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Ages of Founding Fathers · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, did you know
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  how young most of the founding fathers actually were at the time of the revolution.
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  Well, let's ask our American mama. Mama, Mama, and joining
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  us now our American mama, Terry Netterville. There's there's this list going around
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  and I went and I'm like, you know, because you can't read everything,
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  you can't believe everything you read on the internet, right, But I
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  went and checked the data on some of this, and yeah, this is
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  true. So James Monroe, one of our first presidents, he was eighteen
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  years old in seventeen seventy six. Aaron Burr, vice president under Thomas Jefferson,
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  was twenty years old in seventeen seventy six. John Marshall twenty years old.
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  Alexander Hamilton was just twenty one years old in seventeen seventy six. James
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  Addison, who wrote the Constitution, twenty five years old in seventeen seventy six.
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  John Jay, the first Supreme Court Chief Justice, thirty years old in
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  seventeen seventy six. Incredible Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence,
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  just thirty three years old, Thomas Payne. He of course, did you
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  know the pamphlets that helped pushing the thirty nine years old? Look, there
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  were some others that were also pretty young. George Washington, for example.
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  We think of General George Washington, this gray haired, old, grizzled forty
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  four yea in that one was forty four years old as the general of the
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  Continental Army. What were you doing at eighteen? It really does make you
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  stop and think what did I do with my life? But how incredible?
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  I feel like these are you know, their kids in my mind? Right,
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  you know, all these my entire life I picked. Are these old
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  men, right? But sitting around the table, Yeah, yes, right,
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  But they were anointed. I feel like that God chose them, Okay.
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  I feel like that they had patriotism, and you know, honestly,
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  I think about my own side. I have two boys and a girl.
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  I can see my son's sitting around because they've always had um, a feeling
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  of love and duty to our country. They respected the country. I can
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  see Steel sitting around and truly believing that this is the course that we should
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  take, and willing to fight, willing to die. Same with Slade.
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  But I think right now, you know, I was thinking, what about
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  this generation? People always said, oh, this generation, no others so
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  lost. Here's where I disagree. I've told my children since they were little.
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  I said, I think that your generation is going to save us.
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  Of course, I feel like that right now. The ones who are getting
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  the limelight, the ones who are getting the cameras on their faces and they
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  have the social media attention, are the transgenders. Are these bullies who are
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  out there fighting and hating America? Yeah, have the cancel culture. That
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  is such a small group. But because they have the megaphone, because they're
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  the ones that have the system to say what they want to say and they're
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  not canceled for it, it looks like that that's a majority. No,
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  this generation is so patriotic, they are so strong. They love our country,
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  they love us, and I am telling you right now that this generation
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  of kids, they're going to be the ones to save us. But here's
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  one of the things that I hear what you're saying. Yeah, but when
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  I think about this generation of kids, they don't know right now what Thomas
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  Jefferson knew at the same age. They haven't read Thomas Locke, they haven't
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  read Adam Smith. They haven't read Newton, they don't know, they don't
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  have the knowledge base that are founding fathers had in civics and in philosophy and
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  in science, and they just don't know. I hear you, I hear
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  you. It's they were definitely much wiser back during that time. They were
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  not indoctrinated by left wing nuts, and we didn't you know, we didn't
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  know all of that. You're so right. But what our this generation has
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  our parents who have read and have patriotic hearts, and who have brought up
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  our children to love God, love your neighbors, love our country. So
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  we do have that going for us. But you're absolutely one correct when you
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  say back then, I would say the eighteen to twenty year old then had
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  the wisdom of a forty to fifty year old, you know. And let's
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  be clear on this too, this is actually a subset of that age group.
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  Most of these people were either landowners or children of landowners. At the
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  time, you didn't have people who weren't landowners going to the Continental Convention,
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  so those people probably didn't know as much as some of our generations these days.
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  But you you just wonder, man, where is the is there a
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  leadership that is as well educated that it says wise that has that. Where
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  is that leadership going to come from? It's it's going to come from this
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  generation. And you know, Kevin and I have raised our children to believe
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  in the greatnesses within them. We had the song you know we are the
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  Nataville's the mighty Mighty Nataville. And they grew up singing this song. We
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  talked about how strong We said that ya are leaders. We expect great things
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  from you. Love you know, We're going to raise you to be great
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  citizens in this country. And I feel like that we're not the minority.
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  This is the majority of parents. And so these this generation sees what's happening
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  right now. They have parents in their ears, and they are hungry for
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  God. They are hungry for a change because they know what's happing right now.
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  Done feel right in their gut. So they're going to be the ones
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  to turn this ship around. Even like I ask our American Mama question,
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