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Speaker 1: be back with us in just a minute to talk
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Speaker 1: about how we live. That is all straight ahead. And
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Speaker 1: it's been a very, very fascinating week with Bishop Nelson
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Speaker 1: as we have dug deeper than I've ever dug before
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Speaker 1: on the story of the Prodigal Sun and seeing myself
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Speaker 1: in some of the characters of that story in ways
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Speaker 1: I'd never thought of before and yet so so deeply moving.
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Speaker 1: And I just hope that you'll join us for the
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Speaker 1: conclusion to that discussion, because it's it's been a great
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Speaker 1: week with Bishop Nelson. Lots going on in the news. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: the war hasn't gone anywhere. We are still watching. Although
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Speaker 1: I will say this, I am very pleased with how
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Speaker 1: confident the President is about what we're doing when it
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Speaker 1: comes to our objectives. In fact, he is. He has
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Speaker 1: said that we are, you know, such so much farther
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Speaker 1: ahead than where we anticipated being by this time, and
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Speaker 1: that's all good. My hope and request in ernest pleading
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Speaker 1: is that we don't lose we don't lose pace, that
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Speaker 1: we stay ahead of the game, that we have as
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Speaker 1: little loss of innocent life as possible. If we need
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Speaker 1: to kill all the Iatolas, I'm okay with that. Those
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Speaker 1: people are not very interested in having peace with anyone,
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Speaker 1: So maybe they should just go see Jesus who will
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Speaker 1: bring them the reckoning on peace as they need to be.
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Speaker 1: But if you're going to kill loads and loads of
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Speaker 1: innocent people, I don't know that you should have a
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Speaker 1: right to continue to live yourself. And that's what the
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Speaker 1: I Tolas have done for the last number of years.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting, friends, that you've seen kind
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Speaker 1: of the people speak through the representatives this week, because
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Speaker 1: last weekend, when the war started, you had House members
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Speaker 1: and Senate members both talking big, big talk about kind
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Speaker 1: of disciplining the president and making sure that he knows
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Speaker 1: that he can't declare war without congressional approval, or so
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Speaker 1: they say, And they talked about how they were going
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Speaker 1: to bring it to both bodies in the Congress this
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Speaker 1: week and press for votes. You know, the effort to
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Speaker 1: curb this failed spectacularly in both houses. It wasn't even close.
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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I think that's
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Speaker 1: partly because the voters, the people of the nation have
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Speaker 1: told their representatives, I want you to do the right thing.
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Speaker 1: That's why we've given you the job. The right thing
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Speaker 1: is to do as as is needed, to do as
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Speaker 1: is conscience driven, and to do the right thing is
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Speaker 1: to protect innis and people. The actions that we are
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Speaker 1: taking as being so significantly different than the ones that
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Speaker 1: we took in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Global War
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Speaker 1: on Terror as it's now referred to often GWAT, but
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Speaker 1: the GWAT era service people that know where some of
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Speaker 1: those things went bad after we got the terrorists on
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Speaker 1: the run, are saying that we're doing it so much differently.
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Speaker 1: And it's my hope. It's not just it's not just
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Speaker 1: a pie in the sky, you know, wish. It's my genuine, earnest,
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Speaker 1: heartfelt hope that the people of Iran are able to
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Speaker 1: grasp the significance of what they've been given here in
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Speaker 1: Iraq and Afghanistan. Let me hit on this for a second.
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Speaker 1: Those were different cultures. Those were cultures largely that never
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Speaker 1: were truly liberalized or modernized in the modern era. They
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Speaker 1: didn't really embrace an idea of republic government or democracy
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Speaker 1: in any way prior to the liberations of the Global
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Speaker 1: War on Tear and in Afghanistan, because it's all tribal
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Speaker 1: and feudal and kind of internal. This gang against that
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Speaker 1: gang and so forth. They never really had a founding
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Speaker 1: vision for anything. But Iran is not Iraq, and Iran
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Speaker 1: is not Afghanistan. And before forty seven years ago they
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Speaker 1: had the highest level of college educated women of any
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Speaker 1: country in the world. Think about that. Think about the
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Speaker 1: level of education that women enjoyed under a free and
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Speaker 1: democratized Iran prior to the Iyatolas taking over in the
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies, and understand that when women did have the
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Speaker 1: right to learn, they took advantage of it. And when
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Speaker 1: they had the right to contribute to their culture, they did.
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Speaker 1: You had female doctors and lawyers and all kinds of things.
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Speaker 1: In the modern day era of Iran, women have been
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Speaker 1: disallowed from even going to basic education for many, many years.
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Speaker 1: So this is a this is a This is a
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Speaker 1: group of people that have a memory of what democracy
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Speaker 1: look like, of what free governance of themselves look like.
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Speaker 1: And I don't know why, to be honest with you,
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Speaker 1: the Carter administration insisted on bringing the Iotola back to
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Speaker 1: the Iranian territory. We gave him a plane ride, we
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Speaker 1: put him back in country, and then when the revolution happened,
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Speaker 1: they took those college students took our embassy workers hostage
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Speaker 1: for four hundred and forty four days a year and
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Speaker 1: a half. Beyond that, there was you know, all of
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Speaker 1: the then the pursuit and the aggressive, aggressive hostility of
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Speaker 1: weapons and opposing free cultures in the Middle East and beyond.
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Speaker 1: So I think that what we're going to see, and
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Speaker 1: my prayer is this, that the memory of what self
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Speaker 1: governance and self determination looks like in their minds will
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Speaker 1: be something that they aspire to again. Because if the
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Speaker 1: Iranian people do not embrace that, then they will not
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Speaker 1: have a culture that will elevate the least of those
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Speaker 1: among them. They will not have a culture that elevates women.
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Speaker 1: And if God forbid, another powermonger, another ayatola, another supreme
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Speaker 1: leader rises up, then you have people being thrown off buildings,
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Speaker 1: you have women being shot in the street for wearing
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Speaker 1: blue jeans. You have all the atrocities and horrors that
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Speaker 1: we have watched, we have witnessed on global tees television
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Speaker 1: sets for the last forty years, all over again. Friends.
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Speaker 1: It's my prayer that that is not what we are
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Speaker 1: empowering that the Iranian people, and I'm praying, I'm actively
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Speaker 1: praying for this Lord, please let the Iranian people, and
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Speaker 1: if possible, the Iranian Christians, because there is a there
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Speaker 1: is a subculture of Christianity that is very very much
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Speaker 1: on the down low, but they are there. Lord, Raise
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Speaker 1: your people up. Let these people as best they can
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Speaker 1: come to know and understand you, so that they have
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Speaker 1: real truth in their lives and that they are able
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Speaker 1: to lead the lives that you that you that you
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Speaker 1: have for them your best intentions. All right, that's that's
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Speaker 1: We got a lot to get to how do we Live?
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Speaker 1: Bishop Nelson's back with us, and then we kick off
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Speaker 1: a great Friday show. Lots of news, lots of things
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Speaker 1: of it. It's that Cabin show.
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Speaker 6: Here he is from New York. That Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome. It is that Kevin Show, that kevinshow
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Speaker 1: listen to past discussions of what we've talked about in
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Speaker 1: this segment all week long called how do we Live,
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Speaker 1: specifically focusing in on the Prodigal Son and Luke fifteen
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Speaker 1: and Bishop Hugh Nelson is back with us from the
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Speaker 1: Ebenezer Urban Ministry Center in Brooklyn, and Bishop I say
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Speaker 1: that we have taken a deep dive on the Prodigal
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Speaker 1: Sun this week. It is not an underestimated statement. I've
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Speaker 1: never spent the amount of time thinking about the multiple
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Speaker 1: layers of the personalities of the persons in this story
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Speaker 1: the way you have forced us to think about them.
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Speaker 1: And I said this earlier in the week. I see
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Speaker 1: myself in the brash and arrogant son that demanded his inheritance.
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Speaker 1: I see myself in the father who felt injured by
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Speaker 1: that arrogance. I see myself in the son who comes
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Speaker 1: to his own demise and says, hey, it's better for
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Speaker 1: me to, you know, at least eat some of the
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Speaker 1: pig slop in my father's service than it is where
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Speaker 1: I'm at here. I see him going home and understanding
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Speaker 1: that humility and that kind of devastation. And the father,
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Speaker 1: of course, who can't identify with a father who wants
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Speaker 1: to do nothing more than rescue his son from all
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Speaker 1: the disastrous damage that he may have done to his life.
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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I think it's
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Speaker 1: really important that people understand that this is This is
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Speaker 1: a this is a microcosm right of how God looks
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Speaker 1: at us. He loves us, he longs for us to
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Speaker 1: come home, he longs for us to call out to him.
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Speaker 1: And then we come to this other character that's in it,
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Speaker 1: the old older son, the third character. I think it's
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Speaker 1: unexpected for a lot of people that the brother responds
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Speaker 1: the way he does. But he is certainly not impressed
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Speaker 1: with his brother's repentance. And some people will say, well,
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Speaker 1: that's natural. I've seen, you know, people be unrepentant when
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Speaker 1: they faked repentance before. But it goes a step further
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Speaker 1: than that, does it, not, Bishop. I mean to the
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Speaker 1: degree that the father is lavishing love and forgiveness and reconciliation,
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Speaker 1: and the older brother, who rightfully or wrongfully, has served
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Speaker 1: dutifully his father the whole time he's been gone, and
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Speaker 1: he looks at his younger brother and he goes, well,
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Speaker 1: who do you think you are to get that? I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's just no feeling from him.
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Speaker 8: I had absolutely no compassion, no thought of celebration, And
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Speaker 8: I thought, my god, this older brother was unhappy. He
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Speaker 8: was the only one did not rejoice about his brother's return.
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Speaker 4: And not.
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Speaker 8: The interesting thing, and this was for me was the
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Speaker 8: cliff hanger, because when Jesus talked about the lost sheep,
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Speaker 8: there was a closure. The shepherd found the lost sheep,
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Speaker 8: brought the sheep back to the fold. When he talked
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Speaker 8: about the lost con the woman didn't give up the
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Speaker 8: search until she found the coin, and there's a sense
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Speaker 8: of closure.
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Speaker 4: In this case, there was no closure.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 4: This was the part that really.
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Speaker 8: Struck me because the parable never indicated whether the son
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Speaker 8: came in or stayed out. It never shared whether the
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Speaker 8: eldest son, even with the pleading of the father who
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Speaker 8: came out to the field met him and ensreated him,
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Speaker 8: come home.
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Speaker 4: Your brother who was lost is now home.
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Speaker 8: We're literally left with the young men and not certain
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Speaker 8: whether he stayed out or whether he came in. I thought, God,
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Speaker 8: this is quite interesting, because now this gives us an
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Speaker 8: opportunity to write our own conclusion. How would we want
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Speaker 8: to bring clothesuhip to this parable, whether the eldest son eventually,
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Speaker 8: maybe reluctantly came in and reluctantly embraced his younger brother,
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Speaker 8: or whether.
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Speaker 4: He stayed away.
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Speaker 8: And I thought, my god, we there is so much
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Speaker 8: we could learn from this older son, because it is
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Speaker 8: possible for us to stay home and dutifully carry out
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Speaker 8: our responsibility and still not have the heart of the father.
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Speaker 8: And there's so many believers who have never left, have
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Speaker 8: never acted shamefully, but still lack the heart of the father.
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Speaker 8: Another takeaway from me is that sometimes, even as believers,
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Speaker 8: when one wanders away and returns and there is so
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Speaker 8: much celebration, we resent the fact that we're not in
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Speaker 8: the limelight. No one is making a big deal about
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Speaker 8: the elder son who was always there. All of a sudden,
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Speaker 8: now the focus is on the son who had left
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Speaker 8: and returned, And this is oftentimes where our true spirituality
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Speaker 8: is tested. How do we respond when the spotlight is
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Speaker 8: not on the one who stayed home dutifully carried out
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Speaker 8: his task, but the one who wasted it but came back.
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Speaker 8: And so sometimes as believers we can stay right in
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Speaker 8: the house and still lack the height of the father.
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Speaker 8: Interestingly enough, this elder son who stayed home carried out
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Speaker 8: his responsibility, but still did not have intimacy with his father,
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Speaker 8: you know, And this maybe there was a part that
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Speaker 8: really struck me hard even as a pastor. It is
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Speaker 8: possible to do the work of God and still lack
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Speaker 8: intimacy with God. We work for God but miss out
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Speaker 8: on the fact that beyond what we do for him,
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Speaker 8: he hungers to have intimacy with his children well.
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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, Bishop, is that
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Speaker 1: not one of the greatest blessings of relationship with Jesus
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Speaker 1: That we can turn to a father who does love
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Speaker 1: us perfectly, so much more completely than any of our
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Speaker 1: earthly fathers can. And if we are just willing to
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Speaker 1: put our pride to the side, if we're just willing
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Speaker 1: to put our expectations of perfection and others off to
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Speaker 1: the side, and allow him to love us but also
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Speaker 1: to change things in us that need to be changed.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my God, it's.
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Speaker 1: Not so much that the older brother disliked his younger brother.
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Speaker 1: It's that he felt he was so much better than
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Speaker 1: his younger brother.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 8: And you know I thought of even Mary and Martha
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Speaker 8: when Jesus came to visit them. Yes, what was so
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Speaker 8: caught up with enjoying intimatesy with Christ while the other
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Speaker 8: one was making sure the house was in good order.
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Speaker 8: And you know, again, the contrast, that's the thing I
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Speaker 8: love about God. He paints a picture, makes this contrast
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Speaker 8: and leaves us to see where we are.
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Speaker 1: So, as from a practical standpoint, what are some ways
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Speaker 1: that we can help guard our hearts from becoming like
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Speaker 1: the older brother and maybe pursue that intimacy with the
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Speaker 1: Father on a deeper level.
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Speaker 8: And so I think in a practical level, it is
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Speaker 8: so important that we nurture intimates with God on a
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Speaker 8: daily basis. When we recognize the love we experience from
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Speaker 8: a God who loves us completely, we then can have
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Speaker 8: patience even with those who fail. You know, when we
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Speaker 8: come from a posture of love and that we are
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Speaker 8: loved and that someone's recovery is not at our expense,
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Speaker 8: then we realize God's heart is large enough to love
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Speaker 8: all of us equality and none of us suffer because
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Speaker 8: He's right now focusing on the backslider.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that just from a practical standpoint,
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Speaker 1: the more we look at others to judge them bad
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Speaker 1: as backsliders, the more we miss the point. Like a grief,
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Speaker 1: my focus this morning, today, tonight, as I walk through
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Speaker 1: this weekend, as I go into next week, my focus
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Speaker 1: should be Lord, what are you wanting to change in
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Speaker 1: my heart. What is it about where I'm at that
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Speaker 1: could be better with you than before? And you know
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Speaker 1: again that's where the older son missed it. He felt
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Speaker 1: like he was entitled to it, he was owed for
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Speaker 1: his good behavior. And in reality, the father just wants
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Speaker 1: to have a deep relationship with both of his boys.
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Speaker 8: A deeper relationship. He wants them to enjoy his presence.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: And you know, I especially those of us in the
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Speaker 8: professional clergy space who work, as you know, in the faith,
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Speaker 8: we can't really get so tied up with the task
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Speaker 8: right industry, Yeah, that we miss out on the intimacy.
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Speaker 1: Well, what a great week, Pastor Nelson. And again this
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Speaker 1: weekend you're going to go deeper at Ebenezer Urban Ministry
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Speaker 1: Center on this story. In fact, you're going to spend
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Speaker 1: the entire month of March looking at the prodigal and
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Speaker 1: going deeper on the story has in it. But friends,
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Speaker 1: I hope we've wet your whistle just a little bit,
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Speaker 1: uh to uh to go deeper and uh, Pastor, if
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Speaker 1: people want to follow along with your message he there
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Speaker 1: in southern California or somewhere else, how can they how
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Speaker 1: can they connect with you digitally?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 1: All Right, Pastor Hugh Nelson, thank you for spending this
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Speaker 1: week with us, and we will see you again soon.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, my friend. Thanks always approach. Got it.
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Speaker 3: Fact Kevin, Kevin McCullough and welcome back to Times Square.
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Speaker 1: It's Kevin McCullough from that Kevin Show. And as we
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Speaker 1: have been telling you for some time, we are in
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Speaker 1: the process of doing something very special. And when I
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Speaker 1: say special, i'm you know, I think of I just
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Speaker 1: I just love the fact that we get to focus
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Speaker 1: on helping children in this in this day and age,
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Speaker 1: particularly in this way, particularly these children. You've heard me
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Speaker 1: talking already h for some time for some of you,
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Speaker 1: but for others of you that have just started in
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Speaker 1: recent days hearing me. You've heard me talk about the
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Speaker 1: work of Food for the poor and the children that
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Speaker 1: they reach and the lives that they touch. Well, I'm
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Speaker 1: excited that once again we have the opportunity to actually
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Speaker 1: feed a number of kids for the coming year and
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Speaker 1: to make sure that they have clean drinking water in
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Speaker 1: the days to come. It's a very big lift to
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Speaker 1: try to help seven hundred and twenty children, But that's
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Speaker 1: the list, that's the names, that's who we have this year.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask you step into this with us,
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Speaker 1: go on this journey, help us reach every one of
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Speaker 1: these children. In just the next few days. Danny Patino
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Speaker 1: to see you and always fun to talk about what
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Speaker 1: God is doing. But when we're talking about these children
22:39
Speaker 1: in particular, and I've been on some of the trips
22:42
Speaker 1: where Food for the Poor would take us into the
22:46
Speaker 1: less glamorous portions of the Caribbean, let's put it that way.
22:50
Speaker 1: The countries and the portions of countries that the tourists
22:54
Speaker 1: don't go to. None of the brochures advertise, but what
22:57
Speaker 1: you're talking about is gross poverty, real true malnutrition, children
23:03
Speaker 1: that are just aching and hurting on a daily basis
23:07
Speaker 1: to have a little bit of something to eat. So
23:10
Speaker 1: talk to us about what kinds of conditions these kids
23:14
Speaker 1: are living in, whether it's s Guatemala or Haiti or wherever,
23:17
Speaker 1: and take us inside their life for a little bit.
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Speaker 10: Well, Kevin, thanks for having us on today, and thank
23:22
Speaker 10: you to your audience for letting us in not only
23:24
Speaker 10: into their homes, but also into their heart. And unfortunately,
23:28
Speaker 10: in the fifteen countries that Food for the Poorest serves,
23:30
Speaker 10: poverty really doesn't have a different face. It's almost the
23:33
Speaker 10: same one, and it is a kid's face, a child's
23:36
Speaker 10: face where unfortunately he doesn't know where the next meal
23:40
Speaker 10: is coming from. And those are the folks that we
23:42
Speaker 10: reach the most. Those are the folks that pray for
23:44
Speaker 10: a daily meal. We pray for I pray with my
23:47
Speaker 10: children every morning that they have a great day at school,
23:50
Speaker 10: that they get to learn everything and then bring it
23:51
Speaker 10: back home so they can teach us. These families are
23:54
Speaker 10: praying for a daily meal. That's that prayer for that
23:57
Speaker 10: daily bread, and it's to get something a little bit
23:59
Speaker 10: different than they had yesterday, because probably yesterday they only
24:01
Speaker 10: had a handful of rice to share amongst four. And
24:05
Speaker 10: most of the families that we visited are a little
24:06
Speaker 10: bit more than four people living in a small shack.
24:09
Speaker 10: Think about a shed, a very shed that's holes in
24:12
Speaker 10: the roof. The dirt that's outside is the same dirt
24:15
Speaker 10: that you find inside of the home. Bugs come in
24:17
Speaker 10: and out.
24:18
Speaker 4: It's not a.
24:18
Speaker 10: Living condition that you would have for anyone, let alone
24:22
Speaker 10: a child. And those are the families that we reach
24:25
Speaker 10: on a daily basis here at Food for the Port
24:27
Speaker 10: and through you to the generosity of your listeners, and that's
24:30
Speaker 10: what we want to reach to today. You said there
24:31
Speaker 10: was a number of seven hundred and twenty children, Well,
24:33
Speaker 10: imagine the faces on those seven hundred and twenty children
24:36
Speaker 10: when we get to tell them you get to eat today, tomorrow,
24:39
Speaker 10: the next day. And it's only for a one time gift.
24:41
Speaker 10: A one time gift of one hundred and fifty dollars
24:43
Speaker 10: is going to feed two children for an entire year.
24:46
Speaker 10: It's three hundred and sixty five days of relief for
24:49
Speaker 10: a parent. I'm a parent myself, so a relief on
24:51
Speaker 10: a parent shoulders, and as well, a child that gets
24:53
Speaker 10: to grow be a child not having to go to
24:56
Speaker 10: work with mom or dad or having to stay home
24:58
Speaker 10: from school because there's not enough money to go around.
25:01
Speaker 1: Well, I want to point out too that a lot
25:03
Speaker 1: of relief organizations only feed kids once a day, and
25:07
Speaker 1: food for the poor in that one hundred and fifty dollars,
25:10
Speaker 1: which is seventy five dollars a child, that child will
25:13
Speaker 1: eat twice a day, and it will be a healthy
25:17
Speaker 1: meal that's good for undernourished kids. It's going to be
25:20
Speaker 1: hind carbohydrates, it's going to be high in protein, usually
25:23
Speaker 1: some form of rice and beans combined. I've been at
25:27
Speaker 1: these centers where we have prepared these meals and dished
25:32
Speaker 1: them out as the kids came through, and I will
25:34
Speaker 1: tell you that the impact that that makes just giving
25:38
Speaker 1: that child two meals a day for the next year
25:41
Speaker 1: is the difference in them being on death's doorstep now
25:45
Speaker 1: and a year from now being almost as healthy as
25:48
Speaker 1: like any other kid on the planet. Like it really
25:51
Speaker 1: the difference between what it can do for them nutritionally speaking.
25:55
Speaker 1: And so friends, as you're listening, you may I would
25:59
Speaker 1: want to know for myself. If I'm going to give
26:01
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars, how many meals does that provide? Well,
26:05
Speaker 1: think about that, three hundred and sixty five days, two
26:08
Speaker 1: meals a day. You're talking about just under eight hundred
26:11
Speaker 1: meals for a child that's for the next year. Is
26:14
Speaker 1: not going to go hungry. Yeah, eight five, five, nine, zero, seven,
26:18
Speaker 1: four six seven three. Friends, it's food for the poor.
26:22
Speaker 1: I've worked with them for a couple of dozen years.
26:25
Speaker 1: I love these people, I love their hearts, I love
26:27
Speaker 1: everything that they do, and we right now can impact
26:30
Speaker 1: seven hundred and twenty lives. Just like that little seven
26:34
Speaker 1: year old who had to give up his food for
26:36
Speaker 1: the day so his younger brother could eat because it
26:39
Speaker 1: was his turn. We can impact that family where two
26:42
Speaker 1: brothers get to eat two meals a day and for
26:46
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars. I would just recommend friends that you
26:49
Speaker 1: check your grocery bill because I'm pretty sure that, however
26:53
Speaker 1: many kids you have in your house, if you only
26:55
Speaker 1: had seventy five dollars for the year to feed them,
26:59
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you couldn't do it. If you're not
27:02
Speaker 1: serving invisible food or something like that, Like there's no
27:04
Speaker 1: cheating here. This is gonna be real food. But like
27:07
Speaker 1: I've got three kids in my house. I couldn't. I
27:09
Speaker 1: couldn't for four hundred and fifty dollars or less than
27:12
Speaker 1: that two hundred and twenty five dollars or whatever.
27:14
Speaker 4: I couldn't.
27:14
Speaker 1: I couldn't feed children for that amount of money. And
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Speaker 1: yet Food for the Poor can give two meals a day,
27:20
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days for the next year
27:23
Speaker 1: for a child with that gift, And if you give
27:26
Speaker 1: it now in the next ten minutes, it will be doubled.
27:29
Speaker 1: You will reach twice as many kids. The impact will
27:32
Speaker 1: be twice as much because you choose to give it now.
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28:05
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28:11
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back. It's that Kevin Show. That kevinshow
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28:26
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28:29
Speaker 1: in the evening here on local New York radio called
28:32
Speaker 1: fun Friday for Radio Night Live. But Christine Nicholas is
28:36
Speaker 1: the CEO of Nicholas and Lentz PR, one of the
28:40
Speaker 1: most esteemed PR firms on the planet, much less just
28:44
Speaker 1: in our city, and Christine, always a pleasure to have
28:46
Speaker 1: you with us. It is getting to be that time,
28:49
Speaker 1: as the year has started to unfold, that people are
28:52
Speaker 1: really starting to think about America two fifty in much more,
28:57
Speaker 1: you know, active ways than they have been. We've kind
28:59
Speaker 1: of known that America two fifty was coming, but it's
29:02
Speaker 1: really starting to unfold right in front of.
29:04
Speaker 12: Us now, it really is, And especially here in New York, Kevin,
29:08
Speaker 12: I think a lot of folks don't really understand the
29:12
Speaker 12: historic value of New York City, the role that it
29:16
Speaker 12: played in the Revolutionary War and the build up to it.
29:19
Speaker 12: You know, it started and ended here right This is
29:22
Speaker 12: where the first battle was fought, and this is where
29:26
Speaker 12: George Washington came when he was departing, you know, his
29:32
Speaker 12: saying farewell to his troops, which happened in seventeen eighty three,
29:36
Speaker 12: so it gives you a sense that this was a
29:38
Speaker 12: much longer battle than people think, you know. And we've
29:42
Speaker 12: got a lot planned here in New York City for
29:44
Speaker 12: the celebration. We're going to have tall ships we're going
29:48
Speaker 12: to it's called Sail Force, and there'll be thirty of
29:50
Speaker 12: them and they're coming from all over the world, which
29:53
Speaker 12: is incredibly exciting. And in addition to the thirty tall ships,
29:56
Speaker 12: there's also going to be a naval review large than
30:00
Speaker 12: anything it's we've ever had with the US Navy and
30:05
Speaker 12: the Coastguard will be present. We believe possibly the President
30:08
Speaker 12: will be coming in for an official Navy review. But
30:12
Speaker 12: it's going to span from Lower Manhattan Staten Island area,
30:16
Speaker 12: up the Harbor, up the East River and also the
30:19
Speaker 12: Hudson River through the George Washington Bridge, and there are
30:25
Speaker 12: smaller schooners that can go up as far as Westchester
30:28
Speaker 12: to sort of tell the story about the different battles
30:30
Speaker 12: that took place during the Revolutionary War. There'll be the
30:34
Speaker 12: Blue Angels. They're going to be doing a tribute as well,
30:37
Speaker 12: so that you know the chefs are going to start
30:39
Speaker 12: coming in as early as July first, so if you
30:43
Speaker 12: have plans for the fourth, just know that you can
30:45
Speaker 12: actually participate and see what's going on all the way
30:49
Speaker 12: through July eighth. And then there's also some schooners that
30:53
Speaker 12: will be open to the public for free, and then
30:57
Speaker 12: there are also some that will be for a fee.
31:00
Speaker 12: You can go on and have, you know, a tour
31:04
Speaker 12: and they actually are operating. So you can find much
31:08
Speaker 12: of this on the Sale fourth website. You can find
31:11
Speaker 12: it on NYC Tourism dot com. But that's so exciting and.
31:17
Speaker 1: Sale forth is that s A I l the number
31:20
Speaker 1: four th h yes.
31:22
Speaker 6: Yes, exactly.
31:24
Speaker 12: And then at night we have the Macy's fireworks, and
31:27
Speaker 12: this is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Macy's fireworks.
31:30
Speaker 12: And it's no, that's not by accident, because that got
31:34
Speaker 12: started for the two hundredth for the bi centennial. So
31:37
Speaker 12: and I'm sure most people around the nation they tune
31:40
Speaker 12: in to the Macy's fireworks on July fourth evening, So
31:45
Speaker 12: this is really special for New York. We hope people
31:48
Speaker 12: will come. We are ready to shine and we have
31:53
Speaker 12: our patriotism out loud and clear for all to enjoy.
31:57
Speaker 4: Well.
31:58
Speaker 1: And that's and that's kind of a usual for New
32:00
Speaker 1: York City these days, since we since we elected a
32:03
Speaker 1: communist mayor. But I thought all this patriotism is going
32:06
Speaker 1: to rub off on some people.
32:08
Speaker 12: Well I think it did. I mean, look back, it's
32:10
Speaker 12: in nineteen seventy six. One of the reasons why people
32:14
Speaker 12: remember it so well and why it was so important
32:17
Speaker 12: is because that is also at a time when our
32:19
Speaker 12: nation was in a difficult position, right the hog you know,
32:24
Speaker 12: it was well, right and before I lost it is
32:29
Speaker 12: but remember you know Richard Nixon, you know, left office.
32:33
Speaker 12: Ford was in Carter. They were running and it was
32:35
Speaker 12: just this turbulent time. President Ford said, you know, dropped
32:40
Speaker 12: dead to New York City because we were in financial issues.
32:42
Speaker 12: So this was a grand celebration that captured the nation,
32:47
Speaker 12: and we hope to do the same thing. I think
32:49
Speaker 12: regardless of who's sitting in city Hall, you got to
32:51
Speaker 12: remember the importance of New York City, not only from
32:54
Speaker 12: a historical point of view, but keep in mind, we're
32:57
Speaker 12: also Wall Street and we fund a lot of peoples
33:02
Speaker 12: around the nation, So we need New York city, not
33:06
Speaker 12: only to survive, but to thrive. It's in all of
33:09
Speaker 12: our best interests.
33:11
Speaker 1: No, it's it's the most important city in the world
33:13
Speaker 1: for a reason. And as much angst as I might
33:16
Speaker 1: have about the direction we're headed at times, we have
33:20
Speaker 1: to we have to root for its success. Speaking of which,
33:25
Speaker 1: there there are some tools if people do come to
33:28
Speaker 1: New York. There's a couple of online tools that people
33:31
Speaker 1: can use to kind of trace the Revolutionary Trail that
33:34
Speaker 1: runs through Lower Manhattan specifically give us some info on that.
33:39
Speaker 12: Yeah, and if you can tune in tonight to Radio NightLive,
33:42
Speaker 12: we have a fantastic guest. It's Peter Aigner. He's with
33:45
Speaker 12: the Gotham Center for New York City History, one of
33:47
Speaker 12: our colleges in Lower Manhattan. But he came out with
33:50
Speaker 12: a Revolutionary Trail app which is available right now. You
33:54
Speaker 12: can download it Revolutionary Trail App, which really will allow
33:59
Speaker 12: you to do a walk tour at your own, at
34:03
Speaker 12: your own pace, and you'll see the buildings.
34:05
Speaker 4: You know.
34:06
Speaker 12: Unfortunately, Kevin, so much of our history has been buried
34:10
Speaker 12: or built upon, right That is just the nature of
34:12
Speaker 12: New York City. You know, we plow and we build,
34:15
Speaker 12: and you know, but this will put on your phone,
34:21
Speaker 12: it'll tell you exactly where you are, and then a
34:23
Speaker 12: lit'll show it in a historic you know, during the
34:26
Speaker 12: days of the revolutionary and what it looked like. So
34:28
Speaker 12: you'll see a brand new, modern office building. But then
34:31
Speaker 12: when you scan with your phone, all of a sudden
34:33
Speaker 12: you'll see a two story tavern you know that was
34:36
Speaker 12: once there. So it'll really give you a better understanding
34:39
Speaker 12: of where you are and what it looked like two
34:42
Speaker 12: hundred and fifty years ago. And then he's got a
34:45
Speaker 12: new gaming app that will be coming out later or
34:51
Speaker 12: earlier this summer, you know, late in the summer or what.
34:54
Speaker 4: We're not quite sure.
34:54
Speaker 12: Maybe may maybe you will say, but that's another element
34:59
Speaker 12: to try to make, you know, try to capture and
35:02
Speaker 12: grab the kids, you know, like so often the kids.
35:06
Speaker 1: Is more impressive. It's more than play. Yeah, that's all great.
35:10
Speaker 1: And then final ten seconds here, we just found out
35:13
Speaker 1: that American Express is going to occupy what is going
35:16
Speaker 1: to be World Trade two, and we're looking forward to
35:19
Speaker 1: that because it's going to be nearly as big as
35:21
Speaker 1: the World Freedom Tower.
35:22
Speaker 12: So yeah, it'll be fifty five stories, it'll be a
35:25
Speaker 12: huge building.
35:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:26
Speaker 12: By anyone's standards, even Lower Manhattan. But the fact that
35:29
Speaker 12: American Express one of our oldest, our oldest companies in
35:32
Speaker 12: the mind, they're two hundred years old. They're staying, doubling
35:36
Speaker 12: down and staying in New York.
35:38
Speaker 1: All right, Christine, great to talk to you, see you
35:40
Speaker 1: tonight on the radio. All right, kel coming back from
35:44
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35:45
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Speaker 1: where I'm going to go with this, but I am
42:19
Speaker 1: going to say it. I know that our television screens
42:21
Speaker 1: are obsessed with what's going on in Iran, but I
42:25
Speaker 1: cannot let us take our eyes off the ball of
42:28
Speaker 1: something that might be even more important. keV, What are
42:31
Speaker 1: you talking about? I'm talking about the Save America Act,
42:35
Speaker 1: because right now it is everything. Why would you say that, keV?
42:41
Speaker 1: If you know we've got a part of the world
42:43
Speaker 1: that's at war, actually a couple of parts. You've got
42:45
Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine, You've got what's going on in Iran.
42:49
Speaker 1: And as important as all of those are, the events
42:51
Speaker 1: unfolding in Iran. In Iran right now are enormous. The
42:54
Speaker 1: collapse of a terror regime, the elimination of the Ietola's leadership, structure,
42:59
Speaker 1: the ripple effects across the Middle East, all of that's
43:02
Speaker 1: going to reshape the balance of power for decades. I
43:05
Speaker 1: know this America will benefit greatly from that outcome. We're
43:09
Speaker 1: going to benefit from energy, We're going to benefit from
43:12
Speaker 1: a safer Middle East, and a regime that funded terrorism,
43:17
Speaker 1: threatened Israel, destabilized Arab nations, and pursued nuclear weapons is
43:21
Speaker 1: no longer in a position to do so. I think
43:23
Speaker 1: that's a really good starting point that matters for world order.
43:29
Speaker 1: But as important as foreign policy victories may be right now,
43:33
Speaker 1: nothing America faces externally is more important than protecting the
43:37
Speaker 1: integrity of our elections. Do you hear me on that?
43:40
Speaker 1: Let me say that again. Nothing that America faces outside
43:44
Speaker 1: of America is more important than protecting the integrity of
43:48
Speaker 1: our own elections. Nothing. And we got evidence of this
43:53
Speaker 1: yesterday from voters in the deepest blue state in the country, California,
43:57
Speaker 1: a state whose political leadership has spent years mocking election
44:00
Speaker 1: security efforts. Just saw yesterday a voter idea initiative blow
44:06
Speaker 1: away a signature threshold to appear on the November ballot.
44:10
Speaker 1: In other words, in deep blue California, where Gavin Newsom
44:14
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party run everything. The voters of that
44:18
Speaker 1: state just said by more than a million necessary signatures,
44:24
Speaker 1: they had a million over the threshold. They said that,
44:27
Speaker 1: if approved, we're going to require voters in California to
44:30
Speaker 1: present idea at the polls before casting a ballot, a
44:33
Speaker 1: policy already common in much of the rest of the
44:36
Speaker 1: civilized world outside the United States. Now think about what
44:39
Speaker 1: this means. Even in California, a state where Democrats hold
44:44
Speaker 1: overwhelming power, the people themselves are demanding something that Washington
44:48
Speaker 1: elites have spent years trying to dismiss, basic voter verification.
44:54
Speaker 1: According to reports, organizers gathered more than enough signatures to
44:57
Speaker 1: force a statewide vote on the proposal. That means Californians
45:01
Speaker 1: themselves will soon decide whether voter ID should become the
45:04
Speaker 1: law in their state. And the polling tells us something remarkable.
45:09
Speaker 1: Across the United States, support for voter ID is not
45:12
Speaker 1: just strong, it is overwhelming. Polling repeatedly shows that roughly
45:16
Speaker 1: eighty four percent of Americans support requiring identification to vote,
45:20
Speaker 1: including majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all alike. In
45:25
Speaker 1: other words, the voter idea is not a partisan issue.
45:27
Speaker 1: It's a common sense initiative, and yet the political class
45:32
Speaker 1: continues to fight it. Why because voter integrity threatens the
45:36
Speaker 1: political advantage some believe they gain from chaos and confusion.
45:41
Speaker 1: And let's be clear about something. Requiring identification to vote
45:45
Speaker 1: is not radical. It is normal. You need ID to
45:48
Speaker 1: get on a plane, to open a bank account, to
45:52
Speaker 1: buy medicine, to enter federal buildings, to rent a car,
45:58
Speaker 1: or to check into a hotel. But when it comes
46:00
Speaker 1: to deciding the leadership of our nation, suddenly some politicians
46:04
Speaker 1: claim ID is too much to ask. That argument collapses
46:08
Speaker 1: under the slightest scrutiny. Every developed democracy on the planet
46:13
Speaker 1: has safeguards to ensure that only eligible citizens vote. Nations
46:17
Speaker 1: across Europe require ID, Canada requires ID, Mexico requires ID.
46:22
Speaker 1: Come on, Yet somehow the US, the nation whose elections
46:25
Speaker 1: shape the rest of the global order, we've allowed the
46:28
Speaker 1: conversation to devolve into absurdity. That is exactly why the
46:32
Speaker 1: Save America Act matters so much. It would require documentary
46:37
Speaker 1: proof of citizenship to register to vote. That's not complicated,
46:42
Speaker 1: that's not burdensome. Proof that the person casting the ballot
46:45
Speaker 1: is actually an American citizen. Imagine that the Save America
46:49
Speaker 1: Act does not take voting rights away from any one.
46:51
Speaker 1: It simply ensures that those rights belong to citizens, and
46:54
Speaker 1: that the people the Constitution actually empowers to govern this
46:58
Speaker 1: republic are the ones that make it asame decision. Opponents
47:02
Speaker 1: call this discriminatory. Chuck Schumer says, it's Jim Crow two
47:07
Speaker 1: point zero, which I hate. The claim is not only wrong,
47:10
Speaker 1: it's insulting. It assumes minority voters are somehow incapable and
47:14
Speaker 1: too stupid to obtain identification. It assumes ordinary Americans are
47:19
Speaker 1: too incompetent to meet the same requirements they already satisfy
47:22
Speaker 1: in dozens of everyday situations. It's a modern version of
47:26
Speaker 1: the soft bigotry of low expectations. Is what it is.
47:30
Speaker 1: Verification creates trust, and trust is the currency of democracy.
47:36
Speaker 1: Think about this. Without confidence in our elections, the entire
47:40
Speaker 1: system begins to unravel. When voters believe outcomes are manipulated, illegitimate,
47:47
Speaker 1: vulnerable to abuse, faith in the government disappears, Participation declines,
47:54
Speaker 1: Cynicism breeds, political stability, erodes things. Election integrity is not
48:00
Speaker 1: a partisan luxury. It is the foundation upon which every
48:03
Speaker 1: other political debate rests, because if the public cannot trust
48:08
Speaker 1: the vote, nothing else matters. That's why what happened yesterday
48:12
Speaker 1: in California is so significant. That's why it shows that
48:16
Speaker 1: ordinary Americans, even in states dominated by progressive leadership, understand
48:21
Speaker 1: what their leaders often pretend not to see. They want
48:24
Speaker 1: confidence in their elections. They want fairness, They want rules
48:27
Speaker 1: that apply to everyone. They want the assurance that the
48:30
Speaker 1: people choosing America's leaders are actually Americans. The Save America
48:35
Speaker 1: Act delivers that. It aligns federal law with basic democratic principles.
48:41
Speaker 1: It reflects what overwhelming majorities of Americans already support, and
48:45
Speaker 1: it addresses the single most dangerous vulnerability in modern American politics,
48:50
Speaker 1: declining confidence in our elections. Washington made debate endless foreign
48:54
Speaker 1: crises and wars and conflicts. The American people are quietly
48:58
Speaker 1: insisting on something much closer to home. They want their
49:02
Speaker 1: vote to matter. I do, don't you. We want our
49:05
Speaker 1: elections to be legitimate. We want the system to work,
49:10
Speaker 1: because in the end, the strength of America abroad begins
49:12
Speaker 1: with the legitimacy of America at home. And if we
49:15
Speaker 1: cannot protect the ballot, we cannot protect the Republic. History
49:19
Speaker 1: teaches us that great nations rarely collapse because of enemies
49:23
Speaker 1: outside their borders. More often, they crumble because the people
49:27
Speaker 1: inside lose faith in the institutions meant to represent them.
49:31
Speaker 1: The Save America Act is not just legislation. It is
49:35
Speaker 1: a declaration that American elections belong to American citizens. And
49:39
Speaker 1: if we have the courage to defend that principle, the
49:42
Speaker 1: Republic will endure. And if we don't, no foreign victory,
49:46
Speaker 1: no matter how dramatic, will save us. For instance, real simple,
49:50
Speaker 1: we can go obliterate the eyetolas, and I hope we do.
49:54
Speaker 1: We can give a Rand's people free elections, and I
49:57
Speaker 1: hope that we do, and encourage them to self govern
50:02
Speaker 1: and self determined, and I hope that we do. But
50:05
Speaker 1: if we don't self govern, if we don't take natural
50:10
Speaker 1: and understandable precautions to have integrity to our election system,
50:15
Speaker 1: here's what you just cannot get away from. At the
50:20
Speaker 1: end of the day. We have to have the confidence
50:24
Speaker 1: that our vote counts in an election. That's honest. That's
50:28
Speaker 1: the bottom line. Kevin McCullough, we've got a lot to
50:31
Speaker 1: get to this hour. Don't change that dial.
50:52
Speaker 4: Here.
50:52
Speaker 6: He is from New York.
50:55
Speaker 4: Fact.
50:57
Speaker 6: Kevin McCullough, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, welcome back. It is the Friday edition that Kevin Show,
51:03
Speaker 1: that kevinshow dot Com. Always glad to have with us.
51:06
Speaker 1: Bethany Mandel, who you see, well sometimes she's over on
51:10
Speaker 1: that Hugh Hewitt show, but you know, when she's not
51:13
Speaker 1: slummeted in talk radio, she's over here with us at
51:15
Speaker 1: that Kevin Show. Bethany. Always good to talk to you.
51:17
Speaker 1: Thanks for being.
51:18
Speaker 2: Here, Thanks for having me.
51:19
Speaker 4: Kevin.
51:21
Speaker 1: The attack last weekend, and you and I spoke briefly
51:25
Speaker 1: on Friday, not on the air, but off the air.
51:27
Speaker 1: Did you have any sense that anything was up or
51:30
Speaker 1: that anything was going to be launched the next night?
51:34
Speaker 2: I had a feeling there was enough sort of movement
51:37
Speaker 2: of American resources into region that it seemed like something
51:42
Speaker 2: was imminent. And then the night before the attack started,
51:46
Speaker 2: the US and bossor Mike Takabee, who is a frequent
51:50
Speaker 2: guest on your show, gave the very clear warning that
51:53
Speaker 2: if you would like to leave Israel, you should do
51:55
Speaker 2: that right now.
51:58
Speaker 1: Did the we haven't cleared the embassy or anything like that.
52:03
Speaker 2: No, but they had basically told all non essential personnel
52:07
Speaker 2: if you want to leave, this is your opportunity. And
52:10
Speaker 2: interestingly enough, the data came in of Americans who left
52:13
Speaker 2: on sort of emergency flights, and only about one hundred
52:16
Speaker 2: and fifty did.
52:17
Speaker 1: I don't think, to be honest, I don't think a
52:19
Speaker 1: lot of Americans that are in Israel are all that
52:22
Speaker 1: worried about Israel because Israel's gone through so much in
52:26
Speaker 1: the last three years and they've held their grounds. So
52:29
Speaker 1: it's like ye, and I hope that that forebodes good
52:33
Speaker 1: things for the region all the way around. Let me
52:36
Speaker 1: ask you about the strategy that Israel and the US
52:39
Speaker 1: have taken in the Iran conflict thus far. Does it
52:42
Speaker 1: resonate with israelis Yeah, there was.
52:47
Speaker 4: A beautiful.
52:49
Speaker 2: Sort of set up on the beach in Tel Aviv,
52:52
Speaker 2: I think it was yesterday, a memorial to the five
52:56
Speaker 2: American service members who were killed so far in this
53:00
Speaker 2: In this conflict, there's a lot of love and affection
53:04
Speaker 2: that I think, I generally it's pretty mutual for the
53:08
Speaker 2: Americans for taking this fight on, because we finally have
53:11
Speaker 2: a president who recognizes this is in America's best interest
53:15
Speaker 2: to do this, and so there's an appreciation part of
53:18
Speaker 2: Israel that we finally have a president sitting in the
53:21
Speaker 2: White House who understands the excidential threat that aron pose
53:25
Speaker 2: is not just to Israel, but also to the West
53:27
Speaker 2: and more generally.
53:28
Speaker 1: Well, there's no doubt. I mean, they killed eighty percent
53:31
Speaker 1: of the people that were killed in Iraq were killed
53:32
Speaker 1: by Iranian weaponry. And you know, then there's the thousand
53:36
Speaker 1: people that they've killed directly that are Americans. And that
53:40
Speaker 1: doesn't even take into consideration the Americans that were caught
53:43
Speaker 1: up in October seventh. So you're talking about you know,
53:46
Speaker 1: we had the grounds alone, the US did for forty
53:49
Speaker 1: seven years to go deal with this, and we hadn't
53:51
Speaker 1: done it. Let me ask you about the anticipated changes
53:57
Speaker 1: in the region. And when I bring up the region,
54:00
Speaker 1: it's for this reason. Saudi Arabia, who looked like they
54:03
Speaker 1: were going to remain neutral, came to the side of
54:06
Speaker 1: Israel and the US and saying that they support what's happening.
54:11
Speaker 1: The Evidently, the Abraham Accords have shown their endurance pretty
54:15
Speaker 1: vividly in this manner. And you know, even though the
54:21
Speaker 1: Republican Guard is dying slowly in Iran, it even seems
54:25
Speaker 1: like the Iranian people are ready to live at peace,
54:27
Speaker 1: not just with Israel, but with their neighbors. If they
54:30
Speaker 1: can just get the control of their government back, how
54:33
Speaker 1: do you anticipate that impacting the region post the military action.
54:39
Speaker 1: So it's interesting.
54:39
Speaker 2: I have a friend who was approached by a random
54:42
Speaker 2: Iranian man sort of in the street. He had a yamagon,
54:45
Speaker 2: so it was pretty clear indication he was Jewish. And
54:48
Speaker 2: the Iranian man said, when the dust settles and everything clears,
54:54
Speaker 2: the friendship that will emerge between Iran and Israel will
54:57
Speaker 2: put the Abraham Accords to shame. And that's not a
55:00
Speaker 2: disc on the Abraham courts. I think that the future
55:03
Speaker 2: is really bright in this region with new Iranian government
55:08
Speaker 2: in place who actually respect the wishes of the Iranian people.
55:11
Speaker 2: Because not many Americans and not probably not many people
55:15
Speaker 2: in the world realized that one of the closest allies
55:20
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy eight was Israel and Iran. And without
55:24
Speaker 2: that terror proxy in the region holding up Hezbollah and
55:28
Speaker 2: the Hutis and all of these and all of these
55:30
Speaker 2: terrorist regimes, this is the dawn of a new Middle East.
55:34
Speaker 2: And you know, if America and Israel can thread this
55:38
Speaker 2: needle carefully, it's very promising.
55:42
Speaker 1: Did Iran have to be dealt with before an ultimate
55:46
Speaker 1: solution for Gaza could be strategized. I've been thinking a
55:50
Speaker 1: lot about that recently, and just the fact that Gaza
55:53
Speaker 1: will be reshaped. It's going to be reshaped into something else,
55:55
Speaker 1: but it won't have it won't have Hamas backed by
55:58
Speaker 1: Iran sitting there propping it up. That that impacts that
56:02
Speaker 1: recovery effort as well, doesn't it.
56:04
Speaker 2: It does, but I'm not sure how much. If I'm
56:07
Speaker 2: just if I'm being a little pragmatic and maybe too pessimistic.
56:11
Speaker 2: Hamas has the support of the majority of the people
56:13
Speaker 2: of Gaza, and so you know, it's not like hesbelow,
56:16
Speaker 2: where you know it's going against the wishes of the majority.
56:20
Speaker 2: Gaza is a real difficult situation that is probably going
56:24
Speaker 2: to be harder to solve than these sort of bigger
56:27
Speaker 2: issues in the region, and and I'm not so hopeful
56:31
Speaker 2: about about that situation as I am about the wider
56:34
Speaker 2: Middle East.
56:35
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that's that's a fair observation. The what's the
56:41
Speaker 1: anticipation of the timeline in Israel? I know what Americans
56:45
Speaker 1: are thinking and kind of what they want to have
56:47
Speaker 1: be you know, the timeline on this. They want it
56:50
Speaker 1: over in days if not weeks. Are Israeli similarly impatient
56:56
Speaker 1: or are they will it bother them if it drags
56:59
Speaker 1: on a month.
57:00
Speaker 2: So I'm actually hearing from Americans that it will be weeks,
57:04
Speaker 2: not days. I anecdotally my friends who are in Israel
57:08
Speaker 2: who are talking to their schools said that they might
57:11
Speaker 2: not have regular school until after Passover, so that's mid
57:14
Speaker 2: April right there. So that kind of gives you a
57:17
Speaker 2: sense of what Israelis are anticipating. That said, the constant,
57:22
Speaker 2: constant runs to the shelters that people are doing. I
57:26
Speaker 2: mean in Tel Aviv yesterday, I think my friends said
57:28
Speaker 2: it was ten It's exhausting, especially when you consider people
57:33
Speaker 2: with kids or who do not have a shelter in
57:35
Speaker 2: their apartment, which in Tel Aviv is most people. Most
57:38
Speaker 2: people don't have a shelter in their apartment in Jerusalem
57:41
Speaker 2: as well, and so you imagine having to pick up
57:44
Speaker 2: your baby and run into a shelter during a nap
57:47
Speaker 2: at three o'clock in the morning, then four o'clock in
57:49
Speaker 2: the morning, then five point thirty in the morning. It's
57:51
Speaker 2: really really physically and emotionally draining. Israelis they understand the necessity,
57:56
Speaker 2: but you really, I mean, this is an entire nation
57:59
Speaker 2: that is extremely severely sleep deprived.
58:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and I have to imagine that that's going
58:07
Speaker 1: to be impacted as we continue to get reports about
58:09
Speaker 1: the number of ballistic missiles and drones destroyed. You got
58:13
Speaker 1: to get that number all the way to one hundred percent,
58:14
Speaker 1: so those alarms stopped going off exactly? Are there any
58:18
Speaker 1: other ramifications of what we're doing that are going to
58:21
Speaker 1: impact Israel's relationship with the broader region. It seems like
58:26
Speaker 1: the Abraham Accord countries are doing what they can. It
58:31
Speaker 1: certainly seems like Saudi Arabia, who could have stayed silent,
58:34
Speaker 1: who could have chosen not to say anything, has taken
58:37
Speaker 1: the position that they've taken. And what about Europe? Is
58:40
Speaker 1: there any implication about how Israel is viewed through European
58:44
Speaker 1: lenses as a result of this?
58:46
Speaker 2: So it has not been a great week for Spain
58:48
Speaker 2: because they refuse you think they refuse to help America
58:52
Speaker 2: and even the most minimal ways of letting us use
58:55
Speaker 2: their basis. So it's interesting the clarity is much more
59:01
Speaker 2: present in the Middle East, with much more clear, defined
59:05
Speaker 2: enemies of Israel than it is in Europe. The Saudi
59:09
Speaker 2: Arabians understand sort of the objective here. The Kataris even
59:13
Speaker 2: understand it, and as Lord does. I'm not one to
59:16
Speaker 2: praise Kataris ever, but they really, I mean, they've been
59:20
Speaker 2: made to understand because the Iranians are sending suicide drones
59:23
Speaker 2: and missiles their way as well, and so they understand
59:25
Speaker 2: this existential threat that Iron poses.
59:28
Speaker 4: I have.
59:30
Speaker 2: I'm continually disappointed in Europeans. They seem to think that
59:35
Speaker 2: America and Israel will do the dirty work and that
59:37
Speaker 2: it doesn't impact them. But that's not reality.
59:42
Speaker 1: Every time in world history where something like this is
59:44
Speaker 1: propped up, it's usually impacted Europe pretty significantly, so you'd
59:48
Speaker 1: think they would have some sort of declared interest in it.
59:52
Speaker 1: Last question, does this change in your mind the shape
59:55
Speaker 1: of the Ukrainian Russian situation? If Iran, who was kind
59:59
Speaker 1: of like a third wheel, kind of stepchild to you know,
1:00:03
Speaker 1: Mommy and Daddy China and Russia. Does this even impact
1:00:08
Speaker 1: beyond the region.
1:00:10
Speaker 2: It does, and so, Actually, my husband Seth Mandel wrote
1:00:13
Speaker 2: a really good piece at Commentary magazine about this that
1:00:16
Speaker 2: folks should go read okay, and and he he made
1:00:20
Speaker 2: the case pretty convincingly, in my opinion, that that this
1:00:24
Speaker 2: will have wider implications for that conflict, and I think
1:00:27
Speaker 2: he's right.
1:00:28
Speaker 1: Well, I'm hopeful that everything that you have laid out
1:00:31
Speaker 1: force just now is actually true. And I would like
1:00:34
Speaker 1: to see I would like to see of benefit to
1:00:38
Speaker 1: Gaza if if that population is that strongly still pro
1:00:42
Speaker 1: Hamas you know, a year from now, I'm going to
1:00:44
Speaker 1: be pretty disappointed that we didn't take care of business
1:00:47
Speaker 1: better in that region. But we've got to We've got
1:00:50
Speaker 1: to take it one step at a time. And I
1:00:51
Speaker 1: think that certainly Iran is the bigger and nastier of
1:00:55
Speaker 1: all the threats to everyone in the region. And it's
1:00:58
Speaker 1: a it's it's an argument. I think that Netanyahu and
1:01:01
Speaker 1: Trump may deserve the Nobel Peace Prize in another year
1:01:04
Speaker 1: or so, just because you've had the guts to go
1:01:07
Speaker 1: do something about it, which for forty seven years after
1:01:10
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter brought the Eyetolas in, we didn't have the
1:01:14
Speaker 1: will to do anything about So, Bethany Mandel, thank you,
1:01:16
Speaker 1: as always, thank you. Kevin mckella, coming right back.
1:01:19
Speaker 13: Uncle Light, Let's stick around for more of that Kevin next.
1:01:50
Speaker 6: Here he is from New.
1:01:52
Speaker 3: York, That Kevin, Kevin McCullough, welcome back from Times Square.
1:01:59
Speaker 1: It's that Kevin show. Oh, that kevinshow dot com. So
1:02:01
Speaker 1: glad to have you with us. You've been hearing me
1:02:04
Speaker 1: in recent days say thank you a lot. A bunch
1:02:08
Speaker 1: of you have jumped in and you've said, you know what, keV,
1:02:10
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let those seven hundred and twenty
1:02:13
Speaker 1: children that you started telling us about a couple of
1:02:15
Speaker 1: weeks ago. We're not going to let them starve for
1:02:18
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, and we're going to make sure that
1:02:20
Speaker 1: they have plenty of clean drinking water. Rejoining me from
1:02:23
Speaker 1: the International World Headquarters of Food for the Poor is
1:02:26
Speaker 1: Paul Jacob's longtime friend of us and working with us
1:02:30
Speaker 1: at Food for the Poor, someone I've traveled with somewhat
1:02:33
Speaker 1: extensively with Food for the Poor and just appreciate his
1:02:36
Speaker 1: heart on all this. Paul. We started out with seven
1:02:38
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty kids. We have had four hundred and
1:02:41
Speaker 1: forty three of those children spoken for, and I want
1:02:44
Speaker 1: to say, you know, that's four hundred and forty three
1:02:47
Speaker 1: kids that if they didn't receive those two meals each
1:02:51
Speaker 1: day and the clean drinking water, what tell us what
1:02:53
Speaker 1: would likely happen to those four hundred and forty three children.
1:02:56
Speaker 14: There are entire communities and places like Ondurs and Guatemala
1:02:59
Speaker 14: where we've travel together. Haiti a great place that we
1:03:03
Speaker 14: have been and seen the work of Food for the
1:03:05
Speaker 14: Poors Ministry partners on the ground and your efforts helping
1:03:09
Speaker 14: us feed and give clean water and those children in
1:03:12
Speaker 14: those communities, whether it's a school feeding center, it's a
1:03:14
Speaker 14: nutritional center, it's an entire community of children going days
1:03:20
Speaker 14: without water. And I don't mean that as hyperbole. This
1:03:22
Speaker 14: is happening right now in our sphere, excuse me, inner hemisphere,
1:03:27
Speaker 14: and right now on the ground in the countries where
1:03:29
Speaker 14: Food for the Poor serves that there are children routinely
1:03:32
Speaker 14: going days without eating. There's children that are drinking water
1:03:35
Speaker 14: from water sources that are making them sick with every sip.
1:03:38
Speaker 14: When I was in Honduras, I asked the mayor of
1:03:41
Speaker 14: this small community, as the ministry partner took us around
1:03:44
Speaker 14: to show us where the families live and how they're living,
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Speaker 14: and I asked them, I said, where are these family getting.
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Speaker 4: The water from?
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Speaker 14: I was kind of curious because you see that there's
1:03:53
Speaker 14: buckets of this water, but you realize they've got to
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Speaker 14: get it from somewhere. He took us on a drive
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Speaker 14: about twenty minutes down in a vehicle, twenty minutes in
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Speaker 14: a vehicle, down the hill, down the mountain and to
1:04:07
Speaker 14: a wooded area quite frankly where this water was coming from.
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Speaker 14: It was filthy, it was not poltable. You had everything
1:04:14
Speaker 14: running through that water. And this is what children are
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Speaker 14: reduced to if someone does not step into their lives.
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Speaker 14: And I want to say a special thank you because
1:04:22
Speaker 14: we've had some amazing gifts that have come in. Philip
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Speaker 14: from Whitesburg, Georgia, thank you one hundred dollars gift. We
1:04:28
Speaker 14: had a gift, an anonymous gift from Louisville, Kentucky, Possibility City,
1:04:32
Speaker 14: Thank you one hundred and fifty dollars. Means that are
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Speaker 14: Those are two children eating and having getting safe water
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Speaker 14: every day for the next year.
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Speaker 1: That is that is And I love I love Georgia,
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Speaker 1: I love Kentucky. I love people stepping up, especially those
1:04:45
Speaker 1: of you that are new to what we're doing here.
1:04:48
Speaker 1: And you may say, keV, I noticed that you know
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Speaker 1: you you talk about these things. Not a lot of
1:04:53
Speaker 1: other people talk about these things. But the reason we
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Speaker 1: talk about them is because I feel like if, especially
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Speaker 1: if we are believers in Jesus and I don't operate
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Speaker 1: under the assumption that everybody is that listens to me.
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Speaker 1: But if we wear that label, if we carry that
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Speaker 1: moniker in us, then we are commanded to care about children,
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Speaker 1: especially orphans that have no food to eat and no
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Speaker 1: clean water to drink. And so if someone is thirsty,
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Speaker 1: if someone is hungry, can we help them? And Paul,
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Speaker 1: what I love about the program with Food for the
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Speaker 1: Poor is that there's a lot of other feeding groups
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Speaker 1: out there that just you know, roll up in the
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Speaker 1: white truck and they drop off some food and then
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Speaker 1: they're gone. You guys are in these kids' lives already.
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Speaker 1: You've been there for forty five years. But there is
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Speaker 1: a consistency to two meals a day that we're talking
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Speaker 1: about for the children they're going to be put into
1:05:46
Speaker 1: the program. So these four hundred and forty three kids
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Speaker 1: would go from having zero meals on their let's say
1:05:52
Speaker 1: meal plan for twenty twenty six and now they have
1:05:55
Speaker 1: two meals a day. That's seven hundred and what thirty
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Speaker 1: meals in in twenty twenty six and beyond that are
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Speaker 1: going to be fed to them every day. For that
1:06:05
Speaker 1: one time gift of seventy five dollars for the child.
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Speaker 1: That is a remarkable if you think about it, friends,
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Speaker 1: you're talking about tens of meals for every dollar that
1:06:16
Speaker 1: you're giving, and that is something that's going to have
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Speaker 1: a long lasting impact. Two meals per day. The consistency
1:06:22
Speaker 1: that that will do to the nutrition system of the child.
1:06:25
Speaker 1: He's going to be able to fight off disease, she's
1:06:27
Speaker 1: going to be able to be healthier, and that enables
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Speaker 1: so many other things for them for their life. Holistic help.
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Speaker 14: That what you're providing right now, the food, the water,
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Speaker 14: it is it is helping break the cycle of poverty. Yes,
1:06:43
Speaker 14: you're providing food to filled children's bellies. Yes you're providing
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Speaker 14: safe water so that with every sip they're not becoming
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Speaker 14: sick and needing aid and assistance.
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Speaker 1: But we're doing more than that here at Food for
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Speaker 1: the Poor.
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Speaker 14: Your gift is helping us working hand in hand with
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Speaker 14: these pastors to break the cycle of poverty, to provide
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Speaker 14: them a hand up, not a hand out. We're looking at, well,
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Speaker 14: what we've been doing for the last forty four years,
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Speaker 14: forty four years of food for the poores, existence, working
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Speaker 14: hand in hand with the local church, is making sure
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Speaker 14: that we provide paths out of poverty in order to
1:07:13
Speaker 14: transform lives. And it starts with meals and it starts
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Speaker 14: with safe water.
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Speaker 1: Two hundred and sixty seven children still have not been
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Speaker 1: spoken for on our original list of seven hundred and twenty.
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Speaker 1: We can't let we can't rest until every one of
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Speaker 1: those kids has cared for. Will you help us? And
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Speaker 1: we can't do this without you? But two hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty seven kids remain. Now let me ask you, if
1:07:34
Speaker 1: you've already given a gift, would you consider if you've
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Speaker 1: given everything that you should. And if that's fine, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to trust you, that's between you and God. But
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Speaker 1: would you consider making this a prayer item until we
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Speaker 1: tell you that all two hundred and sixty seven additional
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Speaker 1: children have been met? Because I can only imagine that
1:07:51
Speaker 1: if we have everyone giving what they can, but those
1:07:55
Speaker 1: that have given all that they can begin to pray
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Speaker 1: for those that are still not yet met in terms
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Speaker 1: of the needs. We're gonna do this. God responds to
1:08:05
Speaker 1: the prayers of his people. So if you've already given
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Speaker 1: your gift, please pray that these remaining two hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty seven children will be met and that we will
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Speaker 1: be able to feed them and give them the water
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Speaker 1: that they need, along with the love of the Gospel
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Speaker 1: and all the other paths out of poverty that Paul
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Speaker 1: was talking about. But if you've given, if you've not given,
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Speaker 6: Here he is from New York Fact Kevin Kevin mccullor.
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back. It's the Friday edition, and per usual,
1:08:59
Speaker 1: we're checking out with doctor Gina Louden, who you see
1:09:01
Speaker 1: weekday mornings on Real America's Voice TV with America Mornings.
1:09:06
Speaker 1: And Gina, you're doing a great job there. You're watching
1:09:10
Speaker 1: the president. I've just said earlier in this hour as
1:09:13
Speaker 1: important as what we're doing in Iran is and I
1:09:16
Speaker 1: am fully supportive of his efforts, and I feel like
1:09:18
Speaker 1: we've really executed at a high level. The Congress is
1:09:21
Speaker 1: talking about the Save America Act, and I don't care
1:09:24
Speaker 1: if we don't get that passed. All the great things
1:09:27
Speaker 1: we do everywhere else are are going to be for
1:09:30
Speaker 1: not because without voter integrity, we're not going to have
1:09:33
Speaker 1: reliable elections going forward. Your thoughts on where we are
1:09:37
Speaker 1: heading into the.
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Speaker 15: Weekend, Yeah, it's funny, you know, Kevin. I think that
1:09:40
Speaker 15: you and I both are people who love the president
1:09:43
Speaker 15: so much that we also see ourselves sort of as
1:09:46
Speaker 15: his accountability as he's in a place where demonic pressure
1:09:50
Speaker 15: is so intense incessantly, and so you see things like,
1:09:56
Speaker 15: you know, MAGA, people calling this all out and saying,
1:10:00
Speaker 15: you know.
1:10:01
Speaker 4: Hey, you know, don't forget.
1:10:02
Speaker 15: You know, there was this campaign promise, There was that
1:10:04
Speaker 15: campaign promise. This is who we are as MAGA. It's
1:10:07
Speaker 15: all in love, it's all in love, and it's all
1:10:10
Speaker 15: in respect. But there is a lot of that right now.
1:10:13
Speaker 15: But I think this is also a time where we
1:10:15
Speaker 15: need to remember who we are and that we need
1:10:17
Speaker 15: to stay banded together because as sure as the Democrats
1:10:22
Speaker 15: will circle wagons, we will circle fire because we are principled,
1:10:26
Speaker 15: because that's who we are and that's a great thing
1:10:28
Speaker 15: about us. Yes, and I don't want to lose that. Ever,
1:10:32
Speaker 15: at the same time, we want to be the president's
1:10:34
Speaker 15: sounding board. We want to be even when that comes
1:10:36
Speaker 15: back and says no, it actually needs to be, Kim Paxton,
1:10:39
Speaker 15: it actually needs to be that we stand against transgender
1:10:43
Speaker 15: surgeries on children. As he started to sort of backstep
1:10:48
Speaker 15: on yesterday, but I think he's turned back around, so
1:10:51
Speaker 15: that's good. So there's a lot of things like that
1:10:54
Speaker 15: where I think, you know, he wants to hear from us,
1:10:56
Speaker 15: He needs to hear from us. He wants to know
1:10:58
Speaker 15: these are still integral issues to us. So it's okay
1:11:01
Speaker 15: to stand. It's okay to take a really firm voice
1:11:07
Speaker 15: against perhaps things that are happening. But it's very important
1:11:11
Speaker 15: that we don't diminish one another in a process. I
1:11:14
Speaker 15: say united as a coalition, and.
1:11:16
Speaker 1: I and I saw Marjorie Taylor Green go nuts on
1:11:19
Speaker 1: the truth social post and to be honest, doctor Gina,
1:11:22
Speaker 1: when I read that, I didn't read that as a
1:11:25
Speaker 1: as a justification for now as long as parents sign
1:11:27
Speaker 1: off on it, now we can just trains our kids.
1:11:29
Speaker 1: I think he I just think he mistyped. But I'm
1:11:32
Speaker 1: glad that he's, you know, beginning to correct that publicly,
1:11:35
Speaker 1: because I do think it ran the risk of being
1:11:38
Speaker 1: very misunderstood, especially when when you understand how strong his
1:11:42
Speaker 1: other actions have been on that issue.
1:11:44
Speaker 15: At a right, Yeah, we all remember, you know, like
1:11:50
Speaker 15: he is human, he is fallible, and you know, God
1:11:55
Speaker 15: has really put together something beautiful that is continuing to happen.
1:12:00
Speaker 15: And then look, I saw what happened to all that
1:12:02
Speaker 15: stuff with Christinome. I. You know, here's the thing. I
1:12:06
Speaker 15: can't fathom being in his position. I can't fathom juggling
1:12:09
Speaker 15: the things he's juggling every single day. And so will
1:12:13
Speaker 15: there be slight missteps. Yes, that's why we're here, mag
1:12:17
Speaker 15: That's why we're here. That's why God put us here.
1:12:20
Speaker 15: It's okay to speak up. It's okay PG or Tucker
1:12:24
Speaker 15: or Canvas or whoever to say.
1:12:26
Speaker 1: What they're going to.
1:12:27
Speaker 15: Say doesn't change everything. It changes only that we're having
1:12:32
Speaker 15: a conversation. And we still need to be strong enough
1:12:34
Speaker 15: together to say we can have really tough conversations and
1:12:39
Speaker 15: we can come back together and coalesce around the ideals
1:12:42
Speaker 15: that matter that are by the way, in our platform right,
1:12:46
Speaker 15: and where the Democrats don't forget voice, voted God out
1:12:50
Speaker 15: of their platforms. We need to stand united for the
1:12:53
Speaker 15: things we believe in, and we need to continue to
1:12:55
Speaker 15: believe in the things we believe in and to know
1:12:57
Speaker 15: that God is on his throne. Look, none of us
1:12:59
Speaker 15: would have seen back in twenty would have been twenty
1:13:04
Speaker 15: twenty when everything went wrong, that we could be standing
1:13:09
Speaker 15: where we are now, having the sort of negotiating power
1:13:12
Speaker 15: as a as a grassroots coalition who just started as
1:13:17
Speaker 15: a little tea party right mad about Obamacare, mad about
1:13:20
Speaker 15: the clubs and government. We didn't even understand deep State. Then.
1:13:23
Speaker 15: I'm still mad about Epstein. I'm still all over Epstein.
1:13:27
Speaker 15: I'm not four Forever Wars at all. There are certain
1:13:31
Speaker 15: things that I want to address. Teena Peters, Teena Peter's
1:13:33
Speaker 15: Tina Peters. I'm not thrilled about the situation in Texas.
1:13:38
Speaker 15: There are a lot of things we can say, but
1:13:40
Speaker 15: the bottom line is we have to remember who brought
1:13:43
Speaker 15: us here, who sits on his throne, and why we're
1:13:45
Speaker 15: really in this game to be well.
1:13:47
Speaker 1: And I think to your point, the fact that this
1:13:49
Speaker 1: administration and this president has such an unusually high number
1:13:54
Speaker 1: of honest believers around him. I think has done nothing
1:13:58
Speaker 1: but Sir of him well, and there are some significant
1:14:02
Speaker 1: godly voices that are around him. And so when we
1:14:05
Speaker 1: see the missteps and when we see the stumbles, being
1:14:08
Speaker 1: able to say what we need to look, I think
1:14:10
Speaker 1: it's important. And look, I've been very disappointed with Tucker
1:14:14
Speaker 1: and Candace and even to some degree Megan Kelly in
1:14:17
Speaker 1: recent weeks. But I don't think that the coalition falls
1:14:20
Speaker 1: apart because a few of us have disagreements. I think
1:14:23
Speaker 1: what you're saying is ultimately true. And if we don't
1:14:26
Speaker 1: pass the Save America Act and clean up our elections,
1:14:30
Speaker 1: there is no future for what we know of America
1:14:32
Speaker 1: as America currently is. And that's why whatever these other
1:14:37
Speaker 1: conversations are about, we better make sure that our senators
1:14:40
Speaker 1: and that our congressman get that bill passed and get
1:14:44
Speaker 1: that to the President's desk, because we cannot keep having
1:14:47
Speaker 1: question marks over election after election after election.
1:14:51
Speaker 15: Well that's why it's even more admirable what Ken Paxon
1:14:54
Speaker 15: said that he was perhaps willing to entertain the notion
1:14:57
Speaker 15: of getting out of the race if the Senate leadership
1:15:00
Speaker 15: would commit to passing the stay back.
1:15:03
Speaker 1: So I think that tells me a.
1:15:06
Speaker 15: Lot about Kim Paxon's heart in terms of his loving America.
1:15:10
Speaker 15: And that's what, you know, that's what we as voters
1:15:16
Speaker 15: rose up for.
1:15:16
Speaker 4: With Donald Trump.
1:15:17
Speaker 15: He said, you know, I remember you know this. You
1:15:20
Speaker 15: and I differed on Donald Trump for a long long time.
1:15:23
Speaker 15: And I would go into speeches and people would always say,
1:15:27
Speaker 15: you know, oh, he's not my brand of Christian.
1:15:29
Speaker 4: You know, look how many wives.
1:15:31
Speaker 15: He's had, Look how many whatever improprieties he's had. And
1:15:34
Speaker 15: I remember holding out hope, in my hope, in my
1:15:37
Speaker 15: heart that he just loved America, he loved America enough,
1:15:41
Speaker 15: because I couldn't see a motivation otherwise.
1:15:43
Speaker 4: I'll say, in.
1:15:44
Speaker 15: This latest move with Kim Paxon, I can't see a
1:15:46
Speaker 15: motivation otherwise. He might have his weaknesses. You know what,
1:15:50
Speaker 15: I'm no different. I have my own weaknesses. They might
1:15:52
Speaker 15: be in a different category, but there's two weaknesses and
1:15:55
Speaker 15: we all do. And I think that's what God was
1:15:58
Speaker 15: talking about in the Bible when he said, you know,
1:16:00
Speaker 15: look for the rock in your own eye. And I
1:16:03
Speaker 15: think that's really true still today. So let's all keep
1:16:06
Speaker 15: a humble heart and stick together and let's see where
1:16:08
Speaker 15: we can take this next, because I think.
1:16:10
Speaker 1: That I think you make.
1:16:11
Speaker 15: A great point, Kevin, we have to stand by the
1:16:14
Speaker 15: biggest issues.
1:16:15
Speaker 1: Gina aloud and always appreciates you. Watch her every weekday
1:16:18
Speaker 1: morning on Real America's Voice Doctor g We'll talk to
1:16:20
Speaker 1: you next week. Thanks, Kevin. That a good one, Kevin mccallough.
1:16:23
Speaker 1: By the way she was reporting live from Marlocke, that's
1:16:25
Speaker 1: just kind of how cool she's. Kevin mccallach coming right
1:16:28
Speaker 1: back on.
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Speaker 5: Stick around for more of that Kevin next, serving it
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Speaker 5: up with a no dream from it.
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Speaker 1: It's that Kevin show, all right, friends, It's been quite
1:16:52
Speaker 1: a week. When I left this microphone last Friday, at
1:16:56
Speaker 1: the same time, we did not know that we would
1:17:00
Speaker 1: be at war the next morning. There were a lot
1:17:04
Speaker 1: of things I did not anticipate, and there's a lot
1:17:06
Speaker 1: of things that I am anticipating for this weekend. My
1:17:09
Speaker 1: daughter has musical rehearsals and a new show that she's
1:17:14
Speaker 1: going to be doing, and my boys are running off
1:17:17
Speaker 1: to youth group Winner retreat, and there's a ton of
1:17:20
Speaker 1: things that I need to get done and focuses that
1:17:23
Speaker 1: I need to put on things, and I'm reminded that
1:17:28
Speaker 1: in a very what I hope is understood to be
1:17:31
Speaker 1: a humble way, is that we can make all the
1:17:35
Speaker 1: plans that we want, and we can say that we're
1:17:38
Speaker 1: going to be about all the things that we want
1:17:40
Speaker 1: to be about. But at the end of the day,
1:17:43
Speaker 1: there is a verse that I think holds court over
1:17:46
Speaker 1: all of it, and it's from the Book of Psalms
1:17:49
Speaker 1: and Psalms one fifteen, verse three. And if you ever
1:17:51
Speaker 1: get a personal note from me, this is what I
1:17:54
Speaker 1: put in my signature when I sign things and give
1:17:57
Speaker 1: them to people signersonal letter or sometimes just an email.
1:18:03
Speaker 1: But Psalm one fifteen three is a verse that I
1:18:05
Speaker 1: think encapsulates not only the totality of the Gospel, but
1:18:11
Speaker 1: the totality of what we need to know about life.
1:18:15
Speaker 1: And it says this, it's very simple, and we know
1:18:19
Speaker 1: this to be true, that our God is in heaven
1:18:23
Speaker 1: and does what pleases him. There's a lot of things
1:18:27
Speaker 1: about that verse that are very important to understand. One,
1:18:29
Speaker 1: God is not ethereal, and he is not mystical, and
1:18:33
Speaker 1: he's not mysteriously somewhere that we don't understand. God is
1:18:38
Speaker 1: in heaven, He's in the place of eternity. He's in
1:18:43
Speaker 1: the place of eternal life, and he will not be
1:18:46
Speaker 1: removed from that, because there is no one that can
1:18:48
Speaker 1: remove him from there. So the fact that he is
1:18:51
Speaker 1: at the helm of what we need and where we
1:18:57
Speaker 1: want to be should give us great But then to
1:19:00
Speaker 1: say not only is he there, but that he does
1:19:03
Speaker 1: only not some, not sometimes, not every now and then
1:19:07
Speaker 1: if he feels like it, or often or more often
1:19:11
Speaker 1: than not, none of those qualifiers he does only. That's
1:19:16
Speaker 1: an important word. It's a big word. It's a word
1:19:18
Speaker 1: that I don't always think should be used very much.
1:19:20
Speaker 1: Actually in normal life. I'm a big believer that we
1:19:24
Speaker 1: use never and always far too much. And only is
1:19:27
Speaker 1: in that same category. If we're going to say something
1:19:30
Speaker 1: is only, then it should be truly the one. But
1:19:34
Speaker 1: the verse says that God is in heaven, the foundation
1:19:37
Speaker 1: of all of eternal life, and does only so. He
1:19:40
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything outside of whatever the follows the word only,
1:19:44
Speaker 1: and what follows the word only what pleases him. So
1:19:47
Speaker 1: what takes place in your life this weekend, friend, is
1:19:50
Speaker 1: something that pleased him.
1:19:52
Speaker 4: For you to.
1:19:53
Speaker 1: Experience it, for you to walk through it, for you
1:19:54
Speaker 1: to be exposed to the temptation or the trial or
1:19:57
Speaker 1: the thing that you're dealing with. It is used for
1:20:00
Speaker 1: his purposes, and the challenge for us is to respond
1:20:06
Speaker 1: to what is put in front of us from that perspective. Okay, God,
1:20:11
Speaker 1: if you only do what pleases you, then then how
1:20:14
Speaker 1: am I working in conjunction with what you want to
1:20:17
Speaker 1: be done. That's ultimately what our question should be. It's
1:20:21
Speaker 1: a little bit heavy to end the week on, but
1:20:22
Speaker 1: I don't really care. It's something I think about all
1:20:25
Speaker 1: the time. You got work pressures, you got people stressing
1:20:29
Speaker 1: out about things and wanting to put all that pressure
1:20:32
Speaker 1: on you or stress on you. Friends. God's not moved
1:20:35
Speaker 1: by any of that. He's not taken by surprise by
1:20:38
Speaker 1: any of that, because he's in heaven and he does
1:20:41
Speaker 1: only what pleases him. And the question becomes for us,
1:20:44
Speaker 1: do we do what pleases us? It's do we do
1:20:47
Speaker 1: what is necessary to be in alignment with what pleases him?
1:20:51
Speaker 1: Because if our life is in alignment with what pleases him,
1:20:54
Speaker 1: then we can handle whatever that is that he's doing.
1:20:57
Speaker 1: And I take great comfort from Psalm one fifteen because
1:21:00
Speaker 1: it tells me that there is a God and he's
1:21:02
Speaker 1: in control and I'm not, and that's a good thing
1:21:05
Speaker 1: every single time. Kevin McCollough, I hope you have a
1:21:09
Speaker 1: great weekend. Drop me an email that Kevin Show at
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