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MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech | Billionaires & Public Office · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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  Speaker 1: six forty Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 2: It is a Monday morning, January nineteenth. It is Martin
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  Speaker 2: Luther King Day, national holiday, as we celebrated. Banks are closed,
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  Speaker 2: government offices are closed. We are open for business as
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  Speaker 2: many are as not mandatory to close for business on
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  Speaker 2: Martin Luther King Day. Actually it's not mandatory to close
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  Speaker 2: for business on any day throughout the country. National holidays
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  Speaker 2: included I wish a lot of us don't think about Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So today Martin Luther King Day, obviously we celebrate one
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest speeches of all time nineteen sixty three
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  Speaker 2: in front of the Lincoln Memorial Hot Hot Hot. It
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  Speaker 2: was August and it was two hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 2: people were there at the White House. President Kennedy was
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  Speaker 2: watching King deliver his I have a dream speech and
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you about that in a minute on live
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  Speaker 2: television and said he's damn good. And sitting to King's left,
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  Speaker 2: Mahelia Jackson, the great singer, inspired the improvised closing saying
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  Speaker 2: or screaming, tell him about the dream, Martin, and you
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  Speaker 2: know who were there, Marlon Brando, Charleton, Heston Lenna Horne,
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  Speaker 2: a fairly unknown folk singer by the name of Bob Dylan,
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  Speaker 2: played there, and King's address is now seen by many
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  Speaker 2: many people, most of us, as the greatest political speech
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  Speaker 2: in American history. Are certainly one of the greatest political
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  Speaker 2: speeches in American history. Even Kennedy, who had initially opposed
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  Speaker 2: the march, when he greeted King at a White House
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  Speaker 2: reception after the speech after that March, told King and
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  Speaker 2: you had a dream.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I want to blow up a myth, and that
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  Speaker 2: is that even Martin Luther King said this, The I
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  Speaker 2: have a dream part of the speech was spontaneous. You've
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  Speaker 2: heard that many many times, that he came up with
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  Speaker 2: that phrase spontaneously. That's one of the myths. Neil, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you're shaking your head.
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  Speaker 1: There is. I thought he did parts of the speech before.
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  Speaker 2: That is exactly the point I'm making, oh, okay, is
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  Speaker 2: that he is given credit for coming up with that
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  Speaker 2: phrase spontaneously in the speech. Okay, So the dream, well,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't the first one to have the dream. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about in public speaking and part of a
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  Speaker 2: massive movement and speech.
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  Speaker 1: He was not the first with.
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  Speaker 2: A vision of this new harmonious social work order, where race, class,
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  Speaker 2: creed didn't divide people. He wasn't the first to have
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  Speaker 2: the dream go viral, which it had in those days
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  Speaker 2: where it was repeated and dissected. That honor actually belongs
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  Speaker 2: to a white guy, a Wall Street banker named James
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  Speaker 2: Truslow Adams. And Adams is actually the forgotten hero of
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  Speaker 2: this great speech. He is being given the credit of
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  Speaker 2: the founding father of that dream metaphor, where everybody is equal,
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  Speaker 2: where race or creed does not matter, where everybody can
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  Speaker 2: succeed equally, where it doesn't matter your gentile, black or white, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Can succeed to their ability.
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  Speaker 2: So thirty years before King Speech, Adams coined and popular
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  Speaker 2: the idea of the American Dream in a best selling
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  Speaker 2: book that he wrote, The Epic of America and what
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  Speaker 2: he did and why he did that. And here's the
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  Speaker 2: fascinating historical part about this is that was to rally
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  Speaker 2: Americans during the depths of the Great Depression.
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  Speaker 1: That's what originally it was.
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  Speaker 2: Now there were references to quote an American Dream even
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  Speaker 2: back to eighteen seventy, but it was Adams who put
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  Speaker 2: the phrase on the map Jim Cullen offer of the
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  Speaker 2: American Dream, A short history of an idea that shaped
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  Speaker 2: the nation, said, adam uses that phrase over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: and by the nineteen fifties it had become what we
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  Speaker 2: actually call a meme now, so we observe King's birthday
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  Speaker 2: is a national holiday, and we should. And he was
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  Speaker 2: as extraordinary as he has given credit for, literally one
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  Speaker 2: of the great leaders of not deliver leaders of this
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  Speaker 2: rights movement at a very young age. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he was assassinated at the age of thirty eight, I
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  Speaker 2: mean just a young young man.
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  Speaker 1: And here is what.
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  Speaker 2: Is difficult to separate is the myth from facts.
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  Speaker 1: Sixty three years after his most popular.
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  Speaker 2: Speech, and that speech has been endlessly replayed and dissected
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  Speaker 2: and misinterpreted. What is very seldom mentioned, the dream phrase
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  Speaker 2: at the climax of the speech was not just the
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  Speaker 2: result of his improvisational brilliance, which, by the way, he had.
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  Speaker 1: The guy was an doctor.
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  Speaker 2: King was an extraordinary speaker and communicator, one of the
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  Speaker 2: greatest country ever has. But the dream speech, that phrase
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the speech wasn't the result of
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  Speaker 2: just his improvisational brilliance.
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  Speaker 1: He had help along the way.
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  Speaker 2: Now, some historians say that should actually deepen one's appreciation
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  Speaker 2: of King's genius and not take away from it that
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  Speaker 2: King was able to stitch that idea from Adams, right,
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  Speaker 2: the white banker who wrote in the twenties about the
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  Speaker 2: American dream, and King was able to take that idea
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  Speaker 2: from Adams and.
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  Speaker 1: Move it into the mission of the civil rights movement.
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  Speaker 2: That is part of his genius is taking that and
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  Speaker 2: now it became actually not just the metaphor, but the
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  Speaker 2: proclamation of the civil rights movement. I have a dream, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I want to continue on with some history about the
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  Speaker 2: Martin Luther King.
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  Speaker 1: I have a dream speech because today national.
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  Speaker 2: Holiday Martin Luther King Day, and his most iconic speech
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  Speaker 2: as he stood in front of two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand people the podium in front of Lincoln Memorial in
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  Speaker 2: August in nineteen sixty three, was I have a dream
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  Speaker 2: that no one is ever going to forget. I actually
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  Speaker 2: saw that live. I was really young, but I saw
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  Speaker 2: it live, and I don't remember a whole lot of it. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: the only thing I remember is the video of the
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  Speaker 2: crowds and Bob Dylan singing. Young Bob Dylan was singing there.
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  Speaker 2: In any case, the history of the I have a
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  Speaker 2: Dream speech is a little bit more complicated than the
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  Speaker 2: general feeling or the myth. Actually, if you will, it
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  Speaker 2: was spontaneous. He just threw it in at the end,
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  Speaker 2: and he came up with that.
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  Speaker 1: Not really.
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  Speaker 2: The person who actually came up with the metaphor, the
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  Speaker 2: I have a Dream metaphor for America was a guy
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  Speaker 2: with the name of James Thurlow Adams, a white banker
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  Speaker 2: during the depression, a rich guy. Now what's interesting is
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  Speaker 2: that Adams was anti King. King was a democratic socialist,
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  Speaker 2: suspicious of capitalism, un federal capitalism. Wanted universal health care
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  Speaker 2: and education, a guaranteed annual income, the nationalization of some industries.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to run for mayor, but bom Donnie
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  Speaker 2: got him to it beforehand. And he believed the federal
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  Speaker 2: government should do more for disadvantaged people. Adams was the
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  Speaker 2: other way. He believed in small government. Was born into
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  Speaker 2: a fairly wealthy New York family. As I said, he
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  Speaker 2: became a successful Wall Street investment banker, and he made
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  Speaker 2: enough money off of his investments to retire and pursue
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  Speaker 2: his true passion writing history books. Matter of fact, he
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  Speaker 2: won a Puellish Surprise for History in nineteen twenty two
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  Speaker 2: for a book he wrote, The Founding of New England. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when he wrote the book The Epic of America, his
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  Speaker 2: faith in America had been truly shaken because the gap
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  Speaker 2: between the have and the have nots had widened, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean really widened. Sounds familiar to us. Americans were
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  Speaker 2: losing faith in democracy. Authoritarian governments were on the rise
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  Speaker 2: in Europe, and it was a different time, different place.
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  Speaker 2: The argument also, the various countries around the world are
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  Speaker 2: turning far right.
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  Speaker 1: This is fairly new what we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: This also happened in the thirties, not to the extent
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  Speaker 2: of the thirties.
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  Speaker 1: And what Adams did is he created this.
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  Speaker 2: Image of a dream to describe the America he wanted,
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  Speaker 2: and he wanted to call his book the American Dream.
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  Speaker 2: The publisher said, nah, publishers said, no, one's going to
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  Speaker 2: pay three dollars for a book about a dream. That
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  Speaker 2: was a lot of money for a book in those days.
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  Speaker 2: But he knew that the metaphor had power. He invoked that.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote that phrase at least thirty times in his book.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote that his vision of America was not a
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  Speaker 2: dream of motor cars and high wages. Not just that,
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  Speaker 2: but a dream of a social order in which each
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  Speaker 2: man and each woman shall be able to attain the
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  Speaker 2: fullest nature of which they are innately capable, recognized by
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  Speaker 2: others for what they are, regardless of the circumstances of
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  Speaker 2: birth or population.
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  Speaker 1: Does that sound like the king speech? Sure does.
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  Speaker 2: Adams then gave this view a name, and that is
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  Speaker 2: the Dream. It became a Bestsellers were desperate, desperate for
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  Speaker 2: a view of a better future, and so they went
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  Speaker 2: to his book, I mean stampeded to his book. It
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  Speaker 2: came out in the early thirties, the rock bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the Great Depression.
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  Speaker 1: There were fears that America was actually going to dissolve.
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  Speaker 2: Because of hunger and poverty, and so this dream metaphor
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  Speaker 2: became part.
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  Speaker 1: Of popular culture.
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  Speaker 2: The book circulated with American soldiers fighting fascism during World
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  Speaker 2: War Two, and by.
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  Speaker 1: The time he died.
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  Speaker 2: Adams died in nineteen forty eight, he became pretty bitter
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  Speaker 2: by the direction of America. The country had defeated fascism
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  Speaker 2: in Europe. President Roosevelt had the New Deal, which did
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  Speaker 2: save the economy and kept a lot of people from starving.
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  Speaker 2: The US emerged from World War Two as the world's
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  Speaker 2: greatest superpower.
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  Speaker 1: No one was even close. We owned the world.
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  Speaker 2: But Adams was disillusioned by Roosevelt and the New Deal.
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  Speaker 2: Why because he thought the New Deal gave too much
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  Speaker 2: power to the government and betrayed the American tradition of
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  Speaker 2: self reliance. Does that sound like a political movement that
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  Speaker 2: we're looking at now? And here is scholars looking at it.
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety one, a committee of scholars concluded King
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  Speaker 2: plagiarized passage of his speech in his dissertation for a
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  Speaker 2: doctoral degree.
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  Speaker 1: He is doctor Martin.
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  Speaker 2: Luther King got a doctorate at Boston University, and the
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  Speaker 2: scholars said that he had a appropriated the words without
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  Speaker 2: proper attribution.
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  Speaker 1: That'll get you fired.
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  Speaker 2: Today, by the way, plagiarism, that's one of the few
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  Speaker 2: things that we'll get a pressor professor fired with tenure,
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  Speaker 2: get a professor knocked off the faculty. Now you've got
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  Speaker 2: scholars who say that he really didn't steal the rhetorical
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  Speaker 2: thunder from Adams, although he clearly did.
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  Speaker 1: He simply gave it more power.
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  Speaker 2: He borrowed quotes from White Protestant ministers, the Black Church.
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  Speaker 1: He never sided the sources.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, if you look at the Dream Speech,
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  Speaker 2: he alludes to quotes from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
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  Speaker 2: the Emancipation Proclamation. The Gettysburg Address also considered one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest speeches in the history of our.
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  Speaker 1: Country, probably way up there, maybe the greatest. John F.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy asked, not what your country can do for you,
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  Speaker 2: ask what you can do for your country.
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  Speaker 1: Extraordinary speech.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, the history of that speech doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make it any less powerful. I believe that Martin Luther
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  Speaker 2: King as he uttered those words. And the wonder of
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  Speaker 2: it is that we have that, we can look at it,
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  Speaker 2: we can experience it. The record of it and seeing
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  Speaker 2: him actually give that speech stays with us, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: stay with us forever.
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  Speaker 1: Martin Luther King.
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  Speaker 2: It's Martin Luther King Day, celebrating all day, the great
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  Speaker 2: civil rights leader. So I just want to give you
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  Speaker 1: Gulf of America.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much it costs to redo the
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: there's a little history there. This one is you truly
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  Speaker 2: actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and
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  Speaker 2: actually before the World Trade Center, it was actually the tallest.
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  Speaker 2: But President Trump on September eleventh, way before he was president,
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  Speaker 2: called up and said, hey, my apartment building is now
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  Speaker 2: the tallest building.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. That one is just weird.
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  Speaker 2: Here's one that is beyond weird, and that is the
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  Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act. He said this, I've heard him say
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  Speaker 2: this led to white people being very badly treated. The
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  Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act is anti white people, and they were
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  Speaker 2: very badly treated. This was in interview with The New
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  Speaker 2: York Times. Another fun one, and by the way, I
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  Speaker 2: agree with him on this.
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  Speaker 1: He vowed to bring.
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  Speaker 2: Back plastic straws because paper ones explode in minutes. That's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely true. They actually become oatmeal, they don't explode. And
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  Speaker 2: I would love to see a presidential directive. Now, most
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  Speaker 2: presidential directives along this line who pays attention to because
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  Speaker 2: it made no sense. But I would love to see
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  Speaker 2: a presidential directive, not that it has any force, but
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  Speaker 2: he's right on that one. Remember he talked about the
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  Speaker 2: penis size of golfer Arnold Palmer, and Palmer couldn't respond
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  Speaker 2: because he was already dead at the time. On COVID
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  Speaker 2: he said, children are almost and I would almost say definitely,
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  Speaker 2: but almost immune from this disease. So few they've gotten stronger, well,
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  Speaker 2: relatively speaking, fewer dead, but some have died.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to believe. I don't know how you feel about it.
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  Speaker 2: They have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow
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  Speaker 2: for this, And it was I guess there was some
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  Speaker 2: truth to it that kids weren't as affected as adults,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: elderly and particularly babies that were affected. This one really
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  Speaker 2: really smashed me, and I said, please, you couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: said that. A hero of mine, John McCain, who I
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: had interviewed in twenty fifteen. He was asked about running
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: and John McCain was also running, and he said, this
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  Speaker 2: is Trump. I like people who weren't captured. He's not
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  Speaker 2: a war hero. I like people who weren't captured. John
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  Speaker 2: McCain is a genuine war hero. He was shot down
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  Speaker 2: and spent I think six years in a North the
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  Speaker 2: enemy's jail.
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  Speaker 1: Was offered to be released.
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  Speaker 2: By the North Vietnamese because his dad was an admiral,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, no, not until the rest of my
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: compatriots are released, the rest of the prisoners, and because
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: of that he was tortured horribly that he turned down
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the offer.
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  Speaker 1: Nuking hurricanes.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Reportedly asked a top national security official if they could
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: stop hurricanes from hitting the US by dropping nuclear bombs
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  Speaker 2: into the eye of the storm. Now, there's a lot
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of attributions to a lot of these. By the way,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: all of these this isn't just single source.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: And remember this one.
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  Speaker 2: During the twenty twenty COVID briefing, he wondered aloud whether
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: injecting disinfectant clorox into your body or using ultraviolet light
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: inside the body could cure virus. And he was looking
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: at the I think it was Fauci and one of
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the heads of the CDs, and they.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Were looking at him like he is nuts, completely nuts.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most horrible one is pardoning fifteen hundred
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: rioters claiming they were patriots.
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  Speaker 1: That was tough. He's misspeaks a lot.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: During the March twenty, twenty twenty five speech on wasteful spending,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: he said the US is spending eight million dollars on
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: making mice transgender. I think he missed the term up
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: with transgenic mice used in medical research as opposed to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: transgender mice. Describing Hurricane Florence in twenty eighteen, he called
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: it one of the wettest we've ever seen from the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: standpoint of water. I guess that's true. I guess that's true.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: He repeatedly claimed that the noise from wind turbines caused cancer. Okay,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: didn't know that, that's news. And a couple things that
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: he had the power to do, which he did. Replace
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the g in the White House rose garden with stone
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: papers and concrete and created a sort of a patio
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: furnace with patio furniture. Sighting issues with wet grass and
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: high heels for women at events, He's right, by the way,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: women wearing high heels on grass does.
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  Speaker 1: Not work very well.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: And the one that a lot of us are having
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: problems with, adding that three hundred million dollar ballroom to
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the east wing, I mean taking down the East wing
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: and putting in the ballroom. And now, because the ballroom
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: has a bigger footprint than the White House itself, he's
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: taking the west wing and creating the same a mirror
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: image of the East wing the ballroom, and so the
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: White House is going to look completely totally different. Does
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: he have the power to do that? Well, who's going
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: to stop him? Actually, there is annal of historians who
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: rule on this who actually can make the decision to
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: change the White House?
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And he ignored them. But who's going to stop him.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: The only way that he can be stopped is I
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: guess the Department of Justice files a lawsuit and stops him. Right, Yeah,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that's going to happen in this lifetime. All right, we're done,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: guys coming up, it's Gary and Shannon. Gary's back, right,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: So okay, that happens tomorrow. Everybody is back, Heather, thank
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: you for being here time. Yeah, I'm supposed to say that,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: so I have to thank you, okay, and then we're
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: back with a regular crowd tomorrow morning with Amy and
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Me and Neil and Kono and Ann and Will. I
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: know Will likes to be mentioned because Will has no
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: self esteem whatsoever, and so I have to tell everybody
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: how great Will is.
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