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Speaker 1: The talk station seven eight fifty five KRCD Talk Station,

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Speaker 1: No very Happy Wednesday. To another reminder listener, lunch today,

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Speaker 1: Ron's Bruce on the West Side without further ado. Every

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Speaker 1: Wednesday at this time we get to hear from Americans

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Speaker 1: for Prosperity, Donovan and Nel. Welcome back, Donovan. Always a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on the show.

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Speaker 2: Brian, always great to be with you.

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Speaker 1: I know you are a limited government nonprofit organization AFP,

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Speaker 1: all along the lines of what I believe in, fiscal responsibility,

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Speaker 1: limited government, free markets. Sadly, the message is not getting

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Speaker 1: out a whole lot and on the heels of Jack

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Speaker 1: out than and talking about Landman presenting a message we

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Speaker 1: hardly ever see here a more conservative message, more logical,

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Speaker 1: reasonable message. One of the things that we're lacking, I

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Speaker 1: think is a civics education. Apparently a public schools don't

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Speaker 1: teach about civics anymore. They don't teach about constitutional structure,

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Speaker 1: the freedoms that we enjoy relative to everybody else. So

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Speaker 1: you're launching a one small step campaign in order to

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Speaker 1: get people involved and start spreading the American message, at

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Speaker 1: least as I understand the program, tell my listeners all

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Speaker 1: about this campaign.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, actually this campaign started about a year ago,

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Speaker 2: in the run up to the important year that is

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Speaker 2: America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, which, Brian, for your

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Speaker 2: listeners who haven't been paying attention, we've got a public

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Speaker 2: school history education, Civics education, that's a joke to this

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Speaker 2: is America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. And you know,

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Speaker 2: at Americans for Prosperity, our foundational principles that guide the

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Speaker 2: work that we do on the politics we engage in,

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Speaker 2: the policy, we engage in the community outreach we engage

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Speaker 2: in all of our work. Our foundational principles are drawn

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Speaker 2: from the Founding Fathers, inspired by the Founding Fathers in

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Speaker 2: those documents, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill

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Speaker 2: of Rights. And so it's a big year for us.

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Speaker 2: It's a big year for America. It's a big year

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Speaker 2: for us, and we're, like you're saying, using it as

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to reignite the American dream, to engage folks

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Speaker 2: in their communities around one small step, one small step

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Speaker 2: to make a change in their community, in their country,

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Speaker 2: and sort of ground us back to those founding principles

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Speaker 2: that unite us as Americans.

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Speaker 1: Well, one small steps seem to suggest the kind of

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Speaker 1: a theme that you and I have been talking about

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Speaker 1: for a while. Opportunity and AFP provides this for everyone

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Speaker 1: to do just something right, a little step, engage a

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Speaker 1: little bit, Every little bit counts. If you get anybody

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Speaker 1: out there who is, you know, the same political philosophy

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Speaker 1: as you and I are in the Americans for prosperity

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Speaker 1: is of all those people gathered together, a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of good could come from it. And the good that

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Speaker 1: would come from this is people would be presented with

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Speaker 1: the alternative and explain logic reason behind what AFP does

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Speaker 1: compared to this overwhelming far left democratic party that we face. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's important to engage.

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Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, and so each month of this year, that's

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Speaker 2: part of what we're going to do right is draw

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Speaker 2: on these these various concepts and ideas. Last month it

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Speaker 2: was all about the founding documents, and folks had the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: We challenge folks sign sign the Declaration of Independence, join

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Speaker 2: us in that right. This month it's the pursuit of happiness.

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Speaker 2: It's about talking about what it is that you know

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Speaker 2: you can do that with freedom and liberty people are

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Speaker 2: able to do right, and people are able to do

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Speaker 2: some pretty amazing things, as we know, when they're given

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Speaker 2: that opportunity. Government gets out of the way. Entrepreneurship and

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Speaker 2: innovation lead the way, but in a lot of ways

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Speaker 2: right as a grassroots organization, it also comes back to

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Speaker 2: what are you going to do to make a difference on?

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Speaker 2: You know, in the public policy arena. Are you going

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Speaker 2: to go to the school board meeting, city council meeting?

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Speaker 2: Are you going to join AFP for a trip to

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Speaker 2: the state House or your congressman's office to talk about

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Speaker 2: lowering taxes and regulations. This two hundred and fiftieth anniversary

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Speaker 2: gives us that opportunity, sort of a really good staging

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Speaker 2: to challenge folks to get up off the couch, get

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Speaker 2: in their cars, even in the cold weather, and join

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Speaker 2: us to make a difference. Well.

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Speaker 1: I always kind of find it interesting that we are

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Speaker 1: such a terrible country, and we're such a racist and

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Speaker 1: inherently corrupt society. Why is it that seemingly every man,

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Speaker 1: woman and child from the four corners of the entire

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Speaker 1: globe want to come here. You know, going back to

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Speaker 1: your freedom and liberty point, would rather have freedom and

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Speaker 1: liberty and be unmolested by government forces than live in

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Speaker 1: some oppressive country. I mean, Lord Almighty, how this doesn't

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Speaker 1: register with more peoples beyond me. But what are these

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Speaker 1: digital toolkits which AFP has that every American can use

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Speaker 1: to help celebrate these founding principles. I understand that there

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Speaker 1: are these out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you can go to a two fifty toolkit

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Speaker 2: dot com. So it's like America fifty toolkit dot com,

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Speaker 2: a too fifty toolkit dot com. You can go out there,

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Speaker 2: and each month we're going to be adding new resources,

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Speaker 2: ways for folks to get engaged. So, you know, especially

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Speaker 2: for like your homeschool families or the folks you know,

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Speaker 2: your listeners who love a good six education or can't

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Speaker 2: consume enough of that information. We're engaging and bringing some

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Speaker 2: of that information forward, Opportunities to hear from and learn

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Speaker 2: about Americans who helped, who took one small step, not

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Speaker 2: unlike Neil Armstrong with the Wright Brothers, or Clara Barton

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Speaker 2: or Martin Luther King, among many others, and kind of

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Speaker 2: ground ourselves again in these iconic Americans who made a

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Speaker 2: difference in their communities that are not unlike us. The

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Speaker 2: only difference is is they took that step right, If

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Speaker 2: there's a difference there, they took that step. But so

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to do that. But we're also doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of events we're going to use this. We haven't

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Speaker 2: done these sort of major marquee events in over a

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Speaker 2: decade and we're bringing them back. They had four hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty patriots join at Independence Hall in Philadelphia about

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Speaker 2: a week and a half ago to sort of kick

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Speaker 2: the year of events off, and we'll be bringing that

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Speaker 2: around the country and Ohio is fortunately one of the

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Speaker 2: twelve states that's going to be getting a stop later

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Speaker 2: later this summer.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you need to get some sort of well funded

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Speaker 1: signal campaign going on. If you have a group of

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Speaker 1: signal folks, you can get them together in large part

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Speaker 1: in large numbers you send the shout out. It helps

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Speaker 1: if you pay them to show up in an hourly basis.

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Speaker 1: I bet if you paid them all twenty bucks an hour,

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Speaker 1: you would have had like nine hundred people there as

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Speaker 1: opposed to four to fifty.

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Speaker 2: Well there you go. You know what I tell my

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Speaker 2: team that they say, you know, if we could pay

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Speaker 2: in our activistay, if we could pay the volunteers the

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Speaker 2: way the left does, we'd be all right. I'd be like, well, look,

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Speaker 2: good news is I'm actually getting paid to do this.

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Speaker 2: So we've already got the paid operatives on the right, Brian.

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Speaker 2: We just got to get out there and do the

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Speaker 2: work right and get the message out there and make

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Speaker 2: an impact. And that's what we're all about this year,

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Speaker 2: is getting folks engaged, especially around this this uniting theme

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Speaker 2: of America's two hundred fiftieth birthday.

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Speaker 1: Let's say so call to action is a two fifty

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Speaker 1: toolkit dot com? Is that was that where we're supposed

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Speaker 1: to go this week?

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Speaker 2: Donald I would encourage folks go there, share that. It's

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Speaker 2: a good entry point. If you've got a left leaning

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Speaker 2: friend or a more progressive friend who you know just

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Speaker 2: can't find the sunshine to help themselves, share that with

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Speaker 2: them and say, hey, how can we work together to

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Speaker 2: take one small step and sort of ground ourselves back

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Speaker 2: in the same we're at of seventeen seventy six. Our

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Speaker 2: founding fathers had to bring this great nation on the

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Speaker 2: onto the planet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the squeaky wheel may get the grease, but

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't mean that they're the uh well, the

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Speaker 1: largest voice out there. I think there are too many

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Speaker 1: silent remember the silent majority. There are too many people

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Speaker 1: out there that remain silent. That's why I love what

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Speaker 1: AFP does, because we can't remain silent in the face

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Speaker 1: of all this anger and this venom. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: you're on the wrong side of the equation when you

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Speaker 1: hear folks on the other side screaming out loud. No,

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Speaker 1: you're on the right side. You are logical, you are rational.

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Speaker 1: You are saying you do understand the value of the

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Speaker 1: freedoms that we have. You got to get up and

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Speaker 1: do something about it and spread this message. A two

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Speaker 1: fifty toolkit dot com that's one place to start. And

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Speaker 1: of course, Americans for Prosperity Donovan and Neil always appreciate

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, and I thank you for coming on

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Speaker 1: the show every week to get the message out. And

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Speaker 1: I'm pleased to be a part of getting the message out.

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Speaker 2: Brian, thanks to the leads for sharing your megaphone with me.

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Speaker 2: Have a great one

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Speaker 1: Any time you two seven point thirty six