zinn's work was notoriously and biased. he viewed history as a quiet revolution. and he said, and i quote, not a revolution in the classical of a seizure of power, but rather from people beginning to take power from within the institutions, end quote. so we saw to replace historical facts with ideology and propaganda, to stir up enough anger to spur a communist revolution and overthrow the american. let's take a moment and step and look at who robert lee was as a man. he was born into two of the most distinguished families in virginia. the lees, the carters. his father was, henry light horse, harry lee, who was a revolutionary war hero. light horse. harry served under george washington. in fact, it was light horse harry who famously washington as first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen and his mother was and carter, she was the daughter of one of the largest landowners in virginia but due to light horse harry's misadventures the family it ran into hard times when robert e lee was only years old. his his father was sent to prison. an

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released i want to i want to ask you about meditation because i'm a big fan of a guy named jon kabat-zinns a longtime mindfulness meditator in america. he kind of introduced mindfulness a lot and promoted it in america. in the 70s, you released a pair of meditation albums this year. what inspired you to get into guided meditation? >> well, i was going through a lot when i turned 50 and i was basically saying, meditating and saying affirmations every day. and around that time i met my partner, kabir sagal, who i did all the projects with, and we got in the studio and we just started to work on it, and he had an idea to really he was like, we should do, you know, record guided meditations. and and also i was like, i really want to do these affirmations because it really helped me. and that's what we did. we just got in. it was just the right time. life is changing. you know, when you hit 50 or you hit, you know, that part of life, you start to reflect back on life and think about the things you want to change and change your mindset and look at life differently. so all of that's what happen