🇺🇸 AMERICA AT 250: The Story We Tell… vs. The Truth We Live 🚗🔥

The Not Old - Better Show

Paul Vogelzang

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 106 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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🇺🇸 AMERICA AT 250: The Story We Tell… vs. The Truth We Live 🚗🔥

The Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, commemorating 250 Years of Independence in 2026

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates Interview Series—on radio and podcast.

For ten years now, The Not Old Better Show has celebrated health, wellness, culture, and the stories that remind us we're not old—we're better.

Now, as America commemorates 250 years of independence in 2026, this special series offers a dynamic exploration of America's past, present, and future.

Explore the people, ideas, conflicts, and aspirations that have shaped America–and how the past informs the challenges and possibilities ahead.

At 250, America is still young enough to dream, and seasoned enough to know that freedom asks something of every generation.

Through our Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, we invite you to hear that story with fresh perspective, honest reflection, and renewed purpose.

This is The Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, commemorating 250 Years of Independence in 2026.

Anniversaries matter. Meaning matters more.

History is never just behind us. Sometimes it sits right beside us, asking who we are, what we value, and what we owe the future.

Stay with us as Paul Vogelzang continues this Smithsonian Associates conversation on the people, ideas, and moments that still call us to be better.

Thanks for joining us this week on The Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, commemorating 250 Years of Independence in 2026—on radio and podcast.

To hear more about today's stories, catch our new Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, and enjoy our extensive back catalog of previous shows, please visit notold-better.com.

This is a production of N.O.B.S. studios.

I'm Paul Vogelzang. Thanks for spending this time with us. Join me again next time as we continue sharing stories that remind us we're getting better, not just older. Because 250 years later, Better is still a conversation worth having.

Let's talk about Better.

This is The Not Old Better Show Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, commemorating 250 Years of Independence in 2026

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates interview series on radio and podcast.
0:15.1	The show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more.
0:18.9	The show for all of us who aren't old, we're better. Each week, we'll interview superstars, culture, and more. This show for all of us who aren't old, were better. Each week,
0:22.7	we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, all related
0:28.6	to this wonderful experience of getting better, not just older. Now, here's your host, the award-winning
0:35.7	Paul Vogelzang. Thank you. Now, let me just host, the award-winning Paul Vogelze.
0:39.1	Thank you.
0:43.9	And let me just say, we are coming up on a remarkable moment.
0:55.6	In just a short time, the United States will mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document filled with bold language about liberty, equality, and human dignity.
1:03.2	Welcome to the Not Old Better Show's Smithsonian Associates Interview Series on radio and podcast for 10 years now.
1:12.1	The Not Old Better Show has celebrated health, wellness, culture, history, and the stories that remind us,'re not old, we're better now.
1:21.9	As America commemorates 250 years of independence in 2026, this special series offers a dynamic explanation of America's past, present, and future.
1:26.9	Explore the people, ideas, conflicts, and aspirations that have shaped America and how the past
1:32.7	informs the challenges and possibilities ahead.
1:35.8	At 250, America is still young enough to dream and seasoned enough to know that freedom
1:42.1	asks something of every generation.
1:45.0	Through our Smithsonian Associates interview series, we invite you to hear that story
1:50.0	and more stories with a fresh perspective, honest reflection, and renewed purpose.
1:57.0	In this series, we're stepping back, not to settle history, but to explore it, to look at the places, the people, and the moments that have shaped who we are and who we're still becoming.
2:08.6	Today, we begin not in a lecture hall, but on the road, because Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Dr. Beverly G Gage has taken a different approach.
2:18.5	She's traveled across the country.
2:20.3	13 places, as a matter of fact.
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