1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to thepeakclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,640 your support. I want to bring back to the program, 10 00:00:30,679 --> 00:00:34,399 Doctor Bill forstin. He is a military historian. He is 11 00:00:34,439 --> 00:00:37,799 a New York Times bestselling author. He's a professor up 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,479 at Montree College in western North Carolina, and also notably 13 00:00:41,679 --> 00:00:44,719 the official historian of the Peak Calendar Show for many 14 00:00:44,759 --> 00:00:46,759 many years. Doctor Bill. You're doing all right today? 15 00:00:46,759 --> 00:00:49,359 Speaker 2: How are you glad to hear it? My title was 16 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:49,920 still good? 17 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:54,679 Speaker 1: Yes it is. It never expires. No continuing education needed 18 00:00:55,119 --> 00:00:59,640 for that degree. Yeah, all right. So let's talk a 19 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,719 little bit about the Golden Dome. So I saw there 20 00:01:03,759 --> 00:01:07,599 was a story over at Airindspace Forces dot com. It's 21 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,480 a publication for Air Force and the Space Force, and 22 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:15,959 they're talking about lawmakers in Congress are working to inject 23 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,599 tens of billions of dollars into President Donald Trump's ambitious 24 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,439 Golden Dome plan for comprehensive missile defense of the US 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,879 homeland in the coming month. So, first off, I guess 26 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:32,519 the Golden Dome. Explain what this thing is and why. 27 00:01:32,599 --> 00:01:34,359 I guess you believe that it is needed. 28 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: Okay, people might be more familiar in the news with 29 00:01:40,359 --> 00:01:43,239 the issue of what's called Iron Dome, which is the 30 00:01:43,439 --> 00:01:48,920 Israeli defense system against ballistic attack. The Iranians launched about 31 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:53,439 two hundred and thirty missiles at Israel. They were shot down, 32 00:01:53,719 --> 00:01:56,000 but they were shot down in the last second, the 33 00:01:56,079 --> 00:01:59,400 last two or three miles. It's a tactical defense system. 34 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,239 Golden Down is a strategic defense system designed to hit 35 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,080 missiles from thousands of miles away before they get to 36 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,479 the United States. My big issue, of course, has always 37 00:02:11,479 --> 00:02:14,840 been emp If we don't shoot one of these down 38 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,840 and we are here with an electromagnetic pulse weapon, it 39 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,520 would cripple US. So I view this as like an 40 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,120 insurance policy on the United States to make sure we 41 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:26,319 continue to exist. Golden Dome will work. 42 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, Because we have talked about the abject failure of 43 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,479 governments at all level, all levels to harden our energy 44 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,120 infrastructure from an EMP. It can be done. It would 45 00:02:39,159 --> 00:02:41,400 cost a lot of money, no doubt. But if an 46 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,560 EMP were to detonate, an emp's occur, These pulses occur 47 00:02:44,719 --> 00:02:50,560 with nuclear warheads, correct, correct, right? And so if you can't, 48 00:02:50,759 --> 00:02:54,560 if we're not moving ahead with hardening the energy grid 49 00:02:54,879 --> 00:02:57,400 against an EMP, which also, by the way, can occur 50 00:02:57,479 --> 00:03:00,159 with solar flares and such, the sun can all so 51 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:03,840 do this to us, then at least this would attempt 52 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:10,719 to take out warheads before they make it to our 53 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,240 airspace and either debtonate and just do an EMP, or 54 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,400 debtonate with the nuke as well. But you say it 55 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:22,120 will work. The timeframe, the window that they have to 56 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:24,759 shoot these things down though, it's very very tight. 57 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 2: Is it not well yet? Again, Let's look at the 58 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,199 Israeli system, which is a tactical defense. It's absolutely remarkable. 59 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,520 You have short range and intermediate range missiles coming in 60 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,400 at thousands of miles an hour and in the last 61 00:03:39,439 --> 00:03:44,159 seconds they are shot down. I always talk about this 62 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:47,439 as an insurance policy. You will know in a house 63 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,639 and not have insurance on it. We own a country. 64 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:53,280 We got to start putting an insurance policy on it 65 00:03:53,319 --> 00:03:57,599 against ballistic threat. So yeah, don't. 66 00:03:57,719 --> 00:04:01,479 Speaker 1: They talk about in this piece over at Airinspace Forces 67 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:08,240 dot Com. There's kinetic and non kinetic interception methods. Like 68 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,639 the kinetic would be obviously like ballistic hypersonic systems that 69 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,680 shoot stuff down. But then there's also non kinetic, which 70 00:04:15,719 --> 00:04:19,800 would be directed energy weapons. Do you have any idea 71 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:20,120 what that? 72 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 2: Is? Undoubtedly highly classified in some areas, but I would 73 00:04:25,639 --> 00:04:28,879 assume some sophisticated laser story. 74 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: Yes, space lasers. Okay, good, all right, that's what I 75 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,560 thought it might mean. So I am all for the 76 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:39,199 space lasers, which would also be helpful for like celebrations 77 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:41,720 we could do like laser shows and stuff like on 78 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,439 July fourth, I'm thinking. 79 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, yeah, drones up there as well. 80 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:49,959 Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, drones laser Is it to be 81 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:54,199 a party? What about? How is this different than Reagan's 82 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,000 SDI program, the so called star Wars program, or is 83 00:04:58,040 --> 00:04:58,279 there a. 84 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:04,519 Speaker 2: Different mid eighties known you know commonly is to triage 85 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,519 a defense initiative with Star Wars that was a kinetic system. 86 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:11,439 In other words, we send the missile up to intercept 87 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,680 the missile. It really wasn't going. It was a bluff 88 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,720 in many ways. There's a great history behind it. Because 89 00:05:18,759 --> 00:05:22,600 no defense system can shoot down hundreds of missiles coming in. 90 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,639 It can shoot down a small number until you get overwhelmed. 91 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,160 Reagan system never would have worked, but we were bluffing 92 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,519 the Russians into thinking that it would and forcing them 93 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,199 to spend more on defense and drive them into bankruptcy, 94 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:37,399 which absolutely worked. 95 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 1: So okay, so this is somehow different. It wouldn't be 96 00:05:42,399 --> 00:05:46,519 shooting each individual missile down with our own missile, well 97 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:47,480 it would. 98 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:52,079 Speaker 2: But remember you're talking about scale one three five missiles. 99 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,079 My big fear has always been North Korea. I ran. 100 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,600 That's their capability against a Russian launch or even a 101 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,319 Chinese problematic. It's just too many. And remember all you 102 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,399 need is for one missile to get through, right. This 103 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,480 is for this to me is specifically against EMP more 104 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:12,319 than anything else. 105 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: So and because they could just detonate all the way 106 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:19,920 up in the atmosphere and line of sight right, the 107 00:06:19,959 --> 00:06:22,399 EMP would just be line of sight. Whatever is over 108 00:06:22,399 --> 00:06:24,920 the Eastern seaboard would get knocked. 109 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 2: Out right, because you don't need pinpoint re entry accuracy. 110 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:35,319 You know on ICBM, those who launch Transition and to 111 00:06:35,399 --> 00:06:38,639 hit a city, it takes a very precise capability, which 112 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,040 the Iranians definitely don't have in northern North Arenas. It's 113 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,959 like horseshoes and hand grenades. Just get it close, just 114 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,279 get it two hundred miles above the United States and 115 00:06:49,399 --> 00:06:53,959 blow it. So we have to hit it before that happens. 116 00:06:54,480 --> 00:07:00,759 Speaker 1: This sounds like a good topic for a potential book, right, Actually, 117 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:03,079 Doctor Bill has written that book. It's called One Second 118 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,439 After And for people who aren't aware of it, there 119 00:07:06,439 --> 00:07:10,639 are there are three now three other books in the series. Right, 120 00:07:10,639 --> 00:07:13,160 there's the original trilogy and then you've got the fourth 121 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,959 book that is pretty recent. How long ago did the 122 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:16,759 fourth win come out? 123 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,639 Speaker 2: That came out last year? And as a couple of 124 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:23,959 weeks ago. We're going to start filming a movie sometime 125 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:24,920 in August or. 126 00:07:24,879 --> 00:07:27,959 Speaker 1: September, which is I asked you this the other day. 127 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:29,920 Is this the Hollywood time frame or is this a 128 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:32,680 real time frame? Because Hollywood has this habit of like 129 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,279 saying yes to stuff and then nothing ever happens. 130 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:40,519 Speaker 2: Well, I think we're past the the option hell and 131 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,879 everything else. They've already got the producer locked in and 132 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,879 quite a few of the people. They're definitely moving for 133 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,839 between August and September to start filming. 134 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,959 Speaker 1: Right around the corner, do you and can you say 135 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,639 where it's being filmed. I would lobby for, you know, 136 00:07:55,839 --> 00:07:57,040 western North Carolina. 137 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,319 Speaker 2: In fact, the director was up here week eyeball on 138 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,000 the place out but most of the bocos. I mean, 139 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,199 it's going to take place overseas, either Bulgaria or Romania, 140 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,199 which looks. 141 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: Looks exactly like Black Mountain, right, Y's I've. 142 00:08:13,839 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 2: See there are locations that does look a lot like that. Okay, yeah, 143 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,839 but they have whole sets over there. That's the place 144 00:08:21,839 --> 00:08:24,879 to go now for quite a few films, especially MB films. 145 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,639 Speaker 1: Well, and I was thinking maybe you talked to the 146 00:08:27,639 --> 00:08:33,320 director about this but after Hurricane Helene, like if you're 147 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,120 trying to show well, although I guess that probably wouldn't 148 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,000 be that wouldn't line up with the storyline because the 149 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,679 whole point of the MP is that stuff doesn't get 150 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:42,200 knocked down and blown over. It just everything stops working 151 00:08:42,279 --> 00:08:46,039 because the solows get fried. So yes, yeah, so maybe 152 00:08:46,039 --> 00:08:51,200 it wouldn't be post apocalyptic good visuals in that regard 153 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,440 because of the actual physical. 154 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,759 Speaker 2: Devastation yeah, exactly. 155 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:58,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, So all right, so tell people though real quick 156 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,639 from about this, but one second after, why how did 157 00:09:03,639 --> 00:09:07,240 you get the idea to write about EMPs? 158 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: This goes back many years, back to the nineties when 159 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,759 I was in graduate school in Indiana and we got 160 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,440 hit by a massive one in a thousand year ice 161 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,360 norm that blew the grid out for over a month. 162 00:09:20,879 --> 00:09:23,559 So that planet the idea of what's made two thousand 163 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:27,080 and fine, it finally started coming together and actually the 164 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,360 books went now for fifteen years now and it's still 165 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,799 selling strong. I'm still getting royalties. 166 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: Well, that's good. More, that's good. Yeah, And it's a 167 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,399 fantastic book. But I will say if you are easily 168 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,120 anxious or you know, yeah, yeah, you probably want to 169 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:47,159 steer clear for this because the book lays out in 170 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,440 detail what happens to Black Mountain, North Carolina, basically the 171 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,080 small town, what happens to the people in that town 172 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,440 when you shut all of their electronics off basically and 173 00:09:58,559 --> 00:09:59,960 all of the comforts of life. 174 00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 2: It's not it's not science fiction. I based my book 175 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:08,399 on congressional studies, any number of studies of what could happen. 176 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:11,399 And the worst case scenario is if we lost our 177 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,080 power grid completely for inxtentive period of time, eighty to 178 00:10:15,159 --> 00:10:17,759 ninety percent of the population would perish within a year. 179 00:10:19,039 --> 00:10:21,080 I would not want to be in Charlotte on the day. 180 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,039 Speaker 1: That happens, right, which is that's when Christy and I 181 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,200 developed our bug out plan after we read your book. 182 00:10:27,919 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 2: You should have you got a place here? 183 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you, I appreciate. I think we have 184 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,519 some options, and I don't want to disclose where they 185 00:10:34,519 --> 00:10:36,039 are because I don't want any of the bands of 186 00:10:36,159 --> 00:10:39,559 marauders to intercept us on our paths. But yeah, we 187 00:10:40,039 --> 00:10:42,240 do have a bug out plan, and I highly advise 188 00:10:42,279 --> 00:10:45,960 everybody to have one. It's just smart preparation because you 189 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:47,879 never know. It could be a hurricane, you know, and 190 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:51,519 you need to get out quickly. And so the Prepper 191 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,039 movement looks at doctor Bill in that book. I think 192 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,320 as as sort of one of you, one of the 193 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:01,000 originals the ogs here, and for I think correct reason. 194 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:04,120 So if you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it. 195 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:08,519 I'm really happy about the movie finally getting made, looking 196 00:11:08,519 --> 00:11:11,360 forward to that. If they need any kind of radio announcer, 197 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,399 I'm happy to travel to Bulgaria. You let me know. 198 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,919 Speaker 2: I'll pack you allot going out there for several weeks 199 00:11:19,919 --> 00:11:20,840 when they start filming. 200 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's so good. All right, doctor Bill forstin 201 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,440 you can. You can read his book one second after. 202 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:28,120 I always enjoyed talking with you Bill. 203 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:31,799 Speaker 2: See you soon, Hey, pe God bless you, God bless America. 204 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: Yes you too. Oh. By the way, that reminds me. 205 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,320 Have you seen any of the stories about what they're 206 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,360 planning for the two hundred and fiftieth Birthday party for 207 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:41,360 America next year? Have you seen anything going on. 208 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 2: With thath No? Not yet. 209 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:45,639 Speaker 1: Okay, you're not going to be happy. You being a 210 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,120 historian and all, you might want to look into a 211 00:11:49,159 --> 00:11:52,639 thing called the American Association for State and Local History 212 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:58,039 because they are putting together the programming recommendations and states 213 00:11:58,039 --> 00:12:01,240 are just adopting this stuff. And this may surprise you 214 00:12:01,279 --> 00:12:04,200 to learn, but they are going to look at American 215 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,120 history critically. 216 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:09,399 Speaker 2: Oh God save us. 217 00:12:09,639 --> 00:12:13,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, so I'll be covering this in a bit, 218 00:12:13,039 --> 00:12:14,519 but doctor Bill will let you go. Thanks so much 219 00:12:14,519 --> 00:12:16,159 for your time, man, appreciate it. Good to talk with you. 220 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,320 All right. If you're listening to this show, you know 221 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:20,360 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 222 00:12:20,399 --> 00:12:22,480 and I know you do too, and you've probably heard 223 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,559 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, 224 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:29,279 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 225 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:32,559 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 226 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,960 and it's a website and it combines news from around 227 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:38,399 the world in one place so you can compare coverage 228 00:12:38,639 --> 00:12:41,320 and verify information. You can check it out at check 229 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,799 dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link 230 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,960 in the podcast description too. I started using ground News 231 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:51,679 a few months ago and more recently chose to work 232 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,759 with them as an affiliate because it lets me see 233 00:12:53,799 --> 00:12:57,639 clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind 234 00:12:57,639 --> 00:13:00,440 spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the 235 00:13:00,519 --> 00:13:04,240 left and the right. See for yourself check dot ground, 236 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,080 dot news slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll 237 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,279 get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage 238 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,759 plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription 239 00:13:14,879 --> 00:13:17,600 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 240 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,879 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 241 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,080 I do have a couple of tweets. They're Pete tweets. 242 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:28,480 This is from Alan who says, I read Doctor Bill's 243 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,600 series Doctor William Forston one second after. I think they 244 00:13:32,639 --> 00:13:35,799 are called the John Masterson series because that's the main 245 00:13:35,919 --> 00:13:39,440 character in the book. I read the series after you 246 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,840 talked to Bill last time. I couldn't put it down. 247 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,039 I'd still be reading it if the series had continued 248 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,360 on right. Well, and this is the thing, the first book, 249 00:13:49,399 --> 00:13:52,240 he was only intending to write that one book, and 250 00:13:52,279 --> 00:13:57,759 then like his publisher just like wore him down over years, 251 00:13:57,879 --> 00:14:02,279 just calling him, calling him email and beating them down. Finally, okay, 252 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,840 he did two more books, and I think that what 253 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,240 was it called one one year after or the day after? 254 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,200 I forget, but they're all in that series. And then 255 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,799 he just put out last year was the fourth book 256 00:14:19,879 --> 00:14:23,240 in the series. I have it. I have not gotten 257 00:14:23,399 --> 00:14:26,440 to read it yet, much like the stack of books 258 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:28,720 that I have that I have yet to read, because 259 00:14:29,039 --> 00:14:32,840 I basically read all day long, and so when I 260 00:14:32,879 --> 00:14:36,960 get home and I'm trying to unwind, it's like I'm 261 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,080 read out, you know what I mean, I've read. I've 262 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,440 read so much over the course of the last you know, 263 00:14:41,519 --> 00:14:45,759 fourteen hours that I got to do something else besides, 264 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,399 you know, reading, Like you know, scrolling Twitter. That's much 265 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:56,879 better for me. By the way, Talking Baby podcast hilarious. 266 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,360 There's only two episodes, but I saw it last night. 267 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:03,679 They're like three and it's a piece. They're hilarious. Cindy 268 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:06,440 says Pete, I heard you mentioned an Oregon. Hang on 269 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,120 a second before I do that. That's the uh that's 270 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:14,039 on the American history thing. Let me read this from 271 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:18,200 Jessica says, following the Doctor forest In book turning into 272 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:21,759 a movie, I love the book, super excited it's becoming 273 00:15:21,879 --> 00:15:25,559 a movie. Now I am too, Like I've so I've 274 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:32,519 known doctor Bill since twenty twelve when I first went 275 00:15:32,639 --> 00:15:36,200 up to Ashville and people in the audience were like, 276 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,240 you need to get doctor Bill on, you need to 277 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,399 get doctor Bill Forston, and so I reached out. I 278 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,480 had him in and great guy, super smart, you know historian. 279 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,279 So like we've had him on this show a couple 280 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:55,240 of times doing the the anniversary of the Battle of 281 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,320 Gettysburg and and so he talks about you know, the 282 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,320 troop movie mints and you know some of the truths 283 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,960 and the myths, and you know the people involved in 284 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,039 all of that. So always it's I've done a lot 285 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,080 of stuff with him on World War two Operation Overlord. 286 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:17,320 We've talked with him about that stuff. So twenty twelve, 287 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:22,360 and I think the entire time that I have known him, 288 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,039 this idea of turning one second after into a movie 289 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,240 was like, this was something that everybody wanted to see done, 290 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,519 and it felt like he was getting strung along and 291 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,159 Hollywood has this. There's a dark side in Hollywood. And 292 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,759 I'm not saying this occurred with him, but I am. 293 00:16:38,919 --> 00:16:41,879 I am aware of somebody else this happened to, where 294 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:47,639 they read your script, they essentially like buy it from 295 00:16:47,679 --> 00:16:49,759 you or something, and they're like, we like this, so 296 00:16:49,799 --> 00:16:53,720 we take like exclusive ownership of it, and we're going 297 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:57,360 to work it through our development process or whatever. And 298 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:02,399 then they just basically sit on it and then they 299 00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:06,279 do a story or movie as show or something that 300 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,920 is very similar to the script that they just bought 301 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,559 from you, and then you can't get it back from them. 302 00:17:15,759 --> 00:17:19,279 So again, I'm not saying that happen with Doctor Bill 303 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:22,279 in this case, but it's Hollywood, and so it wouldn't 304 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:26,759 surprise me if that was what occurred. Yeah, it's a 305 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:31,240 snake pit. Anyway. I did mention the two hundred and 306 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:37,200 fiftieth anniversary the birthday celebration for America, and I became 307 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,240 aware of this by reading a piece over at the Federalist. 308 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,759 I was unaware that there was some sort of a 309 00:17:42,799 --> 00:17:46,640 programming recommendation that had been put together for all of 310 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,640 the states, although it does make sense because we're going 311 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,240 to have a big, you know, celebration, a year long 312 00:17:52,319 --> 00:17:56,759 celebration next year for America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, 313 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,960 so they created the I'm going to see if I 314 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:06,359 can pronounce this word correctly. I think it's Latin, maybe 315 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:14,759 Greek something. Semi Quincentennial, semi quincentennial. That's what we're celebrating 316 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:20,279 the United States is semi Quincentennial Commission. That's the body 317 00:18:20,319 --> 00:18:26,880 that was convened to at least theoretically provide national coordination 318 00:18:27,839 --> 00:18:30,680 for all of the commemorative events that are going on 319 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:35,119 around the nation and in the nation's capital and such now. 320 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,319 According to Travis eckham over at The Federalist, he is 321 00:18:38,319 --> 00:18:42,240 a political activist in Minnesota and the founder of m 322 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,400 n USA two fifty, which is a nonprofit dedicated to 323 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:50,319 influencing Minnesota's contributions to the semi Quincentennial. Okay, so this 324 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:56,079 guy is involved in his states semi quincentennial planning and 325 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:02,680 celebration events. So he writes that ostensibly, each state and 326 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:09,559 territory also has its own independent committee to plan, you know, 327 00:19:09,599 --> 00:19:14,400 their local contributions to all of the festivities. But in reality, 328 00:19:15,599 --> 00:19:19,720 a minimum so far maybe more of fourteen states have 329 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:25,559 simply adopted the programming recommendations from a single nonprofit. And 330 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:30,200 that's called the American Association for State and Local History 331 00:19:30,559 --> 00:19:34,119 or the aa SLH, or as I call it, the 332 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,880 ASSYLA what, No, that's what it is, the aa SLH, 333 00:19:39,079 --> 00:19:43,160 the ASSLA, and the ASSLA CEO is a guy named 334 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:48,279 John Dicktyl. I'm look, I'm just reading that this. This 335 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:53,799 is no, it's not my fault. That's his name, Dichtl. 336 00:19:56,799 --> 00:19:59,480 All right, So things are going off the rails at 337 00:19:59,519 --> 00:20:02,640 the ASSOL. Here's a great idea. How about making an 338 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,960 escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western 339 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,440 North Carolina? Just a quick drive up the mountain and 340 00:20:08,519 --> 00:20:12,559 cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, 341 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,240 a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal 342 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,920 or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. 343 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,240 Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where 344 00:20:21,279 --> 00:20:23,839 you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things 345 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:27,440 that truly matter. 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He describes 363 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,160 twenty twenty six as a quote once in a generation 364 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:50,160 opportunity to critically engage with our nation's history. The word 365 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:56,680 critical there is critical. You might say it's important when 366 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:03,480 you see just like critical race theory, critical theory before 367 00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:07,279 it was critical race theory, the critical theory, the whole 368 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:12,359 idea behind critical theory. And I don't want to say 369 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,400 critical thinking because like people have an idea like, oh, 370 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,200 that just means, you know, thinking through problems and that 371 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:19,680 sort of thing. But to the leftists, to the to 372 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:25,559 the Marxists, this is central to the tearing down of 373 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:31,559 the systems of oppression, the systems of capitalism. Whatever it 374 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:37,839 is to criticize, right, to constantly tear down, to dismantle 375 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:44,559 through critique. So critical, critically engage is what he said. 376 00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:49,160 To critically engage, which is to criticize. Now they'll dress 377 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,079 it up so it's not like America stinks and they're 378 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,079 not going to say that, but they're going to you know, 379 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,400 identify some things that weren't so good. And what do 380 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,599 you think this means for us now? And shouldn't we 381 00:23:01,759 --> 00:23:06,039 make these revolutionary changes like the revolutionaries did lo those 382 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,720 many years ago. Like that's the whole focus of this ASSLA. 383 00:23:11,279 --> 00:23:15,680 I think I'm pronouncing that right, He says, it would 384 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:19,920 be a chance to quote foster critical awareness. There it 385 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:22,519 is again. So when you see the word critical being 386 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,359 used like this, that's the tell that the person who 387 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,200 is doing it is a Marxist. That's who is in 388 00:23:30,319 --> 00:23:36,440 charge of the ASSALA, John Dicktyl. He's leading the ASSLA, 389 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:41,240 you might say. So he wants to foster critical awareness 390 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:45,119 of our faults past and present and the changes we 391 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:50,160 need to make now to move toward justice. To advance 392 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,319 this cause, they have produced the assla's Field Guide for 393 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,839 the semi Quincentennial. This guide provides five themes around which 394 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:05,440 programming should be oriented. Number one unfinished revolutions. What do 395 00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:08,400 I always say, I quote James lindsay from new discourses, 396 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,039 the issue is never the issue. The issue is always 397 00:24:12,039 --> 00:24:15,640 the revolution. This is another example of it. They're going 398 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,000 to critique America on its two hundred and fiftieth birthday, 399 00:24:20,039 --> 00:24:24,559 they're going to critique America in an effort to move 400 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:35,359 towards towards justice. And unfinished Revolutions is another tell because 401 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,839 the issue isn't the issue. The issue is the revolution, 402 00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:43,720 which is what the Marxists want. The critical nature of 403 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:47,519 the tactics are simply that, just tactics in order to 404 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:53,519 achieve la revolution. So the first one is unfinished revolution, 405 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:59,880 second theme power of Place, Third We the People, four 406 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:06,720 American Experiment, and five doing history. So when you look 407 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:11,480 at the unfinished revolutions theme, it includes discussions like how 408 00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:14,839 people have continually challenged America to live up to our 409 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:21,880 highest ideals. Beyond the revolution itself, the American revolution, the 410 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:25,240 colonial timeframe, which is what I thought we were supposed 411 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,359 to be focusing on, like talking about like throwing off 412 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,680 the monarchy, the tyranny of the British crown, setting up 413 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:38,160 this system, this idea of America. Right, But no, no, no, 414 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,880 beyond the revolution itself, what were other revolutionary moments in 415 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,119 the history of our country, our states, in our communities. Right, 416 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:53,599 So then this is induced education, right, that's the purpose 417 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,640 of the Lesson Plan, And this occurs in K twelve 418 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,880 gov CO schools and did college as well. It's you 419 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:04,960 you get to the examination or a controversial topic. You 420 00:26:05,039 --> 00:26:10,279 get there by asking these questions that induce the answer 421 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,160 that then lets you talk about the topic that you 422 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:18,799 want to talk about. Let you frame an issue. This 423 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,240 is like what was it? There was like a math 424 00:26:23,319 --> 00:26:27,559 question that was asked about. You know, this family is 425 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,960 leaving this city at this time, going this fast, and 426 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,039 this other family is leaving this other city whatever. And 427 00:26:36,079 --> 00:26:40,039 then they describe like the characteristics of the family and 428 00:26:40,079 --> 00:26:42,519 the car they're driving, their race and all this other stuff, 429 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:47,000 and then it allows the teacher to start injecting the 430 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:52,519 you know, the oppressed oppressor dynamic into that. The critical 431 00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:56,799 race theory then bubbles up during a lesson about math, 432 00:26:57,759 --> 00:26:59,720 because then they can say, well, they're in a car. 433 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,319 Don't they have a nicer car that can go as 434 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,799 fast and they don't have two drivers because this kid 435 00:27:05,839 --> 00:27:08,759 only has one parent and why is that? And that's 436 00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:11,720 how they open the door to talk about these various topics. 437 00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:15,799 These are activists posing as teachers. Okay, there are a 438 00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:18,200 lot of them. I'm not saying old teachers are activists, 439 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:21,720 but I am saying there are activists who are teachers, 440 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,599 but they're not really teachers, but that's their job description. 441 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,160 Then there's power of place. Second theme, the only element 442 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,359 under the power of place at all related to the 443 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,720 revolution is a question what was happening in your community 444 00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:42,000 during the revolutionary era? And at first you may think, oh, well, 445 00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:43,960 that makes sense. Well, yeah, if you're in one of 446 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,000 the thirteen colonies that had a city in it or 447 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,400 town or something at the time. But most of the 448 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,359 current geography of America was not part of the original 449 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:58,400 thirteen colonies. So then it allows educators or historical interpreters 450 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:03,839 to shift the discussion away from the founding to indigenous 451 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:08,319 people's past and present connections with American spaces, as well 452 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,200 as quote the profound and unequal consequences of imperial expansion 453 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:17,240 and colonization across the continent. See everything is used as 454 00:28:17,279 --> 00:28:24,799 an on ramp to this kind of Marxist ideology, this criticality, 455 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:31,119 the tearing down of the American narrative of its history, 456 00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:35,519 its institutions in order to get people to hate their 457 00:28:35,559 --> 00:28:38,960 country so they want to change it because once again, 458 00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:42,759 to quote Barack Obama, he of the Tan suit, that 459 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:49,640 you don't fundamentally transform something you love and He promised 460 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:53,839 to do that, to fundamentally transform America, and if you 461 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,480 love the country, then that is not something that you're 462 00:28:56,519 --> 00:28:59,279 interested in doing. This is why Russell Limbaugh famously said, 463 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,319 I hope he fails and everybody lost their my, oh 464 00:29:02,359 --> 00:29:05,240 my gosh, you're saying that about the first black president. Well, yeah, 465 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,039 because he wants to fundamentally transform this country. He wants 466 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:09,559 to do all of these things I disagree with. I 467 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,880 hope he doesn't. So yeah, I hope he fails in 468 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,039 his endeavors. All right, So spring is here a time 469 00:29:15,119 --> 00:29:19,920 of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, and 470 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,519 the special days for mom and dad. Your family's making 471 00:29:22,599 --> 00:29:24,559 memories that are going to last a lifetime. 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Using 491 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:40,319 the American Association for State and Local History the AASLH 492 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,920 or the ASLA, and the president and CEO named John Dicktyl. 493 00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:51,319 He wants to use this opportunity to critically engage with 494 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,720 our nation's history to foster critical awareness of our faults. 495 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,960 So that's going to be America's birthday party. How much 496 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,039 we suck? Oh man, this is going to be awesome. Now, 497 00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:07,119 states are just adopting the recommendations from the ASSLA, which 498 00:31:07,319 --> 00:31:12,680 is pretty asinine. If you ask me, do your own thing. Guys, 499 00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:16,519 make your own stuff. There are other resources out there. 500 00:31:16,559 --> 00:31:19,319 I do not know if North Carolina has adopted this yet. 501 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,680 They got five themes. I went over the first two. 502 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:26,880 Here's the third, We the People. It orients discussion around 503 00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:32,319 quote who has been and remains excluded from full participation 504 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,920 and representation in our democracy. The ASSLA also suggests considering 505 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,559 the questions of who is considered an American and who 506 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:48,920 gets to decide Again, these redirect the discussion away from 507 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,359 the subject of the revolutionary era and towards arguments about 508 00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:59,400 like expanding the voting franchise to non citizens. Right, it's all. 509 00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:04,400 It's all directing the directed education, directing the conversations to 510 00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:16,039 leftist agenda. Bullet points fourth theme, American experiment. It has 511 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,079 questions like how was your local and state government organized, 512 00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:24,319 who did it serve? And who does it continue to exclude? Right, 513 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:30,160 These questions are not passive inquiries. They are deliberately designed 514 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:34,680 to nudge the respondent into diminishing the significance of the 515 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,640 American Revolution. It ceases to be a righteous triumph against 516 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,599 an unjust monarchy, and then becomes simply a transition from 517 00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:48,319 one corrupt tyranny into another. Like the others, this theme 518 00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:52,160 is not intended to broaden knowledge of the revolution nor 519 00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:59,279 deepen understanding of it. This should be an opportunity to 520 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:05,599 focus all of Americans' attention to the founding ideals, the 521 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:11,799 things that are in fact timeless. You guys have spent 522 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:19,200 every day of like the last fifty years, trashing America NonStop, 523 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,359 talking about all the flaws, talking about all the problems. 524 00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:26,759 I get it. I don't deny that America has faults 525 00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:29,640 and did have faults, and did abuses and bad things, 526 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,720 and there were bad people. All of that is true. 527 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,480 It's fine. I don't care, though, because just for one 528 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,799 brief period of time, can we just look at some 529 00:33:38,839 --> 00:33:43,279 of the good? Can we just do that? I feel 530 00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:46,680 like the negative to positive is way out of whack 531 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,359 as a proportion, you know, And if you're going to 532 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:55,200 be the people charged with creating the birthday party for 533 00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:58,079 the country, I feel like you should love the country 534 00:33:58,319 --> 00:34:00,920 and you should highlight the thing that you do in 535 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,720 fact love about it, rather than just constantly criticizing every 536 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:16,119 single thing The final theme doing history. Yeah, this one 537 00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:19,360 doesn't sound good right from the gate. It focuses on 538 00:34:19,519 --> 00:34:26,440 asking who has been historically silenced or excluded from traditional presentations. Again, 539 00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:31,599 the American Revolution is simply a pretense, right, It is 540 00:34:31,679 --> 00:34:36,280 just a stepping stone in order to pivot to a 541 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:42,000 discussion about inclusivity or the value of quote other disciplines 542 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,440 aside from history. This theme, along with the rest of 543 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:52,519 the Assyla's Field Guide, is a blueprint for deconstructing America 544 00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:58,639 by delegitimizing our founding. It's like the sixteen nineteen project. 545 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,320 It's the same crap because again, the issue isn't the issue. 546 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,559 The issue is always the revolution. In this case, the 547 00:35:06,639 --> 00:35:12,000 issue isn't the celebration of the America's founding. The issue 548 00:35:12,039 --> 00:35:14,239 is the revolution. How do we get more people to 549 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,159 hate this country so we can throw a revolution and 550 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,880 get rid of this system and implement it with our 551 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,880 utopian vision where everybody will probably end up in a 552 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:27,840 gulag or dead like that's the utopian vision. In twenty 553 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:33,119 twenty one, many states passed laws restricting teaching rooted in 554 00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:37,800 critical race theory, as well as intersectionality and similar race 555 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:43,280 based theories. The CEO of the ESLA, John Dictyl, has 556 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,960 made clear his contempt for efforts to abolish racialized education, 557 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,280 and he's even boasted that he plans to use this 558 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,639 opportunity presented by It's also called America to fifty. That's 559 00:35:55,679 --> 00:35:58,599 what they're like. There's a hashtag America to fifty and 560 00:35:59,079 --> 00:36:00,840 a lot of these commission are set up with that 561 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,039 sort of shorthand name because you know, the actual name 562 00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:12,039 is the US Semi semi Quincentennial Commission, also called America 563 00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:16,239 to fifty. Okay, So he's using America to fifty to 564 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:21,679 work around the restrictions that have been coming down against 565 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:27,119 this very kind of educational focus. This propaganda is what 566 00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:32,920 it is. To support this circumvention, the ASLA sent out 567 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,920 twenty thousand copies of their field guide. They sent it 568 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:42,000 out to historians, scholars, and teachers. The ubiquity of the 569 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,840 guide is no doubt why states like Wisconsin, Idaho, and 570 00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:53,320 even Texas have all embraced the programming for their planning committees. 571 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,400 This is a problem, people, This is a big problem. 572 00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:06,840 Away from jubilant affirmation, they're directing towards compulsive deconstruction. The 573 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,239 Semiquincentennial is shaping up to be yet another deluge of 574 00:37:11,519 --> 00:37:18,159 heritage effacing turpentine. Public service announcement from me to whoever 575 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,519 needs to hear it. It is okay to love America. 576 00:37:23,119 --> 00:37:26,000 It's okay to love your country, to love the ideas, 577 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,480 to love the philosophy all people are created equal right 578 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,719 that we have rights that are endowed by our creator, 579 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,920 not a government. It's okay to love that. You can 580 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,599 object to the government all you want, Lord knows I do, 581 00:37:39,599 --> 00:37:44,639 but patriotism is cool. You can love America all right. 582 00:37:44,639 --> 00:37:47,000 That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 583 00:37:47,039 --> 00:37:49,079 for listening. I could not do the show without your 584 00:37:49,119 --> 00:37:51,880 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 585 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,719 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 586 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,400 and tell them you heard it here. 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