E4209 - Accountability, Forgiveness & Trust: The Three Words That Can Still Save a Nation │ BardsFM

Episode 4183 │ July 17, 2026

A nation that can't hold itself accountable can't be saved by an EO, a policy, or a billionaire. Three words. One order. No shortcuts.

WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS

Scott Kesterson opens with a story about a Lake Oswego, Oregon remodel that started as a $20,000 deck and became a $180,000 structural excavation — carpenter ants behind the stucco, four main beams rotted through, a stained glass bay window at risk — and carries that metaphor directly into the state of the nation: the structural rot is real, it is visible, and no amount of cream frosti...