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September 25, 2023

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DDH – Ginger or Mary Ann? – The Dave Bowman Show

Here is the thing about history. It does not disappear all at once. It fades, quietly, in the spaces between what we recognize and what we no longer notice. We start with a question that feels harmless. Mary Ann or Ginger? It sounds like pop culture nostalgia, the kind of debate that belongs to a different time. But hidden inside that question is a clue, a signal from a world where people shared a common language of history. When Mary Ann’s family was named George and Martha, audiences did not need it explained. They understood. Instantly. That kind of shared understanding mattered. It mattered a lot. Because the men who built this country were not guessing their way forward. They were steeped in history, trained in the rise and fall of Rome, searching for answers in Livy, Tacitus, and the story of Cato, a man who chose death over tyranny. They turned those lessons into something living, something powerful enough to sustain an army at Valley Forge. So tonight, we are going to ask a simple question with a complicated answer. What happens to a republic when its people stop getting the reference?

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