February 25, 2025 • 58 mins
Join us tonight at 7 PM CST as we have Beauvoir's Executive Director, Jason Smith, on to talk about the 38th Annual Fall Muster! "Fall Muster" at Beauvoir, The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, holds different meanings for different people. For some, it's a relaxing weekend spent on 52 acres of beachfront property on the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast. For others, it's a weekend away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where they can experience a simpler time. For most kids, it's a cool place to visit where they can witness a battle and hear the cannons go BOOM! For those who have attended more Fall Musters than they have missed, it's about coming home, family, friends, and reminiscing about those who are no longer with us.
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Gade camps hears the cider areas. How is everybody doing
in Dixie Land? Tonight we have a great show for
you planning where we have the executive director of Beauvois,
(04:49):
the last home of Jefferson Davis and his museum in
Presidential Library on to talk about the thirty eighth annual
Fall Muster event. I'm going to not try to steal
a lot of Executive Director Smith's thunder and talk about
it because uh, I'm bad about that. I I love
talking about Bovoe, I love talking about Fall Mustard. It's
always had a special plate place in my heart, so
(05:16):
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end credits of SCV Chat. So, without further ado, Uh,
I've been wanting to have Jason on for a while anyway,
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so tonight just worked out perfectly. So I'm gonna let
him come on talk about Fall Muster. Sit back, relax,
and let's have a great time on SCV Chat. So,
without further ado, Executive director BOUVOI, Jason Smith, Hey doing, Jason?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Are y'all doing tonight?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh? We're we are good. We're we are Southerners and
you're happy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, me too. It's an exciting week for us,
you know. Uh, Fall Muster is just around the corner.
We got Cruise in the Coast going on right now,
so we've got a lot of activity happening this week.
I'm still here at the office and uh, we're getting
ready for Fall Muster, which is one of our biggest
events of the year, So everybody's always pumped up for that,
and a lot of activity happened, a lot of exciting
things happening this year for Fall Muster.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, I can't wait. Fall Muster has always been just
a humongous event at Beauvoir, and uh, I think one
of our biggest fundraisers. Uh and I forgot the cruise
and the croast was this week. So yeah, you are
extremely busy at Beauvoir for the month of falltooper but uh, yeah, Jason,
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we're happy to have you.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
On a month of October, is our business monk.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, Uh, just uh tell us a bit about Beauvoir
for those who don't know what Beauvoir is, and uh
then we just jump right into Fall Muster with all
is BOVOI having this year. Just stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Okay, Well, for those of y'all that don't know about Boboa,
I think most of the listeners probably are very familiar
with bo Wah, but let's just kind of give a
little recap for those that don't know. Boub Woah was
the final home of Jefferson Davis. It was also a
Confederate veterans home post war, and there was a Confederate Cemetery.
Here at bo War we're almost seventy acres all together,
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and we're open seven days a week, nine to five.
We close three days a year. We close Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Other than that, we're
open unless we are in the path of a hurricane,
and we do close within about forty eight hours of
a projected landfall but named hurricane. So short of those
things happening, we're here.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And when we're not here, we've still got security team
here at night. So I mean, it's something always happened
in Bouah twenty four to seven. So we've got the
mansion that a lot of people know about where Davis lived.
And then there's the museum here, which is quite extensive.
We have been working on since I got here in
twenty twenty two to make the museum, you know, better
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than it was. There was a lot of artifacts here
in the vault, they just weren't displayed. So we're in
the process of bringing displays out and rotating displays. So
if you have been to Bobo but you hadn't been
the last six months, eight months, well it's time to
come back because there's a lot of new things to see.
It wasn't here last.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, the work that you and everybody down there has
put into Bouvoir is just outstanding. Uh, I mean, it's
truly awesome to see Beauvoir thriving. The restoration projects y'all
have been doing down there, with the front gate, with
the Presidential cottage and the Hayes Cottage and now the kitchen,
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just all the stuff. Of course, they put up a
new General Forest statue recently back in July, if I'm
not mistaken. I mean there's literally.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
A yeah, July thirteenth we put the new monument in,
which was Forrest's birthday. And it's one of the things
that we're excited about is that was a new monument.
So we don't want to become the dumping ground of
monuments for the entire Southeast. And that's one thing that
we've been scared about.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We don't want to say, well, we're gonna take your monument,
because the next thing, you know, cities and counties all
across the Southeast I want to take their monuments down
and send them here, and that's not our that's not
what we want to be. We don't want to be
the monument doving ground. This monument was a new monument
that was built and donated to book built for Bowlah,
so it makes sense where we put it. It was
dedicated on his birthday, on Forrest's birthday, which lined up
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with the weekend that we had a board meeting going on,
so it worked out really well there. But the soldiers
that rode with bow wah, I mean rode with forest
that are buried here at Booi are listed on the
sign near the monument. Now there's thirteen soldiers that rode
with Nathan Bedford forest at some point in time during
the war and they're listed the ones that are buried
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he here.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So it makes it that we have this.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Monument and we're open to putting more monuments here blah.
We're actually in the process that the divisions working on
another monument, but it's a new monument. So we're kind
of hesitant for monuments they're trying to take down. There's
a lot of rumors about, you know, people hate do
y'all want to take monuments They're going to take down
different places, and I'm hesitant to say, yes, we want
to take them, because I think that's just a slippery
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slope that leads to excuses for counties and cities to
take them back.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
So I couldn't agree more. It's one of those things
where it's like a Pandora's box where you don't want
to see it be put, you know, behind a dumpster.
But at the same time, if you start telling people, yeah,
we'll take them, all of a sudden, a lot more
are coming down than they were.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, so we got to be careful about that.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
So there's the monument that's come down in Grenada, which
is a big deal right now. There's a lawsuit going
on there and it is not displayed anywhere at the moment.
There's actually pending lawsuit on that thing, and it may
end up going right back where it was, which I
would like to see that happen.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
In fact, there's also.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
A real possibility that may end up in the cemetery
not far from where it was, And that's not a.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Bad movie either.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
That could be a that could be an acceptable place
for it as well. Now what isn't acceptable is behind
the public works building or behind our station work. Those
are unacceptable places. So we you know, we don't want
to see that happen.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
No, definitely not. As Jason said, Bouvoi has changed a lot.
They put in a lot of good work to make
sure that if you hadn't been to Bovoa in the
past eight months, that you definitely want to come and
uh I put it up at the beginning of the show.
But we're going to go ahead and rethough up the
poster for this year's Fall Muster. Of course, this is
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the thirty eighth annual Fall Muster at Bovoi is on
October eighteenth through the twentieth. The school day will be
on October eighteenth. War between the States battles daily period
music by the Unreconstructed band Living in History ends campbell
if Ladies tea period dance, small muster which I'm sure
we'll get into in a second. Settlers and vendors, first
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person presentations, food and snacks. Of course you can see
the missing down there. Thirteen dollars for adults, kids six
to seventeen seven dollars and children five and under are free.
And of course we encourage everybody to go on Bouvoa's
Facebook page, like it, follow it as well as visit
bouvoa dot org fun facts.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
See we're also partner you'll see that we're partnering with
coastal Mississippi. They're helping us do some promotional stuff for that,
and they're sponsoring this program Paul Muster, and they're helping
us to do a lot of radio ads and newspaper
adds and stuff to help Ball Muster grow. And we're
in partnership with Coast of Mississippi for that this year.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So we're excited about that.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Yeah, now that was awesome. I'm glad to see their
logo down there on the poster this year.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Fun facts for everybody you can actually see me, I
make a cameo in this year's post or somewhere. Whoever
gets it right, I'll give you a cookie next time
I see. I don't know, we'll figure something out. But
if you can figure out where I am on the
poster and if you can figure out what gcb's cameo
is on the poster, we somehow both managed to be
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on the poster. And fun fact, while me and GCB
were working on a Fall Moster poster, we both got
so busy that we had some of our other team
make this year's Fall Moster poster, so we had nothing
to do with our cameos in the Fall Muster poster.
The one I'm working on will be for the fortieth
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so I had nothing to do with it. But if
you can figure out where I am because I make
a personal appearance and some of gcb's property makes an
appearance on it. But you have something, say Jason.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, something else I want to mention. We were just
talking about monument in Fall Muster and this does tie
in all together. And here's why. This year, at the
Fall Muster, we will have the one of the members
that fill the lawsuit in Grenada here at Fall Muster
drawing up support. So miss Sue, which is a Grenada
resident and she's her name is actually the name on
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the lawsuit. She'll be here at Fall Muster accepting donations
and accepting name and addresses because she's going to put
together a list of people that may want to write
letters when the time comes to send letters. We don't
need letters at this particular moment in the phase where
we're at. But she's going to be here at Fall
Muster and she's putting together a list. So for people
that are interested in helping her and stop buy and
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give her your contact information, your email address and when
the time comes, she'll reach out to you to send
letters and emails when we get to that point, and
you can also make donations towards this lawsuit. So that's
how the monument situation ties into bow Wall. So she'll
like to be here at Paul Muster up drawnt support
for the Grenadian monument and those that understand how politics
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works and how these kinds of things work. Just because
you're not a Grenada resident doesn't meant to apply to you.
Because Grenada can set the precedents for the state, we
can end up with case law precedents that could affect
every other monument in the state of Mississippi. So this
could be a really big thing for everyone. So you know,
I'm a resident of Harrison County and We've got a
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monument at the Harrison County Courthouse. If this goes right,
this will better protect the monument the Harrison County courts.
So even people are residents of Grenada should be interested
and concerned about where this particular case goes.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
That is for sure. And one thing I want to
point out to everybody, since we're we're talking about monuments
and this kind of goes hand in hand, how pro
history is Beauvois and what special thing do we have
that to my knowledge, only a few other places have.
And because I mean you've seen museums like the one
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in Virginia that turned their back on real history and
all of a sudden become woke and trying to make
sure they can I guess, get people in the door.
Which I'm a big museum fan. I love museums, but
even I have to tell you, you know, some days people
aren't going to museums like they used to. So you know,
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what's something that's special about Beauvoir? You know, are we
pro history? Is there you know, special connection?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
So we are pro history, very much pro history. We
are not what you would call a woke museum in
no way, form or fashion or we woke.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We tell the truth, We tell the story as it was.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
But one of the things that we have here that
not everybody has is we have the Fall Muster, or
we have other living history with where history comes to life.
We like to tell people come to bow Wall where
history comes to life. So there's so many young people
and that's who we're really trying to get this message
to because they're the ones that don't grasp But many
of the older folks don't understand the importance of history
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and where we come from and how important it is.
But some of these younger folks don't understand it and
they just don't grasp it reading it from a book.
But when they can come to boat Walk and they
can feel it. And if fall mustard, now can you
feel it? You can smell it, you can you can
feel it in your bones. When when the when there
are artillery fires and the ground shakes, you're not just
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seeing it, You're not just hearing it. You're feeling it,
and you're smelling you taste it. It is the full
experience of history. And that's one of the things that
we offer that not every museum can offer m HM.
So the Fall Muster is the biggest time of the
year to offer that, but we also offer it on
our third Saturday Living History weekends.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We offer that as well.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It's not quite the same experience, not near the the
amount of artillery and the amount of you know, cavalry
and things like that, it's not the same same equivalent,
but it is a taste of it. And that's one
thing that Boboa brings that just so many people can't
bring to the table and museum wise and we can't.
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And it brings in young people and new people that
have never been otherwise. So our goal is to get
them here because they want to see something different, they
want to be entertained. In a lot of cases it
almost is entertaining. But when they get here to be entertained,
we can teach them something as well. M you can
teach them something to take them home with them, and
then they can go home and share that with other people,
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and they can go to school and share with other people.
And that's how we grow our calls, and that's how
we grow understanding of history.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more, Jason. That's why I love
the Fall Muster event. I love the school day. I
love Saturday and Sunday when you see so many young
kids in the audience experiencing this for the first time.
You know that, when you get that feeling when you
make someone watch a movie that you love that you've
never seen, that you've seen hundreds of times, they've never
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seen before, is what I feel when I go to
Fall Muster. Now, you know, I went to my first
Fall Muster four years ago. I think now maybe three
and I loved it so much, and of course I
was already I mean a big part of history and
the cause. I mean, it's had my heart since I
was eight. But it's different at Fall Muster. And I've
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been to a lot of reenactments, and I'm not trying
to say they're batter re enactments or knock them down,
but there's just something about Fall Muster. I don't know
if it's because you're walking the same grounds that Jefferson
Davis walked or all these veterans walked after the war.
Are just the community that gets around Fall Muster with Beauvois,
but it just feels special. And we actually have the
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other founder of suv Chat in our chat, Connor Bond,
talking about the Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier, which
also has a very cool story that is the official
recognized tomb of the Unknown Confederates Soldier.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Sure find it funny that you said it four years
ago as your first ball Muster. It makes me feel old.
My first Fall Muster was over thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
So well, it was one of those things where I
always went to Fall Muster. It somehow fell like after
or before Fall Muster as a kid, you know, Dad
would always take me down to Fall Muster, but are
not Fall Muster but Beauvoir. But it seemed like there
was always something happening where I couldn't come to Fall Muster.
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And then when I got into college.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I got I got helper showing up here.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Oh well yeah, I mean you need some helpers. But
when I got into college, I remember texting Dad be like,
I gotta go to Fall Muster. And every Fall Muster
for my first two or three years in college, I
had something to do. I was working with another a
nonprofit history organization about specifically old miss history and traditions,
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and we always had something that Saturday. And of course
I was living in Oxford, which made it more interesting.
But I'll never forget that first Fall Muster and I
love it, and Miss Susie's right, it feels like you're
coming home. Every time. It feels like you are just
at this warm homecoming. It doesn't matter how many times
I go to Beauvois Fall Muster, just it feels different.
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It feels like a major event, it feels like it
has something special to it.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And every year, every year, there's no year of Fall
Muster that was a bad year. You know that. I
don't know of a bad year fall muster. Some years
are more exciting than others, and some years have higher kinds.
But there's no such thing as a bad fall master.
I've never been to a fall muster that was bad.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Neither of I and I mean I know people like
Connor and Susie have been to near about every one
of them, and they'll say the same thing. They've never
been to a bad fall muster. Of course they have
their favorites, but it's always a great time. Even last year,
where it was the first time that I, I guess
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volunteered or got volunteld. I'm really unsure, honestly, but helped
out with the event itself, and I Jason, no one
could pay me enough to do what y'all do, dear
in fall muster, because I know I was running like
a chicken with my head cut off. I couldn't imagine
you and everybody else. I remember after the event just
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sitting down for like an hour, just being like, I
don't want anybody to talk to me. Let's just enjoy
the piece of a successful fall muster.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But so it's kind of my world. It's what I
you know, my background's racetrack business, which is high chaos,
a lot of things happening at once, and it's extreme
chaos for several hours trying to coordinate it all. And
that's my background racetrack business. So Fall Muster although it's
stressful and tiring and it's a high chaos event to
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manage because there's so many moving parts, it's my background,
you know, racetrack even more chaos than this. So this
is really not bad. Al must ridden that back.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, And one thing I always love about it is
that it's the place where the South always wins.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's right, which is our T shirts and stuff this
year say that. That's so. We've got our new gift
shop merchandise that we put out today was actually brought
out the warehouse today. So this year for Fall Muster,
we have some limited edition magnets that we made. They're
burnt wood refrigerator magnets. The retail for five ninety five apiece.
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We have a limited supply those. We have the coffee cups,
eleven mounts coffee cups, which you've seen some pictures of
some of those. They're pretty short booking. And we got
our T shirts. We didn't do any kids sized shirts
this year. We did some kids sized shirts last year
and they were a little bit slow to move. So
we have adult sizes from small to two X. But
so the T shirts are out now and magnets are
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out in coffee cups. So we didn't do a challenge
coin this year. We talked about possibly doing a challenge coin.
We just said we'll wait to the forties to do
a challenge coin.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Yeah. I love the coffee cups and T shirts. I've
always gotten a T shirt. But let me tell you,
when you came up and we're like, we have coffee cups,
I already spent like over one hundred dollars in the
gift shop that day, and I was like, do I
really need another coffee cup? And then I saw the design.
I was like, well, yes, I do need another coffee cup.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, we're proud of it. And those of y'all that
haven't been to Bobwa recently, you really need to come
check out our gift shop. So we've made a lot
of changes in the museum and a lot of change places,
but the gift shop, we have made a tremendous change
to not an inventory that we keep in the gift shop.
We have had a major change over an inventory and
a lot of specialized inventory that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Is only available to Boboa. So we've got books that are.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Back in print now that been out of print for
years that we were able to acquire the rights to
and put them back in print and had them printed.
So there's a lot of things that are now being
printed by Boba Pressed you can't buy anywhere boat. So
we've got a lot of exciting things that are happening.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. We might not have
gotten to it yet. But isn't one of those the
Rise and Fall the Confederacy by Jefferson Davis? Are we
working on that?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Stupid that's in process. They will not be available until
probably sometime early twenty twenty five. We're talking February, Navy's
latest March. So to get them printed the way we
wanted them printed, I could get them paperback and get
it done pretty easy here in the States. Easy. There's
a lot of printers. There's very few printers that will
offer what we want in a hardback cloth, down hardback
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that's what we want. I don't want a cheap looking
book for the Rise of fault. We want something because
let's just be honest about a lot of people that
purchased the book won't actually read it. They're gonna put
it on their coffee table as a status thing to say, Hey,
I own the Rise and Fault.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Davis, Yeah, that he wrote.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
They're really not going to read it. So at that
point in time, they're not interested in paperback. They want
something that's a quality looking, cloth bound hardback, something that
looks appropriate, something looks presidential. We don't want something that
looks cheap. We want something looks presidential. Yeah. So there's
only a handful of companies that will print those for us,
and we've been kind of limited on that, so we
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haven't got those printed yet. Some of these other books
we were able to get printed quicker because we went
with paperback. There's some of these books I didn't mind
printing paperback because they didn't need the level of quality
that The Rise and Fall deserves.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So we've been delayed on that.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I agreed, I mean that is something special. I mean
I'll buy this is how much of a history geek
I am? I suppose I'll buy one to read and
want to display. That's just the type of person I am,
but uh yeah, Jack DuPont in the chat, and of
course you can go to www dot visit bovoa dot
org slash online store to see what Jason is talking
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about our course, better yet, go there in person. It's
it's a phenomenal place. I get all my flags there
from my phone, arm h and just course so many
great book selections as well. But you know, Jack, Jack
has a point. Those T shirts have become tradition at Beauvoi,
and it just it feels like it marks the that
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the feeling of a very big event to have the
T shirt. I feel like I'm going to a concert,
our super Bowl, if you will. Getting those T shirts
every year and I love collecting them. Uh. Connor told
me I need to buy another one of The Rise
and Falls of Confederacy to pay him back for a
book I lost. That's not funny. But uh, let's talked
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about a couple more things that's on the fly real quick.
I'll throw it back up there, you know. Talked about
the living historians that come on the third Saturday Living History.
We are blessed at Mississippi and at Beauvois to have
some great reenactors and living historians who go all in
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to make sure the kids, families, dull all get the
experience of what it would have been like to be
a soldier during that time, to be at war, to
be of course, you know, a Confederate soldier. I think
that's something special we have that. You know, every third
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Saturday we have one come out and not if I'm
not mistaken, we had one a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, So we have them, try to have a year
round and they are an important part of what we
do here. So a lot of the times when we
have that going on, we just end up with tourists
that had no idea that we had a living history
going on. They just came to bow Wow because it
was on the list of things, the bucket list, and
they end up here on a living history day and
they get a little lecture surprise. What we really want
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to try to get to the point where it's something
that people are looking for, which we're not quite there yet.
We're heading that way. We've got to get Bota's image
where we needed to be in the marketing, where we
needed to be, and that's one of the things I'm
excited about for Fall Muster is you know, partnership with
Coastal Mississippi to help do a bunch of advertising. So
we're we're running over five thousand all for radio ads
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leading in to Fall Muster this year. So Fall Muster
has had a big radio advertising budget many years ago,
but in the recent years there hasn't been the whole
lot of radio ads been very small amounts. So we're
we're going to be on I think a total of
thirteen different radio stations this month advertising getting ready for
Fall Muster. So I anticipate a good sized crowd. If
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the weather holds out and the weather is decent, we'll
see a huge crowd. Reenactor wise, I think we maybe
see a small uptick from where we were last year.
We had a decent reenacting crowd last year. I think
we may see a small uptick in that, but I'm
hoping to see a big uptick in the attendance of
the spectators. We may see a little uptick for uh,
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the reenactors. We now have a shower form, which we've
never had before. Both Ball has always had bathroom rooms
and ordelettes. We now Last year we rented the nice
bathroom trollers. Those were a nice edition we'll have that
again this year. But we also have showers on property.
Now that's a that's a new thing that reenactors may
want to be able to get a shower after, you know,
Saturday afternoon, clean up and smell the ice for the
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dance Saturday evening.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Yeah, that will be phenomenal. Uh, I know it will
be a great, great pleasure that I'm going to be using.
But something to talk about real quick. Something that's also
special about Beauvoir is Beauvoir is owned and operated by
the Bouvo Corporation, which is membership is made up of
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the United United Missive Division somethings of Confederate veterans. And
that's something that's special about us is that membership is
also the same as the Missive Division Sons of Confederate Veterans.
We'll bring GC beyond he can give you the full
legal description. But we also have a lot of vendors
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at Bouvo and a lot of them are Mississippi camps
setting up to sell food and stuff to the public.
And so I mean, you're supporting the calls. Whenever you
turn around here, we got a turkey shoot. The Confederate
Sausage Dogs burgers, hot dogs, just the whole nine yards.
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They go out. Usually the OCR sets up and last
year the UDC did so. I mean it's a big
heritage of vine as well. That brings us all together
as heritage organizations, which is something I also love.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
And Talppat will be here as year this year as
well as a period vendor. So you know, they're in
the path of the storm coming in. Storm coming at
them is and they're in the past. So they're actually
bringing their trailer and equipment to bov Walk now right now. Wow,
they're bringing their stuff now. They're currently in route to
bring it to bou Walk. It's a safe place to
leave it because they are currently in the path of
the projected hurricane that's coming at them. So spoke to
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him earlier today and they're bringing their stuff about one
I ask could they ask could they bring it early
to make sure that it was safe from the storms
that bring it on.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
So that's old here. Top Hat is just a phenomenal
vendor for they're they're pretty well known, I would say
in the re enacting community. I don't think I go
to a reenactment that I either don't see them or
hear about top Hat and I'm so happy that that
they are making it to fall muster and speaking real
(32:29):
quick on the hurricanes that for the people who have
already been affected, we are praying for you and hope
you see some relief come to your way very shortly.
And the Florida Man, one of our co hosts of
the show, says top Hat lives over by him, and
so I do want to pray for all our Florida
division members tonight after the show, please, because it's it's
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it's about to get crazy. But yeah, I'm glad they're
going ahead to come on up. And our commander in chief,
Walter d Donnie Candy had to point out, uh that
Bobo has a lot of great books, uh, and some
of them are his, So make sure to go check that.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Out, yees so, and the and the and the gift Shop.
They're one that's listed as executive director.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Pick is a.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Punished with Poverty, which is a Kennedy book that is
my favorite book in the gift shop everything we sell
them the gift Shop. Punched with Poverty, in my opinion,
is one of the best books that we sell. And
that's a Kennedy book.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Oh yeah, that's that is phenomenal. I've been wanting to
read that book for a while. And uh, real quick
on the storm, and we're going to take a quick
commercial break and come back and continue to talk about
fall Muster. But uh, Commander in Chief Candy also wanted
to point out to make sure you donate to the
SEV Disaster Relief fun You can go to SCV dot
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org hit donate, scroll down you'll you'll see the disaster
fun and fun fact. The picture on the disaster relief
fund link is of Beauvois after Katrina. So we definitely
know what it is like in Mississippi and especially at
Bovoa to be hit by the destructive hurricanes. So you
have our prayers and we hope again that y'all get
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some reliefs soon. But make sure to go donate to that.
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show this weekend. Y'all all welcome come, as well as
the GENC meeting. Of course, if you remember the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, you can go to the GC meeting.
Everybody's welcomed at the car show. But just jumping back
(38:23):
into things, something I said that we would talk about
a bit is small mustard where you can get your
kids involved in the action and make them really feel
it in their bones. They can do a couple of
drills with some wooden muskets. It's it's a fun time,
absolutely phenomenal and I just seeing kids' face that they
(38:50):
get to do it is hilarious. They just seem like
they're so happy and they get to be a soldier
for a bit. It's it's phenomenal. And the course that
period dance will be great too with Unreconstructed remember that.
(39:10):
Trying to think I'll let Jason take over, I suppose
and get back into talking about fall Muster or anything
we've missed.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, fall Muster is great.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
So we tried to plug the kids in so we
called us a family event. It really is for all ages.
So we anticipate, you know, people bringing their kids or
their grandkids to come to Fall Muster and small musters.
Just a way to put you know, put these kids
energy to use, you know, let them be a part
of it. You know, I've got four sons myself, and
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they just love to be a part of things like this.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's exciting, you.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Know, it's one of their you know, last year was
the first year to do the small Muster, so they
had a good time with that. The turkey shoot that
you were speaking about earlier, that's put on by the
brand Accompt. That is one of my boy's favorite things.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Each year.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
They get excited about that, and it used to cost me,
you know, fifty sixty dollars coming into that. Well, you know,
the last couple of years, it's cost me a couple
of hundred dollars coming into that. But they have fun
with it, and it's it's one of their favorite things
about Farm us. Or is that turkey shoe And that's
for adults or kids that can be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
So I took part in a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's a really, really a fun
thing for people to do. Something that we do want
to talk about is uh those that are coming in
from out of channel, those that want to come to
stay with us. So we have a few RV spots
that are already booked up, the ones with power, but uh,
if you have an RV that has generator, whatever, we
have plenty of RV parking for people that want to
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come spend the weekend here that have an RV but
you know, don't need power and water. We have many
of our V spots more than another. So we do
have a limited number of rb spots with power, and
those are booked and ready. But if you've got an
RV and you don't need power and water, we've got
plenty of spots for you. We'd like for you to
bring you RV and can spend a weekend with us.
If you don't have an RV and you're coming from
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out of town, we UH put together a deal with
the hotel the closest to us, the Quality Inn, which
is just the other side of the coliseum.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
This is the closest hotel to us.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
It's a nice hotel and they offered a rate for
farm Easter weekend at ninety dollars per room, and if
you look at Beachfront hotels, that's a pretty good deal.
If you hear you know, a nine dollars room, that
sounds kind of high. Well, if you're compared it to
some places in the country, maybe it is. But as
far as Beachfront hotels gone a good rate, so we're
excited about it.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, real quick, I do want to
remind our re enactors that registration is still open. You
can go to I believe the it's on the website
www dot visit Booa dot org as well as.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Cognito forums. It's also going through there as well. There's
some that come through that way as well.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
Oh yeah, it's it's it's always something interesting, uh, and
I believe it's also on the Facebook pa age. We'll
we'll share that out so everybody can find it so
you can register. But yeah, beauvois is always I think,
especially with fall Muster, going to be a family event.
(42:14):
I mean there's something for the adults or something for
the grand parents, or something for the grandkids and kids.
It's truly a special event. Like with the turkishoed and
small must with something focused on the kids and they
actually do learn something while they're there. And of course
you can go to the gift shop and get all
your battle flag needs.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
H Yes, we want to make sure you go to
the gift shop go check out that.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
I oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
So Sunday morning will be a Sunday morning church service
at the cemetery. U Pastor bo Como that has preached
for us before at Paul Muster, I will be preaching
again this year for farm.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
He brings a Sunday morning message, so you know, if
you U, you know, worried about messing on Sunday morning,
and you can come to join church with us. And
we have a memorial service at the caer the Too
of the Unknown as well, and that's a very moving
thing if you've never been to that very moving moving thing.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
So let me tell you about the to the Unknown.
As a young man, I came to.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Bovah Fall Muster each year and different things like that,
and I always thought that the unknown is a very
powerful thing. When you stopped and pondered upon the significance
of what that was, I always thought it was very
powerful and moving. And then when I became a father,
then when I became a father of teenage sons, that's
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when it really hit home because when I stop and
think that that young man that's in that tune was
a teenager. He was a young man somewhere between fourteen
seventeen years old, and.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
He died fighting for calls.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
And he may have been one hundred miles from home.
He may have been four hundred miles from home. We
really don't know exactly where he was, but we know
where he died at and he never made it home.
So his mother, his father, his brothers, his sisters, aunt, uncles,
so on spent the rest of the days wondering what
happened to me? Yeah, where is it? And that was
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always significant, but after I become a father, it became
even more sigive.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
So everything that we do back there at that.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Tune is powerful and moody, very powerful.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Then come yes, I think it was last year. At
some point there was a band playing a slow version
of Dixie and we were all by the two of
the unknown Confederate soldier, And I mean I got emotional
because I'm just a couple of years older than the
guy in there myself, you know, and when I was
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around his age, it was even worse, like, okay, I
couldn't imagine that, and the fact that he went in
sacrifice everything to go defend his home, and uh, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
And so when I was in high school and I
came to go while when I was in high school,
because I'm born and raised here on the coast, born
and raised right here in South Psisippi's been here my
whole life. And uh so I came to Boboa as
a as a young man, you know, and we came
for fall must each year. Uh when I was a
young man, I didn't come to fall I didn't come
to Old want a retro case, you know. We came
for fall Mustress pretty much a long time I came
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to and they didn't come again to the next fall Must.
But I remember looking at that tomb and thinking that
was significant. It was a young man at my age,
and it was powerful then. But I can tell you this,
when you've got sons that are that age, it's even
more powerful. It hits you, even it hits you even
harder than it does when you're a young man. When
you have children at that age, that's when it really
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just grabs a whole tug you and you grab you
realize the significance of what that is, what that represents,
because there's a lot of young men that never made
it home.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
He's not the only one.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
There's a lot of that just never came home, and
their families spent the rest of years wondering what really
happened to them, and that'd be a tough thing to
live with. And that happened all across the Southland. And
people say, well, you know why were all these monuments built. Well,
this monument was built twenty years after war. This was
twenty five years after war. What was the reason for that. Well,
there was a few things going on at that point
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in time. Poverty, extreme poverty post war, extreme poverty, which
is part of the book I was telling you about
while I go, that's one of my favorite Kendy boats
punished with poverty. How about much poverty existed in the
South post war during reconstruction. So you know when people say, well,
this really wasn't really a war minument was put up
twenty twenty five years, thirty years after the war, Well
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it took them that long to get on their feet
and raise the money to do this, and they put
these monuments up and a lot of time these women
that were donating that didn't have much, they were donating
to these monuments because their son never came home. They've
been twenty five years since they seen their son, or
twenty five years since they seen their brother or husband
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or whatever the case is. It's gone twenty five years.
They've lived with not knowing what happened to them. Thirty
years they were donating to this as they could, and
these monuments got put up. And when these minaments got
put up, they were mothers and wives, widows that were
there that were hurting. And that's the reason these monuments
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are so important to us. We don't we sometimes pause
and think, you know what it was?
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Was it really you put up? While people that because.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
I've heard the speech I've heard before, which I don't
agree with, is that monument was put up thirty years
after the war?
Speaker 2 (47:33):
How really important can it be?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Ah? That charges me up.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, you got to understand the poverty that existed after
the war, and it took a long time to raise
that money and people had spent by the time the
monment got to put up. It's thirty years of pain
that's gone by the loss of a loved one. Sometimes
they knew right where they were. Sometimes they knew, you know,
how they died and where they were. But a lot
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of times they didn't. They just knew they didn't come back.
And that's what this soldier in our cemetery represents. He
represents a young man that just never made it home.
And it's powerful. Come to Fall Muster just for the
excitement of the battle of being actmed weekend and all
the vendors and just.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
The fun and excitement that it is.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
But if you want to come to Sunday morning, come
to Sunday morning church service, and then come to Sunday
morning memorial service at the tomb, and.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
That's the experience.
Speaker 5 (48:31):
I mean, it's a phenomenal experience. I think I've said
it on the show before. You know, there is a
tomb of the unknown soldier for the United States. This
is ours. This is the Southern equivalent of that, the
tomb of the unknown Confederate soldier. And I ask anybody
and beg you to, when you go by there, pay
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your respects to all the unknown Confederate soldiers that didn't
make it a home and give give a bit of silence.
So let the moment take control of you, because, uh,
I mean, when I'm sitting there for the church service,
I'm usually going back and forth between the pastor and
the two just thinking, and the same thing. When the
memorial service where just testing.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
I hete you clearly, I hear you clearly.
Speaker 5 (49:29):
I don't know what happened to my mic there, but
when you're at the memorial service, just I mean letting
the movement of the moment take over you. So yeah,
please please go visit that. One last thing on the
reenactorss I did forget to mention is that if you
don't have a unit to fall in with, you can
always fall in with numerous amounts of folks. Everybody's very
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happy and welcoming to help reenactors. For those who don't know,
I'm still very new to reenacting, and I tell people
that every time, Like Lo, I've been reenacting for a
couple of years, but I've only reenacted him full of times,
so you know, be patient. Helped me out and that
they're always some of the kindest people helping me out.
And normally, like last year, I was running off and
(50:14):
on the field. It was very tiring for someone who
is as large as I have gotten. I've earned a
good twenty pounds off and regained it right back with
a Confederate sausage dog real quick. But well that being said,
is there anything else you want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Before jumble Line this year as well?
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Oh, a Confederate sauce, but we have jumble Line this year,
so they a little bit of Jomo la Las year
is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Oh again this year.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
I snuck some last year. So I usually get a
sausage dog Friday or Saturday, and then the burgers Saturday
or Sunday, try to go support everybody. I think Sunday
night before I left, I went over and I was
like jumble I left, which is just a tiny bit
to help me get home, and I think I sat
(51:06):
inside and maybe even talk to you. But with all
that being said, if you don't have anything else you
want to talk about, Executive Director Smith, we'll start wrapping
up the show now.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
I just want to invite people to come to Boguo
at any time.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
So if you're not available to come during Fall Muster,
you know you're missing out. But if you just can't
come during Fall Muster, you can come other times. And
I want to mention one other things that people can
help us support Fall Muster. There's a couple of ways
as you can help. So if you're close buying you
want to crumby and come by and grab a poster.
We have plenty of posters that you could hang at
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any kind of you know, public place, so it's a
gas station or school or church wherever that you may have,
civic center, so we have some posters for those of
y'all that want to come by and grab a poster.
You can help us spread the word about pall Nster
that way. You can also go to our Facebook page
and share. So we've got daily updates that we're putting
out about the Fall Muster coming up. You can go
(52:06):
and click like and share on those and that helps
us as well, helps us to grow Fall Muster. But
you can help us at any given time just go
to our Facebook page and like and share things that's
on our Facebook page. Go to Google and give us
a five star review on Google trip Advisor. So for
if you couldn't do things like that, that helps us
uh year round. And there's ways that you can help
(52:29):
us without spending any money. And if you want to
spend some money, you want to come to gift shop
and spend one hundred dollars. Come on spend us or
if you want us want to meil us a check,
you can meil us a check.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Want put it in the bank. But there's ways to
help us without.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Spending any money. What I want everybody to know, so
it doesn't matter who you are or where you're at
in life, there's a way you can help be a
part of what we've got going on here. And it
might be something as simple as maybe you want to
you live close by and you want to come help us,
and you want to come cut firewood. Get ready to
fall muster. We've got plenty of wood to cut. If
you're a person it has the ability to come cut
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some firewood, we can plug in show up here, and
we'll find a way to make you a part of
So no matter who you are, we'll find a way
to plug you in here at Bouvoa and make you
a part of what we've got going on.
Speaker 5 (53:15):
And that's the great thing about Beauvoir that I love
is that there's always something that you can do to
help out, and it's always so welcoming. And just as
we said at the beginning, of the show. It just
feels like home, and for us in the Mississippi Division,
it is home. Veterans walk to those grounds. Jefferson Davis
walked to those grounds, and every time I think about it,
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you know, it gets me right in the heart and
gives me chills. I mean, we had one president and
this was his home, and it was a home for
a lot of veterans as well that are buried on
the property. This was their final resting place. And so yes,
please go make sure to support Beauvoir again on Facebook,
bouvoi the Jefferson Davis Home in Presidential Library, and of
(54:02):
course their website visit bovoa dot org. Make sure to
go support them everybody. You will not regret it. And
of course please try to attend Fall Muster phenomenal event.
I am going to throw up their poster one more
time and oh yeah, I almost forgot. Okay, before we
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end the show, where is y'all's guesses on my cameo
and Connor's GCB somewhat cameo. He's not in it on
the poster, but he somewhat is. So I will give
you all a couple of seconds to respond in the
chat before I say it with you, I just remember
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the thirty eighth annual Fall Muster at Beauvois October eighteenth
through the twentieth. October eighteenth will be a school day
well between the states battles daily Saturday and Sunday. Period
music by the Unreconstructed Band, Living Historians, Camp Life, a Ladies,
the period dance, small Mustard, subtlers and vendors, first person presentations,
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food and snacks. Admission is thirteen dollars for kids seven
or six through seventeen at seven and for kids five
and under it's free.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Again.
Speaker 5 (55:16):
Please go follow them on Facebook and their website, and
of course I'll let Jason take this over, and please
remember our partnership.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
With Coast of Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (55:29):
They were helping them promote this for us, and we're
excited about having them as a partner this year and
the promotion that they're bringing to the table.
Speaker 5 (55:37):
Yeah, that is one of the greatest things that's happened
this year, just all the stuff they've helped us be
able to do and get Fall Muster to even more people,
and hopefully we will see the many of you down
there so real quick. The flat, the tent and flag
In the upper left hand corner of your screen that
(55:58):
is gcb's tent. That's his cameo, that's his flag in tint.
He might even be in the tent when this picture
was taken, I'm unsure. And in the lower left hand
corner that is me holding gcb's flag on one of
the fall Musters as I march off behind pass Commander
in Chief Larry mclooney, our General Beauregard. So there's our cameos. Again.
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We didn't design those funny enough. It's two years away
and I somehow started working on the fortieth one, so
I had no touching in that. I wanted to thank
the people we assigned. That was nice of them to
give me a cameo in GCB. I love the poster
this year.
Speaker 2 (56:40):
I think you did a great job on that poster.
Speaker 5 (56:42):
I think he looks sharp, phenomenal, phenomenal. But we're gonna
go ahead and wrap up the show now. I want
everybody to thank executive director Jason Smith for coming on
taking time out probably his busiest time of the year
at Beauvoir with a cruise on the coast this week
and then Fall Muster. So yeah, please, let's please thank
him for giving us the hour to come on and
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make sure you share this episode out so we can
get it as many people as possible. Like it, comment
everything you can do. You can share us on Facebook
and YouTube and make sure you email SCV Youth Outreached
gmail dot com to be featured on the upcoming episode
of Look Around the Confederation this Thursday at seven pm
Confederate Standard time. And I hope you guys have a
(57:27):
wonderful day. And I would like to thank all our
patreons for all their support and of course one more
time our BOVOI executive director Jason Smith. And in the
words of the Glate Great Harold phil Potts, remember chat heads,
no fu mar in the elevator. Good night, everybody right,
Said Hamer. Well as you boys talking.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
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Chat starts now.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
It's seven o'clock on a Monday afternoon, so you know
what time it is. It is time for you a
weekly episode of SCV Chat. Before it gets started, please
remember the using opinions expressing this broadcast, not necessarily the
using opinions of the SEV. It's gec Nor indivision for
Gade camps hears the cider areas. How is everybody doing
in Dixie Land? Tonight we have a great show for
you planning where we have the executive director of Beauvois,
(04:49):
the last home of Jefferson Davis and his museum in
Presidential Library on to talk about the thirty eighth annual
Fall Muster event. I'm going to not try to steal
a lot of Executive Director Smith's thunder and talk about
it because uh, I'm bad about that. I I love
talking about Bovoe, I love talking about Fall Mustard. It's
always had a special plate place in my heart, so
(05:16):
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(05:38):
so tonight just worked out perfectly. So I'm gonna let
him come on talk about Fall Muster. Sit back, relax,
and let's have a great time on SCV Chat. So,
without further ado, Executive director BOUVOI, Jason Smith, Hey doing, Jason?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Are y'all doing tonight?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Oh? We're we are good. We're we are Southerners and
you're happy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, yeah, me too. It's an exciting week for us,
you know. Uh, Fall Muster is just around the corner.
We got Cruise in the Coast going on right now,
so we've got a lot of activity happening this week.
I'm still here at the office and uh, we're getting
ready for Fall Muster, which is one of our biggest
events of the year, So everybody's always pumped up for that,
and a lot of activity happened, a lot of exciting
things happening this year for Fall Muster.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, I can't wait. Fall Muster has always been just
a humongous event at Beauvoir, and uh, I think one
of our biggest fundraisers. Uh and I forgot the cruise
and the croast was this week. So yeah, you are
extremely busy at Beauvoir for the month of falltooper but uh, yeah, Jason,
(06:47):
we're happy to have you.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
On a month of October, is our business monk.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, Uh, just uh tell us a bit about Beauvoir
for those who don't know what Beauvoir is, and uh
then we just jump right into Fall Muster with all
is BOVOI having this year. Just stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Okay, Well, for those of y'all that don't know about Boboa,
I think most of the listeners probably are very familiar
with bo Wah, but let's just kind of give a
little recap for those that don't know. Boub Woah was
the final home of Jefferson Davis. It was also a
Confederate veterans home post war, and there was a Confederate Cemetery.
Here at bo War we're almost seventy acres all together,
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and we're open seven days a week, nine to five.
We close three days a year. We close Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Other than that, we're
open unless we are in the path of a hurricane,
and we do close within about forty eight hours of
a projected landfall but named hurricane. So short of those
things happening, we're here.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And when we're not here, we've still got security team
here at night. So I mean, it's something always happened
in Bouah twenty four to seven. So we've got the
mansion that a lot of people know about where Davis lived.
And then there's the museum here, which is quite extensive.
We have been working on since I got here in
twenty twenty two to make the museum, you know, better
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than it was. There was a lot of artifacts here
in the vault, they just weren't displayed. So we're in
the process of bringing displays out and rotating displays. So
if you have been to Bobo but you hadn't been
the last six months, eight months, well it's time to
come back because there's a lot of new things to see.
It wasn't here last.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, the work that you and everybody down there has
put into Bouvoir is just outstanding. Uh, I mean, it's
truly awesome to see Beauvoir thriving. The restoration projects y'all
have been doing down there, with the front gate, with
the Presidential cottage and the Hayes Cottage and now the kitchen,
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just all the stuff. Of course, they put up a
new General Forest statue recently back in July, if I'm
not mistaken. I mean there's literally.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
A yeah, July thirteenth we put the new monument in,
which was Forrest's birthday. And it's one of the things
that we're excited about is that was a new monument.
So we don't want to become the dumping ground of
monuments for the entire Southeast. And that's one thing that
we've been scared about.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We don't want to say, well, we're gonna take your monument,
because the next thing, you know, cities and counties all
across the Southeast I want to take their monuments down
and send them here, and that's not our that's not
what we want to be. We don't want to be
the monument doving ground. This monument was a new monument
that was built and donated to book built for Bowlah,
so it makes sense where we put it. It was
dedicated on his birthday, on Forrest's birthday, which lined up
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with the weekend that we had a board meeting going on,
so it worked out really well there. But the soldiers
that rode with bow wah, I mean rode with forest
that are buried here at Booi are listed on the
sign near the monument. Now there's thirteen soldiers that rode
with Nathan Bedford forest at some point in time during
the war and they're listed the ones that are buried
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he here.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So it makes it that we have this.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Monument and we're open to putting more monuments here blah.
We're actually in the process that the divisions working on
another monument, but it's a new monument. So we're kind
of hesitant for monuments they're trying to take down. There's
a lot of rumors about, you know, people hate do
y'all want to take monuments They're going to take down
different places, and I'm hesitant to say, yes, we want
to take them, because I think that's just a slippery
(10:25):
slope that leads to excuses for counties and cities to
take them back.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
So I couldn't agree more. It's one of those things
where it's like a Pandora's box where you don't want
to see it be put, you know, behind a dumpster.
But at the same time, if you start telling people, yeah,
we'll take them, all of a sudden, a lot more
are coming down than they were.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, so we got to be careful about that.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
So there's the monument that's come down in Grenada, which
is a big deal right now. There's a lawsuit going
on there and it is not displayed anywhere at the moment.
There's actually pending lawsuit on that thing, and it may
end up going right back where it was, which I
would like to see that happen.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
In fact, there's also.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
A real possibility that may end up in the cemetery
not far from where it was, And that's not a.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Bad movie either.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
That could be a that could be an acceptable place
for it as well. Now what isn't acceptable is behind
the public works building or behind our station work. Those
are unacceptable places. So we you know, we don't want
to see that happen.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
No, definitely not. As Jason said, Bouvoi has changed a lot.
They put in a lot of good work to make
sure that if you hadn't been to Bovoa in the
past eight months, that you definitely want to come and
uh I put it up at the beginning of the show.
But we're going to go ahead and rethough up the
poster for this year's Fall Muster. Of course, this is
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the thirty eighth annual Fall Muster at Bovoi is on
October eighteenth through the twentieth. The school day will be
on October eighteenth. War between the States battles daily period
music by the Unreconstructed band Living in History ends campbell
if Ladies tea period dance, small muster which I'm sure
we'll get into in a second. Settlers and vendors, first
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person presentations, food and snacks. Of course you can see
the missing down there. Thirteen dollars for adults, kids six
to seventeen seven dollars and children five and under are free.
And of course we encourage everybody to go on Bouvoa's
Facebook page, like it, follow it as well as visit
bouvoa dot org fun facts.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
See we're also partner you'll see that we're partnering with
coastal Mississippi. They're helping us do some promotional stuff for that,
and they're sponsoring this program Paul Muster, and they're helping
us to do a lot of radio ads and newspaper
adds and stuff to help Ball Muster grow. And we're
in partnership with Coast of Mississippi for that this year.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So we're excited about that.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Yeah, now that was awesome. I'm glad to see their
logo down there on the poster this year.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Fun facts for everybody you can actually see me, I
make a cameo in this year's post or somewhere. Whoever
gets it right, I'll give you a cookie next time
I see. I don't know, we'll figure something out. But
if you can figure out where I am on the
poster and if you can figure out what gcb's cameo
is on the poster, we somehow both managed to be
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on the poster. And fun fact, while me and GCB
were working on a Fall Moster poster, we both got
so busy that we had some of our other team
make this year's Fall Moster poster, so we had nothing
to do with our cameos in the Fall Muster poster.
The one I'm working on will be for the fortieth
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so I had nothing to do with it. But if
you can figure out where I am because I make
a personal appearance and some of gcb's property makes an
appearance on it. But you have something, say Jason.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, something else I want to mention. We were just
talking about monument in Fall Muster and this does tie
in all together. And here's why. This year, at the
Fall Muster, we will have the one of the members
that fill the lawsuit in Grenada here at Fall Muster
drawing up support. So miss Sue, which is a Grenada
resident and she's her name is actually the name on
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the lawsuit. She'll be here at Fall Muster accepting donations
and accepting name and addresses because she's going to put
together a list of people that may want to write
letters when the time comes to send letters. We don't
need letters at this particular moment in the phase where
we're at. But she's going to be here at Fall
Muster and she's putting together a list. So for people
that are interested in helping her and stop buy and
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give her your contact information, your email address and when
the time comes, she'll reach out to you to send
letters and emails when we get to that point, and
you can also make donations towards this lawsuit. So that's
how the monument situation ties into bow Wall. So she'll
like to be here at Paul Muster up drawnt support
for the Grenadian monument and those that understand how politics
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works and how these kinds of things work. Just because
you're not a Grenada resident doesn't meant to apply to you.
Because Grenada can set the precedents for the state, we
can end up with case law precedents that could affect
every other monument in the state of Mississippi. So this
could be a really big thing for everyone. So you know,
I'm a resident of Harrison County and We've got a
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monument at the Harrison County Courthouse. If this goes right,
this will better protect the monument the Harrison County courts.
So even people are residents of Grenada should be interested
and concerned about where this particular case goes.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
That is for sure. And one thing I want to
point out to everybody, since we're we're talking about monuments
and this kind of goes hand in hand, how pro
history is Beauvois and what special thing do we have
that to my knowledge, only a few other places have.
And because I mean you've seen museums like the one
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in Virginia that turned their back on real history and
all of a sudden become woke and trying to make
sure they can I guess, get people in the door.
Which I'm a big museum fan. I love museums, but
even I have to tell you, you know, some days people
aren't going to museums like they used to. So you know,
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what's something that's special about Beauvoir? You know, are we
pro history? Is there you know, special connection?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
So we are pro history, very much pro history. We
are not what you would call a woke museum in
no way, form or fashion or we woke.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We tell the truth, We tell the story as it was.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
But one of the things that we have here that
not everybody has is we have the Fall Muster, or
we have other living history with where history comes to life.
We like to tell people come to bow Wall where
history comes to life. So there's so many young people
and that's who we're really trying to get this message
to because they're the ones that don't grasp But many
of the older folks don't understand the importance of history
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and where we come from and how important it is.
But some of these younger folks don't understand it and
they just don't grasp it reading it from a book.
But when they can come to boat Walk and they
can feel it. And if fall mustard, now can you
feel it? You can smell it, you can you can
feel it in your bones. When when the when there
are artillery fires and the ground shakes, you're not just
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seeing it, You're not just hearing it. You're feeling it,
and you're smelling you taste it. It is the full
experience of history. And that's one of the things that
we offer that not every museum can offer m HM.
So the Fall Muster is the biggest time of the
year to offer that, but we also offer it on
our third Saturday Living History weekends.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
We offer that as well.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It's not quite the same experience, not near the the
amount of artillery and the amount of you know, cavalry
and things like that, it's not the same same equivalent,
but it is a taste of it. And that's one
thing that Boboa brings that just so many people can't
bring to the table and museum wise and we can't.
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And it brings in young people and new people that
have never been otherwise. So our goal is to get
them here because they want to see something different, they
want to be entertained. In a lot of cases it
almost is entertaining. But when they get here to be entertained,
we can teach them something as well. M you can
teach them something to take them home with them, and
then they can go home and share that with other people,
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and they can go to school and share with other people.
And that's how we grow our calls, and that's how
we grow understanding of history.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more, Jason. That's why I love
the Fall Muster event. I love the school day. I
love Saturday and Sunday when you see so many young
kids in the audience experiencing this for the first time.
You know that, when you get that feeling when you
make someone watch a movie that you love that you've
never seen, that you've seen hundreds of times, they've never
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seen before, is what I feel when I go to
Fall Muster. Now, you know, I went to my first
Fall Muster four years ago. I think now maybe three
and I loved it so much, and of course I
was already I mean a big part of history and
the cause. I mean, it's had my heart since I
was eight. But it's different at Fall Muster. And I've
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been to a lot of reenactments, and I'm not trying
to say they're batter re enactments or knock them down,
but there's just something about Fall Muster. I don't know
if it's because you're walking the same grounds that Jefferson
Davis walked or all these veterans walked after the war.
Are just the community that gets around Fall Muster with Beauvois,
but it just feels special. And we actually have the
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other founder of suv Chat in our chat, Connor Bond,
talking about the Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier, which
also has a very cool story that is the official
recognized tomb of the Unknown Confederates Soldier.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Sure find it funny that you said it four years
ago as your first ball Muster. It makes me feel old.
My first Fall Muster was over thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
So well, it was one of those things where I
always went to Fall Muster. It somehow fell like after
or before Fall Muster as a kid, you know, Dad
would always take me down to Fall Muster, but are
not Fall Muster but Beauvoir. But it seemed like there
was always something happening where I couldn't come to Fall Muster.
(20:31):
And then when I got into college.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I got I got helper showing up here.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Oh well yeah, I mean you need some helpers. But
when I got into college, I remember texting Dad be like,
I gotta go to Fall Muster. And every Fall Muster
for my first two or three years in college, I
had something to do. I was working with another a
nonprofit history organization about specifically old miss history and traditions,
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and we always had something that Saturday. And of course
I was living in Oxford, which made it more interesting.
But I'll never forget that first Fall Muster and I
love it, and Miss Susie's right, it feels like you're
coming home. Every time. It feels like you are just
at this warm homecoming. It doesn't matter how many times
I go to Beauvois Fall Muster, just it feels different.
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It feels like a major event, it feels like it
has something special to it.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And every year, every year, there's no year of Fall
Muster that was a bad year. You know that. I
don't know of a bad year fall muster. Some years
are more exciting than others, and some years have higher kinds.
But there's no such thing as a bad fall master.
I've never been to a fall muster that was bad.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Neither of I and I mean I know people like
Connor and Susie have been to near about every one
of them, and they'll say the same thing. They've never
been to a bad fall muster. Of course they have
their favorites, but it's always a great time. Even last year,
where it was the first time that I, I guess
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volunteered or got volunteld. I'm really unsure, honestly, but helped
out with the event itself, and I Jason, no one
could pay me enough to do what y'all do, dear
in fall muster, because I know I was running like
a chicken with my head cut off. I couldn't imagine
you and everybody else. I remember after the event just
(22:30):
sitting down for like an hour, just being like, I
don't want anybody to talk to me. Let's just enjoy
the piece of a successful fall muster.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But so it's kind of my world. It's what I
you know, my background's racetrack business, which is high chaos,
a lot of things happening at once, and it's extreme
chaos for several hours trying to coordinate it all. And
that's my background racetrack business. So Fall Muster although it's
stressful and tiring and it's a high chaos event to
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manage because there's so many moving parts, it's my background,
you know, racetrack even more chaos than this. So this
is really not bad. Al must ridden that back.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, And one thing I always love about it is
that it's the place where the South always wins.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's right, which is our T shirts and stuff this
year say that. That's so. We've got our new gift
shop merchandise that we put out today was actually brought
out the warehouse today. So this year for Fall Muster,
we have some limited edition magnets that we made. They're
burnt wood refrigerator magnets. The retail for five ninety five apiece.
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We have a limited supply those. We have the coffee cups,
eleven mounts coffee cups, which you've seen some pictures of
some of those. They're pretty short booking. And we got
our T shirts. We didn't do any kids sized shirts
this year. We did some kids sized shirts last year
and they were a little bit slow to move. So
we have adult sizes from small to two X. But
so the T shirts are out now and magnets are
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out in coffee cups. So we didn't do a challenge
coin this year. We talked about possibly doing a challenge coin.
We just said we'll wait to the forties to do
a challenge coin.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Yeah. I love the coffee cups and T shirts. I've
always gotten a T shirt. But let me tell you,
when you came up and we're like, we have coffee cups,
I already spent like over one hundred dollars in the
gift shop that day, and I was like, do I
really need another coffee cup? And then I saw the design.
I was like, well, yes, I do need another coffee cup.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, we're proud of it. And those of y'all that
haven't been to Bobwa recently, you really need to come
check out our gift shop. So we've made a lot
of changes in the museum and a lot of change places,
but the gift shop, we have made a tremendous change
to not an inventory that we keep in the gift shop.
We have had a major change over an inventory and
a lot of specialized inventory that.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Is only available to Boboa. So we've got books that are.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Back in print now that been out of print for
years that we were able to acquire the rights to
and put them back in print and had them printed.
So there's a lot of things that are now being
printed by Boba Pressed you can't buy anywhere boat. So
we've got a lot of exciting things that are happening.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. We might not have
gotten to it yet. But isn't one of those the
Rise and Fall the Confederacy by Jefferson Davis? Are we
working on that?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Stupid that's in process. They will not be available until
probably sometime early twenty twenty five. We're talking February, Navy's
latest March. So to get them printed the way we
wanted them printed, I could get them paperback and get
it done pretty easy here in the States. Easy. There's
a lot of printers. There's very few printers that will
offer what we want in a hardback cloth, down hardback
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that's what we want. I don't want a cheap looking
book for the Rise of fault. We want something because
let's just be honest about a lot of people that
purchased the book won't actually read it. They're gonna put
it on their coffee table as a status thing to say, Hey,
I own the Rise and Fault.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Davis, Yeah, that he wrote.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
They're really not going to read it. So at that
point in time, they're not interested in paperback. They want
something that's a quality looking, cloth bound hardback, something that
looks appropriate, something looks presidential. We don't want something that
looks cheap. We want something looks presidential. Yeah. So there's
only a handful of companies that will print those for us,
and we've been kind of limited on that, so we
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haven't got those printed yet. Some of these other books
we were able to get printed quicker because we went
with paperback. There's some of these books I didn't mind
printing paperback because they didn't need the level of quality
that The Rise and Fall deserves.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So we've been delayed on that.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I agreed, I mean that is something special. I mean
I'll buy this is how much of a history geek
I am? I suppose I'll buy one to read and
want to display. That's just the type of person I am,
but uh yeah, Jack DuPont in the chat, and of
course you can go to www dot visit bovoa dot
org slash online store to see what Jason is talking
(26:51):
about our course, better yet, go there in person. It's
it's a phenomenal place. I get all my flags there
from my phone, arm h and just course so many
great book selections as well. But you know, Jack, Jack
has a point. Those T shirts have become tradition at Beauvoi,
and it just it feels like it marks the that
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the feeling of a very big event to have the
T shirt. I feel like I'm going to a concert,
our super Bowl, if you will. Getting those T shirts
every year and I love collecting them. Uh. Connor told
me I need to buy another one of The Rise
and Falls of Confederacy to pay him back for a
book I lost. That's not funny. But uh, let's talked
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about a couple more things that's on the fly real quick.
I'll throw it back up there, you know. Talked about
the living historians that come on the third Saturday Living History.
We are blessed at Mississippi and at Beauvois to have
some great reenactors and living historians who go all in
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to make sure the kids, families, dull all get the
experience of what it would have been like to be
a soldier during that time, to be at war, to
be of course, you know, a Confederate soldier. I think
that's something special we have that. You know, every third
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Saturday we have one come out and not if I'm
not mistaken, we had one a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, So we have them, try to have a year
round and they are an important part of what we
do here. So a lot of the times when we
have that going on, we just end up with tourists
that had no idea that we had a living history
going on. They just came to bow Wow because it
was on the list of things, the bucket list, and
they end up here on a living history day and
they get a little lecture surprise. What we really want
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to try to get to the point where it's something
that people are looking for, which we're not quite there yet.
We're heading that way. We've got to get Bota's image
where we needed to be in the marketing, where we
needed to be, and that's one of the things I'm
excited about for Fall Muster is you know, partnership with
Coastal Mississippi to help do a bunch of advertising. So
we're we're running over five thousand all for radio ads
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leading in to Fall Muster this year. So Fall Muster
has had a big radio advertising budget many years ago,
but in the recent years there hasn't been the whole
lot of radio ads been very small amounts. So we're
we're going to be on I think a total of
thirteen different radio stations this month advertising getting ready for
Fall Muster. So I anticipate a good sized crowd. If
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the weather holds out and the weather is decent, we'll
see a huge crowd. Reenactor wise, I think we maybe
see a small uptick from where we were last year.
We had a decent reenacting crowd last year. I think
we may see a small uptick in that, but I'm
hoping to see a big uptick in the attendance of
the spectators. We may see a little uptick for uh,
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the reenactors. We now have a shower form, which we've
never had before. Both Ball has always had bathroom rooms
and ordelettes. We now Last year we rented the nice
bathroom trollers. Those were a nice edition we'll have that
again this year. But we also have showers on property.
Now that's a that's a new thing that reenactors may
want to be able to get a shower after, you know,
Saturday afternoon, clean up and smell the ice for the
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dance Saturday evening.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
Yeah, that will be phenomenal. Uh, I know it will
be a great, great pleasure that I'm going to be using.
But something to talk about real quick. Something that's also
special about Beauvoir is Beauvoir is owned and operated by
the Bouvo Corporation, which is membership is made up of
(30:42):
the United United Missive Division somethings of Confederate veterans. And
that's something that's special about us is that membership is
also the same as the Missive Division Sons of Confederate Veterans.
We'll bring GC beyond he can give you the full
legal description. But we also have a lot of vendors
(31:02):
at Bouvo and a lot of them are Mississippi camps
setting up to sell food and stuff to the public.
And so I mean, you're supporting the calls. Whenever you
turn around here, we got a turkey shoot. The Confederate
Sausage Dogs burgers, hot dogs, just the whole nine yards.
(31:23):
They go out. Usually the OCR sets up and last
year the UDC did so. I mean it's a big
heritage of vine as well. That brings us all together
as heritage organizations, which is something I also love.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
And Talppat will be here as year this year as
well as a period vendor. So you know, they're in
the path of the storm coming in. Storm coming at
them is and they're in the past. So they're actually
bringing their trailer and equipment to bov Walk now right now. Wow,
they're bringing their stuff now. They're currently in route to
bring it to bou Walk. It's a safe place to
leave it because they are currently in the path of
the projected hurricane that's coming at them. So spoke to
(32:01):
him earlier today and they're bringing their stuff about one
I ask could they ask could they bring it early
to make sure that it was safe from the storms
that bring it on.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
So that's old here. Top Hat is just a phenomenal
vendor for they're they're pretty well known, I would say
in the re enacting community. I don't think I go
to a reenactment that I either don't see them or
hear about top Hat and I'm so happy that that
they are making it to fall muster and speaking real
(32:29):
quick on the hurricanes that for the people who have
already been affected, we are praying for you and hope
you see some relief come to your way very shortly.
And the Florida Man, one of our co hosts of
the show, says top Hat lives over by him, and
so I do want to pray for all our Florida
division members tonight after the show, please, because it's it's
(32:53):
it's about to get crazy. But yeah, I'm glad they're
going ahead to come on up. And our commander in chief,
Walter d Donnie Candy had to point out, uh that
Bobo has a lot of great books, uh, and some
of them are his, So make sure to go check that.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Out, yees so, and the and the and the gift Shop.
They're one that's listed as executive director.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Pick is a.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Punished with Poverty, which is a Kennedy book that is
my favorite book in the gift shop everything we sell
them the gift Shop. Punched with Poverty, in my opinion,
is one of the best books that we sell. And
that's a Kennedy book.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Oh yeah, that's that is phenomenal. I've been wanting to
read that book for a while. And uh, real quick
on the storm, and we're going to take a quick
commercial break and come back and continue to talk about
fall Muster. But uh, Commander in Chief Candy also wanted
to point out to make sure you donate to the
SEV Disaster Relief fun You can go to SCV dot
(33:55):
org hit donate, scroll down you'll you'll see the disaster
fun and fun fact. The picture on the disaster relief
fund link is of Beauvois after Katrina. So we definitely
know what it is like in Mississippi and especially at
Bovoa to be hit by the destructive hurricanes. So you
have our prayers and we hope again that y'all get
(34:17):
some reliefs soon. But make sure to go donate to that.
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Speaker 4 (35:45):
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southern Middle Tennessee, a home constructed in eighteen thirty seven,
nearly lost to the red of war, saved by.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
A servant.
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And a Confederate general, A place where families loved and lost.
If walls could talk, what stories could be told. If
a place a home can feel love, lost, pain. Surely
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recent structure, and inside are the stories of heroes and heroines,
stories of battles won and lost, stories of sacrifices made
by the people of its native soil. A place that
(36:53):
will tell the true and complete story of the Southland
and the war fought for its free from the causes
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(37:16):
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Sons of Confederate Veterans. A place where the story of
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Come and discover your history.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Oh goosebumps all the time. UH want a quick reminder that,
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(38:01):
a reasonable price and real quick. Before we get back
into BEAUVOI quick reminder that headquarters will have a car
show this weekend. Y'all all welcome come, as well as
the GENC meeting. Of course, if you remember the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, you can go to the GC meeting.
Everybody's welcomed at the car show. But just jumping back
(38:23):
into things, something I said that we would talk about
a bit is small mustard where you can get your
kids involved in the action and make them really feel
it in their bones. They can do a couple of
drills with some wooden muskets. It's it's a fun time,
absolutely phenomenal and I just seeing kids' face that they
(38:50):
get to do it is hilarious. They just seem like
they're so happy and they get to be a soldier
for a bit. It's it's phenomenal. And the course that
period dance will be great too with Unreconstructed remember that.
(39:10):
Trying to think I'll let Jason take over, I suppose
and get back into talking about fall Muster or anything
we've missed.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, fall Muster is great.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
So we tried to plug the kids in so we
called us a family event. It really is for all ages.
So we anticipate, you know, people bringing their kids or
their grandkids to come to Fall Muster and small musters.
Just a way to put you know, put these kids
energy to use, you know, let them be a part
of it. You know, I've got four sons myself, and
(39:39):
they just love to be a part of things like this.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's exciting, you.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Know, it's one of their you know, last year was
the first year to do the small Muster, so they
had a good time with that. The turkey shoot that
you were speaking about earlier, that's put on by the
brand Accompt. That is one of my boy's favorite things.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Each year.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
They get excited about that, and it used to cost me,
you know, fifty sixty dollars coming into that. Well, you know,
the last couple of years, it's cost me a couple
of hundred dollars coming into that. But they have fun
with it, and it's it's one of their favorite things
about Farm us. Or is that turkey shoe And that's
for adults or kids that can be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
So I took part in a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's a really, really a fun
thing for people to do. Something that we do want
to talk about is uh those that are coming in
from out of channel, those that want to come to
stay with us. So we have a few RV spots
that are already booked up, the ones with power, but uh,
if you have an RV that has generator, whatever, we
have plenty of RV parking for people that want to
(40:39):
come spend the weekend here that have an RV but
you know, don't need power and water. We have many
of our V spots more than another. So we do
have a limited number of rb spots with power, and
those are booked and ready. But if you've got an
RV and you don't need power and water, we've got
plenty of spots for you. We'd like for you to
bring you RV and can spend a weekend with us.
If you don't have an RV and you're coming from
(41:00):
out of town, we UH put together a deal with
the hotel the closest to us, the Quality Inn, which
is just the other side of the coliseum.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
This is the closest hotel to us.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
It's a nice hotel and they offered a rate for
farm Easter weekend at ninety dollars per room, and if
you look at Beachfront hotels, that's a pretty good deal.
If you hear you know, a nine dollars room, that
sounds kind of high. Well, if you're compared it to
some places in the country, maybe it is. But as
far as Beachfront hotels gone a good rate, so we're
excited about it.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
Yeah, yeah, and uh, real quick, I do want to
remind our re enactors that registration is still open. You
can go to I believe the it's on the website
www dot visit Booa dot org as well as.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Cognito forums. It's also going through there as well. There's
some that come through that way as well.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
Oh yeah, it's it's it's always something interesting, uh, and
I believe it's also on the Facebook pa age. We'll
we'll share that out so everybody can find it so
you can register. But yeah, beauvois is always I think,
especially with fall Muster, going to be a family event.
(42:14):
I mean there's something for the adults or something for
the grand parents, or something for the grandkids and kids.
It's truly a special event. Like with the turkishoed and
small must with something focused on the kids and they
actually do learn something while they're there. And of course
you can go to the gift shop and get all
your battle flag needs.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
H Yes, we want to make sure you go to
the gift shop go check out that.
Speaker 3 (42:39):
I oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
So Sunday morning will be a Sunday morning church service
at the cemetery. U Pastor bo Como that has preached
for us before at Paul Muster, I will be preaching
again this year for farm.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
He brings a Sunday morning message, so you know, if
you U, you know, worried about messing on Sunday morning,
and you can come to join church with us. And
we have a memorial service at the caer the Too
of the Unknown as well, and that's a very moving
thing if you've never been to that very moving moving thing.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
So let me tell you about the to the Unknown.
As a young man, I came to.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
Bovah Fall Muster each year and different things like that,
and I always thought that the unknown is a very
powerful thing. When you stopped and pondered upon the significance
of what that was, I always thought it was very
powerful and moving. And then when I became a father,
then when I became a father of teenage sons, that's
(43:36):
when it really hit home because when I stop and
think that that young man that's in that tune was
a teenager. He was a young man somewhere between fourteen
seventeen years old, and.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
He died fighting for calls.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
And he may have been one hundred miles from home.
He may have been four hundred miles from home. We
really don't know exactly where he was, but we know
where he died at and he never made it home.
So his mother, his father, his brothers, his sisters, aunt, uncles,
so on spent the rest of the days wondering what
happened to me? Yeah, where is it? And that was
(44:15):
always significant, but after I become a father, it became
even more sigive.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
So everything that we do back there at that.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Tune is powerful and moody, very powerful.
Speaker 5 (44:29):
Then come yes, I think it was last year. At
some point there was a band playing a slow version
of Dixie and we were all by the two of
the unknown Confederate soldier, And I mean I got emotional
because I'm just a couple of years older than the
guy in there myself, you know, and when I was
(44:50):
around his age, it was even worse, like, okay, I
couldn't imagine that, and the fact that he went in
sacrifice everything to go defend his home, and uh, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
And so when I was in high school and I
came to go while when I was in high school,
because I'm born and raised here on the coast, born
and raised right here in South Psisippi's been here my
whole life. And uh so I came to Boboa as
a as a young man, you know, and we came
for fall must each year. Uh when I was a
young man, I didn't come to fall I didn't come
to Old want a retro case, you know. We came
for fall Mustress pretty much a long time I came
(45:26):
to and they didn't come again to the next fall Must.
But I remember looking at that tomb and thinking that
was significant. It was a young man at my age,
and it was powerful then. But I can tell you this,
when you've got sons that are that age, it's even
more powerful. It hits you, even it hits you even
harder than it does when you're a young man. When
you have children at that age, that's when it really
(45:48):
just grabs a whole tug you and you grab you
realize the significance of what that is, what that represents,
because there's a lot of young men that never made
it home.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
He's not the only one.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
There's a lot of that just never came home, and
their families spent the rest of years wondering what really
happened to them, and that'd be a tough thing to
live with. And that happened all across the Southland. And
people say, well, you know why were all these monuments built. Well,
this monument was built twenty years after war. This was
twenty five years after war. What was the reason for that. Well,
there was a few things going on at that point
(46:17):
in time. Poverty, extreme poverty post war, extreme poverty, which
is part of the book I was telling you about
while I go, that's one of my favorite Kendy boats
punished with poverty. How about much poverty existed in the
South post war during reconstruction. So you know when people say, well,
this really wasn't really a war minument was put up
twenty twenty five years, thirty years after the war, Well
(46:40):
it took them that long to get on their feet
and raise the money to do this, and they put
these monuments up and a lot of time these women
that were donating that didn't have much, they were donating
to these monuments because their son never came home. They've
been twenty five years since they seen their son, or
twenty five years since they seen their brother or husband
(47:00):
or whatever the case is. It's gone twenty five years.
They've lived with not knowing what happened to them. Thirty
years they were donating to this as they could, and
these monuments got put up. And when these minaments got
put up, they were mothers and wives, widows that were
there that were hurting. And that's the reason these monuments
(47:22):
are so important to us. We don't we sometimes pause
and think, you know what it was?
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Was it really you put up? While people that because.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
I've heard the speech I've heard before, which I don't
agree with, is that monument was put up thirty years
after the war?
Speaker 2 (47:33):
How really important can it be?
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Ah? That charges me up.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Yeah, you got to understand the poverty that existed after
the war, and it took a long time to raise
that money and people had spent by the time the
monment got to put up. It's thirty years of pain
that's gone by the loss of a loved one. Sometimes
they knew right where they were. Sometimes they knew, you know,
how they died and where they were. But a lot
(48:01):
of times they didn't. They just knew they didn't come back.
And that's what this soldier in our cemetery represents. He
represents a young man that just never made it home.
And it's powerful. Come to Fall Muster just for the
excitement of the battle of being actmed weekend and all
the vendors and just.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
The fun and excitement that it is.
Speaker 3 (48:23):
But if you want to come to Sunday morning, come
to Sunday morning church service, and then come to Sunday
morning memorial service at the tomb, and.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
That's the experience.
Speaker 5 (48:31):
I mean, it's a phenomenal experience. I think I've said
it on the show before. You know, there is a
tomb of the unknown soldier for the United States. This
is ours. This is the Southern equivalent of that, the
tomb of the unknown Confederate soldier. And I ask anybody
and beg you to, when you go by there, pay
(48:52):
your respects to all the unknown Confederate soldiers that didn't
make it a home and give give a bit of silence.
So let the moment take control of you, because, uh,
I mean, when I'm sitting there for the church service,
I'm usually going back and forth between the pastor and
the two just thinking, and the same thing. When the
memorial service where just testing.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
I hete you clearly, I hear you clearly.
Speaker 5 (49:29):
I don't know what happened to my mic there, but
when you're at the memorial service, just I mean letting
the movement of the moment take over you. So yeah,
please please go visit that. One last thing on the
reenactorss I did forget to mention is that if you
don't have a unit to fall in with, you can
always fall in with numerous amounts of folks. Everybody's very
(49:51):
happy and welcoming to help reenactors. For those who don't know,
I'm still very new to reenacting, and I tell people
that every time, Like Lo, I've been reenacting for a
couple of years, but I've only reenacted him full of times,
so you know, be patient. Helped me out and that
they're always some of the kindest people helping me out.
And normally, like last year, I was running off and
(50:14):
on the field. It was very tiring for someone who
is as large as I have gotten. I've earned a
good twenty pounds off and regained it right back with
a Confederate sausage dog real quick. But well that being said,
is there anything else you want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Before jumble Line this year as well?
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Oh, a Confederate sauce, but we have jumble Line this year,
so they a little bit of Jomo la Las year
is pretty good.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Oh again this year.
Speaker 5 (50:45):
I snuck some last year. So I usually get a
sausage dog Friday or Saturday, and then the burgers Saturday
or Sunday, try to go support everybody. I think Sunday
night before I left, I went over and I was
like jumble I left, which is just a tiny bit
to help me get home, and I think I sat
(51:06):
inside and maybe even talk to you. But with all
that being said, if you don't have anything else you
want to talk about, Executive Director Smith, we'll start wrapping
up the show now.
Speaker 2 (51:20):
I just want to invite people to come to Boguo
at any time.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
So if you're not available to come during Fall Muster,
you know you're missing out. But if you just can't
come during Fall Muster, you can come other times. And
I want to mention one other things that people can
help us support Fall Muster. There's a couple of ways
as you can help. So if you're close buying you
want to crumby and come by and grab a poster.
We have plenty of posters that you could hang at
(51:44):
any kind of you know, public place, so it's a
gas station or school or church wherever that you may have,
civic center, so we have some posters for those of
y'all that want to come by and grab a poster.
You can help us spread the word about pall Nster
that way. You can also go to our Facebook page
and share. So we've got daily updates that we're putting
out about the Fall Muster coming up. You can go
(52:06):
and click like and share on those and that helps
us as well, helps us to grow Fall Muster. But
you can help us at any given time just go
to our Facebook page and like and share things that's
on our Facebook page. Go to Google and give us
a five star review on Google trip Advisor. So for
if you couldn't do things like that, that helps us
uh year round. And there's ways that you can help
(52:29):
us without spending any money. And if you want to
spend some money, you want to come to gift shop
and spend one hundred dollars. Come on spend us or
if you want us want to meil us a check,
you can meil us a check.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Want put it in the bank. But there's ways to
help us without.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Spending any money. What I want everybody to know, so
it doesn't matter who you are or where you're at
in life, there's a way you can help be a
part of what we've got going on here. And it
might be something as simple as maybe you want to
you live close by and you want to come help us,
and you want to come cut firewood. Get ready to
fall muster. We've got plenty of wood to cut. If
you're a person it has the ability to come cut
(53:01):
some firewood, we can plug in show up here, and
we'll find a way to make you a part of
So no matter who you are, we'll find a way
to plug you in here at Bouvoa and make you
a part of what we've got going on.
Speaker 5 (53:15):
And that's the great thing about Beauvoir that I love
is that there's always something that you can do to
help out, and it's always so welcoming. And just as
we said at the beginning, of the show. It just
feels like home, and for us in the Mississippi Division,
it is home. Veterans walk to those grounds. Jefferson Davis
walked to those grounds, and every time I think about it,
(53:39):
you know, it gets me right in the heart and
gives me chills. I mean, we had one president and
this was his home, and it was a home for
a lot of veterans as well that are buried on
the property. This was their final resting place. And so yes,
please go make sure to support Beauvoir again on Facebook,
bouvoi the Jefferson Davis Home in Presidential Library, and of
(54:02):
course their website visit bovoa dot org. Make sure to
go support them everybody. You will not regret it. And
of course please try to attend Fall Muster phenomenal event.
I am going to throw up their poster one more
time and oh yeah, I almost forgot. Okay, before we
(54:22):
end the show, where is y'all's guesses on my cameo
and Connor's GCB somewhat cameo. He's not in it on
the poster, but he somewhat is. So I will give
you all a couple of seconds to respond in the
chat before I say it with you, I just remember
(54:44):
the thirty eighth annual Fall Muster at Beauvois October eighteenth
through the twentieth. October eighteenth will be a school day
well between the states battles daily Saturday and Sunday. Period
music by the Unreconstructed Band, Living Historians, Camp Life, a Ladies,
the period dance, small Mustard, subtlers and vendors, first person presentations,
(55:07):
food and snacks. Admission is thirteen dollars for kids seven
or six through seventeen at seven and for kids five
and under it's free.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Again.
Speaker 5 (55:16):
Please go follow them on Facebook and their website, and
of course I'll let Jason take this over, and please
remember our partnership.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
With Coast of Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (55:29):
They were helping them promote this for us, and we're
excited about having them as a partner this year and
the promotion that they're bringing to the table.
Speaker 5 (55:37):
Yeah, that is one of the greatest things that's happened
this year, just all the stuff they've helped us be
able to do and get Fall Muster to even more people,
and hopefully we will see the many of you down
there so real quick. The flat, the tent and flag
In the upper left hand corner of your screen that
(55:58):
is gcb's tent. That's his cameo, that's his flag in tint.
He might even be in the tent when this picture
was taken, I'm unsure. And in the lower left hand
corner that is me holding gcb's flag on one of
the fall Musters as I march off behind pass Commander
in Chief Larry mclooney, our General Beauregard. So there's our cameos. Again.
(56:22):
We didn't design those funny enough. It's two years away
and I somehow started working on the fortieth one, so
I had no touching in that. I wanted to thank
the people we assigned. That was nice of them to
give me a cameo in GCB. I love the poster
this year.
Speaker 2 (56:40):
I think you did a great job on that poster.
Speaker 5 (56:42):
I think he looks sharp, phenomenal, phenomenal. But we're gonna
go ahead and wrap up the show now. I want
everybody to thank executive director Jason Smith for coming on
taking time out probably his busiest time of the year
at Beauvoir with a cruise on the coast this week
and then Fall Muster. So yeah, please, let's please thank
him for giving us the hour to come on and
(57:04):
make sure you share this episode out so we can
get it as many people as possible. Like it, comment
everything you can do. You can share us on Facebook
and YouTube and make sure you email SCV Youth Outreached
gmail dot com to be featured on the upcoming episode
of Look Around the Confederation this Thursday at seven pm
Confederate Standard time. And I hope you guys have a
(57:27):
wonderful day. And I would like to thank all our
patreons for all their support and of course one more
time our BOVOI executive director Jason Smith. And in the
words of the Glate Great Harold phil Potts, remember chat heads,
no fu mar in the elevator. Good night, everybody right,
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!