Evening Edition: America 250 Interactive Treasure Hunt Begins

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1:00I'm Abby Hornissette. I'm Ben Dominic. I'm Dana Perino and this is the Fox News rundown. Monday, September 14th, 2026, I'm Evan Brown. We're still marking America's 250th anniversary and soon you'll have a chance to do some daily lessons learning about America's greatness. It's remarkable how the accounting father's had a vision of what they wanted to create. Along with the people created this nation which has transformed the globe in an incredible positive way. Has it made mistakes? Of course, every nation does. Yeah, you got your problems. And you got an amazing country with an amazing history and an amazing people. And this is the Fox News rundown evening edition. Afternoon glare totally ruined my watch party for the big game. That's when my buddy recommended Blinds.com. With custom window treatments made to fit your style, space and budget.

2:01Customers who shop at Blinds.com experience to overwhelming satisfaction. Side effects may include a fuller, deeper night sleep and a sudden urge to host the watch party again. Blinds.com isn't a medication, but it can improve how you feel about your home. Visit Blinds.com to order your free samples today. The 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America has been marked and celebrated by a lot of things this year from fairs to ultimate fighting championships to fireworks and even an indie car race on the streets of Washington, DC. But how about learning something? We have a shared history and a major place in the world and we should be proud of that. And a new book with a companion app aims to teach us more about that just one day at a time. Not my first visit to the rodeo as you would say in America. Rabbi Andrew Shaw is an educator and the author of a number of books and programs meant to be read a page a day teaching on different historic subjects and his new one 250 days

3:03for 250 years is meant to teach us about us. America's impact, its history and its uniqueness. We spoke with Rabbi Shaw before the start of the Sabbath. I've done these types of projects before and what's driven me to do this from America because I've seen the impact the formal projects had. This was projects I did with Rabbi Sacks. 50 days for 50 years, 60 years for 60 years. That was for the Holocaust, 60 years for Israel. And finally 70 days for 70 years for the Holocaust. And the idea was very similar. We produced a book with aspects of Judaism and people would learn one essay a day for the 60, 70 days of the project. What it did was it created a sense of a shared culture because everyone was doing the same thing you'd be given the same day, you end the same day. And it didn't matter if you were a kid, parent, a grandparent, everybody kind of felt connected to the project. Meaning no one saw it as a book, they saw it as a project, they saw it as a movement

4:04they were joining to that time period. So same idea here, it's 250 days for the 250 years. And again, it's a start day and end date and you want to join it together. And I think that is really what makes this program unique. It comes with a companion app to sort of further that idea along, right? Yeah, I mean, the idea obviously nowadays, it's not just enough to just have a physical book. So yeah, the app will have the daily content on it as well as quizzes and other, and other stuff, but the main thing we're doing with the web app is to take the books, concepts and sort of turn them into a treasure hunt. So that's actually going to be 2,500 civic sites that we're going to have as part of the treasure hunt 50 per state. And during the 250 days, you will be invited to go visit these civic sites to get points, points main prizes. We're working with Sponestar, their national organization that has the technology for this. And really it's about saying to families, to churches, to schools, get out and visit

5:05your country, go and visit the places that change the face of this country. And therefore that's part of the kind of the, I guess, app side of things, which is quite more than simply just reading a book. You mentioned this amazing concept of everyone doing this together at the same time. That it builds a sense of community. They are learning, you know, what they're going to learn from the book and the app at the same time. And where did that concept come from? Because that's a very ancient concept to have people learning the same thing at the same time together in a way. And even, you know, perhaps maybe thousands of years ago it meant being in the same physical space. But with technology, people can do this together remotely and still kind of have a sense of community. Yeah, and really look at this. In the Jewish religion, we have some of our practice every day. It's called Duffy Omi. It's the daily page of the Talmud that Jews globally on the same page of the Talmud every day. But for me, when I did the original concept of 50 days and 60 days is because nobody is

6:08going to be able to or going to read a sort of 300 page book or 600 page book. But if it's a page a day, it's manageable. And I think the idea of kind of achieving a large amount bit by bit is a very kind of ancient idea of how you achieve things in life. It's not all at once. It's gradually building it up. And yes, over 250 days, I hope that the nation will really be acquiring daily a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more televentry. They've got this corpus of knowledge and information over a period of time. But again, I'm not hiding, you know, that I'm a rabbi because I think as I said, this nation was built on biblical values to their Christian foundations. And I'm very proud that America is a covenantal society. And I think the rabbi sacks, who was my mentor, as I said, he always saw America as sort of a nation that could really sort of some of the Jewish nation would be proud of in terms of the values and the ideals that it espouses.

7:11And for those who may not know who rabbi sacks is, who you were referring to, he is the late chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, rabbi Lord Jonathan sacks. In commonwealth, in fact, I think in the United States, on my journeys around the state, a lot of Christian pastors know him of read his work. He's really, you know, a tremendous scholar, a tremendous, a sea of love, a tremendous sort of a person understood the modern world and the changes that were happening within it and what we needed to do as humanity to resist and forge you some of the not so nice things happening in our world today. Who's contributed to this book? Because there's, it's again, it's a big project and there's a lot of people that have important things to say and they want to convey. Yeah, no, I, I, I compiled the book. I didn't write the book. There are five sections to the book, the life, liberty, happiness, values and moments and time. I need to section was written by a different group. Life, we had a biographer wrote 50 essays on the 50 sort of heroes of America.

8:18He was researched by researchers, its speeches and stories about sort of great battles and great speeches. So that would again, called from libraries and into their books. Happiness is probably my favorite section that is chicken soup for the soul. We're partnering with the chicken soup for the soul. They've given us 50. One of that they didn't give us. They said to me, you can read all our books and pick your favorite 50 stories. So I read must be about thousands of stories with wonderful. It's a great job to have to do. And I've selected 50 stories. So that's that's happiness. Values is 50 values of America starting with aspiration, your family, community, faith, diversity, these sort of things. So again, they were written by Americans, educators, doctors, lawyers, civic, civic sort of people. So anyone in that field, we just sent it out to people. It was what we sent out to a lot of people. Everyone said, yes, I would say, yeah, I'd love to contribute. So it's really been and the final moments in time, that is again, a research is just

9:20basically what in each state, what was the moment in time that really sort of changed the world for that state. And that was just again, we searched just to find that exactly what it was, just write 100 words about it. But the main thing is the pictures of all that one and the sort of the understand the gravitas of each state, what they've achieved. I guess this Rabbi Andrew Shaw his new book and app 250 days for 250 years teaches us about American history one day at a time. On the Fox News rundown evening edition, please like, subscribe and share this podcast. We'll have more straight ahead. The apologetic comedy November 19th tickets on sale now at Yamavath theater dot com only at Yamavar resort and casino celebrating its 40th anniversary. You in must be 21 to enter.

10:27It seems like a nice mix of civics of history of futurism, you know, about, you know, because obviously America reached a 250 years, but we're now moving into 251. So as you mentioned moments in time, you know, things about, you know, things that might happen next. Tell me more about you and your desire to do this. Anyone listening is going to know you have not exactly a Brooklyn accent, but that doesn't mean you have no connection to the United States. Tell us about that. Obviously, yeah, no, I am proud Londoner born and bred. But no, my connection to America, as I write in the preface to the book, started when I was four years old. My father, let's remember, he brought home a book, sorry, I'm a record of America. And you know, when you're that age, you just like, listen to anything. And I put it on the record player and I listened to it every day. I fell in love with this record and I, my favorite music as a kid was battle him over

11:29to a public. Old man river, streets of La Rada, America, the beautiful, you know, the Ankydoodle Dandy. I didn't know at the time that 20 years later, I'd be marrying an American girl, be moving to New York. And kind of, I remember quite early in our marriage, we were walking in Manhattan and one of these songs started playing and I'd start singing it all. She goes, how do you know? Oh, I said, I grew up with it. So that was my connection to America. And of course, combining that with my, so again, growing up as an educator with my projects, it was like the perfect marriage of an idea I've had with the love of a country that I obviously, you know, have sort of loved since I was a child, I guess. Well, it's interesting, I think, for us because sometimes Americans might feel a little isolated more than just geographically. Sometimes we feel the world doesn't like us too much. And we've learned this year, obviously from yourself and from a bunch of fans of the World Cup who came to visit the United States this past summer, that they fell in love with

12:35us, with our country. And I think that that's, you know, you're desired to publish something like this kind of furthers that idea that when people get to know the United States of America, we are quite unique. And that's not to put down, I think, anyone else, but people do look at us with a degree of awe. And I think that's the whole point. The whole point is America. Again, what I'm fighting against is the extremes. I mean, I think what is in every country, what has happened due to social media is the extremes have had a much louder voice than they probably would have done in its previous generations. But therefore, to realization that most Americans actually do love their country and most Americans do want to have a project to connect them and unite them and make them feel proud of this incredible country. I mean, America, you know, it's an imperfect union. I mean, that's what I've learned and that's what I've heard. But when you look and I obviously immersed myself in America's history for the last year, I've been compiling this entire project, it's remarkable how the is founding fathers

13:38had a vision of what they wanted to create and along with the people created this destination, which has transformed the globe in an incredibly positive way. Has it made mistakes? Of course, every nation does. But that to me is, as you said in the World Cup, really, I think reminds Americans, yeah, yeah, you got your problems. But you got an amazing country with an amazing history and an amazing people. All right. So if someone wants to be involved in the ongoing project, what do they do? So we are launching on September the 9th. Why September the 9th, you may ask, is because we were meant to launch on July 4th, but we couldn't launch because we were told you can't launch a project in the middle of the holidays. We were told to wait for the Labor Day. So September the 9th was the day we were given, we have to launch then. So September the 9th actually remarkably is the day that Colgross changed the name of the nation from United colonies to United States of America on the September the 9th, 7, 76. So we're launching, we're launching with a 50 day countdown and therefore to allow the

14:42nations to kind of sign up. And then the day one is October 28th, 2026. And the idea is you sign up, www.250FOR250US.org, www.250US.org. You click begin the journey, you sign up and then we're going to basically get to you the books. Obviously once we work at, we've got to work out sort of the web app and everything, but that's how you sign up and join the movement to be part of this unifying and educational experience. All right. Well, Rabbi Andrew Shaw, you are an author and educator and a lover of the United States and we are very fortunate to have you on the Fox News rundown. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. You've been listening to the Fox News rundown. And now stay up to date by subscribing to this podcast at FoxNewsPodcasts.com. Listen, add free on Fox News Podcasts plus on Apple Podcasts and prime members can listen

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