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On this episode of the blendback program, we discuss the collapse of the Baltimore and Washington Bridge, the impact it will have on the East Coast of the United States, and the miracle of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Plus, a new theory on who might be behind all of the transportation accidents that have happened in recent years.
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today's show is uh i think quite good but what do i know i'm just the guy who did it
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who's in the radio hall of fame anyway we talk a little bit about the bridge uh and
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how that's just going to take america forever and uh i'd like just to remind you who we are
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plus stew has a theory on who might have actually been behind all of these transportation incidences
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now he's definitely not not saying pete buddha judge he's not not saying that and i just want
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you to know that he's not saying it and he's not not saying it so we have that also the proof of
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of the resurrection and the proof that jesus was a man who actually lived and walked the earth
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uh and uh and finally uh we have tristan hopper on who is a guy a reporter from uh canada
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who is still kind of mainstream up there you know you can't you can't even you have to say
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margaret thatcher she should have been burned at the stake to write anything in canada
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um he he's still writing so he must be good he's talking about um the the memo the internal memo
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that came in from the royal canadian mounted police which is like their fbi on the trouble
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that canada is in the coming few years it is remarkable what he said and important for you to
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i want to give you this this story that i read today the immediate upshot for americans on this
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bridge collapse if you're waiting for a new car to come in from overseas prepare to wait longer
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the port of baltimore stands as the nation's leading import export site for cars and light
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trucks it's also the leading nexus for sugar and gypsum which is used in fertilized fertilizer drywall
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and plaster a record 52.3 million tons of foreign cargo was transported through baltimore just last year
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the bustling port is cut off now after the 1.6 mile bridge crumbled and fell into the river early
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tuesday blocking the only shipping lane into the port the port is one of the busiest in the u.s and
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saw a record of 52. million tons of foreign cargo transported in 2023 the officials have said the
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timeline for rebuilding the bridge is quote years we're going to do everything we can to protect
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those jobs and help those workers the president said yesterday the port of baltimore creates more than
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15 300 jobs with 140 000 jobs linked to the activity at the port this is a major disaster and will continue
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will create significant problems on the east coast for u.s importers and exporters the bridge collapse
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will mean that for the time being it will not be possible to get to the container terminals or a range of
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the other port terminals in baltimore the maryland secretary transportation told the reporters
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tuesday that vessel traffic in and out of the port of baltimore would be suspended until further notice
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but noted the port is still open to trucks so we still have trucks going in as soon as we clear the
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bridge we can get vessels in but it's going to be a major hassle for over time for cars etc etc
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an expert on property damage cases in the shipping industry told the new york post that the collapse
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will have a major impact on shipping and traffic routes in the east coast for the foreseeable future
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it's not quote it's not going to get fixed anytime soon it's going to take a lot longer than anyone
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expects this is going to be a major problem for the northeast i'm sick of this i am absolutely sick
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to death of all of these stories that say things like that
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have we forgotten who we are have we forgotten what we've done
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let me just take you on a little journey here for the american spirit
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a spirit so potent and so vibrant that it has scaled towering mountains mountains nobody thought
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they could cross constructed marvels of engineering have you ever been to the hoover dam
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we erected buildings that scraped the sky the sky scraper was invented here
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here we are on the threshold of tomorrow none of us know what is happening tomorrow none of us
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but i'm getting the impression that we've been so beaten down that
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that that we believe we're not going to make it tomorrow can i just remind you of who we come from
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our history if you just look through it briefly you will see a group of people
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that never take no for an answer and can do anything
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i want to stop just briefly in 1930 the great depression had its icy grip on us
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it was a time like the where everybody felt the flickering candle
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that americans did great things the empire state building rose
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it wasn't just a structure of steel and stone but it was a beacon
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a beacon of hope and american resilience and ingenuity the way that thing was built nobody
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into a cowering reality the guy who was funding it knew this thing better come in under budget and
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we got to get it in here fast or this is just going to destroy all of us
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the empire state building wasn't constructed it was conjured into existence with a symphony of clanging
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metal and roaring machines and quite honestly the inexhaustible
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the men who were perched on the steel girders that were being flown in by giant cranes they sat there
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there whispered tales about how they could still feel the warmth of the freshly poured metal beneath them
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that beam was still warm even though it was poured in pittsburgh
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and then put on a train then put on a boat then put on a truck
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they could feel the warmth it was moving that fast it was
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for a long time it was the tallest building in the world
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it was also a declaration to the world that america was a land where the impossible became possible
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determination innovation a relentless will to succeed
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you know that's a little dusty history we why even look at that
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because they're not merely historical footnotes
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they are blazing torches illuminating our path forward they remind us or are supposed to remind us
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we don't wait for history to chart our course we write it with the sweat of our brow and the strength of our backs
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we find ourselves at another crossroads america
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faced with the challenges that threaten to dim the bright future that we all dream for
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the spirit that built the empire state building
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it laid down miles of railroads that cut through the rocky mountains that sent astronauts to the moon
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it's still inside of every heart of every american somewhere
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rock and earth scale the mountains of innovation and sustainability
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not just physical structures but a future that upholds the spirit of adventure
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stop tearing everything down and let's start building
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well we might have another president you know who's out there who could we
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if this isn't a national emergency i don't know what is and i don't mean the bridge i mean all of it
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really really does it maybe that's our problem america is led by its values and its principles
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that are found in the soul of those who still remember who we are and who we serve americans led the
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where are the bridge builders who will stand up today and say i'll get it done
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and who's stalling the government is the one that stalls the engine out
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to expect more from our leaders is rational but to expect the most from ourselves is essential
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we are the architects of our destiny we are the builders of our dreams
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there's a huge task that's right in front of us i still believe we can tackle that we can overcome anything
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the history of america is a tapestry woven with the threads of bold endeavors monumental achievements
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blood the blood spilled at the empire state building and every other path to greatness
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not look at us oh we're the best we're the best
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but because we understood we understand that in the pursuit of a better world action is not just an
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i often wonder and as i look to the horizon now in today's america is that a sunset or a sunrise
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if americans rise with the determination that carried our forebears through the trials and tribulations
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if we build with love and compassion and an unbreakable commitment to the spirit of daring
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adventure and hard work and ingenuity we restore ourselves and our country
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that are etched in every american heart somewhere
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you can do it you can become anything you can do anything that doesn't make it easy it doesn't mean you
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deserve it you can do it because it's hard and it's in doing the hard things that we find the best of
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ourselves that's why everything that's going on is not necessarily a curse it's an honor to serve at this
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time because we can find the best of ourself we can step forward into the dawn of a new day with our
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why eyes wide open to all of the problems of the past and the possibilities that are right in front of us
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but we have to resolve to make those possibilities our reality we are americans there is nothing we can't
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achieve when we all stand together united by our dreams and driven by the will to see them fulfilled
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don't listen to anybody else that tells you differently
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sometimes hindsight can be 20 20 and that's good because making mistakes and learning from them
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is the best way to grow but sometimes foresight is the way to go because it is better not to make
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i think this is the most important week of the year um religiously speaking uh and and speaking
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just as a human being we the problems that we face in america today and quite honestly the entire western
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world is a a lack of forgiveness a lack of grace and a lack of
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understanding the atonement suicide rates are up people think there's no need to live anymore
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that nothing is real they don't realize that they're not a human having a spiritual experience
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they're a spirit having a human experience that we are at this time here for a reason
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and no matter what you've done it doesn't matter it doesn't matter and you think i i can't at least i
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did so what made me drink an alcoholic i couldn't i couldn't live in the world that i had created
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it was so many things that i was ashamed of and everything else just piled on and it wasn't until
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i stopped drinking went to aa and did that but i still couldn't really let go of the past until i was
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baptized and when i was baptized i remember i said i was in the water pat actually baptized
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me and i i was in the water and in my head i was saying you promise you promise you cease to be
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god if you don't live up to your promise and that promise is live the way i ask you to live do the
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things i ask you to do to the best of your ability and i will take all of the things from the past away
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from you and i'm telling you my life changed overnight it's real a lot of people who even
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profess that it's real i don't know they don't act like it's real you know and i think it's something
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that you you have to practice put into practice every single day and be grateful for it is the
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greatest gift ever given and that's what we're supposed to celebrate on easter the resurrection
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but did that even happen there are people that claim jesus didn't even live
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well let's look at history is there proof that he lived is there proof that he died is there proof
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of the resurrection and i mean proof historical proof we happen to be friends with uh jeremiah
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johnson not the guy who well i don't think so jeremiah do you like liver and onions
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in another life maybe i'm i'm better looking than that jeremiah johnson
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right okay so that jeremiah johnson the one the mountain man he he's you know that happy little movie
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with robert redford kind of happy it didn't end that way in real life but anyway uh jeremiah johnson
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he is a phd author of body of proof he is christian thinkers society president preston
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went baptist church and an apologetics uh pastor and uh we wanted to have a huge fan of glenn beck
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on if i may say and a blaze subscriber by the way really are you really of course i've been for i'm
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an og subscriber and listen i love being on with you i appreciate your word i appreciate you speaking
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truth thank you thank you very much well that's really hurt your credibility with everybody else
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but i appreciate it so uh jeremiah we wanted to get you on because um there's a lot of unbelief today
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and it wasn't until i went to school for like 10 minutes um at yale and i took early christology
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and it was the historic proof of of christ and what it was through the history department and what
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times were like back then and it really opened up a whole new world so i'd love to talk to you about
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you know what this week was really like and what the evidence is that christ even lived right and then
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we'll get to the resurrection love it and what's fascinating about it is christianity unlike any
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other religion in the world glenn puts itself to a historical test make no mistake that archaeology
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evidence proved not checking your mind at the door these are christianity's closest cousins no other
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religion or ism is like that today or has been ever in an absolutely devastating passage in first
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corinthians 15 17 glenn saint paul tells us what's at stake about how important it is what we're
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discussing this week this holy week he said look if jesus didn't rise from the dead this is first
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corinthians 15 17 we're still in our sins we have no forgiveness as you were just talking about and
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two verses later paul says hey people should kind of feel sorry for us we should eat be merry for
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tomorrow we die let's just go be corinthians and live wild and crazy but he says and again this is
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an uncontested passage first corinthians 15 is one of the most respected historical documents and i'm
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talking about even those apostate secular skeptical professors that you probably had in new haven at
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yale i'm not saying they all are but some of them are i've been to the bineke this one wasn't but
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okay everybody else yeah even they accept first corinthians as a historical document and paul passes
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on what's called the kirgama he passes on the earliest tradition of the church that jesus lived he died
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according to the scriptures he was buried and he rose again on the third day according to the scriptures
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paul was a male chauvinist he hated christians didn't like women and he certainly didn't like
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you if you were a jew it was only because of experiencing jesus alive from the grave that his
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life is utterly transformed he's the earliest witness because remember paul's letters anti-date
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the gospels and so i don't check my brain at the door when i become a christian glenn i am a follower of
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jesus because on april 5th a.d 33 jesus walked out of that tomb alive from the dead that's the only
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reason i'm a christian you know i let's talk about paul for a second because he is fascinating to me
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he wasn't just a bad guy he was a really bad guy when when the crowd is surrounding the brother of jesus
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he says here you know basically you don't want to get blood on your your coat let me hold your
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coats right so he's holding their stuff so they don't get bloody while they beat this guy to death
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and stone him to death i mean that's an extra level that's almost to the the evil nazi kind of guy
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he was the original mafia mobster mob boss in jerusalem he gave approval to take out he gave
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approval to all the hitmen to take out christians he thought that he was protecting judaism that judaism
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was a coherent religion he didn't like this new jewish sect that welcomed salvation glenn as you
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said so vulnerably and so powerfully in your personal testimony to start this hour he didn't
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like the fact that the gospel this new message was for everyone after all he was trained in rabbinic
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judaism and glenn i don't know if you're aware in rabbinic judaism they would say things like better
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to burn the torah than teach it to a woman uh the jews had this this benediction they said thank you
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god that you didn't make me a gentile thank you god you didn't make me an ignoramus a moron in greek
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and thank you god you didn't make me a woman this is what's in the zeitgeist if you will the milieu of
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paul and the judaism he comes out of so what can we say for the audience because this has immediate
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consequences on everyone who's watching and listening today jesus christ not only lived his
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death is the best established fact of the ancient world glenn i often say if we can't believe that
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jesus was massacred on a roman cross don't bother believing in the roman empire because do you realize
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as a historian so i had the privilege to study in oxford for three years 2009 to 2012 where i defended my
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thesis 93 000 word glenn uber lieferongs geschisha resurrection 11 languages and my doctoral thesis
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i looked at it i heard all the arguments against the resurrection which we should definitely dive into
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here's the key though yes jesus came out of that tomb alive and it utterly transformed the world which
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is one of my body of proofs from my book it's the only convincing evidence for me it's the only convincing
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explanation for the historical fact that everywhere this gospel message goes and society embraces it
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culture is dramatically improved and made better this same paul who is an og gangster in jerusalem
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sees jesus glenn and he gives us a passage he says there's neither jew nor gentile nor their slave nor
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free neither male nor female we're all one in christ jesus and that one verse changes the world
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yeah revolutionary i think he's my favorite character in the the bible uh paul he's he's just
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if we knew how to argue like paul if we knew how to live like paul in many cases um we would be just
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an outrageously great uh group of people um tell me why is he why is he on the road to damascus he's on
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the road to damascus because he wants to get even more approval he wants to take his pogroms against
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christian and he wants them to go national he is going to get approval to continue to kill christians
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so he is on the hit run literally he's going to take what he's doing the persecutions in jerusalem
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he wants to pass those into damascus and beyond he wants a systematic extermination of the way
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that's how christianity was first uh referred to in its earliest historical documents and so
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what we can say though glenn and this is what skeptics who are listening and i get it man
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i wake up a skeptic every morning and i have to wrap myself back in the truth of god's word and
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the truth of the evidence of scripture what we can say as a historian not as a matter of faith but as
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a matter of fact jesus christ the documents say appeared to those who loved him and followed him
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he also appeared to those who were indifferent to him and make no mistake as we'll dive into he
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appeared to those who are out and out hostile against him you are listening to the best of glenn back
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to listen to the rest of this interview check out the full show podcast the whole of government
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five-year trends 2023 it was a report that was forecasting uh exercise based on uh based on
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a review of open source articles and reports spokesperson uh has said it was undertaken to provide federal
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policing managers with insight into anticipated changes in canada's political economic social
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technological environmental and legal circumstances aiding in safeguarding canada
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tristan hopper is a reporter and columnist for the national post uh and he is he is all on top
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of this uh and can tell us the meaning behind it uh if if anything significant tristan welcome to the
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program uh thank you i didn't break the story i shamelessly stole the idea from someone else but i think
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i wrote it better it's okay you well well you're the story that i found and so you know that's the
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same um to me listen uh steal from me you've stolen twice the thing i that i want to know is when i read
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the story um it it talked about how hopelessness is going to be uh a part of canadian's life in the
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coming years and that yeah people aren't prepared why i wrote about it so the fact that the report
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exists isn't surprising i mean the job of the police correct at least at federal level i mean
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the rcmp i mean they do street level policing but they also sort of function of canada's fbi so think
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of this as an fbi report um saying oh here's what the next five years are going to look like
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so yeah police should be sitting around saying well that's gonna what's gonna bite us in the butt in
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the next five years so i guess what was interesting was if you have a security analyst who's only
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worrying about security they're going to look at canada and say oh yeah most of your young people
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can't afford houses that's not good uh you know that that could be a real problem uh in the future
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um so this is sort of one of the first times i've seen acknowledged uh within an organ of the canadian
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federal government saying oh yeah things are not good they haven't been good for a while and
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they're set to get worse so obviously um if you ask the political the trudeau governments um
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government of prime minister justin trudeau they're going to say no no don't worry you
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things are going to turn around but uh i mean according to the professionals within our security
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state they're saying uh no no we we see none of this getting better and when you have increasing
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numbers of young people who have no prospects of obtaining the life that their parents lived um
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you know it's fine now but that can quickly devolve into something very ugly yeah this is
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let me just quote you the warning the federal government received that canada may descend into
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civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation the coming period quoting
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the report the coming period of recession will accelerate the decline in living standards that the
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younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations yeah for example many canadians
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under 35 they gotta just say for many canadians under 35 they are unlikely ever to be able to buy
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a place to live ever right and i should point out this is sort of a for a u.s audience this is sort
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of a preview of coming attractions so in affordability oh yeah and just general uh life standards canada is
00:32:17.120
sort of ahead of the curve on those being worse so our per capita gdp has been while the us has
00:32:23.280
actually been pretty good the last 10 years ours has been steadily trending downwards and then affordability
00:32:28.880
um i know houses are expensive um as for americans but in our major centers um if you earn anything
00:32:36.400
close to a normal income so in toronto vancouver even in some sort of secondary cities like edmonton or
00:32:41.920
calgary um yeah there are no circumstances whatsoever under which you can afford even a basic home
00:32:49.200
um so and that's really accelerated over the last 10 years so yeah you have a lot of people who have
00:32:54.560
good jobs their wife has a good job um they've saved their money and yeah real estate's gone up a thousand
00:33:01.120
percent so there's there's no way they can envision a future where they're not renting for the rest of their lives
00:33:07.120
and it's it's not just that here in america i mean uh i think it was state farm just said that
00:33:13.920
to californians we're out um we're not going to we're going to cut i think it was 70 maybe 70 000
00:33:21.680
customers um because they said they just you know that they've raised it up 80 percent for the people
00:33:28.960
they did keep and then just cut a bunch of other people because they said they can't afford to replace
00:33:34.080
the homes in in california i mean you can't take an 80 percent increase on home insurance a 30 percent
00:33:43.360
rise in electricity costs uh you know a 30 percent rise in in in uh water and then a 25 percent rise in
00:33:51.600
groceries and expect this to last it just can't that that's exactly right so yeah that that has been
00:33:58.320
happening um for quite some time and it's been so one one trend that is showing up in canada that
00:34:03.840
maybe is a bit different than the u.s is that according to poll numbers our population is getting
00:34:09.040
really conservative um particularly our young people so probably for the first time in my lifetime
00:34:15.600
and one of the first times you know in any western democracy um we are having a plurality of young
00:34:21.680
people actually favoring the conservative party of canada and you're seeing all of these demographics
00:34:26.000
never thought about voting conservative in their entire life um you know women or urban uh you
00:34:33.120
know i mentioned young people who are saying oh yeah yeah 55 percent i'm voting conservative next
00:34:37.360
election so there's never been anything like it so is that both men and women uh when it comes to
00:34:44.400
uh the youth because we're seeing that our women are going our young women are going uh just full on
00:34:52.960
woke leftist and the boys and the men young men are going hard conservative that was initially so
00:35:01.600
this time last year that was what the trend was showing this was showing uh young men were going
00:35:06.080
yeah real conservative but however uh that sort of changed so i wrote about that a couple months ago
00:35:10.960
i was saying you know women initially weren't on with this sort of what we would call the blue wave
00:35:15.280
the colors are swapped but you know there's blue wave happening um in canada but uh you can only sort
00:35:21.600
of hold out those options for so long until you realize oh i i pay three thousand dollars a month
00:35:27.600
for a 700 square foot apartment and my car has been stolen three times this month so um yeah i guess
00:35:33.120
people are being mugged by reality at a lightning face so one of the things that's in this report
00:35:39.600
um it says the trends in both canada and abroad um will have a significant effect on the canadian
00:35:46.080
government and rmc uh rcmp um canadians uh are becoming increasingly disillusioned with their
00:35:55.520
government which authors mostly chalk up to misinformation conspiracy theories and paranoia
00:36:03.200
law enforcement should expect continuing social and political polarization fueled by the misinformation
00:36:09.040
campaigns and an increasing mistrust for all democratic institutions this is terrifying to me
00:36:15.440
because they're they don't even recognize that the trust that we have all had for our institutions
00:36:23.520
has been eroding for a long time because they continue to lie to us and they're on a different
00:36:29.120
path than the people are uh yeah so this did stand out to me basically whenever i see the word
00:36:37.040
misinformation or disinformation it's usually front loading a whole bunch of stuff that's not true
00:36:42.400
um so yeah yeah to see this in the report i guess the ironic part that i took out of the report
00:36:48.160
um if you can find it funny is that yeah a lot of the section where they're getting into you know
00:36:52.640
paranoid populism and conspiracy theories so this is not a report that was supposed to be made public
00:36:56.800
i got it thanks to right uh matt malone he's a professor out of thompson rivers university he just
00:37:01.200
filed access information to get secret government reports and just release them and see what happens
00:37:07.440
um so in this section we're saying oh people don't trust the government anymore and conspiracy
00:37:12.080
theories most of that is blacked out um so yeah there's a section titled paranoid populism and it's
00:37:18.000
saying oh people are paranoid and popular i don't know why black out there so and then this whole
00:37:22.960
section is blacked out so there is one giant uh security risk um that takes up several pages that's
00:37:29.200
sort of the one they lead with that whole thing is blacked out so who knows what that i'm gonna guess
00:37:33.440
it's something we don't even know what that one is yes so wow we we've just got people are broke
00:37:42.080
and then it gets into um most of the country is catching fire every summer um you know commodity
00:37:48.080
risk so you know it's it's it's harder to get reliable all the all the sort of normal things but the
00:37:54.880
thing that is unusual is a government agency saying everybody's broke and that's usually makes for angry
00:38:00.240
people this is a i mean i just find it a little terrifying what what is the they mentioned the
00:38:07.360
increasing pressure to cede arctic territory is that to china or russia language yeah so we our military
00:38:15.440
is not in great shape lately and we have a lot of territory that isn't very strong we don't i mean
00:38:22.480
you the americans you got a fair amount of stuff up in alaska i wouldn't screw with anyone in alaska but
00:38:27.440
we don't even have any sort of permanent military bases up in the arctic so that kind of language
00:38:32.480
usually we use the word arctic sovereignty like which we're worried about russia or denmark or
00:38:37.840
or someone taking right you're putting that case that's the most dire language i've ever heard in an
00:38:43.040
arctic uh a government report saying oh yeah pressure to cede territory like we've seen but from
00:38:49.280
who they could take our stuff what are we going to do so is it russia are they specifically because
00:38:56.960
i have not heard that from any i mean i know that russia has subs up there and they're trying to you
00:39:02.160
know claim that they own it um but is that what they're talking about or is there additional stuff
00:39:08.560
usually i mean as as you sort of lose ice up there there's a whole bunch of you know there's oil
00:39:13.600
there's shipping routes it's becoming valuable um right so this is something i used to work i
00:39:18.480
used to work in the north i used to work at a magazine about 20 years ago so this was a big
00:39:22.080
deal back then saying you know as soon as this it was easy when it was just all frozen and sir john
00:39:26.880
franklin's corpse you didn't have to worry about anybody taking it um but yeah um we haven't really
00:39:32.960
increased um our military capacity in the north so as there's interesting stuff up there who knows you
00:39:38.960
could get china russia just move in and say oh we're taking this island it's uh nobody's using it
00:39:44.720
um there's very little we can do about that can i ask you tristan being a canadian and yet you're so
00:39:51.840
close to uh america i think you're up in bc are you most of us are most of us are along the border
00:39:58.880
okay all right so um you know you're close to you're close to america you understand what's happening
00:40:04.080
here i i contend that it is a game that is being played making us hate the other party it's oh it's
00:40:12.160
the republicans versus the democrats no it's really not in every country in the west that i have seen
00:40:18.720
it is these marches are the little people marching against the elites saying what are you doing
00:40:27.440
why are you doing this this is killing us um is it the same in canada and do you have
00:40:34.480
is anybody waking up to it's not just justin trudeau it's it's all of them it's the elites
00:40:41.920
that are taking us down this this really bizarre path and denying everything that they're doing
00:40:49.280
until they then come out and say yeah we did that what what's the problem yeah yeah i'd say it's part
00:40:55.280
of the sort of political uh realignments i mentioned um it's i'm definitely seeing it i mean i'm speaking
00:41:01.280
you from the capital british columbia basically just north of seattle it's easily the most left-wing
00:41:06.480
part of the country and i work for a center-right newspaper so whenever some lefty here has some
00:41:11.600
like dark right-wing thought in the middle of the night they usually call me and that's been happening
00:41:15.440
a lot lately so there's an awful lot of people who have voted um for progressive parties their
00:41:21.200
entire lives and then something just hits them um they'll see why did this guy get bail after you know
00:41:27.360
he keeps killing people when he's out of jail or how come my bike keeps getting stolen so there's a
00:41:31.840
whole bunch of that happening um and at a way more accelerated pace than i'm seeing in the u.s i'm
00:41:37.920
seeing the u.s is still quite entrenched um there's sort of a partisan divide but there's definitely a
00:41:43.680
wave happening uh we are seeing people flooding to the conservative party of canada in rates unseen i
00:41:50.640
would say almost since the 1950s that's incredible and i will tell you i think that's why one of the
00:41:57.840
big reasons why the democrats wanted donald trump to be the candidate because if we can just keep
00:42:04.400
arguing about donald trump and his tweets and everything else then we don't pay attention to
00:42:10.000
wait a minute there's something else going on here uh tristan thank you so much and i appreciate it
00:42:15.360
i'd love to stay in touch with you god bless thank you tristan hopper from uh from canada on a
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what i find a disturbing report from the royal um canadian mountain mounted police