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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you haven't checked out any of the many videos
that preger u has put out, then you should take
the time and do it. Preger You is short for
Preger University, founded by Alan Estrin and talk show host
and writer Dennis Preger, who's been on our show back
in two thousand and nine, to create videos on political, economic,
(00:21):
sociological topics culture that promote an American conservative viewpoint. We'd
like to play audio of one in particular. It's called
what was Revolutionary about the American Revolution? There had been
many revolutions throughout history. But what made the American Revolution
(00:42):
so unique?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So special?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The birthday of a new world is at hand. That
was what Thomas Paine, the Fiery pamphleteer, wrote in seventeen
seventy six, as thirteen of Great Britain's North American colonies
rose in revolt against British rule and declared themselves a
newly independent nation. The American Revolution was something the world
(01:05):
had never seen. Politically, economically, and diplomatically. Let's look at
all three. First, the politics revolutions themselves were not new.
Of course, Britain put itself through not one, but two
revolutions in the seventeenth century, other countries in Europe endured
similar upheavals. These rebellions shared one of two goals, replace
(01:32):
the current monarch with another one, or extort new protections
and privileges from the existing regime. In stark contrast, the
Americans did not propose merely overthrowing a monarchy. They proposed
ending the very idea of monarchy as a worthwhile form
of government. In America, the citizen, not the government or
(01:55):
the king, would hold the keys to power. With this
overturning of the old way of doing things, the rebels
made the political systems of Europe look as antiquated and
irrational as fully as Newton's laws had made medieval physics
look antiquated and irrational. As it was with politics, so
(02:16):
it was with economics. Tearing up the old order meant
more than just refusing to take political orders from kings, dukes,
and princes. It meant taking no economic orders from them either.
In a society of free and equal citizens, Americans would
follow their own economic initiative. They would be as free
(02:36):
economically as they were politically. This small government model meant
the state was to interfere as little as possible in
the citizen's life. Americans founded the only country ever to
be based on the principle of restraining the government, and
that unleashed such dynamic economic growth. It took America from
(02:59):
a ledgling state to a world power in just fifty years.
A child born in seventeen seventy six could live to
see canal systems link waterways from New York to New Orleans,
see the electrical telegraph leap across unheard of distances in communications,
and the steamboat and railroad moved passengers and freight at
(03:24):
fractions of the cost imposed by horse and wagon. The
sheer novelty of the revolution's first two legs, the political
and the economic, was so great that many Americans, such
as Yale President Timothy Dwight, expressed a desire not merely
to remake the North American consonant, but the rest of
(03:45):
the world as well. America, Dwight wrote in a popular
poem of the time, was destined to hush the tumult
of war and give peace to the world. But the
founders rejected this view. The United States was to be
a republic, not an empire, a beacon not a kingdom.
(04:07):
Far from any desire to share America's redemptive culture. The
founder's tendency was to regard the rest of the world
as a potential threat, eager to strangle the American experiment,
either by the reimposition of empire or by association with
more unstable attempts at revolution, as in France. The American
(04:28):
position regarding foreign interventions was articulated by then Secretary of
State h. Quincy Adams in eighteen twenty one. Wherever the
standard of freedom and independence has been unfurled, there will
America's heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she
goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. Of course,
(04:51):
the United States has not always lived by this attitude.
America has allowed itself to be pulled into foreign adventures
of which which the founders would have disapproved. Nor has
the United States always lived up to its best ideals.
It has at various times seen unfettered commerce turn into
(05:13):
monopoly and corruption, and we've had to deal with the
terrible shame of slavery and its long aftermath. Human beings
are imperfect, and therefore any form of government they create
will be too. But the wonder of America, from its
founding to this day is not that it has stumbled.
(05:33):
The wonder is that Americans have stumbled as infrequently as
they have and managed to make and keep America the
strongest and freest country in the world. That birthday, Thomas
Paine proclaimed, is still very much worth celebrating. If it
isn't celebrated, it will be lost, and that would be
(05:55):
a tragedy for America and for the world.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Nobody Burde Michael Berry Show continues.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Old eighty two, Robin Williams was cast in the role
of the American Flag on a television special titled I
Love Liberty. It's a Very Different Time. Robin Williams was
not only dressed up as the flag, but he spoke
(06:27):
on its behalf.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I don't I'm the one that they're singing about.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, I'm I'm the.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Stars and stripe forever, star spangled banner. You can call
me old boy, but let's just keep it simple.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'll just call me flag. Oh, I'll say, can you see?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Okay, you probably don't recognize me.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Say who's out? Evil? Can evil? No way?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
You see you can't reckon ask me because.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I'm in my birthday suit. Yes, I'm wearing the original
thirteen here.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, I remember miss Betsy saying there going ooh, this.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Could be the start of something. Big wool John, don't
be a teen.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Yes, I was born June thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
That makes me a Gemini. That's unpredictable, crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yes, I like the outdoors and I'm the life of
any party, whether it be Republican, Democrat, independent, Socialist, anything, libertine.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I'll be there.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
You know, I'm two hundred and four years old. People say, flag,
how do you stay so young?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Is it jogging?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Is it tennis? No, it's waving.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You know I'm talking about you know, we're talking about billowing,
furling and unfurling. Richard Simmons, eat your heart out, yell.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Haven't has eys been easy for me?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Though?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I had a tough puberty.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, warf famine, invasion, and eighteen sixty one we'll have
a little skin problem that broke out into thirty four stars.
But now, well, little patience, and look what we got
now look at this. Hold on here, ha hah hah.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Oh sixty everybody's on here. Look at this Hilaska.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Hallaidn't make it n Yeah, we got your tennessee hw
ye do in today. Here's Vermont, you can't get that
from here. And there's California for sure, totally.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
So I've been Camborphoria.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Know, I had a tough time for a while. I've
been in a lot of wars. They've fired missiles and
muskets at me.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
But you know, come the dawns only light, I'm still there.
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You know, I've been made into everything from designer jeans
to T shirts, and I've even been a caped for
Mick Jagger.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Well all right, the rockets.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
But people haven't always been respectful to me.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Sometimes it's been tough that.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
When some people try and spit on me, trample me,
burn me. Foreigners and occasionally some Americans too. But I
don't let it get me down because I'm not a
stay at home kind of flag.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You know, I've been to Europe.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I've been to both North and South Pole, I was
at Yojima.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Recently, even been to the moon.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Where do you see me in all sorts of different postures.
When I'm like this, I means everything is okay. When
I'm upside down, well put on your may West and
hit the debt.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
But when I'm like this.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Well, that's not my favorite position because well that's half masked.
I don't I don't mean to bump you out. I
didn't come here to depressure, but I gotta tell you something. Honestly,
I haven't been getting out much lately.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I guess it's not very sheet to put up the
flag anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You know, Moffa and I have a flag, but we
haven't found it for very long.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Hey, but look at it this way.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Don't look at it saluting me, Look at it saluting yourselves.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Hey, I'm just a flag, a symbol. You're the people,
if I may say so. From here, long may you wave?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You've got The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This is one we've played for you before, but we
love it, and I hope you do too. For some
of you, it may be the first time you've ever
heard it, and that makes me happy. For others, it
may take you back to a good place, your parents,
your grandparents playing it. Richard Skelton, known as Red Skelton,
best known for his national radio and TV shows between
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nineteen thirty seven and nineteen seventy one, especially the TV
program The Red Skelton Show. What a lot of people
don't realize is that Red had another career. He was
also an artist. His paintings of clowns remained a hobby
until nineteen sixty four, when his wife Georgia persuaded him
(12:02):
to show them at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas
while he was performing his his show there. Sales of
his originals were successful, and he also sold prints and lithographs,
earning two point five million dollars yearly on his lithograph sales.
At the time of his death, his art dealer said
that Red Skelton had earned more money through his paintings
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than from his television performances. Why do I bring that up,
you ask, Well, Red Skelton had a phenomenal skit that
he did on the Pledge of Allegiance, and I hope
you enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I remember a teacher that I had now only I
went through the seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I went to the seventh grade.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
And I left home when I was ten years old
because I was hungry. I used to do I work
in the summer and I go to school in the winter.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But I had this one teacher.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
It was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincennes.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Cindiana. To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real
sage of of my time.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Anyhow, he had such wisdom, and we were all reciting
the Pledge of Allegiance one day and he walked over,
this little teacher.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Mister Laswell was his name, Mister Laswell.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
He says, I have been listening to you boys and
girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester, and it
seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you. If I may,
may I recite it and try to explain to you
the meaning of each word. I me an individual, a
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committee of one pledge dedicate all of my worldly goods
to give without self pity, allegiance, my love, and my
devotion to the flag, our standard old glory, a symbol
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of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty
has given her a dignity that shouts Freedom is everybody's job. United.
That means that we have all come together, states, individual
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communities that have united into forty eight great states. Forty
eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all
divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose.
And that's love for country, and to the republic. Republic
(15:01):
a state in which sovereign power is invested in representative
chosen by the people to govern.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And government is the people.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
And it's from the people to the leaders, not from
the leaders to the people, for which it stands.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
One nation, one nation, meaning.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
So blessed by God, indivisible, incapable of being divided, with liberty,
which is freedom, the right of power to live one's
own life without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation,
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and justice the principle are qualities of dealing fairly with others,
for all, for all, which means, boys and girls, it's
as much your country as it is mine. And now,
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boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge
of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the Republic, for which
it stands one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
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Since I was a small boy, two states have been
added to our country, and two words have been added
to the Pledge of Allegiance under God. Wouldn't it be
a pity if someone said that is a prayer and
that would be eliminated.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
From schools to who this me, Michael Gary.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I often say that humor is the best way to
get your point across. I could sit here and beat
the drum about how America has a quality of life
that's second to none. Things that we take for granted
are unbelievable to people around the world. Go out and
travel and see for yourself. And that's true. But I
don't want you to tune me out for preaching platitudes.
(17:29):
If I play you a bit by comedian Joe Machi
explaining the American problem to the rest of the world,
maybe this will cut through.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I'll tell you what really grinds my gears though charities. Yeah,
I said it.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Things just got.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Really your gang. I think they're a little too aggressive,
a little too in your face. If you ask me,
sure you've had this happen. You go to the supermarket
and after they ring up all your stuff, they ask
you if you want to make a donation right there
in front of all the other people. That's not fair
because depending on what I just purchased, it might ruin
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my excuse to avoid helping. Like one time I was
at in a supermarket, I purchased thirty dollars worth of
scented therapy candles.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
It's really.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Nobody's business. Wide appreciate some space on that. Then the
cash here asked me if I wanted to donate a
dollar to the Save the Children's Fund, And normally in
that situation I just say, oh, sorry, I can't. Money's
a little tight right now. But since I just bought
those candles, I politely explained to her, Oh, I'm sorry.
(18:43):
I don't care about the children, and these do going
deserver where you can't avoid them. Turn on the TV.
There was now that said you can feed a starving
child for the price of a cup of coffee. And
I don't know if that's true or not. I don't care.
But what bothers me about that ad is how they
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portray us, hardworking coffee drinkers as some sort of free
wheel and extravagant spenders going around to fancy parties dropping
one hundred dollar bills on coffee. That's not a real thing.
That's why I won't see me at the coffee shop
saying ooh, double latte.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Someone doesn't give it. Shut about orphans, he's son.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Of a bit.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Still, gooders are everywhere. I'm sick of them. Even that
bill Gates has gotten to the act. He's always trying
to get people to donate to his charity, which is weird.
He's the richest person ever. Why the richest person ever
asking the non richest people ever to send him cash.
But he defends it saying that his fortune will be
donated after he's dead. Me too, You'll have my donation
(19:57):
over my dead body.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Bill.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And even during the NFL football matches, they keep having
ads on for the NFL's Play sixty charity, which, in
case you don't know, is a charity to get kids
to play because we have too many fat kids. I
guess I don't know, And that might sound like a
dumb charity because it is. But it really made me
(20:24):
think maybe the problem is America is doing so much
better than so many poor countries in the world that
to them, some of our problems would seem totally backwards.
When you explain them, they're like, hey, Joe, how are
things going in America? And I'm like, not so good.
Too many fat kids. Sometimes it just seems like there's
(20:44):
too much food over here. I mean, we try giving
those kids Nintendo Weeze to get fit, but.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
That was a disaster.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Most of those children are dead now while your country
is confusing, But please tell me more. Well, California is
having its worst drought in decades. Well, that sounds bad.
Is their famine? Is their mass starvation? Well they're thinking
of making it illegal for people to fill up their
(21:19):
swimming pools. What the hell is a swimming pool? You're
not gonna like this. A swimming pool is a crocodile
three private lake we keep in our backyards than never use. Wait,
(21:47):
that sounds good. You've got a store of fresh drinking
water for whenever you need it. No, no, no, no, no
no no no no. We poison the water. And if
the pool's above ground, that means you're poor. Yeah, if
(22:12):
you're tankful of poison water, isn't it a hole? You're
very unsuccessful in this country. People drive by and say,
look at that route with all his above ground poison water. Wait,
you just needlessly throw money into a pool of water. No,
that's a wishing well, it's a whole separate, stupid thing.
(22:33):
That's when you have money that you don't want to
hole anymore, so you throw it.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Then you make a wish? Do you believe that it
comes true? Absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
That's ridiculous,
If you haven't checked out any of the many videos
that preger u has put out, then you should take
the time and do it. Preger You is short for
Preger University, founded by Alan Estrin and talk show host
and writer Dennis Preger, who's been on our show back
in two thousand and nine, to create videos on political, economic,
(00:21):
sociological topics culture that promote an American conservative viewpoint. We'd
like to play audio of one in particular. It's called
what was Revolutionary about the American Revolution? There had been
many revolutions throughout history. But what made the American Revolution
(00:42):
so unique?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So special?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The birthday of a new world is at hand. That
was what Thomas Paine, the Fiery pamphleteer, wrote in seventeen
seventy six, as thirteen of Great Britain's North American colonies
rose in revolt against British rule and declared themselves a
newly independent nation. The American Revolution was something the world
(01:05):
had never seen. Politically, economically, and diplomatically. Let's look at
all three. First, the politics revolutions themselves were not new.
Of course, Britain put itself through not one, but two
revolutions in the seventeenth century, other countries in Europe endured
similar upheavals. These rebellions shared one of two goals, replace
(01:32):
the current monarch with another one, or extort new protections
and privileges from the existing regime. In stark contrast, the
Americans did not propose merely overthrowing a monarchy. They proposed
ending the very idea of monarchy as a worthwhile form
of government. In America, the citizen, not the government or
(01:55):
the king, would hold the keys to power. With this
overturning of the old way of doing things, the rebels
made the political systems of Europe look as antiquated and
irrational as fully as Newton's laws had made medieval physics
look antiquated and irrational. As it was with politics, so
(02:16):
it was with economics. Tearing up the old order meant
more than just refusing to take political orders from kings, dukes,
and princes. It meant taking no economic orders from them either.
In a society of free and equal citizens, Americans would
follow their own economic initiative. They would be as free
(02:36):
economically as they were politically. This small government model meant
the state was to interfere as little as possible in
the citizen's life. Americans founded the only country ever to
be based on the principle of restraining the government, and
that unleashed such dynamic economic growth. It took America from
(02:59):
a ledgling state to a world power in just fifty years.
A child born in seventeen seventy six could live to
see canal systems link waterways from New York to New Orleans,
see the electrical telegraph leap across unheard of distances in communications,
and the steamboat and railroad moved passengers and freight at
(03:24):
fractions of the cost imposed by horse and wagon. The
sheer novelty of the revolution's first two legs, the political
and the economic, was so great that many Americans, such
as Yale President Timothy Dwight, expressed a desire not merely
to remake the North American consonant, but the rest of
(03:45):
the world as well. America, Dwight wrote in a popular
poem of the time, was destined to hush the tumult
of war and give peace to the world. But the
founders rejected this view. The United States was to be
a republic, not an empire, a beacon not a kingdom.
(04:07):
Far from any desire to share America's redemptive culture. The
founder's tendency was to regard the rest of the world
as a potential threat, eager to strangle the American experiment,
either by the reimposition of empire or by association with
more unstable attempts at revolution, as in France. The American
(04:28):
position regarding foreign interventions was articulated by then Secretary of
State h. Quincy Adams in eighteen twenty one. Wherever the
standard of freedom and independence has been unfurled, there will
America's heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she
goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. Of course,
(04:51):
the United States has not always lived by this attitude.
America has allowed itself to be pulled into foreign adventures
of which which the founders would have disapproved. Nor has
the United States always lived up to its best ideals.
It has at various times seen unfettered commerce turn into
(05:13):
monopoly and corruption, and we've had to deal with the
terrible shame of slavery and its long aftermath. Human beings
are imperfect, and therefore any form of government they create
will be too. But the wonder of America, from its
founding to this day is not that it has stumbled.
(05:33):
The wonder is that Americans have stumbled as infrequently as
they have and managed to make and keep America the
strongest and freest country in the world. That birthday, Thomas
Paine proclaimed, is still very much worth celebrating. If it
isn't celebrated, it will be lost, and that would be
(05:55):
a tragedy for America and for the world.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Nobody Burde Michael Berry Show continues.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Old eighty two, Robin Williams was cast in the role
of the American Flag on a television special titled I
Love Liberty. It's a Very Different Time. Robin Williams was
not only dressed up as the flag, but he spoke
(06:27):
on its behalf.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I don't I'm the one that they're singing about.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, I'm I'm the.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Stars and stripe forever, star spangled banner. You can call
me old boy, but let's just keep it simple.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
I'll just call me flag. Oh, I'll say, can you see?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Okay, you probably don't recognize me.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Say who's out? Evil? Can evil? No way?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
You see you can't reckon ask me because.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I'm in my birthday suit. Yes, I'm wearing the original
thirteen here.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, I remember miss Betsy saying there going ooh, this.
Speaker 6 (07:11):
Could be the start of something. Big wool John, don't
be a teen.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Yes, I was born June thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
That makes me a Gemini. That's unpredictable, crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yes, I like the outdoors and I'm the life of
any party, whether it be Republican, Democrat, independent, Socialist, anything, libertine.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
I'll be there.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
You know, I'm two hundred and four years old. People say, flag,
how do you stay so young?
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Is it jogging?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Is it tennis? No, it's waving.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You know I'm talking about you know, we're talking about billowing,
furling and unfurling. Richard Simmons, eat your heart out, yell.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Haven't has eys been easy for me?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Though?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I had a tough puberty.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, warf famine, invasion, and eighteen sixty one we'll have
a little skin problem that broke out into thirty four stars.
But now, well, little patience, and look what we got
now look at this. Hold on here, ha hah hah.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Oh sixty everybody's on here. Look at this Hilaska.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Hallaidn't make it n Yeah, we got your tennessee hw
ye do in today. Here's Vermont, you can't get that
from here. And there's California for sure, totally.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
So I've been Camborphoria.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Know, I had a tough time for a while. I've
been in a lot of wars. They've fired missiles and
muskets at me.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
But you know, come the dawns only light, I'm still there.
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
You know, I've been made into everything from designer jeans
to T shirts, and I've even been a caped for
Mick Jagger.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Well all right, the rockets.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
But people haven't always been respectful to me.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Sometimes it's been tough that.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
When some people try and spit on me, trample me,
burn me. Foreigners and occasionally some Americans too. But I
don't let it get me down because I'm not a
stay at home kind of flag.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You know, I've been to Europe.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I've been to both North and South Pole, I was
at Yojima.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Recently, even been to the moon.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Where do you see me in all sorts of different postures.
When I'm like this, I means everything is okay. When
I'm upside down, well put on your may West and
hit the debt.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
But when I'm like this.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Well, that's not my favorite position because well that's half masked.
I don't I don't mean to bump you out. I
didn't come here to depressure, but I gotta tell you something. Honestly,
I haven't been getting out much lately.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I guess it's not very sheet to put up the
flag anymore.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
You know, Moffa and I have a flag, but we
haven't found it for very long.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Hey, but look at it this way.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Don't look at it saluting me, Look at it saluting yourselves.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Hey, I'm just a flag, a symbol. You're the people,
if I may say so. From here, long may you wave?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You've got The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
This is one we've played for you before, but we
love it, and I hope you do too. For some
of you, it may be the first time you've ever
heard it, and that makes me happy. For others, it
may take you back to a good place, your parents,
your grandparents playing it. Richard Skelton, known as Red Skelton,
best known for his national radio and TV shows between
(11:41):
nineteen thirty seven and nineteen seventy one, especially the TV
program The Red Skelton Show. What a lot of people
don't realize is that Red had another career. He was
also an artist. His paintings of clowns remained a hobby
until nineteen sixty four, when his wife Georgia persuaded him
(12:02):
to show them at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas
while he was performing his his show there. Sales of
his originals were successful, and he also sold prints and lithographs,
earning two point five million dollars yearly on his lithograph sales.
At the time of his death, his art dealer said
that Red Skelton had earned more money through his paintings
(12:25):
than from his television performances. Why do I bring that up,
you ask, Well, Red Skelton had a phenomenal skit that
he did on the Pledge of Allegiance, and I hope
you enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I remember a teacher that I had now only I
went through the seventh grade.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I went to the seventh grade.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
And I left home when I was ten years old
because I was hungry. I used to do I work
in the summer and I go to school in the winter.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But I had this one teacher.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
It was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincennes.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Cindiana. To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real
sage of of my time.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Anyhow, he had such wisdom, and we were all reciting
the Pledge of Allegiance one day and he walked over,
this little teacher.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Mister Laswell was his name, Mister Laswell.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
He says, I have been listening to you boys and
girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester, and it
seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you. If I may,
may I recite it and try to explain to you
the meaning of each word. I me an individual, a
(13:47):
committee of one pledge dedicate all of my worldly goods
to give without self pity, allegiance, my love, and my
devotion to the flag, our standard old glory, a symbol
(14:11):
of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty
has given her a dignity that shouts Freedom is everybody's job. United.
That means that we have all come together, states, individual
(14:35):
communities that have united into forty eight great states. Forty
eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all
divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose.
And that's love for country, and to the republic. Republic
(15:01):
a state in which sovereign power is invested in representative
chosen by the people to govern.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And government is the people.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
And it's from the people to the leaders, not from
the leaders to the people, for which it stands.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
One nation, one nation, meaning.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
So blessed by God, indivisible, incapable of being divided, with liberty,
which is freedom, the right of power to live one's
own life without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation,
(15:50):
and justice the principle are qualities of dealing fairly with others,
for all, for all, which means, boys and girls, it's
as much your country as it is mine. And now,
(16:11):
boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge
of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the Republic, for which
it stands one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
(16:37):
Since I was a small boy, two states have been
added to our country, and two words have been added
to the Pledge of Allegiance under God. Wouldn't it be
a pity if someone said that is a prayer and
that would be eliminated.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
From schools to who this me, Michael Gary.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I often say that humor is the best way to
get your point across. I could sit here and beat
the drum about how America has a quality of life
that's second to none. Things that we take for granted
are unbelievable to people around the world. Go out and
travel and see for yourself. And that's true. But I
don't want you to tune me out for preaching platitudes.
(17:29):
If I play you a bit by comedian Joe Machi
explaining the American problem to the rest of the world,
maybe this will cut through.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I'll tell you what really grinds my gears though charities. Yeah,
I said it.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
Things just got.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Really your gang. I think they're a little too aggressive,
a little too in your face. If you ask me,
sure you've had this happen. You go to the supermarket
and after they ring up all your stuff, they ask
you if you want to make a donation right there
in front of all the other people. That's not fair
because depending on what I just purchased, it might ruin
(18:11):
my excuse to avoid helping. Like one time I was
at in a supermarket, I purchased thirty dollars worth of
scented therapy candles.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
It's really.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Nobody's business. Wide appreciate some space on that. Then the
cash here asked me if I wanted to donate a
dollar to the Save the Children's Fund, And normally in
that situation I just say, oh, sorry, I can't. Money's
a little tight right now. But since I just bought
those candles, I politely explained to her, Oh, I'm sorry.
(18:43):
I don't care about the children, and these do going
deserver where you can't avoid them. Turn on the TV.
There was now that said you can feed a starving
child for the price of a cup of coffee. And
I don't know if that's true or not. I don't care.
But what bothers me about that ad is how they
(19:06):
portray us, hardworking coffee drinkers as some sort of free
wheel and extravagant spenders going around to fancy parties dropping
one hundred dollar bills on coffee. That's not a real thing.
That's why I won't see me at the coffee shop
saying ooh, double latte.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Someone doesn't give it. Shut about orphans, he's son.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Of a bit.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Still, gooders are everywhere. I'm sick of them. Even that
bill Gates has gotten to the act. He's always trying
to get people to donate to his charity, which is weird.
He's the richest person ever. Why the richest person ever
asking the non richest people ever to send him cash.
But he defends it saying that his fortune will be
donated after he's dead. Me too, You'll have my donation
(19:57):
over my dead body.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Bill.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And even during the NFL football matches, they keep having
ads on for the NFL's Play sixty charity, which, in
case you don't know, is a charity to get kids
to play because we have too many fat kids. I
guess I don't know, And that might sound like a
dumb charity because it is. But it really made me
(20:24):
think maybe the problem is America is doing so much
better than so many poor countries in the world that
to them, some of our problems would seem totally backwards.
When you explain them, they're like, hey, Joe, how are
things going in America? And I'm like, not so good.
Too many fat kids. Sometimes it just seems like there's
(20:44):
too much food over here. I mean, we try giving
those kids Nintendo Weeze to get fit, but.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
That was a disaster.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Most of those children are dead now while your country
is confusing, But please tell me more. Well, California is
having its worst drought in decades. Well, that sounds bad.
Is their famine? Is their mass starvation? Well they're thinking
of making it illegal for people to fill up their
(21:19):
swimming pools. What the hell is a swimming pool? You're
not gonna like this. A swimming pool is a crocodile
three private lake we keep in our backyards than never use. Wait,
(21:47):
that sounds good. You've got a store of fresh drinking
water for whenever you need it. No, no, no, no, no
no no no no. We poison the water. And if
the pool's above ground, that means you're poor. Yeah, if
(22:12):
you're tankful of poison water, isn't it a hole? You're
very unsuccessful in this country. People drive by and say,
look at that route with all his above ground poison water. Wait,
you just needlessly throw money into a pool of water. No,
that's a wishing well, it's a whole separate, stupid thing.
(22:33):
That's when you have money that you don't want to
hole anymore, so you throw it.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Then you make a wish? Do you believe that it
comes true? Absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
That's ridiculous,
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