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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. So 250 years ago yesterday, a man stood up in this church |
0:09.1 | in Richmond, Virginia. It's called St. John's Church. It's still there today. It's on East Broad Street in |
0:15.3 | Richmond. 250 years ago, yesterday, a man named Patrick Henry stood up in that church in Richmond, Virginia, |
0:24.2 | and he gave a speech that is still remembered now, not just decades or generations later, |
0:31.0 | but literally centuries later. This was, give me liberty or give me death. |
0:45.9 | Now, it's not at all clear to historians if Patrick Henry actually said those exact words in that speech that day. |
0:50.3 | Might have been kind of stolen from Shakespeare and later attributed to him. |
0:50.9 | I don't know. |
0:53.2 | But regardless, it was a good speech. |
0:53.8 | It was important. It's credited in part |
0:55.0 | with Virginia choosing to join what would become the revolutionary war against the tyrannical |
0:59.8 | King George, which is how we got our independence as a nation. It's how ultimately we got our |
1:04.9 | Constitution and our Bill of Rights. It is how we got our democracy. And on the occasion of that |
1:10.3 | 250-year anniversary of Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty or Give Me |
1:16.1 | Death speech, which again, that 250-year anniversary was yesterday, the current governor |
1:22.0 | of Virginia, Republican Glenn Yonkin, went to that church in Richmond, Virginia yesterday, where they reenacted |
1:30.1 | the whole dramatic speech, including the give me liberty or give me death thing, which may or may not have actually been said in that speech 250 years ago. |
1:40.7 | But still, it's a really nice, important thing to commemorate 250 years. |
1:43.9 | It's a big anniversary. |
1:45.2 | It's a nice thing for Glenn Youngkin to have done, right? Then he left. He walked out of the church, |
1:52.0 | and this is what happened. |
2:19.7 | Yeah. Let me just go. Let me just show you just one more minute of this here. |
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