All righty, hello and everyone, welcome to it.

It is the fourth of July, July 4th, 1776.

Now, 249 years later on from that, man, it's been 240. I'm really looking forward to next year. Really am.

I am Derek Hunter. This is the Derek Hunter podcast for Independence Day, 249, special edition where we run a recording of celebrities that recorded,

they sat down, they read out the Declaration of Independence as it was written, as is written.

And it's a whole bunch of celebrities you'd recognize Kathy Bates,

Manicio del Toro, Morgan Freeman, Mel Gibson,

Whoopi Goldberg back when she liked this country,

Winona Ryder near the height of her powers,

Kevin Spacey before he,

well, before it ended up not working out too well for him.

And it is, I think it's important on days like this to remember these.

There's a whole bunch of people.

You recognize a bunch of voices.

You can look it up.

There's Edward Norton, Renee Zellwiger, Mingna Winn, Graham, Green.

You can find all this online.

But that's how we choose to mark this.

Apparently, this is from 2005.

Seems like it was before then.

I thought it was from the 90s, but whatever.

It is worth a listen because of what the

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