Gavin Newsom

And my co-director, Sarah Botstein, correctly corrected me and said, we'll still be mixing and online.

And you'll be out on the road promoting it.

It'll be in the fall.

I said, OK.

And then I realized, oh, well, there's going to be a celebration.

At least we might be offering something a little bit more substantive than what I worried would be kind of fife and drum treacle, you know, that you would just devolve to the lowest common denominator of an unexamined patriotism.

And then, of course, we're in the circumstances that we're in where we really have an opportunity in crisis to look back at our founding just as an individual would do.

You'd go to a pastor or a professional, and the first thing they'd ask you is, where'd you come from?

Who are your parents?

What are your early life like?

So if you go back to your origin story as a way to reset, recommit to those ideals that were brand new,

On July 4, 1776, there's some folks called citizens, and the only place is the eastern seaboard of the United States.

White men of property, mostly, but it's going to grow.

And the second you break out this argument between Englishmen into natural rights, saying, oh, no, we hold these truths to be self-evident.

Jefferson wrote it, Governor, he wrote, we hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable.

Which

Which would be a really good enlightenment.

I want to make an argument to you.

This is what we believe, right?

Franklin gets it and says, you know, no, no, no, self-evident.