01x30 - In Praise of Ben

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I still I

know the truth will rise and

fall that's just

to a word now to the

wise the world was made each is a

surprise looking at life my own eyes I'm

searching for a hero don't idolize

feeling the pain as

innocent

looking my I take my heart battle give

that freedom battle get my Independence

de C it on the D line for your freedom

bring and patriotic voices singed white

blue never give up you represent America

opening for a brigh day I listen to my

heart and I oby how can I see it any

other way I'm looking at

my

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my today on Liberty's

Kids he called Dr Franklin a fraud and

the

blue Library philosophy College almanacs

all very amusing but my money is no

longer worth anything I'm tired of this

w*r and Ben Franklin as much as any

other man started us on this road to

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ruin dearest mother as my long journey

ends

and I approach Dr Franklin's

Philadelphia I grow increasingly uneasy

though I believe deeply that I am where

I belong the pain of so recently leaving

both you and father is I must admit

difficult to bear

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I'm embarrassed to say it but I feel

ever so alone

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w

h and what of my friends here what will

James Moses and on re think of me

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now probably that I'm a silly girl who

keeps changing her mind about who she

really is

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Moses

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oh slow down

James prices are still so high Moses I

don't see how we can Moses

Sarah uh hi

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Sarah Sarah what why because I finally

you realized something I realized I am

an American welcome

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home well it's about time isn't it James

I feel so wonderful even you can't ruin

it what hey aren't you glad to see me

H I have so much to tell you about John

Paul Jones and England and mother and

Parliament and two ocean Journeys with

the worst food I ever ate and H where's

HRI I thought that that's it hey gotop

it take it back now

you are a liar am not stop it both of

you

Sarah do

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not put me down I'm going to tell my

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father he got Dr Franklin a fraud and a

blue hard Onre he's just saying that to

make you angry I am not well if he is

it's

working stop it

now now how did this start when Charles

said bad things about Dr Franklin I said

take it back or else he wouldn't so I

taught him a lesson he'll never

forget H doesn't Charles have the right

to his own opinion even if you disagree

with it

yes but that's part of being free

haven't you learned anything from Moses

and Dr Franklin I guess then maybe you

should apologize for starting the fight

I'm sorry I punched you first but you're

wrong about Dr Franklin I am not stop

shouting why do you think Dr Franklin is

a fraud and a blo hard I don't know my

dad told me I want to show you

something look around Charles what do

you

see junk see in a way he's right HRI it

used to be junk until Dr Franklin got

his hands on it did you know Ben

Franklin is an inventor No Moses play

for him play for me

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please TR

fine fine all right

then how do you do that this is an

invention of Dr Franklin's called the

glass

armonica see how the different sized

glass bowls turn together as I rotate

the crank and when I touch the edge of

one of the

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bows thank you

kindly Moses tell tell him about

this do you know what this key did

Charles uh unlock the door to the crown

jewels not exactly but it opened another

door to a new world of

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electricity it was in 1752 when Dr

Franklin was 46 years old

as soon as any of the thunder clouds

come over the kite the pointed wire will

draw the electric fire from them when

the rain has wet the twine so that it

can conduct the electric fire freely you

will find it stream out plentifully from

the key on the approach of your

knuckle he caught Sparks so what for one

thing in case you don't believe Dr

Franklin is a man of Courage the next

man who tried the same experiment

died and what a discovery Dr Franklin

made as we learned to control those

Sparks we'll be able to use their energy

to power boats oh Drive carriages

without horses or even help to cook

Charles Dr Franklin tried it once like

many scientific experiments it did not

work out well it was 2 days before

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Christmas Dr Franklin was hosting a

dinner party demonstration this evening

my Dr Franklin's inventions are

fascinating so verying I have a Frankin

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their

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IDE he did not like to see an animal

suffer needlessly and hope to use

electricity to end its life

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painlessly Dr Franklin let me help oh my

are you all right oh yes perfectly

fine I want to try that yeah absolutely

not electricity can be very

dangerous James's parents died in a fire

started by an electrical

storm to prevent fire started by

lightning Ben invented this

a lightning

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rod with Ben's new device attached to

the roof the lightning bolt was

attracted to the point of the rock the

electricity traveled down a copper wire

into the ground of course in Ben's house

he sent the charge through an apparatus

that rang some small bells in a large

storm the bells could ring for hours

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I want to invent things like Dr Franklin

someday me too I wish I had a fancy

education like he did fancy

education let me tell you about Ben's

fancy

education what kind of lies are you

filling my son's head with

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come here

Charles they're not lies sir would you

like to hear for yourself I insist on

hearing for myself so I can be sure to

correct them Charles just told us Dr

Franklin had a fancy education wonder

where the kid heard that sir that is

simply not the case

Dr Franklin grew up in Boston directly

across from Old South Church in a home

filled to bursting with 12 brothers and

sisters Ben was crushed to learn his

family could no longer afford to send

him to class he was 9 years

old like this father his father put him

to work in the family business making

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candles Ben spent the money he earned on

his greatest love

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books Ben Franklin had no fancy

education Charles Ben Franklin taught

himself does your family borrow books

from the library company of Philadelphia

Charles of course Ben Franklin founded

it along with the American philosophical

Society the union Fire Company the

College of Philadelphia and the

Pennsylvania Hospital Charles Have You

Ever Had The Misfortune to be sick or

injured never the boy's strong like his

father you're both Lucky and if you

lived in the days before Dr Franklin

founded that hospital being healthy

would have made you even

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luckier many poor ill and insane people

were reduced to wandering the Streets of

Philadelphia it was a terrible situation

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now in the Pennsylvania Hospital there's

a place for the

sick just as importantly people started

learning how to be doctors this awful

w*r gave them a chance to learn

firsthand about the human body

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seeking to ease the terrible suffering

they've taken to the

battlefields there they've been

confronted with every injury and

sickness you could imagine and then

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some thanks to our doctor's Newfound

experience people are being cured of

illnesses and healed from injuries and

ways that were never possible

before Mr Montgomery did you ever read

Dr Franklin's Poor Richard's

Almanac Dr Franklin published the first

edition of Poor Richard's Almanac when

he was 26 years

old it contained all the usual weather

reports recipes and predictions what set

it apart were the Lively writing and

Woody sayings a penny saved is a a penny

earned there are no gains without

pains a learned Blockhead is a greater

Blockhead than an ignorant

one he that lies down with dogs shall

rise up with

fleas Library philosophy College

almanacs all very amusing but my money

is no longer worth anything I'm tired of

this w*r and Ben Franklin as much as any

other man started us on this road to

ruin

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Mr Montgomery you have to understand

where Dr Franklin's deep commitment to

Freedom comes from he wrote in 1717 my

brother James returned from England with

a press and letters to set up his

business in Boston I signed IND Dentures

when I was but 12 years old to serve as

an apprentice for the next 9 years of my

life presenting this week's issue of the

New England

current featur ing the latest column by

Mrs silence do good listen I reflected

in my mind on the extreme Folly of those

parents who blind to their children's

dullness and insensible of the solidity

of their skulls will needs send them to

the Temple of learning by which she

meant Harvard

College isn't that hilarious it's very

funny all I'd love to know who this

sharp tongue lady really is

James I am Mrs silence do good I've been

writing that column and slipping it

under the door in the middle of the

night watching everyone laugh at my

words but never being able to take

credit for them do you know how that

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feels James grew increasingly a*usive

with his 17-year-old

brother aren't you finished yet I don't

want to be here all night I'm hurrying

I'm

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hurrying you idiot you did that on

purpose it was an accident I don't

believe you and I've had enough of your

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disrespect Dr Franklin left soon

after he never for got his brother's

harsh and tyrannical treatment Mr

Montgomery that's what Dr Franklin got

that aversion to arbitrary power which

that has stuck to me through my whole

life it's also one of the reasons he's

taken such a strong stand against

sl*very sl*very is the economic

Foundation of our Southern States and

many of us in the north have made our

profits from sl*ve labor too with all

respect sir whoever freed you made a

mistake that said I admit you do make

solid points about Benjamin

Franklin you are entitled to your

opinion about sl*very sir though by what

you say you would deny me

mine where's Charles where's my son and

where's HRI

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out I can't control

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him

H Sarah I almost didn't get to hear you

tell me about your trip

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Moses thank you sir I am glad you are a

free man you are welcome and I hope

someday you will say that to an African

man who did not just save the life of

your son

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deest Jame Sarah and HRI I know you wish

you could see me but as you can't I will

describe myself to you figure me in your

mind as Jolly as formerly and as strong

and Hearty only a few years

older very plainly dressed wearing my

thin gray straight hair that peeps out

from under my fine fur cap think how

this must appear on the powdered heads

of

Paris still they mob

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me on behalf of the British clown I

would be most good

evening I don't believe it

s b

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C viren Ben Franklin At Your Service Dr

Franklin what a surprise welcome to

Versa a man of my years is happy to be

welcomed

anywhere but I tell you this there have

been unknown people as great as any of

the most

famous however my dear friends if if you

would not be forgotten as soon as you

are dead and rotten either write things

worth reading or do things worth writing

and children I am quite certain that you

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shall through my searching for a hero to

ID feeling the pain as

inocent looking at life my

I take my heart battle give that freedom

get

my it on the line blue never up you

represent America

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[Laughter]