[national anthem] pete: that is our nation s anthem performing this morning on what we re kicking off independence day weekend here on fox & friends , doing it like no other show, i d like to think, honoring our nation. rachel: absolutely, no other show will be more patriotic than fox & friends on independence weekend. will: i think in all of our estimation somewhere tied perhaps in first place for the best holiday of the year, right there income and income with thanksgiving rachel: christmas, what are you talking about? will: it carries the burden of gift-giving [laughter] this is about togetherness and celebration. rachel: that s true. will: so send us your pictures. we d love to see how you celebrate with your friends, your family, your community, your barbecue, friends@foxnews.com. i totally winged that. pete: by the time we get through with the show, we re going to have flowers, the columns we re warming up. it s independence eve, and we re so grateful that yo
i m planning on having a good time as long as i can. smoke pot with your kids, then you ll understand why the kids are happy. it s a giant love-in. people should be uninhibited in their sexual expression. you cannot ignore it, a change in morality. they re fascists. they don t like hippies. and they don t like the things we do. we do have to maintain law, order and decency on the streets. what we re thinking about is a peaceful planet. we re not thinking of anything else. they re trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. things were kind of at a standstill. the baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn t honor the human spirit and didn t honor creativity. the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement calle
find a new way for humanity. america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. things were kind of at a standstill. the baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn t honor the human spirit and didn t honor creativity. the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. a novel titled on the road became a best-seller. when kerouac s book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. that if we re living in an age of conformity, if everybody s trying to work for the corporation, that you re losing a sense of self. i was traveling west one time at the junction of the state line of colorado. i saw in the clouds huge and massed above the golden desert of even fall, the great image of god with four fingers poi
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