Chase Shustack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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That's what we did.
150 Americans.
Men, women, children.
Whoever was selected.
The early selection method was crude.
Something with colored stones in the census list.
But they managed to make it work.
There were some of the usual complaints about it.
Grumble.
People refused to give up their kids or their spouses or whoever.
But the results spoke for themselves.
Another slap.
Maybe this time just because he wanted to.
With that first drawing of blood way back then, the pact was sealed.
He spoke as if he was reading the terms of a contract.
The cigarette hanging loose from his lips.
Every hundred years the United States will offer up its own flock in exchange for another hundred years of strength and prosperity once in 1785 another time in 1885 Don't tell you we kind of needed that one with the Civil War and as you guessed it in 1985
The number's grown exponentially since the colonists stoned to death a few hundred folks, sure.
But we've got better methods now.
Faster, more efficient.