Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast. My name is John Harris. It should surprise no one today that there's a

whole kerfuffle going on. There's a meltdown on Twitter over Donald Trump. Donald Trump

decided to talk about what happened in Virginia yesterday with the Robert E. Lee

monument being taken down. Ralph Northam, Governor of Virginia, posting about

how great this is. And Donald Trump said some true things and people are very

angry about it, of course. And so I wanted to comment on this because some evangelical leaders,

even you know someone drawing his salary from the Southern Baptist Convention,

churchgoers on Sunday who give their offering got in on this and so I want to talk about it because

this this is important in my mind this is just another example of the denigration of American history, identity,

specifically Virginia, local history and identity in this case, and it's replicating

itself all over the place and I want to just

say before I even get into it that I was at the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond

it's huge earlier this summer it's very big it's impressive it's huge. Earlier this summer, it's very big, it's impressive, it's

awe-inspiring, really. Of course, all the graffiti and everything was kind of

discouraging, but you see this massive statue.

And it really, honestly, the base is what's massive.

The statue is big, but it's not, it's not like, you know,

it's not like, I mean, the Lincoln monument is just way you know off of a human scale it's

huge it's god-like the Robert Lee one is like kind of like this is a human who is a

little you know set an example for us you know a little bit I think the scale is probably you know larger than a man but it's not it but

but the base is just it's huge that they have this thing on and I got some video of it because I knew that it would be taken down on documentary Last Dan Studios is putting out, launch date is October 31st.

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