>> A radio show like no other it’s Brian kilmeade.
>> The welcome back Brian
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>> He’s got 2 new
books out. Is called I am a I
am Dolly Parton and I am I
am pie.
Both go on sale now you almost
had me and that I said I am pay
is it we could just an I M Pei.
>> But we did I am I am pay
which is the my kids to have
love the title favorite had a
long time to how many kids you
have 3 kids which is you know I
wrote these books right is is
my I was tired of my kids
looking at all these people on
instagram
or famous and always over our
nation’s right and overpaid
athletes and all the people use
all the people you see on
instagram as our kids swipe our
kids are being fed garbage
today every single day.
And we as Americans have to
fight back as parents we have
to fight backing them better
heroes to look up to so we
started the ordinary people
change the World Series.
We started with I’m Amelia
Earhart I’m Abraham Lincoln,
I’m Rosa parks. I am George
Washington and give them better
heroes to look up to where now
the it’s holding the number one
series teaching American
history to this young age group
and I’m so proud to unveil now
and of course of you know
starting with I am Dolly Parton
is our newest book that comes
out right now
right who’s going to the record
reluctantly going to the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. I love
that it said that only she can
be say I don’t want to be
I don’t need your nomination
and they still nominator and
still gonna over at one over of
course so why Dolly Parton is a
country music star that’s done
so charity work also has
Dollywood age would put put you
into that yeah and I think for
me you know what I love in this
book as you see Dolly Parton is
real person and she’s a real human being with kind of lift there up on that pedestal.
But we do a disservice to our
heroes. We do that and you and
Dolly Parton was born. She was
so poor that her father paid
the doctor for delivering her
with a sack of corn meal.
And it was a mother who gave
her love for books she says
that when the first book Dolly
Parton loved as a kid was a
little engine that could and
that’s what Dolly Parton is
she’s the little engine that
could so they told her
you know you’re going to have
to wear just you know regular
costumes and she was like no
I’m gonna wear amazing costumes
I said you’re just going to
sing country songs that she
sent to sing songs for all
audiences. They said.
You know you’re going to be a
musician she’s like no no I’m
going to be a movie star.
I’m gonna open up Dollywood my
own amusement park on a start
this charity, the imagination
library and give books to
millions of kids who can’t
afford them. You know the first
book the giveaway was prime,
but the little engine that
could and I want my kids to
have that lesson you know Dolly
Parton which was a little girl.
She was a mom made her
a coat.
Out of a patchwork of of scraps
of fabric and she thought it
was so beautiful and she goes
to school and all the kids say
it’s so ugly. And the secret of
Dolly Parton and no one
realizes is
she was really felt alone and
lonely she felt different than
everyone else where she was
from no one wanted to go across
the world. But she always
wanted to know what’s on the
other side of the mountain.
And what I love about her is
she had this dream that
butterflies would actually fly
her there. I want my kids
to know that being a dreamer is
a good thing right. I want them
to know your dreams can take
you anywhere and when you read
these books you read about
haleigh point you see again
that you go to her concerts,
Justin just you know it’s you
have rich people there in poor
people their city folks and
country folks. You have gay and
straight you have all done you
have young you have black and
white and everyone in between
she judges nobody she accept
you for who you are as long as
you’re being yourself and our
culture right now I want my
kids to have a hero
who says you know what we could
use a little bit more sunshine
in the world, how about I am
pay. I am pays one of the great
architect, many people don’t is
our first Asian American hero.
He designed alluv in Paris and
what his whole book is about is
about looking at life
differently. So he has to go
through life. He you know
skyscrapers being built and he
was like that skyscraper is
like a giant beautiful plant
it comes out from the ground he
said I want to be an architect
on a bill buildings. So he
builds the Hancock tower
in Boston class falls out of it
and smashes everywhere. And
it’s not all perfect
right life is not a perfect we
have to remind our kids you can
fail sometimes. But he
built JFK Library in Boston.
Many of course bills alluv one
of the things this is radio but
I’ll show you here
in the book because is an
architect we want to teach kids
you got to look at life
differently so we are streaming
FOX News you can see the
someone open up. And so you can
see when you open up the part
of the loop. It’s not just a
regular book but you can see
now nice it pops up. So it’s a
pop-up book in I am I am pay
because we said we want kids to
see everything differently have
a new perspective on life and
leave you. When we talk about
him this is my family looks a
little like the Apple store on
60 does it does it does
actually look like that.
>> But he says like I’m going
to read this one Park is it’s
so good. It says your future is
yours to construct brick by
brick you can design it shape
it and build something
beautiful build something
meaningful build something that
expresses who you are. And he
says I am I am pay I know you
are the architect of your
own life and I need my kids to
know they have that power so we
picked to kind of creative
people. We have so You know
today in the world. There’s so
many Hollywood people are kids
look up to and so many music
stars are kids look up to who
are hurt doing nothing good.
Right just giving our kids the
wrong message every day I said
can I pick to create a people.
We’ll show our kids
the beautiful things you can go
with your creativity and I
thought Dolly Parton is of
course the perfect choice.
So I am Dolly Parton you know
from my kids was
they were begging me for so
long to do I’m Dolly Parton
they were like and Dolly Parton
and her team was so nice to us
when we were doing the book
were helpful and kind of giving
us details and no one else
having sending us pictures so
we can get all the details
right and is an artist Chris
eliopoulos has his art style
that psych it’s almost Charlie
Brown hits Calvin and Hobbes
and so kids love these books we
have kids you know from birth
people but the really feel like
4 years old to 12 years old
and I love the people build
libraries of our real heroes
for their kids and their
grandkids and he says and
people run away from history.
A lot of people run away from
public schools that’s exactly
right about a million people
dropped out of public school
during the pandemic and ago in
a private education which has
said he’s got a rain check.
You pay school taxes.
>> And then you get a rain
check and those teachers don’t
get paid for the most part
enough, but you’re able to go
you have a curriculum that you
can rest assured if I go to
work my kids are going to be
learning to hate the country
that you know one of the list
in the first book we did was
I’m Abraham Lincoln. Why
because I want my kids to know
to see this story that Abraham
Lincoln lost 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
of 8 elections.
And still said I’m going to
keep going forward right that
he was this guy who has a
little boy my favorite story 9
Abraham Lincoln on a favorite
whole this one here is when
he’s a little boys 10 years old
he’s to love animals.
And I could tell my kids owes
the 16th president that can
tell that the Emancipation all
that stuff lorries on the the
$5 bill, but I tell my kids the
story when Abraham Lincoln was
a little boy loved animals so
much she saw a group of boys
playing with turtles and he
says I loved her Tulsa race is
over to the boys and they’re
not playing with the putting
hot coals on the backs of the
turtles to make them run fast
torturing the turtles and
Abraham Lincoln sees that and
he’s just horrified. And he
does know what to do and I
don’t care if you’re 10 years
old or you’re 50 years old,
sometimes it’s hard to do the
right thing but someone has to
and in that moment, Abraham
Lincoln says them take the call
off the turtles leave him
alone. And my son to this day
sleeps with an Abraham Lincoln
doll that one of our readers
made for us based on our This
he’s realized Abraham Lincoln
is a great man
and I are George Washington
book is one of our top so I’m
George Washington of the best
books we’ve done
because we’re like here is what
America here looks like if we
don’t take that you know your
kids are going to cure as what
he likes and how you got to do
it if you value genetics is
burned into young the issues
fall into a category of right
wrong. There’s a gray area
there. But if you have values
and ethics in that Foundation,
that’s the man or woman you
elect.
>> But as the person to
represent you that’s a person
should teach your kid, you need
to know the daily planner I
need to know the quality of the
person.
>> And the product that might
might you’re absolutely right
Mike my favorite line
and I am George Washington says
leadership is not about being
in charge. It’s about taking
care of those injured charge
and I need my kids what these
book everyone their history
books, the ordinary people
change what’s there’s never
been about history. It’s about
values right to teach my kids,
the right values on the back of
every book. It says that value
it says on the back of I’m
Amelia Earhart’s as I know no
bounds on the back of I’m
Abraham Lincoln. It says I will
speak my mind and speak for
others on the back of
I am pay it says I will always
be the architect of my own life
and on the backup I’m Dolly
Parton it says I we’ll see the
light that shines within you
night reminding kids you need
to put that sunshine in your
heart and have that like love
for other people as a post that
cynicism that’s being fed to
our kids every day. And if you
can give your kids the values
in these I am in the I M book
series to me that’s from trying
to do here is give my kids
those values so they know the
right pair personal look up to
as opposed to the wrong and
went around the playground when
that a college.
>> The you don’t have to worry
about the day today because you
know they have the framework in
Foundation to make the right
decision doesn’t mean you
always will. But I gave them
the framework but I can’t be
called him walking through
everything I was too much
hands. I always say you’re
building the pillars the
foundation of there of their
emotional kind of support
system and if you teach them
what they know it should be so
hard to know what is good.
What is bad and what we do in
these books as we always show
you the here when they’re
little we showed all
department, she’s a little girl
and she feels different than
everyone else and and kids are
laughing at because the
clothes, she is wearing.
We have a story 9 Dolly Parton
that it was Christmas and her
dad wants to buy her mom once a
by his wife.
Di Parton’s new wedding ring a
proper wedding ring. And he
says to the family. You know we
can’t afford presents for
everyone this year. I can’t buy
individual preds got to buy mom
a wedding ring.
And Dolly Parton says wasn’t
bad for us was beautiful
because we saw the sacrifice my
dad was making from my mom.
He gave all of us one group
gift was chocolate covered
cherries but I want people to
hear that Christmas story and I
am Dolly Parton and teach their
kids you know what it’s not
about by million presence.
It’s about doing good for those
who we love that’s a lesson for
here’s another lesson doesn’t
goes deep is those individuals
but
I think watching Ukrainians as
imperfect as the democracy is
fight for something that we
take for granted.
Freedom get what made America
recalibrated stopped thinking
about us and the The verbal
civil war we’re going through
right now the wait.
>> What they want.
There’s clear bad guy a good
guy and those other people just
want to have the right to have
a imperfect democracy and
they’re being invaded by an
evil person who’d once the
exact opposite and all they’re
asking for is the weapons to
let them fight
would the Afghans were
unwilling to do now that that
is stand up for them and listen
what and when I ski might be
your next book at the time to I
would write it I would write
and and you and I were talking
off the air we were saying that
you know you look at this.
>> And you need we were saying
right now we are in this verbal
civil war, but in
that moment when Ukraine
happened it was one of the few
times with Democrats
Republicans to my surprise said
no that’s something
bad happening to people that
are good we got to step up and
the reason why I think
Americans reacted that way
is Chris. We as kids and those
generations above us of course
as kids we talk the right
values. We were taught you
stand up when you see someone
being picked on when you see
someone being a bully.
You’ve got to stand up there
like like Abraham Lincoln
doesn’t this story I told you
stands up to those boys and
says no you can’t do that
someone has to step up and
again.
For me if we put those values
in place when your kid you can
anticipate every it think that
your kids going to walk into.
But when they watch that you
can sure I tell my kids I want
to look at this. I want to see
the bully. I want to see is
being picked on that’s rapper
to nutty. It’s exactly what we
try to do in the drill down
even further. You know you do
you go earn in different
religions turn the other cheek.
>> But if Ukrainians turn the
other cheek and the West turns
the other cheek. They lose
their head. At certain times
of the jungle I have to survive this jungle and all the rescue for is
armaments right that’s it.
But I also think what’s really
interesting.
>> Is that when you look at
some you know I believe this
about us presidents I believe
that this about him is what
makes a great leader. It’s not
your stance on a particular
political issue. What makes a
great leader for every
president in history when we
judge were great presidents
are. It’s when there is a
crisis. How did you react.
Yeah that is Abraham Lincoln
has and you know he
has no idea what the Civil War
is going to become more what
slavery is good. He thinks that
there’s obviously these issues
we know that that they’re they
hate him so much when he’s
elected. But he has no idea
what he’s really getting into
but the Civil War coms and yes
to deal with it,
George Washington, the
beginning of the founding of
the country has no idea what
the country is going to be what
the crisis going to be or even
of course in the Revolutionary
War what he’s walking into it
is not the training that the
British military has. But he is
up for the challenge when it
presents itself and that is
exactly what’s happened here.
A crane, he stepped up in this
moment. I know in your books
does get into this but
people at home she realized as
much as we laud George
Washington as much as Internet
and other nations study George
Washington.
>> They wanted him out. Guy
won’t fight. This guy keeps
losing battle isn’t the first
battles over spending the first
battle we did one of our
nonfiction The first battle
George Washington fights.
>> In the United States.
He gets pinned down