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Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show. Some of you ask for more Ramone,

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Speaker 1: which I think is a terrible idea, but occasionally he

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Speaker 1: does contribute something worthwhile. So this little bonus podcast is

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Speaker 1: some things that Ramone contributed, and I will leave them

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Speaker 1: here for your enjoyment, aggravation, avoidance, or whatever else emotion

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Speaker 1: they elicit.

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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Ramone about independence. Webster defines independence as the

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Speaker 2: fact or state of being independent, freedom from control, influence, support, aid,

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Speaker 2: or the like of others. Let us celebrate today Independence Day.

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Speaker 2: You no doubt know the stories settlers on New Land,

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Speaker 2: angry at their tyrannical ruler ruling from far away, active defiance,

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Speaker 2: a declaration of independence, fighting a bigger army with a

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Speaker 2: rag tag squad, a general who was quickly losing his

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Speaker 2: troops to injury, disease, famine, and an uncertainty from their

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Speaker 2: troops who would wonder if their leader was one worth following.

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Speaker 2: And of course you remember the river crossing in the

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Speaker 2: final battle that won the war and changed the United

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Speaker 2: States and her young history forever. Nothing I can say

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Speaker 2: now will give those heroes the proper respect, or those

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Speaker 2: stories their proper contexts. Those words are just beyond me.

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Speaker 2: How must it have finally felt after losing battles, finally

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Speaker 2: miraculously winning and becoming your own country, gaining independence, able

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Speaker 2: to govern your citizens as they see fit, and not

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Speaker 2: by the hand of some distant ruler. Monuments would be

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Speaker 2: built so that generations would know these battles. Statues erected

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Speaker 2: so generations may be reminded of the soldier's greatness. And

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Speaker 2: the flag, a mighty flag whose existence represented defiance, pride,

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Speaker 2: and mostly its independence. And oh what a flag, the red,

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Speaker 2: the white, the blue, and its lone star, representing the

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Speaker 2: Republic of Texas. See the United States story of freedom

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Speaker 2: is a great and powerful story, arguably just as great

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Speaker 2: and powerful as the story of another band of ragtags

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Speaker 2: that fought and died for freedom, the general whose tactics

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Speaker 2: were doubted until that final victory. Except this country would

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Speaker 2: be Texas. Sam Houston was losing his soldiers, not just

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Speaker 2: to sickness and injury, but to doubt too. After retreating

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Speaker 2: past the Colorado River, many troops deserted. Finally, on April

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Speaker 2: twenty first, the Battle of San Jacino was fought and

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Speaker 2: won by the Texians in only eighteen minutes. When time

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Speaker 2: came to bring Texas into the United States. It entered

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Speaker 2: as the twenty eighth state in the Union, given the

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Speaker 2: US more push west and upsetting Mexico so much that

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Speaker 2: they declared war on the United States. The US, with

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Speaker 2: Texas now in tow, won that war and added an

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Speaker 2: additional five hundred and twenty five thousand square miles to

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Speaker 2: the United States territory, including the land that makes up

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Speaker 2: all or part of present day Arizona in California, in

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Speaker 2: Colorado and Nevada, and New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Our

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Speaker 2: declaration of independence at Washington on the Brazas was declared

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Speaker 2: on March second, eighteen thirty six, one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: two days after the Battle of Gonzales, only four days

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Speaker 2: before the fall of the Alamo, and fifty days before

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Speaker 2: Texas ultimately won her independence at San Jacino, declaring her

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Speaker 2: independence and taking her independence in one month and nineteen

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Speaker 2: days later. Anyone from Texas would expect nothing less from

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Speaker 2: Texas Independence day. Texans. God certainly has blessed us, and

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Speaker 2: those of you not lucky enough to live in Texas.

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Speaker 2: Bless your's hearts for Texas. Poor word would never cross

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Speaker 2: my mind.

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Speaker 3: They've been a Austin city, live its sun and no

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Speaker 3: long stock of it can. If it wasn't for Texans,

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Speaker 3: it made me the man I am thank God for

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Speaker 3: my whole stomping ground. Wouldn't be standing ride here, riding now.

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Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Texas.

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Speaker 3: If woughten for Texas.

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Speaker 2: It was Hey, it's ramone you think you're know Mozart composer, teacher,

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Speaker 2: father and husband. This was Mozart born to a bookbinder

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Speaker 2: father Johann and his second wife, Anna Sultzer. Mozart had

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Speaker 2: a passion for music. At a very young age. Mozart

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Speaker 2: began his musical quest as a violinist. He even composed

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Speaker 2: a symphony for toy instruments. Mozart was eventually asked by

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Speaker 2: the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg to teach piano to the

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Speaker 2: choir boys of the Salzburg Cathedral. However, Mozart, by seventeen

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Speaker 2: musical establishment and felt a failure in his professional life

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Speaker 2: two kids? Oh? Yes, the kids Mozart's wife, Anna Marie,

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Speaker 2: had borne him seven children. It wasn't until the fourth

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Speaker 2: Maria was a great musician. Mozart taught his daughter how

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Speaker 2: an audience. The next two children died early, no older

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Speaker 2: He was Johann Chrysostomus. It wasn't until one faithful day,

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Speaker 2: as Mozart was teaching his daughter how to play the piano,

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Speaker 2: did he notice his son meticulously striking the keys, not

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Speaker 2: banging away as other children do at that age, but

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Speaker 2: Mozart took his son under his wing as well. Who knows,

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Speaker 2: perhaps one day he'll be good enough to go out

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Speaker 2: and make some money for the family. And was he good.

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Speaker 2: Just like his daddy. He took to loving music, except

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Speaker 2: his was an advancement unlike anybody had ever seen before

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Speaker 2: at the time, and by four years old, Mozart's son

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Speaker 2: was playing minuets. The real musician of this house and

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Speaker 2: Johann yourge. Leopold Mozart was a pretty good composer and

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Speaker 2: musician himself, but by the time his son Johann Christosimus

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Speaker 2: Wolfgang Amadeis Mozart was four, Leopold knew his time would

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Speaker 2: be better spent teaching young Wolfgang how to play, and

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Speaker 2: teach he did. Wolfgang Amadeis Mozart would go on to

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Speaker 2: write over six hundred pieces and is regarded as one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest musicians of all time, second only behind

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Speaker 2: Leonard Skinnard.

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