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- 1:21Speaker 2: Here all right, Welcome in, Kevin mccallough. Glad to have
- 1:28Speaker 2: you with us. Big News day. The President is on
- 1:31Speaker 2: the ground in China. It's you know, going into the
- 1:35Speaker 2: next day, and there will be busy activities as as
- 1:39Speaker 2: that comes to fruition, lots of meetings taking place on
- 1:44Speaker 2: lower levels. But he received a very warm welcome, groups
- 1:49Speaker 2: of Chinese youth on the tarmac waving American and Chinese
- 1:54Speaker 2: flag saying welcome President Trump, Welcome, President Trump, and certainly
- 1:59Speaker 2: a different certainly a different welcome than what his predecessor
- 2:07Speaker 2: had received. In fact, his predecessor, Joe Biden, could not
- 2:13Speaker 2: get phone call's returned to his cabinet members with their
- 2:16Speaker 2: corresponding counterparts in China. That's how bad the relationship was
- 2:23Speaker 2: between Biden and And people may think that that sounds
- 2:28Speaker 2: counterintuitive because she and Trump have gone at it with
- 2:34Speaker 2: you know, tariffs and other things and trying to get
- 2:36Speaker 2: the upper hand. But there is certainly in the way
- 2:40Speaker 2: China treats President Donald Trump, there's certainly a deeper level
- 2:44Speaker 2: of respect than the way he treated you know, the
- 2:51Speaker 2: previous administration. So it's interesting, and that goes back to
- 2:54Speaker 2: President Trump's first term. You may remember the first time
- 2:58Speaker 2: that they met in private, you know, conversation was early
- 3:06Speaker 2: in the Trump administration when he had invited President g
- 3:11Speaker 2: to the US for a summit and they were having
- 3:13Speaker 2: dinner at mar A Lago and the president excuses himself,
- 3:19Speaker 2: says he needs to go take care of something, drops
- 3:23Speaker 2: a bunch of missiles on Syria because Syria had just
- 3:27Speaker 2: gassed their own people. And he came back and said,
- 3:29Speaker 2: you know, I'm sorry I had to deal with you know,
- 3:31Speaker 2: Syria because he just gassed his own people. And I
- 3:33Speaker 2: think from that moment forward, g was like, WHOA, this
- 3:36Speaker 2: guy does what he says. So we'll see, We'll see
- 3:41Speaker 2: how this summit plays out. I loved Kat McFarlane's analysis
- 3:46Speaker 2: this morning when she was on with Bill Hemmer and
- 3:51Speaker 2: some of the guys on on Fox and Friends, because
- 3:55Speaker 2: she was saying, look, the Chinese approach everything very differently
- 3:59Speaker 2: than Donald Trump. The Chinese have everything exquisitely pre planned
- 4:05Speaker 2: and pre prepared. And you will say exactly this, and
- 4:08Speaker 2: then you will introduce so and so, and they will
- 4:10Speaker 2: say exactly this, and then that will introduce so and so.
- 4:13Speaker 2: And she said, there's meticulous planning of every little tiny
- 4:18Speaker 2: detail of what goes into how the Chinese approached something
- 4:23Speaker 2: like this. And she goes and President Trump is exactly
- 4:25Speaker 2: the opposite. He walks in, he goes, I'm the commander
- 4:28Speaker 2: in chief. I'm going to listen to all of the
- 4:30Speaker 2: information and make the decision and we'll go from there.
- 4:32Speaker 2: And she said it makes the Chinese preparation for someone
- 4:36Speaker 2: visiting like President Trump completely unhinged because they just don't
- 4:41Speaker 2: know what to expect because he's the only one that's
- 4:44Speaker 2: going to be speaking on their behalf and going that direction.
- 4:48Speaker 2: So I kind of think, and I've been hopeful. I've
- 4:53Speaker 2: said it over the last course of the last couple
- 4:56Speaker 2: of days. I'm hopeful that this summit will produce good
- 4:59Speaker 2: things because I think that the world needs the good
- 5:03Speaker 2: things to happen. But the way I define good things
- 5:07Speaker 2: is that I want him to press g on their
- 5:11Speaker 2: involvement in Ukraine and Iran and get them to step down,
- 5:16Speaker 2: and I mean really lower the booms. Say you're not
- 5:19Speaker 2: going to get access to our markets if you don't
- 5:21Speaker 2: step down from Ukraine and Iran, you know, meddling in
- 5:25Speaker 2: those things. I want him to express in the fullest
- 5:30Speaker 2: sense of the word, how serious we are when it
- 5:34Speaker 2: comes to winning the AI race, and that that there's
- 5:38Speaker 2: there's going to be zero zero give on that. And
- 5:41Speaker 2: that's what Elon Musk and the CEO of Nvidia and
- 5:46Speaker 2: some of the other some of the other tech bros
- 5:49Speaker 2: that are showing up. That's what they're all there for.
- 5:52Speaker 2: And then the third thing I want him to do
- 5:54Speaker 2: is I want him to really I want I would
- 5:58Speaker 2: love for him to peel China away from Russia and Iran,
- 6:01Speaker 2: even if it's just slightly, by cutting an energy deal
- 6:05Speaker 2: with them that would ship American liquid natural gas to
- 6:08Speaker 2: China in exchange for them giving up you know, the
- 6:12Speaker 2: dirty oil from Iran and the cheap oil from Russia.
- 6:16Speaker 2: They're an energy poor country. They need cheap, reliable energy sources.
- 6:22Speaker 2: We've got more liquid natural gas than anybody on the planet,
- 6:26Speaker 2: and we can't We won't run out of it for
- 6:27Speaker 2: thousands of years if there's no more produced in the
- 6:31Speaker 2: same time, So what do we have. What's the downside?
- 6:35Speaker 2: We have to selling and to exporting into making America
- 6:39Speaker 2: wealthier because we are able to sell them what they need,
- 6:43Speaker 2: I think, and if you get that with concessions about
- 6:46Speaker 2: what they do with AI or technology or other things,
- 6:49Speaker 2: I think, I think you're just in a winning situation.
- 6:53Speaker 2: So there on the ground, those talks are going to
- 6:56Speaker 2: start tomorrow There's going to be a number of things
- 6:58Speaker 2: between now and the end of the world week that
- 7:00Speaker 2: we'll be discussed, that will be brought out. Got a
- 7:02Speaker 2: lot to talk about today. We're going to continue our
- 7:05Speaker 2: series on the in the aftermath of Mother's Day, these
- 7:09Speaker 2: godly women that are in scripture that we're also moms,
- 7:13Speaker 2: The Mothers of Faith is the name of the series.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Pastor Doctor Dave Watson is going to rejoin us for
- 7:19Speaker 2: how do We Live Today? A little bit later on,
- 7:21Speaker 2: Cully Stempson of the Heritage Foundation is going to tell
- 7:24Speaker 2: us what he expects in Iran this week. Will there
- 7:27Speaker 2: be kinetic activity while the g something that goes on.
- 7:30Speaker 2: Should there be. We'll discuss all of that with Callie
- 7:34Speaker 2: in our number two today. The other big story, and
- 7:37Speaker 2: this is news making hantavirus. What do we do about
- 7:41Speaker 2: it and what difference does it make. Doctor Robert Redfield,
- 7:45Speaker 2: who was one of the common sense just you know,
- 7:51Speaker 2: bearing his teeth for the issue of truth in the
- 7:54Speaker 2: COVID era, He's going to join us and give us
- 7:58Speaker 2: his thoughts on how serious this hannavirus outbreak is. And
- 8:04Speaker 2: I get the feeling he's got some good news for us.
- 8:06Speaker 2: We'll just dig into that when he joins us. And
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- 11:26Speaker 2: Mothers of the Bible, and I think this is an
- 11:31Speaker 2: incredible little mini series from the sermon that you preached
- 11:34Speaker 2: on Sunday. But thus far we've looked at Eve and
- 11:38Speaker 2: Sarah and Leah and Jacobed and ray Hab and today
- 11:41Speaker 2: we're looking at Deborah, Ruth and Hannah. What are what
- 11:45Speaker 2: are these women known for?
- 11:47Speaker 9: Well, Deborah is I call her a surrogate mom.
- 11:52Speaker 10: She is an amazing woman.
- 11:54Speaker 9: She is in the middle of Israel when they're having
- 11:58Speaker 9: a horrible time, and the book judges it's characterized by
- 12:02Speaker 9: the phrase every man did that which was right in
- 12:05Speaker 9: their own eyes. So she's in the midst of that.
- 12:08Speaker 9: They are being continually invaded by their enemies and losing
- 12:13Speaker 9: battles with their enemies because they're not right with God.
- 12:17Speaker 9: And she steps up as a prophetess and a judge
- 12:22Speaker 9: and says this has got to stop.
- 12:24Speaker 10: She says to Barak.
- 12:26Speaker 9: An associative, urge a general take them on, man, go
- 12:32Speaker 9: after him, and he says, I'm not going to go,
- 12:36Speaker 9: you know, big brave general. I'm not going to go
- 12:38Speaker 9: if you don't go, And so she goes tells him
- 12:42Speaker 9: he will not. He will not, you know, have the
- 12:45Speaker 9: credit for it. Another woman will get the credit. That
- 12:47Speaker 9: woman is Jayl who, as you remember, takes a spike
- 12:51Speaker 9: and drives it through the head of Cesarah. And when
- 12:56Speaker 9: they write a song about Deborah, they say the villagers
- 13:00Speaker 9: ceased in Israel, they cease to be until I arose.
- 13:03Speaker 10: I Deborah arose as a mother in Israel.
- 13:07Speaker 9: And I think, I think, you know, besides the fact,
- 13:11Speaker 9: you know she's interesting just because her name means honeybee,
- 13:14Speaker 9: But besides that, you know, you don't get that often
- 13:18Speaker 9: is that she really is a mom to everybody, and
- 13:22Speaker 9: and and you know, if you're a good mom, you
- 13:26Speaker 9: wind up being a mom to a lot of people.
- 13:28Speaker 2: That's true.
- 13:30Speaker 10: You know, you may not be a biological mom.
- 13:31Speaker 9: We don't have a record of her biological kids.
- 13:34Speaker 10: But she is a mom in Israel. She's a mom
- 13:38Speaker 10: to everybody.
- 13:39Speaker 9: And everybody has somebody like that on the block, right
- 13:42Speaker 9: and God willing.
- 13:44Speaker 10: It's a Christian mom who's just taking care of everybody.
- 13:47Speaker 10: It's a wonderful thing.
- 13:48Speaker 2: Well, we move into a different story, but also a
- 13:51Speaker 2: woman that saw some sadness in life. Ruth.
- 13:56Speaker 10: Yes, Ruth loses her husband.
- 14:00Speaker 9: The backstory is Naomi, whose name means Mary Sunshine and
- 14:04Speaker 9: is anything but we he Her and her.
- 14:07Speaker 10: Husband leave Israel.
- 14:09Speaker 9: And move into the land of the Moabites, which is
- 14:12Speaker 9: not really something they should have done.
- 14:15Speaker 10: The Mobites are are israel sworn enemies.
- 14:19Speaker 9: And there they're two sons marry two mobike women, Ruth
- 14:24Speaker 9: and apara Uh.
- 14:26Speaker 10: Both of the sons and the father die and and
- 14:32Speaker 10: and Ruth, excuse me, Naomi give.
- 14:36Speaker 9: Naomi gives Ruth the option to go back and stay
- 14:39Speaker 9: and stay stay there in Mobikee land while she goes
- 14:43Speaker 9: back to Israel, and and Ruth says those those incredible words,
- 14:47Speaker 9: you know, uh, you know, for where you go, I
- 14:50Speaker 9: will go where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people
- 14:54Speaker 9: will be my people. And then here this, here's this
- 14:55Speaker 9: phrase your God, my God. So she places her fan
- 15:00Speaker 9: eight in the God of Israel and she goes it
- 15:04Speaker 9: goes on to talk about her as being a worthy
- 15:08Speaker 9: individual in a worthy woman in Israel in a world
- 15:13Speaker 9: where it's the same time as the judges, everyone's doing
- 15:15Speaker 9: what's right in their own eyes. A person who's not
- 15:18Speaker 9: doing what's right in their own eyes is a momabilite
- 15:20Speaker 9: woman who's serving the one through God, one true God.
- 15:24Speaker 9: And here's here's a woman who gets a second chance.
- 15:26Speaker 9: Really and she makes it into the genealogy of.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, the second, the second non israel the second
- 15:35Speaker 2: non Israelite to do so in just the last two
- 15:37Speaker 2: days that we've talked about women.
- 15:39Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, wow, you know, does God love the nations
- 15:42Speaker 10: or what?
- 15:42Speaker 11: You know?
- 15:43Speaker 9: It's a it's a it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. She's
- 15:46Speaker 9: and she's an amazing, amazing woman. When you when you
- 15:48Speaker 9: read her work ethic, when you read her loyalty to
- 15:53Speaker 9: her mother, in law and then and then how God
- 15:56Speaker 9: rewards that. Oftentimes, Kevin, we we talk about comeback stories.
- 16:01Speaker 9: This person was a mess, this person wasn't doing the
- 16:04Speaker 9: right thing, and yet God was so gracious and brought
- 16:07Speaker 9: them through all that. Here's a woman who, of course
- 16:11Speaker 9: we all need God's grace, and she's a mobile woman.
- 16:13Speaker 9: Here's a woman who actually is doing all the right things,
- 16:17Speaker 9: and God blesses her with a second chance and she
- 16:19Speaker 9: becomes a mom And go figure a mobilite woman in
- 16:24Speaker 9: the genealogy of Jesus.
- 16:25Speaker 2: The line of Christ. Yeah, and for people that haven't
- 16:28Speaker 2: done so, go read the story of she and Boaz
- 16:31Speaker 2: and how God brings them together, honoring one another, honoring
- 16:36Speaker 2: him in the process, and it's just really an incredible thing.
- 16:41Speaker 2: Let's move to Hannah. I have some personal connection to
- 16:44Speaker 2: this story that I'll reveal in a second, but give
- 16:47Speaker 2: us the thumbnail of what she was about.
- 16:50Speaker 10: Hannah is married to a man in Israel.
- 16:55Speaker 9: There's her and he has a second wife because it's
- 16:58Speaker 9: still technically the period of the Judges, and everyone's doing
- 17:02Speaker 9: what's right in their own eyes, and she can't have
- 17:06Speaker 9: kids and she's broken by it. She knows the brokenness
- 17:10Speaker 9: of not being able to have a kid. And the
- 17:14Speaker 9: text tells us in the first Stamuel one to ten,
- 17:16Speaker 9: she's up at Shiloh, where the where the Ark of
- 17:19Speaker 9: the Covenant is, and she's deeply distressed, and she prayed
- 17:23Speaker 9: to the Lord and wept bitterly and wept bitterly. So
- 17:28Speaker 9: she's there just breaking her heart. And Eli, who's the
- 17:33Speaker 9: high priest at the time, sees her lips moving and
- 17:35Speaker 9: thinks she's drunk at the House of God and actually
- 17:39Speaker 9: rebukes her. And you know, he goes on to hear
- 17:43Speaker 9: her prayer or hear her story and say, God's going
- 17:47Speaker 9: to answer your prayer. She experiences this, this heartbreak of
- 17:51Speaker 9: being barren. She took her problem to the Lord in
- 17:54Speaker 9: an intense way, and I love this. She says at
- 17:59Speaker 9: the end that she lent her firstborn son, that is Samuel,
- 18:02Speaker 9: to the Lord. So picture this, you can't have kids,
- 18:05Speaker 9: you get a kid, you wean the kid, and you
- 18:08Speaker 9: give him to the Lord.
- 18:10Speaker 10: That's that's that's a lot of faith. That's an amazing woman.
- 18:14Speaker 2: Well, and not only does she give him back to
- 18:17Speaker 2: the Lord, he ends up being the prophet who hand
- 18:22Speaker 2: selects David to become King of Israel, and God prompts
- 18:28Speaker 2: him to do so. But this is this is the
- 18:30Speaker 2: start of the of the next, you know, mightiest section
- 18:35Speaker 2: of the nation of Israel's history, and it came from
- 18:39Speaker 2: a broken woman who was crying out to God because
- 18:43Speaker 2: of it. I've actually been to Shiloh. I've actually been
- 18:46Speaker 2: to the place where the synagogue or the temple was constructed.
- 18:51Speaker 2: I've stood in the area that she possibly stood in.
- 18:56Speaker 2: And when I was told where I was at and
- 18:58Speaker 2: what I was standing on, uh, it was a It
- 19:01Speaker 2: was a holy moment, and I actually prayed for God
- 19:04Speaker 2: to bless my three children in the same place where
- 19:10Speaker 2: she wept and begged God for hers. And that same day,
- 19:15Speaker 2: the guy that was guiding us around got special permission
- 19:19Speaker 2: from the Israeli authorities to give us little shards of
- 19:22Speaker 2: pottery that dated back to the era of King David
- 19:26Speaker 2: from from that from that dig they were they were
- 19:29Speaker 2: in the process of digging Shiloh, and each one of
- 19:33Speaker 2: my kids has a piece of pottery that came from
- 19:38Speaker 2: that time and history. Knowing that they were prayed over,
- 19:41Speaker 2: and we got some photographs of me praying for them
- 19:44Speaker 2: in that moment that when they're you know, fully mature
- 19:46Speaker 2: and older and so forth, they'll understand better. But what
- 19:49Speaker 2: a what a special woman, what a special story. And
- 19:53Speaker 2: these are all friends, just examples of mothers that had
- 19:57Speaker 2: great faith. And we're gonna we're going to continue this
- 20:00Speaker 2: discussion tomorrow a very interesting woman by the name of Bathsheba.
- 20:06Speaker 2: And if we have time, we'll get into Elizabeth, the
- 20:10Speaker 2: aunt I guess you will of Jesus. And then we've
- 20:15Speaker 2: got Mary, of course, and before we're done, Unison Lewis,
- 20:18Speaker 2: we will dig into on Friday. So it's going to
- 20:21Speaker 2: be a great, great week. And I hope that you
- 20:23Speaker 2: will just stay with us. This is some really interesting stuff, David.
- 20:27Speaker 2: I hope that we're inspired, convicted and motivated to replicate
- 20:32Speaker 2: some of the great faith of these women. Thank you
- 20:34Speaker 2: for being with us.
- 20:35Speaker 9: Such a privilege, such a privilege talking about moms who
- 20:38Speaker 9: made all the difference in our lives.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it all right, Dave Watson, Thank you
- 20:42Speaker 2: so much. Kevin McCullough coming back from New York. Friends,
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- 22:49Speaker 2: stuff that you've never done before. And the emotional impact
- 22:53Speaker 2: of it. I think of it as like kind of
- 22:55Speaker 2: like an exploding marker in some of those illustrations where
- 22:58Speaker 2: kids get to color things and the color changes in it,
- 23:01Speaker 2: and as it becomes like more three D the more
- 23:02Speaker 2: they color. That's what you're doing to this kid's experience
- 23:06Speaker 2: when he goes to summer camp. It's a life that
- 23:08Speaker 2: they've never dreamed of and it just takes them by surprise.
- 23:13Speaker 12: So many people who are watching and listening can't relate
- 23:16Speaker 12: to what you just said, but it's totally totally true.
- 23:19Speaker 12: If you've ever seen the movie West Side Story, or
- 23:23Speaker 12: if you go back further into the old black and
- 23:25Speaker 12: white Glenn Ford Blackboard Jungle movie, that's where these kids live.
- 23:30Speaker 12: I mean, the excitement is, oh, I get to go
- 23:32Speaker 12: on the basketball court for half an hour and run
- 23:35Speaker 12: around on the hot concrete. They may have a park
- 23:39Speaker 12: in their neighborhood that's got one teeter totter that eighty
- 23:43Speaker 12: kids are trying to play on. Here's an opportunity where
- 23:46Speaker 12: they get on a bus. They go out of the city.
- 23:48Speaker 12: They are experiencing suburban and then rural life for the
- 23:53Speaker 12: first time, and they get off that bus and man,
- 23:55Speaker 12: it's like in the opening of The Wizard of Oz.
- 23:58Speaker 12: To keep the movie theme going, when Dorothy goes from
- 24:01Speaker 12: black and white into technicolor. They suddenly are at a
- 24:06Speaker 12: summer camp that is a Christian fellowship from morning till night.
- 24:11Speaker 12: They get three squares a day where they sit together
- 24:13Speaker 12: with other kids, all of whom have a mom or
- 24:16Speaker 12: dad in prison, so they don't feel in any way
- 24:20Speaker 12: ostracized or like they're the odd person out. It's such
- 24:24Speaker 12: an amazing experience for them, and because of you and
- 24:28Speaker 12: your dollars that you donate, the miracle happens. It truly
- 24:32Speaker 12: is a transformation of them in a way that changes
- 24:35Speaker 12: their life for eternity.
- 24:36Speaker 2: And I think that when you're talking about wanting to
- 24:39Speaker 2: have an impact on the next generation. You know, there's
- 24:42Speaker 2: a lot of things that we can covetch and complain
- 24:44Speaker 2: about easily, and how culture goes wrong and all the
- 24:49Speaker 2: things fatherlessness and all the things that take place, and
- 24:52Speaker 2: certainly with kids who have parents in prison, they've not
- 24:55Speaker 2: been dealt a very good hand from the outset. I mean,
- 24:57Speaker 2: you're already kind of behind the eight ball. And I
- 25:00Speaker 2: really believe it's the best thing. I had a personal
- 25:04Speaker 2: fondness for Christian camp when I was a kid growing up,
- 25:06Speaker 2: and I didn't grow up in any of the challenges
- 25:08Speaker 2: that these kids have, so imagine the impact it makes
- 25:12Speaker 2: on them.
- 25:13Speaker 12: One of the things that they tell me is that
- 25:17Speaker 12: and I hear this from kids at several of the
- 25:19Speaker 12: camps that we visited. Biggest thing for them, other than
- 25:23Speaker 12: sitting around a campfire, because campfire is a huge deal.
- 25:26Speaker 1: And never seen one of those before is breakfast.
- 25:29Speaker 12: A lot of them never get breakfast and to have
- 25:33Speaker 12: an opportunity to race across the lawn and get to
- 25:36Speaker 12: the cafeteria. And they've got a woman who looks like
- 25:40Speaker 12: Aunt Bee on the Andy Griffiths show mixing up pancakes.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Some of them have never seen a pancake.
- 25:45Speaker 12: You can you imagine this, and to get bacon and
- 25:48Speaker 12: eggs or pancakes.
- 25:49Speaker 2: And to go back to their friends be not worried
- 25:52Speaker 2: about Yeah, it's just crazy how wonderful it is.
- 25:57Speaker 12: For them to take fings that we take for granted
- 26:02Speaker 12: home with them and to be excited about it, and
- 26:05Speaker 12: it just really transforms.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Their lives on how other to say it.
- 26:08Speaker 2: In rural Louisiana where I went to camp, there was
- 26:12Speaker 2: a there was a cook that lived in the town
- 26:14Speaker 2: where the camp was located, and towards the end of
- 26:17Speaker 2: my time there, she could only come in one day
- 26:18Speaker 2: a week, But when I first started going to camp there,
- 26:20Speaker 2: she was there all five days of the of the
- 26:23Speaker 2: work week. And her name was Aunt Mona and elderly
- 26:28Speaker 2: black lady sweetheart. She would come in and make these
- 26:33Speaker 2: biscuits on Wednesday that from scratch. Nobody knew the recipe.
- 26:38Speaker 2: Only Aunt Mona knew the recipe. Those of us that
- 26:40Speaker 2: were on kitchen staff for our counselor duties, we would
- 26:42Speaker 2: try to figure out what was in the recipe. She'd
- 26:44Speaker 2: never tell it to anybody, but then but then after
- 26:47Speaker 2: we would have our lunch on Wednesday with an ample
- 26:53Speaker 2: amount of Aunt Mona's wonderful biscuits rolls in us. We
- 26:57Speaker 2: would all ask her to come out and sing, because
- 26:59Speaker 2: she had this lovely singing bows, and at like ninety
- 27:02Speaker 2: six years old, she would kind of hobble her way
- 27:05Speaker 2: to the front of the dining hall. She had a
- 27:07Speaker 2: little microphone and she'd sing us a song and it
- 27:10Speaker 2: was always an old spiritual of some sort, and it
- 27:13Speaker 2: was like the highlight of the week and talk about
- 27:16Speaker 2: something that nobody had experienced. But for me, camp always
- 27:20Speaker 2: meant not only food, but good food, and maybe better
- 27:23Speaker 2: food than these kids have ever tasted in their life, because,
- 27:26Speaker 2: as you said, that's kind of like the nonahs are
- 27:28Speaker 2: all in the kitchen doing the stuff for the camps,
- 27:31Speaker 2: and so it's all really good stuff. Friends. It's so
- 27:33Speaker 2: simple to do. It's a one time you gift of
- 27:35Speaker 2: two hundred dollars takes one child to camp this year
- 27:38Speaker 2: eight eight eight two O six two seven ninety four
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- 28:41Speaker 2: is with the Heritage Foundation, also former Deputy Assistant Secretary
- 28:45Speaker 2: of Defense for detainee Affairs, and Kully. There's a lot
- 28:49Speaker 2: that we could speak about today. You've got the President
- 28:53Speaker 2: kind of at his wits end with Iran, and I
- 28:56Speaker 2: think he's going to restart some kinetic activity there. I'm
- 28:59Speaker 2: not sure sure exactly everybody else's view on it, but
- 29:02Speaker 2: I think he's had enough of the iatolas. And this
- 29:06Speaker 2: this comes in the context of the g meeting, which
- 29:10Speaker 2: is straight in front of us. I've got some hopes
- 29:12Speaker 2: as to what I hope he will do, But you've
- 29:15Speaker 2: also got you know, the current events that are going
- 29:19Speaker 2: on globally, and I'm just curious, is there too much
- 29:22Speaker 2: for the for the for the man to be focused
- 29:25Speaker 2: on what he needs to do right now? How do
- 29:26Speaker 2: you expect the next week or so the administration to
- 29:30Speaker 2: to operate? Do they do they relaunch attacks in Iran
- 29:34Speaker 2: and meet with g at the same time. What's your thought?
- 29:38Speaker 8: Well, I think what you're not going to see is
- 29:40Speaker 8: him pulling in Obama where he draws a red line
- 29:43Speaker 8: and then fails to make good on his promise to
- 29:45Speaker 8: do something once that red line is crossed, right for
- 29:47Speaker 8: Obama did that, and that sends a very weak message
- 29:51Speaker 8: to the world. It also says there's no there there
- 29:54Speaker 8: And so you're right. Iran has been really good at
- 29:59Speaker 8: playing stallball. They've been doing that for decades and Trump,
- 30:04Speaker 8: I think has had enough. And so I think for
- 30:08Speaker 8: him not to do something now would violate his promise
- 30:12Speaker 8: that he's going to do something if it'll come.
- 30:15Speaker 2: Isn't it kind of refreshing to have a chief executive
- 30:17Speaker 2: kind of go I'm done, Guys like I just you
- 30:21Speaker 2: never got that from Obama or Bush or Clinton or
- 30:23Speaker 2: in those guys. And I just I like the fact
- 30:25Speaker 2: that he's, you know, he's not going to be really,
- 30:28Speaker 2: you know, too deceptive about his feelings on this.
- 30:34Speaker 1: Right.
- 30:34Speaker 11: And when you're a real estate developer and.
- 30:37Speaker 8: The counterparty doesn't come through with the goods, you're going
- 30:41Speaker 8: to move forward in a way that makes the most
- 30:42Speaker 8: sense for your side.
- 30:43Speaker 11: And he's on the side of the US in America.
- 30:47Speaker 8: And so look, every president in my lifetime, and I
- 30:51Speaker 8: remember seventy nine quite well when the radicals took over
- 30:56Speaker 8: in Iran has said they can't have a bomb, and
- 31:01Speaker 8: if they do have the bomb, we're going to do
- 31:02Speaker 8: something about it. And Trump's only want to do something
- 31:04Speaker 8: about it. And remember he came to office both times
- 31:08Speaker 8: with the idea of ending wars and expanding peace. And
- 31:12Speaker 8: so I think he takes these actions reluctantly, but he
- 31:17Speaker 8: also is going to do it because he realizes that
- 31:19Speaker 8: thugs only understand a punch in the nose.
- 31:22Speaker 11: And so.
- 31:24Speaker 8: I think he's going to have to do something. And
- 31:26Speaker 8: I think, to answer your broader question, he can walk
- 31:29Speaker 8: into gum. At the same time, he has a great
- 31:31Speaker 8: Secretary of State and a team behind him, and so
- 31:35Speaker 8: these talks with President G and China will be on
- 31:40Speaker 8: a number of levels. I hope one of the items,
- 31:43Speaker 8: and I think he's already said that, will be the
- 31:45Speaker 8: release of Jimmy Laie, who he has been campaigning on
- 31:50Speaker 8: and been saying that he's going to try to get
- 31:51Speaker 8: him released. And I think there's a great article in
- 31:54Speaker 8: the Wall Street Journal today about why it is a
- 31:58Speaker 8: G's best interest to Jimmy Laigo because if he doesn't,
- 32:02Speaker 8: it will continue to be an issue, and so it's
- 32:05Speaker 8: in both parties interests to at him free. So I
- 32:10Speaker 8: think you're going to see kinetic action in Iran and
- 32:15Speaker 8: of some level, and then you're going to see a
- 32:18Speaker 8: number of productive discussions at the secondary and principles level
- 32:22Speaker 8: in China.
- 32:23Speaker 2: There's a bunch of stuff I would like to see
- 32:25Speaker 2: come out of the Chinese meeting. I wrote in town
- 32:30Speaker 2: hall dot com today that I would like to see
- 32:32Speaker 2: him send a very strong message about China no longer
- 32:36Speaker 2: kind of mucking up the waters of Ukraine or Iran.
- 32:39Speaker 2: They're both kind of tangentially on the outskirts, kind of
- 32:44Speaker 2: you know, influencing and infiltrating in small ways I'd like
- 32:47Speaker 2: to see them completely remove from that. He's taking all
- 32:50Speaker 2: the tech pros with him, so I think he's going
- 32:53Speaker 2: to make a big, big kind of impression about how
- 32:56Speaker 2: dominant we intend to be with aileads to the energy
- 33:01Speaker 2: equation though, and I would love to see him come
- 33:05Speaker 2: up with some way, even if we had to deflate
- 33:07Speaker 2: the pricing kind of artificially to peel China off Iranian
- 33:12Speaker 2: and Russian dirty oil and sell liquid natural gas to them,
- 33:16Speaker 2: because once you get a joint economic interest connection, the
- 33:23Speaker 2: likelihood that that turns into military conflict down the road
- 33:27Speaker 2: is lessened, and you haven't lost any players in the process.
- 33:32Speaker 2: We have really masterfully gone in with a state department
- 33:36Speaker 2: that's quite strong, with kind of an executive face from
- 33:41Speaker 2: JD Vance and others that have been quite strong, and
- 33:43Speaker 2: we've used that to our effective good this go around.
- 33:47Speaker 2: And I think there's a lot more we can do
- 33:48Speaker 2: in the next two and a half three years.
- 33:51Speaker 11: Yeah, there is.
- 33:52Speaker 8: And when you have a bilingual Secretary of State who
- 33:56Speaker 8: believes in hemispheric strength, which Mark Rubio does and believes
- 34:01Speaker 8: that it's better for the hemisphere of Cuba, ultimately fails
- 34:04Speaker 8: and the leadership there goes away. China's support for Cuba,
- 34:08Speaker 8: china support for despotic regimes in Central and South America,
- 34:14Speaker 8: mainly South America and in Africa is real.
- 34:18Speaker 11: Marco understands that.
- 34:20Speaker 8: The Secretary of State clearly understands that, and that is
- 34:24Speaker 8: disquieting to leaders in China, and so that's a good thing.
- 34:29Speaker 8: To put them on their heels and make them look
- 34:31Speaker 8: have their head on a swivel is a good thing.
- 34:33Speaker 11: And so I think we're in.
- 34:34Speaker 8: A superior bargaining position with them. But also China takes
- 34:39Speaker 8: the long view on these things, and so we have
- 34:42Speaker 8: to understand that. To come away victorious for us also
- 34:46Speaker 8: has to give them something where they can go back
- 34:48Speaker 8: to their third party Congress and other leaders to say, look,
- 34:51Speaker 8: we got something for us too. So Trump's a master
- 34:53Speaker 8: at this, and I think the meeting itself is important,
- 34:57Speaker 8: coming away with something that he can especially if he
- 34:59Speaker 8: gets Jimmy Lai free, that's going to be a huge
- 35:03Speaker 8: political victory, and of course the victory for mister Lai himself.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Do you think temporarily Gee has abandoned the interest in Taiwan.
- 35:12Speaker 8: No, I don't, but I think that's the perception he
- 35:17Speaker 8: wants us to have and others to have. They've been
- 35:22Speaker 8: very clear about it. The problem is that with their
- 35:25Speaker 8: economy the way it is, I think the state of
- 35:29Speaker 8: their military, despite the fact that they're growing, especially their navy,
- 35:34Speaker 8: is such that it may not be a realistic goal
- 35:36Speaker 8: in the next two years.
- 35:38Speaker 2: Got it, Kelly Stimpson. We always appreciate your effort and
- 35:42Speaker 2: your time and your attention. Thank you for joining us here,
- 35:45Speaker 2: Thank you for having me you got it. Kevin McCulloch
- 35:47Speaker 2: coming right back, don't go wait, stick around for more
- 35:52Speaker 2: than Kevin.
- 35:54Speaker 13: Next and.
- 36:04Speaker 5: Serving it up with a no drink mitt.
- 36:08Speaker 2: It's that cabin show. Hey, it's Kevin McCalla. Glad to
- 36:13Speaker 2: have you with us. Always thrilled to be able to
- 36:17Speaker 2: spend a little bit of time with you. And I'm
- 36:19Speaker 2: so appreciative of the fact that you want to you
- 36:21Speaker 2: want to live with common sense, you want to live
- 36:23Speaker 2: with truth. You're pursuing clear thinking, You're you're pursuing those
- 36:28Speaker 2: things in life that are eternal, that are beyond what
- 36:31Speaker 2: we just see in front of us. And for those
- 36:33Speaker 2: of you that have taken the extraordinary step of saying, hey,
- 36:36Speaker 2: I'm going to help some of these kids get to
- 36:39Speaker 2: camp this summer. I just I want to say thank
- 36:42Speaker 2: you for that. We're in day three of the Angel
- 36:46Speaker 2: Tree camping campaign that helps our friends that are, you know,
- 36:54Speaker 2: children of prisoners. They get a fresh week of fresh
- 37:00Speaker 2: air and Christian fellowship. And your gift is the key
- 37:04Speaker 2: to making this happen for boys and girls who, through
- 37:08Speaker 2: no fault of their own, are often bullied or singled
- 37:11Speaker 2: out because mom or dad is in prison. You're giving
- 37:16Speaker 2: them a better future just by going to that kevinshow
- 37:19Speaker 2: dot com and clicking the Angel Tree banner. And I
- 37:23Speaker 2: want you to hear a little bit about how this
- 37:26Speaker 2: impacts those that we are talking about.
- 37:29Speaker 14: We wake up, we have breakfasts, and then we usually
- 37:31Speaker 14: play some games, and then if you're older, we might
- 37:34Speaker 14: have like a Bible study before worship. We worship till
- 37:37Speaker 14: lunch and it's the blast and now everybody's jumping.
- 37:40Speaker 10: We're seeing it.
- 37:40Speaker 14: After lunch, we didn't have like free time. We do craft,
- 37:43Speaker 14: to go swimming and do all that stuff, all that
- 37:45Speaker 14: fun stuff.
- 37:46Speaker 1: I mean, I love camp. That's how I wanted to
- 37:49Speaker 1: keep coming back.
- 37:51Speaker 2: I want to keep coming back. I love camp. Friends.
- 37:54Speaker 2: I don't know if you grew up in a situation
- 37:56Speaker 2: where you had a Christian camp to go to when
- 37:59Speaker 2: you were young. But I will tell you it was
- 38:02Speaker 2: so life changing in my own experience, and I did
- 38:06Speaker 2: not I did not even have a parent in prison.
- 38:11Speaker 2: I was not in the same shoes that some of
- 38:12Speaker 2: these kids are in. And just as a suburban kid
- 38:15Speaker 2: growing up, it was one of those things where I
- 38:18Speaker 2: could not wait to get there every summer. But you
- 38:22Speaker 2: heard the voice of our friend right there talking about
- 38:28Speaker 2: how much funny has they They work on crafts, they
- 38:33Speaker 2: do things outside, they do zip lines, they go swimming,
- 38:37Speaker 2: they take horseback rides, and in the esthetic of doing
- 38:42Speaker 2: this stuff that is so foreign to their lives many
- 38:45Speaker 2: times oftentimes cooped up in public housing projects or in
- 38:51Speaker 2: situations where they have family members watching over them that
- 38:55Speaker 2: may not even really care for them that much because
- 38:58Speaker 2: they kind of feel like they've had this kid dumped
- 39:00Speaker 2: on them because the parent ends up in prison. It's
- 39:03Speaker 2: it's just such a it's just such a different environment.
- 39:06Speaker 2: The counselors, many of them former Angel Tree campers themselves,
- 39:10Speaker 2: have come back and are just pouring their lives into
- 39:13Speaker 2: these kids. And I will say this, there is that
- 39:17Speaker 2: there is an amazing thing, that transformation that takes place,
- 39:22Speaker 2: because when they show up, they don't know that all
- 39:23Speaker 2: the other kids are going to be there, are going
- 39:26Speaker 2: to be like them. In fact, I think a lot
- 39:29Speaker 2: of them wonder and maybe think that they're going to
- 39:33Speaker 2: be like the only one that has a parent in prison.
- 39:36Speaker 2: And then somewhere early in the first day they find out,
- 39:39Speaker 2: you know, somebody comes up what your parents do, and
- 39:43Speaker 2: they make friends, and because of their shared experiences, they
- 39:47Speaker 2: they you know, bond and they start having fun. And
- 39:51Speaker 2: as that heart opens up, the counselors are there with
- 39:54Speaker 2: the message of Jesus, they begin to talk to them
- 39:57Speaker 2: about eternal things. They begin to talk to them about
- 40:00Speaker 2: why their parent asked for their name to be included
- 40:04Speaker 2: to be able to go to a camp like this,
- 40:06Speaker 2: because that's how the kids are nominated. Their incarcerated parent
- 40:10Speaker 2: completes a Bible study program in prison, and once they
- 40:14Speaker 2: have done that, they have the ability to ask for
- 40:18Speaker 2: their for their child to be able to be considered.
- 40:21Speaker 2: And then it's just it's just, you know, you're at
- 40:26Speaker 2: that point, it's just, you know, the opportunity for God
- 40:29Speaker 2: to pour into them and to make a difference, and
- 40:33Speaker 2: you give that to them when you call eight eight
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- 42:04Speaker 7: man who is not what he wants to be, but
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- 42:22Speaker 2: Yet in this hour we will hear from doctor Robert
- 42:25Speaker 2: Redfield coming up, who I think is probably one of
- 42:29Speaker 2: the most important people that in terms of who you
- 42:33Speaker 2: could have turned to for commentary during the COVID virus.
- 42:36Speaker 2: What he saw firsthand from his positions, what he knew
- 42:41Speaker 2: about the people involved, what he observed happened during that time,
- 42:46Speaker 2: lots of lots of lessons about things we should have
- 42:49Speaker 2: known better and done better. But he's going to join
- 42:52Speaker 2: us to discuss this new challenge, this thing called antivirus.
- 42:56Speaker 2: It's been around longer than COVID. COVID was a new virus.
- 43:00Speaker 2: It was a novel virus. It had not been experienced
- 43:03Speaker 2: before HANTA. The helpful thing about it is it's not novel.
- 43:08Speaker 2: It's not new. Hantavirus has been around since the fifties,
- 43:12Speaker 2: and there is a specific way of approaching it, dealing
- 43:16Speaker 2: with it, etc. And I don't think that it is
- 43:23Speaker 2: as easy to give from one human to the other,
- 43:27Speaker 2: as COVID was. It does have a higher mortality rate.
- 43:30Speaker 2: It's about thirty five percent of people that get it
- 43:32Speaker 2: end up dying. But the ability for it to spread
- 43:37Speaker 2: quickly and to spread to a lot of people is
- 43:39Speaker 2: kind of inhibited by the fact that it doesn't normally
- 43:42Speaker 2: spread human to human. The strain that they were worried
- 43:45Speaker 2: about here can and has minimally, but not on the
- 43:51Speaker 2: rate of reproduction the way the COVID virus did. COVID virus,
- 43:55Speaker 2: if you were around someone, even just in the same
- 43:57Speaker 2: area where they were, you probably go COVID. This does
- 44:03Speaker 2: not spread that way, and we're gonna find out why
- 44:06Speaker 2: and hear why. More about that coming up. But speaking
- 44:09Speaker 2: of COVID, the CIA whistleblower that testified before the Senate
- 44:14Speaker 2: Homeland Security Committee about COVID origins came forward at great
- 44:19Speaker 2: personal risk because quote, the truth was being buried, so
- 44:23Speaker 2: said Senator Ran Paul Wednesday as he opened the hearing
- 44:26Speaker 2: to go after this. Special Operations Officer James Erdman third
- 44:31Speaker 2: was issued a subpoena to appear before Paul's panel today.
- 44:35Speaker 2: While he was issued at on May fifth, he appeared today.
- 44:38Speaker 2: He's previously testified in a classified setting before the Committee.
- 44:44Speaker 2: He's a decorated officer with decades of intelligence and national
- 44:47Speaker 2: security experience. Before joining the CIA in twenty thirteen, he
- 44:52Speaker 2: was with the second Battalion, the seventy fifth Ranger Regiment
- 44:56Speaker 2: and as a Foreign Service officer at the Department of State.
- 44:59Speaker 2: He recently completed a joint duty assignment with the Office
- 45:02Speaker 2: of Director of National Intelligence. Director of Initiatives Group, said
- 45:06Speaker 2: Rand Paul. Mister Erdmun holds a Bachelor of Science and
- 45:09Speaker 2: Biology with a minor in chemistry from Western Oregon University
- 45:12Speaker 2: and received a Director of National has received the Director
- 45:15Speaker 2: of National Intelligence National Intelligence Award and the CIA Intelligence
- 45:19Speaker 2: Medal of Merit Award. Why does all of that credentialing
- 45:24Speaker 2: matter because what he said today was shocking in terms
- 45:28Speaker 2: of how little the government felt it was responsible to
- 45:34Speaker 2: keep things truthful when it came to the COVID vaccine.
- 45:40Speaker 2: In fact, there was very little that was as it
- 45:46Speaker 2: appeared during the COVID time. And I only took note
- 45:50Speaker 2: of all of that because I noticed how many things
- 45:53Speaker 2: I would talk about and ask questions about and kind
- 45:55Speaker 2: of think, this doesn't seem quite right, and I would
- 45:57Speaker 2: say something about it, and then I.
- 45:59Speaker 7: Would be.
- 46:02Speaker 2: I would be you know, rebuked, et cetera, because the
- 46:07Speaker 2: feeling there was, well, you know, the official word is
- 46:11Speaker 2: such and such, so I don't know that. To me,
- 46:15Speaker 2: it is it is vital that we get all of
- 46:17Speaker 2: the information. Senator Paul feels the same way, and I'm
- 46:22Speaker 2: gonna ask doctor Robert Redfield about that as well. But
- 46:24Speaker 2: here's here's my issue. We know, without a shadow of
- 46:28Speaker 2: a doubt that Anthony Fauci lied to the committee in
- 46:33Speaker 2: Congress and by extension, the American people. We know he
- 46:38Speaker 2: said things that were materially misleading, and that that misleading
- 46:44Speaker 2: nature was then followed up with harsh rebukes of anybody
- 46:49Speaker 2: that contradicted it. And in the meantime, he's pushing for
- 46:56Speaker 2: vaccines that we found out did not work. He's pushing
- 47:00Speaker 2: he's not pushing for therapeutics, which we really needed to
- 47:04Speaker 2: stop the transmission and to get the people cured faster.
- 47:09Speaker 2: We should have been working on therapeutics the whole time
- 47:12Speaker 2: we were working on vaccines. Vaccines did not work. They
- 47:15Speaker 2: did not stop the spread from human to human. They
- 47:18Speaker 2: may have lessened some of your personal symptoms, but that
- 47:23Speaker 2: was about it. And speaking as someone who got COVID
- 47:28Speaker 2: and came through the other side, my bride got it twice.
- 47:33Speaker 2: I was not pleased with the fact that in the
- 47:36Speaker 2: aftermath we find out so much of what doctor Fauci
- 47:39Speaker 2: said was not accurate, and he has yet to really
- 47:43Speaker 2: be held accountable for it. So I'm hopeful that this
- 47:47Speaker 2: whistleblower today, who I think much of his testimony surrounded
- 47:52Speaker 2: the idea of the CIA relinquishing records and letting people
- 47:57Speaker 2: have kind of a transparent look at what their actually
- 48:00Speaker 2: were during the COVID pandemic. I'm hopeful that there will
- 48:05Speaker 2: be some revelations here that will take us down that path,
- 48:09Speaker 2: because I think the American people deserve to know. I
- 48:13Speaker 2: think the American people deserve to know if their government
- 48:18Speaker 2: lied to them, lied to them consistently, did not tell
- 48:22Speaker 2: them the truth about what was happening in their own body,
- 48:25Speaker 2: much less of those that they loved. You kept people separated.
- 48:31Speaker 2: You had people having to bury loved ones that could
- 48:35Speaker 2: not wish them a proper farewell. It was and is
- 48:39Speaker 2: one of the largest stains on American history in terms
- 48:43Speaker 2: of how we handled it and what we did to people,
- 48:46Speaker 2: the institutional buy in from all the states, from the
- 48:49Speaker 2: federal government, from anybody that wanted to keep their job,
- 48:52Speaker 2: just saying yes, yes, yes, this is all correct, correct, correct,
- 48:55Speaker 2: We're just going to go along with it. Letting the teachers'
- 48:58Speaker 2: unions write curriculum for the schools during the pandemic, which
- 49:03Speaker 2: turned into a joke. My kids lost so much ground
- 49:07Speaker 2: during the pandemic. Finding out that off labeled drugs, hydroxychloroquin ivermectin,
- 49:14Speaker 2: some other things that actually were effective but were made
- 49:18Speaker 2: fun of and put down by the snooty class that
- 49:21Speaker 2: felt like they were so much more important and informed
- 49:23Speaker 2: than everybody else. Turns out they were wrong about those drugs,
- 49:26Speaker 2: that those drugs were actual effective therapeutics. Finding out that
- 49:31Speaker 2: if you trusted Fauci on what he said about the vaccine,
- 49:34Speaker 2: you weren't protecting yourself any better. Finding out that masks
- 49:38Speaker 2: made no difference, like literally zero difference in contracting COVID
- 49:43Speaker 2: or not. These are the things that I think the
- 49:45Speaker 2: American people feel very burned by. And so how we
- 49:50Speaker 2: handle hantavirus, how we handle this information in this whistleblower scenario,
- 49:56Speaker 2: this is all going to matter because the American people
- 49:58Speaker 2: have a trust issue when it comes to the government
- 50:00Speaker 2: and the institutes of health, the big health agencies. We
- 50:07Speaker 2: don't trust government on health. I think one of the
- 50:10Speaker 2: ways they could resolve that is by pushing people closer
- 50:13Speaker 2: to their doctor. Let you and your doctor make the
- 50:16Speaker 2: decision on what's best for you, not some bureaucrat in Trenton, Albany,
- 50:22Speaker 2: Washington anywhere else. It's just hideous. Kevin mcculluch very glad
- 50:26Speaker 2: to have you with us. Doctor Robert Redfield is here.
- 50:28Speaker 2: We will talk with him and a little bit later
- 50:30Speaker 2: on why a Christian summer camp could be the coolest
- 50:33Speaker 2: thing for someone. And Kevin McCullough love to help you
- 50:37Speaker 2: on Wednesdays where we take a look at wellness. Coming
- 50:39Speaker 2: right back from New York.
- 51:01Speaker 5: Here he is from New York that time, Kevin, Kevin McCollough.
- 51:08Speaker 2: Welcome back. It's that Kevin show that kevinshow dot Com
- 51:12Speaker 2: from Time Square every day. But Times Square is not
- 51:14Speaker 2: what I want you to focus on right now. I
- 51:17Speaker 2: want you to imagine going to the beautiful great outdoors,
- 51:21Speaker 2: breathing fresh, clean air, seeing stars at night, feeling the
- 51:25Speaker 2: sunshine warm your skin. In the middle of the wonderful
- 51:30Speaker 2: spring and summer season that we are embarking upon, and
- 51:33Speaker 2: imagine for a child that's never experienced any of that before.
- 51:37Speaker 2: Steve Collins is with us from Angel Tree Camping and
- 51:40Speaker 2: Steve we were talking off air that for many years
- 51:44Speaker 2: you have actually worked in an area of Christian camping
- 51:47Speaker 2: and seeing children respond to this, and I have to
- 51:50Speaker 2: think that, you know, for someone like me that grew
- 51:52Speaker 2: up in the Burbs, camp was a big deal. It
- 51:54Speaker 2: was all I lived for in the second half of
- 51:56Speaker 2: the school year was to get to summer and get
- 51:57Speaker 2: to go to camp. And only imagine how much more
- 52:01Speaker 2: intensified that is for kids that grow up in public
- 52:04Speaker 2: housing projects basically concrete brock block apartments with a lot
- 52:10Speaker 2: of heat and a lot of you know, dysfunction and
- 52:12Speaker 2: everything else. To get out of that environment and to
- 52:15Speaker 2: be at a camp for the first time. What's been
- 52:18Speaker 2: your personal experience in terms of what you see from
- 52:21Speaker 2: these kids and why is that first visit so special?
- 52:25Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 52:25Speaker 1: Thanks Kevin.
- 52:26Speaker 15: It's amazing with kids get outside of their normal environment,
- 52:32Speaker 15: which for most Anglistry kids is an urban environment and
- 52:35Speaker 15: get into the outdoor setting. It really has a tremendous
- 52:40Speaker 15: impact on the way they think about themselves, the way
- 52:44Speaker 15: they think about their future, and the way they think
- 52:46Speaker 15: about God. And so you get these kids coming out
- 52:50Speaker 15: into this outdoor setting where they're experiencing things that they've
- 52:53Speaker 15: never experienced before, you know, just even hiking through the woods,
- 52:57Speaker 15: swimming in a lake, some novel experiences like riding a
- 53:01Speaker 15: zip line or horseback riding. These types of things studies
- 53:05Speaker 15: have shown really have a tremendous benefit on the brain
- 53:11Speaker 15: function in child development, and it starts to unlock new
- 53:16Speaker 15: things in their mindset where they realize that I don't
- 53:20Speaker 15: have to just be this way, and I don't have
- 53:22Speaker 15: to just follow this course for my life, but there
- 53:25Speaker 15: are other possibilities available to me. And that is kind
- 53:29Speaker 15: of a key point in opening up the opportunity to
- 53:34Speaker 15: redirect a life into something beautiful that God's design.
- 53:38Speaker 2: Well you're describing it. It almost sounds like it's a
- 53:41Speaker 2: neural pathway that they did not previously knew was available
- 53:45Speaker 2: to them that they're now sensing and experiencing stuff through exactly.
- 53:49Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 53:50Speaker 15: Yeah, And so that outdoor setting, those new environments, and
- 53:53Speaker 15: then the other key thing is just being loved to
- 53:56Speaker 15: be experiencing the love of God at camp. It opens
- 53:59Speaker 15: up the these new pathways and kids start to recognize,
- 54:03Speaker 15: oh I can I can think about my life a
- 54:06Speaker 15: little differently. I don't have to follow the same course
- 54:10Speaker 15: maybe that I've seen in my family. I can choose
- 54:15Speaker 15: a different route for my life. And there's just all
- 54:19Speaker 15: kinds of studies that show that this is really effective
- 54:21Speaker 15: in helping kids to embrace a beautiful future.
- 54:26Speaker 2: That is the data put on your camp director hat
- 54:32Speaker 2: into a moment where you've been managing camp, directing a
- 54:37Speaker 2: Christian camp and you had an experience with a child
- 54:40Speaker 2: that really spoke to you in terms of how much
- 54:43Speaker 2: it impacted the way they viewed God or the way
- 54:46Speaker 2: they viewed themselves or maybe both.
- 54:49Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, I'll never forget this one particular child when
- 54:53Speaker 15: I was when I was actually a camp director and
- 54:55Speaker 15: we had an angel try child that came to our
- 54:57Speaker 15: camp and he was a big guy, bigger than me was.
- 55:03Speaker 15: He was probably fifteen years old, and he loved camp,
- 55:08Speaker 15: just embraced everything about camp. It just was provided just
- 55:11Speaker 15: a great sense of joy for him. And one evening
- 55:15Speaker 15: we were wrapping up our chapel message and we were
- 55:18Speaker 15: dismissing the kids, and this camper came up to me
- 55:21Speaker 15: and he just wanted to shake my hand and thank
- 55:25Speaker 15: me for the message. And as I took his hand,
- 55:28Speaker 15: he put his head on my shoulder and just began
- 55:30Speaker 15: bawling and.
- 55:32Speaker 1: Crying, and I thought, what is going on?
- 55:35Speaker 15: And so once the chapel room kind of cleared out,
- 55:37Speaker 15: we sat down together, his counselor and I with him,
- 55:40Speaker 15: and he began to open up about the pain that
- 55:43Speaker 15: he was carrying due to his father's incarceration, you know,
- 55:46Speaker 15: and how that absence, you know, was just a heavy
- 55:51Speaker 15: burden for him. And really in some ways there was
- 55:53Speaker 15: a lot of a lot of shame and things. He
- 55:56Speaker 15: tried to keep that hidden from other people. And so
- 55:59Speaker 15: we were able to process with him, you know, how
- 56:01Speaker 15: God is a father who loves him, who will always
- 56:04Speaker 15: be there for him, and God restores and heals families,
- 56:06Speaker 15: and and God has a plan for his life. And
- 56:10Speaker 15: and we were able to pray together, and he left
- 56:13Speaker 15: that room with a renewed sense of hope for his
- 56:16Speaker 15: future because he recognized he didn't have to carry this
- 56:19Speaker 15: heavy burden. He could just embrace everything that God has
- 56:22Speaker 15: for him. And yeah, his dad was still incarcerated, but
- 56:25Speaker 15: he walked out of there and left camp that week
- 56:28Speaker 15: with a renewed sense of purpose.
- 56:30Speaker 2: Have you stayed in touch with him over the years?
- 56:32Speaker 2: Do you have any update on his story?
- 56:34Speaker 15: Since, you know, once I stepped out of camping, I
- 56:37Speaker 15: did lose touch with him, but we did keep in
- 56:38Speaker 15: touch for a little while. He continued coming back to
- 56:41Speaker 15: camp until he aged out of the program. But yeah, yeah,
- 56:46Speaker 15: just the next year he came to camp again and
- 56:49Speaker 15: just was so thankful and for all that Camp had
- 56:52Speaker 15: done in his life, you know, and the experiences that
- 56:54Speaker 15: he had there, and his relationship with God was continuing
- 56:58Speaker 15: to grow.
- 56:58Speaker 1: And so it's just.
- 57:00Speaker 2: Friends, if you're listening to what Steve's saying and you say, well,
- 57:03Speaker 2: how can I provide that for an Angel Tree child?
- 57:06Speaker 2: This year? And again? These children, the one thing they
- 57:08Speaker 2: all have in common is that they all share that
- 57:11Speaker 2: same story that they have a parent, sometimes one, sometimes both,
- 57:16Speaker 2: sometimes the only parent that they have, sometimes a parent
- 57:19Speaker 2: that they may not know all that well. But whatever
- 57:23Speaker 2: the situation, they have a parent who's in prison, who's
- 57:26Speaker 2: gone through the prison Fellowship Bible Study program, who has
- 57:31Speaker 2: requested that their child be considered for inclusion into the
- 57:35Speaker 2: Angel Tree program, and through people like you are given
- 57:38Speaker 2: a scholarship to go and experience what that young man experienced.
- 57:42Speaker 2: What was that man's name? What was that young boy's name?
- 57:44Speaker 2: Steve and Tracy, so you can you can provide the
- 57:48Speaker 2: exact same experience that Tracy experienced, and there will be
- 57:53Speaker 2: a watershed of emotions and feelings and things that come
- 57:57Speaker 2: through their heart and mind in that time and hopeful,
- 58:00Speaker 2: the prayer, the goal of all of it is that
- 58:05Speaker 2: we faithfully point that child back to Jesus and to
- 58:09Speaker 2: the life changing relationship that that develops in them and friends.
- 58:14Speaker 2: For two hundred dollars, you can make that happen. Here's
- 58:17Speaker 2: the phone number eight eight eight two six two seven
- 58:20Speaker 2: ninety four. I've got one hundred and sixty two names
- 58:23Speaker 2: of kids on my list, and I want to make
- 58:25Speaker 2: sure that every single one of them gets sponsored. Eight
- 58:28Speaker 2: eight eight two o six two seven ninety four. A
- 58:31Speaker 2: one time gift of two hundred dollars will send one
- 58:34Speaker 2: of those kids who are incarcerated, whose parents are incarcerated,
- 58:38Speaker 2: rather who have dealt with a lot of the shame,
- 58:41Speaker 2: who have carried a lot of it in life, but
- 58:45Speaker 2: it will get them out of their normal circumstances for
- 58:48Speaker 2: a week, and in the process of doing so, will
- 58:51Speaker 2: open up their heart and mind to the claims of Jesus.
- 58:54Speaker 2: If you want to give online, you can go to
- 58:55Speaker 2: that kevinshow dot com and click the Angel tree banner
- 58:58Speaker 2: at the top of the page at kevinshow dot com,
- 59:02Speaker 2: or you can dial eight eight eight two O six
- 59:04Speaker 2: two seven ninety four triple eight two six two seven
- 59:07Speaker 2: ninety four. This is distinctly Christian camping. Jesus is a
- 59:13Speaker 2: proactive ingredient in everything that's done. Why does that make
- 59:19Speaker 2: a difference for people that are listening?
- 59:21Speaker 15: Oh yeah, yeah, there's one thing that every angle try
- 59:24Speaker 15: camp has in common. The activities might be different, but
- 59:26Speaker 15: every child is going to hear the gospel presented when
- 59:30Speaker 15: they're at camp, and that makes a huge difference. Because
- 59:33Speaker 15: when a child believes that the only place he's going
- 59:36Speaker 15: to find acceptance and belonging is in gangs, or the
- 59:40Speaker 15: only place we'll find fulfillment is in crime, he's going
- 59:43Speaker 15: to give himself over to those things. But in camp
- 59:46Speaker 15: he learns that he can experience acceptance and belonging through
- 59:50Speaker 15: the love of God and being a part of God's family,
- 59:54Speaker 15: and he discovers that fulfillment in a relationship with Jesus Christ,
- 59:58Speaker 15: and that changes the trajectory of a life. It just
- 1:00:01Speaker 15: absolutely transforms their mindset.
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: Sure well, friends, that is that's the goal. That's that's
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: getting them to a place that's beautiful and having great
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: experiences is a good thing, nothing wrong with that. Love that.
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: But if we don't pour Jesus into them while they're there,
- 1:00:18Speaker 2: we miss an opportunity. And so that's what I love
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: about Angel Tree Camping. It is the primary ingredient of
- 1:00:24Speaker 2: what they're doing, that that these kids feel loved by Jesus.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: They understand what He's done on their behalf. They understand
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: what he's done on their parents' behalf. Angel Tree is
- 1:00:33Speaker 2: not just in the business of getting prisoners saved or
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: getting children, you know, cared for. It is in the
- 1:00:42Speaker 2: business of reconciliation, of bringing families back together, of reuniting
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: them with the God who made them, reconciling their hearts
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: to one another. It is a beautiful thing. And I
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: just love everything that they do and this, this camping
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: program is a big, big piece of that puzzle eight
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: eight eight two six two eight eight eight two o
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: six two seven ninety four. Be as generous as you
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: can when you call eight eight eight two o six
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: two seven ninety four triple eight two zero six two
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: seven ninety four, or go to that Kevinshow dot com
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: and click the Angel tree banner at the top of
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: the page. Either way, it shouldn't take more than two
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: minutes to make your gift. Send a kid to camp
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: and then pray for that that child whoever. You may
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: not know their name or anything else about them, but
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: you know that your two hundred dollars will take a
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: kid to camp this summer. Pray for them throughout the summer,
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: that God would work in their heart, work in their life,
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: and bring them to Him. Eight eight eight two o
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: six two seven nine four triple eight two zero six
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: two seven ninety four. Kevin McCulloch, stay here for the.
- 1:01:39Speaker 16: Child's stick around for more of that Kevin next.
- 1:02:01Speaker 5: Here he is from New York, that Kevin. Kevin McCullough,
- 1:02:08Speaker 5: So glad to have you with us.
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: It's that Kevin Show, That Kevin Show dot Com from
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: Times Square every single day, and I will say, over
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: the last few weeks, not just my bride but several
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: people that knew of the coverage that we did during
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: COVID started calling and saying, Kevin, what's going on with hannahvirus?
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: You always talk to the most informed people. What are
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: they saying? And I said, well, let me get some
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: of them on the show so that we can begin
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: to break this down. And to my great delight, doctor
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: Robert Redfield is back with us. He's a virologist, public
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: health leader, advocated during COVID for very common sense policies
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: and even after COVID examining some of the things that
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: should have been done differently, and will hopefully the next
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: time a major incident like that takes place. But doctor Redfield,
- 1:02:56Speaker 2: welcome back. Let me first just ask you, do you
- 1:03:00Speaker 2: have as serious a concern about hantavirus as anything related
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: to the COVID pandemic.
- 1:03:07Speaker 17: No, Kevin, I think you know this outbreak is really
- 1:03:13Speaker 17: coming to an end. It's going to be a limited outbreak.
- 1:03:16Speaker 17: There may be a few more cases just because of
- 1:03:19Speaker 17: some of the mixing of some of the crew's passengers
- 1:03:25Speaker 17: in transferring home.
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: Prior to.
- 1:03:29Speaker 17: The CDC picking up people at the Canary Islands, there
- 1:03:33Speaker 17: was a big exodus of passengers at Saint Helena.
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: A number of them got on airplane.
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: In number like twenty something in number.
- 1:03:42Speaker 17: Yeah, I think I'll think twenty seven or something, and
- 1:03:46Speaker 17: you know, they may see some secondary cases from that,
- 1:03:50Speaker 17: but I think it's going to be very limited. And
- 1:03:53Speaker 17: I think, you know, the CDC has really been ahead
- 1:03:56Speaker 17: on this and their response has been totally appropriate. You know,
- 1:04:00Speaker 17: hopefully many of the people that are currently in Nebraska
- 1:04:04Speaker 17: and Emory, hopefully they'll elect to stay in those facilities
- 1:04:10Speaker 17: for the forty two days because that's just going to
- 1:04:13Speaker 17: complicate things, you know, if they go home, even though
- 1:04:17Speaker 17: they're going to stay isolated. But you know, the symptom
- 1:04:20Speaker 17: complex of early HANTA is so non descript that you
- 1:04:24Speaker 17: could see, you know, people feeling they have symptoms of fever,
- 1:04:31Speaker 17: aches and pains, you know, headache, the asser intestinal symptoms
- 1:04:36Speaker 17: and really they just have an intercurrent illness, but you'll
- 1:04:39Speaker 17: never know. So I'm hoping most of them stay in
- 1:04:41Speaker 17: the facility. If I was one of those individuals, I
- 1:04:45Speaker 17: would choose to do that. The other reason i'd choose
- 1:04:47Speaker 17: to do that if I did get sick and have infection,
- 1:04:51Speaker 17: there's no better place to be than those two facilities.
- 1:04:53Speaker 17: Because they're very well prepared to take care of you
- 1:04:56Speaker 17: if you have advanced to hantavirus infection.
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit about how HANTA is different
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: than COVID. My understanding is COVID obviously was airborne and
- 1:05:08Speaker 2: it could be contracted in an airborne contact. Haunt of
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: virus is not the same. It requires more physical contact
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: with the virus.
- 1:05:18Speaker 17: No, it's actually usually airsol Also, I think one of
- 1:05:21Speaker 17: the first major differences is when COVID came, we'd had
- 1:05:27Speaker 17: no knowledge of how that virus infects humans.
- 1:05:30Speaker 1: It was novel, it was new.
- 1:05:33Speaker 17: The haunt of viruses we've dealt with since nineteen fifty.
- 1:05:37Speaker 17: They were big problems for US. I happened to spend
- 1:05:39Speaker 17: twenty something years in the US Army. They were big
- 1:05:43Speaker 17: problems for US in the Korean War because the haunt
- 1:05:46Speaker 17: of virus is their reservoir is mice and rats, rodents,
- 1:05:51Speaker 17: and then the urine and the feces. That's where the
- 1:05:53Speaker 17: virus is. It gets into the ground. And in Korea,
- 1:05:58Speaker 17: what happened was we started using helicopters and they would
- 1:06:02Speaker 17: come in with the soldiers and they would aerosolize all
- 1:06:07Speaker 17: of the dust in the ground and then that that
- 1:06:11Speaker 17: would aerosolize the virus and then the soldiers would breathe
- 1:06:14Speaker 17: it in and that's how they got infected. So most
- 1:06:17Speaker 17: of the transmission is usually aerosolization. You know, we had
- 1:06:22Speaker 17: the Four Corners disease a while back, people going into
- 1:06:26Speaker 17: cabins that had been locked up and they sweep them
- 1:06:30Speaker 17: and that aerosolizes the virus from the rat and mice excrement.
- 1:06:38Speaker 17: You remember the Hackmans, they obviously had a hant of
- 1:06:42Speaker 17: virus also probably similar. Normally, the haunt Of virus goes
- 1:06:46Speaker 17: rodent to human, rodent to human, rodent to human. It
- 1:06:50Speaker 17: doesn't go human to human. And there's one exception to that,
- 1:06:55Speaker 17: one strain that's different than that, and that's called the
- 1:06:58Speaker 17: Andy strain, and that is the strain that's in Argentina
- 1:07:01Speaker 17: and Chile, and that is the strain that we're dealing
- 1:07:04Speaker 17: with with this cruise outbreak that we're dealing with right now,
- 1:07:09Speaker 17: so it can go human to human. The index cases
- 1:07:13Speaker 17: of this infection were a husband and wife that were
- 1:07:17Speaker 17: actually in Argentina when they most likely got infected bird watching.
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: They brought the virus back to the ship.
- 1:07:26Speaker 17: Obviously, they infected the doctor who was trying to take
- 1:07:29Speaker 17: care of them, and then there was some other transmission,
- 1:07:33Speaker 17: probably on the ship, although we don't know how many
- 1:07:36Speaker 17: of those other cruise line passengers could have gotten infected
- 1:07:40Speaker 17: in Argentina, but clearly they've shown evidence that this virus
- 1:07:43Speaker 17: has gone human to human in this outbreak.
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: Although it's not the easiest.
- 1:07:48Speaker 17: It's aerosol, that's mostly how I get it, but as
- 1:07:51Speaker 17: you pointed out, you can also get up by contact.
- 1:07:54Speaker 17: If I get the virus on my hands and then
- 1:07:57Speaker 17: rub my mouth or eyes or nose, I can autoinoculate myself.
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: So really common sense stuff for people that are concerned.
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: Lots of hand washing, lots of just common sense sanitation
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: and regular goody.
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: Just wash your hands. You're not going to get for example,
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: You're not, you know.
- 1:08:16Speaker 17: And it can confuse people when they see the TV
- 1:08:18Speaker 17: and they see these people and has mass suits, you know,
- 1:08:22Speaker 17: and they see everybody picking them up with VENTI respirators
- 1:08:25Speaker 17: on them. The truth is I could be sitting in
- 1:08:28Speaker 17: the room and there'd be no risk to me whatsoever.
- 1:08:32Speaker 1: You know. In general, now there is.
- 1:08:35Speaker 17: Some exceptions of a fairly well reported case in Argentina
- 1:08:41Speaker 17: back it was reported New England Journal in twenty eighteen.
- 1:08:44Speaker 17: I think the paper was published in twenty twenty.
- 1:09:01Speaker 5: Here he is from New York. That Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
- 1:09:07Speaker 2: Today on Capitol Hill, You've got whistleblowers talking about what
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: should have been done differently when it came to doctor Fauci,
- 1:09:16Speaker 2: and you know, some of the funding for some of
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: the labs and some of the things that we did.
- 1:09:22Speaker 2: And I'm just curious, do you feel like America has
- 1:09:25Speaker 2: significantly learned It's lesson enough from the COVID experience that
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: we will handle the next big challenge the right way?
- 1:09:34Speaker 17: You know, Kevin, I don't really. I'm went in for
- 1:09:37Speaker 17: quick advertisement book, my new book, that's it at Redfield's warning,
- 1:09:43Speaker 17: and I don't think we've learned our lesson. And part
- 1:09:47Speaker 17: of the reason I wrote my book was that I
- 1:09:49Speaker 17: hope people will read it, and I hope we'll start
- 1:09:52Speaker 17: getting people more interested. I argue that biosecurity is really
- 1:09:57Speaker 17: the major national security threat that our nation has. It's
- 1:10:00Speaker 17: actually much more significant than nuclear. Although we pay a
- 1:10:04Speaker 17: lot of attention to nuclear, we don't pay so much
- 1:10:07Speaker 17: attention to the biosecurity and even the Hanta outbreak that
- 1:10:10Speaker 17: we just have right now. It should tell you something.
- 1:10:13Speaker 17: We have no vaccine for Hanta. We have we have
- 1:10:16Speaker 17: no anti virals for Hanta. We just have supportive care.
- 1:10:21Speaker 17: We need to take a different posture towards being prepared
- 1:10:24Speaker 17: for viral threats. The one I talk about a lot
- 1:10:26Speaker 17: in the book that I'm worried about is bird flu.
- 1:10:28Speaker 17: Of course, then bird flu has a potential mortality of
- 1:10:32Speaker 17: thirty forty fifty percent in humans, and I personally think
- 1:10:37Speaker 17: it's going to cause a devastating pandemic. I call the
- 1:10:40Speaker 17: covid pandemic the lesser pandemic. I call the bird flu
- 1:10:43Speaker 17: pandemic a major pandemic, which I'm worried about.
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: But I don't think we've learned lessons.
- 1:10:48Speaker 17: Part of what you saw on Ron Paul's hearing, and
- 1:10:51Speaker 17: in one of the frustrations, I know if you watch
- 1:10:54Speaker 17: the hearing, but if you watch the hearing, not a
- 1:10:56Speaker 17: single Democrat showed up for the hearing, and that's bothersome
- 1:11:00Speaker 17: because they were just trying to have oversight of something
- 1:11:03Speaker 17: that is relatively significant. I mean, the United States government,
- 1:11:07Speaker 17: through multiple agencies, State, Department, USAID, nihn DOOD funded the
- 1:11:14Speaker 17: research lab in Wuhan to do this research, which then
- 1:11:19Speaker 17: led to the development of a virus that can infect humans,
- 1:11:24Speaker 17: which then accidentally, and I do believe accidentally escaped the
- 1:11:28Speaker 17: laboratory and caused a pandemic.
- 1:11:30Speaker 1: That killed over twenty million people.
- 1:11:31Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, there ought to be some accountability in all
- 1:11:36Speaker 17: of that as very disappointing, even though I always felt
- 1:11:39Speaker 17: this was the case that our intelligence community helped cover
- 1:11:42Speaker 17: this up, but the Wilstar blower made it pretty clear
- 1:11:46Speaker 17: that the CIA was deeply involved in misinforming the American public,
- 1:11:51Speaker 17: which is really unfortunate.
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: Well, liken to that, doctor Fauci was in front of
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: Senator Paul multiple times, and as far as I'm concerned,
- 1:12:00Speaker 2: from the knowledge that I had of just reading basic
- 1:12:03Speaker 2: news reports and trying to stay up to date on
- 1:12:06Speaker 2: what was happening day to day, lied under oath to
- 1:12:10Speaker 2: the Senate Committee multiple times. And I don't know how
- 1:12:14Speaker 2: we've allowed that to go unaddressed.
- 1:12:17Speaker 17: But hopefully he clearly misinformed the American public. There's no
- 1:12:21Speaker 17: doubt about that. He clearly intentionally misled the American public
- 1:12:28Speaker 17: and helped was part of that intelligence community cover up.
- 1:12:34Speaker 17: It's a technicality, you know, I think whether or not
- 1:12:37Speaker 17: he lied in the sense of this, Tony is very
- 1:12:41Speaker 17: careful in his words. He would say, according to the
- 1:12:44Speaker 17: definition of the National Academy of Science, I didn't do.
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: And I understand all that right, But you know, he
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: mentioned people.
- 1:12:53Speaker 17: He misinformed people, clearly a technicality. And you know, I'm
- 1:12:57Speaker 17: a big fan of Senator Paul. You know she is
- 1:13:00Speaker 17: through the the time course for him to be called
- 1:13:06Speaker 17: on the carpet, I think it ended on Monday. But
- 1:13:10Speaker 17: the fact is he did misinform the American public, and
- 1:13:13Speaker 17: it would be useful to have that clarified very clearly,
- 1:13:17Speaker 17: that he did misinform the American.
- 1:13:19Speaker 2: Public, and to know that he invested heavily in Pfizer
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: and some of the like. He had a really good pandemic.
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: Most of us didn't make thirty million dollars over the
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: same period of times. It's concerning, and that's why I've
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: said on my show for the last couple of years,
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: I think that there's even though Trump's in office and
- 1:13:39Speaker 2: we've got, you know, in my estimation, good people in
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: some of these positions, now, there's still a lot of
- 1:13:46Speaker 2: trust that's been broken, and it's going to take a
- 1:13:49Speaker 2: massive effort to gain that back because COVID destroyed it.
- 1:13:53Speaker 1: That's the real want.
- 1:13:54Speaker 17: I talk about Redfield's warning in my book. There's three
- 1:13:57Speaker 17: major warnings. Once the biosecurity and gain a function research.
- 1:14:01Speaker 17: The others you know that the great pandemic is coming
- 1:14:04Speaker 17: in the bird flu pandemic. But the other one that's
- 1:14:06Speaker 17: really important is the loss of public trust. And you
- 1:14:09Speaker 17: can't have public health without public trust. And you know,
- 1:14:13Speaker 17: part of the problem was the Biden administration didn't trust
- 1:14:15Speaker 17: the public, all.
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: Right, and that's why they mandated everything. Right, But and
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: now the public doesn't trust the government.
- 1:14:23Speaker 17: And you know, hopefully this Hanta experience where the public sees,
- 1:14:28Speaker 17: you know, the system work, maybe it gains a little,
- 1:14:31Speaker 17: but I think rebuilding that public trust is are going
- 1:14:33Speaker 17: to be a real, real hard thing to do, and
- 1:14:38Speaker 17: it's important. And I do ask people in the public
- 1:14:42Speaker 17: to try to work with the current public leaders, who
- 1:14:46Speaker 17: I have a lot of faith in, to see if
- 1:14:49Speaker 17: we can begin to rebuild that public trust.
- 1:14:50Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the best steps they could take,
- 1:14:54Speaker 2: should we, god forbid, have another outbreak of something, is
- 1:14:58Speaker 2: to really layer on the ability for people to talk
- 1:15:03Speaker 2: to their personal doctors about what they should do in
- 1:15:06Speaker 2: those circumstances. I think one of the gravest errors that
- 1:15:09Speaker 2: we made were governors and attorney generals and other people
- 1:15:13Speaker 2: making medical decisions for folks. When you've got people like
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: Governor Cuomo who shoved sick COVID infected people in with
- 1:15:22Speaker 2: elderly and obese people at nursing homes and you put
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: the most vulnerable population with the sickest people, and you
- 1:15:29Speaker 2: just lost tens of thousands of folks. And the idea
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: that we shut down all the medical practitioners' offices and
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: he had to go to the emergency room to get
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: the vaccine and so forth, that to me, never made sense,
- 1:15:42Speaker 2: And I think average Americans went, this is nuts. I
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: want to talk to my doctor. He's the only one
- 1:15:47Speaker 2: who really knows what I'm dealing with and what I've
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: gone through. And I think that by sharing some of
- 1:15:53Speaker 2: the idea that government doesn't know everything, and we're going
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: to empower the doctors that the patients are most intimately
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: familiar with to be a helpful decision maker or supporting
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: voice in their decisions. I think that's where you got
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: to start. So the book is out, where can they
- 1:16:10Speaker 2: find it? Just every Amazon. Barnesay, Amazon is the best place.
- 1:16:14Speaker 2: Amazon has it both audio and regular print. And encourage
- 1:16:18Speaker 2: people to read it. I think they'll find it very useful. Actually, well,
- 1:16:22Speaker 2: I'm sorry I didn't mention it, but Redfield's warning go
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: and get it, friends, and make sure that you are
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: more prepared for the next time it rolls around. Doctor
- 1:16:31Speaker 2: Robert Redfield. We appreciate everything you've done for our country,
- 1:16:33Speaker 2: Appreciate your voice, appreciate you speaking up. Thanks for being
- 1:16:36Speaker 2: with us.
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, Kevin, God bless.
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: Kevin mccalloch, coming right back from New York.
- 1:16:40Speaker 18: Don't go right stick around for more that Kevin next,
- 1:16:54Speaker 18: serving it up with a no drink MINTI.
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: It's that show. So good to welcome you back. Thank
- 1:17:03Speaker 2: you for being here, Kevin McCollough on this Wednesday. Very
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: interesting discussions we've had this hour, and I am hopeful
- 1:17:10Speaker 2: that we helped you in some way. But when I
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: saw this final story, I thought I got to get
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: this in somehow. Carnivores from far and wide descended recently
- 1:17:20Speaker 2: in Gatlingburg, Tennessee, to partake in what's called meat Stock,
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: a convention for followers of meat based diets. The weekend
- 1:17:31Speaker 2: gathering featured presentations from experts and panels and vendors on
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: carnivore and keto diets, as well as biohacking. Nine out
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: of ten Americans are metabolically metabolically unfit, said one contributor,
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: Nathan Bryan. He's a Texas biochemist. Two out of three
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: Americans have an unsafe elevation of blood pressure, and nearly
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: half of people in America are diabetic or pre diabetic.
- 1:17:59Speaker 2: That can be attributed to the foods we eat. He
- 1:18:01Speaker 2: said he was extremely compelled by stories from the attendees
- 1:18:05Speaker 2: who talked about how much weight they lost and autoimmune
- 1:18:08Speaker 2: diseases they cured by switching to a meat based diet.
- 1:18:12Speaker 2: He said, what I found at meat Stock was people
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: who eat mainly just meat based diet, high protein and
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: really good fats with limited or no carbs or plants.
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: These people seem to be the healthiest, and then they're
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: able to reverse disease without drug therapy. These outcomes are
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: self reported by attendees are not broadly established in clinical research. However,
- 1:18:32Speaker 2: meat centric eating has its fair share of critics. Tara Schmidt,
- 1:18:36Speaker 2: a registered dietitian instructor with the Maeoclinic caution that carnivore
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: type diets put people at risk of missing out on
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: essential nutrients like fiber, calcium, and vitamin D. They also
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: lack of balance and are too restrictive to be sustainable
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: long term for many people. Having said that, you've got
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: people that have claimed that they rest reversed autoimmune diseases
- 1:18:59Speaker 2: and lost weight by eating primarily meat. This is an
- 1:19:03Speaker 2: incredible reality when you see that it has in fact happened.
- 1:19:07Speaker 2: The science presented at the meat Stock convention was intriguing.
- 1:19:11Speaker 2: Some people came away from academia, as a former professor
- 1:19:15Speaker 2: of medicine putting a lot of emphasis on the science
- 1:19:18Speaker 2: and clinical data behind these diets, and he said it
- 1:19:21Speaker 2: was impressive. The US Department of Health and Human Services
- 1:19:23Speaker 2: and the US Department of Agriculture unveiled a new food
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: Pyramid dietary guidelines for Americans earlier this year. The updated
- 1:19:30Speaker 2: guidance reflects a broader shift in federal nutrition messaging while
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: also prompting debate among health experts. The new guidelines encourage
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: people to quote eat a variety of protein foods from
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: animal sources, including red meat, and they are a departure
- 1:19:44Speaker 2: radical departure from previous recommendations that emphasize carbohydrates and plants.
- 1:19:50Speaker 2: The new guidelines have attracted much scrutiny. In an article
- 1:19:53Speaker 2: on the release of the new guidelines, for instance, you
- 1:19:55Speaker 2: see Berkeley Public Health reported when the federal government issued
- 1:19:59Speaker 2: its recommendation for a healthy diet last week, many nutritionists
- 1:20:02Speaker 2: and healthcare providers were appalled. It is widely believed that
- 1:20:05Speaker 2: misinformation about nutrition dates back to Ansel Keys, as physiologist
- 1:20:10Speaker 2: whose Seven Countries study is responsible for many accepted modern
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: ideas about cholesterol and heart disease. However, many nutrition researchers
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: say that continue to cite Keys's work as foundational, even
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: as aspects of it have been debated over time. But friends,
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: they're not disputing the findings. During an address to the
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: National Cattleman's Beef Association in February, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: declared that the war on protein is over. Brian himself
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: is not a strict carnivore, but each one of his
- 1:20:38Speaker 2: meals includes some form of protein, mainly red meat. He
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: also fasts for eighteen hours a day. As I don't know,
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: I don't know how you do it, but I try
- 1:20:47Speaker 2: to fast for about twelve to fifteen hours a day,
- 1:20:52Speaker 2: and I'm eating less sugar and more meat, and it
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: seems to be suiting me quite well. That's not a
- 1:21:02Speaker 2: very scientific explanation, but that's where I come at it
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