The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 178 - Freedom’s Heroes ft. Ji Seong-Ho

00:00:00.000 On a special Independence Day episode, we will be joined by North Korean defector Ji Song-ho

00:00:05.200 to discuss his 6,000-mile journey on crutches from North Korea to freedom.

00:00:10.580 Then, we'll talk about the rise of socialism in America, particularly among millennials. 0.99

00:00:15.300 Finally, in a new segment called This Is America, just like that stupid song, but like good, 0.96

00:00:20.440 we discuss some of the most incredible heroes and stories of the Revolutionary War 0.97

00:00:24.600 that you probably haven't heard of. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:55.320 This guest does not need any introduction, but just to warm you up a little bit in case you missed it.

00:03:03.960 Here's a clip from the State of the Union, President Trump talking about probably the most heroic person I'm ever going to meet, Ji Sung Ho.

00:03:10.040 We are joined by one more witness to the ominous nature of this regime.

00:03:17.000 His name is Mr. Ji Sung Ho.

00:03:21.540 In 1996, Sung Ho was a starving boy in North Korea.

00:03:27.560 One day he tried to steal coal from a railroad car to barter for a few scraps of food, which were very hard to get.

00:03:39.280 In the process, he passed out on the train tracks, exhausted from hunger.

00:03:45.120 He woke up as a train ran over his limbs.

00:03:50.960 He then endured multiple amputations without anything to dull the pain or the hurt.

00:03:58.880 His brother and sister gave what little food they had to help him recover and ate dirt themselves, permanently stunting their own growth.

00:04:10.780 Later, he was tortured by North Korean authorities after returning from a brief visit to China.

00:04:19.700 His tormentors wanted to know if he'd met any Christians.

00:04:27.020 He had, and he resolved after that to be free.

00:04:32.160 Sung Ho traveled thousands of miles on crutches all across China and Southeast Asia to freedom.

00:04:42.420 Most of his family followed.

00:04:44.280 His father was caught trying to escape and was tortured to death.

00:04:49.280 Today, he lives in Seoul, where he rescues other defectors and broadcasts into North Korea what the regime fears most, the truth.

00:05:04.960 Today, he has a new leg.

00:05:07.740 But Sung Ho, I understand you still keep those old crutches as a reminder of how far you've come.

00:05:16.640 Your great sacrifice is an inspiration to us all.

00:05:23.720 Please, thank you.

00:05:35.740 It's an unbelievable moment.

00:05:37.280 Obviously, it's the most memorable part of that entire State of the Union.

00:05:40.300 I sat down for 40 minutes or an hour with Ji Sung Ho.

00:05:43.800 We're going to air this interview in two parts.

00:05:45.240 I must say, too, when we were doing the interview, I had a live translation going on in my ear.

00:05:50.780 Only after we redid the translation and re-recorded it later did I realize that I was just hearing a paraphrasing of what was going on.

00:05:58.800 The actual details are far more horrifying.

00:06:01.760 And you'll see that even the reactions alone are pretty telling.

00:06:06.240 But actually, what was being said that I couldn't hear is even that much more horrifying.

00:06:11.980 This is the real, true story, first-person account of what goes on in North Korea and in communist governments throughout history and around the world.

00:06:20.180 Without any more introduction, how do you beat an introduction from the President of the United States?

00:06:24.020 Here is my interview with Ji Sung Ho.

00:06:26.400 Sung Ho, thank you so much for being here.

00:06:28.300 Yeah, nice to meet you.

00:06:29.100 You are the most heroic person I've ever met.

00:06:33.520 You're probably the most heroic person I'll ever meet in my life.

00:06:37.180 I want to talk about your personal story in a second.

00:06:40.480 But it first occurs to me.

00:06:42.580 The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago.

00:06:45.900 People who are alive today don't have really an experience of communism.

00:06:50.300 Communism is fading from people's memory.

00:06:53.180 You have this very, very vivid experience of it.

00:06:56.640 How would you describe communism to people who are living in the West, in free countries?

00:07:05.940 I think that communism is a horrible idea that brainwashes its citizens.

00:07:10.980 They talk about the happiness of living together in harmony by preaching about equality.

00:07:15.240 In reality, however, I believe that communism is where the royalty and the higher-ups live in extravagance by exploiting the people.

00:07:27.580 It's hard for people to see now because you have prosthetics and everything.

00:07:33.520 But you were grievously injured as a young teenager.

00:07:38.020 You lost your hand.

00:07:39.840 You lost your leg.

00:07:40.980 North Korea is not known for its good treatment of people with disabilities.

00:07:46.080 How did you get those injuries?

00:07:47.400 And how did you survive in North Korea when you had them? 0.84

00:07:52.980 As you may know, I do not have my left hand or my left leg.

00:07:57.180 But I was not born this way.

00:07:59.300 I became disabled when I lived in North Korea.

00:08:01.620 Because in North Korea, people could not eat and had to scavenge and do anything in order to feed themselves. 0.88

00:08:13.540 Even though I should have been in school, I would steal coals from the supply chain so that I had money to buy corn or other supplies.

00:08:21.360 I continued to do this until I was 14 years old.

00:08:23.980 One day, I fell from a running train while I was stealing coals.

00:08:35.600 My left arm and my left leg were crushed under the 60-ton train.

00:08:40.160 I later had to cut both off.

00:08:41.600 I was forced to go into operation in the hospital without any proper anesthetics.

00:08:51.560 In addition, I had to endure the immeasurable amount of pain for seven months within that hospital.

00:08:56.760 I had to endure the pain in that situation.

00:09:02.440 I consequently became disabled.

00:09:05.540 However, in North Korea, disabled people are expected to live quietly. 0.75

00:09:10.120 They do not want the disabled people to go outside and show that they are miserable.

00:09:15.120 They did not want the outside world to know that they have problems with the human rights of their citizens. 0.99

00:09:21.680 They wanted the disabled to die off. 1.00

00:09:23.660 Therefore, I was in the center of discrimination, where the North Koreans wanted me to die quietly.

00:09:31.520 North Korea is known for this. 1.00

00:09:34.840 From what I've read, they put people with Down syndrome away.

00:09:40.900 They don't give treatment to people with disabilities.

00:09:44.640 And you, of course, sustained your injuries because you were too hungry.

00:09:48.860 You fainted as you were trying to get little scraps of food.

00:09:53.660 For you and for your family.

00:09:56.140 Was it this injury that convinced you that you had to flee North Korea?

00:10:00.020 Or was it something else?

00:10:01.040 What convinced you that you finally had to get out?

00:10:04.320 You and as much of your family as could get out.

00:10:07.940 I know you grew up during the famines of the 1990s.

00:10:11.300 What motivated you and said, I've got to get to freedom?

00:10:13.800 I realized that I had to escape after I became disabled.

00:10:20.740 I realized that North Korea is not a land of happiness and equality. 0.87

00:10:27.780 Even though the disabled people need societal protection and the special provision from the government, 1.00

00:10:33.560 North Korea did not provide any of this.

00:10:35.880 I realized that living in North Korea as a disabled person is nearly impossible.

00:10:44.400 At one point, I thought about ending my own life rather than living under such harsh conditions and discrimination.

00:10:50.360 I kept thinking about this until, in the year 2000, I went to China to beg for food. 0.95

00:11:00.240 The Chinese police officers assaulted me and said that retards like me should die off and stop embarrassing the nation. 0.82

00:11:13.860 During all the torments and the beatings by the police, 0.97

00:11:16.760 I was saddened because this is not how humans should treat one another.

00:11:20.780 There exist many more free nations out there.

00:11:23.160 So I decided I would escape this hellhole.

00:11:26.580 I decided I would escape North Korea for good. 0.88

00:11:30.300 I read somewhere, because I know that you're Christian,

00:11:34.320 and I know that you, I believe you've said that the Lord's Prayer,

00:11:39.040 the Our Father sustained you during some of this torture from the North Korean regime.

00:11:45.760 How did you encounter Christianity?

00:11:47.740 What role did it play in your decision to flee,

00:11:51.860 in your thousands of miles long journey,

00:11:55.080 fleeing on those famous crutches with this disability,

00:11:58.860 and in the work that you're doing now?

00:12:04.440 If you are a Christian in North Korea,

00:12:06.960 you are either publicly executed or sent to political internment camps.

00:12:11.120 There are no official churches in North Korea.

00:12:13.380 And when asked about who is God in North Korea,

00:12:16.980 Kim Jong-il should be the God of North Korea. 0.99

00:12:19.740 Christianity is absolutely forbidden there.

00:12:25.960 When I escaped to China, however,

00:12:27.520 I was exposed to the existence of Christianity.

00:12:31.220 I then realized that there is a higher being other than Kim Jong-il

00:12:34.420 and prayed daily in North Korea in midst of the torment.

00:12:37.460 I prayed that if there is a true God,

00:12:44.600 I believe that He would be the one to help poor people like me to escape.

00:12:49.440 Even though it seemed impossible due to me not having one hand and a leg,

00:12:53.700 I prayed to God to help me escape this land.

00:12:58.500 Six years later, I found an opportunity for me to escape.

00:13:02.420 However, the Tumen River was overflowing

00:13:04.400 and made it impossible to cross the river.

00:13:07.040 So I prayed.

00:13:08.660 I prayed,

00:13:09.900 God, please let me cross this river.

00:13:15.500 Even though I nearly drowned,

00:13:17.160 I was able to safely cross the Tumen River.

00:13:22.900 And whenever I was about to fall in despair

00:13:24.940 while I was crossing China,

00:13:26.940 Laos,

00:13:27.800 Myanmar,

00:13:28.120 and Thailand,

00:13:29.260 I prayed to God that if He gives me strength

00:13:31.920 to go to the free nation,

00:13:33.940 I will help out other North Koreans

00:13:35.600 to live in free, democratic nations

00:13:37.580 and strive for the North Korea 0.99

00:13:39.560 where the disabled people like me

00:13:41.280 won't have to escape the nation

00:13:43.200 to escape discrimination.

00:13:45.520 God seemed to answer my prayers

00:13:47.320 and I was able to survive my journey

00:13:49.240 and safely get across.

00:13:51.420 Of course,

00:13:52.480 that,

00:13:53.220 when you think of Christianity,

00:13:55.280 2,000 years ago,

00:13:56.620 it was the last political revolution

00:13:58.320 that offered freedom to people

00:14:01.240 and that's why rulers

00:14:02.280 from 2,000 years back

00:14:04.580 all the way up to the Kim dictatorship

00:14:06.780 has been so fearful of it

00:14:09.720 and attacked it.

00:14:10.900 I gotta say,

00:14:11.520 when I read your life story,

00:14:14.420 it's hard not to tear up

00:14:16.320 at parts of your journey

00:14:18.140 and I know that the rest of the country,

00:14:20.760 when they saw you

00:14:21.540 at the State of the Union

00:14:22.480 as a guest of President Trump,

00:14:24.320 raise your crutches up

00:14:25.620 and heard what he said

00:14:27.580 recounting your life.

00:14:29.340 I don't think there was

00:14:30.320 a dry eye in the house

00:14:31.460 from the Atlantic Ocean

00:14:33.380 to the Pacific Ocean.

00:14:35.020 Those crutches

00:14:35.640 have become world famous.

00:14:38.380 One,

00:14:38.900 how did you do it?

00:14:39.960 How did you

00:14:40.960 cross thousands of miles

00:14:43.160 on those crutches?

00:14:44.440 Where did you get

00:14:45.120 those crutches from?

00:14:46.180 Why do you keep them around?

00:14:47.160 The crutch that I held up

00:14:53.640 during President Trump's

00:14:54.780 State of the Union speech

00:14:55.740 was a commemoration

00:14:56.980 by my father,

00:14:58.240 who personally made

00:14:59.120 the crutches for me.

00:15:00.920 My father is no longer alive.

00:15:05.500 He died in 2006

00:15:07.000 under heavy torment

00:15:08.000 by the North Korean regime.

00:15:13.580 I had to cross the Tumen River

00:15:15.320 while I was on the crutch.

00:15:17.340 Because the river

00:15:18.000 was overflowing at the time

00:15:19.320 and I did not know much

00:15:23.380 about the Holy Spirit,

00:15:24.940 I knew the miracle

00:15:25.680 of the Red Sea.

00:15:26.920 I prayed to God

00:15:27.660 that even though

00:15:28.280 he can't make this river disappear,

00:15:30.640 please spare me

00:15:31.380 like you did

00:15:31.980 in the Red Sea.

00:15:38.160 When I was crossing

00:15:39.160 the river

00:15:39.520 with my younger brother,

00:15:40.740 I was nearly drowning,

00:15:42.440 but my brother

00:15:43.100 was able to pick me up

00:15:44.220 from the violent currents

00:15:45.260 and saved me.

00:15:52.580 I could have easily

00:15:53.220 died in the river,

00:15:54.560 but thanks to my brother

00:15:55.460 and because God protected me,

00:15:57.440 I was safely able

00:15:58.260 to cross the river.

00:16:05.540 When I was traveling

00:16:06.300 in crutches

00:16:06.840 and because I did not

00:16:08.220 have my left hand,

00:16:09.680 I had to tie my hand

00:16:10.680 to the crutch.

00:16:17.020 When you are caught

00:16:17.840 by the Chinese police

00:16:18.760 in China,

00:16:19.480 you are sent back

00:16:20.460 to North Korea 0.96

00:16:21.120 and you are executed 0.95

00:16:22.540 as an enemy

00:16:23.200 of the state.

00:16:24.920 I prayed more

00:16:25.600 so that I would not

00:16:26.280 be caught

00:16:26.700 and be killed. 1.00

00:16:27.440 And when I could 0.98

00:16:33.320 no longer walk

00:16:34.020 and fell down,

00:16:34.980 I prayed to God

00:16:36.020 that even though

00:16:36.620 I am not as healthy

00:16:37.480 as other people,

00:16:38.960 please make me

00:16:39.640 at least live

00:16:40.200 another day

00:16:40.800 in a free nation.

00:16:42.740 Also,

00:16:43.160 I was able to cross

00:16:44.260 because there were

00:16:44.880 many helping hands.

00:16:46.600 Wow.

00:16:47.080 It's not as though

00:16:48.120 the Kim regime

00:16:50.440 didn't give you

00:16:51.100 the crutches

00:16:51.640 or I believe

00:16:53.120 they didn't even

00:16:53.760 give you anesthetic

00:16:54.720 when you were

00:16:55.200 being operated on

00:16:56.300 for your injuries

00:16:57.920 as a young man.

00:17:01.220 I believe that

00:17:02.240 North Korea is bad 0.99

00:17:03.220 or more precisely 0.95

00:17:04.460 that communism is bad.

00:17:08.800 The reason why

00:17:09.940 is because it lies

00:17:11.260 to the whole world

00:17:12.000 about the nature

00:17:12.800 of the organization.

00:17:16.220 Even though

00:17:16.640 they have human rights abuses,

00:17:18.320 they boast about

00:17:19.080 the flawlessness

00:17:19.720 of their human rights.

00:17:21.640 That is why

00:17:22.120 I believe it is bad.

00:17:25.780 When I was in North Korea,

00:17:27.360 there were anesthetics,

00:17:28.580 but they were only

00:17:29.540 reserved for the higher-ups

00:17:30.900 when they go through

00:17:32.040 a medical operation.

00:17:33.840 Poor people like me,

00:17:34.980 however,

00:17:35.380 are told we are equal

00:17:36.820 even though we are not

00:17:38.080 and are not given

00:17:39.240 anesthetics during surgeries.

00:17:41.680 Therefore,

00:17:42.220 I was forced to endure

00:17:43.400 tremendous pain

00:17:44.280 for three hours

00:17:45.140 during my operation.

00:17:46.860 I was only 14 at the time.

00:17:51.640 What gave me the most pain

00:17:55.840 was that the doctors

00:17:56.780 had to cut away my skin

00:17:57.980 and saw my bone off

00:17:59.340 without any anesthetics.

00:18:01.400 The pain was so severe

00:18:02.840 that I lost consciousness

00:18:03.980 here and there.

00:18:05.680 When I woke up,

00:18:06.440 my wrist was cut off

00:18:07.380 and I remembered

00:18:08.040 how painful

00:18:08.580 my operation was.

00:18:09.560 I believe that if hell

00:18:13.580 actually exists on Earth,

00:18:15.220 there is no harsher hell

00:18:16.680 than there.

00:18:21.880 That pain still lingers

00:18:23.200 as a form of trauma

00:18:24.040 for me,

00:18:24.660 even today.

00:18:26.040 Of course,

00:18:26.840 I'm sort of sorry

00:18:28.380 to even have you relive it

00:18:30.040 as you tell about this,

00:18:31.380 but of course,

00:18:31.780 it's such an important

00:18:32.560 thing to show,

00:18:33.880 the hell of communism.

00:18:35.700 And you've explained

00:18:37.080 two struggles

00:18:39.020 you've undergone,

00:18:39.960 which is really

00:18:40.500 the same struggle.

00:18:41.380 There's the physical struggle

00:18:42.980 of these horrific things

00:18:44.720 you've experienced

00:18:45.420 from a young man

00:18:46.540 all the way

00:18:46.980 through your escape.

00:18:48.340 And then the spiritual struggle

00:18:49.900 of being told 0.98

00:18:51.200 you should just die, 1.00

00:18:52.600 we don't want you, 1.00

00:18:54.020 you're not worth protecting.

00:18:55.960 Even the spiritual struggle

00:18:57.620 of living every day

00:18:59.420 as a sort of robot

00:19:00.840 for this communist regime.

00:19:03.640 Which is harder

00:19:04.520 and which do you think

00:19:05.980 is harder

00:19:06.400 for people

00:19:07.380 in North Korea broadly?

00:19:12.420 In terms of pain,

00:19:13.940 physical pain

00:19:14.760 is undoubtedly

00:19:15.340 one of the harsher

00:19:16.200 difficulties out there.

00:19:20.520 I said that it is like hell,

00:19:22.120 but I believe the fact

00:19:23.260 that you have to live

00:19:24.060 there forever

00:19:24.620 without anyone

00:19:25.660 trying to change

00:19:26.620 the living system

00:19:27.740 and conditions

00:19:28.340 is the real challenge.

00:19:32.420 When I was young,

00:19:33.320 the fact that I had

00:19:34.180 to get my legs cut off

00:19:35.180 in the surgery

00:19:35.800 was a painful experience

00:19:37.420 for me.

00:19:38.340 But the fact that I had

00:19:39.120 to live in North Korea 0.71

00:19:40.180 was more painful for me.

00:19:44.760 In reality,

00:19:45.860 North Korea

00:19:46.420 enslaved its citizens.

00:19:48.520 The reason why I say this

00:19:49.640 is because I believe

00:19:50.560 that it is universally agreeable

00:19:52.420 that when you work,

00:19:53.960 you should be rewarded

00:19:54.660 for the value

00:19:55.340 of your labor.

00:19:55.880 In North Korea,

00:20:01.040 however,

00:20:01.800 citizens were not fed

00:20:02.960 for their labor,

00:20:03.840 and when they ask for food,

00:20:05.340 they are sent to prison.

00:20:06.960 If they cannot find

00:20:08.080 any more options

00:20:08.840 and they go to China

00:20:09.860 or other places,

00:20:11.040 they are sent back

00:20:12.120 to North Korea

00:20:12.760 as a prisoner.

00:20:14.420 Even if you just

00:20:15.140 think differently

00:20:15.780 from the other

00:20:16.680 North Koreans,

00:20:17.600 you are sent

00:20:18.220 to a political

00:20:19.100 internment camp.

00:20:19.820 In a sense,

00:20:25.200 North Koreans 0.96

00:20:25.760 cannot breathe

00:20:26.460 in those conditions.

00:20:31.220 Moreover,

00:20:31.820 the fact that I was

00:20:32.600 disabled in North Korea

00:20:33.720 was so painful

00:20:35.140 that my only option

00:20:36.660 was to separate myself

00:20:37.940 from these pains

00:20:38.760 by escaping.

00:20:45.200 And even though

00:20:45.760 I knew my disability

00:20:46.740 would hinder

00:20:47.560 my chances of escape

00:20:48.580 so that I would have

00:20:50.160 only a 10% chance

00:20:51.400 of escaping,

00:20:52.740 I still attempted

00:20:53.520 to escape,

00:20:57.100 knowing that my

00:20:57.700 descendants in the future

00:20:58.780 would be proud

00:20:59.600 of this journey.

00:21:00.440 The image that,

00:21:02.740 I mean,

00:21:03.020 this makes perfect sense

00:21:04.140 because there's this,

00:21:06.180 there's no hope

00:21:07.040 in communism

00:21:07.780 of material betterment

00:21:09.940 or of a political

00:21:10.640 betterment.

00:21:11.480 There's just stasis

00:21:12.460 in the hell

00:21:13.260 that you described.

00:21:14.420 And then the

00:21:15.320 anti-Christianity,

00:21:16.580 the anti-Christian

00:21:17.380 persecution,

00:21:17.880 say there cannot

00:21:19.300 even be a spiritual

00:21:20.240 hope.

00:21:20.840 It's just despair

00:21:21.920 and hopelessness

00:21:22.820 as you describe.

00:21:24.360 In the West,

00:21:25.180 we're told

00:21:26.700 that people

00:21:27.320 in North Korea

00:21:28.020 are brainwashed

00:21:29.420 to love the Kims

00:21:30.960 and they love

00:21:31.560 the Kims 0.94

00:21:32.200 and we saw

00:21:33.240 when Kim Jong-il

00:21:34.120 died,

00:21:35.080 videos and photos

00:21:36.360 from North Korean

00:21:37.040 propaganda

00:21:37.540 of people crying

00:21:39.240 hysterically.

00:21:41.120 Are those tears

00:21:42.820 real?

00:21:43.540 Are people

00:21:44.160 really brainwashed

00:21:45.340 to love the Kims

00:21:46.220 or do the

00:21:47.200 North Korean

00:21:47.700 people,

00:21:48.860 are they very

00:21:50.020 aware of their

00:21:50.960 own misery

00:21:51.520 and desirous

00:21:54.080 of regime

00:21:55.040 change and

00:21:55.480 freedom?

00:21:59.960 When Kim Il-sung

00:22:01.120 died,

00:22:01.960 I believe that

00:22:02.740 there were many

00:22:03.240 who actually shed

00:22:04.080 tears during his

00:22:04.980 funeral.

00:22:06.360 Until that time,

00:22:07.180 there were many

00:22:08.120 who believed that

00:22:08.900 North Korea's 0.91

00:22:09.640 political system

00:22:10.440 was the right

00:22:11.360 choice.

00:22:12.620 However,

00:22:13.300 I believe that

00:22:13.980 the tears shed

00:22:14.680 when Kim Jong-il

00:22:15.880 died were only

00:22:17.040 from a small

00:22:17.580 number of people.

00:22:19.380 If you do not

00:22:19.940 cry during the

00:22:20.580 funeral,

00:22:21.260 you will be 1.00

00:22:21.680 executed. 0.99

00:22:23.060 In North Korea,

00:22:24.040 during the filming

00:22:24.660 of the funeral,

00:22:25.960 when there are

00:22:26.320 many,

00:22:26.780 including the

00:22:27.240 politicians

00:22:27.660 watching,

00:22:29.140 the fact that

00:22:33.400 you are not

00:22:33.880 crying is the

00:22:35.100 sign that you

00:22:35.700 are not loyal

00:22:36.400 enough to the

00:22:37.040 great leader

00:22:37.540 and God.

00:22:38.240 you are then

00:22:40.060 either exiled

00:22:40.980 from Pyongyang

00:22:42.000 or sent to

00:22:43.220 internment camps.

00:22:44.680 That is why

00:22:45.080 people at least

00:22:45.820 have to act

00:22:46.520 like they are

00:22:47.180 crying in those

00:22:47.840 situations.

00:22:51.160 In a sense,

00:22:52.500 the North Koreans

00:22:53.120 are required by

00:22:54.080 the regime

00:22:54.520 to act against

00:22:55.540 their will

00:22:56.000 like a bunch 1.00

00:22:56.660 of fools 1.00

00:22:57.180 in a circus 1.00

00:22:58.020 freak show.

00:22:59.380 That is why

00:23:00.020 many North Koreans

00:23:00.920 have to shed

00:23:01.600 tears during

00:23:02.200 the funeral.

00:23:03.700 There are not

00:23:04.120 many people

00:23:04.640 who actually

00:23:05.200 believe that

00:23:05.740 their nation

00:23:06.200 is the best

00:23:06.840 nation.

00:23:08.240 When I lived

00:23:13.600 in North Korea,

00:23:14.380 I knew that

00:23:14.860 it was not

00:23:15.240 the best place

00:23:15.860 to live.

00:23:16.980 That is why

00:23:17.380 I had to flee

00:23:17.920 from North Korea.

00:23:19.380 And many other

00:23:20.100 people want to

00:23:20.740 flee from North Korea,

00:23:21.880 but they cannot

00:23:22.660 because they will

00:23:23.760 be publicly 0.94

00:23:24.280 executed. 0.88

00:23:27.520 In a sense,

00:23:28.120 the level of

00:23:28.640 loyalty in the

00:23:29.260 past and the

00:23:30.360 level of loyalty

00:23:31.080 today in North

00:23:32.160 Korea has changed 0.98

00:23:33.140 and has become

00:23:33.920 an issue for

00:23:34.980 the North Koreans.

00:23:36.460 Well, you're

00:23:37.540 doing God's

00:23:38.260 work.

00:23:38.680 It is a singular

00:23:39.380 inspiration to

00:23:40.820 talk to you and

00:23:41.340 to meet you and

00:23:41.800 to hear your story.

00:23:44.380 I really wish

00:23:45.500 American millennials

00:23:46.320 and college

00:23:47.380 professors and

00:23:48.880 armchair

00:23:49.760 socialists and

00:23:50.840 communists could

00:23:51.820 talk to that guy

00:23:52.680 because when you

00:23:53.880 sit down across

00:23:54.900 from Ji Sung-ho,

00:23:56.320 the gravity and

00:23:58.220 the enormity of

00:23:59.120 communism hits you

00:24:00.940 in the face.

00:24:01.500 It's all fun and

00:24:02.740 games until you

00:24:03.540 see the reality,

00:24:04.760 the physical

00:24:05.580 injuries, the

00:24:06.420 amputations, and

00:24:07.820 the psychological

00:24:08.440 trauma that this

00:24:09.280 causes.

00:24:09.900 To this guy who

00:24:10.740 got out, who

00:24:11.560 made it out

00:24:12.140 somehow with

00:24:12.680 some of his

00:24:13.120 family.

00:24:13.820 Some of his

00:24:14.180 other family

00:24:14.780 obviously was

00:24:15.840 tortured to death

00:24:16.540 before they could

00:24:17.040 leave or starved

00:24:18.180 to death. 0.75

00:24:18.960 And an entire

00:24:19.680 country is left

00:24:20.420 behind that wall

00:24:21.220 enslaved by the

00:24:22.520 Kim family.

00:24:23.540 So it reminds me

00:24:25.800 when you talk to

00:24:26.860 people in college,

00:24:28.240 you know, like

00:24:28.800 freshman year,

00:24:29.620 you're talking to

00:24:30.360 those little

00:24:30.780 armchair socialists

00:24:32.000 and they say,

00:24:32.860 well, you know,

00:24:34.060 you know, socialism

00:24:34.900 it's really never

00:24:35.520 been tried.

00:24:36.940 Oh, real, true

00:24:37.800 socialism, not that

00:24:38.800 fake socialism,

00:24:39.600 true socialism,

00:24:40.860 true communism has

00:24:41.720 never been tried.

00:24:42.660 It's been tried.

00:24:43.420 It's been tried many,

00:24:44.900 many times over the

00:24:46.000 last 100, 150 years.

00:24:48.520 This is what happens.

00:24:49.460 This is the end of

00:24:50.020 the road for

00:24:50.460 socialism and

00:24:51.080 communism.

00:24:52.100 And even, you

00:24:52.860 know, one thing that

00:24:53.740 irks me almost more

00:24:55.080 are those know-nothing,

00:24:57.080 moderate types,

00:24:57.860 independent types,

00:24:58.960 a lot of

00:24:59.420 millennials who say,

00:25:00.260 you know,

00:25:00.780 communism, it's a

00:25:02.540 good idea in theory.

00:25:03.820 It's beautiful in

00:25:04.840 theory.

00:25:05.280 It's beautiful on

00:25:06.040 paper.

00:25:06.500 It's just terrible in

00:25:07.640 practice.

00:25:08.780 It's not beautiful on

00:25:09.800 paper.

00:25:10.580 It's terrible on

00:25:11.400 paper.

00:25:11.920 It's awful.

00:25:12.540 It's unhuman,

00:25:14.000 inhuman on paper. 0.97

00:25:15.340 It's miserable and 1.00

00:25:16.860 evil and wicked and 0.87

00:25:18.560 antithetical to

00:25:19.380 everything beautiful and

00:25:20.400 true and human and

00:25:22.040 divine on paper.

00:25:23.800 It's just awful.

00:25:24.720 There's no excuse for

00:25:25.880 it.

00:25:26.100 And I really wish

00:25:27.400 that those people who

00:25:28.380 defend communism,

00:25:29.300 socialism, could

00:25:30.360 look that guy in the

00:25:31.200 eye and tell him how

00:25:31.980 great communism is and

00:25:33.260 how great socialism is.

00:25:34.560 Because this is a scary

00:25:35.840 trend in America.

00:25:37.040 I opened up that

00:25:37.660 interview by observing

00:25:38.640 that it's been 30

00:25:40.360 years now since the

00:25:41.220 fall of the Berlin Wall,

00:25:42.380 almost 30 years at this

00:25:43.480 point.

00:25:43.820 And people forget.

00:25:44.720 They don't remember.

00:25:45.400 They didn't live during

00:25:46.180 communism.

00:25:47.080 My entire generation did

00:25:48.540 not live during

00:25:49.240 communism.

00:25:49.700 I basically was born as

00:25:51.180 the Berlin Wall was

00:25:51.920 falling.

00:25:53.420 So they don't know.

00:25:54.900 They don't remember the

00:25:55.520 horrors of it.

00:25:56.060 Right now, according to

00:25:57.020 some polls, more than

00:25:58.280 half of American

00:25:59.380 millennials support

00:26:00.820 socialism, identify as

00:26:02.720 socialists.

00:26:04.440 And it's so insidious.

00:26:05.720 It's because of this

00:26:07.020 weak, light education

00:26:09.260 that they've had where

00:26:10.620 they hear, well, there's

00:26:11.340 capitalism over here and

00:26:13.240 that's bad because my

00:26:14.360 teacher told me and

00:26:15.240 Hollywood told me that's

00:26:16.280 bad because in all the

00:26:17.180 movies the business guy is

00:26:18.240 really bad.

00:26:18.660 Okay, so that's bad.

00:26:19.760 And communism, that's

00:26:20.960 probably bad, I guess.

00:26:22.320 So let's go in the middle,

00:26:23.700 socialism.

00:26:24.080 That's fine.

00:26:25.100 Socialism's good, isn't

00:26:25.880 it?

00:26:26.100 That's what they think.

00:26:27.560 They don't remember the

00:26:28.440 stories from the Soviet

00:26:30.120 Union, from all the 0.72

00:26:31.040 countries that were

00:26:31.860 oppressed by the Soviet

00:26:33.720 Union, from all the 0.72

00:26:34.980 failures of socialism all

00:26:36.300 around the world.

00:26:37.140 They don't even read the

00:26:38.140 news.

00:26:38.480 I mean, it isn't being

00:26:39.580 reported very much right

00:26:40.600 now that Venezuela is

00:26:42.000 running out of water.

00:26:43.680 Venezuela, a country that

00:26:44.640 was doing basically fine as

00:26:46.240 well as any Latin 0.99

00:26:47.600 American country, you 0.95

00:26:48.580 know, which kind of ebb and

00:26:50.020 flow in matters of

00:26:51.100 prosperity.

00:26:51.760 And then they elected

00:26:52.680 Hugo Chavez about

00:26:53.860 18 years ago.

00:26:55.020 Open socialist,

00:26:56.040 essentially made himself

00:26:57.000 a dictator.

00:26:57.860 What did he do?

00:26:58.380 He stole private

00:26:59.120 businesses.

00:26:59.900 He stole industries.

00:27:01.400 That's called

00:27:02.120 nationalizing.

00:27:03.020 That's socialist talk.

00:27:04.220 You say, when you want

00:27:05.000 to steal people's

00:27:05.580 property, you say,

00:27:06.100 we're going to

00:27:06.440 nationalize it.

00:27:07.480 We're going to give

00:27:07.900 this to the nation.

00:27:08.840 And what happened?

00:27:09.520 Just misery, endless

00:27:11.080 misery ever since.

00:27:12.140 You've got people eating

00:27:13.000 rats if they're lucky in

00:27:14.260 the street to get a

00:27:15.260 little bit of food.

00:27:17.140 Rampant famines.

00:27:18.180 And now they're out of

00:27:18.840 water.

00:27:19.280 They've run out of

00:27:20.180 water.

00:27:20.600 And this isn't the first

00:27:21.340 time they've run out of

00:27:22.040 water.

00:27:22.180 They ran out of water

00:27:22.920 in 2016, too.

00:27:24.380 That's socialism.

00:27:26.460 More than half of

00:27:27.380 American millennials

00:27:28.180 saying this, that's a

00:27:28.960 scary thing.

00:27:29.520 You had a socialist,

00:27:31.240 a self-described

00:27:32.040 socialist win in that

00:27:33.500 Queens district

00:27:34.360 nomination for that,

00:27:35.760 a Democrat nomination

00:27:36.580 for that Congress

00:27:37.540 seat.

00:27:38.320 She pretended that she 0.93

00:27:39.420 was from the Bronx.

00:27:40.280 She pretended that she 0.93

00:27:41.020 knew what poverty was.

00:27:42.100 She doesn't know what

00:27:42.660 poverty is.

00:27:43.500 She grew up a town 0.57

00:27:45.100 over from me, in a

00:27:46.260 wealthier town than me,

00:27:47.600 in northern Westchester.

00:27:49.660 That's where she grew up. 0.96

00:27:50.380 She's pretending to be 0.56

00:27:51.280 otherwise.

00:27:51.860 And a lot of these

00:27:52.480 people who talk about

00:27:53.340 how great communism is

00:27:54.420 on paper, how great

00:27:55.580 socialism is in

00:27:56.420 practice, they grew up

00:27:57.720 in luxury and wealth

00:27:58.940 and prosperity.

00:27:59.940 They don't know.

00:28:00.700 It's very easy to think

00:28:01.600 about those things.

00:28:02.580 When you watch your

00:28:03.340 grandmother starve like 1.00

00:28:04.660 Ji Song-ho did, or you 0.96

00:28:06.380 watch your family being

00:28:07.840 killed, then it isn't so 0.78

00:28:09.960 nice, is it?

00:28:10.640 And that's why it's so

00:28:11.340 important.

00:28:12.120 We've got another part of

00:28:13.140 this interview that we're

00:28:13.920 going to air either later

00:28:15.560 this week or early next

00:28:16.500 week.

00:28:16.720 It's so important that

00:28:19.400 people see the reality

00:28:20.380 of it.

00:28:20.900 I don't even blame

00:28:22.340 millennials for their 0.98

00:28:23.160 ignorance because they've 1.00

00:28:24.680 been utterly failed by 0.64

00:28:25.680 their educational systems

00:28:26.860 and they think because

00:28:29.220 they have a cell phone

00:28:30.040 that they know

00:28:30.840 everything.

00:28:31.620 I remember hearing this

00:28:32.660 in high school.

00:28:33.220 They'd say, you know,

00:28:33.620 you know more than

00:28:34.820 Socrates knew.

00:28:35.880 You know more than

00:28:36.480 Aristotle because you

00:28:38.780 have all this information

00:28:39.720 at the tip of your

00:28:40.720 fingers, right?

00:28:41.400 But you have to read it

00:28:42.460 to know more.

00:28:43.620 You have to have a

00:28:44.300 context to know, but

00:28:45.380 you don't.

00:28:45.720 You just think, okay,

00:28:46.680 well, I've got all the

00:28:47.240 information here.

00:28:48.020 I don't have to learn

00:28:48.760 anything, do I?

00:28:49.840 And so I don't really

00:28:50.920 blame millennials for 0.97

00:28:51.920 their ignorance, but 0.99

00:28:52.800 you've got to put it in 0.98

00:28:54.360 front of them.

00:28:55.180 Images are very

00:28:56.080 powerful.

00:28:57.180 President Trump knows

00:28:58.020 this.

00:28:58.300 Good politicians know

00:28:59.240 this, that you have to

00:29:00.200 see the image.

00:29:01.280 And the image that you

00:29:02.280 have to look at is look

00:29:03.100 in the face of Ji Sung 0.94

00:29:04.040 Ho, you'll see what

00:29:05.080 communism does.

00:29:06.300 And you'll see why some

00:29:07.120 people run away to

00:29:07.880 freedom.

00:29:08.580 You know, 14% of

00:29:09.880 American teens as of

00:29:10.880 2011 thought that

00:29:12.120 Independence Day is when

00:29:13.200 the United States

00:29:13.760 declared independence from

00:29:14.800 France.

00:29:15.720 You know, huge

00:29:17.320 pluralities of the

00:29:18.260 United States don't

00:29:19.600 know that America

00:29:20.600 declared independence on

00:29:22.340 the 4th of July.

00:29:23.800 I bet Ji Sung Ho 0.99

00:29:24.560 knows that.

00:29:25.680 I went down to Cuba,

00:29:27.220 another communist 0.75

00:29:28.360 slave island, back

00:29:29.720 when they opened up

00:29:31.060 American relations a

00:29:32.400 year or so ago.

00:29:33.360 Wanted to see really

00:29:34.200 what it was like.

00:29:35.000 People all the time,

00:29:35.780 they say, and I like

00:29:36.480 smoking cigars, but I

00:29:38.260 did really want to see

00:29:38.980 what it was like.

00:29:39.540 These people say, oh,

00:29:40.020 it's so quaint.

00:29:40.800 Oh, it's so nice.

00:29:41.960 They don't need air

00:29:42.720 conditioning there.

00:29:43.420 They just don't need it.

00:29:44.500 No, they don't need it.

00:29:45.800 It's very hot in Cuba.

00:29:46.880 It's that they can't have

00:29:48.240 it.

00:29:48.480 The government doesn't

00:29:49.220 let them have it.

00:29:49.980 They keep them in dire

00:29:50.740 poverty.

00:29:52.000 The average income is

00:29:52.700 $25 a month.

00:29:54.380 And I got to tell you,

00:29:55.180 they don't wear Che Guevara

00:29:56.240 t-shirts down there.

00:29:57.580 I looked around.

00:29:58.360 I was there for three

00:29:59.320 days or so.

00:29:59.820 I just really wanted to

00:30:00.560 see it.

00:30:01.340 And they wear American

00:30:03.400 flags sewn onto their

00:30:05.040 jeans, on their bicycles,

00:30:06.360 if they can have a

00:30:07.160 bicycle.

00:30:08.120 The American flags are all 0.53

00:30:09.600 over the place.

00:30:10.220 That's the subversion.

00:30:11.140 And that's the symbol of

00:30:12.780 what they hope for.

00:30:13.860 It's American useful 1.00

00:30:14.740 idiots who wear those 1.00

00:30:15.620 Che Guevara t-shirts here. 1.00

00:30:17.160 I saw liberals, met these

00:30:18.860 couple of lefty kids at

00:30:20.680 the Havana airport.

00:30:21.600 They said, oh, wow, you

00:30:22.560 know, don't believe those

00:30:23.520 Cubans.

00:30:24.120 They're really rich.

00:30:25.480 They really, they have

00:30:26.420 money.

00:30:26.720 They're just pretending.

00:30:28.060 Because they couldn't,

00:30:29.340 they couldn't, they had

00:30:30.160 this cognitive dissonance.

00:30:31.380 They couldn't believe that

00:30:32.300 the ideas that they

00:30:33.020 advocate would lead to

00:30:33.960 such human misery.

00:30:35.280 So they had to lie.

00:30:36.280 To resolve that

00:30:36.820 cognitive dissonance,

00:30:37.580 they can either stop

00:30:38.540 being socialists or

00:30:40.060 pretend that these

00:30:41.680 slave islands are other

00:30:43.280 than they are.

00:30:44.460 But the reality is

00:30:46.300 undeniable.

00:30:47.040 You can hear it from a

00:30:47.860 guy like Ji Sung-ho.

00:30:48.860 So we're going to have

00:30:49.240 the rest of that

00:30:49.660 interview next week.

00:30:50.580 To round out today,

00:30:51.400 I guess I have to say

00:30:51.900 goodbye to Facebook and

00:30:52.620 YouTube.

00:30:53.060 To round out today,

00:30:53.660 I want to start out a

00:30:54.320 new segment called

00:30:55.460 This Is America.

00:30:56.800 And because, but not

00:30:57.840 like that song.

00:30:59.020 Ba-ba-da-ba-ba-da,

00:30:59.880 this is America.

00:31:00.720 You know the one that

00:31:01.440 Donald Glover stole from

00:31:02.800 that other guy?

00:31:03.800 You know that one?

00:31:04.600 Yeah, well, we're going

00:31:05.240 to have a segment,

00:31:05.760 This Is America, to talk

00:31:06.980 about these stories that

00:31:08.340 are quintessentially

00:31:09.160 American, that are 0.96

00:31:10.260 utterly forgotten, and

00:31:11.940 that really tell you a

00:31:12.840 lot about the American

00:31:13.460 character.

00:31:13.940 So today, I figure Ji

00:31:15.200 Sung-ho, the most 0.89

00:31:16.020 heroic freedom lover

00:31:17.840 I've ever met, probably

00:31:18.700 will ever meet, is a

00:31:19.860 good time to do it.

00:31:20.540 And because we have

00:31:21.220 the 4th of July tomorrow.

00:31:22.320 So, we're going to talk

00:31:23.260 about Samuel Whittemore

00:31:25.540 and a few other of the

00:31:26.920 great American

00:31:28.040 revolution guys.

00:31:29.540 Before we get to that,

00:31:30.380 I'm sorry.

00:31:30.940 If you're on Facebook

00:31:31.540 and YouTube, I've got to

00:31:32.780 say goodbye to you.

00:31:33.400 You have to go to

00:31:34.000 dailywire.com.

00:31:35.020 You pay $10 a month,

00:31:35.860 $100 for an annual

00:31:37.220 membership.

00:31:37.700 You get me, you get the

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00:31:45.600 None of that matters.

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00:32:36.160 We'll be right back.

00:32:37.220 This is America.

00:32:52.880 That's what this says.

00:32:53.660 We got to get a better

00:32:54.500 intro than that, I guess.

00:32:55.500 Can we just like superimpose

00:32:56.960 my face on Donald's lover?

00:32:58.500 Like, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

00:33:00.200 So the first guy we're going to

00:33:03.060 talk about.

00:33:04.100 I really wanted to mention this

00:33:05.540 on our Daily Wire backstage

00:33:06.500 yesterday, but it didn't come

00:33:07.980 up because we started talking

00:33:09.340 about hierarchies of values

00:33:10.740 with Jordan Peterson, and

00:33:11.980 you know, that just, that'll

00:33:13.140 take you two hours.

00:33:14.280 So, Samuel Whittemore, one of

00:33:17.920 the unsung heroes of the

00:33:19.180 American Revolution, one of

00:33:20.420 the biggest badasses in

00:33:21.700 American history. 0.98

00:33:22.940 Pardon my French.

00:33:23.800 I know I did a whole show on

00:33:24.660 profanity yesterday.

00:33:26.020 This guy, born in England in

00:33:28.480 1695, he comes over to

00:33:31.140 America as a captain to fight

00:33:32.800 the French in 1745.

00:33:34.940 Already love him.

00:33:36.480 He's fighting the French, an 1.00

00:33:37.560 American hobby as old as time.

00:33:39.540 He, while he's fighting the

00:33:41.340 French in 1745, he captures a

00:33:43.380 French officer's sword.

00:33:45.020 Now, he takes the sword.

00:33:46.620 This is now going to be Samuel

00:33:48.040 Whittemore's sword.

00:33:49.100 When he left in notes, they

00:33:50.420 asked, how did you get that

00:33:51.260 sword?

00:33:51.700 He said, oh, well, the owner

00:33:52.860 of the sword died suddenly.

00:33:55.900 How did he die, Samuel

00:33:56.780 Whittemore?

00:33:57.160 He just died suddenly, and now I

00:33:58.700 have his sword.

00:33:59.320 Okay, so after the war, he

00:34:00.760 doesn't go back to England.

00:34:01.640 He stays in America. 0.67

00:34:03.140 He buys a farm.

00:34:04.440 He lives in Massachusetts.

00:34:05.800 Very nice.

00:34:06.780 Some years go by.

00:34:08.940 1758 rolls around.

00:34:10.220 This is the French and Indian

00:34:11.140 wars going on.

00:34:12.100 He joins up again because he 0.74

00:34:13.760 didn't kill enough French the 1.00

00:34:14.880 first time.

00:34:15.520 Now, he's 64 years old at this

00:34:17.020 point.

00:34:17.440 This is not a young man anymore.

00:34:18.980 64 years old, he says, no, I 1.00

00:34:20.200 gotta, I gotta go kill some 0.99

00:34:21.900 more French. 1.00

00:34:22.480 I got the bloodlust up in

00:34:23.580 America.

00:34:24.120 So he joins up and he

00:34:25.920 destroys, he's in the company

00:34:27.340 that destroys Fort Louisbourg.

00:34:29.080 Uh, then, uh, after that, he

00:34:32.580 says, no, I haven't killed

00:34:33.500 enough French yet.

00:34:34.200 So he joins, uh, General

00:34:35.840 James Wolfe in a successful

00:34:37.400 assault on Quebec.

00:34:38.560 So he says, okay, he goes up

00:34:39.720 there, he says, we're going to

00:34:41.000 invade Canada, which we should 1.00

00:34:42.540 have done.

00:34:42.920 I mean, it is, you know, uh, we

00:34:44.180 tried to convince Jordan

00:34:44.960 Peterson of this yesterday.

00:34:46.260 This is America's hat.

00:34:47.800 Washington's biggest mistake.

00:34:48.920 It could have had twice the

00:34:49.840 country right now.

00:34:50.640 So he goes up and it is a

00:34:52.200 successful assault on Quebec.

00:34:53.460 Then, 1763 rolls around.

00:34:56.840 Uh, so at this point, what is

00:34:58.140 he pushing 70?

00:34:59.400 Uh, he leaves his entire

00:35:00.840 family, his wife, his

00:35:02.640 children, his grandchildren,

00:35:04.580 because now he's killed 0.98

00:35:05.660 enough French. 1.00

00:35:06.180 He wants to go kill some more 1.00

00:35:07.080 Indians on behalf of 1.00

00:35:08.060 America.

00:35:08.760 Joins to fight the Indian 1.00

00:35:09.680 wars against, uh, Ottawa

00:35:10.900 chief Pontiac.

00:35:12.380 So he goes over there.

00:35:13.460 He's just, you know, starts

00:35:14.700 slaughtering all these 0.99

00:35:15.460 Indians and defending his 1.00

00:35:16.880 country.

00:35:17.600 And, uh, he comes back from

00:35:19.060 that war and all of a sudden

00:35:20.560 he doesn't just have a

00:35:21.420 sword.

00:35:21.620 He has two dueling

00:35:22.320 pistols.

00:35:22.740 His family says, Samuel,

00:35:24.160 where'd you get those

00:35:24.820 dueling pistols?

00:35:25.500 He said, oh, the owner died

00:35:26.440 suddenly.

00:35:28.420 Died suddenly, huh?

00:35:29.900 How'd he die suddenly?

00:35:30.760 I don't know.

00:35:31.120 He just died suddenly.

00:35:32.060 So now the American

00:35:34.500 revolution rolls around.

00:35:35.660 This guy is 80 years old.

00:35:37.660 Uh, he becomes an instant

00:35:38.860 adopter of American

00:35:39.740 independence.

00:35:40.320 He said, I'm sick of, uh,

00:35:41.700 this distant king telling us

00:35:43.020 what to do.

00:35:43.700 I am going to support the

00:35:44.700 Patriot cause.

00:35:45.340 They say, Samuel, you're a

00:35:46.160 little old on account of

00:35:47.060 your 80 and you should have 0.99

00:35:48.360 died years ago. 0.97

00:35:49.440 So now I'm going to sign up

00:35:50.440 anyway.

00:35:51.400 The battle of Lexington and

00:35:52.940 Concord happens.

00:35:54.460 Uh, he, he sees 700 Brits

00:35:56.960 coming down the street.

00:35:58.540 He says, this can't be good.

00:35:59.540 Then he sees 1400 Brits.

00:36:01.140 He says, uh-oh, not a good

00:36:02.640 sign if the British are 0.99

00:36:03.620 calling for, uh, uh, backup

00:36:06.080 if they're calling for

00:36:06.860 reinforcements.

00:36:07.800 So the British start burning 1.00

00:36:09.640 down people's homes.

00:36:10.760 This is when Whittemore

00:36:12.080 goes to war.

00:36:12.660 He grabs his musket.

00:36:13.700 He grabs his sword that he

00:36:14.880 took from the guy he killed.

00:36:16.420 He takes the two dueling

00:36:17.340 pistols that he had from

00:36:18.420 the guy he killed.

00:36:19.540 He, uh, he, he's waiting,

00:36:21.540 right?

00:36:21.700 He's laying in wait.

00:36:22.580 Some other people are

00:36:23.160 shooting at the British.

00:36:23.840 He waits until they get 0.98

00:36:24.740 pretty, pretty close.

00:36:25.860 He fires a shot from his 0.96

00:36:27.220 musket, instantly kills a 0.93

00:36:29.080 British soldier. 0.99

00:36:29.800 He then drops the musket,

00:36:31.300 pulls out his dueling

00:36:31.960 pistols, almost point blank 0.99

00:36:33.400 range, shoots one, kills 1.00

00:36:34.960 him dead, shoots another 1.00

00:36:36.120 one, mortally wounds him, 1.00

00:36:37.360 leaves him for dead. 0.52

00:36:38.400 He then, now, now he's 0.97

00:36:39.300 out of bullets.

00:36:39.800 They are coming right up

00:36:41.300 on him.

00:36:41.600 So he rips out his sword

00:36:42.600 and starts sword fighting

00:36:43.620 them as they're trying to

00:36:44.720 bayonet him.

00:36:45.660 Uh, a British soldier loads 1.00

00:36:47.020 his gun, uh, shoots him 0.99

00:36:48.560 directly in the face. 0.98

00:36:49.960 Samuel Whittemore is now 0.96

00:36:50.840 blasted through the face.

00:36:52.200 He gets knocked on the 1.00

00:36:53.120 head with the butt of a 0.94

00:36:53.860 musket and he's bayoneted 0.97

00:36:55.220 13 times left for dead in a

00:36:58.120 pool of his own blood.

00:36:59.240 Okay. 0.99

00:36:59.560 The British go away. 1.00

00:37:00.800 Now the, the, some of the

00:37:02.400 colonials see the last

00:37:04.020 stand of Samuel Whittemore.

00:37:05.120 They say, okay, we should go

00:37:05.780 up and get his body.

00:37:06.520 They go up to him lying in a

00:37:07.960 pool of his own blood, but he

00:37:09.140 isn't lying dead.

00:37:09.980 He's lying there struggling to

00:37:11.480 reload his musket to go shoot 0.99

00:37:13.140 more British. 0.99

00:37:13.940 They carry him down on a, on a

00:37:15.940 door, a makeshift, uh, gurney,

00:37:17.880 you know, and they carry him to

00:37:19.180 Cooper Tavern, which was acting

00:37:20.580 as a hospital.

00:37:21.520 They, they say, look, this guy

00:37:22.960 is so beyond dead.

00:37:24.360 He's lost all of this blood.

00:37:25.660 His face is totally mangled from

00:37:27.220 getting, you know, shot in it.

00:37:28.640 Uh, and the family says, please

00:37:30.420 treat his wounds.

00:37:31.720 They say there's no point in

00:37:32.560 treating his wounds.

00:37:33.100 He's dead.

00:37:33.760 He's 80 years old and he's 0.73

00:37:34.860 blown up in the face and step

00:37:36.560 bayoneted 13 times.

00:37:37.580 They say, please just treat his

00:37:38.600 wounds.

00:37:38.960 They say, okay, out of respect

00:37:40.000 for Samuel Whittemore, we'll

00:37:41.160 treat his wounds.

00:37:43.020 And then he lives another 18

00:37:44.360 years.

00:37:45.860 He lives another, he went on,

00:37:48.160 made a full recovery.

00:37:49.140 He still was disfigured in his

00:37:50.620 face and he loved that.

00:37:52.220 He relished the wound and said

00:37:53.260 he was proud to show the

00:37:54.320 wounds that he, he gave for

00:37:56.000 his country.

00:37:56.640 And he lived another 18 years.

00:37:58.300 He died of natural causes on

00:38:00.420 February 3rd, 1793.

00:38:02.320 What a man, what an

00:38:04.140 American.

00:38:05.300 We got a few others.

00:38:06.460 Now, uh, a lot of the

00:38:07.880 revolutionary war stories that

00:38:09.120 we don't hear about, we hear

00:38:10.640 about the words that come from

00:38:12.000 them.

00:38:12.180 So there are certain famous

00:38:13.160 speeches that come, you know,

00:38:15.300 uh, my only regret is I have

00:38:17.300 but one life to give for my

00:38:18.320 country or whatever.

00:38:19.280 So the, the men from whom,

00:38:21.900 from which those, uh, phrases

00:38:24.000 come lived incredible lives.

00:38:25.820 Uh, the battle of Bunker Hill

00:38:27.060 occurred after Lexington and

00:38:28.820 Concord a couple months after

00:38:30.020 June 17th, 1775.

00:38:33.120 Here enters John Stark.

00:38:35.260 John Stark, also not a young

00:38:36.640 man, not a 16 year old.

00:38:38.340 He's a 46 year old farmer from

00:38:39.740 New Hampshire.

00:38:40.960 Uh, John Stark hears about the

00:38:42.620 battle of Lexington and

00:38:43.540 Concord, uh, you know, where

00:38:45.140 Samuel Whittemore is busy getting

00:38:46.640 shot in the face and just 1.00

00:38:47.540 slaughtering the British. 1.00

00:38:48.620 He instantly, the day he hears

00:38:50.300 about it, he recruits 400 men

00:38:51.900 from New Hampshire to go to

00:38:53.360 Boston and to, to stop the

00:38:54.960 British.

00:38:55.360 Now, coincidentally, my

00:38:56.980 ancestors, John and Simon

00:38:58.300 Knowles were living in New 1.00

00:39:00.080 Hampshire, I believe, New

00:39:01.300 Hampshire or Maine.

00:39:02.260 And they also went down to the

00:39:04.140 battle of Bunker Hill after the

00:39:05.840 news of Lexington and

00:39:06.600 Concord.

00:39:07.180 John Knowles was killed there

00:39:08.360 or died of his wounds from the

00:39:09.980 battle.

00:39:10.460 And Simon Knowles fought there.

00:39:12.380 I think he was 16 or something

00:39:13.560 and went on to serve in

00:39:15.260 Washington's army at Valley

00:39:16.380 Forge and Rye, White Plains,

00:39:18.780 went all around.

00:39:20.240 Um, Stark is 46, much older than

00:39:22.880 Simon Knowles at this point.

00:39:24.020 Goes down, gets to Bunker Hill,

00:39:25.840 and see, this is one of the

00:39:27.060 early and important battles in

00:39:28.880 the war, sees a gap in the

00:39:30.860 Patriots' defense.

00:39:32.480 There's a gap there.

00:39:33.140 The British can sneak up behind 1.00

00:39:34.200 it, squash the Patriots,

00:39:35.860 possibly end this early

00:39:37.660 momentum in the war.

00:39:39.040 So Stark comes in and is

00:39:40.160 widely credited with saving

00:39:41.860 the day, Stark's militia that

00:39:43.900 he just made up himself on a

00:39:45.200 day's notice hearing about

00:39:46.200 Lexington and Concord.

00:39:47.480 Stark's militia then also later

00:39:49.000 stopped the momentum of a

00:39:50.140 British advance that was

00:39:50.860 coming down from Canada at the

00:39:52.380 Battle of Bennington.

00:39:54.040 And, uh, a great hero of the

00:39:56.140 war, in the 1809 reunion for

00:39:58.920 the veterans of that battle,

00:40:00.440 uh, he couldn't make it.

00:40:01.380 He was too old, he felt he

00:40:02.600 couldn't go down there

00:40:03.240 anymore, so he sent his

00:40:04.100 regrets.

00:40:04.560 And the words he gave to

00:40:05.620 send his regrets, live free

00:40:07.660 or die.

00:40:08.740 That's what he told his old 0.74

00:40:09.980 veteran pals at the reunion.

00:40:11.920 Live free or die then, 140 or

00:40:14.060 so years later, was adopted as

00:40:15.420 the New Hampshire state motto.

00:40:16.720 It comes from that guy who

00:40:17.880 helped save the war because he

00:40:19.800 jumped on his country and, uh,

00:40:22.680 saw a gap and made a really

00:40:24.540 strategic play to, uh, help

00:40:26.280 keep the momentum in the

00:40:27.080 Patriots' favor.

00:40:28.240 This brings us to Nathan Hale,

00:40:29.980 a personal favorite of mine.

00:40:31.700 Nate, you know, Ben went to

00:40:32.760 college at, like, 16 or

00:40:34.060 something.

00:40:34.920 Uh, Nathan Hale went to

00:40:36.200 Yale at age 14, uh, although

00:40:38.560 in these days you would go a

00:40:39.520 little younger.

00:40:40.080 He graduated from Yale at

00:40:41.700 18 with first-class honors

00:40:43.780 and he became a teacher in

00:40:44.820 Connecticut.

00:40:45.360 So he was just living a nice

00:40:46.440 life, going to become a

00:40:47.260 teacher, a nice, you know,

00:40:48.200 English boy.

00:40:49.240 Uh, but George Washington

00:40:51.060 needed a spy.

00:40:52.920 Washington personally needed

00:40:54.120 a spy.

00:40:55.160 Uh, they needed a spy to

00:40:56.380 figure out when the British 0.93

00:40:57.700 were going to invade

00:40:58.380 Manhattan.

00:40:58.940 The Patriots knew that the

00:40:59.800 British were going to come 1.00

00:41:00.420 down and invade Manhattan.

00:41:02.240 They needed someone to go

00:41:03.180 behind British lines and

00:41:04.120 figure out when that was.

00:41:05.380 Washington asked for

00:41:06.240 volunteers.

00:41:07.160 There was one volunteer,

00:41:08.940 Nathan Hale.

00:41:09.660 At this point he would have

00:41:10.740 been, what, 20 years old,

00:41:12.980 21 years old, I believe.

00:41:14.720 Uh, so he goes behind, he's

00:41:16.200 going to spy to figure out

00:41:17.640 when they're going to invade and

00:41:18.520 quash American independence and

00:41:20.020 keep, uh, oppressing the

00:41:21.560 United States, the future

00:41:22.500 United States.

00:41:23.820 There are two stories on how

00:41:25.220 Nathan Hale was discovered.

00:41:26.720 One story is that Major

00:41:28.400 Robert Rogers, British major,

00:41:30.740 uh, saw Hale in a tavern.

00:41:32.240 Hale was wearing some sort of

00:41:33.320 disguise and, uh, through his

00:41:35.820 own trickery, Rogers was able

00:41:37.580 to get Hale to expose himself.

00:41:39.080 The other story is that Nathan

00:41:40.460 Hale's loyalist cousin, Samuel

00:41:42.480 Hale, just gave him away.

00:41:44.140 Because the Revolutionary War

00:41:45.200 split families.

00:41:46.140 Families would be, uh, loyalist,

00:41:47.780 they had some part loyalist, part

00:41:49.360 patriot, and, uh, Hale's cousin,

00:41:51.460 Hale's cousin may have given

00:41:52.400 him away.

00:41:52.800 So he gets arrested, and before

00:41:55.000 he's about to be hanged, because

00:41:56.680 hanging was the punishment for 0.93

00:41:59.300 spies, they believe that being a

00:42:01.420 spy is being an illegal combatant

00:42:03.020 in war, you're hanged 0.66

00:42:03.900 immediately for it.

00:42:04.840 The night before that, he was

00:42:06.200 being held at General William

00:42:07.560 Howes, the British general's,

00:42:09.080 uh, mansion, the Beekman House,

00:42:11.200 one of the British headquarters

00:42:12.020 in New York.

00:42:12.800 He's being held at the

00:42:13.620 greenhouse there.

00:42:14.580 Nathan Hale, the night before,

00:42:15.520 he requests a Bible.

00:42:17.220 He says, all right, I'm going to

00:42:18.120 die, can I at least have a Bible?

00:42:19.720 British say, no, denies his

00:42:21.000 request.

00:42:21.340 He says, can I have a clergyman?

00:42:23.340 Denies his request.

00:42:24.400 Absolutely not.

00:42:25.340 He's brought to the gallows,

00:42:26.520 September 22nd, 1776.

00:42:28.720 The kid is 21 years old.

00:42:31.340 Goes up there, and he gives some

00:42:33.360 of the, uh, the famous words.

00:42:35.480 Coincidentally, actually, the guy

00:42:36.740 who hanged him is this guy, Bill

00:42:37.960 Richmond, who's a 13-year-old

00:42:39.660 former slave who was a loyalist,

00:42:41.780 13 years old, and, uh, became a

00:42:43.860 famous boxer in Europe later on.

00:42:45.880 He was the hangman.

00:42:46.840 Nathan Hale goes up, and

00:42:48.500 everybody says he gave a good

00:42:49.720 speech.

00:42:50.180 He said, I only regret that I

00:42:51.920 have but one life to lose for

00:42:53.400 my country.

00:42:54.660 Now, some historians have

00:42:55.580 questioned this.

00:42:56.420 They say, oh, it's too

00:42:56.920 beautiful.

00:42:57.300 Did he really say that?

00:42:59.020 I don't know.

00:42:59.660 It's well attested to by a ton

00:43:01.120 of people, A, who were there,

00:43:03.240 and historians who give

00:43:05.020 different lines, too.

00:43:05.880 He didn't just say that one

00:43:06.720 sentence.

00:43:07.320 He said other variations on

00:43:08.780 this and acquitted himself,

00:43:09.780 and a lot of people say he

00:43:10.980 handled himself very well and

00:43:13.100 explained that he would do it

00:43:14.200 again.

00:43:14.480 He had no regrets, and, you

00:43:16.040 know, he loved his country.

00:43:17.720 That line also comes from

00:43:19.140 Joseph Addison's play, Cato.

00:43:21.140 The total line is, how

00:43:22.940 beautiful is death when

00:43:24.100 earned by virtue?

00:43:25.360 Who would be not, who would

00:43:26.640 not be that youth?

00:43:27.940 What pity is it that we can

00:43:29.860 die but once to serve our

00:43:31.400 country?

00:43:31.900 So there's a thought that

00:43:32.800 Nathan Hale was sort of

00:43:33.700 paraphrasing that play, but

00:43:35.880 it's a beautiful sentiment, a

00:43:37.980 beautiful line, very true.

00:43:38.980 Also, you hear the kind of

00:43:40.580 classic maxim, dolce et

00:43:42.640 decorum est pro patria

00:43:43.760 mori.

00:43:45.620 It's sweet and seemly to

00:43:46.800 die for your country.

00:43:48.140 And you see the reality of

00:43:49.240 it.

00:43:49.440 These weren't just lines.

00:43:50.760 This wasn't just some

00:43:51.480 little poetry.

00:43:52.340 This is a 21-year-old kid

00:43:53.540 full of promise who gave

00:43:55.480 his life for his country and

00:43:56.400 had no regrets, faced it

00:43:57.640 down in courage.

00:43:58.380 If he'd faced it down like 0.87

00:43:59.360 a coward or tried to trade 0.92

00:44:00.640 or cried at the gallows, 0.96

00:44:02.840 history either would not

00:44:04.580 remember him or would treat

00:44:05.540 him badly.

00:44:06.020 But he went there, faced

00:44:07.840 his fate straight on, and

00:44:09.000 he's an American hero.

00:44:10.500 Finally, this brings us to

00:44:11.680 John Paul Jones.

00:44:12.960 John Paul Jones, father of

00:44:14.500 the Navy, rarely talked

00:44:15.700 about.

00:44:16.500 This guy grew up in

00:44:17.420 Scotland.

00:44:18.380 He was a sailor and he was

00:44:20.200 a sailor on British

00:44:20.940 merchant ships.

00:44:21.900 He comes to Virginia at

00:44:23.100 some point in the 1770s.

00:44:24.940 Unclear why.

00:44:26.560 Little bit of a hothead. 0.96

00:44:27.900 He may have killed a 0.99

00:44:28.760 member of his crew on a

00:44:29.960 British merchant ship.

00:44:30.840 It's unclear why he came.

00:44:32.060 He certainly liked the

00:44:32.860 patriot cause.

00:44:34.000 Moves to Virginia in the

00:44:35.100 1770s.

00:44:35.840 He's commissioned to the 0.96

00:44:36.900 Continental Navy December

00:44:38.480 1775.

00:44:39.660 The guy's 28 years old at

00:44:40.740 this point.

00:44:41.620 So he is a first lieutenant

00:44:44.240 in the Continental Navy

00:44:46.160 and he's the first guy to

00:44:47.620 hoist the Grand Union flag,

00:44:49.300 which I think I have.

00:44:50.460 Got one right here.

00:44:51.560 Let's see.

00:44:52.820 That is this flag.

00:44:54.180 So this is the first flag

00:44:55.680 used by the Continental

00:44:57.340 military and he hoisted

00:45:00.200 that.

00:45:00.760 So he commanded the

00:45:02.600 Ranger and he was

00:45:04.100 sailing for France.

00:45:05.220 France is helping us out in

00:45:06.180 the war.

00:45:06.500 He's commanding the

00:45:07.300 Ranger.

00:45:08.460 In Quilberon Bay in

00:45:10.320 France on Valentine's Day

00:45:12.000 1778, Jones and Admiral

00:45:15.260 Lamont-Piquet exchanged

00:45:16.900 salutes.

00:45:17.600 This is important.

00:45:18.560 It seems unimportant, but

00:45:19.680 it's very important because

00:45:20.800 this is the first time the

00:45:21.720 stars and stripes were

00:45:22.520 recognized by a foreign

00:45:23.940 country.

00:45:24.680 France is saying, you are a

00:45:26.160 country now.

00:45:26.540 We're going to recognize you

00:45:27.300 at sea.

00:45:27.660 So in 1779, a French king, the

00:45:30.700 French king gave Jones this

00:45:32.140 very old ship, the East

00:45:33.960 Indian man, Duc de Dura.

00:45:36.340 And Jones named that Bonhomme

00:45:38.500 Richard, which was after his

00:45:40.480 patron and pal Benjamin

00:45:42.020 Franklin.

00:45:43.000 So like poor Richard's almanac.

00:45:44.400 He names it after Franklin.

00:45:46.080 He then immediately sails from

00:45:47.320 France to raid English shipping.

00:45:49.120 A lot, the British consider this

00:45:50.240 guy a pirate because he didn't

00:45:51.560 just go and start, you know,

00:45:52.780 shooting boats off the coast of 0.96

00:45:54.100 America.

00:45:54.840 He was a little smarter than

00:45:55.620 that.

00:45:55.820 He said, we're just going to 0.82

00:45:56.860 destroy the British ships off 0.91

00:45:58.380 the coast of England.

00:45:59.220 So he goes from France.

00:46:00.420 He captures 17 merchant ships

00:46:02.120 and 500 British prisoners.

00:46:04.440 Then it comes his finest moment,

00:46:06.220 one of the great moments of the

00:46:07.420 Revolutionary War.

00:46:08.560 September 23rd, 1779, he engages

00:46:11.460 the HMS Serapis off the coast

00:46:14.840 of England.

00:46:15.580 So this, you know, beautiful

00:46:17.000 royal ship and immediately

00:46:19.900 Jones gets blasted.

00:46:22.080 He, you know, the cannons hit him.

00:46:23.420 He loses a ton of his firepower.

00:46:24.940 He loses a lot of his gunners.

00:46:27.240 There are sharpshooters shooting

00:46:29.160 at him, you know, and the HMS

00:46:31.220 Serapis calls out.

00:46:32.500 They say, will you surrender?

00:46:33.920 We've just blown up your old

00:46:35.160 ship basically and you're

00:46:36.120 sinking.

00:46:36.900 Will you surrender now?

00:46:38.540 And Jones, and this is attested

00:46:39.980 to by multiple people, calls out.

00:46:41.400 He says, I have not yet begun to

00:46:43.620 fight.

00:46:44.520 I have not yet begun, which is

00:46:45.780 true.

00:46:46.000 He hadn't begun to fight.

00:46:47.220 It's already sinking and he

00:46:48.240 hadn't begun to fight.

00:46:49.220 So his ship is sinking down. 0.86

00:46:51.100 Total American, just like, screw 1.00

00:46:53.360 you, man. 1.00

00:46:53.880 I'm not going down, right?

00:46:54.860 He's being gunned down by

00:46:56.040 sharpshooters and he's still 1.00

00:46:57.640 fighting.

00:46:58.680 He had a second famous line from

00:47:00.100 this episode.

00:47:00.940 He said, I may sink, but I'll be 0.81

00:47:02.960 damned if I strike. 0.99

00:47:04.420 To strike his colors. 1.00

00:47:05.480 To surrender, right?

00:47:06.440 So he says, I may sink, but I'll be 0.78

00:47:08.080 damned if I strike.

00:47:09.400 The boat is going down. 1.00

00:47:10.960 The ship is going down.

00:47:12.280 From the beginning, he's already

00:47:13.520 losing.

00:47:14.260 He says, I haven't begun to fight.

00:47:15.800 And what happens at the end of

00:47:16.800 that battle?

00:47:17.680 The Serapis surrenders.

00:47:19.040 The Brits surrender.

00:47:20.640 By the way, a day later, the

00:47:22.060 Richard is totally sunk.

00:47:23.740 Jones is then transferred to take

00:47:25.200 control of the Serapis.

00:47:26.840 Absolutely shocking.

00:47:27.980 No one could have called this for

00:47:29.100 him at the beginning of the fight.

00:47:31.080 After that, he had a long career as

00:47:33.580 a sailor.

00:47:34.060 He ends up sailing for the

00:47:34.960 Empress Catherine of Russia.

00:47:36.920 He's returned to France afterward.

00:47:39.340 And he dies there.

00:47:40.380 Just to get a dig in at the

00:47:42.100 revolutionary French.

00:47:43.920 Because, look, the aristocratic

00:47:45.460 French, the French monarchy,

00:47:46.640 helped us get our independence.

00:47:47.980 Love those guys.

00:47:48.820 Those guys were great. 0.99

00:47:49.820 Then a bunch of jerk French came 1.00

00:47:51.500 in and chopped off all of their 1.00

00:47:53.040 heads. 1.00

00:47:53.620 The revolutionaries.

00:47:54.600 The lefties.

00:47:57.520 Which is why when we criticize

00:47:58.720 France, we're criticizing those 1.00

00:48:00.100 guys.

00:48:00.660 I like the aristocrats. 0.88

00:48:02.000 But those guys were awful.

00:48:02.900 They come in and they start

00:48:04.260 selling cemeteries.

00:48:05.360 Taking over churches.

00:48:06.280 Knocking them down.

00:48:07.220 Selling cemeteries.

00:48:08.000 So we had no idea where Jones

00:48:09.740 was buried.

00:48:10.260 This amazing hero.

00:48:11.780 Finally, we were able to track

00:48:12.900 it down and claim his body. 1.00

00:48:14.860 But because of those damn 1.00

00:48:17.580 lefty revolutionary French, 1.00

00:48:19.460 we lost it for a long time.

00:48:21.100 That's our show.

00:48:21.840 We're obviously running late.

00:48:22.920 Before we go, I mentioned this

00:48:24.300 on the cigar show yesterday

00:48:25.800 on the Daily Wire backstage.

00:48:28.360 But we, one of my favorite

00:48:31.180 memories, one of my earliest

00:48:32.140 patriotic memories is my

00:48:33.700 grandfather, who was a veteran

00:48:35.500 from World War II.

00:48:37.020 He was a B-24 navigator.

00:48:39.120 He played me.

00:48:41.020 It's a grand old flag.

00:48:42.120 The George M. Cohan song.

00:48:43.320 And at, like, two years old,

00:48:44.640 I would march around his

00:48:45.480 dining room and sing that song.

00:48:47.080 So I want to leave you

00:48:48.400 with that clip because I

00:48:49.220 really love the flag.

00:48:50.480 You can tell I have a lot

00:48:51.280 of flags on my desk.

00:48:52.560 I love all of the American

00:48:53.460 flags.

00:48:53.880 It's a wonderful symbol

00:48:54.760 of the country.

00:48:55.740 It's important to respect

00:48:56.760 the flag.

00:48:57.580 It is important not to rub

00:48:59.680 the flag on the ground or

00:49:00.840 kneel and protest the flag.

00:49:03.360 And so to leave you with a

00:49:04.560 little good old American

00:49:05.800 patriotic entertainment.

00:49:07.520 Before we go today, here is

00:49:09.260 George M. Cohan's

00:49:10.160 It's a Grand Old Flag.

00:49:13.320 You're a Grand Old Flag.

00:49:19.260 You're a high-flying flag.

00:49:21.140 And forever in peace

00:49:23.020 may you play.

00:49:24.920 You're the emblem of the land

00:49:27.760 I love.

00:49:29.000 The home of the free and the brave.

00:49:32.540 Every heart beats you under red,

00:49:35.280 white, and blue.

00:49:36.480 And there's never a boast or brag.

00:49:39.320 Much of all the great men

00:49:42.640 need to come.

00:49:44.200 Keep your eye on the Grand Old Flag.

00:49:47.000 Oh, Lord, the brave and the brave.

00:49:52.140 Keep your eye on the Grand Old Flag.

00:49:58.700 The Michael Knoll Show is produced by

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00:50:12.520 Executive producer, Jeremy Borey.

00:50:14.620 Senior producer, Jonathan Hay.

00:50:16.440 Our supervising producer, Mathis Glover.

00:50:19.040 And our technical producer is

00:50:20.360 Austin Stevens.

00:50:21.680 Edited by Jim Nickel.

00:50:23.180 Audio is mixed by Mike Coromina.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 03, 2018

Ep. 178 - Freedom’s Heroes ft. Ji Seong-Ho

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