Episode 999: America 250 – Guide to Historic Sites with Brenda Hafera
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Newt talks welcomes Brenda Hafera of The Heritage Foundation to discuss the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites, an interactive website launched ahead of America's 250th anniversary that profiles historic sites across the original 13 colonies, with more states to follow. Hafera and Newt reflect on the power of visiting places like Mount Vernon, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall, where history can be felt rather than just read. The conversation turns to growing efforts to distort America's founding story, including a major foundation's push to remove monuments to figures like Washington and Lincoln in the name of "inclusivity." Hafera explains why preserving accurate, accessible history at the local level is essential to civic education and to passing on an informed, grounded patriotism to the next generation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome to Neutte World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network, the Greatest American Inventions. |
| 0:16.2 | Today, the invention that put the power of computation in the hands of ordinary people, not governments, |
| 0:22.9 | not corporations, ordinary people. That was a radical idea, and it changed everything, |
| 0:30.2 | the personal computer. For the first 30 years of the computer age, a computer was a room. It occupied thousands of square feet, required teams of trained operators, and it was owned |
| 0:43.2 | by governments and large corporations. |
| 0:46.3 | The idea that an individual might own one was simply absurd to most people in the industry. |
| 0:52.2 | Then, in January of 1975, |
| 0:55.8 | Popular Electronics magazine |
| 0:57.3 | put the Altair 8800 on its cover. |
| 1:01.7 | A kit computer, $439. |
| 1:05.5 | No keyboard, no screen, no operating system. |
| 1:09.9 | You programmed it by flipping switches on the front panel. |
| 1:13.9 | The magazine sold out. The company was overwhelmed with orders. Among the readers was a 20-year-old |
| 1:21.3 | Harvard student named Bill Gates and his friend, Paul Allen. They saw that a computer without software is useless. |
| 1:29.7 | They called the manufacturer, told them they were writing an interpreter for it. They were bluffing. |
| 1:34.9 | They hadn't written a line. Then spent the next eight weeks building one. It worked. They founded |
| 1:41.4 | Microsoft. Also galvanized, an engineer in Silicon Valley named Steve Wozniak, who showed his personal computer designs to his employer, Hewlett Packard. |
| 1:53.3 | HP declined, so Wozniak partnered with his friend Steve Jobs, and they founded Apple in a garage in Los Altos, California, in 1976. |
| 2:09.2 | The Apple II, introduced in 1977, was genuinely new. |
| 2:14.8 | The first mass market personal computer with a built-in keyboard, a color display, |
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