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The show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more.

The show for all of us who aren't old were better.

Each week we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, all related to this wonderful experience

of getting better, not older. Now here's your host, the award-winning Paul Vogelzang.

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What happens when the kid reading history books in the deer stand grows up to navigate a missile cruiser through hurricane force waves and later it's for Congress with a blueprint to rebuild American democracy.

Today we will find out.

Our guest is Mike Beedinbaugh, Navy veteran, historic preservationist,

and political thinker whose new book reviving our republic is part history lesson, part repair manual,

and part wake-up call. It's the kind of book that

challenges power, respects ordinary citizens, and reminds us that the American experiment is only as

strong as our willingness to keep it going. Mike Beedinbaugh grew up in prosperity, South Carolina, in a town with stories in every brick

and bones in every building. He's fought to save Gula homes, moved 800-ton mansions, and believes

that history isn't just something we study, it's something we protect. And now

he's turning that same energy toward the Republic itself. Mike Beedinbaugh doesn't yell,

he doesn't posture. He makes his case like a man who's been in the storm, literally, and come

out of it believing that we can fix what's broken if we're

willing.

Whether you agree with him or not, you'll want to hear him out.

So stay with us.

This is a different kind of conversation for us, but it's fierce, thoughtful, personal,

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