do this with me? It's at, like, a place in Chattanooga I didn't even know existed, and there's, like, a cabin from the mid-1700s there. And I was like, sure, thinking I'm going to run a booth or parking or something like that. No, they put me on cabin tours. I didn't know shit about this cabin until the day I showed up, and I was like, okie doke, we're going to learn today. Oh, no, thank God. There was the Butterchurners were in. Okay, what I didn't tell you was it was school children. So what I did all day was keep children's hands off of 300-year-old spinning wheels and buckets and coffee grinders and all kinds of things. Coffee grinders and all this other stuff that's really old, and they just want to touch it. They just want to, like, literally every, oh, my God, every kid that came in there just walked in and would just spin the wheel on the spinning wheel. And I'm like, I have to use nice mom voice because you're not my child, so please stop spinning the wheel. Please. If it was my kid, I'd be like, hey, you think that's a good idea? Don't do that. Don't touch that. But you're not my kid. I can't say that. Yeah. My poor kids. Sarcasm is their first language, so if they're ever rude to you in public, just know that they mean well. Yeah, I asked my – this is some solid parenting right here. So when I couldn't walk over the summer, I asked my son to go get me a beer because I couldn't walk. And he was, like, kind of grumbling. He's like, I don't want to. And I'm like, but it'll take me forever to go get one. Like, could you just run and grab one, please? And my daughter looks up from what she was doing, coloring or some shit. She's minding her own business. She looks up, squints her eyes at me, and goes, you can go get it yourself. Oh. Well, the problem is I can't. Damn. You can go get it yourself. Oh, she's rude. What do you say to that? You're welcome for saving your life, daughter. I broke your fall with my ankle. Well, maybe you go get me the beer, okay? I will say he did eventually begrudgingly go get me the beer. He's helpful. He's helpful. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I did. I was like, you'll help me out a bunch, and then she just had to, like, have her opinion on it. Very, very opinionated. Ah, huh. Nice weather we're having in this closet. Yeah, I'm definitely paying for just the way that I am as a person. It's come back twofold. She's just like me. Help. Yeah, yeah. I can't even describe how I was raised. I don't even know how to put it into words. But it culminated into what you're hearing right now. So that's the end result. Thank you. All rewards can go to my parents, I guess. Yeah, I wrote down our socials on my hand so I wouldn't forget them. Okay, thanks. Are we ready for socials? Okay, cool. So you can find us on Facebook. Instagram. Our Gmail to email us. Patreon. And if you can't remember, it's just Illiquid History Anywhere. Just Google us. Yeah, yeah, you'll find us. That's right. So how do we sign off from this? I mean, maybe, I don't know, consolidate your trips crossing rivers for sure. He did everything right, yeah. Yeah, when in doubt, fake them out, go around the side. Yeah, bribes work. $10 will get you a lot. In 1776. Yes. Yeah, you know, if you're in a relationship, get that good year, good New Year's kiss. If you're not, kiss who's next to you. Kiss who's next to you. Make it weird. It doesn't matter who it is. Consenting, of course. Or just hug a dog or something. Yeah. Yeah, I'll just forcefully hug my 25-pound cat. Yeah, okay, chunky. Okay, bye. Okay, bye. Ooh, hour 10.