121. Willie Geist. 4th of July Special (Rewind). Our V-C Day (Victory over COVID) Is Finally Here. Independence/Independents Day. Morning Joe vs Donald Trump. July 4th in a Pandemic. The Wu-Tang Question. Mount Rushmore Was Infected with The Sickness.
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff
Righteous Media | Bleav
4.6 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 176 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Independent Americans. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to episode 121. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm your host, Paul Reikoff. |
| 0:12.5 | Now, more than any other time, now is still a time to stay vigilant. |
| 0:21.7 | But it's still summer. |
| 0:24.6 | And it's time to celebrate. |
| 0:27.2 | So we're flashing back to one of the best episodes we've ever had on this show. |
| 0:33.7 | It was exactly one year ago. |
| 0:36.3 | And it was a very special Independence Day episode. |
| 0:41.2 | And I'm sharing it now because it's one of my favorites. It's one of your favorites. And I think |
| 0:48.9 | it's one of our most important. A year ago, we were deep in the depths of the pandemic. |
| 0:56.0 | And I told you to look forward, not to that Independence Day, but to an Independence Day a year from now, when we'd be free to celebrate our independence. |
| 1:09.0 | Our independence from Donald Trump, our independence from the |
| 1:15.2 | coronavirus, our independence from the depression and depths of the hardest summer of our |
| 1:22.7 | lifetime in America. That was one year ago now. So we're going to flash back to that episode where I break |
| 1:30.3 | down the severity and the intensity of those times. And I hope it helps you appreciate how different |
| 1:37.7 | things are now and how far we've come and how hard we worked to get us to a true independence day. That's what we've got now. |
| 1:48.6 | A time with no masks, a time with no Trump in the White House, and a time to be together, to celebrate |
| 1:56.7 | with friends and family, and really enjoy our summer and enjoy our freedom. |
| 2:03.6 | Maybe in a way we never have before. |
| 2:07.9 | Independence Day in America is a very special thing. |
| 2:11.9 | And this year, it might be the most special one we ever experience. |
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