Big American Tall Tales

There are certain things that I as an American feel obliged to share with the rest of man- and womanfriend-kind across the globe: baseball, Kenny Loggins, freedom fries, Sasquatch, Kate Gosselin's tears, shorts.  Call it cultural Manifest Destiny, but I'm a man on a mission, and my first target is the smartest group of people I know: Korean kids.  If I can teach just one Korean child about an important part of American history like beach volleyball or the McRib sandwich, then that one kid--using his Korean powers of pop culture awareness, tech savvy, and ability to work on five hours of sleep a week--will disseminate it around the world faster than Pokemon and the bird flu combined (not like that lazy swine flu).  First he tells two people, then they tell two people, then they tell two people, and before long you've got an epidemic, American style!  (As always, Ryan Seacrest will be the host.)

So here's a video I made for the youth of Korea portraying one of America's long lost traditions: reading...more specifically reading tall tales.  What's that Min-su?  You never heard of Pecos Bill?  Why he rode tornadoes and had a rattlesnake whip!  And Sacagawea, she led Lewis and Clark on their expedition through the American Northwest!

Of course these are just make-believe stories.  You can't really ride on a tornado.  And no man in America has ever asked a woman for directions.  So here's an introduction to the great American art of exaggerating, a skill already boldly embraced by Korea's neighbors to the north (Kim Jong-il: Best Golfer in History).