Hey, everyone's Andrew Claven with this week's interview with Jeffrey Anderson, the president of the American Main Street Initiative,

which is doing some really important work on the culture. We talk about the culture all the time

in terms of the arts, who's making movies, what the novels are about, all that sort of thing.

But there's also this national culture in which we celebrate our history, our institutions,

and in which our institutions are supposed to celebrate our history.

And we've got the 250th anniversary of America coming up.

The 200th anniversary came in when I was in my 20s.

I remember that as a huge celebration.

I remember the relighting of the torch of the Statue of Liberty because by then I was a newsman and I remember covering that news.

It was just the entire country stopped to watch this stuff and to celebrate the country, celebrate the fact that we survived, celebrate the fact that we were the oldest republic on earth.

And it was all a big deal.

And right now we're not hearing a lot about this and it's coming up really fast.

And I'm not sure how many people are paying attention to it and how many people are paying

attention to all of our institutions and what's happening in them. Jeff and the American Main Street

initiative along with our mutual friend John Fonthe over to the Hudson Institute. They've been working

not only on 250th anniversary, but on exposing some of

the termites who've worked their way into our national monuments and museums. So I want to talk

about that. Jeff, it's good to see you. How are you doing? Good, Andrew. It's great to see you.

Thanks for coming on. So you had an article that went viral the other week. It was called John Wayne and the American

Freedom Train. Now, anything with John Wayne is good for me. I'm always in favor of John Wayne.

But can you just tell this story? Because everybody was reprinting this article. And it was a

remarkable story about our 200th birthday. Yeah, kind of the probably the most important event,

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