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In today's show, we have a special guest on the show, a man who I had scheduled months before, but had no idea what to expect. We discuss the crisis in the stock market, and what the Fed is doing about it.
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okay so stew how would you describe today's podcast um do you ever go on like a really
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those things where you want to die or vomit the whole time but then you get off and you're like
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i want to do that again rigs most of that yes i agree with there's a bit of it i won't i don't
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if i which part today's podcast is a great a lot of things uh that we put together that i just don't
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think you're going to hear anyplace else and then a solution and in fact it is the only solution um
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that i can guarantee will work and in fact on yesterday's podcast i think i said four or five
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times that there is something you must do or you will not survive and lo and behold uh this guy
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so there are some real answers on today's show in uh in hour number two and hour number three this
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is hour number one if you happen to be uh uh listening in in the uh normal order uh thank you
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so much for joining us i want to give you a roadmap today uh and the roadmap is just a i'm just going to
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drop a pin on where we are today and where we're headed just told you about the slippery slope and the
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things that are happening to your family and what the doj is doing about it which is uh worse than
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nothing now let me talk to you a little bit about something that came up over the weekend and i have been
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trying to figure it out and talking to some experts it took me a couple of days to get get to a place
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to where i could really explain it to you uh one of the things that's happening in the market is you've
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got two big banks deutsche bank and uh credit suisse that are about to default or at least it looks like
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it let me take you back in history back in march 2020 right at the dawn of the covid 19 panic
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some interesting things happened on wall street march 9th the dow jones industrial average lost
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2 000 points that's more than a 10 crash in a single day at the time it was one of the largest single
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day declines in the u.s history of uh of stocks more than 1.8 trillion dollars was wiped out from the
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u.s pensions and retirement funds in a single day march 10th the very next day the federal reserve
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began making emergency loans to what were considered to be systematically important banks that is banks
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that are just too big to fail now it's important to remember that we didn't learn about these emergency
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loans made during march of 2020 just as the who and the cdc were declaring a pandemic we didn't
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learn about those loans until two years later because the fed isn't they're no longer required
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to tell you who they're making loans to or for how much until two full years after it makes the loans
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so they say that's not to make sure that nobody is panicking well investors if they knew in real time
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these banks needed cash it would cause a run on the banks so for example on march 9th the dow lost
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2 000 points and more than 10 of its value so on march 10th and we know this now because two years
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have passed the u.s federal reserve made 112 billion dollars in emergency loans to 24 banks
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stocks rebounded slightly but then the first deaths started being reported from covid at retirement homes
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trump canceled the international travel and within a couple of days stocks were down another 1500 points
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shedding 4 trillion dollars in wealth from the portfolios of americans in just a couple of days
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for its part the fed continue lending distributing a total of 1 trillion dollars
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1 trillion dollars in emergency loans to banks in just a six-day period remember
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this is two weeks into the pandemic well before businesses were shut down at this point
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all that had really happened to the economy was that stocks you know the forward-looking investment
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vehicle were declining but this was enough for the fed to print 1 trillion dollars in new currency and
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loan it out to the banks considered too big to fail not just our banks no no not just the u.s banks
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some of the largest borrowers in the past 20 years from emergency loans from our federal reserve
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have been foreign banks and investment firms uh nomura securities out of japan bnc paribus the french bank
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barclays bank out of the uk all of these are the largest borrowers from the fed so was the largest swiss bank
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credit suisse the largest swiss bank credit suisse were they on that list oh yeah
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just in six days from march 10th to march 16th 2020 credit suisse requested and was granted 50
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billion dollars in emergency loans more than 7 percent of the total that the fed had loaned to 24 banks
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but that was covid right now it may seem odd that the central bank of the united states
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needed to loan the largest swiss bank 50 billion dollars in just a few days don't they have their
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own central bank but let's just chalk it up to yet another covid emergency we had to do something
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we had to bail out the largest banks in japan switzerland uk france i mean it was a pandemic
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so now fast forward to 2022 all those banks got their covid bailout in january 2022 the dow jones
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industrial average hit a new all-time high so clearly the bailouts worked and the banks made all
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this money the banks were able to recover and get past the pandemic right i mean those trillions in
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loans to banks skyrocketed inflation and uh you know added to the currency circulation and inflation
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is defined by you know too much currency too much money chasing too few goods but we saved the banks
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right we restored the stock market and set ourselves out to a record record uh recovery
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well yesterday credit suisse flagged as the too big to fail bank by the u.s federal reserve
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their stock hit an all-time low they shed more than 65 percent of its value losing 20 percent of its value
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in one day worse investors are effectively betting now that credit suite swiss uh the credits suisse will
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go belly up next year we know this because of i hate to bring this word up credit default swaps
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i'm not going to get you know i'm not going to get all big short on you but this is when you have the bonds
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and you think uh-oh i think we might lose the bank might go out i buy an insurance policy
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okay credit default and i swap i swap what i'm holding i give it to you and i get the insurance
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money okay credit default swaps it's a way to bet on the down it's horrible but now 30 percent it went up
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these the price to insurance to insure went up 25 percent yesterday yesterday 30 percent of people
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are now betting that credit suisse is going to collapse so what's going on why would it collapse
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again i'm not going to go into all of this stuff i just need you to understand the big points and you
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will understand this this will take your breath away again remember we all talked about credit default
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swaps and derivatives oh derivatives oh that's horrible
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without getting into all of that remember when we said that the global deliver derivatives market
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after 2008 started going back up again and it surpassed what happened in 2008 and the global
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derivatives market was about a hundred trillion dollars and we're like a hundred trillion dollars
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that's horrible and we raised the alarm they haven't learned anything in fact it's gotten worse
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then it rose to 500 trillion dollars just a couple of years ago and we raised the alarm again
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any idea where the derivatives market is right now after two years of pandemic two years of biden
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inflation and after stocks have lost 20 percent of their value since january where's the derivative
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market one quadrillion dollars no way out one quadrillion that's one thousand trillion dollars
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that's what's held by the 24 largest banks in the world one thousand trillion dollars you haven't even
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begun to feel the pain of what these people have done derivatives have been around since the 1920s
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but we have gone insane now last year when a private wealth fund defaulted it cost the global banks
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more than 11 billion dollars in derivatives losses more than 5 billion was absorbed by credit suisse bank
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that's nearly half the global losses of one firm that just had 11 billion we're we have one quadrillion
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i could easily say it's a you know german bank or a swiss bank and it's not my problem
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but it is your problem because it is your dollar your currency provided by your federal reserve
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why are there not people standing in front of the federal reserve demanding answers and holding signs up
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you think it's all government spending collectively since the fed started emergency lending operations in september of 2019
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and note for you conspiracy theorists out there september of 2019 was five full months
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before there was a single positive covid case in the u.s and we were talking about it in september of 2019
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the foreign banks have collectively borrowed six trillion dollars from the federal reserve
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if the federal reserve decides to lend credit suisse another 500 billion dollars today or tomorrow
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because under dodd frank you know the one that was going to fix everything
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so if we are bailing out germany and switzerland today
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make sure you tune in to this show on october 4th 2024
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good this is glenn yes you're on how are you sir
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i'm good i'm good thanks for having me on glenn you bet where are you right now
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i am down in the in the woodland texas okay good good good you're home
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uh over in ukraine and i said what are you seeing
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and you said well i'm not seeing really any significant american relief
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and i'm not no and that was the same on this trip glenn and it's really
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it's it's not only sad and unfortunate it's uh it it needs to be addressed i
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mean uh there is no congressional oversight on this money
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this money is going into a black hole and uh in any country in the world it
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people are people and uh governments are corrupt and that's going to end up
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where it shouldn't and the money's not ending up where it's going it's u.s
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taxpayers dollars millions of dollars and not only that the the it's it's
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being sent because it's needed it's needed to save lives and uh and and
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restore humanity and it's not being used for that
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so do you think that's us or do you think that's them or a combination of the
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people like why are you over in ukraine helping ukraine's a corrupt country i'm
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like well you know what else is corrupt washington dc uh and and uh you know
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certainly uh ukraine has had a history of corruption uh uh and uh it's been a
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hotbed of money laundering and things like that but so is washington dc and
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and uh the fact that this money is not being audited or accounted for or or or uh
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you know has any kind of oversight uh just leaves room for corruption both in
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ukraine and washington dc and uh and i don't think it's i think this would
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not be difficult at all we have the embassy back in ukraine now it would not be
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difficult to have correct congressional oversight over these funds and make
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sure they go to the right place uh it's needed the month i do believe the
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money is needed there i know there's not everyone agrees with that but you know
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we have i believe we should be supporting these people not in the in the realm of
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the money that we are giving them i think that was too big of a blank check
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and uh you know a lot can be done with a lot less money
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it actually has to get to where it belongs and uh and you know i i just as
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mighty oaks and you know mercury one you guys helped us help us financially
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glenn and and we just brought twenty thousand dollars in medical supplies to a
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special operations on the front line when i say medical supplies
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ifax individual first aid kits to go in as troops because they don't have them
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and they're like please give us anything so not only did we bring twenty
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thousand dollars worth of ifax to give this special forces unit
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but we brought a er trial doctor who trains army special forces medics we brought
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and that's something that we did we did that trip for maybe it cost us
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you know and that would they were so thankful for that they were like that's
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life-saving training that we were able to give them
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and uh meanwhile you know billions of dollars isn't reaching them why can't
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you know those billions of dollars go to things like that
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yeah because it's going through government um and uh and dirty hands uh every step of
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we for u.s service members we've done over you know over 400 000 active duty
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u.s service members with our spiritual resiliency program
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and in 2016 we decided to bring this to our allied troops around the world
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we went to ukraine before in 2017 and 2018 to do this
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and we go there a typical day will be we'll give them some classes that are
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non-lethal aid like bailout procedures for the personal safety medical classes
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we'll give them resources and supplies and then we'll give them resources that are
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spiritual we have we give out the audio bible sticks to them
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and some other uh resources to help work on their mental and spiritual health
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and at the end of the day once we build that rapport with them all day
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we're able to talk to them veteran to veteran combat veteran to combat veteran
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peer to peer about spiritual resiliency and mental resiliency
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that way they could stay in the fight to protect their homes and their families and
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and uh their freedom and uh you know we we know from our experience
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as war fighters and you know that's 20 years of war that we just went through
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that there's a lot of things you can have on the battlefield but nothing's more
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essential than having a strong spiritual foundation
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uh and and uh we were able to share the gospel of christ you know with these guys
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um chad tell me about the the war crimes uh that you witnessed
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you know i've been seeing this since february since we've been gone there glenn
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but nothing worse than the last few trips uh because i'm getting further i'm getting
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more into the front lines i just was in a zoom i was two hours east of the zoom which
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is pretty much russia and uh and that had been occupied for six months and uh and some of the
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areas we saw and i'll get to the mass graves but one of the things that i think is important to know
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is every i'm not exaggerating i say this every home every hospital every school every structure
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the it's almost it's almost impressive as as somebody that's been in combat impressive to say
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they hit every single structure uh and these aren't military targets these civilians
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by the way we're showing some videos on uh blaze tv right now some of them are graphic so uh look away
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but i've seen these um earlier uh and the apartment buildings yeah the the apartment buildings there
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i mean what you're saying is is true there's really nothing left nothing it's it's all rubble
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and you say that's different than than usual in in wars like this absolutely i mean you i mean
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i mean even the taliban is in this rule i mean the taliban attack civilians that you know it's
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terrorism they want to they want to intimidate people but this is an intimidation this is i mean
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you're talking like those some of those buildings in the videos you've seen look like two buildings
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it's one building it's a five-story building blown out to the ground and this was women and children
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and civilians living in it and this wasn't one that was accidental this is every apartment building
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in the area had airdropped airdropped missile right into the roof of that apartment building
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that blew it to the ground and killed thousands of civilians and this isn't being reported i'm happy
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you're allowing me to to give this news right now but it's not being reported and uh and then you
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know you so this is again this is not this is not a collateral damage this is not uh you know
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indiscriminate fire this is direct targeting of civilian uh complexes and in civilians which is a
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war crime and you know in in the international courts uh the icc the international criminal court
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in the un uh needs to be stepping in because this is not should never be allowed uh regardless of
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ukraine russia political sides like who none of that this would never be allowed in this point of
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our civilization to attack civilians this way and you know after we spent the day i spent i was with a
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uh the chief vadim who's the chief of the entire uh law enforcement for all of ukraine though he'd
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be like over essentially over like the fbi uh cia every everything for all of ukraine and he was sent
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there by the government to make sure they secured a zoom after they recaptured it so we were with him
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as i drove to meet him uh myself and my partner driving in this in this combat area to meet him and
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two mig fighters flew over they did a gun run drop bombs over i've been a lot of war zones i've never had
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air strut air enemy air over us i mean we always controlled the air so that was kind of a
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pretty crazy uh scenario for me we had a hind helicopter fly by we get to the front where we're
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with them while they're fighting there's we're getting shelled and rocketed within 100 meters of
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us and the small arms fire and uh you've probably seen some of the videos i sent with you know we
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probably counted about i probably counted about 60 russian soldiers they were like 18 19 20 years old
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uh it's sad to know that many of them probably don't even know why they were there and uh they
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were dead or dying and one of the things i did see the ukrainians as we're moving forward and they
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were they were dying russian soldiers they were rendering aid and uh and that shows who's the good
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guys because these guys are rendering aid meanwhile these russians had occupied their homes and killed
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their family members for six months and the ukrainians are still rendering aid i thought that was that
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really stood out to me who's in the right side i want to play a clip uh from you out on the field
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where you're talking about mass graves here it is this area is uh 1,200 uh people were missing from
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this area they found uh 1,100 bodies uh in this area and they were burned uh before the buried so try you
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could tell they tried to destroy the evidence of the mass killings most of the people were their
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hands were tied uh some in front their backs and behind their backs um in executed style so we're
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not just talking about ballistic missiles and and shelling uh which we've seen i've seen uh firsthand
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driving through cities that are just leveled to rubble uh civilian targets civilian neighborhoods
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uh but we're talking beyond that just uh with indirect fire and and uh uh this is not uh
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uh indiscriminate fire because you know we drove through areas and me and my teammate are driving
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through like they strategically hit every structure every house every building every school every hospital
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uh but now beyond that they're once they take these areas they're bringing these civilians out here
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in the woods tying their hands behind their back uh and executing them burning their bodies
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to hide the evidence putting them in mass graves you saw these people with their hands tied behind
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their backs and the you saw this yourself i saw it myself when yeah and uh and you know uh there
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were there were two mass graves that we were brought to one was 474 people they counted specifically to
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others estimated about 1,100 people and mostly all all civilians mostly because most of the men would
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have been out fighting most of them were women a lot of children and it appeared it appeared what
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they were using the graves for when i say 1,100 people i don't think they killed 1,100 people one
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time but i think over six months they did was you know as they arrested people they brought them there
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um you know probably bound and handcuffed and then and then would kill them on that side just push
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them in as a place of disposal that's that would be my i don't have evidence of that but it'd be my
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interpretation of from what i saw it happen and then as ukraine came in and tried and was retaking
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that area and it appeared they tried to burn the bodies to maybe hide the evidence but you know
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burning bodies it's harder than it sounds you gotta use a lot of fuel and and so then they tried to
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bury it and then they they vacated the area they when i say they vacated they must have left in a hurry
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because they left 74 tanks in this area chad what so what do we what do we do
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you know this to me glenn this is a this only gets worse either it russia's losing uh so i think
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putin has to show strength so i think the only scenarios is that he's going to escalate and do
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something uh radical even more radical than this uh or you know you have the other scenarios you have
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uh zawinski who can't because zawinski in the eyes of ukraine they're winning and and as they're
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winning you can't he's not going to go to negotiation table so it would also require
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putin to do something that would force him the negotiation table but i think what what we could
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do as a world and i don't mean as america but as the world is is nato needs to accept ukraine
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in uh in the nato or and or the u.n and the international criminal court needs to recognize
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these war crimes and these uh human rights violations and hold hold putin accountable and uh that's
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what the u.n's for that's what that's what the international criminal court is for uh for these
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exact scenarios but we're not seeing them take action so what we could do uh you and i is exactly
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what we're doing right now uh is is exposing this um i i believe if i would have not leaked this
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information to fox if they would have if i would have reported it right to uh you know united states
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government or it would have been swept away because they don't want it to be known because if it's
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known then they have to do something about it and uh so we need to you know make sure that
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there's reporting from the front lines uh you know unfortunately journalists can't make it to
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these a lot of these areas because it's it's so volatile and and uh i get that but the reporting
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needs to be needs to be what it needs to be exposed and uh and you know our government needs to be
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held accountable for these billions of dollars so that ukraine could if we are going to give if
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our government's going to decide to give this money then it needs to go where it belongs again i think
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you and i both agree that this much money is makes the problem worse uh but um you know if we are
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going to give it then give it and have good oversight uh if if we're going to have international
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criminal court system then then use it for times like this the un this is what it's for this is what
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the un's for and uh you know i also believe nato at this point nato should accept ukraine and by the
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way in the last i think just a couple of days ago president zawinsky uh applied again for um for ukraine to
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be accepted into nato chad uh thank you so much for doing everything that you do i i know your heart
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is in the right place i know who you serve uh and um i can't imagine what this does for somebody who
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went through ptsd to be over there again and seeing these things uh so i appreciate your service
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um to him and to us so thank you so much chad thank you again god bless and thanks for all your
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support too uh we couldn't do it without you you got it the mighty oaks foundation he's the founder
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and ceo co-founder of save our allies uh you can follow him uh at save our allies or save our allies
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dot org you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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max lucado is with us now max how are you it's great to see you glenn it's good to see you thank
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you um max says he's a guy who writes books for people who uh don't read books um and those people
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um uh read a lot of his books 96 million copies of his books are in print 56 languages worldwide
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um he had just started a new podcast with a global pandemic he started a video uh check in a daily
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video check-in more than uh that that check-in is more than 42 million times people have checked in
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with it and he now has his encouraging word podcast which is one of the top podcasts in religion and
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self-help um and he's here because he has a new book called help is here max and i were just talking
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off the air and i want you to know as a listener um i think what max is going to outline
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is um vitally important i don't believe in coincidence i have told you for a very long time
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that there's going to come a time when you're going to be you're going to need the spirit so close and
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you listen to the spirit so closely that when it says stop turn around you will stop turn around and go
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the other way i've said that for 15 years yesterday i told you that time is here yesterday i
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think four times on the show which is an unusual number for me unless i really want to make sure
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people hear it uh yesterday i said you will not survive you will not survive what is coming
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without the constant companion of the holy spirit that's unusual for a public broadcaster to say
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but i know it to be true something i didn't know yesterday because we booked this maybe a month or
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two ago that max was coming and i knew he was coming with a book and as i'm doing my show prep
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i realize what the book is about help is here finding fresh strength and purpose in the power
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of the holy spirit welcome max i think you're supposed to be here today i'm just so excited
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glenn uh number one i'm always excited to see you i admire you hold you in highest esteem and deeply
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deeply appreciate you thank you i think you're such a crucial voice in our society and thank you for
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not giving up and for not throwing in the towel nope nope that ain't gonna happen it's not gonna happen
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yeah so thank you yeah thank you and i'm just happy to be here to see you and and to discuss the
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the power and the presence of the holy spirit so it's weird because as you said you didn't say god
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you didn't say jesus you said the holy spirit define what the holy spirit is yeah well the holy spirit is
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the living presence of god on our planet today the holy spirit uh executes the will of god just as
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jesus did when jesus was on the earth and just as god the father does uh primarily but prior to christ
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and then christ executed that will and now the holy spirit is executing that will it's not quite
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that tidy you know there's always overlap that our little minds cannot conceive of but but it also
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it verifies truth yes yes and the holy spirit will lead us into all truth that was the promise of christ
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the holy spirit is here to strengthen us to convict us to challenge us to comfort us to heal us and i
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think where you and i align so closely is that as we look back especially over the last two or three hundred
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years uh of of the world history and then the 300 years of our nation's history there have been
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seasons in which we desperately needed societal renewal and those seasons came glenn as a result of an
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outpouring of the holy spirit not as a result of a new policy a new president or a different change
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of leadership but there was a sovereign even a church even a church absolutely or not pastors yeah
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but there was a supernatural we'd look at the first great awakening the second great awakening even the
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jesus movement correct that we recall from the late 60s or mid 60s into the early 70s there are these
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occasions in which god in his sovereignty says i'm going to rescue my people and it's always right
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in the midst of or toward the end of a time of of desperation and i think that's what you're saying
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we're desperate in need of a help so when i say because it's definitely a prompting um
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you don't survive without it and i've described it this way for 15 years maybe 20 years
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described to somebody who's not all familiar with this what does that mean
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when you say you don't survive without him you are spot on and and just just quickly statistically
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we see this right uh anxiety is off the charts the loneliest generation ever recorded is the
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millennial generation uh about 24 say they have zero friends during the season of life you should
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have an abundance of friends and building families for the future one out of four say i don't even
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have a friend the most alarming statistic is that suicides are up 33 uh since 1999 the highest they
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have been since world war ii and so i think you're spot on glenn and which we're in the midst of a
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devastation but it has come kind of gradually you know we still go out to dinner we still get up and
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get our kids off to school it's not like a bomb has gone off but really it has it has a bomb has
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dropped upon us and and and people are either taking their lives or they're checking out emotionally
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all around us and and we're not aware of it and so it's an insidious attack that we're feeling
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it's stealth it's quiet uh it would almost be easier if we had you know an invader crossing our
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shores much easier yeah because then we look at the difference between 9 11 yeah and today yeah
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but now we're battling lethargy we're battling depression we're battling infidelity and it's
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really taking its toll on us so but to answer your your question this is the time that the holy spirit
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loves to flourish and the holy spirit comes as that invisible presence of god wherever he is invited
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to bring about healing and wholeness and fresh starts and this is really what we need and this
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was the promise of christ on the night before his crucifixion he said i must leave so that the holy
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spirit can come in other words what you have had in me in the form of a physical body in the presence
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of a messiah i'm going to leave so that everybody from now on all over the planet can receive that
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same presence and power you have written um during the pandemic that i don't want to quote this let
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this observation be included in the history books we did not know how to pray yeah what's that mean
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well we didn't uh you mentioned that during the pandemic i took on a a job of a daily podcast and
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and at the end of each podcast invited people to post their prayer needs and we would read over we
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being my team would read over those prayer needs uh they came from you know connecticut to cambodia from
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all over the world by far and away the most common statement was i'm so discouraged i don't know how to
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pray or i'm so weary i can't find the words or all i can do is sigh uh i think that's important because
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in the conversation about the holy spirit one of his assignments is he takes our prayers and presents
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them before the tribunal of heaven he takes our groans our utterings the apostle paul said we do not
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not know that for which we should pray and we really don't i mean do we pray for healing or for
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heaven do we pray for deliverance uh or do we pray for uh uh even death if you're a prisoner you know
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we don't know exactly how to weather these storms the power of the holy spirit is that he takes when
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glenn or max can't even utter the right prayer the holy spirit says i'm i take over and i take that
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prayer and i take it and present it before the the presence of god in heaven which i find so
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encouraging because that reminds me that the real power of prayer doesn't depend upon the way i pray
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or even i who pray but upon the one who hears the prayer and that's what will bring strength and and
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help to people during tough times all right so i pray differently than i think a lot of people pray i
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just i just talk to him and i can be doing anything but i'm just talking to him and uh and you know
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it's it's it's a very informal uh kind of prayer but i see him as my buddy um also my sovereign uh as
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well so different times different things but um when it comes to the spirit um sometimes the way i i know
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when the spirit is communicating what i have to do it's clear to me when it is something i really
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don't want to do you know hey uh no i don't think that's right no i got it i got it that that little
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voice of that's probably not right is the prompt i think is the promptings of the spirit yes when i'm
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lazy or or i just want it to go my way you know what i mean um so uh how does the how does the um
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how can the average person get that it doesn't have that feeling yet how can they tell the difference
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between their voice and the spirit's voice because that's hard sometimes it is it is and i know i know
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uh you're the one asking questions but i'm so fascinated by your fascination with the holy
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spirit why i i don't know i i just didn't expect us to be having this uh candid of a conversation
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and so i i'd love to know your history uh i can give you a two-minute answer to your question sure
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but at some point i'd love to know i bet that everybody would love to give you two minutes okay
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okay okay first two okay so here here's the key voice and verse are the two words that work for me
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uh the holy spirit speaks to the verse speaks through scripture when as a preacher used to tell
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me as a boy growing up when you open the bible god opens his mouth yeah and i think there's truth in
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that yeah uh for that reason i do think it's important for every person to spend time with an open bible
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and an open heart every day uh i know sometimes it's hard to understand the bible but i do believe
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that the holy spirit will help us what's amazing is when it's happening um you know it because you'll
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understand it in a different way you'll read something you've read maybe a thousand times and you'll go
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oh wait a minute or yeah yeah or or that scripture will be deposited in your mind or in your heart
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and as you're going through the day the holy spirit will bring that scripture to mind and say remember
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what you read this morning i'm with you always even to the end of the age oh okay you were saying
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that to me yes and so the verse and then also the voice i really believe that since you have the
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holy spirit dwelling inside you then you are a holy person on earth and uh the voice you hear and i
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know that phrase the voices that we hear we play with it everybody knows it but but we've got these
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voices that say wait a second be careful or watch what you're saying or press forward or green light
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you get these the holy spirit uh requisitions our thought process and begins to guide us
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now the holy spirit will never through an inner voice say something that will contradict with the
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verse so the verse always outranks the voice but there are those times in which the voice and the
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verse work together and that voice you hear inside you or that verse you've read today they come
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together and you say okay there's god guiding me there's god guiding me people are i think often
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unaware of the promise of scripture that god will guide us you don't have to go through this life
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without a gps you'll screw i did you'll screw your life up so six ways to sunday until you just go
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all right yeah all right i i you know i spent my whole life going i got it i got it until you realize i
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ain't got it ain't got it never stronger than that moment yeah tell can you give us a little
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context as to your um history i was um i was desperate for forgiveness and i got baptized and
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uh and uh it's true i mean it my whole life changed on that day a whole life changed on that day
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and i got married to a wonderful woman and um uh she called me one morning and uh she said i'm in a
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i was just in a car accident come get me and she hung up the phone this is before we had cell phones
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couldn't afford a cell phone so we didn't have cell phones um and and i said i'll be right there
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click hung up the phone where where where are you and i i'm praying about it i gotta get there
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i gotta get there and immediately i knew exactly where she was but i was new with the spirit and i
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knew better and so i kept driving that way and i'm like no it's too far it can't be and i'd turn
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around and i'd go back and i'd go another way she must be on this street she must be on this street
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and all the whole time keep going keep going i got onto the highway i went through a toll
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and i drove about i don't know 100 feet and i went this is too far she wouldn't have been this far
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and i turn around as it turns out she was about 200 feet ahead and after that experience
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i really realized there is no such thing as a coincidence a so stop saying it's a coincidence
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and b if you listen and don't reject it that voice will become strong it wants to help you
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amen it wants to help you that's true and it will speak to your life and help you on things
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