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Jim Lewis - Constitutional Boot Camp this weekend · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: In the film.
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  Speaker 2: without further ado, and it's been too long since we talked.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your service to our country. Retired Marine
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  Speaker 2: Jim Lewis one of the men behind Building Blocks for Liberty.
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  Speaker 2: He noticed there is a huge hole in r K
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  Speaker 2: through twelve education system because sadly, we live in the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America and they no longer teach civics,
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  Speaker 2: They no longer teach the Constitution, they no longer teach
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  Speaker 2: the reason we've had a revolution against the king and
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  Speaker 2: started our own country. Jim Lewis knew that, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why he started Building Blocks for Liberty. Welcome back to Jim.
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  Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure having you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, Brian. I really appreciate y'all
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  Speaker 1: having me back on and I always enjoy being all
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  Speaker 1: with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're doing great work out there in the world
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  Speaker 2: and again filling that massive hole in our education system.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I just I have to observe that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we live in the United States of America celebrating two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty glorious years. Not perfect, I will agree,
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  Speaker 2: but making progress better and better every single year of
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  Speaker 2: our existence. And here we are and we don't have
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  Speaker 2: a country or we live in a country where state
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  Speaker 2: legislative bodies have to pass laws forcing K through twelve
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  Speaker 2: education to actually incorporate civic classes into the curriculum. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's batcrap, and saying Jim Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: That is just sad, and it makes you wonder why
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  Speaker 1: they're not teaching.
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  Speaker 2: It because they're not proud of who we.
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  Speaker 1: Are, right, But we have to, you know, take what
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  Speaker 1: we got and we're moving on with it. And we
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  Speaker 1: work hard work trying to work with kids. I teach,
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  Speaker 1: you know, two days a week at a Christian homeschool
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  Speaker 1: group now, you know, and you teach American history and
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  Speaker 1: world history to them, and it's really great. We're now parent.
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  Speaker 1: We've really been doing a lot of work over the
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  Speaker 1: last year, and we're finally we're we're working with Wright
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  Speaker 1: State University now their Civics department, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing a boot camp up there next month,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're going to also do one of our
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  Speaker 1: we've got liberty lessons. We're going to be doing one
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  Speaker 1: liberty lesson a month at Wright State University for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's like going into isn't that going into like
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  Speaker 2: occupied territory. You're sneaking behind commedy lines in order to
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  Speaker 2: teach American political philosophy the way it should be taught.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how did you get your foot in the
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  Speaker 2: door of a university, Jim Lewis. And of course building
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  Speaker 2: blocks of liberty is behind the whole idea of the constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Boot cam, we've got one coming up we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about. But I mean, I would like to think
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  Speaker 2: that Wright State is one of many down the road universities.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to get this information back in the in
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  Speaker 2: the class.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's argued to have state man data. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: c civics that offer an alternative voice to the students
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  Speaker 1: and so you know, bad bless them that's getting us
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  Speaker 1: in there. Now. We've been working with them for the
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  Speaker 1: last ten months on you know, how do we get
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  Speaker 1: into the end of the air. So we're actually going up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're doing it right on campus. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be great, Well.
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  Speaker 2: It will be great. And of course I'm thinking that
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  Speaker 2: these are these are young people. They're adults if they're
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  Speaker 2: in college for the most part. You know, I turned
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  Speaker 2: eighteen as a freshman, that you see. But adults, they
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  Speaker 2: should have already had a solid foundation in constitutional history.
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  Speaker 2: And yet they presumably at least everything I've been reading,
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  Speaker 2: they have been indoctrinated in this woke leftist, pro socialist,
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  Speaker 2: anti American ideology. It's been steeped into the curriculum for
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  Speaker 2: K through twelve education across this country. So you're facing,
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  Speaker 2: perhaps and maybe not a challenge bringing about this very
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  Speaker 2: factual information about what exactly our constitution means.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, but the words you said very factual. That's
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  Speaker 1: what really helps us. And you know, we have no
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  Speaker 1: fear of going in there because we're going to present
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  Speaker 1: the truth that's verifiable. Whereas when they start questioning what
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  Speaker 1: they've been told, they're not going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: verify it. So it makes it kind of easy to
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  Speaker 1: change minds if they want to have an open mind
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  Speaker 1: and actually want to, you know, do a little checking
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  Speaker 1: for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I assume, based upon your philosophy of life,
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  Speaker 2: you you won't mind any questions in class when you're
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  Speaker 2: teaching this on a college level either.
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  Speaker 1: Love having questions. That's how we bruth out, that.
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  Speaker 2: Is, that's where you make your points. Man. You know,
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  Speaker 2: open form, ask any questions you want. You're on solid
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  Speaker 2: We're on rock solid ground. That's beautiful. Exactly, so exactly
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  Speaker 2: you will be expanding this and I'm focusing on this, this,
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  Speaker 2: this broader expanse for building Blocks for Liberty dot org
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  Speaker 2: because you are a five O one C three nonprofit.
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  Speaker 2: But something tells me you're not the kind of five
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  Speaker 2: O one C three nonprofit where you, Jim Lewis, are
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  Speaker 2: making half a million dollars a year on the donations
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  Speaker 2: the building Blocks for Liberty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I wish No. We've been doing this now for
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years and we've never taken a diamond tay any.
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  Speaker 2: Of us listening audience. Did you hear that.
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  Speaker 1: We live on donations? You know, whatever people donate to
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  Speaker 1: us that is what enables us to do things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like go on to the Wright State University and have
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  Speaker 1: enough fund so that we can buy books. Because when
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  Speaker 1: students attend our class attend to our classes, they attend
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  Speaker 1: for free, so we have to put the bill for them.
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  Speaker 1: We pay for all their books and everything. So and
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  Speaker 1: we don't mind doing that. But you know, donations are
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  Speaker 1: you know, really helpful to help us do that provide
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  Speaker 1: booked and materials to students.
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  Speaker 2: I have learned over the years, I have a very
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  Speaker 2: very generous listening audience. When it comes to truly important
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  Speaker 2: and worthy causes, they typically step up to the plate.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really going to encourage those you are listening
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  Speaker 2: to my voice right now, building blocks for the brother
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  Speaker 2: out and help them spread the just the unbelievable beauty
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  Speaker 2: and awesomeness of the founding documents in our country and
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  Speaker 2: pivoting over You're going to be doing even doing these
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  Speaker 2: constitution boot camps since twenty eleven, right, isn't it the
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  Speaker 2: first year you started?
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  Speaker 1: That's correct, twenty eleven when we first started doing them,
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  Speaker 1: and we just keep doing them, and I think they
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  Speaker 1: keep getting better and better. We keep incorporating information that
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  Speaker 1: people want and they need to hear. So yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: just excited about it. We've got one coming up this Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be in Huber Heights. It's Concerned Veterans
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  Speaker 1: for America sponsoring it.
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  Speaker 2: Good fight. Yeah, we're doing one.
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  Speaker 1: Then then we've got a liberty lesson on the thirty
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  Speaker 1: first in Sharonville on the pursuit of happiness and answering
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  Speaker 1: common misconceptions about the American Founding. That's being done by
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  Speaker 1: one of our newest members, Mark Burrell, who's written two
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  Speaker 1: books on these subjects of the Declaration and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Then we go back up to like I said, Fairborne,
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  Speaker 1: up to Wright State on the twenty first of February
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  Speaker 1: to do a boot camp, and we've got another boot
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  Speaker 1: camp in eleven In on the twenty eighth of March.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we've got scheduled so far. We've we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that over the next two or
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  Speaker 1: three weeks, we're gonna have a lot of stuff scheduled.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm so pleased to hear that that is all
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  Speaker 2: going on, and maybe even more. Jim Lewis pause. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to bring you back talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: about the boot camp. What people are going to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go in and find out what they're going to get
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  Speaker 2: when they're there, what they're going to learn. But also
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to press you litle bit on this Pursuit
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  Speaker 2: of Happiness seminar. You're doing building Blocks for Liberty dot org.
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  Speaker 2: Check it out, get all the information and yeah, hit
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  Speaker 2: that donate button. Jim Lewis. Pause, will bring you right back.
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  Speaker 2: It's eight fourteen right now, fifty five k s the
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  Speaker 2: talk station. Here's what's happening, Greenedy Talk station. Barn Tim
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  Speaker 2: is talking with Jim Lewis. He's the man, one of
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  Speaker 2: the people behind. He's not taking full credit for building
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  Speaker 2: Blocks for Liberty to do. Constitution boot Camps, next one
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  Speaker 2: taking place Saturday. It's not too late to sign up.
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  Speaker 2: Concerned Veterans for America is the sponsor. Forty four to
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  Speaker 2: sixty two. Brandt Pike nine am to three pm. You
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  Speaker 2: get more Constitution, more US founding documents, history than you
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  Speaker 2: can manage. They're going to teach you how to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it, how to discuss the Constitution, so you're prepared
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  Speaker 2: to engage with people who are ignorant to the beauty
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  Speaker 2: of our United States Constitution. But they're also going to
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  Speaker 2: get for the lolo price of thirty bucks to get
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  Speaker 2: into the class, a free lunch as well as copies
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  Speaker 2: of the Federalist papers and the handbook for We the
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  Speaker 2: People and a Constitution as well, right exactly, So get
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  Speaker 2: it all, okay. And I also you mentioned the word sponsor,
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  Speaker 2: Concerned Veteran American as a sponsor. You're looking for other
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  Speaker 2: organizations to host a Constitution boot camp. I'm checking out
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  Speaker 2: your web page. You got upcoming events. You're soliciting people
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  Speaker 2: out there in the world to get in touch with
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  Speaker 2: you to do a boot camp.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right, Yes, we do. We do. We start
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  Speaker 1: doing that in November for the fall, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: next year, and we continue doing it. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's how we got the Concerned Veterans folks. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we start picking up other groups like that,
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  Speaker 1: church groups and things like that that want us to
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  Speaker 1: come in and you know, put on a class in
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  Speaker 1: their church. You know, we look for locations that are
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  Speaker 1: going to be free. You know, we to minimize our
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  Speaker 1: costs and everything that we do. And sometimes the groups
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  Speaker 1: are sponsoring us will actually provide the lunch, so we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to you know, pay out our pockets for
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  Speaker 1: that too. So it works out real nice.
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  Speaker 2: That sure does so, church group. And I know from
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  Speaker 2: your materials you even have introductory materials that, uh maybe
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  Speaker 2: a parishonal parishoner can present to the pastor the church's
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  Speaker 2: governing board, for example, to explain exactly what you want
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  Speaker 2: to do. It kind of agreeses the skids, get your
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  Speaker 2: foot in the door, and this is all a noble
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  Speaker 2: noble cause. Now I got to ask you, and I
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  Speaker 2: sort of half jokingly but more seriously state, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think these crazy leftists that are running around screaming at
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  Speaker 2: everyone all the time, I don't think they're capable of happiness.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to me if you gave them everything they want,
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  Speaker 2: they would still be angry and mad as hell about something.
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  Speaker 2: But you talked about the seminars on pursuit of happiness
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  Speaker 2: just boiled down. Jim Lewis, what what does that talk about?
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  Speaker 2: What do you what do you engage in when you
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  Speaker 2: do when you do those classes?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Mark Burrell does the class, and like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he's written two books on the declaration and
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  Speaker 1: you know, pursuit of happiness that comes from the Declaration
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  Speaker 1: of Independence, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And
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  Speaker 1: what Mark does is he basically breaks it down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: what did the founders mean when they said life, liberty
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  Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness. You know, he wants to
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  Speaker 1: unpack the total, the full meaning from that phrase and
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  Speaker 1: this connection to the freedom we enjoy when we have
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  Speaker 1: these rights protected by government, which is supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: So he kind of gets into the whole thing and says,
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  Speaker 1: here's what it is, here's what it means. And oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, did you know government's supposed to protect
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  Speaker 1: these rights from us? And explains goes down that road too.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really pretty full.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it is, and a lot to unpack here.
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  Speaker 2: You will be doing a dive. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 2: they get a copy of the folks who attend the
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  Speaker 2: building blocks classes on constitution. Boot can't get the federalist papers,
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  Speaker 2: but those are critical documents when you need when you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to understand the Constitution itself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know the Federalist papers. That's you know, your explanation.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what everybody says well, what did the founders intend
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  Speaker 1: when they wrote that? Well, look at the Federalist papers.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they were written for, to tell you what
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  Speaker 1: their intentions were. When the Constitution was crafted and constructed
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia in seventeen eighty seven, James Madison, you know
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  Speaker 1: called the Father of the Constitution, along with Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton,
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  Speaker 1: and John Jay sat down and started answering questions being
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  Speaker 1: asked by folks who came to be known as the
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  Speaker 1: anti Federalists because they were asking questions saying, the Constitution
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  Speaker 1: leaves the doors open for this, this, and this, and
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  Speaker 1: they would answer back, no, it doesn't, and here's why,
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  Speaker 1: boom boom boom. So you know, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the addendum to a contract. The Constitution is a contract.
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  Speaker 1: The Federal's papers in my views, like that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the addendum, the opposing lawyer answering the questions that you
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  Speaker 1: know the other person's asking about what the contract says.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got to have the Federal's papers and you've
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  Speaker 1: got to know how to use them. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: we teach is what are in the federals papers and
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  Speaker 1: how do you use them in connection with the Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: We teach that in this class.
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  Speaker 2: It's like an appendix to the Constitution, s like a
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  Speaker 2: definition or a bibliography that goes along with it. Exactly
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  Speaker 2: building blocks Celebrity Constitution boot Camp. It's the informations on
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  Speaker 2: my blog page V do you five car sea dot Com?
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  Speaker 2: And ideally, Jim, what's the age group you're you're you're
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  Speaker 2: hoping to best serve by for folks attending the class.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is there a cutoff like I don't want
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  Speaker 2: anybody over the age of twenty or something? Or is
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  Speaker 2: it all comers? What's what's your focus? What's your rope?
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  Speaker 2: All comers?
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  Speaker 1: All comers? I wouldn't bring kids younger than ten or
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  Speaker 1: twelve because they're going to get bored.
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  Speaker 2: That fair enough statement managing expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve we're over y'all, come.
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  Speaker 2: Get them on in there. Made it real easy to
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  Speaker 2: do that, Jim. Joe Streker put your information up on
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  Speaker 2: the blog page. VI do you fi have cars dot Com?
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  Speaker 2: Jim Lewis, you know you always have a spot here
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  Speaker 2: in the morning show to spread the low love about
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  Speaker 2: what you are doing in the interest of American history
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  Speaker 2: and American education and an effort to well protect what
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  Speaker 2: we have here which so many people seem to want
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  Speaker 2: to throw out the door. Jim Lewis, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: your service to our country and your ongoing patriotism and
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  Speaker 2: service through the building blocks for liberty dot org site.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you always a pleasure