Welcome to the Bright Bar To News Daily podcast. Thanks for being here.

So we take one segment from the three-hour show,

and then we take an interview from the three-hour show on Sirius XM,

and we give it to you for free.

And we have a tough time.

We usually just do the first segment of the whole show to keep it easy.

But I really want to do the second segment.

The second segment, we talked about how America is becoming more inept.

And we told some stories about the airlines and pilots and FAA close calls.

It's like, what's going on?

And then we reviewed Maui, gave some great emails of family who's been bricklayers for hundreds of years and just the importance of excellence as a virtue.

And how we moved away from our Christian or Judeo-Christian roots, which said you are made in the image of God.

And if you are an image bearer, then you have to pursue excellence as a in the image of God. And if you are as an image bearer,

then you have to pursue excellence as a way to glorify God.

To glorify the God who created you,

you live a life of excellence.

Moral, intellectual, excellence in every way.

And when you move away from God,

of course, you move away from excellence being a virtue. It's obvious as it can be. Right. So we talked about that,

but I don't know. We're not going to play that way. We'll do the first segment stuff.

That was the second second. Now, really, we should play the eight o'clock hour because in the

eight o'clock hour, we went into great detail about Thomas Sol's book, Black, Redneck, Nakes, White

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