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"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy? Well, so are we, but until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Metaxas. Welcome back, folks. This is Eric Metaxas, and welcome to the show. It's hour two. I continue talking to John Smirack, and after this segment, we'll bring on Larry Taunton to go over the news of the day and other things, but the news of the day being Tucker Carlson's mind -blowing interview with Larry Sinclair. Absolutely insane, insane that we're hearing about this for the first time 15 years after we should have heard about it. And the country's a different country because the media and the Republicans just squashed this information because they think you're too stupid to be able to process it on your own, so they have to censor it for you, scandalous. Okay, John, you were talking about something else. I was saying that Winston Churchill had a lot of flaws. He had been a warmonger in 1914. In 1923, he was hostile to the Germans, even though they were the Weimar Republic. He was an anti -German jingoist, but in 1940, he was the indispensable man, the only man who would stop the British from surrendering after France fell and cutting a disgraceful deal that let Hitler essentially run Europe. He was the indispensable man for all his flaws. And there were people in his party, the British Conservative Party, who wanted to push him aside and make a deal with the Nazis because it seemed like the prudent and sensible thing to do. That is exactly when you hear pious Christians condemning Donald Trump saying, well, he's got this terrible moral character. And he says, he puts out mean tweets. They wanna shove Winston Churchill aside and make a deal with the enemies of freedom and surrender to them because they find things unsavory about Donald Trump. And that's what's happening potentially in the Texas Senate right now with Ken Paxton, a heroic defender of religious freedom and the unborn and America's borders and election integrity. He's being savaged from the left by people who hate all those things and attacked from the squish center by the Bush family, which just resents him for beating one of their family members, George P. Bush, in an election. So you've got the most disgusting squish rhinos on the one hand and the far left cooperating the way they cooperated in the election of Obama. So that is my latest political article, but I've got a much more important piece I'd like to talk about. Sure. It has to do with our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Was Jesus a sinner? Do we get to say that Jesus was a sinner too? I can't wait to hear where you're going with this one, John Smirack, what do you got? This is a theme I've seen first in mainline Protestant preaching and then in some woke evangelicals. So now of course it eventually filters down to the Vatican. One of the closest advisors to Pope Francis is Father Antonio Spadaro. He runs the semi -official magazine at the Vatican, La Civilta Cattolica. So he is like Pope Francis' right -hand man. He gave a sermon just recently about Jesus' encounter with the Canaanite woman. And I think we all sort of remember that story, this Canaanite woman whose daughter is possessed by a demon starts basically pestering Jesus for a miraculous cure. And Jesus makes her jump through a bunch of hoops. He tells her, look, I've only come to preach to the lost children of Abraham. It is not fit to give to the dogs the bread that is meant for the children. And when we read this, I think we're all a little shocked by it at first. Jesus doesn't sound very nuts. And we're like, wow, what is this? What is this about? I think it is one of those hard sayings in the gospel that we have to think through that challenge us. Jesus was not acting like Oprah here. He was being kind of a hard guy, kind of a tough guy. He makes the woman, basically she gets to the point of saying, but even the dogs get the scraps that fall from the master's table. Then Jesus praises her for her persistence and for her faith, and he heals her daughter, just remotely, heals her daughter. A happy ending. Well, Father Antonio Spadaro, Pope Francis's right -hand man, gave a sermon recently where he says Jesus does not care. He calls Jesus angry and insensitive. He says that his hardness is unshakable. He said that Jesus replies in a mocking and disrespectful way towards that poor woman, because he's apparently blinded by nationalism and theological rigor. But - Hold on, hold on, hold on. You're telling me that one of the top priests at the Vatican genuinely publicly disapproved of the behavior of Jesus of Nazareth, our God. He said that Jesus is giving in to his own racism and nationalism, but by the end, the woman, through her persistence, heals Jesus. He says, quote, Jesus also appears healed and in the end shows himself free from the rigidity of the dominant theological, political and cultural elements of his time. So in other words, the woman heals Jesus instead of Jesus healing the woman's daughter. Jesus's racism is rebuked and repents Jesus for his sin of racism. This is what Pope Francis's right -hand man is saying, but don't take comfort in the fact that you're Protestant. This crap has been around. Protestants have been preaching this for years. You would see it if you go to Woke Preacher TV, you can see videos of Protestant ministers saying this five years ago. Well, first of all, the word Protestant is meaningless because the Protestant church has been in the tank, since Dietrich Bonhoeffer was at union in 1930. I mean, we've had liberal, progressive Protestantism for about a hundred years, so - These are self -described evangelicals. Right, that's the difference. Some of these folks would be described as evangelicals, but they are woke and they're doing the same thing you're describing. But somebody that close to the pope to be saying this, unless you're exaggerating - No, I'm not exaggerating. I was quoting directly from the translation. So let me unpack what's going on here, okay? This is an attempt to put ourselves above Jesus to where we can judge Jesus Christ, because we're so enlightened and we're so intelligent and we have made so much progress. This is the ultimate rebellion, the ultimate new gospel of the Antichrist. And this is what is being preached in our churches where we can judge even the behavior of Jesus Christ. John, it's the clearest mercy I've ever heard. I mean, for somebody to be criticizing Jesus as having sinned even slightly, that goes against every doctrine of the church from the beginning. I can't imagine that this could be - That is what the Vatican is now preaching. So really what happened in this story is this woman is a Canaanite. She's a member of a fertility cult that used to sacrifice infants. So she basically is in a religion that worships demons. She comes to Jesus. The daughter she raised in the demon -worshipping religion is, big surprise, possessed by a demon. She asks Jesus for a miracle, a miracle, a suspension of the laws of nature. God is not some water tap. We turn it on and off. Oh, I need a miracle. Okay, thank you. She's asking for a miracle from a God whom she has rejected her whole life. He makes her jump through a few hoops to show her sincerity and then gives her a miracle. And yet these progressive Christians are so proud that they want to condemn Jesus so that they can feel superior to Jesus. That is the essence of liberal Christianity, where you are the ultimate authority and the secular culture around you are the ultimate authority. George Soros, Microsoft, Facebook, Harvard, Google, they are the authority. They judge even Christ. We have less than a minute left. It's just hard for me to believe that things are that bad, but it seems like they are that bad. I don't know how your average faithful Catholic could make sense of this. This is very, very disturbing. Well, we've had terrible popes before and we've had heretical popes before. We now have one who's probably the worst, most heretical in the history of the church.
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Fresh update on "churchill" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"The current environment that we've been living through has certainly created a very challenging dynamic overall, and of course the banking turmoil in spring, the and of course now some of the dynamics playing out of Washington, but I would say that out of those dynamics has come one of the most attractive opportunities that I've certainly seen in my career in direct lending, in private credit. So I guess in that sense, I never wanted to wish for dysfunction and uncertainty, but I will say that in many respects, private credit and direct lending, unlike the GFC, Carol, has been here, if you will, to kind of come to the rescue a bit by providing the financing capital and lending capital and ultimately growth capital to the companies that need that capital have and performed well through the current environment. So in that sense, we're super We're busy and hoping that if things settle down a bit, we were certainly hoping for that post -Labor Day that we'd get even busier. Well, interesting that you talk about private credit like this because Bank of America actually put out a note, they said that private debt defaults are going to reach 5 % by early because 2024 a lot of deals, one third of deals come due in the next two and a years. half Is that bad for private credit though? Well, first of all, I'm not sure I agree with those numbers. The reality is that if you look at our portfolio or the portfolio of any number of what are arguably high quality, top tier private credit managers, some of which are publicly traded, what I think you would see is generally portfolios have held up extremely well. So I think that the prediction that default rates would reach 5 % is not supported by what we're seeing today. Now that doesn't mean that it won't play out, but I would say that just because there's a maturity wall doesn't necessarily mean that those companies are going to ultimately default. I think what you may very well see, and you're already seeing it today, is that a lot of those companies are going back to their lenders and say, look, this is a good business, strong it has cash flow, it's performed well, and we need to extend. And frankly, the reality is that to the extent that the businesses have performed, the odds are very good that they can work something out with their lenders and extend the maturity. So I wouldn't necessarily equate maturities to defaults, because as a direct lender, as a private credit lender, we may have the ability to down sit with the company, and if it's private equity -owned, with private equity -owned. We all are. And work out the dynamics if, in fact, those need to be done. it's Now, a totally different story if the company is performing poorly or underperforming or is not able to make its payments, but I would not attribute just maturity to necessarily creating creating that problem. And certainly we are not seeing evidence of that today. So, you know, it'll be interesting to see how that plays out. Ken, right, defaults can tell one story, and you're saying you're not necessarily seeing that. But in terms of rewriting are you providing terms and working with your borrowers? Are you doing a lot more of that in this environment? Frankly, not right now. I would tell you that our portfolio today, so we have investments in over 500 US mid -market companies in areas like healthcare and software and business services. These are all backed or owned by private equity investment firms, which is largely the case for many of our peers. And I think, you know, I've certainly had an opportunity to talk to my peers here in British Economic Forum. A number of them are here. We trade notes. And I can tell you that about portfolios our overall are holding up quite well. So, you know, our quote unquote workout person is frankly not that busy, surprisingly, I think, to some. And our New Deal people, you know, the folks that are underwriting new transactions, are actually quite busy. In fact, we had a very strong, we had a record quarter for a third quarter last quarter. And, you know, to the extent that we do get some clarity regarding the dynamics in and around interest rates and maybe a bit more certainty regarding potential increases in interest rates and inflation, you know, I we think could we very well find ourselves in a relatively soft landing. And if we do, you know, I think we'll and see M A activity and transaction activity pick up, right? Because, I mean, it's really, you know, the market's really waiting for some stability regarding rates. So I'm not, you know, I would say in what obviously to pay in has the markets. been a tough day in I would say what you'll hear from me is that, you know, there's there's a lot of liquidity in private credit. Institutional investors are allocating significantly to the space. Yields obviously conditions are quite attractive right now. And we're busy, you know, so, You know, I hate to be the positive story here, but I will say, you know, we're busy and institutions are out here. Well, Roman Bostic just said, Carol, you're the optimist always and all of this stuff. I do see the glass half full. But I want to make sure I'm eyes wide open. So I do wonder where you are seeing any cracks, because I do wonder in this higher rate environment and we are going to be here for longer. There's gone. There's going to be some problems. We know that. Absolutely. And I would say that, you know, in many respects, this is the kind of period where, you know, The lenders that maybe were a bit more aggressive and looked really good, you know, and getting higher returns, but maybe taking on more risk. I think those dynamics are coming home Bruce, to roost. but I would say overall, yes. And I would say that where we see cracks, if you will, and they're, you know, certainly in our portfolio, there are not many, where but we see them, they're very episodic and they're not tied to a broad, you know, pullback in economic conditions. So, for example, you know, a deal that was done a year ago where, you know, they embarked upon an acquisition strategy and those acquisitions did not play out as expected, or where there was a fundamental premise regarding reimbursement healthcare rates and some shifts in the way that they oriented the business that maybe didn't out play as well. So, there are certainly situations that have not gone well as planned, but not a fundamental pullback of the type that we would have seen, for example, GFC in the in any way, shape, or form. So Can – I ask one last question? Because we're running time. out of I wish – you know when I speak with you, I always want like an hour. Thirty seconds quick, because we keep talking about Treasury levels, pick your duration back to levels of 2007, 2008. Anything today reminds you of the great financial crisis? Very quickly, like 30 seconds. Yeah, so I would say the pullback in the syndicated loan markets in many respects is a carbon copy in that sense, right? CLO markets go dormant. Liquid loan markets go dormant. No real activity in the underwritten, large -cap COO in the syndicated loan market. The difference this time, direct lending is there, lots of liquidity, lending capital to really go and support private equity. So, similar in the liquid markets, but different in the sense that there are direct lenders there now to provide that capital. Well, certainly a highlight of our day. Ken, be well. Ken Kinsell, President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management, joining us from the Greenwich Economic Forum in Greenwich. Many people argue that these private credit guys is why the regional banking crisis maybe wasn't so bad earlier this year. Carol Masters, Simone Foxman, this is Bloomberg Radio. Bloomberg Radio, on demand and in your podcast feed. On the latest edition of the Bloomberg Intelligence podcast, a conversation with BI senior US regional banks analyst Herman Chan on the impact of charge -off trends from smaller banks. So, basically the banks, certain banks in Southeast the have preannounced in their earnings for the third quarter some charge -offs, so defaults on their lending based on some syndicated loans that they've syndicated out to a bunch of smaller regionals in the Southeast. And it basically revolves around a gas station operator that is pretty large down there and it's creating some
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"churchill" Discussed on Nudge
"Protests demonstrated what disabled Americans have had to do to get access to the same privilege as ordinary citizens. Rather than debate the topic they visually showed the effort and risk they had to incur in their everyday lives. Shortly after they the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law and now every bus train plane restaurant and shop has to offer disabled access. Churchill never feared skin in the game and unlike his colleagues he embraced it. He was always keen to personally experience visit or read to understand the situation better. One example shows this more clearly than most. In 1933 Adolf Hitler rose to in Germany intending to dismantle the Treaty of Versailles and establish Germany as the world's most dominant power. Unlike most of Churchill's peers in Westminster, Churchill read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book and believed it represented Hitler's plane intentions and so of course did Hitler. He was later quoted saying my program was first to abolish the Treaty of Versailles. I've written about it a thousand times no human being has ever declared or recorded what he wanted more often than me. He was very honest about what he wanted to do and was all plainly laid out in his book Mein Kampf and yet there was no British response to Hitler's arrival and power. Despite Hitler clearly declaring his views in his book published seven years before he was even elected most politicians in Westminster chose to ignore the book and didn't bother reading it. Churchill however he had read it. Paul Johnson writes that in government -read circles Hitler was seen as a deluded adventurer who would soon be discarded. The mood of the country was highlighted in a provocative debate at the Oxford Union in which undergraduates voted 275 to 153 for the motion that this house refuses in any circumstances to fight for king and country in a war against Hitler. Churchill called this unwillingness to consider Hitler a threat abject squalid and shameless. Unlike his peers, Churchill didn't rely on the prevailing views to mold his opinion. He opted for first -hand experience whether that's heading to Ireland to deliver a speech despite threats to his life or reading Mein Kampf whilst others chose to ignore it.
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"And it looks like here in October, this could potentially be the end. Yeah, it came to power. But, you it know, wasn't like the Republicans were all in on him, right? He came and he seemed to have given away a lot in order to get that position. And having said that, here we are in the years and over. And that job is certainly in question. What's interesting, Katie, is that balance of power in Washington, whatever the outcome of all of this, is dramatically going to shift. And we are living in an era, whether it's the Treasury market, whether it's climate change, so many things are dramatically shifting under us, and certainly front and center is politics. Do you think this is going to affect the market, though? Because we always sort of talk about this idea that politics doesn't necessarily move the market, at least in the way that we talk about in media. This is the Speaker of the House who has, at least right now, no viable successor that would be, I guess, any more competent than he is here, and at a time where we haven't passed a budget, we've got 45 days before we get to a new one, and we could potentially be do trying this to with a completely different speaker. Right, so shutdown, and I also think about what the world looks at in terms of to be the government and the country where things are expected. It's not the unusual. We can count on it, and then we continue to see upheavals in our government, and that's got allies to, I think, and how they about our look at us. Yeah, but at the same time, you know, McCarthy giving away, to some degree, a little bit of power when he became the speaker back, what, nine, ten months ago, and then maybe giving away a little bit of his leverage to the Democrats. Well, not a little bit. He gave it away. I mean, they basically compromised and said, one vote. That's all it takes, one guy to stand up and say, I want this guy gone. And, well, that's what happened. We knew this was going to happen. But he could come back now and give that same leverage back to the Democrats. That's certainly what seems like a potential pass. Why? Hakeem Jeffries already out with the statement saying the Democrats are not going to win. When's the next downgray, Carol Master? When's the next round the for United States? I don't know. What I'm trying to figure out is, man, the debate that I think continues. The Fed members this? We're so clear in higher rates for longer. We get it. And then you have State Street coming out and saying, yeah, thinking we're maybe a full percentage point of cuts next year, maybe even 200 basis points. It is interesting. And you think about what would actually prompt it. And I fail to think of it, other than a recession, you talk about 200 basis points of rate cuts. 100 basis points, maybe that's normalization back to neutral 200. They talk about slowing growth and inflation. Exactly. So there you go. Yeah. I mean, look, I mean, look, you want to go back to the markets. There's a reason why you see the NASDAQ down a couple percentage points on the day and the S &P down one and a half percent here. This isn't because good times are coming, is it? You know, but we say higher for longer. But then when you read through through some of the commentary that we've heard from Loretta Messer and Rafael Bostic today, both of them not not voting members. You know, Messer was saying it's not appropriate to hold rates where they currently are until you get to two percent. But meanwhile, Boston came out with a bit more of a let's hold until we get back to that 2 percent level. Are Fed officials really as in agreement as we seem to think they are. Well, they're not in agreement. I mean, I know they put on a happy face every time they come out. This was unanimous. that But I could think change dramatically when we get to the meeting at the end of this month, October 31st, November 1st here. And maybe you'll start to see a little bit more dissent here. But the fact of the matter is the pace of this economy and the direction of it is probably just much as a conundrum to them as it is to us. Joltz? Joltz, anybody? Joltz. Job openings, Carol Masser. nine There are million of them out there and only half of them are ghost jobs. I mean, exactly. Well, there's one more. Apparently, the Speaker of the House is looking to hire someone. 200 grand salary. Not bad. Oh, too soon. Too soon, Romain Bostic. All right, we're going to come back in less than... Yeah, a little bit. We're going to come back in less than an hour's time. I didn't know you were a big McCarthy fan. I'm not, but I would like to see them actually govern and work on policy rather than fighting. I know, right? I know. So sweet. All right, we're going to be back in less than an hour's time. I love Carol. She's such an optimist. I try, I try. We'll see you on radio, TV, YouTube, and of course Bloomberg Originals. And I'll see you next trends on Wall Street has seen different cycles in our government and has to make sense of it. He is has really a front seat to what has been going on when it comes to private credit and private lending. So delighted to have back with us. Ken Kinsell, President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management. $47 billion private capital affiliate of Nuveen. You know, the more than trillion dollar asset manager of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America. Ken is joining us on Zoom from the Greenwich Economic Forum in Greenwich, Connecticut. Ken, so how are you? Great, great, great to speak with you again, Carol, and always enjoy our conversation. I do too. I feel like I always learn a lot. You give me some great perspective. You gave our listeners and viewers great perspective. So what we were talking about with our TV colleagues is how much does an investment professional like you and your investors, how much do they care about dysfunction, lack thereof, a House Speaker, maybe being voted out in Washington? Well, certainly uncertainty is generally not a good thing, and certainly we've had a lot of that over the last year.
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"churchill" Discussed on Nudge
"He went on to write throughout the election campaign he avoided serious interviews and discussions about policy preferring instead to post light -hearted videos on social media. The time for joking has to stop. Now in case you didn't know Zelensky was originally a comedian who famously started a comedy show where he became the prime minister by accident. But today most regard him not as a comedian but one of the world's most admirable leaders and it's hard not to see the link between that view and his skin in the game. Suited in his army gear clearly putting his life at risk the perception has rightly shifted in direct correlation with Zelensky's skin in the game. Churchill benefited from the same bias even as prime minister in World War II. Towards the end of the war Churchill insisted on absolute readiness for the D -Day landings deciding to delay the success of the Normandy landings. But Churchill was not happy to simply hear about the success from afar. He wanted skin in the game. He was eager to witness the victory first hand and declared to all that he was going to join the troops on the front line during D -Day. Now this obviously alarmed military leaders. It alarmed the cabinet and it even raised eyebrows in the White House. Everyone unanimously agreed that it was a bad idea but Churchill wasn't listening. He was going to go. He was going to be part of the D -Day landings. If it wasn't for King George VI pleading with him not to go, Churchill would have joined the soldiers on the beaches in Normandy. Something that was unheard of for any other leader during the time but something that also shows Churchill's obsession with skin in the game. And look maybe you'll look at this obsession with skin in the game as being perhaps a little egotistical. This desire to be directly involved, to be the face of the wars he covered as a correspondent, to have the limelight in the
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"Bloomberg Appreciate that Business you walking it Week. The may through all well of Guys, this first pass with this has time me been a today, remarkable in a want hundred Carol afternoon Master years to and we've in Simone send seen Washington. a Foxman things motion to to and No vacate standing New doubt York we about this now will time it, I'm by find might Joe and in Matthew be this out New is different York a in what critical Washington. in for ultimately vote, I is, Joe, the future of the US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. As you though, said, it does not look good at this moment. We're going to continue to monitor what is going on on the House floor as they McCarthy consider removing and ultimately see where that leads in terms of do we get a House new Speaker and what that means for policy or whether or not somehow Kevin McCarthy is able to woo more to his side and maintain his position. It is a critical day, once again, when it comes to US politics. All right, we are live in the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers studio streaming on YouTube and, of course, Bloomberg Originals live here at Bloomberg headquarters. Carol Master, along with Simone Foxman. We know Joe and the team continuing to track this. They'll come back later at 5 p .m. Wall Street time on Bloomberg Live at 5 p .m. on cond Harmon ads board. Leeks of not released, which is is not not certainly some of the turmoil we're once again seeing in the US financial markets. Yeah, certainly a stocks down today. Definitely a lot of red on the screen. Not only the biggest to do as well with various Fed commentary coming out that sometimes seems like it's at odds, ads, certainly at odds with each other, as well as at odds with what the strategists on Wall Street are saying. Yeah, feels it's a like back and that forth, higher for but it certainly longer now, you know, we're all trying to figure out what longer means. So we're going to talk about that focus on the crypto world as well. As you know, jury selection beginning in the fraud trial of once crypto king Samuel Bankman freed, we will take you live to downtown New York where all of that is happening. Going to talk about, speak about trends this year, last year, last few years, the growing role of private credit. We've got a great voice on that Ken Kinsell of Churchill Asset Management. I'm curious to Simone to see what he has to say about some of the wrangling that's going on in DC. If at all he thinks about that when he thinks about his world of private credit. Yeah, averted shutdown, the but now what? This question almost seems to loom just as large. We'll also talk about the growing competition for Tesla, UID anyone. Yeah, exactly. This is a big car over in China. So we're going to get to that. We've also got a great author on she's a professor at Harvard Business School. We're going to talk about moving fast and fix things. Sounds like we could use that in this environment. Right now over to our TV colleagues, We've we got a lot got to talk about when it comes to the financial markets. Countdown to the Close starts now. Come down to the Close. Bloomberg's comprehensive cross platform coverage ahead of the US market starts right now. This is the Countdown to the Close Romain Bostic alongside Katie Greifield, joined right now by our colleagues, Carol Master, Simone Foxman, filling in for Tim Senovik today. Welcome to audiences our across Bloomberg Television, Radio, Originals, and our partnership with YouTube. Stocks at session lows, Carol Master. But before we get to the markets, I think we have to go back to what's going on in Washington right now. A procedural vote today here that would effectively set up a scenario to remove the Speaker of the House on a procedural measure that hasn't been successfully invoked since 1910. speaker A who just came to power this year in January of this year. Yeah.
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"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacypminvestments .com. That's legacypminvestments .com. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking, Eric Metaxas! Hey there folks, welcome to the show. I am excited because I have a friend on today who is a Christian apologist. Have you heard that term? An apologist? No, no, no, he's not apologizing. As a Greek, I know the word apology, the original meaning is apologia, of words, of understanding. So to be an apologist is to make a defense, like a lawyer would, for the faith. And Frank Turek is the author of many, many books. He's the president of CrossExamined. You can go to crossexamined .org. And Dr. Frank Turek has a new book out. Excited to have him to discuss the new book. It's called Correct, Not Politically Correct About Same -Sex Marriage and Transgenderism. Dr. Frank Turek, welcome to the program. The great Eric Metaxas. How are you my friend? Unbelievable that you have a stadium -sized crowd in your little office there. That's very impressive. Thank you. I got to tell you seriously, we're friends and I just enjoy whenever I get to bump into you and talk to you. But you are really prolific. You keep coming out with these extraordinary books. And the new one, unfortunately, is very important about same -sex marriage and transgenderism. So as believers, those of us who say, I'm a Christian, how do I understand this? You have written a book to help with that. Because unfortunately, you know that there seems to be some confusion about how we're supposed to deal with this. So what is the principal thesis of the book before we get into the details? Well actually, this goes all the way back to 2008, Eric, when I saw that same -sex marriage was being more and more accepted. And a lot of people didn't know why they shouldn't accept same -sex marriage. And so I wrote the first edition of this book back in 2008. And it's not a book filled with Bible verses. This is the natural law medical case against same -sex marriage and now transgenderism. Because as you know, that has come out even more in recent years. And so the third edition of this book just was released about a month ago. And it's got a brand new section on this transgender issue. Because as you've spoken about, Eric, when you're talking about Letter to the American Church, is that pastors don't even seem to want to touch this issue. And if pastors aren't going to touch this issue, who is? Well, ironically, Eric, there have been atheists that are talking more about this issue. People like Bill Maher, people like Richard Dawkins, people like Douglas Murray, are who actually not Christians, but they're saying there's a big problem here. And we need to speak out against it. And it's really a stain on the American Church that the Church hasn't spoken out about it, Eric. So anyway, this book, Correct, Not Politically Correct, is the third edition. And it's not quoting Bible verses. It's there to show you from a natural law medical perspective why both same -sex marriage and transgenderism are not good for individuals or societies. It's so interesting to me what you just mentioned, how we have non -believers, people who are not Christians, who seem to see clearly the problems with transgenderism and are talking about that. And of course, most extraordinarily, you have gay, people who identify as gay, who are conservative, speaking out against the transgender madness. So they don't identify as Christians. They identify as gays. But they say, wait a minute, we were not advocating for this. This is lunacy. I was literally with Douglas Murray last night at a dinner here in New York City. I was with Brandon Strzok here in New York recently. Both of them identify as gay. Both of them are conservatives. And both of them are totally outspoken about the transgender lunacy. So obviously, we disagree on some pretty basic stuff. But on this, many people who are not Christians see the madness, are speaking out about it. And as you just said, many in the church are silent. And this is the scandal. And that's why I wrote my book, Letter to the American Church. But I don't go deep into this issue. You, my friend, Mr. Apologist, Dr. Frank Turek, you get into this. So I do want to get into it with you from a biblical perspective. And I want to be clear, too, when you say natural law perspective, ladies and gentlemen, that's a biblical perspective. We're just not talking about quoting scripture verses. We're talking about logically talking from a biblical viewpoint. But how are we supposed to approach this? Well, first of all, let's talk about whether or not love requires approval. I always ask parents, because our culture somehow thinks, Eric, that love requires approval, that if you want to love me, you have to approve of what I do. And I always ask parents, if you approve of everything your kid wants to do when he or she is 13, are you a loving parent? Of course not. You need to stand in the way of evil to love people. And we, even in the church, have bought into the lie that to love people, we have to approve of what they do. No, we don't approve of what they do if we love them, if they're doing evil. This is why Paul says, by the way, in the passage, Eric, that everybody reads at their wedding, but nobody obeys, that love always protects, that love does not rejoice in wrongdoing, love rejoices in the truth, that love always perseveres. How do you protect people when other people want to do evil, or when they themselves want to do evil? You call them out on it. And that, of course, is what I'm trying to do in Correct Not Politically Correct. That's what you're trying to do in Letter to the American Church. We're trying to tell people that if you love people, you will speak out against this evil. In fact, Jesus himself said it would be better to have a millstone hung around your neck than to lead one of these little ones astray. And, Eric, that's what we're doing. That's what I document in Correct Not Politically Correct. We are actually trying to transition minors. We're mutilating their genitals. We are giving them puberty blockers and cross -sex hormones that are making them old men and old ladies way before their time, sterilizing them, and we're calling this love? This is not love. This is evil, and we need to stand against it. And if Douglas Murray can stand against it, if Richard Dawkins can stand against it, if my friend Dave Rubin, I just did a show with him down in Miami just a couple of weeks ago, you know, he identifies as gay too, if he can stand against it, where are the pastors? Where are the Christians? Where are the common sense people, Eric? What are we doing? We're allowing this on our watch, and we're silent. We can't be silent anymore. Well, I, you know, in my book, Letter to the American Church, I'm trying to reach those pastors and Christians who are kind of on the fence, who are confused, who don't know what to do, so they're being quiet. And it's why I love you, because you help us understand why we need to speak out. I mean, I talk about it a little bit, but you go into depth to explain the biblical worldview, God's idea of sexuality, transgenderism. Now, what's interesting to me, Frank, is, of course, Scripture isn't silent on transgenderism, right? I mean, right in the beginning of Genesis, we are created in God's image male and female. Very, very clear, there are only two genders. So when somebody puts out this idea, which they came up with 10 minutes ago, oh, yeah, there are all these many, many genders, you want to say, where did you get that from? Everyone, you don't need to be a Christian to know that's preposterous. You don't need to know that, you don't need to be a Christian to know that a rooster cannot lay an egg. Everybody from the beginning of time has understood that there are two genders, so that's number one. But number two, you know the passage where Paul talks about who will inherit the kingdom of God. And the Scripture, you know, when you look at the Greek, you get different translations. It says homosexual, sodomite, sometimes it says effeminate, whatever. What it's referring to there in that first word has to do with those men who blur the line, who feminize themselves. And it makes it very clear that that is wrong. And so it's interesting, the Scripture is not silent on these things. There's plenty in Scripture about this, whether you're looking at the Old Testament or the New Testament. So that's why it's all the more shocking in a sense that Christian pastors and leaders have been silent on this. I understand why, but folks, that needs to change. When we come back, we're going to get into the details. Frank Turek is my guest. The book is titled Correct, Not Politically Correct. We'll be right back. Tell me why Relief Factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question. Well, the owners of Relief Factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right. Designed to heal. And I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated Relief Factor for them selected the four best ingredients. 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The show podcast is called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. So, Frank, let's keep talking about this. How do we know there are only two genders? How do you know? How do I know? How do we know this? Let's just leave the Bible out of it for just a minute. Let's just look at the natural design of the body. The natural design of the body proves there are only two genders, Eric. Because, look, if you're a human being, and this is true in all mammals, you can only produce either a sperm or an egg. There's no third category. And anybody that can't produce a sperm or an egg, that's an incapacity. That's not a third capacity. So we know by the design of the body that there's only two genders. Secondly, transgender advocates, and this is all in the book, correct? Not politically correct. Transgender advocates, on one hand, deny there are only two genders. They say everything is fluid. But on the other hand, they unwittingly have to presuppose two genders. Why? Because if I'm a man and I think I'm a woman, I have to have some idea what a man is and some idea what a woman is to know that I have this psychological mismatch between my psychology and my biology. And secondly, if I'm going to try and make the so -called transition, which is impossible, and we'll get into it by the way, but if I'm going to try and do that, if I'm going to try and become a woman, I have to have some idea of what a man is and some idea of what a woman is to try and make the so -called transition. If there were no fixed genders, Eric, there would be no way I would know I had gender dysphoria, and there would be no way I could try and make the so -called transition. So it presupposes it, on one hand, while denying there are fixed genders on the other. Can I tell you how I know there are only two genders? Here's how I know. Amazon was selling a shirt that said, like, these are the 20 different categories of gender, and it was on the front of the t -shirt. And the shirt came in sizes for men and for women only. That, to me, is hilarious. When it says male, female, like you want to buy a shirt, like you got to click on male or female. At some point, this becomes funny, because we all understand this is troubled people. These are people that are deeply, deeply troubled. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to be so confused or so angry or so whatever. So we do have to have compassion, and I think that's where the silence comes from on the part of many Christian leaders. They think that to say nothing is to be compassionate, and in some cases that's true. In some cases, there's a time to speak and a time to be quiet, but we have a responsibility to disciple our flocks. We have a responsibility to our own children to tell them the truth about these kinds of things. And, you know, the famous statement, silence in the face of evil is itself evil. When you're quiet, it can often mean consent. It means, I'm not saying anything, which means I'm going along with this. I just don't want to, I'm just not going to say so, but you get the message, because I'm saying nothing. Well, Eric, let's draw a parallel between gender dysphoria and, say, anorexia, which is what Dr. Paul McHugh at John Hopkins University, a psychiatrist, draws. He that says if someone is anorexic, but they think that they are overweight, you would not help them by saying, you know, honey, I'm going to get you some liposuction. You're right. You know, you are really overweight. No, you would say, honey, your mind is playing tricks on you. You're suffering from a mental delusion. Let me get you some psychiatry. Let me get you some cognitive therapy. Let me get you some counseling. Let me help you fix your mind, because you can change your mind. You can't change your biology, by the way. You can change your mind. Also, Eric, if your daughter came to you and said she was a mermaid, would you take her off the coast and drop her in the ocean? No, of course you would say... If I loved her, of course I would. Whatever you want to be, honey, whoever you are today, you want to be a kite? That's right. Follow your heart. No, I tell you, Frank, again, this is the logic of it. If somebody says to you, I'm Napoleon Bonaparte, I'm Julius Caesar, I'm Winston Churchill, how do you respond to that? Well, you might just nod politely because you realize, wow, this person is deeply messed up. But imagine affirming them in that lie. I have to say that, you know, if there's a way to help them see the truth, you would do it. Now, some people are beyond that. There's some people you can't do anything. But what is amongst ourselves, we wouldn't start calling that person Jesus of Nazareth because he just said, I'm Jesus. We, you and I, would say, you know, that guy there thinks he's Jesus of Nazareth. We obviously know that he's not. He's so messed up. I don't know how we can get to him. Maybe we can't. But let's not pretend amongst ourselves. Let's not tell everybody, call him Jesus because that's the loving thing to do. You would never do that. No, and the well -meaning people who try and say, well, we need to accommodate these people. We have to use their pronouns. You have to have your own pronouns and all this. If you think about that, if someone is suffering from a delusion, you don't help them by trying to keep them in the delusion. If deaf people were to come to you and say, Eric, you know, I can't hear and I'm upset every time you listen to music, stop listening to music, stop speaking. You must use sign language. You would go, OK, I'm going to do everything I can to accommodate you because you have a defect that you can't get over. But I'm not going to change my life completely. So you're not offended because I listen to music or I or I speak. And yet that's what seems to be happening with the entire trans movement. They want to pull the entire world into the delusion in order to make some people who really need mental health care feel better when the best way to help them feel better is to get them mental health care, not to affirm them in that particular delusion. And by the way, the data show, which is what we cover and correct, not politically correct, Eric, that nearly all of the people, not maybe not all, but most of the people that suffer from so -called gender dysphoria have some kind of traumatic childhood event that has triggered them into this. Now, say that again, because I have not really heard that. I was wondering about this. Yes. You're a data guy. I'm not really. So talk about that. And again, this is in the book. Correct. Not politically correct. Talk about that. Yeah. Walt Iyer, who for eight years tried as try to live as a woman, but then became a Christian and then started the Web site and ministry called Sex Change Regret, Sex Change Regret Dotcom. And he has counseled thousands, according to him, thousands of people. And in his research, he says there's nearly always an event. There's always some sort of traumatic event that causes the person to think I'm in the wrong body. And for example, the people that truly have gender dysphoria, not the social contagion that's spreading on the Internet right now that, you know, a lot of young girls are just there. It's the hip thing to do it. They don't really have gender dysphoria, but they're trying to get approval of the crowd and they're trying to stick it to their parents sometimes when they do this. But the people that truly have gender dysphoria say, Eric, that they had an event. In fact, Walt Iyer puts it this way. Sometimes when a man thinks he's a woman, he has been sexually abused and he wants to get rid of the genitalia that was abused. So you can understand the psychology behind it. They want to rid themselves of the organ that was abused in that event. Okay, folks, we got to be clear. We're talking about evil. Evil, when someone is sexually abused as a child, there's almost nothing that you can think of that's more evil than that. It is pronounced evil. It's not just wrong. It's pronounced evil. And when you quoted Jesus earlier, you know, better that we would find the largest millstone and have it hung around his neck and he be cast into the sea than that he should lead one of these little ones to go straight. We're talking about some very, very dark stuff. And we have to have compassion to understand if someone has been through that, it is hard for us to imagine how that would mess you up, how your brain, your psyche would try to accommodate that trauma. And as you're saying, as this guy says, who you can find at sexchangeregret .com, sexchangeregret .com, he is saying that is often the case, that someone has had a profound trauma. So first, we want to weep for these people. We want to weep what they have been through, but we don't want to affirm them in the way they're dealing with this any more than you deferment. Somebody who's like, you know, who's on heroin because of some stuff that happened to him, you know, in Vietnam or during his childhood. And you wouldn't want to say, like, hey, if heroin is your way to deal with this, good for you. I'm all in. Let me buy you, you know, some horse. No, you would you would try to actually help him, like really help him. And, you know, Eric, you can change your mind. You can't change your biology. Look, if I'm a man and I think I'm a woman, why not think that instead of my body being wrong, that I'm actually, instead of saying I'm a woman trapped in a man's body, why shouldn't I say that I'm a man enveloping a woman's mind? Then if I can just change my mind and fix the problem, I can't change my biology. I can't change all hundred trillion of my cells. I can't change my DNA, but I can change my mind. And every single one of ourselves, folks, can tell any doctor whether you're a man or a woman. This is not like an up in the air thing. We'll be right back talking to Frank Turek, T -U -R -E -K. Frank Turek, the book, correct, not politically correct.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Churchill" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"To narrow the field of candidates running for president keep it right here will have full details of the stories just seven ahead forty eight traffic and weather on the eight let's traffic center still dealing with major delays on the beltway let's start out at a loop topside from ninety five all the way around past twenty nine coalsville road a brief break them before connecticut you start again all the way past the merge with the two seventy spur this earlier wreck was moved out of the roadway but southbound two seventy is slow from twenty one one headed to montgomery village avenue and then from three seventy solid all the way onto the spur to join that delay on the outer loop of the beltway again that crash is out of the roadway we're seeing delays both both directions of river road trying to head to the beltway if you're on connecticut southbound delays approaching the beltway then headed jones toward bridge road from both directions and again approaching four ten east west highway if you're in virginia it is northbound 95 delays dale city to woodbridge then lorton into newington then in springfield onto three ninety five fairly solid all the way to glebe road and then after the pentagon headed across the fourteenth street and bridge the case bridge into the district the eastbound toll road after wheelie avenue was a report of a wreck we also had one in falls church 29 at fairview park drive and earlier in woodbridge it was the westbound prince william churchill drive with the wreck if you're in maryland southbound 124 woodfield road before or air park drive watch for the crash and under police direction near parker drive northbound route four pennsylvania avenue after dower house road that crash was along the left side and new hampshire avenue at goodhope road and bonifant road you're also under authority direction there for the wreck in the district southbound dc 295 slows off at 50 in the bw parkway headed all the way to inbound suitland parkway is solid from silver hill road headed to firth sterling and then across the bridge onto south capital street the northbound baltimore washington parkway is slow from 450 to 410 keep an eye out for any crash activity there mckesson delivers medical supplies to government agencies through the federal supply schedules visit mms .mckesson .com government for details that's mms mckesson .com slash government i'm rita kessler wtop traffic
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from President Biden's trip to NATO Summit 2023
"Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, to listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at hughforhillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Morning, glory America, Bonjour, hi Canada. Good Wednesday to you. I'm Hugh Hewitt in the Studio North. President Biden went to bed. That's my lead story. And you say, why is that a lead story? There's a lot of news going on. Former President Trump is picking a fight with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. We got a lot of John Kerry audio for those of you who want to go back to sleep. We've got questions about the Hunter Biden plea deal and whether or not Judge Mary Ellen Norika is going to do right. Well, Joe Biden went to bed. That's the lead story in the Telegraph. Biden skips NATO leaders dinner to, quote, prepare for a big speech. So, presidents tuckered out. All right. He's got to go to bed at five o 'clock because he's up at 6 a .m., which is not true. I go to bed early. You know, I got to get up early. If I sleep in, it's 5 15 when I get up. If I get up at the normal time, it's 4 30. But either way, I'm always on the air somewhere at 6 a .m. in the morning. 9 a .m. other places, 10 a .m. other places, 1 a .m., 1 p .m. other place. But I have to get up early. So I understand going to bed early. But the president flies all the way to England, which is like a three hour flight, right? It's not like he's gone around the world as Japan. He's got jet lag. You went to England from Washington, D .C. It's actually less of a change to go from Washington, D .C. to Denver. So he goes over to England and he gets completely lost with the prince. He's wandering around. And then the reports Telegraph Joe Biden skipped a dinner with NATO leaders last night to head back to his hotel in Vilnius. I'm sorry, not in England. He went on from England over to Vilnius. He went to dinner back to his hotel in Vilnius to prepare for a, quote, big speech. U .S. official blamed the 80 year old president's busy schedule on his absence at the gathering of the NATO alliance's leaders. Mr. Biden has spent the weekend at the beach before arriving in Sunday Europe on night, had Anthony Blinken, the U .S. secretary of state, attend in his place. That's going to be thrilling to everyone. I like Tony Blinken. I mean, I'd love to go to dinner with Tony Blinken. Very got a lot of good stories. You got every head of state there. There's a war in the middle of Europe. It's like going to the Tehran summit with Churchill, FDR and Stalin and FDR saying, let me send over Henry Wallace. I actually, Cordell Hall, I don't know who it was. And the idea that the president of the United States cannot stay up for a NATO summit isn't about time we had a talk with the president about just showing your cards. You're not running for reelection. There's just no way. You're 80 years old and you're feeling it. But let's give a listen to what he had to say yesterday. Cut number one. President Biden has arrived in Lithuania for the NATO summit. And he doesn't know where he's going. He's looking around. And if you're watching on the Salem news channel, you can see it. Whoever is the president of Lithuania is taller. Now he's turning around and wants to go back on the plane. Then he shakes hand and he moves forward. OK, cut number two. President Biden, Jan Stoltenberg, who is the leader of NATO and has been since I was seven. Keep going. Cut number two. Mr. President, it's great to have you here at the NATO summit. It's good to be here and thank you for continuing to deliver. I am, as I've made no mistake, not at all surprised. I've been telling the fact that I think it's really important at this critical moment in the whole NATO issue that you continue to lead NATO. You're trusted. No one knows the situation that we're facing better than you do. And this historic moment, the adding of Finland and Sweden to NATO is consequential. And your leadership really matters. And we agree on the language that we've proposed. OK, he's really sold on this Finland and Sweden deal. He's got that committed to memory. Finland and Sweden are coming in. Cut number three. This is consequential. And your leadership really matters. And we agree on the language that you proposed relative to the future of Ukraine being able to join NATO. And we're looking forward to continuing to unite NATO. They've heard me say, my American president heard me say many times, I still think that President Putin thinks the way he succeeds is to break NATO. Not going to do that, especially when you listen to us. So thank you for the moment. I am reminded of A .T., my beloved grandfather lived 101 years old on his own wheels in his own house. And I love the guy so much, Gramps. And he was a fireman, so of course I looked up to him like a giant when I was three or four. But A .T., as he got older, was always a go get him kind of guy. Didn't really, not very good on the details. Where are you? Are you at Yale? Are you at Columbus? You go to Ohio State? Not real long on the details, but great on the love, right? That's what grandparents after A .T. do. Not long on the details. They're at the baseball game. They're not sure if you're supposed to steal second or not. They're not even sure if it's a baseball game, but they're there and they're cheering for you. And Grandpa Joe is just great. He's there for Jan Stoltenberg. But it gets a little bit worrisome when he tells the Lithuanian president cut number four. Our pledge to to be with you has not waited. It didn't take us long to get thousands of troops here to want Russia invaded the second time. So we'll be able to be assured that you're going to have all that you need. If you have sector defenses today, you can send him along. It's all kidding aside. All kidding aside, that's after he jokes about Russia invading Lithuania.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Eric Metaxas Show
How Many People Quoted Hitler? John Zmirak Explains
"And now what you see on Twitter is Moms for Liberty quote Hitler. Here's my response. Do you know who else quoted Adolf Hitler? Winston Churchill. He quoted Hitler. Maybe we need to look into Churchill. You know who else? This really shocks me. You know who quoted the Nazis over and over again? Steven Spielberg has Nazis all over his movies. One more thing. And this really is appalling. The prosecutors at Nuremberg quoted the Nazis. Is no one innocent? Listen, I just you know, because I sent you an email. But what is so discouraging is, you know, it's one thing to have principled differences. There are people with whom I disagree on things, but you try to hear each other out. You try at least to understand what it is that somebody actually believes. So you can have a principled view, a principled conversation that, OK, we don't agree on this or this or this. Eric, that's so 1980s. OK, I know that doesn't happen anymore. Right. Well, so my my my point, of course, is that so here you have moms for liberty who are total heroes, quoting Hitler in exactly the way you said it to to to denounce Hitler. That's a warning. That's the point, right? Yeah. So you have leftist groups attacking them as being pro Hitler, knowing, knowing that they're not right and doing it. Media Matters then put out an article that I defended moms for liberty, quoting Hitler. And I thought to myself, look, you might hate me or disagree with me, but you've got to know that I wrote a 600 page book denouncing Hitler and the Nazis. Of
The Dan Bongino Show
Vivek Ramaswamy: How to Declare Economic Independence From China
"How do you anticipate in the future handling China So look I think that we have a short window Dan we're a little lucky We can't take credit for this but we're a little lucky that Xi Jinping has shot himself in the foot in the last year to hold on to his third term of power He took the floor out of China's economy This is our moment to declare economic independence from China I think we can do it This is our window because China's already weak And if we declare independence and say that here are the terms if you don't reform no data theft no intellectual property theft Here's how you're actually going to play with state subsidized competition on the global stage Lay out our list of demands You're not going to use our companies as pawns to advance your political agenda through lobbying here in the United States If we do these things then you tell Xi Jinping if not we're actually going to pull out and we beat it Xi Jinping will fold The CCP might fall if we actually economically sever our ties from China So what I would say is I've put in bands to say no CCP buying land in the United States I ban most U.S. businesses from expanding into the Chinese market Until and unless this ECP meets our list of demands and they're in such a weak spot Dan if we can open our eyes and see it that we're working within a short window now to actually deliver that with the spine but that takes fortitude It takes a little more Churchill a little less Chamberlain in our foreign policy That's part of my urgency I understand these issues deeply I've been in exchange student in China In fact in my first company I did business in China That's why I started when I started strive I said no we're not going to do business in China because I understand how the game is played But I understand this deeply that gives me part of my urgency to run for president I think we can do it
AP News Radio
Baffert back from ban, wins Preakness with National Treasure after another horse euthanized
"A day of emotions for the trainer of the winning Preakness stakes horse. One of the horses trained by Bob Baffert national treasure won the Preakness stakes hours after another efforts horses had to be euthanized after suffering a leg injury in an undercard race on the same track. That death follows to deaths of 7 horses in ten days at Churchill downs in Louisville in the lead up to The Kentucky Derby. New national medication and doping rules are set to take effect on Monday. The federally mandated horse racing integrity and safety authority will oversee drug testing requirements for horses that should standardize to sport nationwide for the first time. I'm Mike Hempen.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Left in Denial: China Planning Invasion of Taiwan
"I had a dinner lunch last week with three smart people. One of whom is a foreign national two of them are Democrats. All three of whom agreed that China wasn't going to attack Taiwan. They would prefer to absorb it by osmosis and take many years and they'll just buy the island like they did Hong Kong. And I thought to myself, boy, oh boy, the left doesn't want to deal with the reality of the chai comes. How do you get through to people like this that we could wake up any morning and see an invasion? Well, let me start by paraphrasing what Churchill said at Westminster college in Fulton, Missouri, which is to say there's no doubt that the Soviet Union does not want war. They want the fruits of war and an unimpeded expansion of their power and ideological objectives. The same is true of Xi Jinping. No doubt he would prefer to absorb Taiwan via political warfare rather than actual warfare. Yet he repeatedly is telling us that he's prepared to use force if necessary to achieve his life's ambition. And what these people need to do is pay attention to what Xi Jinping says when he talks not to the Davos crowd, but when he talks to his own party membership. And on that point, he has been crystal clear that he is prepared to use force if necessary, particularly when, as I believe, will happen, he realizes that if achieving that objective, that objective of reunification of Taiwan with the mainland, can not be achieved via political warfare because the DPP is going to win the election in Taiwan in January of 2024. So if you crane has taught us anything, it is that we should listen to dictators when they tell us in plain language what they intend to do. And if we ignore that because we graphed our own western sensibilities on to Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and we do mirror imaging, we do so at our own peril.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Reviving Christianity Starts at the Kitchen Table
"Teaching a muscular Christianity and activist courageous Christianity. That's the kind of Christianity that abolished the slave trade. That's the kind of Christianity that helped wipe out slavery in America that helped Lincoln win a war, it seems like we've forgotten that that's really what it is to have faith is to live out your faith. But let's distill it back one step further. And we say it's not happening in the churches. We feel a little bit absolved because we're not the pastor or the church leader. It has to start at the kitchen table. We have to have the courage as parents to teach our children what nobility is, what honor is, what dignity is. Our aspirations for our children have to be greater than their happiness. Or to have the cutest dress at the prom or the biggest limo when they go with their peers. We have to be willing for our children to engage in the difficult issues of our generation. To plant in their hearts, the aspiration to be difference makers. If we'll do that at the kitchen table, if we'll tell the truth at the kitchen table. And then we'll have the boldness to take the truth to the holiday table with that expanded family. There's going to be repercussions because every family tree has a few fruits and nuts and it's going to be an awkward conversation. But then we have to lead with our faith when we go to the ball fields and we're sitting in the bleachers with our peers who are watching children and grandchildren to be willing to acknowledge that we're Christ followers and talk about what's happening in the world. If we'll bring that back to the fabric of our lives, churches will suddenly become filled with a new kind of courage. Unfortunate, that most pastors are employees. If the places they're serving have people that have a different kind of courage and strength, Churchill will find a new voice. Well,
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Was Churchill's Aggressiveness Justified In Fighting Evil?
"Was Winston Churchill a possessor of toxic masculinity. He was aggressive, but he was aggressive in fighting evil. The notion of what men get us into war, yes, that's because men have ruled countries. I have no belief that a world run by women would be better. Children's hospitals in the arena of gender dysphoria are overwhelmingly run by women. The damage being done to children is akin to child sacrifice. And people can destroy the world in many different ways. There is moral aggressiveness and immoral aggressiveness. But if the only people who are aggressive are bad or have bad values, and the good are not aggressive, we are doomed to be slaves to the bad.
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Early Kentucky Derby favorite Forte scratched from race
"The horse that was favored to win today's Kentucky Derby has been scratched from the race. The owner of forte says the cult has a bruised right front foot and the veterinarians with a Kentucky horse racing commission had voiced their concerns, even though forte's trainer had downplayed that injury. This is the 5th horse to be scratched from the Derby. In the days leading up to the $3 million race, 5 horses have died at Churchill downs in recent days, leading to one of the trainers, safi Joseph junior, being suspended. I'm Jackie Quinn
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Churchill Downs suspends trainer Joseph after 2 horse deaths
"Churchill downs has suspended trainer safi Joseph junior indefinitely and lord miles trained by Joseph has been scratched from Saturday's 149th Kentucky Derby just days after the sudden death of two of his horses. Joseph said Thursday he was questioned by investigators from the Kentucky horse racing commission and Churchill downs, claiming the investigators found no wrongdoing on their part. His horses four year old parents pride last weekend in 5 year old chasing Artie on Tuesday, collapsed on the track and died after races. I'm geffen cool ball.
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Forte is 3-1 favorite for Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs
"Todd pletcher trained colt forte and Brad Cox's Philly wet paint are the morning line favorites respectively for the 149th Kentucky Derby and Kentucky oaks at Churchill downs. Forte, the two year old champion who led the Derby qualifying trail drew the number 15 post at three to one odds on Monday for the $3 million premier race for three year olds. He brings in a 5 race winning streak and has won 6 of 7 starts, including last month's Florida Derby, won by a length over a match who will start from the number 8 post at 15 to one odds. Wet paint drew the number 7 post for the oaks at 5 to two odds. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Why China and Ukraine Should Be Our Top Priority
"John, there are a bunch of people driving to work this morning. Listening to you. And I keep trying to tell him it's 1937, maybe 1938. And most of them understand I'm referring to a period of time in which Winston Churchill was alone or surrounded by a half dozen people in parliament, nettle Chamberlain went and listened to him about the rising threat of Hitler. And in the entire volume of a loan and I'm about four fifths done listening to it. I've read it a couple of times. They don't talk about Japan at all. It's like Japan is a footnote on page 400. And that they were the same problem. They were part of the axis. They thought a lot about Italy, but they make fun of Italy, sort of like Iran. We can make fun of Iran because they are the weakest sister of that trio. Is there any reason for you and bridge to be intention for the Ukraine yes in the Taiwan? Yes, people to be intentional. I don't think there is. If we resolve to spend the money. No, I said at the beginning of our debate, my goal in the debate was not to defeat bridge Colby. He's a smart and able guy. I wanted to persuade him. I think that's a larger problem in the United States today than we kind of shout epithets at each other. I want to persuade him that this is the way to think about it. I'm going to continue to try to do that. I have smart people who are experts in some of these areas that I have to try to help to support that are also trying to work with our Defense Department with Congress with the executive branch and publicly to help people understand our hands aren't tied here. It's very strong. I actually don't think it's like the 1930s. I actually think it's a bit more of a blend of some of those dangers and and the end of the Carter administration in the beginning of the Reagan administration. When the Soviets were on the march, where totalitarian was expanding where we needed to beef up our military and it was not easy as you know, you were there. And we used technology. We used technology to leap over the threats of our enemies. Again, the Chinese military is based on the backbone of Soviet era weapons. They have upgraded some of them. They've modified some of them. Those weapons are losing big time in Ukraine. If
The Eric Metaxas Show
How Is President Trump Holding Up? Dick Morris Explains
"Back, I'm sorry, we have to conclude our time with dick Morris, but maybe I can ask you dick just to comment since I know you are close to president Trump. How is he doing and how's he holding up in the face of these just unrelenting vicious preposterous attacks legally and otherwise? Well, some politicians live through reflected praise. Glory. They're narcissists, Bill Clinton was a good example. He was promiscuous because he saw it ratification in the mirror of each new woman that he'd be with. And he was popular because the ultimate the ultimate view of his effectiveness as a human being was his poll numbers, because that's his word narcissist looks at. Mirror mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all. And I think that Donald Trump is the exact opposite. He thrives not off adulation, but of criticism. Not off success, but often adversity. In fact, he's a little bit like Churchill. The worst things get the better he gets. And the more the more valiant he becomes, and in his case, it's a vindication of a feeling of always having been attacked by the left unfairly irresponsibly. And I think that it fuels him. I think that the Trump that we've seen over the last couple of months or at least I've seen him a lot. Is not a beleaguered, battered Trump, it's an empowered vigorous, happy, a happy warrior, if you will, like, how Smith was called.
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Urgent Warning: Deadly Conflict With China
"We are in a conflict with China, and it's a deadly one. We're in 1937. If you don't know what that means, go read William Manchester's alone, the second volume in his three volume series on Churchill from 1932 to 19 38. And Hitler comes to power in January of 33 and very quickly thereafter Churchill is on to him. And on to what they're doing. And in plain sight, they rearmed, and then they became aggressive in the Rhineland, and then it just went downhill and millions of people ended up dead because the allied powers did not take seriously the opportunity to deter what Hitler was doing. Where in 1937, and there's a genocide underway in China of the Uyghur people and a massive military buildup and there is no doubt about what they're doing. And it ought to be lesson first. We are in a deadly conflict with China.
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Nigel Gardiner Weighs in on Biden's Removal of Churchill Bust
"Joining me right now for more on Biden's overseas trip and importantly on this old coronation event and how this thing is going down because the scuttle is Meghan Markle's not going to go. I'm sure the royals are gravely disappointed over that one. Anyway, joining me right now, Niall Gardner. So Obama took down the Churchill bust. I remember that. That was like a big international incident. And then that's something that Trump put back, and then this is getting kind of repetitive. It's like revolving door, with Churchill there. And then Biden comes into office he takes it down again. What kind of effect does that have on the British people and the British government? Well, I think it sends a very insulting message to the British people after all Churchill is a greatly loved figure in the UK is also very much loved in the United States as well. So it sounds completely the wrong signal, a very negative message. And that was day one of the Biden presidency. So an incredibly bad move by Biden sneering arrogant and hugely dismissive, of course, towards America's closest friend and ally. Understandable. So we're now in a situation where Joe Biden has made it clear. He doesn't really value the UK, his historic ally, over say France, or Germany, it kind of reminds me of what's going on with Saudi Arabia. Is that a fair comparison in any way? I think that Biden's treatment of Israel has been also very dismissive actually. And Israel and the UK are incredibly important allies for the United States and Biden has treated both with real contempt just as Obama did before him. And I would say that Biden is alienating America's closest friends and allies on the international stage. It's an extremely destructive path forward.
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Michele Tafoya: "There Is Evil in the World Today"
"Evil in the world today. And why we're not focused more on combating what is in front of us. Rather than what is behind us. We can learn from that. We should learn from that. We have learned from that. And yet, what about combating the evil in the world today? You know, and so this is, look, one of the ways in which I see the view of evil as evolving, which is really scary, is these criminals who kill someone, they don't pay an adequate price or they beat someone up on the street or throw a woman down the stairs, and they're out of jail within 24 hours. These people are not fit to be on the streets of New York City or Chicago or anywhere else. And yet we're making excuses for them. We're making excuses for the evil of today, or maybe the mentally ill, and saying, well, we got to give them another chance. Yeah. But God, heaven forbid you did something a hundred years ago, 200 years ago, you get no redemption. And no good that you did in your life can compensate for the bad. I had someone tell me that all the Winston Churchill statues in England in the UK and Great Britain should be taken down because they believe he was a racist. Well, Winston Churchill happens to be the most revered man today in the United Kingdom still. For what he did for having a spine against Hitler. But no, take his statues down. He does not deserve this praise.
The Officer Tatum Show
"Sexual Fantasy" School Assignment in Oregon Sparks Parent Backlash
"There was a video that I saw of this father, let me just say this. For everybody that's listening. Let's put this in perspective real quick. If you have a friend, a family member, or someone who's saying, they're not sexualizing kids in school, they're not, they don't have books in school where it's literally pornography, exposed to your children. The CRT isn't being taught in school, just know that that person is saying that isn't a complete idiot. And then let me give you an example of one scenario and we don't have to clip because it's too much cussing in it and other stuff that's in that clip. So we may not be able to show it on the radio. But I was watching the dead go off. It's a high school called Churchill high school in Eugene, Oregon. I was watching him go off. And he had made mention that the teacher had an assignment, and in the assignment he wanted the kids in the classroom to write on a piece of paper, their sexual fantasy. And what person that they wanted to do it with and right their initials.
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"The very next day, on his way home, the Hitler special stops off at Montoya in the Loire valley there the Führer meets marshal Peter. It's the first chance he's had to press the flesh with the leader of Vichy France. In lieu of Spain, he hopes to persuade the Vichy regime to pitch its forces against Britain. Petain is invited aboard Hitler's train, along with his deputy Pierre laval. Laval fidgets. Like others before him, he's falling foul of the Führer's strict no smoking policy. Britain is isolated Ribbentrop tells them. Stick with Germany and Vichy France can be a partner in this new Europe. Petan concedes that they are not in a position to go it alone. They might as well cozy up. Plus, there are 2 million French POWs taken captive by Germany who want to come home. Laval, dying for a cigarette, is happy to rush through anything Hitler puts in front of them. And so Peter makes a declaration. Britain and Vichy France are at war. Home to Germany, Hitler receives a telegram. It's from Mussolini. Can Hitler come to Italy ASAP. He won't say why. It doesn't make the sound of this. What is ill duche playing at? A scheduled meeting in Florence is hurried forward. Then, just before heading south, a piece of intelligence comes in. Italy is about to invade Greece. Hitler is furious. What's more, Mussolini is treating it as some kind of surprise. That's why he'd invited Hitler. He wanted to tell him in person. It's a madcap scheme, the Führer froths. Utterly pointless. If he could just get him to call it off at 10 a.m. on October 28th, as he passes Bologna. Hitler hears that it's too late. Mussolini's troops have already gone in. In Florence, il duce rushes up to Greek the Führer. Jumping around like an excited puppy dog. We are on the march, he cries. As they wave to the cameras in front of Florence's cathedral, Hitler must grin and bear it. He and Mussolini have got too much history together now. He can not really face ever turning against Mussolini because Mussolini is the senior dictator. Mussolini has been in power for ten years when Hitler takes part in Berlin. Mussolini is the originator of all of the symbols, the rituals of fascism, the idea of fascism or all rest of it. And this idea of finding a regime in rhetoric in turning politics into entertainment and spectacle which is what a Mussolini did. Hitler is the greatest plagiarist in history. He just borrows. But he also has an extraordinary respect for Mussolini, almost mystical. He looks up to him as the senior dictator he admires him. He loves the man, and Hitler stands by him, despite Mussolini messing up in Greece in North Africa, being defeated all over the place. The Italians thwart incredibly bravely in the resort of mentor against Austria and so forth. They fought incredibly bravely and successfully in World War I. But World War II, their hearts weren't there. I mean, this was a war delivered by Mussolini for his friend Hitler as a present. It is something Italian people wanted. All these alliances are getting rather confusing. Even the tripartite pact, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, is coming with some add ons. Hungary Romania and Slovakia are all lined up to join as junior partners. Possibly the Bulgarians. And now Riemann drop once the Soviet Union to sign up to it too. To Hitler, this is nuts. The whole point of bringing Japan on board is to open up a Siberian front against the USSR. But it's patently obvious that Stalin still hasn't got a clue about Hitler's true intentions. If he's so completely oblivious things Hitler, then why not prolong the sharad? Sure. Invite Stalin to partner up in this new world order. November 12th, 1940. It's a dreary, drizzling day. Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister arrives in Berlin to kick around the idea of further cooperation. He also has some more matter of fact questions. For instance, what the hell are the Nazis playing at in Finland? Why are German troops now stationed there exactly? Hitler assures molotov that all is well. There existing pact is a marriage made in heaven. They meet again the next day for lunch. Hitler hates eating with foreigners. But with Franco Peter Mussolini, there's been rather too much of it lately. When the Finland question comes up again, Hitler loses his rag. The troops there are merely en route to Norway, he protests. But it's a dog at my homework excuse. Finland will be an extremely useful springboard for his secret attack on the Soviet Union. To molotov to Stalin. The alarm bells should be ringing. But remarkably, they aren't. Instead, their meeting is curtailed by the whale of air raid sirens. RAF bombers are hitting the German capital again. Just like the Nazis said they never would. In the government shelter on Wilhelm strasser, we have been dropping molotov continue their meeting. Ribbentrop lays out his plans for a new four power pact. The Russians, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The world is their oyster, now that the British was good as beat. If the British had beaten, says monotone, then why are we sitting in this air raid shelter? The Soviets don't sign. Hitler still hasn't given up on taking Gibraltar. If Franco isn't up for it, then he'll do the job himself. The Führer unveils operation Felix. His master plan to evict the British from the Mediterranean forever. And he will go further. He will also snatch from Spain and Portugal the canaries, Madeira, the Cape Verde islands, maybe even the Azores. Hitler puts admiral canaris in charge of the operation. Hitler doesn't know it, but canaris is one of the zoster plotters. Incidentally, he's also a speaker of flawless Spanish. He's already had a quiet word with Franco. Best stay out of the war, the admiral says. Because from where he is standing, Germany and its allies.
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"Met for an amphibious assault. A scenario is war gamed by Hitler's advisers. France was conquered with the loss of only 30,000 men. By contrast, the Wehrmacht could lose that in a single afternoon during an attempted seaborne invasion of Britain. With autumn storms looming, the English Channel which battered Julius Caesar and thwarted Napoleon proves too much for Hitler. He announces that operation sea Lion will be postponed until further notice. The Luftwaffe will switch to sustained nighttime bombing raids on Britain cities. Before the aborted invasion, France's marshal Peter had quipped that in just three weeks, Britain would have its neck wrong like a chicken. As Churchill were taught later, some chicken. Some neck. And then of course when they shift gears and do the blitz. Now that gives the ROF a reprieve and they can build their fields back up and rebuild Fighter Command. Lion is no more, it might almost seem like disrespectful to assume that the Nazis might have had no serious intention of invading Britain. But we always have got to be in mind that from Hitler's perspective, invading Britain. It was really only a second third or fourth past solution. It would have been much better to bring about a accommodation with Britain, but out of desperation he pursues this, but he also quickly realizes this is just not going to happen. And that Germany does not have the military means the bombing of Britain is really kind of a terror campaign. It's a terror campaign aimed at getting the British to realize that they're better off striking a deal with the Germans. And I think the real reason why he pursued the bombing campaign against Britain is because he thought he would actually strengthen pro German forces within Britain, Britain be damned. It's old and decadent. It has a decaying empire. In pursuit of global dominance there are others Hitler can call on. Feelers have been extended to Japan, ever since it began its imperial expansion in the far east. They may not be Aryan, but the nationalistic Japanese with their hierarchical racial ethos seem cut from the same cloth. The time has come to formalize an arrangement. The question is why, because a different race that East Asian people, but this is why ideology and including racism is actually so flexible. The Japanese has seen as Prussians of the east, they are seen as honorary Aryans, and they can be declared Henri Aryans because of the Sterling qualities of their character. And above all their militarism. In other words, here are two nations on different sites of the world, which find themselves suddenly enmeshed together, not only in a formal alliance. But pretty much subject to a similar ideology, you see Shinto and Buddhism has existed for nearly a thousand years together in Japan. But you had this new cult of bushido emerging after the First World War. Which was a hyper militarized cult just as nazism and fascism were, with violence at its court. The way Hitler sees it, Japan can be a big asset to Nazi Germany. Should the USA enter the conflict? Japanese forces can tie them down in the Pacific. Stalin won't be happy. Russia and Japan have been at war in recent memory. From where he stands, snuggling up to Tokyo should not be on anyone's agenda. Relax, says Hitler. The Nazi Soviet pact is safe and sound. Sacred. This is all about the Americans, trust me. It's a classic Hitler Khan. The other great motive for extending the axis is that when the time comes, Japan can potentially open a far eastern front against the Soviet Union. As ever. There is Mussolini. Officially, with Japan signed up, he is now one third of the most powerful fascist military axis in human history. But he still feeling unloved. To keep Mussolini suite, Hitler had allowed the Italian air force to take part in the raids on Britain. But Benito's blitz was the inevitable disaster. Obsolete are now gunned. The Italian planes were chicken feed for the RAF. Even more were lost in accidents. Their most impressive contribution to the Battle of Britain was to send a few outdated biplanes, brightly camouflaged for the desert to partake in some formation flying over Kent before tossing a few bombs into ramsgate harbor. And the news from North Africa isn't good either. Italian forces in colonial Libya have been squaring up to the British in Egypt. But now the British forces, the famed desert rats, are annihilating general beg on zoli's army. 100,000 prisoners have been taken. It seems increasingly likely that Hitler is going to have to step in. Italian prisoners of war of whom there are great many were incredibly popular in this country. Many of them stayed on. Their university liked. It was fully recognized that Italians didn't want to be in the war. And of course, by mid war, they changed sites. About the ones that unfortunate episode in the Battle of Britain, where the Italian air force did not distinguish itself. There's another dictator we haven't mentioned for a while. Remember, generalissimo Francisco Franco, fascist ruler of Spain. While Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini have all been on the march. Franco has been sitting at home. After the devastation of the Spanish Civil War, this is perhaps understandable. But Hitler doesn't want to leave a brother hanging. He still sees a place for Franco in his grand future. And hey, with the Nazi empire extending from Poland to the Pyrenees, their neighbors. It decides to pop round. On October 23rd, 1940. Hitler's personal train named ironically, America. Shunts into the basque border
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"Mind, we always win because we're racially pure and all the silliness that comes part and parcel with Hitler's maniacal thoughts about the Aryan race. And so in his mind, the German people will always win based upon their superior intellect and capabilities. And when you rack up these relatively quick victories in both Poland and in France, it only kind of feeds this idea that we're invincible. Flush with success Hitler's no longer cagey about his lover, either brown he's happy now to be seen out and about, with his chapel, his little thing. But he's also thinking big thoughts. About his Magnum Opus the liquidation of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the word filtering back is not good. The air assault on Great Britain is going poorly. The losses sustained by the Luftwaffe have been heavy. The radar chain around the British coast is giving the RAF early warning of incoming raids. German fighter escorts have only limited operational range. This leaves their lumbering bombers in broad daylight woefully exposed. The Battle of Britain, in my opinion, really reflects the tactical thinking of the German military. They build ME one O 9s and a Heinkel one 11s and dorner 17. That are great if you're flying over Poland. They're great if you're going to attack France. But when you have to fly an extended distance and engage and conduct operations, you have a significant problem now. The ability to fly long distances with ten tons worth of bombs is something the Americans develop and the British develop, but the Germans don't, because again, they're not thinking that way. And of course, the British will put in together what we call today an integrated air defense with chain home radars in centralized control and this ability to alert fighters as the bombers are coming in. In response, the Germans step it up. Operation eagle attack will see a new massive airborne campaign. Aimed at knocking out RAF Fighter Command. On August 13th, eagle day, goring stands on the cliffs at cap green a northern France. Here, just 21 miles from the UK mainland, the white cliffs of Dover are visible through the summer haze. Watches while wave after wave of bombers heads across the water. Again, it does not go well. In just one day on August 17th, the RAF shoots down about 70 German aircraft. Goring berates his pilots. From now on, they must fly during every conceivable daylight hour. Whatever the weather. The RAF retaliates with raids on Berlin. Despite gorings insistence that such a thing would be impossible. This
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"Bombs. He sent the German air force over London to drop that famous piece of literature. My last appeal to reason by Adolf Hitler. And he was trying to persuade for a political objective to neutralize Britain. And to push it out of the war, say he couldn't turn to the real objective, which was lebensraum, which was the conquest of Russia. Joseph Goebbels has also started producing radio programs aimed at the British public. Characterizing Churchill as a boorish old drunk. And dropping hints at a peace settlement. William Joyce, better known as lord haw haw, had been a British citizen he is a former member of the British union of fascists. Now, having fled the UK at the outset of the war, he is a newscaster based in Germany. Joyce has become the Nazis English speaking propaganda mouthpiece. Is broadcasts will go down in infamy. Each one begins with the words. Germany calling. Germany calling. And they exhort the British public to surrender. Today would be a very feeble understatement, never before, has it been in such a perilous position. On the other side, a journalists like sefton delmer. He had been in Berlin and interviewed Hitler personally. Delman now works for the BBC, and he's rather more in tune with the British popular modes and Joyce. In his fluent German, delmer gives his response to Hitler's offer of reconciliation. We hurl it right back to you right in your evil smelling teeth. On July 16th, Hitler issues his plan for an invasion of Britain. Operation sea Lion. 200,000 men will cross the narrow straits to hit the beaches of Kent and Sussex. A bridgehead will be established with the seizure of the ports of folkestone and New Haven. From there, the Wehrmacht will goose step over the south downs and storm London. All nice and pretty, on the drawing board. But even the impulsive Hitler understood that any invasion must come with full command of the English Channel. And that will be near impossible with the Royal Navy at large. The news gets worse. After the damage sustained in the Norway campaign, the German kriegsmarine has only one cruiser and four destroyers available to escort the troops. Forget landing craft or amphibious assault ships. Hitler's invasion fleet is a collection of motor boats and cargo tugs. It includes river and canal barges dragged up the river Rhine. Doctor John curator and when you talk about amphibious warfare as a retired marine officer, now you're in my comfort zone. What does it mean to do ship to shore movement and an amphibious assault when I have to build all of my combat power from zero? I gotta take it off a boat and put it ashore, that's hard. That's difficult. Doing it amphibious assault is an incredibly complex and manpower and material intensive operation. And the Germans don't have the ships to do it. The landing crap, the Germans, I don't think have given the amount of intellectual rigor and manpower and training that's required for that kind of operation. The only way to bring the English Channel under control will be to dominate it from the skies. To achieve complete air superiority Hitler sets a date. But he's getting jackboots under British shingle. In the meantime, goring's Luftwaffe will be charged with eliminating the Royal Air force. Admiral Ryder of the kriegsmarine protests. They will be in better shape if they postpone the attack to the following May. Let his navy regroup. It shrewd a brighter to object here. Now if the invasion fails, it'll be goring who carries the can. Far away in Washington D.C., the German embassy is doing all it can to keep the United States out of the war. German diplomats and propagandists have been supporting U.S. isolationists in Congress, and in the media. But Hitler knows that the Americans are already shaping up to supply the UK with military aid. At the very least, he has a window of opportunity to strike at Britain before its defenses are replenished. And there's another reason for Hitler's particular timeline. Leading Nazis, himmler and goebbels especially are extremely superstitious. Goebbels has been delving back into the writings of the fabled French astronomer, Nostradamus. A man who claimed famously to predict the future. Gibbering with excitement, goebbels reveals that Nostradamus foretells the destruction of London in the year 1940. It actually goes back to the core truth I think about the Nazis that there are cult and not only a cult but had occult properties as well, particularly himmler and the SS. Those are a huge amount of occult practice and belief among them. But Hitler believed in Nostradamus's prophecies. He was very influenced by them. It is very, very difficult to understand the mentality. Because it's a rational. It actually partakes of a kind of mysticism without religion, and that's the essence of nazism. You have a religion which isn't a religion. Behind the barbed wire and barrage balloons, the United Kingdom waits. As Churchill puts it, the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Hitler spends the summer of 1940 in the Bavarian Alps. In Germany, there has never been anyone more popular. The frenzy of adulation is something to behold. As one official puts it, all citizens recognize wholly, joyfully and thankfully, the superhuman greatness of the Führer. Hitler sees himself as liberator of Europe. Today we somehow assume that the Nazis always just walk around talking about German glory and blond super beasts, but that is not how the artist presented themselves. They saw themselves as the defender of Europe, against barbarism against bolshevism, against Asian savagery. And also against, I guess, western capitalism. So hit does it really sees himself as a defender of European culture and of European tradition. You get the victory disease? We're winning, and of course they're Aryans. And so in their
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"The vessels are sitting ducks. A battleship is sunk. 5 more are put out of use. 1300 French sailors are killed. The action remains controversial in France. As one Nazi commentator puts it in one day, Britain killed more sailors than Germany did during the whole war. Hitler is left on the no illusions that Britain, at least under Churchill, is going to fight on.
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"Pact of steel is about to be upgraded to a Berlin, Rome, Tokyo, axis. In the marbled great hall of the Reich chancellery, is a long, gilded table. Leather bound papers are stacked for the elaborate signing ceremony. There is props as much as anything legal. The dignitaries enter fountain pens are wielded, flashbots pop. The ink is blotted deliberately and slowly for the canvas. Afterwards, the huge oak doors are thrown open. An attendant enters bearing a big silver stick. He bangs it on the floor three times. A signal for all to rise all to hush. And then, in a simple gray uniform, enters one Adolf Hitler. He milks the moment. Bestowing the odd nod upon his fawning devotees. The Führer says nothing throughout. The talking is left to foreign minister Ribbentrop. Is Italian counterpart ciano, and ambassador saburo of Japan? Hitler just stares in silence, while the others drone on about the global conspiracies ranged against them, and the unrivaled might of their new block. They were already lost the Führer's attention. While the diplomats award each other medals, Hitler exits. Wandering back up the corridor and out onto the balcony. Here he basks in the adoration of his waking public.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"churchill" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"I'm Michael Barr I'm scarlet fu And I'm Mike lynch Coming up today we're speaking with Bill Costanza and chief executive officer of Churchill downs who has a lot to say about the 148th running of The Kentucky Derby joining us is Bill Welcome Bill Thanks Mike It's great to be here All right so as the CEO do you get goosebumps like other people do I mean going into this week I still do It's a busy week but it's a labor of love So I'm as excited as most of the fans So yeah I get goosebumps I love doing what I do And that's true for most of our team This is a lot of fun A lot of work but a lot of fun and it always feels it always feels good when it comes off successfully I know the work for 2022 Derby probably started within an hour after the 2021 Derby What's on your checklist going into the final few days before post time So many things on the front side it's just making sure people can get in and out of the facility make sure we have all the people we need to provide the service that our guests expect making sure the horses are here that they're being monitored that they're safe that they're ready to go trying to control just about everything we can think of to control and trying not to worry about the thing we can't control which is always the weather We run an outdoor event So a lot of our guests are undercover they're in nice areas high end areas but ultimately this is an outdoor event in the horses run in The Rain or the shine and a lot of our guests buy general admissions passes so they're out there they take the weather as it comes And as much as over the years you try to learn to not be concerned about things you can't control just prepare for whatever to happen That's always the thing in the last 24 hours we talk about the most But I guess that means also we've gotten all the things we need to get done There's going to be a different vibe this year because of COVID last year I think your capacity was maxed out at around 50 51,000 What do you expecting for this Derby The number one 48 We're going to be back to pre COVID protocols and expectations So I think a good number to think of for our event is around one 50 if I had to take the under or the over I take the over on that So we're expecting a full house with the enthusiasm and the excitement that we've seen every year up through 2019 we had a bit of a disruption as the rest of the country did because of COVID I think we're going to be looking at big numbers And I said on our earnings call a week or so ago I think we're looking at all of the financial metrics Attendance at the end of the day is impacted a little bit because we always have a fair amount of walk ups people that make a game day decision of whether they want to come or not and part of that calculus they run is what does the weather look like that day So if it turns out to be strong weather then it will be a gigantic crowd if it turns out where we might have some rain in the forecast in the Ohio River valley is always always iffy right up to the last minute But if it looks like we might have some rain then you see some people don't show up but I think we're looking at one 50 minimum and maybe more depending on good weather A build my co host Michael barrow had a little trouble getting out of the gate when the bell sounded but he's currently in last place but he's in the race and he's joining us now Michael welcome aboard Say hi to Bill Hi How are you I threw his shoe and then everything just went all the pieces here Well it's nice to meet you via via telephone here Mike and I have been having fun so far Oh I've been hearing it Thank you for your patience And I know you're on a clock but I do have something on my mind about Churchill down It's the history of the track itself That always excited me I mean I think if so many of the Triple Crown winners went from secretariat winning the first leg there affirmed I can go on The history itself of the track can you tell us what that means and how do you approach that for people coming to the track to say hey you see what we're all about This is Derby 148 and so the track started in 1875 and ran the first Derby in 1875 and it's been run continuously every single year since that time So we're the longest continually run sporting events in the United States And our facility has changed and morphed over time over time A lot of times when people think of Churchill downs.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"churchill" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"By more than 2700 journalists and analysts more than a 120 countries Michael Barr in this is Bloomberg Tom Paul Tell us about The Kentucky Derby I mean it's an institution It's the best Everybody's back this year Have you been Paul No it's on my bucket list which I'm doing next year Done Okay I'm going to have a mint julep I think on you It is one of the greatest I think Most exciting two minutes in sports they always say I love them I mean I don't understand anything about the breeding and all that kind of stuff But I find it fascinating Bill carstanjen we talked to him the CEO of Churchill downs as we will be on the business of sports And he said something that was very interesting They would obviously they paint the railing white And apparently they ran out of the paint that brand stopped Okay Of that painting of that paint So they tried to substitute it with another white paint that they thought okay nobody will notice people were calling in all over the place We noticed that So that's how big this event is Does it get ratings Is it like a big TV property It is That really is I think NBC has had it forever I guess And it's a great event It's almost kind of like and then we go on the Belmont is the last of the last thing you got We go to Preakness second in Baltimore In Baltimore Yep So it's fun I have been to that That was fun Yeah I love gone up to Saratoga in the summer for those races up there That's a great time Oh they're two or three days and see the ponies run By the way Can we just be smart For one weekend That's our horse Come on man We need to make some money Yeah I need to go take a look Do some work on my racing form See biscuit That's right Secretary Where are we negative for The tape deteriorate seriously folks We'll do some more data checks.
National Day Calendar
"churchill" Discussed on National Day Calendar
"Welcome to April 9th, 2022 in the national day calendar. Today we celebrate great orders and magical beasts. British prime minister Winston Churchill was one of history's most gifted public speakers. His strong oratory skills and sense of humor helped lead Great Britain through World War II. His voice made such an impact that mister Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values. Not bad for a kid who grew up with a Lisp and who was extremely uncomfortable in public settings. On national Winston Churchill day celebrate this master of the English language by revisiting some of his most classic quotes like the greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. The unicorn appears in many natural history texts from ancient times and is generally described as a single horned goat or horse. While the description is very widely, all seem to grant the beast a magical quality. All, except Marco Polo. He describes a brutish beast who prefers to wallow in the mud with hair like a buffalo and feet like an elephant with a large black horn in the center of its bore like head, this creature was hardly the stuff of legend to be tamed by a maiden of purity. We have since determined that Markle polo was describing a rhinoceros. Thankfully, the mythical creature still inspires frappuccinos, slippers, and bathrobes. And today is national unicorn day, and I see John is ready for me to attach that. Velcro horn to his head. Do you think it would stick? Hi, mana de vere. I'm Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we celebrate every day. See you tomorrow.
The Speaker Station Podcast
"churchill" Discussed on The Speaker Station Podcast
"That's so closely related to truth as an so. Let's go back to one of these examples of churchill's famous speech. No blood toil sweat and it's not that he had a kind of pretended the truth. You didn't try to mask the truth. The fire twas by all accounts they will losing but his unremitting undaunting courage said i believe we have many months of struggle in front of us. That's the truth. I have nothing to offer you but blood sweat tears and toil. There was a really rough words. Me sweat it actually. He could have said perspire. The didn't he said sweat. We know what sweats. It's like you the word actually smells right. So we use those words to volk the sensations. He was trying to tell and then he said i have nothing to offer you. You asked me what my policy was. Victory.
Everything Everywhere Daily
"churchill" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"He was reported as saying quote. If it wasn't for those damn yanks we could have kept the war going and other ten years unquote after world war. Two he still wasn't done fighting given trained as a paratrooper and was assigned to british palestine to help oversee the transfer of the territory. He was involved in an incident known as the asada. Medical convoy massacre were seventy eight. Jews and a medical convoy were killed in an ambush. He tried to stop the attack. Later of seven hundred. Jewish doctors students and patients from hebrew university. He had a bit part in the nineteen fifty. Two movie ivanhoe where he was an archer then went to australia to teach their military academy where he picked up surfing. In one thousand nine fifty five. He became the first person to surf. The title bore on the river severn in england his retirement. He was still very eccentric when he got an office job every day on the way home from work while on the train he would throw his briefcase out the window one day. The conductor asked him why he did that and he said i throw it into my own backyard so i don't have to carry it home. Magic churchill passed away at the ripe old age of eighty nine in one thousand nine hundred ninety six after his death. One british newspaper wrote in their obituary quote had churchill not existed. It would have been impossible to invent him. No fictional hero with his story would ever seem credible. The associate producer of everything everywhere. Daily is thought thompson days. Five star review comes from podcast republic listener. Jim kerman rights. I'm lucky to have a short work. Commute i can usually fit three maybe four episodes in my daily round trip. The variety of topics gives me a quick education on a number of topics that i would have never sought on my own cheers. Thanks jim i've literally have as many shows on my to do list as i've done episode so far and that should be enough to keep your commute's interesting for at least a while longer. Remember if you leave a five star review youtube can have your view read on the show..
Everything Everywhere Daily
"churchill" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"His life reads like an adventure novel for boys from the era of the british empire if there were contests for the most interesting man in the world when he was alive imos certainly would have been on shortlist. His father was a civil engineer. After a stint in ceylon family moved to hong kong where he became the director of public works. Jack was school on the of man and then attended the royal military college at sandhurst and graduated in nineteen twenty six when he began his military career. And what a career it was. He was assigned to burma with the second battalion aka the manchester regiment while in burma he taught himself how to play the bagpipes and he also purchased a motorcycle which drove across the entirety of burma and india. He was extremely eccentric to say the least. He was frequently reprimanded for things like using an umbrella on the grounds playing his bagpipes at three in the morning in using non-military approved equipment like a hot water bottle to keep them more. When he returned to england he left the military and took a job editing. A newspaper in nairobi kenya. You also did some mail. Modeling inhabit parts in movies. He briefly appeared in the films a thief of baghdad and a yank at oxford talents that got him roles in films is baked piping and the fact that he was an excellent archer runner up in the nineteen thirty eight military piping competition at elder shot tattoo which was a military competition and the only scotsman in the finals in nineteen thirty nine. He represented great britain at the world archery championships in oslo. All of the things he did up until this point. We're very interesting. But if that had been the extent of it. I probably wouldn't be doing an episode on him. It was in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine that germany invaded poland and britain entered world. War two jack join. The army again resumed his commission with the manchester regiment. He was sent to france. As part of the british expeditionary force and here is where you have to throw everything you know about how people fought in world war two out the window. In addition to the personal items which every soldier has churchill brought with him. Three things is baked pipes. An english longbow and a scottish broad sort here are for you to my episode on the english longbow in how it could be accurate as weapon up to two hundred yards in may nineteen forty near the french village of lay churchill led his men on an ambush of a group of german soldiers used as longbow to kill one of the germans which was the only known case in the entirety of world. War two where someone was killed in combat with a bone marrow. He then gave the signal to attack lifting sword in the air at the battle of dunkirk. He was an inspiration to the soldiers. Were surrounded one soldier noted in his diary quote. One of the most reassuring sights on the embarkation from dunkirk was the site of captain. Churchill passing down the beach with bows and arrows his high example and his great work or a great help to the fourth infantry brigade unquote once he returned from an ambush in his neck was bleeding. When asked what happened he matter of factly replied german.
The Patriot 1280 AM
"churchill" Discussed on The Patriot 1280 AM
"Time flies when you're having fun, so we don't have a lot of time left. I wanted to ask you tell the story of meeting hanging out with John Cheever is a kid. You have such a storied life that it makes your fiction seen. Almost dull on your fiction is not even close to dull but it but you really do have in. You're aware of that having an outrageously storied life and of having met The kind of people when you were already a kid that most people don't get to meet in their life with Winston Churchill. You met Churchill. Yeah. When I was very little like an ISI in. I think I was 1951 or whatever. My father who had worked for him in the war. Was we were in an ISI Tu and my father was taking something to him from Alexander Korda with my father's business partner. And I wrote on my father's leg. We waited in an anti room with a stone floor with a lot of other men, most of whom were British in suits and the doors open and Winston Churchill came out on Guy was still writing my father's standing on his shoes holding onto his leg, but Wanna buy achiever? I can tell you about you, huh? Yeah, quickly because I want to ask you about winter's tale. This is gonna kill us. Go ahead. I Actually, it turns out the theater, Roosevelt invented this thing called straight lining. Sag more hill. He would have his kids go in a straight line, No matter what, you know, Climb over a wall crawl through a swamp or whatever. I didn't know this. I invented it for myself. When I lived in Eagle Bay. This is costing me about 1000 2000 acres of more or less forest and I've had the idea just independently, but I would go in a straight line. So one day, you know you're nuts, right? Yeah. Uh, I was walking to school used to walk five miles school five miles back and later I had actually got weird. That it was five miles..