Episode 137 LIVE： Seminole Snub (feat. Mark Kaye) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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In this episode of Firebrand, we take a look at why the College Football Playoff committee denied the undefeated champion of the Power 5 conference a chance at the National Championship, and why this is a travesty to the sport of football.
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank you
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matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands
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welcome back to firebrand we are live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office
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building here on the capitol complex in washington dc we've got new evidence regarding impeachment and
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joe biden directly benefiting from the hunter biden shell companies that were moving funds
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from a lot of corrupt foreigners into the family members of in fact joe biden and joe biden himself
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we've also got more evidence about bidenomics continuing to fail showing economic decline and
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becoming a bit of a political albatross house democrats indicating that they might not even
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be campaigning on the bidenomics brand designating it as tone deaf of course as stuff continues to cost
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more and the american people continue to have lower and lower prospects of their economic future
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running on bidenomics is a bad idea and acting it into policy an even worse idea but i have to start
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with the story that's got everyone in the sunshine state fuming the florida state seminoles undefeated
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acc conference champions left out of the college football playoff this committee of oracles sit
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together and they were able to determine that the four teams that would compete for the national
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championship would include two teams alabama and texas who had indeed lost a game when the noles had
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gone undefeated the college football playoff committee asserted that the reason an injury to fsu star
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quarterback jordan travis in the north alabama game several weeks ago showcased a different style of
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seminoles offense well you know what i believe that because florida state showed diversity in
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their capability of winning they ought to have been rewarded not punished by the college football
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playoff committee they won games scoring over 40 points like in the first game of the season against
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lsu they continued to have a dominant offense of course the quarterback jordan travis being central to
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that but even after his injury the noles showed they were able to win with a backup quarterback
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in gainesville a hostile environment our friends down there in hogtown not always too hospitable to
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the noles but then also with defense they say defense wins championships but i guess it couldn't get you
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into the championship game if you're the noles they held a louisville team with a pretty sophisticated
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offensive scheme a good quarterback and plumber held them to just field goals showed championship caliber
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defense but not allowed to play showed different ways to win not allowed to play instead people get to
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play for the championship lost games and is it just me or does this signal a societal turn away from
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merit and winning towards sophistry it was a point made by espn's burger mcfarland he was a dissenting voice
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a voice in the wilderness but take a listen right now
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this is a travesty to the sport because we go out there on the field and we play the game and regardless of whether
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it looks good at the quarterback position regardless whether we win with offense whether we win with defense the name of
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the game is to win and that's a reason never before has this not been done winning a power five conference going
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undefeated and not getting into the playoff so i understand we want to look at style points and who are we going to get for the best
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matchups but that's not what this is about this is about understanding to get the four best teams
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one team has a loss and that's alabama one team doesn't in florida state and the fact that this committee
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could take a power five conference champion that's undefeated those kids have went out there and busted
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their behind and not get into the playoff based on the eye test mind you this is the same alabama team
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who needed a prayer in jordan hair to beat an auburn team that lost to new mexico state so
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that's really what has me bothered right now that was booger mcfarland standing up for the prospect
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of merit and winning and this has gotten the attention of florida senator rick scott who sent
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a letter to mr boo corrigan the chairman of the college football selection committee and in his
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letter senator scott notes that in the 10-year history of the college football playoff they have
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never excluded the undefeated champion of a power five conference and he continues to write beyond
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the fury and heartbreak caused by the committee's decision there are also financial implications
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that must be discussed the acc and fsu have been denied two million dollars of revenue distribution
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from the college football playoff due to the committee's decision to remove the seminoles from
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playoff contention indeed there is that financial impact and so senator scott has sent a list of uh
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of 10 things that he wants from the college football playoffs including their listing step and their
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ranking step votes any notes or recordings or reports detailing their deliberations emails and text
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messages including those back and forth with espn disney among the members among anyone else and he
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demands these things um quite promptly so we'll see if senator scott is able to get an answer to those
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questions we'll be eager to see if it uh if it turns up any malfeasance or misfeasance president
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trump weighed in as well putting out on truth social the statement florida state was treated very badly by
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the committee they became the first power five teams to be left out of the college football playoffs
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really bad lobbying effort let's blame to sanctimonious says with a little tongue in cheek there i don't
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know if i blame our governor for that i blame the college football selection committee we've got also
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important information on impeachment that i want to bring to your attention uh committee chairman james
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comber leads our oversight effort he now has evidence that awasca one of the shell companies that was run by
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hunter biden has made direct payments to joe biden now keep in mind we call these business entities
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companies but they made no product provided no service they were merely pass-throughs to get foreign money
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into the bank accounts of the biden family here's the oversight chairman james comber
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today the house oversight committee is releasing subpoenaed bank records that show hunter biden's
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business entity awasco pc made direct monthly payments to joe biden this wasn't a payment from
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hunter biden's personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from china
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and other shady corners of the world at this moment hunter biden is under an investigation by the
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department of justice for using awasco pc for tax evasion and other serious crimes and based on
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whistleblower testimony we know the justice department made a concerted effort
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to prevent investigators from asking questions about joe biden i wonder why the more we learn
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it appears the justice department was trying to cover up for the bidens until brave rs whistleblowers
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came forward and a federal judge rejected the sweetheart plea deal payments from hunter's business
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entity to joe biden are now part of a pattern revealing joe biden knew about participated in
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and benefited from his family's influence peddling schemes when joe biden was vice president he spoke
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by phone attended dinners and had coffee with his son's foreign business associates he allowed his
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son to catch a ride on air force two at least a dozen times to sell the biden brand around the world
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hunter biden requested office keys to be made for his office mate joe biden in space he planned to share
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with a chinese energy company we've revealed how joe biden received checks from his family that
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were funded by the biden's influence peddling schemes with china no less the house oversight
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committee continues to investigate joe biden's involvement in his family's domestic and
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international business schemes at a rapid pace we will continue to uncover the facts and provide
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transparency about the findings of our investigation president biden and his family must be held
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accountable for this blatant corruption the american people expect no less
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that was oversight chairman james comer signaling a new level of intensity in this effort keep in mind
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hunter biden and frank biden hadn't even gotten a subpoena when kevin mccarthy was speaker mike johnson
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becoming speaker seems to have accelerated at least some of the oversight efforts and we get this report
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out of nbc news is christina zhou speaker mike johnson says he thinks he has the votes to
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authorize a biden impeachment inquiry uh that investigation being led by judiciary oversight in
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ways and means and you see from mike johnson in this piece quote they're preventing at least two or
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three doj witnesses from coming forward and withheld thousands of pages of evidence uh that as a basis to
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continue this effort mike johnson spoke about this with house republican conference chair elise stefanik
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recently on fox and friends take a listen all right let's get to another topic that will require
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holding the entire republican conference together as well and that would be the i the the concept of
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actually formally declaring an impeachment inquiry yes thus far it has been just that an inquiry
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based on what's been found do you as the speaker with that power plan on bringing an actual vote on
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impeachment it's it's become a necessary step elise and i both served on the impeachment defense team
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of uh donald trump twice when the democrats used it for brazen partisan political purposes we decried
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that use of it this is very different remember we are the rule of law team we have to do it very
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methodically our three committees of jurisdiction judiciary oversight ways and means have been doing an
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extraordinary job following the evidence where it leads but now we're being stonewalled by the white
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house because they're preventing at least two to three doj witnesses from coming forward a former
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white house council the national archives the white house has withheld thousands of pages of evidence so
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a formal impeachment inquiry vote on the floor will allow us to take it to the next necessary step
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and i think it's something we have to do at this juncture
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we have to do it that's the house speaker indicating that the heat is getting turned up on the bidens
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and as that's happening it's not like they're getting good news on the economic front today
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breitbart news reported the data from the commerce department indicated that core capital goods orders
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have fallen to the smallest annual gain since 2020 now this report explained that new orders from u.s made
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capital goods a key measure of business spending fell three-tenths of a percentage point in october
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after experts originally estimated that there would only be a decline of about a tenth of a percentage
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point so it was three times worse than expected this report went on to say that capital goods orders
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are up 0.3 percent compared to a year ago but that is quote the smallest 12-month gain since september of
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2020 now the most interesting part of this is an axios report from yesterday the day before the data from the
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commerce department came out titled house democrats ditch bidenomics messaging now here axios notes that
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house democrats have rejected the biden white house's months-long attempt to try to embrace and own and sell
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this term bidenomics and it shows that there is a real divide between democrats who will be on the ballot
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and the messaging that the white house wants to lean into for the coming year the biden white house has
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attempted to use this term and they've tried to use it to trot out the president's economic record
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but it appears to have backfired axios's source says the use of the term bidenomics was quote tone
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deaf to people economically struggling and that it took far too much to explain to voters now according to
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the report house democrat leadership including their campaign groups and big super PACs have not used the
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term bidenomics in months and have been avoiding the term on social media since polling has shown that
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the term is ineffective and absolutely not breaking through so massive fail on the bidenomics front and
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it's not as if the administration can turn to what's going on in the world as any sort of stability
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remember joe biden ran to be the calming peaceful influence on the world but we are now
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seeing just conflict erupt in just about every continent on the planet earth here is john kirby
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hitting the sunday show circuit talking about how the u.s missed intelligence in the middle east take a
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listen john i have to ask you about this new york times reporting which found that israeli officials
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received hamas's specific attack plan over a year ago was the united states aware of this intelligence and
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if not why not the intelligence community has uh has indicated that uh that they uh did not have
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uh access to this document that there's no indications at this time that they had any
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access to this document beforehand should they have given how closely u.s and israeli intelligence
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officials coordinate or are supposed to coordinate intelligence is a mosaic and uh sometimes you
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know you can fashion things together and get a pretty good picture other times you know that there's
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pieces of the puzzle that are missing as i said our own intelligence community said that they've
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looked at this they have no indications at this time that uh that they had any advance warning of
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this document or any knowledge of it john very quickly was this a failure on the part of israeli
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intelligence and u.s intelligence i think there's going to be a time uh and a place for israel to do
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that sort of forensic work i mean prime minister netanyahu's already spoken pretty candidly about this and
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calling it you know a failure on their part they'll take a look at this at the right time they need to do
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that right now though the focus has got to be on making sure that they can eliminate this truly
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must be tough continuing to have to explain away failures in intelligence and tactics and
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capabilities but that is increasingly what the biden white house has had to do president trump gave us
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peace through strength they give us war without winning i also want to bring your attention to a story
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i saw on the federalist that's concerning about how these efforts to try to take people's law license
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away has been increasingly weaponized the federalist gives us this headline feds withhold election docs
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key to jeff clark's dc bar defense jeff clark of course the department of justice official who's been
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scapegoated by jack smith scapegoated by the january 6th committee he was concerned about very real
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efforts to try to undermine our election through malign influence and he wanted to investigate
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any sort of claim of fraud or challenge and he was disrupted in his efforts to do so now they're
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trying to take his law license away so he wants to get the predicate information from the department
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of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence and according to this piece in the
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federalist both the office of dni and the doj have refused to hand over several key election integrity
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documents that would aid trump era doj official jeff clark's defense against the dc bar which seeks to
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discipline him for noting inconsistencies in the 2020 election clark requested several key pieces of
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evidence related to the election issues from the odni and the doj to prepare for his upcoming defense in
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the dc bar case his attempt to secure due process however was hampered by stonewalling from both
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odni and doj jeff clark truly standing in the breach before we go i wanted to bring you into a conversation i was able to
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have recently with mark k mark k is one of our great conservative media personalities in sunshine state he wrote a book
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about maybe some of the features of the christmas story you're not entirely aware of so get in the season and get ready for
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this discussion with mark k take a listen we're joined now by mark k who's the host of the mark k show
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which you can find at 104.5 in jacksonville wkob and syndicated throughout the country mark i want to get to
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the book you wrote about christmas but before that just your reaction to kind of the news that uh that has
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rocked washington george santos being expelled the republican majority reduced your take well you know
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i always whenever something like this happens i run right to the congressional record and i look to see
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who voted which way because that's important i think a lot of people they forget that the reason
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these things happen is because their political leaders who they voted for and elected locally go up
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there and make these decisions and lo and behold there he was district five in florida john rutherford my
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very own representative voting to house george santos along with another you know couple of
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surprising names on the docket but i have the my reaction was a reaction that a lot of my audience
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members had and that is look we know the guy had some questionable behavior we know he maybe didn't
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run the best campaign and he maybe spent money on stuff he shouldn't have but he's not guilty of
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anything yet he hasn't been convicted of anything yet and isn't that the precedent that's been set
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in the house of representatives for expelling members that's what it was with traffic hands and everyone else
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so um yeah it seems like another win for the democrat party and another another self-inflicted
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loss for the republicans and that's got all of us scratching our heads yeah when we're not able to
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do the budgetary work that we need to do the border work that we need to do because we're short you know
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this vote i wonder how much moral self-preening some of my republican colleagues will do on this point
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you know one thing that really got me mark was that we had four members of congress
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who stood in the way of impeachment and accountability for mayorkas and then voted to
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expel santos that's a congresswoman virginia fox congressman ken buck congressman cliff
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bends and congressman duarte of california how do you square being a republican
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voting to expel santos but then frustrating the effort to impeach mayorkas you know it's interesting
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because we were chatting with your buddy uh congressman aaron bean the other day and i said
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to him doesn't anybody ever just run into the room and say look the democrats all vote together
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they don't like each other either but at least they hate us more can we do the same thing and he said
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yeah you know there's a lot of folks from from blue states there's a lot of you know you got these
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california republicans as you mentioned you got ken buck who's basically out the door he's just trying
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to i believe burn the place down on his way out so it's it's difficult from us outside looking in
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to think to ourselves constantly you've got red state democrats but they don't care what happens
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they always vote with the blue state democrats for whatever reason the blue state republicans many
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of whom you just mentioned they don't vote for the republicans and i guess they've just got their
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local media maybe they're maybe they're they're way too worried that they're going to get primaried
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because they don't have a strong enough you know gop backing them back home who knows the reason but
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the democrats have really put fear in all of those blue state congressmen on the republican side
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and it's working yeah red state or blue state i wouldn't want to have to make the case to my
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voters right that i was like hyper principled vis-a-vis santos but then not so much on my
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orcas uh i want to get this amazing great christmas uh book that uh that you wrote the untold story of
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christmas uh and and here we go i'm gonna get a good good shot of the cover oh look at that look at
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that beautiful thing so what what uh what do you think people need to know about christmas that they don't
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know well you know this is a uh this is the story that we started telling a couple years ago for a
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lot of people know that i slid into rush limbaugh's spot after he passed on all of our our uh our
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networks are all of our network radio stations and he every thanksgiving would tell the the true story
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of thanksgiving which is an important moment in our in our american society that has been totally
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bastardized and totally rewritten by the left they've tried to take the thanksgiving story and turn
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it from what it was a a turning point in american history into a a story of racist americans and so
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rush took the time every year to make sure that people know that knew the truth and you know people
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would call my show and they'd say look will you tell that story and i said absolutely not that was
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russia's story you can hear him on youtube or where else uh read that but at christmas time i did
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decide to start my own tradition by sharing one of my own stories and it's a story basically of the
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birth of jesus as seen though from the side of caesar augustus who a lot of people don't know
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is the guy who wanted to tax the citizens of rome and in doing so called a census because before you
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tax people you got to count them and that was what led mary and joseph uh out of judea into bethlehem
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where jesus was born and there's a real there's a real interesting foil between the life of caesar and
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the life of jesus and i've woven them together into what i think is a really truly inspirational
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story that's going to really help reinstill those christian values in your kids and your family and
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whoever you share it with and and we share it on our radio show every year and now because it's in
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printed form you can share it with your family whenever you want hey everyone knows you know
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julius caesar as the caesar but it was in fact caesar augustus who who built the great cathedrals and
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did so much to uh to bring rome to a point of uh of great splendor uh is it is it just that he didn't
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reach as tragic an end and so thus uh the tragedy draws our attention to that history more
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well you know it's interesting because caesar augustus the reason he wanted all of these
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cathedrals built and all of these altars and all of these golden marble statues in his image
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is because his own senate told him he was a god he thought he was a god he wanted to be revered and
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remembered as a god and that's why he needed the money that's why mary and joseph and everyone else
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in judea was getting taxed and in the end years later yes we know who caesar augustus is but it's not
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him it's the poor child the son of a carpenter born in a manger who is actually revered as a god who
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actually is remembered and who has cathedrals and marble statues and gold statues and altars
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built in his memory not by himself but by those of us who love him and worship him for years and
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years and years the book is the untold story of christmas the author is mark k the host of the
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mark k show my good friend and fellow florida man and mark as people understand better the intersection
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of what was going on from a faith standpoint from a messiah standpoint and then also this this i guess
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the true machinations of government right the census the taxing weaving those together how do you think
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that can enrich people's understanding of christmas you know it's really interesting that you bring that
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up because the more i study the bible the more i study history the more i just open up the you know
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go to the drudge report you see that these whole things it's happening over and over and over again the
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excessive taxing for things that the people don't actually need but that the uh that the elite
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want it's happening today in our very own society and the more you study what's going on in america
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and the world you'll notice hey that was happening back in the time of christ these these you know
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histories and these stories continue to repeat uh when you look at you know what happened with jesus and
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mary as parents the things that they faced are things that parents today are facing and of course the
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attacks on our morality too so when you look at the study of the messiah or the birth of jesus and
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the life and times you'll see that they always say those who don't study are doomed to repeat it and
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it seems like even today we are repeating that message these fake guys i mean joe biden claims to be
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a catholic but if you really understood what catholicism was you'd see that that's probably not
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the case so as i read the book and you know you you present these scenes and images of judea and
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samaria and this trip to bethlehem and you know my heart couldn't help but go to the people in israel
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now and what's happening in this great conflict what's your perspective on how all that ends you
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know it's really interesting because you bring up a fantastic point we're listening to the battles of
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the jews and the muslims jews and the muslims palestine and israel but what we're talking about
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is the place where jesus was born and where christianity was born and jews jerusalem until
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and all the you know from the river to the sea palestine will be free they're talking about a
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place that is of historical significance to christians as well and that gets lost in the
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shuffle the big difference there is that christianity is not it's not a government you know
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israel is a government and gaza is a government and hamas as well they're a terrorist organization
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pretending to be a government so in the mix of it all christians i think are torn between a place
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in this world that is holy to them as well and two governments that they are unfamiliar with and are
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kind of not bound to however when you look at who's right and who's wrong i think it's pretty
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clear one side is right and the other side is hamas so um i think you know from a christian standpoint
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it's pretty clear to see which side we should choose and anyone who chooses otherwise really should
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probably reflect on their on their christian morality and and you know maybe maybe do some
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soul searching right now we're at this real interesting time where the this concept of the
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separation of church and state is interfacing with new jurisprudence that we've gotten out of the trump
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supreme court there was that case where the high school football coach was punished because after the
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game they went to the 50 yard line and prayed and the the trump court overturned that said no you can't
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punish you know a coach for praying at the 50 yard line and i wonder what frontiers that opens up
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kind of in light of the themes in your book to say look you religion and government even from the
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beginning of the christian faith that there there is an intertwining there is a a causal relationship
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when government does certain things it has this this cascading effect on how faith evolves and
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develops and then certainly the founders of our country hoped that our faith would would inspire us
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to build a better government that had ever been built before how do you think we we strike this balance
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how should lawmakers and americans think about the way to have the best society in our country
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well you know i'm i'm very hands-off you know the united states of america small government is is the
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only good government there is so the less that there's interference i believe of course the better
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being here in the state of florida we all believe that school is for writing reading arithmetic you know
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all those other great the civics would be nice if we threw that back into our educational system
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and that everyone else can just you know live by the tenets of the uh of the first amendment freedom of
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religion freedom of speech the problem is when people get get offended either really offended or
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fake offended um at somebody else's beliefs and somebody else's religion and somebody else's
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practices i've been to tons of places where people have prayed and i never i just would look at them
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say oh that's nice and think nothing of it they believe one thing i've seen you know people from
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other religions who i don't understand what they're doing but i appreciate their right and their desire
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to do it uh if we can all get back to kind of minding our own business and realizing that the less
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government overreach we have the better i think that that's something that uh i think that that's
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something that could really instill some more of that religious freedom that doesn't overstep the
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separation of church and state although as you pointed out without the church we wouldn't have a
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state so yeah i i when you look at the obviously the founding of the country and this this hope that
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uh free exercise of religion not the establishment of a national religion but certainly you know a a nation
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built on judeo-christian values would be one that would be inclusive and accommodating uh to people
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of all faiths there are times i wonder whether or not we've really achieved that it's going to be
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interesting moving forward i'm really i'm really questioning this whole debate in the united states
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of america between israel and palestine or israel and hamas and i think what that shows is that there
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is a basic lack of understanding fundamentally the two faiths because really if you look at it
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what the people who are pro hamas the people that came into your office building and sat down in
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the vestibule and started screaming and had to be removed by the police uh what those folks are
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doing is they're attacking the jewish religion when really their qualm is with the jewish state the
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government the idf um and that's something that i think is is troubling whereas i notice a lot of
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the jewish citizens here in the united states and in israel they are attacking hamas they don't attack
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muslims per se they attack the organization that is that is put in place to govern um the muslim body
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in palestine and in gaza so they're able to separate and differentiate but when it comes to
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the jewish state in israel people just look at jews whether it's a religious sect or a government body
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or a group of individuals as the same thing and that's really troubling and that's where i think
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we're going to get into danger here in the united states it's such an essential distinction and
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as we come up on the christmas season you know uh the you can't help but notice that there's more
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and more an effort to try to uh have you know christmas light right yeah xmas yeah what what does
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it say about uh the commercialization of this faith-based holiday that uh that it's sort of moved away from
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some of these historical and uh and religious roots that uh that you write about in in the book
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well you know what we're starting to see uh kind of from a capitalist standpoint and i think we saw
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it with by bob eiger and his announcement that disney is going to drop the woke stuff because it just
00:30:41.240
doesn't sell anymore and they're going to get back to their basic tenet of of entertaining families
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as which in here here in florida was what we always thought they were doing all along um i think people
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are starting to realize that the very the minority this loud and vocal woke minority is destroying more
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companies than it is helping and before you had the lgbtq issue before you had the trans agenda before
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you had all that other stuff you had the anti-christian or the anti-christmas agenda and that is something
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that that permeates still today but my hope is as we see this parallel economy you see these places
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popping up rumble and newsmax where i host my show as you see you know public square and elon musk
00:31:19.760
who gets up on stage and tells the advertisers well we all know what he told the advertisers to do
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i think we're starting to see that the parallel economies are growing and that the christian
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conservative fundamental american economy has a big strong voice and that a lot of that christianity is
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going to be returning to christmas and that is another that is another concept that i hope i want
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people to know yes it's okay to celebrate christmas to say merry christmas and to read christmas stories
00:31:46.380
because no matter what you're celebrating this time of years i mean you can say happy holidays but the
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holiday that we're all talking about is christmas and there is uh i think a real virtue in understanding
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the history so that people can can lash that appreciation of christmas with with what went on
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and what created this remarkable moment in the entire human existence again the book is the untold story
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of christmas mark k is the author mark how do folks pick up the book it's available of course anywhere books are sold
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00:32:25.100
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well uh the best thing to do is just put mark k that's m-a-r-k-k-a-y-e into your search engine
00:32:41.720
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00:32:47.500
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00:32:51.800
has been a guest on my show and and we've had some fantastic moments and i can't wait to have you
00:32:55.900
back yeah i know this has been fun usually you're the one asking me the questions i know i've enjoyed
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this it's uh you know the the student gets to become the teacher for a little bit here and i
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i get to put the questions to you well hey thanks for joining me thanks for being a firebrand thanks
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for all you do to get the truth out to get history out and to celebrate our shared faith