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The Brion McClanahan Show

Episode 32: The Mythmaking of Gary Ross

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4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The question is settled. Director Gary Ross has spoken and we are to all fall in line. Ross, director of the upcoming film The Free State of Jones, has released a video "debunking" four "myths" of the Civil War. There is one problem; Ross creates several myths in the process. http://learntruehistory.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/4-civil-war-myths_us_576e9934e4b017b379f621e7?utm_hp_ref=black-voices& http://amzn.to/2929SCn http://amzn.to/294BxEv http://amzn.to/292jxgR

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0:30.2

Hey everybody, Brian McClanahan here. Are you looking for a great website that gives you history

0:35.2

the way it was intended to be told with no PC, no Marxism,

0:40.1

no progressivism. Well, I've got it for you. It's learn truehistory.com. That's learn

0:47.1

true history.com. Learn history from great professors who don't sugarcoat it for you. This is not

0:54.1

for your delicate flowers.

0:55.9

That's learntruehistory.com, learn truehistory.com.

1:01.2

This is the Brian McClanahan Show.

1:03.9

Three, two, one, zero, zero, and stop. Welcome back to the Brian McClain Show. This is Episode.

1:24.3

And my topic for discussion today is a little video that was produced

1:28.8

and was making the rounds on social media in the last couple of days

1:33.4

by the Huffington Post and Gary Ross.

1:37.6

Now, for those you don't know who Gary Ross is, he's a director,

1:40.7

and he's an award-winning director, in fact,

1:44.0

and he is an award-winning director, in fact, and he has directed a new movie entitled The Free State of Jones.

1:51.3

Now, his previous works were things like The Hunger Games and Seabiscuit,

1:56.5

but now he's gotten into, well, Seabiscuit was a historical epic, or historical film, I should say.

2:03.0

But now he's into another historical film, and he's covering the war, which the Civil War, I'll talk about that in a second, but he's covering that particular time period.

2:12.7

If you're not familiar with the Free State of Jones, it's a film about a supposed county in Mississippi that seceded from Mississippi and formed its own state.

2:22.0

Now, I'm not going to talk about the accuracy of that particular film or the story therein.

2:27.0

But I'm going to talk about this little video that Ross put out, the Huffington Post, put out,

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