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The criminal case that became a trainwreck · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Welcome to our broadcast, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Uh, it is my hope and my desire that uh you get a good education on the what is happening around the world from a perspective that you don't normally get through the mainstream media.
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  And here in the United States.
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  Now, you might think, gee, that's a pretty tall order, isn't it, there, Mr.
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  Rogers?
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  Uh, what what can I do to help somebody around the world?
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  Well, there's a lot you could do.
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  And uh maybe we'll get into a broadcast one day on just exactly what you can do by just stepping up and volunteering.
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  How about that, folks?
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  How about that?
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  Well, what about this, folks?
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  And I I gotta tell you, I'm gonna talk to you about a criminal case.
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  All right, the one criminal case, recent criminal case, that in my view has become a train wreck.
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  I mean a real train wreck.
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  Now, most of you know that not only am I a retired U.S.
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  naval officer, but I am also a retired detective lieutenant from a police department in New Jersey.
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  I've conducted investigations my entire career.
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  I've investigated all sorts of crimes.
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  So I would say that to a certain degree, I know what I'm talking about.
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  When it comes to uh investigations, how they're conducted and who's conducting them.
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  But there's a criminal case that's starting to bug me.
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  I mean, really bug me.
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  And maybe it's gonna maybe it started to bug you, I don't know.
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  But the only way I could define where we are now with regard to this particular criminal case is that it is a train wreck.
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  Now, what I'm about to say can be interpreted as not being sympathetic.
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  I know I'll hear from people, oh, you know, it's a shame the victims of this crime day in and day out, they got to hear negative things, and now uh you're going after the investigation.
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  No, I'm not going after the investigation.
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  I care about the outcome of all investigations, that it'll bring peace and closure to victims of crimes.
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  But I've got to tell you, folks, the the train wreck that I'm going to talk to you about right now uh does involve some questions about the police investigation, does involve about some of the people who've been interviewed, uh, what strategies, what tactics, what investigation methodologies are being used that were neglected.
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  I mean, this has nothing to do with the victims, but everything to do with the who, the what, the when, the where, and the why of this investigation.
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  That's what I'm focusing in right now.
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  And again, to clarify, I'm gonna absolutely clarify this and make it very clear.
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  I am sympathetic and genuinely care about victims of every crime, including the case that I am about to discuss.
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  So here we are, folks.
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  Here we are.
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  I know you're on the edge of your seat right now.
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  I know your ear is now really tuned up.
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  What is he talking about?
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  What case is he talking about?
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  What case is he talking about that we probably, in his view, meaning my view, uh, that that we all know about and has become a train wreck.
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  How about this, folks?
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  I'll speak for myself, not for you or not for anybody else.
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  I could tell you that I'm growing increasingly weary of hearing about the ongoing criminal investigation into Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie from the Today Show, who has allegedly been kidnapped and has been missing for quite a while.
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  Yep, I'm getting weary about this entire case, hearing day in and day out uh a lot about this case, where it's going, where it's been nothing new, nothing new, but for some reason we seem to have a press conference or breaking news, as they say on the mainstream media every day.
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  Now, from the day the sheriff who's leading this investigation on this case appeared at a press conference in February.
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  Think about that, folks.
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  In February, I rolled my eyes.
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  I've got to tell you, I rolled my eyes, and I thought that this guy is way over his head.
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  Now, me being a retired law enforcement officer, I support law enforcement officers 100%.
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  I do.
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  100%.
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  If they're wrong, I will call them out because that's my way of supporting good cops.
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  Good cops don't like bad cops.
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  Good cops want bad cops to retire or to get fired.
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  We don't want bad cops around.
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  Am I saying that the sheriff is a bad cop?
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  No.
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  But I'm saying the sheriff conducting this investigation is not the most well-versed uh trained officer when it comes to investigations.
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  I don't know the guy, maybe a good leader, a good sheriff down there.
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  I'm not questioning his character or his leadership abilities to lead uh the sheriff's department, although many have done some research into this guy's background, and boy, it raises a lot of red flags from what I'm told, where people are scratching their heads saying, how did this guy become a sheriff?
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  From what I understand, these sheriffs in that part of the country there are elected.
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  What do you think of that, folks?
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  They're elected.
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  Which means it is very easy to transition from a professional police officer, a professional law enforcement officer, to a professional politician.
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  Meaning from being a professional law enforcement officer who will bring you facts based on evidence that is actionable and credible, transitioning from that to becoming a professional politician who will maybe exaggerate a little, maybe give you information based not on actual facts and credible actionable evidence.
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  Actual facts and credible actionable evidence.
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  Now I'm not saying I have no proof that this sheriff did that, but in my opinion, I think he's come close to it.
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  Now, I'm not saying I have no proof that this sheriff did that, but in my opinion, I think he's come close to it.
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  What do you think of that, folks?
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  What do you think of that, folks?
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  I think he's come close to it.
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  I think he's come close to it.
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  Now, why would he do that?
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  Now, why would he do that?
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  The politician, folks.
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  The politician, folks.
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  If he's elected to office, he is a politician.
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  If he's elected to office, he is a politician.
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  And by the way, if he is appointed to office and doesn't have some sort of protection from politics, then he
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  And by the way, if he is appointed to office and doesn't have some sort of protection from politics, then he is acting like most people who are appointed by a politician to officers.
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  They become puppets of the politician.
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  Pretty tough.
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  I know.
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  I know.
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  I get listen, I hear from people, oh, that's kind of tough.
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  That's kind of kind of tough on these people.
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  Well, it may be tough, but it's a tough world, isn't it?
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  It's a tough world.
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  Look, I tell it like it is.
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  Look, as of today, all these months have passed.
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  Come on, all these months have passed, and ongoing developments continue to occur.
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  Every day there's another occurrence.
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  You know, I've been involved in this for my lifetime.
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  We've had investigations where we've had press conferences where we would send out press releases.
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  Not every day, not every minute of the day.
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  All right.
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  Politicians do that.
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  Professional law enforcement officers do not do that.
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  You gather a totality of information that you can share with the public without compromising the investigation.
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  And you want to share stuff that the public could help you with.
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  That's very important.
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  Now, a good idea is you periodically give information that will help curb what?
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  Curb what, folks?
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  Think for a millisecond, curb conspiracy theories.
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  There's all kinds of conspiracy theories out there on this case.
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  I mean, all kinds of crazy stuff.
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  So it's good to get information out there to make to set the record straight.
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  To take these conspiracy theories head on and say, look, it this is not true.
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  This is what's out there, this is not true, this is what's true.
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  And I've said this all along.
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  The only way you get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is not out of the mouth of a politician, but out of the mouth of professional career law enforcement officers.
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  You get that from the FBI, you get that from the large city police departments, LA, NYPD, and a lot of uh police departments, local police departments, smaller ones that know how to deal with the press and know how important information is when you feed it to the public.
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  Important to the investigation.
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  But like I said, from the day the sheriff came to the microphone, man, I'll tell you, I scratched my head and said, I wonder where this is going.
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  I was right.
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  I was right, folks.
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  And not only was I right, not hundreds, but thousands of law enforcement officers across the country are scratching their heads.
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  Believe me, they are, over what they have seen and heard from this particular sheriff.
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  And again, I ask you, as the months have passed, are we any closer to a conclusion?
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  As the months have passed, is there any real credible, actionable information that they could share with us, meaning law enforcement could share with us?
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  What about the updates?
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  Have we learned anything more from the updates?
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  Many of the updates that I've looked at provide very little, if at all, any relevant information to the investigation.
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  But politicians love microphones.
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  They do.
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  And again, I know sounds like I'm accusing him of uh being a politician, but he is.
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  He is.
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  This is how a politician acts.
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  My view, my opinion.
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  And again, I'm not going to condemn the guy fully.
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  I'm just going to condemn the actions.
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  I don't know the guy.
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  He could be a great character.
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  He got elected.
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  All right.
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  So apparently the people want him in office.
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  Now I hear that, well, that might not be the case coming around the re-election time.
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  Be that as it may, they got to really think twice before they go to the microphone and start feeding the public information that is not relevant to the case.
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  Why?
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  Why are they doing that?
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  Politics, folks.
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  Ideally, I've got to tell you, the sheriff, he would have involved the FBI from the very beginning to oversee the investigation.
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  They've got the skill, they've got the tools with their cutting-edge technology and their highly skilled investigators.
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  I got to tell you, folks, I believe they could have solved this case very efficiently sooner than now.
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  Why did not the sheriff of that law enforcement agency do that?
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  Go to the FBI and say, here, take over the investigation.
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  You got the tools, you got the most advanced technology on earth that could help us solve this case sooner rather than later.
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  I don't understand it.
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  I just don't understand why he didn't do that, other than control.
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  Again, politics.
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  Politicians like to control things.
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  But this case, as a result of that particular tactic or strategy, whatever you want to call it, this case has become a national train wreck.
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  So now you've got all types of news coming out again and again and again.
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  And they happen to be breaking news.
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  You notice on the news today, there's no regular news coming out.
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  Everything's breaking news.
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  Breaking news.
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  We found DNA at the uh uh uh the site that the crime was committed, all right.
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  We found a uh piece of hair fiber in the woods.
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  Oh, we found a shovel, we found this, we found that's all breaking news.
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  Every day, there's something different.
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  Breaking news, the car is here.
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  There was a car scene, breaking news, there was a car in a driveway.
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  Folks, it gets, I tell you, I get sick and tired of it.
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  But this is how this has become a train wreck.
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  And it just baffles me why this continues to go on and on and on.
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  And the only answer I come up with, the person leading the investigation, the sheriff, he is the one perpetrating this.
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  The FBI, I haven't heard much from them because they're not the lead investigators.
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  Right now, I think they're a little bit more involved.
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  Uh so red flag number one for me was hey, why don't you go to the FBI?
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  They got the cutting edge technology.
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  What are you kidding me?
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  Nope, didn't do that.
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  Then another red flag was the FBI, I believe at some point early on, it offered uh the laboratories that they have to inspect the DNA and blood samples, etc.
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  He wouldn't do that, from what I understand.
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  He has some sort of a lab that they contract out to in that area that was uh going to and did, I believe, do some lab analysis.
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  Sort of a lab that they contract out to in that area that was uh going to and did, I believe, do some lab analysis.
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  I don't know what the outcome of that was.
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  I don't know what the outcome of that was.
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  Unbelievable.
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  Unbelievable.
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  Why you go into a private enterprise?
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  Why are you going to a private enterprise?
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  Politics, folks, keep in mind.
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  Politics, folks, keep in mind.
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  Politics is always a train wreck.
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  Politics is always a train wreck.
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  All right, always, always when the the motives of a politician take precedence over the motives of law enforcement agencies.
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  All right, always, always when the motives of a politician take precedence over the motives of law enforcement agencies like this case, they become a train wreck.
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  The motive of a law enforcement agency is to solve the crime.
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  What is the motive of a politician?
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  To get in front of microphones, to get publicity, to let people know you are in charge.
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  Again, I'm not saying that this was the motive of the sheriff, but it does cause me to pause.
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  And I believe as you're listening to me, you might be pausing right now, scratching your head, saying, you know what?
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  I never thought of that.
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  I never realized it.
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  Now, if you notice, not much news anymore coming out of that area of the country, right, with regard to Nancy Guthrie.
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  A little here, a little there, but I think even the press got a little tired of that.
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  So we'll see.
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  We'll see when the next big break comes.
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  Every break is a big break, according to the sheriff down there.
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  But uh there are some um uh bits of information that have come out that may be of interest, but I don't think anywhere.
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  The latest breaking news story about this case uh was that there was an in the individual responsible, listen to this folks, for the abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her residence in the early hours of February 1st, 2026, appear to be taking considerable measures to evade apprehension.
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  Breaking news, folks.
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  Breaking news.
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  That comes from some talking head that was on a talk show that wanted to give us expert analysis as to what's really going on down there.
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  What did he tell us?
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  He told us that the person who committed this ghastly crime is taking taking very strong measures to evade apprehension.
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  What criminal doesn't do that?
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  What's breaking about that?
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  People who commit crimes, especially something to this degree, kidnapping or murder, whatever, what do you expect them to do?
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  Walk around the streets?
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  Hey, Joe, let's go have some coffee.
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  Of course, they're going to take strong measures not to be apprehended.
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  But that came about as breaking news.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Followed up by some press conference that somebody out there, no doubt, heard on the news like others did, and decided that, well, that's something we need to share with the public.
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  How does a person who's supposed to be an expert come to this conclusion?
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  Many months into this investigation is perplexing to me at least.
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  In fact, I'm sure many people who drew this conclusion that the guy that had committed this crime or girl that committed this crime is looking to evade apprehension.
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  Uh I'm sure they concluded this a long time ago.
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  Or he would have been caught.
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  So to my point, what is breaking about this?
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  Really?
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  What is breaking news about this?
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  You tell me.
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  Doesn't it detract you?
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  It detracts you from the uh uh the the real meat of this investigation.
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  It distracts law enforcement.
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  It distracts everyone.
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  Again, train wreck.
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  Now, a news reporter shared this information, by the way, after hearing from a retired law enforcement officer, all right, who described the suspect's behavior as attempting to get you folks, it did if it wasn't so serious, it would be laughable.
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  Going on the air, letting the world know that the sussect's behavior is one that will reveal to all of us that he or she is getting as far away as possible from the crime scene.
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  Again, breaking news.
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  So a criminal commits a crime, all right, and decides not to go back to the crime scene, but to go as far away from the crime scene as possible is now breaking news.
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  Because there is no more news to report out of that train wreck.
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  I've arrested people, people over 30 years as a police officer.
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  I arrested tons of dozens of them, maybe over a hundred or so, who knows.
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  Not one of those criminals that I've arrested were ever apprehended by making themselves purposely intentionally visible to the police.
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  They were hiding.
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  So we knew that they weren't going to come around.
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  We know that they were evading apprehension.
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  So we had to investigate further as to where this person might be or be headed.
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  Where will they be going?
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  Where do we think they are?
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  But that's breaking news.
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  So frankly, I'm going to tell you something, folks.
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  And here, I know I'll be accused right now again of being insensitive, which I'm not, but I got to tell you, news like that, who cares?
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  Frankly, who cares that this criminal in his or her mind has decided to evade apprehension?
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  Because we know that already.
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  We know that.
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  Who cares?
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  I don't care.
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  Maybe you care.
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  What I care about is the police continuing aggressively continuing the investigation to apprehend this person and to solve the crime.
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  If in fact, here we go, ready, if in fact it was a kidnapping.
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  Uh-oh, what are you leading to?
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  Well, I'm leading to all options are open, as far as I'm concerned.
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  There has been no proof as far as I'm concerned.
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  No, not enough credible evidence that there was actually a kidnapping, in my view.
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  They call it a kidnapping.
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  Well, that's what they call it.
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  That's what it is.
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  I don't like to be a Monday morning quarterback.
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  I don't like people breathing over my shoulders, questioning what I'm doing in an investigation.
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  I don't like to do that with other people.
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  But this is a public, public train wreck right now.
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  So I feel comfortable enough to say that if I was leading the investigation, and I'm sure if, you know, I've always say, you know, you get uh half a dozen New York City police detectives on a case, they'll have the case solved within a very short period of time.
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  You get uh a half a dozen New York City police detectives investigating this case.
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  I believe that they will have the case solved sooner rather than later.
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  And I believe that they would have never, never classified this as a kidnapping, even up to this point.
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  As a kidnapping.
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  Even up to this point.
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  I believe that.
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  I believe that.
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  It would have been a missing person, folks.
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  It would have been a missing person, folks, a missing person.
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  A missing person.
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  Do we know if she's alive or not?
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  Do we know if she's alive or not?
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  Do we know if she has been murdered?
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  Do we know if she has been murdered?
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  Do we know if she was actually kidnapped?
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  Do we know if she was actually kidnapped?
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  We don't know any of this stuff.
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  We don't know any of this stuff.
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  But yet, they're calling it a kidnapping.
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  But yet, they're calling it a kidnapping.
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  Train wreck.
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  Train wreck.
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  Absolute train wreck.
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  Absolute train wreck.
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  So, like I say, I don't care about meaningless news and new.
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  So, like I say, I don't care about meaningless news and news conferences about this investigation that has been and in my view will be a train wreck up until they solve it and God knows how long, I hope sooner rather than later.
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  But I've got to tell you something.
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  Some of this stuff that the uh people, law enforcement officers out there putting out, I believe can actually compromise sometimes investigations by innuendo.
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  In other words, why are you going on the air?
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  And you're speaking about things that have uh pretty much nothing to do with the case, but may give the criminal an idea of what to do next, may give the criminal an idea what law enforcement is thinking.
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  Why do that?
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  Why, folks?
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  Politics.
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  Politics, folks.
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  So we see now a lot of news media outlets are drawing conclusions not based on facts, just based on opinion.
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  Some of them manufacture this.
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  And a complete lack, and this troubles me to say that.
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  A complete lack of investigative integrity from start to finish.
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  You gotta you gotta maintain some sort of integrity.
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  All right.
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  You gotta be honest with the public.
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  You can't run to the microphone every five minutes.
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  And it shouldn't be anyone elected, anyone elected should be at that microphone talking about this case until it's solved.
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  I get sick to my stomach when there's a crime committed across this country, and immediately a mayor, a senator, every politician has to get involved.
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  Oh, I'm sorry for the victims, and we've got to block up the criminals, and we gotta do this and do that.
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  Who cares what you have to say?
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  We want to hear from the police chief who's not elected.
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  We want to hear from the commissioner of the police department, who may have gained uh a lot of confidence in the eyes of the public.
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  There are police commissioners who are puppets on a string.
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  Uh, people have no confidence in them.
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  They gotta do what they're told.
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  I'm talking about true professional law enforcement officers.
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  That's what I'm talking about.
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  Investigative integrity from start to finish also means what they are feeding the public.
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  In this case, nothing but a train wreck.
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  To make matters even more complicated, there's certain media outlets who are now inviting guests to speculate on what might be going on, what on what might happen, on what's going through the minds of the victims and the suspects.
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  They're mind readers now.
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  Everybody's a mind reader.
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  Oh, this is what I think the uh family's thinking about.
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  This is what the suspect may be thinking about.
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  Who cares?
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  I don't care, and I don't think most people care.
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  What we care about is the criminal being caught and the crime being solved.
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  And if you don't have anything, any value to add to that, then stay away from a microphone.
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  How about that, folks?
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  And then you got guests are being asked to share with the public what they believe the suspect's next move is.
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  Imagine going on air, the suspect is listening, and he's listening to you say, Well, I think the suspect's gonna do this and do this and do that and do this.
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  There you give an information to the criminal suspect again.
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  That's why I call this criminal case a train wreck.
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  How else do you define it, folks?
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  How else do you find it?
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  I mean, it's a train wreck from start to finish.
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  Look, I've been on the air a lot about this case.
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  I have been, and I have been very, very careful on what I would transmit to the public.
• 25:11
  I would talk about facts.
• 25:13
  I would talk about things that I believe would be helpful to the public to understand where law enforcement is and where law enforcement is going with this.
• 25:23
  All right, but without revealing every every turn that the law enforcement agencies are taking to capture the suspect, because the suspect's listening.
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  For goodness sakes.
• 25:35
  Anyway, it's a train wreck, folks.
• 25:37
  Absolute train wreck.
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  You don't think it is?
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  Drop me an email.
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• 30:41
  Now, during this segment of today's broadcast, uh, I get what I call out loud for God.
• 30:46
  You know, America Out Loud News.
• 30:49
  We certainly get out loud about the news, we speak about the news, we speak about events uh surrounding uh our country, surrounding our cities, our towns, our states, and front news from around the world.
• 31:01
  So we make it a point to bring some credible, relevant, actionable news to you, hoping that at some point in time you'll get involved.
• 31:09
  You'll get involved in uh volunteering at a certain organization, maybe in your community, uh, maybe from time to time thinking about getting involved in politics, getting involved with the military, get involved.
• 31:22
  Very important.
• 31:23
  But get involved to a point where you're going to be adding value to freedom, to liberty, to individual liberties.
• 31:32
  How about that, folks?
• 31:34
  So we get a lot of people involved in a lot of different things that are not very good for our country.
• 31:38
  Well, it's about time we start talking about getting involved with things that are good for our country.
• 31:44
  And one thing, especially during this segment, that I advocate that all of us get involved with, and that happens to be a person.
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  Yeah, you should be involved with a person.
• 31:55
  Become friends with the person, and that person happens to be God Almighty.
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  That person happens to be Jesus Christ.
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  And that's what the second half of this broadcast is all about.
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  Spiritual in nature.
• 32:09
  I look at a spiritual perspective from the Judeo-Christian values in which this nation was founded upon.
• 32:16
  I take a look at those things.
• 32:18
  Now I don't scream Bible scriptures at you.
• 32:20
  I don't brow you with theology.
• 32:23
  I'm not like that.
• 32:24
  I'm not a preacher, not a minister.
• 32:27
  I'm not even a member of the clergy.
• 32:29
  I'm just like most of you who are listening to this broadcast.
• 32:33
  I'm a person who did the best I could and continue to do the best I could in life to succeed, to progress towards my goals, towards my desires, towards my dreams.
• 32:44
  But I learned in life, and I'm still learning that life without Christ is no life at all.
• 32:52
  And unless you know Christ now, you have no idea what I'm talking about.
• 32:56
  That's right.
• 32:57
  It's like a person who has a dog, let's say a dog or any pet for that matter.
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  You have this pet your whole life, and all of a sudden that pet grows old and that pet passes on.
• 33:09
  You grieve, you cry, you get upset.
• 33:13
  Like I have during the course of my life when I've had pets and they've had to go to heaven.
• 33:18
  People look at you and say, Well, that's just a pet.
• 33:21
  What do you mean that's just a pet?
• 33:23
  That's a family member.
• 33:25
  And I liken that unto a relationship with Christ, believe it or not.
• 33:29
  Just hear me out a minute.
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  If you never had a pet, you have no idea what it is to lose a pet.
• 33:37
  You have no idea what we mean that our pets are family members.
• 33:43
  If you never had Christ in your life, you have no idea what you're missing.
• 33:48
  Just like if you never had a pet, you don't know what you're missing.
• 33:52
  So this is why I commit the second half of each and every one of my broadcasts to thinking about having a personal relationship with God.
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  A friendship with Christ.
• 34:05
  Christ is God.
• 34:06
  Okay, make no mistake about that.
• 34:09
  I could go into a long discussion about that.
• 34:12
  People will say, you know what?
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  Christ is not God.
• 34:15
  He's not this, he's not that.
• 34:16
  But I take this from a perspective that Christ is God, period.
• 34:22
  Now, if you don't believe that, don't run away.
• 34:24
  Just stay tuned in, all right?
• 34:26
  Because certain things I may say may have impact on your life.
• 34:30
  In other words, a seed may be planted.
• 34:32
  What do you think of that?
• 34:34
  A seed may be planted in your life.
• 34:38
  And could turn your life around like a turn my life around and countless millions of people of lives around.
• 34:44
  When somebody took the time, whether it be on radio, TV, or in person, or by reading a book, somebody took the time.
• 34:52
  And no doubt my mind, most of you know that your grandma or your grandpa or your mother or your father took the time to pray for you.
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  So, folks, every broadcast that I have, I dedicate this period of time of the broadcast to God Almighty.
• 35:01
  So, folks, every broadcast that I have, I dedicate this period of time of the broadcast to God Almighty.
• 35:10
  And I take everything that I've read about in the Bible, look at it, examine it, study it, and I try to address all kinds of issues with regard to the lives we live and the fact that without Christ, the issues that we're addressing.
• 35:10
  And I take everything that I've read about in the Bible, look at it, examine it, study it, and I try to address all kinds of issues with regard to the lives we live and the fact that without Christ, the issues that we're addressing are very temporary.
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  Something to think about.
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  This world is temporary.
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  A relationship with Christ is not.
• 35:38
  Heaven and earth, the Bible says, shall pass away, but the word of God will stand forever.
• 35:45
  So I would venture to say that new listeners may be scratching their heads thinking, boy, what's this all about?
• 35:52
  Well, you're probably saying, we just heard the first part of this broadcast, and boy, that was pretty interesting and dynamic, and you know, really, really neat stuff.
• 36:00
  And now you're talking about the Bible?
• 36:04
  You're talking about God?
• 36:06
  That's right.
• 36:07
  Stick around and listen.
• 36:09
  Because, like I just shared with you, what I'm about to share, may have profound impact on your life.
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  I mean, look at do you have anything to lose?
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  Think about it.
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  You're going through hell, aren't you?
• 36:21
  Some of you are.
• 36:22
  Some of you going through some real tough times.
• 36:25
  Divorce, separation, kids giving you problems, losing your job.
• 36:30
  The economy's hurting everybody, and I gotta be hurting most of you out there.
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  Certainly hurting me.
• 36:35
  I'm a regular person like you.
• 36:37
  Just because I'm on the radio and TV and I do this and that, that doesn't mean I'm any different than you.
• 36:42
  I am like you, just like you.
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  All right.
• 36:48
  Now, if you're doing a lot of bad things, I'm not like you.
• 36:50
  Okay, let's get that.
• 36:52
  Let's get that straight.
• 36:53
  But the Bible does say we're all sinners.
• 36:56
  We're all fall short the glory of God.
• 36:58
  But you get my point, all right?
• 36:59
  You get my point.
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  We're just a bunch of middle income people getting together, doing what God wants us to do.
• 37:08
  And you could do that too.
• 37:09
  You could do what God wants you to do.
• 37:10
  Hey, look, you may not be doing what God wants you to do right now.
• 37:13
  That doesn't mean he loves you any less.
• 37:16
  That doesn't mean he's not going to open his arms to you.
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  Hey, you know what?
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  Whether you know it or not, the Bible said he came to this earth.
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  Jesus came to this earth for us.
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  He didn't come for those who are powerful who are rich who don't believe in him.
• 37:33
  Now that doesn't mean if you're powerful and rich, that Christ doesn't love you.
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  He loves you too.
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  But if you notice, I've noticed throughout the whole Bible.
• 37:44
  He reached way down deep, the bottom of the barrel.
• 37:47
  Look at them 12 guys he picked out to be disciples.
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  Whew, man, I'll tell you, you talk about individuals that were a mess.
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  All of them were.
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  But he called them the 12 to spread the gospel throughout the world.
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  And we still have that gospel today because they did what he said they should do.
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  And he does that to me, and he did it to others, and he could do it to you.
• 38:10
  He may be doing that to you right now by you just sitting back, relaxing, and listening to what I have to say.
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  Now I'll tell you this.
• 38:19
  During my lifetime, I pursued a lot of things in my quest to succeed, a heck of a lot of things.
• 38:25
  My fifth grade teacher actually called me a dreamer.
• 38:27
  Well, this guy does his dream.
• 38:29
  She would tell my parents at parent teacher conference.
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  Your son's a dreamer.
• 38:32
  What are you dreaming about?
• 38:34
  Well, I dreamed that my life would be successful.
• 38:38
  I dreamed that one day I wanted to be an astronaut, wanted to be a pilot, wanted to do this, wanted to do that.
• 38:44
  And then as I grew older, those dreams changed to other areas of my life that I didn't even think about when I was younger.
• 38:53
  And then as he has even got older, I realized that those things that I dreamt about were actually a calling from God.
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  God called me to do the things I'm doing in life now.
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  And he may have called you right now to do the things you're doing.
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  But the only way you're going to find out, you got to shake his hands, give him a hug, give him a kiss, let him know.
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  Hey, Jesus, come on.
• 39:17
  Come on, let's get this, let's get this life together with you and let's talk.
• 39:21
  Yeah, that's the way I talk to God.
• 39:23
  You don't like it?
• 39:23
  You think you got to go through a script, you got to go to an altar, you got to go here, go there.
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  No, no, no.
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  The special place you got to go to is in your heart.
• 39:33
  That's where Jesus Christ presides.
• 39:36
  Please support your local churches, right?
• 39:39
  I look at, I'm not against church.
• 39:40
  Support your local churches, go worship, do those things.
• 39:44
  They're nice to do, they're good to do.
• 39:46
  And they do give you some some special time with the Lord.
• 39:51
  But I say, make it a practice every day of going to Christ, of just spending a few minutes with him.
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  I take a couple hours, folks, a day, not, you know, two hours in one time period, maybe 15 minutes here, maybe a half hour there.
• 40:08
  I spend some solitude with God because that's the way I get close to him.
• 40:13
  I may read a scripture here and there, and I'll for the most part just take a cup of coffee and say, look at, let's have this talk.
• 40:21
  When I was aboard ship in the U.S.
• 40:23
  Navy, right?
• 40:24
  I would I would go out on a flight deck near a flight deck on a carrier and uh uh or or or towards the uh the bow of the ship, and and I just spent a little time with God.
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  And I'd go into the mess hall, the officer's wardrobe.
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  I'd sit, talk to him, have coffee.
• 40:42
  I would, folks.
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  And uh I got news for you.
• 40:47
  I did get answers.
• 40:48
  And like I've said over and over again, don't think I'm crazy.
• 40:51
  No voice, no thunderous voice from the clouds from the sky, lightning, bolt of lightnings and earthquakes, nothing like that.
• 40:59
  I'm talking about the inner voice.
• 41:01
  You know, I've always told people, mankind and the devil, you know, they're loud.
• 41:07
  They're very loud.
• 41:08
  They scream, they they scream crazy stuff.
• 41:12
  Christ whispers.
• 41:14
  He whispers, he whispers to our hearts, and his whisper is louder than any noise we could get from hell, then any noise we could get from people who may mean well, but maybe are simply not achieving the goal that they achieve is to help us through tough times.
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  Some of them do, most of them don't.
• 41:36
  But God always.
• 41:40
  So stick around and listen, all right.
• 41:43
  Uh and I gotta tell you, I pursued many things in my life to succeed.
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  And like most people in this pursuit, I made a lot of mistakes, and I entered many, many difficult valleys.
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  Oh boy, many valleys.
• 41:59
  Now, in those valleys, I met a lot of people, made a lot of friends who like me suffered dearly in our pursuit of success, because that's what we're all doing.
• 42:00
  In those valleys, I met a lot of people.
• 42:02
  Made a lot of friends who, like me, suffered dearly in our pursuit of success, because that's what we're all doing.
• 42:08
  We're trying to find success.
• 42:08
  We're trying to find success.
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  And by the way, thinking about our success, what would it bring us?
• 42:11
  And by the way, thinking about our success, what would it bring us?
• 42:18
  At least we thought peace.
• 42:18
  At least we thought peace.
• 42:19
  What a success.
• 42:19
  What a success.
• 42:20
  Boy, I got money in the bank.
• 42:20
  Boy, I got money in the bank.
• 42:22
  I'm successful.
• 42:22
  I'm successful.
• 42:23
  Got a great job.
• 42:23
  Got a great job.
• 42:24
  I'm successful.
• 42:24
  I'm successful.
• 42:25
  Got to great this, gotta great that.
• 42:25
  Got a great this, got a great that, I'm successful.
• 42:27
  I'm successful.
• 42:28
  But the ultimate question is are you at peace?
• 42:28
  But the ultimate question is, are you at peace?
• 42:31
  Are you at peace?
• 42:33
  I've shared with you many times.
• 42:36
  I'm in the presence of a lot of wealthy people.
• 42:39
  Way out of my pay scale.
• 42:41
  Millionaires, billionaires.
• 42:43
  That's where my job takes me.
• 42:45
  A lot of lot of people that are in charge of major corporations, generals, admirals, around all of them, politicians, around all of them.
• 42:54
  Around the president, the vice president.
• 42:57
  But my point is this.
• 42:59
  None of that, none of that has brought me peace.
• 43:06
  Really?
• 43:06
  I'm not kidding, folks.
• 43:07
  And you know what I found also?
• 43:09
  None of that, who they are and where they are in their life has brought them peace.
• 43:16
  And I could tell just by having conversations with them.
• 43:19
  Some of the very wealthy people I've been around, they carry their iPads and two or three phones, and they're constantly on it, doing what?
• 43:27
  Minute by minute, not hour by hour, day by day.
• 43:29
  I'm talking about minute by minute checking the stock market, checking their investments.
• 43:34
  That is not a peaceful person.
• 43:36
  And yet they look for peace.
• 43:38
  And at times I will share with some of them, like I'm sharing with you, subscriptures in the Bible.
• 43:45
  Very few, very, very few, will let that sink in.
• 43:51
  They listen, they all listen.
• 43:52
  The question, let's put it this way, they all hear what I'm saying, but not too many of them are listening.
• 43:59
  Because when the subject of God comes up, whoo, they don't want to hear.
• 44:04
  And that's that.
• 44:04
  I don't push this stuff on anybody.
• 44:07
  I hope and pray that you're not one of them who is hearing me but not listening.
• 44:12
  Please stick around, like I said, and listen.
• 44:16
  So I meet all these people who suffer dearly, like we all do, but they don't want you to think that they do, but they do.
• 44:24
  They thought that their wealthiness, their material wealth would bring them peace.
• 44:30
  It doesn't.
• 44:31
  And after all, we all want peace, right?
• 44:33
  We all want money.
• 44:34
  We all want elevations at work.
• 44:36
  We all agree at times to take shortcuts that end up wow, that end up on longer roads to our goals.
• 44:44
  We end up in bigger trouble when we take shortcuts.
• 44:48
  Yeah, I could tell you, remember Frank Sinatra, he sang that famous song, I did it my way, only to find out that quote unquote, my way was not the best way for me to travel.
• 45:01
  A man once said to me, God's way.
• 45:05
  The safe way, the best way, the only way.
• 45:09
  So let me be clear.
• 45:10
  God wants us to succeed, he wants you to succeed.
• 45:13
  He wants you to prosper.
• 45:15
  He wants your dreams to come true.
• 45:17
  But in the pursuit of these things, he does not want you or me to leave him behind.
• 45:23
  And we do that a lot.
• 45:26
  Even I do at times.
• 45:27
  Oh, I'll tell you, I'm not perfect.
• 45:29
  I'm close to him, he's my buddy.
• 45:31
  We talk each day, and you know, I just love talking about Christ to people who receive the word.
• 45:38
  Uh I go out, I'm very successful in what I do, not because of me.
• 45:42
  I'll tell you, every I tell everybody, they'll praise me, pat me on the back.
• 45:46
  Oh, gee, I saw you on TV, gee, you know, your Navy career is this, your police career is that.
• 45:51
  And I always say, just keep in mind it wasn't just me.
• 45:54
  There was somebody else involved.
• 45:55
  Oh, I know you have a great mother and dad and this and that.
• 45:58
  I said, Yeah, they were involved, but I'm not talking about them.
• 46:01
  I'm talking about Christ.
• 46:03
  And then they look at me.
• 46:06
  Most of them, they heard it, but they didn't listen.
• 46:10
  They just were very nice and said, gee, that's nice.
• 46:13
  And then there were just a very few that would say, Really?
• 46:18
  I said, Yep.
• 46:19
  And they said, What about God?
• 46:21
  And after that question is asked, that ends up to become uh a 30-minute to 40-minute discussion because they want to hear more.
• 46:29
  See, there's truth to the Bible that says many have a hunger and thirst for the word of God.
• 46:36
  Yep.
• 46:37
  You eat his food, which is the gospel of Jesus Christ, you'll never go hungry, and you drink the living water, which is again the word of God through Jesus Christ, you'll never go thirsty.
• 46:48
  That's what's happened to me.
• 46:49
  I train I transitioned from always being hungry and thirsty for success and peace to no longer being hungry and thirsty for anything, but more and more of God, more and more of Jesus Christ, and yeah, more and more of what I could pray for and receive.
• 47:06
  And some of those answers are no.
• 47:10
  Oh Lord, I want this.
• 47:11
  Oh no, you're not getting that.
• 47:12
  Yeah, but no, no, no, you're not getting that.
• 47:15
  And you know what?
• 47:16
  When I don't get an answer to my prayer, I get a better thing.
• 47:20
  Yeah, it works.
• 47:22
  It works, folks.
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  So uh let me be clear again, folks, that he wants you to succeed, he wants me to succeed, but he doesn't want to be left behind.
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  So what I say is this, folks.
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  When is the last time you picked up a Bible or a book about Christ and His message to all of us?
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  His message to you.
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  Can you point to any book that's lasted longer than the Bible?
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  Any book that's been printed on reprinted on the face of the earth that's lasted longer than the Bible.
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  We're talking thousands of years here, still the best seller.
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  When is the last time you had a conversation with God?
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  How about talking about a scripted prayer?
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  But I'm talking one-on-one, face-to-face, heart-to-heart conversation with God.
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  Never.
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  Hmm.
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  He's our father in heaven.
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  You got a kid out there, you got a son or daughter.
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  What if they didn't talk to you for a couple of years?
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  Hmm.
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  What do you think of that?
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  You see, it hits home when we start to think about it.
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  Am I condemning you?
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  No, because I was just like you.
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  Yep.
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  Nobody is in any position to condemn anybody else, especially me.
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  The life I lived in the past, you know, I wasn't a bad, bad, super bad person.
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  I don't I don't want you to believe that, but let's put it this way.
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  I was displeasing to the Lord.
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  Yeah, I was.
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  Then I woke up, and a light shined on me, not a literal light, but I'm talking about that light in my heart, soul, and spirit.
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  That light in my heart, soul, and spirit.
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  I was introduced to Jesus Christ and said, Well, what a difference.
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  I was introduced to Jesus Christ and said, Well, what a difference.
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  Anyway, you know, those times led me to the 37th Psalm, verse 23.
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  Anyway, you know, those times led me to the 37th Psalm, verse 23.
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  The steps of a good man, and we could also see these days, the steps of a good woman as well as a man are ordered by God, and he delighteth in his way.
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  The steps of a good man, and we could also see these days, the steps of a good woman as well as a man are ordered by God, and he delighteth in his way.
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  Every step we take are ordered by God.
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  Every step we take are ordered by God.
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  And I would venture to say some of the steps that we take that are.
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  And I would venture to say some of the steps that we take that are not good for us are allowed by God.
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  He doesn't order us to go down the road to commit sin.
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  But his ordered steps are to go in the way of righteousness, in the way of his will to prosper us.
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  But no, we have to fight him.
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  We have to say, nah, I'm not going down that road.
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  I'm going to go down this road.
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  And we end up in trouble.
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  So in my pursuit of God, I learned that God doesn't just watch from a distance, folks.
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  He's not hanging around heaven up there with the stars.
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  He's right in your heart, soul, your spirit through the Holy Spirit.
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  He's with you next to you.
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  He guides people who follow him.
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  If you don't follow him, he'll push you here, push you there.
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  But you think he uh he hasn't even given up on guiding you, but he'll try to get you to go through that door.
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  But for goodness sakes, we want to do things our way.
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  Our will.
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  It doesn't say my will be done.
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  It says God's will be done.
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  Hmm.
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  Like I said, you got kids, stubborn, they want to do it their way.
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  No, you're the father, you're the mother, you're the parent.
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  They're going to do it your way, whether they like it or not.
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  And somehow, some way they end up doing it your way.
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  And believe me, God has a way of making sure you do it his way.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  That's right.
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  You know what?
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  He's shaping our decisions.
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  And he's causing us to take steps that line up with his will.
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  And you might be saying, yeah, but you know, his will is not my will.
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  Of course not.
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  Of course not.
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  Our will has to be his will.
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  Well, how do you find out his will?
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  Have that conversation.
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  Talk with him.
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  He's God.
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  You know what?
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  And there's the seat, the key to success.
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  I used to have this battle constantly.
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  Oh, well, Lord, I want to do this and do that.
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  And I hope it's your will.
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  And I talk, pray, have these conversations.
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  And then I start walking down a road that I thought was my will.
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  And all of a sudden there was a detour.
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  But I like that detour.
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  So I am led to a detour, this road to another door in my life.
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  And I get curious and I open it up and I said, Man, this is better than what I wanted.
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  You see, that's how he operates.
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  You don't hit us over ahead and say you're going to do what I tell you to do.
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  He says, look at here's some other options.
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  And through these conversations, through prayer with your friend Jesus Christ, you realize, hmm, there is something better.
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  There's something better my boss can't give me.
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  There's something better, money can't buy.
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  There is something better for me in this life, other than the humdrum of living every day, going to work, coming home, and going through this and that, and this and that without peace.
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  There's something better.
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  And that better happens to be making friends with Jesus Christ.
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  Yeah, he's a king, but he's also a friend.
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  You know, he says in his word, I'll stick closer to you than a brother will stick close to you.
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  I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
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  All Jesus wants is your friendship.
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  I told you in past broadcasts, I used to have struggle with God.
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  How can I repay you for what you've done for me?
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  How can I do something in return for you?
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  You know, I'll give to a church, or I'll do this or I'll do that.
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  None of that satisfies God.
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  Yes, it's great, it's wonderful.
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  He loves you to do that.
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  I'm not discouraging you from do that.
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  That's fine.
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  He wants us to be generous, wants us to help people.
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  But what he really wants, he wants us to trust in him.
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  He wants us to have faith in.
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  And his will is for you and me to succeed.
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  His will is to see your prayers answered and my prayers answered, and to trust and have faith in him.
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  That he will provide what is best for us.
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  That's right.
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  He'll do that for people who are living to the best of their ability in line with his will, which boils down to recognize that we are sinners.
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  You got to recognize that.
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  You're a sinner, not evil.
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  But you are a sinner, just like I am.
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  Even now I'm a sinner.
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  I know that.
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  And Jesus Christ came to this earth.
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  You recognize you're a sinner.
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  You recognize and accept the fact that he came to this earth to forgive you of your sins, to forgive me of my sins, to forgive all of us our sins.
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  And then we take it a step further and we repent.
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  Lord forgive me.
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  I don't understand this whole thing of being born again and saved.
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  I've heard all these terms.
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  I don't understand this, but I'll tell you what, I'm in a situation now where I can go nowhere.
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  So I come to you.
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  I'm a sinner.
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  I believe you came to this earth and was crucified so that my sins may be forgiven, and I repent of those sins right now.
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  And now, Lord, I commit myself to you.
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  Jesus Christ is my Lord, my Savior, and my friend.
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  And you know what?
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  Once he's your friend, he will never leave you behind.
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  Never.
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  Now you do that.
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  God's going to guide you and direct you all the days of your life to thick and thin.
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  God not only oversees major lives in our events, but I'll tell you, every little small event that comes your way, every step you take, he will be with you.
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  But you make sure you're with him.
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  He will not leave you behind.
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  You make sure you don't leave him behind.
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  All right.
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  He said, and this is very interesting.
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  There's a psalm out there that emphasizes that when a person like you or me commit our ways to Jesus Christ, he will make their steps sure and guard them from ultimate failure.
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  You're never going to fail again.
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  You may have problems and difficulties, it'll rain, believe me, those storms will come, but you are peace through those storms and you will not fail.
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  Even the righteous stumble, even the good guys stumble.
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  We know that, right?
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  But they will not be utterly cast down because the Lord Jesus Christ, your friend, will uphold you with his hand.
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  Go look at Psalm 37, verse 24.
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  So here's what I say.
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  And I close with this.
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  The Bible says the steps of a righteous man or woman are ordered by God.
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  And that signifies God's active involvement in guiding you, protecting you, and delighting in your very life, because you have decided to become his friend and follow him.
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  Signifies God's active involvement in guiding you, protecting you, and delighting in your very life because you have decided to become his friend and follow him.
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  And he'll provide you with spiritual assurance and practical direction for living a godly life.
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  And he'll provide you with spiritual assurance and practical direction for living a godly life, meaning nothing complicated, nothing super, but a one on one friendship with him.
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  Meaning nothing complicated, nothing super, but a one-on-one friendship with him.
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  Trusting, loving, faithful friendship with him.
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  Trusting, loving, faithful friendship with him for the rest of your life.
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  Because you will be that good man or woman who will be ordered by God to take this step and that step.
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  And boy, will he delight in what you're doing and in the friendship he has in you.
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  God bless you.
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  God bless America.