Walkabout The World - A Disney Podcast - Full American Adventure Show At Disney's Epcot

Episode Date: July 15, 2023

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Welcome back to Walk About the World and hello travelers from Epcot Center, the fountain area of Epcot Center. And today we are here for a special mission, a listener request, and forgive me because I'm not sure how to pronounce your first name, but I will say R. McMillan reached out to us and said he would really love it if we would record the entirety of the American adventure, and that is exactly what we're going to do and bring you today. And so just going to hang out here at the entrance area for just a moment. And then we'll head to the American adventure for the full show. Enjoy. I'm going to go to the next one. Here we go. I love this. Thank you. America did not exist.

Four centuries of work, bloodshed, loneliness, and fear created this land. We built America, and the process made us Americans. A new breed, rooted in all races, stained and tinted with all colors, a seeming ethnic anarchy. Then, in a little time, we became more alike than we were different. A new society. Not great, but fitted by our very thoughts for greatness. Uh, excuse me, Mr. Twain. What's that? Perhaps you recognize those inspiring words from one of America's great writers.

No, Dr. Franklin, I don't recall writing anything like that. Oh, my, of course not. They're from the pen of John Steinbeck, back in the 20th century. Why, it seems he has nearly the same spirit as the founding fathers themselves. Well, listen to the proud younger statesman. Mr. Twain, pride is one of our national passions. Even those who overcome it are proud of their humility. Easy now. I was born modest. Fortunately, more often. Dr. Franklin is our genuine American antique. I suppose our story begins with you. Actually, it started long before even my time.

It started when dreams and visions of a new world were shrouded in the myths and legends of an old world. Finally, through those early mists of uncertainty, sailed the first great adventurers. This tiny ship is the Mayflower, carrying pilgrims in search of their dream, a dream of religious freedom. So, if you'll pardon an old man's pride, to me, this is the beginning of the American adventure. There's a land across this ocean Unwritten to see A land for these people Who dream to be free So stand by the main

So the fish storms will race A love will keep mates Our King Neptune will face You'd think that these landlubbers Never would last This cargo of pilgrims Well, we'd fall amassed It's land, home, we hearties

At last we've arrived And praise be to God Here they all have survived But a look o'er this wilderness brings me to dread that the first bitter winter may leave all more dead. They call themselves pilgrims, these poor wretched souls with a dream to be free

in the new world they're going yes far from welcoming their early settlers this land severely challenged them it was a struggle for survival that gained but a tiny toehold in a vast,

untamed wilderness. In the decades that followed, a new challenge began to emerge. We were growing more and more apart from the mother country. Passion began to govern, and she never governs wisely. The British think it's fools we be. If they tax our trade, then our life be next, and soon all else be possessed. Hear me now. You ask defense against the French and

the Indians. Should you not help pay for it? Parliament's colonial policy is both arbitrary and unjust. That's nonsense. The same tea that cost you three shillings a pound costs us six. First

we spoke out with our voices. Then we spoke out with action with a growing defiance that led to the Boston Tea Party. Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! My royal proclamation, His Majesty King George III

hereby sets Look at this! They're closing the harbour! But surely we could work something out. Our king feels we've wronged him. Your king, you Tory! Either we cut the ties with England, or we surrender our liberty! Finally, the time had come to speak with one voice,

in a declaration of independence. Ah, good evening, Mr. Jefferson. Have you finished the new draft yet? Those are new drafts all over the floor, Dr. Franklin. It seems one stroke of this pen brings two changes from Congress. I told you John Adams should have written this. Oh, by his own admission, you can write circles around him. Mr. Adams has not been prisoner in this loft for 17 days. I shall continue tomorrow. You must continue now. Thomas, it is difficult to make 13 clocks chime at the same time, but we must carefully justify this separation.

Dr. Franklin, while you slept soundly through the meeting this afternoon, we did manage to justify separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

And to secure these rights, government... The lights of the Red Bull press as Yankee power grieves. Oh, it is a great delight to march and fight. But it's getting tough, I fear. I shall spend another night of him. At least you got shoes, mate. There's not a dozen left, what can say that? Don't tell me, friend. Tell the good general, then.

Tell him that half his camp has got typhus, smallpox, or dysentery. And there be not a ration amongst us. Now we can forage for hickling us. Aye, while the English over and told him our Philadelphia's fine food and drink. It is a strange war we shoulder, George Washington. Congress sleeps

warmly in York. And the British, the British party in Philadelphia. We freeze or starve to death here in Valley Forge. In the end, we the people prevailed and achieved perhaps our greatest dream. Thirteen very different colonies became the United States of America And we were free to become an entire nation of dreamers and doers Westward bound, Dr. Franklin, to new frontiers To the age of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Well, I like to think Mark Twain was part of all that. Yes, sir, Dr. Franklin. You founding fathers gave us a pretty good start, don't you know? We still had some things to learn the hard way. Seems a whole bunch of folks found out we, the people, didn't yet mean all the people. Folks like Frederick Douglass. Even amidst the cricket song here along Mark Twain's beloved Mississippi, I hear the noise of chains and the crack of the whip.

Yet, there is hope. Hope born from the words of Harriet Beecher Stone. Uncle Tom's cabin has given our nation a key which can unlock the slave prison to millions. Anti-slavery is no longer a thing to be prevented. It has grown too abundant to be snuffed out like a lantern. Troublemakers like Douglas got us into this mess. He only wanted freedom, not war.

Well, listen to my abolitionist brother. What? Pa, he's gonna make a real good Billy Yank. We got a good cause, Johnny Breb. Quiet, both of you. You're gonna ruin Ma's birthday. No, no. Ain't nothing gonna ruin today.

We're all together. That's what counts. Now, you go ahead, Mr. Brady. All right, everybody. Oh, real still. Two brothers on their way. Two brothers on their way. Two brothers on their way Two brothers on their way

One more blue and one more grey One more blue and one more grey As they marched along their way The fife and drum began to play, hold on a beautiful morning. One was gentle, one was kind, one was gentle, one was kind. One came home, one stayed behind. A cannonball don't pay no mind. A cannonball don't pay no mind. If you're gentle or if you're kind You don't think of the folks behind Hold on a beautiful morning Hold on a beautiful morning At last the terrible Civil War ended.

The time had come to rebuild our shattered nation. And a new wave of immigrants would help us do it. From around the world they came, these new Americans. A thousand noble currents, wrote Herman Melville, all pouring into one. It seems there was a new dawn coming for the American adventure. Enough! Enough of your words! That your new dawn lead to the final sunset on my people's suffering. When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws or shot down like animals.

I hope that all of us may be brothers. We're the one country around us and one government for all. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more. Forever. The wisdom of the great Chief Joseph reminded us once again of our long, painful journey through the frontiers of human liberty.

Woman has shown equal devotion with man to the cause of freedom. Together they have made this country what it is. We ask justice. We ask

equality. Be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever. Well, here we are, back in the heat of Franklin's Philadelphia again. We're a hundred years old today. We came a long way in that first century. And like Susan B. Anthony, we're still speaking out. And why

shouldn't we, Mr. Twain? As Tom Edison says, discontent is the first necessity of progress. Edison? Afraid I don't place a name? Edison's that young phonograph inventor.

Why, this great hall is filled with new inventions. There's Otter's elevator, Corla's magnificent steam engines. And don't forget me telephone, the true hallmark of progress. Aha! Behold the proud

Dutch. That's right. Carnegie Steel built this place. Aye, and it'll soon build a new concert hall for New York. Oh, Carnegie Hall, hey. It'll never last. Donating libraries. Andy, that's grand idea.

It's an age for grand ideas. An era for innovation. A dawn for new awareness. A time to challenge the frontiers of a new century. Yes, sir. We soared into the 20th century on the wings of invention and the winds of change. But our America, the beautiful, she was changing, too. We needed people like Teddy Roosevelt and outspoken naturalist John Muir to get our attention. Beautiful. Bully beautiful. Those falls are magnificent.

Aye, Mr. President. But it won't last if the timber thieves have their way. John, you may be right, but the country's growth is putting a tremendous demand on our resources. Any fool can destroy trees. Why, for more than 3,000 years, God has cared for our giant sequoias, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Now, John, you know I can't ask Lumbering to stop completely. All I ask is that we stop massive destruction. What will our children inherit? Seedlings? Of course not. I realize we're not building this country for a generation alone. I know we've got to expand our parks. Then start it here and now. Make this valley a part of Yosemite National Park. Well, I guess we needed those national parks. Seems the simple life of my day was slipping away. Ready or not, we were soon thrust into the hectic role of a world leader and into the war to end all wars. © BF-WATCH TV 2021 More than 33 grueling non-stop hours after his departure from New York, Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh successfully landed his Spirit of St. Louis in Paris last week. Lucky Lending's solo flight across the Atlantic has certainly placed him among the greatest in a long line of American pioneers.

Today, October 29th, 1929, Wall Street became America's greatest wall of rubble. This stock market crash has tarnished the golden dreams of millions. Once I built a tower to the sun. Brick and rivet and lime. Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Spare a dime? Sure. Buy four of my apples and I'll loan you back to ten cents. Hey, Sam. I heard tell there's New York millionaires selling apples too. You mean ex-billionaires, don't you? Hey, it looks like the storm has finally left up. Well, maybe the Sunday drivers will come out and hunt for gas.

Ain't many folks who pay no 18 cents a gallon. Hey, listen, fellas. Old FDR has been in Auburn, right? Truth, faith, and hope. This is great news for New, as it has endured, will revive, and will prosper. So first of all, let me assert my current name, and the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Yeah, so hope he's right. Thank you. Think that's Will Rush. It was a mighty, happy nation. We were done to believe that the height of civilization was an automobile, a radio, and a bat. Of course, now we're all on smart. Now Congress wants to trim down the Navy, some ill-fitted little bat down to. You know, it seems to me like we're the only nation in the world that waits till we get in the war before we start getting ready for it. Yesterday, December 7, 1941,

a case of the leaders that hid from me, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces in the West Coast. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. And if only I were there

Yes, that was dedicated to you, Rosie. Tens of thousands of you across the face of America working tonight to keep our boys in the light. To all of you out there, a very merry Christmas. Well, Rosie, think you'll ever get this old cop back in the fight? We'll sure try, sailor. Hey, what did you fellas do? Let the whole Muncie plate use you for chartering practice?

Yeah, no wonder they got us working double shifts. It's a great way to celebrate the holidays with our guides over there. Cheer up, James. Maybe we'll all be together by next Christmas. America America Spread your golden wings Sail on freedom's way Across the sky Great man Sail on freedom's wing, cross the sky.

Grey bird, with your golden dreams. Flying high, flying high. America, you must keep dreaming now, dreaming the promise now of your pioneers. America, you need your dying eyes, keep your spirit free, face the future and change. And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. I have a dream this afternoon that the brotherhood of man will become a reality in this day, with this faith. First base down, two and a half.

Second up, two and a half. Forward, forward. Forward, drift into the right, Lord. Restless one In a world of change Speed of light apartment. Soar through the clouds of time Of time Spirit dreams must be flying now We should touch the sky Of dreams of change I'll rise this one Such a brighter day

So break this hard sky With your head up high America America America Send your golden wings Send your golden wings Send your freedom's wings Send your freedom's wings

Send them across the sky Oh America Oh, America To the golden wings Fly high Fly high Well, Mr. Twain, what do you think of our America now? I think the Founding Fathers never dreamed of an America like this. Of course not.

We weren't dreamers. We were visionaries. That is why our Constitution withstands the rigors of time. Easy now, Dr. Franklin. This nation's still just a youngster, don't you know? Why, some countries have been around for 50 centuries.

We're barely into our third. That's true. But look what we've accomplished in that tiny span of time. My dear doctor, earlier you found John Steinbeck so inspiring, but he also sounded this warning. We now face the danger which in the past has been the most destructive to the human. Success, plenty, comfort, and ever-increasing leisure. No dynamic people has ever survived these dangers. I may have invented these bifocals I'm wearing, but I can assure you they are not rose-colored. Mr. Twain,

the golden age never was the present age, but with human liberty, we can fulfill the promise and meaning of America. To everyone a chance, believed Thomas Wolfe.

To all people, regardless of their birth, the right to live, to work, to be themselves, and to become whatever their visions can combine to make them. This is the promise of America. Mr. Twain, it is easy to see, hard to foresee, but I foresee the American adventure to continue a long, long time. America, you must be dreaming now. Dreaming the promised land of the pioneers. The Lion is America

Keep on fighting now Keep your spirit free Facing new opportunities America Spread your golden wings Sail on freedom's way across the sky Great Earth, lift our golden wings Flying high, flying high, flying high, The End

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