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🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ladies and Jets, it's good to have you on with me on this beautiful night. |
0:06.5 | It's not as big of a sizzler as it was last night, but still nice and warm, and it is, it's |
0:14.4 | Independence Day. |
0:16.3 | That's right. |
0:17.7 | It's July 2nd. |
0:20.0 | Now we're going to have a good time on July 4th and for all the same |
0:23.3 | reasons. Everybody, everybody loves this week for different reasons. Either way, John Adams |
0:32.3 | writing to Abigail Adams, the second day of July 1776 will be the most memorable in the history of America. |
0:40.8 | I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the Great |
0:47.4 | Anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts |
0:53.2 | of devotion to God Almighty. it ought to be solemnized |
0:57.9 | with pomp and parade, with shoes, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations |
1:05.1 | from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forevermore. |
1:19.5 | That was all the actions taken by the Continental Congress on this day in 1776. |
1:26.8 | It's 249 days ago that the Lee resolution passed and we were put on the, that that was it. |
1:31.9 | We had decided by act of congress that independence was it and then of course we got our uh we got our declaration of independence |
1:37.8 | was made very public two days later and no matter where the hell you stake your claim in all |
1:43.7 | of this it's a wonderful |
1:44.7 | week. And that's why I like having Chris Ann Hall on as close to July 2nd as possible, because |
1:50.3 | it's a way to, you know, just talk a little bit about what's going on and then have some nice |
1:54.3 | parting shots as we go into the next couple of days. And then we're just in the dead of summer |
2:00.1 | afterwards, you know? Then we're just in the dead of summer afterwards you know then we're |
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