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Revolution The Birth Of The Greatest Nation In The History Of The World From Eric Metaxas · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: how are you doing today? Eric?
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  Speaker 2: I am swell. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic and I'm very excited to share a conversation
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  Speaker 1: with you, because, hey, dude, never dreamed that I would
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  Speaker 1: be here for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary and
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  Speaker 1: your book, I'm telling you right now is a gift
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  Speaker 1: because I swear to God, I didn't know half the
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  Speaker 1: junk that's in here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for calling it junk.
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  Speaker 3: No, seriously, I got to tell you I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: half to junk that I was in here.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the reason I said, I got to write
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  Speaker 2: the book.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I feel a sense of guilt, a sense
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  Speaker 3: of indebtedness. Yes, that we take these things for granted,
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  Speaker 3: and honestly, the liberties that.
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  Speaker 2: We have, what we have in this nation.
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  Speaker 3: We should all be ashamed for not knowing the names
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  Speaker 3: of all the people who suffered and died so that
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  Speaker 3: we could have a free conversation on the radio. I
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  Speaker 3: you know, I said, I've got to put in one
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  Speaker 3: book so people can just read one book that tells
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  Speaker 3: the whole story.
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  Speaker 2: If this is if there's a year to do it,
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  Speaker 2: this is the year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we remember the bi centennial. This year is
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  Speaker 3: the super centennial. That's the official term. This is America's
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  Speaker 3: super centennial. And this is the time we need to
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  Speaker 3: get back to the basics. We need to know these stories.
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  Speaker 3: Nathan Hale, Henry Knox, on and on and on, these
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  Speaker 3: great heroes, John Hancock, Joseph Warren. I didn't know most
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  Speaker 3: of these stories, and I confess that, and that's why
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  Speaker 3: I did a ton of research. And I'm excited to
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  Speaker 3: share this with you know, my fellow Americans.
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  Speaker 1: Well, God bless you on this research, because I'm a
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  Speaker 1: research whore, and I mean I just when I'm going
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  Speaker 1: through this book, I'm actually envisioning you. How your notes were,
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  Speaker 1: like probably all over that dang room, but yet your focus.
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  Speaker 1: You knew exactly where everything was when you would come
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  Speaker 1: across something new. Was it that tough or am I
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  Speaker 1: just being a visionary here?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's an amazing thing that writing a book like this.
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  Speaker 3: People always ask me, how do you do it? And
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  Speaker 3: the answer is, I don't know, and I'm not kidding
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  Speaker 3: however I do it. I don't recommend doing like Mickey Mantle,
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  Speaker 3: don't do what I did right. I really feel like
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  Speaker 3: I got it done. And I'm not being falsely humble
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  Speaker 3: when I say I didn't know what I would end
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  Speaker 3: up with. And so the fact that I am am glad,
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually happy with what I'm personally surprised because it
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  Speaker 3: was such an arduous thing.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're trying to be encyclopedic.
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  Speaker 3: You're telling a story that spans really seventeen sixty three
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  Speaker 3: to seventeen eighty three. How did it all happen? Who
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  Speaker 3: are the key players? What stories do you tell? What
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  Speaker 3: stories do you leave out? What battles do you leave out?
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  Speaker 3: I really had to have an innate sense of what
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  Speaker 3: is the through line? Is what do people need to know?
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  Speaker 3: That's what I put in the book. And listen, it's
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  Speaker 3: six hundred pages, right, and it should be twelve hundred pages.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, people who have read it said that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a great read. And to me as
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  Speaker 3: a writer, that's the greatest words that I could hear,
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  Speaker 3: that it's a great read. I couldn't put it down.
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  Speaker 3: Or it's fascinating, I mean, because it should be fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: The stories are fascinating, the figures are almost some of
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  Speaker 3: them unbelievable heroic figures, and some you know, dastardly villains.
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  Speaker 3: We need to know about that too, because there's always
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  Speaker 3: villains when there's heroes.
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  Speaker 1: The despicable villains as you put inside this book, because
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  Speaker 1: you're right, I mean, you cover everybody, from the good
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  Speaker 1: people to those that I don't know, man, but yet
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  Speaker 1: you put them in there so that we can say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I do now I know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's kind of amazing.
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  Speaker 3: One of the subtexts, or the subplots, really is that
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  Speaker 3: there were two generals. Horatio Gates and General Charles Lee,
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  Speaker 3: both more qualified militarily than Washington, but they weren't chosen
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  Speaker 3: for the top job. Both of them were gunning for
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  Speaker 3: his job. They wanted his job, so they're undermining him.
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  Speaker 3: They're really out for themselves. And Washington is out for
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  Speaker 3: the sacred cause of liberty. So he's the noble figure
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  Speaker 3: who really does win in the end. He's the genuinely
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  Speaker 3: good guy. And when I say good, that word doesn't
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  Speaker 3: do him justice. The man is like a mind, a
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  Speaker 3: living monument. When I study him, you're in awe of
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  Speaker 3: this guy because because he did things and suffered things
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  Speaker 3: that most people would be like, Okay, I'm done. He was.
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  Speaker 3: We owe him a lot. It's just incredible. But there's
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  Speaker 3: so many figures in the book like that. I said,
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  Speaker 3: we need to know the names of Nathan Hale and
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  Speaker 3: Henry Knox. They did things. It's just so beautiful. And
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  Speaker 3: this is our history, it's our story, and you know
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  Speaker 3: we're meant to be part of the ongoing revolution, that
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  Speaker 3: we need to be faithful to the principles of revolution.
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  Speaker 3: How can we be faithful to the principles of revolution
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  Speaker 3: if we don't know what those principles are? So that's
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  Speaker 3: part of why I wrote the book. I said, every
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  Speaker 3: American is on the hook for this information.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Eric coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: The name of the new book, Revolution, The Birth of
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  Speaker 1: the Greatest Nation in the history of the world. We
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  Speaker 1: are back with Eric. You talk about Henry Knox, and
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  Speaker 1: of course I've got I've got another Henry on my
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  Speaker 1: page here. And I know I'm going to blow his
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  Speaker 1: last name. And I know I probably did my research wrong,
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  Speaker 1: But who is this Henry plungin Jogger? Who's this guy
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  Speaker 1: plow Jogger. I'm free, I'm Humphrey. Okay, see I had
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  Speaker 1: it wrong. Okay, So who's this dude? Because I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen this guy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's right, Well you just don't know. He's disguised.
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  Speaker 3: Humphrey plow Jogger is the pseudonym of John Adams.
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  Speaker 2: John Adams, who I gotta be honest with you.
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  Speaker 3: If anybody comes out as the hero of this book,
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  Speaker 3: of this this epic tale of the Revolution, other than
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  Speaker 3: George Washington, it is John Adams. John Adams should be
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  Speaker 3: a thousand times more famous than Thomas Jefferson. He is
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  Speaker 3: an insane hero, humble and He wrote an essay in
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  Speaker 3: seventeen sixty five, ten years before Lexington conquered.
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  Speaker 2: He was thirty year old man.
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  Speaker 3: He writes an essay and he publishes it in the
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  Speaker 3: Boston Gazette in four parts under the pseudonym Humphrey PLoud Jogger.
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  Speaker 3: It I laugh every time I hear that. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: so hilarious. But it's one of the most beautiful essays.
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  Speaker 3: And what he says he knew all this stuff ten
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  Speaker 3: years before you know, Thomas Jefferson is writing a declaration.
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  Speaker 3: John Adams is writing about all this stuff ten years earlier.
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  Speaker 2: He is the man.
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  Speaker 3: And I wrote a whole chapter on this essay because
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  Speaker 3: most people aren't aware of it when I discovered it.
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  Speaker 3: This happens very rarely. You know, you find something You're like,
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  Speaker 3: how come I don't know about this? How come nobody's
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  Speaker 3: heard about this? And I'm looking it up. It's an
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  Speaker 3: astonishing essay, And so I wrote a whole chapter about
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  Speaker 3: this essay that the thirty year old John Adams rights
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  Speaker 3: under the pseudonym Humphrey PLoud Jogger.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. And another place where you totally blew
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  Speaker 1: me away is when you talk about April nineteenth, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: seventy five. I guess I'm that kid that thought everything
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  Speaker 1: started on July fourth, seventeen seventy six. But your book
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  Speaker 1: identifies so many areas of By the way, guys, there
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  Speaker 1: was a story before the story, and you need to
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  Speaker 1: know that story well.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, the whole idea is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you know the stories before the story, what happens.
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  Speaker 3: You know at Lexington and conquered, what happens July fourth,
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  Speaker 3: seventeen seventy Suddenly all that makes sense because that just
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  Speaker 3: doesn't happen. It's like the lead up to it. So
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  Speaker 3: John Adams calls it the revolution before the revolution. It
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  Speaker 3: really is true. There was so much tumult going on
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  Speaker 3: and tensions building up and people arguing back and forth,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the story that leads to you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: at war with the mother country.
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Who thought of that? How thought that could happen?
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  Speaker 3: It's a mind blowing story. It is our story. And
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  Speaker 3: as I say, every American is on the hook. This
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  Speaker 3: is not like, oh, this is for history, buffs, and
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  Speaker 3: every American needs to know this story. And if you
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  Speaker 3: forgot it, I hope my book is you know as
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  Speaker 3: readable as everybody says, because it should be readable, we
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  Speaker 3: should know, we should all know this. This is not
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  Speaker 3: like something for you know, those other people like this
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  Speaker 3: is our story and by the way it will move
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  Speaker 3: people that you know, I get to be an American.
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  Speaker 3: I get to be part of the story. That's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people wish they could be. And it is beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: As you, Chris crossed the country and got into different regions,
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  Speaker 1: did the story change? And the reason why I say
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  Speaker 1: that is is because I'm from Montana. We weren't even
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  Speaker 1: created yet when this thing went down. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: is is that Montana's have their own version here in
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  Speaker 1: the South they I mean, I'm in Charlotte, we have
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  Speaker 1: our own version. Did did you see any of that
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  Speaker 1: as you were criss crossing the country?
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  Speaker 2: Not really.
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  Speaker 3: I think that you know, everybody has local pride or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: but no, if you're Montana, you can't have local pride
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  Speaker 3: with regard to the revolution.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So the point is this is everybody's story. If you're
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  Speaker 3: an American, this is your story. You know, the people
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  Speaker 3: in Massachusetts, they.
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  Speaker 2: Started it all.
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  Speaker 3: It is incredibly beautiful, but it everybody in Virginia and
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  Speaker 3: all these other they began to come together so that
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  Speaker 3: by the time he gets to seventeen seventy six, they're
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  Speaker 3: all on the same page, which was huge because they
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  Speaker 3: were so far apart from each other. They didn't even know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, when they gathered for the Continental Congress. John Adams,
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  Speaker 3: and again I quote him so much in the book.
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  Speaker 3: He is writing about his fellow delegates. He's meeting them
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  Speaker 3: for the first time. He's hilarious. John Adams is hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: And I quote his cryptic comments about these figures and
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  Speaker 3: what they look like and how they get I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he is so funny. But this is the first time
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  Speaker 3: they're meeting, and they get to know each other, and
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  Speaker 3: this thing develops that we now know of as the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America. They're coming together, the beginning to
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  Speaker 3: compare notes and realize, even though we're different, the we
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  Speaker 3: hold these truths in common, and we got to stand
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  Speaker 3: up for these truths.
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  Speaker 2: We got a link.
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  Speaker 3: Arms It is beautiful and anybody who lives in the United
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  Speaker 3: States of America, I say it again, you're on the
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  Speaker 3: hook for this information. It's going to be on the test.
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  Speaker 3: This is important stuff. So you know, I put it
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  Speaker 3: in one book. You don't have to read thirty books,
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  Speaker 3: but it is just it's our story. It's beautiful and
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  Speaker 3: I feel honored that I get to put it out there.
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  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show man. Ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes with you is not enough time, and there's too
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  Speaker 1: much of America to be forgotten without talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: and people like yourself, you are creating the conversation. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you, God bless you that I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that ten million times because this is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: we need.
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  Speaker 2: You're very kind. I just hope people will pick up
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  Speaker 2: a copy of the book.
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  Speaker 3: Simple title, Revolution the Birth of the greatest Nation in
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  Speaker 3: the history of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sir, thank you