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Speaker 2: in which the burners seem to be burning extra hot,
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Speaker 2: and sentcom just moments ago claiming that Iran has committed
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Speaker 2: a serious cease fire violation over something that happened late yesterday,
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Speaker 2: which we're just finding out the details of now, But
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Speaker 2: around ten seventeen pm Eastern, there was an Iranian ballistic
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Speaker 2: missile that was launched against Kuwait late on Wednesday night
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Speaker 2: after the US shot down Iranian drones over the Strait
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Speaker 2: of hor moves. So let's just set the stage here,
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Speaker 2: so they're getting closer to language that both sides apparently
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Speaker 2: agreed to. But then you had the mysterious invisible Ayatola
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Speaker 2: released the statement on what was it tumbler yesterday or
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Speaker 2: telegram or something very very vague social media platform. But
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Speaker 2: he supposedly, not the advisors, not the other people. Supposedly
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Speaker 2: the IATOLA released it saying that they're not gonna they're
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Speaker 2: not going to move an inch, et cetera. So the
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Speaker 2: President has this cabinet meeting yesterday and makes it pretty
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Speaker 2: clear that we're not changing policy, that they're going to
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Speaker 2: get rid of all twenty tons of enriched uranium in
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Speaker 2: their possession or else, and sec of War reasserted that
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Speaker 2: in the cabinet meeting, et cetera. So last night, evidently
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Speaker 2: they decide just for the fun of it, that they're
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Speaker 2: going to send attack drones across the Straight of Hord
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Speaker 2: Moves towards American vessels. And we shot down all of
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Speaker 2: them in that attack. But at ten seventeen, Iran launched
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Speaker 2: a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that was also successfully intercepted.
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Speaker 2: These missiles evidently are not super good at what they do,
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Speaker 2: but they intercepted it. The egregious ceasefire violation by the
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Speaker 2: Iranian regime occurred hours after Ranian forces had launched five
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Speaker 2: one way attack drones that posed a clear threat in
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Speaker 2: the Straight of wor Moves. All drones were successfully intercepted
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Speaker 2: by US forces, which also prevented a sixth drone launch
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Speaker 2: from an Agrainian ground control site. Sentcom wrote in the statement,
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Speaker 2: a US Central Command and regional partners remained vigilant measured
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Speaker 2: as we continue to defend our forces and interest from
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Speaker 2: unjustified Iranian aggression. So the statement added, So they didn't
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Speaker 2: like the fact that the President was announcing that we're
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Speaker 2: getting closer and closer to actual agreement on deal. And
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Speaker 2: I have to think that internally, this is how this
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Speaker 2: is going down a little bit. Internally, You've got some
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Speaker 2: people that are doing negotiation, maybe not having really close
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Speaker 2: communication with the Iatola, and maybe there's not a need to.
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Speaker 2: Maybe the people that are having the negotiation know that
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Speaker 2: ultimately the Iatola is not in charge. Maybe he can
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Speaker 2: put whatever he wants to on telegram and it doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter because he's not really going to be able to
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Speaker 2: This would be the typical Iyatola means, by the way,
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Speaker 2: they've always been bark much worse than their bite. And
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Speaker 2: when they were going to, you know, threaten the demolition
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Speaker 2: of Israel and the bringing down of America and all
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Speaker 2: the rest, they weren't able to do that. When they
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Speaker 2: said that if we put a blockade in place, they
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Speaker 2: would you know, destroy our navy. Well, too late, we
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Speaker 2: already destroyed theirs. The Iatola and his chums seem to
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Speaker 2: be filled with grandiose and high ideals about what they
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Speaker 2: think they can accomplish, and I have yet to really
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Speaker 2: see any of it come to fruition. So here's my
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Speaker 2: own hunch, here's my own kind of thoughts about what
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Speaker 2: I think is happening. I think you've got a group
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Speaker 2: of of a cadre of you know, former IRGC, maybe
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Speaker 2: former Iranian government, maybe competent private sector people that have
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Speaker 2: all kind of figured out that they're going to do
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Speaker 2: the negotiation and run the place. They can't really do
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Speaker 2: anything about whether or not the Iyatola responds, so they
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Speaker 2: let him do it, and it may send mixed messages. Now,
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Speaker 2: having said that, you had IRGC forces yesterday come out
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Speaker 2: in grand fashion and claim, you know, we're never going
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Speaker 2: to give up the the uranium, the enriched uranium. You
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Speaker 2: have people, you know, saying that in the press today
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Speaker 2: that are all associated with the Itola and the IRGC.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they're speaking on behalf of the negotiating party. I'm
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Speaker 2: not sure. But that's that's some of the challenges that
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Speaker 2: we're up against there is making sure that that communication
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Speaker 2: is going whoever's firing off these weapons. Though that's a
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Speaker 2: really stupid move because that's just going to give that's
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Speaker 2: just going to give Trump even more reason to come
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Speaker 2: in and take out some of the targets that he
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Speaker 2: has not yet taken out. Bridges, the ability for certain roadways,
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Speaker 2: and certain energy plants to be taken out. We already
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Speaker 2: know that some of the energy plants aren't really being
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Speaker 2: used to help the Iranian people. And I just saw
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Speaker 2: statistics on how the blockade is impacting the life in Iran.
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Speaker 2: You have thirty three percent now in poverty. You've got
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Speaker 2: a ten percent plus unemployment rate. You've got people going
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Speaker 2: without power and without all kinds of things to do.
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Speaker 2: That underbelly of discontent, which they already blame on the
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Speaker 2: eye tolls to begin with. That's only going to increase
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Speaker 2: over time. And so what is really necessary is is
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Speaker 2: for the administration not to blink. You cannot blink in
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Speaker 2: this circumstance. And if they are continuing to fire missiles
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Speaker 2: at their neighbors, all that does is help ingratiate them.
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Speaker 2: To the side of the US. All that does is
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Speaker 2: help ingratiate them as a united front against Iran as
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Speaker 2: a whole, and so kind of a dumb move, but
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Speaker 2: that's what they're doing and that's where things are at.
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Speaker 2: So that's the very very latest in terms of what's
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Speaker 2: going on in Iran. We've got a big show for
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Speaker 2: you coming up at the beginning of the next hour,
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Speaker 2: a major announcement just crossing the wires about what we
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Speaker 2: are trying to do to stop fraud against the American taxpayer,
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Speaker 2: what the White House is trying to do, what the
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Speaker 2: Vice President's office is trying to do, and they may
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Speaker 2: have just hooked the biggest kahuna of all big kahunahs,
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Speaker 2: because when you get the type of cooperation that they
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Speaker 2: are now getting across all of the investigatory boards in
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Speaker 2: the executive branch, now you're really going to be able
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Speaker 2: to uncover some of the worst stuff that's going on.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna explain all that to you and break it
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Speaker 2: down for you in the next hour at the top
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Speaker 2: we live Doctor Keith Crosby is back with me. A
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome. It's Thursday, which means we are, you know,
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Speaker 2: kind of I always get to this part of the
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Speaker 2: week and I'm a little bit sad because we feels
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Speaker 2: like we just get going on a good study and
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Speaker 2: then we're already wrapping it up. But doctor Keith Crosby's
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Speaker 2: back with us. As we asked the big question, how
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Speaker 2: do we live? How do we live in a culture
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Speaker 2: that disrespects God, disapproves of his word? Looks at us
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Speaker 2: with a certain disbelief that anybody could even hold to
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Speaker 2: those two things. And this week we are looking at
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Speaker 2: some spiritual lies that sometimes get very if we if
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Speaker 2: we hold these and we practice them, I actually believe
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Speaker 2: that we end up hurting our witness among those people
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Speaker 2: those things where it's really important that we take a
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Speaker 2: He's the lead pastor at Hillside Church in San Jose, California.
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Speaker 2: And Keith, before we get into today's discussion, if people
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Speaker 2: would like to join you guys at Hillside this weekend,
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Speaker 2: how do they find you? What time are the services
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Speaker 2: and where you locate it at?
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Speaker 11: Sure, we're in South San Jose at five forty five
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Speaker 11: Hillsdale Avenue. You can get directions online at Hillside dot
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Speaker 11: org www.
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Speaker 5: Hillside dot org. And our services are at nine and eleven.
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Speaker 11: So and we and you if you have a family
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Speaker 11: that doesn't speak English, where our Spanish services are the
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Speaker 11: same time in a different part of the church.
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Speaker 5: Nine eleven.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, And I'm preaching on the purpose behind pain James
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Speaker 11: one two through twelve.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, that would be a good corollary to what
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Speaker 2: we're talking about here, because I think that these big
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Speaker 2: four spiritual lives are all about avoiding pain at all costs.
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Speaker 2: And I don't think that Jesus ever said that that
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Speaker 2: was going to be. In fact, I pretty much remember
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Speaker 2: him saying if they persecuted him, they're going to persecute us.
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Speaker 2: So it's pain free is not the promise of Christianity.
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Speaker 2: But ultimate healing is the ultimate promise of Christianity, and
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Speaker 2: that is something that we will enjoy for eternity. But
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Speaker 2: we are stuck in this pattern with one kind of
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Speaker 2: subset of theological thinking that says we can somehow avoid
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Speaker 2: it here and today. So the two lives we've looked
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Speaker 2: at so far is if you just had enough faith
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Speaker 2: dot dot dot. The second one was opposition hinders miracles.
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Speaker 2: That is so not true. God is not You cannot
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Speaker 2: you cannot hinder God. He would cease to be God
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Speaker 2: if we could do something that that checkmated him. So
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Speaker 2: it's just it's an aberrant thought for all things related
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Speaker 2: to who God is. What we looked at yesterday, but
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Speaker 2: today's you've titled if you just prayed the right way,
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Speaker 2: what are we talking about?
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Speaker 11: Well, there's this mindset that says, if you pray with expectancy,
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Speaker 11: you know, if you pray these powerful expectant prayers, then
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Speaker 11: God's going to perform a miracle that miracles right at
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Speaker 11: your fingertips. And again, this is a whole distorted view
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Speaker 11: of God. And when the expectant prayer that you have
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Speaker 11: doesn't become fulfilled, then your defeated, your Christianity looks like nothing.
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Speaker 11: And they sit largely on James five. The effect and
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Speaker 11: per of a prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much,
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Speaker 11: but they take it out of context and prayer doesn't
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Speaker 11: prayer aligns us with God. Well, we seek his will
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Speaker 11: of prayer and me, and they just they just turned
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Speaker 11: this thing on its end.
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Speaker 2: I do think there is a role for us to
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Speaker 2: when we pray, to anxiously await God's answer, even if
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Speaker 2: it may not end up being the one we want.
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Speaker 12: It.
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Speaker 11: Well, that's the beauty of prayer. Prayer is talking to
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Speaker 11: God and we always get an answer. We just like
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Speaker 11: you said, we just don't get the answer we always want.
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Speaker 11: There are three answers to prayer that you can bank on.
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Speaker 11: One is a yes, you get an immediate yes. Two
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Speaker 11: is you get an immediate no. Or three which.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes looks like a no. Is you get a weight answer.
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Speaker 11: And yes what you see a lot in David's life
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Speaker 11: and even in life the apostle Paul. So it's yes, no,
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Speaker 11: and wait, and it may feel like God said no,
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Speaker 11: And then a year later, you know he tells us.
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Speaker 11: You know he taught and the parable of the widow
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Speaker 11: and the unrighteous judge to continue to petition God. Well,
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Speaker 11: what I think we learned from that is as we
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Speaker 11: pray to God, as we seek his face on a
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Speaker 11: particular issue, we come to the point where we say
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Speaker 11: not what I will, but what you will, or you
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Speaker 11: begin to see a larger perspective.
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Speaker 5: That's where prayer is like trials. A trial doesn't tell
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Speaker 5: God anything about us.
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Speaker 11: He already knows how we're going to behave in the
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Speaker 11: trial because he knows everything past, present, future.
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Speaker 5: Trials tell us about us what.
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Speaker 11: Needs to change, what our weaknesses are, what our strengths are,
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Speaker 11: and how God is using us.
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Speaker 5: And prayer is kind of the same thing.
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Speaker 11: Trials in prayer are always inexecorabally linked in the Word
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Speaker 11: of God, and David is an example of that.
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Speaker 5: In the Psalms, you're a one percent spot.
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Speaker 2: On if what we're told is that we're praying the
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Speaker 2: wrong way, what's the right way.
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Speaker 11: Well, the right way is to pray with humility. You
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Speaker 11: look at it in the so called Lord's Prayer, a
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Speaker 11: model prayer in Matthew six. And you know our father,
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Speaker 11: who is in heaven. You're addressing a king and your father,
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Speaker 11: how it.
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Speaker 5: Would be your name? Holy is your name? And as
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Speaker 5: you see as you go through, these are expressions of dependency.
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Speaker 5: You're going before your father and heaven, the king of
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Speaker 5: the universe. You're going as his subject and his son
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Speaker 5: or daughter, and you're seeking his face.
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Speaker 11: You're not saying I want a Cadillac or you know,
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Speaker 11: I want I want you know, I want a million dollars,
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Speaker 11: or you better, you better heal so and so today
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Speaker 11: or else it's just not that way. And uh. And
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Speaker 11: even if we pray a miss you know, in Roman's
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Speaker 11: eight twenty six and eight twenty seven, it says, you know,
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Speaker 11: our spirit, you know, prays with his spirit and groaning's
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Speaker 11: too difficult to understand. And the Holy Spirit takes our
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Speaker 11: sinful prayer or our misguided prayer or our childlike prayer
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Speaker 11: and he he he amends it, you know, and makes
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Speaker 11: it excitable to God with groanings too deep for words,
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Speaker 11: and that really obliterates the Uh. If you just prayed
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Speaker 11: the right prayer technique, you can't fail because God won't
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Speaker 11: let you.
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Speaker 5: The spirit will take over and you know he will.
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Speaker 5: He will give the answer that he determined. And the
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Speaker 5: attorney passed.
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Speaker 11: And it's like Paul, he sought God three times to
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Speaker 11: remove the throw in the flesh and he said, no,
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Speaker 11: you know, it's you can't go wrong. You just want
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Speaker 11: to pray with humility, with dependency, in accordance with the
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Speaker 11: word of God. And we have many good models of
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Speaker 11: prayer in the Psalms and the Sermon on the Mountain
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Speaker 11: places like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I also think doctor Crosby that with these specific
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Speaker 2: four lives that we're looking at this week that there's
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Speaker 2: also an unwillingness to learn some of the incredible, deep
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Speaker 2: and profound things about God's comfort, about God's presence, about
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Speaker 2: his ability to nurture and care for his children, that
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Speaker 2: if we are so busy trying to avoid all that
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Speaker 2: is painful or in error, or or what seems wrong
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Speaker 2: with our world or unjust, we miss out on the
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Speaker 2: the aspects of God that are all encompassing for people
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Speaker 2: that are in those moments. And I think of, you know,
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Speaker 2: you think of like the writings of C. S. Lewis,
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Speaker 2: and so much of what he wrote about what he
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Speaker 2: experienced was how God spoke to him in painful times
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Speaker 2: and the insights that came to him in who God
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Speaker 2: was in the moments where they were, where it was
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Speaker 2: where it was most you know, haunting or searching or
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Speaker 2: hurting in his soul. And for me personally, the reason
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Speaker 2: Psalm one fifteen three, the verse that we've kind of
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Speaker 2: based this week on became my life first, was because
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the night, when everything was falling
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Speaker 2: apart in my life and I was really beyond any
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Speaker 2: consolation on kind of a human level, I knock on
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Speaker 2: my pastor's door at two thirty in the morning on
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Speaker 2: a Sunday morning. Only only pastors can understand just what
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Speaker 2: an offensive action that is. And he takes me down
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Speaker 2: to his basement we look at Psalm one fifteen three,
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Speaker 2: and he just he weeps with me, and he says, Kevin,
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Speaker 2: I don't know why God has you walking through this,
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Speaker 2: but I know God is good. And because He is good,
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Speaker 2: then his truthfulness and his truth is dependable. If he
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Speaker 2: was only truthful but not good, he could be very,
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Speaker 2: very harsh. But because there is goodness attached as part
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Speaker 2: of his character, then we can trust that that truth.
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Speaker 2: And so if he is in heaven, if he is
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Speaker 2: doing only what pleases him, then we take that as
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Speaker 2: his creations, as what is good for us long term.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's it.
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Speaker 11: And this is where you know, even my father who
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Speaker 11: is in heaven, he loves us, he's good, he never
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Speaker 11: makes mistakes. This is the only individual in the whole
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Speaker 11: universe whose counsel you can trust. And this is where
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Speaker 11: the problem comes in a lot of these churches that
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Speaker 11: propel these laws, and particularly in the Prosperity Arena, they
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Speaker 11: don't teach the whole counsel of God's work. And if
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Speaker 11: life is a bomb that you need to diffuse in
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Speaker 11: a sinful, fallen world, and somebody gives you only parts
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Speaker 11: of the instruction how to defuse it, how to make
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Speaker 11: sense of it?
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Speaker 1: You're handicapped.
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Speaker 5: The Bible has something to.
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Speaker 11: Say about every inch of thread that makes up the
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Speaker 11: fabric of our existence.
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Speaker 5: It tells us about God and his relationship to us.
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Speaker 11: And if you just pick a piece here and pick
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Speaker 11: a piece there, it's like listening to a conversation where
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Speaker 11: on your cell phone, where you keep losing people and
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Speaker 11: then you don't understand what they said and you can't
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Speaker 11: make sense.
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Speaker 2: Well, another another fantastic conversation, Doctor Crosby. I'm looking forward
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Speaker 2: to wrapping up the week tomorrow. Thank you for everything. Friends,
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Speaker 2: join us each weekday as we try to answer that
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Speaker 2: big question, how do we live? Kevin McCullough coming right
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Speaker 2: back from New York unto what Stick.
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Speaker 6: Around for more of that Kevin next time here he
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Speaker 6: is from New York.
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Speaker 1: Exact Kevin McCullough, Welcome back.
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Speaker 2: and help you think more clearly, and help you have
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Speaker 2: resources to help others think more clearly, because I feel
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Speaker 2: like clarity is one of those virtues that kind of
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Speaker 2: surpasses everything else. If you can be clear about truth
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Speaker 2: in your own life for yourself, there's a lot that
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Speaker 2: you can do to impact the world around you. And
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Speaker 2: that's probably one of the messages that's going to be
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Speaker 2: reiterated many, many times at the upcoming educator summit for
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Speaker 2: the Turning Point Education Division. They we spoke with Hutts
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Speaker 2: Hertzburg last week, and Scott Phelps joins us this week.
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Speaker 2: He is part of the Success Sequence program teaching abstinence
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Speaker 2: until marriage and Scott is a longtime friend. In fact,
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Speaker 2: when I was just a local host in Chicago a
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Speaker 2: long time ago, Scott, I think you were. I think
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Speaker 2: I was producing for Sandy Rios.
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Speaker 4: You were, you're producing for Sandy Rios, And then you
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Speaker 4: had your own show, and I was on Sandy Show
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Speaker 4: and your show.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I moved to New York and your
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Speaker 2: daughter worked for our radio station, and you've just known
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Speaker 2: each other forever. So thank you for all that you've done,
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Speaker 2: and I think the importance of this summit, and if
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Speaker 2: you want to know more about it, it's turning pointed
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Speaker 2: dot com, turning point D. You could think about it
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Speaker 2: like that way, turning pointed dot com. I think that
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Speaker 2: when you're talking about education reform, and I've been approached
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Speaker 2: in recent weeks by you know, homeschool groups and charter
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Speaker 2: school groups and people that are working hard to reform
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Speaker 2: classrooms and teachers' unions and all kinds of things, I'm
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Speaker 2: not a this is how it should be done to
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Speaker 2: the exclusion of everything else, and one size fits all
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Speaker 2: for everybody. I've never thought that, partly because my own
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Speaker 2: educational path went through public school with the Christian school
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Speaker 2: experience that wasn't that good homeschool experience for a couple
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Speaker 2: of years, and then eventually back into the Christian school
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Speaker 2: system when my mom was contracting cancer and she actually
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Speaker 2: ended up dying my junior year of high school. But
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Speaker 2: this is what I say on the show all the time.
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Speaker 2: It is not the teacher's responsibility, It is not the
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Speaker 2: school distruct responsibility. It is not anybody else's responsibility to
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Speaker 2: see to it that your children are properly educated. It
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Speaker 2: is your responsibility. And if they're in the public school classroom,
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Speaker 2: then you know what they're being taught and you were
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Speaker 2: engaging that and you're talking about it and you're flushing
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Speaker 2: it out with them. But if they're in your home
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Speaker 2: and you do it in your home, you gotta do
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Speaker 2: the same thing. So having said that, what I like
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Speaker 2: about Turning Points program is that it looks like what
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Speaker 2: you guys are going to do here in a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks is have resources available for people that span
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Speaker 2: the gamut, so educators, parents, pastors, Christian educators, public school educators,
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Speaker 2: wherever you are on the spectrum, there's going to be encouragement, instruction, motivation,
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Speaker 2: challenge that's going to help you in the process. Is
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Speaker 2: that am I misreading that?
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Speaker 4: No, it's absolutely that's absolutely right. And you've probably seen
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Speaker 4: the list of speakers, Kevin, twenty eight speakers.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's amazing.
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Speaker 2: Wait, blowhearts like Al Mohler.
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Speaker 4: You know they've got Al Moller and John stone Street
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Speaker 4: and Megan Basham, Riley Gaines, Erica Kirk, Congressman Mary Miller,
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Speaker 4: She's fantastic. H Hertzberg will be one of the speakers.
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Speaker 4: Irwin Lutser, John Amnachu, Fellows Scott, it's going to be Seriously,
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Speaker 4: it is really going to be great. And they said,
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Speaker 4: the thing I want to point out about I love
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Speaker 4: Turning Point Education. I have told Hatts, who's a good friend.
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Speaker 4: You know, if I wasn't doing what I was doing now,
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Speaker 4: I would want to be doing what he is doing.
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Speaker 4: I think it's absolutely fundamentals the the educational system in
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Speaker 4: America absolutely needs to be overhauled. And Turning Point Education
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Speaker 4: is on mission, right, that is their primary mission is
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Speaker 4: to revive the American educational system and bring it back
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Speaker 4: to its roots and God honoring and putting God at
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Speaker 4: the center of everything that we're doing with our kids.
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Speaker 4: Because you think about what the kids are suffering through
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Speaker 4: you hear all this stuff about mental illness, right, and
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Speaker 4: depression and suicide and all of that, And well, of
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Speaker 4: course we shouldn't be surprised at that, right, we've removed
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Speaker 4: God from the center of culture, from the center of education,
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Speaker 4: and our kids are lost. And so I love the
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Speaker 4: theme of this conference. It's called Courage and our Convictions
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Speaker 4: Cultivating clarity in.
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Speaker 1: Chaos, Kevin. That's what they need.
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Speaker 4: They need clarity in the chaos, right, And That's what
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Speaker 4: Turning Point Education is all about. That's what our ministry
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Speaker 4: is all about. That's why we partner with Turning Point.
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Speaker 4: We're pre lig and thrilled the partnering with Turning Point
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Speaker 4: we have.
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Speaker 1: Since they began.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And you know, Charlie was so good.
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Speaker 4: I think one of the reasons, Kevin, why Charlie impacted
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Speaker 4: so many people is just what you were saying just
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Speaker 4: a moment ago, the clarity of truth. He was so
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Speaker 4: good at cutting through the noise and lifting up the
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Speaker 4: truth with clarity. And so that's what this conference is all.
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Speaker 2: About, doing it in a winsome way.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Now, Scott, there's some people in our listening audience and
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Speaker 2: viewership that would say, I don't understand what what do
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Speaker 2: you mean in classical education? How would you how would
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Speaker 2: how would you term that for someone that's listening today
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Speaker 2: for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going back to our roots.
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Speaker 4: I think it is teaching, you know, classical classical education
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Speaker 4: is going to focus on the great literature, the great
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Speaker 4: you know, Western culture and Western civilization and the roots
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Speaker 4: of our of our founding.
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Speaker 1: Really and and I love the programs that they have.
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Speaker 4: We've got great curriculum that they recommend and provide for rules.
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Speaker 1: That is going to go over the you know.
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Speaker 4: Basic civics and education and the founding of our country
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Speaker 4: and how it all began.
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Speaker 1: And I think that's it's really critical.
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Speaker 4: You know, kids don't know history anymore, no, and when
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Speaker 4: you don't know history, that's where you get lost in
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Speaker 4: the weeds. I think so much of the drift of
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Speaker 4: our young generation is because they haven't been properly rooted
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Speaker 4: in a classical education with a historical perspective, with the
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Speaker 4: great literature.
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Speaker 1: And so that's what we've got to get back with that.
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Speaker 2: I thought we're going to take a quick break and
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Speaker 2: when we come back, I want to talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit about how the abstinence discussion plays in all of this.
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Speaker 2: Good because certainly sex education is something that has been
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Speaker 2: never lessened in public mind than it is today, and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna talk about that when we continue.
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Speaker 2: He Scott Phelps. I'm Kevin McCullough. If you want more information,
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Speaker 2: it's Turning point ed dot com. Turning pointeed dot.
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Speaker 8: Com here he is from New York.
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Speaker 1: That Kevin, Kevin McCullough, welcome back to that.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Show, Kevin McCullough, glad to have you with us
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Speaker 2: coming up June sixteenth through the nineteenth in the Chicago
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Speaker 2: suburb of Lincolnshire, which is just outside of O'Hare Airport.
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Speaker 2: The Marriott Lincolnshire Resort is there. That's where this fifth
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Speaker 2: annual Turning Point Education Summit is going to take place.
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Speaker 2: And again, if you are anywhere on the educational spectrum
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Speaker 2: in terms of a teacher, an administrator, a pastor, a parent,
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Speaker 2: someone who's concerned about or just investigating curriculum ideas and
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Speaker 2: other things to try to implement into your child's experience,
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Speaker 2: or maybe a classroom that you have stewardship of, this
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Speaker 2: con diference is for you. And they have done the
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Speaker 2: ridiculously silly thing only making it a fifty dollars ticket
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Speaker 2: for you to go, and they've even underwritten most of
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Speaker 2: your room. The hotel room is seventy dollars a night.
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Speaker 2: It's normally over two hundred a night for the resort.
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Speaker 2: So would you go to turningpointad dot com, hold your spot,
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Speaker 2: get your room, and to make plans to be in
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Speaker 2: Chicago June sixteenth through the nineteenth for the Turning Point
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Speaker 2: USA Education Summit, the fifth annual one that they've done,
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Speaker 2: first one that we've been a part of here at
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Speaker 2: that Kevin Show. But very very glad to Scott, Feltree
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Speaker 2: joins us, Scott, There's been nothing that you and I
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Speaker 2: in our discussions on air over the years, have tracked
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Speaker 2: more heatedly than the role that sex education plays in education.
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Speaker 2: And now that I'm a parent and I have kids
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Speaker 2: going through those grades, and by the way, the mccaullaugh
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Speaker 2: kids are all in public schools, but we have those conversations,
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Speaker 2: and we also are blessed in the district that we
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Speaker 2: live in to have a number of believers that work
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Speaker 2: in the school district, and so there's a there's a
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Speaker 2: balance there where we've chosen to go down this path. Again,
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Speaker 2: not for everybody, but it kind of regardless of where
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Speaker 2: you're at, you're going to confront sex education. And the
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Speaker 2: message that most of those programs are going to give
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Speaker 2: kids is not wait until marriage. It's going to be
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Speaker 2: something other than that. With the Success Sequence program, you
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Speaker 2: actually make the argument that absence until marriage is the
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Speaker 2: way to go. Why is that? Why is that your message?
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Speaker 2: Why is that important in this You know, the twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six that we live in.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so critical and fits right in with the theme
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Speaker 4: of this conference that you're just talking about now, education
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Speaker 4: from it, cultivating clarity in chaos. Oh my goodness, that's
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Speaker 4: where our kids are at, right They are just getting
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Speaker 4: pounded by messages, all the messages that they receive regarding sex.
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Speaker 1: Think about it this way. I like to put it
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Speaker 1: this way.
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Speaker 4: Think about all the messages and imagery that our kids
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Speaker 4: receive about sex today through the media, through their phones,
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Speaker 4: through their televisions, their tablets, their computers, all the images
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Speaker 4: that they see. It's not just that our kids are
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Speaker 4: exposed to sexual imagery.
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Speaker 1: At earlier and earlier ages.
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Speaker 4: But think about this, Kevin, how much of the sex
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Speaker 4: that our kids are exposed to clearly communicates to them
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Speaker 4: the value of sex within the context of marriage.
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Speaker 2: None.
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Speaker 4: And it just isn't It just isn't there. And then
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Speaker 4: you say, well, hold on a minute, maybe the schools
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Speaker 4: are helping out. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, what most people will be
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Speaker 4: unaware of, Kevin, is that Planned parenthood is not only
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Speaker 4: the largest provider of abortions in America, they are also
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Speaker 4: not coincidentally, the largest provider of sex education in American schools.
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Speaker 4: Think about that for a minute, and so planned parenthood
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Speaker 4: sex education is the fundamental primary message that our kids
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Speaker 4: receive in school today. You don't have to have planned
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Speaker 4: parent who come into your school. It's what they learn
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Speaker 4: and teach your school. It's the fundamental message that most
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Speaker 4: schools across the nation teach. It's basically contraceptive education. It's
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Speaker 4: here's all the different types of contraception you're going to
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Speaker 4: be that you're going to need because we know you're
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Speaker 4: all going to be having the sex and there's no
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Speaker 4: reference to marriage whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: We exist to flip the script on that.
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Speaker 4: We believe it's not enough for us Kevin to go
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Speaker 4: to schools and say stop stop giving kids condoms, stop
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Speaker 4: putting girls on birth control pills starting in middle school,
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Speaker 4: stop doing all these bad It's not enough for us
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Speaker 4: to be against that.
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Speaker 1: We have to provide the alternative.
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Speaker 4: And so what the success Sicans program is. It's an
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Speaker 4: alternative to schools to say, hey, listen, here's something that
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Speaker 4: you can teach kids that's healthy and wholesome and helpful
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Speaker 4: and gives them a clear pathway forward in life.
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Speaker 1: The success Once you're familiar with this, three things.
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Speaker 4: Get an education, get a job, and then marry before
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Speaker 4: having children. Students who do those three things, it's almost
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Speaker 4: impossible for them to fall into poverty, on food stamps,
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Speaker 4: on well for our government dependency of any kind. So
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Speaker 4: we can benefit our kids just by teaching them the
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Speaker 4: success sequence. And then we're gonna include with that message
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Speaker 4: a clear message of reserving all sexual activity and child.
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Speaker 1: Bearing for the context of marriage.
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Speaker 4: We want to help young people understand that by resisting
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Speaker 4: sexual pressure, they're going to be much more inclined to
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Speaker 4: focus on their academics, they're going to do well. It's
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Speaker 4: going to help them prepare well for future education, future marriage,
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Speaker 4: and family. So it's absolutely fundamental, which is why we
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Speaker 4: fit so well with what the Turning Point Education Summit
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Speaker 4: is all about. It's about equipping parents and educators with
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Speaker 4: good quality, wholesome classical education, good messaging, and boy, they've
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Speaker 4: brought in all the.
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Speaker 1: Experts for it, and we're just we're just thrilled to
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Speaker 1: be a part of it.
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Speaker 2: All right, So, friends, I hope that this and this
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Speaker 2: is one little tiny peak at what you're going to
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Speaker 2: get at the Turning Point Annual Educator's Summit, June sixteenth,
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Speaker 2: through the nineteenth. It's at the Marriotte Lincolnshire Resort in Lincolnshire, Illinois,
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Speaker 2: just outside of the Chicago Hair Airport, and the rooms
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Speaker 2: are largely underwritten. The cost of the conference is largely underwritten.
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Speaker 2: You're not going to get this ticket for this price
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Speaker 2: what you're going to have. Please make please make that.
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Speaker 1: Can I say one thing about that, Keviny, It's incredible.
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Speaker 4: And because of their donors, Turning Plant has some wonderful,
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Speaker 1: Seventy five dollars a night for a room at a
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Speaker 2: And it's only fifty dollars for the night regularly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that?
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Speaker 4: Least at least it's beautiful. So I would encourage you
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Speaker 1: You're gonna love it.
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Speaker 1: So good to see you. Kevin, thank you so much,
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Speaker 2: But it will need to be a sizeable gift, a
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Speaker 1: I will.
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42:57
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44:09
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44:14
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44:28
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44:31
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44:34
Speaker 2: was just truly astounding. But one of the things I'm
44:37
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44:41
Speaker 2: a good American you have to be happy about this,
44:45
Speaker 2: is the fact that the President and his team have
44:49
Speaker 2: taken a whole of government approach to not only strengthening
44:54
Speaker 2: the economy, not only making the globe safer, which you know,
44:58
Speaker 2: Iran has not gone as easy we'd like it to,
45:01
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45:05
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45:09
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45:13
Speaker 2: Venezuela's given us all their oil. We're in really good
45:17
Speaker 2: shape in terms of so many different aspects of life.
45:20
Speaker 2: But one of the things that they've got to that
45:22
Speaker 2: they've got to get under control is this massive scam
45:26
Speaker 2: to rip off the taxpayers of this country. And one
45:30
Speaker 2: of the things I've loved about this administration is that
45:34
Speaker 2: in every department and they went around at the cabinet
45:37
Speaker 2: meeting yesterday and kind of told well, here's what we
45:40
Speaker 2: uncovered in our department, and here's how we dealt with it,
45:42
Speaker 2: and so forth. I love all that because what that
45:45
Speaker 2: tells me is that you're taking this very seriously in
45:48
Speaker 2: terms of really being a good steward of the tax dollars.
45:54
Speaker 2: Now the taxpayers are only going to benefit from that.
45:57
Speaker 2: And we just heard record returns to the taxpayers thirty
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Speaker 2: three hundred dollars on average across the board, and it's
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Speaker 2: really really incredible. So here's here's the challenge. Here's what
46:12
Speaker 2: we're looking at here's where we're going. The federal agency
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Speaker 2: that oversees about one hundred and twenty six billion in
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Speaker 2: federal contracts is now joining the Vance Task Force for
46:27
Speaker 2: the expansion of the White House crackdown on the government
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Speaker 2: contracting system. Now of a lot of where the fraud
46:33
Speaker 2: has come in is where the government's made these deals
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Speaker 2: with groups and they've come in and they've said, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're going to make sure you get the work and
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Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and all of this has gone down
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Speaker 2: and then there's been no accountability and no checking and
46:46
Speaker 2: so forth. And so that's how you had the Minnesota
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Speaker 2: childcare daycare scandal explode because they were checking all these checkboxes.
46:57
Speaker 2: They were just saying what needed to be set on forms,
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Speaker 2: no accountability, no follow up, et cetera. Well, the biggest
47:02
Speaker 2: agency in the federal government that handles that, that handles
47:06
Speaker 2: those types of deals is what's called the General Services Administration.
47:10
Speaker 2: It is the it's kind of the backbone they call itself.
47:16
Speaker 2: They call themselves the engine of government. They handle a
47:22
Speaker 2: ton of contracts for things like buildings, services, and goods
47:29
Speaker 2: that agencies of the government rely on to operate. So
47:33
Speaker 2: if you have a federal building, if you have goods
47:36
Speaker 2: and services, if you have things that are needed for
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Speaker 2: that operation, it's the General Services Administration that handle all
47:44
Speaker 2: of that. The GSA is going to be where this
47:48
Speaker 2: stuff really comes home to roost. And so there was
47:50
Speaker 2: this there was this question will they will they jump
47:53
Speaker 2: on board with the task for ACE. Well, today breaking
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Speaker 2: news the General Services Administration, which sits at the center
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Speaker 2: are a federal acquisition and contracting in terms of the
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Speaker 2: ecosystem of the federal government, has joined the Force against
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Speaker 2: Fraud and making now that task force the most powerful investigatory,
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Speaker 2: reform minded, corruption rooting out task force in American history.
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Speaker 2: And they said this, they said, we're proud to join
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Speaker 2: and to aggressively identify abuse, strengthen oversight, and protect the
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Speaker 2: integrity of federal procurement. GSA will bring advanced and analytical capabilities,
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Speaker 2: investigative support, and cross government coordination to help expose high
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Speaker 2: risk fraud patterns and stop actors from exploiting taxpayer funded systems.
48:44
Speaker 2: Thank the Lord. This is the way government should, by
48:48
Speaker 2: the way, have already been operating. This is the way
48:51
Speaker 2: everything should have been operating in the context of what
48:55
Speaker 2: the government is doing because it is Again, it's not
49:01
Speaker 2: there's no tree growing in the front yard just making money.
49:05
Speaker 2: Every dollar that the government spends someone you, me, our families,
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Speaker 2: our family members, someone has earned that dollar. They have
49:14
Speaker 2: then paid that dollar in taxes, and now it is
49:18
Speaker 2: supposed to go to an assigned good that helps the
49:21
Speaker 2: taxpayers that paid into it for that good to be received.
49:26
Speaker 2: It is not the place where large numbers of illegals
49:31
Speaker 2: should be coming to just milk the system. It shouldn't
49:34
Speaker 2: be a place where Somali communal elements across the board
49:40
Speaker 2: say we're going to rip off the American taxpayers and
49:42
Speaker 2: take all this money as private income from the taxpayers.
49:45
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be like the eight people that were just
49:48
Speaker 2: arrested in California not long ago to the tune of
49:52
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars that they took from the taxpayers. It
49:57
Speaker 2: shouldn't be like the one point four bis million in
50:01
Speaker 2: federal funding from home health and hospice providers. The home
50:05
Speaker 2: health and hospice providers we're overbuilding the taxpayers to the
50:09
Speaker 2: tune of one point four billion dollars. That shouldn't be
50:11
Speaker 2: going on. This is an incredibly important It may seem
50:15
Speaker 2: kind of boring the General Services Administration. It may seem boring,
50:19
Speaker 2: it's not boring. It is vital, it is important, and
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Speaker 2: it's gonna get us to the place where we're going
50:25
Speaker 2: to have more sound spending policy and accountable processes in
50:32
Speaker 2: how the government spends the taxpayer money. And friends, that's
50:35
Speaker 2: exactly what.
50:36
Speaker 7: It should be.
50:38
Speaker 2: Kevin mccallaugh, we've got a big hour straight ahead. Please
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51:26
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Speaker 2: that we did. And let's keep that going. You've heard
51:33
Speaker 2: me talk this week about the affordability issue, the war,
51:38
Speaker 2: all the things that the administration is doing. All they're
51:41
Speaker 2: all connected, they're all intricately kind of associated with each other.
51:45
Speaker 2: But nothing is probably more important to what I'm hearing
51:50
Speaker 2: from voters than what is being colloquially called affordability. And
51:57
Speaker 2: even my own bride, who is talking about just a
52:00
Speaker 2: couple of days ago winter gas price is going to
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Speaker 2: start correcting, and I said, babe, it's going to happen
52:04
Speaker 2: when the war is dealt with and settled. But even
52:08
Speaker 2: in the cabinet meeting this week, the President making clear
52:12
Speaker 2: we are at all time production highs on liquid natural
52:14
Speaker 2: gas and self production of oil. So what does affordability
52:17
Speaker 2: look like? My next guest says it will be the
52:21
Speaker 2: number one issue in the elections. Patrese son Wook is
52:23
Speaker 2: back with us, a chief economist for the Independent Women's Forum,
52:28
Speaker 2: And I just have to say again thank you Patrese
52:30
Speaker 2: for hosting me and letting me come and bring the
52:32
Speaker 2: show to y'all's summit in Gala a couple of weeks ago.
52:36
Speaker 2: What an amazing day, what an amazing night. But I'm
52:41
Speaker 2: not off on this, and my election instincts are rather good.
52:45
Speaker 2: I have a long track record of kind of really
52:47
Speaker 2: having my finger on the pulse. This is going to
52:51
Speaker 2: if we do not deal with Iran with a decisive
52:54
Speaker 2: victory that is clear and complete. I think by no
52:57
Speaker 2: later than July fourth. I think I wanted it to
53:00
Speaker 2: be done by Memorial Day, but by no later than
53:02
Speaker 2: July fourth. The domino effect of what that does to
53:06
Speaker 2: oil production, refinement, gas prices, availability, all the rest of it,
53:11
Speaker 2: that starts to back up into the fall schedule. And
53:14
Speaker 2: if we're still paying four dollars a gallon for gas
53:17
Speaker 2: in November, I think it's going to be a very
53:19
Speaker 2: bad day for Republicans.
53:21
Speaker 13: I agree with you, and that's because, you know, gas
53:23
Speaker 13: prices are the most relevant, timely and an important, you know,
53:28
Speaker 13: economic metric that regular Americans look at when they think
53:32
Speaker 13: about who they want to be in power and in leadership.
53:34
Speaker 13: And there is nothing you know that tells you more about,
53:37
Speaker 13: you know, whether your financial situation is better than how
53:40
Speaker 13: much you're paying at the gas pump. And you can
53:42
Speaker 13: compare that to the previous you know, election cycle two
53:46
Speaker 13: years ago. Let's not forget that President Trump was elected
53:50
Speaker 13: into office and he and voters gave Republicans control of
53:53
Speaker 13: the House in the Senate precisely because they wanted to
53:56
Speaker 13: change They wanted to see prices come down from you know,
53:59
Speaker 13: the by in era highs which were twenty percent higher
54:02
Speaker 13: than in the past, and so you know there were
54:05
Speaker 13: in twenty twenty five, we saw tremendous, tremendous cuts in prices.
54:10
Speaker 13: I mean we saw prices really fall where the headline
54:13
Speaker 13: inflation rate had dipped down to I believe maybe under
54:16
Speaker 13: what was under three percent, you know, in the two
54:19
Speaker 13: point four to two point five range, and things were
54:21
Speaker 13: really that was that meant that you were keeping more
54:23
Speaker 13: of your paycheck. Finally, paychecks had outrun inflation, and so
54:27
Speaker 13: people felt like, okay, I can get a handle on this.
54:30
Speaker 13: At the grocery store, you saw the you know chips
54:33
Speaker 13: in Freedom Lay for example, print new lower prices on
54:36
Speaker 13: their chips bags because prices were falling. And so now
54:40
Speaker 13: we've seen we're now what of three months into four
54:43
Speaker 13: months and almost to this this worn with Iran, and
54:48
Speaker 13: we have seen that the gas prices have a direct
54:50
Speaker 13: impact both at the gas pump, but we also have
54:52
Speaker 13: seen those prices filter out to the rest of the economy.
54:55
Speaker 13: And to your point about the summer, I mean, people
54:57
Speaker 13: are going to start making decisions Kevin, about whether they
55:00
Speaker 13: take that long trip which is going to require them
55:03
Speaker 13: gassing up multiple times, people are going to be looking
55:06
Speaker 13: at the fuel at whether they buy an airline ticket.
55:09
Speaker 13: When airline prices have increased, we've also seen airlines tack
55:12
Speaker 13: on all these new fees to accommodate the fuel cost increases.
55:18
Speaker 13: And so you know, going into the fall, those are
55:20
Speaker 13: going to be really strong headwinds. And I do agree
55:22
Speaker 13: that even if even when the Straight of Horror most reopens,
55:26
Speaker 13: it's understandable while you have all those oil tankers they
55:29
Speaker 13: are ready to flow out, it will take weeks to
55:32
Speaker 13: clear the log jam that is at that chow point
55:35
Speaker 13: to be able to get global prices kind of coming
55:39
Speaker 13: back down, especially back to where they were before this
55:42
Speaker 13: conflict started.
55:43
Speaker 2: It's almost as though you would like to have the
55:46
Speaker 2: US not participate in the global oil exchanges, because if
55:51
Speaker 2: you were just running our own deal, we could cut
55:56
Speaker 2: these prices quick based on our own production. I mean,
55:58
Speaker 2: the President announced yesterday that we are doubling Russia and
56:02
Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia combined total output this year. And then when
56:07
Speaker 2: you heard Vesent and a lot of the other guys
56:10
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, the Small Business Administration and other
56:14
Speaker 2: people that were on the table talking about job creation,
56:17
Speaker 2: which is off the charts. Companies are hiring more, they're
56:20
Speaker 2: doing more. There's there's a lot of pro very positive
56:24
Speaker 2: activity going on in the economy. But you don't get
56:28
Speaker 2: the gas price down. People that there's a psychological impact
56:32
Speaker 2: on that that doesn't seem to and they say that
56:35
Speaker 2: even with the war, the Big Beautiful Bill has overcome
56:38
Speaker 2: the challenge of those gas prices and people still effectively
56:41
Speaker 2: got a raising quarter one. Absolutely, but if you don't
56:45
Speaker 2: feel like you got a raise, it doesn't matter if
56:47
Speaker 2: you got it or not. It's how much do I
56:49
Speaker 2: feel it as opposed to what it actually is.
56:52
Speaker 13: Well, in that cushion, the tax refunds, which were I
56:55
Speaker 13: believe the largest in history of prety three hundred on
56:57
Speaker 13: average exactly. That was great and it provided a very
57:02
Speaker 13: nice cushion for the past few months. But that cushion
57:04
Speaker 13: has kind of flattened out. And so when we're looking
57:06
Speaker 13: at some of the consumers spending data that just came
57:09
Speaker 13: out this morning, we're seeing that consumers, if you're wealthy,
57:13
Speaker 13: if you're on a higher income levels, you're still continuing
57:16
Speaker 13: to spend because you're not spending as I mean, your
57:19
Speaker 13: income can keep ahead of inflation. It's those middle and
57:23
Speaker 13: lower class families and households who are squeezed right now, Kevin,
57:28
Speaker 13: who are making those real essential decisions about whether they're
57:32
Speaker 13: buying gas to get to work, or whether they're cutting
57:34
Speaker 13: back on the groceries, whether they're deciding not to pick
57:37
Speaker 13: up that prescription, and so you know, it's really important
57:40
Speaker 13: that we can get gas prices down and then the
57:42
Speaker 13: larger those prices will filter across the rest of the
57:45
Speaker 13: prices we pay on food and other things, but especially
57:49
Speaker 13: for those low income households that are really struggling because
57:52
Speaker 13: they disproportionately spend more of their incomes on things like
57:57
Speaker 13: gas and housing and shelter, those really basic essential needs.
58:01
Speaker 2: Well, I'm hopeful, and I said this in my column yesterday,
58:06
Speaker 2: that we will have a decision and that this Iranian
58:11
Speaker 2: issue will be cared for. And if it is cared
58:13
Speaker 2: for by July fourth, I feel like we can enter
58:16
Speaker 2: into two fifty with a huge celebration and have even
58:20
Speaker 2: more reason to cheer when the fall rolls around. But
58:22
Speaker 2: I am starting to get concerned that that is not
58:25
Speaker 2: the case, and that's not being critical the president. We
58:30
Speaker 2: cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's the bottom right,
58:33
Speaker 2: and if it costs him his presidency or the parties
58:37
Speaker 2: in Congress to ensure that that's the case, I will
58:39
Speaker 2: grit my teeth and say it's still worth it. But
58:42
Speaker 2: I don't want to have to lose all the good
58:44
Speaker 2: stuff that's going on too. But here, let's contrast this
58:47
Speaker 2: because you've also you've commented recently on the Mundanni, who
58:52
Speaker 2: is the total polar opposite of Donald Trump. If you
58:55
Speaker 2: go in the other direction, the Mamdani plan, and he
58:59
Speaker 2: wants to basic takeover housing, steal it from people, and
59:02
Speaker 2: then turn it into low rent subsidy.
59:05
Speaker 13: Yeah, he released his housing plan. This is a plan,
59:08
Speaker 13: he calls it a bold plan to create four hundred
59:12
Speaker 13: thousand rental units in New York City.
59:15
Speaker 1: Two hundred of them.
59:16
Speaker 13: Would be created by you know, completely newly rebuilt built
59:20
Speaker 13: you know, you know, apartment buildings for example, and then
59:24
Speaker 13: two hundred of them would be kind of moving maybe
59:27
Speaker 13: dilapidated or under used, underutilized properties into the hands of renters.
59:33
Speaker 13: At the core of this, Kevin is a Marxist, is
59:37
Speaker 13: a socialist as a communist approach, which is that the
59:40
Speaker 13: government should take ownership of private property and then do
59:45
Speaker 13: whatever it wants with it. So his idea is that
59:47
Speaker 13: if you the government will just in New York City,
59:49
Speaker 13: will decide which properties are dilapidated, are blighted and need
59:53
Speaker 13: to be taken out of the hands of a private
59:55
Speaker 13: land landlord and then transfer it into the hands of
1:00:00
Speaker 13: maybe a federally sorry, a state agency, or a nonprofit organization,
1:00:05
Speaker 13: or within the hands of the renters themselves. I talked
1:00:08
Speaker 13: about how number one, fundamentally you are undercutting what it
1:00:12
Speaker 13: means to be part of a capitalistic society, excuse me,
1:00:16
Speaker 13: a part of a free society where private property rights
1:00:20
Speaker 13: entitle you to rubber your stamp of America, your piece
1:00:24
Speaker 13: of land, your house, to do with whatever you decide
1:00:26
Speaker 13: to do with it, including being a landlord. And then
1:00:29
Speaker 13: practically this will not work. There's a small program in
1:00:33
Speaker 13: New York City, the seven a program where you can
1:00:35
Speaker 13: theoretically report a landlord as a slum lord. It forces
1:00:41
Speaker 13: him to make changes and update the codes the buildings
1:00:45
Speaker 13: and the properties, and then he gets to either keep
1:00:47
Speaker 13: his property or if he doesn't, that property could move
1:00:50
Speaker 13: back into the hands of the city. It's a very
1:00:52
Speaker 13: small program is there's no research on the actual outcomes
1:00:56
Speaker 13: and very often. If you transfer these properties out of
1:00:59
Speaker 13: the hands of the landlords into let's say the renters,
1:01:02
Speaker 13: the renters have no incentive to pool together them.
1:01:05
Speaker 2: They have no capital. That's why they're renting.
1:01:07
Speaker 13: Have the money exactly, And so these properties continue to
1:01:10
Speaker 13: be dilapidated. So he will turn create even more blighted places,
1:01:16
Speaker 13: blighted areas for people to live in, and people will
1:01:19
Speaker 13: not want to live in these places. It is dangerous,
1:01:23
Speaker 13: It is scary, and I hope it doesn't become replicated
1:01:25
Speaker 13: across the United States from some of his other sympathizers,
1:01:28
Speaker 13: from your.
1:01:29
Speaker 2: Lips to God's ears, Lady, that's all we can hope for. Okay,
1:01:32
Speaker 2: the Tree's always doing a great job at independent with you.
1:01:34
Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us.
1:01:36
Speaker 14: Thanks Kevin, you got it.
1:01:37
Speaker 2: Kevin mccallaugh coming back from New York.
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Speaker 1: Don't go way, stick around for more than Kevin next
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Speaker 1: time here he is from New York. That Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Kevin mccallaugh. Glad heaven with us at Kevin Show.
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Speaker 2: We are talking about young people and having their lives
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Speaker 2: completely transformed, turned upside down in the best way possible
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Speaker 2: through Angel Tree Camp and it is a vision of
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Speaker 2: Prison Fellowship, which was started by Chuck Colson many years ago,
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Speaker 2: to not only help parents not be recidivists, but if
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Speaker 2: they are convicted of a crime, actually have their lives redeemed,
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Speaker 2: find Jesus, start over, begin again, have a new birth.
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Speaker 2: I've read something about that in the New Testament. I
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Speaker 2: think that's pretty biblical. But not only that, because of
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Speaker 2: the damage that's been done to these families from the
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Speaker 2: criminal behavior, from the activity, they want to help try
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Speaker 2: to put these families back together again. And the Angel
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Speaker 2: Tree program, that's really the focus of it. It's to
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Speaker 2: make sure that kids are not forgotten by their parent.
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Speaker 2: It's to make sure that the kids know that God
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Speaker 2: loves them more than their parent does. And it's to
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Speaker 2: bring together a redeemed heart in the life of the
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Speaker 2: parent and a redeemed heart in the life of the
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Speaker 2: child and friends, reconciliation can happen out of that, and
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Speaker 2: this can be a family reconciliating program that just does
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Speaker 2: a world of good, not only stopping the cycle of
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Speaker 2: crime but going on to accomplish good things. Steve Collins
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Speaker 2: is back with us, and Steve, you've been the senior
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Speaker 2: camp director for Angel Tree for a while. And I
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Speaker 2: know that every kid that comes in has a story,
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Speaker 2: but there are some that stand out, I'm sure. So
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Speaker 2: talk to me about one that may have gotten your
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Speaker 2: attention or tugged at your heart as it played out
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Speaker 2: with Angel Tree camping.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 12: I have one particular story that comes to mind. I
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Speaker 12: was able last year to actually talk with former Angel
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Speaker 12: Tree camper uh, and he was very kind to let
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Speaker 12: me share his story.
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Speaker 10: UH.
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Speaker 12: And his name is Jediah. And Jediah when he was
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Speaker 12: a child, his father was incarcerated. He lived with his grandmother.
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Speaker 12: The father signed Jediah up for Angel Tree Christmas. So
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Speaker 12: jedi was able to receive that Christmas gift on behalf
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Speaker 12: of his incarcerated father, along with the gospel message and
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Speaker 12: a note from his father, and it helped build that connection.
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Speaker 12: And then he found out about Angel Tree camping that
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Speaker 12: he could attend camp on a scholarship and and so
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Speaker 12: Jedia's grandmother UH signed him up for the camp that
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Speaker 12: he wanted to go to and UH and and so
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Speaker 12: that was probably mid spring that he signed up for camp,
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Speaker 12: and then tragedy struck Uh.
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Speaker 14: Jediah's father passed away just about a.
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Speaker 12: Month before Jedi was scheduled to go to camp, and
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Speaker 12: his grandmother was naturally hesitant, like I still send him
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Speaker 12: away to camp when his father just died. And Jediah
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Speaker 12: shared with me he was he was very closed off
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Speaker 12: during this time, you know, he did not know how
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Speaker 12: to to really process the grief that he was experiencing.
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Speaker 12: His grandmother asked him if he if he still wanted
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Speaker 12: to go to camp, and and he was, he was
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Speaker 12: willing to give it a try.
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Speaker 14: Uh.
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Speaker 12: The grandmother called the camp to find explain the situation,
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Speaker 12: said do you think he would be okay? And the
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Speaker 12: camp said, we will take really good care of him
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Speaker 12: and we'll be attentive. Uh, and we'll let you know
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Speaker 12: if it doesn't work out, you know, you can you
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Speaker 12: can always pick him up. So jedia went to camp.
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Speaker 12: He got there, there was lots of energy, lots of
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Speaker 12: fun taking place for jedia feeling very closed off, just
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Speaker 12: kind of sat down alone by himself. One of the
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Speaker 12: camp counselors saw this happening, so he went over and
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Speaker 12: sat down beside him and and just kind of uh
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Speaker 12: started talking with him and connecting with him right where
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Speaker 12: he was at and and uh and helping to build
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Speaker 12: some trust and and to embrace camp. And so during
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Speaker 12: this camp week, they have actually a very special time.
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Speaker 12: During the camp week, they built a small stone wall,
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Speaker 12: and all the kids at camp are able to add
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Speaker 12: a stone to that wall to symbolize something that they've
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Speaker 12: lost or something that they're.
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Speaker 14: Leaving behind at camp.
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Speaker 12: And so jedia knew, you know, his big thing was
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Speaker 12: he had lost his father, and so he added a
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Speaker 12: stone to that wall and he kind of announced what
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Speaker 12: that stone represented and shared with the people around him
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Speaker 12: his grief. And in that moment, he was able to
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Speaker 12: open up and and really share all of the pain
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Speaker 12: and the heartache that he was experiencing, and this camp
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Speaker 12: community came around him and supported him and prayed with him,
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Speaker 12: and it was just a real breakthrough moment. Now, Jediah
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Speaker 12: later shared with me that that week at camp had
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Speaker 12: done more for him than months of therapy had done
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Speaker 12: before and after camp, because it was just a transformational
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Speaker 12: moment for him at camp.
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Speaker 14: And so he went back to camp the next year and.
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Speaker 12: Went back again and is working his way up through
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Speaker 12: their junior leadership program so that he was actually able
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Speaker 12: to be a counselor at camp last summer, and so
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Speaker 12: it's just a beautiful story about how camp can reach
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Speaker 12: a child in the deepest, darkest place and really minister
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Speaker 12: the need that they have.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Wow, friends, that is that that is a real
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Speaker 2: snapshot of what your gift launches. Go to that Kevinshow
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Speaker 2: at the top of the page. For two hundred dollars,
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Speaker 2: one child can go to camp. Two hundred dollars one
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Speaker 2: child can go to camp and friends. Obviously, if you
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Speaker 2: can do like a two thousand dollars gift, you're going
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Speaker 2: to help ten kids find Jesus this summer. If you
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Speaker 2: could do a multiple of even that, you'd help even more.
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Speaker 2: In many instances, you're bringing back together a child and
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Speaker 2: a parent in a way that is true reconciliation. The
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Speaker 2: parent is incarcerated, but this is a way that they
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Speaker 2: can tell their child that they're loved, they're not forgotten,
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Speaker 2: they're still remembered, and it's just so powerful. Please, please,
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Speaker 2: please go to the website that Kevinshow dot com and
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Speaker 2: click the banner at the top of the page. It
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Speaker 2: takes about two minutes to make that happen, and when
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Speaker 2: it's done, there's another kid taking off my list and
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Speaker 2: ready to go to camp this summer. That kevinshow dot com.
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Speaker 2: That kevinshow dot com. All one word that kevinshow dot
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Speaker 2: of the page. Kevin McCullough, very glad to have you
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Speaker 2: with us, coming right back from New.
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Speaker 14: York and pull whatever.
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Speaker 1: Here he is from New York. That Kevin McCullough.
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Speaker 2: Welcome inn It's Thursday, and we're always pleased to have
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Speaker 2: you with us, even here in the late part of
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Speaker 2: the second hour. Kevin mccaullugh, glad to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: That Kevin Show. And Shelley Goldberg is always with us
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Speaker 2: on Thursdays, helping us take just one little thing and
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Speaker 2: work on it a little bit better this week. Shelley.
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Speaker 2: I think if you try to tell people how to
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Speaker 2: be a better parent, you give them the whole you
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Speaker 2: know what they don't tell you about parenting encyclopedia. You
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Speaker 2: can overwhelm people pretty quick. That's why I love our
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Speaker 2: feature because we just talk about one thing, just one
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Speaker 2: just try one thing a little bit better this week,
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Speaker 2: and it's practical, and this week very practical, we're talking
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Speaker 2: about well communication.
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Speaker 5: That's right, Kevin.
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Speaker 10: I thought it might be interesting to talk about the
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Speaker 10: words that we use, the phrases that we use to
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Speaker 10: communicate with our kids. That might be the wrong words,
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Speaker 10: maybe not the best words, a little hurtful, potentially damaging,
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Speaker 10: judgmental shaming, but we don't even know that we're doing it.
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Speaker 10: Maybe we're doing it because that was the way we
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Speaker 10: were spoken to, or it's just a habit, or we've
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Speaker 10: heard another parents say it.
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Speaker 11: Whatever.
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Speaker 10: So my suggestion, my thought is that maybe over the
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Speaker 10: summer we we think some of the words and phrases
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Speaker 10: that we use to speak with our kids and to
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Speaker 10: see if we want to make some modifications or some changes.
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Speaker 10: And so maybe you could share with us as we
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Speaker 10: move along, anything that you've done with your kids that
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Speaker 10: you've changed. So there are some great articles on this
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Speaker 10: and some great information. So let me start and see.
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Speaker 14: If this resonates.
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Speaker 10: Number one, it's very common we often say to our kids,
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Speaker 10: or i'd heard I've certainly heard other parents say in
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Speaker 10: the playground, stop crying over nothing. You're being so dramatic,
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Speaker 10: you're such a big stop being so sensitive. Now, this
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Speaker 10: minimizes what your kids are feeling. It dismisses what they're feeling.
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Speaker 10: It's telling them that their emotions are long something to
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Speaker 10: be ashamed of. So I'm suggesting that instead we say
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Speaker 10: something like I can see that this feels really big
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Speaker 10: to you. I'm here to help. Or I know that
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Speaker 10: you're feeling mad. I con sense that you're feeling sad
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Speaker 10: things like that. Two, I do so much for you, Susie,
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Speaker 10: And this is how you act that makes it sound
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Speaker 10: Kevin like love's conditional. Instead, say something like, I love
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Speaker 10: you no matter what, but I'm not happy with this
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Speaker 10: specific choice you made.
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Speaker 5: Three, Why can't you be more like your sister Charlotte?
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Speaker 10: Uh ah? Comparisons are always a no no. They make
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Speaker 10: kids feal they're not good enough, and it's going to
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Speaker 10: only increase the resentment they have towards a sibling. Instead,
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Speaker 10: what you have to do, mom and Dad focus on
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Speaker 10: your chee child's wonderful strengths.
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Speaker 5: Susie.
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Speaker 10: I so admire, I really admire how hard you're working
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Speaker 10: on the blocks or on the you know, the painting
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Speaker 10: that you're making. But you want to focus on that
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Speaker 10: child's strengths, not comparisons.
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Speaker 5: Four.
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Speaker 10: You want to always stay away from absolutes. You never
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Speaker 10: want to say things like you are always you never,
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Speaker 10: because that's making your kid feel that they're stuck in
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Speaker 10: this negative self image and there's nowhere to go instead.
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Speaker 10: I notice, Jonathan, I noticed that this happens a lot.
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Speaker 10: Let's sit down and figure out what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Six.
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Speaker 10: I see this often with toddlers, especially with young kids.
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Speaker 10: You your parents saying great job, Great job, Susie, great job, Jonathan.
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Speaker 10: It's wonderful to say it when your child is one
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Speaker 10: or two, and it's also wonderful to say it occasionally.
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Speaker 10: But you don't want a child to be other motivated.
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Speaker 10: You don't want your kids dependent on verbal You wanted
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Speaker 10: to come from internal motivator motivation.
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Speaker 1: You want the.
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Speaker 10: Reward process to come from themselves. So instead focus your
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Speaker 10: phrase on specific feedback. If they're drawing a picture, instead
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Speaker 10: of saying great job, say I love the colors you used,
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Speaker 10: or I loved the crayons that you picked out, or
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Speaker 10: the way that you place the sun in the right
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Speaker 10: hand corner or whatever.
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Speaker 5: But make it be specific. Seven.
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Speaker 10: Hurry up, hurry up, Come on, Jonathan, hurry up. Just
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Speaker 10: create stress and toddlers. What you want to do instead,
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Speaker 10: say you want to use the word wei this way,
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Speaker 10: you're in it together with your child. Let's see if
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Speaker 10: we can finish this a bit sooner. Let's see if
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Speaker 10: we can just make if they're a little sooner, Susie.
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Speaker 10: God's better than saying hurry up. Something else you want
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Speaker 10: to stay away from saying, let's say you want a
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Speaker 10: toy store cabin. We can't afford that. We're poor. Terrible
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Speaker 10: message to send to your kids. What you might say
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Speaker 10: instead is we're not going to buy that because we're
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Speaker 10: saving for more important things. Nine, No dessert unless you
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Speaker 10: finish dinner. This is only going to increase your child's
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Speaker 10: value of the treat at the end, and it's going
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Speaker 10: to devalue the actual meal. So just make a minor
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Speaker 10: change and say something like, first we eat our meal,
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Speaker 10: then we have dessert.
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Speaker 1: Stop it.
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Speaker 10: People are looking at us, people are looking at you.
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Speaker 10: What do you think others are thinking of us when
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Speaker 10: you do that. That's a terrible, terrible message because what
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Speaker 10: you're saying to your kids and then going to end
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Speaker 10: up spending years in therapy, is that what other people
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Speaker 10: think about them is way more important than what they
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Speaker 10: think about themselves. Evan, I'm just I have more, but
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Speaker 10: I want to know your thoughts about you.
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Speaker 12: Now.
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Speaker 2: I think that one of the things that's kind of
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Speaker 2: thread through all those things that you said is the
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Speaker 2: negative and shame aspect of each of them. And don't
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Speaker 2: get me wrong, I don't I think that shame uses
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Speaker 2: a proper shame has a proper purpose that keeps us
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Speaker 2: from wanting to do the things that we should not do.
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Speaker 2: But I do think that the more winsomely you can,
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Speaker 2: and this is the key part of it, repetitively put
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Speaker 2: the positive opposite side into the embedded brain thinking of
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Speaker 2: the kids. So, for instance, if they've made a horrible mistake,
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Speaker 2: spilled something broken, something done, something that they already feel
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Speaker 2: fully ashamed about, there's no need to do any of
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Speaker 2: that because their conscience is already working over time on that.
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Speaker 2: That type of approach to the correction I think is
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Speaker 2: something that not only helps them in the moment and
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Speaker 2: they feel like there's a I don't know, a path
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Speaker 2: to some sort of redemption or a betterment, but it's
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Speaker 2: also you're embedding something in their brain that hopefully will
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Speaker 2: come back to them time and time again in the
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Speaker 2: in the future that will help them, you know, premeditatedly
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Speaker 2: avoid the circumstance that creates the issue to begin with.
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Speaker 2: And I find that you can do that with almost
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Speaker 2: everything about you know, whatever you talk about with them,
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 10: With you, and it's looking for the positive thread to
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Speaker 10: move them forward.
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Speaker 5: Here's one that I like it.
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Speaker 1: Well, hold on with that.
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Speaker 2: We'll come back next week and continue this because it's
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Speaker 2: so good, but we're out of time today. Shelley Goldberg,
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Speaker 2: thank you as always for all that you do for us.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Kevin, you got it.
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Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough coming right back to them for what let's
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Speaker 2: stick around.
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Speaker 6: For more of than Kevin next serving it up. That's
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Speaker 6: a no dream, Mitt, It's that the show.
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Speaker 2: I'm so grateful for you, and I'm so grateful for
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Speaker 2: those of you that have helped us along the lines
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Speaker 2: of getting the message out for Project Angel Tree Camp
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Speaker 2: this year.
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Speaker 1: Friends.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday another eight children were given the gift of Christian
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Speaker 2: Camp for the summer because of your generosity, and that
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Speaker 2: brings us to forty four kids that have been spoken for.
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Speaker 2: We are in the process of needing to get to
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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two, So we've still got a
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Speaker 2: lot of wood to chop, as they say. But I'm
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Speaker 2: confident that if there were one hundred and eighteen of
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Speaker 2: you within the sound of my voice, and there's easily
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Speaker 2: way more than that listening right now in four hundred
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Speaker 2: stations across the country, if just one hundred and eighteen
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Speaker 2: of you said, will I will adopt one kid and
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Speaker 2: give one kid a scholarship to go to summer camp
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Speaker 2: this year, It's a fifty dollars It's a two hundred
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Speaker 2: dollars gift one time. If you need to break it
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Speaker 2: up to one hundred dollars a month over two months,
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Speaker 2: or four to four gifts of fifty dollars each, whatever
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Speaker 2: you need to do to make that happen, that will
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Speaker 2: still count. It will still help getting kid to camp,
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Speaker 2: and it would be incredibly meaningful for you to do
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Speaker 2: something along those lines. These kids, they share one thing
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Speaker 2: in common all of their parents. They all have parents
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Speaker 2: who have been incarcerated. But they also share another thing
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Speaker 2: in common. Not only have all of them have a
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Speaker 2: parent who's been incarcerated, they also all have a parent
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Speaker 2: who's gone through the prison Fellowship Bible Study program in prison,
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Speaker 2: and upon graduation have been given the opportunity to nominate
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Speaker 2: their child for a scholarship week of Christian summer camp.
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Speaker 2: And if you don't think that this might just reverse
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Speaker 2: the cycle of what that family has been going through already,
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Speaker 2: think again, Because when the parent finds Jesus in prison
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Speaker 2: and then says, hey, I want my kid to know Jesus,
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Speaker 2: will you send them to a Christian camp where they're
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Speaker 2: going to be, you know, confronted with the claims of
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Speaker 2: the Gospel every day, that's a powerful thing. So go
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Speaker 2: to that kevinshow dot com. Click the banner at the
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Speaker 2: top of the page that kevinshow dot com. Click the
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Speaker 2: banner at the top of the page. You can select
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Speaker 2: how much you want to give. On the page you'll
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Speaker 2: see right up to the minute, how many kids we
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Speaker 2: have going but friends we've got We've got one hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighteen that still need help. And I know that
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Speaker 2: you could help them. And I threw this out last hour.
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Speaker 2: If there's someone that would like to give a gift
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Speaker 2: of ten thousand dollars ten thousand dollars one time gift,
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Speaker 2: I would like to bring it to New York. Treat
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Speaker 2: you to dinner and have a one on one evening
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Speaker 2: with you and your and your significant other and get
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Speaker 2: to know a little bit about who you are. Maybe
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Speaker 2: if you have a business, what that consists of. But
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Speaker 2: I would love to just say thank you in a
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Speaker 2: tangible way if you would help forty children find their
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Speaker 2: way to camp through a gift, a one time gift
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Speaker 2: of ten thousand dollars. I believe that there's someone in
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Speaker 2: the audience that could do that. There may be more
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Speaker 2: than one, and for everybody that does it, will do
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Speaker 2: the same thing. But I need your help right now
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Speaker 2: because I don't want to leave any of these one
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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two names off the list of kids
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Speaker 2: who get summer camp. So would you help us? Would
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Speaker 2: you be willing to help us right now? Go to
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Speaker 2: that kevinshow dot com, select the amount and give the gift.
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Speaker 2: It takes like twenty five seconds if you're good on
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Speaker 2: the computer or on the handheld device, and then give
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Speaker 2: that gift. And then let's figure out ways to make
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Speaker 2: these children's lives so much more than what they are
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Speaker 2: facing this summer without the possibility of going to camp.
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Speaker 2: And again, if you can make that gift of ten
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. I will do something personally for you, but
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Speaker 2: I don't if we didn't, if we didn't have that
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Speaker 2: at all, that would be fine. As long as we
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Speaker 2: had one hundred and eighteen people. It said I will
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Speaker 2: take care of one child this year. Would you at
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Speaker 2: least go that are to say, there's a kid whose
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Speaker 2: life can be majorly impacted by Jesus at Christian Camp
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Speaker 2: top of the page. Kevin mccallo so glad to have
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Speaker 2: will be talking to you tomorrow on the Friday edition.
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