Welcome to the Conversations That Matter Podcast. Today's episode is a special edition. We have the historian, author, and podcaster Brian McClanahan on to talk about thinking local and acting local as well as what led to the Civil War.

Now to give you some background I've listened to Brian McClanahan for a few years.

He has a show called the Brian McClanahan show and he's an expert on

colonial history civil war history the federal period generally he talks about

current events and he relates them back to documents original documents and

just just has some really great content in my opinion if you're trying to understand the political situation in light of the intentions of the founding fathers

that kind of thing. Now for the documentary American Monument I was traveling

around the country conducting at least some of the interviews that went into that and I

thought to myself if I had someone that I was interviewing and

we had a little bit of time extra then I would invite them to do a podcast with me

and so Brian McClanahan was very gracious we did have a little bit of extra time so we was able to Brian McClanahan was very gracious. We did have a little bit of extra time,

so we were able to do a podcast.

And so I was able to pick his brain about these subjects.

And so I think it'll be beneficial for you.

And if you like what you hear, you might want to check out his podcast as well.

And so if you haven't seen American Monument yet, please go to YouTube or Rumble.

Last Stand Studios is the channel. please go to YouTube or Rumbull.

Last Stand Studios is the channel,

and you can type in American Monumental.

It should come up that way as well.

But hopefully you enjoy this bonus feature,

that's really what this is, a bonus feature for the American Monument documentary.

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