lady godiva's naked horseback ride, the boston tea party, and the whiskey rebellion are all famous examplesf what? >> well, i would really like to see a live tv musical of lady godiva's naked horseback ride. >> good ratings. >> that would be--yeah, exactly. probably on cable, though. so--but the answer to that question is "a," tax protests, final answer. >> you got it. there you go, $2,000. $3,000, next question. rarely seen in public since their high-profile divorce, which athlete owns a multimillion-dollar yacht that's appropriately named "privacy"? >> that's a good question. not in my knowledge base. good name for a yacht, though. >> [chuckles] >> so i think there's a good chance that the audience would probably know this answer. >> okay. >> i'm--i have--i'm leaning towards, um, one or two possibilities. >> okay. >> but i think i'm going to use my "ask the audience," please, final answer. >> final? okay. audience, cj could use some help here. if you would, pick up those keypads, enter your vote now. [percussive music] ♪ all right, let's take a look at the results. hopefully the audience

shipsrtmouth, one of the relieved of its shipment of tea in the boston tea party in 1773. and the revolution irreversibly changed her reality. in the last years of her life phillis wheatley was known as phillis peters, taking her husband's last name. man, mr.n-american peters was in and out of debtors prison. money was scarce and hard to come by after the american revolution and it took a long while for the economy to reestablish itself. mr. and mrs. peters may have had several children. some writers say there were three. but none of them survived her. we also know that she continued to write, but was unable to publish a second volume of poetry, although she kept trying as long as she had breath. i and my presentation with a cursive letter that phillis wheatley wrote to another enslaved woman living in a newport with whom she corresponded for years. was one ofof newport the backers of what was now brown university, leaving his library to that institution. tanner was taught orread, as phillis was, taught herself, we do not know. however she managed it, she was literate. she

their rights and and and we've taken away opportunities i mean you know you go back to the the boston tea party and we fought a we fought a war over taxation without representation in and we tax the puerto ricans heavily everybody always points to the fact that they don't pay puerto rican don't pay federal income tax but we more than make up for that here on the mainland by how much we tax puerto ricans for their estate tax which are hundreds of percent higher and don't have the. the cap that we have in the states that up to five or six million dollars isn't taxed whether we can don't have that luxury we tax and state taxes all the way down to the smallest amounts so it's time to take a fresh look at this peter you know it's always been so ugly about this story is the way that the right wing the conservatives say well if we make a mistake all we're really doing is bringing into the united states more of a welfare state as if you know thing is if just making him a state by doing that is going to be a bigger burden on us taxpayers those are always the arguments that you hear the right wing talkin

john: the boston tea party. >> glad you mentioned. that it was not celebrated for 50 years, highly controversial at time. benjamin franklin demanded we repay the india tea company for the lost tea and paul revere and sam adams were very careful to replace the lock that was broken. paul revere punished one guy took tea for his personal use, he punished the tea partier who took tea for personal use, that was not celebrated. what was celebrated is the declaration of independence, the liberty bell which was rung to declare the first founding congress of our country. thomas payne's was the most famous of them. there are books of christian sermons defending the american revolution, it was a thought-out, logical revolution, a small step from the liberty we were used to, and it founded the most and prosperous nation in the history of the world that other countries would do well to emulate, the french revolution, all of the founders ended up guillotined themselves. they didn't get anything resembling republic for 80 years. they are completely