Feb. 25, 2026

The Bill Martinez Show 02 25 26

The Bill Martinez Show 02 25 26
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The Bill Martinez Show 02 25 26
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Are you ready?

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Yeah, Okay, let's do it.

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Ill Martinez Live a program about current events, our culture,

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our values, our politics, and our future.

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And now Bill Martinez.

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Hey, six minutes after the top of the hour. Right now,

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Bill Martinez here, Hey, and we're Gosha. I'm excited to

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have Kenon speed Hack back, I mean chasing down for

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the last month or though it seems he's been on

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the road traveling. Everybody wants to hear from him because

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he's got his pulse on all things America. Kenan, welcome back.

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Good to have you with us.

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Thanks Bill, great to be back. Sorry for the delay.

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No, Hey, that's okay. You're always worth the wait. Kenan

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is the founder chairman of the SMI Group, LLC and

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international consulting firm Investment Bank, author of fiction and nonfiction books,

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and a frequent speaker and contributor to media including Rope

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Clear Politics, The American Mind, National Review, TV radio podcast.

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He's everywhere you know, Kenon. I was thinking in preparation

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for our conversation here is that most Americans consider free

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speech to be respectful and beneficial for all concerned. But

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what happens when free speech becomes toxic and deleterious to

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the greater good, or when adversarial sources disrespect our core

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founding values only to cause chaos and disruption.

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So what happens, you know, let me answer the question

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two ways. First, free speech means people can be toxic,

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they can say things that are deleterious to America. I mean,

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the core of American free speech is just that free speech.

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There are a few exceptions, and by the way, hate

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speech isn't one of those exceptions. The exception that's a

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bit like that is a speech that is imminently going

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to cause violence and does so. There's an exception for defamation.

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There're an exception for true state secrets. But we live

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in a society where we don't want the government telling

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us you can't say that because it's too toxic and hateful.

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On the other hand, speech is speech. Speech is not action.

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There is no First Amendment right to get in the

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face of an ice agent and to spit at him

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or to impede the work he's doing. There is no

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free speech to set a police car on fire or

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a private citizens car on fire. There is no free

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speech to demonstrate in a way that interferes in traffic

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or is unsafe or unfair. And one of the parts

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of free speech that's a little bit more limited than

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the others is the right to protest, because that's just

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not exercising free speech by you and me having a conversation,

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or by standing on the street corner and speaking into

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a megaphone. That's free speech. There's a tendency to interfere

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in the rights of others. That type of free speech

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is allowed only within reasonable restrictions. That's why cities can

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demand permits. That's why they can tell protesters to protest

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across the street in the park and not in the

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middle of the street. So I know my ANSWER's got

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a bit long, but I'm an absolutist when it comes

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to people's rights to say stupid things, false things, and

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toxic things. But I'm also an absolutist on the fact

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that free speech and actions or activities are just not

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the same.

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Well, I agree, but let's break it down. You know,

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at least the first part here of what you addressed

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in terms of free speech, I mean, because we are

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allowing that space for people to express their emotions, you know,

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at any level, including as you say, quote unquote hate speech.

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Then it really behooves we the people to be discerners

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of what is beneficial speech and how to manage that.

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Just because somebody says something that could be toxic, we

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don't have to drink it, do we.

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No, we don't. Now. There's a doctrine called the counter

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speech doctrine that originated in the early nineteen hundreds, and

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the basic notion is that the remedy for speech that's

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false or toxic is more free speech, so that you

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can correct the record. But we're living in a period

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right now, and I don't want to say, but I

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actually believe that's true full stop. We are, however, living

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in a period right now where foreign actors and foreign

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money and malign influences are intentionally using social media, whether

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it's TikTok, whether it's X, whatever it might be, to

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coordinate and communicate falsehoods. We saw a bit of that

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during the height of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union,

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using the tools that were then available, did much the

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same thing. And what we need today to understand is

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that speech we may think is originating with American activists,

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even far left, crazy radical activists, may not be. It

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may be originating in China, in Qatar, in other locations

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that don't have our rights of free speech but are

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abusing American rights of free speech to try to change

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the dialogue here.

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And unfortunately, you know, based on our First Amendment right

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and having a free and fair press, our press is

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checked out. And it's almost like they're compounding the problem.

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You know, we need a free and fair press to

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act as a filter, you know, for these outside agencies,

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because you have that dynamic coming in, You've got social

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media coming in kennon As. You know that it's just

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creating and adding to the chaos. And when you look

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at reports like from MRC for example, you know they're

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demonstrating based on their analysis that like ninety five percent

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of that which is reported in the mainstream media about

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Donald Trump is negative. How can that be? I mean,

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you know, you talk about the Cold War, the Soviet

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Union would have loved to have had that kind of press, right.

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Yeah. Ninety five percent of the guests on Colbert and

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Jimmy Kimmel are Democrats, are progressives, and I think it's

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actually less than five percent on Colbert were or have

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been Republicans. We have a free press, we don't have

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a fair press. We have free rights to broadcast, for

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the most part, what you want to broadcast, but we

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don't have fair broadcasters. ABC is the home of The View,

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an extremely far left talk show on every day. It's

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the home of the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Two hours a

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day of far left broadcasting. That may be free, it's

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not fair. So we do about that. I don't think

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what we do about it, though some conservatives do, is

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try to get the SEC to regulate these broadcasters and

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to force them to have more balanced programming. Again, I'm

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a First Amendment absolutist, but what we do need to

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do is we do need to do everything we can

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do one to stop the indoctrination of our youth in

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elementary school, junior high, and high school. That's not a

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free speech issue. That's an issue about ending DEI. That's

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an issue about not allowing school teacher unions to dictate

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the curriculum in our schools. There's nothing to do with

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free speech. There an indoctrination of our children in schools, faculties,

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and universities that have only one perspective. That's not a

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free speech issue. That's an issue of the way in

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which people have been recruited that placed ideological preferences above merit.

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So we need to make those changes. We need to

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stop what's happening in America, which is our children are

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growing up not understanding why America is so exceptional, not

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believing that America strives for there to be no racism,

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for there to be a color blind meritocracy. And America

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may not be perfect, but it is one of the

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most perfect. In striving for that goal. We fought a

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civil war and millions of people were killed or injured

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or dislocated in order to make America a better place.

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That's not being taught today in the schools. We need

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to correct that so that when adults listen to biased

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news media and bias social media, they have some ability

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to discern that which is real from that which is fake.

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And that's where we need to focus, not unlimiting free speech,

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but on educating the public to understand that free speech

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is being used for nefarious purposes.

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Got to go to a quick break. We got more

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from Kenn' spayback after this stay with us.

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Welcome back Bill Martinez here with Kennan speed Back, the

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founder chairman of the SMI Group, LLC. He is a

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frequent speaker and contributor to media including Real Clear Politics,

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The American Mind, National Review, TV radio and podcasts. And

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we're honored to have Kenan with us. Kenan to just

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unwrap a little bit more and kind of summarize what

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you talked about, and that is that we need to

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get back. I've been saying this for a long time.

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We need to return to first principles and why education.

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Why did our founding fathers and those that came up

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with the idea that we needed to have education in

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our society. What was the reason for it? And how

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have we missed the mark over the decades to where

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education has become more a you know, kind of an

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indoctrination center as opposed to a real educational center.

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All right, Well, first of all, I always believe in

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respecting my adversaries. I have more immense respect than you

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would be comfortable with for the far less ability to

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infiltrate government, to take over school boards and university boards

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of trustees and faculties, to take over accreditation agencies, to

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basically bracket all aspects of education with requirements that our

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educators conform to a far left radical ideology. And they

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started doing that more than fifty years ago, and they

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basically got their hammer lock within the last twenty years.

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That's an entire generation of our youth educated by far

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left in doctrination. And it's fifty years of America being educated,

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at least in part through this indoctrination. Respect your adversary,

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understand your adversary, and take appropriate actions to come back

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to fight back. We've got to do that. Donald Trump

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in four years isn't going to achieve a fraction of that.

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What's really wrong with the Department of Education. It's not,

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in my opinion, whether it federalizes or localizes education choices.

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Because there are as many far left states as there

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are far left bureaucrats in the federal government. What's wrong

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with the Department of Education is that it's funding under

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Democrat presidents and even Republican presidents was focused on action civics.

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Action civics is this far left view that America is

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not exceptional. It's the sixteen nineteen project that America started

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as a racist nation and has always been a racist nation.

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So I don't have a strong view on whether or

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not we need a Department of Education or should have

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a Department of Education. I have a strong view on

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Republican elected officials taking back control of their state universities,

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of local school boards, of avoiding allowing far left teachers' unions,

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the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association from

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determining the curricula in our schools. If we start by

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taking back control of education and restoring patriotism and faith

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in America, it will go a long way towards solving

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the problem of biased media. Because again, I don't want

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to solve the problem of biased media by prohibiting their speech.

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I want to solve the problem by having the listeners

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the viewers understand where that speech is false, and they

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may choose to turn it off, and they may choose

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to go to another channel or another social media site.

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That's what I want to see happen.

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Yeah, for me along the same line, Ken, and I

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want to see results and the results that we that

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is coming out of the educational system right now, for

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the amount of money that we're investing in it. It's unacceptable.

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I mean, there isn't anything in the American ethos that

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says that being mediocre is okay. And when you look back,

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you say fifty years, I say, it's been over one

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hundred years, you know, because it was at the turn

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of the twentieth century when progressives said we're going to

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do a deliberate march. I mean it was almost like

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from the Communist Manifesto it was going to be a

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deliberate march through all the institutions of America. They set

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out to do that at the turn of the century,

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and they, as you say, they've got a hammerlock on

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this now. And so you know, the thing that's working

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in our favor in a sense is that the results stink,

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and the American people more and more are realizing that.

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But and I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat.

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You know, I think this is either an American or

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an anti American issue. Politics just myers and creates chaos

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and disruption, and it doesn't unify. But I think we

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can be more unified when we think about the greater

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cause of America has nothing to do with politics. What

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unites us is the American vision, and this great American

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idea politics divisesus.

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Okay, one hundred percent agree. I'll accept that, except because

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it's true that they really did get the start almost

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one hundred years ago. Actually this is about one hundred

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years ago, is in the nineteen twenties, and it accelerated

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in the later period. Test scores across the country are terrible.

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The US and international rankings of education has fallen dramatically.

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I use as an example because none is better than California,

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which passed a mathematics framework which said that getting the

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right answer can no longer be what's important, because according

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to this framework, that's not equitable because people of marginalized

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minorities weren't getting the answer right as often, and so

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therefore they shouldn't have to get the right answer. When

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we allow politics to get in the way of the facts.

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We don't educate people. It's fine if some people want

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to be socialists. I don't think it's fine if they

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want to be communists. It's fine as some people believe

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that equity is important, but it's not fine to utilize

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those ideologies to replace teaching that two plus two is four,

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or the truth of American or world history, or to

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allow people to consider various views. And Bill, you couldn't

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be more right. American education isn't close to what it

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was when it was. Really the world was jealous of

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the quality of American higher education, respected American K through

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twelve education, and today that's just not true. And it's

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because of the influence of ideology and education. It's been

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a terrible, terrible result.

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Well, and the thing is is it's okay to protect

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the exceptionally and the greatness of America. This is what

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we grew up with. And we're waking up right now

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and seeing, oh my gosh, what are we handing off

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to the next generation. You know, and as you write

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about in your column, violences politics by other means, I mean,

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you know, we're addressing some of this, and it is

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amazing how how the adversarial elements have come into our country.

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It's like my old mentor used to say, Bill, you

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can be so open minded, your brains have fallen out.

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And I think this is what's happened to our country

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in some means, is that in you know, for our

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liberal and progressive idea, in our over sense of compassion

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and that towards others, we have violated the principles that

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have protected the very things that supposedly we held dear

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at one time. And because we're not holding them dear

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right now, we're paying.

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A price for it.

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In my humble opinion, that's right, you know.

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Look, polls show that most conservatives, most Republicans, are perfectly

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happy to go to dinner, family events, have friends who

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are liberals. Poles also show that a very large percent

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of the far left and even the moderate left don't

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have the same view. They disinvite their family to Thanksgiving

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dinner or Christmas dinner, they don't have many friends who

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are conservative, they wouldn't marry someone who is conservative. That's

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not good, and that's consistent with the fact that we've

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seen such a rise of violence among the left and protests.

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I mean, I'm well aware of the statistics which when

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looking at political assassinations, say that there have been a

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like number on the right, and or at least there

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used to be a like number on the right. Maybe

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that's true, maybe that's false. Put that aside. That's not

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the only form of violence. Violence in protests, violence through arson,

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violence through looting, is almost entirely on the left. And

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that's not about dialogue. That's not about getting along, that's

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not about figuring out a path forward. That's about wanting

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to remake America. I don't want to remake America. I

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love this country. I believe in this country. This country

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has always been exceptional, the shining city on the hill,

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and we need to get back to that. And we

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don't get back to that through violence. We don't get

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back to that through indoctrination. We get back to that

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through dialogue, where both sides listen to each other and

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come to a path forward that recognizes what our country

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has always really been about.

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I believe it's it's the big part of this is

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violence resides in our heart and we need to think

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about that. We need to think about those seats that

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have been deposited that get us angry because somebody cuts

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us off on you know, on the boulevard or you know,

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whatever is being told to us by the mainstream media

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to manipulate us in a way that is not, you know, positive.

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And this is the opportunity that we have here in America,

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especially during this Lenten season that we're in. I say

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is that we should pause for a moment and think

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about those things that are good and noble and righteous

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that are going to advance the cause for all concerned.

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And you know, maybe we should take an inventory of that,

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Ken And I'm gonna let you wrap it up, go ahead.

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You know, I was just thinking while you were talking.

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It was just Chinese New Year Ramadan, not long past

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Christmas holidays. People of all backgrounds, of all faiths, of

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all national origins, in many ways believe in and seek

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the same things. But when we lose sight of our

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goals and how far we've come as a nation, When

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we lose sight of the value of free speech and

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dialogue and instead turn to anger and violence, we're not

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advancing anyone's rights, or anyone's livelihood, or anyone's enjoyment or

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standard of life. We've got to get back to American values.

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And I do think that that's the best way forward.

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One hundred percent. Kenni Speedback, Founder, Chairman of the SMI Group, LLC,

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an international consulting firm and investment bank. Ken has always

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appreciate the insight. Thank you, sir, Take care be well.

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Hey, we're back with you, America. Glad you could joined

478
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to Bill Martinus here along with key Party Patriots action

479
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man in Washington. He's got his thumb on the heartbeat

480
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and the pull of what's happening on the belt ware,

481
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the one and only Bill Passo. Mister Bill, How we

482
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doing doing fine here?

483
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:06.039
How you doing? Bill?

484
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:08.440
Yeah, I'm doing terrific. Just kind of heads up to

485
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:11.400
our audience here because we're all about the truth, the

486
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whole truth and nothing. But we are recording this a

487
00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:17.920
day before, well actually the morning of the State of

488
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the Union, so we're gonna any comments we made about

489
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the state the State of the Union is what we

490
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have received in terms of early reporting and what we

491
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anticipate and you know, and so that will be our

492
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commentary right respect a little.

493
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Yeah, absolutely, let's let's talk headlines for tomorrow.

494
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Okay, all right. Okay, okay, let me let me put

495
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it this way.

496
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If I had one thousand dollars to bet at a

497
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.319
casino in Vegas and they said, here's the thousand bucks,

498
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.559
put different amounts of money on what you believe are

499
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:56.440
the chances of different headlines for tomorrow morning. I would

500
00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:59.039
put two hundred and fifty bucks. I'd put twenty five

501
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:02.799
percent of my kitty would go to a headline that

502
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:09.400
says something like Trump announces strike on Iran in middle

503
00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:14.079
of State of Union address. I think there's a chance that,

504
00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:17.640
given what's taken place over the last several weeks, moving

505
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:22.359
prepositioning military forces in the region, waiting for the gerald

506
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.880
Ford aircraft carrier to arrive from the Caribbean, that kind

507
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:30.839
of stuff, I think there's a decent chance that President

508
00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:35.480
Trump might actually have given the order for military strikes

509
00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:38.440
to begin and they and to top it all off,

510
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.200
wouldn't it be extraordinary if he was able to say,

511
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:47.000
to make the case for military action, Connecticut action, Connecticut

512
00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:50.039
kinetic action, as they like to say in this administration

513
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:54.400
against Iran. He makes the case and then then looks

514
00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.640
at his watch and says, and ladies and gentlemen, I

515
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:01.519
can tell you that twelve minutes ago the Iranian Revolutionary

516
00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:06.400
Guard core headquarters was destroyed by American bombers. Yeah, that

517
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.640
would that would be kind of a dramatic moment. So

518
00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:09.880
I'm thinking that that would be.

519
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:11.960
That would be like when he was at mar Largo

520
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.839
with President g Right, stepped away, came back, it said, yes,

521
00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:17.799
before you bite into yours, is this hurt?

522
00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:20.880
Let me tell you what just happened, right exactly, except

523
00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:23.279
here he'd be whispering into the ear of forty million

524
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:25.279
Americans who have tuned in to watch the State of

525
00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:28.519
the Union address tonight. I think I think there's a

526
00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:31.519
chance that that that might be the big headline tomorrow.

527
00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:34.079
I'm not at all short, but I think there's a chance.

528
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:34.759
It's worth a shot.

529
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:39.960
Go ahead, I like it, though, then you're gonna I'd

530
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:44.200
also put twenty five percent of my kitty on Trump.

531
00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:49.240
In remarkable rebuke, speaks to Supreme Court members in front

532
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:53.319
row and shames them. He's not at all happy with

533
00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:59.440
Friday's ruling by a six to three majority, including one

534
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.039
of the guys that he appointed. I'm sorry. Two of

535
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.880
the justices that he appointed, Neil Gorsich and Amy Cony

536
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.519
Barrett were part of that six to three majority striking that.

537
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:11.480
And it's important that people understand exactly what the court

538
00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:14.000
struck down. They didn't say the president doesn't have the

539
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:17.119
power to impose tariffs. They said the president does not

540
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:19.839
have the power to impose tariffs under the law that

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00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:24.119
he cited. Okay, this is very important. The law that

542
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:27.039
he cited was a nineteen seventy seven law, the International

543
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:31.119
Emergency Economic Powers Act. It talks about a whole range

544
00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:34.039
of options that are available to a president when he

545
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:38.920
believes there's an economic emergency. So they came to the conclusion,

546
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.400
first off, he believes that trade deficits are in and

547
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.039
of themselves bad. Now, a lot of economists will tell

548
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.799
you a trade deficit is no different. It's no worse

549
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:51.200
than a trade surplus. A trade surplus is no better

550
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.359
than a trade deficit. It's just a number on a

551
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:56.200
piece of paper. Doesn't mean anything in the real world.

552
00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:58.359
All it means these are the same guys that have

553
00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.519
justified thirty nine trillion dollars debt.

554
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:02.720
That's true. That's true too. So you want to keep

555
00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:04.680
that in mind. I got to keep that in mind,

556
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.480
all right. But the point is that under this law

557
00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:10.319
it offers a whole range of options for the president,

558
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:13.880
but it never uses the word tariff. So they point

559
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:16.519
this out and they say, gosh, you know, if Congress

560
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.200
is going to give a grant of its power, because

561
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.359
the tariff power is actually written into the Constitution in

562
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:26.480
Section one, Article one of the Constitution, which is establishing

563
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:30.960
the Congress and the Congress's power, the Supreme Court has

564
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:34.920
this Major Questions Doctrine, which which where they say, if

565
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.680
Congress is going to give a grant of authority to

566
00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.839
the president on major stuff like this, it has to

567
00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:44.160
do so explicitly. The language has to be very explicit.

568
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.119
And Justice Robert said, the law that the President cited

569
00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:50.279
simply falls short. That was the phrase he used. Doesn't

570
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.920
have that language. So what did the president do? After

571
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:58.640
fulminating for a bit, after releasing that anger, releasing that tension,

572
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.559
he said, that's what We've got other options where we

573
00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:05.799
can impose tariffs, and I'm going to and boom, ten

574
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.400
percent tariffs are back in place. And then within twenty

575
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:09.840
four hours he came back and said, you know what,

576
00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:11.960
now that I think about it, let's make those fifteen

577
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.840
percent tariffs just for good measure. Now, Now the difference

578
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:18.159
is that those tariffs will be in place for no

579
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:21.239
more than one hundred and fifty days, and he acknowledges that.

580
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:22.599
So I'm.

581
00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:26.960
I'm a tariff skeptic. I'm still a teriff skeptic. Bill.

582
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.679
We can argue back and forth about this, but I'm

583
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:33.079
wondering if the point of the tariffs, and one of

584
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:35.280
the points that he made about tariffs is that tariffs

585
00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:38.760
are a diplomatic cudgel that he uses when he's in

586
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.440
a negotiation with another country. Give me what I want,

587
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:43.760
either on trade or something else.

588
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:46.480
Maybe, or stop fighting, stop being at war.

589
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:49.159
Exactly, or I will impose a tariff on you. Okay,

590
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:51.039
you know what. I can understand that. I can even

591
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:53.519
understand the argument that you make that, Hey, this isn't

592
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:56.440
just a function of trade policy. This is now a

593
00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:59.599
question of national security policy, foreign policy. It is a

594
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:03.280
tool foreign policy if it's wielded that way. I get that.

595
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.320
But now we've got tariffs that can be imposed for

596
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.119
only one hundred and fifty days. That's five short months

597
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:14.159
in the world of international trade. That's that's the blink

598
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:17.679
of an eye. How effective a cudgel? Are they? Really

599
00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.400
if you say I'm gonna impose a tariff on you

600
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.119
for another one hundred and forty nine days, I'm not sure.

601
00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:27.119
I'm not sure that works. But anyway, that's what the

602
00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:31.199
President has done. We've got tariffs. They are legal. I mean,

603
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:34.039
if somebody is silly enough to challenge them, I don't

604
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:36.159
even I don't think they would make it through the

605
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:39.079
courts before the one hundred and fifty day period is

606
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:42.760
up and the tariffs are evaporated. So the courts would say, well,

607
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:45.079
this is now a moot question, you know, because there's

608
00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:49.239
no harm being done now. So I think I think

609
00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:51.840
we I think we're gonna hear a lot about tariffs tonight.

610
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:54.320
He's gonna he's gonna talk about how upset he is

611
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:56.599
at the Supreme Court. They're going to be sitting right

612
00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:59.400
in front of him in the front row, and that's

613
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.880
gonna that's going to be a remarkable split screen moment.

614
00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:04.519
We're gonna be watching him at the podium and looking

615
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:06.559
at the Supreme Court justices in the front row for

616
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:07.119
the reaction.

617
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:08.239
That way, you.

618
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:15.000
Think about this, Okay, he could ask Justice Roberts to say, hey,

619
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.440
remember you when Obamacare came to the court and you

620
00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:22.559
walked on the other side of the bench and you

621
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:28.559
told Obama's attorneys that it had to be attacks. You

622
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:33.119
gave them guidance from the bench on how to pass Obamacare.

623
00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:37.360
You didn't say anything when the tariffs came up, and

624
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.400
this was before the court, not to mention the fact

625
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:43.280
that Obamacare came in with a lot of theory and

626
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:48.280
pomp and circumstance. Trump is bringing the receipts, so to speak,

627
00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:51.000
and saying, look at what we've done with the tariffs.

628
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:54.880
What that has done. It's brought what almost two hundred

629
00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:59.360
billion dollars in income to fight against thirty nine trillion

630
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:01.920
dollars in debt. Oh yeah, that's a big emergency right now.

631
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.400
By the way, and what I've quieted eight wars on

632
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:10.079
the international scene. All right, so we're out of the

633
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:14.239
theoretical we have some practical look see of what the

634
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:21.320
tariff of the executive having the authority to exercise tariff implementation.

635
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:25.079
You're absolutely right, and that's one of the reasons that

636
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:28.719
you know, what we haven't talked about in several months

637
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.679
is the idea of a second reconciliation bill.

638
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:32.440
Remember the.

639
00:37:33.960 --> 00:37:36.840
Working Family's Tax Credit, the one big, beautiful bill was

640
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:40.079
a reconciliation bill that they were able to pass with

641
00:37:40.320 --> 00:37:43.440
only Republican votes in the House and only Republican votes

642
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:46.119
in the Senate. And there's been some talk about a

643
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:50.599
second reconciliation bill that that talk had quieted down over

644
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:53.239
the last several weeks, a lot of people saying, Okay,

645
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:56.559
we've missed the opportunity. But now that the tariffs have

646
00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:58.760
been struck down and everybody's looking at that number that

647
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:02.079
you're talking about, Wait a minute, the terriffs generated a

648
00:38:02.199 --> 00:38:05.039
couple hundred billion dollars for the US Treasury in the

649
00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:07.559
relatively short period of time that they were there. You

650
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:09.360
know what that might be good for. That might be

651
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:11.960
good for a pay for what we call a pay

652
00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:14.719
for in a reconciliation bill. If you want to cut

653
00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:17.719
taxes under a reconciliation bill, you're supposed to find a

654
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:21.559
way to pay for it by spending cuts. That's the

655
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.320
way Republicans say they like to do it. Of course,

656
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:27.880
Republicans and practice are honestly, they're not a lot better

657
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.639
than Democrats when it comes to spending cuts. Nobody in

658
00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.440
Washington really has the spine necessary to cut spending. The

659
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:37.920
best we can hope for is that they reduce the

660
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:41.840
growth of future spending. That's the real difference between Republicans

661
00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:44.960
and Democrats until now, Because now you've actually got a

662
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.559
way that you can show we're reducing the deficit by

663
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exactly revenues to the treasury because of these tariffs.

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Hey, welcome back.

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We're back with you.

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Bill Martinez here along with Bill Passco TVP's man in Washington.

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Uh Bell.

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Just as a sidebar, real quick, what's the over and

747
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under that the Democrats don't ever go to their feet?

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Oh?

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This is yeah, this.

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Is a great question. Last year they refused to stand

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and applaud a kid who had defeated cancer and was

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inducted honorarily into the Secret Service, if I remember correctly,

753
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it was either the Service of the FBI. For goodness sake,

754
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here's here's a young, young kid who's been diagnosed with cancer.

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Who's who's told you've got you've got cancer, and he

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he struggles to overcome it. All he ever wanted to

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be was a law enforcement officer, a peace officer. For

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crying out loud, and when they when they had the

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head of the Secret Service come and give him his

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own badge, even then the Democrats would not applaud. For

761
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goodness sake, people, let's get real, you know, put the

762
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put the hatred of Donald Trump aside. Tonight is going

763
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to be stop and think about this. This is a

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very important case. This is the State of the Union

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address in the year of twenty twenty six, when we're

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celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of our country.

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There's gonna be You better believe there's gonna be stuff

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in the State of the Union address about America. The

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kind of stuff that could be. You know, I'm sure

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that Trump is going to deliver it in a way

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that only Trump can. He's got a unique oratorical flare.

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We know that, But you're going to be talking about

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themes that any American president, Republican or Democrat would be

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smart to talk about in the year of the two

775
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:41.760
hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration, For goodness sake, what does

776
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America meant to the world? What does America mean to

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the future of the world. What is the importance of

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having a strong and vibrant democracy showing the rest of

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the world that, guess what, we can disagree, we can

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disagree strongly over policy, but we still do it inside

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the context of the American Republic and the constitutional framework

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that was laid out by our founders two hundred and

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fifty years ago. That's this kind of stuff he's going

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to be talking about. And if Democrats sit on their

785
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hands when he's talking about America, it's not gonna look

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good for them. Are they going to sit on their

787
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hands when he introduces the Metal winning the Gold team exactly?

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What's the what's the bet on that I have based

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on last year? The smart money would say, now they're

790
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going to be stupid enough to sit on their hands

791
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for that too. But I just, I just I can't

792
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believe if I were a communications consultant on the left

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and somebody, somebody called me up and said, hey, we

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want you, we want you to come talk to House

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Democrats about how they ought to react tonight. I'd say,

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for gosh sakes, anytime he mentions America, you put your

797
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hand over your heart, or if you're a veteran, salute

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or and and don't forget to stand at appropriate times

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for goodness sake.

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But Bill, they can't. You know, they can't because they're

801
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so ideologically fixed. Because the and you and I talked

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about this the last time. This is the divide in

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this country. It's not Republican and Democrat. If you think

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it is, you're missing the whole point. The divide in

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this country is you either are pro American or you're

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anti American. And the Democratic Party has become the anti

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American party because that when you go back to the

808
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DNA of the Democratic Party, they were anti American from

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the beginning. So why should they change now?

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Right, Well, I got to say, I'm I'm sad to

811
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have to acknowledge that. I don't like to think about that.

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I'd like to extend the presumption of grace to my

813
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political opponents but gosh.

814
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Look at the fruit. Bill, Yeah, you look at the

815
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fruit on the tree.

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You know, we have been the tree is poisoned. Yeah,

817
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was poisoned.

818
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You're right, we've ignored it.

819
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We thought, hey, it's okay. But the fact of the

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matter is is, look at they're not going to be

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happy with the Americans or the American dream or the

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success of it. And they're going to be like the

823
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women the hockey team that refuses to come and show

824
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up and and don't give me this conflict stuff. Look

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at how many times in your life are you going

826
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to be invited to the White House and.

827
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On the day of the State of the Union address

828
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for goodness sake. Yeah that you're you're absolutely right, that's

829
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that's shocking. But you know what to expand on the

830
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point that the Democrats are, they're not just not pro American,

831
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they're literally anti American. Except you and I understand the

832
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concept of American exceptionalism. We know what that means. We know,

833
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we know it in our bones. Barack Obama became president

834
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and talked about American exceptionalism and said, yeah, I believe

835
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in American exceptionalism. You know, but if you talk to

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a frenchmen. Uh, they'll tell you about French exceptionalism. Or

837
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you talk to a Greek they're talking, they'll believe that

838
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there's something special about Greece. No, sir, that's not what

839
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we mean when we're talking about And by the way,

840
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here here's the difference. If you take an American and

841
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you go to France, and you move to France, you

842
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become a French citizen. Guess what, You're still not French.

843
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You're an American person living in France. But a Frenchman

844
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who comes to the United States and becomes an American citizen,

845
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he's no longer a Frenchman. He's not a Frenchman living

846
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in America. He's now an American. We accept people from

847
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all over the world because what it means to be

848
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an American is to hold to a certain set of values,

849
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a certain set of principles. We believe that all men

850
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are created equal. You know what, That's a very simple concept.

851
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But they don't believe that. Elsewhere around the world. They

852
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still have casts. They and whether whether they're in law

853
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as in some countries, or they're merely in social practice,

854
00:48:47.039 --> 00:48:51.239
the fact is that there's no social mobility in three

855
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:54.280
quarters of the world. There's no economic mobility in three

856
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:57.679
quarters of the world. Yet here in America, in any

857
00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:00.559
given year, twenty percent, the bottom twenty eight percent of

858
00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:05.239
our country economically is moving up. We've got we've we've

859
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got change, we've got turmoil. People get jobs, they move jobs,

860
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they they move inside the country. It's a very dynamic

861
00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:15.000
place compared to certainly compared to the rest of the world.

862
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This is what we're talking about when we talk about

863
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American exceptionals, because it's because of the values that we

864
00:49:20.039 --> 00:49:24.719
hold to that all that dynamic economy can can take place.

865
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.039
And that's what Democrats just don't understand, and many of

866
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:31.760
them actively oppose it. They do understand it, and they

867
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:34.840
don't like it. They think they think that rather than

868
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we're all created equal, they think we should all end

869
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:41.760
up equal. And they don't care about how hard you work.

870
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That that doesn't factor into it, doesn't make any difference

871
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:46.599
whether you're willing to work sixty hours a week, get

872
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:48.719
up at five o'clock in the morning so you can

873
00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:51.960
start your second job. That's not a concern to them.

874
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:54.599
What they're concerned about is that we all end up equal.

875
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And you know, we can all that means, well, we

876
00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:01.920
can all end up equal in Misery's that's what will happen.

877
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:07.719
Exactly. Well, Bill, I'm an example of American exceptionalism. I mean,

878
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you know when I first got into radio after I

879
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came out of the Marine Corps in California. Believe it

880
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.960
or not, I was the first Hispanic on a contemporary

881
00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:21.320
radio station in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy two. All right,

882
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so by the Democratic Party measurement, i'd still be out

883
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:29.480
picking strawberries and lemons.

884
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Did you get that job, by the way, did you

885
00:50:31.320 --> 00:50:32.960
get that job because of a government program?

886
00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:34.360
Absolutely not?

887
00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:35.000
Was it there?

888
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:38.119
There was no government handown No, how did you get

889
00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:38.599
that job?

890
00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:42.239
My gosh, by the grace of God, and you're not

891
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:43.880
supposed to have been able to get the job. And

892
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:46.039
I'll tell you the other story too that few people know.

893
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When I went to work in LA they didn't want

894
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me to use my real name, even though just down

895
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the street in the Marine Corps when I was on

896
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the air and doing reports and everything, I was Bill Martinez.

897
00:50:56.519 --> 00:50:58.719
I went to work to the station in LA and

898
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they said, no, you got to be Bill Martin. I

899
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knew that was going to be it.

900
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It had to be.

901
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Well, yeah, so let me tell you this wolfman Jack,

902
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.400
who was there at the station. He says, you guys

903
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are idiots. You got to let him use his own name.

904
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He goes, look at the station. Look where we're at.

905
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We're on Alverado Boulevard. You look at the neighborhood here,

906
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it's like ninety percent Hispanic. You've got the first Hispanic.

907
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And they go, they said, well, we just don't want

908
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him to be stolen away from us. Okay, chol, It's

909
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not like I'm sitting there coming to do your laundry.

910
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I mean, you know. But so anyway, I digress. So

911
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a little bit of the story in terms of American

912
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exceptionalism and why I and my family and my father

913
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who was a World War Two medic at the Battle

914
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of the Bulge with Patten and worked his butt off

915
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and raised nine kids. And I'm a product of my

916
00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:56.960
father and my mother's hard working example and the opportunity

917
00:51:57.119 --> 00:51:59.000
given to me by this great country.

918
00:51:59.440 --> 00:51:59.599
Yeah.

919
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:03.559
Do I believe in American exceptionalism? Yeah? I mean, look

920
00:52:03.559 --> 00:52:07.280
at it even allows a guy like Gavin Newsom who said,

921
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:09.280
I mean it's really funny because Google I was checking

922
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:11.880
it out. They said that he reported a sad score

923
00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:13.360
of being nine hundred. I think he said it was

924
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six ninety. So Google's got their their figure out right.

925
00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:20.800
So it allows the guy who's dyslexic, who can't read

926
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a speech to become governor.

927
00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:27.679
Only in America, Yeah, only in America.

928
00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:30.800
We've got a couple of minutes left. Don't tell, don't tell.

929
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:32.960
Your story to Barack Obama because he'll say, you didn't

930
00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:34.199
do that, you didn't build that.

931
00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:37.880
Yep, exactly, Yeah it was. I didn't know anyway. But

932
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.519
that's that's that's the truth, the whole truth. Anyway, two

933
00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:42.719
minutes left and I'm gonna let you wrap it up.

934
00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:44.679
I'm sorry we were, you know, I had to. I

935
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.039
had to interject that you prompted that memory.

936
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Well, that's it. That's that's a great story, and it

937
00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:52.119
really is. And I hate to tell you this, but

938
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that story is a version of a story that takes

939
00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:59.000
place millions of times a day all over this country.

940
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:01.760
That's that's why, you know, that's why people come to

941
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this country. We don't hear about Russia having an illegal

942
00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:10.559
immigration problem, now, do we. They're not finding ways to

943
00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:15.639
get through the porous borders between Poland and Russia. Nobody's

944
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.039
dying to get into Russia.

945
00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:17.679
You know.

946
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Remember, my gosh, it's got to be close to forty

947
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:21.840
years ago.

948
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Now.

949
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Bill Bennett was the guy in the Reagan administration. He

950
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was the Secretary of Education, he was the drugs are

951
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He came up with something now and I'm sure it

952
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wasn't his idea, but he was the one who popularized it.

953
00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:36.199
He talked about what he called the open Borders test

954
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or the open gates test. What would happen if if

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one day a year we just lifted all the borders

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on the map, all the borders around the world are gone,

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and everybody was allowed to move wherever they wanted. What

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would happen? He said, stop and think about it for

959
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a second. We know what would happen. There would be

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a mass influx of people coming to the United States

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from all over the world. They would come to the

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United States.

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And he's see, he should have said that because Joe

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Biden took notes.

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That's that's exactly right. He said, Hey, that's a good idea,

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let's try that. But but but the point was that

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if given the opportunity, everybody would come to the United States.

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Nobody would be running to get to Russia or China,

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or you know, for that matter, Ghana or Saudi Arabia

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or Venezuela. They wouldn't be going to those countries. They

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becoming the United States because everybody knows that the United

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States is the land of opportunity, because of these fundamental

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values that we also to hear. That's what that's what

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00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:37.840
we're talking about when we talk about American exceptionalism and

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the fact that the Democrats not only don't recognize that anymore,

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but now many of them actively oppose that and and

977
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downplay that and dismiss that. That's frankly, that that's shocking.

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It's sad. It's sad. Like you said, it's become the

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anti American party, sadly, and I agree with you. It

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breaks my heart to think of it that way. We

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got to leave it there. Bill Pasco, Tpp's man in Washington.

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Bill is always appreciate the insight, and hey, look at

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we know where we're going to be at tonight.

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Right.

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Good to be with you.

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Bill.

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hundred nine to five nine seven oh two oh. That's

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eight hundred nine five nine seventy twenty.

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Getting America back on track, Bill Martinez Live.

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Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here along with Scott Powell

1010
00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:32.000
from the Discovery Institute, the author and speaker. Hey, mister Scott, how.

1011
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Are we doing.

1012
00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:35.159
I'm doing great, Bill, Nice to be with you, always

1013
00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.840
good to be here, and lots to talk about. Of course,

1014
00:56:38.320 --> 00:56:41.639
what's the top of mind in most Americans' minds and

1015
00:56:41.840 --> 00:56:46.800
arts is this say that you know what Chip Roy

1016
00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:48.679
has done and what they did in the House. They've

1017
00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:51.800
passed it, and now it's it's in the hands of

1018
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:55.159
the Senate, and does John done and the rest of

1019
00:56:55.199 --> 00:56:58.679
the Senators and the Republican Party have the backbone to

1020
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:02.199
do something that you know eighty percent you could say,

1021
00:57:02.280 --> 00:57:05.599
eighty percent of America is demanding. Yeah, I saw the

1022
00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:09.280
stats yesday. It's eighty three percent, right, yeah, yeah, it

1023
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:13.679
keeps growing. I mean even seventy percent Democrats, you know, wanted.

1024
00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:16.880
So it's like, you know, what are we what are

1025
00:57:16.920 --> 00:57:20.119
we waiting for? Because you see, this is at the

1026
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:25.840
heart of the credibility and the truth equation of America.

1027
00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:28.719
The reason America is in such chaos is because we've

1028
00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:32.719
abandoned truth. And this is this is key in saying,

1029
00:57:32.760 --> 00:57:36.159
look at we're going to embrace truth again and we're

1030
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:40.760
going to give the American people a sense of confidence

1031
00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:44.000
in their government starting with elections.

1032
00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:48.559
Right, yes, Bill Well said, let me elaborate just a

1033
00:57:48.599 --> 00:57:52.800
little bit and give some perspective on this amazing thing

1034
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:56.400
that happened in seventeen seventy six when.

1035
00:57:56.360 --> 00:57:57.440
America was born.

1036
00:57:57.519 --> 00:57:59.559
It was born out of the Declaration and then the

1037
00:57:59.639 --> 00:58:06.159
Constitution that followed. America officially became the first nation in

1038
00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:10.760
all of human history, in all of human history, where

1039
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:15.800
the sovereignty of the country was placed in the hands

1040
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:19.440
of the people, that the people would rule, and they'd

1041
00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:24.679
rule through a constitutional republic. And central to that is

1042
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:29.239
the vote, because the people's voices need to be reflected

1043
00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:32.480
in the government that gets chosen when we do that

1044
00:58:32.679 --> 00:58:38.000
through elections. So elections are the holy grail of our country.

1045
00:58:38.599 --> 00:58:44.199
So when election, when corruption has come into our system,

1046
00:58:46.360 --> 00:58:49.239
election irregularly, vote fraud, and so forth, and so on,

1047
00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:50.760
and we all know that it's there.

1048
00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:51.719
And it was there in.

1049
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:56.000
Significant, in significant numbers in the twenty twenty election. Now

1050
00:58:56.039 --> 00:58:58.679
there's no doubt about that. I mean, it's just common

1051
00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:03.960
sense almost. It really was a huge blow to the

1052
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:07.719
integrity of our country, right because we we didn't have

1053
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:14.280
a legitimate government and and and that was manifesting Joe Biden.

1054
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:17.159
Right clearly, yeah, I mean clearly, and he was.

1055
00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:21.079
The chosen party of the chosen candidate for the deep state.

1056
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:24.719
They wanted him because they knew they could rule through

1057
00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:28.960
the auto pen right and and other things as well.

1058
00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:34.000
And see the deal is uh again, as I it

1059
00:59:34.119 --> 00:59:38.199
suggested in my opening, Scott, is that you see the problem.

1060
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:41.360
You know, it's even like in the Old Testament, God

1061
00:59:41.519 --> 00:59:45.119
was real clear about not having any leaven mixed into

1062
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:49.320
the into the bread, right, because levin is a powerful

1063
00:59:49.800 --> 00:59:52.800
and it's it is a metaphor in the Old Testament

1064
00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:56.760
for sin, and and levin is a powerful ingredient.

1065
00:59:57.400 --> 00:59:58.000
And uh.

1066
00:59:58.199 --> 01:00:02.400
And like sin, which is can creep in. And you

1067
01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:05.519
say corrupt, we'll call it corruption, you know, because that's

1068
01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:08.199
what we're talking about in terms of our elections. You

1069
01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:12.280
can't say, well, it's only corrupt in this area. The

1070
01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:16.679
problem is is corruption spreads throughout. And this is why

1071
01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:21.400
all the three letter you know, government agencies are all

1072
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:26.400
suspect and people look at them with with doubt and

1073
01:00:27.800 --> 01:00:32.480
and with lack of veritas because it smells to high heaven.

1074
01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:35.719
Because that's the problem with corruption. It doesn't just stay

1075
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:40.039
in one compartment. It spreads throughout. And this is like cancer.

1076
01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:44.679
It's like this thing has metastasized throughout the body politics.

1077
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:47.199
Got you couldn't You couldn't have said it better.

1078
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:47.519
Bill.

1079
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:50.400
That is absolutely right, and that is the biggest challenge

1080
01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:53.719
we have. And and you know, the founding fathers understood

1081
01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:58.039
this well. And it was it was of course George

1082
01:00:58.199 --> 01:01:02.039
Washington and the second President, John Adams, who said very

1083
01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:08.800
clearly that well before they said it, Ben Franklin sort

1084
01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:12.199
of saying when he was asked what kind of government

1085
01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:16.679
came out of the Constitutional Convention, he said, it's a

1086
01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:21.199
republic if you can keep it. In other words, there

1087
01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:23.559
was an awareness even of Ben Franklin, who was not

1088
01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:28.920
known to be an overly religious man, that is, this

1089
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:34.519
system is difficult to maintain, and he was He didn't

1090
01:01:34.599 --> 01:01:37.920
say it, but it was said by Washington and Adams,

1091
01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:43.960
who followed that only a moral and religious people can

1092
01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:48.000
have a government, can have a successful government as a

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01:01:48.039 --> 01:01:52.280
constitutional republic. That a constitution republic is dependent on the

1094
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:57.079
people who are sovereign of being a moral and religious people.

1095
01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:01.519
As they say, so, when when we drive morality out

1096
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:04.480
of our culture as we have, we've driven God out

1097
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.719
of our culture as we have, what what are the results?

1098
01:02:08.079 --> 01:02:09.039
They're a disaster?

1099
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:14.199
Yeah, So our constitution is no longer functioning as it

1100
01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:18.679
as it was intended to function because the people, you know,

1101
01:02:19.079 --> 01:02:22.239
we don't have God at the forefront of our culture anymore.

1102
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:25.920
Right, Yeah, And and look at the manifestation the fruit

1103
01:02:26.519 --> 01:02:29.920
of being without God quite clearly, you know, look at it.

1104
01:02:30.079 --> 01:02:34.519
It affected our kids right off the bat. And you know,

1105
01:02:34.599 --> 01:02:38.800
we have a generation that has been drug addled, you know,

1106
01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:43.000
an increase of suicided levels we thought never could be comprehensible.

1107
01:02:44.079 --> 01:02:48.760
You know, sex confusion, you know, body parts being removed

1108
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:53.440
off of kids, and and and organization businesses you know,

1109
01:02:53.679 --> 01:02:57.840
benefiting from that as well as abortion. I mean, all

1110
01:02:57.960 --> 01:03:02.719
these things, I mean, stack them up. I mean, are

1111
01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:08.480
these the making of a superpower of a most excellent country?

1112
01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:12.039
The answer that is nobil clearly, Yeah, clearly they're not.

1113
01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:16.920
No. And that's why this year, you know, twenty twenty

1114
01:03:17.039 --> 01:03:23.199
six is a wonderful opportunity for our country to part

1115
01:03:23.280 --> 01:03:28.079
of our spiritual our celebration needs to needs to be

1116
01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:31.920
surrounded by a sense that we're in a spiritual revival time.

1117
01:03:33.559 --> 01:03:37.320
And only God can you know direct that. I mean,

1118
01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:40.960
it'll be a God thing how it manifests itself. But

1119
01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:44.400
if we have spiritual revival and we bring God back

1120
01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:47.480
into our culture. That would be the single most greatest

1121
01:03:47.559 --> 01:03:53.320
achievement in modern times. I mean it would be it

1122
01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:56.079
would be Trump's great He'd get credit for it because

1123
01:03:56.199 --> 01:03:59.079
if it happened on his watch, he would get credit

1124
01:03:59.159 --> 01:03:59.400
for it.

1125
01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:02.599
Well, I think I think Donald Trump definitely has been,

1126
01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:06.000
you know, a door open, a door opener, and a

1127
01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:10.559
catalyst for a spiritual revival. But it really is going

1128
01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:13.239
to come down to, just like our government, the individual people,

1129
01:04:13.599 --> 01:04:16.239
You've got to go forth and pursue God, regardless of

1130
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:20.559
any kind of sentimentality, toward those that you know are

1131
01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:23.480
hardened of heart and don't want anything to do with God.

1132
01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:25.760
God bless them. And you know, the thing the tough

1133
01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:28.280
thing about is Scott, is that these are family members,

1134
01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:32.480
these are neighbors, you know, and people that we may

1135
01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:34.960
love or have some kind of relationship with them, but

1136
01:04:35.400 --> 01:04:38.239
you know, they're just not interested. And at some point

1137
01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:40.280
you've got to sit there and say, Okay, well the

1138
01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:42.599
mask is coming down. I got to put the mask

1139
01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:46.079
on myself first, and you know, be the change that

1140
01:04:46.199 --> 01:04:50.320
I want to see in others. But go go passionately

1141
01:04:50.920 --> 01:04:53.800
toward these things that you know that will save you

1142
01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:57.480
first and will save your family because they'll follow your

1143
01:04:57.559 --> 01:05:00.840
lead based on the success, based on the fruit of

1144
01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:06.159
your choices that you make, which are which represent the

1145
01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:08.039
truth and God Almighty.

1146
01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:17.760
Absolutely, Bill, Absolutely, and we should never never underestimate the

1147
01:05:17.880 --> 01:05:22.440
power of God working through us. It's not us that

1148
01:05:22.639 --> 01:05:26.599
brings people into the faith, into God's family. It's not us, right,

1149
01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:30.119
but God can use us. So when we get the

1150
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:35.760
opportunity to witness and share our faith, this great.

1151
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:38.760
You know, this, this is this is good news.

1152
01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:42.400
This is a wonderful, joyful thing to share. Uh, we

1153
01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.000
don't have to worry. You know, if the if the

1154
01:05:45.079 --> 01:05:48.559
person we're talking to is chosen by God, you know,

1155
01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:52.880
to to get salvation, it will happen. And when we

1156
01:05:52.960 --> 01:05:55.480
don't even have to we can even stumble through the

1157
01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:57.880
process and it'll happen, right.

1158
01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:01.280
Yeah, because because it's really not about us. And that's

1159
01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:03.880
what you need to understand. And you appreciate that as

1160
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:07.599
you as you grow closer to God and you realize

1161
01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.880
how God works. I mean, he has spoken through donkeys.

1162
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:13.280
So you know what does that tell you? We've got

1163
01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:14.960
to go to break We've got more from Scott on

1164
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.480
the other side, stay with US America.

1165
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AI is rewriting the rules of business, and as businesses

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Nutrition for Patriots, Welcome back Bill Martinez.

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Here.

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We're with the author member of the Committee on this

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Present Danger of China, Senior fellow the Discovery Institute, Scott Powell. Hey, Scott,

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you know, speaking of you know, things that are happening existentially,

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you know, whether it's China. You know, we've got the UH.

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You know, we've got political operatives in UH in Munich,

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and some of it's embarrassing AOC. I think I don't

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know how she she recovers, you know, from her poor

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representation and what exacerbated her demise. I believe I'm saying

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it's her demise. I don't know how she recovers on

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this was the excellency of one Marco Rubio. So here's

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a Democrat talking head, here's a Republican conservative, god fearing

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man representing the interests of everyone, with a heart of

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compassion for all parties. And I mean it leaves you know,

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the leadership of the Democratic Party is represented in Aoz

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in the dust. It really does.

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I mean, what we're seeing is is really the self

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destruction of the Democrat Party. We really are And I

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think with Sun Sue in the Art of War said,

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you know, when your enemy is destroying himself, you know, get.

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Out of the way, out of the way back.

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But I think we there's reason for a lot of hope.

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But I do think that we need to assure that

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these mid term elections.

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Go our way.

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And I think that there are three things, as I

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wrote about in last week's column, that we need to do,

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and the Say Act does one of them. It will

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restore election integrity. Very important that that happened.

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Now, not next year, now right, and then the Democrats

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are going to do everything they can to run the

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clock out on this Scott as you know. And the

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thing we learned a lesson from the twenty twenty four

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election that was is that Republicans came out in such

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massive numbers that it was so overwhelming to the system

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that the Democrats could not work the algormorithms enough to cheat.

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That's right, that's right, absolutely right. And the second, the

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second thing that's really important, and Trump can't do all

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this himself. He's dependent upon other agencies, other other leaders.

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In the case of prosecuting, you know, felony, criminal behavior

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in high office, which needs to be done, that's really

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the Department of Justice, that's but we don't we don't have.

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We've had, you know, we've had some indictments and early prosecutions,

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but we had but no one has.

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Gone to jail.

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No one has paid a price for the crimes that

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they've committed among the political elite right. And one of

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the worst crimes in all of American history was committed

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in you know, in early twenty sixteen, late twenty fifteen,

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when Barack Obama assembled the key people of the national

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security apparatus. So that was Jim Comey of the FBI,

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that was John Brennan of the CIA, that was James

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Clapper of the Department, he was the Director of National Intelligence,

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and Susan Rice and others. These people were all assembled

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to conspire on how to undermine the newly elected the

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president elect. At that time the election had taken place.

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Trump won in twenty sixteen, and they plotted to destroy him.

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Right That's called treason, right now, treason. Treason is a

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hard law to you know, to prosecute, except in times

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of war. Arguably I believe we're in a time of war,

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but in any case, that's not a shooting war. But

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there's a second level. It's called seditious conspiracy, which is

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very close to treason, easier to prosecute. All these people

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should be prosecuted for seditious conspiracy and if they're if

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they're found guilty of having committed that, they will they

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will face prison terms.

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And they should because should. What they would be after

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was the very heart and soul of America. And this

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is you know, out of that, Scott. This is why

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I look at this as not being a Democrat or

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Republican thing. It's either an American or an anti American thing.

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Barack Obama and his ilk just as you mentioned, these

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people that we trusted and believed in and gave them

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the power to run our country, we're doing things to

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undermine and be anti American. I mean, I don't blame

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Donald Trump for having such dislike for you know, whether

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it's Komi or Barack Obama, and you know, go on

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down the list and these people who are all part

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of this conspiracy because you know it. I know it,

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the Democrats know it. And but when you go and

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you take it to court, you've got these activist judges

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that you know, because we've tried to hold some people accountable,

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and while they do is slap them on the wrist

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and send them off.

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And well, I think there's there's got to be a

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way around that. I think that they're strategizing in other courts.

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You know, you have grand juries here in Florida that

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are probably more less corrupt, yes, and judges that are

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01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:10.640
less corrupt. But we've got we've got to remind ourselves that,

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you know, wonderful things can happen when we uphold the truth.

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Amen. Amen. And that's that's that goes back how we

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first opened our conversations. Got at the basis of all

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this is we've got to re embrace the truth. If

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we do that, and that will set us free. America

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is not free right now. I mean, here we are

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having all these arguments about reparations and slavery, and you know,

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we just had the passing of you know, Jesse Jackson,

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and all this starts coming back to the front again,

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and it's like, hello, let's let's let's get a grip here.

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I mean, what we're talking about here is something that's

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very serious, and I mean hugely serious when you're talking

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about sedition, seditious conspiracy, or you're talking about uh, you know,

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the the activity, treasonous activity that's taking place in our

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country all to undermine see. But you see, it's so

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shocking because most Americans, scot were fair minded. We think, oh,

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that's not you know, how could people do that much

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less somebody who's the president of the United States, the

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first black president even you know, why would he why

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would he do that? Well, you know, I don't know

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why evil does what evil does.

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But evil is evil, right, yes, yes, absolutely absolutely.

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And I'm not saying specifically Barack Obama is evil. I'm

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saying his behavior and some of these things. I mean,

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you got to call it out for what it is.

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Did it support America or did it did it go

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work to undermine America? I mean Barack Obama when he

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said when he was calling for the fundamental transformation of America.

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What did you think that meant?

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Yeah, right right, And we saw it and we lived.

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We lived throughout those eight years of Obama feeling like

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our country was being chipped away at, it was being undermined.

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And and that led to the constitution working the election

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and how sixteen was a reaction to what had happened

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in the prior eight years, and we elected a very unconventional,

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strong leader, Republican Donald Trump, outside the system. He was

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an outsider. Why did that happen. It happened because it

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was necessary. The system had become so corrupt under Barack

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Obama that you needed an outsider to deal with it.

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Yeah, but you needed an outsider with, you know, with

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the weapons to go in and dismantle.

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And unfortunately we didn't. We didn't have that, but we learned.

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So in a way, God sent Trump into the wilderness

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in the twenty twenty election. He regrouped, he learned, he grew,

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he did, I have no doubt about it. And he

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assembled a much stronger team in his second term. And

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we've made a lot of progress, but we haven't made progress.

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And the key point that you opened with Bill, and

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that is that we haven't seen the triumph of truth

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in important areas of America.

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See, but that's going to come from the people, Scott,

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We the people. It's going to be like a movement

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like what's what we're seeing in Iran right now? You know,

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give me liberty or give me death. You know this

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is you know, it's a Patrick Henry moment there in Iran,

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and America needs to re embrace that as well, because

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look at we've been treated for way too long. You know,

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for decades, we've been treated like like the old saying says,

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like mushrooms kept in the dark and fed manure, and

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and they've been piloted on day the people that we

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trusted to run our government, that we entrusted our vote with,

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and this is how they repay us.

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Yes, I know.

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So, so we are in a new era, the Trump era.

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We have a lot of very solid people throughout his administration.

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We have a few that you ought to be replaced,

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but you know, the opportunity is there, and I hope

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that Trump really seizes the opportunity and just recognizes that

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behind the scenes, God has been at work. And I

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believe that you know that the Epstein Files being delayed.

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You know, people are okaying, well, they should have come out,

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They should have come out last year, they should have

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come out right away. Well maybe it wasn't. Maybe it

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wasn't the God's plan to have that come out until

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twenty twenty six, which happens to be the two hundred

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and fiftieth anniversary of the Constitution and could be a

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rebirth for our country. And what does rebirth require? Spiritually?

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01:21:41.960 --> 01:21:48.640
As Christians, we know rebirth requires repentance. It's the essential ingredient.

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01:21:49.319 --> 01:21:52.479
So we have this wonderful opportunity. The depravity that is

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01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:57.079
revealed in the Epstein Files is so horrendous. There's nothing

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01:21:57.119 --> 01:22:01.039
to do except repentes exactly. And those that committed it,

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01:22:01.279 --> 01:22:04.520
they're not going to repent, probably, but we as Americans,

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01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:08.439
as believing Americans, we can repent on their behalf and

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01:22:08.520 --> 01:22:12.640
we can plead with God to forgive us that this

1433
01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:16.880
happened in America, this happened by American people in America.

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01:22:18.199 --> 01:22:22.800
It's unbelievable. You know, the Bible is very clear about children,

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01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:26.319
you know, and I think it was Jesus who said,

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01:22:26.399 --> 01:22:30.800
when you know, in speaking about the sacredness of children,

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01:22:30.840 --> 01:22:32.960
he said, it would be a better that a millstone

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01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:35.880
be tied around your neck and you be cast into

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01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:39.079
the sea. Then you should hurt even one of my

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01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:44.680
little ones one how many you know, hundreds of thousands

1441
01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:49.720
and even even millions of young people have been abused, yes,

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01:22:51.079 --> 01:22:53.920
through child traviy. And it goes beyond Epstein. But Epstein

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01:22:53.960 --> 01:22:56.880
is a focal point of it, because he was a

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01:22:56.960 --> 01:23:00.800
focal point. Yes, But as you pointed out too rightfully,

1445
01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:04.239
so Bill, corruption has a way of morphing, of expanding,

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01:23:04.399 --> 01:23:09.920
and so you know, so there's other channels of human trafficking,

1447
01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:13.199
of child trafficking that that weren't controlled by Epstein by

1448
01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:17.319
any means. And this has grown up really in the

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01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:22.079
last few decades. But now we see it, yeah, and

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01:23:22.239 --> 01:23:26.560
now and now we have this opportunity to confront it honestly,

1451
01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:32.239
repent and ask God's forgiveness and ask him. You know

1452
01:23:32.439 --> 01:23:35.560
that we're all on board for spiritual revival. Please bring it,

1453
01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:37.319
bro Scott, Scott, think about this.

1454
01:23:37.640 --> 01:23:42.600
We have become a consumer. We're consumer for this evil,

1455
01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:47.000
you know, we're whether it's drugs, whether it's sex trafficking,

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01:23:47.239 --> 01:23:52.920
you know, prostitution, uh, mutilation of children's bodies we are.

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01:23:53.479 --> 01:23:57.560
Our country is a consumer of this. And uh, you

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01:23:57.640 --> 01:24:01.640
know those three important words that you often recite, and

1459
01:24:01.960 --> 01:24:04.479
I'm with you on that from our constitution with the people,

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01:24:05.119 --> 01:24:08.239
it's it's about us. We're the ones that are responsible.

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01:24:08.680 --> 01:24:12.359
You can't go around and blame the elected officials. We can,

1462
01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:14.920
we can help them get back on the right track,

1463
01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:17.720
but it's going to start first at the ground level.

1464
01:24:17.800 --> 01:24:20.399
It's got to be an organic movement, which you know,

1465
01:24:20.479 --> 01:24:22.600
we've seen you and I've talked about this. We've seen

1466
01:24:22.760 --> 01:24:26.920
spots of I call them bonfires of revival that have

1467
01:24:27.000 --> 01:24:30.239
been igniting across the country. But it's they've got to

1468
01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:33.880
join hands. It's got to be such an ignition that

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01:24:34.079 --> 01:24:37.399
spreads from north to south, east to west that is

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01:24:37.479 --> 01:24:41.760
going to light up this entire country with a spirit

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01:24:41.880 --> 01:24:44.920
of repentance that you know, Scott, you've got to imagine

1472
01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:47.960
what happens in America. We know doesn't stay in America.

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01:24:48.239 --> 01:24:51.439
That's right ready, because that and this is why, this

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01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:54.520
is why the evil forces are doing everything they can

1475
01:24:54.680 --> 01:24:57.880
to fight against what you're talking about, this repentance, because

1476
01:24:58.199 --> 01:25:02.560
if we light up, you know, the light of repentance

1477
01:25:02.600 --> 01:25:05.239
in America, it will go around the world.

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01:25:07.079 --> 01:25:10.079
Bring it on, Bring it on, Bill. Let me tell

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01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:12.079
you it's an exciting time to be alive.

1480
01:25:12.359 --> 01:25:14.840
Amen. Well, he's the author, member of the Committee on

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01:25:14.880 --> 01:25:16.880
this Present Danger China, and a senior fellow at the

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01:25:16.960 --> 01:25:20.039
Discovery Institute. If you do not have his timeless book,

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01:25:20.079 --> 01:25:23.720
Rediscovering America already, you need to get your hands on it,

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01:25:24.520 --> 01:25:29.439
especially with this being I love this this semi quincentennial

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01:25:29.960 --> 01:25:32.479
anniversary of the United States of America are two hundred

1486
01:25:32.479 --> 01:25:35.239
and fiftieth anniversary, and what a great book to have

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with you as we enjoy this special time in America.

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01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:40.840
Scott Powell, as always, we appreciate you, buddy, Thank you

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01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:42.000
for being with the stake caare.

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Thank you Bill.

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Hey, we're back with you, Bill Martinez here along with

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Jeff camp Hey, Jeff, how you doing?

1554
01:29:24.039 --> 01:29:24.720
How are you at Bell?

1555
01:29:25.079 --> 01:29:25.279
Hey?

1556
01:29:25.359 --> 01:29:28.640
I'm doing terrific. I mean we're we're down one week

1557
01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:31.840
of Lent and God's still doing his god thing.

1558
01:29:33.800 --> 01:29:40.159
Yes, And sometimes we don't realize the practical value of

1559
01:29:41.399 --> 01:29:45.439
God's ways of worshiping them like ash Wednesday for example.

1560
01:29:45.720 --> 01:29:49.079
I'm not Catholic, didn't grow up in a liturgical church,

1561
01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:53.640
but my Bible teaching non denominational church how to Ash

1562
01:29:53.720 --> 01:29:55.880
Wednesday service, and.

1563
01:29:57.359 --> 01:29:58.000
It was just so.

1564
01:29:59.600 --> 01:30:03.399
Practice influential in my life to be somber and consider

1565
01:30:03.560 --> 01:30:06.600
how much I need Jesus and couldn't have fixed my sin,

1566
01:30:07.359 --> 01:30:10.359
and that there's plenty of parts of my life that

1567
01:30:10.479 --> 01:30:14.640
I haven't really examined as carefully as I could. Not

1568
01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:18.960
to feel guilty because I can be forgiven I have been,

1569
01:30:19.760 --> 01:30:24.840
but to feel grateful and more accountable to God, that

1570
01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:27.520
if He's done such a great thing for me, why

1571
01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:31.039
not let him change me by examining myself and letting

1572
01:30:31.079 --> 01:30:33.479
him examine myself. So I was thinking, like, gosh, I

1573
01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:37.319
could go to a great marriage or fatherhood or leadership

1574
01:30:37.479 --> 01:30:40.520
Christian seminar and get all these great points, but I'd

1575
01:30:40.560 --> 01:30:43.159
go home and probably mess up in a number of ways.

1576
01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:48.960
But this ash Wednesday service sobered me to think, I

1577
01:30:49.079 --> 01:30:50.920
want to be a better husband. I need to be

1578
01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:55.600
aware of living like Jesus. So that was Finn. And

1579
01:30:55.640 --> 01:30:57.920
then of course this was the end of the Olympics,

1580
01:30:58.000 --> 01:30:59.680
so that was quite a convert.

1581
01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:03.800
Converges. You're exactly right, you know, for me being raised

1582
01:31:03.840 --> 01:31:08.199
Catholic and being Catholic, Ash Wednesday is a reminder of

1583
01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:12.399
our mortality and we come away with that experience in

1584
01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:17.079
going thank God, this isn't forever, right, I mean, this

1585
01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:21.000
realm in which we live in Thank God. You know

1586
01:31:21.239 --> 01:31:26.199
that God, in his mercy and love for us, sent

1587
01:31:26.359 --> 01:31:30.239
us a savior to give us a future and a

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01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:32.479
hope that's immeasurable.

1589
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Right.

1590
01:31:34.359 --> 01:31:36.880
I had never heard someone say thank God, we're mortal.

1591
01:31:38.039 --> 01:31:41.560
I think that's actually brilliant. Thank God that we get

1592
01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:45.399
to live, but that this life doesn't go forever because

1593
01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:49.840
it's so damaged, so imperfect, so less than what He intended,

1594
01:31:50.319 --> 01:31:53.279
and we get to live forever and our soul. So yeah,

1595
01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:57.640
we're mortal. These bodies go away. Thank God, that's not

1596
01:31:57.840 --> 01:32:01.840
like this forever. Thanks God that races and injustice and

1597
01:32:02.359 --> 01:32:07.359
cancer and you know, tornadoes that kill families doesn't go

1598
01:32:07.479 --> 01:32:08.079
on forever.

1599
01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:10.520
Right, Thanks, you see that that's the thing.

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01:32:10.800 --> 01:32:11.119
You see.

1601
01:32:11.439 --> 01:32:13.840
The next time we have a conflict with our wives

1602
01:32:14.239 --> 01:32:16.600
and maybe they're upset because we didn't take the trash

1603
01:32:16.680 --> 01:32:19.319
out or whatever it was that we you know, just

1604
01:32:19.399 --> 01:32:22.720
as men, you know, n we could just say, honey,

1605
01:32:22.840 --> 01:32:26.000
thank God, you know you don't have to live with

1606
01:32:26.159 --> 01:32:29.600
this forever. And of course when you wake up an

1607
01:32:29.640 --> 01:32:32.119
hour later, after she's knocked you out for making such

1608
01:32:32.159 --> 01:32:35.199
a profound statement, you can say, thank God, I woke up.

1609
01:32:37.319 --> 01:32:40.039
But anyway, let you start to tie it in with

1610
01:32:40.119 --> 01:32:42.119
the Olympics, and I think that this is so key,

1611
01:32:43.359 --> 01:32:45.239
So go ahead, I'm gonna let you take it.

1612
01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:50.399
From I love the lessons of sports, and I noticed

1613
01:32:50.760 --> 01:32:55.760
I'll mention four really big stories I think from the Olympics.

1614
01:32:56.720 --> 01:32:58.920
One of course, is the US hockey team. I'm the

1615
01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:02.159
exact anniversary forty eight or forty six years later.

1616
01:33:02.399 --> 01:33:05.239
Can you believe that on the exact day they.

1617
01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:07.800
Pulled it together. So overtime for them. Overtime for the

1618
01:33:07.960 --> 01:33:13.199
US women hockey team. Congratulations to them. The second story

1619
01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:21.279
is Ilia Melanin, our American eighteen year old amazing quad

1620
01:33:21.439 --> 01:33:28.640
god skater. The third story is Elisa lou who was

1621
01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:33.239
just remarkable in her skating. And then MICHAELA Shifferent who

1622
01:33:33.319 --> 01:33:36.000
felt as much pressure as anyone in the world. And

1623
01:33:36.079 --> 01:33:39.520
the story of Ilia was he said he was so

1624
01:33:39.760 --> 01:33:42.760
focused on winning gold that he was almost overconfident and

1625
01:33:42.920 --> 01:33:45.439
focused on that I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna be

1626
01:33:45.840 --> 01:33:47.359
you know, the Olympic champion.

1627
01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:49.840
Well, his first round was stunning. Jeff, I don't know

1628
01:33:49.880 --> 01:33:52.000
if you saw him skating for a round, I mean,

1629
01:33:52.039 --> 01:33:54.479
you're going, You're going, and even the commentators he's going

1630
01:33:54.520 --> 01:33:56.079
in for the gold, they go you know what, he

1631
01:33:56.199 --> 01:33:59.000
saysn't have to go quot out. He could just kind

1632
01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:02.239
of cruise and win gold. He's a walk into it, right.

1633
01:34:02.479 --> 01:34:06.159
And that's what he felt. But also the focus was

1634
01:34:06.279 --> 01:34:10.479
not on the skating, but the results of the skating. Okay,

1635
01:34:10.920 --> 01:34:13.880
it was like he was leaping ahead in his head

1636
01:34:14.680 --> 01:34:18.079
to the results, and that's why he had that freeze

1637
01:34:18.359 --> 01:34:21.279
in his key competition when he you know, botched the

1638
01:34:21.399 --> 01:34:21.880
key jump.

1639
01:34:22.479 --> 01:34:22.640
Well.

1640
01:34:23.319 --> 01:34:25.960
In contrast, there was a gal who felt that pressure

1641
01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:28.840
in a certain way that made her loose joy in

1642
01:34:28.920 --> 01:34:31.720
the sport and quit. That was a Lisa Lou. She

1643
01:34:31.880 --> 01:34:35.840
retired as like a seventeen year old, and this time

1644
01:34:35.920 --> 01:34:38.119
she came back and she said, I'm only doing it

1645
01:34:38.199 --> 01:34:41.199
for the joy and the artistry and the thrill of

1646
01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:44.600
the sport, and I don't worry about the scores. I

1647
01:34:44.640 --> 01:34:47.000
don't worry about the judges. I'm not worried about competing

1648
01:34:47.119 --> 01:34:50.600
or comparing myself. Even the fact that it's you're skating

1649
01:34:50.600 --> 01:34:53.600
in the Olympics. That's just I'm skating and it's a

1650
01:34:53.680 --> 01:34:54.439
great place.

1651
01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:54.520
To do it.

1652
01:34:54.960 --> 01:34:55.520
Having fun.

1653
01:34:55.840 --> 01:34:57.640
She of course did her best, but she had a

1654
01:34:57.680 --> 01:35:00.399
smile on her face, she was free. I think wants

1655
01:35:00.479 --> 01:35:04.279
us to be free, not by focusing on the circumstances

1656
01:35:04.359 --> 01:35:06.600
and the outcomes and the medals and the prizes and

1657
01:35:06.640 --> 01:35:09.159
the amount of money and fame and the glory that

1658
01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:11.840
we get, which isn't good for us, but by going

1659
01:35:11.920 --> 01:35:14.359
back to saying, I do the things He lets me

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01:35:14.479 --> 01:35:17.840
do to enjoy God and glorify Him for the purity

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of it. Now, the next one is Mikaela shifferin best

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01:35:21.279 --> 01:35:25.199
year in the world by far men women. She's the best.

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She's won more slaloms than anyone ever, but she won

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01:35:29.359 --> 01:35:31.680
eight of nine this year in the World Cup. But

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01:35:31.800 --> 01:35:34.880
she would struggle in all of her races at this Olympics,

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01:35:34.920 --> 01:35:37.840
and the pressure of her last Olympics, which was a

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01:35:38.000 --> 01:35:41.359
total failure, just kept rising and you could see she

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01:35:41.560 --> 01:35:45.880
felt that pressure. But when she won her final event,

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the slalom, and she blew people away by a second half,

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01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:52.640
better than anyone in thirty years. In her interview, I

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could see she didn't just exuberantly celebrate. She didn't just

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melt and start crying like some people who wrapped it

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01:35:58.920 --> 01:36:01.319
all up and will gold or won on went gold.

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01:36:01.880 --> 01:36:05.000
She kind of went into a reflective moment, and then

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she thought about her dad, who had coached her love

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01:36:07.760 --> 01:36:11.000
her life. Then she noticed her mom and she cried,

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01:36:11.560 --> 01:36:14.319
and then she went and congratulated the second and third people.

1678
01:36:14.439 --> 01:36:17.640
Her mind wasn't stuck in her medal. It wasn't stuck

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01:36:17.720 --> 01:36:21.079
in the Olympics. And the interview revealed something key that

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01:36:21.199 --> 01:36:23.680
I think is the point here. She said, there was

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01:36:23.720 --> 01:36:26.119
so much pressure, and there was so much waiting till

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01:36:26.159 --> 01:36:28.520
the very end. I just had to wait up there,

1683
01:36:28.600 --> 01:36:30.880
wait up there, waight up there with the Olympics and

1684
01:36:31.000 --> 01:36:32.800
the medal and the gold and the pressure and four

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01:36:32.880 --> 01:36:37.279
years ago and what will happen? And I realized, I'm

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01:36:37.319 --> 01:36:39.079
not going to ski for the Olympics or for gold.

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01:36:39.119 --> 01:36:41.359
I'm gonna ski for the joy of skiing. I love

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to ski, I get to ski. I want to go

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ski well. And when she went back to the basics,

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01:36:46.800 --> 01:36:50.840
she rocked it. That's the lesson I took away from

1691
01:36:51.319 --> 01:36:54.680
the Olympics. Be very careful not get caught to get

1692
01:36:54.760 --> 01:36:58.039
caught up with the trappings of what they say about us.

1693
01:36:58.319 --> 01:37:01.319
What did the news clippings say, Will we win the award?

1694
01:37:01.520 --> 01:37:05.119
Will we be the best, the greatest, the Olympian the

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01:37:05.239 --> 01:37:09.319
gold medal. When that pressure, if you get the success,

1696
01:37:09.479 --> 01:37:11.640
it's not good for you to take the fame. And

1697
01:37:11.960 --> 01:37:14.399
if you feel the pressure, it can damage the way

1698
01:37:14.439 --> 01:37:17.760
you compete. It'll probably drive you well to prepare, but

1699
01:37:17.920 --> 01:37:21.000
you ought to prepare well for the joy of doing

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01:37:21.760 --> 01:37:24.760
the sport or doing the activity. In this case, Mikiela said,

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01:37:24.800 --> 01:37:27.079
I love to ski and I got to ski well

1702
01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:29.520
and that felt good, and of course it won a gold.

1703
01:37:30.439 --> 01:37:32.600
And the big takeaway and how it applies to lent

1704
01:37:33.199 --> 01:37:36.079
and this season that we're in is that you see,

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01:37:36.560 --> 01:37:40.279
there's lots of distractions. They come into life, things that

1706
01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:42.239
want you to knock you off point. And one of

1707
01:37:42.239 --> 01:37:45.880
the scripture readings this weekend was again Jesus going to

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01:37:46.000 --> 01:37:50.319
the desert and fasting for forty days, and here comes

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01:37:50.359 --> 01:37:56.720
Satan tempting him, you know, with three different temptations, and

1710
01:37:56.840 --> 01:38:02.359
of course in each response, Jesus focuses himself on God's word,

1711
01:38:03.000 --> 01:38:06.439
not his hunger, not the lust of the eyes or

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01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:10.600
any kind of worldly ambition, but what God says. And

1713
01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:14.640
I think this is a reminder that's represented in a

1714
01:38:14.880 --> 01:38:18.600
very I guess in a very humanistic sort of way.

1715
01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:21.960
In the Olympics. Is that those that did well, you know,

1716
01:38:22.159 --> 01:38:25.760
had settled themselves on the things and what they were

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01:38:25.800 --> 01:38:29.680
there for, what was their priority. Ignore the distractions, Ignore

1718
01:38:29.760 --> 01:38:32.239
the press that wanted you to talk about you know,

1719
01:38:32.439 --> 01:38:35.000
how much you hated America and you didn't like Ice

1720
01:38:35.079 --> 01:38:38.159
and all those other that's all noise. It's irrelevant. And

1721
01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:40.159
I think this is the takeaway for us, is that

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01:38:40.520 --> 01:38:43.720
we need to choose that which is right and just right.

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01:38:43.960 --> 01:38:45.680
We got thirty seconds left, Jeff go in.

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01:38:46.640 --> 01:38:49.359
Yeah, well, I think life has best lived when we

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01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:53.960
know our why, we know our purpose and going to

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01:38:54.079 --> 01:38:58.960
the core. So, michaelis Shiffern's purpose in life wasn't to

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01:38:59.000 --> 01:39:02.960
win gold. It's to ski really really well. Our purpose

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01:39:03.079 --> 01:39:05.720
is to glorify God and enjoy Him, and that means

1729
01:39:05.800 --> 01:39:09.359
be a good steward. So let's focus on the center,

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01:39:09.760 --> 01:39:14.520
which is know Jesus, live with Jesus, glorify God, and

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01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:18.319
that'll cause us to be better husbands, wives, grandpa's grandma's business, guys,

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01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:22.479
business gals, whatever. And so I just want to encourage

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people focus on the core. Why do we do things?

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01:39:25.079 --> 01:39:27.319
What's your purpose? Put God at the center and it

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can turn out better.

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Yeah, ignore the noise and the distractions. Jeff camp Where

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can they go to huddle up?

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Bill Martinez here with Emily Washburn. She's an issues analyst

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for Focus on the Family's Daily Citizen. Emily, good to

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have you with us.

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How are you doing well?

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01:43:53.279 --> 01:43:53.920
Thanks for having me.

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01:43:54.359 --> 01:43:57.359
Well, I'll say a lot of focus right now on

1821
01:43:57.880 --> 01:44:02.800
social media and all the different, you know, platforms and

1822
01:44:03.039 --> 01:44:06.000
programs that are out there, and you know, right now,

1823
01:44:06.479 --> 01:44:10.119
the question is, well, America controls TikTok now, but is

1824
01:44:10.239 --> 01:44:11.079
it really safe?

1825
01:44:12.840 --> 01:44:13.039
Yeah?

1826
01:44:13.079 --> 01:44:16.800
Absolutely, there's a couple of different measures of safety, right,

1827
01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:20.239
So what we're really seeing is the difference between national

1828
01:44:20.359 --> 01:44:23.760
security and whether or not social media is safe for

1829
01:44:23.840 --> 01:44:25.159
someone like your children.

1830
01:44:25.239 --> 01:44:28.000
Right exactly. Well, of course this is at the forefront

1831
01:44:28.119 --> 01:44:30.159
with all that's happening. You know, you've got a big

1832
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:33.439
lawsuit that's pending right now with these social media platforms,

1833
01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:36.039
and we're starting to lift the hood on it, so

1834
01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:39.960
to speak, and see the inner machinations and going how

1835
01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:43.000
how did this happen? How did we let this happen

1836
01:44:43.079 --> 01:44:43.720
to our kids?

1837
01:44:45.359 --> 01:44:47.800
Yeah, it's a really tragic case. There's a lot of

1838
01:44:47.880 --> 01:44:53.359
discussion going on, particularly since Australia started enforcing its social

1839
01:44:53.439 --> 01:44:58.359
media ban in December. So we're starting to have a reckoning.

1840
01:44:58.720 --> 01:45:02.079
You know, is is it possible to ban something like

1841
01:45:02.199 --> 01:45:04.760
social media? These companies are getting nervous.

1842
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What's the results that you might be aware of that

1843
01:45:07.880 --> 01:45:10.239
you can tell us about in Australia for example. I

1844
01:45:10.319 --> 01:45:12.239
know we're just a couple of months down the road,

1845
01:45:12.640 --> 01:45:16.000
but you know, what are they saying anecdotally about this

1846
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decision and how it's affected their culture.

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Well, there's a lot of opposition to bans like that

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because they say, you know, it's not going to be effective.

1849
01:45:26.560 --> 01:45:29.920
But I've heard really good counter arguments that say, you know,

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it's not about being totally effective, it's about changing the culture.

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01:45:34.760 --> 01:45:37.000
So right now you're getting a lot of parents that

1852
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feel pressure from their kids. They're saying, you know, I'm

1853
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the only one who's not on social media, but with

1854
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a ban, you're starting to move kids away from that

1855
01:45:46.239 --> 01:45:48.840
being the norm. And we saw the same thing with

1856
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when we started banning alcohol, saying you can only have

1857
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alcohol when you're twenty one. Car accidents dropped dramatically and

1858
01:45:57.199 --> 01:46:01.079
it started moving away from the mainstream. Kids weren't expecting

1859
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to drink when they were fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, And that

1860
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is the ultimate goal.

1861
01:46:05.359 --> 01:46:09.439
Right, So minds are being changed, the results are slowly

1862
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but surely coming in. I'm hearing additionally, Emily, I know

1863
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about you that the kids seem to be happier without it.

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That's absolute, right, Yes, I mean social media is just

1865
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really ubiquitously bad, particularly for children's mental health, and it's

1866
01:46:29.319 --> 01:46:32.159
not hard to understand why, right, Like social media is

1867
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a comparison farm. It's teaching you to form virtual relationships

1868
01:46:36.920 --> 01:46:40.000
instead of meaningful connection. So these kids are not only

1869
01:46:40.119 --> 01:46:44.800
comparing themselves to everyone they know, taking on the cares

1870
01:46:44.800 --> 01:46:50.039
of the world, absorbing misinformation and polarizing information. They also

1871
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don't know how to have relationships in person.

1872
01:46:52.640 --> 01:46:55.039
Well it's based on an illusion, isn't it. I mean,

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you've got a snapshot in time where everything looks hunky dory,

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and little do you know that that person that put

1875
01:47:02.119 --> 01:47:06.239
that photo out there is just like you, you know,

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01:47:07.600 --> 01:47:10.279
trying to understand what's going on in their lives and

1877
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you know what their thoughts are all about and everything else.

1878
01:47:14.439 --> 01:47:16.560
But yet you know, for a moment in time, you

1879
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get this bright moment and it's so wonderful and you think, okay,

1880
01:47:20.920 --> 01:47:23.560
well what about me? You know why am I missing out?

1881
01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:23.800
Right?

1882
01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:25.119
Yeah?

1883
01:47:25.319 --> 01:47:32.520
Very superficial, very misleading, and particularly for underdeveloped brains, very

1884
01:47:32.600 --> 01:47:36.960
addicting because you also start to measure the moments that

1885
01:47:37.119 --> 01:47:40.960
are worth remembering in how many likes they get exactly

1886
01:47:40.960 --> 01:47:44.359
you're on this little soapbox waiting for other people's approval,

1887
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:47.359
and you measure your self worth and how many likes,

1888
01:47:47.399 --> 01:47:49.720
how many comments you're getting that's very damaging.

1889
01:47:50.039 --> 01:47:53.079
Well, and the thing, like anything that comes into your

1890
01:47:53.239 --> 01:47:56.399
orbit and you make a choice, you know, does it

1891
01:47:56.560 --> 01:47:59.439
add or take away from your life? And as you know,

1892
01:47:59.520 --> 01:48:01.800
I mean we're all subject to this. I mean, anybody

1893
01:48:01.880 --> 01:48:04.319
that's been in social media and you clicked on something

1894
01:48:04.640 --> 01:48:07.239
and you think, okay, that's that's going to be about

1895
01:48:07.359 --> 01:48:10.039
two minutes, maybe three minutes of my time. Next thing,

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you know, you're thirty minutes in this hole is rabbit

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hole that you've gone on, and you know it's it's

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it is addicting, and it pulls you in into their

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into their platform. And meanwhile, you know, you go, well,

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I just I just threw away thirty minutes of my

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life into this, right.

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Yeah.

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So that's actually the question that's being litigated right now.

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In the first social media addiction trial. TikTok actually settled

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that out of court, so they were going to be

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01:48:47.359 --> 01:48:50.880
part of the process. They aren't anymore. But metas Mark

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01:48:50.960 --> 01:48:54.560
Zuckerberg just testified and he said something really interesting. He said,

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you know, as soon as the platform stops becoming useful

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01:48:58.239 --> 01:49:02.359
to people, why would they continue using it? And he

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conveniently sort of glossed over the entire question that the

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point of the prosecution or that they're trying to make

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is that people don't have the choice to leave. That

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these kids are becoming addicted. They're dependent on it, and

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even when it's not useful to them, even when it's

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bad for their life, they can't leave. They can't choose

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to get off of it.

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It's almost like the argument because the way before you

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were born over the tobacco industry, Emily, I mean, here

1919
01:49:28.840 --> 01:49:31.920
we are, we're relitigating what we've done before, and you

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01:49:32.000 --> 01:49:33.279
think we would have learned from.

1921
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That, right, Yeah, it's exactly the same. It's just social

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01:49:38.800 --> 01:49:42.880
media a digital product versus a physical product. Argument is

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that the digital creators are putting ingredients into their product

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that are designed to be addictive, but then aren't giving

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parents and kids the warning that it can be addictive,

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and that they knew they were doing that, but then

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chose not to take social responsibility.

1928
01:49:58.319 --> 01:50:01.000
So it's very interesting. What about the Chinese, I mean,

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this is where it came from, and we heard early

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on the Chinese did not allow their kids to interact

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01:50:07.760 --> 01:50:09.840
with TikTok? Is that true?

1932
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So?

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So TikTok, particularly the reason that we were going to

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have a ban on TikTok starting at the beginning of

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01:50:17.600 --> 01:50:22.800
twenty twenty five. Was national security concerns because TikTok was

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owned by a Chinese parent company, and all Chinese businesses

1937
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are required to make their data available to the government.

1938
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So all of the information that they were collecting on Americans,

1939
01:50:33.600 --> 01:50:39.000
down to biometrics like face identification, voice identification, that was

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all available and accessible to the Chinese government.

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So but as far as their participation in terms of

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making it available to their kids, my understanding was the

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01:50:50.520 --> 01:50:56.079
Chinese government limited the involvement of social media and the children.

1944
01:50:56.399 --> 01:51:00.279
Is that still true, Honestly, I'm not sure about. I

1945
01:51:00.359 --> 01:51:03.880
do know that their policy toward technology in general has

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01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:10.079
been more conservative for children in particular. But we've actually

1947
01:51:10.199 --> 01:51:13.439
seen this in America. A lot of the people that

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01:51:13.560 --> 01:51:17.399
are involved in creating these apps will send their kids

1949
01:51:18.000 --> 01:51:21.680
to schools that don't allow any technology. The creator of

1950
01:51:21.800 --> 01:51:27.720
pinterest was involved in a documentary The Social Dilemma, and

1951
01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:29.680
he said that he doesn't allow his kids to have

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01:51:29.720 --> 01:51:33.119
any technology because he saw the impact of the technology

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he created on other.

1954
01:51:34.439 --> 01:51:37.399
Kids, right exactly. So, you know, as I tell my

1955
01:51:37.479 --> 01:51:40.079
kids all the time, experience defines preference, and I believe

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that we're educating ourselves along the way and realizing which

1957
01:51:44.760 --> 01:51:48.520
is beneficial. And again, the onus is on the parents,

1958
01:51:48.960 --> 01:51:50.520
just like we're not going to give the keys to

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the car to a thirteen year old.

1960
01:51:52.159 --> 01:51:56.880
Right exactly. And I actually have a lot of compassion

1961
01:51:57.039 --> 01:52:00.520
for parents who maybe allowed their kids acts to these

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01:52:00.560 --> 01:52:04.000
apps without knowing the full story, because they didn't have

1963
01:52:04.119 --> 01:52:06.119
the full story for a long time. But I would

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just tell parents, you are allowed to change your mind.

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Sometimes that doesn't feel like an option. It is absolutely

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an option. And if you don't feel like you can

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01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:18.439
protect your kids on these apps, you should absolutely roll

1968
01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:22.000
it back and say you can't have it anymore. But

1969
01:52:22.560 --> 01:52:24.880
you should also when you make that choice, know that

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01:52:25.000 --> 01:52:27.479
you're going to get pushed back because they are addicted.

1971
01:52:27.920 --> 01:52:33.399
So talking to an addict, Wow, I mean, you're exactly right.

1972
01:52:33.760 --> 01:52:37.159
And I think that maybe some parents you know, don't

1973
01:52:37.199 --> 01:52:39.920
think about it that you are. You know, your child,

1974
01:52:40.039 --> 01:52:44.560
your sweet little child is, you know, is an addict

1975
01:52:45.640 --> 01:52:50.359
to social media. You're exactly right. Wow, I mean think

1976
01:52:50.439 --> 01:52:53.199
about that. And so yes, I mean here we are.

1977
01:52:53.680 --> 01:53:00.319
We're going to have support groups now for social media addiction. Yes, yeah,

1978
01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:03.680
but the good news is, look, look what happened. Schools

1979
01:53:04.479 --> 01:53:07.560
have realized this, and now you have the schools saying, hey,

1980
01:53:07.880 --> 01:53:11.920
no phones in the classroom. They're locking them up. They're

1981
01:53:11.920 --> 01:53:14.439
doing that, and what's going on. I mean, I don't

1982
01:53:14.479 --> 01:53:17.119
see the kids rioting and blowing whistles in the street,

1983
01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:18.920
do you no?

1984
01:53:19.199 --> 01:53:22.239
And a lot of kids, you know, are saying that

1985
01:53:22.359 --> 01:53:25.439
they feel a sense of freedom. It's interesting. You're starting

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01:53:25.479 --> 01:53:29.279
to see this generation grow up and they are somewhat

1987
01:53:29.359 --> 01:53:32.920
aware of the effect that social media has on them.

1988
01:53:33.039 --> 01:53:36.720
They aren't. They don't like how dependent they are on it,

1989
01:53:36.880 --> 01:53:39.119
and so you do see some relief when a parent

1990
01:53:39.239 --> 01:53:41.600
steps in. It doesn't mean that it's easy or that

1991
01:53:41.720 --> 01:53:45.359
there's no pushback, but kids can bounce back if you're

1992
01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:47.079
willing to take that hard step.

1993
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Well.

1994
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And the thing is parents can be encouraged by these

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01:53:51.079 --> 01:53:55.119
classes or these you know, these schools that have made

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01:53:55.159 --> 01:53:58.640
the step, and now they can ride off of that

1997
01:53:58.920 --> 01:54:03.199
momentum that we set up by the schools themselves and

1998
01:54:03.560 --> 01:54:05.199
you know, follow up. So it makes it a little

1999
01:54:05.239 --> 01:54:07.960
bit easier as opposed to hey, I'm just being you know,

2000
01:54:08.199 --> 01:54:10.680
I'm the mean parent and I'm the only one. But

2001
01:54:10.800 --> 01:54:12.640
the fact of the matter is is that we're parent

2002
01:54:12.720 --> 01:54:15.239
and our responsibility is to our children, is it not?

2003
01:54:16.439 --> 01:54:20.640
Absolutely? And parents can also consider, you know, getting together

2004
01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:24.840
with eight or ten other families and agreeing amongst yourselves

2005
01:54:25.079 --> 01:54:27.239
to either not get your kids a smartphone or keep

2006
01:54:27.279 --> 01:54:30.199
them off social media. So even if your school isn't

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01:54:30.239 --> 01:54:32.319
doing something, you can make sure that your kid feels

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01:54:32.399 --> 01:54:33.239
less alone.

2009
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Right exactly, Well, look at I think there's some you know,

2010
01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:41.439
there's some brightness on the other side of this dark

2011
01:54:41.520 --> 01:54:44.920
cloud here, and we can be hopeful and be encouraged

2012
01:54:44.920 --> 01:54:47.079
by what's going on. But again we have to get

2013
01:54:47.359 --> 01:54:49.640
like you said, something that was really profound here is

2014
01:54:49.680 --> 01:54:54.600
that you know, parents made this available without being fully

2015
01:54:54.680 --> 01:54:58.960
aware of what was behind these phones and the connectivity.

2016
01:54:59.000 --> 01:55:01.039
I mean, we were kind of about it, but we

2017
01:55:01.119 --> 01:55:06.359
didn't realize that the deviousness and the addiction associated with

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01:55:06.479 --> 01:55:09.359
it was far more severe than we could ever imagine.

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01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:13.159
Right, Absolutely, there was no way for even the most

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01:55:13.239 --> 01:55:17.560
conscientious parent to have predicted all the consequences of personal tech.

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01:55:18.159 --> 01:55:20.039
So what do we do now, Emily Washburn, who as

2022
01:55:20.079 --> 01:55:20.840
we wrap things up?

2023
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Yeah, first of all, keep praying, keep on top of

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01:55:25.920 --> 01:55:30.319
these litigation cases. That's when we start getting internal documents

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01:55:30.439 --> 01:55:33.600
coming out that shows you know what tech companies actually

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01:55:33.760 --> 01:55:36.800
know and what they're putting into their products. But also

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01:55:37.079 --> 01:55:39.680
again I would just really, you know, you might not

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01:55:39.760 --> 01:55:41.560
feel like you have a choice as a parent, You

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01:55:41.680 --> 01:55:46.079
have a choice to confront this addiction. And even if

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01:55:46.159 --> 01:55:49.399
you get pushed back, you are allowed to say I

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01:55:49.520 --> 01:55:52.319
don't want you to have access to this anymore, now that.

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01:55:52.359 --> 01:55:55.880
I have the full story exactly, Emily Washburn. Issues analysts

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were focused on the Famili's Daily citizen, Emily, thank you

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so much for being with a yeah to take care.

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Thank you for having me.

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