Stakelbeck Tonight

Erick Stakelbeck: June 3, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

June 3, 2025 | S25:E603

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: June 3, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 3, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck, and we're seeing
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Some major victories for sanity and biological truth.
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Folks, the gender madness slash child mutilation
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Industry is starting to crumble thanks to brave young people
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Like taylor starling.
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She's a high school athlete in california
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Who was kicked off her cross-country team and replaced
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By a biological male pretending to be a girl.
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It gets worse
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When taylor protested and wore a shirt that said
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Save girls sports.
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School officials compared it to wearing a swastika.
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This is madness.
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That's why taylor
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Starling, who's just 16 years old, courageously
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Testified recently in support of assembly bill 844,
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Also known as the save girls sports bill.
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Take a look.
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I was removed from my varsity girls team
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And replaced by a newly
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Eligible male transfer student
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Who received favorable treatment.
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I worked every day during summer with my team
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And into the school year six days a week, waking up at 5 a.m.
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To attend morning practices.
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My goal was to attain a varsity spot on my school's division
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Once safe team.
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Since the start of the season
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In august, i ran in every varsity race.
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In late october, the male transfer student
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Was given my spot after having my spot
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Taken away from me that i earned.
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I missed out on running with my varsity team
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In one of the top cross-country invitational of the season.
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As a result of this unfair treatment, my teammate caitlin
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And i wore shirts
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That said save girls sports and stated
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That boys and girls are different.
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However, our athletic director
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Made me remove my shirt and told me
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It was like wearing a swastika
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In front of a jewish person and said that i would face
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Disciplinary action if i were to get.
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Why are girls being told that we must sit down
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And be quiet while boys unfairly get ahead of us in life?
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You know, there's really no words here.
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Thank god for taylor folks.
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Please pray for her and for the entire next
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Generation of girls in our country
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As they face is downright demonic deception.
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Hey, i have two teenage daughters myself
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Who are both athletes, so this hits very close to home.
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But again, the tide is turning.
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People are fed up and they're speaking out.
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And president trump is providing some major help.
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He's issued an executive order banning biological males
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In girls sports,
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And has threatened to withhold federal funding for any state
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That defies the order.
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Speaking of defending our daughters
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And granddaughters, the president,
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Joined by first lady melania
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Trump, recently signed the take it down act into law.
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It's a rare bipartisan victory that protects children
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And families
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From one of the darkest threats of our digital age.
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Non-consensual intimate images and ai generated deepfakes.
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Now, the law forces digital platforms to take down
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Harmful content within 48 hours.
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And now digital abuse carries real consequences.
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It's about shielding our kids from predators
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Who use technology to destroy lives.
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And it's about accountability,
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Especially for big tech, which for far too long
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Has looked the other way on all of this.
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First lady
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Melania trump brought survivors and lawmakers together
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And helped make this one of the first
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Big legislative wins of the new trump administration.
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So from the white house to high schools and beyond,
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Americans are waking up, standing up
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And saying, enough is enough.
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Yet there is much work still to be done in this fight
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For the very soul of america.
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Coming up, we're joined by blaze tv host steve deace to learn
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How parents can have real conversations with their kids
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In a culture that's pushing gender confusion, sexual
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Chaos, and moral compromise at every turn.
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And it all starts now.
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They're coming for your kids.
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And steve deace isn't staying silent.
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He's the host of the steve deace show on the blaze tv.
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A fearless voice in the fight for faith, family and truth.
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And now he's taking that fight to the next generation
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With his bold new children's book, ritchie meets the rainbow.
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It's a powerful tool for parents
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Navigating a culture of confusion.
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And it just might be one of
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The most important books your family reads this year.
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Steve, always great to see you, my friend.
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Congrats on the book and look!
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The month of june has been known for the rainbow flag
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Being everywhere,
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Storefronts, even on government buildings in years past.
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Why is it so important?
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And the title of your book
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Says it all, ritchie meets the rainbow.
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Why is it so important
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To reclaim the biblical meaning behind the rainbow?
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For the exact same
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Reason that the other side stole it from us.
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Because it's a very powerful symbol. and it's.
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And the fact that they stole it,
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The fact that they wanted to co-opt it,
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The fact that they
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Took a seven striped entity and took it down to six.
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All right.
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And we all know what that is
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A significant that number is significant.
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These are all intentional demonic trolls, erick,
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With the intent of corrupting and polluting that
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Which god has already declared and made,
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That made great, it made holy.
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And so therefore, i think we as his people,
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As a church,
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Have a responsibility to therefore take it back,
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Because it is a symbol ultimately,
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One of the very first physical demonstrations of god's,
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Unlimited grace that ultimately is made manifest and perfected,
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In the person and lordship of jesus christ.
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And which is exactly
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Why are the enemy of our souls is attempted to change it.
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And, you know, we're all proud evangelicals here on tbn,
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But every now and then, the catholics
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Got one right, brother.
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And there's an old catholic saying that
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What the devil hates the most is to be mocked.
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And so what i intended to do with richie meets the rainbow is
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A, a massive amount of, of mockery of i said devil.
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Yeah. steve, did you just got kind of fed up.
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You covered every day like i do.
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Did you just get to the point and your dad, of course.
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And grandfather,
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Did you get to the point where you were just fed up
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With the madness swirling all around us?
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The gender madness?
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It's demonic, as you said.
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And now you're kind of branching out here.
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It's a book written for children,
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Not what you're usually known for,
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But man, this seems to be a book for the times we're living in
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Where you're saying, you know what?
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I can really make a difference here and put it out there,
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And maybe this will be in school libraries
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Rather than the other madness
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Like genderqueer that we see on shelves.
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Correct? 100%.
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Which is why i made sure that the dad is the hero.
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Now, how did i get to be a hero in the book?
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When you read it, you'll see, because his son brings to him
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What he was being indoctrinated with in his government school
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And dad didn't say, hey son, i'm
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Watching the ballgame, talk to me after.
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And then the whole matter is forgotten
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And never addressed again or said, hey, you know,
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Somebody should do something about this.
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Instead, the dad does something about this.
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He takes his son
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To the ultimate source of truth,
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The only perfect thing on the earth, the word of god.
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But then he also commits to his son.
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Brother, i'm going to. i'm going to be well known.
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Okay?
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Down at the local school board meetings from this time forward.
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I mean, action again, action.
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You know,
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And that's lacking, frankly, in a lot of our churches
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Today, erick, it's lacking in too many of our men.
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So the book is it really just time for pride month?
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It's also time for father's day is this month as well.
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And ultimately, our children, when they bring the battle to
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Us, are we willing to stand up and fight the battle for them?
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Hey, speaking of fathers parents, how can parents
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Use this book as a teaching tool with their kids?
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Ultimately, the book is written in a way
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That parents could read it to kids in order to deconstruct
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The things that have been used to deconstruct us.
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But but ultimately, the book is for parents
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To understand that you need to be a sounding board.
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Are you?
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Do you have an atmosphere in your home
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Where your kids feel like they could
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Bring these dilemmas to you, and you are receptive to them,
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To being there for them?
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And then also, will you commit to action right after the book?
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There are action points for parents at the end, a book
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At the end of the book. hey, this happens in your school.
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This happens in your home. what should you do from here?
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How can you take action from here?
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So yes, it's funny.
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It's my typical snotty sense of humor
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And i think your audience will particularly love the,
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The satirical, snotty, endorsements on the back
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Cover of the book.
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All right,
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So it is meant to pull the devil's pants down and say
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The emperor has no clothes here, right?
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But it's a useful teaching tool at the exact same time.
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Yet ridicule and mockery
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Is a powerful tool when it comes to the enemy of our souls.
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Steve, as you said earlier, this does.
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This madness, this demonic madness deserves to be mocked.
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It deserves to be ridiculed.
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And you do exactly that. what do you say?
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You know the left is going to come after you with this book.
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Of course, because you're hitting the mark.
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They're going to say it's too political
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For a children's book and all the rest.
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What do you say to that?
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Listen, i don't get at least one
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Credible death right out of this, brother.
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I didn't do my job. okay?
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But in all in all seriousness,
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I think before we can defeat this, we have to ridicule it.
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I think it still holds a lot of fearful sway over people.
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I think more and more people are coming forward saying, hey,
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I'm not the only one who thought this was,
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You know, trash from the beginning, but still,
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You know, do i want to speak out or do i want the backlash?
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I think we've got to take that aura of fear away.
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Yeah, it's a spirit of fear.
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And, steve, i believe it's starting to crumble.
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And one reason for that is bold voices like you.
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Steve deace, host of the steve deace show
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On the blaze tv,
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Author of the great new book folks
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Richie meets the rainbow, amazon.com.
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Wherever books are sold, pick it up, steve.
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Great job my friend. god bless. good luck with the book.
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We'll see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break,
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We've got one of america's foremost advocates for children
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And for families sharing his personal story.
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Folks, you won't believe the hell he went through.
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Now he's come out on the other side
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And he's advocating for families across our country.
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You won't want to miss this. that's next. stick around.
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You won't want to miss this. that's next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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It's a fight for the american family,
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And it's happening right now in real time.
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Our next guest is a national leader in that
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Fight for parental rights and family court reform.
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After enduring a grueling 15 year custody battle
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And facing over 43 false allegations, robert
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Garza turned his personal pain into a powerful mission.
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Today, he's one of america's leading advocates, working
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To protect families from alienation
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And injustice in the courts.
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And he joins us now. robert, is great to see you.
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And hey,
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Before we dig into the great legislation
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You're working on here in america, in texas and beyond,
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Let's talk a bit about your personal story.
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I don't think it's a stretch to describe it as 15 years of hell
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In many ways.
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Tell us about your personal ordeal, robert,
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And the effect it had on you as a dad and on your kids,
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Your family.
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Yeah. i wouldn't wish it on anyone.
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Went through about 43
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Plus false allegations and they were all rolled out.
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Never should have happened.
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But over a 15 year period.
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And i found a lot of loopholes that were the issue
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In family court.
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And now i'm, closing those loopholes where nobody else
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Has to go through this.
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Yeah, and this was child and protective services, right.
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Where these allegations came from?
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From your ex.
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Is that where all this kind of started?
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Through the courts kind of coming after you?
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Yeah.
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There was a lot of loopholes in the family court system
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That people exposed and played games,
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But nobody really knew how to close them.
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But going through
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The whole system, i was able to see where those
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Were exposed and able to close them down now,
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But they were all done by proxy. so everyone,
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You know, everybody thought
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They were kind of doing the right thing.
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But where it started, it wasn't.
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So i've taken that incentivization out.
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And so now it's giving the resources back to the family
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Courts and cps and, discouraging false allegations. now.
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Yeah, we're going to talk about the legislation
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You're advocating around the country
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And maybe even internationally soon. amazing, robert.
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But tell us more about the toll it took on you.
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Look, a 15 year struggle.
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You're being accused of things as a dad that you didn't do.
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You're a man of faith.
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I mean, i can't imagine the struggles
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You went through in dealing with all that.
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Tell us more about the toll,
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Because i think it's really important.
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A lot of people watching or maybe some people
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Are having similar struggles, in family courts, etc.
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Talk about the toll.
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So people
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Know how painful this is and why it needs to be changed.
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So when you're going through this,
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A lot of people think that the child's
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Going to the grandparents or the mom or the dad, you know,
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When when they get you, when you get a false protective
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Order, restraining order and you can't see your kids.
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And the only way i can describe it
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Is that you're grieving the loss of a living child.
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It's that hurtful. that painful.
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You can't see them.
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You can't
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Contact them. and a lot of people
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Don't understand unless you go through it.
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And when i just said that, people
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That have went through this will completely understand.
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But it's like your child's dead and there's nothing
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You could do about it.
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And you go through all that traumatic grief.
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And if it's that hard on a parent, it's
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That much harder on the child that can't understand this.
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Where do you get to the point where you say, you know what,
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I have to do something about this
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Not only for myself and my family, but for every family.
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No one should go through this.
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You've made this your personal mission.
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Now i have,
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So when our family finally got out of court,
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About a year and a half, two years ago,
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I had promised them that i would do
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Something about this where no other family had.
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What would have to go through this?
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And i promised god to, you know, don't
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Let this had been for nothing.
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Like please do something with with what i've been through.
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And. wow.
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You know, god made it a mission for me.
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And i
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Took that and
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And ran with it and and doing what i'm doing now.
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Yeah.
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We're going to talk about the great strides
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You're making in that mission.
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Robert, how often does this happen?
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I mean, what happened to you
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Is not an isolated incident, right?
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This is pretty frequent.
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That's part of the reason you do what you do.
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But this happens all too often to families
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Right here in america, right? it does.
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So perjury is a state jail felony in family court.
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It's perjury is a state jail felony.
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But yet they don't prosecute for it in criminal court.
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They do, but not in family court.
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And because they know that a lot of these lawyers
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Are telling their litigants
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To just say some of this stuff
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And nobody's going to get in trouble for it,
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And they would be the first ones.
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And that is the issue.
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That's where it starts out.
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And so when that happens, that's where you get false
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Protective orders. restraining orders.
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Then that's when you get pulled away from the kids.
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That's when they get alienated.
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And this is the big issue.
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But cps is all over the nation on 100% of their cases.
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There's only 15 to 18% that are founded.
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Abuse.
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Yeah, a lot of the other ones are family
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Court issues or just someone being retaliated of.
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And so you have to love
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Your child more than you hate your eggs.
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And we're going to talk how to talk about
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How you're closing all those loopholes
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In statehouses across america in a second.
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But about 30s left before the break.
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And what's the status now
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After that horrific struggle you went through again,
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15 years of you and your family, the kids.
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Where are you guys at now?
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So there's still a lot of, you know, fallout
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From 15 years of family court and false allegations.
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You know, my my youngest has two years left.
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My oldest, just is about to graduate this year,
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So she's aged out. she's 18 already.
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But me and my younger one, we still have a great relationship.
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I just took her to school the other day.
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But it's been really hard, you know, to repair
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A parental bond that has been broken
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By precaution or whatever by the courts.
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It's not a good, you know,
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It's not a good thing to have to go through.
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And you have to regain trust and all the rest.
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But you're doing exactly that,
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And you're doing it not only for the garza family.
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You're doing it for families across
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America, folks coming up more with foremost parents.
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Rights advocate robert garza.
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How about statehouses?
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What's happening in your state
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When it comes to correcting this injustice?
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More after the break. stick around.
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More after the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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We're talking to parents rights advocate robert garza.
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Robert, look, you talked earlier about how hard it is
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For a parent
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To get the time back that you lost with your children.
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You went through.
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Look, 43 false allegations, 15 years of struggle with your ex,
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Over your family, your kids, your family torn apart.
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And you said, look, it's hard to get that time back.
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You're doing it now.
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Thank god, by the grace of god, you're doing it.
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But that's the essence of the time taken.
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Time back, bill.
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It passed here in texas thanks to your tireless efforts
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Recently passed in north dakota.
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Tell us more about this bill
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And how it's spreading to states across the country.
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Yeah.
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So in family court, when somebody makes
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A false allegation against you
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And gets a false protective order, restraining order,
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The courts take your parental rights on a precaution.
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They can't do it
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Because they violate your fifth amendment right for due
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Process, your 14th amendment right for care, casting control.
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But when they're going to do it and when that allegation
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Gets rolled out, in my case,
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They never return the time 43 times that they were doing this.
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And they did it by precaution.
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So we asked for the time back. they never gave it back.
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So when we got out of family. four years.
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Oh, years like probably hijacked three,
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2 to 3 years of our parenting time
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Or my parenting time just on false allegations.
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And so when we finally got out,
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I came up with the time taking time back,
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Bill, and it's now a law went through bipartisan unanimous.
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And the governor signed off on it.
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And what it does is when you return to court
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To get that protective order, restraining order
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Dissolved after a false allegation,
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Then when they return the child, they return the time.
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And in doing so, had that been enacted,
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When i was going through this, my ex
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Maybe would have done it once or twice, not 43 times.
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This is a human rights issue,
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Not only in texas, but all over the country.
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And even all over the nation.
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You know, all over the world.
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And so we have people from japan, australia, canada
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Reaching out for the same thing.
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And it disincentivize us doing a false allegation.
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But what it really does is, like my ex did 43 times
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Through cps,
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It took those resources away from children really being hurt.
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And that's where it fails, families.
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And so now it'll give
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Give those resources
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Back to cps, the district attorney's office,
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The court system, and it will un stop everything
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By disincentivize dis incentivizing
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That false allegation.
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What a nightmare.
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I mean, you've detailed a robert, but false allegations,
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Your ex spouse.
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And this happens many times across america,
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Across the world.
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As you just said,
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There's bitterness,
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There's spite, there's vindictiveness,
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And they turn the kids against their ex.
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Terrible. you're rectifying that.
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Kudos to you.
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Also, the three strike law you've been advocating for this.
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This is holding people accountable for interfering
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With child custody, right? correct.
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So right now, if you call the cops,
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This is a penal code that it's amending.
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And so when the cops come out, it's a state jail felony.
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Right now in most states it is in texas,
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But they're not prosecuting for it.
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So what i've come up with is a fine, a tiered system.
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That's a $500 fine the first time.
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The second time,
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And then the third time you call the cops to come out
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When they're interfering with your child custody.
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It's a state jail felony. what it is right now.
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And what it does
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Is it's hopefully going to curve these parents
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That are withholding their children.
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It'll give them two times to curve that bad behavior.
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And it also makes a track record for the d.a.
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To show that this bad behavior is, ongoing.
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And it shows a pattern of it.
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And then when it does go to the d.a.,
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They turn it over to grand jury.
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It get they, the parent gets indicted,
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And then they get arrested for interfering.
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I mean, and this is all about the work you do.
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And by the way, folks,
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Robert garza.us where you get information.
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Maybe you're having struggles like robert
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Has gone through in his life with his family.
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Robert garza.us.
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We'll have the information you need.
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But at the end of the day,
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This is about restoring families, right?
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Restoring the nuclear family.
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And we want to avoid divorce.
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Sometimes it's unavoidable.
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We want to keep families together. yes.
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So when you go and spend tens of thousands,
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Even hundreds of thousands, in my case,
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When you get a court order and that court
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Order is not followed,
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Then what's what's your, you know, what's the solution?
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And so these two ways
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That we're the loopholes in texas are now synched up.
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And so hopefully we'll do this all over the nation.
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And it will give those
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Parental rights and children's rights back to those parents.
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Yeah. what's next? last question robert.
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Obviously time taken, time back.
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Big success. texas, north dakota and beyond.
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I guess your big initiative now
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Getting that
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Passed in all 50 states and maybe even internationally. yes.
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Hopefully it'll go international and it will restore,
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Where the family courts run more efficient.
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The dea runs more efficient,
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And we won't have so many of these problems
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That we're seeing with our youth.
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When your custody falls below 40% to either parent,
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You put that child at youth at risk for alcoholism,
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Teen pregnancy, high school dropout, school
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Shooters, all kinds of things.
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And so this fixes when the court gives you that time
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That that time gets used without interference.
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Yeah. well, robert, keep it up, man.
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You're doing god's work.
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It's robert garza dot u.s advocating for families
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Robert god bless. we'll see you again soon.
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Thank you.
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Coming up, final thoughts on
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What we're talking about tonight.
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Strengthening families.
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Let's start with the american family.
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What does a bible have to say about that?
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We'll break it down in my final thoughts. next.
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We'll break it down in my final thoughts. next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up here, it's really no coincidence
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That the devil comes after families, after children.
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I think of psalm 127, verse three.
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Children
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Are a heritage from the lord, offspring a reward from him.
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So of course, the enemy of our souls
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Is an enemy of children and the family.
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Look at what robert robert garza went through
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And think of psalm 138 verse seven.
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Though i walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life.
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You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes
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With your right hand. you saved me.
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God is saving families across america, so be encouraged.
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And tomorrow, by the way,
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Rabbi jonathan kohn, the one and only, is here
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Talking about his brand new book.
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You won't want to miss that until then.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: June 3, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

June 3, 2025 | S25:E603

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