Sonic Boom!

You know that music, Hannah.

I do.

That is Giles theme from Street Fighter 2, which a clever listener pointed out I misidentified

in an earlier episode as the character selection music.

Wow, this style isn't really knows their Street Fighter.

You might say it's in their can, Hannah.

So if we are indeed flying around the globe, battling a green mutant from Brazil and

a masked bullfighter from Spain, you know it is time for another US versus or US versus

where we see how United Statesers measure up to the rest of the world.

You're listening to Civics 101, by the way, I'm Nick Capitice.

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And today we are measuring something that seems immeasurable... freedom.

Freedom and fear.

Justice and cruelty have always been at war.

I do not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear.

One of those constructive forces is the enhancement of individual human freedom.

And I've always liked George Orwell's blunt and unadorned statement.

He said freedom is the right to say no.

Now Nick, how do you propose we measure freedom?

An excellent question.

Now we have done many episodes on to whom freedoms do or do not apply throughout our long

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