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OneLegUpAlex Media Takes You Inside the Signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776- recorded July 4, 2026 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: And here we are two hundred and fifty years later.
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  Speaker 1: It is America's Birthday. Happy America through fifty from one
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  Speaker 1: leg up alex Media. And this overture is from seventeen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six, now four years ago. If you might remember,
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  Speaker 1: I woke up in the nation's birthplace, Philadelphia, and I'd
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  Speaker 1: said the time, you know, going to that Fireworks cent
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  Speaker 1: on July third, twenty twenty two with the Phillies, and
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  Speaker 1: of course they go on to make it the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Well then I had to go to Fireworks cent on
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  Speaker 1: July third for the Yankees. Well, it took a few years.
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  Speaker 1: The last night I finally made it. You could check
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  Speaker 1: it out alex g NYC one. And really the Independence
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  Speaker 1: Day eve was insane when to see the ships come
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  Speaker 1: in the class beat Tall ships and then went to work,
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  Speaker 1: then went up to the Yankee Stadium and then whether
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  Speaker 1: the Times Square to ring in Independence Day for the
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  Speaker 1: historic second ball drop. But today I have a challenge
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  Speaker 1: for myself to make this an episode seventeen minutes and
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  Speaker 1: seventy six seconds. I don't know if that's even possible,
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  Speaker 1: but you get the point. I want to get through
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  Speaker 1: it as close to seventeen minutes and seventy six seconds possible.
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  Speaker 1: Of course that's another minute, but you get the point,
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  Speaker 1: because today is a day where I want to put
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  Speaker 1: politicians aside. Mom, Donnie and Trump should not try and
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  Speaker 1: take any kind of starring role in this. This is
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  Speaker 1: not about politicians today. This is about what our founding
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  Speaker 1: fathers did two hundred fifty years ago. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: the vote on Thursday, and this solidified all of it,
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  Speaker 1: from the Boston Tea Party to poll Revere's midnight ride.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it again, to Washington, crossing the Delaware,
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  Speaker 1: to the Intercontinental Army, to the Continental Congress, and the
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  Speaker 1: bloodshed and the veterans that died for our beginning freedoms
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years ago. I said it Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it again. Those that fought to keep to
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  Speaker 1: make us free are the original veterans. And we are
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  Speaker 1: so appreciative of those vets and those soldiers that continue
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  Speaker 1: to fight for us, that continue to fight to keep
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  Speaker 1: America free. But today is not about politics. Today is
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  Speaker 1: about the as Hamilton says, the notion and the ideals
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  Speaker 1: that the nation was built on the values of sales governments,
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  Speaker 1: governance of freedom from tyranny. We can debate how we
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  Speaker 1: continue that freedom tomorrow and the weeks to come, but
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  Speaker 1: this is not a day to either praise Trump, bash Trump,
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  Speaker 1: praise Mam Donnie bashmum Donnie. It's not a day for that.
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  Speaker 1: Today's a day where we selectrictly celebrate this moment where
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  Speaker 1: and I'm publishing this about ten o'clock, where two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty years ago, this very time, this very time,
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  Speaker 1: our signers signed the Declaration of Independence. And let's take
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  Speaker 1: you to that moment thanks to the movie. And of
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  Speaker 1: course the declaration wasn't fully signed till August second, but
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  Speaker 1: this scene from seventeen seventy six, seven minutes twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: seconds of it takes us inside the very moment this signing.
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  Speaker 2: Happened, the storm and a skiff made of paper.
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  Speaker 3: How chill end that only knows.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty large Signma gere, Johnny, so fat George
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  Speaker 2: and London can read it without his glasses, all right, chef.
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  Speaker 3: Right up, gentlemen, don't miss your chance to commit treason.
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  Speaker 4: My god, it's right. This paper is our passport to
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  Speaker 4: the gallows.
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  Speaker 3: But there's no backing out now for if we do
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  Speaker 3: not hang together, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
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  Speaker 5: In my case, hanging won't be so bad.
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  Speaker 2: One snap and it'll be all over, just like that.
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  Speaker 2: But look and read there he'll be dancing a cheek
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  Speaker 2: long after I am gone. Cathern, forgive me if I
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  Speaker 2: don't join in the merriment.
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  Speaker 3: But if we are arrested now, my name is.
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  Speaker 1: Still the only one on the time.
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  Speaker 2: From the Commander Armied the United Colonies, in Army of
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  Speaker 2: the United States in New York, Dispatch number two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and nine to the Honorable Congress John Hancock, President, Dear Sir,
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  Speaker 2: I can now report with some certainty that the eve
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  Speaker 2: of battle is.
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  Speaker 4: Near at hand.
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  Speaker 2: Toward this end, I have ordered the evacuation of Manhattan
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  Speaker 2: and directed our defenses to take up stronger positions on
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  Speaker 2: the Brooklyn Heights. At the present time, my forces consist
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  Speaker 2: entirely of Haslets, Delaware militia, and Smallwoods Marrylanders, a total
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  Speaker 2: of five thousand troops to stand against twenty five thousand.
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  Speaker 4: Of the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: And I begin to notice that many of us are
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  Speaker 2: lads under fifteen and old men, none of whom could
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  Speaker 2: truly be called soldiers. One personal note to mister Lewis
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  Speaker 2: Morris of New York. I must regretfully report that his
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  Speaker 2: estates have been totally destroyed, but that I have taken
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  Speaker 2: the liberty of transporting Missus Morris and eight of the
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  Speaker 2: children to Connecticut in safety. The four older boys are
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  Speaker 2: now enlisted in the Continental Army. As I write these words,
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  Speaker 2: the enemy is plainly in sight beyond the river. How
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  Speaker 2: it will end. Only Providence can direct the dear God.
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  Speaker 2: But brave men, I shall lose before this business.
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  Speaker 4: Ends. You're Obedientent g Washington.
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  Speaker 1: At that point they put the calendars July.
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  Speaker 3: For very well, gentlemen. But yeah, go ring a bottom,
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  Speaker 3: mister President, mister Morris to hell in New York.
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  Speaker 6: I'll sign it anyway, thank.
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  Speaker 3: You, mister Morris.
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  Speaker 4: Stephen said, don.
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  Speaker 2: No, I want to remember each man's face as he signs.
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  Speaker 3: Very well, Thounson.
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  Speaker 2: You Hampshire, doctor Josiah Bartlett, Massachusetts, Mister John Adams, Rhode Island,
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  Speaker 2: mister Stephen Hopkins, Connecticut, mister Roger Sherman, New York, mister
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  Speaker 2: Lewis Morris, New Jersey, the Reverend to John with this food, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Benjamin Franklin.
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  Speaker 5: Delaware, mister Caesar Rodney, and.
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  Speaker 1: One by one they step up to sign the declaration
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  Speaker 1: four hundred fifty years ago. As an actor in seventeen seventy.
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  Speaker 5: Six, married Land, mister Samuel Chase, Virginia, mister Thomas Jefferson,
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  Speaker 5: North Carolina, mister Joseph Hughes, South Carolina, mister Edward Bruckley, Georgia,
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  Speaker 5: doctor Lyman Hall.
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  Speaker 7: All this happened.
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  Speaker 1: Around two years ago, this very moment as the fun
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  Speaker 1: of Hall, and I really thought seventeen seventy six for
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  Speaker 1: the way they did this. Now, as you might know,
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  Speaker 1: I got to do a tour of independence Hall at
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  Speaker 1: the very time our fronting fathers signed it. I want
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  Speaker 1: to play that for you. It's about four minutes long. Here,
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  Speaker 1: as we continue to commemorate this historic moment, here's what
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  Speaker 1: our tour guide said on that day four years ago
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  Speaker 1: when I went to Philly. Well, I'm Alex Garrett and
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  Speaker 1: just back from Philadelphia, and what a special time in
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia to honor seventeen seventy six. I'm posting this on
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  Speaker 1: both of my podcasts, Alex scare Podcasting and my YouTube
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  Speaker 1: channel because I want to share with you some video,
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  Speaker 1: some audio, from Yes, the Independence Hall room where it happened,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the song room where it happened. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: was in the room where the declaration of independence happened,
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  Speaker 1: and it was the assembly room they call it of
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  Speaker 1: Independence Hall. I want to get to that in a second,
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  Speaker 1: but I do want to give you ads up that
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  Speaker 1: this is just a preamble. Okay, you know the Constitution
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  Speaker 1: as the preamble this trip. I joke this weekend watching
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies, going to re create some imagery that you
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  Speaker 1: could see on Alex g nys one on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: That was just a preamble.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be in Philadelphia, the birthplace of America,
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  Speaker 1: for year two fifty, for when we turn two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty in twenty twenty six, and as I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: in the podcast recently, I want to also have this
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  Speaker 1: country prove Sir John Bagott Club wrong that this empire
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  Speaker 1: will not fall in two hundred and fifty years.
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  Speaker 4: We will go beyond that. We can.
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  Speaker 1: Putting politics aside. We have the fortitude as a nation
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  Speaker 1: and as a people.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: We have the fortitude to last two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: six years. We have the damn fortitude to last even more,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks be to God. Now I want to take you
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  Speaker 1: inside the room where it happened as our tour guide
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  Speaker 1: for the National Park Services. By the way, unbelievable job
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  Speaker 1: of preserving everything, the chairs, the way the tables were,
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  Speaker 1: everything about that set up for the Independence Hall is
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  Speaker 1: very special. So so I'm employing now and take a
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  Speaker 1: look at the words and listen to the words of
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  Speaker 1: our tour guide, John who's been there seven years now
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  Speaker 1: in Menon Hall, talking about the Second Continental Congress and
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  Speaker 1: a bun the declar's independence and the vote of yes
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  Speaker 1: on July second.
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  Speaker 7: And this is the second condom, that of Congress, which
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  Speaker 7: took us all the way through the depth to the Constitution.
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  Speaker 7: We're not exactly sure how people who are sat here,
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  Speaker 7: but we've arranged them from north to south because that's
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  Speaker 7: the south end, the north end of the building. Okay,
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  Speaker 7: So this.
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  Speaker 4: Would be the Newing States.
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  Speaker 7: To New York and so forth and so on, and
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  Speaker 7: this would be the southern States starting with Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 8: On July the.
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  Speaker 7: Second of seventeen seventy six, they approved Richard Henry Lea's proposal.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 7: John Adams was so excited he wrote to his wife
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  Speaker 7: and said Oh, my goodness, July the second will go
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  Speaker 7: down in history with parades and fireworks and all.
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  Speaker 4: Kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I was here at July of the second, and then after.
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  Speaker 7: All, right, well, that's kind of interesting to see what they.
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  Speaker 1: Thought was important.
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  Speaker 6: Then on July the fourth, have.
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  Speaker 7: You made seventy seven and the eighty two potential changes?
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  Speaker 7: They approved the declaration. Now, the declaration was not signed
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  Speaker 7: until August second because John Hancock, who was President of
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  Speaker 7: the Continental Congress, wanted a fancy one on sheet skin
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  Speaker 7: and so forth and so on. And that's the one
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  Speaker 7: you see down in the Library of Congress. If you
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  Speaker 7: haven't seen it for a while, or have never seen it,
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  Speaker 7: you might want in realness.
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  Speaker 1: That is the history of our Declaration of Independence. And
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  Speaker 1: on this birthday two forty six, I say, God, bless America,
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  Speaker 1: God bless our funding fathers. We are not perfect. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're not, but you know what, we have the fortitude
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  Speaker 1: to last beyond two forty six and then beyond two
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  Speaker 1: fifty pretty wild. I said that four years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: here we are now. I'm not in Philadelphia yet. I
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  Speaker 1: will be there. I thought i'd get down there for
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  Speaker 1: the fourth but just a lot of hecticness. I will
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  Speaker 1: be there for the All Star Game weekend because it's right.
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  Speaker 1: It's only right that Philly hosts the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: in year two fifty, So in some way, I somewhat
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  Speaker 1: called it four years ago. I'd be back down there
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  Speaker 1: during the month of July when we celebrate America to
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  Speaker 1: fifty and we all know MLB will definitely celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: nation's birthday on July fourteenth in America now in Citizens
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  Speaker 1: Bay Park of America. Now, one last thing I want
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  Speaker 1: to do before I sign off is about two hundred
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  Speaker 1: fifty years ago this time, the Declaration of Independence was
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  Speaker 1: officially read to the public. And this clip is from
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  Speaker 1: the HBO series John Adams.
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  Speaker 8: When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary
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  Speaker 8: for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
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  Speaker 8: connected them with another, and to assume among the powers
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  Speaker 8: of the earth the separate and equal station to which
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  Speaker 8: the laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them.
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  Speaker 8: A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that
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  Speaker 8: they should declare the clauses which impel them to the separation.
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  Speaker 9: We hold these truths to be self evident, and this
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  Speaker 9: woman are created equal and that they are endowed by
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  Speaker 9: their creator with certain.
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  Speaker 6: Is worth it unalienable.
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  Speaker 9: With certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty,
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  Speaker 9: and the pursuit of happiness.
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  Speaker 8: That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,
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  Speaker 8: it is in the right of the people to alter
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  Speaker 8: or abolish it, and to institute new government. The history
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  Speaker 8: of the present King of Great Britain is a history
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  Speaker 8: of repeated injuries, all having in direct object the establishment
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  Speaker 8: of an absolute tyranny over these states.
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  Speaker 6: In every stage of these oppressions we have petition for
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  Speaker 6: redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have
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  Speaker 6: been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character
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  Speaker 6: is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant,
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  Speaker 6: is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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  Speaker 8: We therefore, the representatives of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 8: solemnly publish and declare that these United colleagues are and
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  Speaker 8: of right ought to be free and independent states, that
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  Speaker 8: they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crowd.
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  Speaker 6: And for the support of this declaration, with the firm
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  Speaker 6: reliance on the protection of Divine providence, we mutually pledged
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  Speaker 6: to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honors.
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  Speaker 8: God save our American States.
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  Speaker 3: What that is chill?
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  Speaker 1: But if you're listening with me at the onely up alacmedia,
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  Speaker 1: that is chills. That is the declaraious of independence, And
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  Speaker 1: that was the public reading and other voices. Probably the
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  Speaker 1: wives of those founding fathers were certainly Abigail Adams in
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  Speaker 1: the series John Adams around this time two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty years ago. God, I love history. I love preserving history.
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  Speaker 1: I love talking about history because I'll tell you we
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  Speaker 1: need to do that as there are factions that try
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  Speaker 1: and take us over. And I don't know if this
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  Speaker 1: is AI or if this is from a movie, but
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  Speaker 1: I do want to end with this, Ben Franklin, with
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  Speaker 1: these words, because this is where we're at. I want
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  Speaker 1: to make it to year three hundred. But we have
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  Speaker 1: to be a republic for which it stands one nation
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  Speaker 1: under God. Yes, but a republic that was founded two
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  Speaker 1: hundred fifty years ago, and we must keep it that way, right,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Benjamin Franklin, Well, doctor, what have we got? A
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  Speaker 1: republic or a monarchy?
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  Speaker 2: A republic if you can keep it?
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  Speaker 1: And that, my friends, is my message, thanks to Ben Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: A republic if we can keep it, May we keep it,
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  Speaker 1: and may we honor it, and may we celebrate and
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  Speaker 1: not let any politician tell us what to do, because
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  Speaker 1: that's not how we were formed. We were formed in
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  Speaker 1: freedom and self governance, Thanks be to God,