The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report with Ed Martin.
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I got a piece running in the Baltimore Sun this weekend in the Sunday newspaper. They only print the Baltimore Sun. I think twice a week. Wednesday and Sunday, maybe. Otherwise it’s an online, you know, digital paper. But they print a Sunday edition and I’ll be in there and I will get that link out through Proamericareport.com you’ll check it out. It’s very cool.
All right, what you need to know on a holiday weekend. Coming into the holiday weekend. Let me let me try to go all upbeat all the time and let me do it this way.
President Trump went to the Bronx late this week. He was in the Bronx and he had a great rally. He had a great time. People like me. Actually, I was one of them and said I don’t know about going to the Bronx. Like I I don’t know. Won’t there be something that goes wrong? Nothing went wrong. It was a huge crowd. He had a great time. He sent a message that everybody in the country, whether in the Bronx or in downtown LA. Or in Chicago, or in a a blue state that he cares wants to be in the fray and wants to. Because he could have, he could have rescheduled this one. I think he scheduled it when he was going to be have to be in court and he was not in court that day. They cancelled it so he could have rescheduled. He didn’t. And he was there. It was a great success.
I think one of the, You know, one of the things about Trump is he just shows up places. You know, there’s a long line, you know, 90% of I think it’s a Yogi Berraism, 90% of life is showing up and the other half is hard work. Some I think Yogi did something like that but a big part of it’s just showing up and and Donald Trump showing up and people like that, the people like that, the president and my my one of the things I said to my child the other day, my son is, I said don’t worry about what you say just say it. He was doing a thank you note an e-mail to someone saying thank you I said don’t worry about what you say too much just say it. It’s just it’s it’s being in the being. doing something. You wanna do it Well, you wanna do it carefully. All that I’m. I don’t want to be sloppy, but mostly you just need to do it. And that’s I. I think it’s very American which it brings me to this celebration of America.
This past week, we had our annual Phyllis Schlafly Eagles Patent event, patent, the patent, the right to invent something and have it be a property right that you get to do something with, have a patent on something. Phyllis Schlafly, her father, had a patent on a Rotary engine. It never amounted to anything financially, but it was a great invention. He worked on it for years and years and years she saw he got a patent on it and Phyllis, as a young woman, young girl and then as a woman saw her dad do that. And she always believed in it.
And when she studied it as she was apt to do, she came up with an analysis. Of America. And how extraordinary our patent protection from the very beginning. Thomas Jefferson was the head of the head of the Patent Office from the very beginning. The founding fathers wanted the pursuit of happiness to include, If you invent it, you get to keep it for a while. Usually 20 years. Sometimes there’s exceptions. But in other words, you could benefit.
And so around the world. You sometimes have to get if you want to use the thing you invent, you have to ask the king if you can have the the ability to do it, and he decides to give it to his cousin. He gets it. If he decides to give it to his wife’s family, they get it. Whatever. In America you invent it, you’ve got it, it’s yours, and you can benefit.
And so especially Phyllis pointed out from about 18, you know, 80 until 2000. Really 2024, you can say, America just invents everything we invent everything.
I mean, not it’s not true. There’s other things in the world. But by by size of the nation, 300 million people, 330, 40 million people now. But back then 200 million. The number of things we invented, the number of of of quick Movements forward based on American inventiveness.
Why did it happen? It happened because you can take, go back to the old, my old filter. Follow the money. If you have the ability to make some money off of it, if you have the ability to enrich yourself, it’s gonna be more motivating. Than be being altruistic, I think. How many times you have to do something and get it wrong before you get it right. If you’re, especially if you’re doing science, you know, science, hard sciences and inventions and you know, was it Thomas Edison had a quote about how, you know, every single experiment he had for the light bulb didn’t work until the last one. Once it worked then you had something.
So you got tons of failure. You got tons of struggle, and yet Americans do it and they get it. And because it’s because you have a patent.
So we had this great celebration of patents. We have honored a couple of people a congressman from California Kevin Kiley, who is really understands patents and is on the Judiciary Committee in the House and is very helpful in protecting patents
Because what’s happening to patents is people that want your patents and have more money will try to steal them and and muscle over them. One of the big bullies right now is big tech. Because they don’t want the little guys to come up with inventions and come up with things. So they wanna push, roll over the patents.
And the other one is that our patent system is being overrun by the Chinese Communist cheaters. And thieves. They come and steal stuff and then they go use it and make it in China. It’s a terrible problem.
So anyway, it was a celebration of patents and at the event. We’re inventors. There was a man there that has 80 patents for things that have to do with radar and and and that field. Thomas Massie, the congressman from Kentucky, was there. He’s got 36 patents. He got his first patent when he was 19 years old, a student at MIT working with some kind of. It’s not robotics, but it’s kind of the ability to make motion with with sort of robots anyway. Extraordinary and and a lot of others.
And we had this great celebration of patents, you know, by the way Democrat, Republican, all different stripes. There was no whoever is on the side of inventors whoever is on the side of beating back the bureaucrats. That’s what Obama did.
Obama created a class of bureaucrats in the Patent Office that, a patent review board, P tab, it’s called and they and they, they appeal. It’s called. I think it’s patent and trade appeal board and it’s bureaucrats. It’s not an actual federal court. It’s not a judge on the federal court in our system, not jurisdiction there. It’s created by the Obama White House giving in to people who wanted to control patents and invalidate patents. It’s a disaster.
And so whoever cares to fight for patents and could keep the inventions flowing. We’re on the same side, which brings me to we’re back in this so that the theme is
the American dream is the chance to try. The chance to try.
And when you succeed, you can reap the benefits. And brings me to this example. I do a radio show every Wednesday. I do a radio show every Wednesday at 7:35 central time in Illinois in Champaign, Urbana, on the ESPN affiliate, my friend Stevie Jay is the host and his brother Johnny comes on. Johnny’s got like 150 patents, by the way. He’s a big oil and gas guy and inventor invented All sorts of things, but we have this time together for about 25 minutes. It’s been a great conversation going on years now. Well, it turns out that Stevie Jay’s daughter married a gentleman. His name is Hurtubise. I think I’m pronouncing right. I’ll probably get it wrong. Doesn’t matter. I I don’t know how to pronounce his last name, but but the most important thing is he got called up to the major leagues. He got called up Jacob Hurtubise called up to the major leagues. Reds. He’s an outfielder. But here’s where it gets interesting.
He went to West Point. He went to West Point, and when Donald Trump was elected president, one of the early things he did was he said, hey, if you go to one of our military academies, Naval Academy, West Point, Air Force Academy, Coast Guard Academy, you know, you have this, you have this commitment to serve, you have to serve for four or five years. You know, you get free college in West Point. You get trained as an officer. Then you gotta go serve same thing in Navy. All that is, is this part of the requirement. If you get into those places, elite education, you have to go serve and you can’t go get your own job. You gotta go to work for the Navy or the Army or whoever.
Well, Trump gets in as president and he and he seizes on this. And he says sometimes you go to college and you become a better player than you might have been. You play football or basketball, and you ought to have a chance to go play Pro sports while you’re young and you can do your time later. Now you say. Ohh and and people and Biden just changed it. Biden changed it back. It doesn’t allow this now, so Trump puts it through.
And so for a period of time, about three or four years, it was really easy and it was not easy if you were, if you’re gonna get a pro contract, you could get you could apply and the academies would let you defer your service. That’s what this guy did, Jacob Hurtubise, Hurtubise. He went to West Point. Phenomenal player at West Point. Phenomenal student because you gotta be to graduate. But he got really good at baseball and somebody said if you come and play, we’ll give you a contract and you may may may make the major leagues. You might and you know what you can’t do, is go and what you can’t do is go serve your 5 1/2 years or five years in in the army and then go play it’s. it wouldn’t work right? This is the window your dream. You’ll go for it.
You wanna invent something? You can own it.
You wanna you you wanna do you wanna go to the Bronx and talk to voters? Can do it. It’s like the American optimism. And so this guy, Jacob, who happens to be Stevie Jay’s son-in-law, he takes it. He takes it up West Point. He says I I got a chance to go pro. And I think he was like a late, late late draft pick. He wasn’t like, he’s not drafted #1 and gets a big bonus. He was like he was, you know, way back, way down in the draft. I don’t I don’t know what round I can’t say. Can’t see it in my notes, but the fact is that he got called up to the pros and he got to play in the pros. Now, who knows? Maybe he’ll stay. Maybe have a 15 year career. He’s an outfielder. Or maybe he’ll play a year. Maybe he’ll get a cup of coffee and that’s it. Who knows? But he got to go for it. He got to go for it, and Biden stopped that.
What kind of what kind of insanity? What kind of thing is wrong with people that you don’t see that what We all need. And want is a chance to go for it, chance to take the chance. Take an opportunity, you know? Go, go charging forward. Go do something special. It’s awesome. It’s awesome. It’s awesome stuff.
Anyway, hope everybody has a great weekend Memorial Day weekend. We’ll have more to talk about on that later, and we’ll take a break. We’ll be right back. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Don’t forget proamericareport.com, sign up there, be back in a moment.
