July 4, 2025 • 50 mins
Just the News No Noise on Real America's Voice
Segment A: GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: DECADE OF SERVICE
Segment B: WHY WE CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY
Segment C: MUSIC BRINGS US TOGETHER ON THE 4TH
Segment D: GEN Z PATRIOTISM RESURGES
Segment E: John Solomon and Amanda Head Take You Into The Weekend
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello America, Happy fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to this very special holiday edition of Justin Use
No Noise. I'm your host, John Solomon, Report you kids,
always from the nation's capital, and I'm going to bring
in my amazing coast Amanda head, Amanda. This today kicks
off a one year celebration towards the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of America. A year ago, we were talking
about freedom being on life support, and it feels like
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six months into the Trump presidency, we're free to do
the things that we thought we always were free to do,
Free to raise our kids the way we want, Free
to be a woman and just compete in women's sports
without guys in it. Free to speak again without being censored.
What a difference a year is me? What a difference
when election made?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And you know, I, as I look forward to these
next three hundred and sixty five days of the festivities
that are going to be taking place, I my mom
still has glasses from the what was that the Bison
Tenne nineteen seventy six, So I know that that is
going to be happening. I wasn't there, I wasn't born yet,
I wasn't even as tweakle in my parents'.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Eyes yet, but I was so. I love stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And I cannot wait to see what's going to be
happening Franklin cities across the country over the next year,
but especially places like d C, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, folk.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Cities that have this rich history of the liberty and
founding of this Scotchy.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We're gonna have to caugh up some patriotism.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, we're going to have to. I think I think
things are moving in that direction right. The mayor here
seems to be ready moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So and we have a guest today, Emily Surge with
campus reform. Who's going to be able to speak on that?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, we got the perfect way to kick off this
Fourth of July. A true American patriot can think of
a better way to kick off this Fourth of July
than with our first guest. He is one of the
greatest actors of his generation Forrest Gump, The Green Mile
POLLA thirteen, which is my son's favorite movie, by the way,
also the founder of one of the most impactful foundations
and charities in America, the Gary Sonese Foundation, joining it
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which is devoted to helping the brave service members in
our great country. Joining us now, our good friend, Gary
Sinise carry good to have you on happy fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Oh do you too, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I was thick of this morning of one of my
favorite lines from John Adams. He said that liberty, once lost,
is lost forever. The men and women that sat on
that front line each of these last two and forty
nine years to make sure we kept that liberty, that freedom,
they are I no forefront in your mind.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Tell us on the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Anniversary of the founding of your foundation, what you're doing
to help them?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh gosh, how much time you have, John. We have
multiple programs at the Gary Sense Foundation operating on multiple
fronts because well prior to the Foundation, I was engaged
with a lot of different nonprofits, a lot of different
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military veteran first responders support organizations, traveling here and there
and meeting a lot of different people that needed help
to help our service members. So I got very involved
in many, many different ways. And then when I started
the foundation fourteen years ago, I wanted to dig in
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and do a lot of what I was already doing.
So we have a very very broad mission at the
Gary Seneze Foundation.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Amazing Gary.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I know that for our veterans, having proper and sufficient
VA service is top of the list, and that's obviously governmental,
but for American citizens, for people watching this show, what
are the greatest needs of our nation's veterans in ways
that they can help?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh, there are multiple ways that you can help.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
People always ask me, you know, beyond my organization, where
they should place their support and what are the great
organizations I used to support about thirty different organizations before
I have my own that we're doing a lot of
different things, helping our wounded, taking care of our families,
of our fallen heroes, on many fronts, first responders outreach there.
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First responders are struggling and sacrificing each and every day.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
So people would ask.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Me, and one thing that I would say is, while
there are many good organizations like the Garysonese Foundation that
you can support, and of course we always want to
do more at the Garysonese Foundation, so we need more support.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
One of the things that I always say is just look.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Within your own neighborhood, your own community, your own town,
your own city. At the Veterans and military families that
reside within those communities. There are veterans and military families
in every community in the country. And if we took
some responsibility to pat them on the back and reach
out and touch them and offer assistance if needed. You know,
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all those problems that we hear veterans falling through the
cracks and you know, waiting in line, and all the
things that we hear about that you know, maybe the
government falls short on. If we as citizens just took
some responsibility and took the opportunity really to reach out
and touch these folks, that problem would be greatly reduced.
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We wouldn't be hearing about veterans falling through the cracks.
And that's what I did, and that's what multiple other
organizations did that I got involved with that just wanted
to do something to support, especially after September eleventh, two
thousand and one, deploying to Afghanistan, deploying to Iraq, people
getting hurt, people getting killed, families losing loved ones, bad
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things happening. A lot of people picked up the charge,
you know, they took up the charge to help and many,
many different organisms were started. I got involved with many
that were operating like I said, in multiple ways on
different fronts. So the first thing I would say is,
are there veterans in your own community that just you
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can reach out in touch? And by doing that, I
say just simply the gesture of appreciation and gratitude for
providing our freedom for us. And we all know that
these men and women are our freedom providers. That's the
job they've chosen, and it sometimes can be a very
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dangerous job and people can lose their lives and be
injured in battle. We all can take some responsibility for
our defenders and just embrace them and help them out
when needed. And then certainly you can support great organizations
that are out there that have come up that are
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raising money.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
To deploy those resources all over the place.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, so important.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You led by example, You went and did it yourself,
and it does start with us. We got to jump
into that void whenever we can. Gary, I want to
talk a little bit about the next year, because as
of today we're starting our two hundred and fiftieth Thursday
celebration here in America. It's a great exciting time to
just celebrate all that we've been through. As you reflect
on those two hundred fifty years, what comes to mind,
what will be most important to you over the.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Next year, expressing continuing to express my gratitude to those
who have defended us and it kept us free, those
who sacrifice my foundation. The whole point of my foundation
is remembrance, gratitude, appreciation, and support. And we want the
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men and women who serve our country to know that
there's a grateful nation behind them. I wrote a book
in twenty nineteen. It came out February twenty nineteen called
Grateful American, A Journey from Self Disservice, and really is
about my recognition that the freedom that I've been allowed
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to enjoy in this country, you know, comes at a price,
and comes at a cost, and there are people that
are willing to sacrifice for that. I'm a grateful American.
I got a church shirt on here and says grateful American.
You know that's I don't think there's you know, there's
a better way to express ourselves than to kind of
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just stop for a second recognize that this is an
exceptional country. We've been allowed to live a certain way
of life here in this country because of the freedom
that we have that a lot of people don't get
to enjoy around the world. I mean, not everybody is free.
I've been to the border between North and South Korea.
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I've stood there. I've stood two feet away from a
North Korean guard standing on his side of the border,
staring at me in the face.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And he's a slave.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
That person has no clue who what real freedom is.
He's a slave to the supreme leader there. And there
are places on earth like that where they don't really
understand what being free is all about. Freedom has to
be fought for it, it has to be protected, it has
to be defended. There are people that are willing to
(09:19):
do that in this country, and so I'm grateful for them.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
And i want to remember them always.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
So this whole year is going to be about what
can we do to acknowledge and support the men and
women who keep us free.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Gary.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
There aren't a lot of heroes like you in Hollywood anymore,
people who honor veterans and seek out ways to help them.
It wasn't always like that. I mean, there was one
time when actors and comedians and singers would relish the
opportunity to perform with USO overseas for our troops. But
we've seen a little bit of a turn. I think
recently with movies like Top Gun, Maverick, and right now
in theaters f One that seem to have a little
(09:56):
bit more of a patriotic theme to them. Do you
think that Hollywood is going to turn back in the
direction of patriotism anytime soon?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
You know, it's I mean, Hollywood is a business. It's
it's there to make money.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Obviously there are ideologues in the in like in any
business there, they're in Hollywood too too. But uh, you know,
the more movies that are pro American that actually make
a good profit, uh, the more that will be made.
I mean, Maverick was incredible, you know what was what
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that did at the box office, and it brought back
a great feeling about this country, you know. Plus it
was just a great fun movie. And Cruise is you know,
he continues to put it out there like like nobody.
So that was that was exciting. I remember going to
that movie with my son and seeing it. I think
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the more success that movies like that have, the more
will will be made.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And the America's response to that movie I think was
a big loud message to the industry at large. You
said you're a grateful American, Gary, and I am too,
but we're also grateful for you what you do. You
showed the best of America every day by the way
you jump into the void and help our great men
and women in the armed forces. What a great honor
to have you on the show on this fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I sure appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me.
Happy fourth of July, everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Thank you sir. Wow, what a great guy. I'm so
lucky to have him on. All Right, we take quick
commercial break, we come back. We're going to do a
little history. Why not, It's the fourth of July. We
do that with the great Solomon Schmidt right after these messages. Hey,
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Speaker 3 (13:30):
Welcome back everybody to this very special fourth of July episode.
And this fourth of July marks America's two hundred and
forty ninth birthday. Yes, we are getting very close to
that very important two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our
nation's founding next year. And with us to join to
discuss why that is so important is the author of
the History Bites book series, which is specifically written for
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young children, Solomon Schmidt. Solomon, great to have you here
with us.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Same here, Thanks, Amanda, pleasure to be here with you.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
By job, It's wonderful to have you.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Happy Independence Day.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And you know, I think the first acquaintance we had
with you was when you wrote Alan Derschwitz book, his biography,
and you did an amazing job with that. And now
we're taking it back two hundred and forty nine years
tell us about this bite sized history series that you
have about America's funding will do?
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Yeah, I started it when I was twelve. My first
book is called US History Bites. It overviews thirty of
some of the most important events of American history from
Columbus to modern day. And when you go back two
hundred and forty nine years ago, what would you have
seen in the summer seventeen seventy six, Well, when the
founding fathers were in the State House in Philadelphia Independence
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Hall putting their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, in
armada of four hundred British ships and thirty two thousand
highly trained soldiers were pulling into New York Harbor against
nine thousand ragtag troops under George Washington. It's said so
often that perhaps it becomes a big cliche, but it
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is the ultimate David and Goliath story. That Armada, that
fleet of ships was carrying an army equivalent today to
about four and a half million troops. When you consider
the fact that the thirteen Colonies had about two and
a half million people in them at the time, and
the founders. It's pretty well known that signing the declaration
was kind of like signing a death warrant. The British
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military had a list of people who were supposed to
get hung, among them John Adams, and John Adams himself
tells us why they were doing this. He said around
the time of the signing of the declaration, A free
constitution of a civil government essentially is worth dying for.
And I think my mind is going back to not
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only the intellectuals and the great thinkers in Independence Hall,
but the boys led, as you might say, the soldiers
of the Continental Army who took cannon fire and musket
fire had their bodies ripped apart. We're shivering, we're sleep deprived,
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we're hungry, and could have had a legitimate, a legitimate excuse.
No one would have blamed them in a sense for
thinking that this was a lost cause and going home.
And the reason we're sitting here today in the United
States of America is largely because of a few thousand
men who stuck it out with George Washington in the
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days when it seemed like a lost cause against a
superior force.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So those are just some.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Of the things that are coming to my mind on
this Independence weekend. And folks can learn more about those
events in my books US History bites. I have a
book on the presidents and another book on major wars
from world history, overviewing wars from ancient times to the
modern wars in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You are remarkable, prolific, but I also think you have
found a way to deliver history for the next generation
of folks who grew up in the social media era,
of the Internet era. I love the way it's delivered.
It's powerful, it's accurate, but it's also entertaining, and it's
enough of a size that people can digest it quickly
and act on it. I was in visiting a state
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recently and run into a couple of teenagers in a
coffee shop. We struck up a conversation, and to my
shock and amazement, they told me that in all of
the history and social study courses he had taken. I
think we're fifteen and fourteen, they had never once discussed
in a classroom of the United States Constitution.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I was numb. I mean I was literally no. I
was like, I know what to say.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It seems to me this next year, on the twenty
fiftieth birthday, restoring Civics education and having a conversation about
that could be really important. Tell us where we are
in terms of civics literacy on the two hundred and
forty ninth birthday of America.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
That's a great question, as they all are. I am
not proficient in what's going on in the public school system.
I was private school from K to four and was
homeschooled from fifth to graduation. So I will just make
a little plug for homeschoolers and say that I've been
to about fifty homeschool conferences around the United States southwest,
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southwest north. The generation of homeschoolers that has been raised
over the last forty years are, you know, without trying
to brag about myself, remarkably well informed about Civics history,
American history, world history. And that's not to say that
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private school children and young people go to public school aren't.
But the homeschooling audience is certainly giving me a lot
of hope. I meet eight, nine, ten year old, eleven
year old kids who know historic figures that I don't know,
and they can tell you specific facts about them and
understand and appreciate the greatness of this country. And that's
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not to say we haven't made mistakes. There were five
hundred thousand slaves at the time of the signing of
the declaration. A third of the signers of the declaration
or so had slaves in their possession. But to recognize
the greatness of what we've been given, the ideals of
the Declaration of Independence, which we've heard them all so
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many times, but this staggering claim that it is self
evident all men are created equal, what does that mean?
It means that the ragtag troops from Maine or the
backwoods have as much right to happiness as King George
the Third. It's extraordinary. It's the basis for everything we
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are as a country, the basis for morality, the basis
for success. It enables the weak to be protected again
against those who want to oppress them a week in
the sense of, you know, maybe without folks without military
force at their command, like the king, like tyrants. And
it also enables the humblest of people in a way
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to become great, the American dream. So it's just a
staggering document and so beautiful when you hear that last
line that in support of this declaration, we mutually pledge
to each other. Our lives are fortunes and our sacred honor.
Think about the bond of love and unity we pledge
to each other our lives. They knew they could die,
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they knew they could have their necks broken from a
hangman's news. Our fortunes, our wealth, our lands, and our honor.
It was important for them to have a good reputation,
a good name, which of course is a biblical concept.
You know, Proverbs talk about a good name is to
be esteemed above riches. So we've been given such a heritage.
Goes without saying. And John Adams tells us that these
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days should be remembered, quote solemnized with pomp and parade, shows, games, sports, bonfires, illuminations,
with solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. And this
was him writing two hundred and forty nine years ago,
predicting that such things would happen in the days to come,
in the decades to come.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I have a feeling President Trump is going to check
all of those off his list.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yet next year for the two fifty.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Speaking of that, so about three weeks ago we celebrated
the Armies two fifty. But yesterday, the third was the
anniversary of George Washington. Assuming the position of the commander
of that force. George Washington as our nation's first president,
talk to us about why it's so important to study
those first leaders of our nation.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Another cliche to say that George Washington was a great man.
You don't have to take it from me. His rival,
King George the Third said, when Washington agreed to or
not agreed to, decided of his own free will to
leave the reigns of power to someone else, to not
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pursue a third term, even though he was constitutionally allowed
to do so and had the support of the people
behind him. They loved him. He was voted in unanimously.
King George the Third said that George Washington is the
greatest person of the age. It's the old idea that
those who don't want power are probably the ones who
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should have it. George Washington has been described as magnanimous,
as as kind and gracious to those lesser than him,
lesser in power and the stature and rivals on the battlefield.
He never showed a lack of confidence in front of
his men, although privately he expressed doubts. He had moments
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of weakness in which he thought that perhaps they just
couldn't go on and that it was going to end disastrously,
but in front of the men, he displayed confidence. He
was there with them in Valley Forge, through the winter,
through the snow. So we study these early leaders because
they were great people. John Adams. What John Adams had
to endure and suffer, what his wife, our founding mothers
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had to suffer. Abigail Adams watched the destruction of her
home state of Massachusetts. She and her kids had to
flee for their lives and brave winters with British soldiers nearby,
with armies marching through, with so many deprivations, illnesses, and
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so we had a generation of uniquely gifted, uniquely wise,
uniquely courageous, and uniquely people of unique foresight. They knew
that they were serving future generations. You can read that
in their letters. They knew that the decisions they were
aching would have ramifications for us. That's the staggering thing.
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John Adams wrote in a letter in July seventeen seventy six,
that this moment in our history should be celebrated from
one end of the continent to the other. He foresaw
a country that would be from east to west. At
a time when the thirteen colonies took up, you know,
the eastern seaboard of the United States. It's a staggering
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level of vision and it's humbling.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I think I still got to say that I'm still
a little mad at Martha Washington though, because she destroyed practically.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
All of the letters with George.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So yeah, the loss.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I like John Adams listen a portly in temperate Balding,
New England or that's my type of guy.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I want to put that out.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So Solomon Smid, that was such a wonderful, wonderful segment.
Thank you so much for joining us, and everybody go
buy all of his books available anywhere.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
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Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, all right, everybody, We're going to continue this special
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Speaker 3 (27:20):
All right, I'm gonna go out on a lemon say that.
You probably recognize that song. But if you didn't, what
you just heard was a song that we played for
you before from the Dugger Band titled True Colors. That
song was reportedly censored by a TV station in Nashville
who refused to play it for political bias reasons, and
we highlighted the story for you back in May.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
And because it's.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Our nation's birthday today, we thought it would be a
good time to bring back the men behind that song,
Jordan and Seth Duggar of the Dugger Band, and they
have some exciting news about a huge music festival that
is in the works. But also on Fox News. We
are so excited to celebrate this day with you guys.
Happy Fourth of July.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
We appreciate it absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I know that our audience was bopping their head and
tapping their toes as they were listening to that song.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I love the patriotic theme to it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know what, let's rewind to the inception of why
we had you guys on this show to begin with,
when you guys were censored.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
You know that song.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I've listened to it numerous times. It is a patriotic anthem.
It talks about old glory, talks about the red, white,
and blue. I don't understand what is political about that.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Did you guys.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Ever get an answer from that Nashville radio station about
what was so politically biased about it?
Speaker 12 (28:33):
We never received specific information about what the station saw
as being biased. So yeah, we're still still trying to
figure that out ourselves.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
So well the dark Yeah, something tells me that they
don't want to answer that question, and probably someone higher.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Up made the decision.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
All right, So you guys are doing a Fox News
basically a patriotic show for them. Tell us all about this.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
Yeah, we're excited We've been invited to be a part
their Independence Stay Special tonight at eight o'clock and we're
gonna be in Times Square just putting on a show.
We're actually playing this song and a couple of bumpers,
so you'll be on the lookout for that. We're excited
to be in New York, We're excited to be able
to be a part of this event, and we're glad
that Fox asked us to be the special guest.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay, so tell me about what this is going to
look like visually, because when I think of you know,
Times Square, big events taking place there, I'm thinking of
you know, New Year's Eve and they block off all
the streets and such as. Are there going to be
fans there or are is Fox News just using Times
Square as kind of like the backdrop.
Speaker 12 (29:37):
We've been told that for security purposes, there won't be
a live audience for a performance, but it's gonna be
a great time.
Speaker 10 (29:44):
We're gonna rock it out.
Speaker 12 (29:46):
We can't wait, and hope you guys will tune in
and check us out.
Speaker 11 (29:50):
It's so awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
So is it all a country artist or is it
a mix? What's that like?
Speaker 13 (29:56):
I believe from what I've heard that we're the only
artist that performing, So we're excited about that. It's going
to be from eight o'clock to eleven o'clock, so right
in primetime, and they're going to be going all over
the country seeing how different people are celebrating the fourth
and then we'll be performing right there in front of
the news corporation there Rotten Times.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Square, So we're excited about that. We'll have a full
band with us.
Speaker 13 (30:20):
We're playing True Colors and a couple other songs there
that tonight.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, that's so exciting.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
You're the headliners. That's amazing. All right.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So when you say you're a full band, how many
pieces do you have?
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Well, for this performance, there's just going to be four
of us. We did it a little bit skilled down version.
We're pretty For up and coming bands or newer bands,
you have to be flexible. So sometimes it's just me
and said, like today, I think we'll be playing a
song for you guys, just the two of us, but
then for certain events we have much bigger bands.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
So for this one in particular before us.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I love it. I love it, and you know you
guys obviously love America to a Grandeler degree. Because back
in November, you guys headlined for a Hurricane Helene fundraiser.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
Yeah, so Hurricane Helene, I'm sure a lot of people
have seen that and then use it impacted our community
pretty hard, and in East Tennessee and west North Carolina,
there was a lot of people impacted by it. And
we were just trying to figure out a way to
kind of give back to the people in our small
town of Greenville that were really impacted by it, and
we did a concert for him, and it's, you know,
something small that we're able to do.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
But you know, to.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
See the recovery efforts continuing to happen, and it's going
to be years. I know that they've just reopened a
couple of the bridges just a couple of weeks ago,
and that was a big thing in Greenville for that
bridge to particular bridge to be opened, but it's going
to take years to completely rebuild. We drive through the
town and you still see trees piled up along the
river bank, just new river banks from where the river cut,
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new paths in the in the ground. It's just it's
just insane to think about a mountain flooding like that.
Speaker 10 (31:59):
But that happened, and we're we're still holding strong. But
there's a lot of help.
Speaker 13 (32:03):
There's a lot of people that's really coming together in
our community and doing their part to try to clean
things up. And it's just awesome to see everybody come together.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Absolutely, I don't want to get political, but I do
want to get patriotic. So when you guys are out
and about and you're talking to fans and people who
are out having a good time, they want to come
listen to your music, which does have you know, even
if it's subliminal in a lot of your songs, you
know that patriotic theme. Do you feel like people are
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more optimistic about the direction of this country, because I
got to say, I've seen a lot of these polls,
and polls show that a smaller and smaller portion of
this country characterize themselves as extremely patriotic or proud to
be an American. But I have to say, it seems like,
you know, maybe it's because President Trump is in town.
I don't know what it is, but it seems like
people have a little bit more of an upbeat mentality.
(32:53):
Maybe it's just because it's about to be a long weekend.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
I think we've definitely seen a lot of enthusiasm. We
have a lot of enthusiasm.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
I think the outlook for our country is great, and
we're proud to be living in the USA.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
It's the greatest country in the world.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
And we've met so many people, and it's just the
impact of music.
Speaker 10 (33:15):
As writers and musicians.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Sometimes you don't realize that until you get out and
talk to the fans and see how it's affected them.
But we've met, in particular, one gentleman that served I
think for like twenty or thirty years and he was retired,
but he said that him and his whole group that
he had served with had been following the story of
the song.
Speaker 10 (33:36):
And we actually randomly met him.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
We weren't even scheduled to play at the show that
we attended here in Nashville for one of our friends,
and they brought us up on stage and we played
a song. We came up to us afterwards and was
telling us about how they'd been following the story and
how they were proud that our generation was taking a
stand and proud of our country. And I was like, man,
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that's the least that we can do from our end
is to write songs that mean something to the men
and women that have served this country.
Speaker 10 (34:10):
You know, we haven't served.
Speaker 12 (34:13):
We have played music for those who serve in the military,
but the sacrifices those people make is just unreal and
the fact that a song that we wrote has some
impact on them is just it's amazing for us, and
we hope that we can continue to be a positive
influence on people.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Absolutely, that's really really special, and I'm sure that there
are a lot of veterans out there who just.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Absolutely love your music.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
And maybe they don't see you in person and they
don't have the chance to express it personally, but I
you know, people absolutely love your music, and I would
imagine that it really hits home for our service members.
Seth and Jordan Duggart, guys, before we head out tonight,
I hear you have a song for us, right Yes,
I think.
Speaker 12 (34:56):
It's fitting that we play True Colors on July fourth.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
Uh, playing for you right now?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
See you looking down while I'm looking up.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
You're just sitting there sip and known the Starbucks cup.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
They known everything, not doing anything. I crank up some
Toby Keith climb back in my truck.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
And it don't matter where the chips may fowled a
statue lid, you will be standing.
Speaker 11 (35:40):
So the best part down the land of the free
sp You don't like you over, you know, but I ain't.
Speaker 14 (35:50):
I'm anenervation Cafi blue collar with the fact when and that's.
Speaker 11 (35:56):
A way for the further ju that is she around
life fault American ride and ride.
Speaker 15 (36:03):
It ridd now drawing the line in this contry ain't
something you can send me.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
Ain't fine that malast differ between me and because my
true colors are good by the blood, give him.
Speaker 10 (36:25):
A petiser in the second world.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
I ain't ever given up bother he fall for and
ever you're coming here fame.
Speaker 11 (36:34):
And seeing what we go we're gonna find. Fine, Fine,
go on and take your shine, But I ain't leaving here.
Speaker 14 (36:41):
Comingenerationy fir and blue color within the fact Wavenn's toll
it for the fourth June is year and life.
Speaker 11 (36:52):
On American Ride and Ride.
Speaker 15 (36:55):
It ridd ow, drawing the line it this contry ain't
something you can send me, Iman masted sweet And because
my true colors are redbody.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Bloom reddy blue.
Speaker 11 (37:15):
Red, why bloom, God.
Speaker 15 (37:25):
Bless you less.
Speaker 11 (37:30):
I ain't leaving.
Speaker 15 (37:32):
I'm innate generation guy, fair and blue collar with a
flack waving.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
I don't wait for the four of Jue, didn't.
Speaker 15 (37:42):
Shear and come from never come from riding hind now
join the line of his country.
Speaker 11 (37:52):
Ain't something you can stand me? Imn mast difference and.
Speaker 10 (37:58):
Because my true.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Welcome back everybody to our Independence Day special. It's really
refreshing to see more young Americans, especially gen Z, starting
to feel proud of their country again. You can sense
a shift. President Trump has played a big part, I
think in causing this shift with gen Z, so joining
us now to discuss that is Campus reform Reporter Emily Surge, Emily.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Welcome back and happy fourth of July. Happy fourth of July.
Thank you so much for having me. We are delighted
to have you, especially on this day.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
And you know, there I see two competing things happening.
One is that you look at polling and it says
with every generation we get less and less patriotic. And
yet I see so much content online of young Americans
gen Z being more patriotic.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
What's true?
Speaker 16 (38:55):
I'll tell you what I see, and I see bipartisan optimism.
A CB News poll from earlier this year surveyed all
of the generations and found that actually it was Generation Z,
the youngest generation surveyed, that had the most optimism with
President Trump back in office. Sixty seven percent of eighteen
to twenty nine year olds said that they had hope
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about this administration. And I think that goes back to
the number one issue in the November twenty twenty four
election that got Donald Trump elected was the economy.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Young people are hopeful that this president.
Speaker 16 (39:27):
Is going to bring back the American dream, make it
easier for them to buy a home, start a family,
get settled down, invest in the stock market. It's those
economic ideas that I think is driving this optimism on
both the left and the right among young people.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, that's a really great point.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
And there's not only just the traditional economy, like for
consecutive months of good job report above expectation jobs reports,
but there's a.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
New economy forming around us.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
But you've got the crypto economy coming around us, and
President Trump has really pushed out on ideas that seemed
to be the economic future for gen zers. How important
has it been that one of our oldest presidents has
leaned into some of the newest ideas.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
For the economy.
Speaker 16 (40:08):
That's a great point, and I want to point out
I see two different things that lots of gen zers
bring up when I interview them, and as a reporter
for the Leadership and Campus Reform, I'm talking to members
of generations the every single day.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Just within the past week, I talked to dozens.
Speaker 16 (40:21):
I hear lots of people bring up the economy, the
Golden Age, crypto investing, and then I also hear lots
of young women specifically bring up cultural issues. They bring
up the nuclear family, they bring up traditional gender roles,
and then both young men and young.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Women bring up faith.
Speaker 16 (40:38):
There's a religious revival happening among members of my generation.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
It's something that we are seeing on college campuses.
Speaker 16 (40:44):
Catholicism specifically, we are seeing a spike in and that's
because young people are looking for tradition in order, and
that goes back to rejecting progressive, leftist social values that
took over our society for so many years.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Emily, I love the optimism in our economy and just
I mean, we just had the jobs reports come out
and the unemployment numbers and things are looking better in
that economy seems to be driving forward, but something that
is going backwards. It seems like a civic education. And
John and I were just telling John was telling me
about an anecdote from where he was.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
This past weekend. Kids have been absolutely.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Failed you, I mean gen Z as well when it
comes to education about our government and how it works
and even our founding history. Do you find that among
those students and those gen Z folks who are feeling
a renewed sense of patriotism, that there's also an autodidactic
zest to learn more about our founders, even if they're
not taught it in school.
Speaker 16 (41:43):
I want to be clear the patriotic low that we
saw among gen Zers just a few years ago, back
in twenty twenty three, a Gallup poll showed a patriotic
low of just eighteen percent of gen Zers were proud
to be an American. That's exactly it. It was a
product of the education system. It was a product of
the lack of civics in our education system. It also
had to do with diversity, equity and inclusion, critical race theory,
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progressive propaganda like LGBTQ ideology being taught in our middle schools,
our high schools, in the higher education system instead of
that classic Civics education. Now we are seeing under this
administration some of those American ideas are bring brought.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Back to the education system.
Speaker 16 (42:24):
Just within the last few weeks, we saw the Department
of Education move forward. They're promoting new grants to get
back to an education that talks about our founding documents.
We're also seeing civic centers open on college campuses across
this country. I saw at the University of Florida and
my own campus that I just graduated from, we had
a civic center open there. So I do think that
there is a revival happening of bringing back American education,
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bringing back a Civics education to get the next generation
of leaders prepared to lead this country.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So important.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Birthday starts officially today and we have this Extraordinary Year celebration.
What are some of the opportunities to take that sort
of iconic moment in history and bring history back to America,
bring Civics back to America, because I think the conversation
is going to go towards our founding and some of
the things that are maybe young people weren't taught by
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their teachers.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
Absolutely, and I want to bring up my home state
of Florida.
Speaker 16 (43:24):
We just saw end of year testing their seventy one
percent of young kids.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
There were proficient in their Civics education.
Speaker 16 (43:31):
That's a really remarkable statistic, especially as we've seen nationwide
statistics really drop to new lows when it comes to reading,
when it comes to math, when it comes to civics.
So I like to look at the education system in Florida,
look at how I was educated as a young kid
in Florida, and see that the Civics education there seems
to be really working. Maybe other states should start to
(43:52):
look in that direction too, so that they can bump
up those numbers of kids proficient and civics too.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Considering all the news stories we see about men, I
never thought i'd say this, but I hope that children
who are raised by Florida men and women ultimately end
up leading this country with statistics like that. I want
to ask you about something that you mentioned a little
while ago, the DEI diversity, Equity and inclusion. Does gen
Z see that as something as valuable as the people
(44:19):
who are trying to institute it, or do they see
it as something that's kind of frivolous and ludicrous and
shouldn't be shouldn't factor into qualifications for someone to be
hired or chosen for something.
Speaker 16 (44:30):
I think more and more gen zers are turning their
backs on DEI because it infiltrated every single aspect of
our education, our churches, even our media, our books, our television,
our songs, Hollywood, but back to college campuses. It infiltrated
every single aspect from when a student applies to a university,
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when they have to write those essays that many colleges
required based on how they promote DEI throughout the our
daily lives. Then when they get on to campus, campus initiatives,
all of this spending on diversity, equity and inclusion, all
of these required courses on DEI, and then those graduation
requirements too, So it follows them throughout their entire college education.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
And now we're seeing more and more gen z.
Speaker 16 (45:18):
Ors turn their backs to it, say that this isn't working,
this is promoting toxic divides among races, This isn't making
us proud of our country when we're being taught these
toxic leftist ideas in our education system, and only as
we've begun to extract those progressive propagate ideas propaganda from
our education system is when we've seen this restoration of
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patriotism among young people.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
Funny, I know that funny.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
It's really great to see, especially today of all days.
Emily Sturge, Campus Reform Reporter, Thanks for bringing that good news.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Thank you so much for having me in. Happy fourth
of July.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Same to you, same to you. All right, everybody, we're
going to be back on this very special fourth of
July edition here on the anyway.
Speaker 7 (46:07):
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but here in real America's voice, we want to celebrate you.
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Speaker 4 (46:42):
Welcome back, everybody, all right.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Since we talked about the lack of civic education in
this country, if you want to really inspire your kids
to fall in love with the founding of this country.
I cannot recommend enough Mount Vernon John. Since I have
moved here to Washington, I have had the pleasure of
going there numerous times, and it just a word to
the wise. There are most of the houses blocked off
right now because they found i think some termites in
(47:05):
the foundation, and anticipating how many people will be here
next year, they are closing it off and fixing it
in the meantime. But you get to see the crop rotation,
the genius of George Washington as a farmer. Most people
don't even think of him as a farmer.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
But also this shocked the you know what out of me?
Speaker 3 (47:23):
I did it says, you know the tomb and I'm thinking, okay,
well it's underground or it's behind you know, big vaulted
doors right over to it is two feet beyond bars
that you look through, and there's his sarcophagus right next
to Martha.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
It's incredible, he's right there.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Yeah, no, it's an amazing you know a Slomich meant
did a great job in the show. They were reminding
us and this was a giant of American history, a
giant of a man of a man who accomplished the unthinkable,
slaying the giant British army with this bag tag team
of American soldiers gave us his great country, and then
one handed, the presidency realized the right thing to do
was humbly give it back after eight years, and that
(47:58):
create the notion of a king. Those are the type
of men and women that founded this country, and two
hundred and forty nine years later, we're chugging strong because
we were built on such a good foundation. No termites
in that founding of the country, I'll tell you yeah.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
And I just tested it out.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
If you search for Ai red Coats on social media,
a video will come up that is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
It is a red coat.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I don't know if it was Cornwalls, whoever it is.
And he has a selfie video camera and he's running
from what I can assume is Daniel Morgan's riflemen because
he talks about how scattered they were in the woods
and how they were picking them off, So that sounds
like Daniel Morgan's riflemen.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
But he's like, man, these people really love their taxes.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
And he said, I don't understand why they're not all
standing in a perfect line, all wearing the same brightly
colored uniforms.
Speaker 13 (48:44):
It was.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
It's really hilarious and it's kind of a modern world
takes what's it called. Just just search for AI red
coats and it'll someone made this video that out of AI.
But it you know there, it's funny elements of it
that show the genius of our and the providence, the
providential aspect Cup of two.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
It's the most improbable founding of a country you can
possibly imagine. That's something that we have to cherish and
pass on to the next generation.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Absolutely so, all right, everybody, thank you so much for
joining us for this fourth of July edition of the show.
Everybody be safe this weekend. Make sure you have all
ten fingers at the end of the weekend, and then
we will see you on Monday.
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But here in real America's voice, we want to celebrate you.
Every day from June thirty through July fourth, we're giving
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Hello America, Happy fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to this very special holiday edition of Justin Use
No Noise. I'm your host, John Solomon, Report you kids,
always from the nation's capital, and I'm going to bring
in my amazing coast Amanda head, Amanda. This today kicks
off a one year celebration towards the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of America. A year ago, we were talking
about freedom being on life support, and it feels like
(00:43):
six months into the Trump presidency, we're free to do
the things that we thought we always were free to do,
Free to raise our kids the way we want, Free
to be a woman and just compete in women's sports
without guys in it. Free to speak again without being censored.
What a difference a year is me? What a difference
when election made?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And you know, I, as I look forward to these
next three hundred and sixty five days of the festivities
that are going to be taking place, I my mom
still has glasses from the what was that the Bison
Tenne nineteen seventy six, So I know that that is
going to be happening. I wasn't there, I wasn't born yet,
I wasn't even as tweakle in my parents'.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Eyes yet, but I was so. I love stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And I cannot wait to see what's going to be
happening Franklin cities across the country over the next year,
but especially places like d C, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, folk.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Cities that have this rich history of the liberty and
founding of this Scotchy.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We're gonna have to caugh up some patriotism.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, we're going to have to. I think I think
things are moving in that direction right. The mayor here
seems to be ready moving in that direction.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So and we have a guest today, Emily Surge with
campus reform. Who's going to be able to speak on that?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, we got the perfect way to kick off this
Fourth of July. A true American patriot can think of
a better way to kick off this Fourth of July
than with our first guest. He is one of the
greatest actors of his generation Forrest Gump, The Green Mile
POLLA thirteen, which is my son's favorite movie, by the way,
also the founder of one of the most impactful foundations
and charities in America, the Gary Sonese Foundation, joining it
(02:10):
which is devoted to helping the brave service members in
our great country. Joining us now, our good friend, Gary
Sinise carry good to have you on happy fourth of July.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Oh do you too, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I was thick of this morning of one of my
favorite lines from John Adams. He said that liberty, once lost,
is lost forever. The men and women that sat on
that front line each of these last two and forty
nine years to make sure we kept that liberty, that freedom,
they are I no forefront in your mind.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Tell us on the fourteenth.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Anniversary of the founding of your foundation, what you're doing
to help them?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Oh gosh, how much time you have, John. We have
multiple programs at the Gary Sense Foundation operating on multiple
fronts because well prior to the Foundation, I was engaged
with a lot of different nonprofits, a lot of different
(03:05):
military veteran first responders support organizations, traveling here and there
and meeting a lot of different people that needed help
to help our service members. So I got very involved
in many, many different ways. And then when I started
the foundation fourteen years ago, I wanted to dig in
(03:27):
and do a lot of what I was already doing.
So we have a very very broad mission at the
Gary Seneze Foundation.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Amazing Gary.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I know that for our veterans, having proper and sufficient
VA service is top of the list, and that's obviously governmental,
but for American citizens, for people watching this show, what
are the greatest needs of our nation's veterans in ways
that they can help?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh, there are multiple ways that you can help.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
People always ask me, you know, beyond my organization, where
they should place their support and what are the great
organizations I used to support about thirty different organizations before
I have my own that we're doing a lot of
different things, helping our wounded, taking care of our families,
of our fallen heroes, on many fronts, first responders outreach there.
(04:19):
First responders are struggling and sacrificing each and every day.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
So people would ask.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Me, and one thing that I would say is, while
there are many good organizations like the Garysonese Foundation that
you can support, and of course we always want to
do more at the Garysonese Foundation, so we need more support.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
One of the things that I always say is just look.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Within your own neighborhood, your own community, your own town,
your own city. At the Veterans and military families that
reside within those communities. There are veterans and military families
in every community in the country. And if we took
some responsibility to pat them on the back and reach
out and touch them and offer assistance if needed. You know,
(05:06):
all those problems that we hear veterans falling through the
cracks and you know, waiting in line, and all the
things that we hear about that you know, maybe the
government falls short on. If we as citizens just took
some responsibility and took the opportunity really to reach out
and touch these folks, that problem would be greatly reduced.
(05:27):
We wouldn't be hearing about veterans falling through the cracks.
And that's what I did, and that's what multiple other
organizations did that I got involved with that just wanted
to do something to support, especially after September eleventh, two
thousand and one, deploying to Afghanistan, deploying to Iraq, people
getting hurt, people getting killed, families losing loved ones, bad
(05:50):
things happening. A lot of people picked up the charge,
you know, they took up the charge to help and many,
many different organisms were started. I got involved with many
that were operating like I said, in multiple ways on
different fronts. So the first thing I would say is,
are there veterans in your own community that just you
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can reach out in touch? And by doing that, I
say just simply the gesture of appreciation and gratitude for
providing our freedom for us. And we all know that
these men and women are our freedom providers. That's the
job they've chosen, and it sometimes can be a very
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dangerous job and people can lose their lives and be
injured in battle. We all can take some responsibility for
our defenders and just embrace them and help them out
when needed. And then certainly you can support great organizations
that are out there that have come up that are
(06:56):
raising money.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
To deploy those resources all over the place.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, so important.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You led by example, You went and did it yourself,
and it does start with us. We got to jump
into that void whenever we can. Gary, I want to
talk a little bit about the next year, because as
of today we're starting our two hundred and fiftieth Thursday
celebration here in America. It's a great exciting time to
just celebrate all that we've been through. As you reflect
on those two hundred fifty years, what comes to mind,
what will be most important to you over the.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Next year, expressing continuing to express my gratitude to those
who have defended us and it kept us free, those
who sacrifice my foundation. The whole point of my foundation
is remembrance, gratitude, appreciation, and support. And we want the
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men and women who serve our country to know that
there's a grateful nation behind them. I wrote a book
in twenty nineteen. It came out February twenty nineteen called
Grateful American, A Journey from Self Disservice, and really is
about my recognition that the freedom that I've been allowed
(08:06):
to enjoy in this country, you know, comes at a price,
and comes at a cost, and there are people that
are willing to sacrifice for that. I'm a grateful American.
I got a church shirt on here and says grateful American.
You know that's I don't think there's you know, there's
a better way to express ourselves than to kind of
(08:26):
just stop for a second recognize that this is an
exceptional country. We've been allowed to live a certain way
of life here in this country because of the freedom
that we have that a lot of people don't get
to enjoy around the world. I mean, not everybody is free.
I've been to the border between North and South Korea.
(08:47):
I've stood there. I've stood two feet away from a
North Korean guard standing on his side of the border,
staring at me in the face.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And he's a slave.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
That person has no clue who what real freedom is.
He's a slave to the supreme leader there. And there
are places on earth like that where they don't really
understand what being free is all about. Freedom has to
be fought for it, it has to be protected, it has
to be defended. There are people that are willing to
(09:19):
do that in this country, and so I'm grateful for them.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
And i want to remember them always.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
So this whole year is going to be about what
can we do to acknowledge and support the men and
women who keep us free.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Gary.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
There aren't a lot of heroes like you in Hollywood anymore,
people who honor veterans and seek out ways to help them.
It wasn't always like that. I mean, there was one
time when actors and comedians and singers would relish the
opportunity to perform with USO overseas for our troops. But
we've seen a little bit of a turn. I think
recently with movies like Top Gun, Maverick, and right now
in theaters f One that seem to have a little
(09:56):
bit more of a patriotic theme to them. Do you
think that Hollywood is going to turn back in the
direction of patriotism anytime soon?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
You know, it's I mean, Hollywood is a business. It's
it's there to make money.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
You know.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Obviously there are ideologues in the in like in any
business there, they're in Hollywood too too. But uh, you know,
the more movies that are pro American that actually make
a good profit, uh, the more that will be made.
I mean, Maverick was incredible, you know what was what
(10:29):
that did at the box office, and it brought back
a great feeling about this country, you know. Plus it
was just a great fun movie. And Cruise is you know,
he continues to put it out there like like nobody.
So that was that was exciting. I remember going to
that movie with my son and seeing it. I think
(10:49):
the more success that movies like that have, the more
will will be made.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And the America's response to that movie I think was
a big loud message to the industry at large. You
said you're a grateful American, Gary, and I am too,
but we're also grateful for you what you do. You
showed the best of America every day by the way
you jump into the void and help our great men
and women in the armed forces. What a great honor
to have you on the show on this fourth of July.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I sure appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me.
Happy fourth of July, everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Thank you sir. Wow, what a great guy. I'm so
lucky to have him on. All Right, we take quick
commercial break, we come back. We're going to do a
little history. Why not, It's the fourth of July. We
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Speaker 3 (13:30):
Welcome back everybody to this very special fourth of July episode.
And this fourth of July marks America's two hundred and
forty ninth birthday. Yes, we are getting very close to
that very important two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our
nation's founding next year. And with us to join to
discuss why that is so important is the author of
the History Bites book series, which is specifically written for
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young children, Solomon Schmidt. Solomon, great to have you here
with us.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Same here, Thanks, Amanda, pleasure to be here with you.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
By job, It's wonderful to have you.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Happy Independence Day.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And you know, I think the first acquaintance we had
with you was when you wrote Alan Derschwitz book, his biography,
and you did an amazing job with that. And now
we're taking it back two hundred and forty nine years
tell us about this bite sized history series that you
have about America's funding will do?
Speaker 9 (14:20):
Yeah, I started it when I was twelve. My first
book is called US History Bites. It overviews thirty of
some of the most important events of American history from
Columbus to modern day. And when you go back two
hundred and forty nine years ago, what would you have
seen in the summer seventeen seventy six, Well, when the
founding fathers were in the State House in Philadelphia Independence
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Hall putting their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, in
armada of four hundred British ships and thirty two thousand
highly trained soldiers were pulling into New York Harbor against
nine thousand ragtag troops under George Washington. It's said so
often that perhaps it becomes a big cliche, but it
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is the ultimate David and Goliath story. That Armada, that
fleet of ships was carrying an army equivalent today to
about four and a half million troops. When you consider
the fact that the thirteen Colonies had about two and
a half million people in them at the time, and
the founders. It's pretty well known that signing the declaration
was kind of like signing a death warrant. The British
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military had a list of people who were supposed to
get hung, among them John Adams, and John Adams himself
tells us why they were doing this. He said around
the time of the signing of the declaration, A free
constitution of a civil government essentially is worth dying for.
And I think my mind is going back to not
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only the intellectuals and the great thinkers in Independence Hall,
but the boys led, as you might say, the soldiers
of the Continental Army who took cannon fire and musket
fire had their bodies ripped apart. We're shivering, we're sleep deprived,
(16:13):
we're hungry, and could have had a legitimate, a legitimate excuse.
No one would have blamed them in a sense for
thinking that this was a lost cause and going home.
And the reason we're sitting here today in the United
States of America is largely because of a few thousand
men who stuck it out with George Washington in the
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days when it seemed like a lost cause against a
superior force.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
So those are just some.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
Of the things that are coming to my mind on
this Independence weekend. And folks can learn more about those
events in my books US History bites. I have a
book on the presidents and another book on major wars
from world history, overviewing wars from ancient times to the
modern wars in the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You are remarkable, prolific, but I also think you have
found a way to deliver history for the next generation
of folks who grew up in the social media era,
of the Internet era. I love the way it's delivered.
It's powerful, it's accurate, but it's also entertaining, and it's
enough of a size that people can digest it quickly
and act on it. I was in visiting a state
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recently and run into a couple of teenagers in a
coffee shop. We struck up a conversation, and to my
shock and amazement, they told me that in all of
the history and social study courses he had taken. I
think we're fifteen and fourteen, they had never once discussed
in a classroom of the United States Constitution.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I was numb. I mean I was literally no. I
was like, I know what to say.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It seems to me this next year, on the twenty
fiftieth birthday, restoring Civics education and having a conversation about
that could be really important. Tell us where we are
in terms of civics literacy on the two hundred and
forty ninth birthday of America.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
That's a great question, as they all are. I am
not proficient in what's going on in the public school system.
I was private school from K to four and was
homeschooled from fifth to graduation. So I will just make
a little plug for homeschoolers and say that I've been
to about fifty homeschool conferences around the United States southwest,
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southwest north. The generation of homeschoolers that has been raised
over the last forty years are, you know, without trying
to brag about myself, remarkably well informed about Civics history,
American history, world history. And that's not to say that
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private school children and young people go to public school aren't.
But the homeschooling audience is certainly giving me a lot
of hope. I meet eight, nine, ten year old, eleven
year old kids who know historic figures that I don't know,
and they can tell you specific facts about them and
understand and appreciate the greatness of this country. And that's
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not to say we haven't made mistakes. There were five
hundred thousand slaves at the time of the signing of
the declaration. A third of the signers of the declaration
or so had slaves in their possession. But to recognize
the greatness of what we've been given, the ideals of
the Declaration of Independence, which we've heard them all so
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many times, but this staggering claim that it is self
evident all men are created equal, what does that mean?
It means that the ragtag troops from Maine or the
backwoods have as much right to happiness as King George
the Third. It's extraordinary. It's the basis for everything we
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are as a country, the basis for morality, the basis
for success. It enables the weak to be protected again
against those who want to oppress them a week in
the sense of, you know, maybe without folks without military
force at their command, like the king, like tyrants. And
it also enables the humblest of people in a way
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to become great, the American dream. So it's just a
staggering document and so beautiful when you hear that last
line that in support of this declaration, we mutually pledge
to each other. Our lives are fortunes and our sacred honor.
Think about the bond of love and unity we pledge
to each other our lives. They knew they could die,
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they knew they could have their necks broken from a
hangman's news. Our fortunes, our wealth, our lands, and our honor.
It was important for them to have a good reputation,
a good name, which of course is a biblical concept.
You know, Proverbs talk about a good name is to
be esteemed above riches. So we've been given such a heritage.
Goes without saying. And John Adams tells us that these
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days should be remembered, quote solemnized with pomp and parade, shows, games, sports, bonfires, illuminations,
with solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. And this
was him writing two hundred and forty nine years ago,
predicting that such things would happen in the days to come,
in the decades to come.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I have a feeling President Trump is going to check
all of those off his list.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yet next year for the two fifty.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Speaking of that, so about three weeks ago we celebrated
the Armies two fifty. But yesterday, the third was the
anniversary of George Washington. Assuming the position of the commander
of that force. George Washington as our nation's first president,
talk to us about why it's so important to study
those first leaders of our nation.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Another cliche to say that George Washington was a great man.
You don't have to take it from me. His rival,
King George the Third said, when Washington agreed to or
not agreed to, decided of his own free will to
leave the reigns of power to someone else, to not
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pursue a third term, even though he was constitutionally allowed
to do so and had the support of the people
behind him. They loved him. He was voted in unanimously.
King George the Third said that George Washington is the
greatest person of the age. It's the old idea that
those who don't want power are probably the ones who
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should have it. George Washington has been described as magnanimous,
as as kind and gracious to those lesser than him,
lesser in power and the stature and rivals on the battlefield.
He never showed a lack of confidence in front of
his men, although privately he expressed doubts. He had moments
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of weakness in which he thought that perhaps they just
couldn't go on and that it was going to end disastrously,
but in front of the men, he displayed confidence. He
was there with them in Valley Forge, through the winter,
through the snow. So we study these early leaders because
they were great people. John Adams. What John Adams had
to endure and suffer, what his wife, our founding mothers
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had to suffer. Abigail Adams watched the destruction of her
home state of Massachusetts. She and her kids had to
flee for their lives and brave winters with British soldiers nearby,
with armies marching through, with so many deprivations, illnesses, and
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so we had a generation of uniquely gifted, uniquely wise,
uniquely courageous, and uniquely people of unique foresight. They knew
that they were serving future generations. You can read that
in their letters. They knew that the decisions they were
aching would have ramifications for us. That's the staggering thing.
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John Adams wrote in a letter in July seventeen seventy six,
that this moment in our history should be celebrated from
one end of the continent to the other. He foresaw
a country that would be from east to west. At
a time when the thirteen colonies took up, you know,
the eastern seaboard of the United States. It's a staggering
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level of vision and it's humbling.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I think I still got to say that I'm still
a little mad at Martha Washington though, because she destroyed practically.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
All of the letters with George.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So yeah, the loss.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I like John Adams listen a portly in temperate Balding,
New England or that's my type of guy.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I want to put that out.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So Solomon Smid, that was such a wonderful, wonderful segment.
Thank you so much for joining us, and everybody go
buy all of his books available anywhere.
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Yeah, all right, everybody, We're going to continue this special
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Now, Sun, tell me.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
All right, I'm gonna go out on a lemon say that.
You probably recognize that song. But if you didn't, what
you just heard was a song that we played for
you before from the Dugger Band titled True Colors. That
song was reportedly censored by a TV station in Nashville
who refused to play it for political bias reasons, and
we highlighted the story for you back in May.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
And because it's.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Our nation's birthday today, we thought it would be a
good time to bring back the men behind that song,
Jordan and Seth Duggar of the Dugger Band, and they
have some exciting news about a huge music festival that
is in the works. But also on Fox News. We
are so excited to celebrate this day with you guys.
Happy Fourth of July.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 11 (27:58):
We appreciate it absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I know that our audience was bopping their head and
tapping their toes as they were listening to that song.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I love the patriotic theme to it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know what, let's rewind to the inception of why
we had you guys on this show to begin with,
when you guys were censored.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
You know that song.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
I've listened to it numerous times. It is a patriotic anthem.
It talks about old glory, talks about the red, white,
and blue. I don't understand what is political about that.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Did you guys.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Ever get an answer from that Nashville radio station about
what was so politically biased about it?
Speaker 12 (28:33):
We never received specific information about what the station saw
as being biased. So yeah, we're still still trying to
figure that out ourselves.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
So well the dark Yeah, something tells me that they
don't want to answer that question, and probably someone higher.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Up made the decision.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
All right, So you guys are doing a Fox News
basically a patriotic show for them. Tell us all about this.
Speaker 13 (28:58):
Yeah, we're excited We've been invited to be a part
their Independence Stay Special tonight at eight o'clock and we're
gonna be in Times Square just putting on a show.
We're actually playing this song and a couple of bumpers,
so you'll be on the lookout for that. We're excited
to be in New York, We're excited to be able
to be a part of this event, and we're glad
that Fox asked us to be the special guest.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay, so tell me about what this is going to
look like visually, because when I think of you know,
Times Square, big events taking place there, I'm thinking of
you know, New Year's Eve and they block off all
the streets and such as. Are there going to be
fans there or are is Fox News just using Times
Square as kind of like the backdrop.
Speaker 12 (29:37):
We've been told that for security purposes, there won't be
a live audience for a performance, but it's gonna be
a great time.
Speaker 10 (29:44):
We're gonna rock it out.
Speaker 12 (29:46):
We can't wait, and hope you guys will tune in
and check us out.
Speaker 11 (29:50):
It's so awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
So is it all a country artist or is it
a mix? What's that like?
Speaker 13 (29:56):
I believe from what I've heard that we're the only
artist that performing, So we're excited about that. It's going
to be from eight o'clock to eleven o'clock, so right
in primetime, and they're going to be going all over
the country seeing how different people are celebrating the fourth
and then we'll be performing right there in front of
the news corporation there Rotten Times.
Speaker 10 (30:17):
Square, So we're excited about that. We'll have a full
band with us.
Speaker 13 (30:20):
We're playing True Colors and a couple other songs there
that tonight.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, that's so exciting.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
You're the headliners. That's amazing. All right.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So when you say you're a full band, how many
pieces do you have?
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Well, for this performance, there's just going to be four
of us. We did it a little bit skilled down version.
We're pretty For up and coming bands or newer bands,
you have to be flexible. So sometimes it's just me
and said, like today, I think we'll be playing a
song for you guys, just the two of us, but
then for certain events we have much bigger bands.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
So for this one in particular before us.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I love it. I love it, and you know you
guys obviously love America to a Grandeler degree. Because back
in November, you guys headlined for a Hurricane Helene fundraiser.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 13 (31:07):
Yeah, so Hurricane Helene, I'm sure a lot of people
have seen that and then use it impacted our community
pretty hard, and in East Tennessee and west North Carolina,
there was a lot of people impacted by it. And
we were just trying to figure out a way to
kind of give back to the people in our small
town of Greenville that were really impacted by it, and
we did a concert for him, and it's, you know,
something small that we're able to do.
Speaker 10 (31:29):
But you know, to.
Speaker 13 (31:31):
See the recovery efforts continuing to happen, and it's going
to be years. I know that they've just reopened a
couple of the bridges just a couple of weeks ago,
and that was a big thing in Greenville for that
bridge to particular bridge to be opened, but it's going
to take years to completely rebuild. We drive through the
town and you still see trees piled up along the
river bank, just new river banks from where the river cut,
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new paths in the in the ground. It's just it's
just insane to think about a mountain flooding like that.
Speaker 10 (31:59):
But that happened, and we're we're still holding strong. But
there's a lot of help.
Speaker 13 (32:03):
There's a lot of people that's really coming together in
our community and doing their part to try to clean
things up. And it's just awesome to see everybody come together.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Absolutely, I don't want to get political, but I do
want to get patriotic. So when you guys are out
and about and you're talking to fans and people who
are out having a good time, they want to come
listen to your music, which does have you know, even
if it's subliminal in a lot of your songs, you
know that patriotic theme. Do you feel like people are
(32:32):
more optimistic about the direction of this country, because I
got to say, I've seen a lot of these polls,
and polls show that a smaller and smaller portion of
this country characterize themselves as extremely patriotic or proud to
be an American. But I have to say, it seems like,
you know, maybe it's because President Trump is in town.
I don't know what it is, but it seems like
people have a little bit more of an upbeat mentality.
(32:53):
Maybe it's just because it's about to be a long weekend.
Speaker 10 (32:57):
I think we've definitely seen a lot of enthusiasm. We
have a lot of enthusiasm.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
I think the outlook for our country is great, and
we're proud to be living in the USA.
Speaker 10 (33:08):
It's the greatest country in the world.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
And we've met so many people, and it's just the
impact of music.
Speaker 10 (33:15):
As writers and musicians.
Speaker 12 (33:16):
Sometimes you don't realize that until you get out and
talk to the fans and see how it's affected them.
But we've met, in particular, one gentleman that served I
think for like twenty or thirty years and he was retired,
but he said that him and his whole group that
he had served with had been following the story of
the song.
Speaker 10 (33:36):
And we actually randomly met him.
Speaker 12 (33:39):
We weren't even scheduled to play at the show that
we attended here in Nashville for one of our friends,
and they brought us up on stage and we played
a song. We came up to us afterwards and was
telling us about how they'd been following the story and
how they were proud that our generation was taking a
stand and proud of our country. And I was like, man,
(34:01):
that's the least that we can do from our end
is to write songs that mean something to the men
and women that have served this country.
Speaker 10 (34:10):
You know, we haven't served.
Speaker 12 (34:13):
We have played music for those who serve in the military,
but the sacrifices those people make is just unreal and
the fact that a song that we wrote has some
impact on them is just it's amazing for us, and
we hope that we can continue to be a positive
influence on people.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Absolutely, that's really really special, and I'm sure that there
are a lot of veterans out there who just.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Absolutely love your music.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
And maybe they don't see you in person and they
don't have the chance to express it personally, but I
you know, people absolutely love your music, and I would
imagine that it really hits home for our service members.
Seth and Jordan Duggart, guys, before we head out tonight,
I hear you have a song for us, right Yes,
I think.
Speaker 12 (34:56):
It's fitting that we play True Colors on July fourth.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
Uh, playing for you right now?
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
See you looking down while I'm looking up.
Speaker 12 (35:22):
You're just sitting there sip and known the Starbucks cup.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
They known everything, not doing anything. I crank up some
Toby Keith climb back in my truck.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
And it don't matter where the chips may fowled a
statue lid, you will be standing.
Speaker 11 (35:40):
So the best part down the land of the free
sp You don't like you over, you know, but I ain't.
Speaker 14 (35:50):
I'm anenervation Cafi blue collar with the fact when and that's.
Speaker 11 (35:56):
A way for the further ju that is she around
life fault American ride and ride.
Speaker 15 (36:03):
It ridd now drawing the line in this contry ain't
something you can send me.
Speaker 11 (36:09):
Ain't fine that malast differ between me and because my
true colors are good by the blood, give him.
Speaker 10 (36:25):
A petiser in the second world.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
I ain't ever given up bother he fall for and
ever you're coming here fame.
Speaker 11 (36:34):
And seeing what we go we're gonna find. Fine, Fine,
go on and take your shine, But I ain't leaving here.
Speaker 14 (36:41):
Comingenerationy fir and blue color within the fact Wavenn's toll
it for the fourth June is year and life.
Speaker 11 (36:52):
On American Ride and Ride.
Speaker 15 (36:55):
It ridd ow, drawing the line it this contry ain't
something you can send me, Iman masted sweet And because
my true colors are redbody.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Bloom reddy blue.
Speaker 11 (37:15):
Red, why bloom, God.
Speaker 15 (37:25):
Bless you less.
Speaker 11 (37:30):
I ain't leaving.
Speaker 15 (37:32):
I'm innate generation guy, fair and blue collar with a
flack waving.
Speaker 11 (37:38):
I don't wait for the four of Jue, didn't.
Speaker 15 (37:42):
Shear and come from never come from riding hind now
join the line of his country.
Speaker 11 (37:52):
Ain't something you can stand me? Imn mast difference and.
Speaker 10 (37:58):
Because my true.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Welcome back everybody to our Independence Day special. It's really
refreshing to see more young Americans, especially gen Z, starting
to feel proud of their country again. You can sense
a shift. President Trump has played a big part, I
think in causing this shift with gen Z, so joining
us now to discuss that is Campus reform Reporter Emily Surge, Emily.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Welcome back and happy fourth of July. Happy fourth of July.
Thank you so much for having me. We are delighted
to have you, especially on this day.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
And you know, there I see two competing things happening.
One is that you look at polling and it says
with every generation we get less and less patriotic. And
yet I see so much content online of young Americans
gen Z being more patriotic.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
What's true?
Speaker 16 (38:55):
I'll tell you what I see, and I see bipartisan optimism.
A CB News poll from earlier this year surveyed all
of the generations and found that actually it was Generation Z,
the youngest generation surveyed, that had the most optimism with
President Trump back in office. Sixty seven percent of eighteen
to twenty nine year olds said that they had hope
(39:16):
about this administration. And I think that goes back to
the number one issue in the November twenty twenty four
election that got Donald Trump elected was the economy.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Young people are hopeful that this president.
Speaker 16 (39:27):
Is going to bring back the American dream, make it
easier for them to buy a home, start a family,
get settled down, invest in the stock market. It's those
economic ideas that I think is driving this optimism on
both the left and the right among young people.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, that's a really great point.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
And there's not only just the traditional economy, like for
consecutive months of good job report above expectation jobs reports,
but there's a.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
New economy forming around us.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
But you've got the crypto economy coming around us, and
President Trump has really pushed out on ideas that seemed
to be the economic future for gen zers. How important
has it been that one of our oldest presidents has
leaned into some of the newest ideas.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
For the economy.
Speaker 16 (40:08):
That's a great point, and I want to point out
I see two different things that lots of gen zers
bring up when I interview them, and as a reporter
for the Leadership and Campus Reform, I'm talking to members
of generations the every single day.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Just within the past week, I talked to dozens.
Speaker 16 (40:21):
I hear lots of people bring up the economy, the
Golden Age, crypto investing, and then I also hear lots
of young women specifically bring up cultural issues. They bring
up the nuclear family, they bring up traditional gender roles,
and then both young men and young.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Women bring up faith.
Speaker 16 (40:38):
There's a religious revival happening among members of my generation.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
It's something that we are seeing on college campuses.
Speaker 16 (40:44):
Catholicism specifically, we are seeing a spike in and that's
because young people are looking for tradition in order, and
that goes back to rejecting progressive, leftist social values that
took over our society for so many years.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Emily, I love the optimism in our economy and just
I mean, we just had the jobs reports come out
and the unemployment numbers and things are looking better in
that economy seems to be driving forward, but something that
is going backwards. It seems like a civic education. And
John and I were just telling John was telling me
about an anecdote from where he was.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
This past weekend. Kids have been absolutely.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Failed you, I mean gen Z as well when it
comes to education about our government and how it works
and even our founding history. Do you find that among
those students and those gen Z folks who are feeling
a renewed sense of patriotism, that there's also an autodidactic
zest to learn more about our founders, even if they're
not taught it in school.
Speaker 16 (41:43):
I want to be clear the patriotic low that we
saw among gen Zers just a few years ago, back
in twenty twenty three, a Gallup poll showed a patriotic
low of just eighteen percent of gen Zers were proud
to be an American. That's exactly it. It was a
product of the education system. It was a product of
the lack of civics in our education system. It also
had to do with diversity, equity and inclusion, critical race theory,
(42:08):
progressive propaganda like LGBTQ ideology being taught in our middle schools,
our high schools, in the higher education system instead of
that classic Civics education. Now we are seeing under this
administration some of those American ideas are bring brought.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Back to the education system.
Speaker 16 (42:24):
Just within the last few weeks, we saw the Department
of Education move forward. They're promoting new grants to get
back to an education that talks about our founding documents.
We're also seeing civic centers open on college campuses across
this country. I saw at the University of Florida and
my own campus that I just graduated from, we had
a civic center open there. So I do think that
there is a revival happening of bringing back American education,
(42:48):
bringing back a Civics education to get the next generation
of leaders prepared to lead this country.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
So important.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Birthday starts officially today and we have this Extraordinary Year celebration.
What are some of the opportunities to take that sort
of iconic moment in history and bring history back to America,
bring Civics back to America, because I think the conversation
is going to go towards our founding and some of
the things that are maybe young people weren't taught by
(43:19):
their teachers.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
Absolutely, and I want to bring up my home state
of Florida.
Speaker 16 (43:24):
We just saw end of year testing their seventy one
percent of young kids.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
There were proficient in their Civics education.
Speaker 16 (43:31):
That's a really remarkable statistic, especially as we've seen nationwide
statistics really drop to new lows when it comes to reading,
when it comes to math, when it comes to civics.
So I like to look at the education system in Florida,
look at how I was educated as a young kid
in Florida, and see that the Civics education there seems
to be really working. Maybe other states should start to
(43:52):
look in that direction too, so that they can bump
up those numbers of kids proficient and civics too.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Considering all the news stories we see about men, I
never thought i'd say this, but I hope that children
who are raised by Florida men and women ultimately end
up leading this country with statistics like that. I want
to ask you about something that you mentioned a little
while ago, the DEI diversity, Equity and inclusion. Does gen
Z see that as something as valuable as the people
(44:19):
who are trying to institute it, or do they see
it as something that's kind of frivolous and ludicrous and
shouldn't be shouldn't factor into qualifications for someone to be
hired or chosen for something.
Speaker 16 (44:30):
I think more and more gen zers are turning their
backs on DEI because it infiltrated every single aspect of
our education, our churches, even our media, our books, our television,
our songs, Hollywood, but back to college campuses. It infiltrated
every single aspect from when a student applies to a university,
(44:53):
when they have to write those essays that many colleges
required based on how they promote DEI throughout the our
daily lives. Then when they get on to campus, campus initiatives,
all of this spending on diversity, equity and inclusion, all
of these required courses on DEI, and then those graduation
requirements too, So it follows them throughout their entire college education.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
And now we're seeing more and more gen z.
Speaker 16 (45:18):
Ors turn their backs to it, say that this isn't working,
this is promoting toxic divides among races, This isn't making
us proud of our country when we're being taught these
toxic leftist ideas in our education system, and only as
we've begun to extract those progressive propagate ideas propaganda from
our education system is when we've seen this restoration of
(45:40):
patriotism among young people.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
Funny, I know that funny.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
It's really great to see, especially today of all days.
Emily Sturge, Campus Reform Reporter, Thanks for bringing that good news.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Thank you so much for having me in. Happy fourth
of July.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Same to you, same to you. All right, everybody, we're
going to be back on this very special fourth of
July edition here on the anyway.
Speaker 7 (46:07):
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but here in real America's voice, we want to celebrate you.
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Speaker 4 (46:42):
Welcome back, everybody, all right.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Since we talked about the lack of civic education in
this country, if you want to really inspire your kids
to fall in love with the founding of this country.
I cannot recommend enough Mount Vernon John. Since I have
moved here to Washington, I have had the pleasure of
going there numerous times, and it just a word to
the wise. There are most of the houses blocked off
right now because they found i think some termites in
(47:05):
the foundation, and anticipating how many people will be here
next year, they are closing it off and fixing it
in the meantime. But you get to see the crop rotation,
the genius of George Washington as a farmer. Most people
don't even think of him as a farmer.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
But also this shocked the you know what out of me?
Speaker 3 (47:23):
I did it says, you know the tomb and I'm thinking, okay,
well it's underground or it's behind you know, big vaulted
doors right over to it is two feet beyond bars
that you look through, and there's his sarcophagus right next
to Martha.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
It's incredible, he's right there.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
Yeah, no, it's an amazing you know a Slomich meant
did a great job in the show. They were reminding
us and this was a giant of American history, a
giant of a man of a man who accomplished the unthinkable,
slaying the giant British army with this bag tag team
of American soldiers gave us his great country, and then
one handed, the presidency realized the right thing to do
was humbly give it back after eight years, and that
(47:58):
create the notion of a king. Those are the type
of men and women that founded this country, and two
hundred and forty nine years later, we're chugging strong because
we were built on such a good foundation. No termites
in that founding of the country, I'll tell you yeah.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
And I just tested it out.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
If you search for Ai red Coats on social media,
a video will come up that is hilarious.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
It is a red coat.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I don't know if it was Cornwalls, whoever it is.
And he has a selfie video camera and he's running
from what I can assume is Daniel Morgan's riflemen because
he talks about how scattered they were in the woods
and how they were picking them off, So that sounds
like Daniel Morgan's riflemen.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
But he's like, man, these people really love their taxes.
It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (48:37):
And he said, I don't understand why they're not all
standing in a perfect line, all wearing the same brightly
colored uniforms.
Speaker 13 (48:44):
It was.
Speaker 3 (48:45):
It's really hilarious and it's kind of a modern world
takes what's it called. Just just search for AI red
coats and it'll someone made this video that out of AI.
But it you know there, it's funny elements of it
that show the genius of our and the providence, the
providential aspect Cup of two.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
It's the most improbable founding of a country you can
possibly imagine. That's something that we have to cherish and
pass on to the next generation.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
Absolutely so, all right, everybody, thank you so much for
joining us for this fourth of July edition of the show.
Everybody be safe this weekend. Make sure you have all
ten fingers at the end of the weekend, and then
we will see you on Monday.
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But here in real America's voice, we want to celebrate you.
Every day from June thirty through July fourth, we're giving
away a handcrafted, a hand paint at.
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