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Steven Rinella

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The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

I celebrated Easter with them in this book.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

It's a fascinating religion.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

It's a fascinating culture.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

In all these different ways, they've actually amassed a lot of wealth.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

But at the time, Chapman...

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

was accumulating land, to get back to your question, which is a way of accumulating wealth, but he also didn't wanna partake in it because he felt like it would actually mess with his chances in the afterlife.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

And so he would walk around, again, no house, no address,

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

And partnering with these folks, with these settlers to have the orchards running, but never sticking around to kind of reap their bounty.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

There's a joke that at one point he lost some paperwork and he lost like half of Ohio.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

But when he dies, at the ripe old age of his 70s, not to get ahead of ourselves, but when he dies...

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

He has 1,200 acres to his name, and he had no progeny, he had no family, but he had, it got dispersed to like brothers, siblings, half-siblings, so the Chapman family did keep it, but he actually had amassed quite a bit of wealth despite the fact that he would often either sleep on strangers' floors,

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

or proselytize in a town and hope somebody befriended him and took him in or sleep in the woods.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

So he lived this kind of pauper's life.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

So the tin pot on the hat, not so much, but he often dressed in like a coffee sack, like kind of almost a scratchy.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

Yeah.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

So there, there is this like interesting and, and there's all these different theories about him.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

Was he this way?

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

Cause he got kicked in the head by a horse.

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

Was he this way?

The MeatEater Podcast
Ep. 886: Who Was the Real Johnny Appleseed?

Cause he got brokenhearted.