Independence Day 2025: What We Love About America
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
First, Jim focuses on the incredible variety of places to live in the U.S. Whether you like big cities, rural areas, or somewhere in between, you can find your sweet spot somewhere in this country. Greg heaps praise upon the founders and specifically the Declaration of Independence, which radically and boldly proclaimed our rights come from God and our government gets its power from the people.
Next, Jim reflects on his time living in Turkey and how being in that country or any other country helps you appreciate what we have in America even more. Greg is grateful for the example America set that attracted our ancestors and so many others to leave everything and come - legally - to the U.S.
Finally, Jim applauds the great people you meet in every corner of the U.S. Yes, there's even some nice ones in and around Washington. Greg points to the incredible physical beauty of our land from coast to coast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:05.0 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.9 | So glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the three martini lunch and most importantly today, happy Independence Day. |
| 0:19.2 | Happy 4th of July. |
| 0:21.3 | The United States, as of the Declaration of Independence, now 249 years old, which means |
| 0:26.9 | next year is going to be a massive celebration. |
| 0:30.3 | But today we are going to pause from our usual format here on the three martini lunch |
| 0:35.4 | and bring you one of our Fourth of July specials |
| 0:38.0 | from a few years ago when we first introduced the topic of things we love about America. |
| 0:44.7 | You'll hear three from Jim, you'll hear three from me, and we certainly welcome you to respond |
| 0:49.8 | on social media and elsewhere what you love about America. |
| 0:53.4 | So without any further delay, here is our 2021 special on things we love about America with |
| 0:58.2 | Jim Batting Leadoff. |
| 0:59.3 | This was inspired in part by a national review issue, either the last year, maybe two years |
| 1:04.9 | ago, which many, many contributors kind of offered what they love about America. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm trying to think about things that really make this country unique and stand out. |
| 1:15.2 | I'll have more about my contrasting America with other country, although other country I have lived in for a long period, which was Turkey. |
| 1:22.6 | But I was going to begin with the variety of the United States. |
| 1:26.2 | And one of the things that I love that you can, |
| 1:28.5 | you know, you and I live in Northern Virginia. It definitely has a distinct culture, pace of life, |
| 1:33.8 | all of that. I get down to Hilton Head pretty regularly. You know, South Carolina has a different |
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