Producers’ Pick | Brad Meltzer: The Significance of Teaching Your Children the Right Values
Brian Kilmeade Show
FOX News Podcasts
4.1 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | a radio show like no other. It's Brian Killmeade. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, welcome back everybody. Brian Killmeade show. I hope you had a great weekend with me right now is you're watching them on Fox Nation. |
| 0:11.0 | If you choose and I hope you are Brad Meltzer, best selling author, a host of Fox Nation, Brad Meltzer's greatest conspiracies of all time. |
| 0:18.0 | He's got two new books out. He's called I am I am Dolly Pardon and I am I am pie. |
| 0:26.0 | Both go on sale now. You almost had me on that. I said I am pay is we could have just an I am pay, but we did I am I am pay, which is that my kids have love the title. It's their favorite title of all time. |
| 0:38.0 | Is that how many kids do you have? So I have three kids, which is you know why I wrote these books, right? Is is my I was tired of my kids looking at all these people on Instagram who are famous. |
| 0:48.0 | And overpassions right and overpaid athletes and all the people use all the people that you see on Instagram as our kids swipe our kids have been fed garbage today every single day. |
| 0:59.0 | And we as Americans have to fight back as parents. We have to fight back and give them better heroes to look up to. So we started the ordinary people change the world series. |
| 1:06.0 | We started with I'm Amelia Earhart. I am Abraham Lincoln. I am Rosa Parks. I am George Washington and gave them better heroes to look up to where now the they told me the number one series teaching. |
| 1:17.0 | American history to this young age group and I'm so proud to unveil now and of course of you know starting with I am Dolly Parton is our newest book that comes out right now. |
| 1:27.0 | Right who's going to the rock reluctantly going to the rock and roll whole thing. I love that it's the only she can be say I don't want to be. |
| 1:34.0 | I don't need your nomination and they still nominator and still and they still bring her one over and one over of course. So why Dolly Parton is a country music store that's done so much charity work also has Dollywood. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah and I think for me you know what I love in this book is you see Dolly Parton is a real person. And she's a real human being we've kind of lifted her up on that pedestal but we do it this service to her heroes when we do that and you know when Dolly Parton was born. |
| 2:00.0 | She was so poor that her father paid the doctor for delivering her with a sack of cornmeal. And it was her mother who gave her her love of books. She says one of the first books Dolly Parton love this a kid was a little engine that could. |
| 2:13.0 | And that's who Dolly Parton is she's the little engine that could so they told her you know you're going to have to wear just you know regular costumes and she was like no I'm going to wear amazing costumes they said you're just going to have to sing country songs and she said I'm going to sing songs for all audiences. |
| 2:28.0 | They said you know you're going to just be a musician she's like no no I'm going to be a movie star I'm going to open up Dollywood in my own amusement park I'm going to start this charity the imagination library and give books to millions of kids who can't afford them. |
| 2:41.0 | I know what the first book they gave away was Brian but the little engine that could and I want my kids to have that lesson you know Dolly Parton when she was a little girl. |
| 2:50.0 | She was her mom made her a coat out of a patchwork of scraps of fabric and she thought it was so beautiful and she goes to school and all the kids say it's so ugly. |
| 3:00.0 | And the secret of Dolly Parton that no one realizes is she was really felt alone and lonely she felt different than everyone else where she was from no one wanted to go across the world. |
| 3:10.0 | But she always wanted to know what's on the other side of the mountain and what I love about her is she had this dream that butterflies would actually fly her there. |
| 3:18.0 | I want my kids to know that being a dreamer is a good thing right I want them to know that your dreams can take you anywhere and when you read these books and you read about Dolly Parton you see again. |
| 3:28.0 | That you go to her concerts. She doesn't just you know it's you have rich people there and poor people there city folks and country folks you have gay and straight you have old and you have young you have black and white and everyone in between she judges nobody. |
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