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CTP (S3EMaySpecial2) BooksAuthorsWeekMay2026 Chris Choate Apollo Wept
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We talk with Christopher Choate, a former Air Force weapon systems officer, about how a lifetime of flying, planning, and watching culture shift turns into the dystopian satire Apollo Wept. We dig into a future mission to intercept the Voyager probe, the cost of erasing history, and the simple habits that help writers catch ideas before they disappear.
• Christopher’s background from the F-4 Phantom to the F-15E Strike Eagle and how that shapes his fiction
• The 2020 catalyst and the strategic question of where cultural trends lead in 50 to 100 years
• Apollo Wept’s dystopian America where the Constitution is declared unconstitutional and history gets purged
• The Voyager plaque premise and the USS Despair mission to “correct” humanity’s message to the cosmos
• Star Trek influences and using science fiction as satire rather than a lecture
• Sequel and prequel possibilities plus what Christopher is writing next
• Practical writer’s block advice, running for ideas, and dictating notes to yourself fast
• Building characters from real mannerisms including a father-inspired voice and an onboard ideology enforcer
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Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We talk with Christopher Choate, a former Air Force weapon systems officer, about how a lifetime of flying, planning, and watching culture shift turns into the dystopian satire Apollo Wept. We dig into a future mission to intercept the Voyager probe, the cost of erasing history, and the simple habits that help writers catch ideas before they disappear.
• Christopher’s background from the F-4 Phantom to the F-15E Strike Eagle and how that shapes his fiction
• The 2020 catalyst and the strategic question of where cultural trends lead in 50 to 100 years
• Apollo Wept’s dystopian America where the Constitution is declared unconstitutional and history gets purged
• The Voyager plaque premise and the USS Despair mission to “correct” humanity’s message to the cosmos
• Star Trek influences and using science fiction as satire rather than a lecture
• Sequel and prequel possibilities plus what Christopher is writing next
• Practical writer’s block advice, running for ideas, and dictating notes to yourself fast
• Building characters from real mannerisms including a father-inspired voice and an onboard ideology enforcer
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12It looks French.
00:13It's not.
00:14It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:27Welcome to Deja Vu Week.
00:31No, that's not what it is.
00:34But kind of, sort of.
00:36Welcome to Books Slash Authors Week, May 2026.
00:44Just coming out of April 2026, Books Slash Authors Week.
00:50And October, Books Slash Authors Weeks of October 2025.
00:58So, yes, you guessed it.
01:02It's all about cucumbers and tomatoes and deli shopping.
01:08Books!
01:11Let's get on a guest!
01:13Joining me today is Christopher Choate.
01:17But you look at it, it's like Choate.
01:21C-H-O-A-T-E.
01:25But spelled, or pronounced Choate.
01:28Welcome to the show, Christopher.
01:30Thank you, sir.
01:31It's an honor to be here.
01:33Oh, glad to have you.
01:34Glad to have you.
01:35You are the author of Apollo Sweat.
01:39I mean, Wek.
01:42No brooms involved, I take it.
01:44No, no.
01:46But before we get to Apollo Wek, let's learn about Christopher Choate.
01:52Where were you born and raised?
01:55Where are you now?
01:56Significant places you may have been between, that sort of thing.
02:00Sure, be glad to.
02:01I'll try to keep from putting your audience to sleep here.
02:03Born in Western Kentucky, raised in Southern Illinois and Western Tennessee.
02:09Had a love for flying from day one from my dad.
02:14And that took me to the Air Force and what was Memphis State University back then.
02:20Spent 24 years in the Air Force.
02:22I flew the F-4 Phantom and the F-15E Strike Eagle as a weapon systems officer.
02:28For those who are not familiar with that, just think of Top Gun.
02:31Think of Goose, the backseater.
02:33That's the easiest way to describe it.
02:35Did that for 24 years.
02:37A couple of fluid desks in there, the Pentagon, a few other places.
02:41Worked with a doctorate for unmanned aircraft.
02:44Did some weapons testing.
02:46Retired.
02:46Worked for the Air Force for a few years.
02:49Got into writing by, when my first PC came out, you know, in the early 90s, when I got
02:55my first PC, I decided, I wrote Christmas letters.
02:59Decided everyone, well, you know, we write about them.
03:01They don't want to read something boring.
03:02So I tried to make them interesting.
03:04And as you know, no good deed goes unpunished.
03:07And I kept getting these things from my parents and family.
03:10Oh, they can't wait for the next one.
03:12So that put pressure.
03:13So I couldn't, I had to keep trying to make them better.
03:16Long story short on that is I had some dear family friends who told me I needed to write.
03:20And I promised them I would.
03:22And around 2020, finally came up with an idea for a book.
03:27And here I am talking to you.
03:30That's great.
03:31That's great.
03:32Yeah.
03:34You saw no job at Hallmark involved.
03:38No.
03:39No, no, sir.
03:40Not at all.
03:41I did write for the Air Force, but those are technical reports, which are, they'll put you to sleep.
03:46If you have insomnia there, they would be a great, great.
03:50Kind of like instead of Hallmark cards, they were Christopher Choke cards, huh?
03:56Yes.
03:56Yes.
03:57Yeah.
03:57Long outline.
03:58Yes, sir.
04:00What was the genesis of Apollo wept?
04:04It takes us back to that lovely year of 2020.
04:07I think the thing that finally got me on cancer culture had been alive and well.
04:10And, you know, they just went into overtime with COVID there.
04:14We tore down, or say we, a mob, tore down a statue of President Lincoln in Portland, Oregon.
04:21And, you know, here we are.
04:22These are, I think historians pretty much put them one or two as our, you know, greatest presidents.
04:27And we're tearing down a statue to that guy.
04:30And I just kind of thought, and this goes back to, I did some strategic planning in my Air Force
04:35at the Pentagon.
04:36And you kind of take drivers and you're trying to try to project those forward and go, you know, where
04:41will we be in, you know, 50, 100 years from now?
04:44And I just took that and go, if we're tearing down statues of Lincoln, where would we be in 100
04:48years?
04:49And then that was where I came up with the idea of Apollo wept.
04:54And it all centers on the Pioneer and Voyager probes.
05:00Now, the one I talk about in the book is Voyager.
05:03We've just gone so woke and so far into the way we were at in the 20s.
05:08We just kept that slope going.
05:10And so what I've done in the book here is I have a dystopian America.
05:14The Constitution is gone.
05:16It's basically been declared unconstitutional, which is about as Orwellian as you can get.
05:21But we have a new America.
05:22And we're erasing, eradicating our history, particularly what I call the faux area, the late 20th century to the first
05:31early years of the 21st century,
05:33when America truly, to me, was becoming the country that our founding fathers talked about and our documents say.
05:40And then we went off the rails.
05:42And so anyway, long story short on this is they discover as we're burning records that the Voyager probe has
05:48a plaque on it.
05:49And this plaque shows a male and a female.
05:52And that is denial.
05:54That says there's only two genders.
05:56And in New America, there are 68 or 69 genders.
06:02Appropriate number.
06:04Yes.
06:0568 and 101.
06:06Wink, wink, wink, nod, nod.
06:09Yeah, 69.
06:12So we can't allow this plaque to go off into the cosmos and stain our legacy for all of eternity.
06:19And we're broke, by the way, at the same time.
06:21So we have China built us a spaceship.
06:23And the spaceship is called the USS Despairer.
06:26And it is going to leave the first ship to leave the solar system to go find Voyager and take
06:31that plaque off and replace with the one that says there's 68 genders and 101 sexual orientations.
06:37We're going to add them there, too.
06:38So that is the genesis of the whole book.
06:41We're going out to replace the plaque because we can't allow that denial, that bigotry to sail off into the
06:49cosmos.
06:49Right.
06:50Yeah.
06:50A couple of things like Lincoln.
06:52I doubt they were fans of habeas corpus because, hey, you know, a legit criticism of Lincoln could only be
07:02he suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
07:05Absolutely.
07:06But the people tearing down the Lincoln statue probably don't even know what the hell the words habeas corpus means
07:14or is.
07:16I wouldn't bet against it.
07:17I would not.
07:18Right.
07:20And the other thing, I love anything.
07:23I love the first Star Trek film with the original crew, right, V'ger.
07:30Yeah.
07:30So I love the way you put this play in there, a different kind of play.
07:37I like this spin on that.
07:41That's very interesting.
07:43Well, thank you.
07:43That comes from there's an AI who is from our era, if you will.
07:47Well, he's the first digital AI and he's a great grandfather.
07:50And that goes into more we want to talk about here.
07:52But he is a big fan of the original Star Trek.
07:55And that's where the Apollo Web came from.
07:57If you're a Trekkie, I probably don't need to tell you more than that.
08:00Yeah.
08:02Yeah.
08:03All that classic.
08:05I'm still a fan of the classic stuff.
08:08The more modern stuff, the first season of Voyager was good after that.
08:14It went to hell, in my opinion.
08:15And first season of Picard was good.
08:18After that, it went to hell.
08:20And it's like all these remand.
08:22And I was a big fan of Scott Bakula in the Enterprise series.
08:28I loved that.
08:30But of late, everything has got all this woke crap in it.
08:35It has.
08:37And you wonder why Hollywood is suffering as they are.
08:40I think they just got writers that wrote what they wanted to write and what they wanted to write.
08:45But like you say, a good chunk of America don't care to see it or hear it.
08:48Yeah.
08:49Yeah.
08:49But that's not off the rails, I would say, because Roddenberry was an atheist and kind of a political correct
09:00kind of guy at the time.
09:01I mean, all those Star Trek early episodes took on cultural things that were taboo to be the first interracial
09:12kiss between Kirk and Uhura and all that.
09:16But, I mean, so not off track, just way overboard these days.
09:24That's exactly the words I would use.
09:26You know, I'm conservative and libertarian.
09:30But, you know, a lot of things come from the country by people pushing us where, you know, I like
09:35the way things are, blah, blah, blah, what have you.
09:37You know, but you need to be pushed a little.
09:40But, and Roddenberry did that.
09:42But I say now we're not pushing.
09:43We're like just throwing ourselves off the cliff.
09:46And so I think that's the difference.
09:48You know, a good, healthy, you know, moving us forward is good.
09:51But we have got since, you know, I'm going to call wokeism.
09:56It's just, it's gone off the rail and it's not pushing us anymore.
09:59I say it's kicking us off the cliff.
10:01Yeah, exactly.
10:02I mean, dealing with a large sector of our society is one thing.
10:09Modern wokeism is catering to less than 1% of society.
10:15It's just ridiculous.
10:17But anyway.
10:18Totally agree.
10:19Yeah, didn't bring you here for that.
10:24Is there a potential sequel in the works?
10:29For Apollo Webber, there might be a prequel.
10:31I originally, it's written as, it's three books, literally.
10:36It's one put together.
10:38They made a marketing decision.
10:39They're all three together.
10:40So it's kind of a complete story.
10:42But I think there are some prequels to it.
10:43I'm already working.
10:46The next book is on the Tostig Airman.
10:49It's an alternative history for the Tostig Airman.
10:52And I'm having a lot of fun with that one.
10:53But I'm afraid I'm going to, well, you always, somebody, somebody's going to be mad at me.
10:59Touching a few third rails there, are we?
11:01Yeah.
11:01Oh, absolutely.
11:02Absolutely.
11:03Yeah.
11:03Yeah.
11:03But I'll defend them.
11:05Once I get it out there, I'll be glad to defend them against anybody.
11:08But yeah, you're right.
11:09There's a, I hadn't thought I'd heard, but more than one third rail.
11:13I think I've hit a couple of them.
11:17So we know what got you into writing and we know what you're working on now.
11:26How, what is your creative process?
11:29How did, how, you know, we all deal with writer block at time or another, right?
11:38I go into that in my how to write a book and get it published in Stips and Techniques.
11:44Everybody has it at some point.
11:47How do you deal?
11:48I find the more you try to pressure yourself to write, the more writer block is likely to happen to
11:56you.
11:57Agree.
11:58Agree.
11:58I, and again, I'm obviously, unlike you, you, you, you, you got a couple of books out, right?
12:03I'm up to like 10.
12:04Yeah.
12:05All right.
12:05You're an expert.
12:06You're an expert.
12:06So I probably can't tell you anything you, you probably haven't already thought of.
12:10But what I've found, and I've heard other people say this is I'm a big runner.
12:15And when I'm running, I seem to kind of a creative thoughts that I just can't get sitting in front
12:22of a keyboard.
12:23And the biggest problem I have now at my age, and I was trying to remember them.
12:27I get back from the run and go, oh, now what was that?
12:31You need to carry a, I have a digital recorder.
12:36A digital recorder.
12:37Yes.
12:37I can build that.
12:38Yeah.
12:38Or just your smartphone, of course, because you can stop running, open up your email app.
12:45One of my tips and techniques is open up your email app, you know, either Google Assistant or whatever, dictate
12:55yourself an email about what you're thinking.
12:58Email it to yourself before you forget.
13:02And then, of course.
13:03Great technique.
13:04That's a great technique.
13:05Again, I say I have, you know, I usually get it back, but it takes a little bit of work
13:09trying to remember it.
13:10It'd be so much easier just to, yeah, like they listen to what you were thinking at the time.
13:15Exactly.
13:15Exactly.
13:16And you may not remember it all as long as you could get a bullet point or two to jog
13:22running, pun intended.
13:25Jog your memory.
13:27Right?
13:28It doesn't matter if you're out jogging, running, you're in your car, pull off to the side of the road
13:35when you get an idea, dictate it into your phone before you forget.
13:40Because one never knows when, indeed, the muse is going to kick in.
13:47Yes?
13:48Yeah, I agree.
13:49Totally agree.
13:49It doesn't happen in front of the keyboard, usually.
13:52It's usually out doing, like you say, something else.
13:54So have you loosely based, now I know, like all my disclaimers, are fictional characters any, you know, to living
14:04or dead is coincidental.
14:07But, you know, usually as writers, we borrow aspects of friends' lives to put into our books.
14:15So we're using them fictitionally.
14:19You got some friends that you kind of borrowed a little bit for your characters?
14:25Yeah, some mannerisms, some of my friends, I've kind of got those in there.
14:29The biggest one, I guess, would be, again, I have, it's Dr. Lincoln, call him Pop.
14:38And he is the great-grandfather of the protagonist and never met him.
14:44But he, again, was born in 57, passed away about 95 years later.
14:51And this is after that.
14:52But, again, he became, there's a story how his digital memories, or how his memories become digitized.
14:58And he becomes what is, in my book, the first human-based, or first digital intellect based off human memories
15:05and human intellect.
15:06But it's his great-grandfather, and that is my dad, pretty much all over, who is very, very, very smart,
15:16not the most educated guy in the world, but very smart, had a very low tolerance for its stupidity.
15:23And this guy is dealing with a lot of stupidity in 2104, and he's telling them about it.
15:29So, that was, again, that, yeah, so that's probably the biggest example, that if you read that and knew my
15:34dad, he would, yeah, I kind of see the resemblance here.
15:37Yeah, well, what was the movie?
15:40Ediocracy comes to mind, right?
15:44As we keep, if the current trends are any indication, yeah, by 2104, we'll be a society of ignoramuses.
15:55That line is in my book.
15:57He's introduced him to his grandson, who's the captain of the USS Despair, and he's going, your ship's name, Despair,
16:04and he gets in this, and Pop goes, oh, my God, idiocracy.
16:08I thought it was a comedy.
16:10Yeah, no, it didn't, a documentary, exactly.
16:15Oh, yeah, it's now a documentary, yeah.
16:16I borrowed, I've heard that joke before, and I kind of borrowed a little of that, and Pop finds out
16:22I'm on a ship named USS Despair, heading off to intercept a probe that's been dead for, you know, 100
16:28years, just to take the plaque off of it.
16:30Yeah, and also comes to mind is one of the many H.G. Wells Time Machine remakes, the one with
16:40Guy Pearce, where he's in the future, and the AI librarian.
16:47I've seen that.
16:48Very well redone.
16:50I love the way they did it with Guy Pearce, yeah, Time Machine.
16:55And indeed, in the future, like, librarians have become AI, and they're projected on crystal panels and interact with people.
17:06And he remembers dealing with them in one time frame, and then several hundred years in the future.
17:14It's like, you can't be the same guy.
17:17How are you the same guy?
17:21Okay.
17:22All right, I'm going to put that on my list.
17:24I need to see that.
17:25Yeah, great.
17:26I think I'll watch it again this afternoon.
17:29I haven't seen it again.
17:30I haven't seen it for a while.
17:32Although, you know, full disclosure, we're recording right after Christmas.
17:37It's still Die Hard season.
17:40I did see Die Hard for the season.
17:44Did you re-watch Die Hard this year?
17:46Yes, that's a requirement.
17:48Got to watch that.
17:49Yep, yep.
17:50It is a Christmas movie because the writers say it was.
17:54They wanted an action movie built as a Christmas movie.
17:59So, I've been on several shows to talk about that.
18:03I have a couple of my own shows that discusses that.
18:06But, anyway, didn't have you here to talk about that.
18:10But, how was your Christmas since we're on Christmas?
18:14It was good.
18:15I went to Kentucky and my wife's family.
18:16So, it was always good to get her up there.
18:19And it was a good time.
18:20You know, good time to get up there and glad to be home.
18:23Of course, when this airs, people will be saying Christmas.
18:27Boy, that was a while ago, wasn't it?
18:29Yeah, pretty good, yeah.
18:33So, tell us a little bit more, maybe without too many spoilers, other characters.
18:41Okay.
18:42Renee Smith.
18:44She's not on the ship, but Penn Lincoln is the protagonist.
18:48He's the captain of the ship.
18:49He's the last fighter pilot in the Air Force.
18:52So, there's a kind of story how he ended up being in what's called the U.S. Space Collective
18:57Equity, or Space Equity Collective.
19:01He meets her at an illegal speakeasy just a couple months before he leaves.
19:09And, obviously, he didn't intend to fall in love with her, but he does.
19:13And she ends up running afoul of the government when there is a purge of artifacts and stuff
19:20in this club.
19:21So, Texas, in this case, is an independent nation.
19:24So, she has to run to Texas to get out from being persecuted for the government because
19:28she loses her job, loses her credit cards, you know, because she's been found in this
19:3620th century nightclub.
19:38And he starts making decisions based off of that, trying to get back to see her, and it was
19:45compound, and the Chinese are involved.
19:47And the Chinese do not want the ship coming straight back from the Voyager because they
19:53will discover there's an undiscovered subplanet, which is full of minerals that China is mining.
20:01And they have used, they've got it basically, they've got, it's hidden.
20:07They have put in viruses.
20:08So, they're the only ones that know it's there.
20:10You know, the long-range cameras, everything can't see it because they have put viruses
20:14into them.
20:15But they know the spare will basically fly right by it and see it.
20:21So, now China is against it.
20:23So, now China and America is that.
20:25So, you've got the captain of the Chinese spaceship is fairly prominent.
20:30Will Borgman is the antagonist.
20:34He is a social justice officer on board.
20:38You think of the old Russian political officer, if you think of like a Taliban religious, you
20:44know, religious official, whatever they call those guys, those, you know, one of those
20:50their thoughts and their beliefs, that's kind of what Will Borgman is.
20:53He's on there to, you know, and he runs the ship mainly because he's in charge of social
20:58justice.
20:59And Penn finally kind of realizes he's not in charge of the ship.
21:04The doctor is an old, almost Dr. McCoy, almost a Dr. McCoy.
21:10He's old school and him, he doesn't get along.
21:13He's social justice enemy number one and he's proud of it.
21:17Yeah.
21:17So, hat tip back to Star Trek there to a little bit of a degree, yeah.
21:23Yeah, yeah, it is.
21:24It's Dr. Browning, but he's, yeah, he looks a lot like McCoy, but because he's not happy
21:31with the way things are going with the social justice.
21:35The XO is a very, Antonio Washington.
21:39Now, intentionally Lincoln spelled, he spells his name with E, Washington spells his with
21:45an eye, since they both changed their names for Lincoln.
21:47That was intentional, give more of the satire.
21:50But he is, he's the XO, very sharp individual.
21:54And again, everybody's, all Americans are identified by their, their identified gender, their sexual
22:03orientation, and their color of skin.
22:06And Antonio is a little different because he's undeclared on two of those.
22:09He's a, he's a, he's a black officer, but he's never really said his sexual orientation
22:13or his identified gender.
22:14And, and Penn works on that because I can't get you promoted until I get you into those
22:18categories.
22:19And those are the, those are the main, the main characters.
22:23There, there's a, I say quite a few, quite a few in it.
22:26And one of the things that they got weird names, they all got weird names.
22:30The chief of staff of the, the president, the indignity house is no longer the white house.
22:35It's the indignity house.
22:36She's the chief of staff.
22:37She's very, she's very prominent because she's there.
22:40All the things that's going on with a ship that's coming back from DC and, uh, or from
22:44Washington.
22:46Um, um, and yeah, that's probably more than any, that's probably, I, I'm getting, get too
22:51much in here.
22:51I won't, uh, shut up or.
22:53Yeah.
22:54So pretty much a leftist utopia.
22:57It is.
22:58It's a dystopian where it's, uh, it's, it's, it's the left gone wild to the umpteenth
23:04millionth degree, but yet they, they won't take it as satire.
23:10They'll take it as a roadmap, just like they did in Orwell's 1984.
23:18Yeah.
23:19Yeah.
23:19I, I, I would be interested.
23:20I haven't seen, well, again, I haven't got it out yet, but I, uh, you know, if it does,
23:24I'm, I'll be public in any enemy three or four.
23:27If, if, uh, if it gets out and, you know, catches on because again, it's, it, yeah, it's,
23:34again, it's, it's, it's anti-woke, no doubt about it.
23:38And if you're going to try to defend woke, then this, you won't be happy with the book.
23:41So.
23:42Well, thank you, Christopher Choate.
23:46I mean, Choate.
23:48Spelled C-H-O-A-T-E.
23:52Appreciate your time coming on.
23:54Look forward to Apollo Wept and hopefully a sequel.
24:01I mean, a prequel.
24:02A prequel.
24:03Yeah.
24:04Definitely.
24:04I think it's a prequel is eventually how we got to that point.
24:07I got about a, you know, I got about 80 years between now and then to.
24:11Yeah.
24:11That makes sense to fill in the hole of, uh, cause as the left keeps pushing, you'll be
24:18able to work more of the absolutely how we're on the path to the ridiculousness you're talking
24:25about.
24:26And, uh, I mean, as I would write, it took me about, about four years to write this.
24:30You know, I would come up with something and I would think this is as far out as you can
24:33get.
24:33So I would have that in the book and six months later, there it is in the paper.
24:37Like, oh, well, well, I miss that one.
24:39They beat me to it.
24:43I hear you.
24:44I hear you.
24:45All right.
24:46Thanks.
24:46Uh, take care.
24:47God bless you too, sir.
24:50God bless.
24:50Take care.
25:01America.
25:03Two 50.
25:04Wow.
25:05Seem to lost their way.
25:07That's real.
25:08U.S.
25:09Patriots.
25:10Fighting for our Republic to stay.
25:13Are you Dale?
25:15Christian found.
25:16Foundations, tried and true.
25:20Freedom ringing for me and you.
25:28America 250.
25:31We're looking in the mirror.
25:34Some folks lost the map, but we can see it clear.
25:38We're real U.S.
25:40Patriots standing in the rain, holding on to the promise, keeping faith in the name.
25:49Judy, you're up.
25:50Christian roots run deep.
25:52Tried and true.
25:53We keep what we keep through the hard days, through the fight.
25:57We still know wrong from right.
26:00Freedom ringing for me and you.
26:04Freedom ringing for me and you.
26:19Freedom ringing.
26:21Freedom ringing.
26:22Tried and true.
26:31We stand up.
26:33For the first of July.
26:34For the first of July, sparks in the midnight sky.
26:37Mom's in the pews.
26:39Dad's on the porch.
26:42Kids still learning what this country's for.
26:47Woo!
26:48Judy, you're up.
26:50Judy, you're up.
26:50Christian roots run deep.
26:51Tried and true.
26:52We keep what we keep through the hard days, through the fight.
26:56We still know wrong from right.
26:59Freedom ringing for me and you.
27:02Woo!
27:03Woo!
27:04Freedom ringing.
27:06Tried and true.
27:08Oh, we stand up.
27:10We won't back down.
27:11Republic strong in this hometown.
27:14Woo!
27:14Freedom ringing for me and you.
27:18Oh, freedom ringing red, white, blue.
27:23Woo!
27:24Woo!
27:25Woo!
27:27Woo!
27:27Woo!
27:27Woo!
27:27We're not done, not by a mile.
27:31We'll keep this fire, keep this trial.
27:37Woo!
27:38Oh, nation still rising strong.
27:41Oh, we're the faithful.
27:45Oh, still belong.
27:48Freedom ringing for me and you.
27:52Woo!
27:53Woo!
27:54Freedom ringing tried and true.
27:58Oh, we stand up.
27:59We won't back down.
28:01Republic strong in this hometown.
28:04Oh!
28:04Freedom ringing for me and you.
28:08Oh, freedom ringing red, white, blue.
28:13Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
28:17oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
28:20oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
28:20oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
28:20oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
28:21oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
28:56Yeah, yeah.
29:02From our cold, dead hands.
29:05The atheist, communcrats, call us bitter clingers.
29:12We got news for you ungodly left-wingers.
29:23Our Constitution writes from our God to our guns.
29:30From us you'll never sever.
29:34We hold these truths, self-evident forever.
29:46They called us names.
29:50Bitter clingers.
29:53From their towers so high.
29:58They think they know us.
30:01They think they own us.
30:04But they don't know a thing.
30:10From our cold, dead hands.
30:14You won't take them.
30:16Our rights, our land.
30:19Our God, our guns.
30:22From our cold, dead hands.
30:25You won't sever.
30:29These truths we hold forever.
30:34Never.
30:37They preach their words.
30:41Ungodly whispers.
30:44Trying to change our minds.
30:49They talk of new ways of different days.
30:54But we remember what's true.
31:00But we remember what's true.
31:02From our cold, dead hands.
31:05You won't take them.
31:08Our rights, our land.
31:10Our God, our guns.
31:13From our cold, dead hands.
31:16You won't sever.
31:20These truths we hold forever.
31:29We stand our ground.
31:32United strong.
31:35For what we believe.
31:40Our spirit burns bright.
31:43Through the darkest night.
31:46Patriots the people.
31:50Part three.
31:52We remain free.
32:10We remain free.
32:15From our cold, dead hands.
32:18You won't take them.
32:21Our rights, our land.
32:24Our God, our guns.
32:27From our cold, dead hands.
32:30You won't sever.
32:34These truths we hold forever.
32:55We remain free.
33:13He never blinks in class
33:16Shots floats off the glass
33:20Draws a circle, it looks like hope
33:24But not the one I know
33:26Dean walks by and tell a smile
33:29Cliffboard eyes that scan for miles
33:33Every hallway hums my name
33:36Like something in the walls
33:39Me, see, do you really hear?
33:43In the staff room drinking coffee
33:46Are they jamming up my thoughts?
33:50Every time I start the story
33:53Is my professor beaming back
33:56Every word I'm trying to scream
33:59Or is this just area decked in horn?
34:06Fever dream
34:08Fever dream
34:14Laptop dies at ninety-nine
34:17Page about the secret signs
34:20Password change
34:22My files are gone
34:24Where did it fit my mind?
34:27Library lights
34:28Flick twice
34:30Write on every alien line
34:33Library mouth
34:35Don't write that
34:36That says it's all fine
34:39Is E.T. really here?
34:43In the great book
34:45In the hallway
34:47Are they scrolling through my brain?
34:50Like it's all this gossip Friday
34:53Is the deed a distant star?
34:57In a thrift for human skin
35:00Or is this just area fifth at home?
35:07Fever dream
35:10I can't die
35:19Every time I get too close
35:22Fire alarms the white feet ghost
35:26Headache like a coded note
35:29Drop it
35:30Drop it
35:31Drop it
35:32Drop it
35:33Drop it
35:42So tell me am I chosen?
35:47Or just losing in between?
35:51Is the universe in homeroom
35:55Laughing at me?
36:00Is E.T. really here?
36:04Or am I riding my young monsters?
36:08Are they hacking all my traps?
36:11Or am I just my harshest offer?
36:14If I publish every fear
36:17Will they land or will they leave?
36:21Either way
36:22I'll sign it
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36:2661
36:27Fever dream
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