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She Said the Quiet Part Out Loud · That KEVIN Show

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Speaker 2: you're probably gonna be equally impressed with today's You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm kidding, right, I don't think this highly of myself,
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Speaker 2: but I am. I am a little bit. Frustrated is
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Speaker 2: not a good word. Surprised is a terrible word. I'm
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Speaker 2: not surprised by anything anymore. But you know, we have
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Speaker 2: all of these socialist, Marxist, Communist, Leninist, Stalinist candidates running
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Speaker 2: for all of these these races everywhere, and in Wisconsin
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Speaker 2: you have a governor's race right now that has a
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Speaker 2: Democratic Socialist who is leading in the polls for her
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Speaker 2: party's nomination for Wisconsin governor. Now that doesn't mean she's
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Speaker 2: leading in the overall poll for the state, but in
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Speaker 2: the in the Democratic primary, she's she's winning there for
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Speaker 2: right now, and she recently said something very interesting. She
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Speaker 2: appeared on the Source with Caitlin Collins. Aitln Collins on
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Speaker 2: CNN is the one that has that very dreadful stare.
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Speaker 2: She just stares at you. She glares at you, and
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Speaker 2: she had made the candidate, Francesca Hong, it's her name,
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Speaker 2: she's Asian American, had sput up a previous social post
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Speaker 2: which she suggested that Americans should cancel their celebrations of Thanksgiving. Now,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that Americans could cancel that
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Speaker 2: I think would be beneficial. I wouldn't shed a single
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Speaker 2: tear drop if we canceled Halloween. It wouldn't bother me
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Speaker 2: in the least. There are other there are other holidays
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Speaker 2: that we could cancel that I would be You know,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to cancel Memorial Day because I want
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Speaker 2: to honor those who who gave the last full measure
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Speaker 2: of devotion. But Labor Day? Do I need to celebrate
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Speaker 2: the fact that I already know that I work hard? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I celebrate that every day, bringing home a paycheck and
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Speaker 2: feeding my family. That's that's a celebration of how hard
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Speaker 2: I work. So is Labor Day necessary? You know? Do
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Speaker 2: we do we have to celebrate the birthdays of the presidents?
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Speaker 2: Do we do we need a Valentine's Day? Not all
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Speaker 2: of these are actual days you take off, but in
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Speaker 2: terms of what you celebrate. I'm very, very weirded out
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Speaker 2: by the fact that somebody who wants to be a
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Speaker 2: governor of a major state believes that you should cancel
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Speaker 2: the celebration of Thanksgiving. Here's what she actually said when
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Speaker 2: asked by Caitlin Collins the eternal glare. When she was
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Speaker 2: asked by Caitlyn Collins, do you still want to cancel Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 2: And she said, I'm a chef and one of the
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Speaker 2: first meals that I made that was for the community
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Speaker 2: when I was sixteen years old, was a Thanksgiving meal.
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Speaker 2: Hong said, I think my hospitality background in owning a
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Speaker 2: restaurant for seven eight years, that bringing folks around the
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Speaker 2: table to share conversation and build community is always a
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Speaker 2: good thing. Did she answer the question? Let's play a
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Speaker 2: little game.
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Speaker 1: Ding ding ding ding, ding ding ding.
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Speaker 2: Does the candidate answer the question? The question from Caitlin
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Speaker 2: Collins was glaring the entire time she's asking it. Do
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Speaker 2: you believe Americans should cancel their celebrations of Thanksgiving? And
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Speaker 2: the candidate says, I'm a chef and the first meal
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Speaker 2: I made for the community when I was sixteen was
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Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving meal. And I think my hospitality background in
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Speaker 2: owning a restaurant, bringing folks together to share conversation and
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Speaker 2: build community is always a good thing. That she didn't
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Speaker 2: answer it at all. Then she goes on to say,
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Speaker 2: but Thanksgiving is also a time that is incredibly painful
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Speaker 2: for many people in our communities. But all that thought,
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Speaker 2: I got to come back to that one, and so
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Speaker 2: I think there I want to make sure that people
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Speaker 2: understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve,
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Speaker 2: and the position that I'm running for right now, I
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Speaker 2: think my background as a chef will actually help me
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Speaker 2: become a better governor that's able to bring more people
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Speaker 2: to the table. She concluded with a non ironic wink,
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Speaker 2: wink wink. So she does answer the question. She thinks
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Speaker 2: that Thanksgiving is a time of incredible pain for many
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Speaker 2: of the people in her community. She thinks, let's follow
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Speaker 2: the logic through on this. She believes that Thanksgiving is
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Speaker 2: a time of pain for people in her community. She's
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Speaker 2: Asian American. What community is she talking about? Wisconsin? Thanksgiving?
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Speaker 2: To me on my calendar of holidays, is the purest
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Speaker 2: holiday that we have, because in its purity, it says
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Speaker 2: to us, give thanks for the blessings that you have,
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Speaker 2: especially the ones you do not deserve. And it doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter who we are. It doesn't matter if we're descendants
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Speaker 2: of slaves or Native Americans or people that came over
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Speaker 2: in the crushes of immigration from Ireland and Italy. Doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter if our lineage is from Europe or the Middle East,
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Speaker 2: or South Asia, or Africa or Far Asia, the Far East,
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Speaker 2: the Soviet Block, the non communist countries. Now, it does
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Speaker 2: not matter where your origin comes from. There is nothing
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Speaker 2: about thanksgiving, the establishment of a day of giving thanks.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing about this holiday that in any way shapes
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Speaker 2: pain for the people that observe it. The entire focus
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Speaker 2: of the day is for you, in your life where
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Speaker 2: you are right now, to take an assessment of what
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Speaker 2: you have, to find that in your assessment what you
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Speaker 2: are grateful for, and to express to God thanks for
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Speaker 2: it being that way, for him giving it to you,
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Speaker 2: for the year being better than the year before, or
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Speaker 2: any number of observations that you could make about your life.
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Speaker 2: My friend Jim Simbola over at Brooklyn Tabernacle every Sunday.
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Speaker 2: He makes it a point to encourage the people at
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Speaker 2: b tab do some inventory, give thanks for something in
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Speaker 2: your life that God did this week that was amazing.
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Speaker 2: And he's not pastoring a church of a bunch of
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk's and you know, uber billionaires. Half of his
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Speaker 2: congregation takes public transportation just to get to the campus.
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Speaker 2: Friend Banning Thanksgiving, canceling Thanksgiving is one of the worst
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Speaker 2: moral things a public servant could call for. And that
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Speaker 2: she's running for office on that man, that's messed up.
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Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough coming right back.
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Speaker 1: Here, he is from New York. Kevin McCulloch.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, Kevin McCullough. Glad to have you
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Speaker 2: with us. Starting to feel a little more in the groove.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing how quickly when you get away from the routine,
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Speaker 2: it is easy to forget just all the little things.
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Speaker 2: But that's what yesterday was for today we're supposed to
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Speaker 2: be kind of back on target. Kevin McCulloch, Glad to
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Speaker 2: have you with us this part of the show. Every
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Speaker 2: day I like to stop and ask the big question,
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Speaker 2: why do we do what we do? How do we live?
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Speaker 2: In light of that? Why if a culture despises God,
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Speaker 2: distrusts his word, looks at his followers as though there's
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Speaker 2: something wrong with them, does that change our mission? I
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Speaker 2: would argue that it doesn't. It's seemed more important that
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Speaker 2: we stay faithful to it. But there are moments of
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Speaker 2: fear and anxiety, and even amongst those who believe, fear
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Speaker 2: and anxiety is something that can easily overtake us. Regularly,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Batesl's back with us from Emergence Church in New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: Emergence Dot Church is where you find all the things
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Speaker 2: related to what we're talking about this week, and you
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Speaker 2: might recognize Ryan's cheerful voice. He was the very first
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Speaker 2: pastor that we had on how do we Live? And
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Speaker 2: he continues to come back a few times each year,
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Speaker 2: and we're grateful for that. Ryan. This is coming from
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Speaker 2: a chapter that you preached on not long ago, Psalm
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Speaker 2: twenty seven. You were doing a series on worship, and
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Speaker 2: the part that we looked at yesterday is the reminder
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Speaker 2: that we don't have to do fear if we're believers.
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Speaker 2: The Lord is our light and salvation, and so even
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Speaker 2: if the enemy gets really intense about their opposition to
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Speaker 2: us building camps, telling us they want to eat our
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Speaker 2: flesh off our bones. I mean, it's not the writer
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Speaker 2: doesn't like, really spare any imagery here. He goes for it.
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Speaker 6: No, he doesn't waste he doesn't waste images.
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Speaker 2: But he turns a really interesting corner in verse four
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Speaker 2: where does he go.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it is amazing. And I think one one
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Speaker 6: piece of clarification, because this always comes up whenever we
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Speaker 6: talk about fear, right, I like to think of it as, Hey,
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Speaker 6: there's a difference between a moment where you're startled, right,
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Speaker 6: Like all of us get hit by waves of fear
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Speaker 6: in life, and that can actually be a good thing. Like,
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Speaker 6: you know, a wave of fear startled can keep us alive.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 6: If there's a brown bear in the woods and you're like, well,
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Speaker 6: I don't do fear, well that's just dumb.
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Speaker 2: You should run, right or.
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Speaker 6: I don't know the exact protocol. I'm not going to
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Speaker 6: say you should run because someone might say that's how
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Speaker 6: you get eat But whatever you should do to try
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Speaker 6: not to get eaten, that's what you should do if
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Speaker 6: you come across a brown bear. So fear that idea
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Speaker 6: of fear is actually a gift to let us get safe,
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Speaker 6: right that the moment of startle. And then I think
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Speaker 6: one of the beautiful things when we get startled a
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Speaker 6: wave of fear comes in, is well, then we can
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Speaker 6: be courageous encourages When I'm scared, I still want to
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Speaker 6: honor the Lord and do the right thing by what
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Speaker 6: he says. So those are two good gifts from that emotion.
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Speaker 6: One for our safety too, to allow us to be strong,
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Speaker 6: courageous and trust the Lord. There would be no such
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Speaker 6: thing as courage if there were no waves of fear.
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Speaker 6: The issue becomes when those waves that hit and well,
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Speaker 6: you know, I got three kids going to college. When
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Speaker 6: that bill comes in, it's a wave of fear. The
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Speaker 6: difference of the wave of fear versus a spirit of
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Speaker 6: fear is the waters we live in are fear and anxiety.
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Speaker 6: And I just believe the Bible calls that sin because
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Speaker 6: it's not seeing God as he is. And so we
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Speaker 6: talked yesterday about, hey, he's with us. Here's what I
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Speaker 6: love because if it peels back the curtain, and this
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Speaker 6: is what you're getting at Kevin in verse four of
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Speaker 6: how did he get that heart? And right there we
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Speaker 6: see David, go, hey, there's one thing I ask to see,
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Speaker 6: the beauty of the Lord, to be in the house
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Speaker 6: of the Lord. And it's just such a wonderful verse
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Speaker 6: because I think for a lot of for a lot
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Speaker 6: of Christians, right, and for a lot of people, they
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Speaker 6: want to go to God because they see him as Hey,
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Speaker 6: God will be useful, right. God might be useful for
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Speaker 6: me to have a good marriage. God might be useful
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Speaker 6: for me to be a good father. God might be
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Speaker 6: useful for me to be a good employee. And honestly
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Speaker 6: he will right. The danger, though, is if you live
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Speaker 6: like that, where God is only useful gets you the
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Speaker 6: thing that you think is ultimately beautiful. And I would
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Speaker 6: argue you will forever be anxious because because you can
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Speaker 6: still you still will ultimately lose the thing you think
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Speaker 6: is most beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Is there a message in that repetitive theme in those
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Speaker 2: two verses.
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Speaker 6: No, there certainly is, Kevin. I'm glad you're saying it right,
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Speaker 6: because there are certain things as a pastor, when you
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Speaker 6: preach on them, it sounds a little self serving. We'll
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Speaker 6: go to church, you know, be generous, right, like these
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Speaker 6: things people are like, well, we know what, but actually
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Speaker 6: they're biblically true. There is Man, I know my life.
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Speaker 6: There are the moments where I've gone through incredibly hard
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Speaker 6: things and I knew that I just needed to be
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Speaker 6: in the presence of some other Christians. I needed to
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Speaker 6: be in worship, I needed to sit under the teaching
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Speaker 6: of God's word. I needed those things. And you know,
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Speaker 6: you and I probably lived long enough to see people
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Speaker 6: who go through hard things and rather run to the
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Speaker 6: assembly of believers, the gathering of the church, they run
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Speaker 6: from it. And it's like, man, now you've just created
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Speaker 6: two disasters. You know you already had the one you
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Speaker 6: were walking through that God could use to make you mature,
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Speaker 6: but you're going to create this whole other mountain you
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Speaker 6: got to climb by getting away from the great physician,
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Speaker 6: the one who can heal you. And one of the
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Speaker 6: ways God chooses to heal us is through corporate worship,
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Speaker 6: by being with those people. And I'm just saying, if
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Speaker 6: you don't have that, you're not doing well. You can
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Speaker 6: get mad about that. You can listen in your car
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Speaker 6: and yell at me. But I know the way God
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Speaker 6: made us, He's forming not just individuals for salvation He's
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Speaker 6: making a people for his glory, and part of being
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Speaker 6: that is gathering in a local church's expression of that
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Speaker 6: on earth.
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Speaker 2: When I was a much younger man, and I don't
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Speaker 2: know that I've told the story in all of my
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Speaker 2: years on radio. I don't know that I've ever told
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Speaker 2: the story. But I was when I was much younger.
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Speaker 2: I was right out of Bible college, early, married too early,
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Speaker 2: too foolishly, a little lacking in wisdom in terms of life.
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Speaker 2: After about six years, the woman I was married to
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Speaker 2: at the time realized I was lacking in judgment and
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Speaker 2: experience and giving her the things that she wanted in
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Speaker 2: terms of a lifestyle, and basically more or less abandoned
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Speaker 2: me and what I was doing. And as a as
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Speaker 2: a in the city that I was in, the profile
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Speaker 2: that I had within the Christian community. That was a
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Speaker 2: that was a really hard thing to go through. It
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Speaker 2: was punitively painful in so many ways. And I don't
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Speaker 2: say this to make myself appear to be super spiritual
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Speaker 2: or anything. I cursed at God. I got angry. I
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Speaker 2: went to my pastor's house and I cursed at him.
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Speaker 2: I said, how why can this be possible? Because it
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Speaker 2: doesn't just affect me emotionally. It just didn't affect my
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Speaker 2: circle of friends and the people that I knew. It
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Speaker 2: affected my ability to earn a living, my ability to
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Speaker 2: be on a Christian radio station at the time, my
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Speaker 2: ability to speak publicly about my faith. There were so
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Speaker 2: many things that it handicapped and I did have to
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Speaker 2: work through this. And what's going to happen to me?
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Speaker 2: Will the Lord be my light in my salvation? What
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Speaker 2: about in this moment? Everything else that I've been told
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Speaker 2: is kind of Sunday School compared to this. Now, God,
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Speaker 2: can you do this? And I didn't tell anybody that
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Speaker 2: I was doing it, but I started going to a
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Speaker 2: different church in the middle of the week. They had
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Speaker 2: services on Wednesday and Thursday night that were really for believers.
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Speaker 2: They kind of used their weekend services to talk to
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Speaker 2: non believers, but they had these extended hours, almost full
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Speaker 2: hours of worship before the message on Wednesday and Thursday night.
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Speaker 2: And I will just say that that being anonymous, going
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Speaker 2: and sitting in the midst of a thousand people that
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Speaker 2: didn't know who I was and wasn't familiar with my situation,
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Speaker 2: but just being with them, worshiping with them, putting my
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Speaker 2: focus on God and ultimately what the good things were
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Speaker 2: that He had brought me. And not to undermine this,
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Speaker 2: but to reinforce it that he just so happened to
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Speaker 2: have a series of sermons lined up for me on
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Speaker 2: those weeks that I was at that other church that
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Speaker 2: just kind of, you know, hit the nail right on
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Speaker 2: the head. And I think about if I had not
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Speaker 2: if I had not gone, if I had not run
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Speaker 2: to the place, and it got to be an addictive thing. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: It's like I could not miss mid midweek church, like
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Speaker 2: I needed to be there. And you know, looking back
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Speaker 2: on that that was one hundred and fifty five years ago,
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Speaker 2: and to see the family that He's blessed me with
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Speaker 2: and the ways that it has all gone in a
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Speaker 2: completely different direction. But knowing that there was that beauty
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Speaker 2: in the House of the Lord, knowing that there was
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Speaker 2: this important interaction that I needed with him through that experience,
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Speaker 2: I see what this psalmist is saying here, and friends,
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Speaker 2: if you're listening and you're saying, hey, I'm smack in
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Speaker 2: the middle of it, you are my old pastor. Ray
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Speaker 2: Prichard says, all the time, you're in one of three
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Speaker 2: places you are in the middle of a crisis, you
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Speaker 2: have just come out of one, or get ready, brother,
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Speaker 2: you're about to enter one. And at some point in
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Speaker 2: life these things are going to come back to be
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Speaker 2: very practical. And Ryan, we've barely scratched the serface and
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Speaker 2: we're out of time, so we'll have to continue tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Thank you as always.
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Speaker 3: Thanks you got it.
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Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough coming right back. Don't go anywhere, stick.
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Speaker 7: Around for more than Kevin next time.
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Speaker 1: Here he is from New York. Ken Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Times Square, Kevin McCullough, that Kevin Show, that
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Speaker 2: kevinshow dot com. We've even got these nifty mugs that
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Speaker 2: say it so and should check them out. I'm always
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Speaker 2: pleased to have really knowledgeable people on the show that
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Speaker 2: can advance the discussion beyond my mere opinion or frame
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Speaker 2: of reference. And Lieutenant Colonel Allen West is one of
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Speaker 2: those people that I always when he's talking in whatever
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Speaker 2: room he's in, I always like, get a lot more
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Speaker 2: quiet because I want to listen a lot more carefully.
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Speaker 2: You're kind of like my own personal ef hut.
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Speaker 3: And Colonel West, we're dating ourselves.
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Speaker 2: Well. Thanks for coming back. It's been a minute since
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Speaker 2: you've been with us, and there's so much I want
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Speaker 2: to talk to you about, starting with where we are
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Speaker 2: with Iran and what your feelings are about how maybe
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Speaker 2: what Trump is facing there is different than what Bush
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Speaker 2: faced in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in some ways no
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Speaker 2: president has really had the courage to try to take
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Speaker 2: it on, but it continues to be a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a foil for him.
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Speaker 8: Well, I will put it in a frame of reference.
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Speaker 8: I came on active duty on the thirtieth of October
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Speaker 8: nineteen eighty three. That was seven days after the Beiru
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Speaker 8: Barracks bombing of twenty third of October nineteen eighty three.
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Speaker 8: So Iran has always been there in my military career,
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Speaker 8: to include the trips that I had over to Iraq
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Speaker 8: and Afghanistan and dealing with those Iranian agents that were
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Speaker 8: there on the ground as well as some of those
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Speaker 8: explosive force penetrators very deadly ied. So when you look
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Speaker 8: at this nation that's been a thorn in the side
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Speaker 8: of America for going on fifty years, has been a
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Speaker 8: pariah in that region and the number one sponsor of
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Speaker 8: Islami terrorism, you have to tip your hat to President Trump.
22:56
Speaker 8: Finally we have a president that's done something. But one
23:00
Speaker 8: of the problems we have is that we're trying to
23:02
Speaker 8: project our own perspective or our western rose colored glasses
23:07
Speaker 8: on a totalitarian theocratic regime that everything about them is
23:12
Speaker 8: rooted in their theocrisy, their belief that there's a return
23:16
Speaker 8: of this hidden emm the Mahdi, the twelfth e mom
23:20
Speaker 8: and so what they are pursuing is that global domination.
23:23
Speaker 8: And what we have to realize is that they don't understand.
23:27
Speaker 8: They don't see you sitting down and talking and coming
23:31
Speaker 8: to resolutions day regard and respect, strength and might. You
23:34
Speaker 8: have to give it to President Trump for trying to
23:36
Speaker 8: show grace, but in the end, you have to do
23:38
Speaker 8: everything possible to eliminate the existence of this regime, to
23:43
Speaker 8: cut off its ability to hold that region hostage, and
23:47
Speaker 8: also to make sure that we open up the flow
23:50
Speaker 8: of resources and the straits there and horrormones and also
23:54
Speaker 8: Bob Alamandab We've done great things tactically, I think strategically
23:58
Speaker 8: we could do a lot better, but at least we
24:01
Speaker 8: are taking Iran on.
24:02
Speaker 2: Finally, do you think because at some point and even
24:06
Speaker 2: in this last weekend where they said they wanted they
24:09
Speaker 2: were begging for talks, and then he grants them, and
24:13
Speaker 2: then they're like, we didn't ask for talks. Every time
24:16
Speaker 2: they come out of like one of these cycles, and
24:18
Speaker 2: we've now seen it five or six times in the
24:20
Speaker 2: last few months, it seems like they come back with
24:23
Speaker 2: some kinetic act activity, still trying to assert some degree
24:29
Speaker 2: of force. I know that we have continued to take
24:33
Speaker 2: out just about every launchpad that we are aware of,
24:36
Speaker 2: and so forth. They're trying to project power that they're
24:39
Speaker 2: still in charge of the straight upward moves, the President
24:41
Speaker 2: saying clearly we are, and our blockade is really what
24:46
Speaker 2: people answer to, or he called it the Wall of
24:48
Speaker 2: Steel or something like that. Who's really winning the kinetic battle?
24:52
Speaker 2: And from a military standpoint, do you think they have
24:55
Speaker 2: many options left? What do they have left to shoot
24:58
Speaker 2: back with?
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Speaker 8: Well, I think without a doubt that Iran is weakened,
25:02
Speaker 8: but they're not defeated. And I believe that they do
25:05
Speaker 8: still have some stockpile of ballistic missiles thanks to eighteen
25:08
Speaker 8: billion dollars that was given to them because of the
25:11
Speaker 8: Obama and also Bid administrations, which was Obama's third administration.
25:16
Speaker 8: But when I look at this from a strategic perspective,
25:20
Speaker 8: I think it's so important that we do what is
25:22
Speaker 8: necessary to secure the straits of her Moves. Iran has
25:26
Speaker 8: a very decentralized command and control system. I mean, you
25:30
Speaker 8: can decapitate them at the head there in Tehran, but
25:33
Speaker 8: the Iranan Revolutionary Guard Corps, they're the ones that are
25:36
Speaker 8: operating kind of independently, and I think it's so important
25:39
Speaker 8: that they're in the bondhar Abbas region and the Keshum
25:43
Speaker 8: Island which is there around the Straits of Her Moves.
25:47
Speaker 8: We should do what is necessary to seize that and
25:49
Speaker 8: make sure that we eliminate any type of missile threat
25:52
Speaker 8: and also a small boat naval threat that they still
25:56
Speaker 8: may have. I think another thing that we need to
25:58
Speaker 8: look at is carg Island. How we can make sure
26:00
Speaker 8: that they do not have any means by which they
26:03
Speaker 8: can have that revenue support or that old and natural
26:06
Speaker 8: gas that keeps them propped up. That's how we can
26:09
Speaker 8: continue to undermine them. I think it's also important that
26:12
Speaker 8: old school go back to the leaflet drops, and because
26:16
Speaker 8: we've got to win the information operation war.
26:19
Speaker 2: How important is it to the Iranian mind that the
26:22
Speaker 2: Saudis are willing to work with the Americans in kind
26:26
Speaker 2: of joint kinetic activity.
26:28
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's very important.
26:29
Speaker 8: I think that it is important we want to see
26:31
Speaker 8: a lasting piece and also economic prosperity in that Middle
26:35
Speaker 8: East region that you see people such as Saudi Arabia
26:39
Speaker 8: and the United Arab Emmers. And I have to give
26:41
Speaker 8: a hat tip off to the UAE for taking themselves
26:45
Speaker 8: out of Opek. I think that was a huge step
26:47
Speaker 8: for them. But without a doubt, you need to see
26:50
Speaker 8: more of these people aligning against Iran. I don't trust
26:52
Speaker 8: Cutter one Ounce or Turkey because after Iran, they are
26:58
Speaker 8: the number two and number three supporters of of Islamic terrorism.
27:01
Speaker 8: So of anything, they will try to keep Iran propped
27:04
Speaker 8: up or in the worst case scenario, just replace what
27:07
Speaker 8: they are doing.
27:08
Speaker 3: So I think it's really important.
27:10
Speaker 8: That we get that buy in from those countries and
27:13
Speaker 8: even Oman to be able to have them protect that
27:17
Speaker 8: portion of the Straits of all moves that under their responsibility.
27:21
Speaker 8: And that's why I think it's so important, Kevin, we
27:23
Speaker 8: really need a national security advisor. I know that you
27:26
Speaker 8: know everyone is saying that that is an additional responsibility
27:30
Speaker 8: of Marco Rubio. That's not a position that you see
27:33
Speaker 8: as a supplemental position, especially when you have a Secretary
27:37
Speaker 8: of State that is a primary that's a cabinet level position.
27:40
Speaker 8: But we need to have a national security advisor that
27:42
Speaker 8: is really honed in on all of these issues.
27:45
Speaker 2: Very interesting. Colonel Allen West is my guest. We've got
27:48
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28:08
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28:16
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28:35
Speaker 2: So is my guest, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. Maybe not daily,
28:38
Speaker 2: but he's a regular featured columnist at town Hall, and
28:42
Speaker 2: Colonel I always learned stuff from reading your columns and
28:45
Speaker 2: I appreciate you doing it. I want to talk about
28:48
Speaker 2: voter integrity, and I want to talk about what I
28:53
Speaker 2: was kind of hoping would come out of the Supreme
28:55
Speaker 2: Court they didn't, which was this idea that we could
28:58
Speaker 2: define election day as day. I'm still hopeful that the
29:01
Speaker 2: Save America Act has life, though it needs the smallest
29:06
Speaker 2: lift it's been touted to need yet if you just
29:10
Speaker 2: get a reconciliation bill passed, and also the fact that
29:14
Speaker 2: we still have some significant primaries that are kind of
29:17
Speaker 2: closing out the primary cycle. Here, we're going into the
29:20
Speaker 2: tail end of summer, so you know, Labor Day, general
29:23
Speaker 2: election is on, We're going to be ready to go.
29:26
Speaker 2: What do you think, as a former prominent candidate, yourself
29:30
Speaker 2: and so forth, how do you feel about where Republicans
29:33
Speaker 2: are sitting right now when it comes to what they're
29:36
Speaker 2: seeing in November and what needs to happen between now
29:38
Speaker 2: and then.
29:39
Speaker 8: Well, one of the things I want Republicans not do
29:42
Speaker 8: is just take things for granted, and you know, continue
29:45
Speaker 8: to say, with these guys over here, Marxist communists or whatever,
29:48
Speaker 8: you have to be able to define that, and you
29:50
Speaker 8: also have to be able to talk about what you're ford,
29:52
Speaker 8: not just what you're against without a doubt I think
29:55
Speaker 8: that you do see a little bit of a win
29:57
Speaker 8: behind Republicans going into this election cycle, unlike what we
30:01
Speaker 8: saw in President Trump's first term when he did lose
30:04
Speaker 8: the House and the Senate that really put his agenda
30:06
Speaker 8: on hole. But when you talked about to Save America Act,
30:10
Speaker 8: I mean this is a critical thing. We've got Republicans
30:13
Speaker 8: in charge in the Senate. They should stay there in Washington,
30:17
Speaker 8: d c. And get this done.
30:18
Speaker 3: Eighty to eighty.
30:19
Speaker 8: One percent of Americans agree with people being able to
30:22
Speaker 8: show a picture ID when they go to go to
30:26
Speaker 8: vote or to run.
30:27
Speaker 2: And that includes seventy five to eighty five percent of Democrats. Like,
30:31
Speaker 2: we're not talking about just a Republican or right wing
30:34
Speaker 2: pet project. This is a true American win for everybody.
30:38
Speaker 8: Yes, And I think they need to get that across
30:40
Speaker 8: the finish line to make sure and to say that
30:43
Speaker 8: we are the party to stand for integrity in our
30:45
Speaker 8: electoral process and our elections as opposed to what you
30:49
Speaker 8: see from the other side. And that's one of the
30:51
Speaker 8: reasons why they want tens of millions of people to
30:53
Speaker 8: come into this country illegally, and of course they still
30:56
Speaker 8: want open borders. So I think it's really important that
30:59
Speaker 8: Republicans lay out their policy agenda, and they all have
31:03
Speaker 8: to get on the same sheet of music. And if
31:05
Speaker 8: there's one thing, Kevin, I've always said that the left
31:08
Speaker 8: does very well.
31:09
Speaker 3: They are like the board from Star Trek.
31:11
Speaker 8: They all say the exact same thing at the exact
31:14
Speaker 8: same time. When Mom Donnie talks about, you know, the
31:17
Speaker 8: warmth of collectivism, they all hug together and they just you.
31:20
Speaker 3: Know, kumbaya.
31:22
Speaker 8: When Republicans can't get on that same sheet of music,
31:24
Speaker 8: they have to be able to have that concerted message
31:27
Speaker 8: going forth. I don't care about you know, this for America,
31:31
Speaker 8: that for America, but just be able to talk to
31:34
Speaker 8: the everyday American citizen about what is going on, safety
31:37
Speaker 8: and security, economic policy making. Sure, don't let the Democrats
31:41
Speaker 8: take this affordability word, because all that means they want
31:45
Speaker 8: government control grocery stores, government control housing, cars, what have you.
31:50
Speaker 8: That's that's not what the American people want.
31:52
Speaker 2: There's some remnant of the Democratic Party that's paying attention
31:55
Speaker 2: and understands that what this guy in Michigan and may
31:58
Speaker 2: Or Mamdanni in New York and are offering our bad,
32:01
Speaker 2: bad deals.
32:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
32:03
Speaker 8: But I will tell you that I think that when
32:06
Speaker 8: you look at Schumer or some of these others, look,
32:09
Speaker 8: they have always talked about open borders. They didn't say
32:12
Speaker 8: anything when Joe Biden had the borders wide open and
32:16
Speaker 8: was in the Alejandro Majorgus was coming up there and
32:19
Speaker 8: saying the border was secure, they kept their mouth shut.
32:21
Speaker 3: You can go back to two thousand.
32:22
Speaker 8: And eight when Barack Obama talked about fundamentally transforming the
32:25
Speaker 8: United States of America. I think that right now in
32:28
Speaker 8: the Democratic Party, they're just upset because these people are
32:31
Speaker 8: not covertly trying to be Marxists and socialists in communists.
32:35
Speaker 8: They're overtly coming out and saying it, and they're going
32:38
Speaker 8: out and winning in these primaries. But I think that
32:42
Speaker 8: what is happening is that you see people that are saying,
32:45
Speaker 8: in the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our nation,
32:49
Speaker 8: we have people that are running on destroying our nation,
32:52
Speaker 8: that hate our nation, undermining our constitution, Article one, Article two,
32:56
Speaker 8: Article three.
32:57
Speaker 3: All of these things.
32:59
Speaker 8: So I think that that is what so many people
33:01
Speaker 8: to include, you know, soft democrats. You still have some
33:05
Speaker 8: conservative blue dog Democrats out there. Definitely, independence, we're saying
33:08
Speaker 8: we don't want to have a part of this, not
33:11
Speaker 8: in this celebratory year for our nation. So I think
33:14
Speaker 8: that's the conundrum that you see happening. And the fact that,
33:18
Speaker 8: you know, the Democrat party itself has allowed the DSA
33:21
Speaker 8: to come in and be a parasite within their party
33:24
Speaker 8: and leverage their resources to be in their primaries and winning,
33:28
Speaker 8: that's something that is tearing them apart.
33:30
Speaker 2: But Colonel, if you don't stand for anything, what difference
33:32
Speaker 2: does it make if they come in and disagree with
33:34
Speaker 2: you on a few items. I mean, that's kind of
33:36
Speaker 2: been like, it's really interesting because my kids are all
33:39
Speaker 2: getting to the age now where they're starting to connect
33:41
Speaker 2: dots and they're starting to ask questions about public policy
33:44
Speaker 2: and our faith is a Christian family and so forth,
33:46
Speaker 2: And you know, my sixteen year old few weeks back goes, huh.
33:51
Speaker 2: So the party that doesn't believe that the Imago day
33:54
Speaker 2: is stamped on the human cell and that the God
33:57
Speaker 2: didn't create you know, the human people, they're the ones
33:59
Speaker 2: that are okay with you know, transifying kids and chopping
34:03
Speaker 2: off body parts and doing all this stuff. For clear minded,
34:07
Speaker 2: logical people, the connection is easy if you live and
34:11
Speaker 2: lead a godless existence. You're gonna stand for whatever pleases
34:16
Speaker 2: you and makes you happy, and you know, drives everybody
34:19
Speaker 2: else into the ground because you don't care. It's the
34:22
Speaker 2: challenge is that the founders, as we've had a chance
34:25
Speaker 2: to highlight kind of for the public this year, actually
34:27
Speaker 2: cared about God and what he had to say about
34:30
Speaker 2: human beings and life and what we do from there.
34:33
Speaker 2: And so it's when the war's not going great, the
34:37
Speaker 2: gas pumps don't look good, I'm still hopeful that they're
34:41
Speaker 2: in such a disarray on the other side that I
34:43
Speaker 2: feel like I could write the commercials, but I hope
34:46
Speaker 2: that the people on our site could get out and
34:48
Speaker 2: campaign with the vigor that they need to because we
34:50
Speaker 2: really are within just a few votes of losing the nation.
34:53
Speaker 8: In larger sense, You're absolutely right, and I think that
34:56
Speaker 8: when you talk about writing a commercial, and first of all,
34:59
Speaker 8: people have to get out to vote. I mean, you know,
35:02
Speaker 8: Christians are not very good at getting out to vote,
35:04
Speaker 8: even veterans and even some gunnowners and hunters I mean
35:07
Speaker 8: Ted Crew, I mean Ted NuGen is very big on that.
35:10
Speaker 3: But if I would take one.
35:12
Speaker 8: Quote to make a commercial advertisement is that quote from
35:15
Speaker 8: Zoramam Donnie's innaugural speech when he said, We'll replace the
35:19
Speaker 8: frigidity of rugged individualism.
35:21
Speaker 3: With's the warmth of collectivism.
35:23
Speaker 8: And I would just go and have a commercial that
35:26
Speaker 8: shows the rugged individualism of Americans over the past two
35:30
Speaker 8: hundred and fifty years and to remind people about who
35:33
Speaker 8: we are and what we stand for.
35:34
Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt versus Lennon, I think Teddy wins every.
35:38
Speaker 3: I think Teddy wins absolutely.
35:39
Speaker 2: Colonel out of time, So good to see you.
35:42
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming back, my pleasure, Thanks for having me.
35:44
Speaker 2: Keny, got it. Kevin mccullach, coming right back.
35:46
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36:02
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36:06
Speaker 2: It's that the show, all right. Kevin McCollough, welcome back.
36:11
Speaker 2: Have you ever had a boss that you just really
36:15
Speaker 2: did enjoy working for and you wanted to spare anybody
36:19
Speaker 2: else from ever having the same dilemma or problem that
36:23
Speaker 2: that that experience was for you? Well, on Capitol Hill,
36:28
Speaker 2: and I'm just looking at this, there's a new app
36:31
Speaker 2: that Capitol Hill staffers, which are typically young people that
36:36
Speaker 2: are fresh out of college. They're just getting started. They're
36:39
Speaker 2: trying to work for you know, senators and congressmen and
36:42
Speaker 2: get some experience so that they can, you know, pursue
36:45
Speaker 2: a life of their own in public policy. But they
36:49
Speaker 2: normally in the past have just relied on like private
36:52
Speaker 2: conversations about Hey, did you work for Senator so and
36:54
Speaker 2: so and yeah he always had bad breath or he
36:57
Speaker 2: got handsy with the girls, or you know whatever, whatever
37:00
Speaker 2: it is that they're trying to find out from the
37:02
Speaker 2: staff members before they go and apply for jobs. For
37:05
Speaker 2: these people, well, evidently there's this new app called Capital
37:09
Speaker 2: cnct Connect I guess is how you pronounce it, and
37:14
Speaker 2: Capital Connect is a program designed to centralize resources for
37:18
Speaker 2: congressional staffers, and it launched in July a new tool
37:22
Speaker 2: called the Scoop, where verified staffers can share anonymous, but
37:27
Speaker 2: verified reviews of the offices where they're employed. Former staffer
37:32
Speaker 2: David Tennant telling Fox News that the Scoop helps to
37:37
Speaker 2: modernize the experience for young people working in congressional offices.
37:40
Speaker 2: He said the idea of new ranking system emerged due
37:43
Speaker 2: to growing frustration with the number of bad bosses and
37:47
Speaker 2: toxic offices in the halls of Congress. If you ever
37:50
Speaker 2: saw anything written about Kamala Harris, you saw that everybody
37:55
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37:58
Speaker 2: she was terrible. She burned people out, like she'd go
38:01
Speaker 2: through staffers faster than you know. My uncle could go
38:05
Speaker 2: through a plate of pancakes at Denny's like he was
38:07
Speaker 2: and he could do that pretty quick. It was. It
38:10
Speaker 2: was disturbing to see. Well, now they have this tool
38:14
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38:17
Speaker 2: what do you do for the offices that have really
38:20
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38:22
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38:25
Speaker 2: Maybe it'll help create better behavior. Now, if I could
38:28
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38:30
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42:32
Speaker 2: right there. That's just silliness. If you don't know what
42:34
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42:37
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42:40
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42:43
Speaker 2: how you doing. Glad you're here. It's a Tuesday. We've
42:45
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42:52
Speaker 2: Super Bowl winning MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers made some statements
43:00
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43:03
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46:31
Speaker 2: All right, So, yesterday, all Pro Super Bowl Champion, all
46:40
Speaker 2: time great quarterback Aaron Rodgers did a segment on ESPN,
46:45
Speaker 2: and he got people really worked up on both sides
46:49
Speaker 2: of the Anthony Fauci debate. People got angry at ESPN
46:54
Speaker 2: for allowing Rogers on the air at all, others because
46:58
Speaker 2: he was steered away from discussing the Diana Russini and
47:01
Speaker 2: Mike Brabel scandal on air. Some people defended him for
47:06
Speaker 2: calling out Fauci for pleading the fifth one hundred and
47:08
Speaker 2: eleven times during recent Senate hearings, and others attacked him
47:13
Speaker 2: for lying about his COVID nineteen vaccine status or otherwise
47:16
Speaker 2: just not agreeing with their viewpoint. The segment happened on
47:20
Speaker 2: the Pat McAfee Show, and the issue became so fiery
47:25
Speaker 2: on social media that the Steelers ended up having to
47:28
Speaker 2: address the situation publicly. The club is defending Rogers in
47:33
Speaker 2: his right to voice his opinion. This is what Bert Laughton,
47:37
Speaker 2: Steeler spokesman said in a statement to the media. Discussions
47:40
Speaker 2: around culture and politics can bring different perspectives, and our
47:43
Speaker 2: players are entitled to their own personal views. Wow. Love that.
47:48
Speaker 2: Thank you Pittsburgh Steelers for letting your quarterback have his
47:50
Speaker 2: own opinion. He went on to say, with respect to that,
47:54
Speaker 2: I'm certain there are a variety of opinions on many
47:56
Speaker 2: topics within our locker room. It appears the Steelers believe
48:00
Speaker 2: that people, including their players, have a right to their
48:02
Speaker 2: own opinions. Imagine that as if the Steelers are located
48:05
Speaker 2: in America or something and have read the US Constitution.
48:09
Speaker 2: But it's crazy how small minded the people have gotten
48:16
Speaker 2: that were so adamant about the jab, about Fauci, about
48:24
Speaker 2: all this stuff, that there's still adamant now that you're
48:28
Speaker 2: not allowed to go back or say that anything that
48:31
Speaker 2: was done was wrong. You certainly are not allowed to
48:35
Speaker 2: blame Fauci, even though he lied over and over and
48:39
Speaker 2: over again. This time he was smart enough to go
48:42
Speaker 2: and say, I pleaded the fifth and he did it eleven,
48:44
Speaker 2: one hundred and eleven times. But before he would sit
48:47
Speaker 2: there and opine and talk about how Ran Paul didn't
48:50
Speaker 2: know anything, and how even though he was a medical doctor,
48:53
Speaker 2: he couldn't possibly fathom the science that Fauci was talking
48:57
Speaker 2: about and all, and it was all it was all bubcus,
49:00
Speaker 2: it was all not true. It was all just you know,
49:04
Speaker 2: a sad, sad, sad man lying his way to what
49:08
Speaker 2: ended up being about thirty million dollars in wealth, because somehow,
49:13
Speaker 2: when he came out of the COVID nightmare and everybody
49:18
Speaker 2: else had lost money, and everybody else had gone backwards financially.
49:22
Speaker 2: Somehow Anthony Fauci had thirty million dollars in his bank account.
49:28
Speaker 2: He's never explained that. He's never told us how he
49:31
Speaker 2: did it. I would be interested in knowing. So with
49:35
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers' appearance this week, the club is sticking to
49:39
Speaker 2: its practice of acknowledging viral public reaction, defending its players
49:44
Speaker 2: to an opinion, and not really taking a side. But
49:49
Speaker 2: this is an interesting day today because we've got these
49:54
Speaker 2: situations where the free speech should be used, should be utilized,
50:04
Speaker 2: and if you're running for governor of Wisconsin and you
50:06
Speaker 2: say something patently absurd, you should be held accountable for it.
50:10
Speaker 2: And I don't think Aaron Rodgers is sitting there going, oh,
50:12
Speaker 2: these people were mean to me. I'm not gonna I'm
50:14
Speaker 2: not gonna ever say anything out loud again. He'll probably
50:16
Speaker 2: be more emboldened by this because he knows his team
50:20
Speaker 2: is not going to try to knife him for saying
50:24
Speaker 2: something that might be quasi controversial. Kevin McCullough, you want
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50:55
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Speaker 1: He is from New York. That Kevin. Kevin McCullough.
51:04
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. It is Tuesday. I'm so glad
51:07
Speaker 2: to be back for vacation. I love being away on vacation,
51:10
Speaker 2: but I love being back because I miss having great
51:12
Speaker 2: conversations with people like Katie McFarlane and kt my family
51:17
Speaker 2: and I. We didn't think about any of you guys
51:18
Speaker 2: last week. We were just down the shore at Kate
51:20
Speaker 2: May and I didn't even turn on And you've known
51:24
Speaker 2: me for a really long time, You're going to be
51:25
Speaker 2: amazed at this. I didn't turn on Fox News once
51:29
Speaker 2: in the hotel in the entire week we were there,
51:31
Speaker 2: not once. I didn't turn it on once. Pretty impressive.
51:34
Speaker 4: Well, you weren't watching CNN, were you.
51:36
Speaker 2: No, I didn't turn on any cable news. I had
51:39
Speaker 2: a few alerts coming on my phone, but other than that,
51:41
Speaker 2: I was really good. I tried to just be very
51:43
Speaker 2: present with everybody that was in the room.
51:46
Speaker 4: It's I think that's very healthy, is to take a
51:48
Speaker 4: mental break from all the chaos of our times.
51:51
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, speaking of chaos, something we haven't talked about
51:54
Speaker 2: in a long time has been the Gaza situation. And
51:58
Speaker 2: there's now a peace plan that has been proposed. It
52:02
Speaker 2: is conditions based. There's some you know, you got to
52:06
Speaker 2: give up your weapons stuff in there. There's some speculation
52:09
Speaker 2: over whether or not Hamas will actually do it. But
52:11
Speaker 2: your first reading of it, what do you think about
52:14
Speaker 2: it so far?
52:15
Speaker 4: I think it's great. And you know, if we'd had
52:17
Speaker 4: this conversation two years ago to say we would actually
52:20
Speaker 4: have the cessation of fighting in Gaza, that there would
52:23
Speaker 4: be a peace plan that the Arab world and everybody
52:26
Speaker 4: in the world, including the UN and signed on to,
52:28
Speaker 4: including Hamas has signed on too, you would have laughed.
52:33
Speaker 4: And then if we had said a year ago, when
52:34
Speaker 4: they were getting the negotiation going and getting the twenty
52:38
Speaker 4: point piece plan that would actually start working, we would
52:41
Speaker 4: have laughed again.
52:42
Speaker 3: But it is working now.
52:43
Speaker 4: Slowly, it's working, but there's an international body and it's
52:47
Speaker 4: particularly being driven by Turkey and Egypt and the golf
52:51
Speaker 4: Arabs to to monitor it to make sure that Hamas
52:56
Speaker 4: is abiding by the terms of it. As you point out,
52:58
Speaker 4: it's condition space, so Hamas has to disarm and has
53:02
Speaker 4: to turn over you know, small arms and then heavier arms,
53:06
Speaker 4: and it has to reveal where the tunnels are there's
53:08
Speaker 4: sort of a sequence of events that Hamas has to
53:12
Speaker 4: do before they're given amnesty. So I'm confident that that,
53:16
Speaker 4: you know, there'll be glitches, of course they'll be glitches,
53:18
Speaker 4: but the general direction is positive. So I'm very reassured
53:23
Speaker 4: that this in fact has the ability to change the
53:27
Speaker 4: Middle East. And we've been talking about, you know, Palestinian
53:31
Speaker 4: is really fighting that going back to when I first
53:34
Speaker 4: started in this business forty five fifty years ago. And
53:36
Speaker 4: if we can now have a situation where the Palestinians
53:40
Speaker 4: in Israel are largely at peace, not enforced by US,
53:45
Speaker 4: but verified by US, and not paid for by US,
53:49
Speaker 4: but paid for by the countries in the region, I
53:51
Speaker 4: think it's a huge development.
53:53
Speaker 2: When we last spoke, we were on the verge, or
53:57
Speaker 2: the President had said that Saudi Arabia was on the
54:00
Speaker 2: verge of joining the Abraham Accords. Does such talk, even
54:07
Speaker 2: if it hasn't happened yet, but does such talk send
54:11
Speaker 2: the message to the bad guys in places like Gaza
54:14
Speaker 2: that their days truly are numbered, that they're not going
54:16
Speaker 2: to have a foundation of support region wide, and that
54:20
Speaker 2: it's in everybody's best interest to learn how to get along.
54:23
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think they care about getting along, and
54:25
Speaker 4: they're perfectly happy to I mean Hamas, for example, the
54:28
Speaker 4: i erg Se and Irun are perfectly happy to sacrifice
54:31
Speaker 4: the you know, millions of people under their jurisdiction for
54:35
Speaker 4: their cause. So how do you deal with people like that,
54:37
Speaker 4: who don't want a deal, who will sabotage any deal,
54:40
Speaker 4: who won't make a deal. Will you deprive them of
54:43
Speaker 4: the There are two ways. There's at Chinese proverb kevin
54:47
Speaker 4: and it's how do you kill a snake? Well, you
54:49
Speaker 4: can starve a snake or you can cut off his head.
54:51
Speaker 4: But if you go to cut off his head, a
54:53
Speaker 4: lot could happen. You know, he could snap back at you,
54:55
Speaker 4: things could go wrong. Starving a snake in a cage
54:58
Speaker 4: is much more effective. He dies either way, but the
55:01
Speaker 4: starving the snake is of much less risk to you.
55:04
Speaker 4: So starving Hamas because they're not getting any funds, Starving
55:09
Speaker 4: the iyer as you see at Iran because they're not
55:11
Speaker 4: getting any funds. And if they don't get any funds,
55:13
Speaker 4: they can't give them off to Hamas or any of
55:15
Speaker 4: the terrorist proxy groups. It takes longer. It's not as
55:19
Speaker 4: sort of emotionally fulfilling because you don't have a surrender ceremony,
55:23
Speaker 4: But in the end it's just as effective. And I
55:25
Speaker 4: think that's what's happening, and that's why the Iran going
55:29
Speaker 4: back and forth. We're negotiating, we're not negotiating. There's a ceasefire,
55:32
Speaker 4: there's not a ceasefire. I'm less concerned with the day
55:36
Speaker 4: to day story of that than I am of the
55:38
Speaker 4: big picture. And the big picture is Iran, who's had
55:41
Speaker 4: no financial or economic relief in months. And even if
55:46
Speaker 4: there's a ceasefire, the blockade has not stopped. Even if
55:49
Speaker 4: there's a ceasefire, the sanctions have not been lifted. So
55:53
Speaker 4: Iran is going an increasingly dire economic situation where inflation
55:58
Speaker 4: is nobody even knows. It's well over one hundred percent,
56:01
Speaker 4: two hundred percent, could even be three hundred percent of
56:03
Speaker 4: certain goods. Their currency has collapsed, they're not paying the
56:07
Speaker 4: IRGC member. So how long can that prevail that kind
56:12
Speaker 4: of an economic situation in Iran? Maybe a long time,
56:14
Speaker 4: but not forever.
56:16
Speaker 2: Let me ask you about some reports I'm seeing in
56:19
Speaker 2: the last few days that say that China may be
56:23
Speaker 2: working covertly to somehow rebolster or help Iran with missiles,
56:31
Speaker 2: maybe going through Pakistan to do it. Do you give
56:33
Speaker 2: any credit to some of these? I mean Fox News
56:35
Speaker 2: has a link up even right now suggesting that an
56:38
Speaker 2: expert has proffered this. But with what you've looked at
56:42
Speaker 2: in terms of China and the situation, do you think
56:45
Speaker 2: it's it's possible.
56:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm not as concerned about it. Why because
56:51
Speaker 4: China hasn't you know, they're no Chinese battleships that it's
56:55
Speaker 4: helping Iran. So is China helping Iran covertly or they
56:58
Speaker 4: sharing intelligence with them? Yeah, I'm sure they're doing that.
57:01
Speaker 4: Are they potentially supplying them with shoulder fired missiles that
57:05
Speaker 4: could take down any ships transitting to straight up formos?
57:10
Speaker 4: Maybe they're going to do that. But at the end
57:12
Speaker 4: of the day, China's all about China. China doesn't care
57:15
Speaker 4: about Iran or the I Orgy SEE or any of
57:17
Speaker 4: those groups. China cares about getting cheap oil, reliable cheap
57:22
Speaker 4: oil and natural gas from somebody, and if it's not
57:25
Speaker 4: going to be the Middle East, they'll try to get
57:26
Speaker 4: it from someplace else. More likely, they're getting increasing amounts
57:30
Speaker 4: of it from Eastern Siberia, from Russia. So I'm not
57:33
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it's a wrinkle in this. First of all,
57:37
Speaker 4: I'm not sure it's a report that's been confirmed. It
57:39
Speaker 4: was originally a Reuter's report sourced from the Middle East.
57:42
Speaker 4: And so I have a big question market player.
57:45
Speaker 2: And that's fair totally.
57:47
Speaker 4: And as President Trump said when he was asked about
57:50
Speaker 4: it last week, he said, oh, I hadn't heard that. Well,
57:53
Speaker 4: I'd be surprised if China's doing that. They told us
57:55
Speaker 4: they weren't going to do stuff like that.
57:57
Speaker 3: In any way, I'm.
57:58
Speaker 4: Eating the Hushing thing in September. So what President Trump
58:02
Speaker 4: has basically said, it's like shooting pain. He has more
58:04
Speaker 4: important stuff to worry about, which is a relationship with
58:06
Speaker 4: the United States. Less important is his relationship with Iran.
58:10
Speaker 2: Quick question on the energy front. I know that our
58:14
Speaker 2: supplies are low. I know that the kind of moving
58:18
Speaker 2: away from a negotiated end to Iran, although they're asking for,
58:22
Speaker 2: you know, negotiations now. Supposedly, how has the Venezuelan factor
58:29
Speaker 2: factored into the US oil supply or the global supply?
58:34
Speaker 2: Are we are we helping relieve can we help relieve
58:38
Speaker 2: some of the pressure by utilizing that oil that we
58:41
Speaker 2: have access to.
58:41
Speaker 4: Now we have access to it. I think Venezuela was
58:45
Speaker 4: the example that President Trump thought would happen if he
58:47
Speaker 4: went into try to topple the top guys in Iran
58:50
Speaker 4: and then you know, the second tier, third tier would
58:52
Speaker 4: cooperate with him. It turned out not to be as easy,
58:56
Speaker 4: not to be as easy at all. And so the
59:00
Speaker 4: example of Venezuela, while it was, you know, alluring, didn't
59:04
Speaker 4: turn out to be the case. But so where we now,
59:07
Speaker 4: I think that that was leaving the energy supply in
59:11
Speaker 4: the world is China's demanding Chinese less energy is cut
59:15
Speaker 4: back by twenty five percent of its energy requirements. Why
59:20
Speaker 4: because they don't need it, because their economy is doing
59:22
Speaker 4: so badly, because they're manufacturing is stalled, so they have
59:26
Speaker 4: less demand. Part of it is that a lot of
59:29
Speaker 4: the demand that was coming out of the Middle East
59:31
Speaker 4: or the supplies are now coming out of America. Our
59:33
Speaker 4: oil exports have increased thirty percent since the Iran war began.
59:39
Speaker 4: I mean they could go even higher if we could
59:41
Speaker 4: only produce more oil quickly enough. The world, which is
59:45
Speaker 4: turning to us to say we're the only reliable supporter
59:48
Speaker 4: supplier of oil and.
59:49
Speaker 2: The least thank you green people Democrats who have blocked
59:52
Speaker 2: the bottlenecked all of our abilities to get it done well.
59:57
Speaker 4: But the trend is that we are derg a lot
1:00:00
Speaker 4: of better or streamlining regulations so that the United States
1:00:04
Speaker 4: can develop our energy more quickly and can export it
1:00:07
Speaker 4: more quickly.
1:00:08
Speaker 2: Well, it'll be interesting to see where all that lands.
1:00:11
Speaker 2: And I'm very hopeful, I continue to be that we
1:00:14
Speaker 2: will have some sort of resolution to this before or
1:00:18
Speaker 2: by labor day. Are you are you hopeful? Are you optimistic?
1:00:21
Speaker 2: I mean, we're in what cycle six now of the hey,
1:00:24
Speaker 2: let's talk periods.
1:00:26
Speaker 4: I think we could be in cycle ten. But if
1:00:29
Speaker 4: the objective reality is that the price of gasoline is
1:00:31
Speaker 4: still under four dollars a gallon, and that's important to Americans.
1:00:35
Speaker 4: The price of oil is I don't know where it
1:00:38
Speaker 4: was today, but about eighty five ninety dollars a barrow
1:00:40
Speaker 4: of the most. The stock market has never been better,
1:00:44
Speaker 4: the economic indicators of confidence and in the US dollar
1:00:47
Speaker 4: and the US long term treasuries never been higher. So
1:00:51
Speaker 4: we're doing really well, and we're doing really well in
1:00:55
Speaker 4: and of ourselves, and certainly compared to Europe, which has
1:00:57
Speaker 4: stagnant economic growth, China, which as I said, is faltering.
1:01:01
Speaker 4: Nobody's doing anything well except the United States. So I'm
1:01:06
Speaker 4: less concerned about a sign on the dotted line signing
1:01:08
Speaker 4: ceremony within the Oval office with the flashbulbs as I am.
1:01:12
Speaker 4: The reality is that we've won this war.
1:01:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and paralyzed the permanent uh you know, pro
1:01:19
Speaker 2: terrorism state into into a situation where they can't do
1:01:22
Speaker 2: that anymore. Katie McFarland. Always appreciate you, Thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 11: Robert of Puria, Arizona, one hundred and fifty dollars gift
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Speaker 11: for thirty Bibles. And let me correct myself, Dorian made
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Speaker 11: a gift actually of five one hundred dollars, filling the
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Speaker 11: empty waiting hands of one hundred believers that we know
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Speaker 11: by name at Bible League and Kevin we've said, together
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Speaker 11: as two ministries, can we bless just north of ten
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Speaker 11: thousand believers with the precious word of God. These are
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Speaker 11: men and women to this point in their walk with
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Speaker 11: the Lord, who have been what denied access to God's Word.
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Speaker 11: But listeners to that Kevin show getting it done, call
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Speaker 11: by call, click by click, we're just north of two thousand.
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Speaker 11: Again our goal just north of ten thousand. And every again,
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Speaker 11: every call, every click gets his what a Bible closer
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Speaker 11: to that goal?
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Speaker 2: A little bit closer? One eight hundred Yes, word is
1:03:51
Speaker 2: the phone number, friend, one eight hundred y E s WRD.
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Speaker 2: You can also very easily give by going to that
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Speaker 2: kevinshow dot com and clicking the manner at the top
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Speaker 2: of the page. You will see an elderly lady there.
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Speaker 2: I think she's probably on the African continent if I'm
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Speaker 2: just guessing, But she is smiling ear to ear. And
1:04:09
Speaker 2: why is she smiling ear to ear? Because she has
1:04:12
Speaker 2: a joy of holding in her hands. I believe you
1:04:14
Speaker 2: can see it in the picture itself, a copy of
1:04:17
Speaker 2: the Bible in her language. Now, Michael, a lot of
1:04:21
Speaker 2: times you know these people in these pictures is this
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Speaker 2: someone you know that you were on a trip with
1:04:28
Speaker 2: or well, yeah.
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Speaker 11: She's on the continent of Africa, as you say, and
1:04:30
Speaker 11: I can tell you she was among a group that
1:04:33
Speaker 11: we provided bibles to. In fact, there were one hundred
1:04:35
Speaker 11: people that we gave bibles to that day. Kevin, I mean,
1:04:38
Speaker 11: when you do it, I've seen the reaction. I wish
1:04:41
Speaker 11: I could bust every lister up and go to those
1:04:44
Speaker 11: places where you see the reaction of a Christian he
1:04:47
Speaker 11: or she finally receives a Bible. But I can remember
1:04:49
Speaker 11: giving a Bible to the former village witch doctor who
1:04:53
Speaker 11: took that Bible again, a lot of those before her,
1:04:56
Speaker 11: they sang, they danced, Remember one galstood they're clutching the
1:05:01
Speaker 11: Bible that would tell her about the God who loves her.
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Speaker 3: Ryan.
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Speaker 11: I mean she didn't say much. But Mabel, this former
1:05:07
Speaker 11: village witch doctor, Kevin, when I gave her that Bible,
1:05:09
Speaker 11: she it was in Swahili. She went to the scripture
1:05:12
Speaker 11: that was her first scripture that she read from Second
1:05:15
Speaker 11: Corinthians five, and it was what I'm a new creation
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Speaker 11: in Christ, the oldest gone, the newest come. And again
1:05:21
Speaker 11: you're in a place where you're singled out, You're targeted,
1:05:23
Speaker 11: you're monitored, you face incredible hardship.
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Speaker 1: What do you need to be able to do?
1:05:27
Speaker 11: Open God's precious word, be reminded that he knows you
1:05:30
Speaker 11: intimately right and He's got precious promises that belong to
1:05:33
Speaker 11: us as believers. Wanted to take you to the country
1:05:36
Speaker 11: of India. Kevin tell you the story of a woman
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Speaker 11: by the name of Lolitha. What Christians are up against
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Speaker 11: in this nation is absolutely horrific. There are anti conversion
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Speaker 11: laws on the books in twenty six states.
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Speaker 6: There.
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Speaker 11: It means what if you tell somebody what Jesus means
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Speaker 11: to you, they can throw you in jail. You've got
1:05:51
Speaker 11: this audio clip from my colleague demand by the name
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Speaker 11: of Subiesh.
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Speaker 2: He's in the nation of India.
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Speaker 12: One of our church plannder. He told me, like in
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Speaker 12: his village, you will see the sign boats Christian missionaries
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Speaker 12: a prohibitor in the village. If anyone stries to do it,
1:06:07
Speaker 12: they would attack them mercilessly. And I believe the reason
1:06:11
Speaker 12: behind all this is the growth of the church. People
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Speaker 12: are responding to the Gospel and are joining the church.
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Speaker 12: Church is growing in India. Emers of the severe persecutions.
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Speaker 11: Well, it's exactly what we pray for, isn't it, that
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Speaker 11: the Gospel would take grip all over the world. So again, listeners,
1:06:28
Speaker 11: your prayers are being answered. I mean, I know that
1:06:31
Speaker 11: in the midst of our business, you know, we do
1:06:33
Speaker 11: pray that people would bend the need to the Lord
1:06:35
Speaker 11: Jesus begin living their lives to his glorying on. And
1:06:38
Speaker 11: what we're telling you today is what that is clearly happening,
1:06:41
Speaker 11: and the incredible growth that we're seeing all this spiritual
1:06:44
Speaker 11: awakening Christians who live nominal lives, you know, waking up
1:06:48
Speaker 11: to the Gospel saying you know what, I want to
1:06:50
Speaker 11: take the Lord seriously. That's what's contributing to this incredible
1:06:54
Speaker 11: Bible of famine that we're seeing around the world. But
1:06:56
Speaker 11: I want to tell you the story of Lolitha born
1:06:58
Speaker 11: in Coastal India, raised a strict Hindu. At fourteen, she
1:07:01
Speaker 11: was forced to marry an older man. She didn't know,
1:07:04
Speaker 11: she didn't love. That happens a lot in that culture.
1:07:07
Speaker 11: This was a man, he was a radicalized Hindu. Didn't
1:07:11
Speaker 11: look at Lalitha as somebody to love and nourish. Was
1:07:13
Speaker 11: really a possession to be had. He was killed in
1:07:16
Speaker 11: an audibile accident, leaving Loalitha a widow in that culture there, Kevin,
1:07:20
Speaker 11: she was forced into human trafficking. The drug car tells
1:07:23
Speaker 11: that are there in India will force young girls into
1:07:27
Speaker 11: the human trafficking rings. They funnel a lot of drugs
1:07:31
Speaker 11: through those. She lived in absolute, utter hopelessness to for
1:07:35
Speaker 11: lack of a better word, I mean, this is a
1:07:36
Speaker 11: woman that was pimped you ten times a day for
1:07:39
Speaker 11: about five years of her life. When she reached her
1:07:42
Speaker 11: late teens, there was somebody that rescued her, brought to
1:07:45
Speaker 11: her place to safety, introduced her to the hope of
1:07:48
Speaker 11: the Gospel, train her to share Christ with others. I
1:07:50
Speaker 11: can tell you, by the grace of God and through
1:07:53
Speaker 11: the gumption of people like Loalitha, the Gospel is going
1:07:57
Speaker 11: forth in India. Now listen, Lilitha's story kind of ends
1:08:00
Speaker 11: in sadness, at least this side of eternity. She died
1:08:03
Speaker 11: of hiv ate, something that was afflicted upon her in
1:08:06
Speaker 11: those years of human trafficking, but not before she was
1:08:10
Speaker 11: able to introduce ninety six former Hindus to the hope
1:08:14
Speaker 11: of the Gospel. So round that up about one hundred
1:08:16
Speaker 11: fellow members of our spiritual family, praying again, not for
1:08:19
Speaker 11: our pity today, not for our protections in a nation
1:08:22
Speaker 11: that fiercely opposes the Gospel. What they're praying for is
1:08:25
Speaker 11: what it is, the precious Word of God in the
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Speaker 11: Hindi language.
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Speaker 2: One eight hundred yes word, one eight hundred yes word.
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Speaker 2: Go to that Kevinshow dot com and click the banner
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Speaker 13: Here he is from New York, Kevin. Kevin McCullough, welcome back.
1:09:08
Speaker 13: It is that Kevin Show, that kevinshow dot com where
1:09:11
Speaker 13: you can get everything you need for the show, and
1:09:13
Speaker 13: we never put it behind a paywall, so you can
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Speaker 13: the radio shows, the TV shows, it's all there, my
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Speaker 13: social media, it's all there.
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Speaker 2: It's in one place. We did that to make it
1:09:27
Speaker 2: easy for you. But here's the catch. I would also
1:09:31
Speaker 2: like you to take a look at that banner at
1:09:33
Speaker 2: the top of the page on the homepage and do
1:09:36
Speaker 2: what you can to help put a Bible into the
1:09:38
Speaker 2: hands of a believer who cannot get one though they desperately,
1:09:42
Speaker 2: desperately want one. And I'm not using that word lightly.
1:09:46
Speaker 2: Desperation has a certain seriousness to it, a certain sobriety
1:09:51
Speaker 2: to it, and the desperation is real. Michael Wilworth is
1:09:54
Speaker 2: back with us from the Bible League, and something that
1:09:57
Speaker 2: we don't talk about, Michael Offen in the West is
1:10:01
Speaker 2: how that every village in these countries where Bible League
1:10:06
Speaker 2: has been working, some of them for eighty nine years,
1:10:08
Speaker 2: they all want and need a local church to help
1:10:14
Speaker 2: further and shepherd them in terms of what they should
1:10:17
Speaker 2: be growing in spiritually. And that's another need that Bible
1:10:20
Speaker 2: League is helping to accomplish through the project. Philip.
1:10:23
Speaker 11: Yeah, and I want to address that. Before I do that,
1:10:25
Speaker 11: let me just say thanks Kevin. Some of these wonderful
1:10:28
Speaker 11: listeners saying, look, we want to be a part of
1:10:29
Speaker 11: this today. Kathleen Elizabeth, Colorado said, count me in at
1:10:33
Speaker 11: seven bibles. Marie of Minneapolis, Minnesota said I want to
1:10:37
Speaker 11: be a part of this a one hundred dollars tax
1:10:38
Speaker 11: deductible gift for twenty Bibles, and then friends in Shepherdsville,
1:10:43
Speaker 11: Kentucky said, we want to be a part of this.
1:10:45
Speaker 11: Count us in at the one hundred and fifty dollars level,
1:10:48
Speaker 11: gift to put Bibles into the waiting hands of thirty
1:10:51
Speaker 11: believers that we know by name at Bible League and Kevin, Yeah,
1:10:54
Speaker 11: we believe every country, every village, every bustling city, what
1:11:00
Speaker 11: a thriving church to be able to disciple of people
1:11:04
Speaker 11: after introducing them to the hope of the Gospel, and
1:11:06
Speaker 11: then to be a beacon to those around them. That's
1:11:09
Speaker 11: certainly true in the bush of Africa. You know, every
1:11:12
Speaker 11: three and a half hours, somewhere in the world, Bible
1:11:14
Speaker 11: League comes alongside a church planner and by the grace
1:11:17
Speaker 11: of God and through the gumption of that church planner
1:11:21
Speaker 11: and a fellow believers, there is a church planet. And again,
1:11:25
Speaker 11: Bible League is there to provide resources to help church
1:11:28
Speaker 11: planners grow their church to the glory of God. Oftentimes
1:11:31
Speaker 11: they're provided without charge, and the reason is so many
1:11:35
Speaker 11: of these churches exist in places where there's extreme poverty.
1:11:38
Speaker 11: When you identify as a believer, you're often denied access
1:11:42
Speaker 11: to services, to jobs, and so it's important that Bible
1:11:45
Speaker 11: League is able to provide those programs without charge. And
1:11:49
Speaker 11: that's where this listening family comes in again. For the
1:11:52
Speaker 11: princely sum of only five dollars a Bible. You're able
1:11:55
Speaker 11: to provide that precious word of God. Let me take
1:11:57
Speaker 11: you to the continent of Africa.
1:11:59
Speaker 2: This is the part of the.
1:11:59
Speaker 11: World where Christianity is growing in the greatest numbers. Kevin,
1:12:02
Speaker 11: you've got this audio clip. The young boy's name is Wendell.
1:12:06
Speaker 11: His family all former animist. If you're an animist, you
1:12:09
Speaker 11: believe what. There's spirits and places and things you pray
1:12:12
Speaker 11: to dead relatives for blessings. Really, no inkling of what
1:12:15
Speaker 11: Christianity is all about, no idea who Jesus is. But again,
1:12:19
Speaker 11: God did something special that Windle is now part of
1:12:23
Speaker 11: a local thriving church and he has this simple plea.
1:12:27
Speaker 2: My name is Wendel and I live in Kenya.
1:12:29
Speaker 4: After that, I learned a Bible versus Sunday School and
1:12:32
Speaker 4: I want to learn more.
1:12:34
Speaker 1: Please send me a Bible today.
1:12:36
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a simple plea from a young Wendell ten
1:12:38
Speaker 11: years of age, part of a Sunday school program. He's
1:12:41
Speaker 11: growing in grace as a young believer.
1:12:44
Speaker 2: Kevin.
1:12:44
Speaker 11: Again, he's praying not for our pity or our protections.
1:12:48
Speaker 11: He's praying for one. It's the precious word of God.
1:12:50
Speaker 11: I want to take you just a few miles from
1:12:53
Speaker 11: where he's at in Kenya to the Massai tribe. Tell
1:12:56
Speaker 11: you about a pastor by the name of William, an
1:12:58
Speaker 11: itinerant pastor. This man will want thirty one miles each way.
1:13:03
Speaker 11: I was looking at my you know, some fitness article, Kevin.
1:13:06
Speaker 11: They tell us to get about ten thousand steps of
1:13:08
Speaker 11: data to you know, to kind of stay on the
1:13:11
Speaker 11: physically fit trail. Thirty one thousand miles each way is
1:13:14
Speaker 11: like one hundred and ten thousand steps. This guy gets
1:13:16
Speaker 11: his fill right. But who's at the end of those
1:13:19
Speaker 11: tracks that he makes, well, it's young people like Anya.
1:13:21
Speaker 11: Anya's story is this fourteen years of age, forced into
1:13:25
Speaker 11: a marriage to an older man she didn't know, she
1:13:28
Speaker 11: didn't love, subjected to again that ritual that happens among
1:13:32
Speaker 11: the Masai tribe, the tallest ethnicity in the world.
1:13:34
Speaker 3: By the way.
1:13:35
Speaker 11: The other thing is a female circumcision. I won't get
1:13:38
Speaker 11: graphic about that other than it say it is painful,
1:13:42
Speaker 11: there's no known health benefits. It's embarrassing. But again it's
1:13:45
Speaker 11: one of those traditions that forced upon a young girls
1:13:49
Speaker 11: like Anya. William introduced Anya to the hope of the gospel.
1:13:53
Speaker 11: She became a believer. But Kevin, the story is not
1:13:56
Speaker 11: in there. She would gather about forty young women, all
1:13:59
Speaker 11: in that same a situation, forced to marry older men
1:14:03
Speaker 11: who didn't know them, who didn't love them. I can
1:14:05
Speaker 11: tell you, by the grace of God, they became believers.
1:14:08
Speaker 11: But Kevin, the story does not in there. It expands
1:14:11
Speaker 11: those women have all leathered husbands to Christ. That Pastor
1:14:15
Speaker 11: Williams said, look, ladies, live your lives to the glory
1:14:18
Speaker 11: of God before your husbands, and let's leave the rest
1:14:21
Speaker 11: up to God. I can tell you again, by the
1:14:24
Speaker 11: grace of the Lord, those husbands have all come to Christ.
1:14:27
Speaker 11: There's forty new couples that want to live their lives
1:14:30
Speaker 11: to the glory of God. Now, Kevin, the story expands
1:14:32
Speaker 11: beyond that. There's about two hundred families, among them a
1:14:36
Speaker 11: side tribe there in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa,
1:14:40
Speaker 11: that have said yes to Jesus. So again, this is
1:14:43
Speaker 11: what we're saying. God's at work in his world right.
1:14:45
Speaker 11: Jesus said, if I be lifted up, I'll draw all
1:14:47
Speaker 11: the nations to myself. We're seeing that happen again. These
1:14:51
Speaker 11: are people that again don't live near a Christian bookstore.
1:14:53
Speaker 11: There's no discount retailer, there's no Amazon dot Com to
1:14:57
Speaker 11: drop a box of Bibles into their village. But listen,
1:15:00
Speaker 11: we are praying that listeners do that Kevin Show today
1:15:03
Speaker 11: will catch a glimpse into what God is doing. And
1:15:05
Speaker 11: like these listeners, I just think we'll say, you know what,
1:15:08
Speaker 11: We've got to be a part of this today.
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Speaker 2: It's so important, friend, and you can make such a
1:15:13
Speaker 2: big difference. And because of those of you that already
1:15:16
Speaker 2: have that, we have close to two thousand Bibles that
1:15:20
Speaker 2: are headed out. And if you've been listening, you also
1:15:25
Speaker 2: know that for the last eighty nine years, the Bible
1:15:27
Speaker 2: League can tell you that about twelve people per Bible
1:15:31
Speaker 2: come to faith in Jesus. I get excited about that personally.
1:15:35
Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask you would you be part
1:15:37
Speaker 2: of that. We have ten thousand names on a list,
1:15:39
Speaker 2: we have about two thousand bibles supplied. We have a
1:15:42
Speaker 2: long way to go. We need your help. Would you
1:15:45
Speaker 2: be willing to step forward and say yes? I will
1:15:48
Speaker 2: make sure that bibles get to those who need them.
1:15:51
Speaker 2: Here's how you do it. One eight hundred yes, word
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Speaker 2: one eight hundred yes word or give it online. It's efficient,
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Speaker 2: it's timely, it's secure. That kevinshow dot com. Click the
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Speaker 2: kevinshow dot com. Click the Bible League banner at the
1:16:12
Speaker 2: top of the page that kevinshow dot com. And for
1:16:15
Speaker 2: every one of you in every location that have given
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Speaker 2: a Bible or more over the last couple of weeks,
1:16:21
Speaker 2: thank you. They're coming in as far away as you know,
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Speaker 2: Arizona and Illinois and Washington State and Florida and Hawaii
1:16:29
Speaker 2: and so forth. You have responded to what God has
1:16:33
Speaker 2: prompted on your heart. That's the most important thing. So
1:16:35
Speaker 2: thank you for doing that. Kevin mccallaugh coming right about.
1:16:39
Speaker 1: Let's stick around for more of that.
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Speaker 7: Kevin next, serving it up with a no drink mental.
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Speaker 1: It's that can show.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back final a few minutes. Not sure
1:17:04
Speaker 2: how I feel about this. You remember a few months ago,
1:17:09
Speaker 2: I believe it was within the last year that Cracker
1:17:13
Speaker 2: Barrel changed everything on the inside of their stores and
1:17:18
Speaker 2: their menu and their logo and everything. And the old
1:17:24
Speaker 2: fellow that was sitting on the porch and the cracker barrel,
1:17:28
Speaker 2: which is not a racist term. They used to actually
1:17:31
Speaker 2: ship crackers and barrels. The very odd thing for people
1:17:37
Speaker 2: to be upset about, because there was no racial connotation
1:17:39
Speaker 2: to any of it at all. But the woke new
1:17:44
Speaker 2: leadership that they had that came on board were all like, oh,
1:17:49
Speaker 2: using euphemisms and using racism and all these kinds of
1:17:52
Speaker 2: things kind of kind of ridiculous, kind of dumb. But
1:17:55
Speaker 2: they kind of got a lot of pushback on that
1:17:58
Speaker 2: and kind of went in a different direction for a while.
1:18:02
Speaker 2: But they're now facing new backlash over some other efforts
1:18:07
Speaker 2: to modernize things. And here's what I don't understand about
1:18:12
Speaker 2: these organizations and why they do this stuff. If it
1:18:15
Speaker 2: ain't broke, what are you trying to fix? Like cracker
1:18:19
Speaker 2: barrel successful country time, culinary experience for people that want
1:18:25
Speaker 2: and you know, you know how I know this is
1:18:27
Speaker 2: true because the World Cup teams they were all like, oh,
1:18:29
Speaker 2: cracker barrel and they were they were eating there, and
1:18:32
Speaker 2: all the players and all the people from other countries
1:18:34
Speaker 2: were like, this is so cool. Well they're they're now
1:18:37
Speaker 2: they're messing with like if the inside decorations and the
1:18:40
Speaker 2: logo were bad, you start messing with the actual menu
1:18:43
Speaker 2: un up in real trouble. And that's what they've done,
1:18:47
Speaker 2: taking something called the Sunrise Sampler off the menu. One
1:18:52
Speaker 2: of the patrons said, reality is that nostalgia matters, and
1:18:55
Speaker 2: when you remove popular items without controlling the narrative or
1:18:58
Speaker 2: managing customers expectations, you're bound to upset us customers. And
1:19:02
Speaker 2: that's really true. But they've removed things like black eyed
1:19:06
Speaker 2: peas as a side dish, which where can you go
1:19:09
Speaker 2: and have really good black eyed peas If you're into
1:19:13
Speaker 2: black eyed peas, Cracker Barrel probably makes the best that
1:19:16
Speaker 2: are out there in terms of food franchises. The chain
1:19:22
Speaker 2: also took away the baked apple dumpling as the perfect
1:19:26
Speaker 2: comfort dessert, and there's people that want it back now,
1:19:30
Speaker 2: and they're not just asking for old menu item, they're
1:19:32
Speaker 2: asking for the comfort and nostalgia that came with them.
1:19:35
Speaker 2: Sometimes bringing back a classic dish means more to loyal
1:19:39
Speaker 2: customers than introducing several new ones. And that's what they're
1:19:42
Speaker 2: still struggling with. And it's kind of sad to see.
1:19:45
Speaker 2: Speaking of struggling, have you checked your health insurance bill lately?
1:19:50
Speaker 2: My families had gone up for well. Because of Obamacare,
1:19:55
Speaker 2: we were required to get on a compliant plan a
1:19:58
Speaker 2: few years ago, thank you Obama, and we got on
1:20:03
Speaker 2: one of those medical cost sharing programs and the price
1:20:07
Speaker 2: when we started was where it was and it was
1:20:09
Speaker 2: a pretty good plan. And then as the years went by,
1:20:14
Speaker 2: it got more and more expensive and fewer things were
1:20:16
Speaker 2: covered and it just ended up not really working for
1:20:18
Speaker 2: us at all. And earlier this year I ran across
1:20:22
Speaker 2: and met Vic Pritcheart of DFW Insurance. DFW Direct Insurance
1:20:27
Speaker 2: is a health insurance specialist and he works with over
1:20:33
Speaker 2: twenty three different of the major insurance companies and he
1:20:37
Speaker 2: helps people find the specific health insurance that's right for
1:20:41
Speaker 2: their self employment or a small business or a family
1:20:45
Speaker 2: that is looking to improve their health insurance situation. If
1:20:48
Speaker 2: you have not yet called Vic's personal cell phone to
1:20:50
Speaker 2: get your cost check done, please do that eight one
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Speaker 2: seven four four nine fifty five fifty seven eight one
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Speaker 2: seven four four nine fifty five fifty seven. And when
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Speaker 2: Vic answers just say, hey, you know, it's Sally from
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Speaker 2: you know, Wyoming, and uh, Kevin told me to give
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Speaker 2: you a call and he's gonna he's gonna treat you
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Speaker 2: the way he treated me. He helped us, say four
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars a month, that's nearly five grand a year
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Speaker 2: in cost towards our health insurance, and he got us
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Speaker 2: coverage we didn't have. He got us expanded coverage at
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Speaker 2: nearly five grand less for the year eight one, seven, four, four, nine, five,
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Speaker 2: five five seven eight one seven, four four nine, five,
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Speaker 2: five five seven. Call Vic and tell him that Kevin said, Hi,
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Speaker 2: we'll see you next time here on that Kevin