Latest / Wicked Radio with Bill Adams / 7-2: Great American State Fair Patriots Stepped Up When They're States Wouldn't!
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- 0:04Speaker 1: You know, as we get closer and closer days, a
- 0:05Speaker 1: couple of days away from America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
- 0:08Speaker 1: The best statement I've heard about this entire thing so far,
- 0:11Speaker 1: and it came from the most unlikely source. We'll get
- 0:13Speaker 1: to here in a second, is patriotism should be bipartisan.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Makes all the sense in the world. And I love that statement.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It came from Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, which is
- 0:23Speaker 1: relevant to the story here in just a second. But
- 0:25Speaker 1: isn't it kind of unnecessary we should even say that
- 0:27Speaker 1: this should be a time where everybody celebrates our country. Yeah,
- 0:32Speaker 1: there's a lot of festivities, it's a lot of patriotism. Listen,
- 0:35Speaker 1: I'm a corny flagwaiver myself. I'll never apologize for that.
- 0:38Speaker 1: That's the way it is. But our great American State Fair,
- 0:41Speaker 1: which is going on right now, it's got plenty of
- 0:42Speaker 1: people who are trying to bag on it, not only CNN,
- 0:45Speaker 1: but all you go online and you see all the
- 0:47Speaker 1: social media idiots going on there saying this state Fair,
- 0:50Speaker 1: nobody's here. It's a like a sixteen day thing. And
- 0:53Speaker 1: they'll take a video of nine o'clock in the morning
- 0:55Speaker 1: and say, see it's a dumpster fire. Don't ever listen
- 0:58Speaker 1: to those people. There's something more about this one. It
- 1:01Speaker 1: doesn't just go to you know, regular grass news, grassroots
- 1:05Speaker 1: every day people. There are some states eleven in all,
- 1:09Speaker 1: that aren't participating in the Great American State Fair. In
- 1:12Speaker 1: other words, there's a booth there, but it's empty. They
- 1:14Speaker 1: won't man it, they won't send any promotional materials like
- 1:17Speaker 1: some other states did so that people will stop by
- 1:19Speaker 1: and talk about their state all over petty rotten politics.
- 1:24Speaker 1: But as we always do in our country, there is
- 1:26Speaker 1: always a story of great American patriots stepping up, just
- 1:30Speaker 1: like what's happening here, and it's awesome. It'll make you
- 1:32Speaker 1: feel great, especially one particular lady. We'll talk about it.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Thanks for finding me, appreciate you. Happy Birthday America getting
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- 1:56Speaker 1: all right, you know you've heard about it, even if
- 1:58Speaker 1: you haven't been there. The Great American State Fair is
- 1:59Speaker 1: a giant celebration in it big kickoff from President Trump
- 2:03Speaker 1: and the band and the flyover and the B two
- 2:06Speaker 1: bombers and all that other stuff. Just the other night,
- 2:08Speaker 1: of course, sounded like this. I'm sure you saw it. Well.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Thank you Lee, and Hello Washington, and a very big
- 2:14Speaker 1: hello to America.
- 2:15Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 2:17Speaker 1: H sounds like a big crowd to me, despite the
- 2:20Speaker 1: little haters online and on x and on YouTube saying
- 2:23Speaker 1: is nobody here, it's a dumpster facts, it's terrible. And
- 2:26Speaker 1: like I said in the introduction, we'll take a video
- 2:27Speaker 1: at like eight o'clock in the morning. See no one's here,
- 2:31Speaker 1: No one cares. This is all about Trump's ego. No,
- 2:34Speaker 1: it's about America. And I keep going back to that
- 2:36Speaker 1: expression in that saying I said in the first part
- 2:38Speaker 1: of it, it should be bipartisan. I don't care who
- 2:41Speaker 1: you are, I don't care what your life experience is,
- 2:43Speaker 1: I don't care how long you've been an America. And
- 2:45Speaker 1: we should all be celebrating this instead of trying to
- 2:48Speaker 1: bag on it. But that's not the same deal. Now,
- 2:50Speaker 1: let's get some Let's get some details about this great
- 2:53Speaker 1: American State Fair and some of the details because the
- 2:55Speaker 1: timeline matters here. It's a sixteen day event. Keep that
- 2:58Speaker 1: in mind. It kicked off the twenty fifth of June.
- 3:00Speaker 1: It's going all the way to the tenth the National
- 3:03Speaker 1: Mall in Washington, d C. It's part of the celebration.
- 3:05Speaker 1: A lot of things going on there. They have all
- 3:07Speaker 1: these you know, on the side buildings there in the
- 3:09Speaker 1: National Mall. They have all these displays for all the
- 3:11Speaker 1: individual states to show their attributes, their accomplishments, their history,
- 3:17Speaker 1: all that cool stuff. Except for these states. And I
- 3:22Speaker 1: bet you in your head right now you can even
- 3:24Speaker 1: guess which ones aren't playing along, which states aren't representing
- 3:28Speaker 1: at all, except for maybe like a name plate, you know, Connecticut,
- 3:33Speaker 1: No big surprise there, Illinois, Oh JB. Pritz Curry would
- 3:37Speaker 1: never send anybody there to be part of the American celebration. Maine, Massachusetts,
- 3:42Speaker 1: even less surprising, North Carolina actually pretty surprising, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont,
- 3:50Speaker 1: Washington State, and Pennsylvania, with others like Hawaii you know
- 3:54Speaker 1: sometimes listed. We don't know what's going on with Hawaii
- 3:56Speaker 1: where they fedexed any banners over or not. But that's
- 4:01Speaker 1: what's going on with the Great American State Fair and
- 4:03Speaker 1: who's not participating. Now Fox News, of course this is
- 4:05Speaker 1: like right in their wheelhouse. So they brought in just
- 4:08Speaker 1: yesterday Doug Bergha'm the Interior Secretary to talk about this.
- 4:11Speaker 1: They didn't really give them a lot of chance to talk,
- 4:14Speaker 1: but they did set up it kind of cut them off,
- 4:17Speaker 1: but they did set up the situation perfectly. What's going on,
- 4:20Speaker 1: who's not participating and why would you Why webin of.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Our fifty states apparently are not participating. And Emily, it's
- 4:27Speaker 3: hard to how do you tell your constituents, I represent
- 4:29Speaker 3: all of you, no matter how you vote, We're all
- 4:31Speaker 3: Americans together, but our state's not going to the fair
- 4:34Speaker 3: because I hate Donald Trump. Because that's essentially what Josh
- 4:37Speaker 3: Shapiro was saying unequivocally.
- 4:39Speaker 4: The message is my politicization of this, my hatred for
- 4:44Speaker 4: an individual, my lack of respect for the office of
- 4:47Speaker 4: the presidency, and my clearly lack of respect for the
- 4:49Speaker 4: United States of America completely Trump's no pun intended my
- 4:53Speaker 4: public service of my occupation.
- 4:55Speaker 1: It's rotten, it's petty, it's of course, you know, and
- 4:58Speaker 1: I mean to make their little rotten political statements. There's
- 5:01Speaker 1: a lot of them there. Well, let's go to some
- 5:03Speaker 1: of those. So what is it like when you would
- 5:04Speaker 1: actually go to them? All? I haven't been there. You
- 5:06Speaker 1: probably haven't either. And you go to some of these states,
- 5:08Speaker 1: I guess, you know, places like you know, Montana have
- 5:11Speaker 1: these cool things going on, and they, you know, show
- 5:13Speaker 1: that the states, what their attributes are, what some of
- 5:16Speaker 1: their natural resources are, some of their history. But then
- 5:20Speaker 1: you stop by a place like Rhode Island. Here's a
- 5:23Speaker 1: little example. One of their state reps stopped buy and
- 5:25Speaker 1: they said, let's see what my home state is offering.
- 5:27Speaker 1: Not much.
- 5:27Speaker 5: This is a Rhode Island's contribution to America's two hundred
- 5:30Speaker 5: and fiftieth birthday. There it is, folks, it's an empty booth.
- 5:35Speaker 5: A state that helped found this very nation couldn't show
- 5:38Speaker 5: up to celebrate it. Rhode Island story is the American story.
- 5:41Speaker 5: It's the birthplace of religious liberty. It's the state that
- 5:44Speaker 5: held out on signing the Constitution until we had the.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Bill of Rights.
- 5:48Speaker 5: But our state leader said nope, it costs too much.
- 5:52Speaker 5: But let's be real.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Oh that was just the cover story. Don't buy that
- 5:55Speaker 1: at all. It's not because it costs. What does it
- 5:57Speaker 1: cost to send some sort of a summer volunteer and
- 6:00Speaker 1: inturn over there to man the freaking booth and send
- 6:03Speaker 1: some posters? Not much? Don't buy that at all. This
- 6:05Speaker 1: isn't about cost. This is about you not and want
- 6:08Speaker 1: to be tied at all to what they're calling President
- 6:11Speaker 1: Trump's Great American State Fair, which nobody attends. More on
- 6:14Speaker 1: that in just a second. That's what this is about.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Now the intro there, they also mentioned Pennsylvania Governor Josh
- 6:20Speaker 1: Shapiro refuses to participate. He hasn't talked about cost. He's
- 6:24Speaker 1: talked about this not wanting to be part of Trump
- 6:26Speaker 1: at all. At least the guy is honest about it
- 6:27Speaker 1: and why they're not participating. Senator John Fetterman was on
- 6:31Speaker 1: talking about that and he said, and more on him,
- 6:33Speaker 1: because he stepped up big time and he said, this
- 6:35Speaker 1: is ridiculous. He's the guy I said there in the
- 6:38Speaker 1: introduction who came out with that great statement, and that
- 6:41Speaker 1: keeps rattling around in my head during this entire time.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Patriotism should be bipartisan. Take the freaking politics out there.
- 6:48Speaker 6: Neither one of us. We didn't really understand why we
- 6:51Speaker 6: wouldn't do it. And now I watched that list of
- 6:54Speaker 6: states that didn't provide a booth. Now they all seem
- 6:57Speaker 6: like they were blue control kinds of states. I have
- 7:00Speaker 6: no reason why they didn't to do it. But with
- 7:02Speaker 6: I mean, when it's you know, two hundred and fifty
- 7:05Speaker 6: years to celebrate America, why wouldn't you make sure that
- 7:08Speaker 6: your state's going to be there. And now in turning
- 7:11Speaker 6: it into owns about no, there's not this or not
- 7:15Speaker 6: this whatever thing. You know, Patriotism is by partisan and
- 7:20Speaker 6: I hate to see people arguing. And I see the
- 7:23Speaker 6: polls of people in my party. You know, I think
- 7:26Speaker 6: it's maybe thirty percent of them roughly are insanely proud
- 7:30Speaker 6: to be American or they're proud of America.
- 7:34Speaker 1: I am. John Fetterman gets it. He's an amazing story.
- 7:37Speaker 1: I know I've spent a lot of time talking about him,
- 7:38Speaker 1: but I made such a drastic mistaken thing. Remember when
- 7:41Speaker 1: he had the stroke and he told everybody, I'm going
- 7:44Speaker 1: to heal, I'm going to get better. When he got better,
- 7:46Speaker 1: he started making more sense than anybody else in his party,
- 7:48Speaker 1: anybody else. You know how much guts it takes to
- 7:51Speaker 1: be able to say something like that with the lunatics
- 7:53Speaker 1: that are now surrounding him in his own party. Well,
- 7:55Speaker 1: he also mentioned somebody else there, the other senator John
- 7:58Speaker 1: McCormick from pennsylvan and you also stepped up, went there himself,
- 8:03Speaker 1: found some volunteers. They made sure that Pennsylvania was well represented.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Good for him, he everyone, This is unbelievable.
- 8:09Speaker 6: We're in our booth as of Saturday, there was nothing
- 8:12Speaker 6: in the center McCormick and center of Federman stepped in
- 8:15Speaker 6: and this.
- 8:15Speaker 1: Guy Jeff had stepped in with all these incredibly beautiful flags.
- 8:19Speaker 1: I think we have the nicest booth on them all.
- 8:21Speaker 1: And we've had an army of volunteers come down here.
- 8:24Speaker 3: And now look, you have Pennsylvanians and people from all
- 8:26Speaker 3: over the country sea what Pennsylvania is.
- 8:28Speaker 1: All Good for Pennsylvania, No, good for Pennsylvanians who wanted
- 8:32Speaker 1: it there state to be represented. I think that's fantastic.
- 8:34Speaker 1: The two senators led the way on that thing, and
- 8:36Speaker 1: they got volunteers to go there, which is fantastic. That's
- 8:38Speaker 1: great this also this this lady heard about her state
- 8:43Speaker 1: not getting represented. She's also from Pennsylvania. I guess she
- 8:46Speaker 1: has a Christmas tree farm. That's what her family business is,
- 8:49Speaker 1: and she does. So she took one of the trees. Again,
- 8:53Speaker 1: these are volunteers. She took one of the trees, she
- 8:55Speaker 1: loaded it up on top of her truck, and she
- 8:57Speaker 1: drove to DC and she brought a Christmas tree to
- 9:00Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania booth at the Great American State Fair. This
- 9:02Speaker 1: is the lady talking about it. This is American patriotism
- 9:06Speaker 1: in action than.
- 9:06Speaker 2: To be able to have this opportunity.
- 9:09Speaker 3: But then I have to ask, I mean, was this
- 9:10Speaker 3: a big deal that Pennsylvania was not even going to
- 9:13Speaker 3: have a booth? I mean, fifty states, we aren't going
- 9:15Speaker 3: to be there.
- 9:16Speaker 7: I considering our history of PA and our state, I
- 9:20Speaker 7: was shocked and confused. I double checked to make sure
- 9:22Speaker 7: our association had not been reached out to, and we
- 9:25Speaker 7: were not. We will always step up, no matter what
- 9:28Speaker 7: time of the year, to help spread the joy of
- 9:30Speaker 7: our crop.
- 9:31Speaker 2: We may not feed people, but we feed their soul
- 9:34Speaker 2: at Christmas tree time, at Christmas time, and so I
- 9:38Speaker 2: am so happy that we still get the opportunity, and
- 9:40Speaker 2: I'm glad that Senator McCormick and Fetterman stepped up to
- 9:43Speaker 2: make sure that we can tell our story and be
- 9:47Speaker 2: there as well.
- 9:48Speaker 1: That is great. And she made it there. I guess
- 9:51Speaker 1: she made it to the Pennsylvania booth at the Great
- 9:53Speaker 1: American Seat up the tree, and everybody loved it. That's
- 9:59Speaker 1: what this is about. This is why, and this is
- 10:01Speaker 1: the overall takeaway. Every time you start to think that,
- 10:04Speaker 1: you know, you hear state governors refusing to participate in
- 10:07Speaker 1: Great American State Fair over politics. Every time you hear
- 10:09Speaker 1: something like that and you start to think, oh my god,
- 10:11Speaker 1: this country's going to hell in a hand basket, don't
- 10:13Speaker 1: ever buy it. Because that's the few and far between,
- 10:17Speaker 1: just left wing lunatics that are self hating. They hate themselves,
- 10:21Speaker 1: they hate that they're consumed by politics. The real America
- 10:24Speaker 1: is that, lady. The real America is the leadership shown
- 10:28Speaker 1: by Pennsylvania's two state senators who stepped up and they said,
- 10:31Speaker 1: that's not right, this is not good. We're going to
- 10:32Speaker 1: make sure that this is taken care of. The Real
- 10:35Speaker 1: America are the people that are showing up for this
- 10:36Speaker 1: thing and not buying all the clicks online and all
- 10:39Speaker 1: the other crap that Noe's shown up for this thing.
- 10:41Speaker 1: It's Trump's ego dumpster fire, the Great American State Fair. Yeah, okay,
- 10:45Speaker 1: you took your video at eight o'clock in the morning
- 10:47Speaker 1: on like a Thursday. It's a sixteen day event. It's
- 10:51Speaker 1: not always going to be packed. This is also America,
- 10:54Speaker 1: And this is my favorite story of the entire thing,
- 10:57Speaker 1: because this lady was completely on her own. Now, it's
- 10:59Speaker 1: one thing to come to put together an army of
- 11:01Speaker 1: volunteers to make sure that Pennsylvania is represented, which is awesome,
- 11:04Speaker 1: that's great. But when from a state like Massachusetts, and
- 11:07Speaker 1: I can speak to this because that's where I'm from originally,
- 11:10Speaker 1: and I have so many relatives that are still there
- 11:12Speaker 1: for you. To volunteer and to go on your own,
- 11:15Speaker 1: literally solo, to represent your state's booth, that takes a
- 11:18Speaker 1: special level of guts. I'm gonna show you a still
- 11:21Speaker 1: shot here of a lady. All we know is her
- 11:23Speaker 1: name is Donna. She heard about the ridiculous far left,
- 11:27Speaker 1: blue disgusting leadership of Massachusetts refusing to participate in the
- 11:32Speaker 1: Great American State Fair, and she said that's not right. Now,
- 11:35Speaker 1: when you're from Massachusetts and you're surrounded by clueless, absolutely
- 11:40Speaker 1: moronic Democrats at times, and this is a special breed
- 11:43Speaker 1: of democrat, it takes a special level of guts to
- 11:46Speaker 1: do this. I'm gonna show you a still shot here.
- 11:48Speaker 1: This is her manning the booth from Massachusetts. She didn't
- 11:50Speaker 1: have a lot, she didn't have an army of volunteers.
- 11:53Speaker 1: She didn't have the Christmas tree like the Pennsylvania lady.
- 11:57Speaker 1: She'd have banners. She didn't have a liberty bell. She
- 12:00Speaker 1: had some pamphlets that she went to the state department
- 12:03Speaker 1: and got, and she had some flyers, maybe a poster,
- 12:06Speaker 1: and that was it. Her name is Donna and audio
- 12:09Speaker 1: listers only. Sorry, this is just a still shot of Donna.
- 12:11Speaker 1: I just want to show this to you now. This
- 12:13Speaker 1: is her at the booth, all alone, completely volunteering, just
- 12:18Speaker 1: to make sure her state was represented. Again. I go
- 12:21Speaker 1: back to this. Whenever you hear and see all the
- 12:24Speaker 1: loud mouths all there and people with big platforms and
- 12:26Speaker 1: mainstream media networks bagging on this country and saying we're
- 12:29Speaker 1: falling apart, you think about people like Donna and the
- 12:31Speaker 1: people like those volunteers in Pennsylvania and the other states
- 12:34Speaker 1: that showed up and the Christmas Tree Lady, and they
- 12:37Speaker 1: stepped up to make sure their states were represented because
- 12:40Speaker 1: they have that much pride. That's the real America. That's
- 12:43Speaker 1: what we're talking about here. Oh by the way, speaking
- 12:46Speaker 1: of real America, you know how they're always saying that,
- 12:49Speaker 1: you know, nobody, nobody wants to participate in this thing.
- 12:51Speaker 1: It's a ghost town. Yeah, as they're taking their video
- 12:54Speaker 1: at like seven o'clock or eight o'clock in the morning
- 12:56Speaker 1: when nobody would be there. Here's what else has happened
- 12:58Speaker 1: at all of America. They very smartly were also putting
- 13:03Speaker 1: the FIFA World Cup watch party for Team USA on there.
- 13:07Speaker 1: And when they won last night beating Bosnia, this is
- 13:10Speaker 1: also on the National Mall. Yeah, but nobody, And of
- 13:22Speaker 1: course they're saying it already, oh, because that was a
- 13:24Speaker 1: soccer watch party. Yeah, but it was part of the
- 13:26Speaker 1: National Mall and it was part of the Great American
- 13:28Speaker 1: State Fair. Maybe we need things like that to bring
- 13:31Speaker 1: us together. That's where sports are important to bring us
- 13:33Speaker 1: together and patriotism and pride, because I bet you all
- 13:35Speaker 1: those people watching that game loved being there at that
- 13:37Speaker 1: particular event. That's the real America, and guys, it's not
- 13:41Speaker 1: hard to find when you look for it. You look
- 13:43Speaker 1: for people like the volunteers at these booths who wanted
- 13:46Speaker 1: to make sure their states were represented despite their horrific
- 13:49Speaker 1: state leadership. That's America. That's what this is all about.
- 13:53Speaker 1: That's why we're celebrating America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
- 13:56Speaker 1: So you enjoy it too. Those people agree. I love
- 13:58Speaker 1: that Donna Lady didn't want to attench, just wanted to
- 14:00Speaker 1: bring some flyers and show up at the Massachusetts booth.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Winder's stupid state, wouldn't. Thanks for finding me. I appreciate
- 14:06Speaker 1: you so much. Getting closer and closer, we'll find something
- 14:08Speaker 1: else patriotic as we lead into the big, big American
- 14:12Speaker 1: Birthday coming up this weekend. Audio podcast listeners you can
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- 14:26Speaker 1: where you can find that, where you can watch on
- 14:27Speaker 1: your own schedule. Happy Birthday, America. Remember the real Americans,
- 14:31Speaker 1: the real patriots who always step up. I'll talk to
- 14:33Speaker 1: you tomorrow.