The Bill Martinez Show 03 27 26

0:00 Are you ready? Yeah, Okay, let's do it. Ill Martinez Live a program about current events. Our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Six minutes after top of the hour, Bill Martinez here, and we've got Joshua Fellow back with us. Always good to have him on the show. He is an award winning journalist senior investigative reporter at Epic Times. Joshua, good to have you back with us. How are you. It's always a pleasure, interesting times. No shortage of news. At least, well to say the least. I mean. Meanwhile, you know, Iran is I don't know, it seems, and we're hopeful that maybe we're coming to some point of you know, some kind of agreement or settlement here.

0:49 I don't know. I just think that you knowing these people traditionally, this is a death cult. It's the same way as Hamas, you know down in the guy Asa. You know, you got to root them out. And I don't think they're gonna give They're gonna give up this easily. I think they're just playing a game. You know. We keep getting mixed messages on what's actually happening there. You know, I think there's a lot of concern now that we're gonna be sending ground troops. Trump saying that's not gonna happen. Israel says it's needed. Trump is sending, you know, I believe, like an air division, it seems right now, these troops are going to be working on rebuilding some of the destroyed bases, which will be used as like platforms to launch air you know, air attacks.

1:32 As as things currently stand, the United States basically controls the air and the sea, which you really can't defend against. On the ground. We have a ten wart hogs blasting and they're sitting in Apache helicopters now, you know, really, I think what we're watching is the whittling away of the entire Iranian military. The Navy's already basically gone, the air force is gone, the air defense is gone. I think the next step is just the ground forces and what remains of those. But even checkpoints are being blown up on a regular basis. I don't think the Iranian regime is going to last much longer. But you're right, there are also a death could. They really are and they will fight to the last.

2:14 Man, I believe well. And the thing is is that, you know, Trump is trying to be prudent and not destroy their economic infrastructure, whatever's remaining. You know, Israel is saying, look at we just want you got to take them out. And Israel knows better than us and Donald Trump, even though his ego won't allow him to, you know, to consider that because they have been there, you know, and this is something that they've been dealing with for thousands of years. This is not something that's only happened in the last couple of years. Right well, you know, it kind of reminds me of the early days of Desert Storm, when you know, America rolled into be Rock and I believe with Saddam Hussein set all the oil wells on fire exactly. You know, they were saying it was going to take forever to put those out. The US put them out relatively quickly.

3:07 They made these They're pretty cool looking, these giant vehicles that like giant wind blowers. Basically, Israel had started blowing up the oil infrastructure in Iran. Trump stopped them. I personally believe Trump stopped them because he wanted to. He wanted to try to make a peace deal with the Iranian regime. They're an oil economy they're entirely their entire economy is oil. Any future the country is going to be probably oil. And you know, on that point, it's not like you blow it up and you can't build it back again. I do. I do think in America's interests, probably even other countries' interests, it would be better to destroy those, take away the ownership, and have different companies build them.

3:50 Then it would be under. Different ownership, not under Iranian ownership. But I think what's what's at play with that is kind of whether or not the ability to negotiate on a future for he run with the what remains in the leadership? Well, and the problem that you have is what is where's what's the leadership right now? I mean, they've killed everybody and you know, and this is the question that that most people are asking, is that, Okay, I and I want to believe. I want to have faith and trust in Trump that you know, he is making his decision based on people he's negotiating with, but he's saying, look at it's backed up by action. You know, they they have whoever is there that he's negotiating with has some sphere of influence to be able to do this but you know, how long will that last? Before you know, they they treat him like a like a wrestler they don't like anymore and send him to the gallows.

4:44 Well, I mean that is a real question. So you know current Iranian leadership. Basically, here's what happened. You know, Trump rolled in Israel world in they killed the entire leadership. It seems there was a bit of a bait and switch. He Ron believed that there was not going to be a US strike, and they all got kind of put their guard down. They gathered in a single building and they just blew up the entire building. As what happened. They then got together, appointed new leadership, and then the Trump team and Israel killed the entire new leadership. Then they appointed a third wave of leadership, and it's kind of all over the place. I think part of the problem they're having right now in terms of, you know, making a deal really is there's no real Iranian leadership right now. If you want my personal take, I'd say a lot of it's being run from outside Iran. I would say that you probably have sources or elements that had some influence over the government, based probably in Russia, maybe even some in China, but I'd say more likely Russia, and I think they're pulling the strings on it. The question is can they appoint a new leadership while the son of the former Shah of Iran, he's kind of the choice right now. Trump doesn't seem too keen on him, but he does seem to be the choice, especially among the Iranian people and the sad reality or good reality, I don't know, a lot of these countries, the only stable form of government tends to be monarchy. You know, Hamas is a democratically elected government. You know, let him choose their own government. It's going to be Isis or

6:16 something like that. You know, Hamas is democredit So maybe monarchy is a solution left to see. Well, Iran hasn't traditionally, I mean yes, with the Shaw of Iran, a monarchy initially started out. He was somewhat more leaning toward democracy, and then he got carried away with himself and then of course we saw what Jimmy Carter did, no, thank you very much, and then we bring you know, we bring the Iatolas in and the Malas. You know, what a great exchange on that deal. But you have I think what I'm hearing on the ground there within Iran is that you know, they don't want a monarchy. They don't want certainly they don't want another religious uh you know, totalitarian form of government like the Iatolas, and you've got a government in exile, so to speak of Iran. That is saying, look at we want to you know, govern Iran with you know, non nuclear ambitions, being democratic, you know, letting women you know again enjoy the things that women enjoyed forty nine years ago, and you know, which could would be quite revolutionary and quite refreshing if that could happen. I mean, that could that could have just a great impact on the Middle East, don't you think.

7:37 It actually could? In Iran is kind of a different Not all these countries are the same, you know, and that sounds funny to say, but it's really true, and they're very different. Iran, the Iranian people are much different from you know, the Afghanis for example, where you're dealing with more of like a medieval type population. You know, they're kind of still in the Middle Ages. They're different, for example, from the Iraqi people, who you know, tend to be more at least they used to be very much embedded with the kind of leadership they had. The Iranian people, most people who fled Iran after the collapse of you know, after the coming about of the Iranian Revolution and so on, you know, seventy nine, they don't call themselves Iranian. They call themselves Persian. And if you talk to a lot of them, they say that Iran used to be a Western country, like they regarded it as a Western country, right, And if you saw videos and images or whatever else from before the seventy nine revolution, they were very close to a Western country. A lot of them really do not like the leadership, you know, at the times. They have some good sources. We've actually been talking to sources on the ground there. There is actually pretty broad support for the son of the Shah. There is massive, massive lack of support for the current regime. And oddly enough, and this may sound surprising to some people, a lot of the Iranians really like is. And I'm not just saying that is some like, oh, you know, polytical thing.

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15:02 I think it's quite hit, quite interesting. Yeah, so at the Times we actually just published a story on this. It's kind of it's kind of funny. It's a bit dark, but kind of funny. Basically, you know, Trump right now is trying to get the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the regime. And I think that is the real goal. He wants the Iranian people to take back their country. The problem is is when you're a country where you're not allowed to own guns, and. I was gonna say, they've only killed. We were talking to Gary Pinto, you know, boots on the ground, you know, the guy, and he's you know, we're saying, you know, because news reporting, you know, something like forty fifty thousand people have been is bill. Let's know, it's like try eighty five thousand.

15:44 Yeah, but that also creates a lot of bad blood and discontent. Like a lot of them really do not like the regime. The problem is they haven't really been able to do much about it. One of the ways the regime has been suppressing people is with checkpoints. So they set up these checkpoints and they check people like you know, dissidents and everything else, and they kill them. And so what's been happening now is that the Iranian people. I don't know how they did it, but they have like a quick line to Israel. Anytime there's a checkpoint, they call it, they actually report it, and very rapidly Israel rolls in with drones and destroys it. It's actually become so common now that it's it's also become an element in Iran where when people get stuck in traffic lines because it's a checkpoint, they play on their on their radio loudly the sound of a drone and then they watches the checkpoint guards like flee for their lives.

16:38 It's it's almost like a joke they have. Oh my gosh, well that's well, you know, leave it, leave it to the people to figure this out. And and God bless them, you know for being able to do that. Uh you know, because again I mean you think about the boldness I mean here it is. They kill you know, they hang a no did wrestler, you know, along with two other I think they were what nineteen year old kids were, you know, standing up against the government. You know, they were part of the resistance and they hang them. I mean, what does that say. Well, and you know the important thing is you're like, you could say, oh, well, they killed all the you know, all the people who tried overthrowing the regime. Every one of those people has a mother and a father and cousins and aunts and uncles and you know, probably siblings, maybe even kids. You do that to a person, those people are.

17:37 Going to hate the regime. They're going to hate the regime. And not only did the Iranian regime kill people who were protesting, they were even going into the hospitals afterwards and killing all the people who were injured, which was crazy. They were even tracking people down afterwards and killing them. And so, you know, I think for the Iranian people, they're still a bit hesitant on going out in protesting. They're still kind of worried out, well, are they going to kill me? Like, what's going to happen? I think right now what they need is clear assurance that the policy is the destruction of the entire Iranian leadership, that they will be held to account. Then I think the Iranian people will probably rise up. But you know, I do think Trump is betting on that happening, and they're trying to work towards that as well.

18:22 How can they do it without being armed? No, I mean you know that can be arranged. Well, yeah, exactly, but yeah, and another that or you get the you know, the local military for the local law enforcement, you know, to come across and cross the line. I orgc forget that. They're not going to, although they're in a little bit of pain because unless they've stalked away money. But I'm hearing that they're running you know, they're running law on funds right now as well. Well. So this is important too. And this was told to us by sas other sources actually in Israel, you know epic times. Of course, we have a lot of good sources. What we were told was that when when Israel was launching you know, this is kind of the second chapter of the battle they had with Iran. The first part was that of this was before when there was an exchange of missiles. Uh, they had the exploding pagers as everybody might remember. During that during that exchange, Israel actually killed a lot of the military leadership of Iran, so a lot of the generals of the IRGC, a lot of the ones who were carrying out the domestic suppressions.

19:26 A lot of them were killed. What we're told is that a lot of the current security in Iran, and you know the regime forces, a lot of it's foreign, a lot of it was brought in through other other Muslim countries. Okay, yeah, that that makes But you know, I want I want to switch her just a moment because you bring up something in your article about Narco Polo, because we said this right away, is that, uh, you know, America's adversaries have got to be looking at America's firepower and what's on display and talking specif about Russia and China. I mean, what a demonstration of military might enforce?

20:07 Right, So China and Russia's military is both of them are a bit of a paper tiger. There's a lot of smoke and mirrors when it comes to military power. You know. One of the big scandals in China or others, there's a few big scandals. Let me lay it out. Basically, China was selling the world missile defense systems military equipment, saying buy from US and you can defend yourself against the United States of America. Venezuela was buying stuff from them, Iran was buying stuff from them, and then the world watched as Chinese air defense systems were taken out immediately. Did not defend the leadership. They could not even defend the president of the country in Maduro's case, from being abducted, not even killed, but just even like boots on the ground, abducted.

20:54 They watched as the entire infrastructure, missiles, everything failed. The Chinese military effectively is useless against the power of the United States. It is useless. And that was that terrified Chinese leadership based on what we were told. Also the other thing too, is it turns out as the CCP has been investigating its own weapons systems, they're finding massive corruption. There's been reports of missiles filled with water. It's a giant show of smoke and mirrors. The guy who made the J twenty China so called fifth generation fighter jet, it turns out the things a death trap. It's a giant sham. There's allegations right now that Shiji Ping even had the guy killed who made it, one of the top engineers that allegedly had him killed because he defrauded the country so badly claiming that they had developed a fifth generation fighter jet.

21:48 When it's not. Not only is it not, which I think they knew it's actually it was actually based on a Soviet era four point five generation jet. It didn't have any of the stealth capabilities clim which even then was a bit of smoke in mers because Russian never finished the thing, right, it just doesn't work, you know, it's all else aside. And we watched the Russian military, you know, try to roll into Ukraine that thought they thought it was going to be a blitzkrig you know. Over in two weeks they got stuck in the mud. Flat tires made in China, tires, by the way, flat tires stuck in the mud. The entire invasion got stalled. We watched the entire Soviet or Russian spetsnas get wiped out within the first few weeks, you know, this whole you know, propaganda fighting force, they were wiped out almost immediately.

22:37 And we're seeing now that the Russian fighting force is basically a little better than Soviet era, right I think. I think what we're seeing instead is, you know, these basically Walmart drones are the future of war. And that's as good as you get with a lot of these countries they're not going to have the capability to fight against the power of the United States. What about China's navy, They've been building boats like crazy. I don't know what the number is, some like three or four times what we have, but they're saying, you know, they're they're probably of the same measure as as these jets, these supposed jets that they they created right. There, they're about the same measure as the Iranian navy.

23:18 And you know, I believe it was I believe it was. Might have been. Pete Hegseth came out and actually made an announcement that we decided we would share the ocean with the Iranian Navy. We get the top part, they get the bottom part of the ocean, and we watched how that worked out. You know, it would be the same thing for the Chinese navy. A lot of the navy is retrofitted fishing boats. A lot of it is not really warships. I mean, some of it is. But the reality we've seen is that, you know, honestly, America just decimated the Iranian Navy like like it was nothing. You know, they were even publishing, you know, Iran was publishing AI videos trying to make it seem that they actually did something they didn't.

24:02 It was it was it was, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Right now, the US, again, as I mentioned, they have a ten Warthogs. You know, low slow flying. You know, anti tank air aircraft initially, but they're using them to go after fast boats now and other things. They're they're using apache helicopters to wipe them out. If you get to the realm of fitth termation fighter jets, whether it's the F thirty five with the F twenty two, like the long range strike capabilities of those, these ships are just sitting ducks. They're big targets. You know. It's it's like it's like shooting the you know, the rear side of a mountain. You know you're not going to miss, right, And I think they're realizing the vulnerability they're in right now.

24:43 Well, the mere advantage that you suggested earlier that they still maintain is with drones. But I think it's just it's probably a matter of days or weeks that the US perfects something that manages these drone attacks. What do you think emp electromagnetic pulse the they America already has it, so any any kind of large warship, any kind of major American you know, defense in infrastructure will use EMP. This is kind of the less talked about domain of modern warfare, electronic hardening and electronic warfare. If you were to, if you already hear from me that the new battlefield electronic warfare is is is bigger than armor. It's bigger than armor plating. You can basically wipe out entire drone fleets using e m P, and they've demonstrated it. You can use directed energy weapons e m P to previously, I mean going back ten years, I remember that some of the major arms manufacturers in the US, they were just they were displaying such precise e MP weapons that they could be put on fighter jets, that they can they can shut off a single floor of a building. They could do it so precise. If you understand what that means for modern military equipment, any any any military infrastructure that is not hardened against e MP,

26:14 which would be fifth generation level like which other countries don't even have. Basically like most most don't really have. They're not hardened to defend against that any kind of fire. You could have a fleet of a thousand fighter jets. If they're not hardened against e MP, you could drop them out of the sky like flies say. It would be nothing because you could fry them. And so drones were watching kind of a not really high tech but like a like a low tech high tech war in Ukraine where they're using cheap technologies but modern technologies. That's not going to work when you're dealing with a major military force, and we all believed Russia was a major military force.

27:00 They're not. It's a bit it's a bit of a sham. You know that there's still a nuclear power, but a lot of the other stuff's a sham. Exactly what do you think when they hear that Trump is asking for another one point five trillion in military defense? Well, I think it might be necessary. And you know, I mean people think, oh, well, military industrial complex, it might it might be necessary. Here's why we lack domestic manufacturing. This is this is the Achilles heel of the military right now. We don't have rare earth minerals that we need to do we need to resupply, we even need we don't even have the rare earth minerals we need to build new ammunition. We get it from China, right, we don't have wartime manufacturing. It's it's it's insane. We we we would not be able to develop or produce ships or jets or weapons, or let alone ammunition on the scale required for weapons if we were to go war. We don't have medications, not even things like blood thinners or IV bags or anything like that.

28:06 We get it from China. As crazy as that. So we gave it to them, and now we're going to them. It's just insane. Well to be continued, Joshua. Again, we appreciate you coming on the show. Joshua Philip, the host of Crossroads and the senior investigative reporter with Epic Times, have a great day, take care, Thank you, you got it. Streaming TV is where it's at. It's not about cutting the court anymore. That's old news. It's all about your customized TV options with the best and cheapest high speed internet and your own TV subscriptions. We've got your dream TV lineup between wired and satellite internet and TV. You now have tons of options, save money and get more internet speed and better TV today. By calling the Whole Home Connect, we scan your location and offer you the best TV and Internet options. And we always have specials and promotions, so when you ask about that, take five minutes.

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32:03 Hey, welcome back America. Bill Martinez here with doctor Wilfrid Riley, the professor of political Science at Kentucky State University. Hey, well, good morning to him. It's morning Bill. Good to see him. Hey, always good to see you. You know, we're recording this on Saint Patti's Day, you know, and for all the Irish. Their hands are over their heart and they're out there, you know, enjoying a little reverie today, you know, green beer and everything that's Irish. I guess you know why not. I mean the The joke in Chicago is that Saint Patrick stays the day everyone verage. So you see you Chinese guys in Chinatown with the green hat on the big shamrock on their heads and so on. So hopefully, hopefully everyone is fun. I mean we both talked about it's, you know, businessman over like thirty. He got a lot of stuff to do, but you can hear him outside, like I'm a little bit of smaller city, but I'm close to the downtown. So yeah, hopefully everyone has fun.

32:53 You know, stay safe, don't drive between two towns. As he was celebrating the great Man. Well exactly, So keep it safe and sane and enjoyable. I want to talk about, you know, the situation that we've had, and here's our new best friend. He's got to say hi. He loves camera time. You know, we've got to talk about what's going on with Iran and the terror attacks. I mean, since since Iran, we've had four obvious terror attacks that the media doesn't know how to handle. They don't know how to present it. But we said, I think you and I even talked about it that you know, immediately people needed to keep their heads on a swivel just to you know, be aware of what's going on, because we don't know, you know, how many ices inspired individuals are here in our country, the open border, all the other stuff, and you know, the radical Muslims have made it clear that they want to get rid of America and Americans in Israel all in one fellow swoop. That would make their day.

34:02 Yeah, I mean, it's tough to know what exactly is going on. Obviously, there's a correlation between our war with an Islamic country and increase surges of terrorism. And anyone who denies that as an idiot. I mean, if I were a Muslim general, I would have sleeper selles ready in these Western countries, especially western countries that have allowed in high levels of Muslim immigration. And I mean, I frankly think that's what we've seen. I mean, in New York, you saw the two guys who literally showed up with the bomb from Looney Tunes. I mean, they had the bomb with the wick on it, smoldering, and they'd apparently made a fairly sophisticated package with nails at ball bearings. And I mean, I'm not going to explain how to do it, but anyone who's got military background knows how simple it is to make it explosive. I mean, you put a core of whatever in there, and then you surround it, then you throw it. Fortunately, these guys weren't exactly engineers, although one was an engineering student, I think.

34:56 So the bomb didn't explode, and you saw kind of the two faces of the left there, right. I mean, I actually I don't know him, but I'm familiar from Twitter with the guy who was kind of jumped over and you saw him this astonishing picture where you have one guy who's, in my opinion, an idiot, but who's a nice guy, well spoken, upper middle class, and he's there at his blazer and he's got his megaphone and he's saying like, we welcome everyone in America. And then another guy uses him as a footrest to throw a bomb, so you see him over his back baseball pitching this thing. Unfortunately, it's a windy day, so the device goes out as it's in the air. But I mean, you're gonna see some of that when we fight the larger Islamic States.

35:43 The bigger worry actually is that these aren't members of sleeper cells. They don't have a father who is in the IRGC or something. These are just people who ally with the enemy, and that that's going to become more common as we have more people here from kind of our great rival states China, Iran and so on, and a lot of those people those two groups less sentence, but are very successful in America. So it's it's very easy on the right to be like, well, get them all out. The better question is how do you can you vet in immigration so that you get the people that are actually Chinese Christians or whatever that are fleeing that environment, and you don't get people that are going to be very easy to radicalize here because I don't think a lot of those people are part of formal networks.

36:29 I think there are people that are just very inclined to dislike the USA. And today you can get Al Jazeera on your computer. So if you hear all this content we are the Great Satan, you might decide, well, I'm gonna go down into the Dad's lab and I'm gonna put this thing together and I'm gonna get on the train to Penn Station. That's going to take an hour. So you're going to see those attacks. I mean, just law enforcement's gonna have to be vigilant, and one thing you find is that they don't kill a lot of people. That sucks, they have to think of it that way, but it's it's not going to stop a victorious war against Persia that four or five people are injured in these kind of attacks. But it's definitely when you're in a high tense situation where they're international tensions and the response has been at this level of domestic tension, Yeah, you do walk around a little more carefully than you otherwise would.

37:19 Well, you know, it's interesting how America has reacted. You know, in World War Two, after the bombing of Pro Harbor, you know, our government said, hey, all Japanese, we're gonna set you aside and you know, put you in camps and you know, to protect our national security. And so we've gone from that to where God only knows where we are right now. I mean, we've got sanctuary cities, we have policies law enforcement or no law enforcement that seems to promote more danger than security. Will Yeah, I mean, I think the standard view in political science is that incarcerating the Japanese was an overreaction, obviously, but I mean it's also like when that's presented as canonical evil. That's not correct. The reality with World War two and with the Cold War was that there was a great deal of opposition to the USA internally. I mean, in one of my books, Lies, my liberal teacher told me, I'm not not going to do a full plug here, but I.

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39:06 It was the same thing with the Japanese and German communities during World War Two, and we didn't incarcerate the Germans who were I don't know a better way to say, is normal looking white guys like you couldn't round people up and ask them if they were German. I mean your last name is Beetlebacher, is it and put these cuffs on. But I mean we shut down the German language dailies. I mean we took pretty harsh action Italy. I mean this goes back to Saco and Vanzetti. There was extreme discrimination against Italians. Part of the reason for that was that there was anarchist and pro home country sentiment in those communities. There was a split between the Essay and Nisse and the Japanese community in terms of whether they were more pro America or more pro Japan.

39:46 In both cases there was a slant toward the USA, but the attitudes diverged radically. So we've kind of gone from one extream, which is like we're going to shut down your newspaper, we're gonna take your ethnic group, and you're gonna be living in this city for the duration of this war, over to the other extreme, which is you know, after nine to eleven, George Bush's second speech after the famous they were going to hear from all of us, was focused on is Lamophobia. Yes, so there's now this idea of the most important thing in these tent situations is preventing people from feeling any sense of discrimination. You know, I think if you're a poor white guy, you're a black guy or whatever, your Hispanic businessman, you're somebody's gonna deal with prejudice in your life. I don't think that that is the most important element of fighting terrorist And there obviously are reasons that if you're a young, working, middle class Muslim male, you're gonna be searched on an airplane before an older lady in an air mas hat.

40:45 I mean, so it's just we seem to have moved very far away from that. We should probably slant a little back, hoarded, but that doesn't seem to be the move. I mean, even Trump's officials aren't really proposing that they're sparring with the sanctuary city people. But we're still here kind of the norm MacDonald. Wouldn't it be a pity if a Muslim country launched a successful strike against the USA, because then you'd see so much prejudice against peaceful Muslims. You know. It's that's another thing that makes the crime fighting picture more complicated. I would say, Well, and especially you know with the you know, the growth of you know, Muslim communities within the United States, the number of moss in the last five years, they've become so prolific. Will you know, are these warning signs? And in light of what's happening Iran and still you know, the jihadist call to get rid of America.

41:41 I mean I think so to some extent. Now, again, there are two things here that make this kind of complicated. It's like when female vice squad detectives say, not all men, right, right, you know, the the ninety five percent majority of guys or protectors and servers, like almost all their colleagues as a cop are going to be guys. The same time, you know, you're the people that are patronizing prostitutes are almost all oots, you know. I mean, so it is what it is like you have a demographic sample that you're going to become pretty cynical about. He keeps seeing these married men at brothels, right, So, I mean it's a joke in that component of the forest, and it's the same thing with some of these groups, like those traditional Muslims, especially Shiai Muslims.

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46:36 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here with professor of political science at Kentuctive State University and the author of Taboo. Ten facts you can talk about And of course this book that we mentioned earlier lies my liberal teachers taught me, which is still very robust, and you need to get your hands on it if you haven't, and you might be quite I guess, maybe quite relieved to realize that, Hey, guess what, your liberal teachers taught you the same stuff, and maybe you can get some clearer thinking and understanding of what's going on. Well, Will, as we were saying, you know, there are dangers abounding, and it's amazing to me where we are post nine to eleven. As you said, I mean, only took nineteen guys to create all kinds of havoc. And you know, and here we got I don't know how many you could say, hundreds of thousands maybe of people that do not want you know, they don't want America to do well. And you've got this antithical, philosophical, you know, mindset that continues to grow even within our country, which is very anti American. And you know, you and I've talked about this before. Is that to me, the divide isn't about the Republican or Democrats. The divide is more are you pro American or you're anti American?

47:53 Yeah, I mean, so there's a lot going on there. First of all, in terms of nine to eleven. Yeah, it's the advantage of asymmetric war that it doesn't take a lot of people to do a lot of harm. So when it comes to symmetric warfare, you know, our tanks against their tanks. The usa is military is the best in the world. I mean, the Russians or the Chinese could may be challenged, but they would lose the war. The Europeans they might be as good pound for pound, but they don't have a lot of pounds. They don't spend a lot of on defense. They're behind our defense umbrella. Yes, say Israel, but I mean anyway, like so that that's a reality. We could easily win the first part of a war with Persia. We can break their army back into the Zagros mountains and so on. The question is how do you deal with these asymmetric threats. So on nine to eleven, I mean, people from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia who'd done some pretty high level training with al Qaeda just got on a plane, took the plane and flew it into a building. I think if you tried that with Americans or even Europeans, now the passengers might overpower you. But in the one and three chance they didn't, I mean, yeah, that's that's a consistent risk. Like a building could still be taken down. Something like that can happen.

48:59 The weirder thing about nine to eleven, because we all know about asymmetrics, is what you just said, which is that after nine to eleven we decided to increase the pace of Muslim immigration. And I think that's something that nobody predicted. Even Bush when he warned against open prejudice, didn't really predict that happening. So of the US Muslim population, which is four or five million people, I believe almost all entered post nine to eleven, I think we had three hundred and ten thousand religiously practicing Muslims at the time of nine to eleven. So yeah, obviously there are going to be risks that come along with that, Like there's radicalization in every community, So Chinese people are more likely to be Chinese spies. The image of a spy in the media is always some dorky white guy in MIT with a flash drive full of hacker information and like the nineteen nineties computer guy outfit with black hoody.

49:53 But that's not reality. I mean, the reality is that a spy is very likely to be an attractive, personable guy from that country who recruited by the intelligence service of that country. So like it Israeli SPI, it is gonna be a upper middle class Jewish dude. Yeah. Chinese Chinese. Yeah, the Chinese spy didn't send an ugly woman to go and uh, you know have fun with swallwell, did they? Yeah, the fang fang thing. Yeah. No. The Chinese are known for honey potting. I mean, people are not unattracted to good looking Asian women, So I mean I would assume there's a lot of honey potting going on in the San Francisco where you see these these tech guys with I don't mean to be crewed with nine out of ten wives and cocktail dresses. I mean, some of that's probably true love, some of it's probably pursuit of money, some of it's probably pursuit of the national interests of the People's Republic or the Republic of Vietnam or whatever. But in the Muslim community, though, it's it's a little less funny. I mean, the radicalization that you see there tends to be religiously inspired terrorism, So definitely, I mean, I think we do need one thing the FBI I should do, if they're not already doing it is keep an eye on mosques and see what being said during the daily sermon. I mean, there's probably an element of teacher gramma to suck eggs, so that I'm sure old federal agents know that. But I watched some of these sermons online and I'm a political science professor.

51:11 I speak some Spanish, I speak a little bit of Arabic, and people are openly saying things. One that was released recently defended sexual abuse in war. Like The idea is you can take people as old school battle captives like knights of every race used to in thirteen hundred, and sexually abuse them. And it's it's such a weird medieval thing to hear someone say, you know, it kind of goes along with armor and a horse. But that's still that's been a belief in much of the world. Women are secondary citizens. You can abuse them in battle because they're not fighters themselves. So if someone's saying that at the local mosque, I mean you need to shut down the mosque. Probably are we keeping a practical eye on this kind of radicalization in the Islamic community, You know, I don't think we are. Like if you go down to Texas to do some business. There's a one hundred foot tall statue of the monkey god Hanaman from I believe the Hindu panther on by the highway. So if we're if we can't figure out some kind of technical way to keep that off public property, I don't really think we have every religious service in the country under effective scrutiny. And so that's a risk. All like you said, all it takes is two guys with bombs, and you have the Boston Marathon bombing. You have one hundred people in the hospital with trattnel through their shoulders, one eye gone.

52:23 So on. So I don't want to panic people. It's something to keep an eye on. Well, you know, I was talking with another guy here recently and he you know, and he opened my eyes to you know, here we are so focused about Iran not going nuclear, having a nuclear bomb, but yet look what's happening with this migration of Muslims in the area. I mean, the United Kingdom, for example, back in twenty ten had just under three million Muslims. It's projected by twenty thirty their growth will be ninety four percent to five and a half million. And we already see what's happening policy wise in the United Kingdom. And I hadn't thought about this, he asked me. He says, Bill, He says, what country do you think if the Muslims took over that they would have access to a nuclear bomb? Which country do you think in the next five years is more vulnerable than all other countries? And I had thought My first reaction was, you know, maybe China, maybe even here in America. But and he goes, no, England, and I go, whoa, you know, you're probably right. So here we are, we're worried and focused about what's happening in Iran, and we should, there's no question. But you've got all these these aren't even sleeper cells. You just got cells going out throughout the entire globe that if they took over a country that has a nuclear bomb, they don't need to build one.

53:53 Yeah, I mean, and again there's it's weird because it's sort of the not all mend thing. I mean, like, so Britain has this well known hip hop culture. Probably ninety percent of British Muslims are urban guys who do things like run kebab shops. They're well known for having like red headed white girlfriends and being part of like the rap scene, but the ten percent a lot of people if you have six million people, especially if you adjust for the fact that someone who wants to be a foreign agent is more likely to pursue certain careers. Who are you going to see going into academia sensitive areas of the military stone, It's probably not the kebab shop owner dating Jenny down the block. So yeah, somebody to keep an eye on. There are a couple of I mean the basic point there. There's a book called something like Biowarfare, and I actually don't like the title because I think it'd be very easy to weaponize into just open racism, like what are the Appalachians doing? What are the Blacks doing? But like, the basic idea is that one way to wage warfare and get control over national population centers is just to have your people move the in large numbers. So like, settler colonialism is a term that sometimes used. I don't like this one either.

55:05 I have a bunch of professional critiques in this language. This is one from the left. But settler colonialism would be when mostly western white countries invade third world states takeover you're in charge. Now. There's also obviously a pattern of reverse revenge migration, like countries like India have said this, where you send lots of young fighting men into what you consider vulnerable countries and all of a sudden, you're twenty five percent of the population. You're still getting money sent back home from that country, and you're now influencing the population of that country. And if that relationship is like American snowbirds and Canada Mexican workers in the USA, like, okay, that's a brother relationship, Like you still have to send people home every so often, get the buses out, but there's not really any idea of war will come for that. But what if the country doing that is Persian? What if the country doing that is I mean, and they're friends sort of but Indian.

55:56 When you suddenly see like, I'll hit you with one back. Since you gave that crazy stat about Muslims in Britain, which is true, by the way, your friends, absolutely accurate. There are more Muslims in Britain now than there are Irish people, like speakers of the actual Gaelic language, or five point seven million Muslims or something four million Gales like Celtic Britains. But in Canada they've allowed so much migration from powerful countries like India, China and Taiwan that I think thirty three percent of the population right now is foreign born, and that's had an enormous impact. So, I mean, it's awkward to talk in racial terms, but Canada used to be almost one hundred percent white, but the native spot well enough, but there aren't many of them up there now it's seventy sixty. I mean, I'd have to look at the numbers. It used to be virtually one hundred percent Christian, now it would be maybe eighty.

56:44 A lot of Chinese are But you've had this enormous impact in a very short period of time, and the question is what do you do. The two real options to me would be one remigration, like a government says at some point, look, we're give everybody five thousand bucks, which you got to back home. Two But if once you get the second third generation, once you get people to serve in the Canadian army, that's not possible. So the second thing you'd have to do would be actual brutal assimilation, which we don't like anymore, but you got to do it and combine that with shutting these borders for a while, because you understand that the leaders of large developing countries Nigeria is another country or this has been openly discussed, and lectures that I've listened to are saying, well, why don't we send our young warriors to these rival countries to learn and then either activate them or bring them back. But again, Nigeria is not an enemy, but it's not not our job to provide military education for the Nigeria and the leadership like this has to either be discussed honestly or people have to get on the plane and get out of the country. I think that would be my opinion.

57:47 Yeah, And unfortunately, what happens is that when something like that goes on, follow the money, watch how the money supports, you know, that kind of change in demography, and you get people that are happy to grift on it, and unfortunately too many are involved in our government. Yeah, we have got to be mindful of all areas and influences that are dictating these cultural changes here in America in other countries. You know again, you know, like you and I growing up watching the spaghetti westerns. You know, it's like you could tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. You know, are you friend or foe? You know, and we're not asking that question anymore.

58:30 Yep, if I can, okay, because I wonder if we had some time left, if I'd say one thing there, I mean, yeah, absolutely, this is this is funded and I mean this for me goes back to one of the sales jobs I had in college was working as a canvas manager for an activist group that leaned left. Now, the activist group itself was just totally hired gun. It was young, high school and college age, mostly athletes, mostly men. You go on the street twenty bucks an hour plus counting your commission, but hey, you got a minute for whatever. People trying to fight you, I mean whatever. But like I realized how organized this stuff is, like groups including a gay rights group, an environmental protection group, even someone the Red Duck Sun Limited at one point, as I recalled, would pay these sort of hired guns that had these two hundred young men deck to go to different cities raise money and political campaigns. At one point started contacting the office and asking can we rent out some guys?

59:22 Can you send us one hundred during the final weeks of this campaign, and they came to us with the offerings. I know it's twenty two bucks an hour. It's not going to be pleasant, but we can put you on economy class out to Denver and you know this can happen. And I started realizing, obviously not comparing this to Soros or something, but all of this is incredibly well organized. Like, in my opinion, I'm conspiratorial on this. When you see a twelve foot paalet of bricks laid out a foot away from a riot, somebody brought that there, like you have an hour hids in one of the unions, they brought a truck up. There's no mystery about what happened. And at a deeper level this goes on. I mentioned George Soros, George soroson is are real people. That doesn't mean like a shadowy network of individuals of the Hebrew faith.

1:00:05 It means the Sorrows Foundation, which is something you can check out, you can investigate. I've done stories about them for Spiked UK. So who is pushing all this immigration? Large groups with names like I mean, even the Cato Institute over on the right has done this recently where they ran this study saying that immigrants were more of a net positive for the country than citizens. And I looked at the study. I'm not going to insult the individual authors, but like immigrants includes Elon Musk, like they combined legal and illegal immigrants. They did all this stuff, and there is a massive amount of money that flows to you if you are going to make these points because the issue the last let's sen to me. I guess they're issues even deeper than immigration that underlie this that no one wants to talk about. One of them is declining fertility, like following the refusal of men to fight and the acceptance by women of feminism, You've seen the fertility rate in the West drop to like one point two in a lot of countries like Spain. So we can complain about Nigerians or certainly friendly populations like Canada, Mexico. So, but there's a deeper question, what do you what else do you do if people aren't gonna have kids? Like are you gonna tell young businesswomen to stay home? Like I might if I'm willing to duck a few times?

1:01:23 But it's these are core issues, Bill, like one, we don't meet all these people even from the friendly countries coming in, but if we're gonna get rid of them, we have to be able to talk about who's going to maintain our infrastructure. Are people gonna do basic jobs like cowboying, road building? One? Okay? And two? How are we going to keep having people to maintain our welfare net? So those are and do we need a welfare net? That's another question. That's the third question I would ask first. Actually, we can work out all this feminism stuff later, Like we just removed welfare for young men, immigrants and huge groups, and that would solve the problem. I think so would go a long way. I'll tell you you opened up the door to a whole nother show, many shows, So we'll continue that conversation down the road, no doubt about it. He's a professor of political science at Kentucky State University. Doctor Wilford Riley, thank you, will take care. I have a great day.

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1:03:04 Eight hundred five O six four eight eight five, eight hundred five O six four eight eight five eight hundred five O six four eight eight five. That's eight hundred five O six forty eight eighty five. Getting America back on track, Bill Martinez Live, Well. Good morning, welcome, Good to have you win us six minutes after the top of the hour. Right now we're gonna be talking with Ed Gripenhagen. I love this book, three hundred and sixty five Hebrew words every Christian should know. Uh, this really blessed I love things like this.

1:03:44 Ed. I'm telling you this really blessed me well. I loved writing it. So happy to be. Here so for some reason. I have the sense that it probably took you a couple of years plus a lifetime, right, Oh my gosh. You know, if i'd have if i'd have known then when I when I signed the contract to write the book, what I'm know now, I would have given myself more time. It was a. Lifetime and then it was four months. Yeah, So what was it about focusing on these Hebrew words that just it seems to me like this was a project that probably woke you up many times in the middle of the night saying you got to do this. You're assuming that I slept. You know, I grew up Jewish, so I learned. I got saved when I was thirty five, and so I learned, you know, the Jewish culture and traditions and all of those things, and learned how to read Hebrew, you know, as a child. And then when I read the Bible, for the oddly enough, steeped in a Jewish upbringing, I still had never read the Bible.

1:04:55 But when I read the Bible in two thousand from. Had you had you read the Old Testa and at least none, no scripture whatsoever. Well learned Bible, learned Bible stories growing up but never read the Bible. Right, And I was in the synagogue five days a week, Tuesday after school, Thursday after school, Friday night, Saturday morning, and Sunday, learned all of the cultural things and learned Bible stories, but never read the Bible, which sounds so odd. Probably, well, no, I gotta tell you what. I've had a Catholic background, and Catholic and what you're saying similar, you know, exposed to scripture and all the you know, all the masses and everything, but really just didn't know how to connect the component parts to really understand the entire story story and love story. I should say that God had written to his creation.

1:05:52 Sure, sure, it was almost like and Jews we used to say that Roman Catholicism is Judaism like, But it was almost like the Scripture was for somebody else who knew more than we did to read and then explain it to us. So there was this idea of a personal relationship with a creator, maybe being led there through his word. That was just a foreign thing. But then when I picked up the Bible and read it, everything really everything changed because when I picked it up, honestly, I had been married thirteen years at that time, and my wife was Christian. She was saved when she was eleven, and she actually converted to Judaism for us to get married.

1:06:45 But that conversion was also not dig into the Bible. It was not renounced Jesus. It was academic. It was She went to a class once a week and at the end of the year she had to before twelve old Jewish men who questioned her, and she passed the test and gets her little Jewish identification card. I guess. But then, thirteen years into marriage, I just wanted to know what the truth was and I told her, I said, I'm going to read the Bible, which shocked her. It shouldn't be too hard to disprove, you know. It's the most arrogant thing I have ever said.

1:07:26 Like, you're not the first one to ever say that, by the way. Yeah, but I was the smartest. I'm the smartest one of all of them. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Josh McDowell's got nothing on me, right exactly. So I said, it's probably a good book to know how to act right and behave, but there's no way it's true. So I'm gonna meet mister big shot. I'm gonna prove it. Wrong. Well, it proved me way wrong, you know, at the end of that thirteen months. And I had no intention on reading the New Testament, like zero. But when I finished the Old Testament, and I didn't know any I had never I grew up in the Bible belt in South Georgia, and no ever shared the Gospel with me. Wow, and not a big Jewish community where I lived. So all of my buddies, you know, playing football and baseball and all growing up, they and I thought if you weren't Jewish, you were Christian because I didn't understand what it even meant.

1:08:25 But nobody ever shared the Gospel with me. I didn't know Jesus was. I had no idea. I remember seeing a bumper sticker one time, me and my dad were in the car together. I was about ten, and it said Jesus saves and I said, what does that mean? And he just said, I have no idea what that means, don't worry about it. And so I had no biblical worldview, no knowledge of who Jesus was any of that. And so what year is this? Are we talking like seventies or something that you were you. Know, No, this was right after y two k because. Oh okay, all right. December of ninety nine. It made me think about my mortality. Yes, And in January of two thousand, I started reading the Old Testament because for Jews, that's the Bible, right, and that's the only Bible. And I started in January and I finished in September, and the Lord was working on me.

1:09:20 I wouldn't have used that language because I wouldn't have known what that meant was through a lot of different passages and a lot of different books in the Old Testament. But when I finished in September, I thought, that can't be the end of the story. There's just no way. And I wrestled with even buying a New Testament because for probably two weeks. And then I snuck into a Christian bookstore because I thought if my dad were to see me, and I was a grown man, thirty five years old. Yeah, my dad, you didn't wear graccho sunglasses with the nose to. Everything. But that because I barked across the street and snuck around the back of the building.

1:10:04 Oh my gosh, wow. Because my dad was a hard man. He grew up in Brooklyn and then went to West Point and was a soldier went to Korea and ended up Landing where we lived, where I was raised, and my mom's family. She came from Germany when she was about six months old in nineteen thirty seven, and all the rest of her family died in two different concentration camps. I snuck in bought the New Testament, and it's not happened stance that the genealogy of Christ is the first. Thing there with Matthew exactly there. And I'm reading that, but I still had no concept of who Jesus was. So I'm reading this genealogy and when I get down to verse sixteen or seventeen and it's Jesus genealogy, I thought, if they're trying, if somebody is trying to prove that he is something special, he sure does have a genealogy, you know. I mean, you got prostitutes and the worst kings ever and other women, any foreigners and pagans and whatever. But ultimately September October November, I read the New Testament, and then I read several other books, Josh McDowell, Lee strobel oh Y, you know, Case for Faith, the Case for Christ, just several books, and in January. On January seventeenth of one. I was driving to work by myself, pouring down rain, about five thirty in the morning, and I thought, oh, my goodness,

1:11:36 I believe every single word from Genesis one one to the end. It's I just thought, it's all true. It's all true. Oh my gosh. If it's true, then a dead man went in a grave and a live man came out. And that's a pretty big deal. Yeah you think, yeah, yeah. And so I cried out in my truck by myself, Lord mercy on me a sinner. And of course he doesn't say no when you say that, right, And so I got say. That was January seventeenth of one. And over the course of probably several years, as I would read the New Testament and go back into the Old Testament, it's almost like the words became three dimensional.

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1:18:02 Uh, realistically I was going to disprove it. So yeah, but I really was trying to figure out what's true and what's not. Because if A cannot equal negative A at the same time and place. So either Jesus went in a grave dead and came out alive or he didn't. You can't. You can't have it both ways. So it's all and you know, and if you look back at in the Book of Acts, you know, those guys didn't run around preaching a bunch of theology. They preached we saw him die and then we saw him alive. They preached resurrection, the resurrection, the resurrection, and so it was all, at least for me, it was all about the resurrection.

1:18:43 And could you imagine just somebody who had a casual association with Jesus that they would go to their own death in believing a lie. You would never do it, right, You just would never do it. You could believe a lie, but you would never go to your death knowing that it was a lie. Right. Nobody would ever do that. So it really was. And I remember the night that I got the night of the morning that I got saved, and I went out and talked to my parents and uh, and I said before, my dad was a pretty hard man, not a she did not mean, he was just a hard soldier man, right, and uh. And I went out there and I didn't want to get in a big theology theological debate with them because I couldn't have. I didn't I didn't know enough.

1:19:30 I just knew that that morning I went from lost to found. Yeah. All I could tell then was what happened to me. It was like Peter and John in acts like I don't know about all this other stuff. All I can tell is what happened. Yeah, it's like like the blind man. I can't explain it. All I know I was now I'm I'm not blind anymore. Right, It's just simple truth, just simple truth. And but it turned very very ugly, very quickly. And me and my dad were we were thickest, I mean we were very very close. And after that night and it turned bad quick. They didn't speak to and I have two sons, two young sons at the time, and they didn't speak to me or my wife for almost seven years wow, living in the same town. But the Lord reconciled our relationships seven years in and in twenty twenty one. I'll tell you a quick story. In twenty twenty one, my parents were living in an assisted living center north of Atlanta, and just some circumstance, and I never shared the Gospel with my dad, just because he just always intimidated me. And I would share the Gospel with the carpet, but Dad.

1:20:43 Was different, right exactly. So I told my wife, I said, I'm driving up there, pray for me. I'm going to share the Gospel with my dad. And I did. I got there and there was a lot of my family were visiting them, and I knew I couldn't do it then because they would probably cruciated me in the parking lot because we were still the black sheep. But the Lord parted the Red Sea about four pm that day, and everybody left except for me and my mom and dad, and I got up to walk in there, and the devil just got all in my head and impressed upon me that he's part of God's chosen people. He's okay, you don't need to share anything with him. Go sit down. And I went to sit back down, and a friend of mine texted me Roman's one point sixteen for I'm not ashamed of the gospel. It's the power of God for salvation, first with the Jew, then for the Greek. And at the bottom of the text it said get it done.

1:21:36 And this was an old soldier also that sent me. Oh. So I went in there. I thought, I got to do it now, or I'm a total coward. So I went in there, sat down at the foot of the bed, and my dad was eighty nine years old. He gave his life to Christ and he died the next day. And when I got in my jeep to go back home, I called my buddy and I said, why did you text me that do you know where I am? And he said, no, I have no idea where you are. Are you and your wife? Okay? And I said, and I told him the story and he and I cried for probably half an hour home, And to this day he just said, I felt like you needed encouragement and he sent.

1:22:20 Me that What a God moment. Huh man, it was unbelievable. Yeah, I can oh man, I'll tell you that. Yeah, the hair on my arms are standing up right now. But you love God moments like this, And the thing is that you know they happened all the time. And thank God you know that you responded to it, you know, because you imagine if you had not responded to it and your dad passed and you didn't share the. Gospel with it, I would never be able to live with myself. Yeah. Ever, and so you know, over the next few years.

1:23:01 That was twenty twenty one, probably twenty twenty two to twenty three. As I'm really reading through the scripture, I said a minute ago that it's like the text became three dimensional. What I think the Lord impressed upon me, probably for fifteen years, is that the Bible's not this exhaustive, this exhaustive list of everything that has ever happened will ever happen. We put too much on it. It's a supernatural inspired text whose intent is to lead a lost center into a saving relationship with the Creator. And if that's true, and I believe that's absolutely true, everything about the Old Testament it's all pointing to Christ. Yes, would include the words that were used, the idioms, the cultural expressions, the ceremonies, it all points to Jesus. And it changes the way you read it. There's so many words that because we don't study I think the text enough, we miss all the little nuances exactly.

1:24:05 Well. I got to tell you what makes me envious of people who have had a traditional Jewish background is you know, you've been exposed to all those nuances, and so now you have all the nuances and then some of us. I mean, for me, I consider myself as a theologian, and I went to Bible College, and I love the Word of God, and I'm really blessed whenever I get an opportunity to speak with someone with a Jewish background and tradition, because then they you know, like you say, it adds a whole other dimension to what you've been reading. Go oh man, yes, right, get I get it now and how it all fits in. And you know, so I'm envious of you in some regard that you have that that kind of exposure and understanding.

1:24:54 Because the life of God's word, you know, he says it's living, it's the living Word of God. I mean, it's amazing what that does. Like you said, it's appropriate in so many situations. And sometimes you'll get you read the same verse, but it's appropriate in many situations because it's alive. You know, it is so alive. And I think there's so many times we just missed things because we were doing some Bible reading plan and we're checking boxes. I read what I was supposed to read today, rather than digging in and really getting your arms around. This is actually the word of God and so many things, at least for me. I remember when I was reading in Luke.

1:25:39 I want to say it was Luke eighteen, parable of the tax Collector and the Pharisee, and it says that you know, he beat his chest or to have mercy on me a sinner. Well, I remember reading that and the first time in two thousand to follow two thousand and it just my memory, my mind just flooded with growing up going to the synagogue for young Kipoor the day of Atonement, and there's a prayer called the all Hate and it's a list of fifty three transgressions or sins, and you're saying, for the sin of whatever, Lord, have mercy on me, pardon me, and grant me atonement. It's fifty three times, and you do it ten times, and you're beating your chest the whole time you're doing it.

1:26:32 And I never knew what that was, but then I read in Luke eighteen and that's what the tax collector was doing. He's in mourning and grieving over his sin, you know, and beating his heart with his right hand. Well, when you know that, the next time you read Luke eighteen or somebody that's watching or listening to this, I promise you they'll read it differently. That's called tth spid is the hebreen word. That's the traditional beating of the chest. Right. See. The Catholic prayer is we say, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.

1:27:12 Yeah, yeah, and we have some grievous faults. I know exactly well, Ed Griffin Hagen, we got to leave it there. Gosh, I could spend a lot of time with you. Congratulations on this book. The book is available at all the usual places. I gather it. Is it sure? Three hundred and sixty five Hebrew words every Christian should know. And as Jesus said, it's not by food alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. So enjoy the banquet that is waiting for you in this book. Three hundred and sixty five Hebrew words, Ed Griffin Hagen, thank you for being with us. Take care, God bless Thank you, God, bless you.

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1:31:53 Seventy eight percent of hiring leaders say employees with online educational credentials standout because becaus they bring skills aligned with today's workplace technologies and tools. At the same time, ninety eight percent say online degrees are more credible in the workplace than they were ten years ago, reflecting how employer expectations and access to learning have evolved. And here to tell us more about it is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer with the University of Phoenix, doctor John Woods. Doctor John, Welcome to the show. Good to have you with us. Thanks for having me on today. Bill. Hey, this is a lot of fun, isn't it. I mean, I love when opportunity comes about and what it can do. Now, if you're flexible and you're still eager to learn, you can really take full advantage of this environment, can't you.

1:32:44 Yeah, you pointed out a couple of great statistics from the study, and what you said there is also key, which is the signal that it sends to an employer that somebody is willing and able to engage in continuous growth development learn whatever that might mean. That that sends a message in and of itself, not just the skills that are being obtained, but that somebody is taking the time and making the effort to do that. Well, the fact of the matter is is that business is ever dynamic, right, Business is changing, Its demands are always changing, and it really puts the onus on employees. And if you want a good job and be a valuable asset to that company, you better be dynamic as well. Right.

1:33:31 Yeah, there's a phrase that we use in the study, the half life of skills. Yes, the half type of skills. What that means is that the skills that got you the job you're in, or maybe that you perform every day on the job, that those skills have a little bit less meaning, a little bit less relevance, maybe a little bit less value each and every day. What we're seeing is an acceleration of what we call the half life of skills, which is a speeding up of which those skills become a little bit less meaningful, putting a premium on what you said, which is continuous upskilling and reskilling. And I like that term half life of job skills because sometimes you know, you know, we want things, you know, although we get bored sometimes when things are always the same.

1:34:19 But the fact of the matter is is that you know, there's part of our own humanity that wants to just count on our past headlines, right. Yeah, and we can no longer rely on that, that's for sure. And you know, I think every single employee could look around and see what's happening in their industry, in their field, or in their particular organization and try and understand what skills maybe are becoming more and more important and make a plan very quickly to have a conversation with the employer about whether or not they support the acquisition of that skill, whether they offer training and development to help somebody obtain that skill, or whether the lawfer maybe tuition reimbursement for them.

1:35:03 To go get that skill. Uh. And I think that's that's maybe the biggest takeaway here is continuous upskilling and reskilling, not panic or having a conversation right away with an employer about new skill acquisition and to what degree they will support that. You know, doctor John, I'd also recommend that you be situationally aware. I mean, look at the new hire hires that are coming into the company, who are there hiring and what is their what is their skill set that they're bringing into the company. That could be quite telling as well, right. Yeah, I think so. I think paying close attention to those things. What no one wants to do is wake up one day and find out that their skills are.

1:35:46 No longer valuable and new people. Have been brought in who have skills that are more valuable, and that would be reason for panic. And I think there are signs. As you said, we can pay attention to who's coming into an organization, what things are being done differently in an organization, and learn the skills that make sense and light of those changes. Yeah, and you want to get ahead of it as much as possible right as opposed to being behind, because you know, especially if you're falling years behind, you got a lot of catch up in you know, catch up to do right in short order. Yeah, and again accepting the fact that while you might get caught up, you're not done. Yeah, this will be continuous and the wave of change we're seeing right now may be more powerful, more more obvious to us, but that the change is going to be constant. And this is not a one and done where you upskill and and can afford to relax and not pay attention to the new changes that come along thereafter.

1:36:52 Well as quickly as AI and automation is moving it's not only that it's constant, but it's fast. Yeah, fast, and to your earlier point, impacting all of us in in all kinds of ways, in all kinds of industries. It's not just impacting technical work. AI is changing collaboration and communication, uh, tools for workflows, the way we do work. We're using it in our. Personal lives more than ever before. So, uh, this is not just something that's impacting you know it or the or or the technical fields. H Exactly. Uh, what are employers telling you that they want most doctor.

1:37:36 John Well, A lot of them are saying that, again, somebody who embraces learning is is someone they want, Uh, someone they're they're you know, that's a they're encouraged by that signal. I think they're also saying that when people learn online that they're bringing really current and credible skills uh to of the table to the workplace. The credibility of online we think, has jumped tremendously. In the survey, ninety eight percent of employers say that online learning is more credible than it was a decade ago. That was likely accelerated when we all had to learn online, right exactly, But online is a way for people to learn to upskill in a way that fits into their busy work and personal life, and employers are really embracing that.

1:38:32 Well. The other thing too, Doc John, I see that online education is more up to date as opposed to a traditional classroom because you know, the professors get lazy. This is the curriculum they've been teaching for the last ten years. They're reticent, you know, they might write a new book once in a while and that sort of thing. Whereas online, I mean, it really commands that that environment stay up to date because these are some of the questions the students are asking, right. Yeah, we love that element of online education that it can be super current. We also have a model where the people who teach. Our classes are practitioners and so they're in the field.

1:39:16 They not only have the academic credentials to teach, there are people who are in the. Fields in which they're teaching. So we think that pairing is really important, really brings a lot of currency, a lot of as you said, real world relevance to the table. What types of training education are most valuable right now? Well, I think that will vary as people look at their own workplace setting. I think the skills are transferable, which is important. So we're trying to teach students who emerge from the University of Phoenix to be AI ready, and that can be in any different field or profession because really these changes are impacting all.

1:39:59 Of the workforce. But we're also teaching people not only the learning of the skills to use the tools, but ethical and responsible use of these tools, which we think is really critical as well. Are people in the students that you're dealing with, are they more and more embracing AI and understanding it? Whereas you know, some people who are not up to date, are just they you know, their head spin when they hear AI. Right. Yeah, there's a real variability there. Some people are very mistrusting of AI today, whereas some people are using it daily. We've had, you know, people tell us that they've used AI to plan their whole entire next vacation or home renovation project, and so it really it really varies. But I think we're going to see an acceleration of the acceptance of AI. I think that's inevitable, and I don't think we have a choice, given it's rapid adoption in the workplace.

1:41:02 You know, without a doubt well, Doctor John Woods, provo's chief academic officer at the University of Phoenix and founding director of the University of Phoenix Career Institute, Doctor John as we wrap things up, what's one step workers can take today to protect their career. Well, we've got the study information at Phoenix Study tou slash online credentials. But the most critical step I think someone could take would be to embrace the idea of continuous and immediate upskilling and reskilling. Well, there you go, doctor John Woods, Thank you so much for being with us. Take care, Thank you. Hop into John do your data xuv for a day's work.

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1:45:44 Hey, welcome back Bill Martinez here along with Focus on the Families. Adam Holtz from plugged in dot com. Hey, mister Adam, how you. Doing, buddy? Bill? I'm great? How are you doing. Hey, I'm doing terrific, I tell you, I am. I love this time of year in this seat, you know, the lentends. And I know some people, what are you a masochist? I mean you're talking about you know, depriving yourself and you know, almsgiving and all those things. I just I love it because it's it's a time to you know, kind of purify everything, right, right, be prepared for what's coming up here in the celebration of God's greatest gift to his creation. That's right. And you know, one of the things that I think that gets lost in American consumer culture is any sense of seasonal rhythm.

1:46:30 Right, It's just. Go, we work, work, work, and then the weekends we crash work, work, work, and there's no sense of the passage of time and of seasons. And I love that. In the liturgical calendar in the Christian Church, we have you know, normal time, we have Advent, and then we have the Easter season, which is a time of reflection, it's a time of preparation, it's a time of sobriety in the biggest sense of that word, right, just being aware of who we are, who God is, what Jesus did for us and what that means for us as we prepare to remember and celebrate his crucifixion and then obviously his resurrection.

1:47:13 Well and fasting is key to this because one of the things that we have to overcome, of course, is our flesh. Yeah, and we're you know, telling our flesh. No, you're not the boss of me, right. Right, that's right, and I think fascinating in terms of our appetites across the board, you know, and the seven deadly sins we have, there are three of those that deal with appetites greed, gluttony, and lust, and then the other ones are sloth, and then the attitude ones which are anger, envy, and pride. But I think that our appetites get wrapped up sometimes together, and maybe we have one or two that we wrestle with more than others, but all of those are dealing with the fact that we have this desire for things to be filled, whether that's physically with food, whether it's sexually, whether it's with stuff that we think interacting with is going to fill us.

1:48:10 And there's a place for all of those things. It's not that they're all bad, but any of them can get out of whack. And I think what fasting does is it sensitizes us to the reality of our habits that we cultivate. And it's a reset button. And I have found, especially with fasting from food, that you become much more aware of how often you use food to medicate any emotion. You know, if you're happy, have a chip. If I'm sad, have a chip. If I'm bored, have a chip. Oh that's so weird. The chips are all gone. How did that happen? Right exactly? And I thought I was happy, And I thought I was happy exactly exactly now. And the thing is also what I've been appreciating. I don't know. Have you been involved at all with a hollow app?

1:49:00 I haven't. But I have another one that I want to bring up here in a minute. Okay, not an app, it's a podcast that's coming out, but go ahead tell me. Well, the hellow app has just been unbelievable. The founder of it, Alex Jones, not to be confused with the Alex Jones. Uh. This this young man in his search for God, and I could relate to him, you know, started you know, investigating all these other myst mystical religions and and uh, and they were already you know, utilizing an app to help for meditation and things like that. Well, when he reconnected with God and having a Catholic background and all, he started to go back to his origins and realized that, wow, you know that the church doesn't have something like this, you know, Catholic or Christian or otherwise they could do that. In fact, when he told his mother that who was a devout Catholic, hey, I got this idea about doing this app. Uh, this prayer app and she goes, you're not still never work.

1:50:08 Well, it's nothing like affirmation from your family, right, Well yeah exactly. But but the key affirmation he got because he had hears to hear, was from God. Yes. Right. And and this is the thing. When God calls you to do things like build an arc, right, you know your neighbors are going to think, uh, there's that wacky at im. Oh I got the honey, it's it's already been three months. He's still he's built building. Yeah exactly, but you know, uh, but God, so he's he stays the course. And now you've got millions of people around the world involved with this app. That's it's a neat system to where you know, like you say, just like the liturgical calendar, you have it there because they're destination points. There.

1:50:58 There are points to say, Okay, hey, you're on the road and you're moving in the right direction. And uh. Anyway, all that to say is my engagement with the Hallowac, especially during the Lenten season, has just been powerful. You know. Jonathan Rumy is the voices and and his fact that it's interesting because when he reads the I don't know if I told you this or not, but when he reads the Gospel, he uses Jesus voice to Jesus voice. Yes, exactly, it's sterio. I mean, I remember the first time I go, oh my gosh, he transitioned to his Jesus. He's slightly British. Yeah, somebody something or something, you know. And of course Jonathan and part of his career he did voices, so I mean, but he's definitely done something to effect and identify Jesus with chosen and his voice and everything. So anyway, but well away, let me let me just say I'm sorry.

1:51:53 I'm sorry I went the long road road around here. But anyway, all that to say is that one of the key things that has been coming up this past week. Relevant to what you were saying earlier, is this recurring theme of you know, God empty me, God film me, God use me. Yeah, God empty me, God feel me, God use me. Think about that. You know, Hey, whatever things I have that are tied to this world, and you know, you know that are gonna all, you know, burn up right away and rush out and you know, go away, you know, get rid of that stuff. You know, empty me out, and then fill me with your holiness and righteousness, fill me with those things that are of view. And then and then, you know, God, can you use me? Am I I don't want to be available for you so anyway, Well, and we.

1:52:36 All have to be emptied, right, I mean we all have stuff that needs to be poured out sometimes, stuff that needs to be cleaned out, right, like the in the inside of the dirty cup, right, And and then we become, by God's grace, a vessel through which He can be poured And you know, it's We're never going to be completely sanctified on this side of things. But I think one of. My favorite passages of Scripture is in Hebrews. I think it's in Hebrews twelve maybe and there's one translation that says he is perfecting forever those who have been made perfect.

1:53:17 You know, he is sanctifying. Yes, he's in the process of making us more like him. But it's not about us trying to earn that on our own. He has already done it and we're just living into that identity. And I think everything we're talking about really connects with that reality here today, right. Yeah, the sanctification is a bit of a process as we Yeah, yes, you know, and God bless some people who get a sense of immediacy. Yeah, they're very fortunate. Yes, you know, God has had to thank God for his long suffering with me.

1:53:57 Well, yeah, exactly, and me too, me too. Me to go through this process. And so anyway, all that to say is that this is an incredible time of year to where you get to know yourself a little bit more in the process, like you say, when you start depriving yourself and you're going to refrain and fast in whatever form, you know, whether it's like you know, you and I have been talking about social media, and then of course we had the big case this this week that got settled. I mean, how revealing is this. Well, how revealing is it, and how many more are they're going to be. You know, I read somewhere there are thousands of other cases pending, and this is a huge precedent. I forget what was the settlement, like three hundred and seventy five million dollars or something like that.

1:54:46 I don't know if it ended up to be that high, because I heard three and three, which was pretty low in terms of millions. Maybe I'm looking at another I saw. Something else, and I could I could be off well because I remember when the judgment first came down it was a little over three million. I thought, well, le's time. But they said, oh, but you know, you got the you got phase two, you got the next ones, which could be you know, much higher, and I, unless I misheard, I heard another three million. So it seems to be very very low. But like you said, you know, more than anything else, I think that we're all aware. Parents have been aware, and that this has been a problem for a long time. I think this gives them some force to be able to go and tell their brady teenage kids, I'm sorry, you know, this is just the way it is. I mean, they've been influentd we now know the truth. We want you to be free and we're not going to allow you to do this anymore.

1:55:38 And then if the government or you know, parents, of course, the parents are the first line of defense and say I'm sorry, you're not going to be involved with social media until you're sixteen or seventeen or whatever age. And if the government decides to do something different, as they are, I think that what is it Australia, You got to be there sixteen sixteen? Is it? Yes? Right, at sixteen, it might be sixteen, right, yeah, So anyway, but these things you learn by you know, by fasting and by taking away to go oh man and I and maybe these kids did not realize it. Maybe they didn't realize how addicted they were when the schools even said, hey, you're not going to have access to your phones anymore in classrooms, right right. No, that's right.

1:56:19 And I think you know, the thing about fasting is you're breaking you're breaking that habit. And when we're talking about something like our interaction with phones, it's it's an addiction. And you know, you go through the DTS, the detox, right, you get a little jittery, and then you get to the other side and you realize Oh man, I've been so agitated and I didn't even know it. Yeah, and I think that's that's the payoff. Yeah, well about forty seconds left. Holy Week coming up, Yes, movies to watch and Holy Week as we get ready to be witnesses to an empty grave.

1:56:59 So I really like Risen. It's a sort of a who done it? It sort of feels like one part in Jesus movie, one part CSI about a Roman centurion investigating the empty tomb. And man, it's really one of my favorites. Yeah, I still I'm still in love with a passion. As as hard as it is to watch at times, I just love what you know, what they did with that movie and continues to be a strong favorite. Well, we got to leave it there. I will say happy Holy Week to you, yes, as we as we prepare for Easter Sunday, and of course coming up this Sunday.

1:57:43 Palm Sunday, right. Palm Sunday, that's exactly right, So get your palms out, get the kids ready to walk through church with their palm leaves. That's always a highlight. And and the recurring word hosanna. Yes, there he is Adam Holtz with focus on the family. Plugged in a ministry. Sorry, yes, I was right. I t you up so that I know well you said, focus. Yeah, okay, all right, so you want to do that one more time. Yeah, let's try it again. We need to, Yeah, Adam Holsch with focus on the family, plugged in dot com? Yeah, plugged in dot com. Come check us out from movies, music, TV, video games, all of those things.

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