History usually feels like something that already happened.

Clean. Organized. Inevitable.

But the reality is… it didn’t feel that way at all.

In this episode, I sit down with Travis—a Revolutionary War reenactor who takes his craft very seriously—to talk about what was actually happening during 1776. Not the version we learned in school, but the moments where everything was uncertain, messy, and very close to falling apart.

At the end, we break down a list of the qualities that made the Founding Fathers great founders—and why those same traits still matter today.