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Well, first off, happy Independence Day.

I hope everyone is having an amazing day.

I hope you're spending time with the people you love.

I hope you're spending time with your friends, your family, maybe you're on a trip.

Maybe you're just doing a staycation or maybe you even have to work.

But I hope it's a great day, nonetheless, as we celebrate Independence Day, as we celebrate America's

independence from a monarchy. We look today at what has really transpired over the past few years,

particularly during COVID. And I talk about this a lot on the show, but it was so eye-opening for

me. I'm sure it was for a lot of you guys at home of just tyranny is here, right?

We're not immune to tyranny.

Of course, we weren't back when this nation was founded, but we're certainly not today. And if you look back at the founding generation or founding fathers, they didn't put up with it, right? They weren't putting up with this oppressive regime from far away, trying to strangle their way of life, trying to

impose on their way of life, trying to dictate to them their way of life. So why are we putting up

with it today? Right. Why are we putting up with our government? I'm not saying we don't have

to resort to, obviously, the tactics that are founding generation resorted to, but there are other

ways to fight back. There are other ways to fight back,

you know, locally to fight back against government, to fight back against tyranny and to resist

a little bit. So today what I want to do is sort of revisit the foundations of America,

revisit our founding fathers, revisit the founding generation.

You know, why was America born? You know, what happened in the lead-up before the Declaration

of Independence? You know, what happened to that lead-up before July 4th, 1776? So we're going to get

into that with a historian. His name is Dr. Brian McClanahan. He has his own podcast, the Brian McClanahan show. You can check it out on Apple. I listened to like five yesterday. It's super interesting. He gets into a lot of real world issues, today's issues from a historical perspective. And he just has really interesting takes on it. He's really smart guy. So he's

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