Steve Schmidt
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1,189 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 29 Jun
Steve Schmidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, my you know, my mother's maiden name was Carol.
My grandfather was Jimmy Carroll.
He drove a bus in Jersey City.
And there's a lot of Irish in this country and very, very few, if any, arrived in any other hold on the ship but steerage.
I lived out in Truckee, California for a couple years and I had a cabin and it looked out on Donner Lake and there were the rail tracks that the original Transcontinental Railroad came by.
You could see this immense wall.
It was called the China Wall.
And I looked at that every day, and it was the grade that was built by hand by all these Chinese laborers, immigrants.
And I looked at it every day.
I said, how did they do that without machines, without power equipment?
And as Phil, on this track,
But I stared at it for years and never figured out how they got that done, other than to say the people who built this country, as you pointed out, were all of the people who at one time were rejected from the country.
The saviors of the country, if you were to bring it down to its most decisive moment, were the men of the first Minnesota, many of whom were immigrants, Catholics,
who were not wanted in the country.
If you look at the Washington Monument, there is a line of discoloration on the marble, and that signifies 25 years where it sat there as a stump, unfinished, because the Know Nothings, the anti-immigrant American party, upon the donation of marble by the Pope,
broke into the quarry at gunpoint and stole the marble, threw it into the Potomac River or somewhere, the Pope Stone.
People are still looking for it, actually.
It's a thing in Washington.
Where's the Pope Stone buried?
And for 25 years, the construction of Washington Monument was shut down.
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