Welcome to the Eric Mut Taxi Show. It's the show that answers the question.

Is it possible to make a vowel sound out of a potato?

Can the word potato be a verb?

What about an actual potato? Can that be a verb? What about the word verb? Can the word verb be a verb? Can it be a potato? Mama, I'm scared myself. And now your host, Eric Mott, Texas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. As you know, when I'm not playing a radio host, I play an author in the rest of my life. And I love to get

authors on this program, particularly celebrated authors of historical works. Today, we have one

of those. A celebrated author, his name is Peter Cousins. He's the author or editor of 17 acclaimed books on the Civil War and the American Indian and the Indian Wars of the American West. He was with the Foreign Service. Before that, he was a captain in the Army. Today he's just a celebrated author and he's on this

program. Peter Kossens, welcome to the program. Thank you so much for your invitation, Eric.

Am I getting your last name at least slightly correct? Is it Kossens? Right on the mark.

Right on. And is it Peter or Peter?

Peter here, maybe Peter in Netherlands.

Yeah, okay.

Well, we'll go with Peter.

You've written a really significant book titled,

Tacomsa and the Prophet,

the Shawnee Brothers who defied a nation.

This is history that's generally unknown to me,

and I assume to most of my audience.

I haven't read the book.

What little of it that I have read has been absolutely fascinating.

Many of us only even know the name Tecumseh from,

because it's the middle name of William Tecumseh Sherman,

who marched to the sea burning as he went.

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