Dawn's Early Light Podcast Episode 17: America

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SPEAKER_02 0:09

You're beautiful. God bless you. What up, gang? We're back with another uh another installment of the Don's Early Light podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Um Episode 17.

SPEAKER_02 0:29

That's betub. And uh today we're gonna be talking about America, ladies and gentlemen. America. Uh why America is the greatest. This is just basically going to be that segment on Anchorman um where he goes into why America's the best. So uh pardon my giant bug bite, by the way, it's humongous, but uh 60% of the time it works every time. That's true. But when uh Caleb is in uh Des Moines at the moment, so that's why we're meeting on Zoom. Uh yes, so he is having a good time in Des Moines and uh I'm at work, and so we'll just make it work.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

I see what you did there. That was good.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

Thank you. Uh we should be tabling soon by the way. Uh now that uh at the time of recording, it's July 16th. Uh Thursday, July 16th. So we are going to be uh tabling again here soon once campus kind of opens back up and there are students on campus again. Hopefully this time not just uh keeping ourselves at UNO but going to other campuses across uh the eastern uh uh area of Nebraska.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

So expanding our turn that down.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Okay, we've got some technical issues.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

That was really loud. Uh we'll be right. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll have episode 17 here. Um episode 18 on Sunday, the 19th.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Yes. And um we uh who knows, maybe we'll film that in the car. I don't know, I don't know how we'll make that all.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

But uh we have a uh we we plan like true men, where we were like Josh, one of our other friends, was like, hey, do you want to come to this lake in like four days? And we're like, yeah. And then Cooper was like, Do you also want to go to this concert in like two days? And we're like, Yeah. So in true male fashion, that is how we plan pretty epic.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Uh the drive to Lincoln should be about an hour, so it'll be a normal uh Don's really light podcast length. But um, why don't we just dive into it? Caleb, why do you think America is the greatest country on the face of God's earth?

SPEAKER_00 2:45

It's a great, great question, Cooper. Um, it's multifaceted, as I hope we would agree.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

I think I'm the first one who's ever come up with that question.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

You are, I've never been asked that before. Yeah. In 250 years of America's dominance, we we have reigned supreme in every every facet. I'm kidding. No, but uh it's a it's a good question, and I think it's important to talk about, especially with this current kind of rhetoric that America is not great. And so I'd like to start actually with the uh the World Cup going on because I think it's interesting to look when you look at like you kind of zoom out and you see all these uh people from other countries. I think of the guy from Norway, uh the guy with the gold hair. Yeah, yeah, like these guys are coming to America and they're trying to smuggle ranch back into their home country because they love it here so much. Like everybody's just it's so big and it's free, and everybody's happy, and everybody's celebrating, they're doing the row at baseball games, like these just crazy, like fun, cool clips happening. And I think that kind of speaks volumes that even in these this time of uh I don't know what to really, there's not really a word for, but where Americans are upset with America, where they think they're living in this terrible country under the dictatorship of Donald J. Trump.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

The duly elected president.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

The duly elected president who's just a dictator, just evil, and then you have these people from other countries come over and they're like, dude, this is great, man.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

I think that this is my favorite country in the entire earth. I love it, I just love it so much. Ranch ranch wrestling and the dolphin lynch.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

I love it. It's just like I remember when that story first came out, I was at work and we were talking about it. Like, these people are going to airports to like go back to their home country and they're bringing like giant bottles of ranch, and TSA is like you can't do that. And they're like, Oh, hold on, hold on.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

It's like the kid from Willy Wonka, the fat German kid.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Yeah. And it's just it's it's really interesting to me that uh there's so much like infighting right now, but then you just get that little taste of like it's like when your cousins come, like you're mad at your brother, and then your cousins come over and everybody's like, oh, it's great, like everyone's having a good time.

SPEAKER_02 5:05

Yeah. And it's they don't know, so Americans we we have it so good that we think that any little thing that we might disagree with, or thing that happens here that is not necessarily to our taste or liking, is the end of the world. It's like we're like spoiled kids, right? If we don't get an ice cream cone tonight, then it's you know, we're reacting more strong than you know, the homeless kid who hasn't had a meal for two days. You know, it's uh we're we're so spoiled that we uh get to live in this amazing country that we think oh, you know, anything that goes wrong here or anything that goes against how we would want it to go here. Um, anything like that that happens is just the biggest, you know, oh America's the worst. This this nothing like this could happen anywhere else. And then it was talking about deporting illegal aliens.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

Yeah, for sure. And there's a term for for that. I I forget it, but I was actually just reading Deuteronomy, I think it was Deuteronomy the other day, and I wish I could remember the exact quote or verse. You might it might ring a bell for you, but the idea where God's talking to his people and he's like, You're gonna go conquer these lands, and you're gonna get into the promised land, and you're gonna um like it's it's gonna feel good, like you're gonna be like men of working and war, and like it's gonna feel good, but then you're gonna get to a point where generations will go by and then you get comfortable, and they're gonna get lazy and fat, and they're gonna rebel against God. And that's kind of the cycle that you see in the old testament of like, oh, God hasn't.

SPEAKER_02 6:43

My my Bible read through is I just got to Ezra, which is not exiled from uh Jerusalem. Um, they're finally coming back. So yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

And and that's the whole whole bunch of these evil, and you know, yeah. And there's the whole like little circle where it's like Israel does bad things, God punished them, Israel sad, and then they get the whole little circle, but it it kind of falls into that idea of like you get really comfortable and you start to rebel against God, and then you cycle your way out of it. Um something happens, or like our closer, it's the same thing with Israel, where they're like we're men of war, we're gonna go to battle, and we've got the promised land, and they get there, and now they're super comfortable and they fall into sin again, idol worship. And I feel like we're kind of in that phase of America where it's like we've fought for our independence, and we had all these incredible stories and heroes and his like people from history that uh we look up to, like George Washington, like all these amazing figures, and now people are trying to almost like criminalize them in a way where it's like no, these people were bad, and it's like they don't they're not thankful for what people had to go through to get us to this point. So I I do like being reminded when these other countries come, they're like, This is amazing. Like this is just crazy.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Yeah, yeah. I um I I came up with a list of uh reasons, and I just kind of want to get your um yeah, Kale, let's hear the reasons, but um uh I just kind of want to get your um opinions as I list each each of these off. Let's do it. The first one, obviously, uh the one that I I think anybody kind of thinks of when they think of why you would want to be in America is the economic opportunity. Uh America, obviously, the American dream.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Capitalism.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

America, yes, capitalism. You can come to America. Your skin could be bright orange, like Donald's, right? Or it could be uh or it could be as as as black as night. It doesn't matter. Uh you can come to this country and you can make a name for yourself if you work hard, get a little lucky, and uh put your nose to the grindstone and and and work. Uh, you can provide for yourself, your family, and live in relative, you know, a very, very strong uh uh comfortability and uh level of living, standard of living. There we go. That's what I was looking for.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

I'm glad you said com comfortable, like standard of living, because that's what I was about to say. I think people fall into this like faceted idea or I don't know why I keep using that word, that's just like in my brain right now, but this idea where they like deserve more than comfort when comfort is so much that I think people take for granted. I know we kind of just touched on that, but it's like people haven't been comfortable uh until like the 1950s.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

That's about exactly it was normal to be comfortable.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Like they did they still don't have AC in England, you know what I mean? Like if we're over here complaining, oh, I only have a three-bedroom, two-bath house, or there's a guy richer than me, and my neighbor, he's rich, and it's I'm so upset that this world's terrible, and now I'm gonna go eat my Pop Tarts and be sad about it.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

Yeah, and go get a pizza for five dollars across the street, yeah. Go to go to little Caesars and a meal that will fill you completely and entirely, and enough for your family as well. Um, a whole large pizza, you can live off that, your family can live off that. It's not necessarily gonna be the most nutritious, but like you can also go to the store and get apples for like 90 cents a pound, you know.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

Uh they my car broke down, but you know, we're thinking about people in Hun or my car naturally break down, but like, you know, in this like idea of people complaining about you know my car broke down, and then you go to somewhere like I've been to Honduras and you've got 47 people riding on the back of a motorcycle. It's like just perspective, you know. I think that's important.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um, and with the economic opportunity, excuse me, obviously the United States has the largest GDP. We have the largest market, but everybody wants to buy things here, or sorry, not buy things. Well, Americans love to buy things. We're the most like consumeristic culture in the world, I would say. Uh, but everybody else wants to sell here. Everybody wants to sell their goods here. We're um we've got some of the largest businesses, uh, the most successful entrepreneurs. Um we yeah, a lot of uh a lot of laws make it easy to do business here. Uh China is also one of those where you if you want to make things really really cheap, you can do it there, but if you want to do things fairly, you do it here. Um anything else on the economic uh opportunity? I don't think so because I think uh oh I sorry, I ask something. Our level of poverty is so much higher than other countries' levels of poverty. Um we don't, you know, nobody really goes nobody starves in this country. Uh the only people who do are it's either for a short period of time or the government and the government then steps in to help them, which there are plenty and plenty of opportunities for that. Um or that uh they are choosing not to. So we really don't have a starvation epidemic, which is you know, now standard for first world countries, but uh uh ever since like 1950, that was not a that was something that was only reserved for the upper class. So our our poorest still have full bellies. And that is a that is um backed up by kind of a sad the sad statistic that the most the fattest uh people in America are usually the poorest. And um back in the day it was the fatter you were, the more rich you were because you could afford all of these foods. But now it's kind of flipped because we're so prosperous. All right. Uh next I have innovation.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

So see, I was gonna bring that up, but I figured you were gonna go here.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

Yeah, the uh the most of which is medical innovation by far America. I mean, America pretty much subsidizes the world's medicine. Um, we have most major technological breakthroughs in medicine happen in America. Also in tech, obviously Silicon Valley, you have Apple, Microsoft, things like that. Um, Nvidia, right? SpaceX for uh, you know, space travel and things like that, and uh rocket engineering. Um all of these things originate within the United States, and uh the kind of the technical technological breakthroughs and our innovation is something that I think uh makes America the best. Caleb, do you have anything to add?

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Well, yeah, I mean I agree completely. Even the Model T, first airplane, the Wright brothers. I mean, everything. Yeah, I didn't even think about the past, but yes, yeah, cost of electricity, light. Electricity. Yeah. We just we really we're go-getters, and I think that's important to reflect on. Just yeah, it does start here. I like your medicine point too. Just our infrastructure of healthcare is incredible.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

Yeah, we kind of foot the bill as uh the citizens of America, but we basically subsidize the world's medicine. If you look into it, it's very obvious that America is the by far, by far the number one innovator of medicine and the uh producer of drugs and all of these other things.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

And I would much rather, I know this is getting into you know the healthcare topic, but I would much rather foot my bill than pay 70% of my income to taxes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Yeah. And socialized healthcare on this on the scale that it would take in the United States would be a disaster. I mean, you just look at you look at the VA right now, my brother's dealing with a bunch of VA healthcare stuff, and the VA is really the only socialized healthcare system in America, and it is just a disaster. Um, my brother could testify to that.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

Uh absolutely, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

It's a notoriously bad thing here in America, is our our VA healthcare system and how it should be.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

In my line of work, uh we have people that we will occasionally take, like military veterans that need uh medical attention, and we have the option to take them to the VA. And I'd say 95% of the time we're not that's not even an option because the VA is on diversion, which means they're just not taking anybody. And that's like almost every day.

SPEAKER_02 15:04

Yeah, it's it's pretty ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Um it's not even like an option for them to go there. So yeah. But socialism.

SPEAKER_02 15:11

But yes, Marxism. It works, it's awesome. All right. Um, anything else on innovation? No. All right. Uh next, again, uh this one's pretty obvious, but uh the freedoms that we're gifted here in America are personal freedoms that are outlined in the US Constitution. Um, obviously freedom of speech, the freedom to assemble, uh, the right to bear arms, all of these uh you know intrinsic values, and none more paramount than uh the right uh the pursuit of life, liberty, and uh the pre no the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Uh those are uh obviously the most paramount, but our freedom of speech is the most strong. Our freedom of religion is what honestly attracted so many people. You just got mailing. Yeah, my sign to not enter uh fell down. So we'll see if I get another guest or something. But um our freedom of religion uh is what flocked the pilgrims here initially, uh, the land of opportunity for uh religious freedom. Obviously, America wasn't a country then, but the idea of religious freedom carried over from the pilgrims into uh the founding of the country. Uh the right to free press, uh the right to assembly, um, and then obviously the thing that we like love to champion here at PAC is uh the right to disagree and the right to a free dialogue without um government interference.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Yeah, fear of extreme repercussions, and I think that's something that people forget about. I know when uh especially the English. Oh, yeah. Well, when that whole thing was going on, like when uh Charlie Kirk was assassinated and people were like cheering, and then they would get fired from their jobs, and they're like, I thought this was freedom of speech. It's like, well, okay, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

I could shout the N-word here at my work. I'm free to do that, but I'm also not free of the consequences that follow from my private employer, which is to the government probably isn't gonna come and break down your door. Yeah, yeah, I'm not gonna go to jail, but I am uh certainly going to get fired, hopefully going to get fired uh for for doing that.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

Exactly. And so I think that's uh something that people forget. But yeah, I I totally agree. Uh, endowed by our creator little these true certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

So, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Yeah, I think uh we obviously we know how we feel about the second amendment. I know that's uh always a hot topic, and I think that every amendment is just incredibly important.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Yeah, we should do a second amendment video one day.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

I want to. That's on my list of like as we're getting closer to tabling, like Second Amendment. I know we already did an abortion, like some of those heavy-hitting topics that people want to hear about. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Okay, next on my list I have our higher education. The world's most prestigious universities are here in America. Harvard, Yale, um, Brown, you know, all the Ivy League colleges. Um that's not to say that none no prestigious colleges are elsewhere, but uh a lot of um, you know, uh the those high, those heavy hitter universities, Harvard, Yale, all of those, um are ranked among the best globally. And have massive amounts of uh students globally um praying and hoping to get into one of these universities so that they have a better chance at uh getting a good education and uh getting into the job field. And education's a strong topic for you, Caleb, so I'm interested in the case. It is.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

I was just about to say that. Um obviously I think education has its flaws here, but I I I totally agree with you. I think it's people can can say whatever they want about how schools work and this, that, and the other. But you're totally right. I mean, there's people in foreign countries who are on wait lists and you know praying that they get into the schools that we have here to have a shot at learning what you know, part of the knowledge that we have, trying to get into a career field in America. I mean, that's just a a huge opportunity that they're looking for.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

And yeah, I think that's really their whole lives to try and send especially amongst the Asian community. Getting into one of those schools is uh it's it's a stereotypical joke at this point, but uh you know, it's the Asian father being like, Are you doctor now? And then being like, and then the son being like, No, and he's like, Don't talk to me till you doctor, and then um, but like the the 12-year-old like trying to play with a stick, and he's done like no, you're studying. But they they place a very, very strong uh emphasis on success and getting into higher education, and um I think partly that's why the Asian community is done so well in America.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

I was about to say it's it's worked out very well for them.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

I mean, you don't hear them complaining, yeah. They even like affirmative action, right, is supposed to help minorities get into colleges. However, Asians are like largely excluded from that along with white people because Asians are just so much they're just so good at school, uh, because of the heavy emphasis that is placed in their culture.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

It's DEI until you talk about the smart people and then like whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need more more culture and stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

More culture and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

More culture.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Diversity.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

Diversity. Diversity is actually one of my next points. Um, if we but do you have anything else you want to know? Let's let's get into it. I love black people. I love black people. Do you have anything else though that you want to talk about with uh our higher education system?

SPEAKER_00 21:10

No, I think that's I want to do an episode on like just education because we talked with that with uh Brian a little bit, but I want to do like a hard-hitting yeah, so we can we can wait, but I do agree that like the the opportunity here is incredible, and obviously people overseas notice that.

SPEAKER_02 21:28

Yeah, yep, absolutely. Um next, I have our military strength. Uh Caleb, show them the pythons. That's how strong America's military is right there. By the way, ladies, he's taken. I am taken, baby. Hey, let's get a round of applause here for Caleb. Hey man, you know the confetti Yeah, yeah. Is there a confetti effect on Zoom? I don't know, but um Caleb, yeah, search for it. Um But yeah, so our America's military strength. Um, obviously we maintain one of the most technologically advanced, largest, uh, more most powerful militaries uh on the earth. Obviously, right now we are having this kind of uh not necessarily war with Iran, but this kind of squabble. And if we wanted to, we could absolutely just wipe the floor with them. But we are obviously no boots on the ground right now. We're just blockaded, trying to economically uh choke them out, basically. Um but if we wanted to, uh Iran would be gone by tomorrow. Um, if we started now at 5 41 p.m.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Um I'm glad I'm glad you said that because that's one of my biggest gripes with this whole war on Iran thing. It's not a war. It's that's like if if my little 11-year-old sister was like trying to like swing at me, and my parents are like, oh, this is a crazy fight going on right now. I'm like, this isn't a fight, it's just like Caleb, you're losing.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

She's getting into kits on you.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Dude, you're you're gonna you're gonna lose to her. It's like I'm just like holding her head right here.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

Like, she's like Yeah, she's like hitting your hitting your arm or whatever. Like they're they're she's beating you up. It's like uh-huh, yeah. You have a bruise on your arm from where she pinched you. She's winning. She's she's gonna she's gonna win.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

Yeah, that's how it feels with Iran where people are like, dude, they're gonna they're gonna beat America. It's like our Navy has the second largest air force in the world. And what's first? Our Air Force. Yeah. And then our Coast Guard. Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. Yeah. So I agree. I I really like our military. I I know people are so butthurt about how much we spend on it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

Well, for the past We're safe, the past many, many decades. Uh, we've basically subsidized Europe's military. Um, we've single-handedly kept Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Um, we have obviously the most influence on the global stage when it comes to our military power. Um, yeah, our military strength is second to none.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Yeah, it's it's not even close. I know people will compare it to China and Russia, but it's Russia can't even take Ukraine with just America's financial help.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

Now imagine all of our troops and missiles and jets and boats and things.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Technology that we know we have, but we don't know what it is. You know what I mean? Like, we know that there's they're cooking some crazy stuff up there.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

It was like the the the sonic weapons that were reportedly used in the raid on Maduro.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Uh that's what I always think of. Whether it's about like melting people, it's like, hmm.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Yeah, pretty crazy. Um, yeah, the military, obviously, that's uh that's a big one.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Um yeah, like what we did with uh Iran's leaders talking smack, and we just drone strike off into the dirt. So I like that one. That's a good the military. I like that.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

Yeah, I like the military, it's cool. I like the military, big military guy. All right, uh beautiful dogs. Absolutely. Our cultural influence. Uh, a lot of people say America has no culture, however, when they turn on their radio, it's all American music. When they watch a movie, it's made by an American. When they watch a television show, it's made by Americans. When they go and watch a sport, probably American, unless it's the World Cup. But even then, we made it to the round round of 16. So, you know, we were there for a while. Um any uh your phone, American, the apps that you use, more than likely American. Um all of the things that govern somebody's day-to-day life, basically, are um products of America. We have the the best music, the best movies, the best television, uh, we have the best art, we have the best uh we just have we just have the best uh culture across the globe. Obviously, different cultures, you know, have if you want to listen to polka music, oh you go to Germany or Austria or Switzerland or whatever. If you want to listen to uh you know K-pop, you go to Korea. But um on the broad, on the uh on the large, America's cultural influence is uh incredibly pervasive and infects all of the Western world. And even a lot of the Eastern world as well. A lot of uh Chinese people, Japanese people, they uh they love King of the Hill. It's like the it's like the American anime. I've been seeing this online back when like the the whole America, Japan, our best buddies now kind of thing was happening on social media, uh, everybody was saying how much they love American. A lot of Japanese people were saying how much they love American uh culture.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

That so speaking of King of the Hill, this is so I went when I went to Honduras and my uh Boomhauer man. Oh boomhauer man, Bobby when I went to uh Honduras for my missions trip, uh my junior year of high school, we're walking around, and there's a kid with me, and one of the Hondurans there said to the kid that I was walking with, he's like, You look like Bobby Hill. You probably did. I was like, Oh my gosh, like how do you like that's just that's crazy to me. So yeah, I agree. That's yeah, I like our our culture here, and our culture here in a way too is just like everybody's culture mixed into one pot, and then it's its own culture.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Yeah, everybody comes in, they're various, you know, they come in Irish, they come in, uh, they come in Thai, they come in Ethiopian, they come in Brazilian, but that all gets melted down into being American. American that's what's so beautiful about the melting pot, is that everybody, you know, you can still you can still trace yourself back to those things, but uh you are now American. Um I can't move to Japan and become Japanese. I can't move to Ethiopia and be considered Ethiopian. America is the only country where that's flipped on its head. Anybody can move here and be considered American.

SPEAKER_00 28:34

I was about to say, if you go to Japan, if you go to pretty much anywhere besides America, and you're just a white person, they look at you differently. And that's not to say negatively, but they will see you as Japanese. You're not you're not Japanese, you're you're not Brazilian, or you know, whatever, or you have a different accent, you're not German, you have a very clear accent. But when I think about here, I'd like to say that I think America probably has the least racist people out there because you're not even subconsciously, like we walk past black people, Japanese people, Asian people all the time. That's just normal. So we're we are never subconsciously, like in the back of our minds, like, oh, they they're they look different to me. It's just like that's just a normal day. But if you go to Japan, everybody. But but if you go to Japan and you're walking around, the I'm not saying that every Japanese person is like, oh, white man, bad, but they are subconsciously in the back of their mind, like that person is different than everybody around me.

SPEAKER_02 29:34

That's just how it is. Yeah, uh you ask any Jap any person from Japan, I guarantee you, or any other country for that matter. Any country, could I ever one day be considered truly Japanese? The answer is going to be overwhelmingly no by the majority of them, because I'm not racially Japanese. I'm not I'm not from Japan. However, if a Japanese person moved to America and that that other question was asked, overwhelmingly, many the majority of Americans would be like, Yeah, you could be American.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Exactly.

unknown 30:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

And that's not to say that it's the Japanese people are like, oh, you can never be one of us. That's just that's just we're never gonna fit in the way that anybody can fit into America. It's the melting pot. Everybody can just come in and combine down.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

Um a true, you know, person of that country. Exactly. America's really the only place you can do that. But we have the best music stars. Obviously, we have the most uh music is the big one, I think. Is you know, America's music is just everywhere. Uh, you recog if someone showed you a pixel pixel picture of Michael Jackson, uh, anybody on this earth would know who that is. You could commit you could go to the jungles of Laos or whatever, and they'd be like, Oh, yes, this is Michael Jackson. I don't know why he was Russian, he's from Laos, but um Eskimos in Antarctica. Yeah, yeah. I guarantee you there's an Eskimo that's moonwalked before. Um, our movies obviously the moon, I mean, the movies are dominated by Hollywood. I mean, is that's Bollywood is kind of up there in I was about to say, second only to India, that's a very regional thing. Uh, the rest of the world, and even in places like India, uh, a lot of Bollywood is just copies of Hollywood films, that's why it's called Bollywood. Um, but yeah, our cultural influence is the most pervasive in the entire world. Absolutely, that's a good one. All right, next up is our diversity. We kind of already touched on that with our cultural one, but like I said, you know, we're home to pretty much every single culture all melted down into what is considered the American culture, what is considered Americans. Um we it's the whole melting pot thing that we already kind of touched on. So yeah, diversity. Um Caleb, do you have anything else you want to add to that?

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Not really. I think we we hit it pretty hard with the last one, but I think it's important that people I know that it's never gonna happen. It's you know, it's a it's a dream, but people realize that so much better here than literally anywhere else. When it comes to, you know, if you if you again, if you go to Japan, you're gonna see Japanese pilots, Japanese waiters everywhere. Like you're not gonna see near the diversity that we have here.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

So all right. Uh I want uh next up is our this kind of goes in line with our the innovations one, but our scientific research, most I want, but I want to kind of push it into the amount of Nobel Prize winners we've had, um the the pure like the groundbreaking discoveries, kind of like what we touched on with electricity, um, all of those things. Uh the airplane, the automobile, the assembly line, you know, things that uh have these groundbreaking discoveries that have changed the way that the world operates. Um, but yeah, our scientific research, obviously, we invest very heavily into our sciences. Um one of which is our space, uh, our space travel and our space discoveries. Uh, I know Caleb's not a uh necessarily the biggest believer in all of these things, but um I hold to the opinion that uh, you know, the fact that we went to the moon first is what makes America great. The fact that we're this guy, man. This guy. We'll have to do a moon landing episode one day.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

We will have to really hammer away.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Yeah, I am strong.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

The problem is like right now I'm probably in the boat of like 70-30, where it just like doesn't 70 against or 74? 70 against. Ooh. But it's just like one of those, like, it doesn't affect me at all, so I don't care that much.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

Why not believe? Why not believe in just the beauty of of American dominance in in space and in the in the last frontier? There's just there's too many questions I have. I'm too skeptical. Man, uh I just oh, I would love, I would love to just oh all right, all right, anyway. We'll have to do it, we'll have to plan it. Uh space travel for me, um, are uh winning the space race, and then all of the discoveries made with the Hubble telescope that has been launched by Americans, right? All also obviously worked on by other people outside of America, but the the groundwork and the the base of operations for it was on the space coast. Um but yeah, our our space travel and um our endless curiosity for what's out there, I think, uh makes us great on another scale, not just an earthly scale, but great in terms of adventure and uh discovery. Caleb, I'm sure you don't have much to add to that, but no, I I don't.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

That's uh there's definitely a debate for another day. We need a we need a cat we need to pencil that one into the calendar. But yeah, if it's all real, I agree with you.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

Um our currency, the US dollar, um, is the you know, it's the world's primary reserve currency. Um hopefully it stays like that, but it gives our con our country a lot of economic influence over the world. I know the euro, isn't the euro kind of fighting? I think it's the yen. I think it's the Chinese yen becoming close, but um that's still the data. Yeah. Um our natural beauty is another one. America is home to uh like the widest variety of biomes and uh things like that. You have these beautiful mountains, and you have these uh these expansive deserts, the rolling prairies, you have the the south and the swamps, you have uh just all of these beautiful, like world-renowned national like parks and places to go see natural beauty.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

Yeah, you you don't need a passport in America to see pretty much any and everything, besides like man-made structures like the Eiffel Tower, you know, things like that. But if you want if you want to see just nature, we have everything Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii, Hawaii, Nebraska, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:01

And then uh the last one here on our on my list is our tradition of charity and our filleth philanthropic endeavors. Most of the most recognizable charities in the world are based out of the US and run by Americans. Um you have uh hundreds of billions of dollars donated annually to uh uh charities across the world, not only just in America, but across the world. Um and we're one of the only countries that a lot of our charities uh base themselves in places outside of uh its own borders, like digging what like uh water for Africa, um uh the oh what is it? Uh the Red Cross is technically considered a charity, right? It is um the Red Cross is synonymous with like disaster relief across the world. I was about to say they're pretty much global, yeah. They're yeah, but based in America. Um yeah. America's America's the best. It's just the best.

SPEAKER_00 38:09

It really is 250 years, baby. Absolutely. I was uh who's I uh I was talking to somebody, so I saw on Facebook that they sent a train around for the 250th anniversary, or because they sent uh the big boy, the steam engine, and that was for something, and then they sent another train for the 250th birthday, and I was like, wow, we're just a bunch of train lovers up here, they're just uh they just keep giving us trains.

SPEAKER_03 38:32

We're like yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:34

You know, America isn't that big on trains though. If uh for passenger trains, passenger trains, passenger trains, you know, infrastructurally, like logistically, trains are huge, but um yeah, we don't have we don't have a lot of passenger railroads, which is something that we talked with Joyce about in episode four, I think.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

About uh building a a railray, a railway from Lincoln to Omaha. That's a pretty not a lot of people are gonna get that reference, but if you do. But did you I don't know if you heard about this, but they're having a bunch of sinkholes in Omaha right now, like pretty big. And they're wanting to build this like transit system in Omaha that doesn't really seem to make a ton of like logistical sense. Anyways, they're worried that like the vibrations from those are gonna just sinkhole like the entire Omaha just falls.

SPEAKER_02 39:30

Omaha, just like oh my gosh. Well, uh, you wouldn't have to go to work. No, yeah, I'd be just consume.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

But yeah, that's that's it for my list. Um and that's I think this is a new this is a good episode to get back into into the the roll of thing or the swing of things. Gosh, I'm just messing up my analogy and terminology right now, but uh yeah, it's been a little bit of hiatus. We've just been busy, life stuff, girlfriend stuff, new developments. But we're back, baby. We got tabling coming up, we've got episodes planned, which always feels good. I got some clips that I need to upload.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

Yeah, is there anything else that you uh want to touch on about America being the best or things that you just love about America that maybe aren't necessarily the best, but just things that you appreciate about it?

SPEAKER_00 40:29

We you know, speaking of diversity, the diversity of food is great. Oh, I didn't even touch on the cuisine, dude. The cuisine. I was just thinking about that because we we had Chinese occasional. Like we so we made um like taco salad, like a Mexican taco salad, and then we had Chinese food earlier. And I'm like, where else could you do that?

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Like, where else could you go to like a Chinese pretty much anywhere? You could find a Chinese spot anywhere in the world, but Mexico is so much.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

That's what I mean. Like, you can't just go and find like Mexican food and then go have a burger, like that's just it's incredible.

SPEAKER_02 41:06

Yeah, it's great. Our cuisine, and and then that's also touching on the the uniquely American cuisines. Um, obviously, you have the uh the formation of you know, um Americana food, apple pie, cheeseburger, hot dog. Um, but you have the uniquely American like cuisines like Cajun food, Creole stuff, uh, you know, barbecue, which has been completely you know, you have Southern Barbecue, you have Kansas City barbecue, you have uh Carolina barbecue, you have all of these different uh you know subcultures of um of barbecue. Um you go into places like uh you know close to the border, you have the Tex Mex fusion. Um you have the the beautiful uh like fresh uh uh cuisine out in California. Um there's a name for that, but I can't remember exactly what it's called. Um are like the Northeastern stuff like clam chowder. I don't know if that's uniquely American or not, but crab cakes, things like that. But um yeah, I think our cuisine is is pretty good. I wouldn't say it's the best, I would, you know, but I would say it's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 42:24

And it's so diverse, like going back to every nature scene and climate. You can go if you want to go to the east coast and get seafood, you want to go to Texas and get a burger from a cow that was killed two minutes ago. Like there's just there's so many options, just it's incredible. Absolutely 250 years strong, baby.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

Yeah, America 250. Um, I feel privileged to be able to uh to be you know the age I am and be able to have the fun I can um around this huge mark. Um pretty awesome. It was a it's been a great summer, uh, more more fun things to come. I am I'm very happy that America's made it 250 years for obvious reasons, but um I think that we'll make it another 250 if we continue to um open up dialogue, excuse me, and to cure this political polarity that's going on uh in America right now. So I I'm interested to see if that will stop after Trump's second term. I'm very interested to see if that's going to die down because you know it was Trump that kicked it off. Well, it wasn't necessarily Trump, but it Trump was the target that kicked it off. And then once he's out of the political picture, we will see if that kind of dies off or not. Um that's something that I'm very interested to see.

SPEAKER_00 43:50

I I'm interested to see that too. The problem is I just I think it's a media issue. When Biden was in office, they were flaming up the Republicans, when Trump's in office, they're firing up the liberals. Like, I really think we need to encourage these next generations to step away from social media and really start interacting with each other again, like what we're trying to what we're trying to do.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

Yeah, talk face to face to one another. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:16

Yeah. I know I think we mentioned it in almost every episode, but just that political echo chamber where if everything you see on Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and the newspaper and walk into your classrooms and your friends and your family is right wing or left wing, you're just gonna build up that subconscious resentment for the other other person. How could you possibly not see it from this way? So absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

All right, well, that's about all I've got. Um America 250 baby. America's the best country in the world by far. Um, I think anyway, it's obviously a subjective opinion, but I think it's the correct one. So subjectively correct. Subjectively correct, that's right. Caleb, do you have any uh final thoughts?

SPEAKER_00 45:07

I don't, man. I'm excited to get back into pack. I'm excited to uh get back at a table and I'm just I'm ready to go. All right, awesome.

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