The Michael Knowles Show - July 03, 2018


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


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51 minutes

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169.18866

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8,695

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693

Misogynist Sentences

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Summary

On a special Independence Day episode, we will be joined by North Korean defector Ji Song-ho to discuss his 6,000-mile journey on crutches from North Korea to freedom. Then we ll talk about the rise of socialism in America, particularly among millennials. Finally, in a new segment called This Is America, Just Like That Stupid Song, but Like Good, we discuss some of the most incredible heroes and stories of the Revolutionary War that you probably haven t heard of.


Transcript

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.
00:00:15.300 Finally, in a new segment called This Is America, just like that stupid song, but like good,
00:00:20.440 we discuss some of the most incredible heroes and stories of the Revolutionary War
00:00:24.600 that you probably haven't heard of. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 This is The Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
00:09:21.680 They wanted the disabled to die off.
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.
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.
00:10:27.780 Even though the disabled people need societal protection and the special provision from the government,
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.
00:11:00.240 The Chinese police officers assaulted me and said that retards like me should die off and stop embarrassing the nation.
00:11:13.860 During all the torments and the beatings by the police,
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.
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.
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
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
00:16:21.120 and you are executed
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.
00:16:27.440 And when I could
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
00:17:03.220 or more precisely
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
00:18:51.200 you should just die,
00:18:52.600 we don't want you,
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
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
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
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
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
00:22:21.680 executed.
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
00:22:56.660 of fools
00:22:57.180 in a circus
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
00:23:24.280 executed.
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
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.
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.
00:25:15.340 It's miserable and
00:25:16.860 evil and wicked and
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
00:26:31.040 countries that were
00:26:31.860 oppressed by the Soviet
00:26:33.720 Union, from all the
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
00:26:47.600 American country, you
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
00:27:39.420 was from the Bronx.
00:27:40.280 She pretended that she
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
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.
00:27:50.380 She's pretending to be
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
00:28:04.660 Ji Song-ho did, or you
00:28:06.380 watch your family being
00:28:07.840 killed, then it isn't so
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
00:28:23.160 ignorance because they've
00:28:24.680 been utterly failed by
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
00:28:51.920 their ignorance, but
00:28:52.800 you've got to put it in
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
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
00:29:24.560 knows that.
00:29:25.680 I went down to Cuba,
00:29:27.220 another communist
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
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
00:30:14.740 idiots who wear those
00:30:15.620 Che Guevara t-shirts here.
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
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
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
00:31:38.220 Andrew Klavan show, you get
00:31:39.100 the Ben Shapiro show, you get
00:31:40.920 to ask questions in the
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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.
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
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.
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
00:34:13.760 didn't kill enough French the
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
00:34:20.200 gotta, I gotta go kill some
00:34:21.900 more French.
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
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
00:35:05.660 enough French.
00:35:06.180 He wants to go kill some more
00:35:07.080 Indians on behalf of
00:35:08.060 America.
00:35:08.760 Joins to fight the Indian
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
00:35:15.460 Indians and defending his
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
00:35:48.360 died years ago.
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
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
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
00:36:24.740 pretty, pretty close.
00:36:25.860 He fires a shot from his
00:36:27.220 musket, instantly kills a
00:36:29.080 British soldier.
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
00:36:33.400 range, shoots one, kills
00:36:34.960 him dead, shoots another
00:36:36.120 one, mortally wounds him,
00:36:37.360 leaves him for dead.
00:36:38.400 He then, now, now he's
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
00:36:47.020 his gun, uh, shoots him
00:36:48.560 directly in the face.
00:36:49.960 Samuel Whittemore is now
00:36:50.840 blasted through the face.
00:36:52.200 He gets knocked on the
00:36:53.120 head with the butt of a
00:36:53.860 musket and he's bayoneted
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.
00:36:59.560 The British go away.
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
00:37:13.140 more British.
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
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
00:38:47.540 slaughtering the British.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:43:59.360 a coward or tried to trade
00:44:00.640 or cried at the gallows,
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.
00:44:27.900 He may have killed a
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
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
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
00:45:56.860 destroy the British ships off
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.
00:46:51.100 Total American, just like, screw
00:46:53.360 you, man.
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
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
00:47:02.960 damned if I strike.
00:47:04.420 To strike his colors.
00:47:05.480 To surrender, right?
00:47:06.440 So he says, I may sink, but I'll be
00:47:08.080 damned if I strike.
00:47:09.400 The boat is going down.
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.
00:47:49.820 Then a bunch of jerk French came
00:47:51.500 in and chopped off all of their
00:47:53.040 heads.
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
00:48:00.100 guys.
00:48:00.660 I like the aristocrats.
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.
00:48:14.860 But because of those damn
00:48:17.580 lefty revolutionary French,
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.
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