It's that time.

lock and load.

Lock and load.

The Michael Berry Show is on the air.

Folks, almost every day, and some days more than once we get either Chad Nachanishi or I get

pitches from book promoters, from publishers, saying, interview this person about this book.

And truly 95% of the time or more, we don't do it because unless it's something that we think

fits in with the values of our show and unless it's something that peaks our

interest frankly something that we're very curious about.

We just don't do it.

So I hope you know that when we have a book author on, it is because we're interested

in that book, or we've read that that book and we found that book worthy of

commendation for you and particularly this time a year people are thinking of

good gift ideas this may be as long as you don't mark the book up, you can buy it and then

also mail it off. But I can't do that because I write all over my books and I make notes in

the margin of what I'm gonna repeat later and we have just such an occasion

today the author's name is Kevin Baker The book is called America the Ingenius.

How a nation of dreamers, immigrants, and tinkers changed the world.

You'll remember we interviewed Michelle Malkin after her book about 10 tinkers who

changed the world and great stories and there's always an immigrant over tone to that. It's part of part of the nature of it which makes it very

interesting. Anyway Kevin is our guest and I want to know first of all what drove you to

write this book? Well, thanks for having me.

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