'Born In The U.S.A.' at 40
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule. |
| 0:08.0 | If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American, |
| 0:16.0 | I'll take you inside the movement. |
| 0:18.0 | Listen to Extremely American, from Boise State Public Radio, |
| 0:22.0 | part of the NPR Network. |
| 0:24.0 | Well, it's 4th of July week that time of year when we celebrate all the things that make America this big, messy, complicated, but wonderful place to be. |
| 0:35.0 | And to help mark the occasion, |
| 0:37.0 | we thought we'd look back at an album that's all about this push and poll in our country. |
| 0:43.2 | Bruce Springsteen's born in the USA, |
| 0:45.6 | which just this past month turned 40 years old. Oh, Born down in a dead man's town, the first kick of drunk was my hip-the-ground |
| 1:11.6 | the first kick of drunk was my hip-up likeground end up like a dog has been beat too much |
| 1:15.0 | till you spend half your life |
| 1:18.0 | just covering up now. |
| 1:20.0 | Born in the USA. |
| 1:23.0 | I was born in the USA. |
| 1:27.0 | I was born in the USA. |
| 1:28.0 | I was born in the USA. |
| 1:32.0 | Born in the USA, born in the USA. |
| 1:36.8 | Born in the USA was obviously a massive success |
| 1:40.0 | for Bruce Springsteen for lots of reasons. But one of them was kind of just the timing of it. |
| 1:46.1 | It came out during a presidential election year, you know, in that big anthemic course on the |
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