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America 250 With Newt Gingrich Celebrating U.S. History And It's Greatest Moments · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: your exploration. Good afternoon, or and good morning sir. How
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  Speaker 1: are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely fantastic and always excited to share a conversation with you,
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  Speaker 1: and I've always got to start it with how your
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  Speaker 1: wife is doing, because Callista was always so nice to
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  Speaker 1: me to share her books and to really bring it
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  Speaker 1: into so many lives that are growing in front of
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  Speaker 1: us inside this great nation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she's doing wonderfully. She is the ambassador to Switzerland
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  Speaker 2: and she has about six hundred and fifty of her
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  Speaker 2: Swiss friends coming to a Fourth of July party this week. Wo,
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  Speaker 2: So she is currently very very busy, but she's doing well,
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  Speaker 2: and I will tell her that you mentioned her, and
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  Speaker 2: she'll be very grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Sir, Why aren't we going to see a story like
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  Speaker 1: this on your podcast that's going to be about you?
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  Speaker 1: Because I've always looked at you as being the greatest,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest teacher of our time, because you were a teacher,
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  Speaker 1: a leader in those classrooms, you went on to Washington,
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  Speaker 1: you change people's lives, and today you continue to teach
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  Speaker 1: us even as we speak. You are the greatest teacher
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  Speaker 1: in the two hundred and fifty years of this nation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know to go that far, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: at least a pretty good teacher. But we've had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pretty great teachers. Look, I think, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in learning, and I believe in history because
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  Speaker 2: I think history teaches you a lot of lessons about
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  Speaker 2: what works what doesn't work, and I think that's really important.
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  Speaker 2: We tell people that imitation is much cheaper than invention.
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  Speaker 2: So when you have a problem, go look at somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's already solved it in the last couple hundred years
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  Speaker 2: and see what you can learn from them. And that's
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  Speaker 2: really how I approach things. I also, I frankly, just
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  Speaker 2: think it's interesting and we certainly in the series we
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  Speaker 2: just did at n each World. We had some great
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  Speaker 2: podcasts where we looked at the history of how we
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  Speaker 2: got here, and we had some great podcasts where we
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  Speaker 2: looked at the future. We tried to balance both the
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  Speaker 2: last two hundred and fifty years and where are we
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  Speaker 2: going to go from here? And that's something I'm also doing.
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  Speaker 2: I have a book that will come out in October
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  Speaker 2: called America's Golden Age, and it really goes out to
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventy six, because I think you know we're going
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  Speaker 2: to You ain't his recognize to say you ain't seen
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  Speaker 2: nothing yet?
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  Speaker 1: I would love to both. Those are wise words right there,
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  Speaker 1: because you know that, and that's what I love and
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  Speaker 1: hold on to even today, because you're right, we have
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  Speaker 1: not seen everything yet. And that's what I try to
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  Speaker 1: share with the younger generation is that if you do
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  Speaker 1: not study your history, you have no idea where you
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  Speaker 1: are in this place called now. And that's why I
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  Speaker 1: depend on people like yourself, sir, because you give me
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  Speaker 1: the right information. There is no clickbait. You bring it
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  Speaker 1: to us straight and forward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, different people have different roles in life.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think my natural role is to be
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  Speaker 2: a teacher and a problem solver, and I get up
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  Speaker 2: every day, seven days a week. First, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: the world changes so much. I have to spend at
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  Speaker 2: least three hours a day just learning. Yes, it is
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  Speaker 2: so complicated and there's so many different things going on
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  Speaker 2: that to really have some sense of reality, you know,
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  Speaker 2: despite how many years I've done this seven days a week,
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  Speaker 2: I spent at least three hours just trying to learn
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  Speaker 2: what's happened while I was asleep.
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  Speaker 1: During that process of teaching and learning every day I did.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody from Georgia recently asked me to ask you something
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  Speaker 1: about the Big Chicken, and that the Big Chicken should
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  Speaker 1: be known nationwide and that it does affect the people
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  Speaker 1: that lived in that area. Everybody knows the Big Chicken.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Big Chicken is a very very tall chicken.
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  Speaker 2: It seems what it sounds like, and it was it
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  Speaker 2: was originally put in there as an advertising device to
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  Speaker 2: get people to say, you know that, to remind them
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  Speaker 2: that they could buy fried chicken as they drove down
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  Speaker 2: the highway. And it is so big that airline pilots
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  Speaker 2: could could could see it when they were coming into
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta and It's one of the ways they knew they
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  Speaker 2: were coming to Atlanta because you saw me as all
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  Speaker 2: this gigantic chicken. Uh. Anybody who's listening to us, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they can google this and they will be they will
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  Speaker 2: see what we're talking about. But it is u Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean if Stone Mountain was an example of
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  Speaker 2: a symbol of Atlanta, then in Marietta, Georgia, the big
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  Speaker 2: chicken was also a symbol of Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with former Speaker of
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  Speaker 1: the House New Gingridge coming up next. What I love
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  Speaker 1: about podcasts is that you can go back at any
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  Speaker 1: given time and you can pick up where everybody left
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  Speaker 1: off and not ever feel like you're behind. From his
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  Speaker 1: podcast series, Nuke Gingrich, we're talking about America two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty. We're back. One of the things that I
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  Speaker 1: really cherish about your journey is that it feels like
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  Speaker 1: that you're never afraid to step into history. Because I
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  Speaker 1: did not know about Albert Gallatin until I listened to
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  Speaker 1: your podcast, Because I mean, we all assume these things
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  Speaker 1: just came into history, but you have to have leaders,
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  Speaker 1: and Albert was definitely a leader.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's a really classic example because Gallatin is
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  Speaker 2: from Switzerland where Callista is now the investment and Gallatin
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  Speaker 2: was important enough and he's appointed six to the Treasury
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  Speaker 2: by four different presidents. He has a statue directly in
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  Speaker 2: front of the Traditory department next to the White House.
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  Speaker 2: He came to the United States from Switzerland, originally went
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  Speaker 2: to Boston, then he went west all the way to
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  Speaker 2: western Pennsylvania when that really was the frontier. And so
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  Speaker 2: he was out there in the very early days and
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  Speaker 2: got elected to Congress, came to Washington as a congressman,
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  Speaker 2: and organized the Jefferson wing of American politics in the
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  Speaker 2: House side along with James Madison. And then when Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: became president, he knew that Gallatin was very very good
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  Speaker 2: with money and figures and with being able to think
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  Speaker 2: about what we should do financially, and so Jefferson asked
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  Speaker 2: him to service sector the Tree and that's really where
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  Speaker 2: he made his biggest contribution. He served there secretary under
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  Speaker 2: for presidents and really made a very big difference in America.
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  Speaker 2: And as I said, it's this sort of story now,
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  Speaker 2: we got into it in a podcast actually on the
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  Speaker 2: National Road. Because Gallatin, who was living in western Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: wanted to build a road to into Ohio. Remember that
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  Speaker 2: in that period before you have internal combustion engines, you
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  Speaker 2: don't do very many things just going cross country because
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  Speaker 2: it's you can't it's too hard. But so travel in
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  Speaker 2: the eighteenth century in America was really bound by rivers
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  Speaker 2: and by canals. And he wanted to have a regular
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  Speaker 2: road that would be paid for by the government, and
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  Speaker 2: that would allow people to go west into Ohio and
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  Speaker 2: settle Ohio Ohio Territory as it was called back then.
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  Speaker 2: And Washington and then sided with him. It was a
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  Speaker 2: little doubtful, but Gallatin was serving in the Congress, eventually
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  Speaker 2: talked Washington into agree in and that's how in that
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  Speaker 2: particular podcast we went from the National Road to Gallatin,
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  Speaker 2: and then from Gallatin to his entire role in government.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever have oh wow moments because you have
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  Speaker 1: become such a positive influence in the podcasting world, Because
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  Speaker 1: in my heart as a podcaster, I know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: You're preserving the next five hundred years inside your episodes,
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  Speaker 1: and you're giving those people five hundred years from now
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  Speaker 1: a place to go to learn where we are today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, perfect be quite that grandiose. I'll give you two
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  Speaker 2: quick examples we did for this particular series. On the
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  Speaker 2: two fiftieth, we were very fortunate to have my good
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  Speaker 2: friend Jared I. Sigmund, who is the administrator of NASA
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  Speaker 2: talk with us about the future of space. Yes, and
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  Speaker 2: about America's role in space over the last thirty years. Now.
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  Speaker 2: To me, because I'm a space nott and I grew up,
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  Speaker 2: I was shaped by by spot Nick and then by
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  Speaker 2: the Apollo program. The President Kennedy challenged us to get
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  Speaker 2: to the moon. To me, that's an exciting episode. And
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  Speaker 2: I really uh would recommend anybody now in a totally
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  Speaker 2: different front, just to give you a sense of you
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  Speaker 2: know that that we're not narrowly political. We've now done
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  Speaker 2: three really interesting podcasts, one about dinosaurs, one about the
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  Speaker 2: age of mammals, and one about the evolution of birds.
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  Speaker 2: And if you have some young person who's interested in
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  Speaker 2: fossils in the past and what have you, those three
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  Speaker 2: podcasts are worth their weight in goal. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 2: they're brilliant. So that just gives you a flavor, you
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  Speaker 2: know that, we I said, and I told my team
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  Speaker 2: when we first started doing this, I wanted I want
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we'll do politics, we'll do history, we'll do inventions,
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  Speaker 2: limited in how we're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, We've got to get together for a good old
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  Speaker 1: Southern conversation sometime where the two of us can sit
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  Speaker 1: down with some Southern sun tea and just have a talk,
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  Speaker 1: because there's so much that goes on here in the
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  Speaker 1: South that stretches across this entire planet. And my god, sir,
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  Speaker 1: you are in a position where you can just sit
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  Speaker 1: there and just really captivate the essence of storytelling.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my relatives would have told you when I was
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  Speaker 2: young that I had a gift of blarney. I'm half Irish,
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  Speaker 2: so that may that may be the key to all
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  Speaker 2: of us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, sir, please come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future. And I am praying that we get to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you this coming October when you're book comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Great and I'm gonna tell Chloester you said nice things
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sir, thank you, Take care,