A radio show like no other. It's Brian Kilmeade.

Hey, welcome back everybody. My privilege to have with us in studio. If you're watching

Fox Nation, you recognize him, Raymond Arroyo, Fox News contributor and author of The Unexpected

Light of Thomas Alba Edison. A lot of people, there's a big push to say Thomas Edison overrated.

Yes. And you felt as though we have to rein that in.

Well, we have to rein that in a little bit. Look, what did he actually do?

Okay. Well, my story focuses on him as a young boy.

Okay. And it's a turnabout tale, a crisis point where a decision was made.

Brian, we all have these moments, but I think young people need to be aware.

Obstacles are your pathway to success.

Often it's the way to open up your destiny. Edison was thrown out of school at eight years old,

told he couldn't be taught more saddlebrain, his mother homeschooled.

But he was deaf, right? He was deaf by 12. He's deaf.

I mean, in the very idea that the guy created the things we're talking on, the microphone,

the telephone receiver, the alkaline battery, which became the lithium.

He perfected the light bulb. All of these and the phonograph, his great invention,

the phonograph. But remember, all of these things, that's all he did is inventing movies,

movie cameras. The most interesting thing was he was the wrong side of that debate.

Tesla had the two-way current. Edison only wanted the one way, which made no sense because

he created four-way messaging on telegraphs. So it's kind of an odd debate. But look,

he was an innovator. He was a self-made man. You got to give him props for that. It's a great American

story we shouldn't lose. Right. And you're not losing. I'm being sarcastic. I mean, it's

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