Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. Well, I just got back from a five-day trip to Washington, D.C., with around 30th graders.

And I know that sounds like insane, and it was totally exhausting, but it was actually incredibly inspiring because we got to see our history through the eyes of teenagers, and it was really pretty special.

If you haven't taken your kids to our nation's capital, I really am suggesting it.

It is a must do. I think one of the biggest lessons we learned is that sometimes life can change

in the blink of an eye, and sometimes it's because of any evil act, but sometimes it's

because of a lack of precaution. And sometimes it's both. And our kids are watching them as they went

from memorial to memorial and from museum to museum. And they were learning that those changes

in life can leave a lasting impact. It can be the loss of a loved one or the implementation

of new policies. But whatever happens in this country, we're not ashamed. There are things that

have happened in this country that we have learned from, that we continue to highlight because

things that should have caused

shame in the moment and did, we have overcome, we have learned from. And we were able to teach

our kids that even our most horrific failures, we can change, we can grow from, just like we can

all change and grow. So we actually got to, we actually got

to see that we keep in this country, we keep our failures on display. We keep them as reminders that we've

learned hard lessons and that we continue to strive towards excellence. Before I begin, I want to say

a big thank you to Speaker Johnson and Speaker Johnson's office for taking our students on an extensive tour of the Capitol building.

And that was kind of like one of the first things that really showed us that we can learn hard lessons from terrible situations because we were sitting on the house floor.

And we were hearing all these historical stories about the U.S.

House and that was incredible.

But while we're there, they started to point out one of those failures at a time when our

congressmen were in danger because of a lack of security protocols.

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