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6 Crucial Moments That Forged America From Brian Kilmeade Uniting The States · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: How's it going?
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  Speaker 1: I'm fantastic. How about you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: All good.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I love this book for
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  Speaker 1: so many reasons. And I guess the selfish reason is,
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  Speaker 1: is that I can hear your voice from TV, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading your heart through this book. And I am
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  Speaker 1: a freak on history. And we didn't get here without yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And you're giving us so much insight in this book.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. I never heard that phrase before, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to steal it.
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  Speaker 1: Go for it. It's all yours.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're giving us that foundation because even Generation Alpha
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  Speaker 1: and Beta are starting to search now. And it could
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  Speaker 1: be because it's our 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence,
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  Speaker 1: or it could be what's going on. And they're going,
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  Speaker 1: let's start from the very beginning. And your book, Uniting
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  Speaker 1: the States, it gives us that step forward without having
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  Speaker 1: to check in with ChatGPT.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so.
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  Speaker 3: And what I wanted to do is do something for
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  Speaker 3: 250 that was unique.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to find a seam.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that if I just took the six
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  Speaker 3: moments that astounded me, that broke our direction, that we
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  Speaker 3: found a way to be resilient, resourceful, enough to work
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  Speaker 3: our way through it, learn from it, that I thought
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  Speaker 3: would compile into a good book, kind of the template
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  Speaker 3: that JFK did with Profiles of Courage. Yes. And I
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  Speaker 3: thought we'd just throw these different things. And I didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to do a war book from one battle to
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  Speaker 3: the next. You get enough of that. And I thought
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  Speaker 3: if I talked about how John Quincy Adams fought against slavery,
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  Speaker 3: not many people thought about that, how Shays' Rebellion led
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  Speaker 3: to the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: Not many people put those two together.
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  Speaker 3: And then when I thought about the Boston Massacre leading
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  Speaker 3: to the Revolution, a lot of people focused on Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Revere using propaganda to sell it.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to use John Adams, who represented the British soldiers,
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  Speaker 3: to give us a sense of right and wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, and the one thing that I love about
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  Speaker 1: this book is, and it's not a knock against the
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  Speaker 1: educational system, but it seems like we're taught the first
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  Speaker 1: paragraph and then we can just go on with history
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  Speaker 1: or what's going to be on the test. And so, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: that's how we've been taking in our history for years.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have uniting the states and I'm going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're going deeper without a test. But if you want
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  Speaker 1: to give yourself one, you can.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just thought that I got one day of
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  Speaker 3: the War of 1812. I got one day on the Alamo,
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  Speaker 3: but I go to Texas and they get like three
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  Speaker 3: years of it. And I understand that you should build
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  Speaker 3: your history classes, your social studies classes around your region.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: If you're in Virginia and Boston, you could definitely focus
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  Speaker 3: on what's– you know, what's indigenous to California and Illinois.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. But for the most part, we should
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  Speaker 2: be learning the same things.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, but if you could go to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you live near Monticello. If you go to school there,
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  Speaker 3: that should be your field trip.
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  Speaker 2: I lived on.
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  Speaker 3: Long Island and every kid went to Sagamore Hill where
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  Speaker 3: Teddy Roosevelt lived.
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  Speaker 2: So that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: But we should all learn about the process, what happened
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  Speaker 3: here and who survived there and what they thought about
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  Speaker 3: the revolutionary moment and what they hoped America would be.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what I try to do in the book
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  Speaker 3: and just talk about these pivotal moments and how they
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  Speaker 3: got through it and what the vision was for our country.
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  Speaker 2: We used to take for granted there were 50 states.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the image a lot of people wanted. They
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  Speaker 3: just wanted to be– some really smart Americans only wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be like a European, like a Holland or a
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  Speaker 3: Belgium or a France. They did not want to be
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  Speaker 3: like a Russia or a China.
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  Speaker 2: But not Washington and Jefferson, man. They wanted the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. One of the things you touched on something there
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  Speaker 1: about the individual regions. I'm from Montana. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about the Louisiana purchase up there in Montana. It
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  Speaker 1: shaped everything we learned from Lewis and Clark all the
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  Speaker 1: way through. And then to move here to the South. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I had to study up and learn what it was like.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like, why didn't I get this in Montana?
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  Speaker 3: I know. And the South does have an interesting view
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  Speaker 3: of the Civil War.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that and that's evolved. And I'm glad it did.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I did a special for this. I have
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  Speaker 3: a Fox Nation special on United States. But I do
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  Speaker 3: this series called What Makes America Great? And we did
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  Speaker 3: a thing on Fort Sumter. And I had and also
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  Speaker 3: I did a thing on for my book, The President
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  Speaker 3: of Freedom Fighter, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and the Battle
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  Speaker 3: for America's Soul. And I did a walk and talk
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  Speaker 3: with Senator Lindsey Graham on my right. And on the left,
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  Speaker 3: Senator Tim Scott. Black senator, white senator in the South.
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  Speaker 3: And we pointed to Fort Sumter and how important it
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  Speaker 3: was to him. But they learned a whole different thing.
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  Speaker 3: War between the states initiated by Lincoln. Didn't have to
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  Speaker 3: fight a war. It was not about slavery. It was
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  Speaker 3: about freedom. And that's what they learned. But the curriculum
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  Speaker 3: has changed. And then Lindsey Graham pointed at a rebel soldier.
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  Speaker 3: a Confederate soldier, and he said, it doesn't mean he's
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  Speaker 3: a bad person, he just was wrong. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he fought for the wrong side.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Brian Kilmeade coming
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  Speaker 1: up next. The name of the book, Uniting the States,
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  Speaker 1: Six Crucial Moments That Forged the American Miracle. We are
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  Speaker 1: back with Brian Kilmeade. Do you not believe that this
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  Speaker 1: book is really the fire starter when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: reigniting the American dream? I actually came out of the
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  Speaker 1: book going, I've got hope. I've got something here that
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  Speaker 1: I'm holding on to that I haven't held in a very,
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  Speaker 1: very long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what I wanted to do is make it simple,
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  Speaker 3: easy to read, use quotes, not opinion, and tell the
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  Speaker 3: story so any Democrat can't say it's some Fox guy
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  Speaker 3: or a Republican say some Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Guy is writing a book to Fox audiences.
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  Speaker 3: I find that when we talk history, when I go
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  Speaker 3: on the road and talk.
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  Speaker 2: History, I don't even know who they voted for.
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  Speaker 3: And then I got these live shows on the air,
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  Speaker 3: which we go on stage. I'll be in Florida and
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  Speaker 3: Clearwater and Jacksonville on the.
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  Speaker 2: 7th and 8th and then St. Louis on the 21st.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I talk about all my books, kind of
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  Speaker 3: try to bring history to life.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't you a forever student? Because even in watching you
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  Speaker 1: on TV and even in reading the book, Uniting the States,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that you're still a student and you're
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  Speaker 1: very excited to share information with those of us that
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  Speaker 1: are checking in.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm learning every day.
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  Speaker 3: And then what I try to do is these features
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  Speaker 3: are opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: For me to learn, you know, learn more.
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  Speaker 3: So I get to go to the Smithsonian and do
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  Speaker 3: a feature on the Louisiana Purchase as we whip out
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  Speaker 3: the documents.
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  Speaker 2: But as you walk through, you see Jefferson's desk.
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  Speaker 3: You know, where he wrote the Declaration of Independence and
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  Speaker 3: you look over and there's Washington's uniform. So it really
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  Speaker 3: makes these mythical characters who aren't mythical, but they seem
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  Speaker 3: mythical until you actually see what they wore, what they did,
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  Speaker 3: what they use.
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  Speaker 2: So I always love to learn. And also most of
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  Speaker 2: these historians have so much knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: And no one gets in. They don't really get a
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  Speaker 3: chance to really dive deep into it. And that's when
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  Speaker 3: I put them on camera is when I really get
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  Speaker 3: a chance to learn more.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Lewis and Clark were mythical to us until the
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  Speaker 1: teacher took us to Pompeii's pillar and we got to
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  Speaker 1: see what was carved into that stone. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it became very real to every one of those students.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it must have. It must be great
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  Speaker 3: to be able to do that and see what they saw.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, you saw our Yellowstone special episode.
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  Speaker 2: I have Montana.
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  Speaker 3: I've only stepped into Montana briefly and going to Yellowstone Park,
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  Speaker 3: but I would love to go back because I just
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  Speaker 3: hear great things.
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  Speaker 1: What were you grow with this book in the way
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  Speaker 1: of giving us more depth? Because it's almost like you've
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  Speaker 1: given us six. But in my heart, I want to go.
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  Speaker 1: There's got to be 100. I know he's got to
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  Speaker 1: be doing more books. He's got to be doing a
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  Speaker 1: series out of this.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my next book I'm already working on, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing a sequel to my very first book, The Games
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  Speaker 3: Do Count. I'm going to call it The Games Still Count.
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  Speaker 3: The Best and Brightest in the Power of Sports. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm Tom Brady, of course I know how sports
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  Speaker 3: benefited me. If I'm Michael Jordan, of course I know
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  Speaker 3: how sports benefited me.
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  Speaker 2: What about the rest of us?
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  Speaker 3: What about the rest of us that played, tried, in
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  Speaker 3: most parts really cared? Division III hockey player, Division I
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  Speaker 3: football player, 1AA. You know, you're John Husted, center from Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: You played 1AA. You played Division I at Dayton. You know,
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  Speaker 3: so what are we doing? We didn't get famous. We
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  Speaker 3: didn't get rich. No one paid us. I played soccer
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  Speaker 3: through college at Division II. But, like, you play like
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  Speaker 3: you cared. You get benched.
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  Speaker 2: You start. You score.
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  Speaker 3: You score on your own goal. All those experiences feed
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  Speaker 3: into you, come into a life. So I– I'm interviewing
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  Speaker 3: 50 people about what they did in sports that set
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  Speaker 3: them up for success later in life. So I've gotten
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  Speaker 3: through 37. I got 13 more to do by January.
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  Speaker 1: See, and inside my broadcasting heart, that tells me you
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  Speaker 1: see who we are. On that television and in these books,
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  Speaker 1: you are creating stories. You are a real, authentic journalist, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you saying that. I appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: reading the book, too. I mean, it's.
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  Speaker 3: What I try to do. It's like I'm not– this
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  Speaker 3: is the way I talk. It's the way I– try
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  Speaker 3: to communicate and in all different ways.
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  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future. 10 minutes with you is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be enough there, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thanks so much, man. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today. Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 2: If anybody wants the book, Brian, kill me.com.
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  Speaker 3: If you guys want to personalize, it'll go right to
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  Speaker 3: my local bookstore and I show up twice a week
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  Speaker 3: and we, we, I sign in, send it out.
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  Speaker 1: See, that's connection. See, you are a real broadcaster. You
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  Speaker 1: really are one. Your mom would be very proud of you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thanks, man.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you.