EP335: The Town Where Everything Revolves Around... Turkey, Donald Didn't Know He Lived Through the Depression and Tina Ramirez Fights for Religious Freedom at Home and Abroad

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The high school student newspaper is called turkey talk is very normal times that mean that's hilarious. There's not a lot to do you care so almost by default get involved in the community in every scene here as they would have this nonsense turkey trot, try a four day festival that was just kind of randomly held every few years. There was no rhyme or reason. See the years that it was hell and it was really to celebrate the turkey farming town and because where I was for raising turkeys. It was always a Turkish pain. There was always and he reigned over the festivities.

So in 1972. My dad is salt.

Yet Kratz 14 and Democrat is turkeys fell backward, the woman he reigned with her official title was sold to orient and orient is Claro spelled backwards so they reigned over turkey trot in 1972 and I was eight at the time and I and my brother and sister were my father's pages so we have to hold his robe, public events, stuff like that and we were dressed in just cushy tire you know that up to shoes and me. Just as you would imagine, like a Turkish servant, and my dad was a small town where it was a very dignified man. He was very kind and I always say he was like at this stage, because he was so distinguished, well respected and never stop.

The spotlight never likes to grandstand and I mean for four days.

He wore a white suit and a red velvet robe that had a border gold sequence and then this really big handmade turkey on the back of his robe and he wandered around fire all weekend for different events in that entire he was basically the center of attention for those four days. There were coronation Senior coronation Junior coronation and so he got to sit up on his throne during the Senior coronation. While all town like a high school age and older kids bow before him and did this call coronation Mike Debbie but we but it was the same idea. I suppose they have a competition with the town of Minnesota claim to be turkey capital of the world. So the two turkeys brace review Begonia is Claro Texas turkey that always races in Minnesota and they come back Claro erasing Claro and whoever has the best timeout about this races gets that. I think it's called the traveling trophy tumultuous time and I get to carry that thing back and forth between the text and then ended with the big parade with just floats and marching bands from towns and cities all around huge deal and its famous news caster came down in 1972 podcast especially for small and coarse the entire town was there my whole extended family cousins and from both sides of this huge celebration and my cousin subpoenaed matter town. I remember them sleeping on the floors he ran out of bed to sleep in a cot is a big party for four days I don't talk about it a lot.

I have talked about people they sound so insane.

One of the reasons it makes it hard to explain, is that it sounds a little bit like inappropriate cultural appropriation, except that I liken it to you like a dramatic production where everybody's wearing costuming, playing a role for two days and then in the end, you know you turn in your costume and you go home, in your rich diet. So I just feels very innocent to me because of that was very sad when it was all over and I don't know if it's just a good place to live, provides the ultimate habitat for them.

I don't know that you know they're considering the dumbest I love going up in that environment. I love going up and Claro and I was saddened. It was a lot of fun in they still turkey best happens every year, but it is a very scaled-down version of what turkey trot was an my nephews go back every year with all her college friends are well out of college now, but they all make it a point to go back Claro so that is kind of hilarious. Looking back on it and a great job on the production by Madison and a special thanks to Jenny Badger, a listener from Claro Texas.

This country is filled with small towns that have small-town traditions, my love, that there were two claimants turkey town USA one in Minnesota one in Texas and they battle it out. They duke it out every year. We love telling stories about America. America TOEFL witness. We came here in the 19th century from France to study the prison system in this country. Found out this country just did stuff on stuff for big stuff and it was the people that did it all. Story of the turkey capital of the world. There are some in Minnesota may disagree on our American story. We hear the host of our American stories everyday on the show were bringing inspiring stories from across this great country stores for big cities and small tunes that we truly can't do the show without our stories are free to listen to, but they're not free to make if you love what you hear L American stories.com and click the donate button a little bit of a lot L American stories.com and give millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.

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Alex Cortez brings us the voice of an American classic. What I grew up for depression Consciousness will know I've lived through know I was going on. Those will take parents, family, or listening to Donald Sturm whose parents were German immigrants that settled in New York. My father had some securities on some realist shape should were more service eventually getting jobs restaurant business no longer is she will and far between waiter for the rest of his life worked hard to bring home money so take care versus family did so never complain. She much financially speaking. A great family is a great father grew up very dense neighborhood sense that those lots of people have much money. Five of us will force floors walk up there was no Oliver have one bedroom share room with my two sisters.

They slept together. I slept.com sold last one and first one people to move about my parents bedroom one bath longer term considerations achieving financial success that his dad probably could have never dreamed Donald hopefully the billion-dollar conglomerate QA on many banks and made several appearances on the Forbes 400 list and yet he's never forgot it would like to be like for first-generation immigrants like his dad about 1989, 1991. Omaha became apparent that there were very educated foreigners came to this country were licensed educated doctors, dentists, lawyers, foreign country may come here licensed proficiency with language so it can be said for test language so that came to my attention.

Omaha so Sue decided that we will help these people will say like sure, so we started shows a second language program so that got us people somewhat proficient in language and it worked so people will adopt inferences sweep floor jewelry store takes a qualifying exam rescue this slices same thing with Lawrence errors. It was a very successful program to help people help themselves. Give them the tools to succeed without very small compared to what we do here. So after we moved here in 1991. We decided that we're trying to much more systematic way. We signed up for the University of Denver to do that way so we provided money. We provided computers.

We comprise whatever we needed to provide. So I have people so thankful so gracious about expressing cells as we help them get started country in their old profession was a lot of motivation sought is always with me that my father never had the he came over here and was left never have the chance of going to school at the time of our interview was years old and he still come to the office each day. I don't want to retire as I don't want to feel like I have nothing left in my life I got a lot in my life family.

I feel like a 40 I know physically move along 40. I know that there's a termination along the way. Here Michael live forever yours but I want to use my brain take medication. Whatever I need to stay alive stay viable continue to see my kids grow process intellectually wise bases spend time mentoring is so boring to be contained in your apartment. People like me I must post go the office stay home and do what I so I want to continue doing what I'm doing. My doctors tell me out chronologically like my age is to take pills so I have a lot to look forward to have a little Jim in my apartment across the street. I worked every morning every morning I'm on the floor for at least 30 exercise, stretching at least four maybe five times a week in the afternoons on weekends during the morning. I worked like recumbent bike weights do things like that that takes so I try to keep myself reasonably good shape at this age I can go as far as the other thing you need to do is show yourself what you saw just adjusting to things that happen or your environment is so important and not be the cat. I can't talk a basketball so I Says example so you want to continue. I wanted to do something I still want to figure out how I get out of the house. My wasting steps when I was five years old. I was always concerned about how I do things better quicker. I still have so I think sleep.

I still do.

My mind is running unless I have to have to have to have to make a decision on something that's important. I won't notify St. through as I think about something, something about most of it is I just I just what I think is your listening to Donald Sturm and what a unique voice and memory well it runs deep and he remembers what his own father went through in his own parents went through coming to this country. I do as my parents, but with my grandparents. I saw with the language barrier did my own grandparents and they insisted that not happen to the wrong kids great American dreamer's voice and integrate American dreamer story, and always so many of our American dream is grateful and always generous Donald Sturm story here on our American store millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65.

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Robbie brings us a story that starts in the United States travels around the world and then comes back home. It's the story of Tina Ramirez and her passion for freedom of religion, which started in a very young age. The world part of Dr. my mom little family practice out of my mom and wife might distracted with a lot went to church family is very close to my parents that changed my life more than anything with that when my dad laughed. He actually joined the Liselotte proselytizing change and he would often try to what you believe is right. Growing up in the church myself. I was very confused and frustrated at the same time, theology, and what I believe.

What I remember most is that because I different and smart family just didn't understand me to feel like exclusion or have somebody that I was a little girl for me was just this really difficult experience for you. Feel right person it should be close to the farthest away and the formative years younger all over that the course of our conversation just as the years past when I great understanding. He believes very strongly believes and maybe actually feel even more strongly my connection with it also help me understand. I can appreciate and respect him and his ability to believe something, even if I believe it's wrong or even if he believes I'm wrong. Okay, that's really the key that made me passionate about religious freedom for all people think nothing more than anything.

People are afraid of others. They have strong belief in their passion or they try to convince you there threat and not a threat. It's okay if you if you believe in college. Another one of these experiences that would propel her down the path right religious treatment. I study that international human rights is 20 so I checked my life in college, law school class actually said I wasn't even for me and I just remember being lost in by how you can use this body of law to really write to people and people from all over the world course every summer for one month through these courses he realized she could bring that knowledge to others. Three years of college and three years by 2020. Often perceived as a bubble very well. I wanted perspective of the world and how we can because the students that came out that classroom 2001 little boy.

He was 54. So at the time the history start is culture that the putting women in the public with their women little boy that is a little testing both pre-and post on their differences to behaviors before and after the course to see if it had an impact and this little boy used to go around being at the end of the course that I wrote different projects that he needed a project where I need to look into what happened.

He wrote a letter present, but she said President Bush I want to help these women help them please see she was transformed person anymore and I just what I saw there was that powerful. There's something here that were one another really transforms and I was able to prove that my research is national for their education is really the first thing I saw life transformed and I was really encouraged by something powerful here would eventually start a nonprofit on the idea that no matter where a person is hardwired for freedom before she would do that.

She spent some time in Washington DC hardwired he worked for the help build a bipartisan caucus around the world. People just lost the time to complete part of one faith issue in a long time for years build rebuilding basically in Congress. You're just dealing with conflict, especially think that like to solve problems and get things done some way working up in Congress.

I realize that the people on the ground in these countries were suffering needed something more. They needed people that were on the ground that the defendant is often the suffering that they experience lasted much longer than it needed to because they're always having had people inside the defendant with our founding fathers across the street just doesn't happen so I realized that the greatest frustration was something different. Site right hardwired for freedom.

She is focused on the most essential of all the freedoms freedom to worship as you choose, or not even my own family, the virgins of our way of observing God or not is so well it is just so divergent and is beautiful. That's how we do we do here in this country when we come back this remarkable young lady is because beautiful one Peter Ramirez's story continues on our American stories Medicare coverage decisions for next year. Healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this UHC Medicare health plans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives.

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All three clear maggot packs purchase all three clear mega packs today and conquer any laundry load for all fabric types stories in the story of Tina after experiences. Early on at home in the classroom. Tina became passionate about making sure everyone had the freedom of religion. We enjoy here in the states, which is why she started her company hardwired to promote what she sees as an essential human right of Christian church all the rock before 4000 so were all targeted. That really need Congress to start hardwired which pushes local leadership, religious freedom is really about helping local ship understands situations where people kill each other over religion or disregard the minority population. There every person learn how to work together and a lot of the conflict there is in charge now in charge of the court that she was a part of our training overrun proposal and his family actually all left behind that he was able to leave and charge accordingly. Sensing terrorists and so they knew that targeted when we met him he was in Baghdad training the next day going to defend your right to help you in a few months later training several times in the course next song is doing. He showed us his cell phone picture of a 17-year-old brother and I did a couple times with journalists and people that shock the conscience. When I work with people who are living, risking their lives to defend others.

I understand gravity of it differently. I guess because I know that their lives at risk with teaching and sending it back in these dangerous situations with warning that if I don't go out right.

I don't defend this.

This is the reality person now become judge in charge of all of these members of ISIS because he didn't give up and I think it showed me what we wanted to do it hardwired. We wanted people like defenders of freedom that would risk their own lives to defend the right because they saw they were on the same team religion would be the obstacle to working together together work contributed to me.

People can be discouraged by the situation and what encourages me what happened there right now outside help. There is still hope. When local readers wrong the world. It really freedom that teach others and help them come out of years of dictatorship fashion just after Christmas, Rabbi Christian church across the country where some how holy place of worship for people is not off-limits regardless of who they are and what they believe.

I find that very troubling because American ideal of freedom for people to believe differently, and looks to champion and right now are struggling with so hardwired we looking at taking education program that we do around the world.

Here in American schools so we also trained teachers, so right now hardwired work with government Rocco rock though several countries around the world to teach content in their so hardwired releasing huge study on documentary resources that created showing the impact on children's really difficult and stories to school where where communities are struggling with intolerance and violence and we believe that it really is very important conversation that I am a member of the teacher. There was nothing out there on the last 20 years I've been developing how we can promote education and education we have right now and I would love for teachers anywhere that one department we have an opportunity now to really take what's happening here in our country and respond without my college years I was on the Internet and social media.

During my formative years I talked people face to face, and even with my dad. You look back at it. This agreement will work through it face to face so I was able to learn how to conversations with others that I disagree with from a very early age and unfortunately something that's really missing with. I think really the use of social media and the lack of personal interaction because it's very easy to like to dislike somebody to unfriend someone change our ability to interact socially vehicle for social change and for and for helping people don't have a voice have a voice at the same time huge placements ability and for intolerance in the schools of education and action. Teachers and parents have children so important. There's nothing else to really replace that trying to teach dialogue and respect for differences you know how to dialogue and respect so that you don't have to lash out with intolerance and violence. We as individuals.

Teachers to be vigilant to safeguard that next generation that they will secure for the future and a special thanks to Tina Ramirez hardwired for freedom hardwired global.org to learn more and by the way, religious tolerance and freedom is the most distinctive feature of this great country. Ramirez's story hardwired for freedom on our