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♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ pete: closing our nations anthem out with a beautiful with shot of a rainbow. weve got a snow-covered house with a very stealthy flying american flag. rachel: how wig is the flag thae yours are bigger. pete: the flag on our property? its bigger. rachel: yours is like used car lot -- pete: thats what were going for. [laughter] are car dealership sized flag. not quite that big. good morning, by the way. tha...

Australia is such a wonderland place. you know these creatures that go bouncing? >> the kangaroo. >> they dont live in harmony with the kangaroo. they kill them. the front of your car in australia, they have this thing called a ruar. it is a bumper for killing kangaroos. >> like driving down the road and you might have to hit a kangaroo? thats how dismissive they are. they dont want to scrape them off the car. >> what about the baby in the pouch? joy they kill them too. >> it all goes under the ...

>> ron mott live in vancouver. ron, thank you so much. finally, i would like to pay tribute to a composer whose name youve probably never heard of, but whose music is part of the fabric of our society. leo arneaux was born in france, and em grated to the united states and began working in hollywood. he wrote the music for several forgettable films, like this one, "ice follies" of 1939. in 1958 he wrote a simple but majestic piece called "buglers dream." abc picked up the music in the 1960s. nb...