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Go to PureTalk.com Clay that's PureTalk.com Clay PureTalk, America's wireless company. Welcome in our number three Friday edition, Clay and Buck. Buck is out, will be back Tuesday with me as we are rolling into the Memorial Day holiday. Thanks to everybody out there whose family has made the ultimate sacrifice. So many people will get into that a bit more and we've been talking about history a ton. One bit of news. Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Director of National Intelligence that happened in the last hour. Citing her husband having been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer and her need to work to get him healthy, she has elevated the President, has elevated Aaron Lucas and that is where we are also. Early this morning a second batch of UFO video of UFO files was introduced released. This is batch two. And, and my oldest son said, dad, you should be talking about this UFO release on the radio show. And I said to producer Ali, who is an awesome person that we can get on to fulfill my oldest son's desire here. I'm actually super excited about this. And we are joined now by George Norrie, who is listen to, I would imagine by many of you. He is the host of coast to Coast Amazon, the most listened to overnight radio talk show in America. He is also a part of the premier network and the show primarily focuses on the paranormal, UFOs, conspiracy theories, unexplained phenomena. Nori, who is with us now, George, we appreciate the time. You also served nine years as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve, earning the Navy Achievement Award. Before we get into UFOs, are you a history guy? You served in the Navy. Are there parts of American history that you find the most interesting as we come up on Memorial Day on Monday?
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George Norrie
Everything, Clay. It's a great country. I'm glad I'm here and proud to serve. I did nine years, as you just mentioned, as a naval officer originally during the Vietnam War. My lottery number was 20. I thought I was going. I went to get my physical and they said, you've got a little heart murmur, we can't take you. So for years I regretted not being able to go into the military. And one day a guy called me up and said, ronald Reagan would like to give you a direct commission to the Navy. I was a news director at a TV station in St. Louis and I went, what? And he said, yeah, he'd like to give you a direct commission. Would you take it? And I said in a heartbeat, but I don't know if I'm going to pass the test. And they said, we'll check you out. And the heart murmur went away. And there I went.
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Clay Travis
That's an awesome story. Well, thank you for your service. You talk about all sorts of fascinating topics late at night. People across the country listen. You have one of the biggest radio audiences alongside of this one anywhere. What is your audience's reaction so far to the UFO files, so called that have been released so far? The second batch of them coming out early this morning. What has your audience thought of this? What do you think about it?
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George Norrie
Our audience, primarily Clay, has gone through the position of I told you so. We knew it. And I just think it was great for President Trump to want to get these released. And as you mentioned, another 300 popped out today, all kinds of stories from all over the place. I think what this will do will corroborate what we've been talking about for years on coast to coast and what other people have been talking about. And that is, we are not alone in the universe. We're being visited. We have been visited. We might have been even seated by these entities. They may be our gods. But it's fascinating stuff, and it keeps me busy.
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Clay Travis
Okay, I love this. I believe that we have been visited by aliens. Buck, who is not with me today, is more skeptical. When did you decide that you believe we have been visited by aliens? And where do you think these alien life forms are coming? Do you have any sort of larger context or belief system?
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George Norrie
When I was a youngster, my mother brought me home a book called We Are Not Alone by Walter Sullivan, who at the time was the New York Times science writer that talked about the theory that we were not alone in the universe. And then a few months later, look magazine came out with a story of Barney and Betty Hill, the abduction case out of New Hampshire. I was fascinated by that story. It was an incredible story. One of my first jobs as a radio reporter When I was 21 years old in Detroit, I interviewed their psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon, out of Boston, Massachusetts, and I asked him a specific question. I said, Dr. Simon, were Varney and Betty Hill lying to you? What do you think? And he said, I don't know what happened to them. But under hypnosis, they both told the same story. They believe whatever happened to them happened. They're not lying. It's just a bizarre story, and I'll never forget it. From that point on, Clay, I decided I wanted to keep pushing my broadcast career to unravel these stories. And here I am today.
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Clay Travis
What do you think the craziest opinion that you have that you really believe is? You know, I always, like, say people, like, tell me a conspiracy theory that you think is real. What do you think you truly believe that this audience would find to be the most outrageous or outlandish opinion that you have?
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George Norrie
The audience may think the abduction cases are strange, where people are being taken from all over the planet. We have hundreds of thousands of people missing from the Earth every year. They're just gone. People can't find out where they are. Google it, you'll find that out. Something's happening to these people. I think that's probably one of the strangest stories going on right now. Where are these people going? They're disappearing in our parks, in our public systems. Poof, they're just gone. That's probably one of the biggest mysteries of all time.
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Clay Travis
So you think aliens potentially are taking thousands of people a year and that some of these so called lost people, we just don't know what happened to them? You think that they're vanished and that's where they're going?
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George Norrie
Absolutely. Not all of them, but some of them. It's a very strange universe. These aliens, these ETs are not all benevolent by any means. Dr. David Jacobs, a ufologist, believes that it's a very nefarious situation and he could be right. Remember that the Twilight Zone move episode To Serve Man.
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Clay Travis
Why do you think here's something I think about a lot, and I think about a lot of weird things a lot of the time. So you probably definitely do based on what you do for a living. One of the things I would say is if humans have been visited by aliens, which actually do think that they have, wouldn't there be some record of those alien life forms in fossils? In other words, it doesn't seem likely to me that they've only visited in the 21st century. Right. That they would have showed up in the 1500s, in the 1200s, long ago. What do you think about the lack of sort of fossil record that we have? We never do a dig in Egypt and suddenly uncover, for instance, a alien life form that has been entombed alongside of a current human life form.
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George Norrie
Clay, we haven't gotten the real great reports yet from the government. They must be holding back on some stuff for some reason. But I am convinced we have had alien bodies picked up. That government has them. There's an old story that former President Richard Nixon took. Comedian Jackie Gleason, who is obsessed with ETs, picked him up one day in a car and said, we're going to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. I want to show you something. And he went, okay. The President driving by himself, Nixon comes up to the gate at Homestead Air Force Base. The officer at the gate was in shock, obviously let the President in and apparently, according to Jackie Gleason's wife, Richard Nixon took Jackie Gleason into a room where they had an alien in a glass jar. And it shook up Jackie Gleason so much. He was never the same after that. Lots of strange Things are going on, we just don't know about them yet.
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Clay Travis
I do buy that one of the biggest challenges with the UFO world is that if an alien life form is capable of visiting here, their technology is so much more expansive and advanced than ours that it's almost impossible for us to even understand. Back in the day, in the days of exploration, you would have explorers show up and they couldn't communicate with the people that they had discovered the new parts of the world that they had that they were exploring because there was no common language. Isn't there likely to be a major issue just from technological sophistication? If you think about back in the days of things that we know did occur frontier wise, you would show up. Someone had never seen a ship before. They thought that they were seeing gods when they saw people in armor, for instance, things that they couldn't imagine, steel guns, all of these things. Isn't it likely that we are so far behind that mere communication is a struggle?
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George Norrie
Absolutely. They have learned, they being the ETs, how to travel through space. We haven't learned that yet. You know, if they conventionally traveled the way we do, it would take thousands and thousands and thousands of years to get here. They have learned somehow to bend space and time where it's an instant when whenever they appear. And their technology is way ahead of ours, probably by millions of years, but we'll get there one day, God willing.
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Clay Travis
My son says, anybody ever talk and you do this show? We're talking to George Norrie, super popular show on late nights all over the country. My son says, do you think it's possible that these are just time travelers? That somewhere long into the future we will find the ability to bend space and time such that we will be able to go back in time? And what we're actually seeing when we see UFOs is potentially people who are long into the future almost taking vacations to go back and say, hey, I want to see America in the 1990s. I want to. Do you buy into that at all? Is there any discussion surrounding that on programs such as yours?
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George Norrie
We've talked about it, Clay. You can't rule it out by any means. I tend to believe these are coming from other planetary systems within our universe. But there's still that distinct possibility that they could be time travelers. There's an old picture from the 1800s of a guy walking down the street. 1800s, mind you, holding a cell phone in his hand, talking to somebody. Who was the guy? Then there was another story that a time traveler popped up on the streets of New York and got hit by a cab, and he was wearing 1800 year garb. Unbelievable strange things have happened. It's very possible.
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Clay Travis
Where would you want to go back in time? If time traveling became a possibility, what era of history would you find most compelling?
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George Norrie
I've talked about this on the show before. I would love to go back to the era of Jesus to witness him and what he was doing to me. That would be one of the most fantastic visitations you could ever imagine.
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Clay Travis
It's interesting you say Jesus, because some people would say aliens. They get nervous about the interplay between aliens, religion, what it would potentially do to religion if we discovered that humans were not alone. What do you think the religious response would be?
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George Norrie
Well, the Catholic Church has already said that your belief in extraterrestrials does not negate your belief in God. And I believe that there's a higher power out there. There's a divine intelligence, and the belief in extraterrestrials merely tells you that this universe is packed with life. Packed with life.
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Clay Travis
I imagine that you are, and I love this. And we're talking to George. Nori. You are open to the idea to believe many different things, right? If you look at at America in the wake of COVID there's a lot of people listening to us right now. And I would even potentially put myself in this category where you're way more open to the idea of conspiracy, because so much of what we were told about COVID I believe, was a lie. And we have slowly unraveled many of those different lies. You've been doing this for a while. How would you assess the conspiratorial mindset of America today compared to when you began this show? And can you feel that difference in your audience and the conversations that you guys have?
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George Norrie
One of the reasons we're so successful on our radio show, Clay, is we don't shut people down. They have an opportunity to talk. The only thing that gets them booted is if they use profanity, which, of course, we don't accept. And that doesn't happen a lot. And we have delay buttons and everything else for that. But by and large, I am convinced that there's something else out there that we haven't even discovered yet. I can't get a scientist on the air to talk about the Big Bang and how the universe started. They don't know. Nobody knows. And it's one of the greatest wonders of the world. But the bottom line is there's something out there, and it doesn't negate our belief in a God. It will enhance it when the day comes.
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Clay Travis
Do you think in your lifetime that there will be incontrovertible that is beyond a shadow of a doubt. Proof of alien life forms and the fact that they have visited the United States? You may think that there's proof already, but I mean such that even skeptics would have to acknowledge it to be true.
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George Norrie
I would hope so. I'm not sure. I just don't know. The documents that have been released over the last month or so, including some today, really don't give us the information we need yet. There's a story of we've channeled off 13 fighter jets to chase a star shaped UFO. Apollo astronauts have seen strange things. I knew Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut. He's not with us anymore. He told me. George, I've been told by people in government that we are being visited by extraterrestrials. I never saw anything on the moon when I was there, but I'm told we're being visited. When you hear stories like that, you've got to believe it. There's something going on in this universe.
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Clay Travis
George, for people who enjoy this conversation but might not have heard your program before, how would they find it?
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George Norrie
You can go to our website, coasttocoastam.com and under stations, click the button and wherever you live, there's a station out there somewhere for you.
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Clay Travis
George, we appreciate the time. Thank you for your service. Hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend. And will you promise to come back on if we find out aliens 100% are real?
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George Norrie
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, I'll bring an alien with me.
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Clay Travis
Hey, the ratings on that would be pretty high, I think. George. Norrie, this is awesome. I appreciate the time. Again, thank you for your service. Have a good Memorial Day weekend, you and your family.
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George Norrie
Thank you, Clay. You too.
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Clay Travis
When you hear about Israel in the news, easy to think what's happening in that country and region as another conflict far away. It's not the full picture by any stretch. I've been to Israel. I have seen the bomb shelters, I've seen the hospitals. I have seen the battlegrounds. I've seen the people who have lost their lives simply for being Jewish in Israel. And I know all the incredible work that the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews takes part in. And I would like for you to join me and just send a few heartfelt words. This is more than support. This is just saying, hey, I'm thinking about you. I'm standing with you. In a time of difficulty. Go to prayifcj.org to share your thoughts, prayers and good wishes today on this Memorial Day weekend with so many people with their lives on the line in Israel today. That's prayifcj.org One more time pray ifcj.org
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis BUCK SEXTON show We are joined now by a guy who knows a little bit about trying to win win the culture wars by actually engaging and producing interesting content. Steve Dace does a great show out of Iowa. We'll get into that in a sec. What do you think if Iowa were voting today in the primary were taking place in November for 2028 instead of the midterms Iowa were helping to select, as by the way, you guys are going to do probably in January of 28, which is going to be here before we know it. How would the primary go? Do you get the sense that JD Marco DeSantis, what would the average Iowan you think, think right now if they had to select a nominee in 28?
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Steve Dace
I think, I think JD would be a strong favorite, but I think the president's going to have a huge say in what Iowans decide to do. I think he will pick the next nominee if he wants to. I could see that. You know, he may as JD Was joking the other day. He has a history of wanting people to try out for things in televised. So we may see some of that. I don't think Marco, Marco's made no overtures here in Iowa, Clay, at all. And he shouldn't. I mean, there's no reason, if I were him, I would not get in unless I was assured by the president I had a legitimate chance at his nomination. Otherwise, I'm still relatively young. I keep my powder dry and support JD as he said. I'm not sure what Ron will do. Ted will run. He's already running. You know, he's a former caucus champion and is still very well liked. But I would say today that JD Is, is a strong favorite. Not a guarantee, but a strong favorite.
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Clay Travis
Do you think Democrats come back in your state? They went to South Carolina. We've talked about on this program. That is an early indicator of how the DNC might be trying to put their finger on the proverbial scale because South Carolina, Joe Biden, because of James Clyburn, had a easy path to the 2020 election such that almost nobody challenged him at all. And Kamala has not done well in Iowa. Heck, Joe Biden didn't do well in Iowa or New Hampshire. Do you get the sense when you look at the other side that they may be coming back to Iowa as well, or what would you anticipate Democrats are going to do based on what you see on the ground There.
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Steve Dace
I think our gubernatorial election has a lot to do with that here. I think that if we only have one Democrat statewide official left, we've kind of just routed the Democratic Party in Iowa. But it's a tough cycle for us right now, and our sitting governor shocked everybody by not running again when everybody had kind of been gearing up for her to do so. And so there's been kind of this hodgepodge primary field that's kind of emerged, people with all very low name ID and an unpopular congressman. So if Rob Sands is able to win as the governor, I think Democrats will come back here, if for no other reason, to showcase him. I think he is essentially kind of running as a. As a saner, less obvious version of James Talarico, meaning that he says a lot of the same things, but he doesn't have the body of work of saying things that are culturally offensive to normies that Talarico has years of to use as oppo against him. And so he's a much easier package for them nationally than Talarico. And I could see them come back to Iowa, if for no other reason than maybe showcase him as a potential vp, maybe even a presidential candidate. So I think that will largely be determined by what happens in our governor's race this fall.
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Clay Travis
Okay. Earlier in the show, it's Memorial Day weekend. You've actually spent a lot of time on this, and I'm impressed. It's one thing to say, hey, I have these political opinions. This is what I think you. And then bucking me. We do this all the time. But if you really want to influence people, sometimes you have to reach them where they are through culture. I've been talking about how American history is a huge part of this, and I think we don't tell the stories of America very well and haven't for the last 15 or 20 years. The saving Private Ryan movies, the Band of Brothers movies, the show. We've really kind of moved away from that because people have decided that American history were the villain, not the heroes. What have you seen in pop culture? What have you seen about the impact? And then we'll get into your new book and more. But you've actually been fighting these battles. What have you seen in terms of the impact?
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Steve Dace
Clay? I have been involved in political races from school board to president, United States. I have been lied to, stabbed in the back more days than I can count. I have never faced the level of resistance in my entire career like I did the one time I made a movie for mass distribution in theaters. And I think the reason why is because our opponents understand that pop culture is really where worldviews are formed today, way more than inside of the pews. Now, with the surge of young men going back to church, maybe that'll change in the next generation. But in this generation, it's not true. Yet in this generation, it's not even the classroom anymore. More families are homeschooling than ever before. It's this device that I'm talking to you in right now, the entire world. More information than any previous generations of our species have ever had at their disposal. More connectivity than we've ever had. And so the ability to impact that on video, audio, pop culture, storytelling is really the last refuge left, Clay, where people will let you really go after their worldview and try to persuade them if it's entertaining. And I think this is something we're just now beginning to figure out on the right is the power of that bully pulpit. And I think that's why there's so much resistance into getting good quality conservative or even Christian content into this sphere, because of the power of these mediums. And so, thankfully, a lot of our folks, we still have some big donors that still need to figure this out, that if you, if you, if you, if you do a better job of telling stories, you don't have to spend a half a billion dollars to win a handful of political campaigns every cycle because you just impacted an entire generation. But this is really where more influence culturally is wielded than any other place in America.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, and I'm going to get to your book because I think that's important here to 1976. I've just been watching a lot of the patriotic themed big business commercials. I don't know if you've seen. We started the show off playing the Coke commercial from 1976, and you can say, oh, Coke, why do I care? Well, Coke believed the best way to sell Coke in 1976 was by saying America's awesome. I don't know how many brands are going to do that in 2026. Why do you think that matters? And how do we get to. I was asking the question, by 2076, on the 300th anniversary, how do we get back 1976, things were actually kind of tough. You had three assassinations recently had occurred. The Vietnam War was still a very, very raw wound on the psyche of America. Many people were coming back as veterans. It was an incredibly contentious era, yet everybody came together in 76 and said, America's awesome. I don't get the sense that we're getting that in 26.
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Steve Dace
You know, in my spare time, you and I are big sports guys. In my spare time, at night, to wind down, I'll jump on YouTube and I'll watch original broadcasts of college football and basketball games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Oh, yeah, you really get an idea when you watch them with the commercials included. And that's what your Coke observation alludes to. You really get an idea of how much we have been robbed of in this last generation, how different things really used to be in this regard. And by the way, you're right about the 2014 playoff anyway, but we can talk about that another time. But the thing that is, here's what's different and what's changed. And you and I are roughly the same age. So this is from when we were little kids to what we see now. We were arguing about where we were going as a country in 1976, but not where we had, not where we came from. Yeah, we didn't hate our birthright, yet now we have been taught to. And a lot of it is because we haven't really been taught it at all. We've kind of been taught this, you know, Marxist struggle session theory that history is really just, you know, the service, as Darwin's subtitle says, this is the struggle for survival of favored races. That that's essentially what it is, that there's no noble pursuit, there's no divine purpose, there's no reason that we were made. And so therefore, it's really just a glorification of the haves and the have nots. And that's just not the story of this country at all. We were up against the most powerful empire the world had ever seen at that point in time, the British Empire. The saying was, in the 18th century, the sun never sets on the British Empire. This ragtag group of colonials from different sects of the church. And people don't understand. They think Christians just kind of walk in lockstep. We were coming out of an era where if they had a Catholic king, he killed all the Protestants, you had a Protestant king, killed all the Catholics. And so now all these various sects of these Christian churches that founded all these colonies have got to set all their differences aside, if you can even manage that, first and foremost. But then to do it, to go toe to toe against the British Empire, it truly was something that was providential in nature. It just could not have happened in terms of just natural military strategy and planning. They had no chance. And a lot of that legacy stuff like The War of 1812 was essentially won. We survived because a storm came out of nowhere that right after the British lit the White House on fire and stopped them from essentially conquering Washington, D.C. things that you just can't take credit for, that just happened. That's why our founders use this term a lot, providence, which means kind of like the will of God, that they can't explain how things just work out. And that is just a key part of our history and something to be proud of. And that's largely been robbed of the last generation in the way they've been raised.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, you know, you're talking about providence. I love that story. I believe it's Benjamin Franklin saying one of the chairs had a son on it. And as they debated the future of the country and the Constitution, he would sit and contemplate, is that a rising sun or a setting sun? Not having a sense of where the country is going to go. And you know this. The great thing about history is everything ends up feeling inevitable, except when you go back and you study it, you realize how much of a mess it was and how what we have come to believe was inevitable was actually anything but. And it's people who put their heart and soul into everything that created the world in which we're all benefiting and living in right now. And what I think is clearly the greatest country that's ever existed in the history of the world. Tell us about this book and why you wrote it. It's why Independence Day. America is great, because God is good. Uh, we're talking to Steve Dase. What will the audience get out of this? Why should they read it?
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Steve Dace
Well, we aim it right at children, but we wrote it so families could read it with their children and learn as well. Because America really is its 250th birthday. Clay really is 3,000 years in the making. You know, Charlie used to point out that if you look at the writings of the founders, they actually quoted from Deuteronomy more than any other work. They wanted to look. They looked down through history. What worked what, what made people free. We had tried government, you know, rights from government. That was what the Magna Carta. It worked for a while, but not permanently. So what if rights came from God? What if they were preexistent in nature? What would that look like then? What would that God demand of us? What kind of national character would ensure that we would be free? And then they looked at the modern philosophers of the era, the post Reformation philosophers, the Hobbes, the Lockes the Montesquieu. And they kind of melded all of these various theorems and historical observations into the country that we are today. And we walk everybody through where those ideas came from, who instilled those ideas, how they were won. Because we want our kids to both be inspired by the country that they're inheriting, but then at the end convicted that now it's going to be their turn now to do what must be done and to maintain their heritage and be proud of it and not ashamed of it and pass it on to the next generation. And so I've done a trilogy of these books on America's Christian heritage for children. We've done why Thanksgiving, we did why Easter. And so this is now the Return of the Jedi. This is the conclusion of that trilogy. Why Independence Day?
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Clay Travis
Hopefully they have some lovable Ewok characters as well. All right, last question for you. Maybe the most contentious in Iowa, who wins the Cyhawk Trophy this fall for
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Steve Dace
the Iowa State program? Man has just been devastated. I mean, essentially the 2026 Iowa State football team is the 2026 Penn State recruiting class.
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George Norrie
Yeah.
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Steve Dace
I mean, you've heard the term year zero. I mean they're kind of primary. You lose right now in a. Even though I was taking a lot of FCS transfers, I'd be shocked if I was debut Iowa this year. Shocked.
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Clay Travis
For people who don't know, one of the great things about college football is the interstate rivalries. When you are just going head to head. And it is, it matters a great deal. How big of a rivalry in all sports is Iowa, Iowa State?
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Steve Dace
It's, it is. You know, I've gotten to do this all over the country. I started my career doing local sports talk radio and I built an entire radio program because I'm pro sports here in Iowa. So I built an entire program off of stoking and provoking hatred in that rivalry year round. And it worked. But I wouldn't be here where I'm at now without that. So, yeah, it is quite a rivalry. And one of those things, I think you've heard Chris Felica talk about it in the past. You know, getting to come here and do game day shows or now Fox big noon Sunday shows from this rivalry. It's one of the, I would call it the, the undercard of Alabama, Auburn. It's not quite that nasty, but it certainly has a ferociousness to it.
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Clay Travis
Well, we appreciate it. Encourage everybody to go check that book out. Steve, have a great Memorial Day weekend with you and your family. And we appreciate the time.
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Steve Dace
You too brother. God bless.
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