And greenings happy Independence Day!

Yes, I'm wearing the red, white, and blue.

As we do our annual commemoration of America's birthday here on the Steve Day Show live,

on demand here on the Blaze Radio TV and podcast.

I'm Steve Deis.

Todd and Aaron are here with me as well.

And then we are checking out after today for a long holiday weekend, like many of you

are going to have as well.

We won't see you again until next Tuesday.

8-8-933-93 is the number.

That's 8-8-933-93.

Steve at SteveDeis.com is how you can email the program.

It's D-E-A-C-E, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter at SteveDeisShow.

We've got a lot going on here today as we are going to spend the next two hours looking

at America's legacy and maybe talking about her future as well.

Now, a lot of the things and themes we call American exceptionalism really come out of

what is called Western civilization.

And that's really the roots of a lot of the inspiration that our founding fathers receive

to the best that Western civilization had to offer for more than a millennia.

Of course, it's under attack.

One of the reasons why it's under attack is too many Americans are kind of ignorant

of the roots of American exceptionalism and Western civilization.

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