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Sept. 14, 2026

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Are you ready?

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Yeah.

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Okay, let's do it.

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

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our values, our politics, and our future.

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And now, Bill Martinez.

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Well, good morning. Welcome. Six minutes after the top of

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the hour right now. I am Bill Martinez. He's Dr.

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Michael Bussler. Michael, how you doing?

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I'm doing very well, Bill.

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Thanks for having me.

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It's always my pleasure to be here.

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Well, great to have you here because here we are.

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We got the run to the midterms. And the spin

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is almost out of control. You know, voters are not

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sure what to believe. Well, whether it's, you know, some

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polling numbers or even what the politicians are saying. I mean,

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the DSA has gone from super radical to try to

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find some middle ground. I don't know how you found

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middle ground over the cliff, but, you know, they're trying nonetheless.

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Right.

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Yeah, they certainly are. And, you know, Bill, just some

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good news that came out recently. The jobs number for

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August was extremely strong, over 160,000 jobs. That indicates the

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economy in the third quarter looks like we're going to

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have pretty good growth. Some of the president's economists say

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the growth could hit up to an annual rate of

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5% this quarter. Most of the economists I talk to

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are forecasting about a 3%.

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Growth rate.

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The Atlanta Federal Reserve model is forecasting 4.7%. So there's

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still a lot of data to come in. We don't

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have all the- But still.

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This is incredible, Michael. I mean, 3% to 5% projected

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growth from these variant groups.

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I mean, wow.

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And of course, look what happens. I mean, think about this.

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If Iran goes away, if that's settled, oh, Katie, bar

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the door.

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Yeah, everything gets much, much better. You know, Bill, you

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may recall when I was on the show in the

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beginning of the year, I forecast that I thought GDP

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growth would hit 4% before the end of this year.

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And I said inflation would get down to 2% by

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the end of this year. Now, it looks like I'm

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going to be right with the GDP growth. It's going

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to hit 4% possibly in the third quarter here. If

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it wasn't for the Iran conflict, which in January I

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had no idea about, obviously, but if it wasn't for

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the Iran conflict and the reduction in the supply of

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oil and the resulting high price of oil, inflation would

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be down to about two and a half percent now.

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So if they can ever get this Iran war over,

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and although, as you know, I'm a very strong supporter

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of President Trump, I am a little bit frustrated Because

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he did tell us in March that it will be

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over shortly. And he told us that again in April, May, June, July,

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and August. So I appreciate what he's doing. I think

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the methods he's going about it now are probably the best.

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That is using economic warfare rather than military. And I

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think it will eventually come out well. The problem is

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it's going to continue to result in high energy prices

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going into the... midterms. And people will react negatively to that.

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I don't know if they would go so far as

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to vote for a socialist candidate. I certainly hope they don't.

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But still, the Republicans need to do something here to

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preserve the midterms. Now, one last thing. As I just mentioned,

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GDP growth for the third quarter could be very strong.

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The first estimate for GDP growth for the third quarter

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comes out about a week before the elections. So if

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that turns out to be a positive number and the

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economy is growing, that's going to change a lot of sentiment.

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But right now it's the- But.

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That only gives you a week. It only gives you

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a week before you go into the poll and you

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got some early voting taking place But the good news is, yes,

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that tells you the snapshot at the end of the cycle.

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But while the cycle is going on, people are realizing

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a benefit, even though the mainstream media and the Democrats,

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the naysayers of the country who are rooting against America,

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are giving you a different narrative, right?

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They certainly are. If you look at the mainstream media,

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the economy is doing terribly. And they look at all

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the negative things that they can find.

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Look, gasoline prices are high.

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But if you take a look at the overall inflation rate,

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it's just over 3% now, even with all this. Wages

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have gone up about 3.8% in the last year. So

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people are seeing a real increase. So yes, inflation is

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higher than we like it. And yes, gas prices are

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much higher than we'd like it. And people are very sensitive.

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But the overall economy is strong. We're adding jobs. The

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economy is growing. There's opportunity for every well-prepared American. And

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once all of this investment boom filters through, because remember, again,

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as I mentioned at the beginning of the year, the

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Big Beautiful Bill allowed for 100% expensing of investments in

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the year it's made instead of depreciating it. over 20,

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25 years. That's caused business investment to go up significantly. Now,

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it takes some time for that to filter through, because yes,

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we're investing in a new factory, but you can't build

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it overnight. And yes, we're investing in new equipment things,

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but it takes some time for all of that to

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come through. President Trump is really taking a long game here.

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Everything he's doing is geared to having a very solid future.

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I just hope that we can, the Republicans can maintain

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control of both houses of Congress in the fall. That'll

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make things much easier for the president for the rest

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of his term.

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You know, Michael, to your point, he's building a foundation

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here for future growth. I mean, for us to launch

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off of. And this is what exciting. I mean, clearly

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there's a difference between, you know, what Biden would have

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done and the Democrats with their regulations and their ideas.

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You know, Trump is saying, look, I'm building for the

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future here. And you can see the building blocks lining up.

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I mean, the supply chain, you see this all coming together.

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Whereas if Joe Biden was in office, he'd be printing

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money and getting us deeper in debt. I mean, even

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though we're at $ 40 trillion, but he'd exacerbate the problem.

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I mean, what people are forgetting is that when Trump

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came into office, he inherited an inflationary rate of over 8%.

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And yes, it had been coming down, but still, when

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you've got that inflation in there, you've got to get

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it through on the other side of that python, right?

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There's this big lump of crud that's getting through that python,

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and we've gotten through some of it, but there's still

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some more. And of course, then, like you talked about,

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we add in the Iran war that's exacerbating the problem.

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But even in the midst of that, I think most

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Americans at least, you know, this isn't hope and change

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that Barack Obama talked about that was actually hopeless. Yeah,

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there was change, but there wasn't anything there that you

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could say, hey, I can see by that change that

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it's going to be better. You know, whether it was,

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you know, universal health care and all the other things

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that he came up with, you know, shovel ready jobs,

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which he laughed about after all the money we poured

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into that, Michael. You remember he laughed. I mean, he

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laughed at the irresponsibility of all that money, taxpayer money

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that was assigned to shovel ready jobs that he laughed

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about and said, well, I guess they weren't so shovel

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ready after all. And they just all laughed about it.

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Same thing with the EV charging stations. I don't know

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how much money it was, millions that were pumped into that.

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I think it was billions of dollars. It was like

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$ 8 billion. It was a billion dollar per charging station, Michael.

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That was ridiculous.

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But look, I think the country has now gone in

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the right direction. As you mentioned, the foundation is being

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there for the future. I'll tell you, Bill, one thing

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I'm a little upset about.

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Is the young people.

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Generation Z, I guess they are the young people today.

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They're saying, look, we went through college. We can't get

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a job. Housing prices are high. I don't think we're

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ever going to get a house. We need this fixed.

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And they're looking to socialism to fix this when we

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all know it's only going to make the matters worse.

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Why I'm so upset with them is why don't they

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figure this out themselves? I mean, look, if there's a

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housing shortage, there's entrepreneurs in that group.

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We're talking with Dr. Michael Bussler. He's a public policy analyst,

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economics expert, and a professor of finance at Stockton University

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in New Jersey. And Michael, as you were saying, yes,

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it can be a bit frustrating for these young kids.

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They're living it. I mean, here they were told, hey,

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if I go to college and I get my degree,

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it's all going to be hunky-dory. And meanwhile, these college

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students are living in their basement, you know, rooms of

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their parents' houses with $ 100, 000 in tuition debt. And thank

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God they got a place to live. Otherwise, if they didn't, Michael,

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they'd be homeless.

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Yeah, look, the colleges and universities, they provide degrees and

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programs for what people want. So there was a lot

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of demand, I guess, in years for programs that colleges provided.

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They got degrees, but you're not employable.

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Right.

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I know you have an interest in some kind of

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literature or art or something or certain kind of gender

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studies or something.

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That's okay.

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But what kind of a job are you going to

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get when you graduate?

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Yeah, but who's responsible for that, Michael? Aren't the universities?

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I mean, they're selling snake oil to these kids.

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Yeah, they certainly are. I like to place responsibility on individuals.

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So if you're going to college, just think about it.

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I know you want to pursue an interest and there's

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certain things you want to do, but you have to

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look at reality. Are you going to be employable? Are

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you going to be able to support yourself? And you

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should be thinking about in the future, you want to

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have a family. So you want to be able to

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support those too. What you make and what I tell

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the students who I know have some of these interests

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that I admire, but they're not employable. I tell them,

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try to take something where you're going to get employable

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and take a minor or take extra courses or something.

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And some of these things you have an interest in,

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but you have to take responsibility for yourself. And I

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agree with you, the universities are offering programs that are ridiculous,

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in my opinion. Fortunately, there's, or unfortunately, there's a financial

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crisis in education today because there's what we call an

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employment cliff. I mean, enrollment cliff. Why is that? 2008, 9, 10,

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we had the financial crisis, birth rates went way down. Well,

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here you are 18 years later, and since birth rates

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were way down, there's a fewer number of high school graduates.

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In addition to that, a lot of high school graduates

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are questioning the value of education. Hey, I see my

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older brother, he's 100,000, and daddy lives with my mom

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and And dad, so I don't want to be there.

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And there are a lot of trades and professions that

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may offer a better alternative. So enrollments in universities and

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colleges generally are down. And now what they're doing is

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eliminating those programs where you get a degree where it's

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not employable. I think I read the other day, Syracuse

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University dropped, I think, 90 programs that they had because

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the graduates, they couldn't get people to enroll there. And

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that's because the graduates aren't getting So universities have a responsibility.

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Individuals have responsibility also to make sure you're getting something

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where you can help yourself survive in the future.

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You know, you bring up something that's critical here, and

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I think it's a message to parents and kids alike.

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Because as you said, it's really ultimately it's self-responsibility. You're

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in the situation and you're in because you made the

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wrong choices. Maybe you had the wrong information. Maybe some

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people misinformed you. We get all that. But the fact

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of the matter is, is it's your life. and your choices,

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and you need to be all the wiser because of

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what's happened, particularly in the last 10 years. Like you say, hey,

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you've seen your older siblings go before you, and they've

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got these fantastic degrees, and they're living out of mom's basement,

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and they're lucky to go get a job flipping pancakes

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somewhere in a minimum wage, and it's ridiculous. Because the

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other thing too, Michael, that's worked against these kids, and again,

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they need to see that this is something that our

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government has failed them on too, because in the whole

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of You know, in the whole consideration of the problem here,

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you got to look at how the government participated in

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this in terms of these temporary short-term visas. They're bringing

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in people competing with these kids that have gone to college,

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and they're not in the front of the line. All

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of a sudden, you get these people from other nations,

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not even citizens. And they're knocking these kids, our own citizens,

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who've paid this incredible amount of tuition, and they're getting

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kicked out of line to be replaced by somebody from

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India or wherever.

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Those people from these countries will work at far lower

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wages than Americans will, too. I think the Trump administration

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is trying to fix that by limiting the number of

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visas that are coming in. And it used to be,

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if you're bringing somebody in You had to show that

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you tried to find an American to fill a job.

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You couldn't find one. And then if you couldn't find somebody,

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then you got a visa. You were able to bring

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somebody in. But now the companies are saying, hey, look,

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I'll just bring in all these people from these countries

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that are willing to work a lot cheaper. I know

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even in the tech industry today, The people that live,

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I know the Philippines are big with this and some

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other countries, they hire these people to do the work.

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They can stay in the Philippines. You can work remotely,

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but it still is taking away from American jobs. Americans

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have to learn that the way our system works is

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you're paid according to the value of your output. So

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you have to be able to produce, do something that's

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valuable to the economy. Just because you can do something

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And you have knowledge, that's good. But if it doesn't

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carry any value in the marketplace, you aren't going to

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get paid for it. So they should learn this in college.

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I know my students, I emphasize this to them, that

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you have to learn something that's marketable and has value

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in the economy.

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And the thing is, part of the challenge that they're

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dealing with is that... and this is one thing Trump

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is doing, even on a macro level of leveling out

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the playing field, you know, with our allies and everything,

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when it comes to trade, it's like, okay, let's level

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the playing field. Well, for our students and our young people,

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the playing field has to be leveled out. If there's

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an unfair advantage because you're hiring somebody from out of

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the country, and they're able to work cheaper at the

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expense of an American citizen, that's a bunch of BS, Mike.

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I'm sorry. What galls me, it's kind of like when

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we had this shift of manufacturing and all these jobs

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moving out of America, these policies, and they were mostly

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driven by Democrats, which galls me how they, you know,

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they seem so self-righteous about it. And that is they

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put these young people in the position, or even veterans,

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people who'd been at the job for several decades, and

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they said, hey, we're going to have you, you know,

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we're giving you notice, you're going to lose your job,

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but you get to train your replacement. And here you

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are training all these foreigners to replace you because they

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decided to take the jobs and the company overseas.

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A big trend for decades that this was happening. It's

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going to benefit all Americans if we do this. We'll

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take manufacturing over to Asia. They work at one-tenth of

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the wage that we work here. So even if we

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have to ship stuff over there and ship it back,

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we can get it for a lower cost. And as

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a result, we can sell it at a lower price.

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Won't Americans be better off by that was their logic. Now,

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what they didn't see was the other side. You take

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all the manufacturing out and suddenly we don't have a

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manufacturing base. We're not producing any goods anymore. That's not

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healthy for the U.S.

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Economy.

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And even for some security needs.

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It's not healthy.

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We got all this medical stuff being made in China.

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I remember during COVID, everybody had to wear a mask.

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So the masks were made in China. So they had

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a ship full of masks coming over here. And China says,

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wait a second, the pandemic is worse over here, turn

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that ship around, bring it back to China. Then we

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had a shortage in masks and the 25 cent mask

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was gone for $ 5 because it was such a shortage.

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We can't afford to have that happen anymore, especially in

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medicines and materials like steel, copper, aluminum, things that you need.

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And that's why Trump placed the tariffs on them. So

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the foreign is more expensive and So now we'll have

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to start making it here. It'll be a little more expensive,

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that's true, but we'll have much more security and growth

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in the U.S. economy. And overall, it's better for the

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American people.

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Well, Dr.

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Bustler, I gotta tell you, I believe these young people

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have a bone to pick and it's legitimate. And they

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just shouldn't be cast aside because they're kicking the tires

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on socialism. The fact of the matter is, is policymakers

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are forcing these kids to consider it because they've done

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a poor job in managing it, just like the things

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we've talked about. And I'm saying to Republicans, you better

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listen to what these kids are saying. Just because they

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happen to be aligned with socialism, okay, that's the current

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wave that's got people excited. But you got to listen

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to their pain. Listen to what they're saying. Because when

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it comes to solving the problem, Michael, I think you

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would agree, capitalism far in a way is going to

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solve their problem. Socialism is going to give them nothing

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but shared misery.

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Right.

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Capitalism has done so well, as I've spoken on the

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show numerous times. Remember, our country went from the birth

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of a nation to the largest, most prosperous economy in

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the world in 150 years, roughly. Other countries were hundreds,

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in some cases, thousands of years older. So the principles

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that we use to get here, encouraging individual freedom, individual responsibility,

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low rates of taxation, a limited role for government, and

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of course we had private property. Those are the principles

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that made us strong. Everything that this democratic socialism of

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America is suggesting is exactly opposite. They want to control

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your freedom. They'll tell you what to do. They're replacing

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social responsibility instead of individual responsibility. Don't worry, the government

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will take care of you. And thirdly, to pay for

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all this, you have to have high rates of taxation.

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And fourthly, you have a very large role for government,

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exactly opposite to what made this country great. I hope

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we reject this socialism.

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And you're right.

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The Republicans have to listen. These young people, they're going

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towards socialism. They have a problem and they don't see

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the Republicans offering any kind of solution. They don't really

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know what this socialism is going to happen in the

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long run. All I know is they're going to give

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me free health care. They're going to control my my rent,

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they're probably going to give me universal basic income. So, hey,

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all this sounds real good.

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And it's very.

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Appealing to young people who don't, who are somewhat confused

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about what their future will be.

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Well, Dr. Michael Bussler has been our guest, public policy analyst,

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economics expert, and professor of finance at Stockton University in

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New Jersey. Thank you, Michael.

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Take care.

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Be well, my friend. Thank you.

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Hey, welcome back. Bill Martinez here with Dr. John Zimerick.

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Always great to have John with us, the author of

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No Second Amendment, No First. Hey, John, good morning. How

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are you?

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I'm fine, Bill.

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As we record this, it's a very solemn day. It's

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25 years since the 9-11 attacks. And I was in

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New York City when it happened.

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You were? Wow.

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I'm a native New Yorker. I lived there until 2014, 2015.

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And yeah, I was there that day. And one thing

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I'll never forget. I used to listen to BBC News

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to get to sleep. At like three o'clock in the

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morning on September 11th, five hours before the attacks would happen,

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I heard a BBC report that the Taliban in a

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daring raid had captured and killed the leader of the

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Northern Alliance, the US-backed opposition to the Taliban, and that

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this was a big setback for America and for uh

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the forces of freedom in afghanistan and i just thought

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huh that's weird what i didn't realize is that was

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the first step of the 9-11 attacks that would happen the.

538
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Next morning wow wow.

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It was part of the same operation which was directed

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we now know from pakistan from from Afghanistan with ties

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to Pakistan.

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And also Saudi Arabia.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, I mean, everyone's talking about their experiences of that day.

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I remember when the plane hit the first building, it

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was eight o'clock in the morning. And I thought, well,

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at least there's probably nobody in the building because I

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didn't know the financial industry. I didn't know people are

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at work at eight o'clock in the morning.

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Six o'clock.

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Yeah, I didn't know that. So I thought it was sad,

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but I thought at least the tragedy was limited. I

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had no idea that there were 30,000 people in those buildings.

555
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Right. Yeah.

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Well, and of course, the initial report was that it

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was a private plane, not a jet.

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Yeah.

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Right. I remember walking after the second tower was hit.

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I didn't know, but my friend, Father George Rettler, was there.

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ministering to wounded firemen in Tower Two, he was called

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out to the sidewalk to give last rites to a

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dying fireman. And that's the only reason the tower didn't

564
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collapse on top of him. Heroic, wonderful priest, Father George Rudler,

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now retired.

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I remember walking- And of course, we remember the scene

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of the other priest who was giving final rites to somebody.

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And the tower did hit him, yeah. It was a body,

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a body- Father Michael Judge, I believe. I remember walking

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my dogs. I went to the nearest Starbucks because that

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was the closest thing to like a community, a center

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of community. And we all thought we were being attacked

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by Russia or China or North Korea or something. We

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heard the Capitol might be hit. You know, we didn't

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know that the plane was down. It was en route

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to the Capitol. It took hours to find out that

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this was not an attack by another world power. but

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by Islam. And I want to say, I want that

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to be clear. This was not the war on terror

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was nonsense. That's like saying we're fighting a war on infantry.

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We're fighting a war on tanks. No terror is a tactic.

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We were, what happened was a war. Islam declared war

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on the West. I mean, there's, it's always been in

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this level of conflict with the rest of the non-Muslim world,

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but in on nine 11, Jihadist Islam, mainstream Islam, the

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Islam that's preached in every mosque in your neighborhood, declared

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war on Western civilization, ramped up the war, made it

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an open war. And the response of the Bush administration

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was basically to surrender. It was to take the bait,

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first of all. Bin Laden said very clearly in his manifesto,

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he was hoping to lure us into pointless wars. He

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was hoping to trap us in quagmires. And what did

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we do? We did exactly what he wanted. We invaded Afghanistan,

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and instead of just knocking down the government, we tried

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to turn it into a Western liberal democracy with religious tolerance,

596
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which was, you might as well try to turn Greenland

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into a greenhouse. And then we invaded Iraq, which had

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absolutely nothing to do with the attacks, which actually was

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a secular government opposed to Al-Qaeda. And we got stuck

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in that quagmire. But we're killing Muslims around the world,

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allegedly to set them free. To make up for that,

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we opened the borders to bring in millions more Muslims.

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And George Bush gathered the next day with people from

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the Muslim Brotherhood, the international terror conspiracy group that's trying

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to take over the world. He gathered, he brought people

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from the Muslim Brotherhood, and they declared it. Islam is

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a religion of peace. That's kind of like saying the

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Nazi party is a kosher delicatessen. That's how much sense

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that makes.

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Right. And where was the intelligentsia on this, John? Because

611
00:34:06.250 --> 00:34:09.130
that was such a non sequitur. It was so moronic

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to say that. But also, Bush was championing the cause

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of Islamophobia and being super sensitive. You have to remember, the.

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Bush family made its money from oil in the Middle East.

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And their main concern was staying friendly with the Arab

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sheiks who allowed them to continue to prosper through the

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oil industry. He flew every member of the bin Laden

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00:34:33.889 --> 00:34:36.440
family out of the country to safety the very next day,

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just to make sure. And we were immediately barraged with

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warnings against Islamophobia and Imagine if the day after Pearl Harbor,

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President Roosevelt had said Bushido is a religion of peace.

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And the big emphasis of the U.S. government was to

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make sure that nobody discriminated against Japanese migrants and Japanese

624
00:35:00.409 --> 00:35:05.860
militarists and Japanese nationalist organizations. And we let in millions

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00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:09.780
more Japanese so they could open up Shinto shrines and

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worship the emperor.

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Mm-hmm.

628
00:35:12.059 --> 00:35:16.139
That is how bad, that is how treasonous the behavior

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of George W. Bush is. And let's remember, he is

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unrepentant about it. He's still proud of it all. He

631
00:35:23.179 --> 00:35:30.199
actually said that the January 6th protesters were children of

632
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:36.510
the same vile spirit as the 9-11 hijackers. This is

633
00:35:36.550 --> 00:35:39.210
the guy who, through dereliction of duty, did not prevent

634
00:35:39.250 --> 00:35:43.159
the 9-11 attacks. and then got us into two pointless

635
00:35:43.219 --> 00:35:46.610
forever wars that got tens of thousands of Americans killed

636
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or wounded or traumatized, wasted trillions of dollars, turned Afghanistan

637
00:35:52.590 --> 00:35:56.210
is now exactly as it was before 9-11, and Iraq

638
00:35:56.250 --> 00:35:59.449
went from a secular state that opposed Iran to now

639
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a Shiite-dominated puppet of Iran. And now the US is

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00:36:03.699 --> 00:36:07.239
in another quagmire trying to contain Iran, which we made

641
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more powerful by invading Iraq. This was the Republican establishment.

642
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:14.179
This was not the Democrats. This was not the DSA.

643
00:36:14.219 --> 00:36:20.059
This was not the communists. This was rhino establishment Republicans.

644
00:36:20.260 --> 00:36:23.179
This was the Republican party before Donald Trump. It was

645
00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:26.170
the party that said, Islam is a religion of peace.

646
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We have to let millions more Muslims into our country

647
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just to prove that we're not hateful. What is at

648
00:36:32.659 --> 00:36:35.860
the heart of that? What explains that kind of, I

649
00:36:37.099 --> 00:36:43.019
won't say suicidal, it's genocidal. People talk about suicidal empathy.

650
00:36:44.030 --> 00:36:47.889
White guilt, which I argue is the new religion of Antichrist.

651
00:36:48.010 --> 00:36:53.010
White guilt is actually genocidal empathy where you feel good

652
00:36:53.050 --> 00:36:58.949
about yourself and make yourself into a hero by selling

653
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out every member of your own ethnic group in your

654
00:37:01.699 --> 00:37:07.269
own country to hostile foreigners. You sacrifice the interests of

655
00:37:07.289 --> 00:37:10.369
your grandchildren so that you can have a warm, fuzzy

656
00:37:10.429 --> 00:37:13.269
feeling as you look in the mirror every day. I'm

657
00:37:13.309 --> 00:37:15.610
one of the good people. I'm not one of those rednecks.

658
00:37:16.150 --> 00:37:18.869
I'm not one of those people with a Confederate flag

659
00:37:19.050 --> 00:37:21.719
on his pickup truck. I live in Martha's Vineyard. It's

660
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a sanctuary city. Of course, if immigrants show up, we

661
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.320
have the National Guard take them away and send them

662
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.260
somewhere else. But we're a sanctuary city.

663
00:37:31.150 --> 00:37:32.929
The Bush family- So self-righteous.

664
00:37:32.969 --> 00:37:39.210
Yeah, exactly. So Donald Trump has lots of flaws. He's

665
00:37:39.250 --> 00:37:43.530
not perfect. But he came along to express the disgust

666
00:37:43.610 --> 00:37:46.760
of the American people at a Republican Party that was

667
00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:50.480
selling them out for the interests of oil companies, for-

668
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the interest of cheap labor employers who wanted more foreigners

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here to drive down the wages so that their stock

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portfolios would be boosted. People like John Cornyn, our soon-to-be

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former senator from Texas, who, because he lost a primary

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to Ken Paxton, is now basically trying to help a

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left-wing radical Democrat who supports transgender surgery for children.

674
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Yeah.

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Yeah, what does that say- about the Republican Party and

676
00:38:22.110 --> 00:38:24.869
so many people like Cornyn, as you say. We've got

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to go to a quick break. We've got more from Dr.

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John after this. Stay with us.

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A new study finds a major increase in STEM learning

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in after-school programs, but gaps remain. Today, 92% of parents

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with children in after-school say STEM is available, up from

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69% a decade ago. That's 6.4 million kids now getting

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fewer opportunities in computer science and technology. Jody Grant, Executive

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Hey, we're back with you. Bill Martinez here with Dr.

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John Zimerick, the author of No Second Amendment.

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No First.

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You know, John, as you bring up the history and

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remind us of what happened in 2001 and 9-11 and

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the Bush administration, and when the Bush administration, I think

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of Bush-Cheney. And how Dick Cheney was all involved in this. And,

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you know, we get the Patriot Act. A lot of

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our freedoms as a result of 9-11 were flushed down

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the toilet.

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Oh, yeah.

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Let's talk about the Patriot Act. I actually wrote, I

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was a contrarian. And back in like 2005, they were

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compiling this book, American Conservatism and Encyclopedia. And I was

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invited to write a couple of articles. And I wrote

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the article on the war on terror. And I said-

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Do not give George W. Bush any powers that you

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don't want Hillary Clinton or somebody worse to have two, three,

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four years from now. The Patriot Act, in the name

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of dismantling the compartments that had kept us from finding

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out about 9-11 before it happened, in the name of

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of better intel and preventing acts of terror, because remember,

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Islam is not the enemy, terror is, this abstract entity

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called terror or terrorism. It basically allowed the CIA and

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the NSA to work with the FBI and spy on

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US citizens. It allowed the intelligence community to be politicized.

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And the moment Obama took power, He turned the FBI

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and the CIA and the NSA into a political secret

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police akin to what you saw in East Germany and

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the Soviet Union. And when you look at the Russia

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collusion hoax, when you look what they did to General

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Mike Flynn, when you look at what they did to

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countless innocent Americans, the entrapment they did in Michigan where

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they made up a plot to kidnap the governor and

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then recruited people for it and paid them to do

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it and then arrested them for doing it. And then

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the same guy who managed that operation was in charge

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of the FBI on January 6, 2021. So that was

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also a setup.

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Right.

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All right.

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So in the name of national security, we handed the

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intelligence community enormous powers. They're basically now a fourth unaccountable

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branch of government. You saw what James Comey tried to

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do to a sitting president. Tried to get him impeached

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based on entirely invented, made-up evidence that we had an

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impeachment of a president based on lies that are intelligent.

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And why does he get away with this, John? I mean,

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this is the thing that's frustrating for most Americans. I mean,

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because we are rotten to the core. That's what you're

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talking about here.

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I'm saying that the Patriot Act was basically a legal

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coup d'etat by the intelligence community to take over and

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ultimately run the country however we voted. And then in 2020,

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they faked the votes. First of all, you had the

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FBI lying about, I'm sorry, you had members of the

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intelligence community, 50 of them lying about the Hunter Biden

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laptop prior to the election. And you had the CIA

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go to Facebook and tell them to censor truthful news

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reports about the Hunter Biden laptop until after the election.

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So you had the deep state managing public opinion, controlling

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the media, and then, of course, we had massive election fraud.

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America turned into a Latin American tin pot dictatorship because

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of the Patriot Act, which only was able to be

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passed because of the massive intelligence failure that led to 9-11.

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So basically, America's elites failed us And then they used

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their failure to justify gaining far more power over us

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than we ever would have imagined. And then they used

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it to try to nullify the 2016 election. They used

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it to steal the 2020 election. They tried to steal

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the 2024 election. If it hadn't been for some white

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hat hackers who managed to take down these vote farm

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servers in Serbia... that were going to steal the election

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for Kamala Harris, we would have Kamala Harris and Tim

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Walz as president and vice president of the United States.

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It was a very close call. Freedom hangs by a

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little spider's thread. And the upcoming midterm elections are absolutely crucial. No,

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the congressional Republicans are not great. No, they're not accomplishing

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very much.

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You know what?

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The government in France in 1940 was not great. It

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was run by socialists. It was anti-Catholic. It was corrupt.

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But it was better than the Nazis. We have to

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go out the midterms and vote like it's 1940 in France,

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and we're going to the Maginot Line to stop totalitarian

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enemies who hate our country. The far left has united

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with Islam in state after state, Minnesota, Maine, Here in Texas,

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Muslims vote as a bloc. They're putting voting centers at mosques.

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The mosques, the preacher tells them, you have to vote.

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Vote for the left-wing Democrat who wants abortion and transgenderism.

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It doesn't matter. They're just useful idiots. We're using them

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as stock puppets. Once we're 20% of the population, we

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will impose our will on the rest. You see it

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in Europe, Germany, England, France. Millions of Muslim immigrants they

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brought in as cheap labor and cheap votes. But most

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of them are not even cheap labor. Most of the

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Muslims who come to Europe immediately go on welfare. They

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marry more than one woman. They have 10, 15 kids,

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all of them on the dole. And they only exist

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to vote, to vote for the left. It's like those

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ants that bring in aphids and they milk them for

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their sugar. These immigrants are brought in and they're just

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there for their votes. So French far-left leader Mélenchon admitted it.

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He said, we won't create socialism with white votes, but

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we will bring in votes from Africa. He openly said it.

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Angela Merkel admitted she brought Syrian refugees who started a

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rape epidemic in Germany. She brought them to stop the

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far right, by which she means any patriotic German who

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doesn't want mosques to replace cathedrals and Sharia law to

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replace the Constitution.

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How does that not happen here in the United States, John?

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It is happening. It is happening. I'm making a film now,

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Jihad in Texas, about the attempt to turn Texas, not

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just to flip it blue, but to turn it Muslim green.

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We've got hundreds of mosques open here in the last

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10 years. They all vote. They show up and vote

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the way the Christians don't.

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That's a great point. The way Christians don't. 50%, only 50%,

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Barna says, register to vote. Not that 50, only 50%

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of them actually vote. And we're wondering why we're losing

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this country.

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That's right. So if you want to do something about this,

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make sure to vote Republican in the midterms and contact

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your representatives in government and tell them you want to

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close down immigration. I don't think we can constitutionally get— legally,

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politically— I don't think we could get away with excluding Muslim immigrants.

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It's constitutional, but— Politically, it would be impossible. What we

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need to do is shut down virtually all immigration. We

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need to bring immigration to zero. We need a moratorium

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on immigration for the next 30 years. We're like a

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snake that swallowed a gazelle and its huge lump going through,

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almost tearing the snake apart. He needs to stop eating

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for a while. That snake needs to go to sleep

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and digest what he's already brought in. We've brought in

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more immigrants than we ever did before in history, even

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in the 19th century. And we're not bringing them from Europe,

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from a compatible civilization. We're bringing them from the civilization

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of Islam, which does not believe in peaceful coexistence, does

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not believe in tolerance, does not believe in rights for women,

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does not believe in toleration for gay people, doesn't believe

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in religious freedom. If you're a Muslim and you stop

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being a Muslim, they believe in the death penalty for that?

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Exactly. Right.

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Uh-huh.

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Yeah, so why would you want... I mean, this doesn't

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make sense at all, but this is what's happening in

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our country, is we're inviting people who want death to America.

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We're saying, oh, buenvenidos, come on in, you know?

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You know who's saying that? Pope Leo. Pope Leo is

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saying that you have to admit... limitless immigration, or you're

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not really Christian. If Christianity really taught that you have

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to let your country be invaded, your women be raped,

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like 250,000 of them were raped in Britain in the

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last 30 years with the government looking on, if you

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have to let your country be invaded and your women

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be raped and your churches be closed, if Christianity really

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taught that, I would persecute it myself. Christianity is not

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a civilizational suicide cult. If that's what the early church

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had been teaching, The Romans would never have stopped persecuting it.

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Constantine would never have converted. Europe would never have been converted.

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The missions would not have gone around the world. That

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is not Christianity. That is a post-Christian anti-Christian. That is

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the new gospel of Antichrist. White guilt is the new

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gospel of Antichrist. I think I'm going to need to

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write a book on this because nobody else is saying

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it quite this way. But it is a replacement religion

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where you don't worship Christ anymore. You worship yourself. I'm

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so pure. I'm so tolerant. I'm so sophisticated and so

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very cosmopolitan that I'm willing to let my children, if

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I have any, live under Sharia law. At least I

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get to enjoy a falafel and a doner kebab. And

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at least I get to pat myself on the back

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until I fall over backward because I'm just so virtuous.

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I can't even stand it. I'm so pure. I'm so

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good hearted. I'm like the jurors on the Lindsay Clancy trial.

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I'll even let women strangle their children because, you know,

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they felt bad. They were having a tough day. I

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feel like we're living in a satirical, apocalyptic novel written

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by some guy in a double-wide trailer, typing it single-spaced,

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who self-published it and sold it at gun shows. I've

931
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read some books like that from the 90s. None of

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them were as insane as what we're actually living now.

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I know that's the thing that's so incredible about where

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we are. And John, this is why I insist, I mean,

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this is a God issue. Without God, we don't solve

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this problem.

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No, no.

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You know the way a magnet makes iron filings all

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line up and you take away the magnet and they

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all scatter. Without a lively faith in Christ, without an

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attachment to the gospel, to the biblical image of man,

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we are just scattered. We're sheep without a shepherd, and

943
00:53:59.389 --> 00:54:01.590
the wolves are out there, and the wolves are coming

944
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through the gate, and our hireling shepherds are waving them

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through the gate. It's as if they really want to

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raise wolves. They don't want to be shepherds. They're wolf producers.

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You're exactly right. Well, we got to leave it there

948
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for now. Dr. John Zimerick, author of No Second Amendment,

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That's 800-439-1588. Getting America back on track. Bill Martinez live.

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Hey, right now, six minutes after the top of the hour,

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Bill Martinez here. Great to have you with us. And

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00:55:37.980 --> 00:55:40.280
we got Dean Sykes going to be joining us. He's

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00:55:40.300 --> 00:55:43.690
been ministering words of hope in thousands of high schools

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00:55:43.710 --> 00:55:47.530
across America and in nations of the world, sharing the

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You Matter message with millions of people. He's a published author.

976
00:55:52.030 --> 00:55:56.460
He's written 34 books. He should be doing better. But,

977
00:55:56.739 --> 00:55:59.269
you know, 34 is where he is right now. and

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00:55:59.369 --> 00:56:01.670
serves as a follow-up for teens. Of course, I jest.

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00:56:02.409 --> 00:56:04.389
In fact, I have his latest book in front of

980
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me right now, Home 365. It's a daily devotional for teens.

981
00:56:09.300 --> 00:56:10.860
I hope you don't mind me teasing you just a

982
00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:13.800
little bit, Dean. 34, wow, that's a plethora.

983
00:56:14.369 --> 00:56:17.130
Listen, I would rather you tease me than not. I

984
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enjoy this.

985
00:56:18.170 --> 00:56:22.110
Well, good. Well, let's talk about how this all started

986
00:56:22.210 --> 00:56:25.150
for you, you know, and how it evolved in its

987
00:56:25.469 --> 00:56:30.619
fashion into You Matter and this critical message that is

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00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:34.400
gaining traction among the young people that really are in

989
00:56:34.420 --> 00:56:38.280
a crisis like almost like never before, it would seem.

990
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:41.730
Yeah, you're right on. I started this on January 1st, 1993,

991
00:56:41.710 --> 00:56:46.480
a long time ago. And with one basic message and

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00:56:46.539 --> 00:56:49.239
one mission, and the mission was to bring hope to

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00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:52.380
teenagers who needed to know that their life matters. The

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00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:54.699
whole You Matter campaign, if you will, began out of

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00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:57.550
Job chapter 33, verse 4, that says, The Spirit of

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00:56:57.610 --> 00:57:00.590
God made you, and the breath of the Almighty gives

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00:57:00.650 --> 00:57:04.349
you life. So my response, when teenagers ask me, why

998
00:57:04.389 --> 00:57:05.889
do you say that I matter? You don't know me.

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00:57:05.909 --> 00:57:07.369
You don't know what I've done. You have no idea

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00:57:07.389 --> 00:57:10.050
what I believe. And I go, yes, yes, yes. Here's

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00:57:10.090 --> 00:57:11.590
why you matter. Your breathing matters.

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Period.

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It has nothing to do with anything else right now.

1004
00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:17.519
Let's just get that established. And so it all came

1005
00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:20.280
as a result. I grew up in a Christian home,

1006
00:57:20.739 --> 00:57:23.539
became a Christian at seven. I had a defining moment

1007
00:57:23.780 --> 00:57:26.099
at seven years old and at 15 years old and

1008
00:57:26.139 --> 00:57:28.610
at 21 years old, 15 years old. I was sexually

1009
00:57:28.650 --> 00:57:31.530
abused and 60 seconds changed the trajectory of my life.

1010
00:57:32.710 --> 00:57:35.010
I made a vow. I'll never tell anybody what happened

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00:57:35.030 --> 00:57:37.570
to me. And for 22 years, I did not tell anyone.

1012
00:57:38.090 --> 00:57:41.429
But at 21 years old, I was in real estate development,

1013
00:57:41.590 --> 00:57:45.409
had whatever society says makes you successful, and I was miserable.

1014
00:57:45.610 --> 00:57:47.360
Couldn't figure it out. Why does money not?

1015
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:47.900
Nothing.

1016
00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:51.420
Nothing I tried brought any fulfillment. And so one day

1017
00:57:51.460 --> 00:57:53.019
I said a simple prayer, Bill. I said, God, if

1018
00:57:53.039 --> 00:57:54.679
you will, I don't think you are, but if you are,

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00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:56.420
prove it. I've been in church my whole life. And

1020
00:57:56.460 --> 00:57:58.099
by the way, if you're such a good God, why

1021
00:57:58.119 --> 00:57:59.659
do you let bad things happen to good people? I

1022
00:57:59.679 --> 00:58:02.880
didn't do anything wrong 15 years ago when I was 15.

1023
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:05.940
Had no faith attached to my prayer whatsoever. Two weeks later,

1024
00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:08.320
sitting in my office, dialing a phone, not bothering anyone.

1025
00:58:08.780 --> 00:58:10.860
Behind me, off to my left, I heard someone say,

1026
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:14.489
call mom. I swung around, saw no one, but the

1027
00:58:14.530 --> 00:58:16.110
hair on the back of my ear knew to call

1028
00:58:16.130 --> 00:58:18.789
my mom. And when I did, my mother was attempting suicide.

1029
00:58:19.570 --> 00:58:22.630
She was dying. Got her to a hospital that day

1030
00:58:23.010 --> 00:58:25.030
and a doctor with four years of college, four years

1031
00:58:25.070 --> 00:58:27.429
of med school, two years of residency and years of

1032
00:58:27.489 --> 00:58:30.289
practicing medicine, walked over to my dad. and had the

1033
00:58:30.329 --> 00:58:32.730
most bewildered look on his face. And he said, Mr. Sykes,

1034
00:58:32.750 --> 00:58:34.550
there's no medical reason to tell you what I'm getting

1035
00:58:34.570 --> 00:58:36.489
ready to tell you. It's a miracle of God. Your

1036
00:58:36.530 --> 00:58:38.630
wife is alive. She's fine. You can go see her.

1037
00:58:39.489 --> 00:58:42.280
And that moment, my life changed. And shortly thereafter, I

1038
00:58:42.500 --> 00:58:46.239
began to share this message. And now, as of today's date,

1039
00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:51.599
I've done it 4,482 times in eight nations of the world,

1040
00:58:52.219 --> 00:58:55.429
reaching millions of students, had over 200 million views of

1041
00:58:55.469 --> 00:58:58.460
our videos on social media. have written those 34 books.

1042
00:58:58.500 --> 00:59:01.900
Most recently, it's called Hope 365. It is that daily devotional.

1043
00:59:02.059 --> 00:59:04.650
And I want students to know that you can have

1044
00:59:04.690 --> 00:59:05.829
a daily relationship with God.

1045
00:59:05.849 --> 00:59:06.650
Yeah.

1046
00:59:07.369 --> 00:59:10.920
And it's something that, like you said, air you breathe,

1047
00:59:10.980 --> 00:59:14.139
as you say, Dean, when you get to that understanding

1048
00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:18.840
that it's as the air you breathe, your spiritual beingness

1049
00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:23.659
requires and demands this kind of attention, doesn't it?

1050
00:59:24.300 --> 00:59:27.469
It really does, and today's teenagers are Not the same

1051
00:59:27.510 --> 00:59:31.110
teenagers I started with almost 35 years ago. They deal

1052
00:59:31.130 --> 00:59:33.849
with things today that none of us back then ever

1053
00:59:33.869 --> 00:59:36.090
thought you would deal with. The average teenager today will

1054
00:59:36.139 --> 00:59:39.360
spend seven hours a day on their phone, on social media.

1055
00:59:40.219 --> 00:59:43.219
Seven hours. Today in America, every day in America, 5,600

1056
00:59:43.219 --> 00:59:49.170
teenagers attempt suicide. In an arena that seats 12,000 people,

1057
00:59:49.630 --> 00:59:51.369
that arena would fill up every two and a half

1058
00:59:51.409 --> 00:59:54.329
days with teenagers who in the previous 60 hours bought

1059
00:59:54.369 --> 00:59:56.170
the lie that their death was a better choice than

1060
00:59:56.190 --> 00:59:56.510
their life.

1061
00:59:58.269 --> 01:00:02.639
Yeah, how devastating that the kids have been reduced to

1062
01:00:02.679 --> 01:00:04.679
this level. And I was just reading a study the

1063
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:08.639
other day, Dean, that said that the amount of time

1064
01:00:08.699 --> 01:00:11.880
that people are spending, especially as young kids on social media,

1065
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:17.110
that it's literally dumbing them down. Literally, it is destroying

1066
01:00:17.130 --> 01:00:22.829
IQ points to the amount of 25, 30 points on average.

1067
01:00:23.070 --> 01:00:26.630
Yeah, no question. Ask the average everyday teenager to write

1068
01:00:26.650 --> 01:00:31.820
a sentence You'd be surprised. They can text. Everything is

1069
01:00:31.940 --> 01:00:36.210
hyper-focused on. Here's how I say it to teenagers. I

1070
01:00:36.250 --> 01:00:38.190
did it just yesterday in three assemblies on the road.

1071
01:00:38.829 --> 01:00:41.929
If you're still counting your likes, you have no idea

1072
01:00:42.010 --> 01:00:45.710
how much you're loved. Today's teenager is finding their value

1073
01:00:46.289 --> 01:00:48.929
in what they can create, the content. And this is

1074
01:00:48.969 --> 01:00:54.239
what I share with parents. Teenagers today are inundated with content,

1075
01:00:54.679 --> 01:00:58.400
but they're starving for connections. Yes. You can have all the,

1076
01:00:58.530 --> 01:01:01.809
all the content you want, but there's no connectivity. There's no,

1077
01:01:01.969 --> 01:01:05.349
there's no intimate connectivity. There's the home front is void

1078
01:01:05.590 --> 01:01:08.980
of conversation. You know, I was in a restaurant, you know,

1079
01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:10.519
I travel all the time and I was in a

1080
01:01:10.559 --> 01:01:12.619
restaurant a couple of days ago. Here's when I knew

1081
01:01:12.820 --> 01:01:15.579
society was really in a challenge. There was a, what

1082
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:16.960
appeared to be a mom and a dad and two

1083
01:01:16.980 --> 01:01:20.070
teenagers sitting at a dinner. All four of them had

1084
01:01:20.090 --> 01:01:23.389
their phones out looking down at their phone, ignoring the other,

1085
01:01:23.610 --> 01:01:27.239
the others at their table. And I see that a lot.

1086
01:01:28.219 --> 01:01:30.940
Well, John A. Smith, I think about 20 years ago,

1087
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:35.059
at least, I remember his book, Megatrends. And he talked

1088
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:40.139
about how technology coming into our sphere would demand a

1089
01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:43.119
higher touch. He said high tech, high touch, which meant

1090
01:01:43.159 --> 01:01:47.530
that there was going to be this need for connection.

1091
01:01:48.210 --> 01:01:52.250
And to your point, we're living this out. Our kids,

1092
01:01:52.769 --> 01:01:57.010
our wives, everybody is crying for connection. And I think

1093
01:01:57.050 --> 01:01:59.849
that when you don't have that connection, you have a

1094
01:01:59.889 --> 01:02:00.929
tendency to get angry.

1095
01:02:01.710 --> 01:02:08.059
Oh, angry. And you go find the alternative to what

1096
01:02:08.179 --> 01:02:12.739
true connectivity should be. And you then will, you'll experience,

1097
01:02:12.760 --> 01:02:17.300
you can go after drugs, addiction, sex, money, ego. It

1098
01:02:17.380 --> 01:02:20.559
all is the counterfeit for what's supposed to be, what

1099
01:02:20.619 --> 01:02:23.579
I believe to be as wholly, completely, fully reserved, that

1100
01:02:23.659 --> 01:02:26.380
space in your heart. for a relationship with Jesus. And

1101
01:02:26.579 --> 01:02:29.500
when people ignore that or they go a different direction,

1102
01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:32.690
and here's, you know, I share with students that, you know,

1103
01:02:32.730 --> 01:02:34.469
what I'm going to talk with you about today is truth.

1104
01:02:34.849 --> 01:02:36.550
And here's the coolest thing I can tell you about truth.

1105
01:02:36.650 --> 01:02:37.590
Truth is always true.

1106
01:02:38.150 --> 01:02:38.409
Yes.

1107
01:02:38.710 --> 01:02:41.789
It never changes. And truth always has a mission. And

1108
01:02:41.809 --> 01:02:43.929
that is to bring freedom. You'll know the truth and

1109
01:02:43.949 --> 01:02:45.050
the truth you know sets you free.

1110
01:02:45.550 --> 01:02:49.139
Yeah, exactly. But do people really understand what freedom means though, Dean?

1111
01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:52.760
You know, that's a great question. I would say maybe not.

1112
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:55.340
And I think they maybe look at what they think

1113
01:02:55.400 --> 01:02:58.079
freedom could be like or should look like. But at

1114
01:02:58.099 --> 01:03:01.079
the end of the day, I mean, I see so

1115
01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:05.139
many students. Just in the last five assemblies, we had

1116
01:03:05.139 --> 01:03:09.320
92 suicides stopped after hearing our message. Well, that's the

1117
01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:11.409
92 that raised their hand and said, yeah, I'm dealing

1118
01:03:11.429 --> 01:03:15.110
with this. There's always more. And so I think when

1119
01:03:15.170 --> 01:03:18.269
people fully embrace the truth that their lives matter, not

1120
01:03:18.309 --> 01:03:20.989
because of their last name, not because of their financial status,

1121
01:03:21.539 --> 01:03:25.489
their looks, their academics, their athletics, they matter for one reason.

1122
01:03:26.550 --> 01:03:28.889
And if we can encourage people to live in that reason,

1123
01:03:28.949 --> 01:03:31.650
that they're breathing, and they're breathing on purpose, with purpose,

1124
01:03:31.690 --> 01:03:34.789
and for purpose, then they begin to better understand, I believe,

1125
01:03:35.429 --> 01:03:38.550
that they can then navigate this journey we know as life.

1126
01:03:39.219 --> 01:03:43.739
Today's teenagers desperately need to be seen and desperately want

1127
01:03:43.780 --> 01:03:45.039
to be heard. Right.

1128
01:03:45.659 --> 01:03:49.179
Well, you matter because God says you matter. God Almighty.

1129
01:03:49.530 --> 01:03:52.369
The creator of the universe says you matter. In fact,

1130
01:03:52.530 --> 01:03:55.449
you matter so much that he sent somebody to save you.

1131
01:03:55.809 --> 01:03:55.949
Yep.

1132
01:03:56.780 --> 01:03:57.239
No question.

1133
01:03:57.699 --> 01:03:59.239
I mean, and of all people, it wasn't like he

1134
01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:01.920
just went down, you know, to the barrio somewhere and

1135
01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:03.840
got some of the, you know, one of the work. No,

1136
01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:06.300
he went to the cream of the crop, his very

1137
01:04:06.460 --> 01:04:09.920
own son and said, Hey, I need you to go

1138
01:04:10.079 --> 01:04:10.760
on this mission.

1139
01:04:11.059 --> 01:04:11.219
Yep.

1140
01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:12.019
Yep.

1141
01:04:12.380 --> 01:04:12.980
And he said, yes.

1142
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:15.929
Yeah, exactly. We got to go to quick break. We've

1143
01:04:15.949 --> 01:04:17.840
got more from Dean on the other side. Stay with us,

1144
01:04:17.929 --> 01:04:18.489
ladies and gentlemen.

1145
01:04:19.769 --> 01:04:22.269
A new study finds a major increase in STEM learning

1146
01:04:22.289 --> 01:04:26.590
in after-school programs, but gaps remain. Today, 92% of parents

1147
01:04:26.610 --> 01:04:29.679
with children in after-school say STEM is available, up from

1148
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:33.800
69% a decade ago. That's 6.4 million kids now getting

1149
01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:37.300
STEM in after-school. Emma Binet, Overdeck Family Foundation.

1150
01:04:37.519 --> 01:04:41.320
This study underscores the remarkable work out-of-school time programs do

1151
01:04:41.400 --> 01:04:44.199
to help students discover the joy in learning while preparing

1152
01:04:44.219 --> 01:04:46.260
them to succeed now and into the future.

1153
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The study finds rural and low-income students are less likely

1154
01:04:49.539 --> 01:04:53.170
to get frequent STEM opportunities, with rural programs also offering

1155
01:04:53.269 --> 01:04:57.670
fewer opportunities in computer science and technology. Jody Grant, Executive

1156
01:04:57.690 --> 01:04:59.329
Director of the After-School Alliance.

1157
01:04:59.710 --> 01:05:02.909
STEM literacy is no longer optional. It's the foundation of

1158
01:05:02.969 --> 01:05:05.750
nearly every aspect of our economy.

1159
01:05:05.409 --> 01:05:05.969
And our world.

1160
01:05:06.190 --> 01:05:09.510
The next step is clear. Invest more in after-school programs

1161
01:05:09.690 --> 01:05:12.750
so every child in every community has access to STEM

1162
01:05:12.789 --> 01:05:17.380
learning after school. To learn more, visit AfterSchoolAlliance.org, sponsored by

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Hey, we're back with you. Dean Sykes is with us.

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He is the author of the new book, Hope 365.

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01:08:59.760 --> 01:09:03.260
a daily devotional for teens. I know it's for teens, Dean,

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01:09:03.319 --> 01:09:07.119
but I guess we're all teens at heart still.

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01:09:07.140 --> 01:09:07.960
We are.

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I believe this devotional is going to touch not only teens,

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01:09:11.500 --> 01:09:14.420
but it's going to touch the parents of teens.

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01:09:14.859 --> 01:09:16.640
There's no question. I was just in Houston, Texas a

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01:09:16.659 --> 01:09:18.210
couple of nights ago, and we had the book for

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01:09:18.229 --> 01:09:19.770
the first time on the road with us, and I

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01:09:19.789 --> 01:09:21.930
was doing a big conference. It was all adults. We

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01:09:21.970 --> 01:09:25.729
sold out within minutes. I was astounded at how many people,

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01:09:26.100 --> 01:09:27.640
even though I promoted it as a book for teens,

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01:09:27.689 --> 01:09:31.640
it's the daily devotional. What's cool about it, Bill, is

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01:09:31.859 --> 01:09:35.260
that if you happen to enjoy how I speak, you'll

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01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:37.039
love how I write. It's very casual, just from the

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01:09:37.100 --> 01:09:40.920
heart to the point. And it invites people into a journey.

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01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:43.100
And I tell people, adults and teenagers, the more you

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01:09:43.119 --> 01:09:45.539
get into the devotional book that I wrote, the more

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01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.100
you'll want to get into the Word of God. Amen.

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01:09:48.439 --> 01:09:50.079
One will lead to the other. Right.

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01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:52.800
Well, and we would all hope to do that. Whatever

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01:09:52.840 --> 01:09:55.779
it is that we say, do, what we think, what

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01:09:55.819 --> 01:09:58.739
we write, you know, it's like the Holy Spirit. The

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01:09:58.779 --> 01:10:02.239
Holy Spirit is constantly, you know, showing us the way

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01:10:02.310 --> 01:10:05.149
to Jesus. And then Jesus shows us the way to

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01:10:05.170 --> 01:10:09.449
the Father. I love the way this works out. And

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01:10:09.489 --> 01:10:12.649
Dean's been sharing the You Matter message with millions of

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01:10:12.670 --> 01:10:15.430
people around the world, as he said, which is just incredible.

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01:10:15.449 --> 01:10:19.029
I mean, what a commission. that God would come to

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01:10:19.069 --> 01:10:20.789
you and say, Dean, you're my guy. I want you

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01:10:20.810 --> 01:10:21.289
to do this.

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01:10:22.329 --> 01:10:25.289
It is one of the most humbling experiences. And I

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01:10:25.310 --> 01:10:27.670
tell people, I haven't had a job in 35 years.

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01:10:27.890 --> 01:10:29.609
I get to do this. I wake up every morning.

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01:10:29.770 --> 01:10:31.890
And one of the coolest things the Lord showed me

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01:10:31.909 --> 01:10:34.449
a long time ago, Bill, is what I do oftentimes

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01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:37.380
does not move me. But why we do what we

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01:10:37.420 --> 01:10:39.600
do catapults me out of bed every morning. I can

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01:10:39.619 --> 01:10:42.159
hardly wait for the next day to get here. Because

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01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:44.199
it is an opportunity to reach a lot of people.

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01:10:44.619 --> 01:10:48.880
And it's also getting to just listen. to people because again,

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01:10:48.899 --> 01:10:51.029
they want to be heard. And at the end of

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01:10:51.069 --> 01:10:53.449
our assemblies, all these students will just come piling in

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01:10:54.149 --> 01:10:56.270
and I'll sit there and just smile and listen because

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01:10:56.510 --> 01:10:59.210
they are taking the time from their life to share

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01:10:59.270 --> 01:11:01.729
part of their story. And I think if you get

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a young person in your life, whomever's listening or watching,

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01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:06.380
and you have somebody who's willing to come and actually

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01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:10.039
talk with you, remember you were given two eyes, two ears,

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01:11:10.220 --> 01:11:13.020
and one mouth for a reason. It's important to listen.

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01:11:13.680 --> 01:11:17.029
Yeah, without a doubt. And as you say, young people,

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01:11:17.609 --> 01:11:20.180
especially will hit that time of life. It's inevitable. I mean,

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01:11:20.220 --> 01:11:22.380
it's just part of the season they go through where

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01:11:22.420 --> 01:11:25.189
they feel a sense of rejection. And that's part of,

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01:11:25.579 --> 01:11:29.520
you know, going through the process of becoming adult is

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01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:32.829
going through rejection and understand how to deal with it

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01:11:33.329 --> 01:11:35.350
and to come out on the other side to understand that.

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But if you don't have this sense that you matter

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01:11:38.909 --> 01:11:42.189
and that you're significant, you know, you're made in the

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01:11:42.289 --> 01:11:45.000
image of God and all these things that the word

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01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:47.800
of God tells you, If you're not nourishing on that,

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01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:51.760
then you're going to be victimized by the culture that

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01:11:51.819 --> 01:11:53.930
looks at everything as being disposable, right?

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01:11:54.100 --> 01:11:57.409
There's no question about it. 1,000% agree with you. It's

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01:11:57.449 --> 01:12:01.029
a journey where the enemy has never told the truth.

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01:12:01.489 --> 01:12:03.369
He's the father of liars. He's not going to start

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telling the truth to anybody watching or listening today. So truth, again,

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01:12:07.329 --> 01:12:10.449
always is true. It always brings freedom. And young people

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01:12:10.489 --> 01:12:15.020
today are starved for this. I share with adults a lot, Bill,

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01:12:15.039 --> 01:12:17.760
that The last word in the Old Testament is curse.

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And if you read that last scripture, it says, I'll

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turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, hearts

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01:12:23.380 --> 01:12:25.239
of the children to the father, lest I come and

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01:12:25.270 --> 01:12:26.869
strike the earth with a curse. What's the curse? A

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01:12:26.909 --> 01:12:29.949
fatherless generation. Big difference between a father and a dad.

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Dads give you what you want. Fathers give you what

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01:12:32.689 --> 01:12:35.050
you need. And that's what I'm trying to get young

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01:12:35.069 --> 01:12:38.550
people to understand. Embrace the fathers in your life. And

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I'm encouraging the fathers, the men, be the father you

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01:12:41.310 --> 01:12:43.470
were created to be. whether you're the actual father of

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01:12:43.510 --> 01:12:45.869
this child, or maybe you're a foster or you've adopted,

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01:12:45.890 --> 01:12:49.260
or maybe you're a mentor, get in their lives. Moms,

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01:12:49.300 --> 01:12:50.800
I think have the most important job in the world.

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01:12:51.039 --> 01:12:53.859
I mean, moms are just, you know, they're who they are. So, yeah.

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01:12:54.300 --> 01:12:56.199
Well, you know, and as you say, I mean, we

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01:12:56.260 --> 01:13:00.270
have clear examples of living out this curse in certain

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01:13:00.390 --> 01:13:05.090
demographics where, you know, these young people have been raised

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01:13:05.130 --> 01:13:07.760
without fathers and look at the results of it.

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01:13:08.310 --> 01:13:11.109
Oh, it's, If you could go with me into high schools,

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01:13:11.270 --> 01:13:15.130
public schools, private schools, Christian schools, alternative schools, and just see,

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01:13:15.829 --> 01:13:18.449
just look out across, you know, 1,000 kids, 1,500 kids, whatever,

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01:13:19.029 --> 01:13:23.199
and these assemblies, you know, they are so desperate to

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01:13:23.279 --> 01:13:26.180
know that their life does matter. They don't know they're

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01:13:26.220 --> 01:13:29.659
saying that, but in their everyday life, they're just trying to,

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01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:33.880
they're just trying. And here's what I've learned. Broken teenagers

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01:13:33.899 --> 01:13:34.760
become broken adults.

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Yeah.

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And brokenness attracts brokenness, like health attracts health. two become

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01:13:39.579 --> 01:13:40.859
one they recreate what they are.

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01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:46.060
Yeah yeah exactly yeah i uh had one teacher uh

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01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:48.880
she would tell uh or he said ask of the

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01:13:48.920 --> 01:13:51.899
young kids this is you know like in first second

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01:13:51.939 --> 01:13:55.170
grade uh is you know what kind of person would

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01:13:55.210 --> 01:13:59.789
you want to marry and uh you know and here

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01:13:59.810 --> 01:14:02.289
it is you're asking these young kids a very provocative

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01:14:02.310 --> 01:14:05.789
question yeah but it's rather forecasting because you say okay

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01:14:06.409 --> 01:14:08.689
uh if this is the kind of person that you

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01:14:08.729 --> 01:14:11.750
want to marry, are you deserving, would she want to

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01:14:11.770 --> 01:14:16.289
marry you? So what are you building, right?

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01:14:16.550 --> 01:14:16.770
Right.

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01:14:16.829 --> 01:14:17.750
That's a great question.

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01:14:17.930 --> 01:14:19.109
What foundation, right? Yeah, absolutely.

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01:14:19.329 --> 01:14:19.590
Yeah.

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01:14:20.289 --> 01:14:23.869
So I thought that that was quite interesting because, you know,

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I mean, let's face it, you know, most people, most

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01:14:26.869 --> 01:14:29.350
young people are going to want to get married. I mean,

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01:14:29.390 --> 01:14:32.649
it's just the natural way that God has created us

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01:14:32.689 --> 01:14:33.930
to be fruitful and multiply.

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01:14:33.949 --> 01:14:34.069
Right.

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01:14:34.659 --> 01:14:37.220
And, uh, but do you have the qualities just like

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01:14:37.239 --> 01:14:40.380
you just said, which is, you know, and, and, you know,

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01:14:40.420 --> 01:14:42.579
you want to have a Salem moment, you know, as

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01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:45.119
the Bible would refer to it, even on radio or

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01:14:45.159 --> 01:14:47.600
in television to say, pause for just a minute and

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01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:50.659
chew on that. You know, uh, you know, if you're

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01:14:50.720 --> 01:14:54.739
damaged goods, you're going to attract damaged goods and you're

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01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:58.460
going to create damage, you know, progeny. How's that? How's

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01:14:58.500 --> 01:14:59.560
that fair to those kids?

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01:15:00.050 --> 01:15:01.979
And it's not. And that, because here's what I, you know,

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01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:03.649
kids never asked to be born.

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01:15:04.189 --> 01:15:04.329
Yeah.

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01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:07.260
That they show up and they are, they're trying, they're

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01:15:07.279 --> 01:15:09.439
trying to fit in. They're trying to find their value. They're,

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01:15:09.500 --> 01:15:11.840
they're spending all this time on social media. They're, they're,

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01:15:12.140 --> 01:15:15.869
there's no communication in most homes. And so they're, they're

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01:15:15.890 --> 01:15:17.970
kind of kids that are, I was in a school

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01:15:17.989 --> 01:15:19.810
yesterday where I was told about, you know, a young

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01:15:19.850 --> 01:15:22.130
man who was taking care of his two, when he was,

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01:15:22.270 --> 01:15:24.430
he was seven years old at the time, taking care

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01:15:24.470 --> 01:15:27.270
of two little bitty kiddos himself. He was the father

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01:15:28.609 --> 01:15:30.310
at seven. How do you function? You can't do that.

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01:15:30.729 --> 01:15:31.539
Yeah, exactly.

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01:15:32.779 --> 01:15:37.319
You know, in your, conversations with these young kids, you're hearing,

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01:15:37.439 --> 01:15:40.750
and I hear this as well, that they're intimidated by

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01:15:40.789 --> 01:15:43.810
the Bible. What is the issue here?

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01:15:44.189 --> 01:15:47.729
Religion. You know, they think they have to be a

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01:15:47.770 --> 01:15:51.659
certain way, act a certain way, do certain things. There's

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01:15:51.699 --> 01:15:54.180
three types of people that I see in their faith today.

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01:15:54.220 --> 01:15:56.720
There's transactional. Well, God, I did this or you're going

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01:15:56.739 --> 01:15:57.979
to do this. I'm going to twist your arm. That

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01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:01.279
doesn't work. There's performance-based Christianity. Well, I prayed today. I

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01:16:01.319 --> 01:16:03.260
read my Bible today. I fasted. I gave. I did.

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01:16:04.659 --> 01:16:06.840
That doesn't move God. The only thing that moves God

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01:16:06.859 --> 01:16:09.220
that I've seen in the Word is faith that works

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01:16:09.420 --> 01:16:12.520
by love. And when we have a revelation of love,

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01:16:13.180 --> 01:16:15.460
then we can embrace God as He always is.

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01:16:15.579 --> 01:16:16.159
He is love.

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01:16:16.460 --> 01:16:18.680
It's not what He does. It's who He is. And

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01:16:18.699 --> 01:16:20.739
so I try to get young people to understand this

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01:16:20.810 --> 01:16:23.810
isn't a performance or a transactional life that God's looking for.

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01:16:23.829 --> 01:16:27.449
He created you because He wanted to have a relationship

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01:16:27.529 --> 01:16:29.689
with you And that's birthed out of his love.

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01:16:30.250 --> 01:16:30.430
Right.

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And there's no doubt. I think faith is underappreciated. You know,

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that's the seed. That's the groundwork that God operates in.

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01:16:40.479 --> 01:16:42.859
You know, even Jesus said he couldn't do miracles in

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01:16:42.899 --> 01:16:45.460
certain areas because the people lacked faith, right?

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01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:46.260
Yep. Unbelief.

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01:16:46.939 --> 01:16:47.159
Yeah.

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01:16:47.579 --> 01:16:50.439
Yeah. If you look at that, there's two places in

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the word where Jesus said he marveled at their great

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01:16:53.510 --> 01:16:56.829
faith and he marveled at their great unbelief. So you

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01:16:56.850 --> 01:16:58.670
can deduct from that that at any given time, any

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01:16:58.689 --> 01:17:01.060
of us are making Jesus marvel.

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Right.

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And I think because of that, Dean, our prayer should

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01:17:06.979 --> 01:17:11.140
be more focused on the idea that faith would abound,

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01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:14.930
that when we go into an arena and we're speaking

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01:17:14.949 --> 01:17:19.170
to people, that there would be that proper groundwork established

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01:17:19.210 --> 01:17:22.210
to where the word of God would take root. And

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01:17:22.270 --> 01:17:24.130
as the Bible said, that it would go forth and

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01:17:24.170 --> 01:17:25.170
not come back void.

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01:17:25.430 --> 01:17:25.649
Yeah.

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01:17:25.939 --> 01:17:28.939
Yep. And that's, I think that's a great point to

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01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:31.460
kind of just focus on that, that this word is

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01:17:31.579 --> 01:17:34.359
not going, it's effective. It is effective. It will do

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01:17:34.399 --> 01:17:37.420
what it was sent to accomplish. And our job, I

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01:17:37.439 --> 01:17:39.100
believe the only thing that God is honor bound to

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01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:41.300
respond to is his word coming out of our mouth

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01:17:41.539 --> 01:17:42.439
from a position of faith.

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01:17:43.319 --> 01:17:47.399
Yeah, exactly. Well, Dean, I got about a minute left here.

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01:17:47.479 --> 01:17:52.819
Hope 365, a daily devotional for teens. Obviously you did

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01:17:52.859 --> 01:17:56.859
this on purpose. It's your fault. And so what do

1417
01:17:56.880 --> 01:17:58.600
you want the teens to take away from this?

1418
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That they matter. It's real simple. And when you have

1419
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a relationship with Jesus, you'll begin to better understand that

1420
01:18:05.739 --> 01:18:08.710
your life matters, that you are the apple of his eye.

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And my belief is that if we're supposed to renew

1422
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our mind daily with the word, this book is an

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opportunity and it's an invitation to get into a daily routine.

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You can read each page in about a minute, minute

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and a half max. So you matter. That's the answer.

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So in those moments when you're downcast, and as a teenager,

1427
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you probably run into that more often than not, this is,

1428
01:18:30.060 --> 01:18:32.649
if not the Word of God directly, this is a

1429
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good resource, a lifeline to get you back on track,

1430
01:18:36.250 --> 01:18:40.050
because that's what we do as we journey through, is we,

1431
01:18:40.550 --> 01:18:43.229
you know, we make adjustments to make sure that we

1432
01:18:43.270 --> 01:18:44.569
get back on track, right?

1433
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Absolutely. And that's the cool thing about the Word. It's

1434
01:18:47.729 --> 01:18:50.720
a course corrector. The more you in the Word, the

1435
01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:53.300
more the Word's in you. And that's important because what

1436
01:18:53.319 --> 01:18:55.399
comes out of your heart in abundance are the words

1437
01:18:55.420 --> 01:18:57.000
that you speak, and that's what creates your world.

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Well, Dean Sykes, since January 1993, he's got that date

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1442
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sharing the You Matter message, the website they can go to, Dean,

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to find out more information.

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Yeah, it's YouMatter, Y-O-U-M-A-T-T-E-R.us. YouMatter.us, that's all things You Matter

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Hey, good morning. Welcome back. Glad you could join us.

1504
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Bill Martinez here. And we've got Commissioner Merle. He will

1505
01:23:07.600 --> 01:23:10.140
join us in just a moment. National leader of the

1506
01:23:10.180 --> 01:23:13.279
Salvation Army in the United States of America, serving as

1507
01:23:13.319 --> 01:23:17.529
the national commander. He assumed this appointment back in March

1508
01:23:17.550 --> 01:23:22.789
of last year. And we're talking about the after effects,

1509
01:23:22.810 --> 01:23:27.180
particularly of 9-11. You know, first responders and survivors at

1510
01:23:27.220 --> 01:23:30.720
Ground Zero, the Pentagon in Shanksville, carried a weight none

1511
01:23:30.739 --> 01:23:34.229
of us can fully imagine. The Salvation Army stood beside

1512
01:23:34.270 --> 01:23:37.189
them from that very first day and for years after

1513
01:23:37.250 --> 01:23:41.609
trying to be whatever helped them keep going. When they

1514
01:23:41.750 --> 01:23:44.229
asked their own responders what actually helped, they all said

1515
01:23:44.590 --> 01:23:47.899
the same thing. It was the small acts of kindness

1516
01:23:48.340 --> 01:23:52.060
that carried people through. Right, Merle?

1517
01:23:52.079 --> 01:23:52.680
That's correct.

1518
01:23:53.279 --> 01:23:55.899
One of the things that we learned from that experience

1519
01:23:56.340 --> 01:23:58.479
was that you didn't have to make a grand gesture.

1520
01:23:58.520 --> 01:24:01.609
You didn't have to have a big financial investment. it

1521
01:24:01.729 --> 01:24:05.729
really was making that individual personal touch. So as the

1522
01:24:05.789 --> 01:24:09.949
responders came into our sites, having an opportunity just to

1523
01:24:10.050 --> 01:24:13.430
sit and rest, having the opportunity for a good meal,

1524
01:24:13.789 --> 01:24:17.800
having the opportunity even where needed to have their feet

1525
01:24:17.939 --> 01:24:22.300
washed and their feet massaged because of the terrible circumstances

1526
01:24:22.359 --> 01:24:25.399
that they were facing. And it was in those small

1527
01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:29.699
acts that the lives of those responders were really touched

1528
01:24:30.149 --> 01:24:32.350
by that kindness and that generosity.

1529
01:24:33.090 --> 01:24:35.670
Well, here we are 25 years later, Commander, and the

1530
01:24:35.689 --> 01:24:39.210
Salvation Army is asking people across the country, I love

1531
01:24:39.250 --> 01:24:44.829
this idea in this campaign, be that something, right? That's right.

1532
01:24:44.930 --> 01:24:47.770
What we're saying is that one of the things that

1533
01:24:47.810 --> 01:24:53.109
we recognized happened after 9-11 was people from all diverse backgrounds,

1534
01:24:53.489 --> 01:24:57.180
from all walks of life, came together and were unified

1535
01:24:57.260 --> 01:25:01.229
together in responding to the needs of that day and

1536
01:25:01.449 --> 01:25:04.510
well beyond that day for months and years to follow

1537
01:25:04.890 --> 01:25:07.350
to really make a difference in the lives of those

1538
01:25:07.390 --> 01:25:10.489
that had been impacted. And we know today that there

1539
01:25:10.529 --> 01:25:15.479
are always tragedies that happen, circumstances that people have that

1540
01:25:15.739 --> 01:25:19.239
they need that extra helping hand. And we can be

1541
01:25:19.300 --> 01:25:23.239
that something to them right within our local community if

1542
01:25:23.300 --> 01:25:26.460
we're willing to step out and to share with them

1543
01:25:26.930 --> 01:25:30.399
in a very small, practical way, what will make a

1544
01:25:30.449 --> 01:25:31.529
difference in their life.

1545
01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:34.380
You know, Commander, we were talking about this the other day.

1546
01:25:34.979 --> 01:25:39.140
It is the legacy of America. It's inbred in our

1547
01:25:39.220 --> 01:25:42.880
DNA as a nation. We're always the first ones to

1548
01:25:42.939 --> 01:25:46.439
respond to tragedies, you know, no matter where they are

1549
01:25:46.460 --> 01:25:49.520
around the world. And especially if it's in our neighborhood,

1550
01:25:49.880 --> 01:25:53.090
you know, that still carries through time and time again.

1551
01:25:53.579 --> 01:25:59.060
And I think that sometimes, you know, because, I don't know, some,

1552
01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:02.100
you know, bad attitude, let's just put it that way

1553
01:26:02.140 --> 01:26:05.199
right now. You know, it gets in the way of

1554
01:26:05.239 --> 01:26:08.340
the good things of, like you say, being that something

1555
01:26:08.359 --> 01:26:10.399
that people do every day for their neighbors.

1556
01:26:12.680 --> 01:26:13.220
That's right.

1557
01:26:13.239 --> 01:26:16.420
And it's one of those things that it is something

1558
01:26:16.439 --> 01:26:19.439
that everyone can do. It doesn't matter how old or

1559
01:26:19.479 --> 01:26:22.920
young you are. It doesn't matter what your economic status is.

1560
01:26:23.369 --> 01:26:25.670
that you can look around within your own neighborhood. If

1561
01:26:25.689 --> 01:26:28.850
there's someone who's living alone and you can just go

1562
01:26:28.989 --> 01:26:31.350
over and listen to their stories and let them know

1563
01:26:31.649 --> 01:26:34.630
that they haven't been forgotten. If there's a family that's

1564
01:26:34.689 --> 01:26:37.609
struggling with food insecurity, if you can make them a

1565
01:26:37.680 --> 01:26:38.710
meal and share.

1566
01:26:38.489 --> 01:26:39.140
That with them.

1567
01:26:39.489 --> 01:26:42.760
If there's someone that needs transportation to a job interview

1568
01:26:43.220 --> 01:26:45.739
or to run a few errands, those are ways that

1569
01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:48.439
you can get involved. And if you don't know what

1570
01:26:48.479 --> 01:26:52.180
the needs are within your neighborhood, within your community, you

1571
01:26:52.199 --> 01:26:57.010
can visit our website, SalvationArmyUSA.org, and we can provide you

1572
01:26:57.050 --> 01:27:01.510
with volunteer opportunities right there within your local community where

1573
01:27:01.569 --> 01:27:04.850
you can be that something for someone who needs your

1574
01:27:04.909 --> 01:27:07.510
support right within your neighborhood.

1575
01:27:08.170 --> 01:27:11.500
Well, as you say, Commander, 9-11 did kind of reopen

1576
01:27:11.520 --> 01:27:15.039
the door and demonstrate to us how we could answer

1577
01:27:15.119 --> 01:27:17.880
the need and be that something to people. Of course,

1578
01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:20.159
for the first responders, it was pretty dramatic, and as

1579
01:27:20.180 --> 01:27:24.579
you said, what the first responders had to endure and

1580
01:27:24.800 --> 01:27:28.560
how appreciative they were for just little acts of kindness.

1581
01:27:28.619 --> 01:27:33.350
Nothing significant, but just the idea that people in their

1582
01:27:33.390 --> 01:27:35.949
community said, hey, you know what? We see you and

1583
01:27:35.989 --> 01:27:36.850
you matter, right?

1584
01:27:38.850 --> 01:27:39.369
Definitely.

1585
01:27:39.949 --> 01:27:42.909
And one of the things that is the reality is

1586
01:27:43.050 --> 01:27:45.970
that you don't have to worry about having the perfect words.

1587
01:27:46.350 --> 01:27:49.439
You don't have to worry about solving all of life's problems.

1588
01:27:49.899 --> 01:27:53.180
It's really just finding a way to reach out and

1589
01:27:53.220 --> 01:27:56.819
be that something in a very practical, meaningful way that

1590
01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:00.250
will make a difference in the life of those around you.

1591
01:28:01.050 --> 01:28:03.470
Well, let's expand on that a little bit more and

1592
01:28:03.590 --> 01:28:06.189
talk about the simple ways that people can put that

1593
01:28:06.289 --> 01:28:08.750
idea into practice in their own communities.

1594
01:28:10.760 --> 01:28:13.119
Well, one of the ways is just simply getting involved

1595
01:28:13.180 --> 01:28:17.770
in some volunteer activities. whether that's in supporting a local

1596
01:28:17.869 --> 01:28:21.859
food pantry and helping in that operation, whether it's an

1597
01:28:21.979 --> 01:28:25.260
after-school program where you go and provide an opportunity to

1598
01:28:26.159 --> 01:28:29.680
tutor a young person, getting involved with your local schools,

1599
01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:34.289
with a senior citizens high-rise facility that you can go

1600
01:28:34.390 --> 01:28:36.930
and just listen to the stories there. There are so

1601
01:28:37.050 --> 01:28:40.319
many different ways that you can just reach out and

1602
01:28:40.380 --> 01:28:44.020
be that something to someone who does need your support

1603
01:28:44.380 --> 01:28:48.310
right there within your own neighborhood, within your own local community.

1604
01:28:48.930 --> 01:28:52.829
Well, and as you say, Merle, that you talk to

1605
01:28:52.850 --> 01:28:57.329
the people afterwards and the stories they said probably just

1606
01:28:57.369 --> 01:29:01.710
seem so basic and natural. But, I mean, for them

1607
01:29:01.789 --> 01:29:05.300
to testify and offer their testimonies of how they were

1608
01:29:05.359 --> 01:29:09.359
blessed by people in their local communities had to be heartening.

1609
01:29:09.560 --> 01:29:12.720
And the fact that the Salvation Army kind of coalesced

1610
01:29:12.760 --> 01:29:16.050
these ideas and are kind of bringing this to bear

1611
01:29:16.109 --> 01:29:19.430
and bringing us into focus to remind us that it's

1612
01:29:19.510 --> 01:29:22.310
not that difficult to be that something. And guess what?

1613
01:29:22.609 --> 01:29:24.869
There are people out there in need that we can

1614
01:29:24.909 --> 01:29:29.050
make a significant difference to. for just by a little

1615
01:29:29.170 --> 01:29:30.329
act of kindness, right?

1616
01:29:32.180 --> 01:29:32.779
Definitely.

1617
01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:36.380
And you never know how that's going to play out

1618
01:29:36.439 --> 01:29:39.939
within a local circumstance. Even on 9-11, one of the

1619
01:29:39.979 --> 01:29:43.079
things that we would have not ever thought about was

1620
01:29:43.180 --> 01:29:45.899
that the search and rescue dogs, as they were having

1621
01:29:45.939 --> 01:29:49.409
to go through all of that area, that they were

1622
01:29:49.550 --> 01:29:52.569
having a hard time being able to take care of

1623
01:29:52.609 --> 01:29:55.970
their paws, their feet properly, And we had had a

1624
01:29:56.010 --> 01:29:58.729
large donation of socks. And so we were able to

1625
01:29:58.810 --> 01:30:02.539
actually provide socks to those search and rescue animals to

1626
01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:06.159
protect them as they were going out and supporting the

1627
01:30:06.199 --> 01:30:09.819
first responders. And so there's always something that you can

1628
01:30:09.880 --> 01:30:14.199
do to really make a difference, whether that is sharing

1629
01:30:14.270 --> 01:30:19.069
that meal, whether that is being a listening ear, whatever

1630
01:30:19.130 --> 01:30:22.270
it might be, you can be that something that makes

1631
01:30:22.350 --> 01:30:24.210
a difference in the life of someone else.

1632
01:30:25.029 --> 01:30:27.000
Commander, we've got a couple of minutes here, and I

1633
01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:29.640
know our audience would love to hear more of these stories.

1634
01:30:29.680 --> 01:30:32.680
Do you have maybe a couple of special stories that

1635
01:30:32.699 --> 01:30:36.899
stick out from your conversations with these people?

1636
01:30:39.439 --> 01:30:42.590
Well, I think one of the things that I've heard

1637
01:30:42.890 --> 01:30:47.170
over and over again is just the way that in

1638
01:30:47.250 --> 01:30:50.810
those times of tragedy, one of the things that we

1639
01:30:50.989 --> 01:30:56.010
couldn't understand is how much that impacted the emotions and

1640
01:30:56.069 --> 01:31:00.750
the well-being of those that were first responders. And one

1641
01:31:00.789 --> 01:31:03.060
of the most touching things was just to be able

1642
01:31:03.100 --> 01:31:06.760
to sit down, to listen to them, to provide them

1643
01:31:06.899 --> 01:31:12.140
emotional support and spiritual support during what they were facing

1644
01:31:12.340 --> 01:31:16.930
as an unimaginable tragedy, even though they had not personally

1645
01:31:17.390 --> 01:31:21.350
suffered the impact, but they were suffering by being out

1646
01:31:21.390 --> 01:31:25.149
there on the front lines trying to find those that

1647
01:31:25.189 --> 01:31:29.609
were still needing to be rescued, finding hope in the

1648
01:31:29.649 --> 01:31:34.189
midst of a terrible circumstance. And it was through having

1649
01:31:34.229 --> 01:31:37.989
those opportunities just to share in the stories, to be

1650
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able to share and listen and to be supportive of

1651
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them and to even offer a prayer at times just

1652
01:31:45.220 --> 01:31:48.520
to let them know that they had people that were

1653
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on their side and that they were going to really

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make a difference.

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In that situation.

1656
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And you can even read some of those firsthand stories

1657
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right on our website, SalvationArmyUSA.org. We've got them posted there

1658
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so that you can hear the stories of the individuals

1659
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that were there on that day at the front lines

1660
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and hear how that impacted their own lives moving forward

1661
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throughout the rest of their time in serving others.

1662
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Well, what does the Salvation Army commander hope to take

1663
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away from that Be That Something campaign?

1664
01:32:24.739 --> 01:32:26.909
Well, one of the things that it's taught us is

1665
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that no one should ever have to face a terrible tragedy,

1666
01:32:31.930 --> 01:32:37.069
a terrible burden like this alone. That we as a community,

1667
01:32:37.850 --> 01:32:41.060
we can come together and really make a difference in

1668
01:32:41.100 --> 01:32:44.159
the lives of those who need us and that we

1669
01:32:44.199 --> 01:32:48.579
can be that something in whatever circumstance they might be facing.

1670
01:32:49.079 --> 01:32:53.170
That again, it doesn't take the perfect words. It doesn't

1671
01:32:53.250 --> 01:32:56.560
mean that we have to solve an entire problem and

1672
01:32:56.600 --> 01:33:01.800
an issue that is insurmountable, seemingly. But it's just reaching

1673
01:33:02.000 --> 01:33:05.840
out and showing that act of kindness that's going to

1674
01:33:05.880 --> 01:33:08.960
make a difference in the life of that person who

1675
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needs us to be that something for them.

1676
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Well, Merle Heatwell is the national leader of the Salvation

1677
01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.670
Army in the United States of America, serving as the

1678
01:33:17.710 --> 01:33:21.449
national commander. Commander, where can our viewers go for more information?

1679
01:33:23.250 --> 01:33:27.430
Again, they can go to our website, SalvationArmyUSA.org. They can

1680
01:33:27.489 --> 01:33:31.329
find those volunteer opportunities. They can see the stories. They

1681
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can have that opportunity to really look at some of

1682
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the pictures and the videos of what happened in those days.

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Back with you. I'm Bill Martinez. He's Adam Holtz from PluggedIn.com.

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Mr.

1746
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Adam, how are we doing?

1747
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Great. How are you doing?

1748
01:37:55.149 --> 01:37:59.689
Hey, I'm doing terrific. The anniversary in 9-11, a rather

1749
01:38:00.050 --> 01:38:05.489
somber day, 25 years in the rearview mirror. And you wonder,

1750
01:38:05.670 --> 01:38:09.760
are we better off or worse off? What happened 25

1751
01:38:09.760 --> 01:38:11.109
years ago? That's a big question, huh?

1752
01:38:11.739 --> 01:38:12.659
I don't wonder that much.

1753
01:38:12.739 --> 01:38:14.699
I feel like we're worse off, and I think we're

1754
01:38:14.739 --> 01:38:19.060
worse off because never forget seems to be a forgotten

1755
01:38:19.100 --> 01:38:24.010
slogan in many quarters. Obviously, just a sea change in

1756
01:38:24.050 --> 01:38:28.729
worldview with regard to all kinds of things you know,

1757
01:38:28.810 --> 01:38:34.050
related to Islam, to immigration, to those sorts of things

1758
01:38:34.109 --> 01:38:38.109
that I think certainly are influencing the conversation in a

1759
01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:40.979
way that maybe they weren't 20, 25 years ago.

1760
01:38:41.539 --> 01:38:43.319
Oh, without a doubt. I mean, it's one thing to

1761
01:38:43.359 --> 01:38:46.439
say never forget, but it's another thing to say, what

1762
01:38:46.479 --> 01:38:47.460
are we supposed to remember?

1763
01:38:48.000 --> 01:38:48.140
Right.

1764
01:38:48.659 --> 01:38:49.800
That's exactly right.

1765
01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:51.619
You see, and I think we missed the whole point

1766
01:38:51.659 --> 01:38:54.119
of 9-11, frankly, in my humble opinion. You and I

1767
01:38:54.119 --> 01:38:57.770
have talked about this over the years because, you know,

1768
01:38:58.130 --> 01:39:01.409
I believe that was judgment day. And we, you know,

1769
01:39:01.529 --> 01:39:03.789
I think people responded to it. A lot of people

1770
01:39:03.810 --> 01:39:06.649
went to church. And for three weeks, you know, church was,

1771
01:39:07.270 --> 01:39:09.970
you know, people were going, tell me what's going on.

1772
01:39:10.010 --> 01:39:14.210
What happened here? And, you know, Jonathan Cahn wrote a

1773
01:39:14.250 --> 01:39:18.970
great book, Harbinger. It really, I think, laid out the

1774
01:39:19.010 --> 01:39:23.409
thesis of what was going on. And even, I mean,

1775
01:39:23.439 --> 01:39:26.600
it was just unbelievable to think how these things all

1776
01:39:26.640 --> 01:39:30.220
came together. 9-11, you know, even talking with Bill Federer

1777
01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:34.260
here recently, 9-11 is a consistent date when it comes

1778
01:39:34.319 --> 01:39:38.260
to Muslims and why they react on 9-11. It's because

1779
01:39:38.300 --> 01:39:41.590
time and again in the past, you know, centuries ago,

1780
01:39:42.270 --> 01:39:45.039
they got their head handed to them on.

1781
01:39:45.810 --> 01:39:45.880
9-11.

1782
01:39:46.210 --> 01:39:49.449
And so they needed to find a way to redeem

1783
01:39:49.489 --> 01:39:52.399
that day. And so here it is. They go after

1784
01:39:52.819 --> 01:39:57.899
the world's superpower and bring us down. And here, you know,

1785
01:39:57.920 --> 01:40:02.140
people of faith responded in the same defiant way, Adam,

1786
01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:06.140
that the Jews did back when you read Isaiah 9

1787
01:40:06.140 --> 01:40:09.180
and Isaiah 10. Very defiantly.

1788
01:40:09.539 --> 01:40:10.500
That's exactly right.

1789
01:40:10.600 --> 01:40:14.260
And I think, you know, obviously I make this disclaimer

1790
01:40:14.640 --> 01:40:17.260
fairly frequently. I'm not a political commentator.

1791
01:40:17.460 --> 01:40:18.340
I'm a movie guy.

1792
01:40:18.359 --> 01:40:22.989
And I think just to segue toward that, you know,

1793
01:40:23.010 --> 01:40:25.229
there are some movies that I think remind us of

1794
01:40:25.270 --> 01:40:28.909
the reality. Top of that list is United 93, which

1795
01:40:28.970 --> 01:40:33.319
came out in 2006. I think Zero Dark Thirty is

1796
01:40:33.420 --> 01:40:37.829
worth revisiting. And I think World Trade Center, I thought,

1797
01:40:37.869 --> 01:40:42.109
was a remarkable movie. And there are others, but I

1798
01:40:42.210 --> 01:40:47.029
think there are opportunities for us to remember. And there

1799
01:40:47.060 --> 01:40:50.420
was a lot of criticism, especially of World Trade Center

1800
01:40:50.439 --> 01:40:54.640
and United 93, that it was too soon. It felt

1801
01:40:54.699 --> 01:40:58.510
like we had barely gotten the smoldering smoke out of

1802
01:40:58.550 --> 01:41:00.550
the World Trade Center rubble and we were making a

1803
01:41:00.609 --> 01:41:04.569
movie about it. But in retrospect, I almost feel like

1804
01:41:04.670 --> 01:41:10.029
the opposite is true. Like it's almost, we need to remember, right?

1805
01:41:10.710 --> 01:41:13.100
And we have forgotten. And I think, you know, all

1806
01:41:13.140 --> 01:41:15.819
three of my kids were born since 9-11. And so

1807
01:41:15.880 --> 01:41:18.920
for them, it's kind of like Pearl Harbor. You know,

1808
01:41:18.939 --> 01:41:22.979
the difference between a World War II veteran who woke

1809
01:41:23.079 --> 01:41:25.960
up to that news on December 7th, those of us

1810
01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:29.619
who only have seen newsreel footage of it, it's different

1811
01:41:29.659 --> 01:41:32.680
for us. And so it's important for us I think,

1812
01:41:32.760 --> 01:41:37.239
to be the living bearers of that legacy and of

1813
01:41:37.300 --> 01:41:41.300
remembering the importance. And I think that that remembrance goes

1814
01:41:41.359 --> 01:41:46.640
hand in hand with remembering and reminding ourselves of the

1815
01:41:46.720 --> 01:41:51.460
good things that America is about, right? And how, at

1816
01:41:51.500 --> 01:41:56.140
its best, America, it stands against all of this sorts

1817
01:41:56.180 --> 01:41:56.600
of stuff.

1818
01:41:56.840 --> 01:42:00.279
But also that God is the same yesterday, today, forever.

1819
01:42:00.640 --> 01:42:01.460
Yes, exactly.

1820
01:42:01.699 --> 01:42:04.600
And he says, look, you know, you have a choice.

1821
01:42:04.739 --> 01:42:07.119
You can be blessed, live under the blessing, or live

1822
01:42:07.159 --> 01:42:07.819
under the curse.

1823
01:42:08.300 --> 01:42:08.439
Yep.

1824
01:42:08.699 --> 01:42:12.899
And, you know, and again, going back and looking at

1825
01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:16.109
the pattern, which I thought was so uncanny that Jonathan

1826
01:42:16.149 --> 01:42:18.210
Cahn brought out so clearly in his book, Harbinger.

1827
01:42:18.750 --> 01:42:19.050
Yeah.

1828
01:42:19.270 --> 01:42:22.789
He just went step by step. And the pattern that

1829
01:42:22.869 --> 01:42:26.050
was laid out back then, thousands of years ago, in

1830
01:42:26.550 --> 01:42:34.869
Isaiah 9-10... we are replicating in 2001, almost word for word, Adam.

1831
01:42:35.350 --> 01:42:40.140
And I mean, politicians were echoing, you know, the words

1832
01:42:40.220 --> 01:42:43.600
of God, the words in the Bible. And I, I

1833
01:42:43.659 --> 01:42:46.220
think they just did it because a speech writer told

1834
01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:50.380
them or somebody else or, or maybe, maybe God in

1835
01:42:50.439 --> 01:42:53.899
his own way, the Holy Spirit said, no, we're going

1836
01:42:53.920 --> 01:42:56.560
to put the words of God in your mouth and

1837
01:42:56.579 --> 01:42:58.619
you're going to put them out. And so for those

1838
01:42:58.680 --> 01:43:02.500
that have spiritual ears to hear, they're going to, like

1839
01:43:02.579 --> 01:43:05.939
when Jesus was here and he spoke in parables, those

1840
01:43:06.000 --> 01:43:09.689
that understood spiritually understood what Jesus was communicating.

1841
01:43:10.229 --> 01:43:14.449
Well, that's exactly right. And Jesus and elsewhere in scripture

1842
01:43:14.529 --> 01:43:17.250
talks a great deal about hardness of heart. And I

1843
01:43:17.350 --> 01:43:21.600
think left to our own devices as sinful humans, we

1844
01:43:21.680 --> 01:43:27.300
drift from God. You know, in Ephesians 5, 15 through 17,

1845
01:43:27.279 --> 01:43:30.000
the Apostle Paul says, be very careful then how you live,

1846
01:43:30.279 --> 01:43:33.380
not as unwise, but as wise, making the most of

1847
01:43:33.579 --> 01:43:37.560
every opportunity because the days are evil. The evilness of

1848
01:43:37.619 --> 01:43:41.520
the days is the world's trajectory on its own bends

1849
01:43:41.619 --> 01:43:44.510
away from the things of God. And so it's up

1850
01:43:44.560 --> 01:43:48.350
to us to be intentional. And obviously it's up to

1851
01:43:48.409 --> 01:43:51.090
God's faithfulness too. I don't want to come across as,

1852
01:43:51.189 --> 01:43:54.550
you know, have something sort of works theology here, but

1853
01:43:54.649 --> 01:43:58.869
our responsibility is to remember. And obviously, you know, we

1854
01:43:58.909 --> 01:44:03.210
talk about remembering 9-11, but scripture is full of admonitions

1855
01:44:03.270 --> 01:44:06.609
to remember because over and over again, we see God's

1856
01:44:06.680 --> 01:44:10.119
people forget and become hardened of heart. And these sorts

1857
01:44:10.159 --> 01:44:13.420
of things are, they're watershed moments where we have an

1858
01:44:13.520 --> 01:44:17.340
opportunity to To take stock, right? And I think that

1859
01:44:17.380 --> 01:44:19.600
we would do well to take stock again as a nation.

1860
01:44:20.100 --> 01:44:21.600
Yeah, take stock and correct course.

1861
01:44:22.020 --> 01:44:22.479
Exactly.

1862
01:44:22.539 --> 01:44:23.340
Course correct.

1863
01:44:23.659 --> 01:44:24.159
Exactly.

1864
01:44:24.319 --> 01:44:27.989
And as you say, I believe people who count these

1865
01:44:28.029 --> 01:44:31.989
things say that there's some form of a remembrance or

1866
01:44:32.029 --> 01:44:35.170
don't forget 365 times. Right.

1867
01:44:35.770 --> 01:44:37.770
Well, that's weird. That's the same number of days as

1868
01:44:37.829 --> 01:44:38.270
a year.

1869
01:44:38.430 --> 01:44:39.109
You think, huh?

1870
01:44:39.449 --> 01:44:42.100
We need that message every day. It's the same with

1871
01:44:42.140 --> 01:44:43.760
do not be afraid, too, right?

1872
01:44:43.960 --> 01:44:44.220
Exactly.

1873
01:44:44.239 --> 01:44:44.460
Exactly.

1874
01:44:45.149 --> 01:44:48.590
These are not accidents. We can live in fear.

1875
01:44:48.750 --> 01:44:52.180
And I think that as somebody who has wrestled with anxiety,

1876
01:44:52.189 --> 01:44:56.899
the fruit of anxiety is our hearts get smaller and

1877
01:44:56.939 --> 01:44:58.279
we close in on ourselves.

1878
01:44:58.479 --> 01:44:58.899
Exactly.

1879
01:44:58.979 --> 01:45:02.420
And when we practice lifting our gaze, you know, to

1880
01:45:02.460 --> 01:45:04.439
the hills from where our help comes from.

1881
01:45:04.460 --> 01:45:06.899
Right. Psalm 121, my favorite.

1882
01:45:07.460 --> 01:45:13.090
When I remember, when I am intentionally focused on gratitude,

1883
01:45:13.109 --> 01:45:16.649
I don't, have that grip of fear on me. It

1884
01:45:16.689 --> 01:45:18.890
doesn't mean there aren't serious things happening, but I think

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it frees us to be agents of redemption whom God

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can use out there in the crazy world.

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You see, you just said something that I, boy, I'll

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tell you, I gravitate constantly. You talk about course correcting.

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I constantly, at least consciously, try to do this course

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correct to freedom because I believe that's God's highest calling.

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It's why he sent his son. And I think, you know,

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I think I may have shared this with you. When

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I was an adjunct professor in Southern California, I was

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teaching these kids and I was sharing with them something

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that I'd shared with many sales teams and other people

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that were, when I'd given speeches on and talked about,

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you know, in terms of, you know, the labor and

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the fruit of our labor. And here we are just

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not that far away from Labor Day and that it

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is a gift of God, but that, You know, if

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you're going to, you know, be working, you should enjoy

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what you do. I mean, considering that's eight, 10 hours

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a day. The second thing I said that there should

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be some level of competence, you know, so that if

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you're a brain surgeon, you're killing nine out of 10 people,

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probably not your gig.

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Right.

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Maybe you'll be a mechanic.

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Something else, you know, but yeah, this is not good

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for you. The third thing I said is the giftings

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and talents that God's blessed you with have to be

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exercised and grown. What I found was people, were easily

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frustrated when they were a round peg in a square hole.

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And all this led to a U.S. labor study that

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said that approximately only 10% of the U.S. labor force

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was fulfilled. I would go and do this training, and

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I mean, I did this for years, and say, okay, look,

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the highest calling you could have is to be fulfilled,

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you know, because that's 10% of the U.S. labor force.

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So go and be fulfilled. Well, I'm doing this final

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class this semester for these kids, And I get to

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this point where I'm at the denouement. Here we are.

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They're winding up the pitch. It's about pitch. It's going

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to be fulfillment, right? And the Holy Spirit stops me

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and goes, eh, wrong. And so I had to tell

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these kids, I go, hey, look, I just got a

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fresh download. I'm telling you, this is not me. God

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dropped this into me. Holy Spirit says, no, it's not fulfillment.

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It's freedom. And you should have seen it. When I

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told the kids that, you should have seen their response, Adam.

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I mean, it was like the light bulbs went on.

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It was throughout the whole room. And I said, oh

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my God, thank you, Lord.

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Yeah.

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And with that freedom is the opportunity to point people.

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Toward the only one who makes us free.

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You know, there's political freedom, but when we talk about

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spiritual freedom, Jesus set us free. And I think that

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is the foundation of for all of our other discussions

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about freedom and culture, because ironically, we have a mainstream

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and secular culture that thinks the definition of freedom is,

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I can do whatever I want and there are no consequences,

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and that my feelings are what dictate what matters most.

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Those of us who have lived in that worldview long

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enough to wake up one morning and say, I don't

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think this is working, right? And some of us, you know,

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you and I have talked over the years, Bill, we're

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kind of knuckleheads, right? We can bang our heads against

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the wall. But I had a moment in college, I'm like,

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this is not working. And I think true freedom comes

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when we submit our hearts and our will to to

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the one who calls us and the one who frees

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us and the one who redeems us. And that's where

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that freedom really lies, Bill.

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And when we realize the best version of ourselves.

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Well, yeah, and that is the best version of ourselves

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because we're not driven by selfishness. We're not driven by compulsion.

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We're not driven by addiction. We're not driven by the

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lie of the world.

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Exactly.

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The next little flickering thing we see on our phones

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is going to make us happy, and I'm guilty of that, right?

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It's an ongoing spiritual battle.

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Welcome to humanity.

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Exactly.

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And we're going to let you chew on that as

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we wrap things up right now, and Adam's going to

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tell you where he's from and what he's all about.

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