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7-3: American Pride Is Back! - And Don't You Ever Apologize For It · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: America's back. Baby. That's an expression you hear all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's a meme you see all the time too on
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  Speaker 1: social media. And it makes sense. It's America's birthday, heading
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  Speaker 1: up to this, all the different things for our semi quincentennial.
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  Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you something. I don't think America
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  Speaker 1: being back, in America pride being back. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's just hype. And I don't think it's just marketing
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  Speaker 1: what you see everywhere, which I think is actually cool too.
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  Speaker 1: For America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is back. But you may be like me.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you need proof. You need hard evidence. You need
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  Speaker 1: to be able to see concrete evidence that America's back.
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  Speaker 1: How is it? I think I have it for you.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the thing too, And this is the biggest
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  Speaker 1: takeaway for today as we head into America's two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fiftieth birthday, which is still relatively young in world
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  Speaker 1: history terms. Don't ever ever apologize for being patriotic ever,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get into it. Thanks for finding me. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you. Happy birthday and happy fourth to two light weekend,
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  Speaker 1: all of you, all of US eanks. You find a
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  Speaker 1: Wicked radio live stream and replay on x YouTube, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: you'd just like to listen wherever you liked to get
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  Speaker 1: those as well. Now let's get into it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's just hype, and I don't think it's just circumstance,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think it's just a sign of the times.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've now through a turn of events. We
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  Speaker 1: have hard, concrete evidence that American pride, America itself is back.
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  Speaker 1: I really truly believe that. Now. Of course, all the celebrations,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see him everywhere, Awesome, awesome things happening
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see all the way through this weekend
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  Speaker 1: and beyond for America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Did
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  Speaker 1: you happen to see some of the drone shows that
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  Speaker 1: have happened already, Absolutely amazing. There's one in North Texas
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  Speaker 1: that had not only a combination of fireworks and drones
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  Speaker 1: in different images of like American eagles and flags and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. Absolutely amazing. Foreign nations have added to
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  Speaker 1: different things. Japan sent I think a couple hundred more
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  Speaker 1: cherry blossoms to Washington, DC. France has added some different things.
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  Speaker 1: They put the American flag on the Eiffel Tower. That's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere you go, much like in nineteen seventy six for
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  Speaker 1: our bi centennial, you see American celebrations in the flags
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  Speaker 1: and everywhere. And I'm into that because, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: you can go to one of two ways when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to patriotism. And yes, it's true, it is a
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  Speaker 1: form of propaganda. You can choose to embrace it or
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  Speaker 1: rail against it. And that's just the way it goes.
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  Speaker 1: And I will tell you this, and let's lead it
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  Speaker 1: off by starting about this by talking about this. Whether
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  Speaker 1: or not you even voted for Trump, whether he's fallen
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  Speaker 1: out a favor for you, or whether you're supporting him
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  Speaker 1: now more than ever, you better thank your lucky stars.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we all should that he's the guy
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  Speaker 1: guiding us through this entire thing, because the alternative would
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  Speaker 1: have been two straight years of this. And you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm right about this. America is bad, we were never great.
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  Speaker 1: We need to apologize for the stolen land, and the
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  Speaker 1: celebrations would have been doused and it would have been
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  Speaker 1: more doubt and more controversy and more divide and all
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  Speaker 1: this other crap. That's the truth. You know, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: Because this guy is so patriotic, and because he had
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  Speaker 1: directed the administration to do so much, we've gone the
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  Speaker 1: opposite direction. That's the better way to go, especially when
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  Speaker 1: it comes up to something big like our two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fiftieth it's the last one most of us are
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  Speaker 1: ever going to experience. I'm old now, I'm in my fifties.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember as a child in nineteen seventy six
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  Speaker 1: for the bi centennial, and it was awesome. I do
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  Speaker 1: remember that, But this is so much bigger. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about celebrations. Know about President Trump kicking off
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  Speaker 1: the Great American State Fair just the other night, well
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  Speaker 1: actually ten days ago. But this is what he said
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  Speaker 1: summed it up pretty well in the introduction.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you Lee, and hello Washington, and a very
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  Speaker 2: big hello to America. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: America.
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  Speaker 2: And ten days from now, our country will sell one
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  Speaker 2: of the most monumental milestones in human history, will mark
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years of glorious American freedom. In
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  Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six, our founding fathers met in Philadelphia and
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  Speaker 2: changed the world forever and ever with a thing called
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  Speaker 2: the Declaration of Independent.
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  Speaker 1: We forget too, and just as a history buff and
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  Speaker 1: I've become one as they get older in life and
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  Speaker 1: you read about American history and world history, and you
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  Speaker 1: realize what an amazing, unbelievable accomplishment that was from our
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  Speaker 1: founding fathers. Can you imagine if they had bailed halfway through,
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  Speaker 1: like our senators are now about the Save America Act
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  Speaker 1: and just said, well, no, we're gonna go okay, well
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the votes, let's talk about let's go
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  Speaker 1: to recess and we'll talk about.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: They did not do that, and they faced great personal
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  Speaker 1: and financial risk at doing this, and our founding fathers,
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  Speaker 1: many of them, many of the signers of that Declaration
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  Speaker 1: of Independence, were literally hunted down by the British afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Many of them, almost all of them. Don't ever forget
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  Speaker 1: that as well, what it took to get to this
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  Speaker 1: point in time, and all of the amazing accomplishments, all
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  Speaker 1: of the great Americans, all of our heroes that displayed
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  Speaker 1: this American pride throughout our two hundred and fifty years
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  Speaker 1: of the entire thing. But it's amazing as we look
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  Speaker 1: at this celebration right now, it's just an amazing turn
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  Speaker 1: of events. I talked about it and that it is
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  Speaker 1: better that you've got Trump in office or a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Trump to guide us through this birthday right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's amazing how things turned around. It just is
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  Speaker 1: as he claims, as many people believe, he thinks the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty election was stolen. So fought for things like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, the World Cup and the Olympics for
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  Speaker 1: this period of time, but then didn't get to celebrated.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously in twenty twenty wouldn't have had that, But now
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  Speaker 1: he does. Isn't that amazing? And I'm telling you, as
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  Speaker 1: part of all this America pride being back, you want
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  Speaker 1: evidence this World Cup tournament is a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: just a soccer tournament. It has turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot more. I mean, besides the fact that this
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  Speaker 1: is US men's national team is putting on a clinic
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  Speaker 1: on how to represent your country. I didn't know anybody
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  Speaker 1: would even be on par with our hockey team during
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics, remember how great they were. But these guys
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  Speaker 1: have been amazing no matter how far they go. In
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  Speaker 1: this tournament, whether they win the whole thing or not,
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  Speaker 1: which would be amazing. But they have been great. But
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  Speaker 1: there's something else, And you and I have talked about
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  Speaker 1: this on the podcast before. Sometimes you got to realize
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  Speaker 1: how awesome you are by seeing it through somebody else's
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  Speaker 1: eyes to get an objective opinion. And you could cherry
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  Speaker 1: pick any clip you want, any one of them. There
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  Speaker 1: have been so many and fans visiting the US for
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup from all over the world, so many
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  Speaker 1: of them saying the exact same thing. What are they
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  Speaker 1: saying this country, the US is amazing and we're not
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  Speaker 1: getting that picture from where we're from In this case,
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  Speaker 1: two Europeans. Listen to what they say, and this is
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  Speaker 1: echoed through almost every single video you can find of
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  Speaker 1: World Cup fans visiting the US. They all seem to
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  Speaker 1: say the same thing. They've not experienced what America is
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  Speaker 1: like and what they were told about what we were
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  Speaker 1: like through you guessed it. Their media, just like our
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  Speaker 1: media was a complete and total lie. They've not faced
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  Speaker 1: this kind of freedom, they've not experienced it. Now they are,
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  Speaker 1: all of them are saying, this is not.
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  Speaker 3: What's happening in America. But then you go there and
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  Speaker 3: it is the cellist place in the world. Everybody is
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  Speaker 3: super friendly, and that doesn't penetrate the European media.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many people missing out on actually experience America
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  Speaker 1: exactly the culture for what actually is because people obviously
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  Speaker 1: see that and get scared and feel.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh, I shouldn't go, I shouldn't go, but it should.
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  Speaker 3: Ancestors or European ancestors went there and they say like
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  Speaker 3: in Europe and the media or America doesn't have any culture.
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  Speaker 1: But it does.
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  Speaker 3: It has every culture in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. I mean you could, like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: just cherry picked that as there's one of them I
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  Speaker 1: grabbed this morning to play for you. But there's tens
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of clips just like that, people from different
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  Speaker 1: countries all over the world. That's evidence saying the same
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  Speaker 1: thing we weren't told. It's not like what we were told,
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  Speaker 1: and you get here. America is amazing, and they're also
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  Speaker 1: realizing that they don't have the kinds they may have
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  Speaker 1: thought they had freedoms from back in their home countries,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't. Once they realize what we have. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the funny stuff has been amazing like the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: folks in Texas going everything's big and it's true, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a common theme and you realize and sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: need to take a look at somebody else's opinion of
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  Speaker 1: that thing to see what we have here, and it
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  Speaker 1: truly appreciated. That's what we all should be doing. It's
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  Speaker 1: an amazing, amazing thing. What's happening, an amazing turn of events.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to look through foreign eyes to see
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  Speaker 1: what we have here. America Pride is back, though, and
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  Speaker 1: you see that now. And I'm telling you I said
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  Speaker 1: this in the introduction. I don't think it's just a
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  Speaker 1: marketing hype. I don't think it's just to sell Mercher flags.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's just my experience and maybe I just have
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  Speaker 1: you know, biased eyes and ears. Maybe I sure hear
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things about American Pride from American a
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  Speaker 1: lot more than I did even a year a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago. I think this entire thing, this celebration, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think the World Cup's part of that. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Olympics coming up is going to be
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  Speaker 1: part of that too. I think just in general and
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  Speaker 1: meeting and greeting other people from other parts of the
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  Speaker 1: world and hearing about these kinds of stories, I think
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  Speaker 1: we're starting to cut through the media lies about our
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  Speaker 1: own country. Oh America is so bad, No it's not.
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  Speaker 1: I think America pride is truly, truly back. I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: But you need more proof. You want some more proof.
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  Speaker 1: Put this little list together here. Now, let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to We can't compare it to seventeen seventy six. It
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  Speaker 1: was too long ago. None of us were alive for that.
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  Speaker 1: But get a general sense to the history books of
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  Speaker 1: what America's like. But nineteen seventy six, we know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what our data what America was like. Let's get some
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  Speaker 1: concrete evidence to see if we're better in the past
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  Speaker 1: fifty years. Is America better than it was? Let's take
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  Speaker 1: some different categories. Okay, let's take a look. Let's find
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  Speaker 1: out life expect and see and birth rowse from seventy
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  Speaker 1: two point five years in nineteen seventy six is seventy
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  Speaker 1: nine years. Don't discount that that was from twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four from the last census, but still roughly six and
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  Speaker 1: a half years improvement of life expectancy. Yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. That's things being better infant mortality rates have
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  Speaker 1: gone way down since nineteen seventy six because of technology
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  Speaker 1: and medical advancements and science. Cancer survival rates. Find me
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  Speaker 1: somebody in your life that's not affected one way or
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  Speaker 1: another by cancer. We all have, Believe me, I have
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  Speaker 1: improved dramatically. You may not see that in the medical news,
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  Speaker 1: but it has. The five year relative survival rate for
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  Speaker 1: all cancers combined went from about forty nine to fifty
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  Speaker 1: percent in the mid seventies to seventy percent in recent years.
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  Speaker 1: Even though it's still a scourge. We need to wipe
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  Speaker 1: out with cancer out of it. Safety crime all that's
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  Speaker 1: a violent crime.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Some cities are a disaster, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: New York horrifying, la I get it. We have some
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  Speaker 1: crooked das in this country. When when you look at
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  Speaker 1: it the overall picture and you compare to where we
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  Speaker 1: were fifty years ago, violent crime rates are lower today
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  Speaker 1: than in nineteen seventy six, all violent crime. How about
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  Speaker 1: traffic fatality rates? This one actually shocked me. Plummeting deaths
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  Speaker 1: per one hundred million vehicle miles traveled, so per one
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  Speaker 1: hundred million miles fell from three point two to three
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  Speaker 1: and seventy six to about one point two to zero
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  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty four. Now we have more media these days,
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  Speaker 1: we have more dash cams. So it looks like it's worse,
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  Speaker 1: it's really not. And I love this one of all
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  Speaker 1: because you're gonna hear from your far left looty friends
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  Speaker 1: that were killing the earth. America is the biggest violator.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the Green New Deal. Really the world itself.
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  Speaker 1: Mother Earth is healthier now, much healthier than in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six. Air Quality has improved enormously. Combined emissions of
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  Speaker 1: all major pollutants that would be all of the chemicals
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  Speaker 1: that you can't even pronounce correctly, I've dropped seventy six
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  Speaker 1: percent since nineteen seventy six. Specific improvements include lead concentrations
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  Speaker 1: down dramatically, major reductions in fine particles blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: and technology what we did not have in nineteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 1: I know social media has its downfalls. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I know that everybody's afraid of AI, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that. But overall, don't you think having this
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  Speaker 1: technology at our fingertips every single day is a hell
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  Speaker 1: of a lot better. And I'll throw one more into
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  Speaker 1: the mix that's actually not on my list. You have
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  Speaker 1: alternatives to get information these days that you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six or even ten years ago. Now
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be subject to the mainstream media
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  Speaker 1: and what they're telling you, just like those foreign soccer
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  Speaker 1: fans saying we weren't told this through our media. America
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  Speaker 1: is great. I think that may be a major reason
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  Speaker 1: why America pride. American pride is back, as we're actually
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  Speaker 1: getting better information sources. That's just my opinion. But what
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  Speaker 1: is this American proud? What is it right? If you
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  Speaker 1: were to put if you would have just taken a
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  Speaker 1: pen in a paper right now like I have in
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  Speaker 1: front of me, and you were to write down American characteristics,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell does it mean to be a patriotic American?
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean? What are these characteristics? What would
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  Speaker 1: that person be like? Strength? Independence, humor is a big
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  Speaker 1: part of what we do. Individualism, charity because we love
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  Speaker 1: to give to worthy causes that aren't a ripoff. Faith, resilience, optimism, grit.
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  Speaker 1: We got it all by baby, and we never lost it.
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  Speaker 1: It's back and the biggest takeaway of all the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing of all is don't ever, ever, ever, ever
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  Speaker 1: apologize for being patriotic. Take it from a flagwaven patriotic
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  Speaker 1: cheeseball like me, and it won't apologize for it. Happy Birthday, America.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you everybody. Thanks for hanging out with me.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Enjoy what this country has to offer.
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  Speaker 1: We have it almost made. I'll talk to you later.
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  Speaker 1: Be safe, by the way, don't blow off any fingers
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  Speaker 1: or anything else. Don't drink and drive. Celebrate, but be
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  Speaker 1: safe and take a look around. How great we have
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  Speaker 1: it in this country. Are we perfect? Do we have problems?
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, we have problems. We have a lot
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  Speaker 1: to fix. But there's no better country in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Actually hanging out with me Wicked Radio live
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  Speaker 1: stream and then the replay on x YouTube, Facebook, now
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  Speaker 1: to get them. Enjoy