WEBVTT - That Makes You A Sap. 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:07.880 Washington Broadcast. 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.280 Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty Armstrong. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:17.320 And Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.800 The American Revolution is the most important event since the 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.160 birth of Christ in all of world history. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.880 I loved hearing that, flipping on face. The nation got 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.760 back from vacation and they had ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.040 the most famous documentary filmmaker who's ever lived, on there 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.720 to talk about his new documentary about the American Revolution, 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:47.880 which is coming out in November. But they interviewed him 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.680 for Fourth of July weekend and him presenting it in 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:58.680 this is a fantastic thing that happened for world history terms. 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.360 It's just my whole life that was normal, but after 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.679 the last you know, four or five years of wokeness, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.600 it kind of was a little. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.880 Like knocked me down. WHOA people still think this. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:11.800 Well. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.720 I don't want to get off on this tangent too much, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.320 but I find myself a little bit surprised, as ken 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.000 Burns has been a little howard zinish for me in 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:21.920 recent years. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:23.319 But I'm glad to hear it. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.720 Maybe he's just a canny businessman, and he knows who's 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.560 going to watch these this documentary. But I love what 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.920 he's said. I hate to be that a cynical. Well, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:38.240 that makes you a sap. Before we get into the 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:39.800 more of the interview, Well, I don't want to steal 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:40.200 this thunder. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:40.800 We'll do that first. 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.080 Then I've got another great quote that's a similar sort 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:44.880 of sentiment. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.360 Yeah, we missed fourth of July with you while we 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.880 were gone on vacation, so we're catching up a little 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.360 on that sort of talk here. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.480 And here's Ken Burns talking about his documentary. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.360 You called the revolutionary period a civil war? Was that 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.280 always your conception of the rev How did you come 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.040 to think of it that way? 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.919 I think because there's no photographs and there's no newsreels, 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.519 and they're in stockings and breaches and powdered wigs, there's 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:10.880 a sense of distance from them. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:11.359 I think we. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.440 Also are so proud, rightfully of the power of the 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.239 big ideas that we just don't want to get into 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.480 the fact that it was this bloody civil war patriots 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:26.040 against loyalists, disaffected people, native people, enslaved and free people 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.560 within it, foreign powers that are ultimately engaged in this 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.480 is a big world war. By the end, I think 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.120 we perhaps are fearful that those big ideas are diminished, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.200 and they're not in any way. They're in fact become 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.440 even more inspiring that they emerge from the turmoil. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.240 Why not roll on then we'll discuss, Michael, how should. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.320 We think about the Declaration of independence this period in 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:52.959 America in our present day. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.520 First of all, I think the American Revolution is the 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.560 most important event since the birth of Christ in all 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.280 of world history. I mean, it turned the world upside down, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:08.320 which is the cliche. Before this moment, everyone was a subject, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.880 essentially under the rule of somebody else. We had created, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.560 in this moment a very brand new thing called a citizen. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:18.840 And this has had powerful effects. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.720 It's going to set in motion revolutions for the next 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.320 two plus centuries all around the world, all attempting to 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.799 sort of give a new expression to this idea that 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.120 all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.680 creator with certain unalienable rights. And that's a big, big 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:36.880 deal in world history. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.120 Yeah, and hearing ken Burns say that and CBS, you know, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:46.080 going along with it. It shouldn't be like cold water 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.400 being splashed in my face, but it was, and I 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:49.200 was happy to hear it. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.520 I remember when for a long time the notion, again, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.119 the Howard Zinish down with American notion was it wasn't 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.440 a revolution. It was just a rebellion. I mean, theists 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.200 not happy with the crown, and they decided they wanted 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.240 a different government and it came to blows. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.560 And no, I mean it. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:11.400 Instituted on earth an experiment in self governance and a 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.680 lot of other incredibly important fundamentals like free speech that 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.040 had not been tried. Yeah, it was a rebellion against 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.279 the crown, but in favor of trying something wildly new, 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.720 which is perhaps the most successful experiment that's ever been 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:26.520 done well. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.720 And to take it further than that, the fact that 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.840 the sixteen nineteen project eld sway there for a couple 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.680 of years and unfortunately still does in your freaking schools, 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.599 your school's library. The idea that, no, the revolution was 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.960 to found slavery and make sure we could keep the 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.360 whole slavery thing going. That was the point of the revolution, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.839 and that was the prevailing view there for like a year, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.120 along to people with the megaphones of society. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.599 Yeah, education and media it's an I've seen a suggestion 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.760 absolutely obscene. You know I'm going to hit you with 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.800 this real quickly from Jonah Goldberg. Then we can get 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.720 back to the interview. I just don't want to steal 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.800 all of its thunder. The birth of the United States 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.080 of America was not merely the most important geopolitical event 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.440 since the Fall of Rome, or the most important intentional 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.440 political event ever. Because Rome's fall wasn't exactly a planned 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.559 out exercise, it was the signature catalyst for the real 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:23.239 world realization of various Enlightenment principles like democracy, human rights, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.800 free speech, and representative government. The unfolding success of that 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.320 experiment over the subsequent two and a half centuries, with 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.400 America becoming the single most influential and powerful country in 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.440 the world, lends even more weight to the momentousness of 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.560 the American founding, and it certainly ranks among the most 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.280 consequential events in all of human history, political and non 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:43.400 political alike. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.760 No doubt I mean to argue against that is well, 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:54.000 it's crazy. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:54.799 You can't. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.719 I hope it's over, but you can't look at enough 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.680 that period. We just came through the whole George Floyd 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.120 sixteen nineteen project tearing down the statues, which I saw 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.760 some of in New York. All that sort of stuff, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.279 just craziness. We lost our minds. Thank god that didn't 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.400 win the day. At the time, it felt like it 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:16.040 was gonna win. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.200 The day, right, right, And if you were fighting against it, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:19.680 good for you. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.120 And I'm so excited that Ken Burns thought, you know, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.880 I'm gonna do a documentary about the American Revolution and 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.960 present it as a good thing, like a great thing, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.000 like one of the greatest things that ever happened to 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:31.960 human beings. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.479 Right, As I've said many, many times about religion and 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.440 a dozen other subjects, if you ask human beings to 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.000 be in charge of something, it's gonna get screwed up. 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.719 That's the way we are. But that doesn't diminish the 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.800 greatness the wonder of the founding of the country and 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.080 the principles on which it was founded. Yeah, human beings 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.840 were in charge. So we did a bad job of it, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.039 but it's still a wondrous thing. Do you want to 0:06:56.080 --> 0:07:00.560 do the other one or the other clipper now, all. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.600 So, what happens here. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.200 Is I suppose you could, you know, miss the point 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.840 and say it's a quarrel between Englishmen. But it is 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.200 the beginning of something absolutely new in the world, and 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.920 that is something to celebrate and to understand. Two that 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.560 it comes out of so much division that's going on 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:29.040 between the states. People in New Hampshire and Georgia are 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.680 they're from different countries, they believe different things. That you 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.960 could have the divisions of loyalists and patriots, you could 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.280 have this, all the things that are roiling in these 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.240 colonies and understand that out of that we could still 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:44.640 figure out a way to come together. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.280 Yeah, making the point that we've always been divided, very 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.840 divided over various subjects of various times, and so what 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.960 we're doing now is not something new. They do get 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.840 into a conversation that I really liked about the importance 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:04.840 of people, you know, being into this, caring about it, Yes, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.440 paying attention to what's going on, and you know, so 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.480 I think that's the different thing that people are missing 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:21.320 is the lack of civic engagement that we have. So 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.560 we're arguing about things in a nonsensical way that I 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.320 don't feel like was always. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:27.920 Our nation's history. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.800 Yeah, I don't know. Politics is always grubbier in the 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.080 moment than when we look back on it in history 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:42.360 and more stupid. The thing that troubles me, and I 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.160 was just going to say to set up the next segment, 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.720 is if you think, well, ken Burns is back to 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.960 being a patriot so everything's fine. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:51.040 Absolutely not. 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:55.520 There's a new Gallop poll out about patriotism pride in 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.120 the United States, and the numbers particularly are going to bring. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.959 I had brought my self up listening to the ken 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.160 Burns interview thing and Wow, I can't believe this is 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.840 on network television, that they're even okay saying out loud 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.640 the American Revolution was a good thing and the founding 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.920 fathers did something great for humanity, because I can't remember 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.920 the last time anybody said that out loud on network TV. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.520 I was so excited about that. Now you're gonna bring 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.240 me and it's gonna be like a good movie. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.760 Jack, I'm gonna slap down your childlike enthusiasms, and then 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.719 we'll bring it back around. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:27.520 Move it there. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:35.160 But then at the end, at the end, Michael, we'll 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.640 be moving up. I thought that was clear as the 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.920 commuters and again say I'm gonna take a flamethrower to 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.920 that thing. I swear to God, Yeah. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:44.400 So I was. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.160 I mentioned this earlier as at the Museum of Natural 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.240 History in New York, and they first time I'd been 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.720 there since they took down the Teddy Roosevelt statue. That 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:58.240 was like the iconic front view of that very famous museum, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.920 Teddy Roosevelt on his horse and the fact that they 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.840 took it down because they were like Native people walking 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:08.520 along the horse and that symbolized white men. Did my question? 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.640 I was asking my kids. They got really tired of 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.080 my rants over vacation, But like, did that help a 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.200 single human being? Taking down that statue? Did that help 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:24.040 one human in any way? Was there anybody ever by 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.040 the way, that ever walked by that statue and was 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.040 hurt by it? 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:27.640 One? 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.520 I'm looking for one human being that was damaged by 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.840 the existence of that statue. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.400 No, I could make a counter argument. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.959 It's so crazy, Yeah, that it actually benefited people, many people, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.120 including a Native people. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:41.880 Wow. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.080 Anyway, Joe's got his poll to bring us down, and 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.480 then he's going to bring his back up next. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:54.360 The American Revolution is the most important event since the 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.360 birth of Christ in all of world history. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.720 I love hearing that from Ken Burns about his new 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.280 documentary because it's true, and it's amazing how little we 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.439 teach it anymore. I remember when David McCullough, the historian 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.880 who wrote the real popular books John Adams in seventeen 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.240 seventy six and those great, great books, very accessible, and 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.080 he said, we can never learn enough about these people 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:17.760 in this period. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.520 I mean, it's the whole thing, it's the whole ball 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.360 of acts. And yet we've. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.160 Let, especially our education system and some other of the 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:29.840 institutions run by the left, pervert that story and teach 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.400 young people, most tragically the opposite that it was an 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.960 act to perpetuate slavery by evil people and racists, and 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.200 it's regrettable and it should have never happened. I mean, 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.320 it's an obscene thing to teach the young people of 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.480 this country. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.480 Or you just leave out all the good stuff and 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.920 focus on the bad stuff, which is ken Burns actually 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.520 said that in his interview on CBS. He said, I'm 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.679 pretty sure that's where he said it is. Imagine if 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.760 you did that with your spouse or wherever. All you 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.199 do is you focus on their negatives as opposed to 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:02.840 all the positives that they'd bring. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:03.839 Yeah. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.360 John Fund wrote a great piece for the National Review, 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.760 and it's entitled or wellianly enough, when we forget our history, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.480 we risk our future. But it's based around the fact 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.200 that a new Gallup poll shows that the partisan gap 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.480 on basic patriotism is now the width of the Grand Canyon. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.800 And more troubling than the partisan gap to me, although 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.920 that's truggling enough, is the youth gap we have. As 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.959 my athletic trainer Dave often says, you get what you 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.840 train for you sit around all day. That's what your 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.440 body's going to be good at sitting around all day. Well, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.240 if you teach your young people to hate their country, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.120 they're going to hate their country. Gallup reports that Americans 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.880 have become less patriotic over time. That difference is primarily 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.720 driven by Democrats. Only thirty six percent of them say 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:56.079 there extremely are very proud of America, the lowest number 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:57.200 ever recorded. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.960 Sarely more than a third that is so crazy. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.640 Among Generations Z, which is those adults born in nineteen 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:08.400 ninety seven or later, only twenty four percent of Democrats 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.880 are extremely or very proud of the United States. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:12.760 Under a quarter. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.400 More Gen Z Democrats say they have little or no 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:21.360 pride in being American that's thirty two percent to twenty 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.880 four over extremely or very Oh well, all there. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.400 Are reasons for this. I was about to jump out. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:28.360 We all know what the reasons for this. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.960 We've created a culture, especially in our schools, where you 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.600 should be shunned or embarrassed to feel good about the 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:36.600 United States. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.600 Yeah, you would be mocked and shamed for that. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.319 I mean in your librarian told you this, and your 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.959 second grade teacher, and you know, it's just the culture. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:46.760 Yeah. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.760 So only thirty six percent of Democrats say they're extremely 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.840 or very proud. By comparison, fifty three percent of Independence 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.160 express a great deal of pride in their country, though 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.800 that is seven points down from the most recent poll 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:08.280 before it. But again that is a what is that 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:14.480 a twenty seven percent at nine percent more than Democrats. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.199 That's shocking. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.760 National pride among Republicans registered at ninety two percent, which 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.720 is up from eighty five percent in Gallup's measurement last year. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.920 So there's obviously a I don't know, five to ten 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:32.040 percent shift based on the politics in the direction of 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.040 the country at any given time. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.280 I wish they could craft the question in a way 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.440 that got past that, but they haven't. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.760 And then fun gets into the fact that there are 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.000 many possible explanations for the general decline patriotism from poor 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.480 economic prospects for young people the greater partisan ranker. But 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.200 surely one factor is at public schools. In many private 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.760 schools now rarely teach civics or a positive view of 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:02.120 America's America's founding. New Cato Institute poll reveals a shocking 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.600 level of ignorance about US history and our government. More 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.960 than half did not know why the American colonies adopted 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.320 the Declaration of Independence on July fourth, seventeen seventy six. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.440 Couldn't even come up with a coherent explanation. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.240 Young people the least likely to know, with two thirds 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.680 of eighteen to twenty nine year olds expressing ignorance. Maybe 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.800 that explains why fifty three percent of gen z also 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:27.080 support writing. 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:27.840 A new constitution. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.440 It's easy to want to scrap something when you don't 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.600 even know the value of what it is or what 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.840 it's about. Right, And then my favorite, maybe my favorite 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.320 part of this, and we could get more into the 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.640 poll numbers, because I've got the whole poll in front 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.080 of me. But then he gets into Ronald Reagan's farewell 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.200 address in nineteen eighty nine. There are a lot of 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.240 young folks on the right who who can't stand Reagan. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.720 They think he's a relic of the past and his 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.280 ideas are irrelevant. Here are some of the things he said. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.480 We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.320 but what's in important. If we forget what we did, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.600 we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.080 eradication of the American memory that could result ultimately in 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:14.760 at in an erosion of the American spirit. And we're 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:19.440 absolutely feeling that, God, I would say, and then getting 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:22.920 back to his speech couple paragraphs later, he was far 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.480 too practical to believe that the job of reintroducing the 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.239 study of self government could be left to the schools alone. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:28.920 Quote. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.280 All great change in America begins at the dinner table. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.000 And this is the part I really wanted to get to, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.080 to bring everybody back up again. So tomorrow night in 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.920 the kitchen, I hope the talking begins. And children, if 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.840 your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.520 be an American, let him know and nail them on it. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.520 That would be a very American thing. To do. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.240 Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.040 We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.680 It must be fought for, protected and handed on for 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.800 them to do the same. Friends, were all in a 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.040 fight for the hearts of our children. Are young people 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.439 and are young adults who under our watch got indoctrinated 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.240 in this awful, poisonous anti American philosophy. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.959 Fight back. Let's get him a lot more on the way. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.840 If you miss a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:14.840 Getty on demand. 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.920 Armstrong and Getty, big send off for the man who 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:24.040 called himself the Prince of Darkness. For fans packing a 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.280 British soccer stadium for Ozzy Osbourne, the seventy six year 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:31.320 old Black Sabbath lead singer in his final concert tribute 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:35.399 Saturday from rockers Metallica and Aerosmith Stephen Tyler, as well 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.840 as Dolly Parton and Sir Elton John Osbourne at the 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.560 end thanking fans for decades of support. 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:46.840 Dolly Parton, why is Ozzie such a big deal? He 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.119 just I don't know. He has no place in my life. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.760 Ozzy Osbourne a. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.760 Black Sabbath scene as kind of the founding fathers of 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.480 heavy metal. Okay, a lot of heavy rock that people 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:03.560 have loved ever since. You know it overstated to say 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.879 like a Chuck berry ish figure, but something like it. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.359 It's all a bit much for me. Well, Dolly Marton 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:11.680 was there. 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.560 So we were on vacation on last week, which if 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.560 you're a fan of the show you probably noticed. I 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.800 went to Florida South Beach for a couple of days, 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.439 then went down to Key West, rented a house. We 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.840 were down there for a couple of days. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:27.960 Interesting. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.040 I talked to a number of people who worked at 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.200 restaurants and whatnot was in Florida, and they were talking 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:40.480 about how awesome it was during COVID in Florida to 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.719 be in their industry because people were coming from all 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.520 over the country because they didn't shut down. They shut 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.879 down for a couple of weeks total. Then we're up 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.960 and running like it was normal. Ron death sentence, I 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.639 remember that right. Well, the rest of the country was 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:56.920 acting like you can't do that, everyone will die. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.360 They're talking about how awesome it was down. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.720 There, and I doubt that these servers were like conservatives. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.800 I mean they could have been, but they looked like liberals, 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.360 I mean their island hippies with you know, things through 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.679 their nose and uh and you know the usual. But 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.840 it's really interesting that that happened. Part of the country said, yeah, 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.919 we're gonna pretend it's not happening. 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.280 And everything was fine. It's just it's crazy. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.280 Sometimes counties that are practically side by side took wildly 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.120 different approaches, and when one worked. 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.359 Way better than the other, the people who went with 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.400 the bad approach said nothing. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:37.600 Yeah, drove or flew back up to New York because 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:38.200 it was too hot. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.359 He just got too hot, too much beach sun. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.600 Sam and I flipped our jet ski rented a jet 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.119 skis a double jet ski, and I somehow we flipped it. 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.040 He was driving, and that ended up costing me a 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.800 lot of money because if you flip it and ruin 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:57.160 the motor, then you got to pay for it part 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.080 of the deal you sign, and so that cost me 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.800 a lot. But so we flipped it, and I was 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.760 panicked about trying to get it turned back up forgetting 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.680 the warning they had made about all the barnacles in 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.359 the bottom and stay away from it. And sliced my 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:14.000 knee open so bad and was bleeding all over the place, 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.720 and I'm glad shark didn't come eat us because that 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:17.320 would have sucked. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:17.959 AnyWho. 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.000 Oh agreed, Yeah, it would be a terrible thing to happen. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.800 We just getting eaten by a shark. Yes, so we 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:25.919 uh just does it look? By the way, how's your 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:26.440 knee look? 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:27.200 Is it healing? 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:27.600 Okay? 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.400 Yeah, it's the same knee I heard on my motorcycle wreck. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.439 So I have no feeling in it because it damaged 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:33.920 it so much. In so I couldn't even tell. 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:35.680 That I got myself. I was bleeding all over. 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.240