The Only Real Righteous Revolutionary? Jesus | Guest: Billy Hallowell | 4⧸18⧸25
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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn talks about the Dallas police shooting of an 11-year-old boy at a track meet, and how the police should have handled the situation differently. Glenn also talks about why he carries a non-lethal weapon with him in case of an emergency.
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all right well we got a lot going on today uh just a ton to tell you about um you know there's
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that story there's a story that um that comes out of the Dallas Texas area um where this kid comes in
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they're at a track meet and he's a kid sitting you know where he's not supposed to sit he's sitting
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underneath a tent where only the people who are on the track team are supposed to sit so a member of
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the track team and his brother come in and they say hey dude you got to move um this is just for
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the track team and he says I'm not moving and he's like dude you got you got to move this this is where
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the track team sits um there's an exchange all of a sudden he says hey you uh you try to move me and
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you'll see what what's happening he pulls a knife he stabs the kid in the chest just from zero to 60
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just stabs him in the chest he dies in his brother's arms okay this is an open and shut case this is
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really quite simple witnesses were there everybody knows exactly what what's going on however there is
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a Dallas-based uh defund the police activist and social justice leader that is now involved with
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the family and uh there was a press conference yesterday and I want you to hear what this social
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justice leader said and all I'm going to say so it don't be asked later is that was disrespectful
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who is not invited he knows that it's inappropriate to be near this family okay stop so what is he
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talking about here what is this press conference about I thought this press conference was to defend
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the kid that stabbed the other kid for no reason well no it turned in because the kid whose son
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had died showed up at the press conference and he's excoriated for showing up you weren't invited
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who are you get out who are you to show up here it is wholly inappropriate you know you're not
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supposed to be around this family excuse me excuse me I'm sorry what now let me tell you who this guy
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is he's the guy he has been trying to uh you know rally a defense for Carmelo Anthony that's the
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teenager he's 17 years old he's already gotten him you know gotten his bail reduced by a great deal
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uh and he said hey I want to I want to sincerely thank everybody for the overwhelming support you've
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shown this is just the beginning of a long legal journey and we'll continue to stand strong in
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defense of his rights he has rights but how are you defending him just stabbing another kid
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when he hosted the press conference disrespect for the dignity disrespect his dad shows up to the
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press conference uninvited uninvited it was disrespectful and just shows all of you the character
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the character of what the character of the dad showing up yeah yeah I mean I would think I would show up
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I want my son I want my son's killer to go to jail I might show up so it goes viral uh and that's when
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everybody online starts to be a little detective and they find out some things about him uh this guy's
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ex and his facebook account reveal that um he's played a pivotal role in helping mobilize on behalf
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of cory bush's winning campaigns in 2020 and 2022 bush praised alexander and his group for their perseverance
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and dedication and their commitment to this work is just unmatched okay uh in 2021 alexander
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said it was truly an honor to join bush as she was sworn into congress so she he this guy that held the press
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conference and said that just shows the character of the dead boy's dad
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um uh chose a photo we have a photo now of her uh cory bush and alexander at her swearing in so he attends
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her swearing in this is gonna get good hang on buckle up uh he said I had the honor of seeing history in the
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making by seeing this beautiful black queen cory bush elected to congress I don't know if you know
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this we don't have queens um uh so so anyway uh he says um in another post he said I'm so proud of her
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as an actual frontline protester we saw her yesterday sacrifice for millions facing eviction in America
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our movement uh our congresswoman okay so she's part of the standing up for the eviction of I'm sorry
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millions facing eviction uh yeah no they were here illegally he goes on he does all kinds of pro bush
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uh uh posts he then says in a 2024 post we live in a country that doesn't want to address white supremacy
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uh he wants reparations uh so you're getting to know who he is right you know he's a radical
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revolutionary but wait this time there's more apparently he's also a career criminal uh
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uh NBC5 here in Dallas reported that he had an arrest warrant in 2019
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arrest warrant affidavit stated that Alexander's longtime partner had reported to police
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that he had shoved her and tried to strangle her now she just she declined after she uh called
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police to file charges uh because the police they just you can't trust the police oh oh okay
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all right um he also served two days in jail after pleading guilty to a felony theft case in 2021
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remember that's just a couple years ago after four years of this hanging over my head I decided to
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avoid a jury trial in Trump County that would have wouldn't have given me a fair shot at all okay
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he was sentenced to two years in prison also for repeatedly violating his probation 2009 a local
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report details how Alexander was arrested for abusive uh sorry allegedly causing serious head injuries
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to his then girlfriend's two-year-old son while he was babysitting so now we're getting into
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abuse babysitting a child two years old he takes this kid into the hospital uh he says no we
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mom and I and the baby we're on the couch and he just rolled off the couch uh unfortunately the
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doctor said yeah that's not possible we're looking at the injuries here uh and uh this is this is trauma
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and uh more consistent with abusive head trauma and child physical abuse okay so we got that going
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for us as well not uh not long after he was arrested for injury to a child causing severe bodily harm
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he got into trouble for forging a check leading police on a high-speed chase stealing a car and then
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claiming that his car that was stolen was his car it wasn't his car it was a stolen car anyway
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um so he brought a couple of character witnesses with him to trial didn't work out well one of them
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had just met him and the other one didn't have any idea that he was on probation or breaking his
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probation the judge is like and you know he broke his no no i didn't know that he never told me that
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he's been in trouble yeah yeah yeah so he's got all kinds of other things like he praises Louis
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Farrakhan and if you see in that press meeting you see the guy with the bow tie that's Louis Farrakhan's
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people uh and so uh you know he's he's supported uh the nation of islam uh despite the comments that
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jews are termites and uh and you know they're wicked termites i mean i don't know what kind of
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other termites you have i mean other than wicked termites but i generally you know generally don't
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uh praise Louis Farrakhan and those kinds of comments but he does okay so that's what we have
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going on in dallas notice how dark things are getting okay notice what people are standing up for
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they're standing up to burn down tesla they're standing up to defend the guy who killed the um
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the health care ceo and saying well it was kind of justified really because you know i'll tell you
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how violent things are violent you know health insurance is violence right now so don't talk to
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me about violence okay all right so we have that going for us we also have um people that are uh
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refusing to uh speak out against any kind of violence on their side including
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the burning down of teslas the hassling of tesla owners the doxing of people and
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the killing of donald trump and elon musk we showed you yesterday it's over 50 percent now if you're on
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the left even if you say you're slightly liberal it's over 50 percent of that population believes that
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it is fine to kill donald trump and elon musk okay last night i found another story uh this is
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an op-ed this is one last night when i read it i sent it directly to cash patel said fbi might want
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to investigate this one wait till i read it to you next in the last three years according to the u.s
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all right now i want to read something um by nicholas decker the uh the story on substack
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is when we must kill them evil has come to america the present administration is engaged in barbarism
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it is arbitrarily imprisoned its opponents revoked the visas of thousands of students impose taxes
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on us without our consent and seeks to destroy the institution which opposes it it uh lead its
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leaders have threatened those who produce unfavorable coverage and suggested that their license be
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revoked it has deprived us in many cases of trial by jury it has subjected us to jurisdiction foreign
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to our constitution and it has transported us beyond seas to be in prison for pretend offenses
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it has scorned the orders of the courts and it threatens to alter fundamentally our form of government
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it has pardoned its thugs and extorted the lawyers who defended its opponents
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unbelievable if these actions become normal the government could arrest anyone and deport them
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to prison in foreign land without any hope of redress and for no reason it is nothing less than
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the total abdication of the rule of law in this country there is no guard or protection against it
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if this theory prevails then it is the end of america as a free nation now first of all if you were saying
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this maybe four years ago you might have some credibility because i can look at both sides and say
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hey you know there's some real things that are disturbing here but you have no credibility on this
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none and your conclusion is disturbing even if it were all true i do not wish for this essay to be a
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mere catalog of outrages the conduct of president of this present administration is well known to you
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as it is by myself and can be understood by any sensible person on it no further comment is ventured
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what remains for us to decide when we fight if the president if the present administration wills it it could sweep
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away the courts it could sweep away democracy it could sweep away freedom again where you where were you
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four years ago protest is useful only insofar as it can affect action our words might sway the hearts of men
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but not the beasts if the present administration chooses this course then the question of the day
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uh the question of the day can be settled not with legislation but with blood and iron
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in short we all must now decide when we must kill them
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none of us wish for war but if the president present administration wishes to destroy the nation
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i would accept war rather than see it perish i hope you would choose the same but what to do
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the rod of our present administration runs deeper than one man the sacrifice of a hero is insufficient
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to save our nation and a gust of wind on a summer day would not have saved us for let us make no
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mistake the problem is not one man but a whole class of people if one head is cut off the other will
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take its place violence only makes sense as part of a coordinated strategy this is why protests are
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important not as a way of changing the present administration's actions but as a way to coordinate a
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group there may come a time when we shall have no guarantee of freedom but the one which we make
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for ourselves if it comes i tell you there is no greater honor than he who lays down his life for
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his friends until then we must wait and when is that time well your threshold may differ from mine
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but you have to have one if the present administration should cancel elections if it should engage in fraud
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in the electoral process if it should suppress the speech of its opponents jail its political adversaries
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if it ignores the will of congress if it should directly spurn the orders of the court all of these
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are reasons for revolution it may be the best to stave off and wait for elections to throw out
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this scourge but if we should threaten the ability to remove it we shall have no choice we will have to do
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the right thing we will have to prepare ourselves to die i hope that we should conduct ourselves first
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with such courage that it will be our finest hour i expect that we shall do our duty while we wait we
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must not be like sheep to the slaughter we cannot cooperate we must must hide those who are persecuted
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we must foil the aims of their agents the state and local governments which we control can litigate the
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actions of the present administration their police can refuse to share information or be deputized to
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do the work of the evil ones if war is politics by other means then politics is war by other means
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there can be no surrender for surrender means oppression of us all these are exceptional times we have not
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faced a such a threat in many many years i wish it had not come it is the sorrow of the world that
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these times have come and we shall have to bring woe unto those whom it came the future is not certain
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it may be the present administration should flinch and turn back in the face of lighter action i fondly
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hope that may be the case but if it comes we must awaken from this ignorant dream this evil will not
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pass without blood sweat and toil and tears so harden your hearts and prepare to die
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like i said i sent that one to the fbi when i saw it yesterday um that's from the left
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if anybody is any comments anyone anyone bueller bueller anybody any comments on who we're dealing with
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again let me go back the activist i just told you about that that is defending a kid that for no reason
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stabbed another kid to death in the bleachers in front of witnesses you have taylor lorenz uh refusing
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welcome to the glennbeck program it's friday terrifying essay to start off a friday glenn
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yeah i know um i i would were you were you shocked by that when i read that
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yes yes and no okay in case you just joined us i just read an essay by nicholas decker i want
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people to know who he is substack uh and he writes about how you know i mean the title of
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the essay is when must we kill them when must we kill them well i don't know
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not anywhere i'm thinking not at all to now yeah right uh not even close not even close during the
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last administration no uh i i you know i'm shocked by the essay obviously although after talking about
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uh the killer of the united health care ceo yeah the reaction on the left you mentioned it uh there
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i won't i won't mention his name i i think that i think we should implement the same policy we have
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on mass shooters with this guy he's turning into a freaking cult hero on the left and i refuse to give
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him any more good attention but uh that attitude is this attitude right like they're the line for
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taylor lorenz just happens to be killing some uh innocent father and husband yeah in the middle of
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the street for no reason but the line for the left is uh is clear it's clear that it's closer than it
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should be and i think there's a lot of people on the left who think this way we saw it sometimes with
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the climate uh crazy people uh on that we've seen it over and over and over again and you've been
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very very clear uh as as we all have i think uh around here that we're nowhere we're nowhere close
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to that line just because you don't like donald trump just because you do you think he's a bad
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president or you think he he does things that are mean we're nowhere close to that line no and because
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you think the climate and it's one degree of warming over a hundred years is is really really
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dangerous that we're nowhere close to that line and because you think united health care occasionally
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uh you know says no to a claim that you believe should be covered no no that's also not a reason
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and the same thing goes by the way for the previous administration like i i couldn't stand joe biden how
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many times glenn people were so sick of hearing me rant about the student loan unconstitutionality
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unconstitutional completely unconstitutional the the um taking of donald trump and trying to throw him
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in jail every step of the way just so unbelievably unamerican uh just just crazy corruption absolutely
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but did we say that it was time to go out and even think did we ever say you know when do we kill them
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you know no in fact you were very you held that line very very strongly because that i know there is
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understandable anger on on both sides right like if you were on the left right now and you saw a lot of
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things that we really like that the donald trump is doing on the right you'd be very frustrated and
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there were times where you know some people on social media and you know people in on the right
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got angry and said things like like that uh that that that said that the line that you just talked
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about in that essay is closer than we should all think it is and over and over and over again you were
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very consistent that no it's not think about what the founders had to deal with oh my gosh it's a
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totally it's not even close no and look one of the things uh generally speaking um i still have my
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complaints but like in the student loan thing was a big thing i was really really angry about it
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generally speaking the courts got that right uh and reversed him and stopped him we do have a system
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another part of that system was by the way joe biden slash kamala harris losing yes that's part of the
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system too yes a really really important part of it and so this stuff should be rejected it's not
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all that important that we reject that essay what is important is that there are people on the left
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that do it yes today and tomorrow and this week yes and i don't know that we'll see it i'm concerned
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we're not going to we are not going to i hope we do no we won't i really hope we do i i hope so too
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i think when you see you saw elizabeth warren's reaction to the united health care ceo's murder
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it was like yeah but health care that was her that was her reaction to an innocent father and
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husband getting murdered in the streets yeah but i mean come on guys health care it is pretty bad
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i mean look we can all talk about we and we have for years we've complained about the health care
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system in many many ways though i think a lot of people complain about it more than is justified
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that being said it's never a reason to go i don't care what a company does to you but you don't go
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murder the ceo and here's what's pretty clear yeah this is this is so very dangerous and i'm bringing
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it up today because this has to be policed by the left this has to be if i had said any of those
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things one paragraph of that two page opinion piece if i would have said or written one paragraph
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and release that i would have lost my job and and probably rightfully so i would have lost my job
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um and the media and the left would have insured it uh that wouldn't have been right but you know
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people saying uh glenn you're off the deep end here that's the right thing that's the right way to
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respond they're not even going to say anything about this and it's because it's becoming a culture
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of death and that's what happens when you when you reject eternal principles when you take god out
00:31:16.940
you will have another god and that god whether it's the planet or the government or just you and your
00:31:23.520
grievance whatever your god becomes or it you know ends justify the means there's only really
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one god that says no no no no no no turn the other cheek there's one it's easter weekend it's good
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friday they killed that guy they killed that guy they said he was a revolutionary no no he was a
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revolutionary in a totally different way he was a revolutionary exactly the way martin luther king
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was a revolutionary he came and was preaching peace now the difference between him and martin luther king
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well there's a lot of them but one of them is this guy was actually the savior of all mankind he came
00:32:03.380
for our sins but if we forget who we are there's a great op-ed on the blaze um exodus warns us
00:32:13.360
uh by um aaron wexler after miracles people forget listen to this and check this don't just hear the words
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but actually apply them to today after miracles the people still forget the same amnesia that happened
00:32:38.520
with the jews now threatens america's soul unless we choose to remember love that choose choose to
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remember you can't just say i forgot no you you knew it at one point you chose to just let it go by
00:32:56.580
passover has just ended a central story for the jews and christians alike but also the defining
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narrative for america what how america's founders drew heavily from the exodus and the hebrew prophets
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they studied hebrew some even proposed it as the official language of the united states did you know
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that benjamin franklin for his part suggested that the national seal feature moses crossing the parted red
00:33:27.340
sea the the reverence for this story runs deep in our dna it's no accident that hollywood the most
00:33:38.760
american of art forms has returned to it again and again and again to retell the exodus story and yet
00:33:46.200
as a nation we let some of our oldest traditions fade but that's nothing new god always finds a way
00:33:53.400
to remind us today many americans have begun to realize we needed the pain of 2020 see this is one
00:34:02.420
of the difference between knowing god and not knowing god or rejecting god if you believe in god and you
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believe he's a god of good you know then a i'm saved no matter what happens to me my body this is more
00:34:20.160
important my soul is much more important than anything my body is going through okay that's
00:34:25.400
number one the other thing is you know that it's all for his good he doesn't lose so i may not experience
00:34:32.480
the good part of it but i know he wins i know good wins in the end that changes everything 2020
00:34:40.880
we could have just you know whined and bitched and moaned the whole time you know i'm not whining
00:34:49.920
and bitching and moaning uh as much because i've realized again because of 2020 that that actually
00:34:58.400
turned out good you know you may not get your way but he usually gets his one way or another
00:35:05.340
without that nightmare president trump would have returned uh wouldn't have returned with a mandate
00:35:12.560
to truly save america without those four bitter years the country might never have waken to remember
00:35:18.520
who we are this moment echoes the exodus just as we needed four years of national affliction to witness
00:35:26.600
trump's political deliverance the israelites needed to see god's hand to remember his power
00:35:32.160
that's why scripture says god hardened the pharaoh's heart not only to punish egypt but to remind his
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people of the unmatched might where did where have you heard recently anything like god hardened pharaoh's
00:35:50.400
heart it was the last line of that essay i just read to you so harden your hearts
00:35:59.440
what kind of advice is that now it's done by god okay i don't get it but okay
00:36:13.360
he wanted to remind people of his unmatched might to declare for all to see that there is none like
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unto the lord our god and yet even for after the 10 plagues and the miraculous escape the israelites
00:36:28.920
forgot and faltered jewish tradition teaches that only one in five left egypt think of that
00:36:38.780
only one in five 20 the tipping point only 20 that were slaves decided to leave the rest
00:36:51.820
felt more comfortable in slavery they didn't want to do the hard thing so only one in five left
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slavery the rest chose the false comfort of slavery many who did leave lost faith before stepping into
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the red sea others bowed before the golden calf while moses ascended sinai even in the face of miracles
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it was easier for some to forget god than to trust him americans had forgotten god before 2020
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and god gave them a hard reminder so ask yourself if we forget who we are what else have we forgotten
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look again to the story of passover the book of exodus begins with a chilling line
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there arose up a new king over egypt which knew not of joseph it wasn't just that pharaoh forgot
00:37:48.040
joseph he chose not to know him he chose not to acknowledge joy joseph because it would have meant
00:37:56.480
acknowledging the israelites and all they had done for egypt joseph saved the egyptians from famine
00:38:03.080
his descendants helped build up the nation pharaoh wanted to erase them he enslaved them think again
00:38:10.680
of what's happening today there's rising up among us a king that is saying forget the hebrews forget the
00:38:22.500
jews they don't want to recognize anything that the jews did to help build us as a people as a faith
00:38:31.680
and as a nation so they're trying to do what pharaoh did and erase them he ordered their sons drown in
00:38:39.860
the nile but not everyone forgot pharaoh's own daughter remembered she rescued moses one who
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would leave the israelites out of egypt receive the 10 commandments at sinai and pass down a faith that
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would eventually give birth to christianity that's something worth remembering we rightly see pharaoh as
00:38:56.420
the villain of exodus but how many of us stop to honor the quiet heroism of the pharaoh's
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daughter she saved moses when it was unpopular even dangerous to do so she defied her father's
00:39:08.060
command choosing righteousness over convenience her courage made everything that followed possible
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christians have long understood the wisdom of romans if the root is holy so are the branches
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like that olive tree we must guard the roots and grow strong branches we must first remember so
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remember who we are americans are a good people a good people who remember god and like pharaoh's
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daughter when we remember joseph even when the world forgets like the israelites we walk away from slavery
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that we remember and don't forget it's a great uh op-ed piece you can find it at theblaze.com
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Well, it is Good Friday, and it's always Good Friday, isn't it?
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Now, it's Good Friday, the Friday before Easter.
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And I thought today would be a good day just to talk about miracles.
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And Billy Halliwell has put together a documentary, and it is well worth seeing, Investigating the Supernatural Miracles.
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You know, I have, when we started The Blaze, we started with a bunch of people that were really unknowns, and we have seen so many people leave here and go on to unbelievable things.
00:49:27.900
Billy worked with Dan Andros, who used to be a writer of mine.
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All those years at Fox, it was Dan that was writing all of those things, and he left to go to CBN.
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And Billy Hollowell used to work at The Blaze, and he did the same thing.
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You can find what he's going to be talking about at CBN.com slash Supernatural.
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We went around the entire country looking for stories of crazy miracles, not just minor miracles,
00:50:20.280
but, you know, claims that tumors disappeared, paralysis disappeared.
00:50:24.920
And really, the why was this feeling, you know, there's a lot of people out there who don't think miracles still happen, right?
00:50:31.280
There's even people who are Christians who will say, eh, I don't know if I think God is moving.
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And so we wanted to go out and test that, and we wanted to see our miracles still happening.
00:50:40.740
And I'll tell you, what we found really blew my mind.
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When we went into this project, I thought, okay, we're going to go into this, we're going to do this, and, you know, it's going to inspire me.
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But I walked away completely transformed and challenged by the insane things that we encountered.
00:51:00.440
Okay, so first, let's just define what a miracle is.
00:51:03.160
Okay, so miracles, there's a wide range of things that miracles can qualify as, right?
00:51:09.480
You have the small miracles, the things that we, you know, as Christians or as people of faith feel God doing in our lives, right?
00:51:16.700
Those can be miracles, but you can't really prove them.
00:51:20.360
Then you have the big miracles, the things like, hey, this guy was dead for 40 minutes and somehow came back to life,
00:51:26.360
which, by the way, that's one of the stories, and we could talk about it, that we encountered along the way.
00:51:31.120
You know, we were looking at miracles in this documentary that were 30,000-foot huge things, things that have scientific backing,
00:51:40.040
that have doctors involved, that have really evidence, right?
00:51:43.840
And so miracles, again, they could be a wide range, but we wanted to look at those big ones,
00:51:50.380
How close can we get to actually proving that these things happened?
00:51:54.220
And by the way, you know, we went into these stories skeptically because I don't think any of us should just go out and say,
00:51:59.600
oh, yeah, you know, whatever you say we believe, we really wanted to provide the evidence along the way.
00:52:04.480
Okay, so tell me some of the things that you found.
00:52:08.160
All right, so let's talk about the guy who was dead for 40 minutes.
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This story, when it came across our desk, we did a ton of research, dug into it.
00:52:16.040
Jeff Markin is a guy who, you know, he wasn't feeling well, went to the hospital.
00:52:25.160
They call a doctor, an emergency room doctor, and they're trying to revive him.
00:52:28.920
They spend 40 minutes on this guy trying to revive him.
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So this guy is now on the gurney, on his way to the morgue.
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Dr. Chauncey Crandall, who was the doctor in the room that day,
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As he's walking in the hallway, this doctor feels God say to him,
00:52:52.920
And he ignores it because he thinks that's insane.
00:53:00.700
So he goes into the room, and you can imagine the nurse and the doctors,
00:53:05.340
He's going to come in and pray over this dead body that we've already declared dead.
00:53:11.120
And all of a sudden, he says to the other doctors, shock him one more time.
00:53:15.700
And they're like, look, there's no way we're shocking him again,
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because we've tried for 40 minutes, and he's dead.
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And so they end up doing it, because he tells them to do it.
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And immediately, this guy gets a perfect heartbeat back.
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Again, they tried for 40 minutes and got nothing.
00:53:30.600
And now the nurse is saying to the doctor, what are you doing?
00:53:33.980
Like, now he's going to be brain dead after this.
00:53:36.420
What's so crazy about this story, this man, Jeff Markin, had a near-death experience,
00:53:41.940
You can watch it in the film while this was going on.
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But he ends up, two days later, waking up completely fine.
00:53:59.000
So that's the kind of stuff we were dealing with in this documentary.
00:54:02.480
So, you know, Billy, the amazing thing is we all have these—we all think that, you know,
00:54:13.000
And it's those little things that usually, like that doctor, we dismiss.
00:54:17.180
And you just dismiss him because you think it's you.
00:54:19.420
And if you obey them enough times and then you realize, oh, wow, that was amazing why I turned around and did that because I was told to.
00:54:33.160
But you start to discipline yourself to listen.
00:54:42.200
But he does speak to us, and it requires us to not dismiss it as our stupid little voice in our head saying, you know, go back and pray over him.
00:54:57.220
And being open to it because the thing that struck me in all of this, right, and after we finished investigating the supernatural miracles and we were looking at the stories, all of these people, they had to fight for miracles.
00:55:08.860
Like the other three stories that we cover in this film, none of them went to a prayer event and got healed on the first try.
00:55:17.720
And that opens a lot of interesting theological questions, which we do deal with.
00:55:21.520
We deal with not getting the miracle because, look, we all die eventually, right?
00:55:25.040
Even Lazarus, who was raised from the dead, he died again.
00:55:30.960
But to your point, I mean, I'll even share for me, and I think this was a miracle.
00:55:35.060
I was, you know, really upset about a diagnosis my daughter had of scoliosis.
00:55:38.500
I was in my car, and I'm driving, and I'm thinking, God, I'm, like, crying out to God.
00:55:43.940
You know, give me a sign that this is going to be okay.
00:55:47.840
There aren't a lot of trucks that have Bible verses on them.
00:55:50.020
I literally look up as I'm praying, and the truck in front of me has a verse speaking about God, you know, comforting us and how it will be okay in that very moment.
00:55:59.420
I would say that's a miracle, and I think that's more like what most of us deal with in the day in and day out, and that is how God will often communicate to us.
00:56:21.340
I have been praying really hard over my children.
00:56:27.380
And there are some things that I just don't understand.
00:56:37.320
And I'll pray, and, you know, I'll see no result.
00:56:41.560
And it has really hurt my faith at weak points.
00:56:45.220
It has hurt my faith because I've thought, and I haven't thought about him.
00:56:54.120
I'm not worthy enough for, you know what I mean?
00:57:01.960
I think in all of this, especially when we're not getting an answer, and, you know, I saw this in the film.
00:57:09.000
There is this tension that we have to live in, and I think this is really hard because we're human beings, right?
00:57:13.880
This tension of I'm going to trust God that I believe the day I die, if I'm terminally ill or if my kid is struggling with something, you know, I'm going to believe for healing or for better decisions or for whatever the issue is because I believe it's possible and God could do anything.
00:57:27.900
And I'm going to believe that until the very last minute while at the same time, and this is where it gets hard, having the trust that if that thing does not happen, if the healing doesn't happen on this side of eternity, that I'm going to trust God and be okay with whatever that plan is.
00:57:47.560
That's the death to self that we're called to kind of live in, and I struggle with that all the time.
00:57:53.720
And by the way, I mean, because I think this actually helps, that doctor in that emergency room who brought that, who prayed over that body, his son died of leukemia a couple of years before that, and he fought for a miracle and didn't get it for him.
00:58:06.800
And now this guy is living, he's able to have those two things, right, that radical trust.
00:58:13.420
And so that really helped me actually, seeing this guy who didn't get a miracle for his kid and yet still believes it's possible.
00:58:19.620
It is remarkable when you see people who can actually live with this.
00:58:25.340
Because my daughter, you know, she's been to all kinds of doctors, she's had brain surgery and everything else, and I have prayed over her so many times to get her seizures to stop, and they just don't.
00:58:42.180
And she'll say to me, Dad, I'm not worried about it.
00:59:05.360
No, as a parent, you know, and something like that, you know, scoliosis, you know, I mentioned with my daughter, that is not a terminal illness.
00:59:14.160
And I kept saying, you know, thank God, it's not something worse.
00:59:16.840
But the struggle, you know, watching your kid go, and by the way, you know, we were going through this as this film was going on.
00:59:23.400
And a lot of this, as I've been talking about it and promoting it, has dawned on me of how good God was in this particular circumstance.
00:59:30.380
But just watching your kid struggle and suffer, you know, my daughter went from a normal six-year-old playing to being in a brace 21 hours a day, you know, and not being able to do certain things.
00:59:40.940
And you watch your kid suffer, and it is a profound challenge to faith.
00:59:45.260
And that is where we have to rest in that trust, right, and believing that the miracles are possible, but knowing, again, that we may not get them.
00:59:53.260
In the case of my daughter, you know, she's out of her brace, and they can barely detect scoliosis right now.
00:59:57.880
Like, we had a real miracle, honestly, you know, and I've been so grateful for that.
01:00:02.180
But recognizing that there are other things that we haven't had that in our lives, and it is tough.
01:00:07.960
I want to talk to you about some of the other things that you found in the documentary.
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And you started exploring, so you thought it originally was going to be a three-part series.
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And I want to ask you why you didn't do that, why you're focusing on the miracles.
01:00:21.120
Because it was miracles, heaven, hell, angels, and demons, which I find fascinating.
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I went from having a promising career as a neuroscientist to having a medical death sentence.
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I said there was nothing else that we could do.
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A lot of skeptics will say, well, miracles are impossible.
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People would pray for me, and sometimes it felt like this power that just zapped me.
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When I woke up, she says, can you do anything that you didn't do before?
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Another doctor came in, and he said, what is going on in here?
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So tell me the story about the guy who apparently was paralyzed, couldn't do anything, and how that miracle happened.
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Yeah, that, Brian LaPoo, I mean, that story blew me away.
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He was a cop, and, I mean, it's so crazy how life happens.
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He just slips and falls, breaks his neck, and he ends up in a 10-year nightmare.
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Basically, you know, he ends up paralyzed on half of his body as a result of the injuries and the surgeries that he needed to have.
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Nobody had actually ever recovered from what he had and the damage he had.
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And so during these 10 years, he and his wife, Meg, they start going to prayer services, and they start trying to get healing.
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And very similar to what we were just talking about, they're not getting healing.
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And he gets to the point where he's like, look, I don't want anybody touching me.
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And his wife says to him, and this is why it's so important that we encourage people.
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You know, when people are no longer encouraged and they don't want to move forward, the wife says, look, let's go to one more of these events.
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Let's just get them to pray over you one more time.
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They go to this event, and it is at that event that he gets his healing, that his hand opens up for the first time.
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He walks out of that event without his brace for the first time in 10 years, and we interviewed him.
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He no longer has a brace, and his condition is completely healed.
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It's on camera the moment he was healed at this conference.
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And so you see stories like this, and it just blows you away because the persistence in the faith and the fighting, ongoing belief that this was possible.
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And, you know, in his case, he got that healing.
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There's so many people that will capitalize on this.
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We didn't get into that because when we actually did the vetting for these stories, we made 100% sure that before a camera turned on or we went anywhere, that we knew these were at least compelling stories.
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We tried to poke holes and look, but we knew that these were people who, I mean, these people can't even get through their story without crying.
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I mean, they are so overjoyed and moved and transformed.
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I mean, there's a lot of people when it comes to near-death experiences, all of these things, who will, they will make things up to make money.
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But none of these people were in that camp, and we made sure of that.
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So you were going to do it as a series, and you were going to go into demons and angels and everything else.
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You still going to do that, or is, why did you just, why did you not pursue that?
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Yeah, you know, so CBN, Christian Broadcasting Network, when we went into this, it was greenlit as a three-part series, 30 minutes each.
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And when we started filming Miracles, which was episode one, like day one, we knew, we were like, we can't tell this story in 30 minutes.
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I mean, we, these stories need to be told, and we need to spend time on them.
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And with culture, what is happening right now in this culture, we have college students flocking to hear about God, where we have these moments, despite the culture crumbling, right?
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At the same time, we wanted to provide proof to people.
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And so we ended up shifting this into a three-part film series.
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So the second film will be investigating the supernatural, angels and demons.
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You know, we want to go in and show people, is this real?
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And it's obviously a difficult topic, angels and demons.
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Billy Halliwell, I want you to see this special.
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That's Christian Broadcasting Network, CBN.com slash Supernatural.
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Kind of a perfect thing to watch this weekend with your family.
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Well, we were on the same crazy town train as England is still on.
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I want to play something that happened, I think, last month at an English bank, the Santander Bank.
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A guy from England goes in, just tries to take $2,500 out, if you will, and listen to the exchange he's having at the bank.
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I'm filming you, and I'm recording this conversation.
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I'm coming to the bank to withdraw two and a half thousand pounds.
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I've got 11 and a half thousand pounds in my account.
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He was transferred to a staff member on the phone, but the situation only continued to escalate.
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Are you going to let me withdraw two and a half thousand pounds from my account today, yes or no, in the branch?
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And what is the two and a half thousand pounds for, Mr. Jackson?
01:10:05.520
Right, okay, so have you got any evidence of the motorbike you've got?
01:10:08.100
No, I haven't got any evidence of a motorbike at all, no, I haven't got it, so I don't know what one I'm getting yet.
01:10:12.140
Okay, so if you don't know what you're getting, how do you know how much you need?
01:10:16.920
Because I've got a budget, I've got a budget, I've got a budget of two and a half thousand pounds for the motorbike,
01:10:21.640
so that's why I'm going to withdraw two and a half thousand pounds from my account today.
01:10:25.800
Right, so when you find the bike for your son, if you can show us some evidence of the motorbike.
01:10:30.920
So I need to show you evidence, no, so I need to show you evidence.
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You walk into the bank, he says, I have 11,000 pounds in my account, which could be $4, I don't know.
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So anyway, he's got 11,000 pounds in his bank account.
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He's going to take 2,500 pounds out, and they won't let him do it without evidence on what
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Can you imagine walking into your bank and having that conversation?
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Because I, it, you could answer all of these questions, and he does, but there's no need
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I mean, that is, I mean, you can't do it because a country like England, and even ours, they're
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not going to let you open up a bank, you know, Bill's Bank, where we believe your money belongs
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It's a terrible long slogan, but it is effective.
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If you open Bill's Bank, where the slogan is, you can get your money.
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You know, and some, I think some banks do have an approach that is similar to that.
01:12:36.980
No, I tell you, I shop at a, or I mean, I bank at a local bank, and I've tried to get
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money out, out of the bank, and you have to have two weeks.
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They don't, they move the money to the Federal Reserve every night.
01:13:07.280
So when you're, you're just talking about when you were taking direct cash out, obviously
01:13:10.820
you can purchase things, but you're doing that typically digitally.
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Not when you're, when you're actual money, actual money.
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It has to come from the Federal Reserve and they need two weeks.
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And this is what makes you want to put it under your mattress or bury it in your yard.
01:13:41.700
Of course, obviously when you're talking about in your hand cash, you still have a transfer
01:13:47.920
Like if you want to go buy something down the street with your own cash, can you do that?
01:14:00.560
It's actually the way our country ran for a really long time.
01:14:22.240
That's not the way, I mean, no, this is in the UK.
01:14:27.800
But they, certainly there are different standards there that I don't, I don't like.
01:14:32.100
But I do think we're seeing more and more of that stuff here.
01:14:35.240
We're seeing it even with these, you know, these digital payment services that are banning
01:14:41.400
Imagine you're running a small business, you're receiving money through a digital payment service.
01:14:45.380
And then that digital payment service says, yeah, no more.
01:14:50.700
Well, we've talked, we talked about, I'm not, I'm not talking about a specific one.
01:14:53.120
We've talked about many, many examples of this.
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We're like, you know, I don't want to name the companies.
01:14:58.320
Many companies, processing companies, they'll just say, Hey, no, your, your company's no
01:15:11.680
It's the, it's that unbanking process, which, you know, it does seem like the Trump administration
01:15:16.460
is trying to tackle a little bit, which I think is a, is a, uh, a valuable pursuit.
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You know, I, I, that's, that has to just be gone from our society.
01:15:25.840
We're not, we should not be, that, that should never happen in America.
01:15:32.700
That particular example is not from here, but that stuff has happened and it shouldn't
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You should always have the right to be able to access your own money.
01:15:40.480
You know, I, I was watching, uh, some stuff on, uh, on X yesterday.
01:15:45.740
I was watching some clips from, um, uh, Eric Schmidt.
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Remember when we had, we had a former head of Google.
01:15:54.520
And we talked to him about AI and it was really spooky.
01:15:56.700
I, I, I mean, he's just so casual about all of this.
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I want you to listen to a couple of things he's just said about artificial general intelligence.
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We believe as an industry that in the next one year, the vast majority of programmers
01:16:15.040
We also believe that within one year, you will have graduate level mathematicians that
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are at the tippy top of graduate math programs.
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Well, I've just told you about reasoning and I've told you about programming and I've
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Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world.
01:16:38.260
So the evidence and the claims from the research groups in open AI and, and, and anthropic and
01:16:43.780
so forth is that they're now somewhere around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing
01:16:49.960
in their research programs is being generated by the computer.
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That's called recursive self-improvement is the technical term.
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So what happens when this thing starts to scale?
01:17:05.180
One way to say this is that within three to five years, we'll have what is called general
01:17:10.200
intelligence, AGI, which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest
01:17:16.180
mathematician, physicist, you know, artist, writer, thinker, politician.
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Now he goes on to talk about these computers smarter than the sum of all humans.
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Listen, what happens when every single one of us has the equivalent of the smartest human
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I want to make the point here is that in the next year or two, this foundation is being
01:17:50.280
locked in and it's not, we're not going to stop it.
01:17:58.280
Because remember, the computers are now doing self-improvement.
01:18:01.060
They're learning how to plan and they don't have to listen to us anymore.
01:18:06.460
We call that superintelligence or ASI, artificial superintelligence.
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And this is the theory that there will be computers that are smarter than the sum of humans.
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The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years, just based on scaling.
01:18:27.360
There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this.
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People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level, which is
01:18:42.700
And, you know, we talk about this often, but it's not just horror show terrible things.
01:18:48.780
There's going to be incredible innovations and things we've never conceived of.
01:18:52.980
And when he says it seems like it's mostly free, what does that mean to our economic
01:19:00.380
It could be that we could have been wasting our entire lives saving for retirement, for
01:19:06.860
This is something that people in Silicon Valley are actually doing.
01:19:09.960
They've stopped saving for retirement because they're so convinced that this is just going
01:19:22.960
Which is basically you get a check from the government or whatever all the time, and
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that's how you support your life rather than going to work.
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I heard an even scarier proposition now that they're thinking in Silicon Valley.
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You are given a certain amount of time with access to artificial super intelligence, and
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how you want to spend it is how you want to spend it.
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But you're not going to be able to do anything without compute time.
01:20:00.020
So instead of paying you, it's just giving you universal basic compute.
01:20:07.240
So everybody can have a shot at being with the smartest person in the world, and they
01:20:16.260
It's going to make this bank thing that we just talked about.
01:20:24.560
I thought, this is fascinating, a fascinating thing to think about, because we talk about
01:20:29.780
all the time about how they don't really understand their own products.
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Like, they're making these things, and they don't know, not only do they not know what's
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going to happen with artificial super intelligence in six years or whatever.
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They know it just won't have to listen to us anymore.
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But they also don't really know what's going on right now.
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Anthropic, which is one of the big AI firms, they have Claude, is theirs, is theirs.
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Anthropic has made its first investment in another startup.
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Putting $1 million into Goodfire, a one-year-old startup that helps AI developers understand
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They just bought a company to tell them how their own product works.
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Money well spent, but I don't think it'll work.
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As he said, the train's already left the station.
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Within a year, you won't be able to turn it off.
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Not if you're living in Silicon Valley, I think.
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01:25:06.180
So you had mentioned banking institutions may soon prevent us from using our own money.
01:25:15.740
Last spring, last Easter, I planned a trip to Prague, Czech Republic for my family
01:25:20.800
with my two teenage boys, 16 and 18 at the time.
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And I did an interbank transfer, an international transfer for a package to shoot Soviet weapons.
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And it was with a legitimate company in Czech Republic.
01:25:38.560
They contract out to movie makers for their tanks and their firearms.
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And the next day we were on our layover in Denver and I got a call and the gentleman on
01:25:54.820
the phone said that they had reversed the transfer because they didn't feel it was safe.
01:26:00.260
Well, me, you know, not assuming malice, that which we can attribute to ignorance.
01:26:06.240
I just figured that, you know, the Czech Republic is in the EU politically, but not not monetarily.
01:26:17.020
Maybe they felt it was organized crime or drugs or something like that.
01:26:27.560
They said they reversed it because they didn't believe in it because they thought it was too dangerous.
01:26:33.620
When they said it's too dangerous, I doubt they even meant that it was too dangerous for you.
01:26:38.220
It was too dangerous for their business model because of all of the ESG rules over in over in Europe.
01:26:45.800
So if they had spent that money like that on on something like that, which, you know, has got to not fit the ESG rules, then it's dangerous for them.
01:26:58.940
They'll be flagged as a dangerous entity and they can lose their backing in the banking system.
01:27:07.380
And we just we have calls from all over the country.
01:27:13.420
It's happening to me over and over and over again.
01:27:47.140
If someone drained your bank account tomorrow, you'd probably notice it immediately.
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Those are things that hit you kind of right in the face.
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But if someone stole your home title and took out hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans against it, how long would it take you to find out?
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Long enough for your equity to vanish and a legal nightmare to begin.
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And it's one of the fastest growing crimes in America.
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And suddenly, your house isn't really your house anymore.
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And no, your homeowner's insurance doesn't cover this.
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They monitor your title to make sure that nothing's going on.
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The moment anything suspicious happens, you get alerted fast.
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And if you're already a victim, they'll step in with a restoration team to help you fight back.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering.
01:29:05.580
Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
01:30:24.620
Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
01:30:33.360
This is the point on a Friday now, if you went back in time and you were at the time of Christ,
01:30:40.360
we would probably be standing at the gates waiting for Pilate to give us a choice, Barabbas or Christ.
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This is about the time of the day that was happening.
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We're going to talk about that coming up in just a second.
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It's just a quiet rustle of an elderly woman in Jerusalem shuffling through a cupboard trying to find anything, anything to eat.
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She's a survivor of some of the worst things that have ever been done to man.
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Perhaps it'll help you soften your heart just a little bit.
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So, last night, Jews all over the world gathered for Passover.
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So, I want you to picture Jerusalem 2,000 years ago at Passover.
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And the air is heavy with the aroma of unleavened bread.
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And the streets are buzzing because people have come from all over Israel to be there.
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But a shadow is hanging over one man because he knows what's coming.
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What must the weight of last night have been like for the man, Jesus?
01:33:18.460
And a love so relentless that it defies death itself.
01:33:29.240
Jesus gathers his 12 disciples in an upper room.
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Oil lamps are flickering, casting long shadows.
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They're unaware of the betrayal that is sitting at the same table with them.
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And he says something that must have been very odd.
01:34:18.880
Some of them believe that he is the Messiah, the Son of God.
01:34:23.200
You know, I can't speak for Judas, but they're expecting a warrior.
01:34:34.860
The weight of it must have been crushing to him being there alone.
01:34:42.900
It's an olive grove, and it's right on top of the hill that overlooks the Temple Mount.
01:34:48.420
And he leaves the apostles just to pray with me.
01:34:52.200
And he leaves them, and he goes off himself, and he collapses to his knees under the twisted branches of these trees.
01:35:01.640
And the moon is hanging low by now, and the night, silent, except perhaps for his silent and ragged breathing.
01:35:11.560
And that's when he says, Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me.
01:35:19.920
You know, it says that blood came out of every pore.
01:35:32.740
I thought maybe it was a metaphor or something when I was younger.
01:35:37.000
It's a real, very rare condition where extreme stress will rupture all of the capillaries right underneath your skin.
01:35:59.040
His body had to have been trembling and racked with anguish and pain.
01:36:47.800
He said somebody earlier, one person at this table is going to betray me tonight.
01:37:02.000
Peter grabs one of the swords, and he actually cuts the ear off of one of the soldiers.
01:37:15.440
And he picks up the ear, and he heals the soldier.
01:37:49.240
So by dawn, he's before Pilate, bloodied and silent.
01:37:55.080
This happens to go back and forth until about this time of day.
01:37:58.080
And the crowd is beginning to gather, and they're screaming, crucify him.
01:38:04.340
And Pilate washes his hands, but no water erases that stain.
01:38:10.100
Jesus is then scourged, whips, studded with metal, just shred his skin.
01:38:20.040
I'm on my way in two weeks to see the Shroud of Turin, the actual Shroud of Turin.
01:38:28.220
And I believe that to be actually the burial cloth.
01:38:33.580
After you study it a little bit, just even a little bit, and you see what has been done
01:38:38.440
to prove or disprove, and the best they can say is, you know, on the negative side is,
01:39:04.340
These are, I think they're called Bethlehem thorns.
01:39:16.620
But he still has burning eyes, purpose for you.
01:39:24.440
The cross, part of the cross, laid across his shoulders, splintered.
01:39:43.100
But Jesus is still bearing all the weight of what's coming.
01:39:48.280
At Golgotha, the place of the skull, nails are actually put through his wrists and then through his feet.
01:39:57.260
Can you imagine what that felt like to just have the vibration of that hammering?
01:40:08.440
And I've always seen when they slide the cross into the ground and it settles.
01:40:14.080
You know, his shoulder was dislocated, they think, in the streets.
01:40:18.120
So, you know, the only way you breathe on a cross is you have to force yourself to stand up straight as much as you can.
01:40:27.900
Because once you start to sag down, your lungs start to collapse.
01:40:32.300
And so, with a dislocated shoulder, he's pulling himself up so he can breathe.
01:40:46.120
He's executed with two thieves, one on each side.
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Jesus looks down and says, woman, behold your son.
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For him to really be man and suffer, he had to be separated from God at this point.
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And at the ninth hour, he just says, it is finished.
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A centurion stands at the foot and says, surely this was the son of God.
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And they pierce his side just to make sure that he's dead.
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Nothing more humiliating than being crucified to a tree.
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That was the most humiliating thing that could happen.
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You know, selling your house used to be simple.
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You mowed the lawn, you vacuumed all the carpets, you shoved everything into a closet and hope nobody noticed.
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Now, mood lighting, seasonal throw pillows, story arc for the dining room.
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Goal isn't just to sell, it's to make strangers walk in and feel like your home is, you know, a cozy candle commercial, I guess.
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And that's why we have real estate agents you can trust.
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We found these real estate agents all across the country.
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And they don't treat your home like it's just an HGTV audition.
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They treat it as the most important sale of your life.
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If you're buying or selling, don't go it alone.
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So imagine just on Easter, I mean, on Palm Sunday, he's riding in triumphant and everybody's so high and everybody's like, wow, this is going to be great.
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Disciples are, they hide, hope buried with Jesus.
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Now the tomb's mouth is gaping open and her heart lurches.
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John outruns Peter, peers inside the linen cloth, folded the head cloth, separate but empty.
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Two radiant figures are sitting where Jesus was supposed to be laying.
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She says, sir, if you have moved him, just tell me where.
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The disciples have locked themselves away, fear choking them.
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This is a very rough and short telling of probably the most important story, not probably the most important story in all of human history.
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He bled literally from every pore, carried our sin, faced the cross, shattered the tomb.
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And just like he said, Mary, he's calling your name.
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And perhaps maybe that's true for you right now.
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But there will come a time in all of our lives where despair will overtake us.
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Where our mistakes will just seem to be just too overwhelming.
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Lay down all the lies that you now believe about yourself.
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That your pain and loneliness are yours forever because that's who you are, really.
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Everything true with God is usually the opposite.
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It's hard to let go of the shame that you've carried your whole life or the wounds you've nursed.
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Because that's, at least it was in my life, that's all you know.
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They've probably been with you for so long that you believe that that's all you are.
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This Easter, I just want to leave you with this message.
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This weekend, I encourage you to listen to hear his voice, soft as it was for Mary.
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I was reading an article about Tammy Peterson, the wife of Jordan Peterson.
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Last year, she walked into a Catholic church and embraced a new faith.
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She was a survivor of cancer, and she found solace in the rosaries ritual, the beads and
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And it gave her peace through all of the fear that she had.
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And she shared this last year with a Catholic Herald interview.
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A New York Post article this week reports a surge in young people converting to Catholicism
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with year-over-year converts increasing from 30 to 70 percent.
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The Archdiocese of Fort Worth says there was a 72 percent jump in converts in the last year.
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You know, Barack Obama knows, said his wife, that we're going to have to change everything.
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We're going to have to change our traditions, our language, our history.
01:53:52.860
At a time when we are told, you know, if you disagree with your family, don't get together
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Those rituals that you do as a family are very important.
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And they're not just Catholic traditions or relics of the past.
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Even the way we light candles in honor to honor the dead.
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And rituals in Catholicism, the Eucharist or the confession, elevate this instinct, this
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So it's not just it's not just it's not just a routine.
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When you have meaning and there's a storm in your life, it gives structure.
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So it doesn't feel like the storm is just going to wipe you out entirely.
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There was a study in 2013 in Scientific American, an article by a psychologist that explained
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that rituals, religious or not, reduce anxiety, steady us after loss and boost confidence before
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I mean, it's not faith based, but think of athletes with a pregame routine or just a
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New York Post noted that young converts now, especially Gen Z, crave, quoting the clarity
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and certainty, rejecting the, quote, lax alternatives of modern worship.
01:55:36.860
Because modern worship tells you you can believe anything.
01:55:45.180
And I mean, he will, warts and all, but you got to do a little something.
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Church attendance among 18 to 24 year olds has jumped from 4% in 2018 to 16% in 2024.
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And experts are saying it is a hunger for substance.
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And, you know, whatever it is, but whatever the ritual is, you don't have to be a Catholic
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But what if we all leaned into our rituals a little bit more?
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I mean, think of the little things that we do every day.
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The morning coffee poured in the same way, in the same cup every day.
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Rituals build communities like a congregation singing together in unison or a neighborhood
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We now live in a world of screen and rush and rituals slow us down.
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Rituals will slow you down, make you present in the moment.
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This isn't about recognizing, you know, one faith over another.
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This is about recognizing what rituals do for us.
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The New York Post highlights how young people facing perma-conflict, perma-conflict, and secular
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individualism, see traditional Catholicism as cultural defiance.
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And you don't have to be a Catholic to find this.
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But whatever it is, it can shape your heart and your day.
01:57:59.820
And as we head to Easter this weekend, as we head to our, hopefully, you're attending your
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Easter service this weekend, take time to find your family's ritual.
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And I say that, my kids are scattered everywhere, and I'm having to go to Washington on Sunday.
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And for the first time, I think in my life, I'm not together with my whole family on Easter.
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But no matter what faith you are, I mean, we can all learn from each other.
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We are all part of one big body and one big effort.
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Because I believe the other side, as we started this show, we started talking about this really
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evil editorial, this op-ed on Substack, that was talking about, you know, when do we start
01:59:04.640
But I just gave you some stats that show, yeah, but good stuff is happening too.
01:59:18.360
Just, no matter where you are, no matter what you're doing this weekend, if you're a believer,
01:59:39.340
Let me go to Abby, who's been holding since last hour.
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I was calling about the miracles, and I wanted to tell you a story about my daughter.
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When she was born, she was born perfectly healthy.
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She started vomiting at three days old, constantly.
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And at six days old, I laid her down and just fed her a bottle, and she started choking in
02:00:04.160
I fly out of bed, and by the time I scream, she's already blue.
02:00:09.840
My mom comes running upstairs because she was visiting us, and she started CPR.
02:00:13.760
My husband was on the phone with 911, and I heard this voice, very loud voice.
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Abby, take the nasal thing and the aspirator and stick it down her throat.
02:00:33.480
And I shoved that thing all the way down her throat, and I pulled out tons of vomit.
02:00:38.420
And by the time the paramedics got there, she was breathing.
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She wasn't blue any longer, and she was pink and as happy as can be.
02:00:52.060
And when you heed those voices, I mean, as long as those voices are telling you to do
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something good, you know, like, hey, go steal that.
02:01:00.320
But when you listen to those voices, it is, I mean, it is so, you just know you're not
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You know there's something bigger than just you.
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Come back with final thoughts in just a second.
02:01:25.820
Do you remember 2010, I was talking to a friend, Mark Alberian, and we were talking,
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and I said, can you imagine if gold was $3,000 to $5,000 an ounce?
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Do you know what the world's going to be like at $3,000?
02:01:48.020
At $3,000, I don't even know what the world needs to look like when it's $3,000.
02:01:58.460
I mean, when was it that it crossed over $2,000?
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And everybody's like, ah, gold, it's not going anywhere.
02:02:10.240
It wasn't, can you zoom out on that chart and see?
02:02:18.040
Okay, $2,000, I mean, $2,000 was crossed 2024, beginning of 2024.
02:02:42.280
My grandfather used to always say, what do the rich people know that I don't know?
02:02:54.980
Boy, I'd like to live in a boring world, but we're not living in one right now.
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Call Lear Capital today, 800-957-GOLD, before this thing just goes unhinged.
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800-957-GOLD, 800-957-GOLD, to get your free report, $4,200 gold.
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You know, a year ago, I was talking about the $4,200 gold report.
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It wasn't even $2,000, and I was like, well, that's, I mean, I don't want it to be $4,200.
02:03:17.280
I hope it doesn't get, well, I mean, what's the world going to have to be like?
02:03:26.200
Also, ask them how to get $15,000 in free gold or silver with a qualifying purchase.
02:03:53.080
She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
02:03:58.940
Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.
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Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
02:04:09.160
I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
02:04:18.020
I had a great time with Patricia Heaton and her husband.
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Patricia Heaton was the mom on Everybody Loves Raymond.
02:04:39.840
She's now doing the new, she's the main squeeze for Frasier, the new Frasier.
02:04:47.440
Anyway, I had her on the podcast along with her husband, David Hunt, to talk about Unexpected.
02:04:55.020
It's one of the movies that they have put out and discussed marriage, infertility, IVF, abortion, adoption, surrogacy, sperm counts.
02:05:06.620
She says RFK, the jury's still out on RFK, but she's like, I think he's moving in the right direction.
02:05:14.540
She talks about the feminist movement and how it's just been really damaging for women.
02:05:22.280
David says our education system is in need of massive reform.
02:05:32.560
I mean, we covered everything, everything with Patricia Heaton.
02:05:37.060
She rarely speaks out unless it's just about life.
02:05:43.820
And we talked about that, but I was shocked at how open both of them were on every topic.
02:05:52.380
It's episode 254, how God helped everybody love Raymond Starr, Razor Kids.
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I noticed you've been ignoring the big story of the day.
02:06:06.740
That's Senator Van Hollen was able to finally meet with the Maryland father who was abducted.
02:06:16.140
By the United States government and taken to an El Salvador prison against the law.
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I saw the pictures of him meeting with the Maryland father.
02:06:30.040
This is actually a really funny thing that came out of this, which is they're sitting there talking
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and in front of them are glasses with salted rims and cherries.
02:06:42.000
Now, everyone's saying, I can't believe they're sipping margaritas.
02:06:45.580
Bukele actually tweeted about it and said, oh, they're sipping margaritas in the tropical
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The reporting from behind the scenes was, according to a person familiar with the situation, a
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Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of them
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Also, like, do you garnish a margarita with a cherry?
02:07:11.480
I've never had one with that particular garnish, but maybe it's possible.
02:07:16.560
But if that's what it is and they were just trolling, it's I it's I find it hilarious.
02:07:22.800
That being said, this guy who's all he's trying to do is make a name for himself and get social
02:07:27.880
media attention going down there to meet with him.
02:07:34.240
But I mean, honestly, it's it's I think making the Democrats look more and more out of touch every day that goes by.
02:07:42.020
They're they're on the wrong side of almost everything.
02:07:45.740
Yeah, it's in a way you're sort of luring them into backing the guy who might be a MS-13 gang member.
02:07:56.440
You know, of course, I want us to get these things right.
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Trump administration has admitted they weren't supposed to do this.
02:08:03.080
I don't think, as some are saying on the left, that it was an intentional act.
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I think it was an administrative mistake, an error.
02:08:12.320
I do think that if they really wanted him back, they could probably get him.
02:08:16.440
I'm pretty sure they could convince Bukele to send him back if they really wanted to.
02:08:21.680
And at this point, I think they're just annoyed by the left enough to not ask.
02:08:26.440
Warren, Elizabeth Warren has been bashing JFK or sorry, RFK for, you know, him saying that we're going to find the root of autism.
02:08:40.580
If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign.
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Autistic people contribute every day to our nation's greatness to every kid with autism.
02:08:50.840
I mean, these are the people who are pushing for, you know, we've got to kill all of the babies that might have Down syndrome.
02:09:03.600
It is an interesting twist in this conversation, though.
02:09:05.880
Like, they're seemingly trying to go down some road of saying that, like, oh, people who are affected with very deep autism that – because there's a wide, wide spectrum.
02:09:19.900
I mean, like, there are some people who really, really struggle with daily life.
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I will say, a large portion of the people now that are diagnosed as autistic, I don't even notice.
02:09:30.220
I mean, that's not to say that it's not a real thing, of course, but it's also like people included are very functional and, you know, having situations that are pretty typical of a normal childhood in a lot of these situations as well.
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And I know it's a big difference between these.
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It's not the thing to say, well, the theme music is coming up.
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But can we stop looking at everything as a mistake or a curse?
02:10:03.820
You know, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, they both kind of contributed a lot to our society.
02:10:11.360
You know, that doesn't mean we don't look for the cause of it and try to stop it.
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But, you know, it's not necessarily a bad thing.