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Speaker 1: things that pop into my mind, and I have a
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Speaker 1: lot of things that pop into my mind and have
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Speaker 1: in recent days. There are stories that entertain, and then
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Speaker 1: there are stories that just confront you with all kinds
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Speaker 1: of conviction and truth. And the life of Saint Patrick
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Speaker 1: does not to me belong in the shallow end of
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Speaker 1: cultural celebration. I know today there's going to be green
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Speaker 1: beer and plastic hats and parades that forget all the point,
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Speaker 1: but his life is something far more unsettling, because Saint
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Speaker 1: Patrick didn't just survive evil, he went back to it.
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Speaker 1: At sixteen, he was stolen from his home, ripped from
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Speaker 1: his family, dragged across the sea, forced into slavery in
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Speaker 1: a land that was not his own. He was not Irish.
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Speaker 1: Ireland was not then the land of saints and scholars.
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Speaker 1: It was wild and tribal and dangerous. And he spent
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Speaker 1: years alone, cold, hungry, forgotten, tending sheep on hills that
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Speaker 1: did not care if he lived or died. And yet
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Speaker 1: it was there that something happened, not comfort, not rescue. Faith.
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Speaker 1: In his own words, Patrick writes that he began to
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Speaker 1: pray constantly, dozens, even hundreds of times a day, not
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Speaker 1: because he was religious, but because he was desperate. And
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Speaker 1: in that desperation he discovered something that many of us,
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Speaker 1: with all our conveniences and comforts, rarely ever grasp, dependence
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Speaker 1: not on strength, not on strategy, not on self, but
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Speaker 1: dependence on Christ. Years later, he would pin what has
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Speaker 1: become one of the most enduring declarations of Christian devotion.
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Speaker 1: Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ
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Speaker 1: beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ
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Speaker 1: on my left. It was not poetry pen for Instagram
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Speaker 1: it was the language of survival. Eventually, Patrick escaped, against
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Speaker 1: all odds, he made at home. The nightmare was over,
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Speaker 1: the trauma behind him. The door to a normal life, safe, familiar,
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Speaker 1: deserved was wide open. And this is where the story
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Speaker 1: totally stops making sense, because instead of moving on, he
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Speaker 1: turned around. He chose to go back back to the
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Speaker 1: place of his pain, back to the people who enslaved him,
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Speaker 1: back to the land that had taken everything from him.
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Speaker 1: Why because the same Christ who met him in the
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Speaker 1: valley was now calling him to walk back into the
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Speaker 1: same valley. That's the part of the story we don't
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Speaker 1: celebrate enough because it demands something of us. We live
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Speaker 1: in a culture obsessed with escape. Get out, move on,
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Speaker 1: cut ties, protect your peace, build your brand, avoid the
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Speaker 1: hard places and even the harder people. But Patrick did
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Speaker 1: the opposite. He walked toward them, not with revenge in
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Speaker 1: his heart, but was redemption on his lips. He returned
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Speaker 1: not as a victim, but as a witness. And in
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Speaker 1: doing so, he didn't just change his own story, he
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Speaker 1: changed an entire nation's trajectory. Ireland would never be the same.
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Speaker 1: Here's the uncomfortable truth. Most of us want comfort of
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Speaker 1: faith without the cost of obedience. We love the idea
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Speaker 1: of Christ before me when it means guidance and blessing
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Speaker 1: and provision. But what happens when Christ before Me leads
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Speaker 1: us somewhere We would never choose on our own when
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Speaker 1: I need a perspective bigger than my pain. That's not
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Speaker 1: safe faith, that's dangerous faith, the kind that transforms not
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Speaker 1: just individuals, but whole cultures. We don't know what conversations
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Speaker 1: Patrick had when he first stepped back into Iris, onto
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Speaker 1: Irish soil. We don't know what memories came flooding back,
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Speaker 1: what fears tried to take hold, what doubts whispered in
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Speaker 1: the quiet, But we know this he didn't turn back again.
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Speaker 1: He stayed, He preached, he loved, he forgave, and slowly, steady, impossibly,
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Speaker 1: hearts began to change. This Saint Patrick's day, the world
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Speaker 1: will celebrate with noise. But Patrick's life was built in silence,
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Speaker 1: on lonely hillsides, in whispered prayers, in the unseen decisions
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Speaker 1: of obedience that no one applauded until everyone did. The
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Speaker 1: question his life leaves us with is not whether we'll
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Speaker 1: wear green or orange. It's whether We'll walk where Christ leads,
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Speaker 1: even when it costs us, even when it takes us
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Speaker 1: back into places we swore we'd never go back to,
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Speaker 1: even when forgiveness feels impossible and obedience feels unreasonable. Because
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Speaker 1: the same Christ who stands before us is the one
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Speaker 1: who stands within us. And if Patrick's life proves anything,
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Speaker 1: it proves this. You don't need perfect circumstances to change
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Speaker 1: the world. If you're waiting on them, you'll never get them.
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Speaker 1: They will never come, It will never be the perfect time.
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Speaker 1: Perfect circumstances are a carot that is chased. They are
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Speaker 1: an imagination that does not come true. They don't exist
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Speaker 1: in our timeline, they don't exist in history's timeline. And
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Speaker 1: Patrick's life proved that you don't need them to change
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Speaker 1: the world. You need a surrendered heart Christ before me.
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Speaker 1: It's not just a phrase. It's a direction, and for
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Speaker 1: those who are willing to follow it, it leads you
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Speaker 1: of this with us this week is one of our
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Speaker 1: very special friends, Pastor Alan Jackson. He's heard nationwide on
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Speaker 1: every night with Alan Jackson Now, and he's also got
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Speaker 1: a podcast, Culture and Christianity. But he's written this new book,
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Speaker 1: Lead with Faith, just out a few days ago, Using
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Speaker 1: your influence for God's Purposes. Allen, For the next four
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Speaker 1: days counting today, we're going to break down this idea
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Speaker 1: kind of concept by concept. What does leading with Faith
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Speaker 1: look like? What are we talking about today?
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Speaker 8: Well, I think the next step in this progression of
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Speaker 8: expanding our influence is we kind of have to recognize
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Speaker 8: the elephant in the room. Most of us feel like
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Speaker 8: we're not qualified to lead. Like the people that do
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Speaker 8: feel qualified make me a little anxious.
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Speaker 1: Because the chat is if the guy's always raising his hand,
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Speaker 1: pick pick me, maybe not the right mindset towards it.
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Speaker 8: I think you're right, but there's some things that take
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Speaker 8: root in our heart and I don't think they're accurate.
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Speaker 8: And we all have to wrestle with these. You know,
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Speaker 8: you know I don't have the right resources, or I
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Speaker 8: don't have enough influence, or.
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Speaker 4: I don't have the gifts.
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Speaker 8: If I had the gifts that I know somebody else has,
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Speaker 8: it'd be easier for me. Or I've got too much
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Speaker 8: baggage in my life.
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Speaker 3: And you know, all those things are true.
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Speaker 8: We don't have all the things that we would need
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Speaker 8: to impact our world, but the one we worship and
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Speaker 8: the one we serve and the one whom we represent.
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Speaker 8: Does you know Mike Huckaby is a friend of mine.
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Speaker 8: And I knew Mike Huckabee when he had a television
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Speaker 8: show and he was an ex governor. And all of
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Speaker 8: a sudden, the President of the United States tapped him
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Speaker 8: and said, I want you to be an ambassador for
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Speaker 8: the United States to the nation of Israel. And Mike's
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Speaker 8: life changed, his status changed, his authority changed, his role
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Speaker 8: in the world changed. Well, the creator of Heaven and
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Speaker 8: Earth tapped every one of us and said, I want
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Speaker 8: you to be an ambassador for my kingdom and your generation.
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Speaker 8: So now it wasn't about Mike's resources or Mike's education.
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Speaker 8: He was an ambassador for the United States of America. Well,
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Speaker 8: we're ambassadors for the Kingdom of Almighty God. So it
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Speaker 8: isn't about my resources or my education or even my failures.
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Speaker 8: And I have some of those in my life, and
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Speaker 8: we've got to wrestle it. We can't let the enemy
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Speaker 8: sideline us because of the things we're not because the
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Speaker 8: invitation that's been given to us is by someone far
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Speaker 8: more powerful than the advassary that is trying to discourage us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that that's an easy thing to miss,
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Speaker 1: especially if we're not getting like good teaching on a
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Speaker 1: regular basis, and a reminder if somebody has been wrestling
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Speaker 1: with that. What does scripture tell us about how we
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Speaker 1: should view ourselves in light of that?
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Speaker 8: Well, there's a verse that's a favorite of mine. It's
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Speaker 8: in Hebrews chapter twelve. And we've just come out of
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Speaker 8: the Hebrews eleven is the kind of the Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 8: It's all these men and women and the remarkable exploits
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Speaker 8: of the Kingdom of God. And we get to Hebrews
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Speaker 8: chapter twelve. It says, now let us run with perseverance
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Speaker 8: the race marked on for us. But the second verse
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Speaker 8: says that God is the author and the finisher of
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Speaker 8: our faith. And then that's helpful to me because he's
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Speaker 8: the initiator. He knew me when I was being knit
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Speaker 8: together in my mother's womb. He's aware of all of
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Speaker 8: my inatdequisies, in shortcomings, but he's the of the story
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Speaker 8: and when you write a book, you have the phrase
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Speaker 8: is poetic license. I can keep writing the ending till
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Speaker 8: I get it the way I like it. And so
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Speaker 8: the reality is I take some detours and make some
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Speaker 8: knuckleheaded decisions. But God's the finisher of my story. And
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Speaker 8: because of the redemptive power of the Cross and what
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Speaker 8: Jesus has done for us, I have been delivered. I've
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Speaker 8: been forgiven. I have been made a totally new creation.
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Speaker 8: And that's not an excuse for sloppy living, but it
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Speaker 8: means I'm not anchored to the disappointments and the brokenness
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Speaker 8: of my life. So if the enemy is reminding you
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Speaker 8: of your shortcomings or the lack of your education, or
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Speaker 8: whatever he's accusing you with, we need to be more
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Speaker 8: aware that God's the finisher of my story. And if
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Speaker 8: God puts an invitation before me, He'll be giving me
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Speaker 8: everything I need to accomplish. It won't mean it to
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Speaker 8: be easy, right, God said Samuel, denying David to be king,
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Speaker 8: But he didn't remove Saul from the throne, which meant
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Speaker 8: David had several years of some really difficult things to overcome.
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Speaker 8: I mean, he told Abraham he had to leave home
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Speaker 8: to find his purposes for his life. But Abraham was
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Speaker 8: decades getting across the finish line on what God had
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Speaker 8: for him. And so don't imagine that leading with your
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Speaker 8: faith and serving the Lord's going to be easy. In fact,
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Speaker 8: if it's not easy.
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Speaker 3: You're probably on the right track.
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Speaker 8: But the author of your faith, the initiator of that invitation,
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Speaker 8: is also the completer. And that is such a powerful,
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Speaker 8: powerful message for all of us to remember.
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Speaker 1: It seems to me, Pastor that that this aspect of
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Speaker 1: what we're talking about leading with faith, and you can
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Speaker 1: read the entire book, friends, Lead with faith using your
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Speaker 1: influence for God's purposes. It's out now, came out on
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Speaker 1: March shape. It seems to me that it doesn't take
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Speaker 1: a lot to go too far in my own confidence
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Speaker 1: and skills and thoughts that I'm good and I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of helping God out with his or to slide off
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Speaker 1: the other way and feel like it's all too enormous
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Speaker 1: for me. Staying on alignment and staying in proper humility
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Speaker 1: and gratitude, but staying hungry and staying active and staying
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Speaker 1: you know, motivated, it seems that the key to it.
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Speaker 1: So it doesn't become pride, and it doesn't become you know,
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Speaker 1: this intimidation is the key to it is aligning myself
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Speaker 1: with God's purpose and the need for that has to
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Speaker 1: come from a relationship with Him. The I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I'm on the target, if I keep taking my
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Speaker 1: eyes off of the target, you understand what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: I think.
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Speaker 8: So there's a temptation, and I think it's particularly true
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Speaker 8: in men.
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Speaker 1: But I know women aren't immune.
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Speaker 8: But men come to me and they'll say to me,
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Speaker 8: you know, what book do I.
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Speaker 1: Need to read?
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Speaker 8: They want to master their faith like they have mastered
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Speaker 8: bass fishing.
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Speaker 3: Or tennis, and it's you.
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Speaker 4: Know, tell me what I need to know.
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Speaker 8: Give me the sixth Essential Truths or the Four Keys
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Speaker 8: or the book. And really what we're talking about, I
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Speaker 8: think is more of a life commitment that emerges from
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Speaker 8: a desire to honor God. And that is an ever
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Speaker 8: changing emerging because difference. It's like it's a marriage, or
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Speaker 8: it's parenting, or I like gardening as an example, you know,
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Speaker 8: it's a biblical example and First Corinthians, Paul talks about that.
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Speaker 8: He said, I planted a seed.
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Speaker 3: And Apolus watered it.
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Speaker 8: My dad was a veterinarian, so I grew up in
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Speaker 8: kind of a rural setting and we would have gardens
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Speaker 8: and the beginning of the year springtime, you have to
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Speaker 8: break up the ground and get the ground ready to
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Speaker 8: receive the seeds, and that's a skill set that goes
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Speaker 8: without a certain kind of effort. Then you monitor that
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Speaker 8: product through the growing season. Then when it's harvest time,
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Speaker 8: that's a whole different kind of skill set and workload.
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Speaker 8: You can't do the same thing every day and think
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Speaker 8: you're going to have a healthy crop. And Christians, I think,
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Speaker 8: you know, we're looking for a way to fix it.
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Speaker 8: So I don't have to think about it anymore. I
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Speaker 8: don't have to really pay any attention to it. I
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Speaker 8: just want to put it on autopilot. And an important
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Speaker 8: step in this is being willing to say to the Lord,
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Speaker 8: I want to know you today. You know, my moods
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Speaker 8: are different every day. Pray for the people that work
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Speaker 8: with me because they have to adapt to.
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Speaker 1: How I am today.
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Speaker 8: And as much as I try to be consistent, I
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Speaker 8: know I'm not the same every day. And I want
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Speaker 8: to get to know the Lord at different times, different seasons,
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Speaker 8: different assignments, and that means I constantly get.
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Speaker 3: To learn and change and emerge.
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Speaker 8: And I'm not perfect and I'm always learning. I'm like
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Speaker 8: the little kid that's trying to learn to walk. I
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Speaker 8: fall down a lot and I have to get back up.
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Speaker 8: But I love the journey. And that's what I want
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Speaker 8: to invite your listeners to is, let's decide to go
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Speaker 8: serve the Lord with joy and excitement and enthusiasm.
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Speaker 1: You won't be disappointed. No, I will attest that investing
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Speaker 1: in that relationship never has a downside. It's almost like
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Speaker 1: a marriage. If you invest in your marriage, you're seldom
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Speaker 1: going to have a downside, But if you invest in
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Speaker 1: your relationship with Jesus, You'll never have a downside. Pastor
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Speaker 1: Alan Jackson is is our guest this week. He is
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Speaker 1: sharing with us from his book Lead with Faith, Using
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Speaker 1: your influence for God's purposes. And tomorrow we will take
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Speaker 1: up just another kind of leg to the table of
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Speaker 1: all of this as we are going through our week.
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Speaker 1: But Pastor Allen, thank you for being here and we'll
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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. Absolutely, Kevin Calvin mccallaugh coming right back
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Speaker 1: from Times Square. I don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 4: Let's stick around for more of that. Kevin. Next here
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Speaker 4: he is from New York. That Kevin, Kevin McCullough, John,
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Speaker 4: can it be?
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Speaker 9: She prays that God helped her to give them at
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Speaker 9: least one more day of food.
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Speaker 4: So it's a daily prayer.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, friends, but when I hear
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Speaker 1: that little baby in the backdrop just doing the little coops,
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Speaker 1: it's like, it's so uh, it's it's so endearing, it's
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Speaker 1: so charming. And then and then it hits you that
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Speaker 1: an hell is talking about a mother who may not
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Speaker 1: be able to feed that baby today, and she's praying
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Speaker 1: for one more day's worth of food. That's what we're
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Speaker 1: trying to end in the current campaign that we're doing
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Speaker 1: with Food for the Poor. Danny Petito is back with
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Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough and we are talking about the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: feed that child or one just like it, who has
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Speaker 1: food and security for a gift of only seventy five
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Speaker 1: dollars for the entire year two meals a day. It's
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Speaker 1: more than seven hundred and seventy meals something like that
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Speaker 1: for the coming year, and being able to do so
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Speaker 1: so economically. I don't know if you've done the math
22:23
Speaker 1: on that, but that's an incredibly inexpensive meal, and yet
22:26
Speaker 1: it'll be everything that that child needs to be healthy.
22:29
Speaker 1: Daniel Patino is back with us. Danny, I hear that,
22:32
Speaker 1: and I hear the baby, and it's like, you know,
22:34
Speaker 1: there's just a dad part of me that just can't
22:36
Speaker 1: get away from you know, how can we let something
22:39
Speaker 1: so innocent, someone so little, go hungry. It's just it's inconceivable.
22:44
Speaker 10: I'm a dad of two myself. One is turning eight
22:49
Speaker 10: coming weeks, and the little one it's three, and she's
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Speaker 10: just as fast as the eight year old. And I
22:55
Speaker 10: want to take you to the perspective of Beatrice that
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Speaker 10: we just heard.
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Speaker 1: There.
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Speaker 10: There's prayers for health, there's prayers for safety, there's prayers
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Speaker 10: for prosperity, and then there are prayers that you just
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Speaker 10: heard there that just it breaks your heart because that's
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Speaker 10: a prayer from one more day of food, and that
23:13
Speaker 10: becomes the entire horizon. That's their reality right now. I
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Speaker 10: can't pray for anything else than just one more meal,
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Speaker 10: one more meal to come in any way possible, from
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Speaker 10: a neighbor, from a food center, from a pastor that
23:28
Speaker 10: just comes to the door. And I'm here for you.
23:32
Speaker 10: I've listened to your prayers. You are not alone. And
23:36
Speaker 10: those are the moments that we love to have here
23:39
Speaker 10: at Food for the Poor because it comes from the
23:40
Speaker 10: generosity of your audience, and I followed that journey of
23:44
Speaker 10: that gift right It comes in as a small donation
23:49
Speaker 10: and it becomes a big, big change in these families' lives.
23:52
Speaker 10: This is that one little push that some of these
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Speaker 10: families need to finally get back out of that cycle
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Speaker 10: of poverty and transform their lives for the better.
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Speaker 3: And if for the children, it's a whole new world.
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Speaker 10: They become children again, they get to focus on playing,
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Speaker 10: not necessarily having to stay indoors because the tummy aches
24:09
Speaker 10: are just the body is not responding from malnutrition or
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Speaker 10: dirty water that usually happens in these communities that we serve,
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Speaker 10: the waters that just make them sick, even if they
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Speaker 10: try to boil it or they try to treat it.
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Speaker 10: And those are the changes that we're going on right now,
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Speaker 10: and that's through the generosity of your audience.
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Speaker 1: Eight five five nine zero seven four six seven three
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Speaker 1: is where you call to give your gift. We're talking
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Speaker 1: about children in the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere,
24:38
Speaker 1: one of the poorest countries in the world, Haiti another
24:40
Speaker 1: one of the poorest countries in the world, Guatemala, another
24:43
Speaker 1: one of the poorest countries in the world, Honduras. We're
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Speaker 1: talking about true systemic poverty that these children and Danny
24:53
Speaker 1: it's hard to it's hard to describe to someone who's
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Speaker 1: never been there to see it for themselves. But when
24:59
Speaker 1: we think of the distended bellies, when we think of
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Speaker 1: the orange hair, when we think of the the the
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Speaker 1: kind of misshapen ways we've seen kids in some of
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Speaker 1: these places, there is a reason why the body has
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Speaker 1: done all of that. It's trying to protect itself from
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Speaker 1: the natural effects of malnutrition. And so this is this
25:20
Speaker 1: is what happens. It begins in an essence, feeding on
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Speaker 1: itself over a period of time. And that's why we
25:25
Speaker 1: need carbohydrates, we need proteins, we need all of the
25:29
Speaker 1: little vitamins that come with that, and we need it
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Speaker 1: to be in a regular supply on a regular basis,
25:35
Speaker 1: And that's how the body not only sustains, but when
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Speaker 1: you're talking about children, actually helps them grow and friends,
25:41
Speaker 1: these are these are these are children coming from families
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Speaker 1: that do not make well, Danny, how much does the
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Speaker 1: average family make that Food for the Poor has help with.
25:51
Speaker 10: We're talking about less than two dollars a day. We've
25:54
Speaker 10: seen that as just it's not enough. It's not enough
25:57
Speaker 10: to feed anyone on a daily basis, nor keep a home.
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Speaker 10: And most of these families that we spoke to, they
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Speaker 10: have to travel for work. It's not like they go
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Speaker 10: next door or they're going down right, So there's two
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Speaker 10: things that happen there. One of the parents is in
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Speaker 10: home most of the day because they have to go
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Speaker 10: out and work.
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Speaker 3: And the other one is the distance.
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Speaker 10: Some families we've spoken to they have to grab a bus,
26:18
Speaker 10: get on another tuck tuck or the little taxis that
26:21
Speaker 10: look like motorcycles, jump on another transportation and all those
26:25
Speaker 10: cost There is cost involved one way and coming back.
26:29
Speaker 10: So the finally, and if it rains, you can guess
26:33
Speaker 10: there is no work and that equals to no money
26:36
Speaker 10: on the no money in your pocket, no food on
26:38
Speaker 10: the table. So that's why we heard Beatrice at the
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Speaker 10: beginning of the segment. Here we heard are just for
26:43
Speaker 10: not praying for a miracle, but praying that ordinary comes about, right,
26:49
Speaker 10: the normal for what we take for granted is their normal,
26:53
Speaker 10: and that's why we're that's what we're fighting for the
26:55
Speaker 10: basis of life, of what we're calling here food for
26:57
Speaker 10: the poor on this day of hope with you. It's
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Speaker 10: it's the basics of life, which is food and clean water,
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Speaker 10: and that's all they're praying for right now. And that's
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Speaker 10: what you can step into the reality of these families
27:08
Speaker 10: right now with your one time gift and it's a
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Speaker 10: world of change for these families.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're we're coming to the rescue as the best
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28:07
Speaker 4: Here he is from New York. That Kevin McCullough.
28:14
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Times Square. Kevin McCullough, that Kevin Show,
28:18
Speaker 1: that kevinshow dot com for everything. We don't put anything
28:21
Speaker 1: behind a paywall because we want you to have access
28:23
Speaker 1: to it. You know, I'm always tracking with the Campus
28:26
Speaker 1: Reform Group weird stuff that's going on on the college campuses.
28:31
Speaker 1: For lack of a better term, I don't know that
28:33
Speaker 1: it gets much more strange than for students to be
28:38
Speaker 1: chanting death to America on American university campuses. Here to
28:45
Speaker 1: discuss is William Biagny, Campus Reform Assistant Editor. We have
28:50
Speaker 1: reported a lot on Emily's reporting here, but William is
28:53
Speaker 1: part of the group there as well. William explain this
28:57
Speaker 1: how and where is this taking right?
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me on today. It's
29:03
Speaker 6: great to be here. So we got this really crazy
29:05
Speaker 6: story today. So for about five decades now, Iran has
29:08
Speaker 6: been chanting death to America, but we're seeing this crazy
29:11
Speaker 6: phenomenon where these chants are now making their way to
29:15
Speaker 6: college campuses in the United States of America, which is
29:19
Speaker 6: it's surprising to see that our universities which have been
29:22
Speaker 6: training students up in radical leftist ideology, well now we
29:26
Speaker 6: have students that are siding with the super repressive Islamic.
29:31
Speaker 3: Regime in Iran.
29:32
Speaker 6: So we have this one example at Columbia University where
29:35
Speaker 6: an anti Israel group linked to that university. It's not
29:40
Speaker 6: one hundred percent affiliated with university, but it's linked to.
29:42
Speaker 6: It was channing mark Barr i'mrica, which is Farsi for
29:46
Speaker 6: death to America.
29:47
Speaker 3: We also have students at.
29:48
Speaker 6: Yale University that we're photographed doing a protest with signs
29:53
Speaker 6: using similar slogans. So we're starting to see students at
29:56
Speaker 6: American universities channing the very same things that our foreign
30:00
Speaker 6: adversaries are also chanting.
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Speaker 1: I see this as more important than yelling fire in
30:05
Speaker 1: a crowded theater. We talk about freedom of speech, but
30:08
Speaker 1: death to America.
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Speaker 3: Right, So here's the thing.
30:11
Speaker 6: Our universities are supposed to be institutions where ideas are
30:15
Speaker 6: thrown back and forth in the pursuit of truth. They're
30:18
Speaker 6: not supposed to be what they are now, which are
30:21
Speaker 6: ideological echo chambers for the left to train students up
30:24
Speaker 6: to hate America, hate what it was founded on, and
30:28
Speaker 6: in addition, protest anything that President Trump does.
30:31
Speaker 3: So they don't even look at it anymore.
30:32
Speaker 6: It's just, oh, president Trump takes an action, Oh, let's
30:35
Speaker 6: go protest it. They don't even realize the irony here,
30:39
Speaker 6: which is that these students are protesting in support of
30:42
Speaker 6: a regime that is famous for killing its own protesters,
30:46
Speaker 6: that has slaughtered tens of thousands of them, and it
30:48
Speaker 6: won't stop until we stand up and realize its stand
30:52
Speaker 6: up and say, hey, our universities, you know you're not
30:54
Speaker 6: going to teach our students to hate America, hate the
30:57
Speaker 6: country that you were born in, raised in. We need
30:59
Speaker 6: to see intellectual diversity return to higher education and students
31:03
Speaker 6: need to be taught the reality of ze.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat my question. Are any of these
31:07
Speaker 1: schools taking any action towards the groups that are perpetrating
31:11
Speaker 1: this behavior?
31:12
Speaker 6: You know, if they are, we will continue to monitor them,
31:15
Speaker 6: monitor them at LUSHAP. They have as yet, it's it's
31:18
Speaker 6: still up in the We're still seeing this situation ongoing.
31:21
Speaker 6: The whole thing is ongoing, So if something does happen,
31:25
Speaker 6: we will be the first report on it.
31:26
Speaker 1: Well, I hope that at least those that are watching
31:30
Speaker 1: or listening to me today, if you're an alumnus of
31:34
Speaker 1: Columbia University, that you call the endowment department and tell
31:38
Speaker 1: them you're not giving any more money to them, like,
31:40
Speaker 1: don't I don't want money going to universities. The same
31:43
Speaker 1: with Yale if there was an incident there, don't. I
31:46
Speaker 1: don't want money going to universities that are going to
31:48
Speaker 1: promote death to America. I'm sorry, I know that makes
31:51
Speaker 1: me crazy and very elitist, but that's the way it
31:53
Speaker 1: is now. Similarly, there are some groups that are protesting
31:59
Speaker 1: the war in Iran, which doesn't seem to be quite
32:01
Speaker 1: as harsh in my way of thinking as asking for
32:06
Speaker 1: death to America. But what's going on at Arizona State University?
32:10
Speaker 6: Right, So, we have socialist and pro Palestinian students at
32:13
Speaker 6: Arizona State University, and they came out with a no
32:16
Speaker 6: war in Iran protest, protesting President Trump's joint strikes with
32:20
Speaker 6: Israel on the Kamani regime. But what was interesting about
32:24
Speaker 6: this is that this protest was challenged by Irunnian students
32:27
Speaker 6: who said that Iran lived under a Runians were living
32:31
Speaker 6: under a dictatorship for over forty years, and that they
32:34
Speaker 6: actually support international pressure on the regime responsible for widespread
32:40
Speaker 6: human rights abuses. And so this does go back to
32:42
Speaker 6: show that these students are not being taught the reality
32:46
Speaker 6: of these regimes. And as we were mentioning earlier, they're
32:49
Speaker 6: being told death to America. And these are the universities
32:52
Speaker 6: that are in the United States here there, and we're
32:54
Speaker 6: beginning to see all of these leftist rallying cries of
32:58
Speaker 6: no war in Iran and anti Israel. They're all being
33:02
Speaker 6: joined together because our universities don't have intellectual diversity anymore.
33:08
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so well said, but it's it's very
33:10
Speaker 1: frightening to think that in the American educational system this
33:16
Speaker 1: is where we've arrived, and it's angering. I think that
33:21
Speaker 1: people that are listening and watching are probably on some level,
33:24
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of people that don't want
33:27
Speaker 1: to see war happen. War is horrible. Big part of
33:30
Speaker 1: the reason President Trump was elected was because he didn't
33:33
Speaker 1: believe in extending, you know, never ending wars. I don't
33:38
Speaker 1: think he was ever under the impression, nor do I
33:40
Speaker 1: think he ever gave the impression that he'd be ever
33:42
Speaker 1: afraid to use actual military strength when necessary. But the
33:46
Speaker 1: issue is that this is something that is a once
33:50
Speaker 1: in a lifetime kind of opportunity to topple this dictatorship,
33:55
Speaker 1: this tyranny really is what the I toldas were and
33:58
Speaker 1: when they killed thirty five thousand of their own just
34:01
Speaker 1: weeks before this, Like what other evidence do people at
34:05
Speaker 1: Arizona State University need to understand the evil that we're
34:08
Speaker 1: dealing with?
34:09
Speaker 6: You know, I think we it's it's I stumbled upon
34:12
Speaker 6: something quite recently that I think goes back perfectly to this.
34:15
Speaker 6: I think they should talk to the Iranians themselves. I
34:18
Speaker 6: was in DC a couple of weeks ago, and I
34:20
Speaker 6: stumbled upon a protest against the Comanian regime that was
34:24
Speaker 6: being led by Iranians, and they're actually celebrating President Trump's actions.
34:28
Speaker 6: So here you have Iranians who are celebrating President Trump
34:31
Speaker 6: and Israel for taking out this brutal, brutal regime. And
34:34
Speaker 6: then you have left as students who were born and
34:36
Speaker 6: raised in the United States and now chanting death to
34:39
Speaker 6: America for this very same thing.
34:41
Speaker 3: It's disgusting to see that. And you know, the.
34:43
Speaker 6: Chance, the death to America chance, that is by far
34:46
Speaker 6: the most infuriating thing.
34:47
Speaker 3: Are universities.
34:48
Speaker 6: They're funded by us, by our tax money, and they're
34:52
Speaker 6: they're just allowing this to happen. It's infuriating and yeah
34:55
Speaker 6: it makes people angry.
34:56
Speaker 1: Well, you can read our Campus Reform friends, but I
34:58
Speaker 1: want here's what I want you to do. If if
35:00
Speaker 1: you go online and read about this, and then you
35:02
Speaker 1: have strong feelings about these schools and you're an alumnus,
35:06
Speaker 1: Endowment departments get people's attention pretty quick, and you need
35:10
Speaker 1: to let them know that there'll be no more money
35:12
Speaker 1: coming from you. And then I would petition your your
35:16
Speaker 1: federal leaders to stop sending moneies to these universities. They
35:21
Speaker 1: don't need them. Their endowments last well into the future.
35:26
Speaker 1: I think it would be really wise to put it
35:28
Speaker 1: into all that. William, thank you for what you're doing
35:31
Speaker 1: at Campus Reform and come on and see us again
35:33
Speaker 1: sometime soon.
35:35
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
35:35
Speaker 1: It was great. You got Kevin McCulloch coming right back
35:37
Speaker 1: over the way.
35:46
Speaker 7: Let's stick around for more of that Kevin next serving
36:00
Speaker 7: it up. That's a no drink mintal. It's that Kevin show, all.
36:08
Speaker 1: Right, Kevin mccallaugh. Glad to have you with us. Welcome back.
36:10
Speaker 1: I forgot, friends, earlier in the hour, when I was
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Speaker 1: telling you about food for the poor, I forgot to
36:16
Speaker 1: mention that you can click through on that kevinshow dot
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36:23
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36:27
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36:30
Speaker 1: or you can call eight five five nine zero seven
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Speaker 1: four six seven three. And however you give your gift,
36:37
Speaker 1: if you give it this hour, it will be matched
36:41
Speaker 1: child for child. So whatever you give, you give one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. Normally, that would take care of
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Speaker 1: two children for the entire next year, all the food
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Speaker 1: and all the water that they need for the entire
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Speaker 1: next year, two meals a day, all the drinking water
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Speaker 1: that they can have, and it's clean, it's purified, it's
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Speaker 1: good for them, it's not nasty. One hundred fIF two
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Speaker 1: kids for the entire year. But right now someone will
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Speaker 1: the impact. You're going to reach four kids instead of
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Speaker 1: And I would love to just like do so well
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37:24
Speaker 1: away all our all of our fellow talk show hosts
37:27
Speaker 1: at Salem Media. I know my buddy Mike Gallagher, he
37:31
Speaker 1: really gets excited about this campaign, and you know, he's
37:33
Speaker 1: always like talking smack to you, Hewitt and some of
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Speaker 1: the others about how many, how many kids he feeds
37:38
Speaker 1: and so forth. I love, I'd love to show him
37:42
Speaker 1: that real Christians really do care about the impact. And
37:47
Speaker 1: that's the beautiful thing about Food for the Poor. It
37:49
Speaker 1: is a Christian ministry that has been in place for
37:52
Speaker 1: forty five years in these eighteen countries. And you're gonna
37:57
Speaker 1: not only give food and clean drinking water to that child,
38:00
Speaker 1: but that child will be introduced to Jesus at the
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Speaker 1: same time. So eight five five, nine oh seven four
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Speaker 1: six seven three, and if you call this hour, every
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Speaker 1: gift we get will be matched unlimited. So doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: how you give five thousand dollars, you're going to double
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Speaker 1: reaches and how many children are benefited by that Fords.
38:22
Speaker 1: It is just going to make such a huge difference.
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Speaker 1: So please don't put it off. We we have until
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Speaker 1: the end of April basically to accomplish our goal. I'd
38:30
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Speaker 1: Just have everybody say Okay, let's go, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Eight five five nine zero seven four six seven three
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Speaker 1: But seven hundred and twenty children are going hungry today
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Speaker 1: eight five five nine zero seven four six seven three
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Speaker 1: The next couple of days, I'll have some friends stop by.
38:55
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it a little bit. But this is
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Speaker 1: this is part of my show. We do good all
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Speaker 1: the time. We believe in doing good. We believe. One
39:03
Speaker 1: of the things I tell my kids when I drop
39:05
Speaker 1: them off at school in the morning, the last thing
39:08
Speaker 1: they hear from their dad besides I Love you, is
39:11
Speaker 1: be good and do good. And I believe that as Christians,
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Speaker 1: because the Holy Spirit lives within their heart, they have
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Speaker 1: the ability to be their identity can be good, and
39:24
Speaker 1: out of that identity, what they do with their actions
39:28
Speaker 1: can then show that their actions are consistent with their identity,
39:32
Speaker 1: that they will then do good. But you can't do
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Speaker 1: it backwards. You can't do good and then become good.
39:37
Speaker 1: You got to be good and then out of being good,
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Speaker 1: you do good. And that's what I drill into their
39:43
Speaker 1: head every single days they're getting out of the car. Okay,
39:45
Speaker 1: I love you, Your dad loves you. Now be good
39:48
Speaker 1: and do good today. And they always say the same
39:50
Speaker 1: thing back, Okay, dad, you be good and do good too,
39:55
Speaker 1: and that the best. Like I'm getting challenged by my
39:59
Speaker 1: ten I'm thirteen year old to do the very thing
40:02
Speaker 1: that I'm challenging them to do. I think that's the
40:04
Speaker 1: way it's supposed to work, that we spur one another.
40:07
Speaker 1: What does the scripture say, spur one another on to
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Speaker 1: love and what good deeds. Let's do that together. Eight
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Speaker 1: you know, it's in the low thirties. It's just one
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Speaker 1: to be warm and it doesn't look anything like it.
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Speaker 1: I'm very excited about today's column, by the way, and
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Speaker 1: it's timely, but it's not necessarily newsy. Sometimes I write
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Speaker 1: about other things that pop into my mind, and I
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Speaker 1: have a lot of things that pop into my mind
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Speaker 1: and have in recent days. There are stories that entertain,
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Speaker 1: and then there are stories that just confront you with
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Speaker 1: all kinds of conviction and truth. And the life of
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Speaker 1: Saint Patrick does not to me belong in the shallow
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Speaker 1: end of cultural celebration. I know today there's going to
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Speaker 1: be green beer and plastic hats and parades that forget
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Speaker 1: all the point. But his life is something far more unsettling,
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Speaker 1: because Saint Patrick didn't just survive evil, he went back
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Speaker 1: to it. At sixteen, he was stolen from his home,
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Speaker 1: ripped from his family, dragged across the sea, forced into
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Speaker 1: slavery in a land that was not his own. He
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Speaker 1: was not Irish. Ireland was not then the land of
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Speaker 1: saints and scholars. It was wild and tribal and dangerous.
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Speaker 1: And he spent years alone, cold, hungry, forgotten, tending sheep
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Speaker 1: on hills that did not care if he lived or died.
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Speaker 1: And yet it was there that something happened, not comfort,
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Speaker 1: not rescue. Faith. In his own words, Patrick writes that
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Speaker 1: he began to pray constantly, dozens even hundreds of times
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Speaker 1: a day, not because he was religious, but because he
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Speaker 1: was desperate. And in that desperation he discovered something that
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Speaker 1: many of us, with all our conveniences and comforts, rarely
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Speaker 1: ever grasp, dependence not on strength, not on strategy, not
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Speaker 1: on self, but dependence on Christ. Years later, he would
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Speaker 1: pin what has become one of the most enduring declarations
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Speaker 1: of Christian devotion. Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ
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Speaker 1: in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on
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Speaker 1: my right, Christ on my left. It was not poetry
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Speaker 1: pen for Instagram. It was the language of survival. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: Patrick escaped, against all odds he made at home. The
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Speaker 1: nightmare was over, the trauma behind him. The door to
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Speaker 1: a normal life, safe, familiar, deserved, was wide open, and
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Speaker 1: This is where the story totally stops making sense, because
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Speaker 1: instead of moving on, he turned around. He chose to
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Speaker 1: go back back to the place of his pain, back
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Speaker 1: to the people who enslaved him, back to the land
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Speaker 1: that had taken everything from him. Why Because the same
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Speaker 1: Christ who met him in the valley was now calling
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Speaker 1: him to walk back into the same valley. That's the
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Speaker 1: part of the story we don't celebrate enough because it
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Speaker 1: demands something of us. We live in a culture obsessed
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Speaker 1: with escape. Get out, move on, cut ties, protect your peace,
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Speaker 1: build your brand, avoid the hard places and even the
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Speaker 1: harder people. But Patrick did the opposite, walked toward them,
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Speaker 1: not with revenge in his heart, but was redemption on
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Speaker 1: his lips. He returned not as a victim, but as
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Speaker 1: a witness, And in doing so, he didn't just change
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Speaker 1: his own story, he changed an entire nation's trajectory. Ireland
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Speaker 1: would never be the same. Here's the uncomfortable truth. Most
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Speaker 1: of us want comfort of faith without the cost of obedience.
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Speaker 1: We love the idea of Christ before me when it
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Speaker 1: means guidance and blessing and provision. But what happens when
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Speaker 1: Christ before Me leads us somewhere We would never choose
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Speaker 1: on our own when I need a perspective bigger than
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Speaker 1: my pain. That's not safe faith, that's dangerous faith, the
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Speaker 1: kind that transforms not just individuals, but whole cultures. We
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Speaker 1: don't know what conversations Patrick had when he first stepped
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Speaker 1: back into Iris, onto Irish soil. We don't know what
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Speaker 1: memories came flooding back, what fears tried to take hold,
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Speaker 1: what doubts whispered in the quiet, But we know this.
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Speaker 1: He didn't turn back again. He stayed, He preached, he loved,
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Speaker 1: he forgave, and slowly, steady, impossibly, hearts began to change.
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Speaker 1: This Saint Patrick's day, the world will celebrate with noise.
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Speaker 1: But Patrick's life was built in silence, on lonely hillsides,
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Speaker 1: in whispered prayers, in the unseen decisions of obedience that
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Speaker 1: no one applauded until everyone did. The question his life
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Speaker 1: leaves us with is not whether we'll wear green or orange.
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Speaker 1: It's weather. We'll walk where Christ leads, even when it
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Speaker 1: costs us, even when it takes us back into places
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Speaker 1: we swore we'd never go back to, Even when forgiveness
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Speaker 1: feels impossible and obedience feels unreasonable, because the same Christ
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Speaker 1: who stands before us is the one who stands within us.
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Speaker 1: And if Patrick's life proves anything, it proves this. You
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Speaker 1: don't need perfect circumstances to change the world. If you're
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Speaker 1: waiting on them, you'll never get them. They will never come,
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Speaker 1: It will never be the perfect time. Perfect circumstances are
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Speaker 1: a carot that is chased. They are an imagination that
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Speaker 1: does not come true. They don't exist in our timeline,
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Speaker 1: they don't exist in history's timeline. And Patrick's life proved
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Speaker 1: that you don't need them to change the world. You
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Speaker 1: need a surrendered heart Christ before me. It's not just
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Speaker 1: a phrase, it's a direction, and for those who are
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Speaker 1: willing to follow it, it leads you to a life
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Speaker 1: that echoes far beyond a single day in the month
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Speaker 1: of March. Kevin McCullough, if you would like to know
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Speaker 1: of one piece of legislation, if we don't do anything
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Speaker 1: else here, I'm okay with that. I want you to
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Speaker 1: know the Christ that goes before and the Christ who
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Speaker 1: comes behind, and the Christ who is in me, the
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Speaker 1: Christ who is under the steps that I take. He's
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Speaker 1: Right, welcome back. It's that Kevin Show for Tuesday. And
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Speaker 1: we're very honored to have Katy McFarlane joining us. She
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Speaker 1: joins us weekly to discuss all things foreign policy, but
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Speaker 1: specifically military and national security. And kat I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of good things are going on. I like the
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Speaker 1: President doing something that nobody's done before, and that is saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: you other countries that are going to benefit from all this,
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Speaker 1: get your boats over here too, divvying up some of
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Speaker 1: the risk and responsibility. Where do you think we are?
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Speaker 1: Is the Supreme Leader dead? What's going on on the ground,
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Speaker 1: What are our objectives? What do we have yet to
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Speaker 1: accomplish before we can start to draw down our presence?
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Speaker 11: There. Oh, I think he's going extremely well. Yeah, the
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Speaker 11: Supreme Leader, the first Supreme Leader died the first day.
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Speaker 11: The second Supreme Leader, nobody's had proof of.
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Speaker 4: Life of him.
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Speaker 11: So is he alive? Is he not? Things are issued
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Speaker 11: in his name?
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Speaker 12: Who knows?
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Speaker 11: The other major leader, Lauren Johnny the President, he was
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Speaker 11: killed yesterday. If they're working their way through the top
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Speaker 11: tier of leaders military, civilian, and part of the regime,
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Speaker 11: that's good. The military part of it. They've taken up
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Speaker 11: the Navy, the Air Force, the nuclear sites, the missile sites,
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Speaker 11: the missile production sites, the drone the site, the drone
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Speaker 11: production sites, the command and control so there. Militarily, they're
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Speaker 11: just doing a terrific job of really completely demilitarizing Iran.
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Speaker 3: So what's left?
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Speaker 11: So the straight up our moose, which going back to
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Speaker 11: the Nixon administration. When I was in the Knixon administration,
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Speaker 11: we always knew RN's mood would be to try to
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Speaker 11: seal off the straight up our moves. They try to
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Speaker 11: do it for Reagan, they try to do it many
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Speaker 11: times before. So why is the United States not immediately
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Speaker 11: jumping to our allies aid and opening the street was
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Speaker 11: because it's not our list of priorities, but it's not
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Speaker 11: number one list on our priority because we wanted to
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Speaker 11: do all the things I've just mentioned, and we're doing that.
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Speaker 11: So when we get we're confident that there's no war,
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Speaker 11: we're making capability of a run, and I think we
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Speaker 11: get to the Strait of Hormuz. But like you said,
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Speaker 11: the President said to our allies, well, come on, guys,
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Speaker 11: you have ships, you have ships in the area.
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Speaker 3: Where are you?
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Speaker 11: And what he doesn't say is, hey, wait a minute, guys,
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Speaker 11: the shipping that goes through the Straight of Hormones is yours.
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Speaker 5: It's not.
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Speaker 11: It's Europeans, Middle East Asia. That's the trade route through
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Speaker 11: the Straight of the Persian Gulf, Strait of Removes. American
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Speaker 11: ships aren't going through those routes, I mean one or two,
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Speaker 11: but it's not our goods and commerce. It's transiting the
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Speaker 11: Strait of Hormuz. So you would think that the Allies
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Speaker 11: would jump at the opportunity to help us, help them,
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Speaker 11: but so far, not only have they refused most of them,
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Speaker 11: but in many cases they're all trying to cut their
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Speaker 11: own separate deals, with Iran saying well, you know, let
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Speaker 11: the French ships in effectively siding with Iran instead of
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Speaker 11: the United States. I think President Trump will have a
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Speaker 11: long memory when this is all finished. But I do
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Speaker 11: think it will be finished within several weeks. And how
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Speaker 11: could it finish well? Number One, President Trump could just
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Speaker 11: declare victory today and walk away because he's decimated Iron's
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Speaker 11: ability to make war.
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Speaker 1: Well, if we don't need the straight and we've done
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Speaker 1: everything we set out to do, I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people are saying, well, why don't we just do that?
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Speaker 11: Well? President Trump's argument, and it's the argument that is
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Speaker 11: a very good one. It's like mowing the grass. You
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Speaker 11: mow the grass, and you know, you mow the grass.
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Speaker 11: It's great, good for a bit of time, but then
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Speaker 11: the grass goes back and you got the same problem
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Speaker 11: all over again. And what President Trump is saying is
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Speaker 11: I want to solve this problem now. I don't want
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Speaker 11: to kick it down the road. I don't want to
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Speaker 11: have to have my successors deal with it. But he could.
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Speaker 11: He could easily walk away to Morosa, mission accomplished, and
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Speaker 11: I've set around back at least ten years in any
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Speaker 11: of their economic, military, nuclear missile programs. But what he
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Speaker 11: wants to do is maybe not regime change, in the
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Speaker 11: sense of kill them all or get rid of them all,
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Speaker 11: like George Bush did in Afghanistan and a rock. But
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Speaker 11: maybe it's the regime change Trump style, which is get
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Speaker 11: rid of the in calcitrant ones, the ones who keep
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Speaker 11: screaming death to America, and see if there's anybody within
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Speaker 11: the leadership or elites in the country that would be
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Speaker 11: willing to work with us, like what happened in Venezuela.
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Speaker 11: And I think that's what they're doing. You know, you
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Speaker 11: don't see it, and of course immediate assumes it's not
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Speaker 11: happening just because they don't see it. But we are
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Speaker 11: talking to the senior leaders in these countries. We were
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Speaker 11: talking to the leaders in Iran in Venezuela before the
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Speaker 11: Maduro raid. We are talking to the senior people in
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Speaker 11: Cuba right now about what would what would a government
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Speaker 11: post communists look like? What would a government post Maduro
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Speaker 11: look like? And I'm assuming that given the fact that
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Speaker 11: we have far greater intelligence, along with the Israelis, of
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Speaker 11: what happens in Iran, and we're also talking there.
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Speaker 1: What what what do you what do you make of
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Speaker 1: where the Iranian people sit right now?
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Speaker 11: You don't know, I mean nobody's punk both opinion polls
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Speaker 11: that anybody can count on and Iran right now, what
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Speaker 11: is happening on the streets that are run is that
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Speaker 11: there's a group called the Besiege b A.
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Speaker 13: S I J.
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Speaker 11: And they're fogs and guys in motorcycle gangs and they're
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Speaker 11: quote irregular forces, but they're the goons. They're the goods
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Speaker 11: who are doing street patrol, and those are the people
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Speaker 11: who are gunning down any protesters. What they do is
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Speaker 11: that the Besiege says up these checkpoints on corner street corners,
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Speaker 11: and if they see anybody who looks like they're going
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Speaker 11: to protest, or women who aren't weighing the headscarves, they
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Speaker 11: shoot them or they arrest them. So what are we
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Speaker 11: doing about that? Well, this is the sort of second
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Speaker 11: wave of the attacks that we're doing. We can pinpoint
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Speaker 11: those checkpoints and we can send a missile right to
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Speaker 11: that place or drop a bomb right at that street corner,
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Speaker 11: and that eliminates and destroys that checkpoint. So well, that
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Speaker 11: was not the first that we have now turned to
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Speaker 11: that in week two. Week one, it was to get
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Speaker 11: rid of the missile sites and the command and control.
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Speaker 11: But we're now to the sort of next level of targets.
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Speaker 11: And we're doing that. At what point does somebody emerge
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Speaker 11: from either the current regime, say a second tier person
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Speaker 11: who says enough is enough, or does somebody other people emerge?
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Speaker 11: As President Trump has said, and this is quite unusual,
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Speaker 11: he said to the military, lay down your arms, I'll
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Speaker 11: get the anssy. We would like you to work with
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Speaker 11: a new government. So I think that we just there's
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Speaker 11: several options. President Trump hass he can just keep killing
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Speaker 11: the guys tier one, tier two, tier three until he
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Speaker 11: gets somebody who says, Okay, I'm willing to work with you.
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Speaker 11: I want to run back in the new world, the
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Speaker 11: world economy. We're going to stop our new their program.
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Speaker 11: We're not going to support the proxies. We're going to
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Speaker 11: dismantle our highly enriched geranium. And maybe there is that person,
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Speaker 11: maybe there's not that person.
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Speaker 4: But it's fluid.
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Speaker 11: And that's why I think President Trump has so many options,
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Speaker 11: and he's given himself make some emoptions.
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Speaker 3: Remember Iran's broke.
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Speaker 11: They don't have any oil to so they can't sell
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Speaker 11: their oil.
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Speaker 4: But we've left.
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Speaker 11: For example, there's a place called Kerg Island, which is
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Speaker 11: this tiny island in the middle of the Strait of
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Speaker 11: Hormuz and its Two things happen there. One is there
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Speaker 11: military base is there to shoot it any ship that's transitting,
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Speaker 11: and that we destroyed three days ago. No military operations
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Speaker 11: on card Island. But Card Island also has a pipeline
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Speaker 11: going from Iran to the island, and that's where all
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Speaker 11: the ships that are getting oil. You know that the
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Speaker 11: oil transit ships are loaded up with oil.
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Speaker 4: We've left that alone.
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Speaker 11: And we've left that alone because I think President Trump again,
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Speaker 11: is he working with the people of Iran or his
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Speaker 11: people talking to their people or some people with the
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Speaker 11: idea that then a post Mullah regime could build up
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Speaker 11: very quickly into as you said, one of the most
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Speaker 11: prosperous countries in the world.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's their history, and I think you still
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Speaker 1: have some people who are alive forty seven fifty years
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Speaker 1: ago that remember that. What do you think the role
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Speaker 1: of the crown princes in this He has volunteered to
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Speaker 1: help in whatever way he can. Is he useful or
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Speaker 1: is it still just too insecure in terms of the
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Speaker 1: math on the ground to be able to bring someone
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Speaker 1: like that in well as.
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Speaker 11: President of Shwubs. He's met him several times. He says,
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Speaker 11: a nice guy's really polite, very earnest. He's got a
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Speaker 11: comprehensive plan of you know, things like Wendy, you turn
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Speaker 11: on the lights, Wendy, you turn on the water works.
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Speaker 11: But he himself a lobby has not been in Iran
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Speaker 11: for four or five years, so does he have the
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Speaker 11: connections on the ground that he might need. My guess
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Speaker 11: is that the the US government, officially or unificially, he
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Speaker 11: is talking to everybody and they're trying to see, okay,
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Speaker 11: who might work.
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Speaker 9: Because remember with.
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Speaker 11: Venezuela, there was Maria Machado who got the Nobel Prize,
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Speaker 11: is the opposition leader, and everyone thought, oh, well, Trump
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Speaker 11: is going to support her. She's going to go in.
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Speaker 11: She hasn't been in Venezuela in a number of years,
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Speaker 11: but she's going to go in and be the new government.
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Speaker 11: She was talking to President Trump still is in his team,
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Speaker 11: and I think they concluded that as good as she was,
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Speaker 11: she wasn't up to running the government.
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Speaker 3: She didn't have a.
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Speaker 11: Plan, and that's why they were at the same time
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Speaker 11: talking to the Vice president, Maduro's number two, Delsea Rodriguez,
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Speaker 11: talking to her. They were also talking to two.
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Speaker 9: Other rodriguez Is, the brothers of DLCEA Rodriguez, who were
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Speaker 9: heads of the intelligence services, and I forget what else,
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Speaker 9: but they talked to them, and I think that that's
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Speaker 9: when they conclude, Okay, who's capable, who will have the support.
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Speaker 11: Of the people, who will do what we want them
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Speaker 11: to do, and they go from there. So I think
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Speaker 11: that's where we are now. And I don't have a
1:00:46
Speaker 11: crystal ball to say.
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Speaker 4: Who will be emerged from this, But.
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Speaker 11: We have all the options. We could declare victory walk
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Speaker 11: away tomorrow. We could bomb more of their economic sites
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Speaker 11: and put them back into the Stone Age. We could
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Speaker 11: find some people and around who are willing to work
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Speaker 11: with us and then go forward. I think those all
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Speaker 11: three of those options are very good. And how long
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Speaker 11: will this take?
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't think it takes six months.
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Speaker 11: I think that the conclusions are reached one way or
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Speaker 11: the other within.
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Speaker 1: You know, well they certainly were in Venezuela. I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, to realize how relatively calm that is now
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Speaker 1: and how recently that happened two ago, I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: crazy and all right, Katie always appreciate the insights very helpful.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks so pleasure.
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Speaker 11: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Kevin mccallach. I'm in right fact, don't away.
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Speaker 4: Let's stick around for more of that. Kevin next here
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Speaker 4: he is from New York. Exact Ken Kevin McCullough in
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Speaker 4: Latriae is the.
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Speaker 11: Yes.
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Speaker 12: I always worry about the collisions intens the water.
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Speaker 3: Is the enferment.
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Speaker 12: Sometimes in during winter they get sick, they might get diarrhea,
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Speaker 12: they might get stomach ache, and I believe that is
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Speaker 12: because of the war collisions that they have.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that there's anybody on the planet that
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Speaker 1: can argue that being sick from bad water is a
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Speaker 1: bad experience. And if you've ever been in a foreign country,
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Speaker 1: if you've ever been in a place where the water
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Speaker 1: supply is not sound and you've experienced that, you know,
1:02:36
Speaker 1: just on an average basis, what it is like to
1:02:39
Speaker 1: be sick from that. But can you imagine that type
1:02:42
Speaker 1: of water being the only water supply you have. Well,
1:02:45
Speaker 1: that is the case in thousands of little lives throughout
1:02:49
Speaker 1: Central and Latin America, South America, Haiti, some of the
1:02:53
Speaker 1: countries where food for the pores at work. And the
1:02:56
Speaker 1: reason that we are bringing this to your attention right
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Speaker 1: now is because it is important to know that every
1:03:01
Speaker 1: one of the children that we help with Food for
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Speaker 1: the Poor this year is not just going to receive
1:03:05
Speaker 1: a year's worth of food with two meals per day
1:03:07
Speaker 1: for the next three hundred and sixty five days, but
1:03:10
Speaker 1: they're going to get clean drinking water. They're going to
1:03:12
Speaker 1: have access to clean drinking water. Here from Food for
1:03:15
Speaker 1: the Poor to discuss is Danny Patino who rejoins us
1:03:18
Speaker 1: and Danny, when I think of contaminated water, I almost
1:03:23
Speaker 1: think of this as a bigger crisis, a more urgent
1:03:26
Speaker 1: crisis than the lack of food. It takes you longer
1:03:30
Speaker 1: to starve to death than it does to drink really
1:03:34
Speaker 1: bad water and have your whole system be flushed with
1:03:37
Speaker 1: dehydration and your body rejecting and emptying out of all
1:03:41
Speaker 1: of the moisture that you have. And this is what
1:03:44
Speaker 1: Contaminated water leads to deaths from dehydration more than anything else.
1:03:49
Speaker 1: So it's a really, really bad deal. But the fact
1:03:52
Speaker 1: that we give clean drinking water, access to clean drinking
1:03:55
Speaker 1: water every one of these kids were helping today, that's
1:03:57
Speaker 1: really an amazing thing.
1:03:59
Speaker 3: And you said it, that's yourself.
1:04:01
Speaker 10: It can make you sick and you're already sick, then
1:04:04
Speaker 10: where do we go?
1:04:05
Speaker 3: What's the next step? Right?
1:04:06
Speaker 10: So clean water should be all right, we understand that,
1:04:09
Speaker 10: but for millions that we serve here at Food for
1:04:12
Speaker 10: the Poor, it's a risk. And we're talking about water
1:04:15
Speaker 10: that doesn't quench a thirst. It makes you sick, It
1:04:18
Speaker 10: creates sickness, and that water steals childhoods. And we heard
1:04:23
Speaker 10: there are Maria we we met in Guatemala. She just
1:04:27
Speaker 10: thinks about what's going to make them sick if I
1:04:30
Speaker 10: drink them water, not the other way around, where I
1:04:32
Speaker 10: want to quench their thirst and move on with life, right,
1:04:36
Speaker 10: that we usually do here in the States, because we
1:04:37
Speaker 10: don't have to think about that kind of water. We
1:04:40
Speaker 10: probably drink the bottled water that sits in our car
1:04:43
Speaker 10: in the sun for a couple of days because we
1:04:44
Speaker 10: know it's clean, we know we can drink it. And
1:04:47
Speaker 10: that's the kind of luxury that we live here. And
1:04:50
Speaker 10: by the luxury, I mean it is a luxury for
1:04:53
Speaker 10: these families that we're helping in Latin America and the Caribbean.
1:04:55
Speaker 10: And chronic diarrhea isn't just a symptom, it's a thief
1:04:59
Speaker 10: it's nutrition from hungry children.
1:05:03
Speaker 3: It steals days from school.
1:05:05
Speaker 10: Imagine I even being able to go to school because
1:05:07
Speaker 10: you're sick, and on top of that and not be
1:05:09
Speaker 10: able to feed your kids to get them back to health.
1:05:13
Speaker 10: So that way, maybe you can get your routine going.
1:05:15
Speaker 10: And that routine is broken right away. And this is
1:05:19
Speaker 10: that strength that withers away on families that are already struggling.
1:05:22
Speaker 10: And this can be preventable, and it really is.
1:05:25
Speaker 3: And that's why I'm here.
1:05:26
Speaker 10: Today to tell you that you can step into those
1:05:28
Speaker 10: lives of those families with a one time gift, and
1:05:30
Speaker 10: that one time gift becomes a daily gift for these families,
1:05:33
Speaker 10: for the children that are already going through malnourishment. This
1:05:37
Speaker 10: becomes a meal that finally gets them back on their feet.
1:05:40
Speaker 10: Water that is no longer contamidated. It's safe water. Water
1:05:43
Speaker 10: they can use for many many other things other than drinking. Finally,
1:05:47
Speaker 10: you can cook with this, you can bathe with this,
1:05:49
Speaker 10: you can use it, and you know that it's not
1:05:51
Speaker 10: going to come back and become something worse. And that's
1:05:55
Speaker 10: the choice that a parent should not make. They shouldn't
1:05:59
Speaker 10: Their choices would be what kind of meal are we
1:06:01
Speaker 10: having today. What cool adventure are we going to go
1:06:04
Speaker 10: on today? And that's the goal that we were trying
1:06:07
Speaker 10: to provide with the one time gift that we were
1:06:10
Speaker 10: asking here, Well, one time gift to one hundred and
1:06:12
Speaker 10: fifty dollars, Like you said, it becomes a world of change,
1:06:15
Speaker 10: three hundred and sixty five days of relief for these families.
1:06:19
Speaker 1: If you think about this, friends, and I would really
1:06:22
Speaker 1: beg of you to consider that one hundred and fifty
1:06:28
Speaker 1: dollars seventy five dollars per child is not only going
1:06:31
Speaker 1: to feed them two meals a day for the coming year,
1:06:35
Speaker 1: but that it's going to give them access to clean
1:06:37
Speaker 1: drinking water. Now do you think they need probably more
1:06:41
Speaker 1: than eight or sixteen ounces whatever your little water bottle
1:06:44
Speaker 1: is that you buy, you know, from the vending machine
1:06:47
Speaker 1: or you get it from the from the Walgreens or
1:06:49
Speaker 1: wherever you go, you know, and you grab a bottle
1:06:51
Speaker 1: of water, even if you get it from the Sam's
1:06:54
Speaker 1: Club or the you know whatever else the discount buyer
1:06:57
Speaker 1: shop and you get the big crate, they're still what
1:07:00
Speaker 1: a dollar fifty each or something like that dollar twenty
1:07:03
Speaker 1: five maybe where you can go imagine having to supply
1:07:08
Speaker 1: water for a child for an entire year, and they're
1:07:11
Speaker 1: going to need more than eight ounces a day. They're
1:07:13
Speaker 1: going to need a lot more than eight ounces of
1:07:15
Speaker 1: water a day. You're supposed to drink half your body
1:07:17
Speaker 1: weight in water each day just to be healthy. So
1:07:20
Speaker 1: think about that and then do that math. You're talking
1:07:24
Speaker 1: about several hundred dollars just for clean water for one child.
1:07:29
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, this is the beautiful kind of
1:07:33
Speaker 1: multiplying effect of food for the poor. You give your
1:07:36
Speaker 1: gift of seventy five dollars for that child, they're going
1:07:39
Speaker 1: to get over seven hundred meals for the next year.
1:07:42
Speaker 1: And in addition, they're going to get literally hundreds, if
1:07:46
Speaker 1: not thousands of dollars worth of clean drinking water. When
1:07:50
Speaker 1: you put a dollar amount on it, when you understand
1:07:53
Speaker 1: what that cost, what it would cost you to bring
1:07:56
Speaker 1: it into your home to give to your kids, to
1:07:58
Speaker 1: have your family, imagine that cost. But imagine now the
1:08:03
Speaker 1: efficiency of having seventy five dollars provide all of that
1:08:07
Speaker 1: for one child for the next year. So one hundred
1:08:09
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars takes care of two kids. Now, listen
1:08:11
Speaker 1: to me very carefully for the next ten minutes. Every
1:08:15
Speaker 1: child that we take care of, every seventy five dollars gift,
1:08:18
Speaker 1: every one hundred and fifty dollars gift that comes in,
1:08:21
Speaker 1: every gift of any size is going to be doubled. Friends,
1:08:25
Speaker 1: be a miracle in another child's life. Right now eight five, five,
1:08:28
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Speaker 4: Here he is from New York. That Kevin Kevin mckellough.
1:09:01
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Time Square. It's Kevin mccallough, that Kevin Show,
1:09:04
Speaker 1: that kevinshow dot com now on six hundred and ninety
1:09:07
Speaker 1: five stations across the country. Thank you for welcoming us
1:09:10
Speaker 1: into your life at home. With the existence of a
1:09:16
Speaker 1: global conflict underway and the US part of that, even
1:09:21
Speaker 1: though we have some other allies involved, Israel and some others,
1:09:26
Speaker 1: you can always bet that there's going to be an
1:09:28
Speaker 1: economic impact what's going on when the military is involved. EJ.
1:09:32
Speaker 1: Anthony joins us from the Heritage Foundation. He's their chief ECONOMISTJ.
1:09:37
Speaker 1: I know that one of the reasons a lot of
1:09:39
Speaker 1: Americans actually supported President Trump is because he while he's
1:09:44
Speaker 1: not opposed to using military force, getting us into long
1:09:48
Speaker 1: standing conflicts is something that he is very much against.
1:09:51
Speaker 1: We seem to be ahead of schedule. What's the economic
1:09:54
Speaker 1: impact thus far of this two and a half going
1:09:58
Speaker 1: on three week.
1:09:58
Speaker 13: War, Kevin question? Unfortunately not good. We're basically seeing a
1:10:05
Speaker 13: lot of speculation within the oil market, within the natural
1:10:09
Speaker 13: gas market, because we simply just don't know how this is,
1:10:13
Speaker 13: how this is going to turn out. You know, you're
1:10:16
Speaker 13: talking about an industry where the infrastructure is literally going
1:10:20
Speaker 13: to take weeks to make changes. What I mean by
1:10:23
Speaker 13: that is, if you're trying to figure out am I
1:10:27
Speaker 13: able as an oil exporter in the Gulf, am I
1:10:30
Speaker 13: able to get oil out of the strait of horror moves?
1:10:33
Speaker 3: I'm not thinking about today.
1:10:35
Speaker 13: I'm thinking about two three weeks from now, because that's
1:10:38
Speaker 13: how long it's going to take, even under emergency procedures,
1:10:42
Speaker 13: to turn my oil infrastructure off, whether it's the pumps,
1:10:45
Speaker 13: whether it's the refineries, whatever the case may be. Right, So,
1:10:50
Speaker 13: people unfortunately are having to make decisions again based on
1:10:54
Speaker 13: very incomplete information about future events. And on top of that,
1:10:59
Speaker 13: not only do you have to worry about again oil
1:11:02
Speaker 13: infrastructure just simply being shut off. But now since oil
1:11:05
Speaker 13: infrastructure has been targeted in the war, now you're having
1:11:08
Speaker 13: to worry about it just being flat out destroyed. Then
1:11:11
Speaker 13: it's not a matter of oil supply returning to the
1:11:14
Speaker 13: market in a matter of weeks, but months or years
1:11:18
Speaker 13: to either repair or rebuild things that have been destroyed.
1:11:21
Speaker 13: So again, unfortunately, the impact here is very negative economically speaking,
1:11:27
Speaker 13: because it's going to mean higher energy costs, and those
1:11:30
Speaker 13: higher energy costs trickle down to everything else in the economy,
1:11:34
Speaker 13: and not only on carg It seems like the US
1:11:37
Speaker 13: military has avoided the oil infrastructure but pretty much everywhere
1:11:40
Speaker 13: else in Iran and in.
1:11:42
Speaker 1: The rest region to have something salvageable for whatever comes next,
1:11:47
Speaker 1: which would make a lot of sense.
1:11:49
Speaker 13: Right now now President Trump has threatened to destroy all
1:11:52
Speaker 13: of that oil infrastructure, but thus far, at least, it
1:11:55
Speaker 13: has simply been Israel and Iran that have been targeting
1:11:59
Speaker 13: oil infrastructure in the region, with Israel striking obviously targets
1:12:04
Speaker 13: in Iran and Iran striking targets pretty much everywhere else
1:12:07
Speaker 13: in the region.
1:12:08
Speaker 3: When it comes to oil infrastructure.
1:12:10
Speaker 1: What does this do for American producers? Of energy. I
1:12:13
Speaker 1: happen to be a very small partner in a djbasin
1:12:16
Speaker 1: company that is trying to increase our footprint all the time.
1:12:21
Speaker 1: How do American energy producers fare during a season like this.
1:12:26
Speaker 13: Well, you would initially think that any decreases in production
1:12:29
Speaker 13: out of places like the Middle East would simply just
1:12:31
Speaker 13: be matched by increases in production everywhere else, and to
1:12:34
Speaker 13: a certain extent, that's true, but not all crude is
1:12:38
Speaker 13: created equal. For example, most of the refineries that we
1:12:42
Speaker 13: have along the Gulf of America are set up to
1:12:45
Speaker 13: refine heavy crude like what comes out of Venezuela, like
1:12:49
Speaker 13: what comes out of the Middle East. They're actually not
1:12:51
Speaker 13: set up to refine the oil that we produce here
1:12:54
Speaker 13: at home, believe it or not, what we call WTI
1:12:57
Speaker 13: West Texas Intermedia. Most of that kevin we actually ship
1:13:00
Speaker 13: abroad to be refined overseas at places that are set
1:13:04
Speaker 13: up specifically to handle light, sweet crude.
1:13:08
Speaker 3: And so the issue is that.
1:13:10
Speaker 13: Even if we were to one for one, replace all
1:13:14
Speaker 13: of the lost production overseas with increased production here at home,
1:13:18
Speaker 13: we don't necessarily have the oil infrastructure to handle that,
1:13:22
Speaker 13: at least not in any way economically.
1:13:25
Speaker 1: That is discouraging. You mentioned Venezuela kind of key that
1:13:31
Speaker 1: we have control over their oil choices right now, isn't it?
1:13:35
Speaker 3: In lifeliness? It certainly helps. It's a great point, Kevin.
1:13:38
Speaker 13: The only problem with Venezuela is that their infrastructure has
1:13:42
Speaker 13: been so neglected by the communist regime down there that unfortunately,
1:13:47
Speaker 13: it's going to take many years for us to actually
1:13:50
Speaker 13: get that production back to where it was just a
1:13:53
Speaker 13: matter of a few years ago. Really, because again, we're
1:13:57
Speaker 13: not talking about an industry where you can turn things
1:14:00
Speaker 13: on and off with like a light switch.
1:14:01
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, if we do gain control of a reasonable solution
1:14:08
Speaker 1: in Iran, the leadership there is going to be tend
1:14:13
Speaker 1: to be, I believe, friendli er to the United States
1:14:16
Speaker 1: than what we've experienced in the last forty seven years.
1:14:21
Speaker 1: What will American dominance with Iranian oil, Venezuelan oil, US oil?
1:14:27
Speaker 1: How does that impact you know, Russia, China, kind of
1:14:31
Speaker 1: the other people that want to play in the energy
1:14:33
Speaker 1: game and need large amounts of it.
1:14:36
Speaker 13: Well, I think it does give the United States a
1:14:38
Speaker 13: little bit of an edge. You know, there are some
1:14:40
Speaker 13: folks who say, well, I have no impact at all.
1:14:42
Speaker 13: Because oil's oil is a global market, and there are
1:14:45
Speaker 13: other folks who think, well, no, it's going to give
1:14:47
Speaker 13: the United States complete and total energy dominance.
1:14:49
Speaker 3: Look, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
1:14:51
Speaker 2: Right.
1:14:52
Speaker 13: Yes, it is true that the US having control of
1:14:55
Speaker 13: more oil supplies is going to give us some leverage.
1:14:58
Speaker 13: But at the same time, it's not total leverage. It's
1:15:00
Speaker 13: not as if we're going to be able to shut
1:15:02
Speaker 13: off all supplies to nations that we don't like, because again,
1:15:06
Speaker 13: these are global markets, and if they're not buying from Iran,
1:15:10
Speaker 13: they'll buy from somewhere else. So in other words, we're
1:15:12
Speaker 13: simply going to redirect certain flows.
1:15:15
Speaker 3: You know, Russia, Russia's the key player here.
1:15:17
Speaker 13: I think what's happening right now, unfortunately, has been a
1:15:21
Speaker 13: total windfall to Putin because we've had to lift sanctions
1:15:25
Speaker 13: off of Russia so that they are now exporting not
1:15:28
Speaker 13: only more, but they're exporting at market prices, whereas before
1:15:31
Speaker 13: under sanctions they were having to essentially do it under
1:15:34
Speaker 13: the table and sell oil at discount rates. So now
1:15:37
Speaker 13: they're selling much more oil at much higher prices. Again,
1:15:40
Speaker 13: that's a windfall to Putin. But to your point, if
1:15:42
Speaker 13: you bring this additional supply online. What happens will now
1:15:46
Speaker 13: you depress prices again and that really eats into the
1:15:49
Speaker 13: financing for Putin's war machine.
1:15:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you can see what happens. EJ. We're going
1:15:55
Speaker 1: to have to have you back to talk about your
1:15:56
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six index of Economic Freedom, but just give
1:15:59
Speaker 1: me the thumbnail. What's the what's the top line news there?
1:16:02
Speaker 13: Well, I think the top line news is simply the
1:16:04
Speaker 13: fact that the United States is finally starting to improve
1:16:07
Speaker 13: when it comes to economic freedom, and that comes from
1:16:10
Speaker 13: the huge deregulatory effort that we've seen at the federal
1:16:13
Speaker 13: government over the last year or so.
1:16:15
Speaker 3: So positive news at least on that front.
1:16:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, Deregulation's good. Keep them coming as far as I'm concerned.
1:16:21
Speaker 5: EJ.
1:16:21
Speaker 1: Anthony of the Heritage Foundation, Thank you for being with us.
1:16:24
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. Kevin.
1:16:25
Speaker 1: Kevin McCollough coming right back from Times Square under.
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Speaker 7: Way, let's stick around for more of that.
1:16:35
Speaker 4: Kevin next.
1:16:46
Speaker 7: Serving it up with a no Drink Minute. It's net
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1:16:51
Speaker 1: Show, Kevin mccallaugh. Glad have you with us that Kevin show,
1:16:56
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1:17:00
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1:17:04
Speaker 1: hope that, I hope that that you know we're providing
1:17:07
Speaker 1: some help to you this afternoon. Thank you, by the way,
1:17:12
Speaker 1: to those of you that have helped us get past
1:17:15
Speaker 1: the five hundred and fiftieth child in our Food for
1:17:19
Speaker 1: the Poor efforts. We are on our way to seven twenty.
1:17:23
Speaker 1: We have a little bit of wood to chop. I
1:17:26
Speaker 1: believe that we can get there. I would love to
1:17:28
Speaker 1: get there, you know, before the end of this week.
1:17:31
Speaker 1: If it was possible. There's one hundred and seventy something
1:17:34
Speaker 1: children left seventy five dollars each. We'll rescue one and
1:17:40
Speaker 1: give them two meals a day for the next year
1:17:43
Speaker 1: and clean drinking water all that they can consume for
1:17:45
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. Seventy five dollars will do that at
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1:19:09
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1:19:13
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1:19:18
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1:19:21
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1:19:24
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1:19:30
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1:19:37
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1:19:50
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1:19:58
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1:20:02
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1:20:03
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1:20:05
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1:20:23
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1:20:29
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1:20:36
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1:20:41
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