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A Nation in Crisis: Faith, Family, and Foreign Policy · That KEVIN Show

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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the bowels of the city that Never sleeps.
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  Speaker 6: It's Kevin McCullough Monday through Friday on That Kevin Show
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  Speaker 6: and now from the Connors in Sullivan Broadcast Studios. A
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  Speaker 6: man who is not what he wants to be, but
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  Speaker 6: is way grateful that is not who.
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  Speaker 7: He used to be.
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  Speaker 6: Here the.
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  Speaker 3: Just some of the sounds that happened at last night's
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  Speaker 3: tip off before the festivities got underway officially. Uh and
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  Speaker 3: that was the President walking into Madison Square Garden and
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  Speaker 3: more than half the people there chanting USA USA. It
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  Speaker 3: was very interesting. It was it was. It was a
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  Speaker 3: perfect kind of snapshot of New York, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: because you had the pro America Yay. We was glad
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  Speaker 3: to see President Trump. Glad he's supporting are you know
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  Speaker 3: one of our national pastimes, you know, national championship. We were,
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  Speaker 3: We're glad to see him. We're proud of our country, USA, USA, USA.
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  Speaker 3: And then during the actual national anthem, during the actual
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  Speaker 3: singing of the song by the way, by a guy
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  Speaker 3: who's just got a killer voice, I don't that that dude.
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  Speaker 3: He was incredible. But was what was really bad about
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  Speaker 3: it was is that while he's pouring out his heart
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  Speaker 3: in this beautiful rendition of the Star Spangled banner, is
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  Speaker 3: you have a bunch of jerks in the house that
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  Speaker 3: begin booing. The camera pans passed the players on some
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  Speaker 3: of the teams, and my wife asked me, she goes,
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  Speaker 3: how come nobody has their hand on their heart and
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  Speaker 3: you hear the booze going on, and I know what
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  Speaker 3: they were doing. They were booing the president. He was
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  Speaker 3: standing at attention, saluting the flag, saluting the country, while
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  Speaker 3: the national anthem was being sung, but you had these
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  Speaker 3: jerks that were that were booing during it because they
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  Speaker 3: just don't like him. And I thought, that is a pig.
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  Speaker 3: That is this classic New York half the crowd, USA,
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  Speaker 3: USA half the crowd boo, we hate you. It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: I felt bad for the next They they played their
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  Speaker 3: hearts out. A couple of couple of strategic mistakes that
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  Speaker 3: I think went against them, and you know Brunson getting
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  Speaker 3: that foul so early on in the game, and then
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  Speaker 3: he he didn't have the fouls to give later in
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  Speaker 3: the game, and it kept him out of the kept
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  Speaker 3: him out, kept him out of the game for a
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  Speaker 3: good chunk of the fourth quarter that I think they
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  Speaker 3: needed him for for his leadership, not necessarily because he
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  Speaker 3: was going to score all the points, but because that
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  Speaker 3: team runs different when when Jalen's in charge of you
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  Speaker 3: know what's going on. So that's that. That was pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 3: They'll play again Wednesday. There'll be another game this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It we're far from over. I had said if they
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  Speaker 3: had if they could sweep San Antonio in San Antonio,
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  Speaker 3: they would have a good shot at coming out and
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  Speaker 3: sweeping the series. I don't think the NBA wanted that.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's why the San Antonio Spurs got thirty
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  Speaker 3: two free throw shots in the second half to the
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  Speaker 3: eight that the Knicks got to shoot. I also, as
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  Speaker 3: a former coach, was counting, and there were no less
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  Speaker 3: than twenty five uncalled travel violations in the course of
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  Speaker 3: the game. Oh, it just a weird experience. But they'll
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  Speaker 3: they play another day, another day, this coming Wednesday. That
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  Speaker 3: is the news that we have the enjoyment and the
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  Speaker 3: ease of being able to talk about today because we
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  Speaker 3: don't live in places like Lebanon or Iran. The Israeli
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  Speaker 3: Defense Forces have had to issue an evacuation order to
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  Speaker 3: the entire ancient Lebanese city of Tire, including the city's
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  Speaker 3: Christian Quarter, citing Hesbealah activity in the Christian Quarter. They said,
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  Speaker 3: in light of the terroristd Hesbelah party's violation of the
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  Speaker 3: ceasefire agreement and targeting of Israeli's home front, the israel
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  Speaker 3: Defense Forces are compelled to act against it forcefully. The
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  Speaker 3: IDF do not intend to harm you, said the spokesperson
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  Speaker 3: Akave Andre in a post today on acts. The warning
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  Speaker 3: cautioned residents of the majority Muslim city to evacuate north
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  Speaker 3: of the Zahrani River, roughly twenty miles north of the
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  Speaker 3: city center. Your presence near Hesbelah elements or their facilities
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  Speaker 3: or combat means endangering your lives. Adre continued, as we
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  Speaker 3: warned in the past days, following Hesbela's elements actions inside
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  Speaker 3: the Christian quarter in the city, the Israeli Defense forces
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  Speaker 3: will be compelled to act against the terrorist activities in
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  Speaker 3: the quarter in the near term. Translation, we going to
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  Speaker 3: bombit now. That section of the city, which has been
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  Speaker 3: continuously inhabited by Christians for nearly two thousand years, had
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  Speaker 3: up till now been previously spared of Israeli strikes and
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  Speaker 3: evacuation orders that had targeted much of the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the city. Here's the thing, friends, the terrorists figured that out.
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  Speaker 3: And so the terrorists said, well, they haven't bombed them,
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  Speaker 3: they'll never suspect that we would launch missiles from there,
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  Speaker 3: and they moved everything there. These guys are not sharp.
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  Speaker 3: They're not the terrorists and has Belaw the ier GC
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  Speaker 3: in Iran, and they're kind of one and the same.
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  Speaker 3: You wonder if they have unnatural affections for farm animals
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  Speaker 3: or something. I'm not sure like that. They are not.
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  Speaker 3: They are not very bright. We can see everything they
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  Speaker 3: do with satellite imagery, with tracing technology, we know exactly
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  Speaker 3: where the missiles come from, and that's why we're able
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  Speaker 3: to go back and take out the exact spots where
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  Speaker 3: they launched them from. I also want to make this point,
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  Speaker 3: and to me, it's a very important one. There are
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  Speaker 3: only two militaries in the history of the world that
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  Speaker 3: have done what Israel did here. Israel said, we don't
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  Speaker 3: want to, but we're gonna have to come in and
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  Speaker 3: bomb this section because this is where the missiles came from,
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  Speaker 3: and if you value your life, leave this area. Most
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  Speaker 3: people running countries putin, for example, just do the thing,
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  Speaker 3: and if one of their missiles or drones hits an
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  Speaker 3: apartment building that has a bunch of you know, mothers
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  Speaker 3: and daycares in it, so what it's the cost of war.
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  Speaker 3: Israelis don't do it that way. They recognize that there
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  Speaker 3: are innocent people living in the Christian quarter of the
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  Speaker 3: Lebanese city of tire T Yri, and they send the
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  Speaker 3: message get out.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the terrorists are going to hear that message
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  Speaker 3: and they'll have a chance to leave too. Israel knows
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to get a lot of the human
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  Speaker 3: capital wiped out in this forthcoming action, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 3: but they are going to take out the missile launchers
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  Speaker 3: and the capacity for that area to be used for
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  Speaker 3: missile launching anymore. And in this part of the world,
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  Speaker 3: it's either you stop killing us, or we're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to kill you. And my heart breaks because there
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  Speaker 3: are a lot of innocent people that are caught up
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  Speaker 3: in the in the middle of all of it. IRGC
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  Speaker 3: in Iran's the same way. Iurgc and has Billar the
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  Speaker 3: same They're both operating at the behest of the Iranian crazies,
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  Speaker 3: and both in Lebanon and in Iran, you have reasonable
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  Speaker 3: civilian governments that don't want any of this, but they
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  Speaker 3: are overpowered by the terrorist elements that live within their boundaries,
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  Speaker 3: so they're powerless to kind of stop them. I'll ask
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  Speaker 3: Katie McFarlane and Jacob Oulador about this later in the show,
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  Speaker 3: because we're going to do a lot of foreign affairs
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  Speaker 3: and national security today. But it's a sad day that
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  Speaker 3: this Christian quarter in the Lebanese city of Tire is
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  Speaker 3: probably going to have to be leveled because the heinous
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  Speaker 3: animals that are the terrorists can't control themselves. So wrong,
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  Speaker 3: so wrong on so many levels. All right, Kevin mccallough,
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  Speaker 1: Here he is from New York. Kevin McCullough, Welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: We don't ask enough big questions anymore as a culture,
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  Speaker 3: but this one is how do we live? How do
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  Speaker 3: we live in the context of a culture that may
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  Speaker 3: despise God, may despise God's word, may look at his
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  Speaker 3: people as though there's something wrong with us. Does that
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  Speaker 3: change what our job is? I would argue it doesn't,
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  Speaker 3: Bishop Nelson, who has been with us a couple of
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  Speaker 3: times in the past. And we're talking about this idea
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  Speaker 3: of the Divine architect. Bishop, We're talking about God's ability
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  Speaker 3: as a creator to do some pretty incredible things, especially
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to making human beings. And we're in
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  Speaker 3: the Book of Genesis chapter two. What are we looking
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  Speaker 3: at today?
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  Speaker 7: Well, so we're looking at the fact. And yesterday, of course,
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  Speaker 7: when we talked about God's plan he's the one who designs.
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  Speaker 7: He has a purpose and just awesome in terms of
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  Speaker 7: what God's did desire for us as a family as
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  Speaker 7: a unit. And it was quite as interesting, Kevin. So
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  Speaker 7: we look at even chapter two. God now has created everything,
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  Speaker 7: plants the garden with some man. It's from the ground,
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  Speaker 7: from the dust of the earth, shapes a man, blows
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  Speaker 7: the breath of life in him, and it's just amazing
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  Speaker 7: to see how God designs the whole thing. Puts Adam
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  Speaker 7: in the garden, and verse eighteen of chapter two, the
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  Speaker 7: Bible says, and the Lord God said, it is not
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  Speaker 7: good that the man should be alone. Now before this,
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  Speaker 7: everything God created in New Yo out of nothing. He
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  Speaker 7: spoke it, it came into being. Let there be, and
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  Speaker 7: there was, and the Bible says, and it was good.
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  Speaker 7: Everything about God's creation affirms it is good. Then he
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  Speaker 7: puts man in the ground, in the earth, and he's
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  Speaker 7: the first thing.
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  Speaker 3: Is says.
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  Speaker 7: He looks at Adam, and the Bible says, and the
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  Speaker 7: Lord God said, it is not good that the men
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  Speaker 7: should be alone. So I wanted to talk. You know,
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  Speaker 7: there's a few moments on the problem of isolation, because
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  Speaker 7: sometimes I don't believe we pause long enough to recognize
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  Speaker 7: that God's desire is for us to be in community,
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  Speaker 7: and isolation is probably one of four greatest problems. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: we live in a place like New York City, millions
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  Speaker 7: of people are around us. Yet you could be in
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  Speaker 7: the crowd and still be isolated. And so when you're
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  Speaker 7: going through isolation, there's a sense of vulnerability here. God says,
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  Speaker 7: it is not good for Adam to be alone. I
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  Speaker 7: will make for him help meet, so the Baba says,
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  Speaker 7: And God puts Adam in a long sleep, takes a
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  Speaker 7: rib from his side, makes a completed woman and place
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  Speaker 7: in front of Adam. And when Adam comes to, when
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  Speaker 7: he revives and sees this creature he had never seen before,
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  Speaker 7: he said, whoa. And so the idea is that there's
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  Speaker 7: a sense of her coming from his side, you know,
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  Speaker 7: so as an equal partner. And so, just in a
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  Speaker 7: quick way, we look at the fact that there was
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  Speaker 7: a sense of companionship that God desired for us to experience,
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  Speaker 7: not from a pet.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 7: People says, well, man, I don't care about other human beings.
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  Speaker 7: I just love my pet. No, there's a sense of
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  Speaker 7: communion that God desired for us to experience with a
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  Speaker 7: fellow human being similar nature. Adam said, this is bone
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  Speaker 7: of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and again coming
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  Speaker 7: as a out of his side. And God said, I'm
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  Speaker 7: giving her to you as a help meet. In other words,
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  Speaker 7: she's your helper, you know, as I said to the congregation.
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  Speaker 7: When my wife and I we lived in Tennessee for
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  Speaker 7: several years, we had two boys, and then our denomination
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  Speaker 7: act us to go to Ottawa, Canada, and so we
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  Speaker 7: moved all the way to Ottawa and somewhere there, I'm
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  Speaker 7: like God, I would love to have a daughter. It's
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  Speaker 7: nice having two boys. I'd love to experience a girl
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  Speaker 7: growing up. And God blessed us give us a daughter
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  Speaker 7: by the name of Sigourney. And what she securely grew
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  Speaker 7: up from a babe into womanhood. Something went off in
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  Speaker 7: my mind. I realized, I have a deeper appreciation for
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  Speaker 7: my wife having watched my daughter grow up, because see,
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  Speaker 7: when Adams saw Eve, she was already complete. Many times,
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  Speaker 7: even as husbands, we forget that within that woman beside
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  Speaker 7: us is a girl like you know. I made a
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  Speaker 7: joke about it that sometimes my wife would buy a
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  Speaker 7: new outfit and get to a period.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like it?
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  Speaker 7: And you know, like, oh, you feel good about it.
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  Speaker 7: But what she was really doing was waiting for my affirmation.
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  Speaker 7: And so that woman God has given to us as
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  Speaker 7: a partner is against help her. And sometimes even as
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  Speaker 7: men and our culture sometimes fashions us to function independently
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  Speaker 7: of that partnership. So sometimes I mean, I know, especially
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  Speaker 7: Caribbean culture, it goes almost a sense that if you
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  Speaker 7: depend too much upon the woman, or if you share
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  Speaker 7: too much of the plan, you know, that gives her
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  Speaker 7: too much.
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  Speaker 3: Power over you.
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  Speaker 7: And sometimes even our culture works against God's plan. And
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  Speaker 7: that's why we have to be always mindful what's driving
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  Speaker 7: us our culture or our biblical worldview, and because they
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  Speaker 7: work in opposition. And so if we do it God's way,
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  Speaker 7: we see our partner not as a competitor, but as
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  Speaker 7: a complete or one we can be fully transparent with,
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  Speaker 7: and one who re recognize is a helper from a
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  Speaker 7: mighty God.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is so powerful, and in some ways it's
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  Speaker 3: so countercultural because at least how the world thinks about
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  Speaker 3: Christians and Christianity. The Hebrew word for helper, you point out,
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  Speaker 3: is is that word easier? And yes, it's it's and
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  Speaker 3: men won't like this, but it actually means a rescuer.
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  Speaker 3: It actually means someone who saves him from himself. And
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  Speaker 3: when I think of when I think of marriage specifically
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  Speaker 3: in the modern context, you know, we've always valued it
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  Speaker 3: so highly because marriage does some simple things. It civilizes
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  Speaker 3: the man. The man isn't the wild rascal that he's
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  Speaker 3: been prior to that at least he shouldn't be. It
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  Speaker 3: provides protection for the woman, and it provides a nurturing
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  Speaker 3: environment of two parents for the children. And when it
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  Speaker 3: is done God's way, it is the greatest single determining
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  Speaker 3: factor in the success of the child. If a child
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  Speaker 3: comes from a two parent household where the parents are
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  Speaker 3: married and love one another, that child has ten times
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  Speaker 3: the ability usually to perform in the culture then than
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  Speaker 3: someone who does not have that.
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  Speaker 7: That's why the devil works so hard to undermine the
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  Speaker 7: stability of the home. And you know, there are times
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  Speaker 7: the force takes place, and there are times when different
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  Speaker 7: things may happen, but God's desires for that communal coexistence. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: two loven parents raising children in a safe nerduring environment.
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  Speaker 7: And while there may be exceptions over circumstances, we should
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  Speaker 7: never ever forget the ideal, and that's what we should
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  Speaker 7: all strive for.
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  Speaker 3: Aspiration is a good thing, particularly when it texts in
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  Speaker 3: the direction of scripture. Well, we're just getting started tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to talk about something called the Divine Design
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  Speaker 3: and I can't wait to dig into that. But Bishop
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  Speaker 3: Hugh Nelson, thank you for all that you're doing. Real quickly,
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  Speaker 3: just ten seconds. Give everybody an invite to come to
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  Speaker 3: the Urban Ministry Center this weekend to hear you preach.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, my friend, were God is graciously blessed us are.
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  Speaker 7: Urban Ministry Center is located at sixth sixth zero Powell Street,
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  Speaker 7: that's between Egerman and Neulance right in Brooklyn, New York.
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  Speaker 7: And it is a pleasure for us to have you
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  Speaker 7: worship with us, whether in the a thirty am service
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  Speaker 7: or the eleven AM service. And so this is an
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  Speaker 7: invitation to all of you. God has been good to us,
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  Speaker 7: and we celebrate his grace and what he's doing in Browntool,
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  Speaker 7: in Brooklyn and New York City.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I have as someone who has darkened your door,
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you it's a friendly congregation that people
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  Speaker 3: are going to feel right at home. With so please
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  Speaker 3: do that. Friends, if you're in the area and you're interested, Bishop,
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk to you tomorrow. Thank you. As always, friends,
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  Speaker 8: from New York. Fact Kevin McCullough, welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: been on a mission for the last couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: to help as many children as possible who are the
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: children of incarcerated parents, find Jesus at summer camp. That's
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: what we're trying to do. We're trying to put those
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: kids in a position where they can find Jesus this
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: summer at Angel Tree Camp. Tom Tradup is back to
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: speak with me here, and Tom, I haven't had the
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: pleasure of actually being at an Angel Tree camp, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: you have, I think, on more than one occasion, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: you've expressed you've talked with some of the children, You've
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: had lunch with some of the kids, You've sat and
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: kind of gotten to know what their experience is like.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Take us inside what it's like to be at Angel
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Tree Camp.
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  Speaker 5: Well, let me just say thank you for having me
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: first off, and secondly, there is not to my knowledge,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: and Angel Tree Camp. What they do is they make
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: arrangements with a network of summer camps all over the country.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: All fifty states have them, and so it's Camp Pottawatamee
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: or something in Oklahoma until the second week of July,
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: and then it becomes Angel Tree Camp and for that week,
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: everybody is on the Angel Tree staff. They take over.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: You've got Christian songs they're singing, You've got activities that
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: are all fresh air, fun things for these kids who
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: are children of prisoners, maybe have never been out of
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: a hot city before. Some of them are freaked out
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: just by the idea that they're going out into nature.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: They where are we? And they start off the first day.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: These kids that I met at Angel Tree Camp, I
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: went to one in California with Larry Elder, our friend.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: The kids are kind of reclusive and keep to themselves
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: the first day, not only because they're new at camp
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: and they don't know anyone that happens at any summer camp,
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: but also they don't understand because I guess that nobody
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: tells them. All the kids at the camp this week
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: will be in the same situation you are. They have
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: a mom or a dad or maybe both or in prison,
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: and so by supper time they have made friends and
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: talked to somebody else and they go, what's your dad
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: in for? And they got, what do you mean? And
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: they suddenly it clicks that all of us here at
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Angel three Camp this week have a parent who's incarcerated,
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: and so the barriers go down. They just start having
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: fun like every kid wants to have, and it's such
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: a blessing for them. And you said you're on a mission.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: In fact, you have that sort of Howie Mandel. Look,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: he's on the million dollar mission on a deal or
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: no deal. Yeah, you know, you've done so many good
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: things to get people to donate already for Angel Tree Camp.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: It only costs two hundred dollars to send a kid
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: to camp, and it costs a lot more than that,
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: believe me, for the actual camp experience. But there's subsidies
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: and gifts and people who do in kind things, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: so whatever you can donate, you watching and listening. If
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: it's fifty dollars, if it's one hundred dollars. If you
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: can send a kid to camp for two hundred, that's great,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: but if you can only afford a little bit less
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: or that's what you feel led to give, please do
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: because we'll combo that up with the other gifts that
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: are coming in. And every time we hit another two
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: hundred dollars, that means another deserving boy or girl who
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: through no fault of their own, has been placed in
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: this situation with a mom or dad in prison. They
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: didn't do anything wrong, and so it's an opportunity to
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: really bless a child. And you know, we're headed a
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks from now to the two hundred fiftieth
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: birthday of America. And what better gift could you give
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: to this United States of America on our two hundred
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: and fiftieth birthday than to have more young, positive Christian
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: kids heading into the future instead of kids who may
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: be going in a different direction, following in their parents'
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: footsteps and being part of a legal system and maybe
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: going to prison them.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: So I think that's one of the most exciting things
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: because and look, those of you that listen to me
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: and watch you know that I'm an unapologetic evangelical Christian
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: excited about what Jesus did in my own life. I
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: want to tell other people about it all the time,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: and even my former colleague Charlie Kirk, who you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: he really was such an incredible person, changing the world
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: in so many ways. He said at the ultimately at
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: the end of his life, what he wanted to be
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: known for was courage about his faith. Friends, faith is
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: connected to this in such a deep level. First of all,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Prison Fellowship is the one that's organizing the entire thing,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: and that is the ministry that Chuck Colson started when
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: he went to prison, saw the need for the Gospel
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: inside of prison, came out dedicated his life to helping
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: prisoners find Jesus. They have a Bible study program that
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: they have been using for years that is so effective
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: a lot of inmates find Jesus through it. Andy when
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: they graduate from that program, there's some benefits. There's some
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: actual benefits that they're given. One is that their kid
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: can be nominated to receive a president at Christmas time
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: from their parents' name. And the other element that they
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: get to do if they complete the Bible studies, nominate
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: their child for a week of camp. And as Tom
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: just said, these camps, and a lot of them are
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Christian camps anyway, they're running a Christian camp press. Some
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: of them aren't, but a lot of them are. And
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: as Tom you were inferring, when the week is over,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: they may have been a little gunshy getting in there,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: but when the week is over, they're clinging to these counts.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: They're like, We're go home, like it's been the most
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: magical thing they've ever experienced.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: There are tears when they have to get back on
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: the bus, and a lot of them come back the
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: following year, and many of the kids stay in touch
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: over the course of the next year, supporting each other,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: building each other up, and saying let's get together at
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: the cabin next year. So it is a life changing experience, and.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: You make it happen. For two hundred dollars, go to
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: that Kevinshow dot com, that kevinshow dot com, that kevinshow
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  Speaker 3: the page. Super simple. We want it to be easy
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and we just want to bless a bunch of kids.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: We've already helped seventy children find camp this summer. We
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: could do a great deal more. Run out of time.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: This week is our final week to be able to
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: do it. We need your help right now, that kevinshow
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• 27:49
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• 27:51
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• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Here he is from New York. Kevin McCullough.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, Kevin mccallaugh. It's Linda Pirill, Kevin McCullough.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It's Travel Tuesday. Is what we call this and if
• 28:23
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• 28:47
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• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I'm reading in Travel and Leisure that a group has
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: come up with the world's first gluten free cruise. Now,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I have spent some time with some relatives and others
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: who need to be gluten free for health reasons, or
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: so they say, and so they tell me, and I
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: guess I'm going to believe them. Maybe I'm not because
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I'm a curmudgeny, mean old guy, but I'm just curious.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Do you think, because you know the cruise space much
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: better than I do, do you think that this is
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: a a barn burner of a winner financially or whatever
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: for whatever group's going to adopt it. I guess it's
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Oceanic Cruises, but they're going to have the Seliac Cruise,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: which just the name itself makes me just want to
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: go right, oh yes, please let me get on a
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: cruise titled Seliac. But it's going to be a gluten
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: free ocean cruise in twenty twenty eight. I guess it's
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: only going to be the one cruise, but I don't know.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to have a hard time selling
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: this out.
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: I think you're wrong, and I think, and I hate
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: to say that, Kevin, I do listen so many people
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: out there, including two my two first cousins, and I
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: was shocked because we come from a very hearty Italian
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: background with like no inbreeding, like no, there's no mind,
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: no other no, I mean, there's no other breeds in there.
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: Is what I'm what I meant to say, I'm out,
• 30:31
  Speaker 9: It's all I mean immigrants everything, So I mean the
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: Italians apparently they have a big Celiac problem. Maybe it's
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: coming from all the semolina. I don't know, but I
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: don't have that problem now dealing with my cousins, who
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: are first cousins.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: I hear how difficult it is. We have a friend
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: whose little girl just developed siliac.
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: So, but that being said, Kevin, for you and me,
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: like this is a new thing to me, Celiac, Like
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: what I mean, you're gluten free like.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: To me, and all this stuff is disgusting.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: It's gross.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I've had it.
• 31:06
  Speaker 9: I can't even I have to cook gluten free pasta
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: on Christmas Eve for my cousins.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: It's like giving somebody like like Plato.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: It's like fa addition, it's like disgusting.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I can't even. I throw it out,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Like if there's leftovers, I throw it. No one's gonna
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: eat it. My husband is not gonna eat that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: But there are so many people, Kevin, with this diagnosis
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: that have a very difficult time going on vacation. If
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: you read the piece going on vacation anywhere to find
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: gluten free food. So you either have to find a
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: gluten free restaurant, right.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Or you have to remember what you can eat and
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: not eat.
• 31:50
  Speaker 10: Now, this will solve that problem because everything you're eating
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: is that lovely, delicious, gluten free you recipe that we've
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: all been craving.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Not However, it makes it easier for them, and that's
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: that I'm telling you.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: It's gonna work well, And that's that's what we We're
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: always about, right, It's always about ease and convenience and
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: being lazy. Basically.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: One of the best stories I have is our VIP
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: of VI I p our VP.
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: Deanna was upset with my brother and she travels with him,
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: which is very easy to do, Kevin.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: And is it travel or easy to be upset with him?
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, none of my business.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Keep going, please, So they.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Were getting on the plane to Italy and she was
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: traveling with him to Italy and she ordered him a
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: kosher meal. Harry isn't first class and they bring him
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: the kosher meal in the in the foil and he goes,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: what is this.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: She's like, you deserve that She did it as a joke.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: Oh yes, because she wanted to get the screws into him.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: But it's a great story.
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: She had to pre order the kosher meal, which is
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: what you know, our Jewish friends are used to doing
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: before they traveled.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: They'll do it on a cruise ship.
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: And most of them, though, however, will know where to travel,
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: who's the best airline for that, or who's the best
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: cruise line to make accommodations, which I think is different
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: than the gluten free because if I was gluten free
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: and you and I took a trip today, for example,
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: we would either find a gluten free bakery, a gluten
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: free restaurant somewhere, right because now we can do that,
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: thank you chat GPT, or you make accommodations for what
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: you're eating, eat a.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Ton of protein, protein protein protein.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Potatoes have no better for you.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: I don't think rice. I don't think rice has any gluten.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: No, it's just wheat. It's just wheat, right, So you know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: so you could have potatoes, you could have rice, you
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: could have pasta that wasn't wheat based. But yeah, you know, again,
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: who wants to eat some of that stuff? I mean,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I love rice and potatoes and those types of things.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I actually think I do too, you know, sometimes I
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: prefer them to other things. Although I will tell you
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: last night, and if you're gluten free and you're listening,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, this is just going to totally wig you out.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: But I had that meeting in midtown and I was
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: trying to get back to the McCullum manor last night.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: My bride keeps teasing me. She keeps sending me a
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: text and she's like, I'm working on dinner. I've just
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: made it. It's the best carbonara you're ever going to
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: put in your mouth. When I got home, she was
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: not lying, she was telling the truth. It was amazing
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: and I had two servings of it, and I didn't
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: need either one of them, but it was really really good.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: All right, So if people want to be part of
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: the Celiac cruise, and evidently this isn't the first time.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: They did one in twenty twenty with Royal Caribbean buying
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: out all five hundred guest spots, and they've offered dirty
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: cruises through Royal Caribbean and Ama Waterways and Oceania over
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: the years. But this year they're doing it, or in
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight, they're doing twenty twenty.
• 35:07
  Speaker 9: Eight, which I want to point out Kevin is allowing
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: them a lot of preparation. So it's also allowing them
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: a lot of booking time, right, so if they get
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: this out now like they did, they might be able
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: to fill up this shit.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: It's kind of a strange. It's two years away, say,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: summer cruise, but it's England, Ireland and Scotland. Like when
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I think, I think of.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: The Caribbean, Yeah, I do two, but not in the summer.
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: So in the summer it's a big time to cruise
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: Europe because it's warmer, and especially in those places England,
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: Ireland and Scotland.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: You're not You're not cruising in January.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: All right, let's take a break. She's Lynda, I'm Kevin.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: We're coming right back.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Let's stick around for more of that. Kevin next serving
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: it up. It's a no drink, MITTI. It's that cabinet
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 36:10
  Speaker 11: Aji Tree is not only about getting a gift. Angil
• 36:14
  Speaker 11: Tree is about building lives, building relationships, nurturing families, opening
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: the door for that family that actually needs the support.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Angel Tree is heaven sent.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Who wouldn't want that?
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: That is a volunteer for Angel Tree Camping. Her name
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: is Myra and she's been a volunteer for a few years.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: And what she does is she goes to the Angel
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Tree camp and she just loves on the kids. She helps,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: she does whatever's necessary, and she has a heart for it.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: You can tell, little Filipino woman and just loves serving
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: the Lord and loves loving on kids. And this is
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: a quick reminder that I need you to help us
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: get some really great kids and help them to have
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: some fun, to get some fresh air, learn about Jesus.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: And by sending this boy or girl with a mom
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: or a dad who are in prison, because all the
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Angel Tree kids have that in common, you're going to
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: change their life. Just go to that kevinshow dot com
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and consider making a generous donation to the Angel Tree campaign.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Prison Fellowship provides kids who have incarcerated parents a week
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: away from their bad neighborhoods and the dangers of drugs
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: and gangs. And as you just heard Mayra tell us,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: a week in the fresh air does something to just
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: change their whole outlook. It's so cool. Most of these
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: kids have never been to a camp. Many of them
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: have never been outside the city that they live in.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: So to get to go on a bus to a
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: beautiful place in the country to be able to swim
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: and fish and do archery and do all the stuff.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: And to not know this in advance, but to find
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: out that all the kids there are kind of in
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: the same boat that you are. None of them are
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: judging you, None of them you are saying, Oh, you're
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: not worthy of hanging out with our kids because your
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: parents are in prison. No, everybody's got a parent in prison.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: And here's the other thing that they have. They all
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: have a parent who's in prison who has completed the
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Bible study program from Prison Fellowship. And as a reward
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: for completing that program, they get to nominate their child
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: to go to camp on a scholarship. These kids could
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: never pay for summer camp on their own. It would
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: be five hundred to one thousand dollars per kid. But
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: for two hundred dollars and with the underwriting of some
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: of the expenses by the camps themselves, you can provide
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: that week of a way of camp that for that camper.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: So let's do something good today. The most important part
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: of our angel Tree campaign is you your gift of
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: two hundred dollars at that kevinshow dot com gives these
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: campers impacted by incarceration, a full week of community water activities,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: horseback riding, and all the adventures that go with it,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: all woven with a christ centered focus. Throughout the whole week.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: They're going to hear the gospel. Many of these kids
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: will give their life to Jesus as a result. That
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Angel Tree banner at the top of that kevinshow dot
• 39:04
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• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Thank you for whatever you are able to do to help.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: We have at minimum thirty children that we're still trying
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: to get there before the end of this week, so
• 39:16
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• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Be a hero for a child who needs you today
• 39:30
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• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Graham Platner should not be elected to represent Maine in
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: the US Senate, says who who? Says it a former
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  Speaker 3: high level staffer for the candidate telling voters just hours
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  Speaker 3: before the polls opened on Tuesday, Genevieve MacDonald wants a
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  Speaker 3: state Maine representative, who worked briefly as Plattner's campaign director
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  Speaker 3: last year, warned in an op ed in The Washington
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  Speaker 3: Post on Monday evening, Platner is not someone who would
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  Speaker 3: be good for Maine or for the country. While she
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  Speaker 3: overlooked his Nazi linked tattoo and possible cheating scandals, McDonald
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  Speaker 3: said in the piece titled I know firsthand why Graham
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Platner shouldn't be US Senator, as she couldn't ignore how
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: quote he exhibits a pattern of dishonest behavior and ultimately
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: quit the campaign just after two months. I was one
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: of the Platiner campaign's first gaslighting casualties, said McDonald's was
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: first was disturbed by what she learned during her time
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: on his staff from August to October. If America wants
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: a stronger democracy, elect elevating leaders with integrity as essential,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: she wrote in the piece, leaders with sound judgment and ethics,
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: leaders who embrace and live the ideals the nation stands for.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: She complained about the series of skeletons that emerged, including
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: the Nazi link tattoo on his chest, recent allegations of
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: physical misconduct with an ex girlfriend, and leude Reddit post
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: that have rocked his campaign. She specifically took issue with
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: one Reddit post where Platner said white rural Americans are
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: racist and stupid. The demographic he attacked is one in
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: which he is now hoping to represent in the US Senate,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: she says. The woman who made the allegations of physical
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: violence against Platner, Lindsay Fiffield, stood in solidarity with McDonald
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: after the piece was published on Monday night last year.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: I watched a woman sacrifice her career to stand on
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: principle and warn the public about a dangerous man. Genevieve
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: has been relentlessly attacked, but she kept her honor and
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: her soul. She has inspired me to stay strong through
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: this storm. Among other revelations in the op ed, McDonald
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: said the campaign offered her a severance package of fifteen
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars contingent upon signing an NDA, which she refused.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: McDonald conveyed that she wanted to believe Plattner's narrative of
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: redemption the candidate who often touts himself as a man
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: with a troubled past who has sent straightened up, but
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: she felt overwhelming scandals were too much for her to
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: continue working on the campaign. She also used the platform
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: in the post to take a dig at Platner, who
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: has pitched himself as a working class mayner, humble oyster, farmer,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: small town harbormaster. I realized the campaign had not been
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: honest with me, as someone from a real working class background.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: I knew this would undermine his cross party appeal. That
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: narrative has recently fallen apart as his campaign came under
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: fire from multiple angles. Plattner's mother owns a restaurant as
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: listed as the only customer of his oyster farm business
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: on its financial disclosures. He farms off a private island
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: owned by the family of his business partner, and his
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: father gave him two hundred thousand dollar loan to purchase
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: the home. I want better for my daughters and for
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: the people of Maine, McDonald wrote, Democrats are being sold
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: a narrative that Plattner is the only choice for the
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: race against Susan Collins. Main voters don't have to accept
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: that there are two other Democratic candidates on the ballot
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: in Tuesday's race, Governor Janet Mills and consultant David Costello.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: So she's trying to torpedo her former boss, which if
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: he did all the things that she is describing there,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: I think that would be worth telling people about. I
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: want to say this today, I said it yesterday. I've
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: known lots of veterans and lots of veterans that have tattoos,
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: all kinds, ones that symbolize many important things in their life, etc.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: I've never had a veteran with tattoos tell me they
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: were a Nazi and be proud to have their tattoos
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: linked to nazis. Never known one and I've known thousands.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: It's it's really rather remarkable in that respect. But you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: good on McDonald. I don't get a lot from the
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: left in terms of mayacculpying, like bad decisions from the
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Democrats these days. In the fact that she's actually asking
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: for some integrity and some some reasonable honesty, et cetera,
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: I think that's that's good for her. The Democratic Party
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: needs more of that in its midst it's so dishonest
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: and it's so violent and angry. I was going back
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: to the to the booing during the national anthem last night.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: That really haunted me after the next game. It's one
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: thing to hate your president, and the same people that
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: have that issue are the ones getting into fights last night.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: After after the game, you had people that there was
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: one report of somebody who took off a sign from
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: a bus sign and we're we're and was beating people
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: with the bus sign. Those things are heavy and they
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: took it off the pole and we're walking around beating
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: people with it. Because why the NIXT lost During COVID,
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: people ransacked all the stores that they possibly could in
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: multiple cities, but New York had a particularly bad run
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: of it. And at the time Mayor Deblasio was like, well,
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: we can't do anything about it, just got to let
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: it happen. I don't think that you do. I think
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: that part of the whole goal of trying to be
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: a representative government and trying to hear from the people
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: is so that we don't have to resort to abject
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: violence to get our point across. And why should anybody
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: abjectly violent be abjectly violent about a loss in a
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: basketball game. I know it's the championship, I know it's
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: the finals. Do you know how many other cities don't
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: have a team in the finals and you don't see
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: any of them running around rioting, breaking things because they
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: didn't make the playoffs or they didn't make the finals.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Big cities in particular have this issue La Chicago, New York,
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: and there are other big cities that don't have this issue.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: You why do those cities have that issue? Is it
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: because there's an immoral party governing the city? Is it
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: because there's a well, we don't really respect rules or laws,
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: or etiquette or protocol or even just general politeness. We
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: don't have to be kind. What is wrong with the
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: people that that hate our countries. Well, they hate our country,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: and we stand for We stand for decency, we stand
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: for what's good. We stand for integrity. Good on, good
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: on Genevieve MacDonald for saying something and for putting it
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: in print. If the people of Maine don't want to
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: have an embarrassment go to the Senate, they should pick
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: someone else in their primary. All the reports seem to
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: point to him being a very bad guy, but it
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: seems like bad guys are kind of what the Democrats
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: want these days. So who knows. You don't have to
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: vote for any of them. You know that right There
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: is another party on the ticket. There are other candidates.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: And I may disagree with some things that Susan Collins
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: has done over the years, but she's not a Nazi.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: I think that's worth saying. I think it's worth having
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: it pointed out. I've disagreed with her a lot. She's
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: voted against general Republican principles, common sense, Mega principles sometimes,
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: she's voted against life sometimes, but she's not a Nazi. Democrats, beware,
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: maine Ers, beware. Sometimes you get what you asked for.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: I don't think this will be good in that situation,
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: but we'll see Calvin mckellaugh coming back from Times Square.
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  Speaker 1: Here he is from New York. Fact, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 3: serious topic. I wrote in town hall dot com today
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: that the calculus for what the administration is dealing with,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: especially after the weekend attacks where Iran shot missiles directly
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: at Israel and has Belah, is not going away at all.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: There's a new calculus here, and I think it's an
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: ingrained and embedded evil that is so deep within the
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: hearts of the has Belahn, the IRGC, and let's face it,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: those are the groups we're dealing with. We're not dealing
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: with the civilians of Lebanon. We're not dealing with the
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: civilians of Iran. We're talking about those groups want peace,
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: I think, but we're talking about the really committed radical
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: activists who are willing to die for the cause. And Kat,
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: I've heard you say it before. I've heard other national
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: security people say before. If you have an enemy who's
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: willing to die for the cause, you can't deal with
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: them in a rational way like other enemies could. Your
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: thoughts on where we're at and what progress, if any,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: is being made right now, You're.
• 52:35
  Speaker 12: Right, we're dealing with an enemy that can't be ration with,
• 52:39
  Speaker 12: reasoned with, convinced. They want to do one thing, and
• 52:42
  Speaker 12: that's kill Americans, kill chews, the Great Satan, the Little Satan.
• 52:46
  Speaker 12: You're never going to convince them. What you have to
• 52:48
  Speaker 12: do is prevent them from taking take away their ability
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: to attack you. Now, some people say, oh, that's regime change.
• 52:55
  Speaker 12: I am a little anxious about regime change because every
• 52:57
  Speaker 12: time we've tried it in the past, Afghanistan or Vietnam,
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: where we pick the new rulers, it just doesn't work out.
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: We end up having to come in and run the place.
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: And that's not what we want for ninety three million people,
• 53:10
  Speaker 12: smart people in a run. So what are the other
• 53:14
  Speaker 12: ways you could stop the people? Well, you have trust,
• 53:16
  Speaker 12: you verify, but then you enforce. And to me, what
• 53:20
  Speaker 12: President Trumps the predicate to all of what he's doing
• 53:23
  Speaker 12: now is to take away their ability, no matter what
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: they say, take away their ability to make war, which
• 53:29
  Speaker 12: is to completely eliminate their missiles, their drones, their military capabilities,
• 53:35
  Speaker 12: and then eliminate their ability to rebuild an industrial base. Now,
• 53:39
  Speaker 12: maybe if not forever, but certainly for a decade or
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: for a generation.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Well, and I'm wondering if there doesn't have to be
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: some more people die the next couple of rounds of leadership.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: And the reason I say that is because it doesn't
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: seem to be that these people, even if we took
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: away all of their industrial capacity, it seems to me
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: that if they're really bad guys who believe that there
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: it's a different it's a different mode here. They're trying
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: to welcome in the twelfth e Mom they're trying to
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: bring about their messiah or savior, and they think that
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: they're instituting the end of times. And there's nothing in
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: traditional warfare or traditional security in national affairs that we've
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: ever run up against like this before. They believe they're
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: on a mission from God, to quote the Blues Brothers.
• 54:31
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and they don't mind if you die. They actually
• 54:33
  Speaker 12: don't mind if.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: They die, and their families and their kids, and if
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: they all die, it's going to be a glorious thing
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: because they will have done the right thing.
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 54:40
  Speaker 12: I think that that's the grou if you're dealing with.
• 54:42
  Speaker 12: So what are you dealing with in Iran? I think
• 54:44
  Speaker 12: that right now there are two groups, roughly maybe many groups,
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: but two main groups, and that's the quote. Pragmatists who
• 54:52
  Speaker 12: realize that Iran needs to survive this war and needs
• 54:58
  Speaker 12: to survive it with enough economic capability, you know, energy, infrastructure, etc.
• 55:03
  Speaker 12: To rebuild. And those are the guys who were negotiating with.
• 55:06
  Speaker 12: Those are the guys who do want to make a deal,
• 55:08
  Speaker 12: not any deal, but they'll be willing to make a deal.
• 55:11
  Speaker 12: And then they're the ones that you talked about, the
• 55:13
  Speaker 12: ones who want to welcome in the end of the
• 55:15
  Speaker 12: world and those guys, no deal is going to work.
• 55:18
  Speaker 12: So I think what you're seeing is.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: But I think those guys are pulling the strings of
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: the pragmatic guys. Am I wrong?
• 55:24
  Speaker 12: I think, well, I think that they're pulling some strings.
• 55:28
  Speaker 12: So that's why I'm taking a bigger picture of what
• 55:30
  Speaker 12: happens in the Middle East. So any agreement that you
• 55:32
  Speaker 12: would ever reach with these pragmatic guys, you have to
• 55:34
  Speaker 12: be able to enforce, and therefore you need the golf
• 55:36
  Speaker 12: Arabs in on the game. You need the you know,
• 55:39
  Speaker 12: the Amorantes, you need Kuwaits, you need all those other
• 55:42
  Speaker 12: countries to help you enforce the piece if you can
• 55:45
  Speaker 12: get to a piece. But the second thing is that
• 55:48
  Speaker 12: those the zealous, and they're mostly in the military, the IRGC.
• 55:52
  Speaker 12: Those are the guys who are trying to sabotage everything.
• 55:55
  Speaker 12: So as they see that an agreement may be getting
• 55:57
  Speaker 12: closer and closer between the US and these pragmatists, they
• 56:01
  Speaker 12: want to go screw the deal. So what do they do.
• 56:03
  Speaker 12: They attack Israel, knowing it Israel's going to attack back,
• 56:06
  Speaker 12: and then that'll stop the ceasefire. So these are the
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: same people who when it looked two years ago like
• 56:13
  Speaker 12: Saudi Arabia was getting ready to join the Abraham Accords.
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: What did they do? That's when they launched October seventh,
• 56:20
  Speaker 12: to make sure that that would scuffer any thoughts of
• 56:24
  Speaker 12: a greater and wider Abraham Accords. So what are we
• 56:28
  Speaker 12: going to do? Some people say, finish the job? Well,
• 56:30
  Speaker 12: what does that mean that? I guess to some people
• 56:32
  Speaker 12: it means I don't kill them all, destroy everything, destroy
• 56:35
  Speaker 12: their energy infrastructures, their civilian infrastructure. I can see a
• 56:39
  Speaker 12: limited finish the job, and that would be to finish
• 56:42
  Speaker 12: the military job, take remove any remaining military targets. I
• 56:45
  Speaker 12: can also see, as you suggested, keep going down the
• 56:48
  Speaker 12: tiers of leadership until you find somebody who wants to
• 56:51
  Speaker 12: do a deal. But I would always caution leave that
• 56:54
  Speaker 12: energy infrastructure.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, intact, I'm not in favor, not in favor of
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: blowing up their oil reserves or any of that. And
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: because genuinely, I think the president cares about the Iranian people,
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: like I don't think that he's sitting over there going, oh,
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: let's wipe out all Iranians, like I really do think
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: he sees it as the IRGC and HESBA law, who
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: are basically one and the same. They are the problem
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: and we need to eliminate them from the equation completely,
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: which is.
• 57:23
  Speaker 12: Why you need to have You need to have not
• 57:26
  Speaker 12: just the United States and Israel enforcing it, you need
• 57:28
  Speaker 12: to have all of the countries in the region. So,
• 57:31
  Speaker 12: for example, the way the IRGC works is they always
• 57:34
  Speaker 12: kept their money offshore in banks that were in the
• 57:37
  Speaker 12: Emirates right and once they were once the IERGC were
• 57:41
  Speaker 12: dumb enough to bomb hotels in Dubai, those banks said, okay, America,
• 57:46
  Speaker 12: let me open the books. Let me shure you what
• 57:48
  Speaker 12: cent our books here, you can take over. And so
• 57:50
  Speaker 12: as a result of that, Scott Bessel in the Treasury Department,
• 57:53
  Speaker 12: we're able to freeze all those assets. The other thing
• 57:56
  Speaker 12: that happened is that Iran turns out to move a
• 57:58
  Speaker 12: lot of money on cryptocurrencies, laundering through cryptocurrencies. Well, we've
• 58:02
  Speaker 12: gotten people to cooperate with us, and now we've shut
• 58:04
  Speaker 12: down all those cryptocurrencies. So even though Iran wasn't taking
• 58:07
  Speaker 12: in any money in the last two or three months,
• 58:10
  Speaker 12: they've been moving money around through these other means and
• 58:14
  Speaker 12: those have now been shut down. So that you know,
• 58:16
  Speaker 12: it's going to start getting hard, but a lot harder
• 58:20
  Speaker 12: for I Ran. That's why I think that eventually you'll
• 58:22
  Speaker 12: find somebody, whether it's maybe it's the third, the fourth,
• 58:25
  Speaker 12: eighth tier down who wants to do some kind of
• 58:27
  Speaker 12: a deal. And then interestingly, President Trump has kept alive,
• 58:31
  Speaker 12: has not gone after the regular Iranian Army. Now, the
• 58:35
  Speaker 12: IRGC Revolutionary Guard Corps, those are the guys who came
• 58:38
  Speaker 12: in with the revolution, Those.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Are the true believers.
• 58:41
  Speaker 12: Those are the ones that you've referred to. But still
• 58:44
  Speaker 12: standing around are this regular Iranian military. So is there
• 58:48
  Speaker 12: a possibility of the regular Iranian military joining up with
• 58:52
  Speaker 12: these pragmatists if there's a deal, maybe, who knows. There's
• 58:55
  Speaker 12: just a lot of moving parts, but it's never what
• 58:58
  Speaker 12: you see on your first clamps is important in those.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and I think that if we're talking about,
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: you know, Israel and has Blot, it's the same thing.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: The Lebanese people, the Lebanese civilian government, they don't want
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: the has Belah operating there, but they're too powerful. They
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: have all the weapons, the same story as IRGC. They
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: have too many weapons, they're too powerful, they can overpower
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: anything that the civilian government wants to do so, they're
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: kind of more or less handcuffed by them.
• 59:23
  Speaker 12: That's why I follow the money. If there's a way
• 59:26
  Speaker 12: that you can deprive them of their income, they lose
• 59:29
  Speaker 12: their power rather quickly.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I hope I hope that we come up
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: with some of those solutions soon because I'm getting nervous
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: about how long this is dragging on, particularly with the
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: elections looming in November and the July fourth kind of
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: backstop that I've said, you know this, in my opinion,
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: it needs to be done by but I know the
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: President's not. He's he's more focused on getting the right
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: thing done than getting the immediate thing done. And I
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: think that's the right perspective. Hey, thirty seconds on this,
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: John Bolton, former ambassador, former CAB member of the Trump administration,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: basically said last week, YEP, I did it. I took
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: things I wasn't supposed to have and I transmitted them
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: and I was sending them to myself and an over
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: unsecured servers and all this stuff, Katie, I thought, for
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: all of the punishment we've dealt out to Hillary on
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: the thirty three thousand emails and wiping the server with
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: the cloth and the server being in the bathroom in
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Colorado somewhere where they had it installed. We can't be
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: holding her to a standard that we don't hold our
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: own side to. And I was really disappointed in former
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Ambassador Bolton's actions, and I think that he's I hope
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: he spent some time kind of coming to Jesus, if
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: you will, when he has time to think about it.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 12: When I left government, I walked away with nothing. I
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 12: didn't keep any files. I didn't even keep my address book.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 12: I didn't keep my calendar one because I think that's
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 12: what you do. The people who walk away with everything,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 12: that's because they want to write a book. They either
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 12: want to spin his three in their direction, or they
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 12: want to make some money. There are ways to write
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 12: those books and ways to access that classified information.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 8: That are legal.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 12: But the way that John was doing it was convenient,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 12: which was to take it home in a briefcase. And
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 12: I think bullet scent of the law, whether it's Hilly
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 12: quent In or Joble.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's what you have to do. And he
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: always struck me as kind of slippery, and he never
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: dealt with me straight, even off air, So I was
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: trying I was not surprised. It just wasn't. It didn't
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: surprise me anyway, Katie, you always appreciate your insights. Thank
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: you for helping us.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 12: It's a pleasure.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: Kevin mccallach coming right, let's stick around for.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 8: More of than Kevin. Next here he is from New York,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 8: exact the Kevin McCullough.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, Kevin mccallaugh. Glad to have you with us.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: Have you have you helped a child get to camp yet?
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about your own kids. I've got three
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: kids eager to start camp. They're so excited about camp.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: They talk about camp all spring, can't wait for school
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: to be done because they want to go to camp.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: And they've been and they understand the joy and the
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: fun and the value and everything that they experience while
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: they're there. They enjoy the counselors who they've gotten to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: know over the years, and they've they've made relationships with them,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: and these are really kind of mentors in their life now.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: And that's great for my kids. But what about a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: child whose parent was in prison and who they probably
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: think they may not ever get to see again, or
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: they're going to have very rare opportunity to interact with them.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: The one thing that all Angel Tree kids have in
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: common is that they all have parents who have been
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: to prison, have been in a prison program. But they
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: have something else in common. All their parents have also
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: completed the prison Fellowship Bible Study program and many of
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: them have become Christians. And in graduating from that program
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: inside prison, they are then given the opportunity to nominate
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: their child for a scholarship to a week of Christian camp.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: And I have to think about this. If they're excited
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: that their life was changed by Jesus, don't you think
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: they'd be a little excited about their kids' life being
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: changed by Jesus and it not happening in prison. Think
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: about that for a second. That's what that parent's hope
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: is is that their child won't just go to camp
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: and have a good time. It's that they'll find the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: same Jesus that they found, but that they'll do it
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: not behind bars. Tom Traddup is with us. Tom. It's
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: so easy for people to give. They just go to
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: that kevinshow dot com and click the banner at the
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: top of the page. But there's a genuine kind of
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: earnest effort that the parents put in to get their
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: kid to camp. And I think when we understand that context,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: it makes this even more special.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: Really does. And I'm so glad you mentioned that because
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: the people who nominate these kids are the actual parents.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: They are still incarcerated in most cases, but they've completed
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: that first step toward having a real relationship with Jesus
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: and they want their children to have that. And that's
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: a very special thing that we can help foster. And
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: you know, Kevin, it takes two hundred dollars to send
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: a child to Angel Tree Camp for a week. That
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: in today's world is a lot of money. I just
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 5: filled up my car before I came in to talk
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: to you for eighty dollars, yass, And I'm like everybody else,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: It's like, wow, budgets are tight, and what am I
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: going to do to get through the week. But if
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: I had a spare twenty five or thirty dollars or
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 5: fifty dollars, and I sent that through that kevinshow dot
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: com and made it a contribution to Angeltree. My contribution
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 5: gets matched up with others and we received a call
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 5: not to long ago from a little girl who was seventeen,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: and I wish I had the audio I could play
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: it for you. But she was so touching. She said,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: you know, look, I'm calling because I love Angel Tree
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: and I love what you guys do. I have a
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: little envelope next to my nightstand that I put money
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: in every time I do a babysitting job, and throughout
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 5: the year, I've been saving my money and I've now
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: got eighty five dollars and I'm giving it to Angel
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: Tree to help a child go to camp. And she said,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad, but if
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: I can do that at seventeen, y'all could do it too.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: And she did make a good point. And it's not insignificant.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: If you could give ten dollars or twenty dollars, it's
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: going to help somebody get to camp. But if you've
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: got two hundred dollars, bingo, they're on their way. And
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 5: summer is honest. So the camps have opened their doors
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: and there are a lot of kids on the waiting
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: list who are praying that they will get to go
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: to Angel Tree Camp this year. But that's all up
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: to you.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And even though even though summer is here. It's
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: not too late because these camps will run all the
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: way up through the Labor Day weekend, so we can
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: still get the we can still get kids to a
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: Christian camp and to have that experience. And simultaneously, Prison
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: Fellowship has come along, which was the whole vision of
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: Chuck Colsen to begin with, because he went to prison
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: for his sins and he saw the need for God
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: in prison and he came out. And they've done a
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: Bible study program where if the person goes through it,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: they are clearly presented the Gospel. They are clearly presented
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: with the impact on how that Gospel impacts their life
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: and will affect them. And many of them have made
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: a decision for Jesus. They complete the Bible study program,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: they get to say, hey, could my kid get a
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: scholarship for Christian camp. What better way to cut recidivism,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: to cut crime, to cut the habitual repeating of generational
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: behaviors than to say, let's get their kid the same
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: Jesus that the parent just found. But let's do it
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: long before they ever darkened prison's doors. And that's the
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: heart of the parent, that that's what the parent's praying for.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: That's what Prison Fellowship's praying for. That's what I'm praying for,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: That's what Tom's praying for. We want these kids to
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: know their maker and it is. It is a special thing.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: So here's how it works. It costs two hundred dollars
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: total for one kid to get that week of camp. Now,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: if you're up in the Northwest where I'm located, the
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: camps run five hundred to one thousand dollars a week.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: Many of these camps, Stephen Collins told us this last week,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: they invest heavily into these kids and that's why part
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: of the cost is subsidized. That's why they can get
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: a week of camp for two hundred dollars is because
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: these camps have stepped up as well. So two hundred
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: dollars are going to give this child an unforgettable experience
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: in going to Christian camp. And while they're they're going
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: to experience Jesus in a life changing, dynamic way. Many
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: of them will come to faith. Sometimes it may take
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: them more than once to hear it, but then they're
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: gonna come to faith. The seed's gonna be planted. They
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: are going to have their lives impacted and changed that's
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: what your two hundred dollars does. It's like flipping on
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: a light switch for the gospel inside their heart. Your
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: two hundred dollars is the flip of the switch where
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  Speaker 1: He is from New York exactly then, Kevin McCollough.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to that Kevin Show, that kevinshow dot com.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: Will it ever end? That's the question. Is Iran ever
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: going to be solved? Worse than that, are the neighbors
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: in the neighborhood ever going to come to an agreement?
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: It seems like every time there's a ceasefire that the
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: countries that are involved in the ceasefire, keep fighting? What
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: does all that mean? How we where do we go
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: from here? And a lot more to get into. Jacob
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: Bulldor is back with us from America First Policy Institute.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: Middle East is his specialty, Jacob. It happens over and
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: over again. Last weekend we saw Israel and the formal
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: government of Lebanon is they're trying to work towards the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: peace process, but has belaw operating within the Lebanon the borders,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: doesn't like the fact that Lebanon's going down that path,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: and so they just unleash missiles, and Iran's now taken
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: to unleashing missiles towards Israel. This is a I haven't
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: I haven't formulated the entire piece yet for townhall dot com,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: but I'm going to write a piece about the embedded evil.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: But we're dealing with just stubborn, mean, brutal creatures that
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: just don't want to bring peace about.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 13: Absolutely, it's great to be with you, Kevin. I think
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 13: we're seeing one thing come to light in the last
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 13: couple of days. We have, of course, Iran's ambitions of destruction,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 13: its nuclear program, all of these pieous sky dreams we
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 13: hope the pie in the sky and then separately its
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 13: own survival. And where the rubber meets the road is Hesbla,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 13: which we have to appreciate is running regime's main form
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 13: policy achievement over the last five decades. It was it
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 13: came about in the early nineteen eighties. It was the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 13: first effort by Iran to export its revolution, to export
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 13: its reign of terror, and today it is the key
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 13: infrastructure for its global terror around the world, including the region.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 13: And so what Iran does not want to see, leaving
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 13: aside the deal itself, it is committed to seeing Hesbil
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 13: remain a part of Lebanon, otherwise it loses all of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 13: that infrastructure and in my view significantly is degraded in
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 13: its capabilities and you know, and general standing. So I
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 13: think it's interesting. I think this is the first time
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 13: that Israel responded to a strike coming from another country
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 13: and Iran directly fires at it versus just kind of
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 13: a direct Ran fire.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: And I think that's the reason for that.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: Iran has poured a lot of infrastructure into all of
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: its proxies in Yemen, in the what the in Gaza,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: in the West Bank, You've you've had you know, different groups,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: but they're all Iranian paid for. Why are they Why
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: are they so deftly committed to most likely ending Hasbelah's
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: existence by continuing to have them engage Israel.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a great question.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 13: US has a very premier position for Iran, Unlike any
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 13: other proxy, which frankly is disposable to some extent, Hesbola
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 13: is not. And when the United States, when President Trump
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 13: in twenty twenty took out cost some solimony, that removed
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 13: a key strategic layer for the running regime. This individual
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 13: held all the proxies together for decades. Nostralla, the head
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 13: of HESBLA at the time, which Israel then took out
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 13: a couple of years later, stepped into the fold. Hesbela
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 13: has been involved in training militias in the Middle East,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 13: in propping up adversarial regimes in Latin America, and funding
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 13: terrorism in our hemisphere and terrorism throughout Europe. All of
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 13: that is Hesbola, which is also the money changers and
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 13: everything in that enterprise, and so it is a cut
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 13: above the rest for that reason, and Lebanon is its
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 13: base of operations.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Sorry, if we know all of that, and I'm assuming
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: that the US knows everything you just said, why do
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: they continue to elude us?
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 13: That is the key right now, And I actually have
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 13: a piece coming out on that theme as well, that
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 13: you know, everybody has different objectives visa be Hesbela. For Israel,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 13: it's existential. This is a group that's committed to its destruction,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 13: hundreds of thousands of you know, rockets of different ranges
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 13: across the border. For the United States, this is the
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 13: key to the end state. With the Iranian regime, we're
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 13: trying to wrap things up with epic fury. I believe
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 13: that the way to do that, that road goes through
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 13: Lebanon and through Hesbola. If we can not only drive
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 13: that wedge, but definitively get Hesbla out of Lebanon, that
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 13: I think will be a profound nail in the coffin
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 13: of not the regime but what it's trying to do. Certainly,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 13: as far as the threats of the Americans, I.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: Just think and they and they respect force. So why
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: don't we do to Hesbelah's leadership what we did to
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: Iranian leadership? Because if you if you are able to
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: do that, if you can cut the head off that
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: snake will will they reconstitute inside Lebanon.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 13: That's a good question. And look, and Hesbela is just
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 13: as much an American problem.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is again, they're in our hemisphere. They
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: want to do things against us.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 13: Yeah, the largest death of US Marines since the Battle
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 13: Viejima happened in Beirut in nineteen eighty three at the
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 13: hands of Hesbola at the time. And so this is
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 13: an American problem. I think you're right. And you know
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 13: you have Iranian RGC elements inside of Lebanon trying to
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 13: reconstitute Hesblo.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 5: So the link is all there.
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  Speaker 13: I think you're you know, I think that's that would
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 13: be the direction I would be looking.
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  Speaker 3: So let me ask let me ask you then to
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  Speaker 3: pull the camera lens back a few thousand feet. If
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  Speaker 3: if this is what's happening, and it's primarily Israel and
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  Speaker 3: Hesbelah going at it, there are you, in essence saying
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  Speaker 3: that the fruit of our conversations with Iran proper are
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  Speaker 3: just going to kind of stay in this kind of
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  Speaker 3: suspended limbo until that's dealt with, because it seems to
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  Speaker 3: me they've loved playing games with us. Oh, we'll think
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  Speaker 3: about it. This week every weekend, it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: We're close to a deal. We're going to go in
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  Speaker 3: and get it done. By the time Monday rolls around,
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  Speaker 3: their missiles dropping and places and people are mad at
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  Speaker 3: each other again. And this time Iran fired on Israel
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  Speaker 3: directly in response to some of the stuff they did
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  Speaker 3: against Lebanon. But it's like, we're not making I don't
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  Speaker 3: I can't sense that we've made any progress in Iran
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  Speaker 3: in a few weeks now.
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  Speaker 13: I think, you know, I don't want to get ahead
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  Speaker 13: of the administration, but I think that would be a
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  Speaker 13: productive way to look at it. Look, I think there
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  Speaker 13: are different voices within the Iran regime right now. It
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  Speaker 13: is to a degree a state of chaos in terms
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  Speaker 13: of their communication among themselves. Who is the person actually
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  Speaker 13: leading the discussion at any given time, shifts the idea.
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  Speaker 3: And that's similar to Lebanon, right because you have the
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  Speaker 3: formal government and they want peace with Israel, but Hesbelah
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  Speaker 3: does it. In Iran, you've got kind of the civilian
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  Speaker 3: population that we love and we want to see them
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  Speaker 3: happy and they want peace, but the IRGC is calling
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  Speaker 3: all the shots, keeping the terror in. You know, Holy hell, going.
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  Speaker 1: Right, No, and I think that's right.
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  Speaker 13: I think you know, and we already started, I mean
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  Speaker 13: a historic process of negotiation direct talks in Israel Lebanon
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  Speaker 13: that hadn't taken place in decades. So I think I
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  Speaker 13: agree with you. I think we need to lean into
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  Speaker 13: that process more. And I think, you know, whatever the
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  Speaker 13: miscommunication is in the Iranian side of the delays, they'll
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  Speaker 13: all get on one page once they see a unified
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  Speaker 13: effort at getting has blaut of there, and that'll be
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  Speaker 13: a very profound blow to that.
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  Speaker 3: Or the longer has a law lives, they'll fight on
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  Speaker 3: thinking that they have reason to believe that they won't
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  Speaker 3: be this disbanded that it's really it's really kind of puzzling, Jacob.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you explaining all of it to us, though,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to be with you. Kevin peg got it.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin McCullough. Always glad to have you here. It's that
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  Speaker 8: Stick around for more of that Kevin next serving it up.
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  Speaker 8: It's a no drink mental. It's that Kevin Show.
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  Speaker 3: Well, welcome back. It's that Kevin Show, that Kevinshow dot
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  Speaker 3: some pretty encouraging news. Earlier, I was talking about the
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  Speaker 3: Senate race in Maine, and lo and behold, I'm amazed
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  Speaker 3: by the miracle of all this. Susan Collins is in
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  Speaker 3: the fight for her life for her Senate seat, and
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  Speaker 3: lo and behold, in the last few moments, she has
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  Speaker 3: seen the light. She has figured out what she needs
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  Speaker 3: to do as the Republican senator from Maine. And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's because this is an eighty to twenty issue,
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  Speaker 3: even in her state, which is a largely purple state,
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  Speaker 3: but eighty percent of the people there want this to happen.
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  Speaker 3: And she was kind of being hoy and kind of
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  Speaker 3: holding out and saying I didn't know what I was
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  Speaker 3: going to do. But she's seen the light. She is
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  Speaker 3: coming around. And here's the issue. It's the least controversial
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  Speaker 3: thing that she'll probably ever vote on. It's the Save
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  Speaker 3: America Act, and she he has now said that she
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  Speaker 3: will vote for it. During the Senate's marathon voter rama
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  Speaker 3: to advance the GOP seventy billion immigration enforcement package, Republicans
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  Speaker 3: tried twice to attach safeguarding America voter eligibility the Save
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  Speaker 3: America Act to the massive legislation. They failed both times,
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  Speaker 3: with some Republicans joining Senate Democrats to steamy the effort.
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  Speaker 3: Given that Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee and others had
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  Speaker 3: to break through the filibuster, it was already kind of
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  Speaker 3: in trouble, but Susan Collins is the crack. Four Republicans Collins, Murkowski, McConnell,
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  Speaker 3: and Tillis voted against it. Their defections prevented the bill
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  Speaker 3: from getting fifty votes, a prerequisite for success if Republicans
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  Speaker 3: were to launch a talking filibuster, but Lee's attempt did
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  Speaker 3: hit fifty votes, with Collins flipping her vote to support
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  Speaker 3: the original version of the Save America Act. Lee cheered
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  Speaker 3: the moment on act shortly after as the voter rama
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  Speaker 3: still raged, and noted that with Vice President JD. Vance
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  Speaker 3: serving as the possible fifty first vote, the Save America
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  Speaker 3: Act could pass the Senate. And friends, if you are
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  Speaker 3: new to this piece of legislation, all it does is
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  Speaker 3: require if you are going to register to vote, it
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  Speaker 3: requires you to bring an ID with you. You bring
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  Speaker 3: in your IDs, and this is me. See picture, same
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  Speaker 3: name address, This is where I'm at, this is me.
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  Speaker 3: When you register, they put that all into your voter registration.
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  Speaker 3: You're golden. You show up on election day, you bring
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  Speaker 3: the ID back with you so that they can tell,
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  Speaker 3: they can tell proof positive that it is in fact
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  Speaker 3: you that is voting that day. Now, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: this is an eighty twenty maybe a ninety ten issue
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  Speaker 3: in the general public. Democrats want it, Republicans want it,
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  Speaker 3: and independents really want it. They want honest elections. They
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure that the people that are voting
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  Speaker 3: are the ones who are supposed to be voting, and
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  Speaker 3: that there's not And friends, look at what's going on
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  Speaker 3: in California. They're literally stealing a primary race. By how
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  Speaker 3: far are we behind? Okay, let's go find some more
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  Speaker 3: that they're literally doing it in California in front of
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  Speaker 3: our eyes. In the mayor's race in Los Angeles, just harvesting, Well,
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  Speaker 3: where can we get some more votes? We haven't, we
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  Speaker 3: haven't stopped the county. They finally did in the governor's
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  Speaker 3: race and Steve Hilton held on to a spot for
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  Speaker 3: the big for the big day. But in LA you've
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  Speaker 3: got much bigger, deeper pockets of corruption. You've got all
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: kinds of ballots that probably got sent out that people
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  Speaker 3: need to go recover, got to go chase, gotta go harvest.
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  Speaker 3: This is also why the upcoming Supreme Court's decision, and
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  Speaker 3: it should be handed down any day now, is so important.
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  Speaker 3: Does election day mean the word day when the Constitution
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  Speaker 3: says day. If if the word day means the word day,
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  Speaker 3: then none of this stuff should be happening. The counting
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: should be done at the end of the day. And
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: if Florida can do their entire state in just like
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  Speaker 3: three hours, why can't California count the votes from just
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  Speaker 3: La County in a week? Ask yourself that Kevin McCullough
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: story still developing. We'll see you next day.