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Erick Stakelbeck: Courage That Confronts Evil | Stakelbeck Tonight

October 28, 2025 | 25:5

Join Erick Stakelbeck as he delves into the alarming statistic of 300,000 missing migrant children in the US during President Biden's term. With border Czar Tom Homan's insights, the show sheds light on the urgent search for these children. Shifting gears, the focus turns to Victor Marx, a Marine turned missionary and Colorado gubernatorial candidate, who vows to revive faith, family, and freedom in the state. Through Victor's personal journey of forgiveness and justice, viewers witness a testament to resilience and unwavering faith in the face of adversity. This episode of Stakelbeck Tonight is a compelling blend of crucial societal issues and personal redemption.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Courage That Confronts Evil | Stakelbeck Tonight | October 28, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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And here's a statistic that may stun you.
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In the four years of joe biden's presidency, some 300,000
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Migrant children went missing right here in the united states.
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300,000.
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They came into our country
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Unaccompanied by an adult through biden's open border.
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And then they disappeared.
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Now, thankfully, president trump has closed the border
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And his team
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Is working around the clock to find those missing children.
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I sat down with border czar
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Tom homan at the white house last month to hear more watch.
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I want to ask you about the children,
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Because i know this is near and dear to your heart.
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Hundreds of thousands of children crossed over
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The border under the biden administration.
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Many went missing.
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I think 300,000 went missing.
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Tell us about your efforts to recover those little children.
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We've already located more, over 25,000 of them.
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27 have died.
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The number that i saw in.
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America, this is in america. the seven. yes.
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And the, some overdose deaths, some suicide deaths,
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Some suspicious death with 27.
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Now, if you want to watch my entire interview
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With borders, are tom home?
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And be sure to tune in
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To stackelberg tonight, this thursday, october 30th.
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Great conversation.
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Folks, these are clearly times that call for strong,
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Godly men to step up and lead.
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Coming up, we're joined by one of them.
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From saving thousands of children worldwide
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To throwing his hat in the ring to save the state of colorado.
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Victor marx is a man on a mission.
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You'll meet him next.
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Folks,
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The state of colorado is at a crossroads.
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And tonight, a marine turned missionary says it's time
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To put faith, family, and freedom back at the center.
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Victor marx is a u.s.
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Marine corps veteran,
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A high risk missionary,
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And founder of all things possible ministries.
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And he has officially launched
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His 2026 bid for governor of colorado.
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He says the state needs courage over politics, parents
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Over bureaucrats and people over special interests.
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Take a look.
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The modern world has seduced men into softness.
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We've traded the plow for the couch, the sword for the screen,
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And the truth for the lie that says you aren't enough.
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We've led our families trust.
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Our churches weaken, our communities falter
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Because we've forgotten who we were created to be.
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I've spent my life fighting battles.
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Most politicians here wouldn't dare face
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Protecting the vulnerable, standing with law enforcement
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And proving that courage can change outcomes.
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Colorado doesn't need another politician.
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It needs a man of conviction.
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A leader with the backbone.
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To fight for families, restore justice
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And give the state back to the people.
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Back to pass.
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And victor joins us now.
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Victor. great stuff. love that trailer.
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Hey, you've been as people just saw.
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You've been in war zones, trauma zones, a leader of men.
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Now you're entering a different kind of war zone politics.
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Why run for governor of colorado?
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The money?
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No. yeah.
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There's nothing to benefit me running.
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People ask me all the time, i go, there's there's no benefit.
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If anything, it's just sacrifice.
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And my wife and i, will be married 37 years this year.
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We've we've tried to base life, making decisions
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On three things.
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Never make it based on your ego or comfort.
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And certainly don't make decisions based on fear.
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And we feel like god clearly spoke to me.
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Me and her prayed about it.
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And, we're at a make or break place
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In the state of colorado where even us, like others,
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We just said if things don't change,
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We'll probably just pack up and leave
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Like thousands of others has because it's that bad.
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Yeah, and talk a little bit
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More in detail, victor, about the problems in colorado.
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Look, the natural beauty,
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Obviously the rocky mountains are there.
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It's a beautiful state, but major, major problems,
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I think of the marijuana problem.
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Yeah.
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I mean, colorado's kind of, ground zero
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For that legalization and everything else.
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But talk about some of the serious problems
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In that beautiful state.
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Well, the first time we moved there was a one.
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We stayed for a few years.
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I was an assistant to doctor james dobson,
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And then we moved away doing our work ministry and,
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Which was intense for a good spell, came back in 2014.
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And from 2014 to now,
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I'm telling you, people would recognize it.
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Capital, so many of the surrounding towns,
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They're there.
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You just get a sense of their dirty and dangerous. wow.
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Colorado leads.
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We're number two in the whole united states for most crime,
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And it's all centered around
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Exactly where the leadership of colorado is.
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Look. trend there. agua. yes.
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We all saw that footage last year about them
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Ransacking apartments, bullying people, intimidating people.
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And the current governor, jared polis, a democrat,
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Has been very weak on the border issue and illegal immigration.
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Talk more about how that has affected colorado.
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Yeah, i'd say more than week.
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He's been supportive of bringing in, whether he agrees or not.
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It's more not what you say, but what you do.
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So colorado has become a sanctuary city,
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For a lot of things.
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And the people of colorado, the good people,
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Generations, they're just sick and tired of it.
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And you know, education is job only.
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I think it's 34% of kids in the fourth grade can actually read.
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Well, the rest are struggling.
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We have five children.
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They're all adults. fewer married with kids.
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But just the economic situation in colorado,
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The strain financially, where young people can't get out
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And just run an apartment or buy a house.
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So therefore, they're stuck with their parents
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In a perpetual cycle of adolescence.
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So there's a lot of,
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I think, again, i think we're number
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Two and mental health issues in the us.
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There's a lot going on, and some people don't want me
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To bring in the spiritual aspect,
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But my faith is a very important part,
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And i definitely see the spiritual component.
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Oh yeah, the the gubernatorial candidate,
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One of the two leads for the democrats.
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Within two weeks of me announcing
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He they haven't attacked any of the other republicans.
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They came after me and said, and it was bennet
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That said that he's
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He's a senator.
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He's like, hey, this guy.
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It's the spiritual warfare above in colorado because there is,
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You know, bonehead, he he may not understand it,
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But you can see the effects of it.
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Yeah. and again, people are sick and tired of it.
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It means you're doing something
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Right when they come targeting you.
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By the way, the current democrat
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Governor, jared polis, a gay man married to a man. yep.
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So that's what colorado is dealing with right now.
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And i think it's too great of a state victor to just let fail.
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And just like you said, people are kind of heading
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For the floodgates and leaving the state.
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But it can be saved, no doubt.
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And you talked about children.
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We talked about saving colorado.
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You've saved lives.
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Young kids in your work, in your ministry.
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Talk a bit about that, victor.
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How you've been overseas, southeast asia, iraq?
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Yeah, everywhere. really around the world. yeah.
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Saving thousands upon thousands of kids
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From trafficking horrible situations.
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Talk about your heart there and how it prepared you
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For this run.
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Yeah, well, everything i do is based on a moral code.
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My faith.
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How i see life.
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You know, what i don't like is it's a lack of leadership.
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That is what's destroyed colorado.
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And for me, it's
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Not rocket science to go in there and fix things.
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It just takes a backbone.
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And again, a moral code of what is right and what is wrong.
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Most people in colorado,
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Might not know my story, but my father was a drug
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Dealer and a pimp, and, my mother married six times.
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I went to 14 schools, lived in 17 houses.
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But i was abused as a kid.
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Pretty bad.
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The professional said it was torture.
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Been a lecture, chewed
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And dunked in a tub and just a bunch of dark stuff.
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Yeah, and i don't really like
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To talk about it, but i say it enough
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So people understand the context
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By which i make my decisions as a leader.
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You know, and i know this.
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The enemy of our soul,
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Force of darkness, can throw the worst at you.
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God can and will redeem it.
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And it's not god that causes this stuff.
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You redeem it.
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But it's a choice of men that make bad choices, you know?
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So, it.
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I started helping kids in the us years ago.
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Who? kids who were incarcerated,
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Who were locked up because most of them
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Come from troubled backgrounds.
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And through that, we started tracking the,
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You know, sex trafficking issues with kids.
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And organization grew
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To where today we run, founded, ran.
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It's an incredible task force called protecting children's
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Innocence task force.
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We work by, through and with law enforcement.
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So we're not out there, tab on it.
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We're out to make sure
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Pedophiles and people who abuse children are caught
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And convicted and will spend time in prison.
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And in some states, i hope.
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I know i will, as governor, will adopt,
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Capital punishment for any adult that raised a child.
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Amen.
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After years of pain,
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God led victor to a meeting he never thought possible.
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Find out what happened when he confronted his abuser.
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Next.
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Next.
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You and i were talking off camera
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About erika kirk a little bit. yeah.
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And her story of forgiveness.
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Forgiving charlie's assassin.
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I think it really shook the world to see that.
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It did.
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I mean, to see jesus. really?
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The face of jesus in that moment.
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You ultimately forgave not only your stepfather
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Who abused you, but your biological father.
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Yeah.
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And your biological father helped lead you to the lord.
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Yeah. it's an amazing story. tell us more about that.
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Well, the the key thing i want people to take away from
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This is what is forgiveness?
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True forgiveness
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Is giving up your right to hurt someone back for hurting you.
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And there are a lot of people where
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They shouldn't be forgiven because it's just
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Horrific injustice, especially when you're a kid.
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But if a person doesn't forgive
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Eric, i'll tell you what happens.
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Your heart, a part of your heart starts to get hard.
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And if that starts to get hard,
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You cannot receive love that you need your soul needs.
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But then you can't give the love
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That other people around you need.
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I recognize that pretty early on, and it was through.
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I mean, it was through god's scriptures
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And the power of god's spirit that said
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You had to give up your right.
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And, i came to face to face with my abuser
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As a man who was married me.
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You know, in my 30s.
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A tough guy.
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Tough man on the deal.
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By the way, i mean the world's fastest.
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This armor.
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Would we say someone has a gun on this armor?
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Still hold the record.
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The world's fastest.
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Yeah, but i think my son, who's 20,
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I think he's going to pass me at 25.
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But seeing my stepfather in a bed,
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Dying and realizing, man, i had the power
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To push him there faster or show god's grace.
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All i did was say, god, help me to forgive him.
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Give me the strength. i'm willing.
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God did.
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And through that, he and i'm giving his life to christ.
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Tell us more about that. that's an amazing story.
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Well, once when i get out of bed, we're praying for him.
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And, you know, i was weeping for him.
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God so turned my heart
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That i didn't want him to die and go to hell.
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I believe that's a literal hell.
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The people who reject christ and live a life contrary to,
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You know, will face an eternity apart from god.
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And i went in that morning.
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He was there, and that's it.
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You know, greeted
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Him and he said, hey, nurse, this is my son. wow.
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And i was like,
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Because i actually thought he was my biological dad.
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He did?
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Yeah, for part of my childhood.
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I was never told that he wasn't the real one.
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And, he said he's been worried about my eternity,
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But i didn't have to worry anymore.
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I made it right with god last night.
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And i'll tell you, it was a very, very sacred moment.
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I could sense god's spirit in.
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And, that's when he gave his life to christ.
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And i remember saying, well, god,
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I know why you brought me into his life for this little season.
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Yeah.
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And it's to show your love, which i don't have in myself.
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Period.
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But god could love him through me. and
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I said, what do you want me to tell him?
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What's the last thing you want to tell this man?
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Very clear.
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I could sense god said, tell them you love him.
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Just tell him you love him, and i did.
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I said, dad, i love you.
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And, he looked at me for the first time ever in my life.
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He said, boy, i love you too.
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I think that was his way of saying, i'm so sorry
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For everything i put you through. wow.
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And your biological dad.
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You carried some bitterness against him as well.
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You sure? and. and by him? yeah.
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And he reenters your life and helps bring you to the lord.
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And you guys ended up the best of friends, right?
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Yeah.
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See, he ended up becoming my best man on my wedding.
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Wow. and,
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But there was a lot of anger
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At him, because i always would think.
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Where were you if you would have been the dad?
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That would have been in my life
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To provide and protect, not leave.
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If you. my mom would have made it, you know.
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And, i mean, i was,
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I was conceived on the horrible conditions of him
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Pushing rosary beads down her throat, put a pistol to her head
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Trying to kill her.
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What i'm so thankful to my mom for is having me kind of aborted
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Me now, and i don't think many people would have blamed her.
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But i'll tell you, that's why i'm in the favor of life.
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Because had she killed me, you know,
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Or terminated that pregnancy, even i wouldn't be here.
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I wouldn't have had a wife.
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And i would have helped over 45,000 women and children
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In the middle east with trauma care
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And then tens of thousands in the u.s.
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Through our social media and our online courses and books.
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We we just want to help
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People who've struggled and haven't got a fair shot in life.
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And that's why i'm not against the democrats,
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In colorado.
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I think a lot of independents are going to vote for me because
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They actually know my heart.
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Now they know i'm not in there trying to
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Take away freedoms, but give them freedoms back.
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And i will say extremist, you know, and progressive
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Leftists that want to influence our children in negative ways.
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That's when i put down my foot.
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I mean, you can. yeah.
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They just
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Folks that want to hurt kids
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Don't want to see that other side of me,
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Because i'm resolute with the titanium spine.
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And i will protect children and amen.
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And women.
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America's trafficking crisis doesn't
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Always start on the street.
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It often starts on a screen.
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After the break, victor marx connects
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The dots from online child exploitation to real world
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Trafficking and how we can fight back.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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Talk about the trafficking problem, victor.
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Look not only around the world, the severity of it.
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I think the movie sound of freedom a few years ago
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Kind of brought into people's consciousness.
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Talk about that problem globally.
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And yes, right here in america.
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Yeah, we've got a trafficking problem.
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I never forget when tim ballard heard the movie was about text
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Me and said, well, you and your wife mentor me and my wife.
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He says, because you've been on this a lot longer than me.
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I was like, tim, of course, end up praying for him.
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It's been time for him.
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People still need to pray for him.
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Anybody that's in the space of trying to protect children,
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I would say this.
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Make sure you do it with integrity.
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If whether it's an individual or an organization,
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Do with integrity.
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And, because there are a lot of people not doing it
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Right out there
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And they're actually exploiting children
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Who are being exploited.
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So i take a pretty strong stand against that.
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But the our task force, again, protecting children's citizens,
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The biggest threat to america
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Outside of men not being dads and fathers and good husbands
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Is the internet to children.
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No child people, no child pornography.
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But it's it's really child sexual abuse material.
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It's beyond.
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This is this is if anybody can remember this
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And this is the tsunami that's hitting america.
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Hitting america more is consumed right here than anywhere else.
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And a ton of it's produced here in the us.
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So on average, 290,000 images
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Or videos are transferred in the us every day.
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Every day, every day.
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Remember this, that those videos
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And photos of kids being abused
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Or it's some of the greatest currency in the world right now.
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Hey, tell us about the book the dangerous gentleman.
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You see it right here.
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I am surprised on how well it's done.
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It's a bestseller,
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And it's basically just me sharing stories of what god's
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Done in my life.
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And again, none of it.
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I look forward to just. it happens.
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And then people i respect and i've worked with
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That have done amazing things.
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Men need to be encouraged.
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It's a tough world.
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Men don't get a lot of out of boys
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Or expected to do the deal, which we are.
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There's no choice.
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Men provide. protect. yeah. love.
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And and i tell them stay faithful to one.
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But young men need examples of older lions, too.
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And i've seen that the older i get,
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I realize the responsibility to pass it on.
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I would have never written a book like this in my 20s, 30s,
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Even 40s.
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But, my last birthday, i was 60, and i said, yeah, here we go.
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And believe me,
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My brother says she still has a six pack.
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We stay mission ready, we do the deal.
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And i think that's part of the responsibility of men.
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Don't get ladies out there.
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Get the motivation you need.
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But motivation only lasts for a short time.
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Being inspired, that will last a lifetime.
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Amen.
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And victor, you're representing biblical masculinity.
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Yes. imagine that. much. needed
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Talk about biblical manhood.
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Last question.
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Do you see this revival
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Growing among young men and young men in colorado?
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Places like colorado who are fed up with the madness,
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With the left wing
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Madness, the trans madness, all the nonsense.
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Do you get the sense we're at a tipping point where
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Especially young men are saying enough is enough?
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I do 100%, and i do
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Believe it started with charlie, one of his, i mean,
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One of the beats of his heart for for young men to beat men.
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And, that's why i wrote the forward for the book.
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Yeah.
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And you know, to be a man,
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You got to resist passively accept responsibility.
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You got to brace a level of suffering.
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That's what men do.
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And men need to be the husbands
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For the wives.
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But their wives, they need to be the dads that the kids need.
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And if you're single, you should be.
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Just be prepared for that day when you put a ring
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On a young lady's finger.
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And to be faithful.
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And i believe with all my heart
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The pendulum has swung.
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Just like you said.
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People are sick of what's going on.
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Common sense is coming back, and we're going to bring it back
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To the state of colorado.
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We're going to flip that state,
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Watch what it does for the nation.
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And i would encourage young men, hey, you need a mentor.
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I'll mentor you just like i did charlie.
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Which made him risk everything every day.
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If he wasn't the epitome of a dangerous gentleman
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And this sweet, dangerous woman to continue to push.
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Yeah.
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But i've what's called the dangerous gentleman society.
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Dangerous gentlemen society.com.
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I send out an email every day.
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I call it a mission brief.
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It's free.
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Then go sign up for it as soon as they watch this.
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Victor, you are a man of action.
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You're a mighty man of god.
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Will be following the race
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Very closely over the next year, my friend.
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Good luck.
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God bless. victor.
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We appreciate
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It victor.
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Appreciate it. thank you.
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Folks, victor marx is an amazing man.
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Check him out. you see his website there.
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You see the social media handles on your screen.
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Be sure to follow victor.
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We'll be following him
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Throughout the next year in this pivotal race
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For the future of colorado.
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Hey, coming up after the break, when i think of victor's life,
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I think of two things forgiveness and justice.
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What does the bible say about it?
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I'll break that down next. don't move.
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I'll break that down next. don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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Folks, as we wrap up here again before the break,
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I was saying
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When i think of victor marx's story,
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I think of forgiveness and justice.
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Well, gospel of matthew, chapter six, verse 14, for
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If you forgive other people when they sin against you,
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Your heavenly father will also forgive you.
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Man. victor even forgave his accuser.
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Incredible.
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Then micah chapter six, verse eight,
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He has shown you, o mortal, what is good?
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And what does the lord require of you?
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To act justly and to love mercy,
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And to walk humbly with your god?
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That all describes our good friend victor marx.
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Hey, tomorrow night some great guests as well.
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Ryan walters is here
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Thursday, tom homan, the borders are joins us.
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It's going to be a great week here on stackelberg tonight.
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Until tomorrow. god bless you.
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We'll see you soon.
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October 28, 2025 | 25:5

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