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Speaker 1: If you haven't checked out any of the many videos

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Speaker 1: Preger University, founded by Alan Estrin and talk show host

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, to create videos on political, economic,

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Speaker 1: sociological topics culture that promote an American conservative viewpoint. We'd

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Speaker 1: what was Revolutionary about the American Revolution? There had been

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Speaker 1: many revolutions throughout history. But what made the American Revolution

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Speaker 2: So special?

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Speaker 3: The birthday of a new world is at hand. That

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Speaker 3: was what Thomas Paine, the Fiery pamphleteer, wrote in seventeen

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Speaker 3: seventy six, as thirteen of Great Britain's North American colonies

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Speaker 3: rose in revolt against British rule and declared themselves a

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Speaker 3: newly independent nation. The American Revolution was something the world

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Speaker 3: had never seen. Politically, economically, and diplomatically. Let's look at

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Speaker 3: all three. First, the politics revolutions themselves were not new.

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Speaker 3: Of course, Britain put itself through not one, but two

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Speaker 3: revolutions in the seventeenth century, other countries in Europe endured

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Speaker 3: similar upheavals. These rebellions shared one of two goals, replace

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Speaker 3: and privileges from the existing regime. In stark contrast, the

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Speaker 3: Americans did not propose merely overthrowing a monarchy. They proposed

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Speaker 3: of government. In America, the citizen, not the government or

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Speaker 3: the king, would hold the keys to power. With this

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Speaker 3: overturning of the old way of doing things, the rebels

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Speaker 3: made the political systems of Europe look as antiquated and

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Speaker 3: irrational as fully as Newton's laws had made medieval physics

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Speaker 3: look antiquated and irrational. As it was with politics, so

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Speaker 3: it was with economics. Tearing up the old order meant

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Speaker 3: more than just refusing to take political orders from kings, dukes,

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Speaker 3: In a society of free and equal citizens, Americans would

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Speaker 3: follow their own economic initiative. They would be as free

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Speaker 3: economically as they were politically. This small government model meant

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Speaker 3: be based on the principle of restraining the government, and

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Speaker 3: that unleashed such dynamic economic growth. It took America from

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Speaker 3: a ledgling state to a world power in just fifty years.

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Speaker 3: A child born in seventeen seventy six could live to

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Speaker 3: see canal systems link waterways from New York to New Orleans,

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Speaker 3: and the steamboat and railroad moved passengers and freight at

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Speaker 3: sheer novelty of the revolution's first two legs, the political

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Speaker 3: as Yale President Timothy Dwight, expressed a desire not merely

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Speaker 3: to remake the North American consonant, but the rest of

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Speaker 3: of war and give peace to the world. But the

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Speaker 3: Far from any desire to share America's redemptive culture. The

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Speaker 3: either by the reimposition of empire or by association with

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Speaker 3: more unstable attempts at revolution, as in France. The American

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Speaker 3: position regarding foreign interventions was articulated by then Secretary of

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Speaker 3: the United States has not always lived by this attitude.

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Speaker 3: It has at various times seen unfettered commerce turn into

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Speaker 3: terrible shame of slavery and its long aftermath. Human beings

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Speaker 3: are imperfect, and therefore any form of government they create

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Speaker 3: will be too. But the wonder of America, from its

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Speaker 3: The wonder is that Americans have stumbled as infrequently as

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Speaker 4: Nobody Burde Michael Berry Show continues.

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Speaker 1: Old eighty two, Robin Williams was cast in the role

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Speaker 1: of the American Flag on a television special titled I

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Speaker 1: Love Liberty. It's a Very Different Time. Robin Williams was

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Speaker 1: not only dressed up as the flag, but he spoke

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Speaker 5: I don't I'm the one that they're singing about.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I'm the.

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Speaker 5: Stars and stripe forever, star spangled banner. You can call

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Speaker 5: me old boy, but let's just keep it simple.

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Speaker 6: I'll just call me flag. Oh, I'll say, can you see?

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Speaker 5: Okay, you probably don't recognize me.

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Speaker 6: Say who's out? Evil? Can evil? No way?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: You see you can't reckon ask me because.

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Speaker 6: I'm in my birthday suit. Yes, I'm wearing the original

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Speaker 6: thirteen here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember miss Betsy saying there going ooh, this.

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Speaker 6: Could be the start of something. Big wool John, don't

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Speaker 5: Yes, I was born June thirteenth, seventeen seventy seven.

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Speaker 6: That makes me a Gemini. That's unpredictable, crazy.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I like the outdoors and I'm the life of

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Speaker 5: any party, whether it be Republican, Democrat, independent, Socialist, anything, libertine.

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Speaker 6: I'll be there.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm two hundred and four years old. People say, flag,

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Speaker 5: how do you stay so young?

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Speaker 6: Is it jogging?

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Speaker 6: Is it tennis? No, it's waving.

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Speaker 5: You know I'm talking about you know, we're talking about billowing,

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Speaker 6: Haven't has eys been easy for me?

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Speaker 6: I had a tough puberty.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, warf famine, invasion, and eighteen sixty one we'll have

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Speaker 5: a little skin problem that broke out into thirty four stars.

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Speaker 5: But now, well, little patience, and look what we got

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Speaker 5: now look at this. Hold on here, ha hah hah.

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Speaker 6: Oh sixty everybody's on here. Look at this Hilaska.

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Speaker 5: Hallaidn't make it n Yeah, we got your tennessee hw

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Speaker 6: So I've been Camborphoria.

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Speaker 5: Know, I had a tough time for a while. I've

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Speaker 5: been in a lot of wars. They've fired missiles and

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Speaker 6: But you know, come the dawns only light, I'm still there.

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Speaker 6: You know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've been made into everything from designer jeans

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Speaker 6: Well all right, the rockets.

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Speaker 5: But people haven't always been respectful to me.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes it's been tough that.

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Speaker 5: When some people try and spit on me, trample me,

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Speaker 5: burn me. Foreigners and occasionally some Americans too. But I

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Speaker 5: don't let it get me down because I'm not a

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Speaker 6: You know, I've been to Europe.

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Speaker 5: I've been to both North and South Pole, I was

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Speaker 6: Recently, even been to the moon.

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Speaker 5: Where do you see me in all sorts of different postures.

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Speaker 5: When I'm like this, I means everything is okay. When

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Speaker 5: I'm upside down, well put on your may West and

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Speaker 6: But when I'm like this.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's not my favorite position because well that's half masked.

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Speaker 5: I don't I don't mean to bump you out. I

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Speaker 5: didn't come here to depressure, but I gotta tell you something. Honestly,

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Speaker 5: I haven't been getting out much lately.

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Speaker 6: I guess it's not very sheet to put up the

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Speaker 5: You know, Moffa and I have a flag, but we

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Speaker 5: haven't found it for very long.

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Speaker 6: Hey, but look at it this way.

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Speaker 5: Don't look at it saluting me, Look at it saluting yourselves.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: Hey, I'm just a flag, a symbol. You're the people,

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Speaker 5: if I may say so. From here, long may you wave?

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Speaker 6: You've got The Michael Barry Show.

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Speaker 1: This is one we've played for you before, but we

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Speaker 1: love it, and I hope you do too. For some

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Speaker 1: of you, it may be the first time you've ever

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Speaker 1: heard it, and that makes me happy. For others, it

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Speaker 1: may take you back to a good place, your parents,

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Speaker 1: your grandparents playing it. Richard Skelton, known as Red Skelton,

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Speaker 1: best known for his national radio and TV shows between

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty seven and nineteen seventy one, especially the TV

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Speaker 1: program The Red Skelton Show. What a lot of people

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Speaker 1: don't realize is that Red had another career. He was

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Speaker 1: also an artist. His paintings of clowns remained a hobby

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Speaker 1: his originals were successful, and he also sold prints and lithographs,

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Speaker 1: earning two point five million dollars yearly on his lithograph sales.

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Speaker 1: At the time of his death, his art dealer said

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Speaker 1: that Red Skelton had earned more money through his paintings

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Speaker 1: than from his television performances. Why do I bring that up,

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Speaker 1: you ask, Well, Red Skelton had a phenomenal skit that

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Speaker 1: he did on the Pledge of Allegiance, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoy it.

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Speaker 7: I remember a teacher that I had now only I

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Speaker 2: I went to the seventh grade.

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Speaker 7: And I left home when I was ten years old

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Speaker 2: But I had this one teacher.

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Speaker 7: It was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincennes.

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Speaker 2: Cindiana. To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real

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Speaker 7: Anyhow, he had such wisdom, and we were all reciting

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Speaker 7: the Pledge of Allegiance one day and he walked over,

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Speaker 2: Mister Laswell was his name, Mister Laswell.

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Speaker 7: He says, I have been listening to you boys and

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Speaker 7: girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester, and it

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Speaker 7: seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you. If I may,

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Speaker 7: may I recite it and try to explain to you

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Speaker 7: the meaning of each word. I me an individual, a

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Speaker 7: committee of one pledge dedicate all of my worldly goods

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Speaker 7: to give without self pity, allegiance, my love, and my

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Speaker 7: devotion to the flag, our standard old glory, a symbol

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Speaker 7: of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect because your loyalty

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Speaker 7: has given her a dignity that shouts Freedom is everybody's job. United.

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Speaker 7: That means that we have all come together, states, individual

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Speaker 7: communities that have united into forty eight great states. Forty

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Speaker 7: divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose.

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Speaker 7: And that's love for country, and to the republic. Republic

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Speaker 7: a state in which sovereign power is invested in representative

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Speaker 2: And government is the people.

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Speaker 7: And it's from the people to the leaders, not from

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Speaker 2: One nation, one nation, meaning.

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Speaker 7: So blessed by God, indivisible, incapable of being divided, with liberty,

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Speaker 7: which is freedom, the right of power to live one's

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Speaker 7: and justice the principle are qualities of dealing fairly with others,

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Speaker 7: for all, for all, which means, boys and girls, it's

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Speaker 7: as much your country as it is mine. And now,

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Speaker 7: boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge

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Speaker 7: it stands one nation, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Speaker 7: Since I was a small boy, two states have been

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Speaker 7: to the Pledge of Allegiance under God. Wouldn't it be

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Speaker 7: a pity if someone said that is a prayer and

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Speaker 7: that would be eliminated.

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Speaker 2: From schools to who this me, Michael Gary.

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Speaker 1: I often say that humor is the best way to

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Speaker 1: get your point across. I could sit here and beat

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Speaker 1: the drum about how America has a quality of life

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Speaker 1: that's second to none. Things that we take for granted

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Speaker 1: travel and see for yourself. And that's true. But I

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Speaker 1: don't want you to tune me out for preaching platitudes.

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Speaker 1: If I play you a bit by comedian Joe Machi

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Speaker 1: maybe this will cut through.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what really grinds my gears though charities. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I said it.

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Speaker 6: Things just got.

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Speaker 4: Really your gang. I think they're a little too aggressive,

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Speaker 4: sure you've had this happen. You go to the supermarket

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Speaker 4: and after they ring up all your stuff, they ask

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Speaker 4: in front of all the other people. That's not fair

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Speaker 4: because depending on what I just purchased, it might ruin

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Speaker 6: It's really.

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Speaker 4: Nobody's business. Wide appreciate some space on that. Then the

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Speaker 4: that situation I just say, oh, sorry, I can't. Money's

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Speaker 4: those candles, I politely explained to her, Oh, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: I don't care about the children, and these do going

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Speaker 4: There was now that said you can feed a starving

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that's true or not. I don't care.

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Speaker 4: But what bothers me about that ad is how they

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Speaker 4: portray us, hardworking coffee drinkers as some sort of free

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Speaker 4: wheel and extravagant spenders going around to fancy parties dropping

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Speaker 4: one hundred dollar bills on coffee. That's not a real thing.

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Speaker 4: That's why I won't see me at the coffee shop

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Speaker 4: saying ooh, double latte.

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Speaker 6: Someone doesn't give it. Shut about orphans, he's son.

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Speaker 2: Of a bit.

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Speaker 4: Still, gooders are everywhere. I'm sick of them. Even that

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Speaker 4: bill Gates has gotten to the act. He's always trying

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Speaker 4: to get people to donate to his charity, which is weird.

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Speaker 4: He's the richest person ever. Why the richest person ever

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Speaker 4: But he defends it saying that his fortune will be

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Speaker 4: donated after he's dead. Me too, You'll have my donation

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Speaker 4: over my dead body.

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Speaker 6: Bill.

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Speaker 4: And even during the NFL football matches, they keep having

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Speaker 4: case you don't know, is a charity to get kids

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Speaker 4: to play because we have too many fat kids. I

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Speaker 4: guess I don't know, And that might sound like a

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Speaker 4: think maybe the problem is America is doing so much

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Speaker 4: to them, some of our problems would seem totally backwards.

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Speaker 4: When you explain them, they're like, hey, Joe, how are

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Speaker 4: Too many fat kids. Sometimes it just seems like there's

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Speaker 4: too much food over here. I mean, we try giving

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Speaker 4: those kids Nintendo Weeze to get fit, but.

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Speaker 6: That was a disaster.

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Speaker 4: Most of those children are dead now while your country

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Speaker 4: is confusing, But please tell me more. Well, California is

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Speaker 4: having its worst drought in decades. Well, that sounds bad.

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Speaker 4: Is their famine? Is their mass starvation? Well they're thinking

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Speaker 4: of making it illegal for people to fill up their

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Speaker 4: swimming pools. What the hell is a swimming pool? You're

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Speaker 4: not gonna like this. A swimming pool is a crocodile

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Speaker 4: three private lake we keep in our backyards than never use. Wait,

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Speaker 4: that sounds good. You've got a store of fresh drinking

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Speaker 4: water for whenever you need it. No, no, no, no, no

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Speaker 4: no no no no. We poison the water. And if

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Speaker 4: the pool's above ground, that means you're poor. Yeah, if

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Speaker 4: you're tankful of poison water, isn't it a hole? You're

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Speaker 4: very unsuccessful in this country. People drive by and say,

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Speaker 4: you just needlessly throw money into a pool of water. No,

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Speaker 4: that's a wishing well, it's a whole separate, stupid thing.

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Speaker 4: That's when you have money that you don't want to

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Speaker 6: What do you do?

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Speaker 4: Then you make a wish? Do you believe that it

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Speaker 4: comes true? Absolutely not.

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Speaker 6: That's ridiculous,