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Ep. 295 Today's Peep Is Proud To Be An American- Stars, Stripes, and Satire: Pat's Peeps Independence Day Spectacular
We celebrate America's Independence Day with a special episode blending patriotic music, political satire, and powerful historical reflections on the meaning of freedom and sacrifice.
• Opening musical performance celebrating American freedom and unity
• Satirical political sketches addressing contemporary cultural debates
• Examination of border security policies through comedic dialogue
• Musical segments highlighting American patriotism and national pride
• Reflection on the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance and its significance
• Story of "The Ragged Old Flag" connecting American history through our national symbol
• Detailed account of the 56 signers of the Declaration and their personal sacrifices
• Exploration of how wealthy, comfortable men risked everything for liberty
Join us in celebrating not just the founding of our nation, but the ongoing responsibility we all share to preserve the freedom that required such tremendous sacrifice.
Welcome my friends, to the Pats Peeps Independence Day Spectacular, Showing appreciation and love and respect for our country and wishing you a very happy Fourth of July. Appreciate you. Coming back to my Pats Peeps, here's blessings to you and your family. And now, without further ado, we bring to you the 2025, the first ever, by the way. Pats Peeps, you like the music? It's pretty epic. Huh, Pats and my voice. I'm doing a match to the voice Pats Peeps Spectacular.
Speaker 2:In the heart of the night, we gather as one, celebrating freedom Under the shining sun. Pats, peeps unite.
Speaker 3:Ready to ignite?
Speaker 2:With a voice that echoes Lifting spirits in flight. Raise your voice, let it ring clear. It's time to stand up. Show no fear.
Speaker 3:So here we are, celebrating with pride, in the spirit of freedom. We will not hide Hats, peep spectacular.
Speaker 2:Let it be known Our voices united, we stand on our own, from the mountains high to the valleys low, our love for the land begins to overflow.
Speaker 3:Independence Day, we're here to declare With passion and pride.
Speaker 2:We'll rise from despair All together In perfect harmony.
Speaker 3:This day reminds us we're truly free. So here we are, celebrating with pride, in the spirit of freedom. We will not hide Hats be spectacular. Let it be known Our voices united, we stand on our own. So here we are celebrating the fight With spirit of freedom. We will not hide, we stand on our own.
Speaker 2:So here we are. Independence shines A beacon so bright. Together, we celebrate Our future inside.
Speaker 4:Name your diseases in ten seconds. All of them? Yes. Okay, so I've got dermatillomania. I've got endometriosis, fibromyalgia, plantar fasciitis. Do I have to do the mental ones too? Yes, do it Hit me hard? Okay, we got Schizophrenia. No, actually. Borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, generalline personality disorder yeah. Major depressive disorder yeah, uh. Generalized anxiety disorder Yep, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh oh.
Speaker 6:Adhd, in case that wasn't obvious and a stutter I'm mad, I'm upset, I'm mad, I'm upset. Why my my feelings are hard? I'm mad, I'm upset. I'm mad, I'm upset. Why my feelings are hard, why my feelings?
Speaker 7:are hard why? Thanks for coming on my show. I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. So you recently starred in the movie Snow White. Tell me what was it like to play Snow Latina? First of all, steven, it was weird, but I did enjoy reimagining the character as a woke Colombian woman who looks like a fish. Well, I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. Are you surprised that everyone hates the movie? Not at all. Society is far too racist and misogynist to appreciate the reimagining of a classic Disney princess as an ugly Colombian chick. I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. You don't think making the movie a woke piece of garbage has anything to do with people hating it? Not really.
Speaker 7:The original story has Snow White falling in love with a prince, but in the remake that's super weird and makes no sense. What kind of prince would fall for a woke Colombian woman who looks like a fish? Wow, I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. Thanks, stephen, excuse me, hello, what's that? You have an idea for a movie that will save Disney's reputation? It's guaranteed to be a hit and you want me to star in it. Come on, steven, let's go see Bob Iger. Thanks for coming, rachel. This Snow White flop has unexpectedly tarnished the reputation of Disney. Who knew reimagining Snow White as a woke Colombian woman who resembles a fish would be so unappealing to audiences everywhere? But I have an idea for a movie that is certain to turn our bad luck around. It sounds amazing. What is it I want? To reimagine Hercules as a woke Colombian woman who looks like a fish. Oh my god, that sounds amazing. I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. I'll take that as a yes.
Speaker 3:Just for show.
Speaker 7:It's me, jimmy Kimmel. I have Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert with me tonight because I don't think I can host the show alone anymore. That's right, I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. We're here to support our friend, jimmy. So, as you know, trump oh jeez, jimmy. It's okay, buddy, I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. James, call the hotline. I'm on it there. There, buddy, cheer up. You have reached the National Self-Harm Prevention Lifeline.
Speaker 6:Please hold it's ringing. National Self-Harm Prevention Lifeline. Please hold it's ringing.
Speaker 7:National Self-Harm Prevention Lifeline. This is Dave. I'm here to help. Hi, Dave, my buddy Jimmy's having a mental breakdown because Trump is out. Trump is out, oh James.
Speaker 8:There there, buddy I sold out years ago and.
Speaker 7:I'm a coward.
Speaker 9:Taste the biscuit. Taste the goodness of the biscuit. I sold out years ago and I'm a coward. I don't like the way it tastes with my chicken wings. Taste the biscuit. Taste the goodness of the biscuit. Taste the butter spread. Taste the goodness of the biscuit with the butter spread To get your butter spread all on me. I don't like the way it mixes with my mac and cheese because when you're at kfc you got that special sauce to stir my curiosity people said to me aren't you lucky that health care became the central issue of the election?
Speaker 8:I said no, we weren't lucky, we made our own luck. People are not going to get over not having needs that they should have, having what they need.
Speaker 7:Yeah, you already said that.
Speaker 8:Needs that they should have having what they need. All I want to do is defeat this bill or make sure there's a price to pay for the Republicans, because this cannot be.
Speaker 9:You threatening me?
Speaker 10:Congress approved an additional $200 million for border security. A fence has already been approved. Should America build a moat?
Speaker 11:I think the answer is unequivocal. It's yes, we have two sides of a moat, but we don't have the other two.
Speaker 10:It's a well-known fact that Mexicans are not buoyant. They sink like rocks.
Speaker 12:That's right. They're only able to cross where it's very shallow water.
Speaker 4:I also think we should look into sea monsters. I was going to say alligators, but yeah, some sort of monster in the moat, I think we're thinking inside the box.
Speaker 13:We're thinking a moat is just water. It could be raw sewage, it could be oil, it could be lava. Sure, it could be dragon fire.
Speaker 10:Yes, what do you think it's going to take to actually protect our borders? I mean, if we put a moat between the United States and Mexico, is that going to work? Those people are pretty determined.
Speaker 6:They're pretty determined, but I think that the people on this side are pretty damn determined as well to keep people out. Now, I don't know if you've seen this, but they've been putting up cameras all along the border and people at home can register to watch the borders and protect them, yeah, but Mexicans are also very good at catapult engineering.
Speaker 10:We need to step up in our own catapult development.
Speaker 6:And we gotta start pointing some of those cameras at the sky, and I also think we should put money back into diseased cows that we can throw back into Mexico.
Speaker 5:Mm-hmm. Two antique dealers in a SUV proceeded to cut me off. I followed them downtown to one of them artist's loft. One of the guys came to the door.
Speaker 13:He said hi, he must be Mitch.
Speaker 5:I said no. I punched him in the teeth and said I'm a truck driving son of a bitch. Oh yeah, Truck driving son of a bitch. Truck driving son of a bitch, Chain smoking. Maybe he's joking Truck driving son of a bitch.
Speaker 1:Nancy the Nipper. She's ruthless and sly, With her dentures rattling and a gleam in her eye. She kicked Joe out with her old friend Chuck.
Speaker 6:Nancy the Nipper, she don't give a f***.
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Speaker 11:Let's enjoy the ride. President Trump, for the chaos in LA for sending by sending the National Guard in. Are you aware that they were already rioting before you sent the National Guard in?
Speaker 14:Not even just about the National Guard. This is about the Trump administration. That's not related to the National Guard. It's related to ICE and the Trump administration.
Speaker 11:So it's about the Trump administration enforcing the law. Breaking the law how are they breaking the law?
Speaker 14:It is US federal statute that United States members of Congress have open access to detention facilities and it is illegal illegal for ICE to block entry for investigations of those facilities. They blocked and barred members of Congress from investigating these facilities at the start of this in Los Angeles, in New York. This is documented. Do your job.
Speaker 11:They got there. No, they got into investigating the facility. Yeah, they did. And the Monica McIver. Do you think it's okay to assault law enforcement? Is it okay to body slam law enforcement, congresswoman? Is it okay to body? Is it okay to attack law enforcement, congresswoman? You didn it down the road.
Speaker 2:Around here. We take care of our own. You cross that line. It won't take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't Try that in a small town.
Speaker 6:When, when I grow up, I want to work for a woke company like super woke when I grow up.
Speaker 14:When I grow up, I want to be hired based on what I look like rather than my skills.
Speaker 4:I want to be judged by my political beliefs. I want to get promoted based on my chromosomes. When I grow up, I want to be offended by my coworkers and walk around the office on eggshells and have my words policed by HR Words like grandfather, peanut gallery, long time, no see, no, can do. When I grow up, I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long. When I grow up, I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the crowd.
Speaker 14:I want to be a conformist.
Speaker 6:I want to weaponize my pronouns. What are pronouns?
Speaker 2:It's time to grow up and get back to work. Introducing the number one woke, free job board in America redballoonwork. Why don't we liberate?
Speaker 5:these United States.
Speaker 2:We're the ones who need it worst.
Speaker 5:Let the rest of the world help us for change and let's rebuild.
Speaker 2:America first. Our highways and bridges are falling apart. Who's blessed and who has been cursed? There's things to be done all over the world, but let's rebuild America first, I remember a teacher that I had.
Speaker 13:He was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincennes, indiana. To me this was the greatest teacher, a real sage of my time anyhow. He had such wisdom and we were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. One day and he walked over this little teacher, mr Laswell was his name, mr Laswell, and he says. He says, I've been listening to you, boys and girls, recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester and it seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you.
Speaker 13:May I recite it and try to explain to you the meaning of each word. I, me, an individual, a committee of one, pledgeicate all of my worldly goods to give, without self-pity, allegiance, my love and my devotion To the flag, our standard, oh glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there's respect, because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job. United, that means that we have all come together, states, individual communities that have united into 48 great states, 48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that's love for country and to the Republic. Republic, a state in which sovereign power is invested in representative chosen by the people to govern, and government is the people, and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people, for which it stands.
Speaker 13:One nation, one nation, meaning, so blessed by God, indivisible, incapable of being divided, with liberty, which is freedom, the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear or some sort of retaliation. And justice, the principle or qualities of dealing fairly with others For all. For all, which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine. And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the P of allegiance Under God. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?
Speaker 5:I walked through a county courthouse square on a park bench and an old man was sitting there. I said your old courthouse is kind of run down. He said no, it'll do for our little town. I said your old flagpole is leaned a little bit and that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it. He said have a seat. And I said, al, is this the first time you've been to our little town? I said I think it is. He said I don't like to brag, but we're kind of proud of that ragged old flag. You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when Washington took it across the Delaware and it got powder burned. The night that Francis Scott Key said Washington's right and say can you see? And it got a bad rip in New Orleans with Packingham and Jackson tugging at its seams and it almost fell at the Alamo Beside the Texas flag. But she waved on though. She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville and she got cut again at Shiloh Hill. There was Robert E Lee, beauregard and Bragg, and the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag On Flanders Field in World War I she got a big hole from a berth of gun.
Speaker 5:She turned blood red. In World War I she got a big hole from a birth of gun. She turned blood red in World War II. She hung limp and low a time or two. She was in Korea and Vietnam. She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
Speaker 12:She waved from our ships upon the briny foam and now they've about quit waving back here at home, in the Pennsylvania State House that's now called Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the best men from each of the colonies sat down together. This was a very fortunate hour in our nation's history, one of those rare occasions in the lives of men when we had greatness to spare. These were men of means, well-educated. Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists, nine were farmers, owners of large plantations. On June 11, a committee sat down to draw up a declaration of independence. We were going to tell the British fatherland no more rule by redcoats Below the dam, a ruthless foreign rule. A stream of freedom was running shallow and muddy and we were going to like fuse to dynamite that dam. This pact, as Burke later put it, was a partnership between the living and the dead and the yet unborn. There was no bigotry, there was no demagoguery in this group. All had shared hardship.
Speaker 12:Jefferson finished the draft of the document in 17 days. Congress adopted it in July, and so much is familiar history. But now King George III had denounced all rebels in America as traitors. Punishment for treason was hanging. The names now so familiar to you from the several signatures on that Declaration of Independence. The names were kept secret for six months, for each knew the full meaning of that magnificent last paragraph in which his signature pledged his life, his fortune and his sacred honor. His fortune and his sacred honor. 56 men placed their names beneath that pledge. 56 men knew when they signed that they were risking everything. They knew if they won this fight, the best they could expect would be years of hardship in a struggling nation. And if they lost they'd face a hangman's rope. But they signed the pledge and here is the documented fate of that gallant 56.
Speaker 12:Carter Braxton of Virginia, wealthy planter trader, saw his ships swept from the seas to pay his debt. He lost his home and all of his properties and died in rags. Thomas Lynch Jr, who signed that pledge, was a third-generation rice grower, aristocrat, large plantation owner. After he signed, his health failed His wife and he set out for France to regain his failing health. Their ship never got to France, was never heard from again. Thomas McKean of Delaware was so harassed by the enemy that he was forced to move his family five times in five months. He served in Congress without pay, his family in poverty and in hiding. Vandals looted the properties of Ellery and Clymer and Hall and Gwinnett and Walton and Hayward and Rutledge and Middleton. Thomas Nelson Jr of Virginia raised $2 million, on his own signature, to provision our allies, the French fleet, after the war. He personally paid back the loans, wiped out his entire estate and he was never reimbursed by his government. In the final battle for Yorktown, he, nelson, urged General Washington to fire on his Nelson's own home, which was occupied by Cornwallis. It was destroyed. Thomas Nelson Jr had pledged his life, his fortune and his sacred honor.
Speaker 12:The Hessians seized the home of Francis Hopkinson of New Jersey. Francis Lewis had his home and everything destroyed, his wife imprisoned. She died within a few months. Richard Stockton, who signed that declaration, was captured and mistreated, his health broken to the extent that he died at 51. His estate was pillaged. Thomas Hayward Jr was captured when Charleston fell.
Speaker 12:John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside while she was dying. Their 13 children fled in all directions for their lives. His fields and grist mill were laid waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves and returned home after the war to find his wife dead, his children gone, his properties gone, and he died a few weeks later of exhaustion and a broken heart. Lewis Morris saw his land destroyed, his family scattered. Philip Livingston died within a few months from the hardships of the war. John Hancock history remembers best. Due to a quirk of fate rather than anything, he stood for that great, sweeping signature attesting to his vanity towers over the others, one of the wealthiest men in New England. And yet he stood outside Boston one terrible night of the war and he said burn Boston, though it makes John Hancock a beggar if the public good requires it. So he too lived up to the pledge.
Speaker 12:Of the 56, few were long to survive. Five were captured by the British and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes, from Rhode Island to Charleston, sacked, looted, occupied by the enemy or burned. Two lost their sons in the army. One had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 died in the war, from its hardships or from its more merciful bullet.
Speaker 12:I don't know what impression you had had of the men who met that summer in Philadelphia, but I think it's important that we remember this about them they were not poor men. They were not wild-eyed pirates. These were men of means. They were rich men, most of them, and had enjoyed much ease and luxury in their personal living. Not hungry men, certainly not terrorists, not irresponsible malcontents, not fanatical incendiaries. These men were prosperous men, wealthy landowners. They were substantially secure in their prosperity. They had everything to lose, but they considered liberty, and this is as much as I shall say of it. They had learned that liberty is so much more important than security that they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, and they fulfilled their pledge. They paid the price.
Speaker 1:And freedom was born. We hold these truths to be so evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Speaker 2:Mr Pat Walsh from Hill, national Empire.
Speaker 11:It bled from first evening air. They proved through the night that our flag was still there. Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave?
Speaker 3:And the home of the brave, the Brave.
