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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. Hey, at six minutes after the top of they are right now. Glad you're joining us. I'm Bill Martinez. He's Richard Lyons. He's the author of The DNA of Democracy as Shadows of the Acropolis and other great books. And I'll tell you, Richard, it's so good to have you on right now. In light of what's going on in our country and these recent primaries, it is definitely exposed the democratic socialists. They're out of the closet now. They're no longer being quiet about it. They're saying, hey, we're loud and proud, and they feel like they've got a national movement on their hands.

0:48 What say you, I think it's a I think like you, Bill, that it's a beneficial thing that they are pronouncing their socialism right, and it's just and it's not just their socialism, it's their anti semitism. Yes. Two, these are the two things that are really they've been hidden for a long time. You could not get elected in America twenty years ago after saying you were a socialist. You could not get elected twenty years ago if you said you were against Israel and you were an anti Zionist. That was the.

1:30 Statement that would make you unelectable. What is alarming in these cases in New York. And one of these guys is Brad Lander. He's Jewish, Yeah, Jewish exactly. And he had to say he's against Israel and for funding Israel, arming Israel, any cooperation with the United States in order. To get elected. So now I'm saying, but I'm heartened by this. This is inner city stuff. It is where Democrats have had control for a century, right, and so I'm heartened by the idea this is going to dry up the Jewish money to the Democrat Party, because this is alarming. Now instead of having to endorse the Jewish community and endorse defense of Israel, now you get elected by inflaming anti Semitism and demanding, you know, the two state solution and Palestine to the sea, from the river to the sea. So this is really it's a defining moment, Bill, and that's the hope.

2:37 Well, and the other thing I thought that was quite interesting was you had the Democratic congressman who's Jewish trying to get a cup of coffee in a Jewish community, Richard, and he is chastised, and they gave him his money back and said, we don't want your the likes of you, or your business coming here and buying coffee in our shop. Well, how un American is that? Right? How unmelting pot right? Exactly? But you know, yeah, and you just said something. And I was going to add to what you said earlier when you started counting down these things that the Democratic Socialists believe in, you know, anti Semitic and you know, these other socialist issues, but they're also against.

3:23 The basics or anti Christian. Well, anti anti American basic principles. I mean, you've got weigh out in California. She refuses to save the Pledge of Allegiance, you know. And and the thing is about our constitution that we're about to celebrate, you know, in a couple of weeks, our two hundred and fiftieth celebration. Here these foundational principles about our government and the idea that people are significant, and they are they're born with inalienable rights given to them by God. They that isn't anathema to them. Yes, there's a reason Bill May I explain why that is. Yes, and that is the most revolutionary line in the history of humankind, that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights. That just stands straight from the Ten Commandments, where God gave us law that both king and priest and peasant has to follow right, And that just inflames the left. Why because they want the state to assume godhood. Yes, be in charge of your rights and your life and your profert and that is what socialism is. And to say that there is a higher God from whom we gain our rights, not a state. They in socialism, you need owe everything to the state that you have right

4:53 because they take whatever you have. That is why it inflames them. I'm sorry I had to get that. No, no, no, no apology needed again. I think we need to reinforce this understanding because the people have been duped over the years. This is why I'm glad Mom Donnie's out. I'm glad they're all coming out of the closet and saying we're democratic socialists. I think it's I will give them. Their due, and I think it's quite brilliant that they didn't come in and set up a whole third Party. They came over and took over the Democratic Party, and so they titled themselves as Democrats socialists because some of the Democrats, you know, by tradition, will vote Democrat because there's a D in front of their name, but they don't realize what follows that D, which is communism.

5:38 And in the election of Spencer Pratt, can we say how democratic that election was? It was not. Yes, it had nothing to do with democracy. It had to do with fixing that election, right, and that's what they'll do. And the same thing in LA. Yeah, yes, Spencer Pratt right right, Spencer Pratt exactly. Kept counting until he law right. There was a certain box of ballance bill. So they counted front to back twenty three thousand votes, not one of which was for Spencer Pratt. How does that happen? It's statistically impossible, statistically impossible unless you rig it.

6:21 So this is. Where we're at, and I'm like you, I'm happy they're out of the closet because for one hundred years they followed Woodrow Wilson, who said famously, Russia did it wrong. We can't do this by revolution, we have to do it by evolution. Do it very quietly and in increments, And for one hundred years they haven't said we're socialists and we're taking your money and we're going to give it to our friends and our family. But that's what socialism is, that's what mom Donnie is. And now he has this woman Chevalier who's openly saying, yeah, I can't wait to find out what lands I don't like, right, and I'm gonna take their property. This this is they're over the line. Now, they're out of the They're out of the closet and over the line.

7:12 Right. Well, and look what Look what the socialists have done. AOC killed you know, hundreds of thousands of job in our. Own district, Yes from Amazon, right said I don't want Amazon here. Well, guess what they're not coming, right, And Griffith, this man has donated more money to New York City on his own and all the persons he's employed and all the wealth he's created, and and he's thumbing his nose, you know, he's blinking. He's in the camera going I'm gonna I'm coming. To get you. Yeah. Right, that socialism, right, and it's taking the wealth creators and putting a bullseye on them.

7:53 You're not going to have a big tag space that way. Right exactly. And here they are, I mean they have dreams and ambitions to give away all free stuff. Well they're going to run out of other people's money real quick. There is no free stuff. You and I every practical person in America with an ounce of common sense knows there is nothing that's free. Yeah, I mean zero. So it's a transfer of wealth. Nothing's free. You're transferring property from one person, a taxpayer, to someone who's not paying taxes. Yeah, and through a government organization and a political party that takes it right. And the only way they can take control is they have to dumb down everybody. And as you said, it's been a progressive movement as they've continued to move through the institutions. I mean, these kids and parents that have paid hundreds of thousands, you know, trillions of dollars basically for education, for the dumbing down of their kids, and here they are, you know, these last I would say, the last two generations, because they've been so corrupted and influenced by these progressive professors.

8:56 That was all part and parcel of this grand plan. Right. It started with very good bill. It started with the great society. That's when LBJ and the teachers' unions took over education K through twelve in the public schools. Then in Obama's presidency, he took over the financing of higher education. And take a look at the pricing that people are paying for college since that moment, because the government can give money for what free. Since then, taxes have gone up, the price of education has gone up, and the indoctrination is NonStop from kindergarten through grad school. And only socialists can afford to invent a government that has never been successful, but invented in the heads of college students that yes, there's a utopia out there.

9:50 We can get there. We can get there if we can only take enough, take enough money from other people, and convince half the country at half the country's evil because they don't give enough. Well, you know, here we are about to celebrate. Here, we are about to celebrate two hundred and fifty years Richard. And you know, and when you look back historically, these communists and socialists, they may have a fifty to eighty year reign, but it is a reign of terror and shared misery. And it's also a situation where I look at it sociologically and see what they've done to the people. They dumb them down, they isolate them. They put that in silence.

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15:08 We're talking with Richard Lyones, the author of The DNA of Democracy and Shadows of the Acropolis. Your series is just brilliant, the Democracy DNA of Democracy series so brilliant and timely right now in light of our two hundred and fifty years that you go back and you you recount our beginnings. And I've often said on the show that you know, if you lose your way, you must go back to the beginning and remember from whence you came. And we've got a rich history. Nobody's claiming perfection, even in our documents. Bill. We have a unique history, Yes, utterly unique, and it is so dynamic, and so everyman of America and I, in honor of our two hundred and fiftieth birthday and for your listeners, which are such patriots I am, I've set up a website that you can download the DNA of Democracy, either in digital or audio for the car at the DNA of Democracy dot Com.

16:13 So they can have. They can they can for free, they can travel the richness of the history of how our country was formed the way it was, and it goes all the way back to the Ten Commandments and why that's so important. Well, you know there's gonna be a lot of families traveling this summer with their kids. Uh, this would be an excellent download while they're in the car, right, the car. And the Disney World or wherever. Right. Well, wow, what what a gift, Richard. That's uh, that's very generous. Again, remind everybody where they can go to access this. It is the DNA of democracy dot com.

16:53 Well one of the Uh, in one of the chat volumes, I should say, you address socialist and it is so timely because the things that you talk about in that book is America today. Richard. Well, if you go volume two, then of the series is well volume one. To be clear, the DNA of democracy is how and why our country was created the way it was with the with the revolution constitutional Convention and then the confirming of the Declaration of independence in that revolutionary line had to come with a civil war and the women's suffragette movement. Volume two goes. Into how in the last hundred years since Woodrow Wilson, again, socialism has been growing slowly, but step by step it's.

17:41 On the march. And now if you go to Volume two, pages three eighty and three eighty one. You have our founding principles on one side of the spine and socialism on the other. And what's remarkable is they're not similar. They're not even dissimilar. They're diametrically posed. You have individual rights on one side, and you have the state that takes your rights on the other. On one side, you have free enterprise. On the other side, you have state control of the economy, as we have in half of our healthcare system. And so I think it's very demonstrative because you do just what you said, Bill. You have to know where you're from.

18:25 Why did our country become so great? How did it become so prosperous? Why did we know peace since the Civil War as we've known it? And it's because we're a melting pot. It's because we had. Common ground in our beliefs in the constitution. This socialist party, it's not a democrat, it's not democratic anymore. It's socialism. And what they are creating has nothing to do with how we were founded. It is what we fought against and bled for in World War Two, what we fought in Germany in Italy, and what we've fought during the sixty years. Of Cold War after that. That's what this is.

19:06 We're realizing a Barack Obama's statement about the fundamental transformation of America. If you wondered what he meant by then, now you should know what he meant. Right, Yeah, because he's the one, the one, which means you have one leader, you have one party, and anybody who doesn't agree with you watch out. That's why when Trump got into office, they were also startled. They worked very hard to engineer a coup. And the only reason Donald Trump survived is because he had the property to do so and the courage. To do so. Amen, exactly. I mean, you talk about his presidency and what it could mean down the road. I'm wondering, Richard, do we have to experience But Argentina experienced. You know, they were very affluent, they were rising, they were doing very well, and then for seventy eighty years they experienced this grand plan of socialism and look what happened to them.

20:07 I have great hope in your show and other shows that are geared towards getting away from the indoctrination of the regular media. Yeah. I don't know what you'd call it. Anymore the major media or the. Well they used to say mainstream. But yeah, but even then it's it's less and less because people are realizing that they're not delivering the truth. That it's it's narration, it's propaganda. Right, Yeah, don't feel bad. This is all normal, you know, when you have Obama attacking the little sisters of the poor, right, the ahhs or the these sorts of things. That are when they were attacking through the IRS, they were attacking the Tea Party movement.

20:56 Right when you see these things. That's why I started writing this because it's so vital to know how can an American government do that? Right? We used to be on common ground under the Constitution when we said no agency can do that, right, right, So now we no longer have that common ground. Right, lowesst Learner and Barack Obama with the way I maintain Richard that that alone and what they did with the Tea Party and anybody that was patriotically aligned, had an effect at least on at least ten I don't have the exact number, but I believe at least ten voting cycles have been affected as a result of what Lowest Learner in the IRS did to the Tea Party and other patriotic organizations by not giving them tax exemption status.

21:45 And not allowing them they're freedom of assembly right, that is, the ability to finance your ideas. And what they did was they they put the persons who are applying for such rights to collect an assembly and finance that assembly. They attack those assemblies and the persons within them through the IRS to scrutinize their finances. And here we are, and here we are allowing them to compromise a key statement in our constitution, the consent to the government. How can you have, as you pointed out in la how can you have the consent of the government when the ballot box is being stuffed.

22:28 The matter of elections in the constitution comprises almost half of the constitution. Think about it's so important. There's a reason why representatives are elected every two years to the House, why the Senate is elected every six years, the president every four years. They want government to be steady but continuously changing to the will of the people. What they've erected since Woodrow Wilson has called the administrative state. It is four hundred and thirty five agencies, people by million of people, largely to the left who are appointed for life and making decisions about us in the e p A right.

23:09 Yes, thank god for who's the. Man in there now, Seldon Sheldon, and he's he's just chopping it down. And this is one of the one of the UH, it's one of the great agencies of the left has been able to use. And now Zelden's in there and doing great work. Well, Richard, I cannot thank you enough. I appreciate your time. He's the author of the critically acclaimed, multi award winning DNA of Democracy series. Make sure you take advantage of his generous offer. Again the website they can go to download the series. It's the DNA of Democracy dot com and they get less first volume and after the after the birthday and the celebration, we're going to work on volume two, so everybody knows what's going on by the election.

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27:48 Nutrition for Patriots, and We're. Back with you. Bill Martinez here along with the author former nflq ME ministry leader Jeff Kemp. Hey, Jeff II you going great good. Hey, Happy fourth of July to you, by the way, I mean we're going to celebrate early. I mean, this is our two hundred and fiftieth and you know, let's let's enjoy a lot of positive things happening. I love that the Europeans here are here in town kind of reminding everybody of just how great we are. It's almost like modern day Tokaville's all over the country, you know, going wow, this is awesome, whether whether it's Bucky's or something as simple that we take for granted, like air conditioning or even ice.

28:30 Jeff. Well, and you see the Norwegians at the various soccer games for the World Cup and at the PGA golf tournament this weekend, rooting for Victor Hovland who just won overtime this this Monday morning. But they're doing that rowing thing right, Yes, I love it. They're they're using the American sporting venues, which we love our sports in fun, commaraderie ways. Yes, it's just it's cool to see, you know, using that in a in a fun way. I think that some people over worship their sports, yes, you know, and and and yet when it brings people together and you can do it in a way that doesn't you know, beat up the fans from the other country and the other team. Positive. So there's back to July fourth and America and the Declaration of Independence and as my dad called it, the American idea. Yeah, that God gave rights.

29:31 He wanted to have liberty and justice and freedom and the opportunity to become who you were meant to be, have a place on this earth that would work that out. Recognizing that we are falling sinful nature needs the balance of powers and the checks and balances a democratic republic, you know, that's what we do at a republic. It's interesting because you talk about these guys given rights, inalienable rights, as Madison wrote in the Constitution, and this is something when you think about it, that was always there. But somehow it took the great American ideas your dad said, for the great American idea and God to use this palette in a sense to make it, I guess, maybe to bring it to life in a way of how it would work politically or for a nation what it would mean to be free, all that the American idea encompassed.

30:35 You know, I was thinking that, God, why did it take so long for us to grasp that? Because this seems to be something that you created in each of us, as you wove us in our mother's roomb back from day one, you know, from the Garden of Eden forward. Right, Well, why did it take us so long? Go back five thousand years in history and trace the genealogy Jesus back to Adam and Eve and their first kids. They couldn't create a decent country, you know, Cain kills Abel. Humanity gets so bad that God wipes him out with a flood. He promises never to flood the earth again, and Noah gets us started again. The Tower of Babel shows that we have great capacity and intelleck, but our pride messes it up and God had to scatter us and change the languages and one language and then civilization has so many examples of dysfunction and false use of human talent which God gave us made in his image, and basically using power to gain advantage over others. Right, right, exactly wrong. But the United States of America has drawn from the best in Israel and its biblical form of a religious government style, and much of the intellect and perspective from the Egyptian world and the intelligent world of

32:05 that era. Obviously we gained a lot from Greece and the thoughts about democracy and a lot of the philosophies that brought together thoughts about how people could be self governed. And I eventually England came up with the Magna Carta and concepts, but really the Reformation opened the door, and Mark Luther was one of those who truly showed that humanity needs to have freedom and self determination, and you need God's structure and guidance and the assumption that rights come from Him. And that's what allowed them to say no to the excesses of power found back in the pope and the church that existed in that era. Now those excesses find their way into Protestant churches, Catholic churches, liberal governments, conservative governments, different eras because humanity is flawed.

33:03 But the American Republic has brought together much of the best and given us a system that can tap down the worst in humanity. So I'm thankful for America. July fourth happens to be my youngest son's birthday, so we have double reason to celebrate. Well exactly, well, again, God has blessed us, and as Ronald Reagan said, a nation who is no longer under God will go under. And we're starting to see, you know, some of the cracks here. But I tell people, look at God can work with a remnant, and He's done it time and again. Just like you said. You know, throughout history, when the population loses sight and loses its way, you know, the prescription is there in Second Corinthians. You know, if my people who are called by my name, so it's up to his people, who are called by His name, to you know, to confess to God, to turn from their wicked ways, and God, in his grace and mercy will restore us. And that is our prayer that our nation would be restored, because right now, I mean, we're you know, we're more of a fifty to fifty nation than we've ever been I think in our history. Right now, Jeff and.

34:13 You and I are patriots, and we appreciate the founders and the unsung women and African Americans that persisted in America when they weren't getting the benefits of the Declaration of Independence, melting pot that has eventually assimilated people from all over the world, and truly is everything else island promised in that statue of liberty promised. We're excited about this country and we want it to do well. By the same token, we remember that our true, most important citizenship is an eternal one, yes, exactly, only country that will allow to be perfect God's country. And even negative seasons and chapters in political and American history have opportunities for God's good work to be advancing. Because God really wants to get the souls of people back with him, even more than he wants us to get all the laws perfect and everything straightened out societally. Now they're both, and because the good Samaritan would make life better for others.

35:21 But the good Samaritan, if he had an answer to the question how can I live forever, would also give that answer. And what I pray for is humility that leads to repentance and confession of our pride and maybe too much of our wanting money and prosperity and pleasure, maybe wanting to be right too much. I'd love to do well on debate, but I don't want to be right because I'm better than someone. But repentance means I've been trying to do it myself God, and I need you. And if we had repentance, a spiritual revival, that would be the greatest thing ever, would expand the Kingdom of God. We know the revivals are what helped lead to the American Revolution and the success of this nation.

36:07 Well, that was the message that Whitfield brought to the Thirteen Colonies. As we've discussed before, it was about repent John the Baptist. It was about repenting because the Kingdom of God was drawing nigh, and here it was Whitfield at that time saw and was inspired by I believe the Holy Spirit to bring this message that led to repentance and then revival in the Thirteen Colonies. And it coalesced them in such. A way to really apprehend the idea of freedom, Jeff, because up until then they didn't quite know exactly what they were. They just wanted to get away from the King of England.

36:49 This had never existed before, never existed before. Jonathan Edwards was preaching years before Whitfield here in America the true Gospel and the freedom in Christ. And yet it had ramifications and how they lived. John Wesley he talked about the true Gospel, but it had ramifications on marriage, community, compassion, civility. And then if you look at a great movie that Stacey and I watched called The Great Awakening, or I read a book about Whitfield and Benjamin Franklin, Jesus guy and a deist who were pretty good friends because Franklin printed all the sermons. Yes, you know that the popularity of Whitfield group because of Franklin. But The Great Awakening shows that the spiritual revival of America gave courage, vision and the allegiance to God that I think helped him pull off the miracles that allowed us to beat the strongest nation in the world, the Empire of Britain, and gain our independence.

37:57 Yeah, it's kind of interesting that you have. A printer, you know, like Benjamin Franklin instrumental Billy Graham. He had Randolph Hearst also a printer of sorts, a publication you know, of course, one of the widest publications in the country at the time, and God used that as well to get his message out there, you know, through Billy Graham. It's amazing when you look at the history of our country. Well, Jeff, we got to leave it there as always. How can people be in touch? Hi? They can find me that Jeff kempteam dot com. Jeff kempteam dot com.

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42:40 Hey, we're back with you Bill Martinez here. Good to have you with us, sharing a part of your day. For more information on the show Bill Martinez Live dot com. With us is the licensed mental health professional and Frankuin Focus on the Family contributor Johnny DeBrito, Doctor Brio. How you doing good, to see. You doing great? Always great to see you Bill well. Then Alliance on mental Health Illness website is stating that fifty percent of all lifetime mental illness begins by age fourteen and seventy five percent by age twenty four. What does that tell us? That sounds about right. Very often we don't diagnose people when they're fourteen because we want to give them time to develop and see if maybe things work themselves out.

43:25 But very often when people are diagnosed later on, parents and others around them will say, you know, we've seen this here for in this child, from the time that he was young or she was young. So that sounds about right to me. Yeah, So, as you say, the urgency to address mental health within families has never been more critical. But you know, families need to have the information to know what they should be looking out for, right. That's right. So they should be looking out for changes in behavior. If you had a very outgoing child and the child is now being more isolating and not talking and so forth, or if you've noticed a change in their mood from very connected and friendly and kind and so forth to being sullen and angry and so forth.

44:16 And also if you notice changes in behavior such as they're not eating or they're eating a lot, they're not sleeping or they're sleeping a lot. Now here's where it gets tricky. Going back to what I said about fourteen year olds, All those things I just mentioned could be normal adolescents. We know that. We know that teenagers can get moody, they need more sleep because they're growing, they eat more, etc. So you want to look for patterns over time, and also listen to the people around you, not just you, but your family members, teachers, others who might be saying is so and so Okay, that's a really good indication that other people are noticing something might be wrong. Yeah. I think what you're pointing out here is you want to have a balanced approach. You don't want to get overly carried away here and all of a sudden, you know you're hearing you know, johny Bbrito on the radio and you go, oh my goodness, you know my.

45:05 Child is. Going to have mental health issues, and you know they're at that age of fourteen, so you know, and you start getting so overly baranoid, right. That's right. In fact, there was an advertising campaign about twenty years ago where there were about six or seven things listed on a commercial that said, is your child doing the following and they had such a deluge of people requesting help because everything on the list was normal for an adolescent, and so they had to get rid of that advertising campaign because they were scaring a lot of pearents. Well, so key is just you know, taking a look at behavioral changes. As you say, I mean the normal stuff like you say that comes with adolescents, it's there, But is there something radically different that should send up a flag?

45:58 Right? Right there? Things that you want to look for, whether it's children or adults, you want to look for changes in taking drugs or drinking, or purchasing firearms, those kinds of things. When people look as if they're starting to feel threatened or might become violent, those are things that are concerned. And then certainly any time you hear from anyone of any age comments that sound like they might be thinking about taking their own life or hurting someone else, those are times when you definitely want to seek out. And also be aware of the emotional signs. Right, and how can families identify when their loved one is experiencing some emotional distress?

46:41 Well, I think when you see a change in emotion someone who's usually been very normally outgoing and cheerful and now they're not cheerful. Or people who have just been more emotive and now have what we call a flat affect, which means they don't experience joy, they aren't really experiencing sorrow. There's just kind of this flat monotone to their emotion. Or if they start to having lots of start having lots of angry outbursts and things like that, then I would be really concerned. Well, speaking of angry outbursts that you're talking communication, are there some strategies that we should employ? There are, Bill. You know, the best thing that you can do is talk with your loved one about things you have observed that concern you. So you want to stay away from saying I think you're depressed or anxious, or I think you have PTSD, or naming a specific issue or a diagnosis. What you want to say is, here's some things i've noticed. Can you tell me about that.

47:43 Ask them open ended questions where they don't have to say yes or no, or right or wrong or true or false. But tell me about that. I've noticed you had a large group of friends and now you haven't been talking to them. Tell me about that, et cetera. Often people care about the people around them, and when people around them start asking questions and saying this is what i've noticed that causes concern for me. Most people don't want to worry their loved ones, and so that may be something that will help them to move the bar a little bit to be willing to get some help. And you probably don't want to bring up mental health per se right in your communication. Just like you said, this is what I'm observing. You're not necessarily even though you may in the back of your mind think, okay, you're looking at this from a mental health perspective. You're not a doctor necessarily, so you know it's not for you to diagnose. All you're trying to do is to, you know, put a bridge of communication between and you and your loved one, right.

48:53 That's right. And if you feel like someone is going to be adverse to hearing about mental health, certainly talk about I'm concerned about some things I've seen with your health. And very often people are more willing to go see a doctor than they are to go see a mental health professional. But part of the job of a doctor is to look at not only things that are hurting the body, but also things that are hurting the mind, and then of course there's that mind and body connection exactly. So, for instance, I used to run a college counseling center and there was a young man who came to me and he sounded as if he was very depressed. And then I learned that he had diabetes, and he was not eating the way that you're supposed to eat when you have diabetes. He was eating the way normal college students eat, consuming a lot of things that were making him very ill. And so I actually sent him to the school nurse, and sure enough, his blood sugar was all over the place, and so she helped him correct that, and he came back and said, he said, I think you cured my depression. No, I don't think so. I think that you learned how to take care of your diabetes.

50:01 So we work together a lot. That's great. Well, you know, you talk about mind body, but there's also the spiritual component. Although as you noted in this article that there's really not a whole lot of difference between children of secular families versus Christian families. I mean, this is an all encompassing type of condition that can hit any of us in any walk of life. I feel as if there's always spiritual component to any mental health issue and physical health issues as well. And so when we begin to talk about okay, so what can we do to help? I always want to emphasize that, yes, we have therapies, we have medication, we have all kinds of things that can help. But I think prayer is also essential, that that can be extremely helpful, and fellowship with other Christians, being open and honest about what you're struggling with growth can be very helpful.

51:02 Well yeah, I mean because the word is very clear that you know, we should confess to one another. And by confessing all it is just saying, look at uh, I'm kind of I'm dealing with this. And if you have a close group of reliable and faith based friends, they can come alongside and take advantage of the prescription of the Bible lays out you know that you confess to one another that you'd pray for one another. That you would be healed. And and as you say, and healing it takes on all kinds of forms that would encompass all three parts of our humanity body, mind and spirit.

51:43 Right, that's right, And we want to remind people that it's actually a strength to ask for help, because when people are unwilling to ask for help, they tend to get worse and worse and worse, and it's more difficult for the people who love them, their family members, their friends, their coworkers. And so it's a real gift when you're able to say I am struggling, and hey, join the human race, because we all struggle at times. Sometimes we make decisions that put us in places that leave us feeling depressed or what have you. But plenty of times things happen that are completely out of our control. Maybe we experience a string of losses, a number of loved ones that we've lost, and then we have a house fire and the dog dies. And if you have lived a fairly long life, as I have I'm a little older, you've experienced those years where everything falls apart in one year.

52:45 That's just a normal human experience. I wish that we could experience something difficult and then have two or three years to get over it before something else comes along, but that's just not the way life works. So, you know, be part of the human race and be willing to say I am hurting, I am struggling. The earlier you admit that, the earlier you earlier you confess it to other people and might be able to help, the greater the prognosis for you getting better quicker. So when considering, you know, professional intervention, you're saying sooner than later. Definitely, definitely, because if it isn't anything, then probably what will happen As a doctor or a mental health professional will say, I understand why you had some concerns. This doesn't meet the bar of something that needs to be treated right now. However, let's talk about healthier lifestyle choices.

53:41 Let's talk about how to prevent that from becoming something that is a problem. What resources are available, Johnny. So, we have a lot of resources available at Focus on the Family. If you go to Focus on the Family dot com slash mental health, and then you'll find lots of topics or you can put a topic in a area. Also, we have a team of counselors that is available to provide consultations free of charge for people for any questions that they have about anything related to themselves, their families, et cetera, and certainly mental health. So if people want to request a callback from a licensed mental health professional. They're going to call eight five five seven seven one four three five seven Monday through Friday, and that's available five am to seven pm in the Pacific time zone, so if you're listening in another time zone, you can adjust that. Well, what happened is you'll call, give your contact information and a licensed mental health professional will call you back within forty eight business hours.

54:46 Well, doctor Johnny Debrados always appreciate all the insight and the help. She's a licensed mental health professional and frequent Focus on the Family contributor TALC. Thank you, Johony, take care, be blessed. You're so welcome. Thank you so much. Every forty seconds a child disappears. That's two thousand children every single day. Find the Children is a nonprofit organization fighting to bring them home, but we can't do it without you. Your on wanted car, running or not can help find missing kids, reunite families, and support the search and rescue efforts that protect children every day. We'll pick it up fast and free with a twenty four hour response, and your donation may qualify for a tax deduction. Find the Children provides crucial resources to help locate missing children and educational programs to teach kids how to recognize and avoid predators before it's too late. Together, we can give families hope and bring children home where they belong. Donate your car today and help bring a child home. Find the children, because every child deserves to come home.

55:48 Eight hundred by four seven five three three one, eight hundred by four seven five three three one, eight hundred by four seven five three three one. This advertisement was paid for in partnership with Cars Are Us and Find the Children. Getting America back on track, Bill Martinez Live. Hey, good morning America, Happy fourth of July. Let's just say it often to you, because it's a great celebration time, two hundred and fifty years of this great country of ours. Even though some people may. Think differently, but that's okay. Keep in mind it's a small minority, right, Michael Letts.

56:30 Very small minority who would be very big mouths. But you other than that, we can deal with. It, Yes, exactly. I mean, look at they're out of the closet. You know, up until now, you know, Trevor Lauden other political analysts have been shouting for the timbers that the socialists were coming, and. They were already embedded in our government. And now they're proud to declare themselves as democratic socialists. But what people should understand is they're more socialists than Democrat. They're only holding on to the Democrat because they've hijacked a party. You're exactly right, Bill, I mean, it's a sad day really for the Democrats. From the standpoint, here's what has occurred. Of course, they made this decision decades ago. They decided to be the big tent, thinking that sounded good. You could come in and be a member of the party, even without any values or principles, you know, and they would accept you. And so when they saw that they had the opportunity to take over the party, they did.

57:27 And now you have your modern Democrats that quite frankly, have just got of giving up. Either stay home or they watch the party continue to demise in a primary when you have low turnout. The Islamic jihadis for lack of a better worth, the extremists rally together, they get their nominee, and then when they go in in November, you say, well, they shouldn't be able to win at all, Well they don't. They steal the election in November is what they end up doing and they've become very good at it. But you got this still, You've got a huge pocket now of what I would call modern Democrats who really don't believe in their parties philosophy or ideology anymore. They just don't know what to do. They don't like change, they don't want to move to a different party, so they're staying home. That's why it's so important, Bill that we have election integrity to keep them from stealing elections, because I don't think they have the support at all to win any election anymore based on what happened in their parties.

58:20 Well, you know, you bring up something here and you kind of touched on it, and I want to really focus in on that, and that is that they've lost their reason to exist, Michael. You know, because at the end of the day, whether you're a Republican or Democrat, it still should be about this great country of ours. Are you either American? Are you pro American, or you're anti American? And if you're anti American, which is on display now quite often because the media loves the darlings of these anti American groups, you know, so you see them on full display. But you know, look at you've got lang out in California, for example, she turned her back on the Pledge of allegiance.

59:00 Doesn't want to say the pledge of allegiance. You've got who is it? Hemingway to New Jersey with ties to al Qaeda and other terrorists. Chevalier in New York, one of the ones that just got you know, was able to win her primary. She wants to abolish the border. So you've got all these radicals that are coming into potentially in our government that are going to add reinforcement to the craziness of the squad in d C. Michael, Well, you're exactly right. What you just said, Bill drives home to this point. This is an active overthrower insurrection against our government. They're communists. They want to make America a communist country. They don't care anything about you and I, are constitution or this country.

59:44 They've found a venue that works for them. They've been able to take over a major party and that's what they're using now. And again, as I said before, why would anybody be in support of that party? Well, quite frankly, I think if you're a support now, you're treason is because this is exactly what their attempting to do. But I understand it takes you little time to absorb all that. So what the. Democrats are doing to maintain power is they figure, I don't need your vote. I'll just be stuff ballots. We'll cheat, we'll do what we have to do to still makes it look like we're a viable party. We win elections, And the fact about it is they don't. Why do you think Bill that This is probably the number one concerned for the leftist Democrats. They have to make sure they can continue to cheat or they can't win, and that's why they're so opposed to the Save Act. That's unfortunate.

1:00:35 Part about it is that you even have Republicans that are supporting them, what I call rhinos, say, why would anybody do that? Bill was very simple. If you're corrupt, you have to be in power because by being in power, if you're corrupt, you can set up guidelines for programs that the money traces itself back into your back pocket. If you're doing that for generations, they're not about to turn to let it walk away now, So they're joining their colleagues. No, they're not. I don't have enough integrity to tell you, and I that upfront and say that. So what they're doing is telling you and I, oh, yeah, I've deserved of all. That's horrible. I'm going to oppose that. We're going to stop that. But the minute they get the opportunity, I don't think we've got to talk about that today. Let's put it off from next week. Their point being if we can drag this out to where this administration, the Trump administration, can't get it done, we'll go back to the American people say, see, you had your shot at conservativism, you couldn't get any in commis. It didn't work. You ought to be discouraged and just stay home. We can steal stuff, balance and steal elections. We'll steal it this time around. And once we steal it, we won't make the same mistakes we've made in the past. Now with being back in power, with the democratic control, we'll enable legislation to make sure that you can't ever undo our ability to steal. And they've got it from that.

1:01:52 Point on, well up to this point, Michael, As you know, they've overwhelmed the system in such a way the judges they don't want to touch it. It's too complex. Regardless of all the smoke that's out there that tells you they're stealing elections. They just want to deny it because a lot of these judges are you know, they're socialists themselves, and so they're into this new doctrine so their their power base is established. And as you said, they're not going to give it up easy. You're going to have to go. It's just like dealing with the IRGC in Iran. You've got to go and take it from them. That's exactly right, and I'm glad what you said though from this standpoint, this is why I have people all the time across the country that are calling me or Ruman speeches. Well, just in PCE, these actors judges remove them, Folks, you can't understand how the system works. You can't get rid of a judge unless the legislature i e. Congress, vot tim preach him.

1:02:49 Why would you have. First of all, you've got almost even divide fifty to fifty, but you have a slight majority of Republicans. Now, I remember we just said you got rhino Republicans that want to keep it because they're benefiting. You're not going to get them to impeach the people that help protect them and cover for them, to make sure because the active is judge, I'm willing to say it on the record, they're getting paid as well. All look out their hand in the in the kiddie bill. That's why I have said repeatedly on your show. I stand by this. The only way you're going to see any kind of real action taking place is we have to start military tribunals. Once you break the back of this the back, it all caves in. Okay, It's amazing how fast criminals churnt on each other. It will it will self collass. But somebody's got to start the process. You're not going to get Congress to do it. You're not going to get Judge the churn on themselves. You've got corrupt members in the within the executive ranch who are layovers, you know, continue carryovers from previous administrations. So the only way to do it is to ask our military to step in with a military tribunal and start. I'm not asking that we change our judicial system to become military tribunal for life.

1:03:59 Just take three or four key cases. Electionend integrity being one, knowing of the people who have already determined to do nefarious activities and steal elections. But they want to trial with a military tribunal and then see how fast everybody turns themselves in. Hey I didn't do it. Take a look at this person here. He did worse than I did, and the system will collapse on it so and will have freedom restored once again. Well, and that's that's the bottom line, is having freedom restored. You see, these young people are upset, Michael, and I don't blame them. I think it's you know, correct observation, wrong conclusion. They know something smells and so they're buying into these doctrines from these progressive professors, many of them who are not citizens, are out of this country. They don't love America. They hate America, and so everything is being propagandized in their brains based on their theories and perspectives.

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1:10:07 They've created this. That's correct, right, and they benefit. By it exactly, and people do that which they get rewarded for, so they're not going to give that up like you said, you know in. The set part. But I want to dress what you're talking about. Let's adjust our young people for a minute. Our young people know that something's wrong, that's corrupt. So what is the message that the leftist liberals are doing. Well, it's corrupt from the standpoint. You're not getting benefits either. You put us back in and I'm going to give you everything, free, free grocery stores, free education, free healthcare, shoot, I'll throw in a free car if that's what's needed, you know, a free house here and there. And our young people should know better. Somebody's got to pay the bill bill.

1:10:48 Nothing is free in life. You know, somebody's got to pay for it. Whether it's you or somebody else, there's got to be paid for. They're bypassing that message and just saying, if you'll support our endeavor to give into power. We know there's corruption, but if he's going to these rich billionaires, we're going to take that corruption and give it to you, to give you free stuff. They're buying into the messies, the problems they're lying to them. They've already stealing. They're already keeping the corrupt money. They are not going to share it, whether they get back it or not. They not giving to anybody else. Yeah, we don't even have to look outside of me because people always say, well, look at what happened in Venezuela, you know what happened in Cuban. All that sort of thing. You can just look back on. You know, recent administrations, like the Obama administration, like the Biden administration, corruption was on steroids. I mean so much so that when Elon Musk came to town boy, they wanted to all guitar and feather him.

1:11:43 Michael, Well, there's no question, and you know, like I said, I think the key that we have to make sure our listeners understand is they're not going to give it up. Uh No, it. Is not just a democratic problem. Unfortunately, we have some Republicans who should be called Democrats, but they don't have enough integrity to call themselves what they truly are, who are binding with the Democrats. So there's not enough votes to change it in Congress. The executive branch is working very diligently under the President to try to change but you remember they've been able to stack their messenger boys and all these agencies for years, so they're giving them what we just talked about verbally, Yes, sir, we do need to change it. We're gonna stop that, we're gonna fix it. And then the minute they get off the phone or they leave the office, they turn around and say, now, make sure we don't do any of that. Make sure that we find a way around this to keep the system.

1:12:36 So the only way to do it is when people start seeing there's a consequence to their actions exactly, we start making them holding them accountable, which right now, and this is not something we just made up because they couldn't think anything better to do during the night. Our constitution provides for military tribunals, and it provides for a military tribunal in the civilian setting. You said, why for anything, No, you can't take it for jaywalking thing along for one reason, a long reason, our alone, when it deals with matters of national security, when it puts the nation at risk, how much more at risk can you be than to have people from communism and others trying to take over our government basically an insurrection. I think that's a top national security threat, and that's why I think we should utilize it to begin with. Once we've got to established, once we're starting the cleansing process, we'll shut it down and go back to where we need to be.

1:13:26 We've got to start incentivizing the right behavior and the things that support our constitution. You're exactly right. You know, I've said many times in business. You know, business people, when things are not going right in their organization, they hit the pause button. Then they go back and they say, hey, let's review history. When were we doing great? What kind of things were we doing when we were excelling, and I believe this is an opportunity for our country. If we're going to realize another two hundred and fifty years, we must do that. There must be a return to you know, constitutional principles. This government has gotten so big and as you said, it's become so complex that they can't manage it. Michael. It's too big for them.

1:14:07 It's outgrowing, it's you's become a cesspool of corruption. Yeah, and everybody's covered themselves. I was just on a militia given a quick example. Here's what they do if they see you have a need bill. Instead of the government's just giving you what you need to sell a bill, No, we don't work. It that way. I'm going to create an NGO and give it one hundred times more than what you need. Give with them so that way they've got enough money to send back into special accounts to make sure everybody gets the therapiees. You may or may not end up getting ultimately what you need, but that's the way it's structured. You're not going to break that structure until you break the system itself. And the only way to do that is, as we talked about, start with the military. Trybut know once we're starting to break the system. The second thing we've got to realize, Bill, is we've changed trained generations to do this, We've got to go after our educational system. You can't expect your kids to do any better when you don't study the Constitution, when you don't give the tools, well, you don't give the values and principles. I'm sorry that they think that that you know, well, we have to have a separation of church and state. I'm not trying to say we need to teach hay a church's religion or organization. What I am saying is we teach principles.

1:15:15 And when you say that, hey, thow shot and not kill, that sounds religious to me because I came from the Bibles. You can't teach that. No, Folks, every principle, every judicial system is based on something. And we have gotten to get back to telling our young people is there are no there are absolutes. There are It is not this situation where it depends on the circumstance. That's okay to kill the day, but maybe not tomorrow. Have some absolutes. Is wrong, to cheat, is wrong to steal in school, teach them values and principles, and then you'll get leadership as they graduate and go into political leadership that can provide true guidance for our country. Yeah, you don't have those moral principles. You don't have a constitution. That's what John Adams said. You know, it was designed for a moral people. So we've decided culturally we want to become disconnected from God and more amoral, so we can have it our way. Well, how's that working for you?

1:16:09 You know, very good, Bill. You know, we're murdering babies in the womb. You know, we've got people dying of fentanyl. We've got crime running rampid. You've got common sense out the window. Like in Chicago, you got a president saying, hey, look at I'm happy to help you out to get a handle on your crime rate. And there's so much resistance and hatred for Donald Trump that the governor and the mayor there. Of course, the governor in Illinois and the mayor in Chicago want nothing to do. And these are practical principles. You say, national security. This is security for the people there in Illinois and in Chicago. Michael, You're exactly right. You see it. One of the things that we're talking about. You know, we had thirty nine shot in Chicago last week and seven did I was just briefed. In the last three days, we've had ten young people here's the kicker bill shot.

1:17:02 By other young people. Yeah, they're killing each other. We don't sit down and have a dispute. You know, if it's that bab will go behind the barn and have a fist fight and that's the end of it. No, no, no, no, we just shoot you. I'm not even gonna tell you what the dispute is. I'm just gonna shoot you, find your shoot you, and that's the end of it. That's what we have raised in a society. Now, how can we survive as a nation unless we change that. Well, and look at our leaders. Well, what the example they put out there, I mean they refer to Trump as a fascist. Well, you know, if you are being led by a fascist, then you know that person must be evil, So I must have justification to go ahead and assassinat him. Right, That's exactly what they're doing. They're trying to give you justification for creating violence. And you remember what their ultimate goal is on this, whether it's assassination of the president, whether it's killing each other the street. We want to make you, this citizen so scared to go out on the street that you'll accept the fact that when the government issues the both in the news flash, the governments here, we're going to protect you. We know what the problem is that those blasted guns, we're going to go confiscate them all so that we'll all be safe. You'll be willing to give it up without a fight. Then, once you've given up your line of defense, which is your farms Bill, there's nothing you can do from that point on accurates to what they say. Are you terminated?

1:18:22 You're going to be like the people in Iran. That's correct, right, Well, Michael, with your law enforcement background, you got this federal judge that's placed to block an ice arrested immigration courts. I mean, that makes about as much sense as a square peg in a round hole. Here. Well here, once again, Bill, you've had them overstep the jurisdiction. They don't have the ability that they're supposed to interpret the law. They're not supposed to make it just because they don't like the policies that ICE is doing to implement the law that was created by Congress. Look, if you really feel that way, tell Congress to pass the law, which is what they were doing before. Not laws, but the administration previously was acting like it. There's no requirements for entry into this country. Just come in, stay as long as you want, leave whatever you want, et cetera, et cetera. But that's not the law of this country.

1:19:14 The law of this country is we determine to have borders, and we have provision as to what you're allowed to do to come in and to stay or to leave. Every nation that has ever survived has that. You cannot survive in the open borders situation, as they're saying, because everybody want to come in and take everything you got, Bill and run back across the border and leave with it. That's not why we have borders. I mean, you know what. I'm laughing and I'm chuggling. Even commonist countries have borders. See how see how fast how far you get if you try to sneak you into China and thrive, See how far that gets you. Well, he's a law enforcement veteran and CEO and founder of invest USA. Michael Letz has been our guest. Thank you, Michael, Take care, happy forth in July, my friend.

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1:24:04 Welcome morning, Welcome back, Good to have you with us. Bill Martinez here. For more information on the show, you go to Bill Martinez Live dot com. Got the untold story of George Washington is an incredible story, and we've got the writer of the new movie that's going to be coming out just in time for our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. It'll be in theaters on July the third. Didrik Hookstratten joins us now, Dietrick, welcome the show. Good to have you with us, Thanks for having me. It's a privilege to talk to you. Well, what an incredible journey that you've been on that has found you in Los Angeles. You've developed your writing skills and here you are. I mean, this has been going on. I mean, this is kind of you know, as they say sometimes they how did you get here?

1:24:50 And they say, oh, about twenty years plus a lifetime, right. Yes, sir, Well said, yep. I'm originally from Holland. Folks probably tell I'm not a born American, but you know, I came here in my twenties, fell in love with this country, with the people, with the liberties, with the American experiment, if I can put it that way. And you know, meeting my wife, who's from Houston, Texas, was the greatest blessing of my life. But becoming an American citizen in twenty nineteen after having lived here for decades, that was another great day. I'm so grateful to this country for many reasons, you know, including by the way, the American's liberating my own family, both sides of my family in nineteen forty five. So there's a deep appreciation in me and my family for America. Now living here being part of it, I'm just blown away every time.

1:25:45 And so getting to write a story about perhaps the greatest American and his origin story, it was just perfect and true privilege. Really well, you know, to hear you relate the story and of course what's happening right now in America with the Cup, a lot of people coming in from around the world and sharing similar sentiments as you walking in and coming in and enjoying I mean, things that we have taken for granted, whether it's in and out burgers or Bucky's or you know, singing John Denver music at a bar. It's pretty incredible here. So it's inspiring and encouraging. And I keep saying that a lot of Americans who maybe have taken our country for granted, and and you know, and that's just the nature and and you know, kind of the journey of humanity is sometimes we can take things for granted. And here you are. You know, you're a new citizen, gone through the journey, and you've embraced and assimilated into this country. So congratulations, because that's that is the root of the American dream and how we've been able to continue to grow.

1:26:55 I think that's exactly right, Bill. I love that you're a the World Cup. Of course, growing up in Western Europe, soccer was a big deal. Now seeing these young people come here and realize that the media in their countries have not quite been truthful and honest about what America is about. Then they come here and they just love it. They embrace it. They're becoming pro America. They're becoming patriots, if you will. And my wife laughs at me because I sometimes I'm watching something on Instagram and I'll say, hallelujah, welcome to the club. I've been have been saying this for decades, and I'm very grateful that the World Cup is here. Just this last week, I was in Dallas with the whole family supporting the Dutch team. But of course the kids ask, like, what what if America were to play Holland into the finals. It's like, oh, no, no, it's it's USA all the way, believe me. But so I have a little bit of dual law and loyalty, but ultimately it's America.

1:27:50 Well, God bless you. I appreciate, appreciate that. How did this script come about? How did you? I mean you wrote the script, but how did this idea come about? Yeah? Well, I will always say it starts with the brilliant mind of John Irwin. He made House of David. I'm sure your listeners will know it. Jesus Revolution, There's many other great movies. He made. And when John has an idea, it's going to happen. It might not be tomorrow, it might wait, it might be a few years from now. But he approached me and brought me on to write with him this vision that he had similar to the to the House of David, the King David story, a true coming of age story, trying to understand this, this great figure, this pivotal figure in world history. The idea is, let's try to go back, go into his childhood, try to see what he was like, what are the forces that shaped him, if you will. And so John had the vision. He knew what his story and movie was going to look like. He said to me and then my co writer and friend Tom Provost, he said, you guys, go do the research, go go go create the characters and the dialogue and the scenes and the action. Put it together. Let's let's go make a movie. But let's write this script really, really carefully. This is celebrating again what I view as probably the most important American ultimately, and so be extremely careful, be extremely thoughtful. As John always says, we are in the business of mass entertainment.

1:29:16 We're going to tell inspiring stories, encouraging stories, hopeful stories. We also want to entertain. We want you to have a great time with your popcorn in the movie theater, So that that was the dual purpose, be truthful and honest about this incredible patriot at the very beginning of the country, even before then in colonial Virginia, as well as entertaining in its action. And I say, Bill, you know, there's something for everybody here. There's guns, there's explosions, there's there's horseback riding, there's war. But there's also a girl. Does he get the girl? We don't know, but there is a kiss perhaps, you know, there's so we're trying to really present a compelling, entertaining, great story that happens to be true.

1:30:01 Yeah. And the thing is, you know, for you as a you know, as a new citizen, and you are dealing with an iconic, yes, legendary figure as George Washington, Yeah, yeah, and as John laid it out. Yeah, it's like you're on hallow ground here, right, correct. Yes, And I like how you frame that because there is an intimidating aspect to that. When you sit down to write a story like that, you're dealing with yeah, again, with hallowt ground, with a truly great great man. And now, interestingly, I think when you look at Washington, when you ask anyone on the street, they might think about the dollar bill, or about a statue or a portrait or a passage from a history class in sixth grade. One of the reasons John wanted to do this movie was to truly humanize him, to understand him more deeply, for all of us to understand him more deeply and therefore respect him even more, like bring him closer to us. Now, it also happens to be the case. I believe that there's a lot of for all of us to learn from his early years, especially young people today, And so we had to turn that intimidation factor into an inspiration, if you will, and say we're gonna respect George Washington President Washington forever, and then we're ultimately gonna call him George, not out of disrespect, but because we're seeing him as just a kid who loses his dad, who loses his brother, who makes terrible mistakes on the battlefield when he's finally given a command. There's so much failure, so much struggle

1:31:35 in these early early years. And I would say that the one big message we can get into it. But the one big message for me was this guy was a victim in a true sense of circumstance, and he never behaved like one. And so to young people today, my own children, even myself and when I was younger too, I want to say, guys, don't fall into the trap, get back up, keep that purpose in front of you. And whether that's, you know, a God given direction, whether it comes from another source, that that's up to any of us. But don't be fragile, don't be victimized. Because George Washington had every reason to give up at any given moment, he thank god he didn't, you know. And his mother played a pivot role in that. I'd love to talk to you more about it, but that's really one of the messages that I want to convey here, you know.

1:32:28 To me, the key takeaway I felt the was that George Washington epitomizes the American dream. Yeah, and the whole process of it. It wasn't that America was instantly perfect. It was a process. It's been a step two hundred and fifty years of a nation aspirationally trying to become and working to become a more perfect union. And I saw George Washington as a developmental individual, a fellow American at the early stages, going through the process and learning by experience and becoming the great general and eventually the first President of the United States of America, all because of you know, all that he went through, as you said, and he could have along the way, perfectly said, you know, put on a victim consciousness, and he would have faded.

1:33:23 He would have faded from history. Yes, correct. I really like what you said there. How he kind of represents the American story, if you will, And you know, he what we try to portray is how he developed these virtues that we later get to know him for, whether that's his resilience, his integrity, his humility. Sort of, we see him start to build a life of meaning and significance, and that's not easy to do for any of us. We show how messy it was, so messy, and like you said, American history is messy. But that's true for any any other country. And so you know, back to your earlier point too, people who who might be critical of America, I get it. But if you've lived in other places, take it from me, and I'm sure you're you're aware, you know, this is this is the greatest place to live. It's not flawless, it is not without fault. It has darker parts of its history like any other place in the world. It's just better, it's just less bad. If you will and you know, the evolution of George's character, I think symbolizes that perfectly. So thank you for saying that.

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1:38:30 Well, he could make mistakes, like we all could make mistakes. For we look about this country, is there's redemption. You know how many times did we you know, think that we blew it? They had an opportunity come to come back. And this is what America allows us to do. And I hope in all that we we continue to go through as we're struggling right now with some ideology and some other you know, other ideas coming into this great American idea. I think that the soul and heartbeat of this great American idea is so solid that it can withstand you know, these these existential threats and number one number two, I think also it's an opportunity for us to be better, become better. Just like George Washington, he didn't let it victimize him or defeat him. He became better with each failure, didn't.

1:39:21 He That's right. We are not our worst day. That's one of these that I heard that the other day on a podcast. I just tole it, but we are not our worst day, like, don't let it define you. And you know he got these crucibles that he goes through. We there's a lot of them in the movie. It can be overwhelming, but I do think they work to illuminate that character is forced more often through failure than through comfort. You know, John Irwin, John Irwin has a motto. I think he has a ring around his finger that says, seek discomfort. So John himself, in the tradition of was if you will, sort of tries to push that boundary.

1:40:02 And you know, I think it's it's beautiful that his mother and I believe, you know, we can't prove that his mother actually said this, but we believe the sentiment was true. Where she says at some point that George, it's it is hard to fail, but why don't you see failure as a tutor sent by God? And I love that sentiment in other words, and she says, if you don't he listened, you fail twice, and then you failed and then you fail to learn from it. But if you do listen, you're going to gain wisdom. Sort of this idea that failure can lead to wisdom inspired by God, and if you're open to it, that's the path to go. And she, in that way, I think she puts him back on his path, and that's where he gets to develop his sense of integrity, his relationships that he will forge and that will lead him to the revolution ultimately, But I love that we got to have a chancell to bring his mother into this because the relationships of this young man, I think help us understand him better. We can all relate. He had a complex relationship with his mom, Like who doesn't you know.

1:41:05 It's well, especially especially when your dad's gone. He loses his father at a young age, and then it's his mother playing the role of mother and father at a time when you know, we're talking you know what the sixteenth century. Here, Yeah, it's it's well, it's a seventeen fifties, forties. Fifties, okay, right, right, right, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, So this isn't you know, everything is you know, we've got big you know, multi story condos out there, this sort of thing. I mean, this is all a frontier exactly. Well, that's that's very cool for me to realize. And the way John Irwin shows that cinematically is beautiful to realize that. Yeah, the world, the known world was basically if you lived in Virginia, it was Virginia. It was the towns and the little villages and the cities that were developing. But if you traveled a few hundred miles west.

1:42:03 You got into total wilderness. And when he's being sent there for the first time as a land surveyor, before he ever serves, you know, one of his employers says, young, young Washington, you realize you can go, but most men do not return. That's an important line. And Washington looks him in the eye and says, yes, sir, I am aware, Please send me. And that that too, that that courage, that sort of that that that can inspire us. Like let's obviously we don't have a frontier like that anymore. But what are what is the wilderness that all of us need to enter in order to learn and to grow and to to seek seek discomfort if I can quote John Irvan again. Right, but but but the thing is part of what drives someone like this is like you say, there's divine providence involved, Yes, that his mother referred to and uh, you know, those are those things that you know are very unique. It doesn't happen with everyone because not everyone is prepared to hear or you know, hear the word of God or hear from God and to act accordingly.

1:43:05 And when you are thusly inspired, the courage that you emanate and the things that you're willing to take on are so extraordinary, and such as the life and the case of this young George Washington. That's right, beautifully said, And I would love to bring in a scene that we wrote with a Native American leader who, without giving away too much, who at some point addresses him and after having fought him and having failed to kill him. You know, people may not realize George Washington should have been dead many many times before he was aged twenty three. This Native American leader addresses him with great respects asked for his name, and says, I'm going to remember this name because it is clear to me there is a divine hand on you. There is a purpose to your life much greater than you realize.

1:43:57 And to me, it was very powerful to have one of his enemies who was after him from a not necessarily a Christian perspective, to say, the Creator has a plan for you. I'm going to remember your name. That's all true, by the way, and just for for history nerds, we are aware that it happened a little bit later in this life. We brought it a little bit closer towards the end of the movie for dramatic purposes, but that truth is extremely important to remember for all of us, I think. And I'm glad that you brought in the fact that at one time they found bullets was shot like that time and they find bullets embedded in right. Correct, he had horses shot out from underneath him at some point. The Ben kings League, the character played by Ben Kingsley, is is just frustrated. How come you have bullets everywhere? What's happening here? And George can only say, I don't know, sir, but to me as a believer, but even as even if I was an atheist, it would hard be hard to believe that there wasn't sort of a sense of purpose and divinity and providence about his life, because how did all these bullets never hit him?

1:45:08 They just didn't? Right, Yeah, this is the power of God Almighty. Whether you're a believer or not, I think that you know. The way God has designed us is that we can acknowledge the truth, and especially if it's of the divine and it's hard pressed, and you may insist and be stubborn enough to say, well, I'm not going to give any acknowledgment to God. Certainly you're free to do that. God has made us free will agents. But that doesn't deny the truth. Correct, And I enjoy hearing you say the truth. You know, it's not a truth. There is the truth, and when you study a life like George Washington's, you get to that truth, I think, and that's what we try to convey in the movie. I will bring up to that.

1:45:52 You know, if you can accept truths like that, this is a story for everybody, that's what we meant to do. I want to bring that up because it's easy to think of patriotism as some somehow political or partisan. It is not. This is a part of our all of our history, of every background, regardless of affiliation and conviction. I do hope and think that this can be a unifying event, Like what is better than sitting in the dark with our popcorn and celebrating this really cool story of the first real American. That's to me, that's what it's all about. Well, and you're exactly right, and I sense and agree. With with your prescients concept on this because you know here it is the two one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

1:46:41 The movie's coming out on July, the third day before July War perfect timing. Leave it to you and John Irwin to come up with that and everybody, that's just just awesome that it is because it is it is a unifying movie. I mean I can hear people, you know in the theater, you know, shouting USA, USA, USA. Because this is an inspirational movie. There's a lot to take away from it. And boy, talk about a birthday gift. This is really an awesome birthday gift to America. D Rick Bill, You're the first to put it that way. If you don't mind, I'm going to steal the dead line. This is take our birthday gift to America. And like I said earlier, I am every day in my life I'm grateful for this country, for the people who have always fought to build it, to protect it, to defend freedoms of people around the world. And so if this is a small token of my appreciation, a small birthday gift, that's wonderful.

1:47:36 Well, what a cast to work with you mentioned Ben Kingsley. Of course we've got our favorite Fraser Kelsey Grammer there as well. I mean, what a cast that you were able to pull together. Oh amazing. And I cannot take credit to be clear, this is all John Irwin a fun fact, I believe he looked at two hundred actors for George Washington. He landed on William Franklin Miller, a terrific young actor, right. I think is sweet irony that an Englishman gets to go superart. But he embodies that role so beautiful. And then there's the great great Marie Louise Parker as his mother. There is Andy Serkis, another brilliant actor, Joel Smallbone known for his music country Yes, Yes, Yes, and just a lovely cast to see for them to bring our story to life, what a joy.

1:48:29 Well, congratulations dieter Rick. I think this is awesome. I just cannot wait to see it on the big screen. I know people like I say, they're going to be blessed. This is, you know, a great like I said, thank you very much. I think it's a gift to America. And what else you know from somebody who's who is you know, a new citizen to our country. Welcome to the country, Welcome to uh you know, you know, to being a part of this great American dream. As we continue to live out, May may God bless us and live out allow us to live on another two hundred and fifty years right. Beautifully said, thank you, Bill. It's a privilege to be both in this country and on your show. Thank you for everything you do well.

1:49:10 Diedrick Hoogstratton is the writer of Young George Washington. Young Washington is the official title in theaters. As I said on July third, the website that they can go to to find out more about it, do you have that handy. Yes, sir. Tickets are available everywhere at this point, but Angel dot Com has, of course a great ability for you to get tickets. There is a bill, there's one little thing there that people might enjoy. There's a QR code. There's a link there that you can click in order to buy tickets for high school and middle school students. We are hoping to bring young people to the movies. Not all of them might have the ability, might even know about the film. What if we can bring many of them in. If some of us can buy one, two, five, one hundred tickets and get some Angel will help do that and facilitate it. Get everybody in there so that history comes alive. That's really our goal.

1:50:05 And I got to tell you this why I love about Angel, because they're always thinking in terms of crowdfunding. They are constantly rewriting, you know, the platform and how to expose this kind of creativity to a broader group of people. Right, yes, correct, yep, we want to We're going to entertain broadly and widely, but always with that message. As you said, hope, redemption, encouragement. These are real stories. They're messy and difficult, but ultimately they're hopeful and uplifting. We hope well, dadred Hookstrahan, thank you so much for being with us. I appreciate you, God bless thank you so much. Streaming TV is where it's at. It's not about cutting the cord anymore.

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