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Want to just one note of warning
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Caution to the audience.
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You're going to be seeing a lot of propaganda
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Flying back and forth about the details of the peace
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Arrangement, potential peace deals, the way it's structured.
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Please take everything with a huge grain of salt.
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All right. take everything with a huge grain of salt.
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So you know, i'm looking at the headlines.
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You know, iran is saying they need $12 billion.
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You know, basically that's, you know, been
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Tied up, via sanctions.
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They want that upon signing the deal.
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And then 60 days later, they want the second
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Half released.
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Here's what you need to know.
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There will be no money,
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No, sanctions relief for iran
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Without actionable items that they have met.
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Right, so that they have obligations
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Based on the framework of this deal.
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They must meet them before any of this sanctions relief
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Is going to happen. that much i know.
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I was on a background call.
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Like i said, that much was extraordinarily clear.
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They have to work and do something first for any relief.
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Then they do something else in good faith.
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There will be more potential relief.
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All right.
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You also have to be i just want to say this.
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Listen, we don't necessarily get everything that we want
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In this deal all the time.
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That's not the way deals work, okay?
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You got to give something to get something often.
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Otherwise, we're just going to be stuck
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In a situation where we're bombing,
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You know, in perpetuity.
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That's how we've gotten into other conflicts that
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We abhorred.
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So if you want an example, how did the ukraine war explode
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With russia?
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Well, one of the things was
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Russia was actually coming out and saying,
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We would like to negotiate
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On some of these points, expansion of nato,
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Where you guys are putting missiles.
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We are like here
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That we have a proposed
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Framework deal that we could use
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As a starting point for negotiations.
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And our attitude was never, you know, it wasn't.
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We basically refused to talk.
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We just said, here's what you're going to do
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And you're going to accept it or tough.
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And then russia decided to invade ukraine.
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And we were suddenly just now, we're now we're on the hook.
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We're spending hundreds of billions of dollars
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On a war that could have been avoided.
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And i think there's lessons in that.
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If we had been willing to if we treated russia seriously,
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Even if we said we don't
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Like a lot of what you do, a lot of what you do is bad.
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But we don't want a giant war either.
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That all could have been avoided.
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And i think similarly with iran, we can concede
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This is a backwards regime.
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It's a stupid regime.
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It's a regime that seems to despise its own people.
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But we also it's not a country that we want to have
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100,000 u.s. troops occupying.
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It's not a country that we want to spend another 25 years
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Trying to remake into a western style democracy.
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So if we're going to be stuck
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Living with them, how can we live with them?
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Yeah, i totally agree.
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Ultimately, it gets to a point where
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We've done what we can do.
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That's essentially the easy part.
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None of it's easy per se, but yeah, you can drop bombs
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And strike their manufacturing facilities.
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You can take out their military,
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You can put their navy at the bottom of the sea.
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But what can they do?
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They can cling on to power.
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Their people are not armed.
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They can intimidate,
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Assault, murder
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Their own people to the point where they're not willing
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To come out in the streets and overthrow them,
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And they can cause us a lot of problems in the street.
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They can charge tolls, they can lay mines.
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They could essentially keep the world energy supply hostage.
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Okay.
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So those are the those are the the dividing lines.
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If you are going to overthrow the regime, to blake's point,
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You're committing to tens of thousands of u.s.
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Troops being involved.
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You're committing to a ground force
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That will take out the regime.
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You're committing to funding and arming.
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Here's the real truth militants.
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You don't know what you're committing
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To because it's another open ended conflict.
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And if you had gone to people in 2002 and said,
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This is what your involvement
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In afghanistan is going to entail
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When you send troops there.
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If you had gone to bush in 2003 and said,
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This is what your commitment
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Is going to entail, would you take it?
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I think they would say no, because they're it's very easy
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To tell people before you go in, this will be easy.
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It'll be in and out in a few months.
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And once you're in,
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As we've already seen, it's difficult to back out.
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And the same people who told you it'll be easy
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Will tell you the next step will be really easy.
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Well, they weren't right the first time.
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Yeah.
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I mean listen and and you're
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You're absolutely spot on to look at the russia deal.
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Listen.
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Both sides get a say in a war.
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All right.
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There was a possibility that when we started striking
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Iran, that the regime was going to be toppled instantly.
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That has proven to be untrue.
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They are more entrenched than we maybe hoped.
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All right.
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They were more able to cling to power than, for example,
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Israel told the president and his advisors.
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Right.
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Israel painted a very rosy picture
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About what it would take to topple this regime.
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Well, that hasn't happened.
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Okay, so when you see that that has not happened
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And you go back
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And you say, hey, let's redo our calculus here,
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What's possible, what's not, what are we willing to do?
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What are we not willing to do?
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Then the math changes.
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The math right now
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Is that they are going to cling to power one way or the other
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For right now.
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Now, we might get to the end of this, might sign this deal,
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And you get a little modicum of peace for a few weeks,
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A few months, and the people rise up
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And they take back their government.
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That could happen.
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Is it america's obligation
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Beyond the nuclear weapon,
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Which president trump
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Has made it
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His prerogative to make sure
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That they do not have a nuclear weapon?
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They do not have nuclear material.
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They not they are not enriching.
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If you can take that
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Off the table and that strait can be open,
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This is a good deal.
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We should take it which declare victory.
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We should say our
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Our strategic objectives have been achieved
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And we are going home to focus domestically
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Because our nation needs that type of investment.
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Our people
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Need that type of creativity and focus here domestically.
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If we have any hope in the midterms of fighting off
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A historical trend where the incumbent power loses
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During the midterms, we need to be focused here.
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We need $3 gas. we need 250 gas.
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All right. affordability must be addressed.
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Home ownership must be addressed.
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Getting the next generation
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To believe in america must be addressed.
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These are the issues.
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Family formation making it affordable for families.
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Unleashing the prosperity of this country
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For the next generation.
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That's how you win long term.
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That's how you deliver long term gains politically.
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You can't be distracted and quagmires in the middle east.
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So cut your losses, accept your victories,
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Declare victory
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And get what you can and get out
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And let the iranian people deal with the regime.
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That's should be the focus.
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Agree, i think so, i think
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We can
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We've see we're living out a lot of the warnings of people
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Who said that we just
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We need to get out of the middle east
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Because it's a very thankless area.
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It's a place where
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There's a lot of there's a lot of people invested
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In just endless conflict there.
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There's a lot of people who will always see
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This big victory
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Just over that next hill, just over the next bombing run.
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And a lot of them are very persuasive people.
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But you just have to say,
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No, this has not been working
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Out for the us and america has gotten weaker
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Every time we've done this 20 years ago,
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We could go to war with iraq and it just felt
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We're so strong. we can dominate everyone.
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We have unlimited resources.
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We did that with afghanistan as well.
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And every time we've done this, we've gotten a little weaker.
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And now we just have to confront the fact
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America is not this all conquering super colossus.
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It's tough to do that with,
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You know, powers throughout the ages have found invading a,
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You know, huge country is extraordinarily challenging.
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So you got to do what's reasonable
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And in our best interests.
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And that means get out, get home.
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Steve davis joins us next. we'll be right back.
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Steve davis joins us next. we'll be right back.
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What better
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Way as we come off memorial day weekend, honoring our fallen
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Heroes that have made this country great and possible.
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And as we move into the 250th celebration
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In through the summer and july 4th,
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Then do celebrate july 4th with steve de sousa,
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Great american, he's got a new book out, why independence day
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America is great because god is good.
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Steve, welcome back to the show, my friend.
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Good to see you guys. how are you?
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Congratulations on the book.
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This is the third in a trilogy of kids books,
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Which, you know,
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It's like, listen, we have
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These really prestigious, you know, academics on that
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Have these really serious books.
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This, to me is even more important
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Because we got to teach the next generation about why
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They should love america,
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Why they should have faith in america.
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It's more important than ever.
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See, why did you write this book and what's it about?
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So my my publisher came to me a few years ago,
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And said, hey, you know, with that,
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The rush's passing, you know, he had
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These rush revere books that were very successful.
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Would you be willing to step into that space?
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And i'm like, listen, man,
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I can't shake the dust off of rush's sandals.
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But then i got to thinking about it.
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Over the next day or two, and i thought, well,
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What if we did something even more unique?
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What if we looked at america's
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Christian heritage for children?
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And i proposed that as a trilogy?
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The publisher loved it.
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We launched the first one, y thanksgiving, in 2022.
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It was a national bestseller.
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We had easter in 2024, and then the
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The finale was always going to be for america's 250th
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Y independence day.
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And then it's just a matter
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What the subtitle was going to be.
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And so we decided to go with
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America is great because god is good.
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And you just see his providence,
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His hand of providence. all throughout our history,
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You see our founders refer to it.
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It's mentioned several times, moments and events that
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Just could not have happened
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Without the hand of god intervening in human history.
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And we wanted to tell this story for our kids.
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I mean, really, the american story,
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The 250th birthday of america, guys, it's an event 3000 years
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In the making, charlie used to point out.
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Deuteronomy was quoted more than any other book
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By our founding fathers.
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And so we go into all of that, from moses at mount sinai,
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Through christ, through the reformation
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And all of this history that eventually led
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To this place, this special place.
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Now we're fighting to preserve called america.
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Yeah.
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You know, and i'm looking at the book
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As you sent, a little advance copy to me.
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So the pdf.
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So i'm looking at it right now, steve.
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And the illustrations are great.
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I have little kids.
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So i can't wait to read them this.
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And and it really helps you make the through line
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Very directly and very obviously.
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For the mind of a child explaining god's providential
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Hand and how, like you said, this started 3000 years ago.
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This started with god setting apart a people and a nation.
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How the, you know, the pilgrims came to spread,
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The gospel really have a, have a refuge here
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To freely express their christian faith.
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And how that built the the the building blocks
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The foundation of the providential
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Hand of god being so visible in our country.
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I think it's beautiful.
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I, i can't wait to read it to my own kids.
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And i hope people at home understand the power of that.
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Why that's so important?
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Because.
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And maybe, steve, this this can be a question for you
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Explaining
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All that we're up against.
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You've got, foreign influence campaigns.
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You've got a whole half of the the country
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That seems to hate this place.
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Seems to hate what it's about, what it was founded upon,
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And it hates
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The men who founded it and the ideas that founded it.
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Why now?
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Why is this more important than ever?
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Because of everything you just said.
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And we are at it.
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We are at a generational knife's edge right now.
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And, we are either going to pass these things on,
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To the next generation
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Or they're going to be lost in this next generation.
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And if you just look at our history,
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There are events that are just mathematically incalculable.
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The odds that the puritans would go here
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Across the channel
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And land in a place where it just so happened
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That they run into a guy named squanto,
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Who's an indian, who was taught the bible
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By english speaking, you know, settlers, over and over
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In, over and in the, the old land, the old country.
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And he just happens to be there
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Within close proximity to massachusetts bay colony.
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Pardon me?
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To help them understand this new world they were in
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And and and
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Pardon me and the tribes
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And the and and all the customs they were landing into.
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The odds of that are incalculable.
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Guys, you see this all throughout our history,
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And it's why one of the terms our founders used the most
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Was this term providence, which literally just means
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Supernatural acts of god that are otherwise inexplicable.
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Yeah.
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And, i'm just pulling some images
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Here for the team so they can put them up here.
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I just love the way this thing is animated.
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And i mean, you know,
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And you give little bible lessons here, which i love.
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You're talking about, the founding of the country,
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Something we actually talked
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About yesterday on our our memorial day special a lot
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With the boys of 76 and 77 and,
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O'donnell, a historian, a great, great,
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Great conversation we had with him.
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So please check that out.
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But, you know,
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You're saying since we have god's
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Spirit in us now to teach us right from wrong,
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We don't need government rules as much as we used to?
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Sure, we still need things
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Like the police to protect us
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Because there are still bad people doing bad things.
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But we don't need a king to act like he's got.
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He's a god when we already know the one true god.
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I'm just i'm just i'm flipping through the pages here.
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And these are the type of lessons, like you're explaining
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The that we the people are sovereign.
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You're explaining why,
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How god set up those structures of government,
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How they're sort of, well, they're not sort of.
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They are god breathed.
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They are illuminated in the pages of scripture.
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And america is special because our form of government
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Reflects god's design for his people.
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It's beautiful. correct?
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Correct. amen.
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Thank you very much. appreciate that.
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And you know,
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When i was watching, i have you guys seen
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The new movie, a great awakening
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About george whitfield.
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Have you guys seen that yet? it's very well done.
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And one of the things that ben franklin says
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To the british ambassador,
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And it's funny, i thought that's a line right
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Out of the children's book that i have coming out.
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When i saw this about a month and a half ago
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Is, he says, to the british ambassador,
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And in a scene, well,
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They think now that they have god in their lives,
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And we've had awakenings spiritually
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That they don't need a dreaded sovereign anymore.
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They don't need a king.
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They think that jesus is king.
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Christ is king, and they're fine. just,
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You know, living, individually with him in charge.
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And i set up in my seat,
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Guys, when i saw that in the theater,
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Because, again, that's right out of the page of, my book
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That you just shared there, andrew.
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And i think this is key to the understanding
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Of how we came about as a people.
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Now, this line has been attributed to many folks.
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I think it originated with william penn,
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That if men were angels, they wouldn't need government.
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So we do need government. we're not angels, right?
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We are sinners, but we need government that is limited.
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Why do we need a government that is limited?
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Because the people working in the government are sinners too.
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That's right.
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That's why god is not a respecter of persons.
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We're the people working.
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Both the government
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And the government are full of sinners,
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So we need just enough to restrain the sinful
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Acts of the people.
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And to enter and to provide justice when they do send.
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This is what paul means in romans
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13 to be an avenging angel against the evil doer.
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That's the purpose of government, but not so much.
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Now that you use your sinfulness
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To go back to the original sin and say,
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I am god and government then becomes a god.
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It's the old chesterton line.
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When government
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Removes the god, the government becomes the god.
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Yeah, we see that completely on the progressive left,
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And we see it's and sometimes little elements of it
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On the right, steve.
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Which is why getting back to foundational principles
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Is so important right now.
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I mean, there's a point to being pragmatic in politics.
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I totally agree.
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We can be over ideological,
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But if you don't have these basics
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And these understanding, and you don't instill them
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In your children at a very young age.
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You're this country is going to be in a world of hurt.
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We will not pass this great blessing that is america.
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On to the next generation.
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And when do i fully internalize
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This, too, by the way?
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Like i'm reading my children about the constitution,
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About the declaration of independence right now,
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And they're gobbling it up like their minds are sponges
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At this stage.
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So, please, stay right there. steve.
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We got another segment with you.
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But but well done, my friend.
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But but well done, my friend.
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More with steve de steve.
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You know, let's talk about so your book,
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I mean really undergirding
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That your entire premise for writing it is we lost a
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Great man in rush limbaugh too soon, died of cancer.
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And it was heartbreaking.
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And it broke charlie's heart.
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And then we lost charlie.
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Another great man.
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And we lost him too soon.
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Such a powerful voice for young people.
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And there is this sense, you know,
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I, you know, a lot of people,
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Given to doom and black pilling because we lost these two
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Great men, and we need.
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We needed them. it feels like we needed them.
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But you're one of those guys.
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That is stepping into that and doing the piece that you can.
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And that's all we're trying to do here.
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By keeping the charlie kirk show alive.
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Is doing our piece
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And doing what we can through turning point.
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And maybe reflect on that, just that dynamic,
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Because there is a lot of people
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That see what's happened,
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You know, see what happened in the movement,
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The fracturing, the fraying at the edges,
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This foreign influence, whatever it is.
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Why are you
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Stepping into the void, steve?
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You believe resurrection comes
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After good friday, then there's always hope.
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You think the world's dark now?
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How about, hey,
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We killed god, guys, it's a pretty dark world.
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It's as dark as it gets.
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It's been a lot darker than this.
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I mean, the story of the
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The people that founded the country, the puritans.
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Who were they fleeing?
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They were not fleeting
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Islamic infiltration like we're seeing in the west.
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They weren't fleeing,
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You know, pagan communists didn't even exist yet
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During the post reformation era,
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Where catholic monarchs would persecute protestants
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And protestant monarchs or persecute catholics.
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They weren't even fleeing a catholic monarch.
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They were fleeing a protestant king
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Who wanted to tell them what exactly they could
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And could not preach, and what they could
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And could not say.
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John bunyan wrote, you know, pilgrim's progress.
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He was in prison for over a decade by a protestant king
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Because he didn't want to have his sermons
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Check listed and approved by the crown.
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It can get a lot darker than things currently are.
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And so to me, there's always hope and and i i'm not.
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You know, it's funny, i think that
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I'm getting more offers and opportunities to do things
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Because of the giant void that that charlie's,
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Murder left and, and others that i'm speaking to, too.
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And we're all saying the same things to each other, like,
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There's like, 15 of us that are getting asked to fill,
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Some of this space here.
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How did this one guy do what?
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Yeah.
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We all still have our old jobs.
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We've got to do all the other stuff we were doing.
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How did this guy go off to do
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All this stuff
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That the 15 of us are now trying to all
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Figure out amongst ourselves?
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But one of those things i just got invited to do,
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One of those things was to watch to do a heritage
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Tour with speaker mike johnson.
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And, last week in dc and i have to tell you,
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It's rare to say anything at a dc is inspiring,
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But going there and seeing a lot of this
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History to be in that prayer room
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That is halfway between the offices
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Of the majority leader and the speaker
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To see these marble statues, to see these paintings.
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And i shared a lot of them with our audience today.
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It refilled my tank.
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It reminded me of what it is that we're really fighting
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For here,
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That this really is the last, best hope this nation is,
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As far as we know, anyway,
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The last, best hope for this planet before christ returns.
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And so i'm as fired up as i've as i've been in a long time,
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Just by getting that personal reminder of the stakes here
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And why it is, why it is so volatile.
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It's because of what
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This country stands for and what happens,
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To the rest of this planet that this country goes away.
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Yeah, that's beautifully said.
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And, you know, and j.d.
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Vance said the same thing
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In the aftermath of when we lost charlie.
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It's like
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We all just have to do the little piece that we can,
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Because charlie was a giant
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And he did so much, and he was tireless.
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He just had this engine where he just wouldn't stop going.
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He was always
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Trying to squeeze out 30 more minutes of his day,
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Squeeze out
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5% more productivity again and again and again over years.
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And that's how you get a charlie kirk.
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It was so it's
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So incredible to remark upon just because
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He even could fit in.
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He did even fit in the leisure.
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So he had his he had a sabbath that he would do on saturdays.
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He still managed to
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Watch the cubs watch the ducks, and yet he's still off
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Maximizing his work time so effectively.
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Always,
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Always organizing something, always planning the next thing.
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Always.
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He's just such a model of high effectiveness
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Across one's life.
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Yeah.
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And i think i'm glad we'll always have that. yeah.
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Well and he i think you're doing
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A great job too, steve, of just being courageous as well.
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And i think this time
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Really calls for a lot of courage to call it out.
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There's a lot of voices,
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And we'll just keep it vague for now,
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Because it's tuesday after memorial day,
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And i want to i want to feel the unifying spirit of it.
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But, you know,
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There's a lot of question of whether
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Or not they're actually being effective.
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And i think they're being somewhat effective
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Of discouraging us, of getting us divided.
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But i don't think they're nearly as effective
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As people are concerned that they are.
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And i know that you agree with this on some level.
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Maybe spend the last minute of our talk remarking on that.
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One of the things i think we're going to find in this era
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Is that you can build an audience
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That is a mile wide but an inch deep,
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And that that audience and influence
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Are not necessarily the same thing,
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Meaning that where are the people you are
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Reaching is where where can you create a critical mass?
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And ultimately, you know, metrics can be faked,
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Numbers can be faked.
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Ultimately, you are the merchandise.
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You can move and and the people you can mobilize
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Because that's those are constants.
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Everything else is a variable and those are constants.
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And and to me, i think that
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A great tell if you're listening to the right content
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Is, does it bring you closer to god's
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Word and make you want to be more christlike?
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And if the answer to that question is yes,
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Then then get it, then, then hug that content even closer.
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And if the answer to that question
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Is no, then run away from it as fast as you can.
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That's a great way to end it.
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Steve days, congratulations on your book.
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Thank you for your contribution and your courage.
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But stay the course. pray for peace.
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Pray for paxton in texas.
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We got things to do, steve days.
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Be well, my friend. i'll talk to you soon.
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Steve Deace: May 27, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

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