RUSH: I am holding here now in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers the book, number two, ladies and gentlemen. We inside refer to it as book two. Rush Revere and the First Patriots is out. This is it. This is the day it\u2019s available. And I just want to tell you, your kids are going to love it. If they liked book one, they are going to like book two.<\/p>\n
Now, as you know — well, maybe you don\u2019t know if you\u2019re a new listener. These books are part of a mission. I\u2019d done a couple of books in the early nineties, and since then people have been urging me, Vince Flynn, good friend, the late Vince Flynn, “Rush, you gotta do another one.” We were running into the 2012 election: “You\u2019ve got to do another one.” I said, “Vince, I\u2019ve been there, done that.”<\/p>\n
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Kathryn came to me and said, “You know what? You are very concerned about education in America and what\u2019s happening, what\u2019s not being taught, what\u2019s being lied about. Why don\u2019t you write the truth of American history for kids?” And that turned the light on. I mean, that was exciting on a number of levels. A, the purpose. But, B, the challenge. I\u2019d never written children\u2019s books before. I never even thought about doing it.<\/p>\n
So we were off to the races. The first book came out last October, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, the true story of the first people seeking freedom arrive at the New World. That story has been so bastardized and taught wrong and purposely mistold. The mission is educating young people to the truth of this country because it\u2019s a great country. The history of this country is wonderful. The history of this country is the blessing of God. The history of this country is something to be extremely proud of. Being an American is something to be extremely proud of.<\/p>\n
There are too many people in the education system today who simply don\u2019t look at America that way. They don\u2019t look at America as anything special. In fact, some of them look at it as a problem in the world. There are certainly people who do not believe the founding of this country was as I believe, miraculous. I believe it was a miracle, and preserving it for people who will come after us is important. We were all born with golden opportunity and freedom just as our parents and grandparents had found. They fought, and they sacrificed, and many of them lost everything to preserve the basic foundations, the institutions, the traditions that define America and its greatness.<\/p>\n
\\We want to do the same. I want to do the same. I want to do what I can to see to it that people who follow me have the same opportunities that I had. So that\u2019s the mission behind these books. These books are written for ages 10 to 13, but everybody will enjoy these books. Everybody that\u2019s read them does. In fact, even adults who have read these books have told us that they are learning things they didn\u2019t know about the Pilgrims and things that happened either before they set sail, while they were en route, and after they got here.<\/p>\n
Now, there were always going to be two books. What we didn\u2019t know and what we ultimately decided against was releasing both at the same time. It turns out that both were not ready at the same time, but there was the thought at the beginning it might be cool to have two of them out at the same time at Christmas. And then we said, “Nah,” because we don\u2019t want to rush — no pun intended — the second book.<\/p>\n
Now, the reaction, every metric that\u2019s used to measure feedback on a book for the first book has just been over the top and gratifying like I can\u2019t tell you. So the second book, I mean, this is hard to say, because I don\u2019t want to do anything at all to diminish book one, but every time you do something, you want the next time you do it to be better. Just like I want this radio show to be better each day, each month, each year than it used to be. Ditto with the second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.<\/p>\n
Now, the organizing event in this book is the Boston Tea Party. However, there\u2019s much more to it than just that. Introductions to famous, key figures in American history. Let me give you the premise, for those of you new, \u2019cause I want everybody to clean out these bookstores today. I want you to get out there. I want you to make Amazon run dry. I want you to — Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, all over — just wipe \u2019em out: No stock left after today. People need to read this stuff, folks, if I do say so myself. Kids need to see this. They need to read it, and I guarantee you they\u2019re gonna love it. It\u2019s maybe the first time in their lives that history is something they want to absorb, that they want to learn. That\u2019s the feedback we got from the first book. They love it. You\u2019ve heard them.<\/p>\n
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So here\u2019s the premise. Rush Revere is our logo icon for the best iced tea in America, TwoIfByTea.com, which, by the way, is where the Adventures of Rush Revere and everything related to the books is found, TwoIfByTea.com. So Rush Revere, even though we work him hard as a spokesman, as an icon for Two If By Tea, is also a substitute teacher, substitute history teacher. He has a horse named Liberty. It\u2019s a special horse. The horse talks. The horse is kind of a smart aleck. Our young readers\u2019 favorite character is the horse. Liberty also has the ability to time travel anywhere that American history could take someone, including Holland, including England.<\/p>\n
Rush Revere is able to take students, a few students, with them on their time travels. And Rush Revere — is this not a brilliant concept or what, folks? I mean, this kind of a vehicle provides creative opportunities galore. Rush Revere is able to take his smartphone, a built-in video camera, with him as they time travel back to American history. They\u2019re able to videotape what actually happened, bring it back to the classroom, and without giving away that they time travel. The whole class doesn\u2019t know this, just a select few know it. And it\u2019s the mixing of the secret of the time travel with two or three, four students involved, everybody keeping it a secret and yet the truth of American history being taught in a genuinely fun, truthful, informative way.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll give you a couple things about the second book that we\u2019ve done here that were not in the first book. Well, actually, one. And this was fun. Wherever you go in life there are nonbelievers. In whatever you\u2019re doing, wherever you go, there are the snarky. Wherever you go are the troublemakers. Wherever you go are the ego-maniacal, self-centered creeps.<\/p>\n
We put one in this book. We created, among the students, a villain who attempts to expose it all, and undermine and sabotage good old Rush Revere and Liberty and the students. That\u2019s as much as I will say, but I\u2019m gonna predict that young readers will end up having vastly different emotional reactions to this character. Another thing (and I\u2019ve mentioned this before): Remember, the mission is to teach.<\/p>\n
By the way, let me say that you will not see the word “conservative” or “liberal” or “politics” here. It\u2019s much more subtle than that. Simply teach the truth. Simply inform accurately. Simply use common sense. One of the things I try to do in these books is constantly harp on freedom as something as important in life as anything is, material or otherwise.<\/p>\n
Freedom is a constant, never-ending theme and how fragile it is and how precious it is and how rare it has been for most living human beings in world history. The books attempt to explain all of that in an understandable way to 10- to 13-year-olds and to give voice to oppressors, but not calling them that. Just let it be figured out and assumed. So one of the key elements or parts of this book is when Rush Revere and Liberty time travel back to England.<\/p>\n
Revere ends up in George III\u2019s palace and ends up giving him all kinds of crap for what he\u2019s doing to the colonists. In this little part of the book, the personality of a totalitarian — the meanness of a dictator — is all on display for anybody who reads it to conclude, without the king ever being called a liberal or a communist or any such thing. It\u2019s just an inescapable conclusion. That\u2019s the way we employ the art of persuasion here.<\/p>\n
So there are a lot of elements, because the mission is something we\u2019re deadly serious about. Look at what\u2019s happening in New York with this idiot mayor. Kathryn and I were watching the news last night to try to get the latest on this plane crash in Malaysia, which nobody can get their arms around. We were watching Fox News, and there was a story about how liberals in New York are mad as hell at the new mayor and what he\u2019s doing in charter schools.<\/p>\n
I looked at Kathryn and said, “I don\u2019t understand. I really don\u2019t. You elect a communist; you get a communist. Why are they mad?” Did they not know? I mean the guy\u2019s wife is a Sandinista. He honeymooned in the communist paradise of Nicaragua with the Sandinistas presiding! The guy is a socialist-communist. He wants to get rid of the horses in Central Park. Even Liam Neeson, the actor, is defending the horses and trying to save them.<\/p>\n
But the story said all the liberal Democrats like the charter schools, and why does he want to get rid of the charter schools? (sniveling voice) “‘Cause it isn\u2019t fair that some students would have better schools than others,” and he\u2019s gotta pay his price to the unions for helping him get elected and they preside over the bad schools. But the real truth is, “It\u2019s just not fair for people to have better schools than others. If everybody can\u2019t have a good school, nobody can.”<\/p>\n
So rather than try to find a way to expand the number of charter schools or to improve education in New York, this guy is dumbing it down to mediocrity for everybody under the name of egalitarianism, fairness and equality and all that. The guy was elected by people that think this way, yet he\u2019s employing it now — doing everything they knew he was gonna do — and they\u2019re mad about it.<\/p>\n
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Look, I love very much what I do here. I\u2019m very proud of what I do, proud of what I\u2019ve become, and I\u2019m really proud of being an American and proud of what I believe. How to get it to \u2019em? Bingo! Rush Revere and the First Patriots, the second book. Today\u2019s the first day that it\u2019s available. The pre-order has been around for a month or so, but it\u2019s now actually in stores.<\/p>\n