1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:20,920 Speaker 2: Michael Berry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from 3 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 2: BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on. 4 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 1: It's the Michael Berry Show. 5 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 3: Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed 6 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 3: by some as downright undemocratic. 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 4: Nash is a little then Lugga's then a normal Paul 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 4: Harvey peace, which means we can't get it all into 9 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 4: one segment no matter how hard we try. Here is 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 4: the rest of that piece. It's called freedom to chains. 11 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 4: It's like sort of from freedom to change to chains. 12 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 4: It's how you go from being a free, independent people 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 4: to being enslaved. And what's interesting is, I'll tell you 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 4: when the bit is over the year it came out. 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 4: This thing came out before most of you were born. 16 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 4: But it's just as true today because every failing of 17 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 4: the human condition, every one of them, goes back to 18 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 4: very simple things. Who will make decisions for the individual? 19 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 4: Will it be the individual? Or will it be the collective? 20 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 4: Will it be the king, Will it be the authoritarian? 21 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 4: Will it be the slave master? It is not natural 22 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 4: for you and me to get to make decisions for ourselves. 23 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 4: We get to make decisions for ourselves because those who 24 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 4: came before us fought are a system where we would 25 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 4: get to. That's why I get angry when people give 26 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 4: up their freedom. Oh I have to take a shot 27 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 4: because you tell me to, because you're the expert. Okay, 28 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 4: I will, and I'll make sure that everybody else has 29 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 4: to take a shot too. 30 00:01:58,520 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: You fight for. 31 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 4: Your freedom at every turn, because once it's gone, you'll 32 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 4: never get it back. Here's the rest of Paul Harvey's 33 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 4: freedom to chains. 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 3: It was internal decay, It was not external attack that destroyed. 35 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: The Roman Empire. 36 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: Starting about one hundred and forty six BC, internal conditions 37 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 3: in Rome were characterized by a welter of plast wars 38 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 3: and conflicts, street brawls, corrupt governors, lack of personal integrity 39 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 3: and moral responsibility. 40 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: About two hundred and. 41 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 3: Ninety years after Christ, a Roman emperor named Diocletian took over. 42 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 3: He really grabbed the bull by the horns. He took 43 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: over in a period of turmoil and severe depression. The 44 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 3: first thing Diocletian did was calling the gold and closed 45 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 3: the banks and raised the taxes. He reduced the power 46 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 3: of the Senate, delegated its power to a lot of 47 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 3: little government bureaus. Do you know they even had a 48 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 3: transportation act back there, prescribing the fee required to rent 49 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,639 Speaker 3: one laden ass per mile, and to today's rate of exchange, 50 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 3: it would we do about one eighth cent per mile, 51 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 3: which meant that in order to make a profit, a 52 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 3: jackass would have to carry five passengers. It was simply 53 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 3: beyond the capacity of the jackass. Diocletian put millions of 54 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 3: people on the public payroll, but when this failed to 55 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 3: do the job the country was still in trouble, he 56 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 3: asked more personal powers for himself. 57 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: For a brief while. 58 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 3: Incidentally they were stand by powers, but then he used 59 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 3: him all at once. He froze wages, he froze prices, 60 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 3: he froze jobs, he stopped profits. 61 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: He dictated to the. 62 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: Farmer what he should plant, when and how he should 63 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 3: sell it, and for how. 64 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: Much nerationed food. And what happened? 65 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 3: The labor market closed down, incentive was gone. Farm life 66 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: became dependent on bureaucratic red tape. Exorbitant taxes cost the 67 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 3: farmer's land. He kept for himself only a small plot 68 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 3: on which he might grow turnips for his family. He 69 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 3: lost the rest of it to the state, and without 70 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 3: food and with incentive gone, city life stagnated and declined, 71 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 3: and Rome passed into what history has recorded as the 72 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 3: Dark Ages, lasting one thousand years. Just by turning to 73 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: the left, the world has gone in circles. A nation 74 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 3: would evolve from a monarchy into an oligarchy, from oligarchy 75 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 3: to dictatorship, from dictatorship to bureaucracy, from bureaucracy to pure democracy, 76 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: where finally the people would cry out from the chaos 77 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 3: and confusion of the streets, so please, God, give us 78 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 3: a king. And God would give them a king, and 79 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 3: they'd have a monarchy again and start the whole silly 80 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 3: cycle anew. Now, either we will profit from the errors 81 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 3: of their ways, or it follows us to night, the 82 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 3: day our children are going to have to. 83 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 2: Relive the Dark Ages all over again. 84 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 3: How come, after thousands of years of experiment, our new 85 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 3: nation has come so far, so fast, all this in 86 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 3: less than two hundred years. What is the secret of 87 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 3: our success? Well, I think it had to do with 88 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 3: the basic American's creed. Perhaps it never passed the pioneer's 89 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 3: lips in this form, but if it had, I think 90 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 3: he would have said something like this, I believe in 91 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 3: my God, in my country, and in myself. I know 92 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 3: that sounds like a trite, too simple thing to say, 93 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 3: and yet it's a rare man today who will dare 94 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 3: to stand up and say, I believe in my God 95 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 3: and my country and in myself. 96 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 2: And in that order. 97 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 3: When the early American pioneer first turned his eyes toward 98 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 3: the West, there were only Indian trails, or traces, as 99 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 3: they were called for in the follow through the wilderness 100 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 3: to even though today you can roller skape from Miami 101 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 3: to Seattle, from San Diego to Plymouth Rock. In this 102 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 3: little bitty instant, as historical time has measured, our seven 103 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 3: percent of the Earth's population has come to possess more 104 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 3: than half of all the world's good things. 105 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,039 Speaker 2: How come well, sir? 106 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 3: When that early pioneer turned his eyes toward the West, 107 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:37,479 Speaker 3: he didn't demand that. 108 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 2: Somebody else look after him. 109 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 3: He didn't demand free education, he didn't demand a guaranteed 110 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 3: rocking chair at eventide. He didn't demand that somebody else 111 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 3: take care of him if he got ill or got old. 112 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 3: There was an old fashioned philosophy in those days. The 113 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 3: de man was supposed to provide for his own and 114 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 3: for his own future. He didn't demand a maximum amount 115 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 3: of money for a minimum amount of work, nor did 116 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 3: he expect pay for no work at all. Come to 117 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,799 Speaker 3: think of it, he didn't demand anything. That hard handed 118 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 3: pioneer just looked out there at the rolling planes stretching 119 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 3: away to the tall green mountains, and then lifted his 120 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 3: eyes to the blue skies and said, thank you God. 121 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 3: Now I can take it from here. Now that's feared. 122 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 3: It isn't dead in our country. It's dormant. It's been 123 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 3: discredited in some circles, driven underground, but it isn't dead. 124 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 3: It's just for a few seasons ago, politicians bating their 125 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: hooks with free barbecue and trading a Ponzi promise for votes, 126 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 3: began telling us we don't want opportunity anymore. 127 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: We want security. We don't want opportunity. 128 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 3: They said we want security, and they said it so 129 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 3: often we came to believe them. We wanted security, and 130 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 3: they gave us chains, and we were secure suddenly, with 131 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 3: our constitutional guarantees depleted, with our national character eroding away, 132 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 3: with our tax laws penalizing those who dare to prosper, 133 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 3: with workers concentrating on how little they can get by 134 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 3: with instead of how much they can produce. Suddenly, we 135 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 3: looked overhead one day to discovered that the first ten 136 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 3: moon in space was a Russian accomplishment, that free men 137 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 3: dragging their feet had been out distanced by slave workers 138 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: dragging their chains, and we were sore afraid. Perhaps this 139 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 3: was a disguised blessing too, Maybe a dramatic accomplishment by 140 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 3: this Cold War adversary was necessary to get us off 141 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,119 Speaker 3: our dead centers and back to work again. 142 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 2: If we can revive. 143 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 3: In ourselves, then in our youth something of that basic 144 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: American's creed. The horizon has never ever been so limitless. 145 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 3: For man stands now on the threshold of his highest adventurable, 146 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 3: his first foltering footsteps into space twenty years from today. 147 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 3: Half of the products you will be using in your 148 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 3: everyday living aren't even in the dictionary. Yet we've got 149 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 3: it made. If we just keep on keeping on, we've 150 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 3: got it made. And if we don't, we will follow 151 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: those other great nation states of history into the graveyard 152 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 3: of ignominious oblivion. History promises only this for certain, we 153 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 3: will get exactly what we deserve. 154 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 2: Michael Berry in the system like a to modern day 155 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 2: the owner of US. 156 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: I have always been one nut blood for America's public servants, 157 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 4: for people who sacrifice for others. And you may not 158 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 4: know this since we're paying tribute to Paul Harvey. Paul 159 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 4: Harvey's father was a policeman who was killed in the 160 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 4: line of duty and his tribute to policemen. This hits 161 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 4: for me because I've had officers in my family. Of course, 162 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 4: my brother was a police officer. This one hits me 163 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 4: and hits me hard. If you have a policeman in 164 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 4: your life, share this with them. They've probably heard it before, 165 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 4: but there's a good chance they haven't. It's called what 166 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 4: is a policeman? We started the show paying tribute to firefighters, 167 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 4: now we turned to policemen. A policeman is a composite 168 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 4: of what all men are. 169 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 3: I guess, a mingling of saint and center, dust and 170 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 3: deity called statistics wave. The fan over stinkers underscore instances 171 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 3: of dishonesty and brutality because they are news. What that 172 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,679 Speaker 3: really means is that they are exceptional. They are unusual. 173 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 3: They are not commonplace. Buried under the frauth is the fact, 174 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: and the fact is that less than one half of 175 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 3: one percent of policemen misfit that uniform, and that is 176 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 3: a better average than you'd find among clergymen. What is 177 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 3: a policeman? He, of all men, is at once the 178 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 3: most needed and the most wanted, a strangely nameless creature 179 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 3: who is served to his face and pig or worse 180 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 3: behind his back. He must be such a diplomat that 181 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: he can settle differences between end so that each will 182 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 3: think he won. But if a policeman is neat, he's conceited. 183 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 3: If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's 184 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 3: a flirt. If he's not, he's a grouch. He must 185 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 3: make instant decisions, which would require months for a lawyer. 186 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 3: But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's deliberate, he's lazy. 187 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 3: He must be first to an accident, infallible with the diagnosis. 188 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 3: He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, ty splints, 189 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 3: and above all, be sure the victim goes home without 190 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 3: a limp, or expect to be sued. The police officer 191 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 3: must know every gun draw on the run and hit 192 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 3: where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip 193 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 3: two men twice his size and half his age, without 194 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 3: damaging his uniform, and without being brutal. If you hit him, 195 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 3: he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully. 196 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 3: A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must 197 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 3: know where all of the sin is and not partake. 198 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 3: The policeman from a single human hair must be able 199 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 3: to describe the crime the weapmon the criminal and tell 200 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 3: you where the criminal is hiding. But if he catches 201 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 3: the criminal, he's lucky. If he doesn't, he's a dunce. 202 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 3: If he gets promoted, he has a political pull. If 203 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 3: he doesn't, he's a dullar. The policeman must chase bum 204 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 3: leads to a dead end, stake out ten nights to 205 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 3: tag one witness who saw it happen but refuses to remember. 206 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 3: He runs files and writes reports until his eyes ache 207 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 3: to build a case against some felon who will get 208 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 3: dealed out by a shameless shamless. 209 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 2: Or an honorable who isn't honorable. 210 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 3: The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, 211 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 3: a tough guy and a gentleman. And of course he'll 212 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 3: have to be a genius because he'll have to feed 213 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 3: a family it's on a policeman's salary. 214 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 4: You know. One of the things that's near and dear 215 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 4: to my heart is the bylaws by which we operate 216 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 4: this country. Oh, they're not called the bylaws. They're called 217 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:51,359 Speaker 4: the constitution. And then we have amendments to that constitution. 218 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 4: But they are by laws. That's exactly what they are. 219 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 4: They're beautiful by laws. Paul Harvey's says, we have a 220 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 4: sacred honor to our nation's first citizens. And here is 221 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 4: a wonderful history lesson again, storytelling to make it come 222 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:15,239 Speaker 4: to life is called our sacred honor Americans. 223 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 3: The how and the why of our beloved republic are 224 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 3: so much better known and understood than the who. The 225 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 3: United States of America was born in seventeen seventy six, 226 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 3: but it was conceived one hundred and sixty nine years 227 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 3: before that. The earliest settlers had watered the new world 228 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 3: with much sweat. They had built substantial holdings for themselves, 229 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 3: for their families, and when the time came to separate 230 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 3: themselves from a tyranny in ocean away, at best, it 231 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 3: meant starting all over again after. 232 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 2: The ravages of war. 233 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,200 Speaker 3: Researching what you're about to hear gave a whole new 234 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 3: dimension to my reverence for our nation's first citizens. All 235 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 3: others of the world's revolutions before and since were initiated 236 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 3: by men who had nothing to. 237 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 2: Lose, nothing to lose. 238 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 3: Our founders had everything to lose and nothing to gain 239 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 3: except one thing. 240 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 2: Hello Americans, I'm Paul Harvey. 241 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 3: You remember the cherry Tree fiction a long time after 242 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,960 Speaker 3: you had forgotten the more earthshaking history making episodes in 243 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 3: the life of George Washington. You have misplaced in your 244 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 3: memory the details of Ben Franklin's statesmanship, but you remember 245 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 3: his flying a kite. Joyce Kilmer was a great military hero, 246 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 3: but the only thing you personally recall about him is 247 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 3: his poetic tribute to trees. 248 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 2: Maybe of this. 249 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 3: Current decade, that which will be remembered best will not 250 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 3: be its wars and its moon rockets, or its crumbling frontiers, 251 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 3: or the giants who lived and died. Maybe all that'll 252 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 3: survive to linger in the day by day vocabulary of 253 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 3: generations yet unborn. 254 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 2: Maybe the. 255 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 3: Songs of a Memphis minstrel, or the reincarnation of electric automobiles. 256 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 2: But for any eve of the. 257 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 3: Fourth of July, I Paul Harvey do here with bequeathing 258 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 3: to you something to remember. You may not be able 259 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 3: to quote one line from the Declaration of Independence at 260 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 3: this moment. Henceforth you'll always be able to quote at 261 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 3: least one line. It's in the last paragraph where you 262 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 3: will recall when I remind you, it says we mutually 263 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 3: pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our 264 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 3: sacred honor. In the Pennsylvania State House that's now called 265 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 3: Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the best men from each of 266 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 3: the colonies sat down together. This was a very fortunate 267 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 3: hour in our nation's history, one of those rare occasions 268 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 3: in the lives of men when we had greatness to spare. 269 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 3: These were men of means, well educated. Twenty four were 270 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 3: lawyers and jurists. Nine were farmers, owners of large plantations. 271 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 3: On June eleven, a committee sat down to draw up 272 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 3: a declaration of independence. We were going to tell the 273 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 3: British fatherland no more ruled by redcoats. Below the dam 274 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 3: of ruthless foreign stream of freedom was running shallow and muddy, 275 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,119 Speaker 3: and we were going to like a fuse to dynamite 276 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 3: that dan. This pact, as Burke later put it, was 277 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 3: a partnership between the living and the dead and the 278 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 3: yet unborn. There was no bigotry, there was no demagogery 279 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 3: in this group. All had shared hardships. Jefferson finished a 280 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 3: draft of the document in seventeen days. Congress adopted it 281 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 3: in July, and so much as familiar history, but now 282 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 3: King George third had denounced all rebels in America as traitors. 283 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 3: Punishment for treason was hanging the names now so familiar 284 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 3: to you, from the several signatures on that Declaration of Independence. 285 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 3: The names were kept secret for six months for each 286 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 3: new the full meaning of that magnificent last paragraph, in 287 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 3: which his signature pledged his life, his fortune, and his 288 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,479 Speaker 3: sacred honor. Fifty six men placed their names beneath that fledge. 289 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 3: Fifty six men knew when they signed that they were 290 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 3: risking everything. 291 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: They knew if they won this fight. 292 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 3: The best they could expect could be years of hardship 293 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 3: and a struggling nation. 294 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 2: And if they lost, they'd face a hangman's robe. I 295 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 2: looked at him, and they looked at me, you know, 296 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 2: And I just looked at her, and I have to 297 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 2: just get yourself and get out to Michael Berry's shop. 298 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 3: Over and got a newspaper and I wrote it up 299 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 3: and I slapped him on the nose. 300 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 2: I said, bad. 301 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I cannot play the entirety of that piece in 302 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 4: one segment, which is why we cut it up for two. 303 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 4: This is, as Paul Hargo would say, the rest of 304 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 4: the story. It's called our sacred honor. It's a tribute 305 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 4: to our founders, the people who created this great nation. 306 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 4: I'm reading a book by Paul Johnson right now about 307 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 4: the founding of America and Winthrop and Salem, Massachusetts, and Providence, 308 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 4: Rhode Islands, and Rhode Island, Roger Williams and the freedom 309 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 4: of religious expression, which was such a big deal, particularly 310 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,479 Speaker 4: when you think that we came from England, where the 311 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 4: church was the state, and the state was the church, 312 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 4: the Anglican Church, and you did what the church said 313 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 4: because it had the might of the government behind it. 314 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 4: But many people in this country today believe that freedom 315 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 4: of expression and religion should in some way be curtailed 316 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 4: if it relates to government, whether that's a tax exempt 317 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 4: status or is silly notion people have that the separation 318 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 4: of church and state means you can't talk in the pulpit, 319 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 4: you can't talk at the church. You can't talk as 320 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 4: a Christian leader in a government circle. That's not what 321 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 4: it means. Separation of church and state means keeping the 322 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 4: state out of the church, not the church out of 323 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 4: the state. Make sure you understand that. 324 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 3: In the Pennsylvania State House that's now called Independence Hall 325 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 3: in Philadelphia, the best men from each of the colonies 326 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 3: sat down together. This was a very fortunate hour in 327 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 3: our nation's history, one of those rare occasions in the 328 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 3: lives of men when we had greatness to spare. These 329 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 3: were men of means, well educated. Twenty four were lawyers 330 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 3: and jurists. Nine were farmers, owners of large plantations. On 331 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 3: June eleven, a committee sat down to draw up a 332 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 3: declaration of independence. We were going to tell the British 333 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 3: fatherland no more ruled my redcoats below the dam, a 334 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 3: ruthless foreign rule. Stream of freedom was running shallow and muddy, 335 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 3: and we were going to a fuse to dynamite that dan. 336 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 3: This pact, as Burke later put it, was a partnership 337 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,880 Speaker 3: between the living and the dead and the yet unborn. 338 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 3: There was no bigotry, there was no demagogery in this group. 339 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 3: All had shared hardships. Jefferson finished a draft of the 340 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 3: document in seventeen days. Congress adopted it in July. And 341 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 3: so much as familiar history, but now King George third 342 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 3: had denounced all rebels in America as traitors. Punishment for 343 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 3: treason was hanging the names now so familiar to you 344 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 3: from the several signatures on that Declaration of Independence. The 345 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 3: names were kept secret for six months. For each new 346 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 3: the full meaning of that magnificent last paragraph, in which 347 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 3: his signature pledged his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor. 348 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 3: Fifty six men placed their names beneath that pledge. Fifty 349 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 3: six men knew when they signed that they were risking everything. 350 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 2: They knew if they won this fight. 351 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 3: The best they could expect would be years of hardship 352 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 3: and a struggling nation. And if they lost, they'd face 353 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 3: a hangman's rope. But they signed the pledge. And here 354 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 3: is the documented fate of that gallant fifty six Carter 355 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 3: Braxton of Virginia, wealthy planter trader, saw his ships swept 356 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 3: from the seas to pay his debts. He lost his 357 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 3: home and all of his properties, and died in rags. 358 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 3: Thomas Lynch Junior, who signed that pledge was a third 359 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 3: generation rice grower, aristocrat large plantation owner. After he signed, 360 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 3: his health failed his wife and he set out for 361 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 3: France to regain his failing health. Their ship never got 362 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 3: to France was never heard from again. Thomas McKean of 363 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,479 Speaker 3: Delaware was so harassed by the enemy they was forced 364 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 3: to move his family five times in five months. He 365 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 3: served in Congress without pay, his family in poverty and 366 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 3: in hiding. Vandals looted the properties of Ellery and Climber 367 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 3: and Hall and Gwinnette and Walton and Hayward, Rutledge and Middleton. 368 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 3: Thomas Nelson Junior of Virginia raised two million dollars on 369 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 3: his own signature to provision our allies the French fleet. 370 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 3: After the war, he personally paid back. The loans wiped 371 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,719 Speaker 3: out his entire estate, and he was never reimbursed by 372 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 3: his government. In the final battle for Yorktown, he Nelson 373 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 3: urged General Washington to fire on Nelson's own home, which 374 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 3: was occupied by Cornwallis. 375 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 2: It was destroyed. 376 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 3: Thomas Nelson Junior had pledged his life, his fortune, and 377 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 3: his sacred honor. The Hessians seized the home of Francis 378 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 3: Hopkinson of New Jersey. Francis Lewis had his home and 379 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 3: everything destroyed, his wife imprisoned. 380 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 2: She died within a few months. 381 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,919 Speaker 3: Richard Stockton, who signed that declaration, was captured, mistreated, his 382 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 3: health broken to the extent that. 383 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 2: He died at fifty one. His estate was filled. 384 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 3: Thomas Hayward Junior was captured when Charleston fell. John Hart 385 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 3: was driven from his wife's bedside while she was dying. 386 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 3: Their thirteen children fled in all directions for their lives. 387 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 3: His fields and gristmill were laid waste for more than 388 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 3: a year. He lived in forests and caves, and returned 389 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 3: home after the war to find his wife did, his 390 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,120 Speaker 3: children gone, his property's gone, and he died a few 391 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 3: weeks later of exhaustion at. 392 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 2: A broken heart. 393 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 3: Lewis Morris saw his land destroyed, his family scattered. Philip 394 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 3: Livingstone died within a few months from the hardships of 395 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 3: the war. John Hancock history remembers best due to a 396 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 3: quirk of fate rather than anything. He stood for that 397 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 3: great sweeping signature attesting to his vanity towers over the others. 398 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 2: One of the. 399 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 3: Wealthiest men in New England, and yet he stood outside 400 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 3: Boston one terrible night of the war, and he said, 401 00:22:55,080 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 3: burne Boston, though it makes John Hancock a beggar if 402 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 3: the public good requires it. 403 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 2: So he too, lived up to the pledge. 404 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 3: Of the fifty six. Few were long to survive. Five 405 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 3: were captured by the British and tortured before they died. 406 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 3: Twelve had their homes from Rhode Island to Charleston sacked, looted, 407 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 3: occupied by the enemy, or burned. Two lost their sons 408 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 3: in the army, one had two sons captured. 409 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 2: Nine of the fifty six died in. 410 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 3: The war from its hardships or from its more merciful bullets. 411 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 3: I don't know what impression you had had the men 412 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 3: who met that summer in Philadelphia, but I think it's 413 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 3: important that we remember this about them. They were not 414 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:45,440 Speaker 3: poor men. They were not wild eyed pirates. These were 415 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 3: men of means. They were rich men, most of them, 416 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 3: and had enjoyed much ease and luxury in their personal living. 417 00:23:52,520 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 3: Not hungry men, certainly, not terrorists, not irresponsible malcontents, medical incendiaries. 418 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 3: These men were prosperous men, wealthy landowners. They were substantially 419 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 3: secure in their prosperity. They had everything to lose, but 420 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 3: they considered liberty. 421 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 2: And this is as much as I'm saying they had 422 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 2: learned at liberty. 423 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 3: It is so much more important than security. 424 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 2: That they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. 425 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 2: And they fulfilled their pledge, and they paid the Christ 426 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 2: and freedom was born. 427 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 3: Michael, do I have a story for you. 428 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,160 Speaker 4: My brother in law murdered to Native Americans. 429 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 2: Michael Berry show. Now you have my attenency. 430 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 4: This next piece is perhaps Paul Harvey's most famous. It's 431 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 4: called If I Were the Devil. You may have heard 432 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 4: it before. Heck, you may have heard it multiple times before. 433 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 4: If you've listened to our show for any length of time, 434 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 4: I know you've heard it. Here Paul Harvey uses a 435 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 4: wonderful technique to talk about the downfall of America. And 436 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 4: this is older than many people in our audience. And 437 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 4: you may say, well, how did he know about all 438 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 4: that back then? Because nothing changes, nothing changes. The temptation 439 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:37,640 Speaker 4: to be distracted by other things than your family did 440 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 4: not begin with the cell phone. The temptation to focus 441 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 4: on what doesn't matter and to chase false idols rather 442 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 4: than what matters, that didn't start in the modern era. 443 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 4: That's as old as mankind. The temptation to serve yourself 444 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 4: and not those you love, the temptation to let time 445 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 4: get away from you didn't start with sitting in front 446 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 4: of the computer for four hours or scrolling on TikTok, 447 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 4: That is as old as time. Those are failings of 448 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 4: human beings. Life is what happens on the way to 449 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 4: do what you'd planned to do. Life's what happens right here, 450 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 4: right now, on Thursday afternoon or Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, 451 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,959 Speaker 4: when what you really want to do is do something 452 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 4: other than play with your kids or your grandkids, or 453 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 4: coach them, or go throw a ball with them, or 454 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 4: help them with their homework. You don't want to do that. 455 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,679 Speaker 4: You want to do something else. You want to do 456 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 4: something more self serving. And you want to do something 457 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,160 Speaker 4: more self serving all day, every day, in bit by bit, 458 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 4: but in your mind you want to be a good mom, 459 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 4: will be a really good mom, really good dad. Well, 460 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 4: that means doing what you need to do when you 461 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 4: least want to do it. And that's the hard part. 462 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 4: That's what makes it hard. You know, this is such 463 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 4: a wonderful country, and I don't believe that in most 464 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 4: of the world I've traveled a pretty good bit that 465 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 4: people love their country the way we love our country. 466 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 4: They may love their country because it's their country, but 467 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 4: they don't love the things about that country that make 468 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 4: it a country. We are the United States of America 469 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 4: because we were a breakaway nation that sought to create something. 470 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 4: We were the proof of concept of self governance, without 471 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:57,840 Speaker 4: a king, without a monarchy. We were We became the 472 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,880 Speaker 4: proof that we could do this Benjamin Franklin's great line, 473 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 4: a republic if we can keep it. 474 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 2: It's not easy to keep. 475 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 4: There are so many temptations as a nation to spend 476 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 4: our time and waste our time and be distracted by 477 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,400 Speaker 4: things rather than doing the equivalent of helping our kid 478 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 4: with homerk teaching our kid discipline, because right now we'd 479 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 4: really rather do this silly thing. And that's important to understand. 480 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 4: It's important to understand that maintaining this great nation takes a. 481 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 2: Lot of work. 482 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 4: It's hard, and we're gonna lose a lot of battles. 483 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,719 Speaker 4: We got cheated in twenty twenty. We got cheated out 484 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 4: of that election. There's no question. We watched Donald Trump 485 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 4: have to be in I felt like seam us when 486 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 4: they when they were when they were killing William Wallace 487 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 4: in Braveheart, he was having to witness this awful, awful transgression, 488 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 4: this awful injustice. We have had to be witnesses to 489 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 4: awful violations of everything this nation stands for, by the 490 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 4: Obamas and the Clintons and the Bidens and beyond the 491 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 4: media and the Cheneye and Kin Singers and Rubens. We've 492 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 4: had to be witnesses to a history that I'm not 493 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 4: proud of or happy about and getting back up. 494 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 2: And that's the beauty. 495 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 4: That's why I love to read the emails you said, 496 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 4: is how many of you get up every day and 497 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 4: you don't make a dime off of politics. You ain't 498 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 4: trying to sell anything to the government, not one thing. 499 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 4: But you get up every single day and try to 500 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 4: make our country better, try to make your household better, 501 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 4: try to make your family better, your neighbors better, your 502 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 4: kids better, your students better, your employees better. And that's 503 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 4: who our listeners are, which is pretty cool. People ask 504 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 4: me why I still have so much hope for this country. 505 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 4: I read my emails, I hear from you, I hear 506 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 4: what you say here. It is in a way let 507 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 4: me know what we're talking. It's called if I were the. 508 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: Devil, If I were the devil, If I were the devil, 509 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: if I were the Prince of darkness, I'd want to 510 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: engulf the whole world in darkness, and I'd have a 511 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: third of its real estate and four fifths of its population. 512 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 2: But I wouldn't be. 513 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 3: Happy until I have seized the ripest apple. 514 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,280 Speaker 2: On the tree the. 515 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 3: So I'd set about, however necessary to take over the 516 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: United States. 517 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 2: I'd subvert the churches. First. 518 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 3: I'd begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom 519 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 3: of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I 520 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 3: whispered to Eve, do as you please. To the young, 521 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 3: I would whisper that the Bible is a myth. I 522 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 3: would convince them that man created God instead of the 523 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 3: other way around. I would confide to what's bad is good, 524 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 3: and what's good is square, and the old I would 525 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 3: teach to pray after me, our father, which aren't in Washington. 526 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 2: And then I'd get organized. 527 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 3: I'd educate authors in how to make lowrid literature exciting, 528 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 3: so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I'd 529 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 3: threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I'd peddle 530 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,200 Speaker 3: narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to ladies 531 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 3: and gentlemen of distinction. 532 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: I'd tranquilize the rest with pills. 533 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,719 Speaker 3: If I were the Devil, I'd soon have families at 534 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 3: war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations 535 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 3: at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed, 536 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 3: and with promises of higher ratings. I'd have mesmerizing media 537 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 3: fanning the flames. If I were the Devil, I would 538 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 3: encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions. 539 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 3: Just let those run wild until before you knew it. 540 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 3: You'd have to have drug snipping dogs and metal detectors 541 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 3: at every school house door. Within a decade, i'd have 542 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 3: prisons overflowing. I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could 543 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 3: evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and 544 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 3: then from the houses of Congress and in his own churches. 545 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 3: I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I 546 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 3: would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls 547 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,719 Speaker 3: and church money. If I were the Devil, I'd make 548 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 3: the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of 549 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 3: Christmas a bottle. 550 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 2: If I were the devil, I'd take from. 551 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 3: Those who have and give to those who wanted, until 552 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 3: I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. 553 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:40,320 Speaker 2: What will you bet? 554 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 3: I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as the 555 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 3: way to get rich. I would caution against extremes in 556 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:57,479 Speaker 3: hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince 557 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 3: the young that marriage is old fashioned, that swinging is 558 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 3: more fun, that what you see on TV is the. 559 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 2: Way to be. 560 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 3: And thus I could undress you in public, and I 561 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 3: could lure you into bed with diseases for which there 562 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 3: is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil, 563 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 3: I just keep right on doing what he's doing. 564 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 2: Paul Harvey, good day. 565 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: He never Elvis has look for kill me. 566 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 2: Thank you, and good night,