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Not shoutings the new shouting richard meant. or a johnson was born and bear grass kentucky dick mentor, dick mentor already back, then He was actually part of virginia, but then it returns in Kentucky. Just trust me sure, yeah yeah, you walk far enough, his parents. He walked far enough. Everything is kentucky. Thank you. Yeah his parents became one of the largest landowning families kentucky. His dad was also a politician serving in the virginia house, the kentucky constitutional convention and the kentucky state legislature. So he's fucking rush. Isn't it right? to have jobs as brothers became members of the? U s, s representatives and another- was that or district judge. There are very good at helping friends and relatives good government contracts which help them build and hold onto political inflow. Ok, so here we are here, we feel the build that we have the black sheep.

Maybe the annex out read your jobs are studied. Law became a member of the bar in eighteen, oh two: ok, he started a law practice. whereas owning a star and when his father died, he inherited a large number of slaves and a lot of land. Okay. So now, I'm honestly thinking like billy madison Adam sandler like in this time? I just have a bad violated. No, this is the billy madison

billy kentucky at an early age, Richard Johnson was a wealthy man, okay right, so he got all this stuff yet also he's loaded, but he felt connected to the common man and offered repr often represented them for free when they were going up against rich people. Ooh. Okay, that's a curve ball! One washington socialite said he was quote the most tender, hearted, mild, affectionate and benevolent of men, whose continents beams with good will to all whose soul seems to feed on the milk of human kindness. He was said to have been liked by everyone. While he began his political career and eighty, no four. When he was elected to the kentucky house of representatives, he then jumped up to the: u s, how house representatives and eighty six and for six consecutive terms running. He was a champion of disabled veterans, widows and orphans when's. The bottom drop out of the bottom job, the allied good,

who is very image of that's a good story, made it worse, baby jobs and voting four and then fought in the war of eighteen twelve k. We fought under general, william Henry Harrison. and he was a great soldier rights at the battle of tames. He led a cavalry charge. That help secure a decisive victory against to come, sir, during the charge johnson personally killed to come, sir, he got the top dog yeah. I can sum cancer, yet that is somewhat serious business. That's listen! That's that's big! That's why you get involved in this shit. That's right! That's best case scenario. Those best case scenario. The cheek I mean I mean offered- comes a no from not from two comes this perspective. Is

weird that I am basically here, because my ancestors killed people like to come, sir, and yet, when I read that I want to comes at a win, you know no, it isn't and I think the more you live in the world, the mortar that you're just like men. I really just route rather like the fleet I like, if, if like white people were to become slaves look we had this coming, I mean: what are you fucking white guys? Let's, let's be honest, we hadn't We had a hell of a run back. How about we do that for two hundred years and then we'll see how we feel right, then it'll be even that we'll see what happens see what if we can get a white man elected president, so Johnson returned to congress in eighteen fourteen as a war hero. So you could, just literally, could take a breather from congress to go. Go kill to come, sir yeah come back and be like, the vote on what do we know now? Are we doing shit boys turnips a killer,

Eighteen nineteen he was elected by the kentucky legislature to fill the remaining term of senator John Jay credit and who had retired. He had he pale until he had forecast it was like I can't do this, hey guys, I'm outta here, Senate schmidt, yeah that go I'm out clearly when the Senate did me that much You know what I am another kid it just goes. It goes like the truth, as it goes to show you that you know I mean you. Do you really don't need to be that president? If you're a senator land, a lot of them are, but now they get in so much trouble if they miss the fuck you I'll, be there for everything the johnson remained in the senate in till eighteen, twenty nine, but he was no longer wealthy man When it came in and Senate, he had a lot of debt from failed financial ventures. And losses incurred during a recent depression because of this he worked

eliminate imprisonment for debt, fighting against the his entire time in the senate. So good cause selfish reasons. Yes, it is, it is little bit like, and I always think this, and this sounds kind of fucked up, but it's like when, like someone like someone miss gets a disease, they go to the senate and there like we need to figure out a glare and there like skies a goddamn hero, you like well, he is, but he all, because they a stream vested interests than walking again. Yes, he like he really he's. I hear you if we really want you to support them, but he has, he would love to be walking with very much do you are so that's kind of his thing, I'm here for the children and sure I can walk and

you want all people to be able to walk. You re jean everybody and may also mean me: let us make sure I can never see walking. You gotta learn to walk if you're me first, so I hear there's not away stuff. Doesnt back up in your world so so he became a leading supporter of Andrew jackson, whom I believe his relatives that fought with and he backed jackson in the election of eighteen, twenty four, but not everyone was thrilled that richard Johnson was so vocal about supporting jackson, okay. That was mostly because of his home

hey. Johnson took one of his slaves as its common law. Wife see what this is. This is what you re very good, front loading information and then you pick when we have the fucking ebonite shall milan moments, ok, which was which was to say the least. A controversial move right. Yes, well back, then a lot of obviously a lot of slaveowners. Would have sex with their knives, but not like you're mad. I am now right. Yeah, that's right party

two sir. Yes, sir, she is a slave she's, my wife party of two, what about a party of one and three fits all right? I can get you a chair with three out of four legs on it. Ma'am her name was julie, chin with two ends. I know this. That's an english name, because my in college, his parents are english and his last name is chin with two ends: chin the double chin. Most amazing of all richard Johnson lived openly with her completely openly as a freight, the treated her as his wife and all aspects of his life. He took her to a formal parties or other social events. This is, did you imagine he was just walking around with just the

like fuck, you, hey, fuck, you fuck, you hi fuck, you yeah hey. How are you for bill Maher during slavery, and so that's so great that he's awesome is the greatest, because that's what it is really I mean you know, like you alluded to what one of the things that's so fucked up as how There now you know black people aren't as their nowhere near as equal as white people, and then there are like yeah, but I mean I'm talking to me. I mean Jesus Christ. This one is awesome. You know you got the, but you hide. It yeah you, the idea that you're on the up and up the other cat? Yes he's not the deal now the same hugely. This is the you. This is the This is? The? U? U? U? U? U? So? He's on the? U they had two kids and he raised them as his daughters, okay right or not, whereas normal guy with fuckers

isn't. There have kids anybody like you're, also slave. I was like these are my kids, while he was away working in washington, Julie had complete legal control over his business suffolk for its people, I will not talk to a black woman, yeah you're, a slave so why so it's kind of like that scene in pretty woman, when she gets good to go back to the store, never seen it already. This didn't go over well with pretty much everyone in Washington which led to the feet in eighteen, twenty eight, the plantation autism, kentucky, couldn't get past his choice of a spouse. Oddly, he was still very popular in his own district, turkey and he ran for the house again in eighteen. Twenty nine winning easily so he gets kicked out of the centre. it well I'll just go back again. They're different yeah,

by making a slave. His wife Johnson declared himself a candidate for the eighteen. Thirty two democratic presidential nomination love it out of his pocket. My love it that's the greatest the outright which it's you imagine like something like someone in the clan telling someone else the klan is like cleat. You have to have this wrong. What are you trying to like he's? Got his wife a gun he's boy! You must a hit your head. He ain't nobody's running for president. Would that no party would do a unicorn ain't run for the presidency. This would almost be like a guy running for president who said the mexicans are all rapists and now dave, enough fantasy, but he dropped all those people be like like a gay man whose married to another

gay man running twenty years ago, totally like it this is phil. That's the white house, not a pig house, oh god, they're totally that when a gig endlessly runs, I'm I'm ready for the railways just from up one perspective, ok, but Johnson dropped out of the race after Andrew jackson said he would seek a second term now, of course, jackson. One seven lives, jackson right after jackson's inauguration johnson started his push for the presidency in eighteen, thirty, six so boy in writing after the inauguration. So he is. He flooded the western states with handbills.

Calling for him to be nominated for the presidency. In eighteen, thirty six he got a friend to write and publish quoted the authentic biography of colonel richard m. Johnson. A play was written called to come, sir. The battle of the times in which johnson was the hero weight and it was a hit heat. So he was kind of the first personal propagandist. I dont know if he was the first but but I mean to that level like if you think about raising well that, but that's what like the revolution of politics in the last, like probably thirty years, carson and even before that, like Clinton was like the maybe one of the first people to unveil like the sort of foe documentary. Oh, you like fly on the wall slice alive, yet you know where you're just bad, then you release, but your book like people, you know only releasing books when they run for can for presidency. Like fifteen years ago now

one of them whenever they run they're like here's, my book yeah, it's about me and my dog, my best friend and my gun, my other best friend, my dog's got a gun yeah. It's about my dogs gun. The playwright also wrote a poem about Johnson. In one line was a ramsey dump see colonel johnson killed to come, see wow the house shaped in mapleton. that poet mailed it that wide became a democratic slogan than the eighteen? Thirty six election, so slogans we're just dry. Well, just whenever stupid thing you could put there, yeah. It ran to let all arrived a bit. It sounded stupid, it'll work Johnson wasn't just properly because of his military heroism. He fought for veterans and for continuing sunday, mail, delivery,

Yeah man the different time it really I've been honest honestly, just from doing the podcast recently like I've been thinking about mail and communication more and more back in those days I mean it's just like if they were closed on a day when you went to them you're like I came to thirty hours, I didn't know what to do so that has also made a popular as well, because he was popular in the west jackson made him one of its official artificial advisers? Ok

but he did not when the democratic nomination for present in eighteen. Thirty, six shocking that went to Martin Van buren, let the position of vice president open woe. Almost everyone wanted a senator from Virginia to be the vice president, including van buren. Ok, but Andrew Jackson. Wasn't keen on that idea? Why? What he thought Johnson was the right call because of his popularity in the west. He wasn't popular but he wasn't popular and slaveholding states because he openly took a slave was his wife and since he was taking the place of the centre from Virginia that state wooden back him, but Jackson went ahead and pushed Johnson through. and Johnson even need a little bit of inappropriate help when the states were casting their votes of the convention. The delegation from tennessee was absent, so one of jack

his crew grabbed the guy who wasn't even to get a delegate and got him to cast tendencies. Fifteen votes for Johnson you you that, where you for away romana, zeta, ok, come on yell out, yellow my votes goaded johnson. What is this, I got a job center, we go. You use your good, I'm drunk. I know you are.

you can t see, the rigid virginian delegation was pissed, they wouldn't sport, Johnson's nomination and they stormed added the convention again delegate's approach, jackson and asked him to reconsider tennessee supreme court chief justice, John patron warned that johnson was quote not only positively unpopular in tennessee, but affirmatively odious. Oh yeah, a man of my when you call someone odious, see that you ve crossed the lad. He was concerned. That quote the very moment. Colonel Johnson is announced. The newspapers will open upon him with facts that he had endeavoured, often to forces daughters into society that the mother in her lifetime and they now road and carriages and cool

amd equality. Although you can't like it cause, you were saying that a bunch of bad investments- that's not anything they get brought up, is just like he's trying to make his kids normal. Do you understand his half that black people are normal? Listen to me. Listen to me, of course, that wasn't the only thing Johnson had taken things up a notch. As far as slave wives went. Oh, no, he didn't do the TED danson thing to do. Julie died of cholera in eighteen, thirty, three, okay, so naturally, Johnson took another of his slaves as a wife wow. What and he did the same thing he did with Julie. He put her urges the plantation and brought her to social events. Ok, first, the hall as you know, I mean look either he's really attracted to black women or is really attracted. The controversy

but he had a plantation still yeah. He toward the plantation with slaves on it. Yeah. Yeah I mean it wasn't going well, you can still have it, but you can be losing money and trying to kiev. It's still the idea that you would be marrying like that. You'd be like alright, now be in charge of the slaves she's like well there what they're? My friends yeah, I know, make sure they weren't real hard, doug him too much water coming back to my took, but this second wife was not as down with the arrangement as Julia had been mostly because she already had a common slave husband. Let the facts on the opportunity arose. She and her slave husband ran off together. Well, This did not so old johnson is not down with this. Now, but that's that's it. That's the deal. Break of remedies. I should add. He had the to track down and caught then worse, yet he solar.

at a slave auction down the river down the river meant deeper into the south. Slaves were treated much worse down the river. Was he done? No, He then took a third slave wife on this one. going to be the sister of the slave wife he'd just sold down the river. Oh, my god, he did the same thing with wife number three. He took her to social events and treated her as anyone would treat a wife okay. So now I think okay, okay cause, he is skeptical of this man sure, but then the story of him breaking is black wife around is carter. I regret. I recognise and drive and then the fact that he doesn't a second time. That's a little. I'll. Be ok. Maybe you don't look lightning struck twice in this crazy world. This guy just found rather yeah then gives us I finished she runs cells or deeper. This up now, there's a third! So now you gotta think that the people who are like Jesus can we

inviting him to sit up, I mean this is crazy. What is he doing their right? There ought. There is starting to be right, but she was on board. She called him, my dear colonel, and that's where J Johnson's life was when Jackson wanted him to be vice president, so you have had a very short time bid you ready to be the vp, yet nothing, no skeletons as we look at these are some guys are going to ask you some questions. Veggie, real, quick, take twenty thirty minutes that lets people If you're going to do, okay, give my wife cum sure, oh I believe we met did we know you met the last two to what I had to before this one. Sorry, two wives. Before black. look like yeah right back. Ok such sit down with these guys are matters visitor sit. There is a definite these guys. What I'm saying about five

six hours, indemnities river: ok, listen! I'm in a row, leisure, my black baby right care. These guys gives argue about five or six days, so he was the vp candidate for the democratic party and he caused the them, credit tickets votes in the south marines in the south marion slave and trying to force her upon. Southern society was too much any less of us in the north because he sold his second wife down the river yeah. The democratic ticket even lost kentucky. He was a completely useless candidate and yet he and Van Buren somehow won by a slim majority. The election wasn't settled. We're still talking about the electoral college right.

yeah so, and so if people don't understand how america works, it's a stupid fuck over people, but basically the electoral college works like you, you vote and then in in that area, you have you've, picked each state to represent your state and then they go and they and then they vote again with your the people, the electors vote again and they choose yesterday's, so they could all be told to vote for a guy and then go there and not vote for that guy right. They can do that. Yes, and if it sounds ridiculous, that's because it is completely insane all the democratic electors voted for van buren for president, but the virginia delegation refused to vote for johnson for vice president

They cast their votes for. Someone else said. Johnson now has one vote short of becoming vp. This meant the Senate had to make the decision. Wait. That's amazing so like they did like they were the first one I do like the right, unlike like where, like peewee herman, like they were the first alleged to just be lie here now now this dog instead fucking at that guy, Ok, what other senate has to decide so they said it was like, but we got a fucking. Do this around people get a flip out, so they said I was like: ok he's it and they voted for a care to avoid chaos and humiliation re because he was the problem, problematic person, Johnson really couldn't do the usual ceremonial crap vp would do Van buren, who never even wanted him to pay, is weak

He just sent him to the senate the entire four years where he served as presiding officer right so just kind of bullshit yeah I mean if he can be the deciding vote and stuff like right, but not yet right. There wasn't much to the job. It was said. He often left his chair to quote lounge around. He was often seen chatting near one of the four fireplaces that kept the Senate chamber warm wow. For that a lot to do johnson focused on getting himself out of debt. He opened an academy to train native american boys to be more civilized. In other words, they started opening up these academies to just take the native american out of god, and there were a lot of them. The Choctaw academy was very lucrative as he got funds from the government for each student he enrolled that is,

so ridiculous. So he's he's making money by whitening people yeah after that he opened a spa, hotel and tavern on some of his property in Kentucky. Who is this guy? What is going on? I still can't get over native america like a school to like What do you want about that? Sometimes it is come emanate a that. I honestly like if you think, if you think what america is right, if america a house it was in a house occupied by people that we came in to kick to kill the bunch of them through them out and then we're like dress like us and be like us and they're like, but our house were like that. You don't live here anymore, no, no! No! No! No! No! Our house be like us, you can live in the shed yeah okay This is a salad fork, salad, fork. Ok,.

Moon has darkened on this situation. We all live in salad, farc shots and then just loved and went home to run the spot for nine months, This dude is me, and I dunno. What is this guy way I mean up, is down down, is up and then it's back to normal he's great. What one politician visited him. He wrote the the politician wrote to president Van buren and said that johnson was quote happy in the inglorious pursuit of tavern keeping even giving his personal superintendents to the chicken and egg purchasing and watermelon selling department. Wait what what does that mean that he was having. an awesome time, his spot whatever, and he was off by eggs and shit. That's what he's yeah he's having a good time getting eggs and melodies like living, eat, pray, love where they're like? Can you vote on this? Getting a rubdown? We need to break the vote.

Ever tie, but this didn't help us already. suffering reputation to just leave his job for nine months, none of it helped and the economy class. And he suddenly found himself an even deeper debt. He also suffer from chronic pain from wounds. He'd gotten fighting in the war of eighteen, twelve people set around this time. He changed he no longer dressed well in his pants became unkempt and dishevelled people stop seeing him as charming and he became crude and vulgar the election of eighteen. Forty was fast approaching and Johnson was clearly a problem. Even andrew jackson no longer backed him but

Van Buren didn't want to just dump him for fear of losing veterans and the west with the administration. Taking the blame for killing the economy Van buren couldn't take any chances at the democratic convention. The delegates decided to choose not to choose what. Johnson was not renominated vp, no one was nominated for vp, that's allowed, they figured. It was better to have no one instead of johnson, and I did want to replace Joe ain't. So so they just cut him. He was so bad that they did they they didn't, they figured they would upset the west if they picks up a yells they're, just like no one that is almost a little bit and what in a way like what trump is doing is like you just like well who's. The vice president he's gonna be the best

Who is it will be? The best will be the best vp who do you want is weepy. Well, I want a guy who you know fights for women's rights, it's an wants to make the imbalances. Eric and stronger you're gonna guys I gotta guys base of us now, one garbage guys who do you hate I hate hitler, yeah he's exact opposite. Who do you love? I love george clooney, yes, george clooney is the best, and so no one's chosen, they figure it'd, be better to have no one.

The Johnson Johnson did not give two shits. He ran as an independent and most voters just assumed he was on the democratic ticket, so they voted for what regardless Van buren was defeated and johnson with him. His political career was over, but not in his mind. He ran for the Senate three more times and lost each time being completely insane in eighteen, forty four, he tried to get all the democratic presidential ticket again but failed. Have I ever done that? I can't breathe the president lots of stuff and it's still at his old pals in his district back home. He ran the the kentucky house of representatives in eighteen, fifty and one, but unfortunately he was always

sick? Rumour wasn't at this point: he had dementia. The Louisville daily journal, wrote quote. It is painful to see him on the floor. Attempting to discharge the duties of a member in november he had a stroke and died that I mean to have like I mean we honestly had a president who had a little while good amount of dimension, but the idea like because when, when you're under when you're on the floor, like you are allowed to talk for like a minute yeah. So someone has just down. There's just like, we need to start making big asylum, castles for them As time we can, Then them if we become cats, everybody, listen to me, listen, close, listen close! This is my best friend the watermelon with a whole, Lynette, oh boy. I'm marrying this list, my new wife, ok, yes and then these are my kids. They ve been Amis made our door. Strawberry gave the good times what we now have.

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Just always surviving by racial daughter, so one of his daughter died at this point is only surviving by racial daughter was ruled illegitimate by the court and there for unable to receive the inheritance he had left her back. It was divided up by his brothers. Well, that's the end date, my cat, so he seemed ass. He is worst it's kind of ice is that ever it's coming out dick cheney area. I bet it's kind of like you know. I mean it's a little bit like an anna Nicole situation. In a way it's like, you hung in there with this fucking. As he did with dementia for so long and at the end of the day, like I'll, probably get a little something out of it then like no, you don't get. I think like understand what happened he was now he thought is mirror. Was this

brother for a year and a half that well great up your happy. Thank you. Go get tickets to the new york and cargo shows April seventeen. They will be signing cars. We sort of cars.