Oct 8, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min · 30 segments
There's a party every weeknight in Studio 6B, and you're invited. Damon Roberts, Rick Delgado, Rick Ammirati, and Vin Butta on the stories moving tonight. Marco Rubio stood at the Pnyx on Oct. 7…
Vin ButtaHostRick DelgadoHost
Rick AmmiratiHost
Nicholas HolscherGuestAaronPanelistAnd I want you to stop what you're doing for a minute and listen up because yesterday, maybe one of the most important speeches of the year, Marco Rubio stood on the Acropolis and said the things that so many of our so-called leaders have been terrified to say out loud for, well, about 40 years.
He didn't give a speech about shared values and rules-based order and all the other euphemisms that state departments have been using while the West quietly talks itself out of existence.
He reminded everybody that the Greeks didn't build that place so that 2,000 years later their descendants could feel guilty about it.
Fierce individuality, relentless ambition, the hunger to know the world and then to master it.
It became the West because men in this place decided that excellence was the point of life.
that competition was not a social disease, and that a people who lose the fire in their chest eventually lose everything else.
The most cited author in the Federalist Papers is Plutarch, not some Enlightenment theorist that the professors prefer.
Our columns, our domes, our whole idea of a republic that governs itself, fingerprints of antiquity.
He stood there as the Secretary of State, great-grandson of Spanish settlers, and said, we owe a debt that time and distance cannot cancel.
And identity is exactly what the last generation of Western elites tried to dissolve.
We taught the children to be embarrassed by the countries they were going to inherit.
We opened the borders, shipped the factories overseas, let the militaries rust, and handed decisions to bureaucracies that nobody elected.
And while we were busy feeling bad about ourselves, the people who never felt bad about themselves filled the vacuum.
And I want you to stop what you're doing for a minute and listen up because yesterday, maybe one of the most important speeches of the year, Marco Rubio stood on the Acropolis and said the things that so many of our so-called leaders have been terrified to say out loud for, well, about 40 years.
He didn't give a speech about shared values and rules-based order and all the other euphemisms that state departments have been using while the West quietly talks itself out of existence.
He reminded everybody that the Greeks didn't build that place so that 2,000 years later their descendants could feel guilty about it.
Fierce individuality, relentless ambition, the hunger to know the world and then to master it.
It became the West because men in this place decided that excellence was the point of life.
that competition was not a social disease, and that a people who lose the fire in their chest eventually lose everything else.
The most cited author in the Federalist Papers is Plutarch, not some Enlightenment theorist that the professors prefer.
Our columns, our domes, our whole idea of a republic that governs itself, fingerprints of antiquity.
He stood there as the Secretary of State, great-grandson of Spanish settlers, and said, we owe a debt that time and distance cannot cancel.
And identity is exactly what the last generation of Western elites tried to dissolve.
We taught the children to be embarrassed by the countries they were going to inherit.
We opened the borders, shipped the factories overseas, let the militaries rust, and handed decisions to bureaucracies that nobody elected.
And while we were busy feeling bad about ourselves, the people who never felt bad about themselves filled the vacuum.
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