What if the best way to understand America at 250... is to spend a few minutes remembering America at 200?

This Independence Day, JQ isn't interested in telling you what to think. He's interested in helping you remember what you've forgotten.

He takes listeners on a journey back to one extraordinary day—July 4, 1976—when the Tall Ships filled New York Harbor, the nation celebrated its Bicentennial, and, for one unforgettable evening, America seemed to remember she was one country.

Not a red America.

Not a blue America.

One country.

From there, the journey becomes something more than nostalgia. With humor that is equal parts Will Rogers and wry front-porch wisdom, JQ revisits the people, the institutions, the headlines, and the assumptions that defined America in 1976—not to argue that it was a perfect time, because it wasn't, but to ask a far more unsettling question:

What have we forgotten?

Without preaching, and without telling listeners what conclusions to draw, The Way We Were quietly holds yesterday beside today and lets the contrast speak for itself. It is funny, poignant, provocative, and, at unexpected moments, surprisingly moving.

This isn't a history lesson.

It isn't a political commentary.

It's an act of remembrance.

Because before a nation decides where it wants to go...

it should probably remember where it's been.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2618470/episodes/19445525