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All right, welcome to the Carl Jackson show podcast. Today we are joined in this is going to be a great

fun interview. We have our guest Kurt Slickter. He is a senior columnist for town hall dot

sound town hall dot com. I used to write for town hall. It's been some time. He's the author of

We'll be back, which is what we'll talk about the rise and the fall and rise of America. The

21 biggest lies about Donald Trump as well. And again, he's also a senior columnist for town hall

LA trial lawyer and retired army infantry. Uh, Colonel Kurt Slickter. Welcome to the Carl Jackson

show podcast. We appreciate you joining us today, especially since it's so early on the west coast.

So it's like O dark remember it's like a publication day minus 24 hours. That's fun to play. And I'm like, I'm like, Oh, I got a hit.

Oh, man, my back hurt. Anyway, listen, let's let's get let's get right in right into this. I've been reading

through some of your material. Honestly, just got the book literally. I believe it was yesterday. So I've

been thumping through it and you have some very, uh, listen, it's optimistic, but also there's

some very sobering points that you make that I really want to go through as quickly as possible. And

if we could, I'd like to break some of this stuff down, uh, chapter, uh, chapter by chapter. One

of the things you talk about in this book. Well, one thing I do want to mention, you talk about

great men and the importance of individualism as it relates to America. Will you talk about that

briefly? Well, there's, there's this, uh, uh, theory of history. And it used to be very popular.

It's a great man theory that individual people are the key rather than trends or economic themes or, uh,

you know, uh, concepts of culture. And those are important. But I've always been attracted to

great men theory because a great human being can do great things. You look at people who have

changed everything and you can name them. And by, by, by going against individuality, that's

what the leftists do. They want to tell you you can't make a difference, but you can. And, and great

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