America 250, July 4th 2026 - Bite Size: 010

Bite-sized. Welcome to another episode of Chewing with the Fat. I'm your host, Big Robb. It is a bite-size episode. Thank you so much for tuning in. It's America's 250th birthday. I figured that was something definitely worth celebrating. So that's what we're going to do. I hope you have plans to have a great day, a safe day, whatever your celebrating style may be. Make it safe. And I hope you truly think back on these 250 years. Our nation still has plenty of flaws, but that's the great thing that we can keep working on it. We can keep coming together. We can keep making this country better. So for today, I thought I would uh read you the lyrics to the song, you know, called America the Beautiful. But originally it was a poem written by Katherine Lee Bates, and she called it Pike's Peak because that's where she got the inspiration from. She visited Pike's Peak in Colorado in uh I think it was 1893 and didn't publish it actually until 1895. And of course, the music that we know of for America of the Beautiful was written by Samuel Ward, uh and that was going to be, I think, in 1910 that that music was paired up with that poem to make the song that we now know as America the Beautiful. Uh, I definitely think I'm one of those people that think this would be a great national anthem for us. I think it has uh some well, first of all, it's easier to sing. Let's just let's just put it out there. Shout out to uh my friend Lisa Swinton, who just sang The Star Spangled Banner not too long ago. That is a hard song to sing. And everybody who's attempted that, good on you for attempting that. That is a hard song to sing. America the Beautiful, it's a little bit easier to sing. But also, I personally like the imagery in the lyrics here. So that's that's what I'm gonna read to you, just uh as my bit of patriotism for the day today. Um so here's America the Beautiful. Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain, America, America, God shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress, a thoroughfare of freedom beat across the wilderness. America, America, God mend thine every flaw, confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law. O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life. America, America, may God thy gold refine, till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine. O beautiful, for patriot dream that sees beyond the years, thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears. America, America, God shed his grace on thee and crowned thy good with brotherhood. From sea to shining sea. Happy birthday, America. I hope you have a great day celebrating. I hope you remember the words of this poem. You remember your brothers, you remember the Patriots that have fought to keep us free. Um and again, be safe. If you got fireworks that you're gonna be shooting off, please, please be safe with those. Come back on the 5th with all your fingers. We want everybody to keep all their all their fingers and toes and stuff like that. So please be careful and celebrate 250 years of America. I hope you have a great, great holiday. And until next time, God bless America, and I look forward to the next chance we have to sit a spell and chew the fat.