364: John Dodd—Son of a Revolutionary
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The appellate lawyer and President General of the Sons of the American Revolution drops by to discuss our nation's founding and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party by inducting Mike, Chuck, and Mike's dad, John, into the SAR.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's episode number 364 of the way I heard it. 364, Chuck. I mean, that's almost |
| 0:11.6 | 365, which would be a year. Did you do that math in your head? I did right there in real time. |
| 0:16.8 | That's pretty good. Very impressive. That's a lot, you know, considering I thought we might do six |
| 0:22.0 | when we started this whole thing. Right. We're coming up on the end of the year. This one is called |
| 0:27.1 | Son of a Revolutionary, because my guest is the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, |
| 0:33.4 | grandson of a revolutionary, I would suppose. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes. |
| 0:38.6 | And so are you. |
| 0:40.0 | Yes, and so are you. |
| 0:41.3 | And so is my dad. |
| 0:42.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.1 | And we're going to celebrate that happy triumvirate today by getting sworn in to the sons of the American |
| 0:53.2 | Revolution. |
| 0:54.8 | And full disclosure, this is kind of my dad's Christmas present. |
| 0:57.8 | He was a social studies teacher for most of his life. |
| 1:01.7 | He loves this country and he loves American history. |
| 1:04.0 | And we were just delighted to learn that we've got a relation going back about 10 generations or so who served in the Second Continental Congress. |
| 1:13.8 | If you're a fan of the podcast, you know that a guy named Jesse Hagan did a deep dive on my family |
| 1:18.4 | and put together this enormous book that just continues to fascinate me. |
| 1:23.9 | You know, it was really your idea, but I think it's a good one, Chuck, to wind up the end of the year with a little commemoration with regard to all of that. |
| 1:32.2 | I really like this guy, and he really loves his gig. |
| 1:34.8 | He's great. By the way, his name is John Dodd. He's a lawyer, and he does this on a voluntary basis. |
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