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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Pesach Wolicki
"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. Folks, welcome to the program. It is Monday. Everyone is talking about Israel, and that says it should be, and we wanted to bring somebody in who could help us understand the situation better. We have highly recommended to us by many friends, Rabbi Pesach Wolicki. He is the director of Israel365action .com, cohost of the Shoulder to Shoulder podcast. He's been a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, welcome. Thank you very much, Eric. Thank you for having me on. It's a pleasure. Tell me what's the first thing we should talk about. I got a report—I didn't want to forget—that I don't know if the Red Cross has gone woke or what, but my instinct would be never to give them a dime again ever because of the way they've been behaving. Am I mistaken there? You're not mistaken at all. The Red Cross has never paid any attention, positively, that is, to any casualties in Israel, and it's not just in this war, but for many years. The Red Cross doesn't care one whit about Jews who are in danger, and they have stayed true to form in this war. That's shocking. Most people don't know that. That's why I wanted to lead with that, because when I understood this, I thought to myself, wow, OK. So the rot is everywhere. Legacy Media, every college with a name you'd recognize, they've all gone to hell. They've all been infected with the woke mind virus, and they can be pretty much expected, guaranteed, to come out on the wrong side of these things. So now we know that the Red Cross, which we would think of as a good organization, as a neutral organization that just cares about human beings and suffering, that we should not be giving them our money. We should not be giving them a cent. Look, the Red Cross, like I said, during the years that Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was held captive for many years by Hamas, was being held, they did nothing about trying to find out how he was doing or to get information to his family, and that is their mandate by the international community. The mandate of the Red Cross is to look after hostages in time of war, to look after prisoners of war, to see how they're doing. At the beginning of this conflict, they claimed that they weren't operating in the Gaza Strip and couldn't get access, which we knew was a lie because we knew that they were operating there and they even put out other statements about what they were seeing on the ground, which showed that they were active in the Gaza Strip. They've been collaborating with their enemies for a long time. But that's no, look, that's no, that's nothing new. You mentioned about the college campuses and about what's going on in the, on the left and in the progressive world, we're seeing something unique and new. A lot of people are comparing this to the Nazis, but it's something new, Eric. And that is this strange marriage between the progressive atheist left and Islamic fundamentalists, which on the face of it looks kind of absurd. And we've all seen the memes like queers for Palestine and all that. But I think as people of faith, we have to have a clarity that there's something very fundamental that these two groups, again, that seem like they have nothing in common, atheist, progressives and Muslim fundamentalists. But there's something very basic that they have in common. And that is an absolute hatred and loathing for the God of the Bible, the text of the Bible and the beliefs of those people who believe in the Bible. They both share that they share. They possibly share it for different reasons. But they've also they've obviously unified around that shared hatred for biblical faith and biblical values in this conflict. I mean, look, we've been seeing this for quite some time, that the the radical left does not denounce the way radical Muslims treat women, for example. Not one word on their the way they treat gays. In other words, they are they are the very different definition, radical Muslims of this caricature that the secular left has created of, you know, mostly serious Christians in America, which is it's obviously untrue to anyone who knows the Christians. But it is, in fact, true of the radical Muslims. And and we know this. I mean, we haven't talked about it much on this program, but we know that the left will not criticize them for stoning women, for the Taliban beating women, for causing women across the Middle East to dress as they force them to dress. I mean, it is it is out of the fevered nightmare of the left with regard to, you know, what they think of as evangelical Christians or right wing Christians. They imagine it. They talk about the Handmaid's Tale, all of this kind of stuff. But this is actually true. This is actually the reality for women throughout the Middle East. And the secular left clearly doesn't care about those women. But they don't only not care about women, they they don't care about gays, all the things they claim to care about, which who are hated by the Muslim fundamentalists. But, you know, this you raise an interesting point about the fact that this is who they're in bed with. They're in bed with each other. And again, I think the only explanation I have for it is that they share an enemy and the enemy is Christians, the enemy is Jews. Look, they they spread this canard that there's that Muslims in America need to be protected from discriminatory violence. Now, when has there ever been can someone please show me a headline, someone please show me an event where Muslims were attacked by Christians in the United States of America? Any any time that I could even think of it, I'm struggling to think of anything. And yet when Joe Biden gave that beautiful speech on behalf of Israel, when he didn't even mention Iran once in the early days of the war, he he in that speech, I don't know, a lot of people didn't notice it. He spoke out about how there's no room for hate. There's no room for acts of violence or hatred in America. And then he said not against Muslims and not against Jews. And he didn't mention anything about Christians. There is a loathing of Christianity on the left that I think informs a lot of their behavior and their loathing of Christianity and their loathing of Judaism and their loathing of the Jewish state, Jewish state, which which is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. It recognizes the fact that the Jewish people today are the same Jewish people as the Jewish people of the Bible. We have an unbroken chain of our heredity and tradition. We know exactly who we are. The idea that this nation would return from exile after thousands of years and be reconstituted as a nation in our land in fulfillment of biblical prophecy is something that they are terrified of because it testifies to the truth of God and the truth of the Bible. And if they accept that reality, they have a lot of explaining to do. Well, that's very well put. It is an amazing thing. I don't know if you're aware, I wrote a big biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor. OK, well, he spoke out against the Nazis and against anti -Semitism and he spoke out for the Jews. And I was thinking recently that what? The I mean, we have to understand and I want my audience to understand this. There are people who are genuinely confused. There are people there were people in Germany when you told them about the death camps or what's being done to the Jews, they really believed this is Jewish propaganda. This is not true. They genuinely believed it was not true. And so Gebel's, of course, used this idea of it's Jewish propaganda, Jewish propaganda, that's Jewish propaganda. Recently. We're seeing exactly the same thing when you talk about the atrocities done by Hamas, when you talk about any of these things, they're saying it's Israeli propaganda. It's not true. And I want to be clear, there are people on the left marching, you know, the pro Palestinian marches stuff. We have to understand they actually believe that this is nonsense, which is what gives them the ability to tear down posters, whatever they think it's garbage. And I and I think we have to understand where they're coming from. They they have bought the lie that this is propaganda. And if it were propaganda, nobody would care more about that than I would. 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A highlight from SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 2
"The most important thing is, you know, just because a lawyer tells you something is okay, that's not a defense. Geez, he said it. He seemed to think everything was okay. Yeah. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent, that's an excuse. In part two of our series digging into SPF's defense, we dissect Sam Bankman -freed's claims that his lawyers played a larger role in FTX's collapse than he did. It might sound like a stretch, but there is legal precedent behind it. SPF also says he was pressured by counsel into turning FTX over to their hand -picked successor. In this episode, we sit down with Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff, Travis Kling, a fund manager who still has millions of dollars tied up in FTX, and Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor and fellow FTX victim, to see if there's any legitimacy to SPF's claims that lawyers who were there for FTX's rise are now primed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees. Money that SPF says should be used to pay back depositors. I'm Zach Ousman, you're listening to the SPF Defense Podcast, a coinage investigation. SPF's position is that FTX would have made it through the crisis if not for his lawyers, which conspired to steal the company out from under him, cover up their role in its operation, and siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees from the bankrupt estate. SPF even names one lawyer in particular, Ryan Miller, who joined FTX US from the law firm's Sullivan and Cromwell, and planned on returning there after his time at the exchange, according to an affidavit from FTX's top lawyer. SPF says Miller conspired to hand the company over to Solcrom and their chosen agent, John J. Ray III, who also handled Enron's bankruptcy. And whether you come to believe Sam's claims or not, Solcrom and Ray clearly won. If FTX's bankruptcy process takes the two years like Enron's did, it's on track to cost over $800 million. And Solcrom's relationship has already been called out by more than just Sam. It's even been raised as an issue by senators and 18 state regulators. But could SPF be right about Ryan Miller and Solcrom's nefarious motives? And even if they did do some evil lawyer shit, will it be enough to get SPF off the hook? To fully understand this defense strategy, it helps to start with SPF's story behind his attempt to plug the now notorious multi -billion dollar hole at FTX back in November's collapse. As the story goes, he was preparing to handle the liquidity crisis by courting Nomura, Japan's largest investment group, and the crypto company Tron, who had pledged billions of dollars in liquidity to FTX, while other investors were still deliberating. SPF had said he planned on giving away most of his equity in the company, and therefore most of his wealth, in an attempt to make customers of FTX International whole. SPF has always maintained that FTX US remained completely solvent right up to the end. But SPF says his rescue plan failed because Ryan Miller and Solcrom agents at his company, including Tim Wilson, another FTX lawyer with a past at Solcrom, pressed him repeatedly to sign the company's over to John Ray in bankruptcy, and even implied that if he refused, they could have him arrested and quote, change control in order to authorize a proper insolvency process. SPF said he changed his mind within 10 minutes of signing, but it was already too late. And he says his lawyers reneged on their promises to let him select a board share, blocking him out of his accounts and refusing to communicate further. As soon as John Ray was installed, he chose Sullivan and Cromwell as FTX's primary counsel. To be fair, SPF actually has a point when it comes to the sketchiness of that process. Even outside legal observers have taken issue with Solcrom being tapped as the firm to manage FTX's bankruptcy. In fact, a bipartisan group of two Republican and two Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter to the judge overseeing the case, urging him to appoint an independent examiner rather than Solcrom, which worked with FTX and Alameda before the collapse, bringing in $8 .5 million in legal fees. The senators argued, quote, given their longstanding legal work for FTX, they may well bear a measure of responsibility for the damage wrecked on the company's victims. Regulators from 18 states echoed that issue, saying appointing an independent examiner wasn't just right, it was also legally required. But back in February, the judge in the case threw out those requests, saying it would cost too much money, though we should note FTX's lawyers also charged the bankruptcy estate $21 ,000 over 20 days just for meals, which apparently isn't too much to spend. And if you ask the victims in FTX's collapse, this is all pretty important, considering it's their deposits and claims at stake. And if their money is being drained in broad daylight by a law firm who also helped FTX pre -collapse, that might not sit any better than Sam spending it. We talked to Travis Kling, who lost his crypto investment fund in FTX's collapse, and asked him to weigh in. If you ask me at the very beginning, do you think this is going to be one of the most expensive bankruptcies in U .S. history, I would say yes. Yes. You know, it's enormous. There's a ton of fraud, and it's magic internet money. Trying to kind of Monday morning quarterback this and say, oh, Sam would have been better off not filing for bankruptcy. That's not something that I feel very strongly about. And Solkrom's outrageous fees aren't the only reason for concern. SPF also claims Solkrom gave a clean bill of health to Alameda's trading accounts on FTX in a report with the CFTC just months before the collapse. Furthermore, in his affidavit, Dan Friedberg, who was both FTX's chief compliance officer and Alameda's general counsel until he stepped down following the crisis, says Miller only included FTX U .S. in the bankruptcy proceedings precisely because Miller knew it had the funds to pay Solkrom for its work, which backs up what SPF said about how FTX U .S. was never insolvent. So this may be a case of the fox guarding the henhouse. Solkrom denies any of this, of course. The firm's top bankruptcy lawyer, Andrew Dietrich, who told other lawyers FTX was rock solid in an email just days before the bankruptcy, said he only spoke with SPF twice. The FTX debtors also countersued Friedberg to seek damages, alleging he breached his fiduciary duties. We can't say much more beyond that because Solkrom never got back to us when we asked for a comment. But one thing is clear, what guidance Sam's lawyers gave him, and particularly what they knew about the business, will become integral to SPF's defense at trial. Even if you asked Ryan Miller before the collapse, the laws are pretty simple for any business, crypto or otherwise. Here he is explaining that concept at an MIT Bitcoin meetup in July 2022. Don't do fraud, don't lie, don't release materially incomplete statements. That then creates a basis for liability, liability from a criminal authority, be it a Department of Justice or liability in a civil context. Yet according to Caroline Allison's guilty plea, they had trouble following even those rules. In her sworn testimony, she said, quote, I agreed with Mr. Bankman, Fried and others to provide materially misleading financial statements to Alameda's lenders. Could Miller or any of SPF's lawyers, for that matter, be one of those others? Sam's other allegation that Miller contacted the DOJ to turn over documents that led to his indictment days before SPF linked, which controlled the company, makes Miller start to look even sketchier. But even if Solkrom really does have a true conflict of interest, could SPF really use their role in everything that happened to get an acquittal? Given that I'm not a lawyer, we pose that defense to Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff. Can a lawyer be a criminal? Sure. Yeah. Can a lawyer be part of a criminal enterprise? Yes. Do they often go down? I don't know a lot of reputable lawyers who are going to bless lying to investors, lying to banks, intermingling funds, lying to auditors. If he happened to find one who knew all that was going on and blessed it, then maybe as a defense. But I tend to doubt it. You can't think of it as, well, oh, well, you know, Sullivan and Cromwell was involved or a former Sullivan and Cromwell lawyer was involved and, geez, he said he seemed to think everything was okay. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent. That's an excuse masquerading as an advice of counsel defense. Advice of counsel defense is very specific and narrow. You need competent counsel and they'll stipulate that any lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell is competent in the subject area that they're being asked about. Second, every material fact has to be disclosed to them. Third, you have to seek their legal opinion on a subject. And fourth, you have to follow the advice. So if the defense can make out those elements, I would think they'd be able to present the defense and it might have a shot of winning. So Sol Cromwell might not be saints, but as we covered last time in episode one, SPF isn't exactly facing a trial over FTX's collapse. He's charged with a lot of things that led up to FTX's collapse. Arguably, what's alleged to have happened post -collapse matters more for FTX's victims. And if you ask them, the reviews are mixed on exactly what's played out thus far. If I'm going to judge Sullivan and Cromwell and John J. Wray from my purview of being someone who's seen these things in bankruptcy, I would give them a very low grade because you can say, oh, this is crypto, it's difficult, but it's not that difficult. And sometimes the devil you know is better than the one you don't. I will say that these debtors are extremely bad in my professional experience. That was Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor who has experience following bankruptcy proceedings. For former FTX customers like him, Sam's spat with Sol Cromwell matters very little, as long as the firm can help achieve a meaningful recovery of their funds. And despite the fact that legal fees are stacking up, the bidding market for FTX customer claims is showing a growing hope they might not be stuck with pennies on the dollar. Another way to frame it is, you know, there's a claims market for FTX claims, trade claims, trade actively. There's a little niche of traditional finance that all they do is go around to different bankruptcies in all industries and they buy claims. This is this is a, you know, a subsector of of investing. And this is a huge bankruptcy. So this has been a very big liquid market. Right. And the first, you know, we're a very big creditor in this. So, you know, I'm in active conversations in this claims market. First, first bid we saw was in Thanksgiving and it was like six cents. That was the first bid. Six cents on the dollar, six cents on the dollar. And now now it's like 40 cents. And so it's gone from six to 40 cents. So then I'm like, OK, well, that feels quite good. Yeah. And OK, these guys are charging a load of money for that, but they have taken us from six cents to 40 cents. With both FTX's bankruptcy case and SPF's criminal case unfolding in real time, one may very well impact the other. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the CFTC to share the report. Sam says Solkrom filed to support that FTX's structure was above board. The agency denied our request, saying it's unable to share documents that, quote, could interfere with the conduct of federal agency law enforcement activities. And of course, as long as Solkrom selected John Ray is running the show at FTX, it's unexpected anything comes out to support SPF's case. FTX, too, didn't get back for comment. So unless SPF has direct evidence of lawyers being aware of FTX's shaky financials and helping for years to cover it up, it's hard to judge SPF's advice of counsel defense or the idea that he thought he was in the clear leading up to the collapse just because his lawyers said it was fine. As Litt said, that sounds more like an excuse than a defense. As a community owned Web3 media outlet, Coinage will be breaking down everything we've learned together through this series and curating still unanswered questions at Coinage .Media. I'm Zach Guzman. This was the second part of Coinage's investigative series covering SPF's defense. Stay tuned for episode three, where we'll explore another pillar. Of SPF's defense. You've been listening to the SPF Defense on the Coindesk Podcast Network. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get all the Coindesk shows in one place and head over to Coindesk .com for all the Sam Bankman freed coverage. Thanks for listening.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"Mother Theresa and Me" With Actress Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz
"Back. It's my privilege to be speaking with the actress and producer Jacqueline Vricci Cornaz. I keep trying. You were just telling us the story of so so this film Mother Teresa and me. There are two storylines. One is the story of Mother Teresa whom you play in the film, but the second storyline involves this girl you were just telling about telling us about named Kavita and so that's happening in a contemporary time. In other words, this is she when she goes to Calcutta and she meets the Sisters of Mercy. She does not meet Mother Teresa because this is years after the passing of Mother Teresa. Exactly. Okay. Exactly. There is one moment actually where Mother Teresa holds her in her arms when she you know took her out of a burning hut. So as a baby Kavita she's in the arms of Mother Teresa, but I don't want to tell more about Kavita because it's it's so interesting. I think for the audiences to discover themselves the whole Calcutta story because and Mother Teresa really changes the life of this young woman. Well, it's interesting you talk about. I don't know how you phrased it, but Mother Teresa was you know putting her faith into action and this is a big thing. The the the great Christian Dietrich Bonhoeffer about whom I've written this was his central idea. If you can boil things down was that unless you're living out your faith, you really don't have faith. You have to live it out. You have to put it into action and in a way when you put your faith into action, it deepens your faith and so it's kind of a conundrum because it's it's the two go together and I think a lot of times the tragedy of many Protestants or evangelicals because I wrote a biography also about Martin Luther is to say it's just faith as though it's this intellectual thing and they forget that I must put it into action. Otherwise, perhaps I have no real faith and so it's an important idea and I'm so I'm excited that in this film you give people an opportunity to see that because that's something that people often think of Christianity as just a series of doctrines or beliefs and that's not right. Well, on one hand, of course, we see Mother Teresa as a Christian as a Catholic nun, but we also feel this universal energy of love because this nanny of Kavita, she says, you know, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, we all need the same love and I think that's the main message of the film because our world needs a lot of love to you know to develop and to overcome all the film doesn't take a position, but it wants to inspire people to live with more love in action.
Awards Chatter
A highlight from Wim Wenders - Anselm & Perfect Days
"Wait. Are you gaming? On a Chromebook? Yeah. It's got a high -res 120Hz display, plus this killer RGB keyboard. And I can access thousands of games anytime, anywhere. Stop playing. What? Get out of here. Huh? Yeah. I want you to stop playing and get out of here so I can game on that Chromebook. Got it. Discover the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine. A new kind of Chromebook. Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 506th episode of the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the most significant filmmakers of the last 50 years. His credits include classic narrative films like 1984's Paris, Texas, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d 'Or and brought him a Best Director BAFTA Award. And 1987's Wings of Desire, for which he won Cannes' Best Director Prize, as well as documentary films such as 1999's Buena Vista Social Club, 2011's Pina, and 2014's Salt of the Earth, each of which brought him Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominations. And now, at the age of 78, he is out with two new films, one a narrative, Neon's Perfect Days, the story of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, for which Koji Yakusho won the Best Actor Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the other a 3D doc, Janice Films' Anselm, about the art of the German painter and sculptor, Anselm Kiefer. The recipient of the Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear in 2015 and the Telluride Film Festival's Silver Medallion Award this year, he has been described by The Guardian as one of the key figures, along with Fassbender, Herzog, and Schlondorf, of the new German cinema movement that reinvigorated West German film in the 70s, and gave the country of Marlene Dietrich, UFA, and F .W. Murnau a bona fide cinematic movement to rival the Nouvelle Vague, by The New York Times as a film visionary and a great hero of art film audiences everywhere, and by Turner Classic Movies as one of his generation's most appreciated independent filmmakers, VIM Vendors. Over the course of our conversation at the Toronto offices of Elevation Pictures, the Canadian production and distribution company, the 78 -year -old and I discussed his circuitous path to filmmaking and the challenges of forging a career as a filmmaker in Germany back when he was starting out, what led him to America for a number of years and then back to Germany, why he moves between narrative and documentary films as often as any filmmaker except perhaps Martin Scorsese, and why he is particularly committed to making 3D docs, plus much more. And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation. Mr. Vendors, thank you so much for doing this. Great to have you on the podcast. And to begin with, just for anyone who may be living under Iraq and doesn't know, can you share where you were born and raised and what your folks did for a living? So I'm Wim Vendors and I was born in Germany right after the Second World War in August 1945, in a fateful week for the Japanese people. Grew up in post -war Germany, wanted to become a painter. First studied philosophy and medicine but then really drew up the courage to go fully for painting and cocky as I was, I went to Paris thinking that's where you become a painter and instead of becoming a painter in Paris, I became a filmmaker because I discovered the Cinematheque and that you can see the entire movies of the entire world and every screening was for 25 cents, so I saw about a thousand movies in the course of a year and after that it was decided. It wasn't painting, it was movies. Right. Now just to go backwards for a moment though, you've spoken about sort of this sense of growing up in Germany after the war, there were a lot of secrets, a lot of darkness, unanswered questions and you've talked about your parents having, I guess, photos that really kind of maybe opened your mind to the world beyond where you were from. Can you talk about that? Well, when I was a little boy and I started school, the growing up world was very, very busy, reconstructing the country and looking forward to the future and it was all positive and beautiful and you realize even as a boy there's something wrong. Why isn't the past ever a subject and why does nobody look over their shoulders? And eventually you realize all that building and all that effort to rebuild the future was in order to, as fast as possible, forget about the past. And when I saw pictures from the past, also family pictures, there were all these uniforms and, I mean, my father was a doctor in the Second World War and as soon as he finished his studies, they threw him to the front and he was a surgeon and for four years he didn't do anything but put people back together.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Larry Taunton
"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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A highlight from Michael Medved (Continued)
"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. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Sounds like you made up that that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. Yeah, but anyway, no, but we thought we would pre record a segment, which that's this segment right now, because people write us letters and things. And I thought some of which we can share, some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me let me read them. So this one says this is from Tori. It's well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read. And you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and, of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky, who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? Sure. But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light. But that's that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in. That's high cotton for context. This person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War Two during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame. It's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book as a German. Your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened. You're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really. Talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War Two. She writes, even in the 70s, 1970s, the subject was too raw in the past few years. I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church. That's the new book in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them, but that it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that letter to the American Church. I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing. It's 2008. I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking this. I feel like this could happen in America because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right. Right. So I kind of felt like I could sort of see this happening in America, and I felt it a little bit when I was writing the book. But in recent years, it's become really clear to me that, oh, yeah, that's exactly what is happening now. People want to know how evil took over in Germany was because of the silence of the German church. And often it was the German church, good people who felt like the smart thing to do is to be silent. And they were wrong, but that doesn't mean that they were evil, but they were complicit with evil. At the end of the day, they were very, very wrong. At the end of the day, they were complicit if they didn't repent. And so I wrote a letter to the American church, kind of like what this woman, Tori, is saying, that it's a you could you could feel that the Bonhoeffer story was becoming our story in America. And so I just felt I talked about on the Jordan Peterson podcast and in many other places I've never, ever, ever, ever felt God calling me to write a book. Now, to some people, that sounds loony. I you know, I don't know what to tell you, but it does feel to me like. I I had never felt I had never felt that feeling before that I've got to write this in obedience to God because this is happening now and I need to write this and I need to reach the Christians and the Christian leaders that are capable of being reached. Some are not. Some have just somehow tuned this out permanently. They're doing their own thing. Yeah. We also get a letter which is asking a question. So I'm going to read this if we have the time. This is about the concept of women pastors. It says, Eric, recently, the Southern Baptist Convention removed Saddleback Church from fellowship because Rick Warren ordained a woman pastor. Next year, the SBC convention will move to exclude from fellowship all Southern Baptist churches that have women pastors. They're using the scripture First Timothy, chapter three to say that being a pastor is limited to men. It seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. Paul wrote Timothy within the context of a patriarchal society. What's your position on this issue? Thank you. And I think the name of the person who wrote this is Ivan. Well, this is a complicated one for me. I don't know what I think about this. I don't have a really, really firm views on this subject. When somebody says it seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. That's really vague. I don't know what that means. You know, God cannot call a man to give birth. There are certain fixities in what we call reality. So to say that God can call someone to do anything it's just too vague for for me. I don't know what that means, whether women can be ordained as pastors. I speak at churches where they have the husband and his wife or pastors, so and so and so and so. And I don't have a particular problem with that. But what I find interesting is the idea where people get upset when somebody does have a view on it and they just say, well, that's not right. Like you should you should. In other words, if the Southern Baptist Convention has a fixed view on this, you don't need to be a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. But if you want to be a member of Southern Baptist Convention, you have to go along with with their rules. And don't be shocked if they say if you break our rules, you can no longer be a part of the club because those are the rules of the club. And it's the same thing with the Catholic Church. You know, you've got people angry about Catholic. It's like, look, the doctrine is the doctrine. And if you don't like it, you don't have to be a member of that that denomination. So I'm always but because I don't I don't know what I what I think about this. I mean, I feel like I can see both sides of it. And I and so I've I've never really been been clear on it. It's not it's not a deal breaker for me. And I think it all depends on what one means by being a pastor, because obviously women can do ministry. And so what are the limits of that and how does that work? I don't know. I don't know. But it's interesting because there was another church that's I think it's called Elevate.
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A highlight from Yeonmi Park - Part 3 (Encore Continued)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com. That's Legacy PM Investments dot com. Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. Now, here's your line jumping host, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Sounds like you made up that that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. Yeah. But anyway, no, but we thought we would prerecord a segment, which that's this segment right now, because we people write us letters and things. And I thought some of which we can share, some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me let me read them. So this one says this is from Tori. It's well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read. And you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky, who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? Sure. But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light. But that's that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in. That's high cotton for context. This person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War Two during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame. It's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book as a German. Your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened. You're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really. Talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War Two. She writes, even in the 70s, 1970s, the subject was too raw. In the past few years, I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church, that's the new book, in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always, Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them, but that it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that letter to the American Church. I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing. It's 2008. I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking this. I feel like this could happen in America because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right. Right.
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A highlight from Yeonmi Park (Encore)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com. That's Legacy PM investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. Now, here's your line jumping host, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Yeah, sounds like you made up that that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. Yeah. But anyway, no, but we thought we would prerecord a segment, which that's this segment right now, because we people write us letters and things. And I thought some of which we can share, some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me let me read them. So this one says this is from Tori. It's well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read. And you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and, of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky, who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? Sure. But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light. But that's that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in. That's high cotton for context. This person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War Two during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame. It's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book as a German. Your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened. You're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really. Talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War Two. She writes, even in the 70s, 1970s, the subject was too raw. In the past few years, I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church. That's the new book in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them, but that it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that letter to the American Church. I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing. In 2008, I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking this. I feel like this could happen in America because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right, right.
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A highlight from Michael Franzese (Encore Continued p.3)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com. That's Legacy PM Investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. But now here's your line jumping host, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow, sounds like you made up that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. But anyway, no, but we thought we would pre -record a segment, which that's this segment right now, because people write us letters and things, and I thought... Some of which we can share. Some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here, Eric, that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me read them. So this one says, this is from Tori. It's, well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read, and you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and, of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky. Who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky's? But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light, but that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in, that's high cotton. For context, this person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War II during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame, it's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book. As a German, your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened, you're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really, I felt it was a story that needed to be told and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War II. She writes, even in the 1970s, the subject was too raw. In the past few years, I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church, that's the new book, in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always, Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them. But that, it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that Letter to the American Church, I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing, it's 2008, I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future. Like I'm thinking this, I feel like this could happen in America. Because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right, right. So I kind of felt like I could sort of see this happening in America and I felt it a little bit when I was writing the book. But in recent years, it's become really clear to me that oh, yeah, that's exactly what is happening now. People want to know how evil took over in Germany was because of the silence of the German church. And often it was the German church, good people who felt like the smart thing to do is to be silent and they were wrong, but that doesn't mean that they were evil, but they were complicit with evil at the end of the day. They were very, very wrong at the end of the day. They were complicit if they didn't repent. And so I wrote letter to the American Church kind of like what this woman Tori is saying that it's a you could you could feel that the Bonhoeffer story was becoming our story in America. And so I just felt I've talked about on the Jordan Peterson podcast and in many other places. I've never ever ever felt God calling me to write a book now to some people that sounds loony. I you know, I don't know what to tell you but it does feel to me like I had never felt I had never felt that feeling before that. I've got to write this in obedience to God because this is happening now and I need to write this and I need to reach the Christians and the Christian leaders that are capable of being reached. Some are not some have just somehow tuned this out permanently doing their own thing. Yeah, we also get a letter which is asking a question. So I'm going to read this if we have the time.
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A highlight from Keith Guinta (Encore)
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas 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 Mataxas Show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. Now, here's your line jumping host, Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now, but when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Sounds like you made up that name. Yeah. I think it's mythical. But anyway, no, but we thought we would pre -record a segment, which that's this segment right now, because people write us letters and things, and I thought... Some of which we can share. Some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here, Eric, that are kind of cool, and so I thought, let me read them. So this one says, this is from Tori. It's, well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read, and you are in serious company among Sowell, Thomas Wendell Berry, and, of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky. Who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? But seriously, I read something like this, and I just say, because I joke around, and I try to be light, but that really means a lot to me, that somebody would read my cotton. For context, this person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War II during history classes. Now, that is interesting, because the shame, it's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book. As a German, your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened, you're trying to process that. And so, in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. It's that interesting Tori writes that, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War II. She writes, even in the 1970s, the subject was too raw. In the past few years, I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church, that's the new book, in response to my own yearning. Thank you, and may the peace and letters be with you. When I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, I had no clue what I would discover. So, as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking, I feel like this could happen in America. Because the church, during his time, they didn't really respond in a... Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore, they didn't do what could have been done to change things. So, I kind of felt like I could sort of see this happening in America, and I felt it a little bit when I was writing the book, but in recent years, it's become really clear to me that, oh yeah, that's exactly what is happening now. People wanna know how evil took over in Germany was because of the silence of the German church. And often, it was the German church, good people who felt like the smart thing to do is to be silent, and they were wrong, but that doesn't mean that they were evil, but they were complicit with evil. At the end of the day, they were very, very wrong. At the end of the day, they were complicit if they didn't repent. And so, I wrote Letter to the American Church, kind of like what this woman, Tori, is saying, that it's a... You could feel that the Bonhoeffer story was becoming our story in America. And so, I just felt... I talked about on the Jordan Peterson podcast and in many other places, I've never ever, ever, ever felt God calling me to write a book. Now, to some people, that sounds loony. I don't know what to tell you, but it does feel to me like I had never felt that feeling before that I've got to write this in obedience to God because this is happening now, and I need to write this, and I need to reach the Christians and the Christian leaders that are capable of being reached. Some are not, some have just somehow tuned this out permanently. They're doing their own thing.
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"dietrich" Discussed on Revival
"Entering into marriage calls for a full realization of the great and decisive step which it represents and requires profound self examination. The objective form of marriage must correspond to the deepest meaning of marriage as the most perfect and intimate union of love and can not be conformed to the case of a failure. Against this background the unspeakable shabbiness and stupidity of a trial marriage clearly appears. Trial marriage is in itself contradictory to the nature of conjugal love. Anyone who even considers child marriage has never experienced conjugal love. Marriage is the most intimate communion of love in Jesus and for Jesus. A community which belongs to Jesus and brings about the sanctification of both spouses. In it two persons are one in one flesh and have been allowed to participate in the creation of a new human being by God. This community has been elevated to a sacrament as an image of the union of Christ and the church. That last paragraph was so good that I'm not going to add anything. And I just encourage you to go back and listen to that. If that struck you if that paragraph struck you, go ahead and hop on Spotify or Apple podcasts and come back to this episode and listen to that paragraph again because it was so good and unfortunately we are running out of time so I can't add a commentary on it but what I want to conclude with today is to just point out once again that marriage is sacred and it is so good and it is so holy and we should continue to have hope in it. And I know that we see so many divorces, so many separations. So many people giving up on marriage by having what Dietrich von Hildebrand calls the trial marriages where people are just living together and living as a married couple before they've made vows before they have chosen each other exclusively and totally.
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"dietrich" Discussed on Revival
"Because in marriage, likewise, the center in court is love. No other earthly community is constituted so exclusively, and it's very substance by mutual love. So in other words, when we see marriage upon earth, marriage between a man and a woman, that's the perfect image of what we're actually invited to live for the rest of our lives, which is union with Christ forever. In that union begins on earth and then it can continue for eternity in heaven.
Revival
"dietrich" Discussed on Revival
"I want it to hopefully encourage you all who are listening, who maybe need it to just continue to have hope in marriage because truly when we live marriage out the way that we're supposed to, it is so transformative. I have found that some of my most transformative moments in the times when I've most desired marriage are when I see couples just living it out to the fullest. And it doesn't mean that they're always happy, but it means that they are joyfully entering into the challenge of conquering themselves for the sake of the other. In marriage, marriage has this great capacity to change the world. And to transform people and to raise up a new generation of people and I think that is why it's being so attacked right now in our culture. It's being so degraded that marriage between a man and a woman just isn't even. Seemingly sacred anymore. It still sacred in the eyes of God, but it's not sacred in the eyes of our culture. And I think that we Christians need to constantly battle for the sacredness of marriage. We need to constantly bear witness to that by the ways that we treat our spouses by the ways that we guard and protect our marriage. I think that is so crucial for our culture right now that we can't we can't give up on it. We have to keep trying. We have to keep going. And I think that the lord truly will bless he will truly bless those who are striving to live holy marriages and those who are striving to discern marriage to the best of their ability. He will bless those couples because he wills to make himself known and revealed and he wills to sanctify through marriage and through family. So I didn't even get into the meat of the book. That's really unfortunate. I only talked about the introduction, which is fine. This will be fun, who even knows, maybe this show will be like spiritual warfare and alternative to multiple parts. I'm kind of doubting that. But regardless, that's one that's on my heart about marriage. I wanted to share that with you all today. And that's going to conclude our first segment. So when we come back, we're going to talk about what Dietrich von Hildebrand has to say about marriage and I'm just going to read from several different paragraphs within his book. They're so good and hopefully this can help give us a more complete picture of marriage. And again, can just continue to inspire us and challenge us and encourage us to discern well, to continue to live out our vocations to the best that we do the best of our abilities and just to continue to trust that the lord really is blessing marriages and he's going to continue to because he really wills to draw men to himself through marriage and family. So you all are listening to revival with Terra Lauderdale. I'm so glad to be with you. We'll be right back.
Revival
"dietrich" Discussed on Revival
"One of them is, it's not even a book. It's like a long essay. By Frank sheet, super good. So good. May read that one day on this show. We will see. Except I lost my copy, so I'm going to need to get another one. And then the other book, which I'm going to read be reading from today is so good. It's called marriage, the mystery of faithful love. And it guess who it's by. He's one of the best. Dietrich von Hildebrand. If you've never heard of him, he's an incredible, incredible writer and he's so awesome. So I'm going to be reading excerpts from his book today, and I'm going to start us off by kind of setting the tone by reading parts from the introduction, which the introduction is written by his wife, Alice von Hildebrand, and she's also a really amazing writer, may also probably read from one of her books one day on this show. But anyway, big fan of the von hild brands. And I hope that after today, you are too. Okay, so I'm just going to read a couple different sentences, paragraphs from the introduction that Alice writes for her husband's book and it's so good. So, all right. Here we go. Alice is talking about why some
Revival
"dietrich" Discussed on Revival
"Revival is a place where you can come to encounter and ponder truth. In this show, we are going to be exploring the rich abundance of truth that the Catholic Church has to offer in all her wisdom. My name is Tara Lauderdale, and every show I will be reading an excerpt from spiritual books, church councils, writings from the saints and more, and then offering a brief commentary on what I've read. This is so we can have the opportunity to hear and contemplate truth, and then allow this truth to penetrate into our daily lives so that we can become imitators of Jesus Christ. Welcome to the show. Hello and welcome to revival. I am your host, Terra Lauderdale, and today we are going to jump into what I think is a pretty popular topic. It's pretty fun. So I can see the analytics for my show. And the second most listened to show of revival is on marriage. And I can't really say I'm surprised because we love marriage. And why do we love marriage because we love love? Why do we love love? Because it's what we were made for. We were made to be known and loved by God, and to know and love him and return in the place on earth where we see the most beautiful exclusive form of love is within marriage. So today we're going to talk about marriage, it's going to be so fun. And I want to talk about marriage for a couple of reasons other than the fact that it's a popular topic. Because one as a young person, I can see around me that my generation and generations below me, younger than me, have no idea how to date. We literally have no idea how to date and how to discern marriage with another person. And that's because we don't know what marriage is and what it's for and why it exists. And so this is that's one reason why I'm hoping that for those of you who are listening who are not yet married, who are maybe in the process of discerning marriage with a person or maybe you're engaged to be married or maybe you just haven't met anybody yet and you're just kind of chilling and hanging out and waiting for the lord to provide. I hope that this can be a source of inspiration for you to raise the bar for the type of person that you're looking for.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Larry Loftis Begins "The Watchmaker's Daughter" With Bonhoeffer
"Welcome back final segment with Larry Loftus, the bestselling author of a brand new book, which is the true story. The whole story of Corey ten boom, maybe you thought you knew it because of the hiding place, but obviously that's not the case. The new book is called the watchmaker's daughter. And Larry, you begin the book with a gorgeous quote from Dietrich bonhoeffer. I want to read that just because I had forgotten this, von hoffer wrote so much. This is from his letters and papers from prison. Amazing. Let me just read this epigram that begins your book the watchmaker's daughter. This is Bond hoffer's voice. Daring to do what is right. Not what fancy may tell you, valiantly grasping occasions, not cravenly doubting. Freedom comes only through deeds. Not through thoughts, taking wing. Faint not nor fear, but go out to the storm and the action, trusting in God, whose commandment you faithfully follow. Freedom exultant will welcome your spirit with joy. That is so powerful, valiantly grasping occasions, not cravenly doubting. We're living at a time now. I have to say it, and I say it very often. When many people are wringing their hands and saying there's nothing I can do, what can I do? And then you give them an example of something they can do, they go, well, but if I do that, then this might happen and that might happen. They have ceased to live a life of meaning, a life of heroic beauty. And we are put on this earth to live that kind of life, and these stories inspire us to do that. And folks, if you miss it, you miss it. You only get to pass this way one time and God invites us into this glorious battle with him for what is right and true and good. And it amazes me that bun hoffer says, he says, faint not for fear, but go out to the storm and the action, but before that, this is the ultimate line. Freedom comes only through deeds, not through thoughts taking wing. I think there are a lot of people they think that if I worry a lot, and if I think the right thoughts, prayer is very important, folks. But prayer is action. And there's other kinds of action. If your faith doesn't lead you to works and to action, maybe you have no faith. So it's extraordinary that you begin the book with that beautiful bahnhof for quote. I want to thank you for reminding me of it, Larry Loftus. So
The Eric Metaxas Show
Eric and Clifford Nichols Unpack America's Untenable Situation
"Find ourselves today in America in an untenable situation. We find ourselves subject to the tyrannous behavior of what is technically our own government. It's unacceptable. We've got to do something about it. The question is what to do. But the parallels, I mean, not only because of my familiarity with Germany in the 30s because I wrote my book bahnhof, but I think that it bears saying that people, even before Hitler officially took power in 33, people like the great Dietrich von Hildebrand, the Catholic philosopher and hero, he knew that the people taking Germany over were criminals. They were genuinely criminals. Many people didn't get that at first. Eventually a lot of the people that didn't get it did get it, but by then it was too late the nation had been taken over by criminals. That's effectively what is happening right now. When they talk about taking Trump out by any means necessary, they have abrogated the rule of law. It's obvious from the way they are behaving. The question cliff is, what do we do about it? And one is to get unified, we have a lot of different issues, we have people protesting school boards, state legislators, it's fractal. It's rationalized. And if you have a unified platform, that is a statement that Thomas Jefferson used the Declaration of Independence for to state to the world here are the grievances and here are the solutions. Okay, but obviously cliff. Jefferson was not some rogue guy. Jefferson was a group part of a larger group who had authority who were leaders, not just in a movement, but many of whom were leaders in the colonial government at the time. It seems to me have a parallel to that.
Jesus Stories
"dietrich" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"That Jehovah God wanted him to return to Germany. But again, the question arises. What should he do? Our man took up the mantle of resistance to the power of evil in Germany, the government. He insisted that the church had to share in the sufferings of God at the hands of a godless world if it were to be a true church of Christ. Our man's brother in law was a leading figure in the German military intelligence, this agency called the ave, was the center of a conspiracy against Hitler, our man was hired to work for this agency, joining this conspiracy. And as a member of this agency, he could travel outside Germany, contacting allies informing them of the efforts to overthrow Hitler. Our men had been under surveillance by the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany. They found a plan to move a few Jews out of Germany and to Switzerland and traced it back to our man based on this plot he was arrested and imprisoned in 1943. He was hopeful of being released, either by being found innocent of the charges, or because Hitler would be assassinated, and an assassination plot was tried unsuccessfully in 1944, resulting in the unrest and the torture of thousands of people, names were revealed, including the name of our man, he was uncovered as one of the leaders in the conspiracy to kill Hitler, and after two more prison moves, he was hanged in 1945, just three weeks before the end of World War II, he was 39 years old. Who was this man? His name is Dietrich bodh hoffer. Let me close with a quote about him from one of his biographers, Eric metaxas. In a poem written in the last year of his life, likely knowing the death lay ahead for him, bonhoeffer called death the last station on the road to freedom. As a devout Christian, Bonham worshiped a God who had emphatically conquered death in Jesus Christ through the crucifixion and resurrection. Understanding this historical and theological fact and its far reaching implications is unavoidably at the core of the Christian faith, and he went to great lengths to communicate them. It gave barnhart for the courage to do all that he did in life. And it gave him the courage to face his own death without fear and trembling. Baumhoff really believed that obeying God, even unto death, was the only way to life, and it was the only way to defeat evil, when Christ calls a man, he bids him, calm, and die. These Jesus stories come to you because you support us, said pray for us. Thank you for that. If you'd like to know how to help us out, visit our website. Jesus stories dot info. Click on the support this podcast tab, you'll find ways to help us out financially as well as a few prayer requests. Do you have a Jesus story, a testimony to share? It may not be as dramatic as Dietrich bug of her story, but all Jesus stories are important. If you'd like to share yours with me, go to the website. Jesus stories dot info. Click on the talk to us tab. You'll find several ways to communicate with me there. Join us in two weeks for another Jesus story, a story of the faith of a woman who was a contemporary of mod offers, and who also endured persecution by the Nazi Party, that'll
The Eric Metaxas Show
Amanda Barratt on Her New Novel 'Within These Walls of Sorry'
"Folks, as promised, we have back on the program the author, Amanda Barrett, Amanda, welcome back. Thank you so much, Eric it's a joy to be here again. Listen, you are very young and yet you've written a number of beautiful important books. We talked about them on this program, one of them, my dearest Dietrich about Dietrich bonhoeffer, with whom I have some familiarity and then the white rose resists again about the resistance to the Nazis by Christians in Germany at the time. You have now written another book, the title of it is within these walls of sorrow, a novel of World War II Poland. You've gotten a lot of praise for this brand new book. So tell my audience and me, what is it the heart of this story? What is this about? So within these balls of star explores the true story of a group of Polish pharmacists in the Kraków ghetto. Risk their life. Pharmacists yes, they were pharmacies. I think I read that. I want to be clear my audience gets this. So this is in the crack. I'll get a group of pharmacists. You don't normally hear people. Referring to a group of pharmacists, but these were heroes. Please continue. So they were non Jewish pharmacists. He ran a pharmacy in the Kraków ghetto before it was the crack of get out. Then when the ghetto was established to do's was able to bribe the Nazi authorities to stay in the get out so he could continue to run his pharmacy and in that doing so he was able to provide aid to the Jewish inhabitants, the 12 to 15,000 Jews who had done the Kraków ghetto and his pharmacy was called under the ego.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"dietrich" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In Washington. And he joins me now. Dietrich asante Muhammad, thanks so much for being here. Yes, thank you for having me. First let me ask you, what does the national community reinvestment coalition do? Well, we are an organization that really started off as a coalition around the community reinvestment act and trying to make sure that the community reinvestment act. You know, recognize that we don't need solely not discrimination, but we also needed to affirmatively further investment in housing by financial institutions and investment in general in order to help move the country toward a more equitable society. And so we pulled together this coalition that today has grown. We have over 700 local organizations across the country that do different type of community economic development work. We work with banks and trying to help them point to them promising practices best practices of investment into low to moderate income areas and how to help address the racial wealth divide and that can take kind of a host of different programs and types of advocacy. And that's exactly what we're talking about today, which is promises that a lot of the biggest banks, lenders for mortgages, made to increase the number of black homeowners by extending more loans than they have historically. And how some of those promises have been broken, you authored a study that showed to boost black home ownership to 60% over 20 years in the U.S. would require a 165,000 mortgages a year above what was being lent out in 2019. Yes, that is
Bloomberg Radio New York
"dietrich" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Dot com. And the Bloomberg business app, this is Bloomberg radio. Now a global news update. It looks like the 2024 presidential race might be becoming more defined. Former president Trump says he might just have to run again in 2024. The comment came during a Saturday rally in robstown, Texas, as midterms quickly approach, he used the rally to call out multiple democratic candidates running in Texas, including calling beto o'rourke, quote a flake. Speaking on the recent subpoena demanding he testify about his efforts to overturn his 2020 reelection loss, Trump said lawmakers should be investigating, quote, the crooked, stolen election instead. Canada's prime minister is freezing handgun sales and transfers, Justin Trudeau announced a ban on any exchange of handguns between individuals in addition to a stop to foreign handguns being brought into the country from abroad. He said his citizens have the right to feel safe in their homes in their schools and in their places of worship. New York City mayor Eric Adams says New Yorkers want more cops on the subways, and he says the city's new crime fighting initiative will deliver. David folk Thomas has the very latest. The mayor appearing at a press conference alongside governor hochul, Saturday afternoon at the Grand Central subway station. The pair unveiling the cops cameras and care initiative, which will put more officers on patrol in the subway system. People have stated over and over again, they feel better and safer when that uniform officer is there. The city has seen an increase in headline grabbing violent crime on the subways recently, including commuters being shoved onto the tracks, and even sword attacks. And president Xi Jinping is securing a historic third term as the leader of China, his third 5 year term breaks tradition as he amended the Chinese constitution back in 2018 by removing the two term limit. I'm Jim Forbes. The founder of Red Bull has passed away Dietrich matches cofounded the company in the 1980s with the energy drink going on to become one of the most popular in the world. Match hits is also known in the world of racing, taking over the Jaguar Formula One team in 2004 and rebranding it to Red Bull Racing, which has gone on to win multiple championships. He was 78. A $50,000 reward is being offered for information in the murder of an 81 year old Woodland hills California woman during a home invasion robbery, the victim's daughter, Clara Kemp says, her mother's body was found by family members who were concerned after she failed to show up at an event that evening. To brutalize at home, it is one thing. To rob a home, it's another thing. But the horrific nature in which they murdered her. It truly is just a disgusting. Oak jiao Kim was discovered August 2nd inside a bedroom at her residence, LAPD detectives say Kim was stabbed, strangled, and set on fire. Her husband died last year, family members say she was looking forward to traveling and spending the holidays and birthdays with loved ones. The reward was announced on Thursday, no arrests have been made. CDC director Rochelle Walensky is self isolating after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a release from the health agency, walensky tested positive Friday night and is isolating at home with mild symptoms. She is set to attend planned meetings virtually, walensky is the latest in a string of high profile government officials to test positive for the virus, and Drake is set to drop his second project of 2022, the rapper announced he is releasing an album with 21 savage entitled her loss on October 28th. The date entitled were revealed on Saturday, midway through the music video for the duo's collaboration, Jimmy cook's, off of Drake's album, honestly, never mind. I'm Jim
The Dan Bongino Show
There's a Huge Update on This BioLab Story...
"So the story emerged a few weeks ago and there was a chronology to it Bio labs in Ukraine story starts to pop First of course like every good left this they said well anyone talking to access anything Compared to so once they say conspiracy theory I'm like oh my gosh something's definitely there Maybe a conspiracy but it's not a theory if the left says so So I'm like let me start looking into this So I do some homework turns out the stories in fact accurate that there are bio labs in Ukraine Then I'm told that if you dare ask the question about these bio labs potentially producing dangerous materials and even worse my gosh bioweapons if you ask that you will definitely be called a conspiracy theorist which said to me now's the time to double down and ask even more questions about this So the national pulse Natalie winners and Raheem kassam turns out they did a little digging about this Probably did the digging for the same reasons I do digging on stories because when the left freaks out again you can almost be guaranteed the story's true So first on one specific angle Jim queue up for me cut 6 I was wondering why the Biden administration first was so eager to make the story about bio the bio labs existence at all in Ukraine go away Forget the hunter angle for a second I'm going to get to that in a second That's obviously critical But I was like what's the problem Well it turns out Tucker Carlson did some digging too Spoke to some sources And as it turns out there are bio labs and bioweapons facilities around the world And one of the reasons your taxpayer dollars are funding some of it is because of this Jim play cut 6 Why exactly are we paying for bio labs in Ukraine of all places How long has this been going on And what's the purpose of it So he started poking around to find out We did We just spoke to someone who knows the answer to this question someone with direct firsthand knowledge of this topic It turns out that our government has for some time funded biolabs in Ukraine that do among other things research on yes biological weapons This is not a conspiracy theory It's true So why is the U.S. government doing this In Ukraine the answer because no one wants to do bioweapons research in this country It's too dangerous and it's too unpopular For decades the U.S. government worked on bioweapons at places like fort Dietrich and suburban Maryland or underground at the army's dugway proving ground outside Salt Lake City But after a series of accidents and controversies the government decided to move bioweapons research offshore Ukraine among other countries was a perfect place to relocate Because Ukraine is not a democracy the Ukrainian government can host all the bioweapons research at once There's nothing ordinary Ukrainians can do about
No Agenda
"dietrich" Discussed on No Agenda
"And we're going to show you how it was pulled off. Do you remember this? Do you remember that report? I mean, not specifically that one, but this news that oh my God, it was created at Ford Dietrich. It was to bio weapon. I have the first time I read about the age this is a period of time in the early 80s when this thing first broke out. That I was doing a lot of research in the newspaper archives at the University of California. And I was keeping up with all the news, and the first time the first place I ever read about the four Dietrich story was in The New York Times. It was a story in The New York Times. They did cite the Russians saying, well, there's Russia's believe it's like about 14 trick. And then if you start doing some research into the whole situation, for Dietrich being a very suspicious operation to begin with. Yeah. To say the least. There was a lot of talk in the 70s during the population bomb era. Ehrlich and the boys at Stanford, about the popular world being overpopulated and this was a major problem in the 70s. There's been a lot of people got best vasectomies that shouldn't have gotten them. They're younger fools. Suckers. Lesbian location. Lesbian dudes. So they so they there was a bunch of people complaining that Africa was overpopulating itself and something had to be done about it. And the belief is that Ford Dietrich develops some systems to drop off in Africa because certain ways they sexual practices and other things that go on there, anal sex a lot. As a way of not getting pregnant, yes is a population control. And it wasn't doing anything for their population. The population of Africa was completely going out of control and people believed in the 70s during the population bomb era, thanks to the people at Stanford, that Africa was the problem and that something had to be done about it. Let's do something about it. And thus aids and Ebola were created for the purposes of wiping out most of the Africans. That was the that's what you the conclusion you had to come to based on any knowledge of the 70s and 80s as they existed. And that's the way I came out of that era thinking something's wrong with all this information. Okay. That analysis can only be found on this podcast. No one is old enough like us to give you that and be lucid enough to remember those days. I appreciate that. Well, when I read the four Dietrich thing in The New York Times back in, I believe it was 1982 when I first read that. It stuck. I had never forgotten it to this day, reading that article. And it appeared, and what it said and I've always kept my eye on fort Dietrich and is always keeps cropping up in the conversation. Now, and it's also interesting in context of bat versus lab, was it lab versus monkey? We had all that going on. What I found interesting about that clip is that they accuse the accused the Russians of doing what the CIA invented as far as I'm concerned. We've talked about it so many times. Get a story in an African newspaper, so The New York Times can then say, oh, by the way, look what's going on. Here's what they say in the newspaper. It's called the circular reporting or whatever it is. That's a CIA tax. It's a CIA tactic. Early CIA tactics. Okay, used to this day. Okay, it's the Russians. All right, so let's go back to 1983 and we're going to show you what really happened here. So remember this story started with an article in the patriot newspaper? Age the deadly mysterious disease, which has caused havoc in the U.S., is believed to be the result of The Pentagon's experiments to develop new and dangerous biological weapons. There's the crux of the crap. It's time you met Kathleen Bailey and Todd leventhal. They were part of a U.S. government team that first piece this story together back in the 80s. Just the perfect example of a very effective disinformation campaign. Well almost perfect. There are some obvious grammar mistakes here which tip off experts like Kathleen, like an English, we'd say flu virus, not the virus flu. It's written by a non native English speaker and it probably was written by a Russian language speaker. They said, oh, the Indian newspaper, the patriot, which we knew, the KGB used this as a English language newspaper as a way to get stories out. This was a classic Soviet tactic. Another ex KGB agent we found, he told us they'd always try and place the story in a third world country. Somewhere like in India, Thailand. Where journalists could be easily tricked bribes. Acceptability, when nobody, nobody was searching about the origin. I love all these British spooks that put in this package. And here's your kicker. It's 6 seconds. This campaign had a KGB code name. They called it. Operation infection. Right down to the code names of the disinformation. The problem that you have with some of these stories is the logic. It's illogical. And in this case, let's say the Russians did plant the information about fort Dietrich. As fake. There's two possibilities. One fourth Dietrich actually did something. Maybe the Russians found out about it and they thought they'd drop a little possible there. Sure. And say, hey, you guys, it's for DRAM. The point, if you really trace it back to whether it's for Dietrich or not. What is the point? If it's not for Dietrich, what is the point saying it is for a diet trick? What does it do for anybody? Does it cause a revolution? Does it cause people to stop paying their taxes? What is the effect of even mentioning for Dietrich? Nobody cares. Nobody cares about Ford. What is the what are the Russians accomplishing is what I'd like to know if they're putting this phony baloney story out there? What's the competition? I can tell you what was accomplished. I don't know if it was.
AP News Radio
Rays Beat Tigers 5-2, Extend AL East Lead to 8 1/2 Games
"Dietrich Enns earned his second win in Mike Zunino it is thirty first home run is the Tampa Bay rays defeated the Detroit Tigers five to two ends to go over for opener Lewis head in the second and allowed a run on three hits in four innings of work Sununu's two run blast off reliever drew Carlton in the six give the race a five one lead when extends the rays leading the American League east eight and a half games over idle Toronto in Boston and trims the magic number to win the division to a Steve Kearney St Petersburg
The Dental Marketer
"dietrich" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"It's a lot of patience islam money. Yeah that's not a patient yeah So then even like on sunday and and other stuff you have someone in the office. No so we just answer them remotely but monday through friday. It's really important so we answer and that's one thing i think. A lot of patients really like is if we get emergency we can answer the phone on the weekend and she'd say hey. Send me a picture through through. We can take a look at it and let you know when he's to happen. You know booked a lot of. She's for monday on saturday evening. When we're sitting on the couch and it takes thirty seconds to three minutes for her to answer couple text messages and make a parent feel much more ease where some people just when they're out of the office. They don't want to deal with it anymore. It's done. it's my weekend. But if you take those you know minute or two minutes to just respond. A few tax messages. Goes a long way with parents. Because i mean the weekend. You're like binge watching something the office you're looking at. Are you going to go that dietrich are you going to get that in the exactly but but at the same time now if they can send it because we can see the pick you know they can text us picture and she can see kind of fits number and seen they really need to come in or if they can wait till monday which a lot of times they can then instead of having to come in for an emergency patient we can wait. See him on monday. And it's so then do you guys just answer those remote calls or your teams also designated like hey. Are you gonna.
The Dental Marketer
"dietrich" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"It they're awesome. Blur probably one of their worst customers when it comes to install because it got pushed back so far it was just a nightmare but they were fantastic word for rubens buried. I have a love. Hate relationship with henry shine. I love her. Shine rep here but some of the follow through with the equipment people on the pack and hasn't been that great. Who's weirdo 'cause we did our original order on the benko rep. I think had a heart attack or something like that so there was like no bank arap here for like a couple months so we ended up going shine..
The Dental Marketer
"dietrich" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"See adult special needs with medicaid and we've had to limit how many patients we do see just because how much time consuming it is but at the end of the day. She wants to have dental accessible to everyone that needs it and unfortunately a lot of the kids do have medicaid. Need the most route. So it's something will definitely hold onto forever. How do you guys manage like the doctors or your wife's time like with that with medicaid. Because i know like you can try and you can do a lot of work but maybe not efficient enough. It's like make so from my understanding cheese really fast. As far as her work goes so she can run eventually. She'll be running six ops herself here at her other practice. She was running seven ops. With two restorative with the medicaid with the bigger cases. We do offer in office so we do that right now. Two days a month. But we're going to up to four days a month next year in your wife's doing it all on. We have a general amnesty zoologist. Who comes in okay. Gotcha do you guys plan to eventually hire another associated now. Yes hopefully by next summer depending on growth and everything like that but we're going to expand the office so we're gonna add other. I think it's a five bay open bay and then two more private rooms so we're taken on another three thousand square feet nice man. You're on track to making your tenth office man tent. I would love..
The Dental Marketer
"dietrich" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"It's worth one interesting thing they have is most of our staff speak spanish. So we do. Have one specific pediatrician. That only see spanish patients so we get a lot of referrals from from that so we try and find different avenues. That are kind of not the normal. I guess you would say to try and make ourselves standout gotcha. yeah normally. how much would you say if somebody's listening to like. Dang i wanna do a dietrich's doing i'm gonna get ten gift. Baskets roughly pricewise. How much would that be an forty or fifty bucks per basket or the whole thing. All a good man has really good at mean. She goes like the dollar store. You know different things like that than just she always. There's like one. I forget the name of the company that sells stickers may have big sales every like two or three months so she buys a ton of stickers and different things like that. But yeah i mean go the dollar store and spend fifty or seventy bucks on stuff and then put together all these baskets. That's perfect that's like not even even dass. Yeah yeah exactly..
The Dental Marketer
"dietrich" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"I like how you said that dietrich like last month yeah married this month. Marathon bourbon baby. I it's been fun. It's been. I mean just a busy busy two years with the practice but the wedding and then we decided to renovate earned tire house to five. Yeah hey man by like marriage is fun you gotta realize this has been you know what i mean like. It's going to be definitely. Yeah you're gonna hate. Who does i was talking to casey. Go the other day from brewington. Ten teeth yes hunky. Who's doing bourbons. Bourbon what is it called..
AP 24 Hour News
Georgia Fire Department Grants 4-Year-Old's Firefighter Wish
"Has sworn in a four year old boy as a recruit. Little Bubba Dietrich is a leukemia patient who wants to be a firefighter. His father says. He loves everything they do. I'm Rita Foley.
AP News Radio
China says politics behind US call for virus origin probe
"China has accused the Biden administration of playing politics by pushing for a new investigation into the origins of the corona virus which was first detected in China in late twenty nineteen president Joe Biden has also intelligence officials to double up efforts to find and also to the origins including investigating the possibility that it came from a Chinese Navratri China's foreign ministry spokesperson said that Piven's order said the US does not care about facts or truth nor is it interested in serious scientific origin tracing China also fired back that the US should also open itself up to investigations and it's ten laps like the ministry's fort Dietrich base on Karen Thomas
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Navy medic killed on base after shooting 2 in Maryland
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"dietrich" Discussed on Look Behind The Look
"I was like whoa. Whoa you know. I got like trying to get like the natural beauty. But also like if you're going to do that you should be You know trying to bring out the best in someone anyway like light it nicely eivind with being seen without makeup but also you know on my own terms but i think i realize that moment i was like you know what we'd marlene dietrich of stood for this shit suddenly like thinking about like the glamour in what it needs to meet for my confidence and what make up means in my hair and all the things that i've you know Anybody washes doesn't know. I'm a natural blonde and i just i found my confidence through hair and wearing it in this hairstyle and wearing makeup and so i i had a point i was like. I'm tired of everybody wanting to see like you know. Let's show a different data. Let's show you natural. And i just thought like but it makes me feel like insecure weird and you know. I don't like how it feels kind of finally what you know. I'm not gonna do that anymore. Well what's the goal of that. what is i do. it's for them. It's a selfish for not for them. Like i did this amazing different thing and showed her in a different way was like that's okay to show me in a different way but think about how you can do that in a way. That doesn't like make me feel weird because boy my here you know i'm not here. I not model. i'm not a model. I'm a performer. Author lingerie designer. That is trying to you know. Usually these photo shoots to promote what i'm selling which beauty glamour Fun for whims kelly. Like my show and it's just like this isn't helping sell what i call myself. A glamour evangelists..
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"dietrich" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Political analyst Gary Dietrich, who joins us right now, Gary, Welcome to the show, buddy. That it is so good to hear you back in the radio saddle, buddy. Thanks. Really? Thanks. Really, man. You had to see you back there behind the mike. And, you know, feeling much better, man. We're glad you made it through the bed and you're back at it. Here is we start a new year, one that everybody has been waiting for. And tomorrow a day that some have looked forward to some of feared, But we're gonna have a new president added up tomorrow. Ah, yes. And what is it s so what's the final thing on this? Is it going to be Mike Pence? Attending or because I know the president has And I think this may have happened to you correct me if I'm wrong only once before, maybe where the outgoing president is not representing We're back it Andrew Johnson last time the president was not there for the inauguration. Mike Pence is going to represent the administration. He will be there. Donald Trump wheels up in Air Force one for his last trip. On that jet down to mar a Lago, Florida and he'll be understand wheels up about 8, 30 eastern. So you want to watch that in person? You'll need to get early tomorrow. Here on the West Coast. You understand? It's gonna be like, uh, Like 4 30. The coverage begins somewhere around 4 30 or five AM Gary. Yeah, I'm not. I don't have that shift. Thank God that I mean me, either. I will be up. Well, I think you're gonna go all day tomorrow. Just real quick, So people know that we'll be wheels up for the president early in the morning. Then the inaugural activities begin late morning course that traditional swearing in will happen at noon. Under the actually a prime time concert. You know, normally crusty things all happen in person is going to be virtual Tom Hanks hosting that tomorrow night, No inaugural balls that we usually see no people on Capitol Mall. Almost 200,000. American flags will be representing in 56 rows representing the 50 states and six territories. That's what people will see tomorrow. The rest of it, though. You know, almost all of us typically watch it. On the TV and you will still see the risers and all that people more social resistance cell over tomorrow for that. Oh, and then by the way, I think something that is gonna be cool after the inauguration itself. The president will go to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown, still soldiered Arlington with three of the four living presidents with him. Clinton Bush Obama Jimmy Carter in his nineties can't make it But I think that that should be very cool for those of us like myself at your honor. Go to Arlington. That's a special place. Is it just too much? What I mean? Is it just This is just too too much bitterness. I obviously the reason the president is not going to be attending. We know that it's Kind of hard for him to attend. I mean, some people would, I think, understand that there's been just so much conflict between obviously Biden and who just has shown a complete and utter lack of respect for Donald Trump, Gary On and vice versa. Or is it is it is? It just looked like bad sportsmanship? I don't know. You tell me. You know, I think I think you're clearly pat residues on both sides. But I think you're the thing that people have to remember. Is this President leaves office with the potential it least For an impeachment trial and actual impeachment hanging over his head. I mean, that would be awfully awkward, Would it not to be standing on the steps of the Capitol? When, literally tomorrow afternoon? We're expecting The three in the U. S. Senators, including one from California Secretary of State Alex Video who we take in the office. You know the appointment of Gavin Newsom for VP elect. Harris, and then the two newly elected senators from the special elections in Georgia will take office and then Charles Humor will presumably take the reins in the U. S Senate and yet to be determined. I think this is the important thing to tell people tonight that there is no definitive word at all yet. On impeachment trial when it might start there still a potential for Republicans who objected that and this is a big problem right now, because the Biden folks want to get moving right away. I'm getting there, You know, Cabinet appointees confirmed getting going on the traditional 100 days of public policy. Keep one thing in mind. It's really important for people to understand when Nancy Pelosi if she says over those articles of impeachment expect her to do so for six days of every week at noon of every day. That impeachment trial has to take place regardless of anything else, And that's the big concern. Would that just completely, you know, preempt a 1st 100 days for Biden money? They want to make a big splash, and it's important for them to do so. And you know when we are one to talk about You know, focusing on Kobe and getting vaccinations out. And yet the focus, it seems, will be again on impeachment. Gary Well, that's the problem. You know you've got the coverage situation is job one on including by the way yet another stimulus package that's being talked about very large potential into $2. Trillion. They'll include more stimulus for individuals and families, more business. Support money for state local government efforts. So those things are top of the agenda. And if you have six days a week, starting at noon every day and impeachment trial that, you know, presumably, Pat, you're talking witnesses. You're talking issues are gonna I mean, it could drag on for a long time. So that is ah problem. And, uh, the Biden and, uh, Pelosi issue of people having yet sort it all out How this is all gonna work out by the way, one other really important thing, Pat. And that is there's real debate going on right now. A lot of discussions about whether they'll be a quote unquote power sharing arrangement. Which we saw last time about 20 years ago in two dozen one. Will Republicans and Democrats in the Senate could actually be evenly represented on every committee knows Republicans may have a lot more clout in this is all said and done. The Senate. People thought they may have. Hmm. Going with Gary Dietrich are KPK political analyst. Yes, Senator Mitch McConnell has been urged you to quote, do his job and start the impeachment trial after the Republican Senate Senate leader Condemn President Trump today. But yes, as you said Nancy Pelosi, of course, still has not sent those impeachment articles to the Senate. Without them, there could be no trial. I won thing I wanted to touch and by the way, did you say virtual Tom Hanks when we're talking the inauguration? Yeah, He's supposed to be hosting the concert tomorrow. I think Garth Brooks is a number of folks who were going to be, you know part of that. That's kind of tradition, but that's going to be a as I understand it a virtual concert. Not an in person affair, right? Yeah, I would imagine, um, so I don't know..
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"dietrich" Discussed on Doug Miles Media
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