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2-3-25

Monologue:

Drying In The American Dream

Triple Dipper:

1. Home Fries
2. America First
3. Identify As Americans

Guests

NONE

Resources

1. Home Fries

https://1819news.com/news/item/phil-williams-the-alabama-legislature-has-the-wind-at-its-back

https://www.al.com/news/2025/02/lawmakers-to-target-crime-in-2025-legislative-session-a-safe-alabama-is-a-secure-future-for-alabama.html

https://1819news.com/news/item/it-is-in-the-crosshairs-state-sen-orr-predicts-consequences-for-magic-city-acceptance-academy-not-going-by-the-letter-of-the-law

https://yellowhammernews.com/birmingham-school-board-says-no-to-application-from-alabama-aerospace-and-aviation-high-school-requesting-approval-to-build-school-in-the-city/

https://yellowhammernews.com/alabama-native-thrust-into-center-of-nymags-cruel-smear-campaign-against-young-conservatives/

https://www.al.com/news/2025/02/artists-behind-montgomery-maga-bloody-sunday-billboard-removal-a-clear-act-of-censorship.html

https://1819news.com/news/item/church-of-the-highlands-founding-pastor-chris-hodges-steps-down-to-oversee-highlands-college-no-rocking-chairs-and-golf-in-my-future

2. America First

https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/01/donald-trump-administration-venezuela-releases-seven-americans-keith-siegel-captivity-hamas/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-defends-tariffs-accuses-canada-being-very-abusive-united-states-video

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/02/02/trump-unloads-on-uk-eu-over-unfair-trade-practices-an-atrocity-n2185124

https://www.foxnews.com/world/panama-pledges-end-key-canal-deal-china-work-us-after-rubio-visit

https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-reveals-staggering-drop-in-illegal-border-crossings

https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/01/who-china-us-withdrawal-collapse/

https://nypost.com/2025/02/01/world-news/trump-orders-airstrikes-on-isis-leaders-in-somalia/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/musks-doge-takes-aim-vipers-nest-federal-agency-global-footprint

https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-urged-look-us-funding-lebanese-army-amid-accusations-its-ties-hezbollah

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-nabs-7-illegal-immigrants-during-philadelphia-car-wash-raid


3. Identify As Americans

https://www.thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/550011-us-embassies-can-fly-the-pride-flag-again-in-reversal-of/amp/

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/24/pride-flag-ban-fight-white-house-embassies

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/02/02/pete-hegseth-no-more-identity-months-n2651521

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2025/02/02/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-ends-identity-based-observances-citing-safety-focus/

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-bans-pride-blm-flags-report-2018810

Rightside Way Monologue

I don’t know if you’ve been watching but the winds of change are blowing

hard…..it’s almost difficult to keep up…..everything from banning gay pride flags

at schools, putting tariffs on Canada, arresting and deporting illegal immigrants,

executive orders on energy production, banning DEI in the military, you name

it…..and it is happening at a blistering pace!.....my job is to keep up with it so that

I can inform you all about it and I’ll be honest I’m having to pick and choose what

to cover because sometimes having 3 hours a day and multiple podcasts just isn’t

enough bandwidth to cover it all…..but I don’t say that like I’m complaining…..not

at all…..what we are watching in my opinion is the restoring of the American

dream…..

A few years ago Charlene and I built a house…..we had lived in the house prior to

that one for 24 years…..but the day came when we began to dream about

building a house that had features that we designed, we wanted…..spaces that

would bless our family, creating a welcoming atmosphere, places we could share

with friends, it was a dream…..so we went through the whole process from soup

to nuts…..we chose a design…..changed the design…..chose a contractor….got

bids and estimates…..secured our financing…..and broke ground…..and it was not

always fun…..I’m a pretty handy guy but I’ve never built a house…..I learned all

kinds of things…..and I’ve learned in reality that sometimes the things that you

can’t see later are what take the longest and make the house the strongest…..and

one of those moments that we had to wait for was what the contractor folks call

“getting it dried in”…….

"Getting a house dried in" means that the exterior of the house is completely

weatherproofed…..all walls and roof sheathed, windows and doors installed, and

a weather-resistant barrier applied…..basically making the house secure to rain so

it marks the point where the building envelope is considered complete and

protected from the elements…..it ain’t sexy, its not the finish work, but its key to

being able to move forward…..I once lived in a neighborhood where a contractor

built what are referred to as “spec houses”…..those are speculative homes that

are built with no buyers in mind…..this contractor almost ruined our

neighborhood as he built one spec house after another….and before he dried one

in he would start another…..and pretty soon we had rotting weed ridden half

houses all over our beautiful neighborhood…..there is no wisdom in moving on to

work another house when you haven’t dried in the first one…… in my opinion,

what we are watching right now is the Trump administration working as quickly as

possible to get the American Dream dried in…..the Biden Admin through

everything it had into open borders globalism and left us to rot like an old spec

house……we have to secure the structure of the nation, solidify the

weatherproofing of our economy, our borders, our security apparatus, our

culture, ….. 

We’ve spent the last four years watching as the American Dream was spit on by

the progressive left…..they trashed not just our country, but even “who we are”

as a country……nothing was sacred, anything goes, values meant nothing, faith

was mocked……There is a liberal mantra out there that says the American dream

is gone. That our nation is only for the privileged, or the rich, or certain racial

demographics……and that systemically our nation has made it unrealistic for some

to rise because all power is vested in few……that somehow the ability to rise up

and achieve success, or to accumulate wealth, or to be fulfilled, has been stymied

and therefore the few must “pay their fair share” so that an equitable distribution

may be made to those who don’t have their own “fair share”……they call this

“equity”…..but “equity” was never the root basis for the American Dream……But

what we are watching right now as Trump works to get America dried in should

not surprise anyone…..he said this would be exactly what he would do…..In his

final speech on the eve of the recent election he swore that what you are seeing

now is exactly what would happen……

“My message to Americans tonight is simple: we do not have to live this way. We

do not have to settle for weakness, incompetence, decline, and decay,” he went

on to say, ““We’ll help the world – a lot of people think we’re isolationists, we’re

not – but we want the world to appreciate what we’re doing. They have to

appreciate that we’re helping them,” he added. “I will restore peace in the world

and I will rescue the American dream,” Trump said. “Together, we will begin the

four greatest years in the history of our country, and we will launch the most

extraordinary economic boom the world has ever seen.”


The actual phrase “American Dream” is said to have been coined by a historian

named James Truslow Adams in the first half of the 20 th century in his book Epic of

America…..Adams said, “the American dream, that dream of a land in which life

should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each

according to his ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European

upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown

weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely,

but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to

attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized

by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or

position.”

Ronald Reagan once said that, “the American dream is not that every many must

be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free

to become whatever God intends he should become”. I have also seen the

American Dream defined as “the belief that anyone, regardless of where they

were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of

success in a society in which upward mobility is possible for everyone.”…..and we

know that there have been struggles for it…..struggles not to create equity as

liberals would try to persuade us, but rather struggles to remove the barriers that

were put in place to prevent the American dream from being attainable…..Martin

Luther King Jr., in his “Letter from a Birmingham jail” didn’t call for handouts…..he

made his plea to simply allow that men and women of any color could pursue life

without inhibition…..King said at one point, “We will win our freedom because the

sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our

echoing demands ... when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch

counters they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream

and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing

our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by

the Founding Fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration

of Independence.”


Do we have that now? …..I believe the answer is “yes”…..yes in all caps……a big fat

yes!.....is there work to do….certainly……every good house starts with tending the

foundation, setting in the framing, ensuring good design, and then getting it all

dried in so that the finish work can take place…..the same is true of the American

Dream….if we are going to see the next generation have the ability to succeed,

and not just strive, but actually thrive, then we have to do all we can to dispel the

notions that we must spend ourselves into oblivion giving so-called equitable

shares to those who have been deemed somehow less capable…..we have to take

charge of our economy and ensure that we have a good foundation before we

move on to sending out trillions in foreign aid to others…..we have to secure our

borders because without a border you don’t really have sovereign territory and

rule of law…..we have to become energy independent so that bad actors on the

world stage will not have the upper hand against us by setting the prices and

availability of the energy we need in the modern world……and I suspect that some

of it is going to be a bit painful….some prices may go up in the short term…..some

allies are getting their feelings hurt….some enemies are bowing up and calling out

for reprisal……but we’re already seeing things come around…..its amazing what

can happen when the guiding principle is to get the house fully dried in…..

We’re still a good nation…..we will help the oppressed….we will be strong allies to

our friends….we will be good neighbors to our neighboring nation…..but we’ve

got to get this house dried in first…..the American Dream is real….but it requires a

true foundation…..all you have to do to maintain the American Dream is get this

house dried in and it will be everything you’ve ever hoped to see…..


And that’s a wrap for the Rightside Way!

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