I HAVE TO SAY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE STORIES OF THE LAST
WEEK INVOLVED A YOUNG LADY WHO TOOK AN EARLY MORNING
EXCURSION TO RETRIEVE AN UNSAVORY RELIC.
OR IN LAYMAN'S TERMS, THAT SISTER TOOK THE CONFEDERATE FLAG
DOWN.
>> BREE NEWSOME SCALED THE 30 FOOT POLE AND DESCENDED WITH THE
FLAG IN HAND.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME BAD FLAG SNATCHER
BREE NEWSOME.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
ON THE SHOW.
COME ON OUT.
HAVE THAT SEAT RIGHT THERE.
THERE WE GO.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
>> Larry: I NOTICED WHEN YOU TWEETED YOU WERE EXCITED TO
BE ON THE SHOW, TO SHARE SOME MINT JULEP WITH ME.
>> YES!
>> Larry: KIND OF A LITTLE TOAST.
>> AND DISCUSS A DISCUSSION OF REMOVING THE FLAG.
>> Larry: EXACTLY AM SO HERE IS WHAT I WANT TO HE NO.
HOW MUCH PLANNING, LIKE WENT INTO THAT.
DID YOU HAVE LIKE A POLE IN YOUR BACKYARD, TO PRACTICE
ON.
>> WELL, YEAH, IT WAS ABOUT TEN OF US WHO PULLED THE
WHOLE THING TOGETHER INCLUDING FOLKS DOWN
IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHO COULD LIKE ACTUALLY GO DOWN THERE
AND LOOK AT THE SCENE, SEE WHAT ALL WHAT BE INVOLVED,
WHAT ROLES WOULD BE REQUIRED.
AND SO THEN BY THE TIME WE CAME TO GET IT, SOME OF
THOSE LOGISTICS HAD BEEN LAID OUT AND IT WAS JUST A
MATTER OF WHO WAS GOING TO FILL WHAT ROLES INCLUDING
CLIMBING THE POLE.
SO I WAS LIKE I WILL DO T HAD I CLIMBED A POLE BEFORE
NO, BUT LET'S DO IT.
>> SO THERE WAS A WHOLE GROUP AND YOU SAID WAIT,
WAIT.
>> YEAH, I MEAN, YEAH, I MEAN, WE WENT THROUGH IT AND
OF COURSE WE HAD TO DISCUSS THAT THE TWO ROLES, ONE OF
CHRIPING THE POLE AND ONE OF BEING AT THE BOTTOM AND
WATCHING GUARD, THOSE TWO PEOPLE MIGHT AN RESTED.
>> Larry: HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE ON THE SCENE DURING
THE -- >> ABOUT NINE OF US.
>> Larry: THERE WERE NINE PEOPLE THERE.
I -- KNOW THAT.
>> YEAH.
>> Larry: THERE WAS A GROUP OF YOU THAT DID THIS
TOGETHER.
>> YEAH T WAS COORDINATED.
>> Larry: DID YOU ALL WORK IN YOUR CORE, LIKE AT THE
SAME TIME.
THAT IS WHAT I WOULD HAVE TO DO.
SO WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND THE MOMENT YOU HAD THAT
FLAG?
DID YOU REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS OR WERE
YOU JUST KIND OF-- LIKE GOD, I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE.
WHAT DID THAT FEEL LIKE.
>> IT WAS JUST LIKE THIS REALLY AMAZING FEELING OF
LIKE MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, YOU KNOW.
I MEAN ONE OF THE HARDEST POINTS THAT I WAS CONCERNED
ABOUT IS JUST GET BEING 15 FEET UP THE POLE AND I KNEW
ONCE I GOT THAT FAR UP I WAS PRETTY MUCH CLEAR TO MAKE IT
UP THERE.
ONCE I GOT UP THERE AND WAS ABLE TO UNHOOK THE FLAG.
>> HIGH ENOUGH THAT NO ONE COULD GRAB YOU.
>> EXACTLY.
ONCE I GOT UP THERE AN GRABBED IT, IT WAS JUST LIKE
YES, TAKE ME TO JAIL.
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) >> Larry: AND WHEN YOU WERE
ABOUT HALFWAY UP, DID YOU-- WHEN THE CAPITOL
POLICE SHOWED UP.
>> YEAH.
>> Larry: WERE YOU SCARED AT THAT MOMENT?
WHAT DID THAT FEEL LIKE?
>> NO, NOT REALLY BECAUSE I WAS OUT OF REACH.
IT WAS KIND OF THIS AWKWARD THING OF THEM BEING TO COME
DOWN AND ME JUST BEING LIKE, NO.
YOU KNOW.
>> Larry: WERE THEY PRETTY COOL ABOUT IT?
>> YEAH, I MEAN CLEARLY I HAD RUINED THEIR DAY, I
MEAN-- YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE-- .
>> Larry: BUT OOPS, SORRY GUYS.
>> SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
>> Larry: SOME PEOPLE COMPARED TO YOU ROSA PARKS,
CALLED YOU LIKE A SUPERHERO, RIGHT SO HERE IS WHAT I WANT
TO DO.
WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A PROPER SUPERHERO NAME FOR
YOU.
OKAY.
SO THE ASCENDER, SOUL POLE, KIND OF COOL,
SOUNDS LIKE FROZEN A LITTLE BIT.
SISTER SWIFTER OR QUEEN BREE QUESTION ONE, QUEEN BREE?
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) >> Larry: ACTUALLY, I THINK
THE PROPER SUPERHERO NAME IS BREE NEWSOME.
THERE YOU GO.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Larry: SO WE ALSO HAVE AN AWARD WE WANT TO GIVE YOU.
>> OKAY.
>> Larry: IT'S TITLED THE BREE NEWSOME AWARD.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS.
AND UNFORTUNATELY I DON'T HAVE IT HERE BUT WE PUT IT
IN A PLACE THAT MIGHT BE EASY FOR YOU TO GET.
SO IF WE CAN JUST SHOW-- YEAH, SO YOU CAN GRAB
IT.
NO, NO, NO.
IT'S NOT TRUE.
NO, NO, THE BREE NEWSOME AWARD, UNBELIEVABLE WHAT SHE
DID.