From the small towns to the big cities.

We bring you the stories that matter.

This is.

This is.

This is the Our American Stories podcast.

This is Lee Habib, the host of the Our American Stories podcast.

Today, we bring you Dr. Deirdre Berzer of Hillsdale College, who tells the story of Sakauea, who was absolutely essential to the survival

of Lewis and Clark during their journey into the recently acquired Louisiana territory.

We also bring you the story of Jim Keys, a beautiful American Dreamer story of a boy who grew up

in poverty and whose first job was at McDonald's.

He would work his way up to become the CEO of 7-Eleven and Blockbuster.

Last, we bring you the story of the kazoo.

Sarah Barnwell from the Kazoubi-Kazoo Factory shares how the kazoo came to be one of the only truly American instruments.

And folks, we're so glad to bring you all of these stories and all we do here in our American

stories with our podcast. Our team works hard day and night to bring you these stories

that rise above the noise in the media.

We hope our stories make you laugh, think, and cry, and we hope they inspire in some way,

and that they may help your day, well, be a little bit better.

If you'd like to support us and all that we do here, visit our American Stories.com and go to the giving tab.

Join our team by giving a one-time gift or a monthly donation. We are a 501c3, a non-profit,

so any bit helps us to continue bringing you these beautiful and good stories about a beautiful

and good country.

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