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Speaker 1: Seven five at fifty five Karrositi Talk Station. Happy Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: extra special time to be tuned into the fifty five

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Speaker 1: Carsse Morning Show. This is the time a week we

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Speaker 1: get here from Jack added with a big picture. Jack Adaden,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, my friend. Thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 1: the program every week to well pass along your brilliance

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Speaker 1: and analysis. Good to hear from you so much.

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Speaker 2: Pal. I hope all the guys listening are making romantic

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Speaker 2: plans for Valentine's Yes, it's this Saturday, so start puckering up. Men. Actually,

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Speaker 2: though throughout history, it's not always the men who've gone

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Speaker 2: the extra mile. Today's seventeen seventy six vignette leading up

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Speaker 2: to the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country's

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Speaker 2: founding honors America's very first and perhaps most romantic first lady.

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Speaker 2: Not Jackie Kennedy, not even Millennia. I'm talking about Martha Washington.

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Speaker 2: Missus Washington went thousands of extra miles to comfort the

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Speaker 2: general and his troops during the darkest hours of the

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Speaker 2: Revolutionary War. It didn't start out so romantic for George

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Speaker 2: Martha's first husband. Yes, she had a first husband, Daniel

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Speaker 2: Custis took her to live. Would you believe Brian in

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Speaker 2: the White House Virginia Plantation was called Daniel was twenty

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Speaker 2: years older and much taller than Martha, But then almost

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Speaker 2: everybody was barely hitting five feet. She was still described

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Speaker 2: as strong willed, yet lively and full of fun. And

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Speaker 2: forget the grandmotherly portraits. This young bride was adorable. Go

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Speaker 2: look it up. Sadly, she was soon a young widow.

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Speaker 2: Mister Custis died when Martha was twenty six. She had

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Speaker 2: already borne four children, only one of whom lived into

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Speaker 2: her twenties. In fact, Brian just sixty percent of children

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Speaker 2: in colonial times reached the age of twenty. When Martha

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Speaker 2: remarried in seventeen fifty nine, George Washington was twenty six.

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Speaker 2: As well as a colonel of the Virginia Militia. In

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Speaker 2: the French and Indian War, George had won a reputation

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Speaker 2: for fearlessness that stretched all the way to Great Britain.

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Speaker 2: Yet as a colonial, the Crown refused to give him

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Speaker 2: a commission in the British Army. Had those haughty dopes

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Speaker 2: done so, George might never have wound up fighting redcoats Instead.

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Speaker 2: The young giant fought for Martha's hand. She had a

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Speaker 2: lot going for him. Not the white hair that we

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Speaker 2: see from the dollar bill, Young George had a full

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Speaker 2: head of reddish brown hair. He was almost six foot three,

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Speaker 2: a giant in those days, and still had his teeth.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say something later on. He got

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Speaker 2: teeth that were made of hippopotamuses. We're going to be

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Speaker 2: talking about hippos in a moment. As a wealthy widow,

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Speaker 2: Martha did not need to marry. This really seemed who

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Speaker 2: have been a love batch? What made George is so special? Well?

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Speaker 2: He must have been, because George became guardian of her children,

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Speaker 2: and after refusing to sign a widow's contract protecting her property,

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Speaker 2: Martha gave George control over her land, her money, and

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Speaker 2: eighty four slaves in his own right. George had inherited

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Speaker 2: Mount Vernon from his half brother Lawrence. His plan was

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Speaker 2: to scientifically farm more than sixty crops, and George did

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Speaker 2: that very successfully. All the evidence shows he loved Martha's kids,

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Speaker 2: as well as her niece and nephew and later the

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Speaker 2: grandchildren they adopted. Their marriage lasted forty years until his death,

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Speaker 2: but as a later fighter the Great Mike Tyson observed,

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Speaker 2: everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

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Speaker 2: The punch for George Washington came with the Revolutionary War.

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Speaker 2: In seventeen seventy five, the Continental Congress made him Commander

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Speaker 2: in chief of its new army. Washington have fought on

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Speaker 2: without Martha. I don't mean without her support, I mean

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Speaker 2: having her at his side. George did not return to

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Speaker 2: his beloved Mount Vernon for almost seven years. Every single

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Speaker 2: year of the war, during the bitter winter months when

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Speaker 2: it was too cold to fight, Martha Washington traveled by

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Speaker 2: coach from Virginia to wherever the general was encamped. The

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Speaker 2: first trip wasn't so bad. Martha gave parties in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: although George, who loved to dance and play cards, he

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Speaker 2: worried about offending the Puritans up there. Then came the

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Speaker 2: real punch. In the kisser encampments like Jockey Hollow near

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Speaker 2: my hometown of Marristown, New Jersey, and Valley Forge. While

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Speaker 2: the General prayed kneeling in the snow, his wife got

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Speaker 2: a smallpox vaccination and cared for his starving, shoeless soldiers.

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Speaker 2: They loved the woman they called Lady Washington, as he

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Speaker 2: can tell by now I do. After the British surrender,

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Speaker 2: George Washington went on to lead the Constitutional Convention that

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Speaker 2: gave America a limited government dedicated to protecting God given

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Speaker 2: individual rights. Then, when he really wanted to go back

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Speaker 2: to farming, Washington was unanimously chosen to be our first president.

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Speaker 2: George and Martha went on to set the template for

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Speaker 2: all future presidents and first ladies. Brian, I would leave

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Speaker 2: everyone with two suggestions. Visit Mount Vernon. It's beautiful and

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Speaker 2: more modest than you'd think. But then so were the Washingtons. Also,

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Speaker 2: read to your kids and grandkids a hilarious little book

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Speaker 2: called George and Martha Rise and Shine. In this book,

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Speaker 2: George and Martha are two hippos, and it's a good

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Speaker 2: way to start telling their real story. There were two

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Speaker 2: hippos who truly loved each other, just as George and

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Speaker 2: Martha did. Happy Valentine's everyone, and God bless America. Hey men,

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Speaker 2: Broay Casanova.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what I That's the day I

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Speaker 1: got engaged thirty four years ago, this Valentine's Day. I

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Speaker 1: asked my wife to marry me. Had big plans take

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Speaker 1: her out to dinner. She wasn't interested, Jack, so we ended

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Speaker 1: up getting to carry out thy food, sat in the

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Speaker 1: ate TI food. And that's when I popped the questions.

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Speaker 1: She said, yes, And I always say, you know that

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Speaker 1: they're behind every man is a great woman. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the best thing you can possibly do as a man

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Speaker 1: when you're looking for a spout is find someone who's

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Speaker 1: smarter than you out kick your coverage, which is obviously

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Speaker 1: what George Washington did. I mean, she.

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Speaker 2: Would say, by the way, that you've been eating tie

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Speaker 2: takeout ever since, but I know how well paul It cooks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she is quite the cook. But you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it just illustrating the value of the importance of a

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Speaker 1: strong marriage and how much that can help you get

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Speaker 1: through the tough times, get through the great times. You

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Speaker 1: get someone to enjoy your life, with someone who's there

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Speaker 1: to care for you when you're feeling bad. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there are so many benefits to marriage. And then needs

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Speaker 1: move over to the financial realities of being made marge,

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Speaker 1: and how much easier it is to have two people

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Speaker 1: working together, you know, sharing expenses and sharing you know,

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Speaker 1: chores and that kind of thing. So, you know, tough times,

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Speaker 1: great times, it is the best possible place to be.

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Speaker 2: You know, Brian, that Amesley is the miracle of my life.

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Speaker 2: I ever would have gotten into this business after leaving

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Speaker 2: law if it hadn't been for her. And of course

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Speaker 2: she's the best mother in the world, along with Paulette.

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Speaker 2: As for first ladies, in case anybody's wondering, Martha Washington

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Speaker 2: did not adopt any causes as first lady other than

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Speaker 2: caring for her family and welcoming dignitaries and preserving her

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Speaker 2: husband's papers. First lady causes came later on. I remember

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Speaker 2: as a kid lady Bird Johnson beautifying highways and then

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Speaker 2: you know, jumping ahead Michelle Obama, among other things, fighting

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Speaker 2: childhood obesity and now Malania Trump as you can see

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Speaker 2: in her documentary. I hope everybody goes to see that,

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Speaker 2: focusing on other children's issues, including cyber bullying. What I

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Speaker 2: hope we do not see again, Brian, his first ladies

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Speaker 2: or gentlemen running the government the way Edith Wilson did

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Speaker 2: when Woodrow had his roll, and the way doctor Jill

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Speaker 2: Biden did sitting in at cabinet meetings and who knows

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Speaker 2: what else for reasons obvious to everybody except Democrats.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that the truth? Boy, we learned a lot after

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Speaker 1: Biden was out anyhow, Jack Aviden, appreciate you coming to

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Speaker 1: the program again, The Big Picture with Jack Adiden every

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Speaker 1: Wednesday beginning at seven oh five here in the fifty

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Speaker 1: five Carosy Morning Show. Thanks for the inside and uh

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Speaker 1: well everyetty appreciate if you've got a great spouse, go

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Speaker 1: over and kiss him, because you're getting more benefit than

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Speaker 1: you maybe even realize. Jack Aviden, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for what you do in best of health and loved

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Speaker 1: you in your better ab