Rick Beggs: We have reached the 250th birthday of America

>> Rick Beggs: Welcome to the Compass. Navigating the public square together with faith, truth and conviction. Well, well, well. We have reached the 250th birthday.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Yours.

>> Rick Beggs: That is so mean. I cannot even believe that's what you said. No, it's this little thing called the Fourth of July that we celebrate.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: It's birthday.

>> Rick Beggs: Yes. 250.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I've been waiting for a long time for this.

>> Rick Beggs: Hey, welcome to the Compass. that's Debbie over there and she's co host with me. My name is Rick Beggs, and Debbie what now is the president of ivoterguide. This is the official broadcast of ivoterguide.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Of ivoterguide. Yes.

>> Rick Beggs: And, we just happened to land on the 4th. I'll bet everybody else at AFR was wishing that they were.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: They're jealous. Oh, all those Monday to Friday people. Oh, so trash.

>> Rick Beggs: They're going, oh, if I could only be that. We could be Rick and Debbie.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: It's like ordained.

>> Rick Beggs: I know it's of God that we are doing a broadcast. We don't deserve it. 250 years. Yeah. I think a lot of people thought, I don't think this thing can last.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, is it Benjamin Franklin, who was famous for walking out of the Constitutional Convention? I don't remember. Some lady asked him, so what did we get? A monarch or republic? And his answer was, a republic, if you can keep it.

>> Rick Beggs: Yes.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: And that's what.

>> Rick Beggs: That's sobering.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, and because it requires certain things and republics are hard to keep, monarchies are easier. It's just absolute power. But the whole reason the republic formed was to get out from under a monarchy that had become tyrannous. And,

>> Rick Beggs: many people had doubts. Matter of fact, there's, You were quoting something to me earlier today about how many countries have not made it.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Yeah. Republicans.

>> Rick Beggs: 250 years like we have.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, and even constitutions don't live long. So I love the 250th. I love patriotism. So I was at one point planning an event for my church.

>> Rick Beggs: You're geeking. You're gonna geek.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: well, and I've learned, you know, the older I get, the more I love American history. So I was talking to my church about maybe having an event and, you know, passing out things to kids. And I remember as a kid loving a Weekly Reader as a real simple but fun little thing to read that had facts in it. And I was like, I want to find something like a Weekly Reader. I couldn't find one that really worked, but I found one. It's called the Kids Guide. I actually saw it advertised on Fox and ordered it. And this, it came with three little booklets. One of them is on America's 250th, which I'm going to share some fun facts with you today as we're Talking about our 250th.

Rick Watts: Fourth of July brings back incredible memories

>> Rick Beggs: Throughout the show.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Rick, there's a special word for the 250th.

>> Rick Beggs: Don't make me say it because it's so hard.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Can you do it?

>> Rick Beggs: No. There's certain words. My life. We've already done one.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Like spaghetti.

>> Rick Beggs: No, I don't have any problems with spaghetti, but I do have a problem with this one. So I have to really think about it. You always say it's a math problem. It's not a math problem.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: So what's it say?

>> Rick Beggs: It's a diction problem. it's Okay. Semi. Quasi. No, semi.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Semi. Good. You're starting on the right.

>> Rick Beggs: Okay. Semi Quindensial.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: It means half of 500, which is 250. So it's got a little math that makes it hard.

>> Rick Beggs: Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Watts. Now can I go to recess?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Let's say it together. Semi.

>> Rick Beggs: Quinn. Semi. Quincentennial.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Good job. I knew you could do it, Ricky.

>> Rick Beggs: I know. Thank you. Can I go get my lunch? You get a sticker anyway. 1776.

>> Rick Beggs: That's a long time ago. Do you remember what you were doing when we hit 200?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I remember being at the. What? Didn't the Statue of Liberty have a birthday or something? And I lived in NewSong Jersey at the time. I remember a fabulous celebration. And I don't think it was a fourth. I think it was a big. I think it must have been Statue of Liberty. But I was able to sit on the shores of Sandy Hook, which is that little part of NewSong Jersey that kind of juts out towards Manhattan. And we had friends who had a house and we put out lawn chairs and they had. I think it must have been Statue of Liberty because then they had. You could listen on the radio to this music. And they had a fireworks display that went all the way down the bay around Manhattan behind the Liberty. And it was all timed to this music. So it was. I've never seen anything as spectacular of this. And it makes me think of the fourth. It may not have been a fourth, but it was that celebration of America and the uniqueness and the specialty of. Of America and you know.

>> Rick Beggs: And what were their fireworks?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Oh, there were lots of fireworks.

>> Rick Beggs: That makes it American.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: It does it?

>> Rick Beggs: Does I. You know, I. There are a lot of times you see fireworks and you go. And I don't. I never wanted to be this guy, you know, where you go, I've seen him. we can pack up and go.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, you live a long time. You've seen some good fireworks.

>> Rick Beggs: You didn't need to say that. But. But, yes, I do feel like every time fireworks are shot off, I'm gonna sit and watch them. They're just. I don't know what.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, so magical about it. I can't wait to watch tonight, even if I see it on TV, because the ones in D.C. president Trump's, them is gonna be huge. Bigger than ever.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah, well, and we know that he does. He's bigger than Texas. well, this whole idea of Fourth of July brings back incredible memories.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Yep.

>> Rick Beggs: I don't know.

Willie B. worked a fireworks stand once. True confession time

I asked Brent, our producer, if he had any memories, and he sort of bah, humbugged me, about it.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Even though he runs a fireworks stand.

>> Rick Beggs: Yes. He has a side gig.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Does he not light off the fireworks?

>> Rick Beggs: It's a side hustle. I don't know. I'll bet you know why. I bet he takes one's home free. I think that's. I. I don't want to say anything. I don't know.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: True confession time. We'll get. We'll get him on the show anyway. But he.

>> Rick Beggs: He does run a fireworks stand, and he says his only concern is that people don't bring torches and cigarettes in there.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: That's not the smartest thing to do. But, you know, that is the danger of fireworks. Ers get a lot of people who come in those nights because the fingers blown up, house is on fire. And I worked a fireworks stand once.

>> Rick Beggs: Okay. That wasn't on my bingo card today, but. Okay, tell me about that.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I had a friend who ran just like Willie B. Did, and he said he needed some help. And because it's a lot of hours and a lot of work and a lot of stand standing. And so I just helped him man the fireworks stand. The fun thing was you had to be able to describe what the different fireworks would do. And so the best way to do that is. What do you think? Blow them up. You have to set them off, and we'd sample them in the evening so that we knew what they did.

>> Rick Beggs: Oh, so you did it aside. It wasn't like a customer came out and said, oh, no, no, tell me what this one does, and then you just freeze.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Let me show you. It was not a demo but in the evening, we'd like shut down on an early night in the thing, so maybe the night before began so we could.

>> Rick Beggs: So one of those whistler ones. What would you. What noise would you.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I can't whistle, but I'll shoot a Roman candle at you.

>> Rick Beggs: I don't think you did that at all. I don't even think you were in a fireworks stand, quite honestly.

Dan Coyle says the only time he saw fireworks was when he was a kid

Okay, so back to memories.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Yes.

>> Rick Beggs: Okay.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: That would be one of the things I shared. 1. Your turn. Share a memory.

>> Rick Beggs: we used to in our neighborhood when our kids were little, us dads, we ran a parade in our neighborhood. And There was only 66 homes in this neighborhood, but all the kids came out. We had bikes and ribbons flying and big flags.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Did you decorate your bike?

>> Rick Beggs: yeah, I decorated my bike. And so we would lead these kids throughout the neighborhood. They thought it was the greatest thing to do. And every year they looked forward to it. I don't care. You know, as they even got older, they would still do it. But it all ended up at this sort, of community pool area that we had. And we had a chili cook off and we, we just did all that fun stuff and then we would watch the fireworks together.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: So, like fireworks over the stand where you guys were at?

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah, over. Yeah. We could go up to the very top of our neighborhood and we could look over the city and you could see two or three places, you know,

>> Debbie Wuthnow: when we were kids where you could

>> Rick Beggs: see them going off.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: We didn't see it. I mean, I hadn't been to baseball games with fireworks or theme parks with fireworks. It was really 4th of July was the only time we could see fireworks is when I was a kid. And, I don't remember seeing him very often. So it was a pretty special occasion.

>> Rick Beggs: Well, as you know, our family is very involved, has been very involved in baseball. So most of our fourth of July's were around baseball games.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: So hot dogs.

>> Rick Beggs: So you would see fireworks all the time?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: All the time.

>> Rick Beggs: All the time.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Yeah. I was not into baseball. Our fourth of July's were backyard barbecues. You know, dad fires up the grill. we always made homemade ice cream. My dad's favorite was always fresh peach. Mom, would make it as a frozen custard.

>> Rick Beggs: So I remember grinding or electric.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I don't think they invented. I think we had electricity, but we didn't have an electric ice cream churn. So it was my brother's job to slow.

>> Rick Beggs: Do you have an indoor toilet?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Actually, he would. We did it, but my brother, I think on purpose was going start crane cranking it too fast so it wouldn't let the ice cream freeze. So I think he did it on purpose so he wouldn't be able have to do it so that I would have to turn the ice cream. And then dad loved ice watermelon. so we would, not now. We kind of cut it up into bite sized pieces. No, he like cut the watermelon in half lengthwise and those big, big when they had long with seeds in them.

>> Rick Beggs: Oh, you had to throw your whole

>> Debbie Wuthnow: face in that and just dug in there. I mean you were dripping in watermelon juice and then you spit the seeds in the yard. It was a great.

>> Rick Beggs: I do have one memory of a fourth of July. And we knew some people at the White House. This is during, Georgia W. And so we were on the lawn at the White House for the fireworks spectacular. It was very fun. And my wife, the only thing she can remember is running into Dan Quayle in the White House is when she was going to go to the restroom and she ran into Dan Quayle and she looked at him and of course she thought he's pretty handsome. So all she did was when she came back, she goes, I just stared. I said, did you say hi? I just stared.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, that's a memory.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah, well that was for her. But I would remember the fireworks. Yeah. And I didn't. I wasn't that attracted to Dan Coyle.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Good to hear, good to hear. Glad to know that.

Over 90% of world's nations have collapsed or changed governments since 1776

But I mean the fireworks are fun, the backyard barbecue is fun. But honestly, it's celebrating how special America, is. And to hit 250 years is super unique. to be a republic is super unique. In fact, one of the little tidbits in my book said since 1776, over 90% of the world's nations have collapsed or changed governments.

>> Rick Beggs: Okay, what's the percentage?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: 90% of the governments since we've been, since we were created, we have. We win the prize for the longest living constitutional republic. It's never been this long. I mean if you think about it, we have our revolution. Member France had their revolution afterwards. They've gone through multiple governments since then. even big nations have gone through multiple governments. We really are unique and special. And I think it comes back to the spiritual foundation of this nation. That's what makes us unique.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah, there are a lot of special things about how our country was formed. You know, you, you and I are going to be talking about this. That's what this radio broadcast is really about on the compass, the sort of direction that our country has taken. And really we were trying to grab back sort of some of those seminar, those. Those those really ideals that make this place such a wonderful. Not perfect.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Yeah.

>> Rick Beggs: Not perfect at all. But just the idea of America.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, and I will. I'll just throw this thing out there, which is. You know, people talk about being conservative. It basically means to conserve, to keep what we had. And now we. We actually need to kind of go back to what we have. But if people ask what does it mean to be conservative? It's the values that founded this nation. The limited government, you know, biblical values.

>> Rick Beggs: So how. How bold did were these men back then in 1776 when they started thinking about all the. I mean the risks.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Truly revolutionary. And when they pledged at the bottom is it at the Declaration. Declaration of the Constitution. Our sacred honor, our. Our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. They knew they were putting their life at risk. And in fact many of them lost their life and and lost their family and their farms. It was worth everything, but it was worth it for freedom and to.

>> Rick Beggs: Well, and for human rights and for rights of the people that live in this country. Sometimes we get overwhelmed at the big celebration, but we forget all the little things that this captured for us as a people. And I always love saying we the people because we do forget at times that that's what this was built for, was us.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, those are the first three words of our Constitution. But what's really special about so this birthday is of our nation, which is. They counted at the Declaration of Independence, which was when our founders made it clear that basically the monarchy of Britain has infringed upon our rights. And our rights don't come from government. Our rights come from God, from our Creator. They are inalienable, which means they can't be taken away. It is just natural life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And those were being infringed by King George. And that's the whole point of the Declaration I had read there was the foundation of it was a, representative in their Continental Congress made the Lee Resolution, which was basically, we need to separate from Britain. They have violated us. We've tried to make peace. We have tried for years to make peace, and it is just not happening. So we need to separate. And they concluded we need to get a document written to express the reasons. And that's the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. They, you know, said we'll make a committee which, you know, sometimes that works out well in this case. It worked out really well because it contained Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin and Jon Adams and a couple.

>> Rick Beggs: And not everybody agreed all the time on this deal when they were putting

>> Debbie Wuthnow: it together, things to discuss. But they basically gave it to Thomas Jefferson to write that first draft and then, you know, the rest of them made comments on it. And then the Continental Congress voted on it. And that's what we're celebrating, is that they put into writing. there's a reason we need to. There's sometimes a reason for nations to separate. And we have enough reasons. And part of it is because we understand our rights come from God. The purpose of government is to protect those rights. And what was really unique is they said the government gets its power from the people. So as you said, we the people are the most important in our form of government. Which means we need people who want to conserve the values that our founders had, which, which come back to our spiritual values.

>> Rick Beggs: And that's why even last week we talked about stewardship.

>> Rick Beggs: Talked about stewardship of the vote, stewardship of the process to make sure that we are really clarifying the people we want to vote for so that we get good people who are governing for us on behalf of us and who represent us, the people, to do good, not to do evil. And I think a lot today is around the idea that people are skeptical about this country. And my goodness, there are so many things wrong right now in this country. But the essence of what and why we were created are still profound. And it, in going back to those things are so important. It's so important that it really almost forces you to decide. I'm going to vote. I'm going to research, I am going to look for great candidates or I'm going to be a candidate.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Oh, that's big. But it's it's part of. It's just I'm deciding God gives me everything. I'm going to be a good steward of what God has given me. And I Voter guide is just one of the tools to help you do that.

Glenn Beck: Read the Declaration of Independence to understand your rights

There's other tools out there, but we just challenge you to be a good citizen in this constitutional republic. To understand your rights. Read the declaration. Maybe today.

>> Rick Beggs: Hey, that would be a good thing.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: What an idea. Well, let me pull it up here.

>> Rick Beggs: Wait, wait. You almost cued yourself to do that.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Kind of crazy, huh? I have the ability to do that. So it does say it begins when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. So this was America and Britain. And to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to this separation. So that's the purpose of this declaration. And then my favorite paragraph is that second paragraph, because it says, and you guys probably know this, or at least familiar with it, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, not by their government, but by their Creator, with certain and unalienable rights. I find that word hard to say too. Semi. Quincendennial.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah, but I'm not gonna force you to say it over and over.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Okay. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You know, I learned recently, pursuit of happiness is the ability to earn the fruits of your wage, to live, own property and pursue happy. It's not just a feeling of happiness. There's an element of, hard work and work ethic and success in that. But that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, driving their just powers from the consent of the governed. So that's my favorite part. I mean, it does go on. We could sit here and read the whole thing. Honestly, the whole thing only takes you. It's not that long. And then they go into the reasons for their separation. So if you always wondered, why did they do that? Did they do that? They made it plainly clear that, you know, Britain was housing the soldiers in their homes and taking their property and taking their taxes and not representing them and, you know, not giving them trial by jury. And it just. There was. There was an innumerable list of things that they listed.

>> Rick Beggs: So when I was in school, we had a class. Everybody had to take it. civics.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Oh, I thought you were gonna say PE Okay. Yeah.

>> Rick Beggs: Your greatest fears come out when we're on the air. Yeah. it was called civics and m. You learned these things.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: They don't teach that anymore?

>> Rick Beggs: No, not in public school.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Oh, wow.

>> Rick Beggs: No, I. I would get a government,

>> Debbie Wuthnow: but I don't think it's quite as good as.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah. And civics, of course, was really about being a citizen, a good citizen.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Probably touch of the Constitution.

>> Rick Beggs: Absolutely. Bill of Rights. Yeah, you could name it.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I wish I knew that stuff more.

>> Rick Beggs: Oh, I do, too. And I wish our kids knew it more now. I almost have to fault us as parents if we have not passed that stuff on.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: No, that was the job of the teachers. They didn't pass the stuff. It is all of our jobs, God tells us.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah, but that's what makes me sad about culture today, because our kids don't know these things. And so it's not like they forgot it. They never heard it.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Well, and honestly, some of the. What's happened in our school system, they've been taught to hate America, that America was founded on slavery, that America is evil and needs to be, torn down and remade. And, you know, I. I was blessed to see a museum in, It's called the American Journey Experience. It's by Glenn Beck and wall builders. It's in Dallas. They have an early draft by Thomas Jefferson in his own handwriting of the Declaration. And he had one. You know, those reasons of why they were going to separate. One of the reasons he put in there, that got removed because it wasn't unanimous, was that no man should own another man. He didn't want slavery. So don't let people tell you the founders were pro slavery. Even Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves, wrote that, because they understood the biblical stance on that.

>> Rick Beggs: Well, and going back to my comment about kids, I like that there are places where they can go to hear about these things, or parents can take them places to hear about our country and the formation of it. But we are responsible as parents, grandparents, to help fill in the gap that we used to allow the school to fill in. And now we have to be responsible to teach them why this country is of great value. You know, we're in the middle of, World cup, and the whole world has come here to North America. And I have seen some of the greatest, greatest videos depicting how they viewed. Matter of fact, I listened to one, on the way here, you and I were listening.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Oh, the one I pulled up. Yeah. Yeah. We were watching Freddy or something. And then it was just the next one.

>> Rick Beggs: It was the next one. And they remember, they were talking about how, this couple happened to be from the uk and they were talking about how people told them how the media.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: The media was telling them, yeah, how horrible, violent, and somebody's gonna rob you, and guns are everywhere.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah. And be cautious.

Rick: When I was a kid, I watched Schoolhouse Rock

As a matter of fact, the husband said, I really didn't want to go. The wife was more adventuresome. And she goes, no, we're going so we can go watch our team. They came to America and they've been to several big cities and they have nothing.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: But honestly, they're seeing. And even the big Cities. The worst of it, if you go to rural America, that's where, gosh, we're the gem of the earth. Everybody's kind and polite and they're saying

>> Rick Beggs: the freedoms of speech and talk, and you can disagree, but you can have a happy face and you can do all these things. And a lot of times here in the US we think those things aren't really going out or they're not even going on. but people coming from the outside in are going.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: If you look at the rest of the world, you will see how unique our freedoms are and how special special our freedoms are. So, you know, when I was a kid, I watched Schoolhouse Rock. I mean, we used to have it even on Saturday morning cartoons that we learned civics. And we've just gotten away from. We've moved away from that.

>> Rick Beggs: So how many of the songs do you still remember?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Oh, I probably remember all of them, but we don't have time left for that, Rick. Maybe another episode.

>> Rick Beggs: Wait, no. Can you give us just a little snippet of one? Because I think it'd be very fun.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I'm just a Bill. Yes. I'm only a, Bill. I'm dancing and I am sitting here on Castle. Oh, come on. Go find it yourself. It's on YouTube. it's how I learned civics as a kid.

>> Rick Beggs: I can picture it's a rolled up bill Scroll.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Just sing it on the steps of the capitol. Yeah, but that's how I learned how government was made.

>> Rick Beggs: That is so good. I love that you can remember the preamble of Constitution. Okay, so this tells you how important it is when we put scripture to music. I know I listen to my, my grand girls when they start.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Music is great. Yeah.

>> Rick Beggs: And they can just do it in a song. We used to do this for civics, and so those things have stuck in our head, and now you can.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I would share Schoolhouse Rock with my grandkids if I had them.

>> Rick Beggs: Yeah, well, get busy.

We just wanted to have fun with this. Happy fourth of July

Well, we are coming to the end of this, wonderful concept show, called America's, 252 50th semi quincentennial. Yeah, that's exactly right. And, and we're just so glad you would join us. We just wanted to have fun with this.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Happy fourth of July.

>> Rick Beggs: We're very serious about, how wonderful our country is and that we don't want to lose it, that we truly want to keep this.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Pass it on to your kids.

>> Rick Beggs: That sound. You know what that sound is? We have election up.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: You know, even Though we're celebrating America's birthday party. And please celebrate it. You gotta participate in keeping this, this republic moving forward.

There is early voting going on in many states this week ahead of elections

So we are in election season, but we're kind of moving into the lull. You could maybe consider it the eye of the hurricane, I don't know. But there's no elections this coming Tuesday, so nobody's got an election day coming up. But there are early voting. There is early voting going on in many states. So in Arizona, early voting is underway. And your primary election will be, the 21st. In Georgia, you have early voting, beginning on the 6th. So next week for your special election, for, CD, 11 for congressional district. I'm sorry, 13 on July 28th. In Virginia, early voting is underway. And we're almost got that voter guide ready, so hold on to that ballot. We should have it released by July 8th. And Vermont, you have early voting underway for your primary on August 11th. So get out there and vote. Get your personalized free [email protected] well, Debbie,

>> Rick Beggs: as we cut the cake and watch

>> Debbie Wuthnow: the fireworks and eat our watermelon and our ice cream.

>> Rick Beggs: Yes, and your hot dog. Crank your ice cream.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I'm gonna go slow.

>> Rick Beggs: I want to remind everybody really to remember the effort and the passion and the sacrifice. People really did form this, country and not to forget it. We so are grateful that you would come join us today and have a little fun with us. Keep the faith, model this for our young people. They need to see how wonderful this country is. And we, we hope you have a safe and happy 250th. Remember, we are the compass, and we are the radio show of ivoterguide. Ivoterguide.com we are part, of AFA, which is American Family Association. And AFR, ah.net is where you can find our show. AFR app is the best way to go get us.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Download it from the Play Store and

>> Rick Beggs: you can listen to it anytime. If you have a question, what would you do, Debbie?

>> Debbie Wuthnow: I would say go to ivoterguide.com and do contact us or just email infovoterguide.com we got a team of people that'll answer your questions, and they're real people.

>> Rick Beggs: And we have our own at the Compass.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: We have our own email. If you have a, you know, want Rick and I to talk about something, email compassivoterguide.com and we'll address that in a future episode.

>> Rick Beggs: We thank Willie B. For being our producer.

>> Debbie Wuthnow: Thank you, Willie.

>> Rick Beggs: And remember, on the compass, our true north is always Jesus.

Chapters:

 

(00:00) Rick Beggs: We have reached the 250th birthday of America

 

 

(02:48) Rick : Fourth of July brings back incredible memories

 

 

(05:46) Willie B. worked a fireworks stand once. True confession time

 

 

(07:29) Dan Coyle says the only time he saw fireworks was when he was a kid

 

 

(11:00) Over 90% of world's nations have collapsed or changed governments since 1776

 

 

(17:16) Glenn Beck: Read the Declaration of Independence to understand your rights

 

 

(22:35) Rick: When I was a kid, I watched Schoolhouse Rock

 

 

(24:35) We just wanted to have fun with this. Happy fourth of July

 

 

(25:17) There is early voting going on in many states this week ahead of elections

 

 

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Schoolhouse Rock
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Glenn Beck
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Wall Builders
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