The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome, Welcome, welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Big week. Big week shaping up here in America and across the world. Of course, we’re watching closely what’s happening in in the Middle East, really a scary time and more, more being said by people with more experience directly than I have. But certainly we’re praying for everyone and keeping that in focus and and and closer to home in America, maybe the Republicans will pick a new speaker. Maybe, maybe not. There’s like 10 people running, at Jim Jordan’s campaign to be Speaker fell short. So who knows what’s gonna happen with that? I’m not sure it really matters right now. I don’t. I don’t. I I don’t know how The Republican who wins is gonna come up with one of these ridiculous deals where they put a bunch of money for Ukraine and other wars in there and and and are not immediately vilified by a lot of The party. At Least we want up and down votes on the Things that are standing alone, not rolled together, but we’ll see.
Alright. I want to share with you and I want to tell you about something that I have noticed happening and it is picking up speed and I think it’s going to be important. OK.
I have told you that we’re coming up on the 250th anniversary of America, right? The sesquicentennial, sesqui sesquicentennial. And that that is going to be a big deal, frankly, especially if. Especially if Donald Trump wins for the presidency, he’s talked about it a lot. It’s hard to know how Joe Biden if or a Democrat can celebrate America when they’re so down on American history. But it’s a big, big deal, 250 years, and it will start, in my opinion, it it will start in about a month and 1/2. Let me get that two months, 2, two months. Two months from right now a little bit less than two months. And that will be on December 16th. It will be the anniversary, 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, which the Boston Tea Party is sort of the first real moment, I think. Convenient moment. There’s other moments before in history, but you can mark the beginning of the American Revolution that changed the world. Just changed the world completely, leads to the Constitution. Leads to the American experiment leads to all kinds of things just amazing, amazing moment. And so you start on the 16th of December. And you go forward over the next two plus years, you can celebrate all the Time every month or two you can celebrate an incredible moment in American history that’s on its 250th anniversary and marking the history I believe is now, how to say, acceptable that the politically correct movement went too far. The cancel culture went too far. The idiots that funded things like defund the cops and try to, you know, get rid of our history and all, they they’re they’re losing, they’re losing. And there’s a new renewed confidence. And one of the ways that I have seen that evidenced itself. I noticed this about four years ago. It was after Trump had won. And I was thinking about how people had it. It seemed to be me. They had a renewed energy for things like American heroes, American symbols, American history. Trump started that presidential garden of great Americans, which immediately Biden got in and reversed. He didn’t like it. But I also noticed that there’s a historical theme park. About two, two hours from Paris and it’s called the park, Puy du Fou. Puy du Fou. I think I’m saying That right. And and it is an extraordinary thing because. There’s no rides now. I’m a big fan of Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA. I got married in Williamsburg. My wife has family ties to that part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. We go frequently there. Our kids love it. We we love to go down to the to stay in Williamsburg in the area, and we go to Yorktown, we go to Jamestown. We go to Busch Gardens and Busch Gardens has traditionally had More history and in the park than when you go to say one of the generic parks that are around even Disney World and others, they don’t have much, Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, especially when we started going 20 years ago. It had lots of sort of Western civilization. Now it’s gotten a little bit. They don’t do as many of the events they had dancing and they had. Different kinds of events. They don’t do them as much. They’re becoming much more secular and and more not to say secular, more entertainment and ride focused because I think they they got sold by Anheuser-Busch years ago. But over in, in France. For about 30 years now, there has been this theme park and and the people that run it don’t say that they’re trying to do history because they don’t want to get trapped, I think in the debate on history, although obviously it has a, a, a celebratory notion as one of the one of the the the directors, one of the leaders said we celebrate. Legends, legends, and we tell the stories of legends, but no rides, no rides. Theater. Acting, cinematography, animals. A massive mass 2 million plus people visit every year. This park this park is called Puy du Fou and and it’s a historical theme park and and it’s not even close to Paris. It’s not like 20 minutes outside of Paris. It’s almost two hours away. And it’s on, I don’t know, 150 acres, a little bit less than That and it’s Got all these different themed Celebrations of Legends of Legends, and it’s very popular. Well, here’s my point.
I think that America is going to enter a period where we’re becoming, I hope and pray and hope to work on it. We’re becoming less fearful. Of celebrating our own legends, in other words, we’re just going to do it. We’re going to have the confidence to celebrate our American and Western civilization legends.
And as I’ve said over and over again, the attack on the American Constitution and the rule of law and our founding values. The attack on all three of those is an attack that is meant to negate the legends, the legends and the legendary moments of not only American history, but world history. And when you celebrate those legendary moments, when you celebrate those people who did legendary things, which is at the heart of this effort, in the in, in, in, in, in France. And expanding, by the way, around the world, the the group that the the founder of the of the effort is in his 70s, I believe, and it’s his family now runs it also. His name is Philippe Villiers and he was a young guy. He became a politician also. But he was a young man at the time that he started this in the 1970s. And now I think his son is running it and and that other family members and it’s a huge success. But the success Is that people want To celebrate the legends. And the legendary moments of the life that they’re coming out of, that they lead.
And this has implications in all of the areas of what the progressive far left is trying to do in places to to negate. Not just our history, but the relationship of people to other people, meaning the relationship of people to their ancestors and to the the the people who who had dreams and dreamed them and lived them and went forward. And so I this is a movement, I think I’m. I’m really excited about it. I’m really excited. There’s actually this, the, the, the founders of this effort in France are coming to the United States. They’re doing something in the in the Smoky Mountains area with the history of the Cherokee people. And they’re doing things in other. I think it’s Spain. They’ve got a new park. But think about it. Imagine if instead of going to a roller coaster park you had two plus million 2.3 million people visited. This French park, no rides acting like a medieval festival kind of place. We used to have them. In the America, a little bit more. And they go and they pay for tickets and they sit through this stuff and they celebrate and they love it. And Paris I Mean excuse me. France 2.3 million people, mostly French Is a lot of people for the population of France. You know, America’s Got 350, 375 million. I mean, you could be you argue about that a little bit what the number is, but France has about 70 million. France has about 70 million, so about 1/5 the population would be like 10 or 12 million people going to a a historical theme park. There’s a there’s a there’s a hunger, there’s a hunger, there’s a hunger for the confidence. There’s a hunger for the confidence of the message that is being delivered in this park. In this in this theme park, outside two hours outside of France that and and widely considered. And voted elected, you know, selected and and and and voted upon as one of the most popular in the world. People are, they love being there. They don’t finish and say oh, I wish there Was a ride. And bumper cars, they say this was spectacular. And some of the things they celebrate, the secret, one is the secret of of the Lance, which is a battlements in front of a medieval castle about the Vikings and the 1000 year Old Fortress of the Vikings and explores the sign of triumph, and it’s an Amphitheatre about the Gaul of Gaul and the Roman times. The dance of the Phantom birds. About a mysterious story. So mystery. And on and on and on. There’s even one. Yeah. The Musketeers at one point. Swashbuckling Musketeers. I mean, they celebrating the legends of the life that we Come out of. And Can you imagine what it would be like if the American people said, you know what, we’re gonna celebrate the legends, legends. These are legendary people. Madison, Monroe, Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and the people George Washington. The French, of course, came in and saved Our bacon in The in the in the Revolutionary War. But if you just focused on the miracles that that surrounded the Revolutionary War period, the founding period, and the legends that are there. Not debating the history, not debating who did what wrong or right only. It’s worth having a conversation, but celebrating the legendary people. That live their lives with a vision for something great that’s in this core, Constitution, rule of law, founding values. It’s really exciting. I’ll put it up on social media. Take a look. I’m optimistic That the future will include our celebrations for our sesquicentennial that will Be like what they’re doing In France.
We will take a break right now and be right. Back it’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
