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Ep 66: Special July 4 Episode "SmileWorks"
Salvador Gaytan: It's time! SmileTalk is on the air, but today ladies and gentlemen, it's SmileWorks, because…?
Dr. John Chao: We're going to have some fireworks on this show.
Salvador Gaytan: That's right, because tomorrow is the fourth.
Dr. John Chao: July the 4th.
Salvador Gaytan: July 4th is right Dr. John, you know these things.
Dr. John Chao: And I'm going to add the perspective of an immigrant, and there's certain appreciation for July the 4th, that can come from an immigrant differently from those who are natural born.
Salvador Gaytan: That's right, it's our nation's day of independence, and Dr. John and myself, I'm Salvador Gaytan, we're feeling pretty independent right now, aren't we, Dr. John?
Dr. John Chao: Yes, we're going to throw out our normal protocol.
Salvador Gaytan: That's right, we're going to have a little snap, crackle, pop, because today is a festive show, and kind of about the history of 4th of July, and what's going on in this country, and who knows what's going to go, isn't that right Dr. John?
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, talking about what's going on, is it true that Sal got married?
Salvador Gaytan: Well, it is true, Sal did get married.
Dr. John Chao: Tell us about it.
Salvador Gaytan: It's just not this Sal, [laughter] it's not this Sal, no Dr. John. Actually, I was looking at my name on the internet, and I noticed that it said, "SAL9000 marries video game girl." Apparently, this Japanese man was at a real ceremony and married this video girl named Nene Anegasaki, a character in the Nintendo game, a dating simulation game called LovePlus, can you believe that?
Dr. John Chao: How do you marry an image from a screen? How does that happen?
Salvador Gaytan: Apparently he had an MC, a DJ, a priest, a slideshow, and it was on the web. People can go on the internet and find the video of it.
Dr. John Chao: She would say "I do" and all this kind of stuff?
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah, I guess they can program the game, and he's the first guy to marry a virtual character, can you believe that?
Dr. John Chao: So, they kiss at the end, he kisses the screen?
Salvador Gaytan: Well, that's a good question. I didn't watch the entire ceremony.
Dr. John Chao: I think this marriage is subject to annulment.
Salvador Gaytan: Probably.
Dr. John Chao: And the poor guy, somebody the next day could get married to the same gal again.
Salvador Gaytan: Probably, it was probably a number of guys. This is a kooky thing, but I saw it under my name, so we had a little fun with it, but Dr. Chao…
Dr. John Chao: So, what kind of character are you going to marry if you're going to marry a video character?
Salvador Gaytan: Dr. John, I don't know if there is hope for me to get married.
Dr. John Chao: Oh come on.
Dr. John Chao: You just want the fireworks; you don't want any of the obligations.
Salvador Gaytan: I want the fireworks without the commitment, independent. If you have a wife and she becomes your warden, how can you have independence? That's why I said, I don't know if I'm marriageable.
Dr. John Chao: It doesn't sound like it.
Salvador Gaytan: It doesn't sound like it. So, I have to be able to celebrate my independence. Now, Dr. John, 4th of July, people know that we have fireworks, hotdogs, all of those kind of things. But you know what happened quite a while ago. Give the audience just a little background of how it came about.
Dr. John Chao: Well, at the time of the signing, the United States consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England's King George III. Now, leading up to the signing, there had been growing unrest in the colonies surrounding Texas, the colonists were required to pay to England. The major objection was what, taxation without…
Salvador Gaytan: Representation.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah. The colonists had no say in the decisions of the English parliament. Rather than negotiating, King George sent troops to the colonies to help control any rebellion that might be arising. So, the events that led to the Declaration of Independence started there.
Salvador Gaytan: The ball started rolling there.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah. But before that though, something happened involving tea. What was that, Sal?
Salvador Gaytan: Was it a tea party, Dr. John?
Dr. John Chao: The tea party.
Salvador Gaytan: That's right, the Boston Tea Party.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah. The Boston Tea Party reminds me of how I had a problem when I first immigrated to America.
Salvador Gaytan: And the Boston Tea Party was actually 1773.
Dr. John Chao: 1773.
Salvador Gaytan: That's right, three years before the Declaration of Independence.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, when the colonists went to the Boston harbor, and dumped the tea onto the harbor, because they were going to be taxed.
Salvador Gaytan: Subject to taxes they felt were unfair.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, on the tea, so they got rid of the tea. Now, I had trouble when I came to the States. I was a teenager, and it was towards the end of the school year, and I was in the eighth grade.
Now coming from Singapore, which was a British colony, I learned the British version of history, and when I came here, I didn't have any trouble with any subjects. The only two subjects I had trouble with was Drivers Ed, which I always had trouble with, and history, U.S. history, because I learned it differently.
For instance, the Boston Tea Party, according to the way I learned it in Singapore, was that the British were trying to be fair and good, and trying to govern the colonists in a fair way, but the colonists didn't want to pay taxes, destroyed a whole bunch of tea in the Boston harbor.
Salvador Gaytan: That was the British land.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, that was the British land, and nothing to do with the Declaration of Independence and all that, that happened thereafter. So, I had trouble with the U.S. history, and I had to pass it, because if I don't pass it, I would be kept in the eighth grade, and I would be in the same grade as my two younger sisters and my brother.
Salvador Gaytan: And this is when you came, this is when you were in the States?
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, this is after I came to the states. So, if I didn't pass it, I would have been in very, very deep trouble.
Salvador Gaytan: So, you were probably confused. You were thinking, "Wait a second, I learned one version, and now in the states they're giving me a different version."
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, I had to learn the whole thing all over again. Thank goodness I had a month. It was a pretty thick book, and my father gave me a very good advice. He doesn't know anything about U.S. history either. So, one day I asked him, I said, "Dad, I'm having trouble with this subject, with the U.S. history." He kept walking, and he said, "Son, study harder."
Salvador Gaytan: Study harder, thats right.
Dr. John Chao: Study harder. And actually in the following year I didn't have to take the final.
Salvador Gaytan: Why is that?
Dr. John Chao: Because I had A+ with all my tests leading up to the final. You know how it is in high school? If you do really well, you don't have to take the final. So, I got my A+ in history, and naturally in college I majored in history. So, actually I liked history as a result of that. But anyway, that's my take on American history.
Salvador Gaytan: That's your take, okay.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah. I learned differently, but I see both perspectives.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah, well, there's a saying that history is written by the winners.
Dr. John Chao: That's true, that's true.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah, so everybody has a -- but in the end, of course, the United States, they were the winners.
Dr. John Chao: Now, I have a question for you, Sal.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah, you've got a question, go ahead.
Dr. John Chao: What is the equivalent of July the 4th in British history?
Salvador Gaytan: Groundhog Day?
[Laughter]
Dr. John Chao: What? I don't know what that is. It's not British, I think that's American. It's Guy Fawkes Day. You're kind of getting close, Guy Fawkes.
Salvador Gaytan: Well, like I said, history is written by winners. I mean Britain history, so what? Go ahead, what is Guy Fawkes Day?
Dr. John Chao: Well, see, Guy Fawkes Day was the day that these royalists who were conspiring to destroy parliament, parliamentary rule was the basis for American law later. It developed that parliament eventually had enough power that they eventually then took the power of the kings away.
But in 1605, there was this big struggle between King James and those who were advocates of parliamentary rule. So, Guy Fawkes was one of several conspirators who were trying to destroy parliament. So, he's like the modern day would-be terrorist.
Salvador Gaytan: He probably got the guillotine.
Dr. John Chao: He was hung in effigy, he was hung I think. So, he got 36 barrels of gunpowder, and planted it under the parliament building on November 5, 1605.
Salvador Gaytan: I thought you were going to say under each guy's chair. Now, that would have been a good 4th of July.
[Laughter]
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, he had it down the cellar, and he had this torch, he was ready to -- in the cartoons you see, he's ready to drop it on these barrels of gunpowder, but he was caught. So, that saved parliamentary rule, without which the American Revolution may not have even got started.
Salvador Gaytan: Why is that?
Dr. John Chao: Because at that time the precedent had already been set. The parliament was elected by certain procedures that can actually counteract the power of the king. In fact, the laws that the parliament made for the British people were adopted and masked by the American judiciary system.
So, a lot of our laws actually came from what the British parliament did in all those years. So, actually July the 4th kind of traces back in a way to the founding of parliamentary rule in British history.
So, the Guy Fawkes Day, on November 5, British people celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, and there are fireworks and so on, and they celebrate the hanging in effigy of Guy Fawkes.
Salvador Gaytan: Poor guy.
Dr. John Chao: Who was the epitomy of the villain in British history.
Salvador Gaytan: Yes, well, poor villain. And for anyone just tuning in, you're listening to what normally is SmileTalk, but since it's our 4th of July show here, it's called SmileWorks today, because we're talking about the 4th of July and other interesting information.
I'm Salvador Gaytan here with Dr. John Chao. You can still contact Dr. John at AlhambraDental.com, but today it's all about the 4th of July, which is tomorrow. Now, Dr. John, I have a question for you, because you know what, turnabout is fair-play, and you…
Dr. John Chao: What's a turnabout?
Salvador Gaytan: Turnabout is fair-play, and we should look that up. Maybe that's an English acronym, but anyway you stumped me with a…
Dr. John Chao: How did I stump you?
Salvador Gaytan: You stumped me with a question.
Dr. John Chao: What question was that?
Salvador Gaytan: You asked me what are the three cities that have the highest longevity. We were talking to the dean of the Loma Linda School of Dentistry. And you gave me -- one I think was Okinawa, and then other one was in Italy.
Dr. John Chao: Sardinia.
Salvador Gaytan: Sardinia. You said what's the third city, and maybe I should have got it, it was Loma Linda.
Dr. John Chao: I gave you the hint, I said the dean of Loma Linda School of Dentistry knows the answer and even mentioned the city for you, but you didn't get it. But for the audience who are coming in, who didn't hear that show, Loma Linda is one of three cities in the world that has the highest longevity.
Salvador Gaytan: Right, people live the longest there.
Dr. John Chao: They live the longest there for different reasons, and one of which is the Loma Linda diet. But why is it, nobody talks about the Loma Linda diet when it's so effective, right in our own backyard?
Salvador Gaytan: Well, that's probably one of the best kept secrets. But Dr. John, I'm getting back to my question, because turnabout is fair-play.
Dr. John Chao: Alright, now you can try to get me.
Salvador Gaytan: That's right. But you know what, it's a fair question though. It's a fair question. I know some of the audience will know it. The Declaration of Independence was written due to the Boston Tea Party, the Americans wanting to breakaway from -- the Briton's have their own rule.
So, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence after a few trial and errors, and they voted blah, blah, blah, and you had some information on some states, how they voted, we'll get to that. But who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Dr. John Chao: Benjamin Franklin?
Salvador Gaytan: Well, that's a good guess, honorable guess. You know what, people are going to kick themselves. If they don't get this, they're going to go, "Oh man, I should have gotten that," because his name is associated with signatures.
Dr. John Chao: With signatures?
Salvador Gaytan: Yes.
Dr. John Chao: Not Benedict Arnold?
Salvador Gaytan: No, his name is associated with signatures commonly.
Dr. John Chao: John Hancock.
Salvador Gaytan: Yes!
Dr. John Chao: I got that one, I got that one, John Hancock.
Salvador Gaytan: There you go. That's why they say, "Put your John Hancock here." He was the first one, he signed it real big, because he wanted the king to see how flowing it was.
Dr. John Chao: Now his was the biggest one, wasn't it?
Salvador Gaytan: It was the biggest one, yeah.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, I've seen that.
Salvador Gaytan: Because he was the president of the colonies there, the congress, so he was the first one to sign.
Dr. John Chao: Well, if they lost, he would be the first one to get hung.
Salvador Gaytan: He would have been the first one to be hung.
Dr. John Chao: He was a brave fellow.
Salvador Gaytan: Well, you think about it now, because it was so long ago, but we all think, "Oh history, oh they signed it, they declared their independence, and of course it was a foregone conclusion." But the reality of it is, if it didn't go through, it was 56 men that signed that document, they all would have been hung.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, and actually didn't you read that only one-third of the Americans at that time favored the colonists, the people who wanted independence. One third favored the British, and the other third didn't really care. Have you heard that?
Salvador Gaytan: I didn't hear those figures, but I knew there was -- it wasn't a unanimous consent among everybody, because some people were happy with the British rule.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, and so there were the royalists, the people who wanted independence, and there were people who didn't care. So, they were not sure that they were going to win, so they were risking their lives.
Salvador Gaytan: Everyone, yeah, exactly, because some people sided with the British, so they thought that the British would win, they would be fine, their families would be fine.
Now, Dr. John, 13 colonies signed -- 13 colonies were part of the Declaration of Independence, but you would think it would have been unanimous when they voted on at the final draft. But you have information that some states voted no actually. Which states were those?
Dr. John Chao: Initially they voted no. One was Pennsylvania, and one was South Carolina. It was no initially, and I think one state actually abstained.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah, one state abstained and…
Dr. John Chao: So, it was not unanimous on the voting, but because the majority voted, then everybody ended up signing. So, the signing was unanimous.
Salvador Gaytan: Now, who was the youngest guy to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Dr. John Chao: Who was it, Sal? I think there is a name here; Mr. Edward Rutledge of South Carolina.
Salvador Gaytan: That is right.
Dr. John Chao: The same state who didn't -- who voted no. I wonder if he was the guy who voted no.
Salvador Gaytan: He was probably -- you know, the dude said said, "Man, I don't want to sign this thing." Now, who was the oldest man to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Dr. John Chao: It's got to be Benjamin Franklin.
Salvador Gaytan: That is right, 70 years old. At 70, he’s probably figured, “Hey man, I’m on overtime anyway, what have I got to lose?"
Dr. John Chao: Well, 70 in those years is probably like 100 now.
Salvador Gaytan: Exactly, that was unheard of.
Dr. John Chao: It’s amazing he lived that long.
Salvador Gaytan: Right.
Dr. John Chao: But he was having fun though. I think when you’re having fun, then you live longer.
Salvador Gaytan: That is right, that is right. Now, for anyone tuning in, you’re listening to what normally is SmileTalk, but we’re calling it SmileWorks today.
Dr. John Chao: On July the 4th, we’re calling it SmileWorks.
Salvador Gaytan: That’s right, because July the 4th is tomorrow, and so we’re talking about the United States Independence and we’re talking about our own independence too, our independence to practice where we want, patients to see who they want, right?
Dr. John Chao: Well, Sal, didn't you celebrate July the 4th one time and started a fire in your backyard? Wasn’t that when you had fireworks?
Salvador Gaytan: You have to bring in my criminal record.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, that’s one blotch. That was an actual July the 4th event wasn’t it?
Salvador Gaytan: It was the July the 4th – I was fascinated with fire and I would have thought the kid fascinated with fires, probably you’re going to see him on TV someday burning things down.
Dr. John Chao: Have you been investigated for all those fires last year?
Salvador Gaytan: I’m not a pyromaniac, but as a kid I was fascinated with fire and I remember it was actually the day after 4th of July, I was about 6 years old and we always threw sparklers down our backyard hill, because it was all green ice plant, okay? So, this year though, the day after, it was dry, it was all brush, so I’m looking in the back hill there and I have a few sparklers left over and I…
Dr. John Chao: Now this is in Monterey Park, right?
Salvador Gaytan: In Monterey Park, yeah, we lived up on a hill, and so I looked down there, I thought, “Hmm”, I was a kid, I said, “I wonder if I threw a sparkler down there it would burn now?” And I thought, “Well, there’s only one way to find out, right?”
So, I threw a sparkler down there, and my eyes got as big as pineapples, I saw the flames, I ran down there trying to stomp it out and I had shorts on, I had these socks, a little high top Converse, so I run back up the hill, “Fire, fire, fire!”
They called the Fire Department, they had to come out -- it burned like half of the hill, they had to put it out. I was shaking like a leaf. My mom says to me, she says, “Now, little Sal”, that’s what she called me, little Sal, right? “Were you down that hill starting that fire?” Now, I have all these pickers in my socks that only come from the hill, right? I of course denied it, “No, I wasn’t down there.”
Dr. John Chao: You shake your head, and the eyes look big and you said, “No, mom”.
Salvador Gaytan: Oh, I was shaking like a leaf, I mean I thought I burned the whole -- at 6 years old, I thought I was burning the whole world. Yeah, and I did get a spanking for that.
Dr. John Chao: So, you did admit?
Salvador Gaytan: No, I don’t think I did admit it, but then my dad, he didn’t accept that. But I remember my parents talking and they were just kind of talking and looking down the hill after it was out and they were saying, “You know, I give that kid one thing man, when he does something, he does it all the way.” I was a mischief maker in those days.
Dr. John Chao: It’s a good thing you didn’t do it all the way, you did it half of the way.
Salvador Gaytan: I did half of the way, yeah, well the hill almost burned down, so, yeah, that was my 4th of July…
Dr. John Chao: You’re kind of proud of that, huh?
Salvador Gaytan: Now I am, yeah. Now I am, yes, but we had a lot of fun 4th of Julys. Now, Dr. John, let’s finish up our Declaration of Independence here. Do you know how the Declaration of Independence -- the famous phrase that’s in there, do you know what that is?
Dr. John Chao: The famous phrase?
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah, the famous phrase in there. I won't ask you how it starts, because nobody would know that, but there’s a famous phrase in there that everyone will recognize when they hear it.
Dr. John Chao: Yankee Doodle?
Salvador Gaytan: It’s called the blah, blah and the blah.
Dr. John Chao: Blah, blah and the blah.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah.
Dr. John Chao: Well, you have to excuse me, I wasn’t born in this country. That’s my excuse.
Salvador Gaytan: That is your excuse. I’m going to tell you, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Everybody knows that right, when you hear it?
Dr. John Chao: Well, it depends. Yeah, so is that kind of a mantra on the 4th?
Salvador Gaytan: Well, that’s probably the most famous phrase that people will recognize in the declaration, because the Declaration of Independence is quite long, you know?
Dr. John Chao: Well, I thought you were talking something about the July the 4th?
Salvador Gaytan: Well, that is Declaration of Independence, that was what was written and voted on…
Dr. John Chao: I was thinking of something to do with fireworks.
Salvador Gaytan: No, no, no. Well, let’s talk about fireworks, because…
Dr. John Chao: Okay, how did they get started?
Salvador Gaytan: How did the fireworks get started? Well, according to a little information we have here, in 1777, 13 gunshots were fired once in a morning and once in the evening. Do you know why it was 13?
Dr. John Chao: Because it’s unlucky, right?
Salvador Gaytan: 13 is not lucky, what did the 13…
Dr. John Chao: 13 is lucky -- 13 colonies.
Salvador Gaytan: 13 colonies, that’s why, one for each colony.
Dr. John Chao: So, 13 couldn’t be unlucky, when we have 13 colonies leading to such…
Salvador Gaytan: Success.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, success and the enhancement of mankind.
Salvador Gaytan: That’s true. We now make a proclamation, you and me, 13 is lucky.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah.
Salvador Gaytan: How about that?
Dr. John Chao: That’s right.
Salvador Gaytan: Alright.
Dr. John Chao: We should start that.
Salvador Gaytan: We’re going to start that. 13 is lucky now.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, it should have been lucky from the time of the Declaration of Independence.
Salvador Gaytan: That is correct.
Dr. John Chao: On the July the 4th, 13 is lucky.
Salvador Gaytan: 13 is lucky.
Dr. John Chao: We should at least make that exception.
Salvador Gaytan: Darn right. 13 colonies expanded to 50 states. I mean that’s success, right?
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, right, 50 states in the world’s more powerful country.
Salvador Gaytan: Now, it’s a little extra trivia bonus, maybe somebody knows this. Just take a wild guess, in fact here’s the list of the states, 13 colonies. What colony do you think these 13 shots were fired in, in 1777?
Dr. John Chao: Well, it's got to be Boston.
Salvador Gaytan: Is that your pick, Boston?
Dr. John Chao: Boston, Massachusetts would be one of them.
Salvador Gaytan: What’s your pick, Dr. John?
Dr. John Chao: I just picked Massachusetts.
Salvador Gaytan: No, Dr. John.
Dr. John Chao: South Carolina.
Salvador Gaytan: No, Dr. John, sorry.
Dr. John Chao: New York.
Salvador Gaytan: Rhode Island.
Dr. John Chao: Rhode Island.
Salvador Gaytan: But you're thinking Rhode Island is such a small state, so why would it be -- you wouldn’t pick that right?
Dr. John Chao: Well, why wouldn’t they be throwing firecrackers?
Salvador Gaytan: Well, they probably didn’t have firecrackers.
Dr. John Chao: Sure they did. They have cannons.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah, cannons, but…
Dr. John Chao: You have cannons, you've got to have firecrackers. Firecrackers led to cannons.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah.
Dr. John Chao: The Chinese people invented the fireworks.
Salvador Gaytan: Well, yeah, thousands of years ago,
Dr. John Chao: Firecrackers, eventually they made it into cannons, and the westerners who went to China, learned about gunpowder and brought it back here as firecrackers and eventually then they became cannons too.
Salvador Gaytan: That’s right.
Dr. John Chao: So, why wouldn’t they have fire crackers?
Salvador Gaytan: Dr. John, you’re going to have to go back in history and ask them, because all the -- the information I have is gunshots. That was their big firecracker. So, now associated with the 4th of July, very interesting is -- I think you were mentioning it a little earlier, “Yankee Doodle”. What is Yankee Doodle all about?
Dr. John Chao: I don’t know, from what I can remember, it was not an especially patriotic American song. It started with the British making fun of the Americans.
Salvador Gaytan: That is right. "Yankee Doodle put a feather on his cap and called it macaroni." It was a slam against how disheveled the American soldiers looked, by the British.
Dr. John Chao: Exactly.
Salvador Gaytan: And them we adopted it as like a cool song.
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, every once in a while I'll go read some story and they will refer to the fact that this song actually was started by the British.
Salvador Gaytan: That is correct, that is correct. Well, Dr. John, we are coming to the last minute or so of our 4th of July Independence Day and are you feeling good about your independence and going forward the next year or two, Dr. John?
Dr. John Chao: I can’t wait. I love America. I appreciate it more than what anybody can think.
Salvador Gaytan: Yeah.
Dr. John Chao: My luckiest day was when I saw the San Francisco Golden Gate.
Salvador Gaytan: Right.
Dr. John Chao: I’ll never forget that. And my other wonderful day that I’ll always remember was when I got naturalized back in -- I’m going to give away my age.
Salvador Gaytan: That’s right, how about that?
Dr. John Chao: And I’m telling you, I’m so grateful to be American. We complain about taxes and things but you know what, ultimately I’m glad in this country to be able to pay taxes.
Salvador Gaytan: But let’s lower them a little bit.
Salvador Gaytan: Easy on the taxes, how about that?
Dr. John Chao: Yeah, we want easy on the taxes.
Salvador Gaytan: Easy on the spending.
Dr. John Chao: But you know what, from what I get and from where I came from, this is the best there is.
Salvador Gaytan: Absolutely. Well, that comes to the end of our show here. You can reach Dr. John at 626-308-9104 or AlhambraDental.com and we’ll resume our normal programming next week everybody.
Dr. John Chao: See you guys next week.
Salvador Gaytan: Happy 4th of July!
Dr. John Chao: Bye.
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