EP251: Growing Up Rural: A Tale About Stinky Boots, The Bigger the Bureaucracy, the Smaller the Customer and The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem

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Our schooling during Iowa consolidated with the neighboring town of Carlsberg became known as NASCO or Northeast story County since we lived out in the country school bus would pick us up early in the morning and we would be on the bus 30 to 45 minutes stopping other houses along the way to pick up other kids would be let out at the searing school building and then get on to another bus that would take us to the Carlsberg which was 10 minutes away. After school we would go through the same procedure to arrive home. There were new kids in the classroom Carlsberg, whom I never met a fifth-grade teacher. She seemed to be very strict, tight which was much different than my fourth grade teacher in the top it off we had to learn something they called new math and I got my very first failing grade 1st nine weeks. That did not sit well with my parents so mom and dad tried working with me on this new math and I limped along for the entire year, sometimes in the morning before the school bus arrived to pick me up.

I had to do chores. I had to feed the hogs as we did not have automatic feeders. The hog lot was a mixture of dirt, mud and hog manure. And depending on the time of the year was dry or rainy that would dictate the ground underneath my feet to feed those hogs.

At any rate, I usually wore my buckle of rubber boots to keep my shoes clean this particular morning I was running a little bit late in feeding the hogs before the bus came. It was early winter snows on the ground. The hog lot is not frozen over was still quite soft and gooey. The sticking to my boots upon finishing up I ran to the house to get my school supplies and catch the bus. As I saw it coming down the road in my hurriedness I did not clean off my boots. I thought it'll be all right.

I will clean them off at recess snow. Upon arriving at school I went directly to my classroom are classroom had a type of walk-in closet behind the teacher's desk where we would hang our coats and put our boots also are schools heated by those big metal water heater rating.

There were a couple in the classroom and a smaller one in the coat closet is class began.

Everything was going fine until about halfway through the morning, all of a sudden our teacher lifted her head and turned as though something was annoying. Her she started into teaching again and stopped a second time. Looking back toward the closet.

She placed her teacher material down and got up and went back into the closet.

It seemed like she was in there a long time.

She finally appeared with a pair of boots in her hand something brown and ugly was dripping off those black boots and the smell. Well, it was horrendous in permeating the classroom. She was not happy.

She asked whose boots are these.

No one answered. I shrunk down in my seat at my desk.

She asked a second time whose boots are these my classmates all started to look over at me as I sheepishly raise my hand and confess my crime of bringing stinky hog lot manure covered boots to school only to bring a new type of unacceptable perfume to our fifth grade classroom. I thought, oh boy, now what well she was very gracious to me as I was sure she saw my were some expression and even a hint of shame before my classmates. She stated to everyone in the class and then just pinpoint me, please. For those of you who live and work on the farm, clean your boots off at home before coming to school. She then asked me if I would please take my boots and place them outside the door of the school building and leave them there until it was time to go home. What took the edge off the incident was the way she looked at me as she handed me the boots. It was as if her expression toward me was Scott. It's okay and I understand that gave me the courage to come back to class unashamed and no one ever said anything to me about those boots. Maybe the fact that she knew my parents pretty well as my mom also was an elementary teacher played a part in her response. Whatever the case, I had a newfound respect for her. She became one of my favorite teachers through this incident. I learned a number of life lessons.

The old saying is true, as in this case never judge a book by its cover. When I said that my teacher always seemed uptight about something that was because her husband was very sick and she was the breadwinner as well as her husband's caregiver.

She had a lot on her plate.

I also learned not to shame people when they make mistakes, especially in front of their peers. This can be devastating, especially in those formative years by fifth grade teacher was not only wise but she was sensitive to 11 to 12-year-old kids. She had been teaching for many years.

I also learned a lesson. Clean your boots off before going to school and a terrific job on the production by Monty Montgomery and a special thanks to Scott Jones for his story stinky boots.

By the way, he learned a lot about his teacher. She was a wise sensitive person who is herself going through a lot of thing thinking boots by Scott Jones here on our American story view of the great American stories we tell and love America like we do for asking you to become a part of the All-American stories family.

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You didn't have to grow it. All you had to do was to do it right from the franchisor perspective and there are many abuses in franchising because franchise was get greedy and they start ordering people. They build bureaucracies in the order franchisees to do things that they can afford.

They put financial stress on them without thinking about them when I finally had my own company I did a franchise agreement that actually represented those values to us at the Greek or had classes like you couldn't do renovation or add an extra cost. Without two thirds of the abode of the franchise community. You couldn't do encroachment that I gave him area protections with every franchise I sold. So you could encroach on their capability.

So I built a franchise agreement that everybody agreed was the best in the business of the customer perspective. The end-user is the customer of the franchisee, they are your customer the franchisee to the franchisee is going to help make you successful by being successful themselves and you have to reciprocate by helping them to be successful so Days Inn opened up my eyes to a whole different world franchise.

What happens when you start a business, you spend a tremendous amount of time making sure your customers are happy is that I have a rather business as the business grows and you build more corporate overhead and will bureaucracies everybody wants to be managed the business and so they forget sometimes who the customers and in you started the business with your first customer, you're very close when you have 50 customers you very closely at 500 customers you don't know the last 400 who does know them. Corporate bureaucrats know them different than the US government when the US government was small in 1782. Whatever it was that everybody knew everybody knew that Congressman was, everybody knew everybody was now you've got 3000 people in the FDA got you know this and they don't they don't know who's there customers when the FDA says well I think you should close the schools who their customers, their customers and not the drug companies there customers there end-user is the United States citizen.

They thinking about them well they think they are but some bureaucrats making the decision to make in the center may not be right for their customers. So at the end of the day. I think the best example, you might be able to find about government and bureaucracy in general is the bigger your bureaucracy. The further away than to get from the customer and so they don't understand you know I had a situation Holiday Inn where the marketing director is gone and Ray Lewis of the time.

One of the cleanup the company because we have some old and tired hotels and it was anytime somebody would fail an exam he want to throw them out, so he get a new hotel built well. The reality is that people ability no new hotels with the same people that he was showing out. Of course if you look at it that way. So we had a situation where we had hotel at O'Hare airport and they were having trouble with air quality levels because was getting older and they could get any money in any money so the marketing guys are what we should throw them out. It was 1/2 $1 million royalty year plus a customer who had many other Holiday Inn's and they call me because they heard he was going to get some nonassessable. Why can't you get this fixed up so we can get the money I need six months to finance it. I said okay I get another six months than the six months came in having any sending another 30 days if marketing I was knocking at my door to knock him out. I said let's wait 30 days later they had the money that day.

We have the hotel hotel been paid 1/2 $1 million royalty plus the rest of the term and help them. So after that, you know they were in the system and so that's that's what you have to think about. And so, but the further away you are them. The ease of it is that you forget the customer cc at all a time in every business. I had a situation here where my insurance was being held by a company in Atlanta my home insurance to hear and Atlanta from Florida and I don't have a guy every year. The price goes up, and finally I got an appetizer for insurance here from a competitive insurance broker so I called that I say can you give me a quote I said, you should exit one can come over assuming the anemia so well is available Sunday morning pressures at my office in the morning makes a proposal better than the one in Atlanta and I never heard from same quality of insurance same everything he got the business and you know even the scene, but we have bureaucracy here in the Sam's Club and in Florida no hidden thing this morning I get a note.

I own a condominium in Atlanta and I got a note from the board of the cutting down trees.

I got permission from the land of the cut down trees.

I also get an awful resident say why you doing that when you tell us in advance. Who's the customer who succumbs the boards customer in the condominium.

The owner, the other owners why when you communicated. By the way, what type of accounting. I do have any opinion and you been listening to Mike Levin tell the story with well of life and you go down American stories and click Mike Levin and get so much wisdom from storytelling. By the way this American invention, franchising 20% of all American businesses or franchises and this cuts from hotels to cleaning services, oil changes, restaurants, gyms, plumbing, extermination, car repairs from this system.

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Here is Mark leaps an author of a biography on key what so proudly we hail tell us more about the unlikely events that brought us our national anthem is the story of Francis Scott Key the big Washington DC lawyer highest patriot wrote the words it will become the national anthem will become known as a start. This story starts during the war of 1812, with the battle of Bladensburg, Bladensburg, Maryland, just outside of Washington DC.

This is one of the most embarrassing defeats in US military history of the British changed the complexion of the war of 1812.

After defeating Napoleon in 1814 and sent thousands of crack troops over here.

They were rating up the Chesapeake Bay came to the outskirts of Washington and the overran just a pathetic group last minute thrown together militiamen on August 26 overran them and came to Washington and most people remember that they burned the White House, Treasury Department and other public buildings and embarrassing defeat not so much in the terms of, and many were killed there were many because the British just moved right through the South after the battle of Bladensburg. The British left Washington they went back to the Chesapeake Bay and they got on their ships and they headed toward Baltimore which people didn't know at the time, but when they did they took prisoner, a man named Dr. William Dienst, who owned a farm in upper Marlboro, Maryland, which was on the way out east of Washington DC, and he made the mistake of taking a couple of British stragglers prisoner when the Brit saw them they were not very happy about it. And so they took Dr. beans prisoner. He was an older man.

He was in his 60s, they took him away and they headed up to Baltimore which was a cassette not known at the time.

Prisoner releases and prisoner exchanges were common during the war of 1812. It happened all the time and the man who was chosen to argue for Dr. beans release was demanding Francis Scott Key was a big lawyer in Washington DC. He was born and raised in Maryland in what was then Frederick County north of the city of Frederick. He went to law school. He went the law at St. John's College in Annapolis and he had a thriving practice in Washington DC.

He was known for his eloquence in front of juries he could talk people into things. He was asked by the family of Dr. beans to arrange his release was a member of a prominent family in Washington.

Francis Scott Key was by the way, they called him Frank's everybody: Frank soul: Frank for the rest of the story.

Frankie was asked by the Dean's family to arrange a release.

He got permission from Pres. Madison and on September 2, 1814, he got his horse and rode up to Baltimore when he got to Baltimore he met up with a U.S. Army colonel named John Skinner, Skinner job was to arrange a prisoner releases and prisoner exchanges so clean that up with Skinner they got on a small American ship and they went out and looked for the British fleet, and they found near welcomed on board the flagship of the British fleet. They made their case. They did it over lunch or dinner, wine was consumed and Frank used his powers of persuasion in the British agreed things that helped his cause was that before they left Washington for the left.

Washington keep picked up the packet of letters letters from British prisoners who had been taken prisoner during the battle of Bladensburg in the sacking of Washington DC, and they testify to the fact that they were being treated very well by the American so that convinced the Brittany said will let Dr. beans go. However, we have some work to do. We are going to destroy the city of Baltimore now. The British purposely did not burn any private homes in Washington. The only one after public good, but not so Baltimore why did they want to destroy Baltimore well you know we may forget that, as in the case of most of our wars before we got into the war of 1812.

It was a very controversial thing basically was a north-south split with Southerners generally in favor of going to war Northerners against it. Francis Scott Key was born in the North and grew up there, but you really have to categorize him as a Southerner in Outlook, you know, Maryland was a state in which slavery was legal. His family owned slaves. He grew up on lamentation and he did have a conservative Southern Outlook, but he was against the Americans going into the war of 1812 keys views change on the war when the Brit started invading up the Chesapeake Bay. He actually joined the Georgetown militia unit. He went out to the Chesapeake, served in the car as a quartermaster officer did not serve very long just about a week and he got tired of the war so he quit and he went back to Georgetown but he did support the war. After that, and why were the grid so intent on destroying Baltimore well the country was divided, but not Baltimore. The people of Baltimore were very rural location were between 12 and you know the US is not prepared militarily to go into this war, especially with the Navy so the call went out to private shipowners if they wanted to use their let their ships be used in the cause against the Brits they could and Baltimore led the country in lending private ships. They were called Baltimore Clippers. They were very fast ships and they gave the Fritz a lot of trouble in the season. The Brits did not like this one. British newspaper writer referred to Baltimore as a nest of fees so Francis Scott Key Dr. beans and Skinner were taken back to their American ship. Sometimes you hear that their health prisoner during the battle of Baltimore that was not quite true. They couldn't leave, but it wasn't like they were below deck seen on bread and water there on the deck Birdseye view of what became the largest sustained bombing in military history to that time the Brits had 19 ships out there Baltimore Harbor forevermore bomb ship teaser squad ships with giant 250 pound cannons firing away on that night of December 13, 14th, some 1500 bombs, mortars and rockets were fired onto the city of Baltimore rockets you know this was only the second time in the history of work that rockets were here as they're called Congreve rockets they look like. No rockets look like long and cylindrical things on the bottom but they did in the guidance system is the rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air, but they were named very well and it was very very well. There were not there were no there was no loss of life in Baltimore or at Fort McHenry which fired back with plenty of cannon on its own. Although the people in Baltimore were terrified because the houses were shaking. That's how terrifying it on but was blessed there was a giant storm that night. Thunderstorm could've been a tornado good, but her team. We don't really know but it was an amazing night of 1500 bombs, rockets going off thunder lightning and there also was a land component to the battle of which to get into very much here, but just to know that the Brits tried under the cover of that bombing to attack and he got pretty close to the city but their leading general was shot and killed off of the source nectar took the steam out of the land component plus Baltimore was fortified much better than Washington was, you know the people in Baltimore could see the fires of Washington burning on August 26 so they were there and were listening to Mark leaps and how important chapter of American history.

War of 1812, the Revolutionary war was continuing. This was chapter 2 and great storytelling by Mark leaps in on the life of Francis Scott Key when we come back more of Mark leaps in his book, by the way what so proudly we hailed pick it up at Amazon with the usual suspects when we come back more. This remarkable American story.

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Let's return the author Mark leaps and that the 25 straight hours but then in the middle of the night at about 3 o'clock in the morning. Everything stopped and Francis Scott Key beans and Skinner were pacing the deck didn't know what happened. It was dark, foggy, rainy, and all they knew that was the battle was over, so there pacing the deck and they waited until the dawn's early light and tea looked out of his glass and he could see that Fort McHenry had a flag flying over it. But you know those flags were digging they were made of wool. It rained all night. The flag was just hang in there, you can tell who what it was at flag was taken down another flag was put up. There was a little bit of a breeze. And what did he see he saw that our flag was still there and this inspired him to write the words that would become the national anthem.

No Francis Scott Key. Frankie was a amateur poet. He wasn't a good amateur poet, but his poetry was never meant to be shown beyond family and friends which makes it even more ironic that the words that he wrote that day.

You know hundreds of millions of Americans know those words, anything that might not know about the battle Baltimore is that it was a turning point in the war of 1812. There were peace talks going on after the British slunk out of Baltimore if he realizes he saw the Stars & Stripes. Our flag was still there. The British ships were gone. He had won his peace talks continued Treaty of Ghent was signed in January 1850, but Frank knew that Baltimore was saved. He had a letter in his pocket now.

People often say that he wrote the words on envelope. Well technically, there were no envelopes back that they were technically letters themselves were the envelope so in the back of the letter Frank scrawled a few verses Skinner and beans were released. He went back to Baltimore to a hotel and finished the four stanzas in the hotel now what happens next. There are a lot of? So that we don't know the details when reason is because even though Francis Scott Key live for 30 more years. He spoke in public about it just once, did not mention the flag and all the letters that he wrote that have been uncovered. He mentions it only once in a letter to a friend in early October and then he writes about that night, but he doesn't again mention writing the words that will become national anthem talks about how brave the Americans were and how much he didn't like the British officers but we know about what happened next was from a book that came out in 1850s and it was written by Jesus brother-in-law, Roger, Brooke, Tony, who was married to Frankie's only sister. They are very close to families and we know Roger Bertoni as Chief Justice of the United States.

He claims that this is what Frank told him what happened that we can corroborate a lot of this with good primary source evidence such as newspaper stories and some journals and diaries. So here's what we think happened after that somebody could've been Tony could've been another one of Jesus brother-in-law's took what Frank wrote to a printer because we do know that the next day those verses appeared on a broadsheet and her plastered all over Baltimore. In fact people, the defenders of Fort McHenry. The title was not the Star-Spangled Banner. The title was defense of Fort McHenry and it said on the air to be sung to the tune of Creon can have it. So what is Annette going happen naturally under heaven is a song that was the theme song of the British men's club called the Anna Creon tick society and these men would meet at taverns for dinner and for drinks they would play their song they would drink they would discuss issues of the day. You often hear that national anthem is sung to the tune of British drinking, so not quite true. It's not in the category of 99 bottles of beer on the wall is a little more high-minded net but it was the theme song kind of like on the highfalutin men's club that that met in tavern. So there's a little bit of truth to that. Now, it was not uncommon for the words of songs to be put to tunes that people knew in early 19th century. And that's exactly what happened with this and they were the people who know this stuff have counted something like 75, 50 to 75 songs that were put to enact Creon in heaven including Adams and Liberty which is a very popular patriotic song. We do know that in November 1814. The song was printed on sheet music by cars music store in Baltimore and the title was changed to the Star-Spangled Banner and you know there's been controversy or just you know stories have not agreed until relatively recently whether or not Francis Scott Key had in mind the fact that he was writing a song that night until relatively recently. Historians believe that he wasn't because he wasn't a songwriter. He did write to him soon is a very religious man, he almost went into the Episcopal priesthood. There's a letter that he wrote to the Bishop of Baltimore in which the bishop had asked him to join the priesthood and Frank said he really wanted to but you know we had a family and he needed to feed his family did not need to make money as a lawyer, yet he went wound up having 11 children and he was very active in his church. He was a lay minister and he was very religious as the words that Star-Spangled Banner indicate so lazy writing a song or not. Historians have changed their mind in the last for five years and the people who study this now believe that he did have some mind really wasn't a musical man.

There are several reasons for this one is that he wound up writing these words in rhyme and meter that fit exactly the song and also that you know a few years earlier. There was a dinner given in Washington DC for Stephen Decatur, the hero of the tri-polyp wars and the song was written for that and played that night by Francis Scott Key there's an article in the newspaper in Georgetown that describes it and includes the words and in those words are the word Star-Spangled Banner, so putting it all together stories do believe that Frank had in mind that he was writing a song even though he was just a poet and amateur poet. That night, the Star-Spangled Banner did not become the national anthem until officially until 1930 when we did the United States did not have a national anthem until 1931, but it was one of the songs that was played at at patriotic gatherings such as Fourth of July within a few years after he wrote it all. Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century became more and more popular, but still it was only one of many songs that were played including Yankee doodle Dandy and others, and it wasn't until 1931 that Congress enacted a resolution that made the Star-Spangled Banner naturally throws controversial their hearings on Capitol Hill.

People argued against it, saying it was hard to seeing which people still argue today there said it was written by a Britt the tune and the other set a glorified war. The proponents of it brought in a soprano to sing it on Capitol Hill during the hearings and that sort of turned the tide and Star-Spangled Banner became the national anthem and in 1931 even though it was written in 1814 and one last thing, talking about a little bit of irony here. I told you that Francis Scott Key was not a good poet if you don't believe me just read is poetry.

You can read it online but he also was on musical there. There was an article that I found I was doing research for my book what so proudly we hail biography Francis Scott Key that I had an interview with a Philadelphia newspaperman with one of Francis Scott Key's granddaughters and you know they always would ask you know tell us about your grandfather tells about your father when you deplane instrument secretary in the room and said no as a matter of fact he was on musical and then she told an anecdote which may or may not be true.

She said that he was in Alabama in 1833 he was doing some legal work for president Andrew Jackson and he was at some kind of gathering, and as would happen that a band was there and they played the Star-Spangled Banner and so Francis Scott Key was sitting with some people. The band was playing after it was over, the granddaughter told us newspaper reporter. My grandfather turned to the woman next to him and said that was a beautiful air beautiful tune what blight what's the name of so you know it's probably apocryphal, but it does go to show that that man who wrote that song man who wrote the song that so many hundreds of millions Americans know first verse of was a bad poet and he most likely was tone deaf and beautiful work on that piece by Robbie is always in a special thanks to Mark leaps and author of what so proudly we hailed a tone deaf bad poet ends up writing the national anthem is always our stories are history stories are breathless by the great folks at Hillsdale College.

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