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0:00 Are you ready, Yeah, Okay, let's do an Ill Martinez Live, a program about current events, our culture, our values, our politics, and our future. And now Bill Martinez. Well, good morning America. Six minutes after the top of the hour. Bill Martinez here along with doctor Paul Kenor, professional professor of political science and Chief Academic Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom at Grove City College. Paul, good morning, Good to have you with us. Yeah, good morning, Bill. We got about six inches of snow here in western Pennsylvania. Definitely a white Christmas for sure. But not frightful though, right, well, I don't know.

0:41 The roads this morning are kind of frightful. My wife just walked in the door, and I was happy to see her. Believe me. I was like, you pretty treacherous out there. Yeah, I imagine in that kind of weather, you know, loved ones leave, you know, go out the door, and you start burning novena candles. You know, that's exactly right. I'm with you on it, burning novena candles. I think Maduro is looking for novena candles to burn after you know, President Trump seized his one of his tankers, right of course, And it's always the biggest. I love Trump whenever he seeses anything or doesn't, it's it's the biggest ever in the history, right, right. Right, while Medora has kind of metaphorically burned all. The oil in Venezuela, right, I mean, and by the way, it's a great example of what socialism gives you. At one point, Venezuela was the largest oil exporter.

1:29 In the entire Western hemisphere. And I mean a lot of people don't realize that at one point we got more foreign oil from Venezuela in America than we did in the Middle East. And then what. Happened, Well, the Venezuelan people kind of elected Hugo Chavez. You know, leave it once again to some of these Latin American countries to elect a socialist. It was, it was a skewed election. But then once these guys are in, they're in, right, they hold their quote unquote elections every few years, and they they you know, they tamper with him and it's almost impossible to get him out. So Chavez, Chavez puts him in place, you know, kind of a socialist communist state, one of the least free countries in the world, probably only Cuba. His mentor Fidel Castro and North Korea under the Kyms are probably the only countries that are worse.

2:20 And then he died kind of early. I think it was maybe only in his late fifties when he died to kept the faith, went to Havana for for cancer treatment which was probably like leeches and you know, maybe hypnosis, and you know, I don't know whatever it was. But he kept the faith and he died. You've got that great health. Care that Cuba that all the liberals in America tell us about. So he turns over the keys to Nicholas Maduro, and Meduro has been a thorn in the side of the people of Venezuela and the entire Western hemisphere ever since. So I'm glad to see Donald Trump taking him on.

3:00 I don't know where exactly this is going to go. I keep thinking of this though, Bill, you and I are old enough to remember. I remember being in college on Christmas Day in nineteen eighty nine when we invaded Panama and when after Manuel Noriega, and I keep thinking, like, you know, December twenty twenty five. At this point, we're about two weeks from Christmas. I wonder if something like this is going to happen with America and Venezuela. I don't know, not exactly what you want to see on Christmas. Morning, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I don't know who this is going to go. Yeah, all I want for Christmas is regime change there. And of course, meanwhile, you've got the president in exile, you know, the Venezuelan leader, Maria Corrina Machado sneaks her way into Oslo, Norway, under disguise and receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

3:58 Yeah, yeah, I'm very impressed with her. And you know, we were all everybody was pushing for Donald Trump to get the Nobel Peace Prize after what happened with Israel and the Abraham Accords there just a few weeks ago. And not to mention eight other countries that he kept them from war or stopped the war, right, And you know, it's just unbelievable what he's been able to do. And this is why, Paul I tell you, Donald Trump has introduced an aspect and element to tariffs that heretofore has not been I guess exercised maybe historically, I think back, I don't know that any other president ever used tariffs to stop wars.

4:40 Yeah no, and he's really done it in a very innovative way. And I've got a lot of conservative friends, free market guys, and really good guys, really thoughtful guys who don't like this at all because it's hurting their business. They believe. But if you look at the overall data on this, I mean, people were talking about this is going to be another Smoot Holly tariffs situation, right, this is going to cast everybody into a global depression, and. That hasn't happened at all. I've seen mixed data on you know, net positive effect net negative, but it hasn't led to like, you know, this downward spiral of retaliatory tariffs like we saw in nineteen thirty. And Donald Trump, I mean, people don't get this.

5:24 Well, a lot of people do get it, but you know, he's a. Businessman and he understands economics, he understands tariffs. He really does know how that stuff works. And he also knows how incredibly big and vast and diverse the American economy is and our. GDP our GNP. So he's so far, so good. I think it hasn't been the catastrophe everybody thought. And he really has. Used the tariffs in a you know, a kind of bargaining way, punitive in some cases in which it's deserved, and Trump seven million times. Well, the problem with country countries like China is that they cheat. Yeah, And at some point, I mean, you can't just be a sap and a sucker. You've got to You've got to turn back at the cheater and say, all right, tip for tap, if you're going to do that to us, here's what we're gonna.

6:17 Do to you. Well, you know, we can't be the only one playing by the rules in US. So to Paul, as you mentioned, because he is a businessman, he understands. He's smart enough to see what's going on. I mean he he's got all the numbers, he's got all the data, and he sees what sectors are hurting, and he also understands why some of them may be hurting and some of them as I'm looking at this, Paul, Uh, the ones that align themselves with the previous administration and Democratic Party policies, they're the ones that are the most exposed and vulnerable. The other ones that weren't, you know, UH saddled and slaves to UH. All all the scams that the Biden administration, you know, thrust upon our economy.

7:05 They're the ones that are you know, seem to be more vibrant. I mean, even Secretary of Bergham this morning stated that when it comes to energy, for example, Paul, the states that are that are doing really great, that are producing you know, you go to the gas pump and you're getting gas in the low two dollars. There was I think there was like seven states last week that were under two dollars. Here in Florida, I went and got gas the other day was two dollars and fifty nine cents. And what he said that was consistent. Again, we get reds and blues. The red states when it comes to energy, are more successful. Rates are lower. The Blue states are the ones that are paying the high prices. And they're the ones that are you know, kind of because we got we gotta put them in the mix.

7:50 They're the ones that are kind of imbalancing the cost of gas and showing gas a little bit higher because I think nationally we're just we're just around three dollars I guess now nationally, but we'd even be lower if you took the Blue states out. Yeah, well, no, question about that. In fact, Pennsylvania, where I live, is a really odd place. We actually have the highest gas taxes in the country, even worse in some ways in California. I was gonna say worse in California. I know, it's really an odd thing when you crunch the data, you have to look at it. But Pennsylvania and California are two worse. And I don't know what California is. It's probably still four and a half dollars a gallon or something. It's been staying pretty steady around five bucks.

8:32 Yeah, crazy. But in Pennsylvania right now it's down in the low three dollar range, maybe about three ten, three twenty. And I have this big, giant, twelve passenger van that we call it our family Baptist church van. Right, I have eight kids, and it's a thirty gallon tank, and I can tell you build it for like in the last five or six years, when I've had to fill it up, it literally costs over one hundred dollars to fill it up. So I actually have had occasions in the last few weeks where I filled it up from a completely empty tank and kept it under one hundred dollars. And I thought Wow, look at that right. Yeah, that's amazing. Right. Merry Christmas to the Kenguards. Hey, we got to go to quick break. We'll be right back with Paul ken Gore right after this. Stay with us.

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14:19 That's exactly right. And also circling this back to Donald Trump. Here in Pennsylvania, which of course Donald Trump won, making Pennsylvania red state once again, we have fracking in this part of the state. In fact, I'm like literally looking out my back window and I'm probably over shale gas reserves right now on the street that I'm on. I had someone knocking on the door about ten years ago asking to buy property right money from our house, going up and down our street. Because this entire area, Coal. Country, steel Country is really rich in those resources. And in fact, speaking of oil, oil was first drilled in America domestically here in penns Sylvania, Titusville, Quaker State oil City.

15:03 Oil City is. About a thirty minute drive from my house, then eventually went to Texas and eventually went to the Middle East and also places like Venezuela. But here, Yeah, because of what Donald Trump has done for fracking and energy, all completely contrary to what any of the Democrats would have done. Especially Kamala Harris has been huge for this area. And I should also add, you know, the industry that uses so much oil steel US Steel, you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers, right, that's all part of this area. The people in this area are thrilled Bill that Donald Trump came in and working He and JD.

15:46 Vance, Marco Rubio and by the way. Working with people like John Fetterman, Joe Mansion from West Virginia, even Shared Brown of Ohio who was defeated in the last election. But they all together to to to quite literally keep US Steel called US steel because because the Japanese wanted to buy it, they wanted to change the name to Nippon Steel. And you know what Trump has done in western Pennsylvania for the steel industry is something that every blue collar union American. I mean, they had to be building statues. To exactly with holy water, holy water coming out of.

16:26 His left ear right, that's exactly what he's saying. Yeah, right, right, right. But no, you're well, And the thing is is that, yeah, I mean, he really did. He did so much in reviving uh, you know, Pittsburgh, and and of course his uh you know, Susie Wiles gets the President on the road saying, hey, look at you got to start pounding the mission drum. Again of affordability, and Pennsylvania's his first stop, right, that's right. And she's really good by the way. I mean she once again is. This like under the radar, uh player with Trump advisor who really really helps keep him on track and and reminds him of who his constituency is, which smart politics to do and say to say smart politics. Also it almost sounds a bit cynical, right, it's not so much that they're playing politics, but her pointing out the good things that he's done, that that people need to be cognizant of, the they need they need to remember that.

17:29 And she's very good, you know, kind of pulling. Him back from the edge when he's just about to go and do something you know, kind of impetuous and stupid. Yeah, and say, you know, stay stay. Focused here on what you did in western Pennsylvania or what you did here, because you did a good thing here and people need to know this, and uh, you know that's where your presidency should be focused. Yeah. She seems to be able to control his emotions and he's a very passionate man, and she brings him back, she seems to bring him back to you know, ground zero, brings him back down to earth here. Yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree one of presenting he needs more people like that. And I would say generally as a commentary bill on his second term, I mean, it's so much better than the first because he really has the people around him that serve his interests.

18:21 In that first term. This you know, this businessman from New York kind of went to probably the r n C and other Republican Party players and said, Okay, who do I get for my Secretary of Defense? Right? Who do I get my National security advisor? And so they end up getting people like Rex Tillerson and Maddis and all these other. Kind of. Exactly kind of you know, smump preachers. Now this time around, he goes and he picks someone like Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. Right, We're all like, wow hegseeth right. Somebody that that he came to meet through Fox News, but then realized that this was a guy.

19:05 Who was super smart and maybe could do a job like that. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, Susie Wilds, and just really just the whole host of different people that he has it. In cash Ptel and you know, you know, you look at that cabinet, Paul, and we remember not that long ago when you would see rarely but you would see Biden's cabinet. It just doesn't compare mm hmm. No, that's right. And and Joe Biden, I mean, whatever the cabinet was, whoever was in charge of the signing pen. And what was really, of course a real great frustration and mystery of Joe Biden was how much of what was coming out of his administration was his doing. And you and I talked a number of times about how Joe Biden back when he was in the Senate, it was kind of a fairly moderate Democrat, right, like on an is like abortion, he was, you know, he was quote unquote pro choice, but it wasn't terrible. At least he supported the High Amendment, right, he was against taxpayer funding of abortion for people had religious objections, he honored those. And then he gets in there and he goes against all of that, becomes this kind of lgbt Q radical. Speaking of defense appointments, right, he makes you know, Rachel Richard Dick Levine an honorary four star admiral something like that, right, you know, compare compare Rachel Levine to like R. F.

20:37 K Junior. So, but but with Biden, it was just this completely chaotic, crazy situation. And if the President of. Times didn't even know who he was talking to we're talking about, he'd know the conference, he'd have a statement on Maduro when he'd go out, and he'd read it, and the president been a kim Il sung right. It was just it was just absurd, the whole thing. At least now we know who's in charge. Right exactly, and we'll see what happens with the auto pen controversy, as you mentioned, and if some of those pardons, what over four thousand pardons with the autopen except for one, I think he only signed one and that was the one for his son.

21:25 Amazing. Yeah, really, I mean think about it. What does that tell you? Really astonishing? Yeah. The only thing that probably out did that were his executive orders, right. Oh yeah, right, exactly. Yeah. And he only didn't complain about executive orders when they're done by a Republican. They love them when they're done by Biden Obama Fdr Woodrow Wilson, I mean the lefties, the liberal presidents or the king of executive orders? Exactly. Do you think that Biden got over influenced by Barack Obama. Maybe that's what altered some of his mindset, not to mention his mental deficiency, probably adding to that. I think it's more the latter. I mean, when he was VP under Obama and here again on the abortion issue, he actually helped guide Obama a little bit, or tried to on issues like taxpayer funding of abortion and Obamacare.

22:18 And he was a little bit of a kind. Of remaining, kind of Catholic voice of conscience who tried to make things not quite as bad as they were going under Obama. And then by the time that he gets into office four six, eight years later, whatever, I think he was just so far gone that he didn't know what the hell he was doing. You're probably right the minute left here, Paul. What's going on with Pennsylvania's lottery the gift that is suspicious to say the least. Yeah, I really detest the way that government has seized gambling. They've taken over what we used to call the numbers racket that was run by the mob. It's amazing, it's great, and it's now run by government. And they promoted a Christmas time be Mary play the lottery and if any private sector company ripped you off and gave you the lack of return for your dollar.

23:16 The lotteries do. The liberals will be trying to shut it down, put them out of business, but instead they've seized it because they like it, because it's good for them. So it's a big taxpayer rip off scheme and pretty much every state engages in it, and liberals love it. So we get to get the vision and image of Bethlehem with the lottery. The lottery mile over. The baby Jesus, right, that's right, yeah, Jesus holding a lottery ticket. Yeah, scratch here, make a million dollars except what you want. You gotta love it. Well, Paul Kenngre. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you so much for being with us. Paul's the American author and professor of political science and Grove City College. Thanks again, Paul, Take care, y'd blessed?

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28:31 Happy New Year, Merry Christmas. I'm really really excited for all the great things that God has in store for America and for me and my family. Well, you know, this is the thing I keep telling people. I mean, it's kind of amazing what's going on right now if you have ice to see, God is really moving. I mean, there's things that are happening here in our country that the media, mainstream media, which tells you where the mainstream media is at. And of course the left, I mean, they're so godless. I mean I feel for them and I pray for them because you know, they are a danger to themselves and their families by decidedly making a decision to turn their backs on God. Right.

29:12 Well, absolutely, this is part of what the Old Testament says, you know, in second Chronicles, my people who are called by my name, right, the Lord says that if we repent and we acknowledge Him, that he and we turn from eric wicked ways, that he will hear our prayers, and he will hear he'll ourlan There are the earliest stages of a revival happening in America, and it's been sorely needed. You know, in America, we've had a couple of really big revivals. We had one right after the Civil War. We had another one right after World War Two.

30:03 Billy Graham was a big part of it. We thought we were going to start one. You know, I was two or three years old, but we thought America thought it would start one with what was called the Jesus Movement in the seventies. But we are really starting to see record numbers of our young people going to church accepting salvation. And my prayer is that that just expands and expands, and what dc is a outcome that pleases God. And when he is pleased, there will be blessings for our society, even for those who don't honor him exactly.

30:49 You know, the thing is, again we're reminded how much God loves us. I mean, here it is the Christmas season. We're an advent, the greatest gift that God gave us and his son. But you know, count second Chronicle seven fourteen, which again is a demonstration of God's love for us because he knew that we were going to mess up, and he inspired the leadership of Israel to make that proclamation that when you screw up, you know God will forgive you. And you got to know that first of all, that God recognizes you as his people, right, you're not aliens, you're not illegal, you are his people. And he says, if his people, and so you're sanctified and set aside because he calls you by name. You know, if my people who are called by my name, and he calls us by her name. I mean, this is how much this again manifestation, This is clear evidence, if I can put it in legal terms, Horace, that God loves us because he knows that we're going to mess up, and he gave us a remedy. He said, look at if you will acknowledge that you have gotten outside and over your skis and you've been a knucklehead. Hey, look at I'm the father who loves you. I will forgive you your sins. I'll restore you know, the good times back to you. I will heal your land. All will be forgiven.

32:09 And you were going to be right with me once again? Right? Yes, I want to amplify by the way, as we say in my church, this will preach. I want to amplify. It isn't just us as individuals. Yes, we as individuals need to repent, but the reward is to our land, to our nation. Exactly, we as Christians do what we should do, and if enough of us do what we should do, our whole country will prosper. This country's existence, I believe came about as one of the greatest gifts that God has placed un planet Earth. And you say, oh, what are you talking about? We have slavery. America today is the country that provides more support for charity than any other country on the planet. In fact, our charitable giving exceeds that of the government of Japan, of the Government of China, of the Government of England, of the governments of the EU, all combined exact who sets the record for faith giving, It is Americans. And if this

33:41 planet is going to be able to have it said that every woman, man and child hears about the greatest gift of all salvation, it's going to be because of what we do with our guests. Excited about that hundred percent. And this is the thing, this is why the people who are called by God's name, because God is moving. As Charles Finny would say, Horace, that revival happens when it's most needed. And when you look. At our country right now, the chaos, the spiritual chaos that it's in. I mean, we're so confused that we have what ninety different gender assignments, you know, and now they're saying that your gender is assigned at birth. It's just, I mean, it's so absurd where we are right now as a country, and we can't seem to solve the problems at this level. Those problems are solved in the heavenlies.

34:41 That's why we have to elevate ourselves, get out of the morass of this confusion and this demonic controlled zip codes and land in which we live in right now, temporarily thank God and reach out to God and say, God, we need your help, and you know, confess and say, look at we deserve this. We deserve where we are right now because we turned our back on you. And the Bible's real clear that once you turn your back on God, you really render yourself stupid, don't you. Well. Yes, In fact, he even says that He curses us by making it harder for us to see our way towards him. Remember Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, in the story he hardened Pharaoh's heart the Book of Acts, excuse me, the Book of Romans says the same thing can happen. And that's why I'm so excited about the revival, because what it means is that the Holy Spirit is allowing people to have ministered to them, let them hear of the need to repent, to turn and hear God, and then able to be blessed by God.

35:57 Exactly. Yeah. And my cautionary tale is to those who are maybe a little bit ahead of the curve right now and they are more in alignment with God, be prepared for these people coming in. Don't get upset because they took your parking spot or your favorite spot in the fugue. You know, you know, be prepared because you never know what it's going to take. You know, the Bible says the word aptly spoken. You know, Horace I found sometimes it's just a smile aptly given to a fellow journer, you know, journeyer who is going through this. You know this this this life that we're going through. Yes, s yes, you know they're simple things. They're big things, but they're simple things. Like recently, I was in an uber vehicle and the gentleman was talking about some of the challenges that he was facing. When our trip ended, I asked if he would agree to pray. He willingly did so and thanked me afterwards because he said he had been one to hear. So we can all play a role. But let's talk a little bit about the Supreme Court too, because we.

37:08 Got about a minute. We got about a minute left before we go to break, so we'll kind of wrap this up just only as a sidebar. Horse. You know, I love it when people want to pray for me, but me personally, don't don't give me fruitcake. I don't understand fruitcake. It's a mystery to me, and it's kind of like liver. You know, some people say, well, Bill, you've never really had my fruitcake or really good fruitcake. I don't know fruitcake fruitcake. I don't understand it. I had liver a couple of times at dinner when I was a kid, and I did not like liver. To to day, I actually don't like dinner. But I happened to comment that I didn't like it, and my father said to me, don't complain, yes, And I decided to complain anyway, And he told me, tell you what, why don't you go upstairs to your bedroom pack what he called my glad rags because I was leaving, and he told me, don't let the door hit you on the way out. I cut my way through that liver, and it was awful. I put a smile on.

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42:33 As promised, we're back with your Horace Cooper at the nationally recognized legal commentator continues with us right now, Horace, you wanted to let's talk about Scotus. I mean a lot of I mean things are bubbling up here, and you, as a recognized legal commentator, I'm sure, are like me, expecting, you know, some positive news to come out of the Supreme Court. Well, let's talk about where we are. Uh, isn't it? Trump's administration is about ninety three percent when I was in school, that was considered an a grade ninety three percent success rate before the United States Supreme Court. Barack Obama, the so called constitutional scholar, was about forty five percent before the Supreme Court, and he set the dubious record of having the most unanimous rulings against him of any president in the last fifty years. Well, guess what, mister Biden's record was worse than even Barack Obama, a long wrong, wrong on so many issues. Now, he didn't get as many unanimous rulings against him because Supreme Court Justice Jackson, who was prepared apparently to take any crazy argument and in favor of it, so you couldn't get a unanimous But he kept losing, and he lost at a rate

44:06 where his victories were about thirty two or thirty three percent of the time. If you were betting, it was a good idea to say, let's find out where the Biden administration is and assume I don't even know anything about the law, but I'm going to go the other. Way exactly exactly. Well, that was I guess pretty much the theme of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party during that era. Right. Well, yeah, it was taking the law to places where it absolutely shouldn't. It was saying to Christian schools and organizations, you are going to be forced to hire people who reject your church's teachings. Our founders intended, they absolutely intended with the drafting of the First Amendment, to give a space, amount of space so that people of faith could operate and live their lives. You know, earlier in the segment, I talked about how much charity there has been a worldwide that is faith based. Part of that comes because our charter, our constitution, our Bill of Rights specifically respects people of faith. Both mister Obama and mister Biden regularly targeted people of faith to force them to undertake views and beliefs that they personally rejected. If you have an

45:41 employee and that employee tells you I share your beliefs, I will honor your beliefs, and then you find out they're having affairs, they're engaging in slander, they're undertaking a whole host of behaviors. The Supreme Court has consistently said in a case like that, the organization can in fact terminate you for failing to repent. So this has really been the Roberts the Roberts Court, which many people are a bit critical of, has been a bulwark of First Amendment protections.

46:25 Well, you know, it makes you wonder Horace, and I don't know. I mean, maybe it's unfair to ask the question, but it's one that begs asking, and that is Barack Obama presented himself as a as a Christian, I mean, Jeremiah Wright Christian, and here you got Joe Biden as a practicing Catholic. And you know, they were just they added to the confusion and really put us on this trajectory where so many Americans who bought into their personalities, you know, are kind of lost in the wilderness right now. If I can put it in those terms.

47:06 A lot of what had been presented to the American people is quickly falling apart. People forget that Barack Obama, when he originally ran, said on a really fundamental issue of the day that he supported marriage between a man and a woman and didn't support redefining it. And yet his administration pushed and foisted gay marriage on America in a way that has had a very very consequential effect. And the truth is, this is what he'd always believed, but he had wanted us to believe something different. But let's take that off the table. What about the Affordable Care Act. If you lost your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your insurance policy, you can keep your insurance policy. It turns out that was a lie.

48:04 In fact, it was listed by the Associated Press as a Lie of the Year because of such consequential Look at what President Biden did with the ending of our presence in Afghanistan. It was an unmitigated nightmare that we today as a country are still suffering from. And yet when he campaigned, he said he would be a champion a foreign policy. It would be great for America to have someone with his leadership and his experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. That turned out to be a nightmare.

48:49 My point in all that is to say, what we see when these people run and what they do after they get in office are completely and told totally different. Our president today has been working with our United States Constitution and pursuing the very principles that our founders intended, rather than the deviations that his predecessors sought. And when you violate these, you know the wisdom of the Constitution. You put Americans in danger. You mentioned Afghan Afghanistan and the pulling out of Afghanistan. Of course many refugees came here into the country, and we had one Afghan refugee travel across the country and kill a National guards woman and severely injure another who We're getting, you know, some positive news that he's recovering, you know, thank god, But sadly we lost a quality individual national Guards woman because of this. And this is the cost of violating our constitution and compromising the number one priority of the chief executive officer, the commander in chief of our country.

50:10 When he violates our constitution, he puts America at risk. That's right. So I said at the time that we as a nation, and that was speaking directly to Congress, need to change the law and challenge the Supreme Court's ruling back in the late nineteen seventies and again in the middle two thousands that if a person doesn't die, you can't have the death penalty for them. Here's my argument. First of all, the Founders never agree to that. But here's my argument. You do, as a killer, a shooter, attacker, everything you possibly can to murder someone, and science and skilled physicians and even the strong prayer of others prevent that person from dying. You shouldn't escape the punishment for doing what you have done. Our founders said, any time you commit a felony, any felony, you were eligible for the death penalty. Now, the Kennedy ruling that came out in two thousand and five suggested that Louisiana couldn't punish a man for brutally raping three children? Is it or is it six?

51:41 What's the number rape. Would have been allowed? And they said the ruling was, well, no one died. This child's innocence completely each one of those children completely destroyed. There ought to be a penalty. If you go up to a National guardsmen and you shoot him in the head, even if they live, you ought to pay. And I asked that that's what Kung Wor should do. Pass a new law allowing for these kinds of crimes to be death penaltly eligible, and if necessary, challenge the Supreme Court to overturn what I believe was an erroneous decision.

52:28 If we're going to do something about dissuading offenders and lawbreakers, well, first of all, there needs to be consequences right now, right you know, we've got a break down in consequences, and this is why this crime is going. And then thank god, you've got Donald Trump coming in and you know, trying to restore law in order. I mean, that is foundational to the Democratic Republic. Yet the Democrats are saying that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy when everything he's doing is to fortify democratic rule. Right, Well, that's exactly right. Campaign. I heard him say a couple times if you take fentanyl or if you take another deadly drug, heroin to an elementary school and hand it out, that alone ought to get you the death penalty, doesn't matter what ended up happening. And that's to your point, Bill Martinez. We need consequences. There have to be consequences. And now I get told, well, what about people that can't help themselves. Let me tell you something.

53:35 If you can't help yourself and you can't stop yourself from brutally harming other people, that we need to get you, right exactly, that's not actually an excuse, that's not a protection. That's an argument for us to be even more aggressive. I believe if we had more accountability, there actually would be more people exercising good judgment about their behavior this time in accountability has harmed America. Historical evidence would would prove that out. What they're talking is in the realm of theory, and their theory falls flat because the data proves them wrong. Flat Outhors.

54:23 Yeah, yeah, Look, we serve a god who believes in grace, who believes in giving people a second chance. But he has an ultimatum that in the end, if you are not with him, you're going to be punished in damnation forever. That's because he believes in accountability. It's why he gave the shord. That's why he gave the shord to government so that they would render justice. Right, that's right, that's exactly right. So if you want to choose to serve him, he welcomes it, yes, but if you don't, fare will be accountability. I don't understand any of these theories like you just described, where they say just give them another chance, just ignore what they did.

55:21 I mean, the mayor of New York City elect is hiring a convicted felon to advise him on how to set police interrogation and oversight policies. That's the exact wrong way. It will be open season. And as far as I'm concerned. I plan to be staying out of New York City while he's mayor. I'm right with you, Horace Cooper. He's a former constitutional law professor, recognized legal commentator, and author right here on Bill Martinez's life. Horace, thank you very much. Merry Christmas, my friend. Merry Christmas to you too.

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57:31 I think that's what happens is when all that's done, we can really, you know it, kind of enjoyed the piece of the season once we're on the. Other side of that, right, Yeah, exactly what. You spend all the money and then you can relax. All right, until all of a sudden you get the invoices and the payment is due, and then you go, oh, okay, time to get back to work. I guess, you know, over time, whatever we can do. Hey, glad you can join us here. Mike is the tax policy director at America's for Tax Reform. I like what Grover Norquist said, your boss, he said, voters didn't give Republicans full control of Congress in the White House to expand Obamacare. Right, That's exactly right. And thankfully we have the Trump administration and the President just yesterday digging in again against expanding these COVID era increased boosted subsidies on top of the existing Obamacare subsidies the taxpayers paid for. But unfortunately, we do have a handful of senators, Republican senators who have introduced their own plans siding with Democrats, and a number of House Republicans too. But hopefully Republicans are able to hold the line here and prevent any expansion of Obamacare. Obviously, I think my boss Grover is correct on this. No one put Republicans in office to expand Obamacare. I think they're completely misreading the room here. I think it would be detrimental to the midterms, depressing our own side the conservative base. It's just do what you were elected to do.

58:56 It's that simple, and this is the cleet opposite. Republicans have always talked about repealing Obamacare, and what we're really talking about is if these subsidies they're expanded for one year, two years. In reality, that means they're never going away. That's right. Congress will come back and appeal it. This is about a four hundred billion dollar expansion. Right, Well, once again it's the Democrats lying to us. I mean, Obamacare was born out of a lie. It's been kept on life support because of lies. And here we are, and as you say, what really irritates me about all this, particularly with the Republicans. They're one vote away from repealing Obamacare, thank you very much, John McCain. We get that, but it's like we've been dealing with this, now what for about fifteen years, and now we're going to get down to the eleventh hour, and you guys are going to scramble. You and Grover and I talked about this several weeks ago, Mike. They said the Republicans allowed themselves to get backed in a corner. They thought the Democrats were going to be exposed because they set this up. This was all of their doing. Okay, but you know what, that's not with White's being reported by the media. It's not the way the every man in America is seeing this. They're seeing, you know, Republicans as being the ogres. Look at they've got the power there in the seat they have to make this happen. If they lose the midterm, it's because of them, because they fail to do this. Donald Trump has been jumping through hoops, He's avoided bullets, you know, and all this stuff that he's gone through on behalf of the American people, and

1:00:27 the rest of the party is like, you know, they're sitting on the bench. Well, you can be more right. The Median Democrats would have you believe that it is now incumbent upon Republicans to expand Obamacare, to save Obamacare that's only failing now because of their temporary COVID policy that they lied to the American people twice over saying that this was only for emergency COVID policy. If that expires now, it is somehow the fault of Republicans. We've only ever opposed Obamacare. And what's really the big live being told here is that healthcare costs, premiums for health care plans are going up because Obamacare is failing. That is what is driving two major lies with around Obamacare where you could keep your doctor and that your premiums are going to go down over two thousand dollars that never happen. Premiums are on the rise, people are paying more for worse healthcare coverage.

1:01:22 And the frustration here too is if you have employer provided healthcare again, here you are again being asked to subsidize someone else's health care plans. It's never going to end if they cave here. If you expand Obamacare, now we continue the march to single payer. That's the only outcome. We have to take a stand. Right well, and no matter what happens, there's going to be a little bit of a transition. So do you transition into something worse than Obamacare or you begin to tran And we know when you transition, you get the what I call the grief to happiness ratio that comes into play. And you got to look at hey, there's going to be a little bit of investment of grief no matter what. Okay, so but you need to measure that, you know, kind of like what we've done with energy.

1:02:05 We went through a little bit, you know, early on with some grief with Donald Trump when he first took over, with the hope that he would come through. And now here we are, what nine ten months down the road, and we're starting to be happy again. I mean particularly in red states. You know, most of us are paying you know around you know, maybe high twos. I think there were some reports of seven states, six states paying less than two dollars a gallon. Red states, by the way, not Blue states, because Blue states got all these goofy taxes and everything else. And plus they you know, bought into Biden's you know, yellow brick road green scam program, and so they that's an albatross on them, and so it's hard for them to really pass on the savings that are being realized by the majority of the country right now.

1:02:53 Yeah, and if we look at this term affordability right with what really just means the cost of living prices and how much money are you making, it's a two sided, right. We want to also be bringing prices down. We want to be stopping inflation caused by the Bide administration twenty two percent, highest inflation in four and a half decades since the Jimmy administration. But the other side of this that the Trump administration has been very active addressing is the pro growth side, increasing people's real household wages. We shouldn't forget we have all this great policy from the one big beautiful bill that signature Trump tax cuts kicking in both now the second half of this year, with lots of new policy set to kick in twenty twenty six. Again, we talked about this before. Twenty four hundred dollars. Is the average household set to see an increase in the real wages too? That is monumental, and we're going to see that starting to kick in in early twenty twenty six.

1:03:42 We're going to have a record tax refund season, nearly one thousand dollars higher. And that's not because you're giving the government interest free loans like Democrats slide about and the previous tax cuts. This is because of real pro growth tax cuts letting you keep more of your own money. That's how you address the affordability crisis in this country. It's through growth. So is anybody going to tell me that Kamala Harris would have given us anything like this? That's exactly right. We know what she campaigned on. She campaigned on the second term of the Bide administration. She campaigned on allowing all of your taxes to go up. She campaigned on an anti growth agenda. Uh, and that's what's really frustrating here. Because of course it's hard for people.

1:04:22 You know, you can't you can't gaslight people on the economy. Uh, that's what they would have attempted to do, obviously, but they would have continued all of the policy and of course from the Bide administration that caused the problems to begin with. Well, because at the very core is their donor base. They have to satisfy satisfy their donor base. You don't raise over a billion dollars for a presidential campaign without a strong donor base. And that donor base says, okay, show me the money. I mean, that's what they did with Hillary, right Hillary failed to deliver, and so believe me, I still believe and I've talked to Grover about this in terms of following the money. I mean all that stuff, you know, the printing of money and the trillions of dollars that was paid out so radically during the Biden years.

1:05:08 Right away was to pay back those donors that were yelling and screaming that said, hey, look at we paid all this money for Hillary Clinton. You guys didn't deliver. You owe us now. And so they've been over backwards because they had to keep them happy. And now here they go in and they doubled down, put all this money in the Kamala Harris and they're back at square one again. So they're desperate to get in control of the treasury. And the American people need to wise up on this because you know, we went through some you know, a lot of pain. You talk about grief, grief and no happiness, because we had a lot of grief and there was no prospect that we were going to turn the corner other than you know, more Obamacare lies. You know, whether it had to do with inflation, the Inflacement Reduction Act, you know, all these things, shovel ready jobs. I mean, there's so many Democratic policies that they just it's like this is the Party of Life, and.

1:06:00 You talk about this progressive dinnerbase. We don't have to speculate what they want. They're telling us what they want. Tooky, what Mundani is doing in New York, that's what they want to want. Government run grocery stores, free buses, which just means you're paying for someone else's travel. They want Jasmine Crockett in Texas and at the what do they want? They want to throw more money into the pit of Obamacare it's right across the board. The only answer Democrats have is to keep throwing other people's money at the problem that they created in the first place. Right, we don't want government run grocery stores. We don't want to be paying for someone else's health care. We want to be able to afford Christmas gifts at Christmas season for our kids. Yeah, for the kids in the family that we work so hard for. We got to go to break. We got more from Mike after this stay with us.

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1:12:00 Well, and that's the part of the story that media ignores because we're seeing plans put out there right now where these subsidies are applicable for people seven hundred percent above the federal poverty line. Susan Collins one of these Republicans in the Senate who's introduced a plan to essentially cave on the issue. Her phase out level starts at two hundred thousand dollars. I assume that's what she now considers to be in need of subsidy. A household erning two hundred thousand dollars should not be getting subsidized by taxpayers. But that's the discussion being had. We also had a great report come out from the Government Accountability Office and Internal Watchdog about the fraud of these Obamacare subsidies. What they found was astonishing fifty eight thousand dead people on the Obamacare rolls.

1:12:44 Why are we surprised? I mean, this is consistent whether you talk about Obamacare, Medicare, social Security, on and on. We see what's happening in Minnesota, all the theft and fraud that's going on there, and it's all they're doing is shrugging. It's like nobody really cares, are you flipping kidding me? I mean, if it was their bank account and their money, they'd be yelling and screaming, I haven't. Well, Bill, you're right. And that's the frustration here is the fraud is the point, because it's the insurance companies who get these subsidies who also benefit from the fraud. Right now, you have all these people, millions of people with zero dollar premium payments, which means that the insurance companies have no incentive to go check if that's an actual real person because they're getting subsidized for someone who's not essentially not really claiming the coverage for it, and they're getting the subsidies for it. The Paragon Institute who does great work, good healthcare thing tank as a means that six point four million people are improperly rolled on Obamacare.

1:13:38 That's a twenty five percent increase over one year, just because which they attribute alone to these increased COVID era of subsidies that we're just talking about right now. They to expire, so it is driving the cost. And if you need any further element, the Washington Post editorial board cited this GAO report and opposed Chuck Schumer's three year extension subsidies because of the fraud. So publicans have the Washington Post editorial board coming out against Democrats extension here, there's no reason they should be caving. They should not be to the left of the Washington Post editorial board. Well, Taya, you know, that's a lot of the story. But the big part of the story that they're missing out on, Mike, in my humble opinion, is the vig.

1:14:19 The vig that goes from the UH, you know, from these pharmaceuticals and UH and the whole pharmaceutical industrial complex that goes to politicians. I want to know that number. I want it because because it's incentivized, and it's the wheels on the bus are going round and round because everybody is partaking in the fraud. This is this is exactly the situation Democrats want right now. They want millions of people dependent on government for their healthcare solutions. They want these subsidies going to the insurance companies so that when they're set to expire, they're going to run ads bashing Republicans, encourging the subsidies to continue, and they'll of a stake in the game. They'll run as during campaigns, they'll contribute to Democrat politicians. This is the entire Democrat system.

1:15:06 It's right. You capture industries, you make them reliant on government, reliant on Democrats in power for them to continue getting their subsidies so that they can be operational. You see everything that we said as Obamacare was coming into play, including Joe Wilson when Obama was lying in the State of the Union, right, and Joe Wilson just out of he couldn't contain himself, you know, just you lie, and oh my goodness, they wanted to censure him and everything else. Well, the deal was, after everything is all said and done, Joe Wilson was right. Obama lied, and he lied to the American people. He lied to all the elected officials, kept this scam going on, and this has been a huge issue. So now and again, like you said, what's the endgame. The endgame is single payer. Okay, so now we look at who else is doing single payer.

1:15:55 Let's look at Canada, look at what's going on in Europe and everything. And what do you get? You euthanasia? You get people. Now we're in Canada. What do they call it? A medical assistant Death Eastman or whatever it is made. It's called idea medical assistant something like that. But anyway, that's what Canada is employing right now. And a lot of seniors are dying early and earlier in life just because they said, hey, I'm tired and I don't want to live anymore. And Canada says, hey, no problem, we got we got a vaccine for that. Our healthcare staffer has a great example about her grandparents are German. Every time they come into the un United States to visit, her grandfather gets his doctor visits and gets his medical work done here because it takes too long because you're in line in Germany exactly. And that's what we've see in these European countries. That we've seen in Canada, and that's what we've seen with Obamacare. The huge part of this question that gets lost to is we are getting worse healthcare coverage, you're paying more for less, you're subsidizing someone else's plan with worse quality of care.

1:16:55 It's it's incredibly frustrating. Again, if I had if I had control, and I say controlled, or had the agreement of three hundred and thirty million Americans to go find you a better health care program, I'm going to leverage three hundred and thirty million Americans and that's going to be our base of which to negotiate with all the pharmaceuticals and the doctors. I'll guarantee you we would find in short order a world class, gold standard American sort of way of healthcare that would be golden. And you know this other negotiation and stuff like that. There's too many fingers in the pie. And they're not interested in delivering world class healthcare. They're only interested in getting re elected and looking good to the media and all that as opposed to providing world class healthcare to people who need it. And that makes sense is that you know, guys like you and I, we don't have to go around and pay for pregnancy because we don't get pregnant. Okay, like all that stupid Obamacare stuff.

1:17:57 Let's set right. That's exactly right, and that's what they're being forced to pay for on these plans. Right now. We talk about why can't young people just have disaster coverage where it's just your twenty four years catastrophic care, Well, the reality is because Democrats made that illegal under the Obamacare exchanges. That's why you can't have that. We talk about that we need massive deregulation. We need to be repealing Obamacare. Republicans have fought took that stand in the past, and we should also talk about the good healthcare things. Republicans and the Trump administration have already done historic health savings account expansion in this doing more right now that is letting people invest save more of their own money, untaxed for your health care coverage for your first payments, should be able to use your HSA to pay your health care premiums. These are all things Republicans are talking about.

1:18:42 They've made huge progress on association health care plans. These are all things that the Republicans are putting forward right now today. They're going to vote on a fifteen hundred dollars expansion into HSAS that I anticipate every Democrat in the Senate will vote against. Of course, they should be forced to the public to explain why your money spent on your healthcare should be taxed. We'll see the media holes them accountable. Well, I want them to explain why they were able to get a carve out on Obamacare, and why they have such stellar healthcare, and why can't we have the same healthcare that they have. That's exactly right. Why do they have special rules for the Democrat lawmakers? Why don't they hold themselves accountable to the own programs that they create.

1:19:22 Yeah, so just shut up. I don't want to hear from you because you're not interested. You know, you're not looking out for my best interest. But again, the other thing, too, is to be able to negotiate across state lines. Yeah, of course. And for some reason Democrats always mocked this is a very valid point. If you can buy auto insurance across state lines, why can't you buy healthcare insurance. It's more competition, it's going to bring prices down across the market. That's something Republicans have also put forwards what President Trump has campaigned on twice three times now, and that's something that should should be I'd like to hear Democrats make the argument for why that shouldn't be the case. Watch it. I know it's a dream, but I would hope that the Republicans would be willing to fall on their sword for this, you know, a positive healthcare gold standard program that would really be positive for all Americans, you know, and touching on these things that you and I have talked about, and to codify those the heck with the Democrats, I'd leave them in the dust.

1:20:17 And if any the Republicans are misreading the room here, because I think the real threat politically is depressing our own side. If if a Republican majority in Congress is going to expand Obamacare, then what use is having a Republican majority? Exactly? Well, and that's what That's what we opened up this segment with. Right, Grover Norquist quote, voters didn't give Republicans full control of Congress and the White House to expand Obamacare. I mean, that says it all right there, right. And I think there's good news here, right. Leave John Thune in the Senate, Mike Johnson in the House and Donald Trump have all held the line. There's been a few people breaking ranks to deserve to have rocks thrown at them over this who voters should be angry at. But so far Republican leadership under President Trump has held the line of this. I continue to urge them to do so. I think that's how you deliver the win here, and that's how you reform a broken system. You can't just keep throwing more money at it without reform.

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1:26:07 The government just wiped them out. But anyway, so I went in to them and they didn't have any Christmas cards that had to do with Christmas. It's all holidays. You don't want to talk about this, but it's They had a bunch of LGBTQ cards, they had a bunch of Hanukka cards, and they had a bunch of holiday cards. So I went out and I said, why don't you have Christmas cards? You know, all Mark used to be a Christian Company. In fact, we know the people, and so you know, I went through that and they kept saying, well, you know, people don't like them. But there's one hundred eighty percent of the American people say that they're Christians, sixty percent say they believe Jesus's Lord, about forty percent go to church once in a while.

1:26:52 About one hundred and sixteen million people go to church every week. That's a tremendous audience that they're missing. As I went back and I said, well, you've got to tell I won't tell you the name of the pharmacy, CBS. They've got to tell the people. You've got to tell them as they've got to put Christmas guards that are Christian, and they're going to lose me. Are they all atheists? And they got so upset when I said, are they all atheists? But who wants to cut Jesus out of Christmas? Who wants to turn it into Holidays which means Holy days? Who doesn't understand what a mass is? You know, these people are nuts anyway. But these are the same people though, that have a particular gender dysphoria. They go out on the street and yell from the river to the sea, and here they are yelling a mantra that would suicide them in two seconds if they were to go to Palestine.

1:27:51 I know they're nuts, absolutely nuts. But the other deal is interesting. It'll be interesting to see and when you go back there in two weeks and check and see how many LGBTQ Christmas cards they sold. None, because it's only one percent of the population. Well, I know, I mean, and the other group. That they're selling, I mean, I'm glad they're selling them is only you know, the hunka ones. That's only a couple of percent. So none of those are going to make them any money. And you know Target is failing. Now you know that Wall Street Journal asks why are they failing you? And I can say why they're failing. But a lot of the costco is having trouble. These companies are having trouble. They do not understand that we are the audience and we want to go see. I've convinced Hollywood to make more Christian movies. But I haven't been able to convince the pharmacies.

1:28:42 Well it'll take some time. They'll catch up eventually, and they'll find out, just like everybody else, that it's costly to be stupid and you know, because really, I mean, you. Don't mint words at all, do you. Well, you know, my dad blessed. I love my father and he passed away twelve years ago and I miss him so much. And every time I say stupid, I know that because that was like one of the worst things you could ever say in our family. You could not say help. I tell all my kids not to say that, because Jesus said, call no man rocket. But I'm not going to tell you that because I like the way. Well, well, yeah, it's just I understand it. And I guess part of me in telling you this is out of reverence for my father in a very strange way.

1:29:26 I use that term very you know, not very often, not very often. I thank you. I do the same thing. And there are only two sins in the Bible that are supposed that Jesus says are unforgivable. One of them is denying the Holy Spirit. Yes, And I went to a mainline cemetery, oh seminary, and most of them. Didn't believe in spirit. And I brought it up to him at one point and they went bonkers because they don't believe in the Holy Spirit. And number two is calling man someone raka. Now I think what Jesus is saying, and are we You know you don't want to do this, But anyway, what he's knowing at that time would not let the children come and talk to them. The children were forbidden, and he welcomed the children, and he welcomed the lame and he welped it because I believe, and you know they're countries now like Iceland that you automatically have to abort what they used to call down syndrome children. God made them so that we love them. When I was in seminary, you had to go visit them, you had to work with them, you had to do all these trips to deal with you know, and they're wonderful, they're loving. Yeah, they're a little difficult, but you know, God reread it and it helps us be better people. Well you know I'm not so great anyway, so it helps us to

1:30:57 be better. No, there's no doubt we learn a lot from children that otherwise people in our society would look at to say that they're disabled. But you know, after you come in contact with them and you're blessed by them, you feel disabled because because there as you say, their love is so pure ted I mean my experience, Oh my gosh. I think you're so away I'm going to cry. That's it. No. But anyway, getting back to kind of what we were talking about here, and I guess I've become more passionate about it, and that is because I don't want people to be ignorant. I don't want them to be the less version of themselves that God meant for them to be.

1:31:38 And what's happening is we live in a society that has homoginized all this thought to where we've deluded ourselves, and in the process of it, we cannot discern good from evil anymore. We're confused. And if you go in and you say, oh, well, you know, removing the breast of my young daughter because she's gender confused, that that's not a problem and you have to accept that, and you're going, what are you know, part of you is screaming and going are you crazy or what? And you know it was just as studies that came out because my wife was on cameo for years. I get the Journal of American Medical Association, The Kid's Brain. Now I've been teaching this for years because I was out of a department at Berkeley. Blah blah blah.

1:32:20 But anyway, kids' brains don't completely mature until they're thirty. That means before they're thirty, you know, they well, it means that they need to respect their elders like you respect your father. It means before they're thirty, their decisions are not as good as they could be. In fact, there's a whole cognitive study done by a friend of mine that the best soldiers are eighteen nineteen because they're not mature enough to say this is really stupid running into gunfire at this time. So why would you let them make decisions when they're not prepared cognitively to make those discs? You've got to be crazy And there must.

1:33:02 Be something ted if we can take just a little bit more time on this, because you've raised it, you know, and I really appreciate this opportunity to talk about this, is that there must be something about that age of thirty where you have to make a decision to say, am I going to follow God and gain wisdom as a result of following God? Because the Bible says quite clearly the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God and maybe it takes for us to get to thirty and making a bunch of stupid mistakes, then we start fearing God enough to where then we wise up a little bit. What do you think? Oh, it's exactly right. And I could go through the stages of Gardener development, but I won't because Okay, we'll never get to David. Okay, well let's talk movies, because we want to talk about a couple of movies, like David three.

1:33:46 Right, David one. This is a brand new, beautiful version of David. Now. I know there was a version movie version years ago, but this is an animated version. It's absolutely terrific. And I've seen it and. Angel Studios is releasing it and they're good friends of ours. In fact, Robbie and another staff member in provo talking to Angel too, you know, because they do. But it's a great movie. I saw the movie. Now I have to give you caution. You know, David's life had a lot of violence in it. You didn't know that he cut off Goliath said, did you know that?

1:34:28 But anyway, and he killed his best friend to get his wife. Yeah, and yeah, we're not going to talk about that. But we didn't get there in the movie, but there's some frightening moments, So I'd say it's for eight or up because I do this whole cognitive development theory thing. Kids are not prepared to see some of the violence in it. But this is so well done as David that it's just it's full of jeopardy, it's full of humor, it's well orchestrated. It's an animated David. And I hate to say it because John Irwin is a good friend. It really rivals the house of David. It could be as a movie. It's probably the most biblically.

1:35:10 Sound Bible movie that I've seen in a long time. And we watch them all. Yeah, well, I'm glad to hear you say that, and you know, because I know you hold your your accolades, you know, genuinely, and so when you say that something is this good, it really stands out. You mentioned Kevin Costner earlier, and he's doing his first Christmas. What's that. Well, we have a mutual friend, who's his cameraman, who did dances with wolves and things, who's his wife, used to direct the plays that my son was in when Hugh was in high. School, etc.

1:35:51 So anyway, we've known each other for a while, you know, casually that's because I'm in the entertainment, but he's you know, he comes out, which is surprising because of his last Western series was terrible, and he does a good job of telling us about the first Christmas. Now it's a three different elements, so it's not a great story. It's not like David. It's not one seamless. It's Kevin talking about him growing up in the church and playing one of the wise Men. I don't know who else would have played the wise men because they weren't that one, but anyway, he was. He was he was the wise cracker.

1:36:34 Man, and then and then then he talks to experts about the Nativity, and then he goes and dramatizes. But it's very well done and it's going to be on ABC Television, so it's a major program and I'm hoping that it does extremely well well. As we wrap things up, you got some great suggestions for, you know, for some holiday and Christmas movies that are see right there at movieguide dot org. Yes, and I'm also going to tell you my favorite version of you know, the Scrooge story, the Christmas Carol is the Muppet Christmas Carol, which is the most Muppet Christmas Carol. It's the closest to what Charles Dickens wrote.

1:37:18 It's the most exciting, and it's most pro Jesus. So if you want to see a really pro Jesus come to Jesus, it's before Jim Henson. Passed on and everything. I knew Jim Henson a long time ago, and Bob Savage, who was head of his company, was on my board of reverence, and we used to go to lunch all the time. And this Jim came to christ and when he went to Black Rock Presbyterian Church, and so did Bob Savage, and it was a I hate to say it, because we just talked about the Holy Spirit. Was a charismatic church. So if you want to see a really. Good why would you hate to say the. Holy giving a sermon? And I just had a pastor from John MacArthur's church come to introduce me to his son who wants to get in the business. And of course if you listen to John MacArthur, well, I'm not gonna say that because he's passed on to heaven and he may understand more about it than we do.

1:38:14 And I'm sure he does now anyway. Anyway, the Buppet Christmas Carol is great if you want to watch something on TV. It's the best version of the Christmas Girl. Well I duly noted there. He is, Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Doctor Ted Behar Frommovieguide dot Org. God bless you, my friend. God bless you have a wonderful week. I'll talk to you before Christmas. God bless yeah you will, God bless bye by this year. Give them a gift that helps him make the shelf, not a gift that ends up collecting dust on one. During Low's December Deal, drops, get two free Select to Walk tools when you buy a Select to Walk five vamp hour battery kid plus all rewards members get free standard shipping. Shop December Deal Drops Today Loaves we have you save ballot through twelve seventeen while supplies last. Free shipping excludes Alaska, Hawaii exclusions and more. Terms apply. Loyalcy program subject to terms and conditions subject to change. Visit lows dot com slash shipping terms for details.

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1:42:46 Hey, we're back with you. Glad you could be here with us. I'm Bill Martinez. He is the one and only. That's his official title. Adam Holtz from Focus on the Family plugged in dot com. Hey, mister Adam, Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you too. Bo. How are you doing today? Hey, I'm done terrific. You know, it's the season for Christmas movie binging. So what is on your can't miss list? Well, I mean we can look at that a couple different ways. We can talk about new things out in theaters and streaming, and you know, we can circle back and just talk about the perennial favorites that we returned to over and over again as well. Well, I'm in I'm into putting it in a blender. That's fine. Yeah, So new in theaters this week is an animated musical biography Bible pick called David Yeah, and that comes to us courtesy of Angels Studios. And if you have seen the trailer, and there's been quite a bit of marketing for this, there's a good chance that you have seen a commercial or an ad for this animated kids movie.

1:43:50 This is a musical take on about the first half of David's life, so it really deals with things right up to after King Saul dies. The thing I like about this movie is that it's rated PG, and it's it's sanitized, I think in an appropriate way. Sometimes when we say something sanitized, that's a criticism, But in this case, I think what they've tried to do is take the high points of David's story from you know, the Prophet Samuel showing up to anoint him unexpectedly obviously, his battle with Goliath, his friendship with Jonathan. So we get the biblical story, but they go a little bit lighter on the violence because David's story, frankly, is a violent one practically from start to finish.

1:44:39 Right, right, Well, it's why God would not let him build a temple. Yeah, well that's exactly right. And so I think we get a very approachable, cinematic, musical, animated take on David's life. And there are a couple points that, in some relatively min ways, they play a little bit not fast and loose. They take some dramatic license with a couple of the details in the story from first Samuel, but really, other than that, there are no caveats here that make me say, oh, you know, it would have been great. But they did this, and I think it would be a great conversation starter.

1:45:23 We always talk Bill, you and I about how movies and entertainment offer an opportunity to have a conversation about worldview with our kids, And in this one, I think you could say, Hey, we're going to read the story of David and we're going to watch this movie, and we're going to compare what scripture has to say with what we're seeing on the screen, you know, sort of teaching them even with things that are relatively friendly to our faith, we still need to be thinking critically about that even as we enjoy the stories. Yeah, especially the challenging things, because no doubt what will happen is you will always have some precocious young child that will raise up the question and say, hey, what about him killing his best friend?

1:46:06 Right? Hey? That right now? Right, We're going to circle back to that in about ten years, right right. Yeah, good question though, just book market and. We'll retell you later on. Yeah, right right. Another one that I think is a is kind of closer to swing and maybe, if not a full miss, maybe a foul tip or you know, maybe a single is the dog movie Mirve. Yeah, and this is over on Prime Video. It stars Zoe Deschanel and Charlie Cox as a couple that they're having problems, and it's clear that they're living together, they are now separating, and their poor terrier, MERV, he's having a heck of a hard time and he turns into a depressed pooch. And nobody makes a movie about a sad dog and leaves the dog sad as a general rule, unless we're talking Old Yeller, which is its own special horrifica, which I'm still going to therapy. I know, right, we're still in therapy for Old Yeller.

1:47:13 Thanks for bringing that up. Oh my right, go back. Sorry, you need to call your therapist right now and schedule another session. So MERV really helps them sort of realize what matters. He serves as a canine catalyst to help them reconnect. How'd you like that? Get my literation on hard this morning? So that that is MERV. There is some suggestive content, there's some language. There's enough here that as a PG movie, I think these days it's tempting to think PG, oh, you know, total pass right, Well, there's enough content here that I would I would at least tap the brakes before I watch this with younger kids, and I think, just as these things go, everybody needs a paycheck. And it's clear that that's true, even of Hollywood folks like Zoe Deschanel and Charlie Cox. Is not a great movie. It's just you know, of all the movies made this year, this.

1:48:15 Is one of them. Well, this is like another you know, deposit from Hollywood that is conditioning the mindset of young people, all under the guise of PG PG rating. Like you said, it normalizes things that I don't want to normalize some of this stuff with kid. Well, I mean, I think that we just have this assumption in our culture now that you know, living together is fine, Like there's no moral or ethical or spiritual conversation to be had about that. And I think, you know, even as debauched as like say the eighties were, even in the eighties, you've still had pop songs that dealt with the subject of sin. You know, I heard the pet Chop Boys It's a Sin on the radio the other day and it occurred to me, Man, when was the last time you heard a pop band singing about the concept of sin? Doesn't happen? Right?

1:49:11 And this and a couple of decades later, you got the Dixie Chicks talking about bording the sin wagon. Right, Oh those girls. Sorry, I'm not trying to be demeaning. But they were talented, very talented in their own right until they decided to subordinate their talented you know, political wagons. But anyway, bless your hearts, all right. So okay, so that's what's coming up at the movie be aware of okay right now? But what you know, what are the go to movies that you do during this time of season? You're and your family, you know our go to's. And I may take a little bit of heat on this.

1:49:54 Our Elf, the Christmas Chronicles and Doctor Seuss's The Grinch, the most recent animated one. Now, Elf has a couple things that are mildly suggestive and a little bit inappropriate. There's a little bit of language. Holy cow, we love that movie. I'm just gonna say, even with the plugged in disclaimer in place, we just laugh and laugh and laugh. Right, And there's so many lines from that movie if you're not familiar with it. Will Ferrell plays a human boy who ends up getting raised by elves at the North Pole and ventures into New York City to find his real dad played by James Kahn, who is an executive at a book company, and he's just kind of a foul human being. And so it's the redemption story of the dad, while of course you know, having Christmas joy and spirit and bringing Santa back. I mean, it's it's a fun movie. And Will Ferrell has certainly done any number of things that are off the rails over the years, but this one is I think one of his best movies. Yeah.

1:51:01 For me, I'm still stuck in the classics. Yeah, and then there's the classics, right mayor call thirty fourth Street. Yeah, you always go that, and you know, and it's just again what you do, I mean, for me, just like you said, you look for entertainment that you can come away and you know, just have a respite and feel good about it, be encouraged and be renewed by in that. And you know, some of the wonderful life, wonderful life, I mean, there's just there are a reason they're always in everybody's Yeah, you know, you can say top fifty, top twenty five, you know, and you know they're just solid, solid stories, you know, from you know, from what over fifty sixty years ago, great. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. And and there's a long list of movies that retell the story of jesus birth as well. I don't know that I have a solid favorite among them. One of the more recent ones was an animated movie called The Star that had an all star cast and a little bit of of an animal bathroom humor. But I thought it tells the story of Jesus from the perspective of the animals that we're traveling with Joseph and Mary, and I thought it was really creative.

1:52:10 I really liked it. That would be one of the more recent ones. Anyway. Well, you know, it's interesting you say that that we're seeing as an increase in religious religious theme movies totally. You know, there's something going on. You know, God is up to something again, He's always up to something, but you know, and of course to hear from the media, you know, they've become the pr firm for the devil and evil right sadly, but that's where they are. And I don't want people of faith to lose faith and lose hope, especially in this advent season that we're in. Is that look at God's still on the throne and the Gift of Christmas is just around the corner, and you know, and people instinctively are going against the tide.

1:52:53 I mean, Bible sales still up there. I mean they're on an increase number one selling book consistently for decades now. And so you got the Bible sales, You got churches across the country reporting increase in attendance, people upset because visitors are taking their parking spaces and their favorite pew spot. You know, I think that's a good thing. Yeah, yeah, And Hollywood is is kind of schizophrenic, if I can use a mental health term. Like, on one hand, so much about the worldview that is pumped out of Hollywood as diametrically opposed to what we believe. And yet at their core, Hollywood also has a weird conservatism because you know, theoretically Disney recently notwithstanding, they're still interested in the bottom line. And so I think that's the reason why, you know, we have on Disney Plus right now, Kevin Costner presents the first you know, and it's a pretty solid dramatization of the birth of Christ. And for those for whom Jesus wasn't enough, we also have Kevin Costner, I mean of funny.

1:54:00 From from Yellowstone to the Birth of Jesus. Figure out. And I think even with actors at that level, oftentimes there may be more of a sympathy toward Christianity than perhaps we would give them credit for. I wouldn't maybe dad totally. Yeah, I mean goes how ridiculous, Like you go to the mall and you see Christmas and what do you think people are? You know, what do you think it's all about? Right? Right? That's exactly right. So that one aired on ABC the Kevin Costner won earlier this week, and it's on Disney Plus now streaming. So it's another opportunity, I think to explore the life of Christ. And maybe you do that with your kids and then you read the Christmas story and say, Okay, what did they embellish? What did they help us to understand better? I think that's the value of true Bible stories on the big screen is maybe they help you to visualize something in a way that you never thought about it before. And it's not even is it right or is it wrong? It's like, oh, I never thought about that, you know, And.

1:55:02 It's a great reason to get the family together, put the cell phones down, everybody's putting the cell phones down, they're taking a break. You know. Charlie Kirk's new book about the Sabbath. I think it's excellent. There's some great advisements in it and disconnecting and you know, and I appreciate where he he, you know, his journey that took him to this point. And I've been trying to do the same thing. Yeah. And in terms of staying away from electronics, to people to go, hey, I can't get a hold of you on Friday, there's a reason, you know, if you know me, that's my sabbath. And I'm doing everything I can to disconnect from all electronics and uh. And it's I would I would encourage, I would encourage the faithful.

1:55:45 Uh. You know, I just I'm just sharing it with you because it's made a big difference in my life. For what well, I think it conditions us ultimately just to want to consume, Like my brain gets a little hit of something and it doesn't even have to be bad, you know. It's I've been following the Broncos this year as a Colorado, you know, as a Denver Broncos, and I checked the Broncos news every day and you know, whether it's the stock market, whether you're a news hawk, whether you're a culture hawk. You know, there's so much, and we can just get conditioned to I just want something else, you know, and and but we're just consuming. Right. It's ultimately, I think often not a particularly redemptive use of our time, even if there's nothing wrong with the content itself, right, I just get in this mode. And so the break that you're talking about enables us to step back from that.

1:56:39 It's another gift from God. Yes, absolutely enjoy it. And rest in it and know that He has got you know, for more information on movie binging this Christmas holiday? Okay, and all these great ideas and and entertainment is available. Where do they go at them? You kind of plugged in and we, of course are a ministry of focus on the family. Have you written a book? Where do you have a manuscript ready and just need to find the right publisher. Christian Faith Publishing supports authors like yourself to bring their books to life, and right now we're offering you a free writer's guide designed to steer you towards book completion. Christian Faith Publishing evaluates each manuscript we receive. If your book earns approval. We take care of everything editing, designing, printing, promotion, and widespread online and in store distribution. Picture your book grasing the shelves of specialty Christian bookstores, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and numerous other retail destinations. It's time to get that manuscript published and to work with a publisher who shares your values of integrity and honesty. You can get your book published, get your manuscript reviewed, and a free writer's guide today.

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