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Runners stop to help injured competitor finish Boston Marathon–video goes viral · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  Did you see the Boston Marathon runner?
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  This happened, I don't know, a week or two ago.
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  But there was a young guy, the age of 21 who fell down.
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  He collapsed just a thousand feet from the finish line.
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  He tried to get up, and runners are repeatedly going past him.
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  Now keep in mind, this is a 26.2 mile run.
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  People train for this for years.
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  People try to get into the Boston Marathon into place and uh they try year after year.
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  And of course, we had the Boston Marathon bombing years ago.
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  And so there's always kind of a um a special moment where people actually get to do it.
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  And it's just so symbolic of what we stand for here in America that we don't back down.
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  When there's evil, when people try to do evil things, we don't back down.
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  And I love that about America.
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  I love that about the spirit of America.
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  That we just don't give up, we don't quit.
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  And here you have a young guy who falls down, he collapses.
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  I mean, his legs were toast.
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  26.2 miles.
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  He stopped exactly.2 miles from the finish line.
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  Now, if that's not irony, I don't know what the heck is.
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  It's just so stinking ironic.
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  And there are people passing them by, and finally, one person goes over, and then right, I mean, the second later, that another guy comes over.
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  They don't even hesitate.
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  They bend over, they pick him up, and or they support his weight.
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  They don't completely pick them up, but they support his weight on their shoulders, and they literally prop him up and they finish together.
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  What a symbol of who we are as Americans.
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  What a symbol of what this nation was founded on.
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  As we celebrate our 250 year anniversary, I can't help but to think that the founders built this nation on this idea, this premise that we all work together, that we all pull our own weight.
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  That when somebody falls, you pick them up.
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  When somebody struggles, you help them out.
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  And they rejected the notion that government should take from people.
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  They rejected this notion completely.
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  Government doesn't take from people.
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  Government's there to protect people.
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  And the laws are put in place to protect us.
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  And we we establish laws for the betterment of mankind and the betterment of our country as a whole.
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  That's what the founding fathers had in mind.
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  And people say, oh, well, they weren't even really Christian.
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  Well, that's total nonsense, number one.
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  They had a profound faith in God.
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  And they believed that to be a great nation, you can't do it without God.
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  And I believe that wholeheartedly too.
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  I think when a nation throws away God or they create false gods, those nations will fall.
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  And if you look at what's happening in Iran right now, that's a it's a case in point.
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  They create a false God, they create false hope for people, and it becomes oppressive.
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  Look at Venezuela, look at Cuba, look at North Korea.
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  We could give example after example after example of countries that utterly fail because they abandon God and they abandon this principle that all people are created equally.
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  And they they abandoned the idea that when your fellow man falls down, you pick them up.
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  They abandon it.
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  And they said, no, no, no, communism, socialism, that's the way to do it.
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  We we take from people, we don't pick them up, we take from them.
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  We pick their pockets.
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  Somebody falls down, or if heck, if somebody's standing tall, especially, if somebody's standing up, we set up a trip line, we knock them down, and then we pick their pockets clean, and we give it to the other people under the guise of kindness and compassion and helping your fellow man.
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  You're like, but wait a second, you you literally just tripped somebody, you caused them to fall, and then you rob them.
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  You didn't give them a choice.
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  You took the money out of their pocket and you started handing it out to other people, but in the process, you, the government, the one who tripped them and made them fall, you're pocketing the majority of that money.
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  You're only given a fraction of that money back to the people, and you're keeping it for yourself.
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  And that's exactly what our forefathers knew and wanted to avoid it at all costs.
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  They don't want a socialist nation.
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  They don't want a communist nation.
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  Why?
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  Because it fails every single time.
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  It never, it never succeeds.
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  It never has succeeded in the history of mankind.
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  And yet you have these socialist democrats who are like, you know, we're just not marketing it right.
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  It's the messaging that's wrong, not the ideals, right?
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  The ideals are right, but the messaging is wrong.
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  We just have to convince people that it's good for them.
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  And at the end of the day, the American people aren't stupid, and that's why we reject socialism in this nation.
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  For the most part, we reject socialism because we know it fails, and we're we see it.
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  And we're like, yeah, you you say it succeeds, but you literally are stealing money from people in the form of tax, and you're bragging about it.
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  And I don't mean to harp on Ma'am Donnie all the time, but what a what a classic example of a socialist who gloats about it.
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  He thinks it's funny.
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  He thinks it's awesome.
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  He's proud of himself.
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  We're gonna tax the living daylights out of these rich people.
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  People.
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  We're going to tax them into oblivion.
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  We're gonna tax them into oblivion.
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  And we're going to give back.
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  And we're gonna give back, we're gonna rebuild New York City.
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  We're going to rebuild New York City.
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  We're gonna fill the deficit.
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  We're going to fill the deficit.
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  We're we're we're going to give back to the people, the good residents of New York City.
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  We're we're we're gonna give back to the people, the good residents of New York City.
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  Then what's he do?
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  Then what's he do?
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  He takes the homeless shelter, and uh the one that's dilapidated, completely falling apart.
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  He takes the homeless shelter, and uh the one that's dilapidated, completely falling apart, and he's like, oh, we're gonna move this into your neighborhood.
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  And he's like, oh, we're going to move this into your neighborhood.
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  And people are like, wait.
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  And people are like, wait, that's not what we voted for.
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  We thought you were going to help the people like out there in the dumpy neighborhoods.
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  We didn't think you were going to do it here.
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  And ma'am Donnie's smiling and laughing all the way, all the way to the bank as he lives in his mansion.
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  He's literally living in a mansion.
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  Like how foolish are people.
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  So again, this is what our forefathers knew, and they're like, may it never happen on our watch.
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  So that's why I think the story resonates so much with the American people.
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  I mean, this story went absolutely viral.
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  And you know, this is not just a story about somebody running, falling and getting picked back up.
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  It's so much deeper than that.
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  There's so much meaning tied to this.
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  And I think that's what makes America great, that we support each other, that these kinds of stories do inspire people.
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  And this is what I talk about all the time.
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  It's not the negative stories that inspire people.
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  Those aren't the stories that motivate people.
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  The stories that motivate people to do good things.
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  When I say motivate people, I mean that move them to do kind acts, are stories exactly like this.
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  Because now, I don't know about you, but I watched this and I was like, man, I would love to be not the person being helped so much is the person who actually got to help, who had the privilege and the honor to throw his arms complete strangers.
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  They threw his arms around their necks.
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  And they carried him.
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  What a privilege and what an honor to be able to do that.
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  And they risked not being able to qualify for next year's race to do that.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't know for sure if they if they even qualify for next year's race.
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  But it's really incredible.
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  Here's a a uh story that's really, really good.
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  This is Northeastern Global News.
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  And uh what a really incredible, what an incredible uh story here.
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  The title of the article is Northeastern Student helped to the Boston Marathon Marathon Finish Line, is back on his feet and on co-op.
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  Uh, he's a Northeastern University student.
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  And I'll just read a little bit of this because it's really inspiring here.
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  Not two days after collapsing, about 200 strides before the finish line during this year's Boston Marathon, four-year Northeastern University student, Ajay Haradasi, uh was back on his feet working at the New Balance headquarters in Brighton, excuse me, while on co-op.
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  I'm like completely okay now, he told Northeastern Global News.
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  About a thousand feet before the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street between Dartmouth and Exeter Streets, his legs gave out and he hit the ground.
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  There were only about two tenths of a mile to go to complete the 26.2 mile event.
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  At that point, the 21-year-old distance captain of the Northeastern Club running fell over multiple times because of severe cramping before fellow runners Aaron Beggs and Robson De Oliveira helped him to the finish line.
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  He finished with a time of two hours, 44 minutes and 32 seconds.
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  And of course, there was footage of the viral event that got millions of views across TikTok, Instagram, other social media platforms.
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  People went wild.
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  They absolutely love this, and with good reason, with absolute good reason.
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  This is such a display of people being complete gentlemans, um, uh people being complete good sports, people being humble, selfless, compassionate, empathetic, all of these things are wrapped up into one.
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  And it really is awesome.
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  It's incredible.
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  It reminds me of the story of the uh the good Samaritan.
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  Now, I know that the details are obviously a little bit different, but the parable of the good Samaritan and where we get that expression from, if you're being a good Samaritan, and a lot of states have good Samaritan laws that protect people who are trying to help other people.
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  So for example, if you're a good Samaritan and somebody's having a heart attack, and you step in and you do CPR and they end up not making it, good Samaritan laws protect you from lawsuits.
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  Because believe it or not, people are crazy enough to be able to come back and try to sue you and say, Well, you didn't save my loved one.
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  So the Good Samaritan laws protect people who are the good Samaritans and they step in and assist other people.
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  So even though this was not life-threatening, it was an incident where he uh he was really struggling.
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  So the parable of the good Samaritan in the Bible, what happens is Jesus gives an example of a man who was beaten up.
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  He was beaten up, he was robbed, he was left for dead, and he's bleeding out on the on the road on the side of the road.
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  And in the story, there's a priest and there's a Levite, and they both pass by on the opposite side of the street.
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  Well, why is that important?
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  Well, it's hard for us to fathom that today, um, if you're not Jewish, but coming into contact with any of the blood that got splattered would have made both the priest and the Levite unclean.
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  And they would have had to go through ceremonial uh washing, uh, a purification process.
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  And they were in a hurry, they had business to do.
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  So they end up walking on the opposite side of the road in order that they don't come into contact with any of the blood.
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  And then a Samaritan comes by, who's absolutely despised by the Jewish people, and he stops and not only stops and helps, but he puts them on his own animal, he brings them to an inn, he pays for a few nights at the end, and he says, I want you to to really take care of this man, and when I return, if there's any money that's owed, charge it to my account, and I'll pay it in full when I return.
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  Animal, he brings them to an inn, he pays for a few nights at the end, and he says, I want you to to really take care of this man, and when I return, if there's any money that's owed, charge it to my account, and I'll pay it in full when I return.
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  So Jesus says which of these three men was a neighbor to the person who fell into the hands of the robbers?
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  So Jesus says, which of these three men was a neighbor to the person who fell into the hands of the robbers.
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  And the answer is it was the good Samaritan.
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  And the answer is it was the good Samaritan.
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  He was the neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers.
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  So it's such a good parallel.
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  Because even though you don't have somebody who is beat up and bleeding out or anything dramatic like that, you have somebody who fell down who was uh I guess technically he was injured.
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  He had major cramping.
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  If you watch the video, it's actually pretty painful to watch because he tried to stand up multiple times and just fell flat on his face.
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  His legs were not working.
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  And these two men see him struggling.
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  And they decided in an instant.
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  This race isn't what matters.
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  Us crossing the finish line before this guy doesn't matter.
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  What matters is that we help we help a brother out.
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  And that's really cool.
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  That's what's inspiring.
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  That's what ignited Americans.
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  And you know, I want to talk about the ratings for a minute.
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  Because you look at these videos, and I think sometimes the media gets jealous.
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  I think they get jealous because like they try so hard, and they do the clickbait stuff.
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  It's like, oh, we're we're really gonna get them now.
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  You know, that like if you read the headlines, they're so cheesy sometimes, and it just feels dirty.
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  It's it's like I know what you're doing.
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  I know that this is clickbait, and then you get stories like this that go wildly viral, and it's not even a story, it's just a video, it's just it's what happened.
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  So you have people that don't even have that many followers, and uh, you know, they might have a thousand followers or whatever, they post the video, it goes wildly viral, gets millions of views in an instant, like immediately becomes viral, and I think the media is like they're trying to figure this out.
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  They're like, Well, they must have just got lucky, you know, back to back to the keyboard.
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  Donald Trump, he's an orange man, he's horrible, and then they wonder why their ratings are so bad.
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  And President Trump jokes about this a lot, like he talks about their ratings, and he's like, Yeah, your ratings are bad because you suck.
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  So it just shows like the psychology behind it.
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  People are they like this kind of stuff, they like good news.
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  It was captured on camera.
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  Uh the whole world is now watching.
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  And this is such an aspiring moment and such a proud moment, in my opinion, for America, because it shows us that our best.
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  And they didn't used to be like this.
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  There used to be a day when people were very proud of America.
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  There was American pride, and they took pride in taking care of their neighbors.
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  They took pride in bragging about their neighbors.
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  And lifting each other up, talking about how wonderful we are as a collective whole.
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  And that really began to shift.
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  I in my opinion, it began to shift under President Obama.
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  President Obama started apologizing for America.
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  As if we were uh had the stained past, and we needed to make reparations for that.
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  Now you hear people talking about literal reparations.
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  We need to pay people because of the sins of our past.
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  We need to pay people because we're such a bad country.
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  And then you get all the DEI stuff, and that began to teach kids that we're all racist.
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  Uh we're we're we're born racist, and Americans don't really care about each other.
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  And we need to teach you how to how to be um equal to treat everybody equally and fairly.
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  Be um equal to treat everybody equally and fairly.
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  We need to teach you how to do that because we're naturally inclined to be racist because of our our past.
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  We need to teach you how to do that because we're naturally inclined to be racist because of our past.
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  We're naturally inclined to be homophobic.
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  We're naturally inclined to be homophobic.
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  We're naturally inclined to just be downright terrible people.
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  We're naturally inclined to just be downright terrible people, and this is the narrative that that's ingrained into the DEI stuff.
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  And this is the narrative that that's ingrained into the DEI stuff.
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  It's not that DEI is.
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  It's not that DEI is bad itself, like this idea that we treat each other with common respect and decency.
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  That message in itself isn't wrong.
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  There's nothing wrong with that.
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  In fact, that's exactly what we should do as a nation.
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  Everybody ought to be treated with dignity and respect and kindness.
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  But it's the messaging that begins with the premise that we're all racist, we're all horrible people.
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  We're all out for our our own.
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  We're out for ourselves.
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  We're out to push other people down to the ground and take advantage of them.
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  And this message, it really has taken root that America's bad.
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  It's inherently bad.
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  Hillary Clinton.
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  Look at all these deplorables.
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  What she was referencing was 50% of the nation who voted for Donald Trump.
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  She called them deplorables.
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  They're not hardworking Americans who happen to disagree politically, they're deplorables.
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  And you listen to how this messaging is ingrained into just about every single facet of the political left.
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  And it's exhausting.
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  And it's exhausting because it's not true.
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  But it's one of those things that if you repeat the lie enough, if you repeat it enough times, then people actually begin to believe it.
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  And I think that in some circles, that started to happen, clearly.
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  Because DEI really took off, and what it was mocked as uh mocked from the the political right as being actually a message of intolerance, which I agree with, at least the way it's being presented.
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  Um they were called cruel, they were they were called violent, vile.
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  Yeah, it's like they took Hillary Clinton's deplorables and put it on steroids.
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  They're like, now these people are vile, they're hateful, they're Hitler.
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  Listen to how the language has evolved.
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  I mean, this wasn't the case during President Obama, and you know, I I saw somebody bring up a really interesting point.
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  President Trump now has had three attempts on his life that we know of, at least.
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  I mean, actual people pulled the trigger three times.
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  Three times, and and that's in his second presidency.
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  And you look at how this rhetoric has escalated.
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  But somebody made the point, and they said, you know, we're supposed to believe that this is the most racist country on planet earth, that we uh people on the right, that they're just they're very racist, they're inherently racist as a nation, we're inherently racist.
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  If you're white, that is, you're inherently racist.
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  And this person said, how many attempts were put out on President Obama?
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  Uh he served two full terms.
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  How many people tried to assassinate him?
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  Exactly zero.
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  Uh even people who disagreed with the president, they disagreed with his policy, but they weren't violent.
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  They weren't wishing death on him, they weren't mocking people like Jimmy Kimmel, right?
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  They're not hoping that somebody that somebody dies.
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  So really interesting stuff.
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  And I think it's fascinating to point that out.
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  That if we really were a racist nation, when we had a black president, and when we had a black vice president, there would have been attempts on them simply because of the color of their skin.
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  But it didn't happen.
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  But now it's happening for President Trump, and some people on the left are celebrating it.
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  They think it's fantastic, they think it's wonderful.
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  So my point is this, that when we focus on negativity, when we talk about how bad the nation is, how ugly it is, how bad the people are, how awful they are, how violent they are, how stupid they are.
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  People begin to believe that.
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  And what happens is there are a fringe group of people.
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  It's a very small group, but that's when the crazies come out of the woodwork.
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  And my fear is that, excuse me, my allergies are they, man, do they have a grip on me?
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  My goodness.
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  Um people come out of the the woodwork, you have the the handful of crazies that come out of the woodwork.
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  They begin to paint a narrative that this is all people, all people are bad, all people are crazy, all people are violent, all people, right?
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  And they turn to how America as a nation, we're just so broken and we're so we're we're so terrible.
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  And by the way, uh, if it's somebody on the left who's violent, then it's President Trump who caused it.
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  It's him and his base who caused the violence, right?
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  They don't take responsibility when when it's somebody on the political left, they don't take responsibility and say, maybe we should uh tone down the messaging a little bit.
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  Maybe we should talk about how great America is.
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  Maybe we should talk about how wonderful our neighbors are.
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  Maybe we should treat people with kindness and respect.
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  But instead, what they do is they point the fingers and they're like, see, we told you this Nazi who's in office, he's causing us to lose our minds.
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  He's causing us to go crazy.
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  He's causing this violence.
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  And it's just a it's it's a very mixed messaging, and it's simply not true.
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  Not true.
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  People need to take responsibility, no matter where they stand on the political spectrum.
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  People need to take responsibility no matter where they stand on the political spectrum.
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  They need to take responsibility for their own actions.
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  They need to take responsibility for their own actions.
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  But the bigger point that I want to make is that, and it's a point that I make all the time.
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  But the bigger point that I want to make is that, and it's the point that I make all the time.
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  It's that we as a nation are great.
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  It's that we as a nation are great.
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  That we as a nation are fantastic.
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  That we as a nation are fantastic.
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  We as a nation are people who reach out our hands and we pick people up off the ground.
• 28:24
  We as a nation are people who reach out our hands and we pick people up off the ground.
• 28:29
  When people fall down, somebody's there to pick them back up.
• 28:34
  When somebody can't complete a race, people are there to put their arms around that person and to literally carry them across the finish line.
• 28:44
  I love that about America.
• 28:47
  And apparently America agrees.
• 28:50
  Because these are the kinds of stories that go wildly viral.
• 28:55
  Not the Teslas burning up and you know, like those stories, they just don't get that much traction.
• 29:05
  It's it's not that enticing for people to watch that kind of news.
• 29:12
  We don't get uplifted by watching that kind of news.
• 29:16
  We don't get inspired by that kind of news.
• 29:20
  We don't read that news or watch the videos, and we're like, man, I'm gonna sip my coffee and I'm gonna sit back and enjoy life.
• 29:31
  I'm gonna smile.
• 29:32
  I'm gonna take this all in.
• 29:34
  And in fact, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna do something kind for somebody today.
• 29:40
  Instead, what do people say?
• 29:42
  We need to assemble.
• 29:44
  We need to protest.
• 29:46
  We're not protesting enough.
• 29:48
  We need to get angry, right?
• 29:51
  And that's what they want.
• 29:53
  They want the masses to be caught in a state of mass confusion.
• 29:57
  They want the masses to be submissive.
• 30:01
  They want the masses to be submissive to the government.
• 30:07
  They want the masses to retaliate against orange man and orange man's base.
• 30:15
  That's what they want.
• 30:17
  And it's not working.
• 30:19
  American people are still coming together.
• 30:23
  And I will make this argument until I'm blue in the face.
• 30:28
  That it's a small small minority of people who are creating a ruckus.
• 30:35
  And it happens on both sides of the political aisle.
• 30:38
  It really does.
• 30:41
  But the overwhelming majority of Americans are hard working, put your head down, get the job done, take care of your family, love God, take care of your neighbor, those kinds of people.
• 31:00
  And if ever there's a crystal clear picture of this, it's what happened at the Boston Marathon.
• 31:06
  That's why I'm putting so much time and effort into this into sharing this story because to me, it's indicative of who we are as a nation.
• 31:16
  You have a marathon of how many people race in the in the Boston Marathon.
• 31:22
  There's some what 30,000 people who race in this race.
• 31:32
  It's been run annually since 1897.
• 31:36
  I mean, this is incredible.
• 31:38
  So this is an iconic race.
• 31:40
  It's an iconic event.
• 31:42
  It's one of the most publicized events in American history.
• 31:49
  This thing has been around since the beginning of time.
• 31:53
  And I love that.
• 31:55
  I love that they've kept the tradition going.
• 31:57
  And of course, we had the Boston Marathon bombing.
• 32:02
  And that definitely rocked this nation.
• 32:06
  The bombing happened 13 years ago.
• 32:10
  It's 13 years ago, there were three who sadly and tragically lost their lives.
• 32:16
  And more than 500 others were injured.
• 32:23
  And the FBI did, in fact, find the two suspects.
• 32:29
  And, you know, just it was such a dark spot on our history.
• 32:35
  But look at what the Boston Marathon has done ever since.
• 32:39
  They are absolute champions and they refuse to back down.
• 32:43
  The American people refused to be scared and intimidated.
• 32:47
  They didn't stop the race.
• 32:49
  The race went on and it continues to go on to this day.
• 32:52
  And so for 13 years later, for such a cool event to take place and to see these people come together and to treat each other as genuine neighbors.
• 33:03
  It's fantastic.
• 33:05
  This is where we are.
• 33:07
  This is who we are as America.
• 33:10
  This is where we're at 13 years later.
• 33:12
  And I don't care what the media says.
• 33:15
  I don't care what politicians saying.
• 33:16
  They're like, oh, we're the most divided that we've ever been.
• 33:20
  It's unsafe to be in the streets.
• 33:22
  Do you know our crime levels are the lowest that they've been in decades?
• 33:26
  The crime rates continue to plummet.
• 33:29
  And a big part of that is I believe I fully am convinced it's Trump's war on fentanyl.
• 33:38
  The drug activity, the gang activity is down.
• 33:43
  People are not, they're not out to get people, like the gangs aren't taken over the streets anymore.
• 33:49
  He's been very tough on crime.
• 33:51
  He's been very tough on drugs, and he's making it known.
• 33:54
  If you mess around, you know, it's the whole mess around and find out kind of messaging.
• 34:00
  And he's being very serious about it.
• 34:02
  The National Guard came into a couple cities, and of course, that was highly criticized.
• 34:07
  That was awful.
• 34:08
  It was terrible.
• 34:08
  He was just intimidating people.
• 34:10
  He was creating a crisis that didn't exist.
• 34:13
  But you look at these cities and the crime rates are next to nothing.
• 34:19
  I mean, when's the last time?
• 34:21
  I mean, knock on wood, but when's the last time that we heard of a successful mass shooting here in the United States?
• 34:29
  I mean, it there was a time where you heard about it constantly.
• 34:34
  The crime rates have plummeted.
• 34:36
  And that's a good thing.
• 34:37
  And I I pray, I really pray that they continue to plummet.
• 34:41
  But this notion that America is the most divided and it's it's just it's so bad off, and it's much worse off since Trump became office and it's terrible, it's awful.
• 34:50
  Uh, people are just uh living on a short fuse and they're angry with each other, they're angry with life, it's just simply not true.
• 34:59
  And man, this video is so heartwarming.
• 35:00
  And man, this video is so heartwarming.
• 35:03
  You've got to watch the video.
• 35:03
  You've got to watch the video.
• 35:04
  If you've not seen the video yet of these other runners helping out their brother uh who is is also running the race, you've got to watch it.
• 35:04
  If you've not seen the video yet of these other runners helping out their brother uh who is is also running the race, you've got to watch it.
• 35:15
  You've got to watch it.
• 35:15
  You've got to watch it.
• 35:17
  It's so inspiring.
• 35:17
  It's so inspiring.
• 35:18
  And I will post the articles and in the articles or the videos.
• 35:18
  And I will post the articles and in the articles or the videos.
• 35:24
  Uh I'll post those in the show notes.
• 35:24
  Uh, I'll post those in the show notes.
• 35:26
  But to me, this is just a it's it's a moment where.
• 35:26
  But to me, this is just a it's it's a moment where America is shining.
• 35:32
  And we continue to celebrate America.
• 35:34
  Speaking of celebrating America, um, I want to put a big plug in for the America Out Loud event in Nashville on July 4th, the weekend of July 4th.
• 35:46
  I hope that you're able to go.
• 35:48
  There are some great, great speakers.
• 35:50
  There are going to be fireworks, uh, like you've never seen before, just an incredible, incredible event.
• 35:56
  But America Out Loud is great because they celebrate, we celebrate America's freedom.
• 36:03
  The the theme is liberty and justice for all.
• 36:07
  And it's all about equality.
• 36:09
  Is that not what we want?
• 36:11
  We celebrate that.
• 36:13
  We don't talk down to our fellow Americans.
• 36:15
  We don't talk about how horrible everybody is and the nation is lost and it's a lost cause.
• 36:20
  We don't do that.
• 36:21
  We celebrate America.
• 36:23
  And that's what I love about America Out Loud.
• 36:27
  Uh celebrating America is and celebrating her freedoms is what we do.
• 36:34
  That's who we are.
• 36:36
  And so it's stories like this that inspire and they bring hope to a nation that deserves to have hope.
• 36:45
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  And as we come back, um, just hang tight and we'll talk more about celebrating America.
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  The Boston Marathon had a very inspiring moment, and it's one that captured the attention and the heart of the American people.
• 38:59
  And it's a reminder of who we are as a nation.
• 39:01
  We're a nation of uh celebration.
• 39:04
  We're a nation of respect.
• 39:05
  We're a nation of taking care of each other.
• 39:08
  Uh, we're a nation of taking crime seriously.
• 39:11
  And when those pillars begin to crumble, America follows apart.
• 39:18
  And a lot of people want you to believe that America's fallen apart, that we're we're falling apart at the seams, that we're doomed.
• 39:25
  You'll hear that kind of language from some people, especially, unfortunately.
• 39:31
  I say unfortunately because it it's a shame of what's happened to the left.
• 39:37
  They were the party, and many of them still are, but they were the party of common sense.
• 39:42
  They were moderate, they believed in America, they believed in the American dream.
• 39:47
  If you don't believe me, go back and listen to some of the speeches of the Democratic presidents.
• 39:53
  Listen to Bill Clinton for crying out loud.
• 39:57
  He talked about the American dream.
• 39:59
  He inspired America.
• 40:02
  Uh, he talked about being a uh a nation of law and order and closing the borders.
• 40:13
  President Obama, he for the for the most part inspired America.
• 40:20
  Now I said that a lot of this began with him.
• 40:23
  Uh he sounded very nice and polite, but he also started apologizing for America and talking about how bad we are.
• 40:32
  And talking about how racist we are.
• 40:36
  And I just don't think that does anything to help our nation.
• 40:40
  I don't think that does anything to help the state of mind of the American people.
• 40:46
  When you start pointing fingers and calling an entire nation racist and talk about how horrible they are, it's it's not really inspiring.
• 40:57
  It doesn't really help the American people.
• 41:00
  Then Hillary Clinton, she jumped on board and just took it to the next level.
• 41:06
  Call them people deplorables.
• 41:09
  Then you had sleepy Joe Biden constantly talking about how awful Americans are and how bad people on the on the political right are, and they're just awful, and they're a bunch of racists and they're they're horrible people.
• 41:24
  Kamala Harris, same thing.
• 41:27
  On and on and on.
• 41:28
  And when you have people from the very top talking about how awful everybody is as Americans, and don't get me wrong, President Trump's not exactly innocent in this.
• 41:41
  He calls people stupid.
• 41:43
  He he name calls people constantly, and I'm not a big fan of it.
• 41:48
  I quite frankly, I don't think it does much to bring people together.
• 41:54
  When you're constantly talking about how awful people are and how terrible they are, and how nasty he uses the word nasty.
• 42:00
  There's you're so nasty.
• 42:00
  You're so nasty.
• 42:05
  It just doesn't do a whole lot to unite people.
• 42:05
  It just doesn't do a whole lot to unite people.
• 42:10
  So I believe in this great nation.
• 42:10
  So I believe in this great nation.
• 42:12
  I I really do.
• 42:12
  I I really do.
• 42:14
  And I think very clearly what happened at the Boston Marathon uh just a couple of weeks ago is a prime example of of who we are as a nation.
• 42:14
  And I think very clearly what happened at the Boston Marathon just a couple of weeks ago is a prime example of who we are as a nation.
• 42:25
  So I'm gonna read a little bit more about this story.
• 42:25
  So I'm going to read a little bit more about this story.
• 42:28
  Uh I probably am.
• 42:29
  I probably am very much mispronouncing the runners' last name.
• 42:36
  Haridas.
• 42:37
  I think it's Haridas.
• 42:39
  I think before I said Haridas, Haridasay or something like that.
• 42:45
  I've looked up the pronunciation and I still butcher it, but I I apologize to the young man because I'm not trying to butcher your last name.
• 42:54
  But at any rate, he said he felt good about coming to the race.
• 42:58
  He qualified with a strong time during a course last year.
• 43:03
  And there's a fourth year computer science and math major at Northeastern who knows him, is friends with him.
• 43:14
  And said that Haridas created the training plan club that club members use to prepare for the marathon.
• 43:24
  So he actually created the training plan.
• 43:29
  Now this is incredible.
• 43:30
  So this is not a runner who uh just didn't practice, didn't really put any effort into it.
• 43:38
  He's been planning for this for years.
• 43:42
  He developed the whole training plan for other people to run the Boston Marathon.
• 43:49
  So Quinn, the friend of him said, you can't see all of the sacrifices that he made to be able to get there.
• 43:59
  When he was trying to motivate himself to get up and run, all I could see were the months of hard work and grit that led to that point.
• 44:07
  So I was just incredibly proud with how hard he was trying, and that he was able to be helped across the finish line.
• 44:17
  Amen.
• 44:18
  Amen.
• 44:20
  And that's the thing.
• 44:21
  When you see somebody crumble and fall to the ground, and clearly he was having an issue with his muscles being locked up.
• 44:28
  I mean, you could see it.
• 44:30
  And runners could see him trying to get back up, and his legs just were not working.
• 44:37
  And it's easy to make assumptions and to be like, well, that's too bad, too sad.
• 44:43
  Uh but the bigger story is he had been training for this for months, maybe even years.
• 44:50
  I'm sure he's been dreaming about this for a very long time.
• 44:55
  It's it's it's a blessing and a privilege and an opportunity to be able to get to run in the Boston Marathon.
• 45:02
  And the amount of work that goes into that is absolutely incredible.
• 45:07
  So and then the story gets even thicker.
• 45:11
  About four months ago, his training had been disrupted by back troubles that he was having.
• 45:18
  And uh he dismissed the step back as just an excuse.
• 45:24
  He said that he had done everything that he could to be prepared.
• 45:29
  So this is this too.
• 45:31
  I think this defines the American people.
• 45:35
  You know, my beef with people talking down to kids and young people, and this young man, he's 21 years old, and they're the generation that people are like, oh, they're so lazy.
• 45:45
  They're they're uh they're ho, you know, they're lazy, they don't want to work.
• 45:49
  None of them ever puts any effort in.
• 45:51
  Back when I was a kid, we used to run marathons uphill both ways, you know, and they just get such a bad rap.
• 46:02
  And I feel so bad for young people because it's not true.
• 46:07
  They work their rear ends off, they're highly motivated, highly dedicated.
• 46:14
  They're inspirational.
• 46:16
  And virtually every young person that I meet falls into this category.
• 46:23
  Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't some who are lazy.
• 46:25
  That's that's true of people of any generation.
• 46:30
  But collectively, as a whole, young people are highly motivated, they're very intelligent, they're very compassionate, they do things for other people on purpose.
• 46:44
  It's not even accidental.
• 46:46
  They do kind things for other people because they care about their fellow man.
• 46:54
  And I love that.
• 46:55
  And I don't think young people get nearly enough credit, they just don't.
• 47:02
  And they're doing these things in spite of being having uh insults hurled at them, right?
• 47:11
  People are telling them how lazy they are, how awful they are, how snobby they are, and they still put their heads down and they still train.
• 47:22
  They still show up to work, they still bless other people.
• 47:29
  And I liken it to trying to roll a rock up a hill, and you have people standing at the top of the hill telling you what a loser you are and how you're not capable of rolling the rock up the hill.
• 47:41
  You'll never make it.
• 47:42
  You're too lazy, you're too spoiled.
• 47:46
  You have no idea what what it was like for me growing up.
• 47:50
  You were born with a silver spoon in your mouth.
• 47:53
  You young people, you're so entitled.
• 47:56
  And as they keep rolling this boulder up the hill, they keep pushing and pushing and pushing, in spite of people shouting down at them, calling them losers.
• 48:11
  So I think it's really incredible.
• 48:13
  I I think if anything, young people have it worse than what we had it.
• 48:18
  You know, at least people believed in us.
• 48:22
  Yeah, as a kid, I don't really remember being insulted.
• 48:26
  I really don't.
• 48:27
  I like literally every adult in my life.
• 48:32
  They believed in kids.
• 48:34
  I remember hanging out with like local welders and mechanics.
• 48:40
  And I look back and I'm like, man, they they tolerated a lot.
• 48:45
  Like just having these nosy neighborhood kids coming into your shop, and instead of telling them to get lost, they they would hang out with us, they would spend time with us, they would mentor us.
• 48:58
  We had a local welder who man, he just treated me so kindly.
• 49:00
  Who man, he just treated me so kindly.
• 49:05
  And he gave me work.
• 49:05
  And he gave me work.
• 49:07
  He's basically said, well, if you're gonna be hanging around the shop so much, you want to make a little bit of money while you're doing it.
• 49:07
  He's basically said, Well, if you're going to be hanging around the shop so much, you want to make a little bit of money while you're doing it.
• 49:14
  I was like, sure.
• 49:14
  I was like, sure.
• 49:15
  What do you have in mind?
• 49:15
  What do you have in mind?
• 49:17
  He's like, Do you like mowing?
• 49:17
  He's like, Do you like mowing?
• 49:19
  I was like, absolutely, I love mowing.
• 49:19
  I was like, absolutely, I love mowing.
• 49:22
  So he shows me as a garden tractor.
• 49:22
  So he shows me as uh garden tractor.
• 49:27
  He's like, Yeah, go ahead, mow mow the mow.
• 49:27
  He's like, Yeah, go ahead, mow the yard, and uh I'll give you 20 bucks or 15 bucks.
• 49:33
  I don't remember what it was.
• 49:35
  I thought I died and hit the lottery.
• 49:38
  But that's how young people were treated back then.
• 49:42
  And now they're like, oh, you could you could never handle a mower.
• 49:48
  It's too dangerous.
• 49:51
  And then they turn around and they talk about how lazy the kids are.
• 49:54
  Like they don't give them work.
• 49:55
  And then they shout down at them and talk about how lazy they are.
• 50:00
  I'm like, man, it's just it's not true.
• 50:03
  Young people are they're very motivated.
• 50:05
  And so this story has so many layers to it.
• 50:08
  It's kind of like an onion.
• 50:11
  You know, it's got a lot of layers to it.
• 50:14
  Got a lot of depth without the stink.
• 50:17
  Doesn't stink like an onion.
• 50:19
  This story smells good.
• 50:22
  So um haridas.
• 50:30
  There we go.
• 50:30
  Haridas.
• 50:32
  He said, I knew that at one point I I wasn't going to throw in the towel.
• 50:37
  There were still 11 miles left.
• 50:40
  So I was telling myself to stay in it and just get to the end.
• 50:46
  And then those 11 miles began taking a toll on him.
• 50:51
  Now you hear the sheer determination.
• 50:54
  Like, I'm gonna get through this, I'm gonna get this done.
• 50:57
  I have no other choice, I have no other option.
• 51:00
  He said, I mean, my legs were just very heavy by mile 22.
• 51:05
  I'd say that's when some of the cramping started.
• 51:10
  Mile 22, he starts getting cramping.
• 51:14
  By the 25th mile, he's just absolutely worn out.
• 51:18
  He said, as soon as I got on to Boylston, I passed my mom and sister.
• 51:26
  And that's when things started to go downhill.
• 51:29
  He said the feeling of not being able to continue running was very, very sudden.
• 51:35
  I thought I'd had enough fuel in the race, but I was just really dehydrated.
• 51:40
  The cramping was incredible.
• 51:43
  That's when Begs, a 40-year-old runner from Northern Ireland, and 36-year-old Oliveira from Brazil stop to help.
• 51:57
  Now, how cool is that?
• 51:59
  I know people could look at this one way and be like, well, see, the Americans, this just proves it wasn't the Americans who helped.
• 52:08
  I don't you think it's cool that we have people from other countries.
• 52:14
  We have other other countries represented here in America.
• 52:18
  Well, Trump doesn't want anybody from other countries here.
• 52:21
  He shut down the borders, and it's impossible for people to come here.
• 52:25
  No, it's not.
• 52:27
  It's really not.
• 52:29
  We are a very welcoming nation.
• 52:32
  We're a very diverse nation.
• 52:35
  Like I said, there are many layers to this story.
• 52:39
  So you have uh somebody from Ireland, somebody from Brazil, and they step in complete strangers.
• 52:47
  They step in and they help the American.
• 52:52
  I just love it.
• 52:54
  He said, I was completely out of breath, so I couldn't really say much.
• 52:59
  But the first guy just put his arms out and I just grabbed them.
• 53:03
  Didn't even say anything.
• 53:06
  These other runners just reached their hands out.
• 53:09
  I think it's so cool.
• 53:12
  Um Begs said, for some reason, my instincts decided to take over.
• 53:19
  You know what the instinct was?
• 53:20
  You know what instincts he's talking about?
• 53:23
  The instinct to help.
• 53:25
  He's a 40-year-old reaching his hand out to a 21-year-old, and he said, I just listened to my instincts.
• 53:32
  My instincts took over.
• 53:34
  Then seconds later, Oliveira swooped in.
• 53:38
  He helped to stabilize them.
• 53:41
  And they both supported him, and they ran all three together across the finish line.
• 53:53
  He said, I remember Oliveira pointed to the finish line and said, just get there.
• 53:59
  I think I said, Yeah, let's go.
• 54:02
  I was trying everything, but they were doing the majority of the lifting.
• 54:07
  Isn't that cool?
• 54:08
  Isn't it cool?
• 54:09
  It's just so inspirational.
• 54:12
  And that's what this great nation is all about.
• 54:15
  It's about diversity, it's about equality.
• 54:18
  It's about being a good Samaritan, helping your neighbor.
• 54:22
  It's about celebrating, celebrating the wins.
• 54:26
  It's about celebrating each other.
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  It's about pulling each other across the finish line.
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  Finding your neighbor who's struggling and pulling them across the finish line, literally, and then celebrating.
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  You know, these guys, these other two runners were set back by a lot.
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  I mean, this really set them behind.
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  But they did it anyway.
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  They did it because they're compassionate.
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  They did it because they're kind.
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  They did it because they found another individual worthy of help, worthy of dignity, worthy of honor.
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  And I just love it.
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  I think it's such a crystal clear picture of who we are as a nation.
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  All wrapped up into one photograph.
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  And that's what's cool.
• 55:12
  When I see this picture, I have a feeling this is gonna become a poster.
• 55:19
  And kids are gonna put this poster on their wall to inspire them, to motivate them, to remind them to never give up.
• 55:31
  That's what stories like this do.
• 55:34
  They inspire other people to be kind, to be compassionate, to never give up, to always dig your heels in and assume that somebody's gonna be there to hold out their hand and to lift you up whenever you fall.
• 55:51
  That's what makes America so great.
• 55:56
  We are such a blessed nation.
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  We're so incredibly blessed.
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  Blessed.
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  And this picture sums it all up.
• 56:01
  And this picture sums it all up.
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  And that, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
• 56:05
  And that, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
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  Be the helpers.
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  Be the helpers.
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  Be the person who holds out your hand and helps somebody when they fall on hard times.
• 56:10
  Be the person who holds out your hand and helps somebody when they fall on hard times.
• 56:16
  And I promise God will bless you in return.
• 56:16
  And I promise God will bless you in return.
• 56:20
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• 56:20
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• 56:28
  You'll be in the know.
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  You'll be in the know.
• 56:29
  There is a
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  There is a hidden lightness that shines inside of all of us.
• 56:32
  When there's so much darkness that envelops the world, remember that it doesn't take much light to expose that darkness and to ultimately inspire other people.
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  Join me in being a light.