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On this episode of Newt's World, it's part of Founding Fathers Week. I'm talking about the lives and

legacies of our original founders and the impact they've had in our country.

On this episode, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite founding fathers,

somebody that having been born in Hasbro, Pennsylvania and spent a large part of my childhood

going to Philadelphia, surrounded by Franklin and the impact he'd made in the world.

I've always felt that the breadth of what he did, the extraordinary range from

business person to publisher to writer to inventor, not just inventor in the sense of physical

things like lightning rods and bifocal glasses and the Franklin stove,

but inventor in the sense of inventing the University of Pennsylvania, inventing the volunteer

fire department, inventing the American Philosophical Society. Franklin had such an

extraordinary love for life, such a deep work ethic and such a cheerful willingness

to go out and turn ideas into projects and projects into achievements that there's

almost nobody like him. There are lots of other people who've done great things,

but almost nobody has covered the range from business to politics to diplomacy,

to science, to invention, to social leadership that Franklin personified.

And so I think he's well worth spending some time and he clearly is by any standard

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