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00:00 [shouting]
00:02 [shouting]
00:04 They have it in their heads that I invented electricity.
00:08 Who am I to dissuade them?
00:10 [shouting]
00:12 Ben Franklin, he was a rock star around the world.
00:15 But he was also successful at diplomacy.
00:18 So here he was at 70 years old, being asked to go over to France
00:23 with his grandson and get their help to develop our democracy.
00:28 Why should our king be faithful to you?
00:31 To defeat the English.
00:33 If Ben Franklin did not succeed, we would not have America.
00:37 That's the bottom line.
00:40 The secret of a good period show is to make historical figures like real people.
00:45 You are a very untrusting young man.
00:48 I am your grandson.
00:49 And you see that with Franklin's relationship with Temple.
00:53 Benjamin Franklin stepped into that father figure role.
00:56 I hope I have bettered your prospects in this world after I have passed from it.
01:01 You need me to do something.
01:02 Put on a decent coat and hurry up.
01:04 You become very patriotic when you do a show like this.
01:07 Hopefully it will remind us how proud we are to be in a democracy.
01:11 Free people may govern themselves guided by common sense
01:16 and a belief in the greater good.
01:18 Here is your America.
01:20 It's an ideal that we have to support and desperately protect.
01:24 [Music]
01:30 [End of Audio]