Welcome to the Wallbladder show. We're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical,

historical, and constitutional perspective. Rick Green, David Barton, Tim Barton, all

here together. And it's February guys. We've got a really special thing happening every

day in February. So we bring some great heroes of history to life for folks. I think this

is what our fifth one. What's our story today, guys? This is a fifth one. And the story today is,

and we can say this basically every single day, this guy is one of the true heroes in American

history. But I don't think you can argue he was. This is George Washington Carver. And as we

mentioned yesterday, with Phil's Wheatley, there are some names that people might recognize they

might have heard of. I think there's definitely going to be some names as we go through this list

that people have never heard of. And we only chose 20 of the hundreds of heroes we could talk about.

But George Washington Carver certainly has a famous scientist and inventor. A lot of people

recognize him, even from some of the work he did to ski institute, the book of Washington,

but his background is super interesting. He was born into slavery in the south. And this was

kind of right around the Civil War era. So at the end of the Civil War, he finds his freedom

because of 13th Amendment. But he's living with a the Carver family. And his mother, George

Washington Carver's mother was also a slave. Well, the Carver family decides to keep them on.

One night, there's a group of raiders that come through and they kidnapped George and his mother.

And the Carver family is so distressed that Mr. Carver, Ms. Carver, they want to rescue them,

but they don't really have any money until they offer someone some some acres and an animal.

Like you can have the horse if you can just go find them. And so as a story unfolds,

the guy they hire is able to find George that not able to bring the mother back. And George,

his health was really broken. He was really sick, but he lives with a family. He's raised by the

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