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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show. Any attempt to restrict drinking
and driving here is viewed by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Great Russian Ball loved America so much that he couldn't
stop talking about it. Rush loved to see people succeed
in life, and he knew that America provided that opportunity
more than anyone else will face the world throughout history.
Rush took his love for our country and created a
new radio format. And that's what I'm in today, a
(00:54):
format talking about America. America was Russia's passion, and you
heard it every time he turned on that golden eippy microphone.
Rush firmly believe in American exceptionalism, and you could hear
that passion in everything he said.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Here's what American exceptionalism is not.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
It is not that we are better people. It is
not that we are superior people. It is not that
we are smarter people. It is not that God loves
us and hates everybody else. It is not that God
prefers us. It is not that God doesn't prefer anybody else.
(01:42):
American exceptionalism has nothing to do with anything but freedom
and liberty. Here is what American exceptionalism is. By the way,
this is one of the fundamental reasons why I got
(02:02):
so excited when presented with the idea of writing a
book about the truth of American history in stages and
various elements for young people. My book Rush Revere in
the Brave Pilgrims is all about the exceptionalism of those people.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So what is it? Well, if you know the history
of the world, read your Bible, read.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Whatever historical account of humanity you hold dear, and what
you'll read around is human tyranny. You'll read of bondage,
you'll read of slavery. The vast majority of the people,
the vast majority of the human beings who have lived
(02:50):
and breathed and walked this planet, have lived under the
tyranny of despots.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The vast majority. It isn't even close.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
The vast majority of the people of this world, since
the beginning of time have never known the kind of
liberty and freedom that's taken for granted every day in
this country. Most people have lived in abject fear of
their leaders. Most people have lived in abject fear of whoever.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Held power over them.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Most people in the world have not had plentiful access.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
To food and clean water.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
It was a major daily undertaking for most people to
come up with just those two basic things.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Just surviving.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Was the primary occupation of most people in the world.
The history of the world is dictatorship, tyranny, whatever you
want to call it, subjugation of populations. And then along
(04:13):
came the United States of America. Pilgrims were the first
to come here seeking freedom from all of that. They
were oppressed because of their religion. They were told they
had to believe in the King and his God, whatever
it was, or they would be imprisoned. They led an
(04:40):
exodus from Europe to this country.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
If people of the same.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Mindset, they simply wanted to escape the tyranny of their
ordinary lives. This country was founded, for the first time
in human history, a go government and country was founded
on the belief that leaders serve the population. This country
(05:11):
the first in history. And this is the exception, ex
cept except the exception to the rule is what American
exceptionalism is.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
And because of this liberty and freedom.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
That our country exists because the founders recognize it comes
from God. It's part of the natural yearning of the
human spirit. It is not granted by a government. It's
not granted by Putin, It's not granted by Obama or
any other human being.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
We are created with the natural.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Yearning to be free, and it is other men and
leaders throughout human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned
people for seeking it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The US is the first time in the history of
the world where a government.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Was organized with a constitution laying out the rules that
the individual was supreme dominant, and that is what led
to the US becoming the greatest country ever because it
unleashed people to be the best they could be, unlike
it had ever happened. That's American exceptionalism. With his finger
on the pulse, the King of King continues on The
(06:20):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
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 on its behalf.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
I don't and I'm the one that they're thinking about. Yeah,
I'm the Stars and Stripe Forever star Spangled banner. You
can call me old boy, but let's just keep it simple.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Just call me Flag. I say, can you see walker?
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Fuck?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You probably don't recognize me? Say who's out? Evil for evil?
Speaker 10 (07:10):
No way?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Yeah you see you can't recognize me because.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I'm in my BIS day suit.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yes, I'm wearing the original thirteen here.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Yeah, I remember Miss Betsy saying that going, Oh.
Speaker 9 (07:24):
This could be the start.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Of something big wool. I'm dumping a teen.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Yes, I was born in June thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
That makes me a Gemini, unpredictable crazy.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yes, I like the outdoors and I'm the life of
any party, whether it be Republican, Democrat, independent, Socialist, anything, libertine.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'll be there.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
You know, I'm two hundred and four years old.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
People say, Flag, how do you stay so young? Is
it jogging?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No?
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Is it tennis?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It's waving.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Talking about you know, we're talking about billowing, surling and unfurling.
Richard Simmons, eat your heart out, well, Cavin has noise
been easy for me?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Though I had a tough puberty.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Yeah, Wolfs famine invasion in eighteen sixty one. I had
a little skin problem that broke out into thirty four stars.
But now, well, little patience, and look what we got.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Look at this hold on here hah, everybody's on here.
Look at this ailasayn't make it. Yeah, we got to Tennessee,
how ye ed in today? Here's Vermont. You can't get
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that from here. And there's California for sure, totally.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I haven't tried before. You 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. But you know,
come to the dawns only likes I'm still there.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
You know, I've been made.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Into everything from designer jeans to T shirts and I've.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Even been a cake for Mick Jagger.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
All right, the rock. But people haven't always been respectful
to me.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Sometimes it's been tough that when some people try and
spit on me for me, burn me foreigners and occasions
of Americans too. But I don't let it get me
down because I'm not a stay at home kind of flag.
You know, I've been to Europe, I've been to both
North and South Pole.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
I was at Yojima recently.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I even't been to the Moon.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Our fight away.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
What you see me in all sorts of different postures.
When I'm like this, I means everything is okay. When
(10:40):
I'm up side down, put on your may west and
hit the death.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But when I'm like this, well that's not.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
My favorite position, because well that's half masted, don't.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I don't mean to bump you out.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I didn't come here to depressure, but I gotta sudy something. Honestly,
I haven't getting out much lately. I guess it's not
very sheet to put.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Up the flag anymore.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Muffling and I have a flag, but we haven't found
it for very long.
Speaker 13 (11:11):
Hey, but look at it this way. Don't look at
it saluting me. Look at it saluting yourselves. You know, Hey,
I'm just a flag, a symbol.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You're the people.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
If I may say some from here, long, may you wait?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You've got to Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Quiet Show.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I was just looking over the preparations and thinking about saying.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That we had back in Hollywood about never doing a
scene with kids or animals. They'd see what's seen every time.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
You can rest assured I wouldn't even think about trying
to compete to the fireworks this way, especially on the
fourth of July. My remarks tonight will be brief, but
it's worth remembering that all the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Celebration of this day is rooted in history.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Ordered that shortly after the Declaration of Independence were signed
in Philadelphia, celebrations took place throughout the land, and many
of the former columnists, they were just starting to call
themselves Americans, set off canons and marched in fight.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And drawn up parades.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
But a contrast with the sober scene that has taken
place a short time earlier. In Independence Hall, fifty six
men came forward to sign the department.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It was noted at the time that they pledged their lives,
their fortuness, and their sacred honors. That was more than rhetoric.
Each of those men knew the penalty for high treatment
for the crown.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
We must all hang together, Benjamin Franklin said, or assuredly,
we will all hang separately. And John Hancock, it is said,
wrote his signature in a large script so King George.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Could see it without his factors.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
They were brave, they stayed raid, through all the bloodshed
of the coming years.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Their courage created a nation built.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
On a universal claim to human digmare, on the proposition
that every man, woman and child had a right to
a future of freedom. For just a moment, let us
listen to the words again. We hold these truths to
be self evident, that all men are created.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Equal, that they are endowed by.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Their creedy with certain unalienable rights, that among these out
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Last night,
when we read Rededicated Miss Liberty and Relive her Torch,
we reflected on all the millions who came here in
search of the dream of freedom inaugurated in an independence hall.
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We reflected too, on their courage and becoming great distances
and settling in a foreign land, and then passing on
to their children and their children's children the hope symbolized
in this statue.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
He are just behind us, the hope that is America.
It is a hope that someday every people in every nation.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Of the world will know the blessings of the liberty,
and it's the hope of millions all around the world.
In the last few years, I've spoken in Westminster to
the mother of parliaments at Versailles, where French kings and
world leaders have made war in peace. I bid to
the Vatican in Rome, the Imperial Palace in Japan, and
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the Asian city of Beijing. I've seen the beaches of
Normandy and stood again with those boys at the Quanta
Hood who long ago seiled the heights, and with at
that time Lisa Zanetta Hen who was at Omaha Beach
for the father she loved, the father who had once
dreamed of seeing again in the place where he and
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so many gray brothers had landed on d Day. He
had died before he could make that trip, and she
made it for him and Dad. She said, I'll always
be proud. And I've seen the successors to these brave men,
the young Americans in uniform all over the world.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Young Americans.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I view here tonight the man, the mighty Uss Kennedy
in the isle of the the other ships to the line.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I can assure.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You you out there who are listening to these young
people are like their fathers and their grandfathers, justice willing,
just as brave, and we can be just as proud.
But our prayer tonight is that the call for their
courage will never come. But it's important for us too
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to be brave. Not so much the bravery of the bad.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Of you, I mean the bravery of brotherhood.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
All through our history, our presidents and leaders of slogan
of the national unity and warned us that the real
obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, the only
permanent danger that the.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Whole of it is America, comes from within.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It's easy enough to dismiss, they said, the kind of
familiar explotation. Yet the true there is that even too
of our greatest founding fathers, John Adams and Towns Jenners,
once learned.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There's less late in life.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They work so closely together in Philadelphia for independence, But
once that was game and a government was formed, something
called partisan politics began to get in the way. After
a bitter and devisive campaign, Jefferson defeated Adams for the
presidency in eighteen hundred, and the night before Jefferson's inauguration,
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Adams slipped away to Boston, disappointed, broken hearted, and bitter.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
For years, their estrangement lasted.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Then when both had retired, Jefferson in sixty eight to
Monticello and Adams a seventy six to Quincy. They began,
through their letters to see together to each other. Letters
that discussed almost every conceivable subject, gardening, horsetack, riding, even
sneezing a secure for hicccos, but other subjects as well,
(16:47):
the loss of love.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Wos, the mystery of grief, sorrow, the.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Importance of religion, and of course the last saw us
the final votes. Two old men too great pays creatists
of the country that they had helped to found and
loved a soil it carries me back. Jefferson wrote about
correspondence with his cosigner of the Declaration of Independence, to
the times when beset with difficulties and dangers, we were
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fellow laborers in the same cause, struggling for what is
most valuable to man, his right to self cover, laboring
always at the same or with some wave ever they
had threatened to overwhelmness, and yet passing armless.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We rode through the storm through the heart and hand.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It was their last gift to us, this lesson in
relatively the intolerance for each other as the inside of
the America's strength as an issue, and when both died
on the same day, within hours of each other, that
date was July fourth, fifty years exactly the first.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Gift to us, the Declaration of the Independence.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And fellow Americans falls to us to keep faith over
there and all the great Americans.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
In our past.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Believe me, if there's one impression I carried with me
after the privilege of holding for five and a half
years the office held by Adams Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Lincoln, it is this that the things that unite.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Us America's past of which we're so proud, our hopes.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And aspirations for the future of the world. And it
is much love of country, these states far out away.
What a little dividus a right.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
So tonight we are for reaffirmed that jee and jamti,
we are one nation under God, black and white. We
are one nation indivisible, that Republican and Democrat, we are
all Americans the night, with heart and hand, through whatever
trial and travel, we pledge ourselves to each other at
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the cause of human freedom, a cause that is given
a light.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
To his land. And I thought Americans were going around
the world as a comfort and happy people the night.
There's much to celebrate, many.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Blessings to be great, so it was good to talk
about serious things. It's just as important and just as
America that had some fun.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
People need to make informed decisions, and you're giving them
the inst Michael Berry be scause you're a public Paul
Revere had a ring in the warnings of.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
A teacher at Wellesley College named Catherine Lee. Bates was
traveling across the country by train to lecture at Colorado
College that summer. While in Colorado, she decided to take
a trip to the top of Pike's Peak. When she
got to the top, she encountered a site she would
never forget. As she told it, quote, one day, some
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of the other teachers and I decided to go on
a trip to fourteen thousand foot Pike's Peak. I hired
a prairie wagon. Near the top, we had to leave
the wagon and go to the rest of the.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Way on mules.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I was tired, but when I saw the view, I
felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed
there with the sea like expanse. Miss Bates, being a
writer of books on travel, children's books, and many volumes
of poetry, decided right then and there. Then when she
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got back to her hotel, she'd write a poem about
this site that had inspired such awe. The poem she
wrote encompassed the sites that she saw on her travels.
Two years after writing her poem, Bates published it in
The Congregationalist, calling it America a poem for July fourth.
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It didn't take long for the words to catch on.
By the time Miss Bates released a new version in
nineteen eleven, it had been set to music Samuel Ward's
familiar tune Materna and become, if not the national anthem,
an anthem for Independence Day. I love this song. I
hope you do too. And I love this country. And
(21:14):
no one does this song from Omni better than Ray
Charles America.
Speaker 12 (21:20):
The beautiful, who beautiful? He wroes crude in labors, who more?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
The self.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Simple?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
America America.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Make got that gold refined success, Be nobless ever again.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
Den You know when I was in school week to
singing something like this, listen here, hope.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
You to that spacious guys, I am the wave scream.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Fucker for man g magister is.
Speaker 14 (23:14):
Run the fruited plain. When I wait a minute, I'm
talking about it. A Manica, sweet, a Manica.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
You know, God don't shine his race on me? He
yes it any mother who from see to shine.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
See you know, as somebody says, you.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Say, sh.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
Shame something.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You are going.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
Clown.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You called me.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
Every month.
Speaker 15 (24:29):
Sh say thank
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Everything almost has some thank you and good night,
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show. Any attempt to restrict drinking
and driving here is viewed by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Great Russian Ball loved America so much that he couldn't
stop talking about it. Rush loved to see people succeed
in life, and he knew that America provided that opportunity
more than anyone else will face the world throughout history.
Rush took his love for our country and created a
new radio format. And that's what I'm in today, a
(00:54):
format talking about America. America was Russia's passion, and you
heard it every time he turned on that golden eippy microphone.
Rush firmly believe in American exceptionalism, and you could hear
that passion in everything he said.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Here's what American exceptionalism is not.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
It is not that we are better people. It is
not that we are superior people. It is not that
we are smarter people. It is not that God loves
us and hates everybody else. It is not that God
prefers us. It is not that God doesn't prefer anybody else.
(01:42):
American exceptionalism has nothing to do with anything but freedom
and liberty. Here is what American exceptionalism is. By the way,
this is one of the fundamental reasons why I got
(02:02):
so excited when presented with the idea of writing a
book about the truth of American history in stages and
various elements for young people. My book Rush Revere in
the Brave Pilgrims is all about the exceptionalism of those people.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
So what is it? Well, if you know the history
of the world, read your Bible, read.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Whatever historical account of humanity you hold dear, and what
you'll read around is human tyranny. You'll read of bondage,
you'll read of slavery. The vast majority of the people,
the vast majority of the human beings who have lived
(02:50):
and breathed and walked this planet, have lived under the
tyranny of despots.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The vast majority. It isn't even close.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
The vast majority of the people of this world, since
the beginning of time have never known the kind of
liberty and freedom that's taken for granted every day in
this country. Most people have lived in abject fear of
their leaders. Most people have lived in abject fear of whoever.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Held power over them.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Most people in the world have not had plentiful access.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
To food and clean water.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
It was a major daily undertaking for most people to
come up with just those two basic things.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Just surviving.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Was the primary occupation of most people in the world.
The history of the world is dictatorship, tyranny, whatever you
want to call it, subjugation of populations. And then along
(04:13):
came the United States of America. Pilgrims were the first
to come here seeking freedom from all of that. They
were oppressed because of their religion. They were told they
had to believe in the King and his God, whatever
it was, or they would be imprisoned. They led an
(04:40):
exodus from Europe to this country.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
If people of the same.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Mindset, they simply wanted to escape the tyranny of their
ordinary lives. This country was founded, for the first time
in human history, a go government and country was founded
on the belief that leaders serve the population. This country
(05:11):
the first in history. And this is the exception, ex
cept except the exception to the rule is what American
exceptionalism is.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
And because of this liberty and freedom.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
That our country exists because the founders recognize it comes
from God. It's part of the natural yearning of the
human spirit. It is not granted by a government. It's
not granted by Putin, It's not granted by Obama or
any other human being.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
We are created with the natural.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Yearning to be free, and it is other men and
leaders throughout human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned
people for seeking it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The US is the first time in the history of
the world where a government.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Was organized with a constitution laying out the rules that
the individual was supreme dominant, and that is what led
to the US becoming the greatest country ever because it
unleashed people to be the best they could be, unlike
it had ever happened. That's American exceptionalism. With his finger
on the pulse, the King of King continues on The
(06:20):
Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
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 on its behalf.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
I don't and I'm the one that they're thinking about. Yeah,
I'm the Stars and Stripe Forever star Spangled banner. You
can call me old boy, but let's just keep it simple.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Just call me Flag. I say, can you see walker?
Speaker 9 (07:03):
Fuck?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You probably don't recognize me? Say who's out? Evil for evil?
Speaker 10 (07:10):
No way?
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Yeah you see you can't recognize me because.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I'm in my BIS day suit.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yes, I'm wearing the original thirteen here.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Yeah, I remember Miss Betsy saying that going, Oh.
Speaker 9 (07:24):
This could be the start.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Of something big wool. I'm dumping a teen.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Yes, I was born in June thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
That makes me a Gemini, unpredictable crazy.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yes, I like the outdoors and I'm the life of
any party, whether it be Republican, Democrat, independent, Socialist, anything, libertine.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'll be there.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
You know, I'm two hundred and four years old.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
People say, Flag, how do you stay so young? Is
it jogging?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No?
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Is it tennis?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It's waving.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Talking about you know, we're talking about billowing, surling and unfurling.
Richard Simmons, eat your heart out, well, Cavin has noise
been easy for me?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Though I had a tough puberty.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Yeah, Wolfs famine invasion in eighteen sixty one. I had
a little skin problem that broke out into thirty four stars.
But now, well, little patience, and look what we got.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
Now.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Look at this hold on here hah, everybody's on here.
Look at this ailasayn't make it. Yeah, we got to Tennessee,
how ye ed in today? Here's Vermont. You can't get
(09:11):
that from here. And there's California for sure, totally.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I haven't tried before. You 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. But you know,
come to the dawns only likes I'm still there.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
You know, I've been made.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Into everything from designer jeans to T shirts and I've.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Even been a cake for Mick Jagger.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
All right, the rock. But people haven't always been respectful
to me.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Sometimes it's been tough that when some people try and
spit on me for me, burn me foreigners and occasions
of Americans too. But I don't let it get me
down because I'm not a stay at home kind of flag.
You know, I've been to Europe, I've been to both
North and South Pole.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
I was at Yojima recently.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I even't been to the Moon.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Our fight away.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
What you see me in all sorts of different postures.
When I'm like this, I means everything is okay. When
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I'm up side down, put on your may west and
hit the death.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
But when I'm like this, well that's not.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
My favorite position, because well that's half masted, don't.
Speaker 8 (10:54):
I don't mean to bump you out.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I didn't come here to depressure, but I gotta sudy something. Honestly,
I haven't getting out much lately. I guess it's not
very sheet to put.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Up the flag anymore.
Speaker 12 (11:05):
You know.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Muffling and I have a flag, but we haven't found
it for very long.
Speaker 13 (11:11):
Hey, but look at it this way. Don't look at
it saluting me. Look at it saluting yourselves. You know, Hey,
I'm just a flag, a symbol.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
You're the people.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
If I may say some from here, long, may you wait?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You've got to Michael Berry's show.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Quiet Show.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I was just looking over the preparations and thinking about saying.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That we had back in Hollywood about never doing a
scene with kids or animals. They'd see what's seen every time.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
You can rest assured I wouldn't even think about trying
to compete to the fireworks this way, especially on the
fourth of July. My remarks tonight will be brief, but
it's worth remembering that all the.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Celebration of this day is rooted in history.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Ordered that shortly after the Declaration of Independence were signed
in Philadelphia, celebrations took place throughout the land, and many
of the former columnists, they were just starting to call
themselves Americans, set off canons and marched in fight.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And drawn up parades.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
But a contrast with the sober scene that has taken
place a short time earlier. In Independence Hall, fifty six
men came forward to sign the department.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It was noted at the time that they pledged their lives,
their fortuness, and their sacred honors. That was more than rhetoric.
Each of those men knew the penalty for high treatment
for the crown.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
We must all hang together, Benjamin Franklin said, or assuredly,
we will all hang separately. And John Hancock, it is said,
wrote his signature in a large script so King George.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Could see it without his factors.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
They were brave, they stayed raid, through all the bloodshed
of the coming years.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Their courage created a nation built.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
On a universal claim to human digmare, on the proposition
that every man, woman and child had a right to
a future of freedom. For just a moment, let us
listen to the words again. We hold these truths to
be self evident, that all men are created.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Equal, that they are endowed by.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Their creedy with certain unalienable rights, that among these out
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Last night,
when we read Rededicated Miss Liberty and Relive her Torch,
we reflected on all the millions who came here in
search of the dream of freedom inaugurated in an independence hall.
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We reflected too, on their courage and becoming great distances
and settling in a foreign land, and then passing on
to their children and their children's children the hope symbolized
in this statue.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
He are just behind us, the hope that is America.
It is a hope that someday every people in every nation.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Of the world will know the blessings of the liberty,
and it's the hope of millions all around the world.
In the last few years, I've spoken in Westminster to
the mother of parliaments at Versailles, where French kings and
world leaders have made war in peace. I bid to
the Vatican in Rome, the Imperial Palace in Japan, and
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the Asian city of Beijing. I've seen the beaches of
Normandy and stood again with those boys at the Quanta
Hood who long ago seiled the heights, and with at
that time Lisa Zanetta Hen who was at Omaha Beach
for the father she loved, the father who had once
dreamed of seeing again in the place where he and
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so many gray brothers had landed on d Day. He
had died before he could make that trip, and she
made it for him and Dad. She said, I'll always
be proud. And I've seen the successors to these brave men,
the young Americans in uniform all over the world.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Young Americans.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I view here tonight the man, the mighty Uss Kennedy
in the isle of the the other ships to the line.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I can assure.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You you out there who are listening to these young
people are like their fathers and their grandfathers, justice willing,
just as brave, and we can be just as proud.
But our prayer tonight is that the call for their
courage will never come. But it's important for us too
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to be brave. Not so much the bravery of the bad.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Of you, I mean the bravery of brotherhood.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
All through our history, our presidents and leaders of slogan
of the national unity and warned us that the real
obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, the only
permanent danger that the.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Whole of it is America, comes from within.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It's easy enough to dismiss, they said, the kind of
familiar explotation. Yet the true there is that even too
of our greatest founding fathers, John Adams and Towns Jenners,
once learned.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
There's less late in life.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They work so closely together in Philadelphia for independence, But
once that was game and a government was formed, something
called partisan politics began to get in the way. After
a bitter and devisive campaign, Jefferson defeated Adams for the
presidency in eighteen hundred, and the night before Jefferson's inauguration,
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Adams slipped away to Boston, disappointed, broken hearted, and bitter.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
For years, their estrangement lasted.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Then when both had retired, Jefferson in sixty eight to
Monticello and Adams a seventy six to Quincy. They began,
through their letters to see together to each other. Letters
that discussed almost every conceivable subject, gardening, horsetack, riding, even
sneezing a secure for hicccos, but other subjects as well,
(16:47):
the loss of love.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Wos, the mystery of grief, sorrow, the.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Importance of religion, and of course the last saw us
the final votes. Two old men too great pays creatists
of the country that they had helped to found and
loved a soil it carries me back. Jefferson wrote about
correspondence with his cosigner of the Declaration of Independence, to
the times when beset with difficulties and dangers, we were
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fellow laborers in the same cause, struggling for what is
most valuable to man, his right to self cover, laboring
always at the same or with some wave ever they
had threatened to overwhelmness, and yet passing armless.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
We rode through the storm through the heart and hand.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
It was their last gift to us, this lesson in
relatively the intolerance for each other as the inside of
the America's strength as an issue, and when both died
on the same day, within hours of each other, that
date was July fourth, fifty years exactly the first.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Gift to us, the Declaration of the Independence.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
And fellow Americans falls to us to keep faith over
there and all the great Americans.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
In our past.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Believe me, if there's one impression I carried with me
after the privilege of holding for five and a half
years the office held by Adams Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Lincoln, it is this that the things that unite.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Us America's past of which we're so proud, our hopes.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And aspirations for the future of the world. And it
is much love of country, these states far out away.
What a little dividus a right.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
So tonight we are for reaffirmed that jee and jamti,
we are one nation under God, black and white. We
are one nation indivisible, that Republican and Democrat, we are
all Americans the night, with heart and hand, through whatever
trial and travel, we pledge ourselves to each other at
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the cause of human freedom, a cause that is given
a light.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
To his land. And I thought Americans were going around
the world as a comfort and happy people the night.
There's much to celebrate, many.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Blessings to be great, so it was good to talk
about serious things. It's just as important and just as
America that had some fun.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
People need to make informed decisions, and you're giving them
the inst Michael Berry be scause you're a public Paul
Revere had a ring in the warnings of.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
A teacher at Wellesley College named Catherine Lee. Bates was
traveling across the country by train to lecture at Colorado
College that summer. While in Colorado, she decided to take
a trip to the top of Pike's Peak. When she
got to the top, she encountered a site she would
never forget. As she told it, quote, one day, some
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of the other teachers and I decided to go on
a trip to fourteen thousand foot Pike's Peak. I hired
a prairie wagon. Near the top, we had to leave
the wagon and go to the rest of the.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Way on mules.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I was tired, but when I saw the view, I
felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed
there with the sea like expanse. Miss Bates, being a
writer of books on travel, children's books, and many volumes
of poetry, decided right then and there. Then when she
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got back to her hotel, she'd write a poem about
this site that had inspired such awe. The poem she
wrote encompassed the sites that she saw on her travels.
Two years after writing her poem, Bates published it in
The Congregationalist, calling it America a poem for July fourth.
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It didn't take long for the words to catch on.
By the time Miss Bates released a new version in
nineteen eleven, it had been set to music Samuel Ward's
familiar tune Materna and become, if not the national anthem,
an anthem for Independence Day. I love this song. I
hope you do too. And I love this country. And
(21:14):
no one does this song from Omni better than Ray
Charles America.
Speaker 12 (21:20):
The beautiful, who beautiful? He wroes crude in labors, who more?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
The self.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
Simple?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
America America.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
Make got that gold refined success, Be nobless ever again.
Speaker 14 (22:38):
Den You know when I was in school week to
singing something like this, listen here, hope.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
You to that spacious guys, I am the wave scream.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Fucker for man g magister is.
Speaker 14 (23:14):
Run the fruited plain. When I wait a minute, I'm
talking about it. A Manica, sweet, a Manica.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
You know, God don't shine his race on me? He
yes it any mother who from see to shine.
Speaker 11 (23:55):
See you know, as somebody says, you.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Say, sh.
Speaker 11 (24:13):
Shame something.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You are going.
Speaker 9 (24:20):
Clown.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You called me.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
Every month.
Speaker 15 (24:29):
Sh say thank
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Everything almost has some thank you and good night,
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