Welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show. I'm Claude Jennings and this is a Bill Bennett

podcast special. Bill and our friend Joe Fartus had a chance to catch up with Steve Case.

He's the author of the Rise of the Rest. Entrepreneurs in surprising places are building the new

American dream. Steve Case, by the way, is co-founder of America Online and Revolution

and New York Times bestselling author of the third wave. He's talking about how entrepreneurs

all across the country are building groundbreaking companies, renewing communities, and creating

new jobs. Okay, so this Bill Bennett special, Bill Bennett, close friend of the show, Joe

Fartus and Steve Case. Enjoy. Steve Case co-founder of America Online and Revolution, New York

Times bestselling author of the third wave. A new book called The Rise of the Rest. Steve,

welcome to the podcast. Thanks so much for joining us. We're also joined by a friend and colleague,

Joel Fartus, business man, entrepreneur developer, who's going to help me in this interview because

he's been working the rest with the capital R for some time. Tell me what happened in 2014, Steve.

Well, first of all, it's great to be with you, Bill. I'd go back on probably 30 years and

it was great. Josh, I guess so. Still seeing pictures of you and a leather jacket. I remember that.

Yeah, I remember that event. So I do your question. In 2014, we launched what we call The Rise of

the Rest Road Trip, a bus tour that started the first of a number of bus tours. Now we've done

this in dozens and dozens of cities in the United States. Really trying to sign a spotlight on what's

happening in these cities, mostly in the middle of the country, that don't get the attention that some

of the startup hubs, like a Silicon Valley or a New York City get, but are starting to really

launch some really interesting companies that I think can kind of be some of the innovators of

tomorrow, some of the big fortune 500 companies of tomorrow. And the process also helped renew,

revitalize a lot of these cities that haven't really had a lot of the benefits in the last several

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