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A highlight from Caroline van der Plas
"Up, person de ketitel, a respect van vlees en bloot, for the keike die we luestern, and the luesterer die go keiken. Keike and luestern are... Caroline, van der Plas, welcome! Thank you! Eindeke eef rist? Euhm, neewen ik sie tom ik jou. Haha, there you are. Dit is heedleker eef een sprekjeso. Ja. Euhm. Euhm, dit is heedleker eef een sprekjeso. Euhm, neewen ik sie tom ik jou. Haha. Euhm, neewen ik sie tom ik jou. Haha. That doesn't happen all the time, but we do our best for it. That's a lot of work to do. So, since the general over -winning, with the rules... ...a club in the Netherlands... ...is it enough? No. No, the over -winning of 15 months... ...that took all the provinces together... ...and the United States... ...the formation of the colleges of the United States... ...the first came, and we said no. It was a long day for now. All uni, all cities and states... ...and all cities together... ...took a lot of time... ...and we came together in the same way. That's right. And Caroline for the Plus is the overall winner. Yes. You come to the overall table. So sick. Yes, yes, sicker. So we're going to take five or six years of Israel... ...in a module. Yes, clubs. What do you need? What do you need? Now, I have a lot of work to do. I work here, naturally... ...and a lot of work by income citizens... ...because, yes, I don't belong here. I come with my parents... ...and I also like to see that I'm still living here. I have a lot of work to do. Of course, Israel has a lot of work... ...by the opening of MBO here... ...and they say to me... ...you don't have time for that... ...but I'm still living here. I'm still living here. That's why I have a lot of work to do. It's a lot of work for people... ...a lot of work for people. I have a lot of input, so... ...yes, I still have a lot of work to do... ...with my kids. Well, that's it. We're really looking forward to it. You're a journalist. Yes. Are you more? No. I'm not more. No, you're not. You're more of a journalist... ...than a journalist. Yes. Who is more of a journalist than you? Yes, my father. My father was a journalist... ...a sports journalist... ...by David Dagblad... ...and, yes, at the same time... ...I also worked with a lot of sports... ...and so on... ...and I found out... ...that I really liked what he did... ...and that I really liked the Redaxi. What kind of sport was that? I've played a lot of amateur football... ...a lot of times in David... ...and I also played with the Eagles... ...because I think it's the most important thing... ...to be able to drive a motorcycle... ...and to be able to drive the Redaxi... ...and, yes, it's a little... ...but I also really liked the Redaxi... ...and I found out that I really liked... ...a lot of people... ...with a lot of spinners... ...and what -not... ...and coffee halls... ...for the journalists... ...and so on. I also liked the chocolate milk... ...because I thought... ...that I would also be able to help... ...with the KISS Rave. And so on... ...I really liked it. So it's a lot of fun. So it's not so much the journalistic... ...in the interest of where I'm going. No, my father gave me that offer. And he said... ...that you can't do anything... ...and you're not going to do anything... ...and you're not going to do anything... ...and you can't do anything else... ...and you have to pay for it. So it's a lot of the Redaxi work... ...and then the work comes up. So we all have to do something else. And... ...no, that's what I just said. Yeah. The question of whether or not... ...you're going to stick to it... ...can I ask? Yeah, yeah. No, yeah. I'm going to ask you to do something else. And say... ...you're not going to do anything else. No, no, no. I don't know if you know... ...the journalists... ...or the younger generation... ...with which I contacted China. I don't want to get into a Gladiator List... ...but I think it's also a big part of the younger generation. You know, younger generation always SCREAMS... ...about whether you're going to talk about their kind and... ... Their own states and things like that. So we can really talk about younger generations... ...who are going to talk about their own state. I always think that the criticism... ...and everyday else is applied to younger generations... ...so sometimes we think of younger generations as Russian... ...as being assume that it's not just you. We have had insane fish. They don't mind that that's not the best. We can do it without drugs. But we still have to find a way to double this on paper instantly In the mayoralpanels. Can you repeat the question in my context? Yeah well, our publictime support goes back to the start of the setup of the FC times, and to prevent so many types of emergencies. it works .pparang The pattern will break, in the states too fast. This will be ideal cherry grass, but that has to be done spiritually. They are very special for the society. This thing isDexter from the point of view of thephone. What about the speaker? There are several questions that you can answer. At least for a Rocky Buss. It's not that it's a big name, it's just a realistic name. But that's what we're talking about. Maybe if we're talking about problems? Yes. What do you think about that? I think that I'm 33 years old now. Yes, I'm not, but I'm an adult now. Yes, you are. Yes, I know, but... You don't have anything else to say? No, no, my ears are not really working. No, I don't have anything else to say. I'm not sure, but I'm not sure. But it was more that we were actually not really talking about the fact that we were talking about the fact that we were talking about the fact that this restaurant, the cafe, which is called Dina Weis, was a place that was closed for the first time. It was closed for the first time. And now that it's closed, the cafe is still closed, so it's hard to say. And you're from Bine, too? Yes, that was for him a question that is not working. There is no real time for it. No. There comes, well, a normal work up your ass. Yeah. And what you can do is take a stand from a bisturier to an angst for a new party. Yeah. The ground is open. Each year, at least, there's a tour back of the Bible, and stuff like that, so there's no real time for it. There is no real time for this party. It's open. So, it's a bisturier with the hand behind it. And that's what, what's the name of Caroline's bisturier? Her lance bisturier, that's what you're talking about. Yeah. No, it's a bisturier, but I think that we're seeing that we're already open to it. We're always open to it, that we're always looking at it, and that's what's next. And, of course, it's been a long time. And that's what we're seeing is the need for employees. And we're seeing employees that are always looking for a new job, a new job, a new job, a new job, So we're not too far away. So, we're not too far away. So, we're finally in the middle of the day. And, of course, we're having a good time with the candidates. We're having a lot of fun. We'll be doing some work with the candidates, we'll be doing some good things, and we'll be doing some good things. And we'll have a tour where we'll be able to get to know the candidates. So, yeah. Yeah, I think that I think that yeah, what is it? I think that it's a very important thing for the candidates. Because I see it on the wall. I'm not a fan of the wall. Yeah. I think that I think that we're not going to be able to do anything or do anything. Or, I guess so. But, what's your job for your audience? What's your job for your kids? Well, for my first job, I was really lucky. I thought I had a job, of course, and I thought I was very lucky. But I thought that it would be nice for my audience to be able to do something. And it would be nice to be able to do something if it were honest, if it were a technique, or something for my audience. What was it? Yeah, I think I was in the middle of the class. I was 13, 12, 13 years old. I was in the middle of the class. I was 13, 12, 13 years old. When I was really lucky. I didn't have any other things to do. I didn't go to school or other things to do. So, that was my thing. But, I did it. I got to have my own thing. And I was interested in it. I wasn't interested in it. I wasn't interested in it. I was very interested in music, pop stars, French, that kind of thing. So, what kind of music were you interested in? Aspen, ballet, and The Renderer, Ultra Fox, U2. That was the biggest thing. Were you interested in music? Yeah, I wasn't interested in music. I was interested in Spotify, so I wasn't interested in music. I thought, oh yeah, you can't do anything amazing. You have to do things in your head. You have to do everything amazing. Yeah, that's the thing. That's the thing that you have to do in your head. Yeah. on the other hand, you have to do things intuitively. Yeah. And that's another thing in politics. Yeah. No, I have a lot of things that in my head are the biggest things that the United States was in. The United States was free and I wasn't interested in music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I was interested in music. But I didn't have the best set of shows. I had a lot of things that I had done that the United States was free. I was not interested in music. It was good. Good. It was It was good. I was music. It was good. I didn't set of shows. The United States was free. The father was free. Man was free. The author was free. Most of the were free. In fact after that I was excited about my would you be more clear with the history of the place, the land and the state? Yes, I was at my base, but in the period before I came, I was in overland. My father was there in 2013, overland. So he didn't have much money. But my brother, my mom and my friend Henk, they visited as well. And they told me to come back. I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013. So I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013. But I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013. And they had a great experience. They came up with this idea of the Great Lakes. So, yeah. But who is that in the region that believes everything about it? And is there no state for it? Yes, then you have to think about what I'm talking about. Yes. Yes, it's a little different. If a person lives, has a loss of the right to be part of it, they have to go back home with a little bit of a miss. There's also the period that you're sick. It's going to be very difficult. Is it going to be very difficult? No, it's not. I think it's going to be very difficult. But, yeah, overland. In a health care process, I can take care of it. Yes, I think it will have a lot of impact on my health. I think that, with a lot of people, it's difficult to get enough of it. You have to take care of it. You have to take care of it. It's a little bit difficult to get enough of it. But if you see that you have a lot of pain and loss of health, that is a lot harder. That is not a good idea. That I think is a little bit hard. have That you a lot of pain and loss of health. That you don't have a lot of pain, that you're sick. And that's what I really want to hear, from the fact that it's over -layed, that it's all over the place. Is it a sort of good off -site? That you have a lot of pain? Yes, for sure. That's what I wanted to hear. A hundred percent. Overall, it's what I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. If someone has a heart attack and is sick, then they don't have the person who is sick. But you have to take care of it. That's what I want. That's what I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. And if they do that, then they will have a lot of pain. And that's what I want to hear. A lot of things can be explained. And it's sort of off -site, in the sense of, no, we don't have a lot of pain. We don't have a lot of pain. So that's a big deal. Yes, that's a big deal. A big deal. A lot of people do that. And that's a big deal. For someone who has a lot of pain, that they don't have a lot of pain. But I really want to hear it. And that's what I really want to hear. It's a very important moment that you have met Okaa. And you have to think about what it can mean in one day. And you have to work with it. You have to work with it. So you can take care of it. All of that will happen. You have to work with Okaa. And if it works, then it's not going to work. And that really is a real fact. It's not going to work. It's not going to work. So it's an important moment. Our lives and our practices will work together. So if you have a partner, or maybe even a partner, you have to think about it. If it doesn't work, it's not going to work. And realize that people don't have a lot of pain. No, they can't. No. And you don't have a lot of pain. Yes. You have to have a lot of pain. No, no. A lot. A lot of pain. A lot of pain. A lot of pain. Yes. Yes. No, but I've been very much involved in my family. My direct family. My sons. My mother. My brother. My life. That I really feel very good. That it's going to work. In the end, it's a very difficult thing to do. And how I want to do it. Is the state of your life, well, on your own right. Or on your own right. But if my own right is there, well, on your own right. That's it. I find it very difficult. That you have to be good at your own right. And after all, especially from my mother, my friend, my kids, have you ever felt yourself? Yes, it's a good thing. It's a good thing for me. It's a good thing that I'm on the court. I'm in a burnout. That I overcome my own right. That's what I'm talking about. Yes, I know. I'm a good man. I don't want to sit in the bibber as a rich guy at the bank. But if I'm going to be able to do it, it's a good thing. I'm a little bit of a man, but I'm a good man. If I can do it myself, I can do it myself. It's a good thing that my son can do it himself. I'm a big man. I'm a little bit of a man. I'm good at my own right. And I find it very difficult. I find it very difficult for people to do it myself. Yes, because you go to the middle, you have a hope in Bangladesh for a lot of people who are living in the States. That's a political point. But, it's a very big challenge for people to be in the States and be able to do it. And for people to be in the States, I think it belongs to you. Yes, it does. Yes, I think... ...you feel bad in your life, or have bad in your life, then... ...it's as if you make a thing out of it, that you think... ...is it really a bad thing, or is it a drug? And I think, no, it's totally not a bad thing. The people in my life are like a group. I have other things to do. That's why I think it belongs to you. But that's what's wrong, I think. I have a lot of talk about what the ungriving of my fund is... ...but now it's more about my base. My father was a journalist. He was a doctor. My mother was a reporter. She was a reporter. A CDR. A CDR, yes. You can't blame it. You can't blame it, then. No, yes, yes. I feel that it's really a bad thing. And we can work together. We can work together. But that's not the case. No, it's not that. I think it's a drug. I think it's a drug... ...to realize that people... ...who have a letter on their hands... ...have to pay for it. I think it's a bad thing. So I don't think it's a drug. There's no social media. But I think it's a bad thing. I'm a bit scared. But we don't have that. I think it's a bad thing. Yes, it's a bad thing. It's what you're saying. Yes, it's true. It's true. But it's true here. It's true. It's true. Like Savannah was talking about. Or like a little girl. I think it's a bad thing. I think it's a bad thing. I think it's a bad thing. And then there's politics. And then there's politics. I don't think it's a bad thing. But I'm aware of politics. That's what I'm talking about. People are asking for money and money. And that's what's coming out. Irish blood. Yes, I think it's a bad thing. Yes, yes. Is that a thing you're talking about? That you're not talking about Irish blood? In my personal life? Yes, of course. We have a lot of Irish blood. We have a lot of Dutch families. But I also have a lot of Irish families. And they say that I'm poor. But when they say that I'm poor, they say that I have a lot of other problems. In family, my my mother used to say that she had children. She used to work in a mail factory. She had a lot of children. And she had children. She was very poor. So she was very poor. But it was all right. It was all right. It was all right. Everyone was welcome. It was in the eyes of nature. She was very poor. She was very poor. She was the oldest. She was very poor. But she was very poor. That's what she thought. She was poor. And she was very poor. She was only eight years old. And she wasn't very old. She had two brothers of the Philippines. But she was very poor. And she was very poor. She was young. And she was very poor. She was straight and had a coma. And that was what she knew. She had three children. She was very poor. And she was very ill, she had a lot of children. Yes, she was very ill. No, she was very poor. She was a child. And in Limerick, she used to think that I that think the state of life, there is a state of life all over the world. The state of life in the middle of the channel. It's a big part of the roadblocks. It's a big part of the society with meteors. And that's why it's so much more controlled. And not only that, but also the IRAs. They were based on the boomers. And as we know, a boomers was created. There were a lot of strangers and strackers. That was a period when a lot of people... Yeah, a lot of people were in the Republic of Ireland.
The Eric Metaxas Show
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"All right, somebody, Joni, I will not read her last name, but wrote a longish email to us. And I said, this is so touching. I want to read it on the air. It says, Eric, hope you're well. Wanted to send you some words of encouragement and thanks. I hope this email will get to you. It's been 20 years now this fall when I first came to Socrates in the city. That's amazing. I just moved to New York City, started attending a little Episcopal church in the program. One Sunday was a notice for Socrates in the city. I thank the Lord for that every day. That was 2003. I became a regular attender and supporter of Socrates in the city. Lots has happened in between, but I still regularly listen to your podcast. And seven years ago, my husband and I got to visit you in your studio at the Empire State Building. All these years, you've been a mentor to me and an inspiration. When my company almost fired me at the end of 2021 as a 25-year employee because I would not get vaccinated and was pregnant and then nursing, I listened to you and Naomi Wolf and I stood strong. They turned off my ID and I couldn't get into the office, but I kept praying. Thankfully, I was not fired, but my company had to accept an exemption at the last minute because of Governor DeSantis passing a law. Unbelievable. In addition, because of hearing the David Daleiden recording on your show, I found the best local pregnancy clinics where I live now in Miami to support and eventually got on the board of directors. After Roe v. Wade was overturned, vandals came to the clinics and to our gala. We were approached by Liberty First and they asked to represent us in a lawsuit against Antifa and Jane's Revenge. Because I'd heard about Liberty First on your show, we felt comfortable moving forward. We were the first pregnancy clinic in the country to file a lawsuit and the state of Florida filed along with us. Thank you for encouraging us not to be silent in the face of evil. You've been a light to me in this dark world. Thank you for everything you do. My husband, four kids, and I pray for you daily when you're in Miami on September 7th for the city keeper's dinner. I'll introduce myself again and say thank you once more. Best Joni. Folks, I have tears in my eyes reading something like this. We are in a battle, but the Lord is with us in the battle. You think how wonderful to have it confirmed to me that God is using me, but I just want to say thank you Joni for writing that. You know, sometimes I just can't believe what I'm reading. Somebody named Buzz writes, hello Mr. Metaxas. I'm excited to attend the October 25th banquet at which I'm told you'll be the keynote speaker.You see, I'm just a grounds maintenance worker and I do the maintenance at the West Augusta Care Pregnancy Center. This past year there was a need for some major repairs at the facility and I saw God answer prayers to get the work done in an astonishing way. I certainly have a story to tell. It excited me so much that I went to my pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Augusta to talk about it and First Presbyterian Church did become more involved in supporting the work of the pregnancy care center. God bless this man Buzz Toole. Amazing. He says, I also discussed some things with my pastor that have been troubling me that they didn't seem to want to talk about. Then right after that, God basically threw your care man doesn't read much lately but somehow God brought that book to my attention last September when it was out off the press and I read it and I realized it was talking about the same topics I'd just been meeting with my pastor about. So I gave, so I bought several copies of Letter to the American Church and gave them out to several of my preacher friends thinking maybe they'll finally get fired up about things. I'll have to say sadly that doesn't seem to be case yet. Anyway this lawn care man has seen a lot happen the past couple years especially around the Augusta Care Pregnancy Center and I can hardly wait to hear you speak at the fundraiser banquet this October. So this guy named Buzz, you know this is my dream come true that someone who claims he doesn't read much is concerned. He's talking to his pastor about how his pastor needs to speak up about the evil in the world about the myriad things falling apart and he actually goes and talks to his pastor. That's amazing folks. That needs to be you and by the way if you're at a church where they really don't want to hear this stuff, they're not interested, you need to find another church. I say this over and over again. There are churches that get it. You need to be a part of one of those churches. Every single one of us needs to step up but I want to say God bless you Buzz for writing to us and letting us know that God put this on your heart and that you actually out of your own pocket are giving copies of my book to preacher friends. It's just amazing. When we come back we're talking to a true gem of a man, Dutch Sheets. Don't go away. Cable news, noisy, boring, out of touch. That's why Salem News Channel is different. We keep you in the know. Streaming 24 7 for free. 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"Talking to Dutch Sheets. Dutch, you were just talking about what you have on Give Him 15. That's your app that I read this morning about this kind of difficult thing for us to process, that God would harden the heart of Pharaoh, because we know that it's like God doesn't cause us to sin. So what is that when God hardens the heart of Pharaoh? And you explain it in your Give Him 15 this morning, but say it now because you were just making this point. Well, 19 times from 4 through 14, it says Pharaoh's heart was hardened. But sometimes it says he hardened his heart, as in Pharaoh himself. Sometimes it clearly says God hardened Pharaoh's heart, or I will do this, he said to Moses. So the point is clear. We know from the book of James, God tempts no one to sin. He cannot do that, and he never forced anyone to do that. But what happens is when a person crosses that line that only God has the right and ability to decide when it is, but when they cross that line, that hardness and evil becomes something that's irredeemable, then God, then that's what happened with Pharaoh. God will use that or God will deal with them differently. There was no saving him at that point. There was no repentance for him. He had reached a point where that wasn't going to happen. So God said, now I'm going to use his hardness and I'm going to harden his heart further because God wanted to do more than deliver Israel. God wanted to expose the false gods of Egypt and he wanted, and there are two verses I mentioned in the post where it talks about God revealing to the Egyptians. This is immersing from God. Yahweh wanted to show the Egyptian people these gods are not gods. I'm the true and living God. So he said, I'm not only going to deliver Israel, I'm going to use his arrogance, his pride, his hardness of heart, and I'm going to expose these false gods and I'm going to judge them. That's what he did. And the correlation I made was that I see this happening in America. And this is why I feel like God began to speak to me in this way. I believe leaders in America are reaching that point and I did not say they have and that God can no longer save them. I just, I don't go there because only God knows that. But I did say, I believe my conviction is some leaders in America have reached a point of evil. Eric, when you allow a baby to be born and say, kill it on the table, that is evil. That is, that is a highest level of evil. I can't conceive of mutilating a confused kid, child that's 12, 13, 14 years old mutilating his or her body because of my political beliefs or my, you know, whatever, or money. And so, there are some that have reached a point of evil and hardness of heart in this nation. And I believe what we're seeing now is God is using that. He's using it to show America how ridiculous, what fools we have in positions of power. And he's making a mockery of them, just like he said he would do to Pharaoh and he did it. And I make the statement in the hearts now and the pride and the arrogance because they believe they've won. And they believe it's irreversible. They own America now, the left, and they believe there's no reversing it. And I said, and I believe they are running pale male toward the Red Sea. God is going to show them that I can do this. So, that's where we're going. That's, you know, I resonate with everything you write, but this struck me so hard this morning, just, you know, two hours ago, as I was looking at this, I thought, wow, this is exactly right. This is what God is saying. And to clarify again for my audience, folks, you know, the Germans in the 1930s, in my book, Letter to the American Church, I keep making this comparison. The Germans in the 1930s had no clue of the evil, most of the evil of what the Nazis were doing. They had no clue. They had hints. They looked the other way. They're guilty. But we have infinitely more evidence. It is a chilling thing when we know, we know that young people are being mutilated by greedy doctors, by people that are ideologically insane. That is happening. We know it. If you don't speak up or you go to a church that's looking the other way, God's going to judge you for looking the other way. God's going to judge you for giving your money to a pastor. That seems indifferent to this because these young people are having their lives destroyed. Babies are being murdered in the womb. We have leading political figures that you just said this advocating for killing children in the womb to the ninth month. Now let's think about that. Does anybody in the world think that's not a human being in the ninth month? And then they go this step farther, even potentially after the baby's born. There's a level of wickedness here that I guarantee you the Germans did not know what Joseph Mengele was doing. They didn't. There was propaganda. There was a media blackout in this country. We can see what these folks are doing and God will hold us responsible. So, you know, Dutch, when you when you said this, I thought I haven't thought of it this way. But but there does seem to be a lot of our political leaders and cultural leaders. They're in bed with evil in a way that we've never, ever seen this before. It has. And you talk about this, that when God gives them over, in a sense, to to to say the things that they used to not say it used to be hidden. They are now saying it. There's a brazenness. We had Target openly glorifying Satan on shirts for kids. This is like you'd make that up. No, that was real.
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"Folks, welcome back. I have the privilege of speaking with Dutch Sheets, a man of God, a prophetic voice in America, to whom I go almost on a daily basis for hope and truth. That's not a small thing. Dutch, you were just sharing about, and I guess part of the reason I get excited when I read what you write on Give Him 15 every morning, which I have on my phone, is that I am tracking with you. I go, yes, yes, that's what God is saying to me. That's what I know the Holy Spirit is saying right now, trying to wake people up, trying to give us hope amidst the battle. And you just said that something a lot of people don't want to hear, that it seems due for a shaking. And I think a lot of people like me would say, well, what do you mean? We've been through a shaking. It's been pure hell. But most people in the church, that's why I wrote my book, Letter to the American Church. Most people in the church are still not awake to the moment. They are still not understanding that they've got to get involved. They've got to do things. So you were just talking about what are God's purposes. One is to wake up his church to a relationship with him that we haven't had. And secondly, it concerns the nation. So talk about that, because I cut you off just before we went to the break, because I'm sensing exactly the same thing, that God is trying to get us back to our Christian roots, back to the founders' vision. We've drifted so far from that. And to get back there is going to require, it seems, more of a shaking even than we've had. Well, America, we in America, we have been the proverbial frog in the kettle. We are the frog. We have very slowly been lulled into a slumber, a passivity, and we've allowed this to happen. And sometimes human nature is such, as you know, that when that happens, it does take something strong or radical to bring people out of that stupor and awaken them. And that's unfortunate, but it's the case. And so God is going to do that. Something is coming to this nation, and I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's an attack from elsewhere. I don't know if it's something another nation does. I don't know if it's turmoil within, but it will be more enough to shock the American people into a sense of, we better react and do something and shift before it's too late. That is coming to this nation. I'm confident of it. And when you think about it, when God talks about, there are numerous references in Scripture, but when he talks about the shaking, the most prevalent or known passage is Hebrews 12, where it talks about the mountains and the kingdom that can be shaken, kingdoms and his can't be. But that begins with him speaking about how a father disciplines children he loves. He's not coming to shake. He's not doing things that are somewhat difficult or alarming because he doesn't like us. He didn't bring discipline to Israel because he hated Israel. It's because he loved Israel. And this is what I have to do to save them. That's what he's going to do with America. It is for our good and it is coming. I believe it will be laced with mercy and redemption, but it's going to wake up this nation. And God is not finished with America because he's not finished reaping the great harvest in the earth. What would you say to the idea that we have been shaken? In other words, that what we've been going through, because I do sense that people are waking up, that it seems there's a daily or a weekly something that you just think, I cannot believe this. What happened with Donald Trump being indicted yesterday on the January 6th stuff, I just thought I didn't think it could get worse or more insane that the deep state, the forces of evil, people that just hate we, the people that hate the American voter, continue to do absolutely anything to take out Donald Trump, which I think makes people that are on the fence like him or love him because they say, I've never seen anything like this in my life. I cannot imagine the way they have gone after him and his family. It looks like two tier justice system. In other words, I see people seeing this and waking up, but you're saying that in a sense, or I guess are you hearing from God that there is a new level of shaking that's coming? Yes, but I don't believe that that is just more corruption and people seeing the government do this or that. I believe there is something coming that is either an event or a series of events that will bring discomfort to the American people. I don't know what that is, but I just don't know. But I believe it's something that will scare America and make them realize, we better wake up fast. I don't know if China's going to do something or Russia is going to do something. There's some terrorist attack that's worse than 9-11, but something is coming to this nation that is very difficult. Now, I'm not prophesying that. I prophesy at times. I'm not afraid to do that, but I'm not saying I know what it is and that I know that I know it's going to be at that level. That's just what I sense in my heart. I believe something that difficult is coming because I believe we need something. It's almost like put the pad, put the pads on and shock this guy and get this heart beating again. That's what I feel is coming, but it will be to awaken us. You know, interesting, today's post I wrote about Pharaoh and because God had been talking to me or I say that casually, God had been prompting me in my heart. That's what I mean when I say God speaks to me. Thoughts have been coming to me for days about Pharaoh hardening his heart. And so, I began to think about it, pray about it, and I went to the passages, of course, in Exodus, 19 times from Exodus 4 to 14. Go ahead. Hang on one second. We're going to go to another break. This is a key point. I read it myself this morning. Don't go away.
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"Well, that's the thing is that you, my friend, Mike Thompson, just a handful of others have been very clear on this. And that's why I listen to you and I listen to Mike Thompson, because not only do I believe that what you're saying and what Mike Thompson is saying is true, but both of you are deeply seasoned, sober figures. You're not just, you know, because some people, the flesh gets in and you're not sure what are they saying and what is echo chamber and what, and as soon as that happens, it becomes polluted. You don't know what to believe. When I hear you, when I hear Mike Thompson, I know that you're alone with God. I know you wouldn't say something just to say it because it feels good. It's not your emotion. And that's very important, Dutch. You know that because we're going through a tough time and people are looking for reality. People were living in a world of lunacy and people are looking around. Who do I listen to? Whom can I trust in this time? And so I've heard you say just what you said a number of times that God spoke to you clearly. And it's, I say the same thing every time with Mike Thompson. If you say something or Mike Thompson says something, I know it's real. I don't have to filter it. When you say that God spoke to you and said, I must have this nation. I have no doubt that the Lord who created this world and who sent Jesus and says that he spoke that we know he speaks, but I know that he spoke that to you. And I think it's important for people who are just despairing right now. I don't know what they're doing. Maybe they're just watching Fox News and they're just freaking out to understand. No, no, no. Do not give in to the negativity and the hopelessness. That's the, that is the voice of the devil. The voice of God says, fight, pray, stand for what is right. Rejoice in me in the midst of these things. And so that is the message of give him 15 every day. And, and you know, before we go to a break, I just wanted my audience to understand that if you're not getting that, give him 15. I don't, I don't know, you know, if you want to live in despair or whatever, but do you have a sense Dutch of what's going to happen in this next year? Any sense of, of any details? Well, I do. I, I feel like there's coming a, some kind of shaking to this nation that is beyond what we've been experiencing. People talk about judgment. America has been, judgment is reaping. That's what judgment is. And we've been reaping negative, horrible things for a long time. And, but I think a, a phase is coming that will be sort of what I would maybe call the final wake-up call. I don't know what it is, but I believe a very difficult season is coming. I've been saying for a long time, it's going to get a little worse before it gets better. And I believe God in his mercy, I call it a merciful shaking because God is not coming to destroy America. He's coming to awaken this nation to our true condition and what needs to happen. And it's already, it's, people are already waking up. There are a lot more people that get it now than did in 2016, 2020, but not enough. We are moving towards something and I do not know what it is, but something is coming that will, will awaken this nation, not destroy this nation, but awaken this nation. And I believe it's going to be the push we need for two things, Eric. It's going to be the push we need for a spiritual awakening, to awaken people to the fact that we need, Hey, we're in trouble. We need God. We have rebelled. We've left God. We've resisted God. We need God, but also then to the true condition of our nation in general, we've got to get rid of the foolishness, the lies, the corruption. We're going to forgive me Dutch for cutting you off, going to a break. We'll be right back talking to Dutch Sheets.
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"Each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver no matter how small or large with a few clicks. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's Legacy PM Investments dot com. Folks, welcome back. I have the privilege of speaking with Dutch Sheets Dutch. I've been telling my audience, first of all, welcome, my friend. And I've been telling my audience a lot of times I bump into friends who they clearly aren't getting the memo. They clearly aren't listening to you or to me or to a handful of people. And they don't see why I have hope, why you have hope, why we're in a battle. But we have hope amidst the battle. And I tell people part of the way that I keep my head on straight is I go to the app that you have called Give Him 15 every morning with my wife and I read it and we pray. And there are lots of people getting genuine hope, not baloney hope, not pie in the sky hope, but genuine hope. And I said, I've got to get you on the program as soon as possible so that my audience is among those who are hopeful and fighting and praying amidst this battle. So I just wanted to say that up front, that I'm excited to have you on because you've given me real hope in the midst of the hell of the last three years. So thank you for that. And why don't you tell my audience to start? What is Give Him 15? Well, it's a podcast I do every day in which I write a devotional dash slash teaching, but one that moves us toward prayer and one that moves us toward hope and faith for the nation. I try to make them somewhat prophetic in nation. It's not a prophecy for 15 minutes. It's what I'm sensing and feeling from Holy Spirit for the nation. And I weave it into a teaching on prayer and just try to encourage people that God's not finished with America. And then we, of course, end with prayer. And we are having literally, Eric, hundreds of thousands of people that view this. And that's encouraging to know on a daily basis that many people are agreeing in prayer together for revival and for the nation and the nations. And the nations. Well, first of all, I've got to ask you a question that has nothing to do with anything. Why do you say Holy Spirit and not the Holy Spirit? You know, I've heard that many times, you know, I don't know, just something I started doing a while back because it's his name. Sometimes scripture, you know, calls him the Holy Spirit, but sometimes he's referred to as Holy Spirit. And to me, I don't say the Eric. I say Eric. So I started to say making it more personal. It was a thing for me to try to make it more personal when I talk to Holy Spirit. But I have no problem with people saying the Holy Spirit. Well, I guess I had, you know, those are the kinds of things that are the deep questions that I want to ask you. No, seriously, Dutch, what's interesting to me is I talked to a lot of people who are conservatives.
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"Now, wait a minute. This is unbelievable. I just want to go back. So here you have a kid wearing braces who knows he can hit a ball. How does he play baseball with leg braces? So at about 9 years old, he was in a sandlot game and they were calling him robot boy and making fun of him. So he knocked his brace off with his bat and he drug it across the field. And then the other one he took off and he could actually walk because he had worn them for so many years. And his father couldn't believe it because they wanted him to stay in the braces. You know how parents are. They're very worried, you know? So he ended up, his dad finally gave in and let him not have the braces on. So he started to learn how to run and he got really good at it. But he could run, he could play just like a normal kid. He became an all-star player. But what happened, I'm about to tell you, is the story. So he breaks his ankle, he goes to hospital. The doctors look at him, examine him for the broken leg and they find out that he has degenerative spinal disease. He has discs missing in his back and he has the spine of a 70-year-old man. How old is he at this point? 17. And the tryouts were coming in two months. So he didn't have money to operate on the ankle to get him in shape for the event, for the tryouts. So a man who shepherded his life, played by Randy Houser, the country singer, wrote a check and paid for his surgery and the rest of the money they raised in the town. And Ricky got the surgery and then cut his cast off because he still wasn't ready for tryouts. And when you see the end, what he did, it's a miracle, like what he achieved. I mean, he got cut at the tryouts and he still came back and went up to the famous scout, Red Murford, discovered Nolan Ryan, and was crying. And he said, you have to give me a chance, sir. I'm hitting balls out of the park, one after the other. I think I hit 16 home runs and you won't even see me because of my bad leg. So what was his career then? Because I'm not clear on that. So he ends up getting a career. Well, I'm kind of telling you a little bit of the end of the movie, but he does get signed to the Montreal Expos for five seasons. And he played on farm teams because the way he ran and because he became a designated hitter, he wore the Montreal Expos jersey and he played pro baseball, but it wasn't major league. So the story really is what he achieved up to that point. And after five seasons, they discovered his degenerative spinal disease. He hid it from everybody. Because back then we didn't have computers and we couldn't internet, we couldn't follow every little detail, you know? And so what decade are we talking about? 1972 was the time when he got signed, but he started out as a kid in 60. So it goes from 1960 to 72. Yeah, 60 to 75, sorry. So this is obviously an inspiring story. So anybody who wants a family film that's inspiring and happens to be true, it's amazing. I'm also amazed to hear how you got to direct this film. You mean to tell me that Ricky Hill knew that this needed to be a film. I mean, I find that part interesting that he knew that he was working for years to get his story told because he knew that it was inspiring and that somebody needed to tell it. Yeah, at first he didn't want to tell the story. His brother wrote the story 50 pages and said he read it to the family and Ricky didn't want anything to do with it because his dad had just died two years after his career was over. And then his mother died not long after that. So he didn't want the story really to be told. When we screened the movie now, most of the screenings, Ricky just breaks down every time and I have to console him. It's just he's seeing his whole life flash before his eyes and he wasn't ready for that. So he was not really super strong about getting his story told. He had to shepherd it around with people telling him, you got to tell your story, Ricky. And I can tell you a great thing. He told me that only until a week ago, he never knew why his career was cut, why God took his special ability away that he had to play in baseball. He said when the first baseball came at him because he hit so many rocks, it looked like a beach ball. It was so big. He could just hit the balls straight out of the park. And I researched all this. I have it all documented. It's all true. And so he said that he was so he lost his faith. He was so upset. He never knew why his whole life why this was taken away. And he just realized it last week when we screened it for some people and it said they changed their lives and their kids now know what they want to do in life. He said the whole reason that's happened to me, I was put on earth to tell this story to give it back to other people. Folks, I think you know what you need to do. If this film got made now, you need to see it. It is all around the country.
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"Hey there, folks. Welcome back. In case you didn't know, there's a film. It's called The Hill, and it's starring Dennis Quaid. I don't know what more you need to know. It's starring Dennis Quaid. It's in 1,500 screens across the country. That's a lot. We have the director of this film, of The Hill, with us, Jeff Celentano. Did I pronounce it close? Celentano. Celentano. Celentano. Hey, Celentano. You grew up in New Jersey, correct? I did. Okay. So that's why you got a name like Celentano. That's just an Italian name. But I want to ask you, this is a film about you grew up in a small rural town in New Jersey. A lot of people don't know that those exist, but they certainly do, if you know the state of New Jersey. But this is a film about someone who grew up in a rural town, small town in Texas. And his name is Ricky Hill. That's why the film is called The Hill. And again, it's starring Dennis Quaid as the father of this athlete, Ricky Hill. But I just kind of ask you right out of the gate, Jeff, how did you find your way to directing this story? Because this is a story that I had not heard until I heard about this film. Yeah. Well, none of us heard about this story. Ricky was an obscure guy who never really told many people about his story. Dennis Quaid, when I hired him to play Ricky's father, said, I just read the script. Is this true? Did this kid really do this? This is like a miracle. I said, yeah, he did the impossible. And he said, how come I never heard of this story? And I said, well, there's so many stories out there nobody's ever heard of. And so that's why we're telling this one. It needs to be on the big screen. So my brother was in a hotel room, sorry, in a hotel lobby. And he was talking to somebody in a meeting. And he overheard Ricky next to him, the real Ricky Hill, talking about his life story and how he couldn't find a director that he liked. He had been through like 40 directors. And he never felt they had the right honesty and heart for the film. And my brother leaned over and said, excuse me, sir, once he was off the phone, this is my brother on the phone. He's your director. Talk to him. And Ricky was like, my brother's very aggressive. And Ricky talked to me. And we just bonded. And he said, you have to read my story. I'm going to send you the script tonight. I read the script. I cried my eyes out through the whole thing. I was so touched that I have said this so many times, but it's the same every time. It got in my heart, and it's not left even today, that I had to tell the story. It was like I was on a mission. I just never gave up. And so that's how it ended up getting made. But it took 17 years to get it funded. I had been funded four times. The money fell through every time. And the last time it fell through was six years ago. Dennis had already been hired. And I thought we were going to lose Dennis. And he called me and said, listen, I love this story. It's the best story I've read in 20 years. I'm on for life. As long as you can find a time span on my schedule, I will do the film. Well, now, for people who are tuning in and saying, what is the story? Tell us what is the story. Because the story is about a little boy, eight years old, who was very poor. His father decided to be a minister and a preacher and travel around the country. And they got kicked out of a couple churches because his father was very adamant about no smoking in the church and treating the church badly. Ricky would be very poor and go out on a railroad track and hit stones all day. But he wore bag braces because he was crippled from the hip down. So he just got so good at hitting rocks because he was so poor, he had nothing else to do. He hit 2,000 rocks a day. And, of course, that transferred into baseball. He wanted to play baseball. He was addicted to it. And his father would not allow him to play baseball. He was like, you're going to be a preacher? Because when Ricky was 8, he started preaching to the family, imitating his father. And he got so good at it that he could recite the Bible back to front. And this is not a faith movie, but it's got so much faith in it because of the father, it just translates into that. So Ricky, behind his dad's back, ended up becoming an all-star player in high school. And right when the scouts were about to look at him, they came to the stadium to look at him, he trips over a sprinkler head and breaks his ankle.
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"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. It's been over 200 years since he was born. People still absorb his parks and public gardens in more than 5 ,000 communities across the North American continent. The goal is to give the common man in this new world the same opportunities to experience creation as any king in his private preserve in the Old World. Frederick Law Olmsted is prevalently pronounced the father of American landscape architecture. In this episode, Kurt R. Brown interprets Frederick Law Olmsted. Kurt is a member of the International Garden Communicators Hall of Fame. He is a green achiever being recognized with many industrial awards. He represented Joanne Kostecki Garden Design as a leader in the design bill industry. At America's oldest garden in Charleston, South Carolina, he worked as national outreach coordinator. He is the past president of GardenCom. In the U .S. and Canada, he's delivered hundreds of keynote addresses, guest lectures, teaching symposia, and certified instruction over the past quarter of a century. He's also known to interpret historic horticulturalists and international dignitaries as John Bartram, Frederick Law Olmsted, among many others. He still finds time to cultivate his own private display garden. Join him now as he unveils his views of Olmsted. This is Episode 124, Sculpturing Nature. The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted with Kurt R. Brown Interpreting, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 63. Mr. Olmsted, would you take us back to when you were 36 years old and tell us what was your most valuable mistake up to that point? I sometimes have problems remembering what happened yesterday. Remembering what happened when I was 36 takes me to a point in time where I felt that I would never wake up, that somehow whatever hope I had of being properly engaged in an adult employment was never going to occur. However, it was at a time when seemingly everything in the world that I had touched or attempted had turned to dross. With that, when you are at the bottom, looking up from the bottom of that big black pit that you feel yourselves in, God smiles sometimes. And when he smiles, he puts in front of you an opportunity that unless you'd been in that pit of despair, you wouldn't think was a positive. I went over the brink of bankruptcy with a publishing company that my father had financed to put me on my feet in the world of communicating, largely garden communicating. But in that day, when publishers have cash in the drawer and decide that it's better in their pockets and they skip town, I was left holding an empty bag. When my sanity was at risk, there were a group of friends, Dutch elders from the state of New York, who looked at me in my circumstance and they said, without much thinking about it, we have a job for you, sir. And this was from Washington Irving, whom you might have heard, James Hamilton, the Cooper Hewitt later, and David Dudley Field, among many, many others, they said in response to my question, what is this job all about? They said, we believe that from your practical training as an agriculturist, from all of your horticultural writings, from your talents and from your obvious character, I took them at their word on that, we believe you eminently qualified for the duties of the Office of Superintendent of the capital T, the Central Park of New York. They wanted me to be a crew leader of one of the largest public works projects that had been undertaken since the construction of the pyramids. They thought by giving me this job, it would put my feet under my own table and allow me to support the family that I had inherited and adopted after my brother's death. So you see, this is a laugh because being a construction foreman on a landscape project the size of Central Park allowed me into other rooms and gave me the ability to meet other people, most notably among them, Calvert Vox. Of course, from that participation, from that connection, from that wonderful start at 36, climbing out of the black pit and going on into the greater international world of garden design. That's how you find me, sir. From that point till now, you have to consider all of the other doors that opened, designing the country's first great urban and public park. It was a democratization of space. That's the most important aspect that we were driving. All of the big parks of the old world were private preserves, were aristocratic in their founding or country homes of the elite and money. They were not open to the general public. Here we were designing a space, an urban space of green that would allow people at all levels of income to rub elbows and participate in a great and refreshing space. Out of that, the other things that came to my table were the obvious connections of making plans for residential subdivisions. I was ultimately asked to design a world's fair. And in that regard, I was one of the few who designed a fair that actually made money. Mostly the cities in which the Olmsted partnership worked were green belts. It wasn't just one isolated urban jewel. They were a necklace. They were a green necklace surrounding all of the major cities in which we did work, involving and parkways park sides with garden views. And with all of that, the infrastructure that necessarily came along with the design was an increasing awareness of public health and sanitation. I was also involved at the beginning of the American Red Cross with standardizing field operations, with organizing national outreach and coordination, and with putting women in nursing wards. I was also there at the beginning in trying to inventory the natural resources of Yosemite, and that began the National Parks Movement. I also encouraged managed forestry. I was the first person here in this country to hire a forester to help develop plans for management of 137 ,000 acres in Biltmore, not less. Governor Pinchot, as he later came to be known, was the first man that held the post at the National Center where he managed the national parks and forests. I was always involved in garden communication. I was a syndicated New York Times columnist. I was an abolitionist. I believe strongly in the development of cemetery arboretum where families could mourn the death of their loved ones. And I was the first one to be recognized for the design implementation and successful development of riparian restoration using early sustainable practices, because overarching all of these individual jobs, I believe that environmental health was also humanities welfare. Eventually, many of the things that we did for the first time or did for all of those who came later to ask us to repeat our success, eventually we codified most of the things that we were doing, and we were there at the beginning writing a syllabus for the American Society of Landscape Architects when Harvard graduated its first class. That's the beginning. And through it, we've tried to reach a point that you can look back and decide whether what we do, whether creating public parks, whether recognizing national parks, whether doing things as a green infrastructural implementation, whether that is garden design, whether it is landscape design or whether it is landscape architecture. I have certainly left the responsibility of that to all of the generations that came since the implementation of Central Park of New York. So let's look at the Central Park of New York. Where you started to turn around was when you got the job as superintendent. How did you make the jump from superintendent to being credited as the designer and builder of Central Park? I would never accept that title. I was mentored by a man far greater than I. His name was Andrew Jackson Downing, and he lived upstate New York. The concept of Central Park and the concept of public urban horticulture was his. He was the first man here in this country to successfully write that there was a model to be offered and followed in the development of landscape practices. He wrote and published a book in 1841 called A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. It was his idea in the 1840s what he called the picturesque landscape has great advantage for the common man. The raw materials of grass, water, and woods are at once appropriated with so much effect and so little art in the picturesque mode, and the charm is so great. You'll recall that 200 years ago I was born. It was also the same year that Napoleon died. There was a great turning where people decided it was no longer appropriate to design landscapes in the French style. The formality of trimmed hedges and topiaries and the development of boxed and hothouse grown examples of tropical horticulture. What they wanted was a natural or romantic view of the world. Downing's response to that was his development of the picturesque here in North America. So while the international turned on what was their term called romanticism, Downing's belief was that it needed to be picturesque. He brought a man from England who was just spectacular with the development of line and architectural standards. His name was Calvert Vaux. So we had Calvert Vaux doing all of the housing plans for Downing's models. Downing began a magazine called The Horticulturist where he promoted all of the values of horticulture and agriculture, how to design, creating a design for living. He encouraged all of us to plant spacious parks in our cities and unclose their gates as wide as the gates of mourning to the whole people. I was a very small part of the initial concept when they were looking for the construction foreman. Downing had been killed in a steamboat accident on the Hudson River. While they were searching for the plan, they had more than 30 proposals submitted for what Central Park was to become. Calvert Vaux had a concept and he asked me if I would join him in its presentation to the committee. My thought was that a proper city park should provide escape from the city. We solved all of the inherent problems of the design so that nature of the space would be one of unending vistas of green and the lawns would seem to go on forever. With Vaux asking me to be a partner, at that low point in my life, my answer was an unqualified sir, this partnership is on. We called our design and our proposal Greensward. I would still think of it with that name. Of course, everyone else has just taken it to heart and made it Central Park. I was 36 years old. I had a neighbor in Hartford as I was growing up and then on the speaking circuit in later years and Mark Twain, you might know him as Samuel Longhorns Clemens, said that age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. What were some of the challenges in the implementation of the Central Park design? The money was coming from Albany and the old Dutch money that still remained somewhat in the Tammany Hall organization of downtown New York politics would get their hands on the money before it would feed through to enrich, encourage and grow the project. The old Dutch burghers wanted an honest man as the paymaster. And so at the end of those long days, I was the man handing money to the day workers with cash on the barrelhead, paying them for moving the hundreds and hundreds and millions of cubic yards of soil that was transported to do those effortless looking hills and dales and rambles that became Central Park. The park itself is a democratic development of the highest significance. We can never, never, ever forget that public urban horticulture is that. It is the extreme expression of democracy. And simply put, we were looking at the three grand elements of Downing's definition of picturesque or pastoral landscape. Those three elements remain the same today as they were then. The symphony of grass, water and woods joined together with many, many artificial tricks of the trade into one uncommon space. At Central Park, we also added what would be in our concept the only sculptural element that was to be included in the final design. That was the Bethesda Fountain. With Bethesda, we wanted it to be similar to the quote from the New Testament, John chapter 5, verse 4, for an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. This becoming a place of union for all of those tired and poor of the city who would otherwise not have a green space with good public water. It became that, certainly, after the Civil War and even up until these days when the symbol of the fountain, that angel of the waters that was given to the first woman who ever won a sculptural commission in the city of New York later to become angels in America. Through all of this, that symbol of health and well -being has been guarded through all of its artistic progress. What other, as you referred to them as, tricks in the landscape design were implemented in the park? There were requirements, as most things are. They had to have cross streets, but we didn't want to interrupt the view of green. We sunk the roads, and it was unique in its concept because all of those cross streets that were mandated in the design brief were not seen once you were at grade or at the park level, so that all of the sheep's meadow and the grand lawns of Central Park were seemingly undivided and the cars would travel underneath that layer. The other thing was fresh water. The 800 and some odd acres of Central Park had to include what was an existing reservoir. The walk around the reservoir had to be included in the acreage, and to do that, we made the north part of the park into what I called a ramble. If you take the word ramble, it puts me back into my childhood. I had rides with my father and mother in the woods and fields. In those days, we were in search of the, well, the picturesque. Any man then who sees things differently than the mass of ordinary men is classified as one who has a defect of the eye and a defect of the brain. Who would think that you could move mountains to create a distant view while the cross -street thoroughfares of a major urban environment would traffic unwitnessed with the calm and peace of nature around you? In later years, it gave the common man access to a broader world. In the early days, when the park first opened, what we discovered is that entrepreneurs of the city would get a chance to meet and greet people who were not of or in their class, and everyone came together on the lake to ice skate. That had never been accomplished in an urban environment before, where the lowest and the highest achieved self -standing stature over a pair of ice skates. What other ways did you incorporate the blending of the classes? There were several types of road. There were access roads for tradesmen, and then there were the carriage trade highways that would tour the park and allowed for another whole type of merchant in the hiring of horse -drawn vehicles that are still there, conveying tourists into and around the park today because of the way the layout was designed. We also included space for a zoo and for ornamental horticulture in the display of flowers. It also gave space for the Metropolitan Museum, and then as you'll see over all these years, many, many other opportunities for people to regard themselves highly by installing other busts and portraiture. There's Cleopatra's Needle, which was that large obelisk that came from Egypt that has its own following up above the museum. It's all part and parcel of creating the ambiance of nature in an artificial way. You had some experiences of your own in a walking tour in England. How did those influence your view of design, and how did you take those and implement them in the park? The only difference is that in England, what we were looking at in the assortment of grass, water, and woods was that most of the developed areas were done for members of the aristocracy. They were country homes at the time. Previous generation, they were landscapes designed and achieved by Lancelot. They called him Capability Brown. Those assortments of grass, water, and woods were no different in concept, really, for the public parks that we were designing. The only difference is that in public funded projects, they had access for people of all social classes. There was no admission, no gate. I've heard it said you become who you hang out with. Tell us about some of the people that you have surrounded yourself with.
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A highlight from Jack Posobiec
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Ladies and gentlemen, we ask you now to count down from ten, silently if you don't mind. And when you get to one, you'll hear one of the greatest voices on this or any other planet. Three, two, one, Eric Metaxas! Hey there folks, welcome to the program. My name's Eric Metaxas. I'll be the host of The Eric Metaxas Show today. And it's really basically miraculous that they were able to find a guy named Eric Metaxas, which is my real name, to host The Eric Metaxas Show. I mean, what are the odds of that? It's just hard to figure mathematically. I have with me, my producer, Chris Himes, although when I say with me, Chris Himes, you're with me, but you're not with me. You're in a car, like in the Smoky Mountains of, is it Virginia, someplace? Yeah, I'm in the Smoky Mountains. I'm outside of a budget inn and something called the Pink Cadillac Diner. So you got this thing called a family and you travel around with them and you kind of got stuck down there. So you're not with me in the studio today, but you're just as real in some ways as you are when you're here. I just want you to know that you seem real. You seem very real to me. Well, every day for me is like Noah's Ark. You know, I'm in a vehicle with a lot of children and animals and there's a lot of yelling. There's a lot of yelling. Right. Send out a dove and maybe it's time to land. Well, let me, okay, three things that I want to mention. Four, perhaps. Number one, today in hour one, if we get them, we have our friend Jack Posabeek. That's his real name, Jack Posabeek. I've been on his show. He's been on my show. He's an amazing political voice. Very, very bright man of faith. Very excited to talk to him about the election, what's coming up and he's just fun to talk to. Period. In hour two today, we have our friend Mike Wilkerson, who's similar but different, talking to him about a wide variety of things, including, I'm going to see if I can get him to talk about the demonic origins of the Barbie doll. You think I'm kidding? Not kidding. Really sick. Mentioned it last night. I was with him and I think we're going to get to that. If we don't get that today, we'll get to it in our second interview because we've got some time. But a lot of stuff coming up. I also want to mention tomorrow, we will have Pastor Mike Thompson. Some of you know him. He's been on this program many times. He wrote a book called Third Heaven Authority. I had the privilege of writing the foreword to his book, Third Heaven Authority. He and Dutch Sheets are the two men that I will credit as being profound encouragements to me. About the United States of America and the world. These are sober minded men of God who I really cannot praise enough just because they've earned their stripes over the decades and they have a lot of credibility where I'm concerned. So tomorrow, we're talking to Pastor Mike Thompson. He does a weekly live stream from his church in Nevada. Last week, not two days ago, but the week before that, he gave a warning about things that are coming. When he says something like that, I take it seriously. Dutch Sheets also utterly separately delivered a similar warning. And I thought, we need to talk about this. So tomorrow, we've got Mike Thompson on the program. I want to do a couple of things before we go to our first guest, Jack Posobiec. And don't even try to spell it. There's no real spelling. But I want to mention two things. First of all, people write to us. And I am really blessed by some of these emails that we get. Sometimes you send it to ericmataxis .com. Some people go to mataxistalk .com. I want to read one of those in just a moment. But before I read this very, very sweet email from a grounds maintenance worker, okay, his name is Buzz. I'm not going to give you his last name. But it really touched my heart. I said, I have to read it. But before I do that, I want to remind you that we are doing a fundraiser with Food for the Poor. Now, everywhere we turn, there's disaster, right? I think most of us know that President Biden or the people who are manipulating his puppet strings are trying and succeeding in destroying the United States of America. Now, they can only do that if we help them, if we let them. And I talk wherever I go about how we all have a job to do. It's not up to us to sit back and be watch things destroyed. We all have a job to do. One of the things that we need to do is to step up and help those who can't help themselves. And this is separate but related. We do a campaign with Food for the Poor every year. They help people who are struggling in countries that have no government assistance to help them if there's some kind of disaster. And no, I'm not talking about Hawaii. I'm talking about other parts of the world. We really need your help. When we do a fundraiser with Food for the Poor, if you don't step up, these people don't get the help. Food for the Poor needs people on this program to be generous. So I want to ask you today to go to metaxastalk .com. Most of you give through metaxastalk .com. Give what you can. I know some of you can give $100. Some of you can give less. Some of you can give more. But we need everybody to participate, which is one of the reasons why I say if you can't go to metaxastalk .com, on your phone, just text the word Eric, my first name, to 91999. If you text Eric to 91999, something will pop up and you can give that way. I want to reiterate, we need your help because people in these countries are suffering. And when the hurricanes hit, because as you know, we're approaching that season right now, they get devastated. And so Food for the Poor wants to be prepared before they are totally devastated. Food for the Poor wants to be ready. We need you to step up. So I'm going to keep reminding you over and over and over again, some of you prefer to call. It's 844 -863 -hope, 844 -863 -hope. But we need those of you who enjoy this program to step up and to help because we need your help. There's no other way to put it. So before we get to my first guest, Jack Posobiec, I got to read this letter that I got. And this was really, you know, sometimes I just can't believe what I'm reading. Somebody named Buzz writes, hello Mr. Metaxas. I'm excited to attend the October 25th banquet at which I'm told you'll be the keynote speaker. You see, I'm just a grounds maintenance worker and I do the maintenance at the West Augusta Care Pregnancy Center. This past year there was a need for some major repairs at the facility and I saw God answer prayers to get the work done in an astonishing way. That was in September of last year. I certainly have a story to tell. It excited me so much that I went to my pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Augusta to talk about it. There's some miraculous stuff. And First Presbyterian Church did become more involved in supporting the work of the pregnancy care center. God bless this man, Buzz Toole. Amazing.
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A highlight from Stader Labs Launches rsETH On Testnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Monday, August 21st, 2023. Stator Labs launches liquid restaked ETH on Testnet. The Optimism Bridge now supports bridging for any arbitrary ERC20 token, USDC expands to six new blockchains, and Starknet version 0 .12 .1 goes live on Mainnet. All this and more starts right now. Stator Labs launched its liquid restaking token on Testnet. Coined as RS ETH, the token serves as a synthetic receipt token that represents ownership and underlying assets staked with Stator's liquid restaking token contracts. Similar to Rocketpool's REETH token, RS ETH accrues value over time. Users can deposit any liquid staking token supported on Eigenlayer into Stator. Stator deploys deposits into Eigenlayer and provides users with RS ETH. Users can then use RS ETH in DeFi while continuing to earn staking rewards in addition to Eigenlayer restaked points. The implementation is currently undergoing audits. Users can currently try out Stator's liquid restaking solution on the Gourley Testnet. The Optimism native bridge interface now supports bridging for any arbitrary standard ERC20 token. Users can simply select a custom token and enter the token's Layer 2 contract address. The OP Mainnet bridge portal uses the Superchain Token List, a unified list of tokens in the Optimism ecosystem, as the source of truth. The Superchain Token List contains a one -to -one mapping between Layer 1 and Layer 2 tokens. Anyone can add their token to the Superchain List by making a pull request on GitHub. The new feature allows users to bridge arbitrary standard ERC20 tokens that are not supported on the native bridge or existing third -party bridges. Gnosis co -founder Martin Koppelman says CalSwap is still superior to UniswapX, which is Uniswap's latest trading protocol that employs a Dutch auction -based mechanism to execute swaps. CalSwap employs a similar mechanism through the use of intents and third -party solvers who execute orders signed by users. CalSwap has been live since 2021 while UniswapX was introduced in July of this year. Koppelman notes that UniswapX executes orders at the limit price of the block rather than the fair market price. While users approve a limit price, CalSwap provides users with any surplus generated from market prices changing in their favor. Coinbase announced plans to expand the reach of its USDC stablecoin to six additional blockchains, effectively increasing its supported chains to a total of 15. The deployment onto the new chains is scheduled between September and October of this year. The Center Consortium, which oversees USDC governance, will also wind down. Circle, the entity responsible for issuing USDC, will now assume the governance role. Coinbase also disclosed an equity stake in Circle. Both Coinbase and Circle will now equally share interest income generated from USDC usage. The company generated just over $150 million in interest income during Q2 of 2023. And lastly, Starknet version 0 .12 .1, an upgrade that includes failed transactions in blocks, is now live on mainnet. The new release also charges for unsuccessful or reverted transactions, helping protect the network from denial of service attacks with spam transactions. The version also features mempool validation and built -in CACAC functions. The upgrade improves TPS throughput for the network and simplifies transaction management for developers. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from Stader Labs Launches rsETH On Testnet
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Monday, August 21st, 2023. Stator Labs launches liquid restaked ETH on Testnet. The Optimism Bridge now supports bridging for any arbitrary ERC20 token, USDC expands to six new blockchains, and Starknet version 0 .12 .1 goes live on Mainnet. All this and more starts right now. Stator Labs launched its liquid restaking token on Testnet. Coined as RS ETH, the token serves as a synthetic receipt token that represents ownership and underlying assets staked with Stator's liquid restaking token contracts. Similar to Rocketpool's REETH token, RS ETH accrues value over time. Users can deposit any liquid staking token supported on Eigenlayer into Stator. Stator deploys deposits into Eigenlayer and provides users with RS ETH. Users can then use RS ETH in DeFi while continuing to earn staking rewards in addition to Eigenlayer restaked points. The implementation is currently undergoing audits. Users can currently try out Stator's liquid restaking solution on the Gourley Testnet. The Optimism native bridge interface now supports bridging for any arbitrary standard ERC20 token. Users can simply select a custom token and enter the token's Layer 2 contract address. The OP Mainnet bridge portal uses the Superchain Token List, a unified list of tokens in the Optimism ecosystem, as the source of truth. The Superchain Token List contains a one -to -one mapping between Layer 1 and Layer 2 tokens. Anyone can add their token to the Superchain List by making a pull request on GitHub. The new feature allows users to bridge arbitrary standard ERC20 tokens that are not supported on the native bridge or existing third -party bridges. Gnosis co -founder Martin Koppelman says CalSwap is still superior to UniswapX, which is Uniswap's latest trading protocol that employs a Dutch auction -based mechanism to execute swaps. CalSwap employs a similar mechanism through the use of intents and third -party solvers who execute orders signed by users. CalSwap has been live since 2021 while UniswapX was introduced in July of this year. Koppelman notes that UniswapX executes orders at the limit price of the block rather than the fair market price. While users approve a limit price, CalSwap provides users with any surplus generated from market prices changing in their favor. Coinbase announced plans to expand the reach of its USDC stablecoin to six additional blockchains, effectively increasing its supported chains to a total of 15. The deployment onto the new chains is scheduled between September and October of this year. The Center Consortium, which oversees USDC governance, will also wind down. Circle, the entity responsible for issuing USDC, will now assume the governance role. Coinbase also disclosed an equity stake in Circle. Both Coinbase and Circle will now equally share interest income generated from USDC usage. The company generated just over $150 million in interest income during Q2 of 2023. And lastly, Starknet version 0 .12 .1, an upgrade that includes failed transactions in blocks, is now live on mainnet. The new release also charges for unsuccessful or reverted transactions, helping protect the network from denial of service attacks with spam transactions. The version also features mempool validation and built -in CACAC functions. The upgrade improves TPS throughput for the network and simplifies transaction management for developers. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from STOP BEING LAZY - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"I understand don't people who say they lack motivation in life because I'll make this extremely clear. If you're not pushing and striving for something, life is so mundane. I've always had this problem with literal crippling perpetual boredom. I was bored. I had no money. I'm carrying boxes of ice. I'm a smart guy. I'm not playing chess anymore, right? This is, I'm 34 now. So this is quite a few years ago. It's before the internet, before Facebook was all big and nothing. What do you do with your life? What's there to do? I thought the only, I need to do something which drains me so that I can go to sleep at night without frustration. And if I kickbox, if I run three miles to the gym and then fight for three hours and run three miles home, at least I can sleep. I literally couldn't sleep. I wouldn't say it's ADHD, but I was just frustrated. And then on top of that, I've always had this huge frustration in regards to money. Even though I was poor, I'd grow up around a bunch of other poor kids and we'd be walking to school or walking to college and a Ferrari would drive past and they'd go, oh, cool Ferrari. And I'd say, doesn't that annoy you? And they're like, what do you mean? And I'd be like, he knows he's hacked the matrix. Don't you see? How does he have 400 grand for a car? He knows something we don't know. Well, aren't you annoyed that there's people out there living a lifestyle that we can't ever aspire to. We're never going to work in a job and pull this off. Doesn't this bother you? And they all be like, no, but me, it was, I was always angry. I was always angry, not angry in a go to jail way, but just in a, I was angry. I was like, something isn't right. Something doesn't add up. So I kickboxing was my answer. I just started kicking, kicking people's ass and I felt a little bit better. That was kind of how it worked. At what point did you realize you were like world -class at this? So when I, my first day in the gym, I walk in my coach, it was four Bosnian men, men. I was a child. It was four Bosnian men in this tiny little terrible gym. It was not like a commercial gym or commercial class. And he said, can you fight? And I said, yeah, I've done karate for a few years that I got knocked clean out on my first day, of course. And I guess they expected me to never come back, but I kept coming back. And my coach said to me, look, after about a year, he said, look, I want to put you into a fight. And he took me down to a town called South End on C and my first fight was in kickboxing. My first fight was actually MMA and it must've been a little over a year because I was 18 and I was fighting a 24 year old security doorman. And being a stupid American, I thought pounds and kilos were the same because I weighed in at like 82 pounds. He weighed in at like 90. No, I weighed in at 82 kilos. He weighed in at 90 kilos, which is an 8 kilo difference, which is almost like 20 pounds. And I was like to my coach, is that a big difference? He's like, no, no, don't worry about it. I was like, okay. Thinking back, a 20 pound difference is a big difference in fighting, right? And I got in there and I won. I didn't win necessarily through skill, but I just kept going and I just outgassed him and towards the end, I'm just on top of him, just punched him in the face, right? And now I'm only 18 years old. So from there, my coach was like, okay, you have some potential. And I knew for a long time, it was, I believed it was my only way out because like once again, before the internet and stuff, I'm going to college, I finished college. I don't believe in university because I'm too smart to get in debt for formal education. I'm too smart for that job. So I finished college. I'm working these sales jobs. I was always a good salesman. So I'm working sales jobs. I'm bringing in, you know, 3000, 4000 a month, whatever, but I thought my only way to get rich rich is fighting. I couldn't think of another way to get rich and I didn't fight only to get rich, but I saw light at the end of the tunnel. So that's all I wanted to do was just fight, fight, fight. And so at what point do you go fight for the first world championship? So I fight for my first level world championship on two days notice. So I'm in Slovakia. There was a town. I'm going to tell everyone now on this podcast, I'm going to give the secret away. If you go, if you're bored right now, if you're watching this on the internet, load up Google maps, right? And there's a town called Kosice, K -O -S -I -C -E, and it's on the opposite end of Slovakia to Bratislava. So Bratislava is the capital and then you have Kosice on the other side. It's four and a half hours drive from Bratislava. It's about four hours drive from Warsaw and about four hours drive from Budapest. It's in the middle of nowhere, but all the villages and all the towns, everyone around this little town, every hot girl within about 400 square kilometers lived in this town because there's no, there was nowhere else to go. Right. And they were all there. And when I was going there, this is pre -EU. They didn't have the Euro and me and Tristan used to go there on holiday because we would clean up. And when I say clean up, my brother, and when I say clean up, I don't mean clean up, like you clean up on holiday with some in Mexico. I mean, clean up with tens, like supermodels, it was unbelievable. And a beer is like 30 cents. And we're the only men there who speaks English. So I was in Kishidze and then I got a phone call from Amir saying he has a world title fight in two days. So I was just really drunk at the time. And I was... Amir is my coach, sorry. He was Bosnian Muslim. He fought in the Yugoslav conflict. He got shot six times and didn't die. That's the deal. Right? So he's still like a father to me. And I must've been crazy. I was like, okay, I can't explain, and I want to say this in a way where it's truly understood. When I say I didn't give a shit if I lived or die, I don't mean that in a sad, suicidal way. I mean that in an empowered, charging at the gunfighter. Back then, I didn't think I had anything that really made me really give a shit about living. Not in a doo -doo -doo sad way, just in a, let's go out, in a blaze of glory then. I'm not rich. I don't have nothing. I'm just banging girls in Slovakia with us. Who is this guy? So it was against the French world champion Jean -Luc Benoit was his name. And the opponent pulled out and they needed a guy on two days notice. And I had to lose six kilos, which was around 13 or 14 pounds in two days. Is that easy or hard? That's hard, bro. 13 pounds in two days is a long way to lose. So I just stopped eating, stopped drinking, sitting in saunas, spitting out all the water, just dying. Finally made weight, went to France, fought in 12 rounds. My first ever 12 -round fight as well, fought him. And they gave the decision to him, but I was wrong. I beat him. I beat him. I beat him. I didn't knock him out, but I beat him. Is this one of the four world championships, or this is the fifth? Well, it should be, yeah. But the tape was so convincing, the tape was actually sent off to the ISKA, the fighting organization, and they demanded a rematch. They knew I won, right? But he's France. He's French. He's in France. And fighting has a lot of politics to it. You have to understand, I mean, UFC is UFC, the real big ones. But outside of the smaller ones, it makes more sense for the French promotion of a French champion. They'll sell a lot more tickets and a lot more pay -per -views of the French champion. So basically either you knock him out or it's going to go down. It's kind of like that, right? So they commanded a rematch, and I rematched him seven months later and knocked him out in the eighth, and I became world champion. Okay. Why keep going once you've won? There's always a new mountain to climb. I mean, that's kind of, that's a good question, because that's also kind of the reason I quit. Because it's like, why keep going? Well, there's always someone new to fight, and I'm still not financially where I want to be. And I don't know what else I want to do with my life, so I'll keep going, right? So I fought again. I beat another Frenchman, and then I fought again. And then I beat two Dutch guys to become four -time world champion. But one day I woke up and I was like, is becoming five -time world champion going to improve my life? I mean, I've already got, do I need five belts? How much money do they pay for these fights? 3 ,000 bucks, 2 ,000 bucks. It doesn't even, you need to work on the side. You're giving up all your free time to get punched in the face. Like, it's a terrible decision. Like, I don't know why I decided to do it. But eventually, once I was world champion, I'd get like 100 grand to fight, but I'd give 20 % to my manager. Then the UK, with the UK taxes, 40, 50 % would disappear. And sometimes you only fight twice a year or whatever. I was certainly not rich. I didn't consider myself rich. So you get like 30 to 40 % of what? Yeah. And I didn't consider myself rich. Like, 30, 40 grand chunks, but twice a year, maybe three times a year. I'm living in London. London rents. I need a car. I'm trying to know, like, you're not rich in any way. And that's actually the reason I retired, because I woke up one day and I thought, I'm giving six hours a day of absolute focus and energy to this. And I believe I'm smart enough that if I put that much tenacity into something else, I can be a multimillionaire. I truly believe that. I was like, I've realized now I've reached the pinnacle of kickboxing. My choice is either to change over to MMA, which I was offered to do earlier in my career, but at the time, the kickboxing contract paid more money. I had to pay the bills, so I went kickboxing. Change over to MMA, learn to wrestle, change over to UFC, blah, blah, blah. But this is also like seven, eight years ago, where even the UFC didn't pay the money it pays now. But the UFC still doesn't pay that much money, from what I understand. No, if you're like top five or champion, yeah. But most of the dudes you're going to see there on the prelims, they're getting 10 grand a fight, nine grand a fight. It's nothing, right? So it'd be like starting my career all over again. And at the age of 28, I thought, I don't have the gumption to start again. I've been through hell for this. I've broken my hand eight times. My ribs have been broken. I don't want to do this all over again. So what do you do when you realize that, hey, maybe I don't want to keep fighting? I decide to get rich, Rich. What does that mean to you? When you're sitting there, you're getting 30, $40 ,000 kind of net on a per fight basis. Is rich to you like, hey, I want a couple hundred thousand dollars, a million bucks, 20 million dollars, a billion dollars? I want 30 or 40 ,000 every month. 30 or 40 ,000 every month, so about half a million bucks a year. I thought if I had that much money, I could do whatever I want. Okay. That's what I decided. So what's step one that you do? So step one is, maybe that's how we ended up here together, my friend. Step one is, I decided to be very logical about it, chess player, right? So I was like, I want money.
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A highlight from Roger Stone
"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. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the airwaves. Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. It's Monday. Chris Himes, I believe it's Monday in your world as well. It is. Happy Monday. We're in the same time zone. It's Monday, August 7th. I have a book deadline this month. I am writing the sequel to Letter to the American Church. I want to be very clear that when I'm on a book deadline, life is a little tough and it's really tough to go from being in Greece on vacation to being on a book writing deadline. It's just a little harsh. So anybody out there who is an intercessor, I covet your intercession on my behalf. This is tough. And also, I take it very seriously in the sense that Letter to the American Church was a very serious book. The sequel is a very serious follow up, because we are in a crisis in America. And it's my contention in letter to the American Church and in this other book. And wherever I speak, that this is an unprecedented crisis. If you're young, you might not realize, but if the older you are, the more you realize that what we're going through in this country right now is unprecedented. utterly We've never lived through anything like this. You have to go back to the Civil War to find something as insane as what we're going through. And in many ways, it's worse because of the cultural upheaval, because of where we are. It's just crazy. And so the other day we aired my interview with Dutch Sheets. He's somebody that I said I rely on as an encouragement to me during these times to get perspective. Same thing with Mike Thompson. Mike Thompson is phenomenal, had him on this program many times. But we're we're going through some some hard things and stuff to process and writing this book, the new book, the sequel to letter to the American Church. It's a real spiritual assignment. I feel that God has given me. And so I ask your prayers. I want to talk. Both hours today about what's going on in the country. About the recent Trump indictment and about my experience with Donald Trump. I had an experience with Donald Trump last week at the end of last week. I was with him. We talked hard to believe I'm saying that, but it's true. And I will give you the details such as I'm able to do in a few minutes. We will also have as my guest today, Roger Stone, who's very close with the president, and he'll give us his insight on where things are. And we'll talk to our friend Kevin McCullough. Some of you know him as votes, Tridamus. And Kevin is always amazing. So it's it's great to be back and to be able to talk to those friends and to get some perspective on what's going on in the country. But before I tell you about my personal experience with Donald Trump, I want to remind you that this month, uh, two things. First of all. If you know about Nutrimedics this month only, they do this once in a blue moon, 30 percent off, if you use the code Eric Nutrimedics dot com. I'll keep mentioning that I use their stuff every day. Half of their profits go to third world missions. These are heroes. Nutrimedics, that's M -E -D -A -X Nutrimedics dot com. 30 percent off of the code Eric this month. Also this month, we're doing our annual campaign, summer campaign with Food for the Poor. It's important that everyone participate. And I'm going to hit this hard until some of you are going to cry because it's the serious stuff. But let me read let me read something to focus you on the Food for the Poor. And by the way, you go to Metaxas Talk dot com to to give. That's the easiest way. But let me just read something. It says researchers at Colorado State University are predicting that the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season season will be worse than average. OK, these are weather experts at Colorado State University are saying that the hurricane season will be worse than normal with at least 18 major storms and several powerful hurricanes making landfall in a number of the 17 countries that Food for the Poor helps with emergency relief. One of those countries is El Salvador, where Food for the Poor's ministry partner on the ground is a woman named Carla. We have a clip from Carla with Food for the Poor who's in El Salvador. Let's play that clip. Because El Salvador ranked as one of the top 10 most vulnerable countries worldwide. So the well -being of the most vulnerable population is always threatened. On a yearly basis, we understand this is going to be a recurring problem in El Salvador. So having your support give us a lot of confidence that we can face struggles and support the vulnerable population without delays. OK, so that's the point. The reason we need you to give now is because they need to be in place so that when these tragedies strike, which they do every year and as we just heard, looks like it's going to be worse this year, that they're ready to go. OK, so in hurricane targets, places like Honduras, Jamaica, Guatemala, other places, so that they're preparing civil defense and emergency relief plans, they're doing that already. OK, these countries are doing that already. But we need your help in this campaign to help make those preparations a reality. We need your money. We ask you to give to Food for the Poor because we believe in them as an organization. So when a community is devastated by a hurricane, or by flooding or another natural disaster, the need is immediate, immediate. So families are left without the most basic supplies. Food for the Poor steps up every time they're a Christian relief organization, but they need you to help them. So you have to go to MetaxasTalk .com. I'm urging you to head over to MetaxasTalk .com now to make a generous gift to help the poorest of the poor in our hemisphere by emergency prepositioning disaster relief supplies in key areas. Food for the Poor can immediately dispatch emergency relief supplies when a hurricane strikes without warning for folks. We don't know where they're going to strike. We know that they will. I just mentioned it. That's why we're doing this campaign this month to get ahead of it. OK, so $100 helps provide emergency kits, including tarps, first aid, hygiene supplies, blankets. $240 helps provide emergency kits, along with many weeks of food and water. But whatever you give, we need your help now. Today, please go to MetaxasTalk .com. Click on the Emergency Relief Supplies banner, or you can text Eric. That's my name. I accept it as my name. E .R .I .C. text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. That's text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. Or you can phone your most generous gift to eight four four eight six three hope. I hope some of you will do that right now because we do need your help. Eight four four eight six three hope again. It's eight four four eight six three hope. And Erica was four eight six three hope. Erica, I was going to mention we're we're raising funds with the other Salem hosts and not that it's a competition, but it's a competition because we get there. Kicking our butt. Yeah, no, I mean, they hate to hate to bring that up. Listen, every day they send us like, how much has your audience given? And I don't know how, but some some of these hosts seem to have a knack for this. Maybe they talk about it all the time. I, I, I don't know how to do this other than to bring it up at the beginning of the hour and mention it throughout the hour. But we just need your help. Folks, what can I tell you? Texas? Yeah, I think it's possible they could be giving to their own shows themselves. And, you know, yes, maybe they're millionaires and they just give out of their own pockets or something to get the numbers up. I don't know. But you know what I will say? I'll say this. I'll say this before I tell my crazy Trump anecdote, which I guess I'll have to do after the break. But I want to say that. We want everyone to give something. So you have no excuse. You can give something, please. These people suffer, OK? And so we partner with Food for the Poor because we just know that they're dependable and helping. But I also want to say that every time I do a campaign, I throw this out there in case there's anybody that wants to give $10 ,000 or more, anybody who can give that tax deductible. Of course, I offer to spend the evening with you. We can have dinner anywhere. You know, if you do that, you buy the dinner, you invite whoever you want. And I just show up and we can spend the evening together. I've met some of the most dear friends by doing this. It's kind of crazy. But if anybody wants to do that, I just put that out there that we will arrange it and we can have spend the evening together. It's a delightful thing. When we come back, I'm going to talk more about Food for the Poor. And I'm going to tell you what happened with Donald Trump and me the other day. Really crazy. Stick around. We're doing a campaign for Food for the Poor. People who listen to this program know that we partner with Food for the Poor. They are total heroes. Food for the Poor steps up because there is always there are always hurricanes flooding other natural disasters at this time of year. So because of poverty or collapse infrastructure in a lot of these countries. By the way, in case you didn't know, America is an amazing country. These other countries do not have a lot of infrastructure. So we need to step up. Those of us who have the ability to step up, I want to encourage you to go to MetaxasTalk .com and give what you can. Let's get a good start. Go to MetaxasTalk .com. Do what you can or just text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. Please do this. Text Eric to nine one nine nine nine or phone eight four four eight six three hope eight four four eight six three. Hope eight four four eight six three. Hope. I'd like to tell you about a stunning new movie called The Hiding Place. The Hiding Place takes you on a journey back to World War Two as the boots of the Third Reich echoed through Europe. One family chose to resist in this incredible true story loved by millions. Corrie ten Boom and her family risk everything to hide hundreds of Jewish refugees from Nazi invaders, and they ultimately face the consequences when they are discovered. The Hiding Place is an inspiring story of faith, hope, love and forgiveness in the face of unthinkable evil written for the stage filmed for the big screen Broadway world called The Hiding Place. Stunning, powerful and deeply moving. Don't miss the story of a brave woman who impacted generations. This global cinema event opens in theaters only August 3rd. Showtime's are selling out fast. Get your tickets now online at the hiding place film dot com. That's the hiding place film dot com. Get your tickets now online at the hiding place film dot com. That's the hiding place film dot com. Check it out.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep355: Make Your Voice Sound Natural On Your Podcast - Jason Barnard
"It's really important to remember that you just need to try lots of things out. Figuring out takes time. You need to record yourself. You need to watch yourself back, force yourself to do it, figure out what works for you in terms of body posture, waving your arms around, being excessively cheerful, once you've nailed there, it becomes so natural. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And I'm joined today with Jason Barnard, who you're going to enjoy his accent. I think originally from England, I think. And now in France, he is somebody who's had his podcast for a little bit. I'm looking into the podcast actually right now as we record. And I'm seeing he's holding up a five. I think that means five years. So that's about a minute and 284 episodes. So if you're on today's episode and you're listening and you're thinking, what am I going to get out of this? Well, you're going to get some tips and tricks from somebody who's been doing this for five years. So if you're just starting out, if you've been doing it for one or two years, if you're about to launch your podcast with Jason Barnard has got some fun stuff that we'll be talking about. His company is called CaliCube is basically a software company. And I'm going to have him talk a little bit about his company and his podcast today. Why do we care about his company and why do we care about his podcast? Here's the thing. Most of my listeners, the people that listen to this podcast and the people that listen to this podcast that call grow your show, that's my company to work together to have a serve you most of them. Most of you are probably having your podcast and your business going hand in hand. Your podcast might be like a part of the funnel where it pulls people in. And so we'll talk a little bit about his business, his podcast. If he's doing that or not, if he is and why, if he's not, then why. And we'll get a few tips and tricks and strategies from somebody who's been doing this for like five years. Plus now who can support you and what do you got to do first? So that's where we're really going to go. But I want to talk about real quick your perfect avatar, Jason. So what I'd like is I'm going to give you two questions. Question number one is who's your perfect avatar for your business? Question number two is who's the perfect avatar for a listener of your podcast. Let's just define that person or those two people real quick. That's a really interesting pair of questions. The perfect avatar for my business, my perfect client is a company who wants to build a solid future proof digital strategy. And what we do at CaliCube is we've taken my knowledge of SEO and we've applied it to digital marketing in general. We start with branding, we build on marketing, and then we add SEO as the packaging of the branding, the marketing, which is how we can build that bulletproof long -term future proof strategy. So that's the perfect client for us. And then the perfect listener for the podcast is somebody who's interested in digital marketing in general with SEO as part of that package. So there is a tendency on the show to focus on branding. That's why it's called a branded search and beyond with Jason Barnard. But we also talk a great deal about SEO and I try to bring on as many marketers as possible to talk about how do we market a business online and bring in those clients through whatever channel we have linked in Facebook, SEO, media, publishing, guest posting, writing a book or podcasting or videos for that matter. Love it. So is it more business to business? First of all, is this like your business serving other businesses? Yes, we're completely B2B. Our aim is to get clients who want to build their business online. Individuals who don't have any kind of business around them are not going to want to work with CaliCube. That isn't, as we say in French, raison d 'etre. Love it. So, Hey, speaking of French, we'll take a quick pause. So I know you've been there for a long, long time. When did you move there? 1988. So years. 35 So you're completely fluent. Yeah, I'm completely bilingual. We used to play a game with my daughter who's bilingual. She speaks English and French, basically the same level. And she used to put a film on the TV. And then at the end of the film, after the credits, you would say, was that in English or in French, daddy? And more often than not, I couldn't tell her. Wow. Very cool. I love that. I want to be that way with Spanish. I'm like a hundred and something days into an online app for Spanish. And I hired a coach for a few months as well. Like a one -on -one tutor twice a week. And I'm nowhere near I'm curious though. Like in English, I can tell that you are probably British in some way, like somewhere, and I'm wondering, does that happen when you speak French? Do they ask you where you're from? Or can they tell that you're from England or something? It's an interesting question because we lived in Mauritius for 13 years and Mauritius is French and English speaking. So it's a very strange country where all the administration, the paperwork is in English, all the schoolwork is in English, but everybody speaks French. So you will go to the administration office and say to them, I need a driver's license and they hand you the paper and you have to fill it in English, but they explain to you what you need to do in French. That's delightful. It's so much fun. And what happened in Mauritius is in Mauritius, they couldn't tell that I wasn't French and I thought, well, I'm getting really good at this. I've got the accent right off. And then I came back to France and of course, immediately French people say, that's not a French accent, but a lot of people think I'm Dutch or German. Okay. Very interesting. And then around, where do you live? I'm a wine collector. Before we started recording, I asked you if you liked wine and you said, I think you almost diverted the question. You're like, I like cheese, but so I clicked wine and French wines, some of my absolute favorite. So I had planned to go in 2020 and the borders got shut down and I just haven't gotten back to that plan yet, even though it's been years. But every time I think about France, I don't think of Paris or anything. I think of like different wine regions and cognac region and stuff like that. It's sometimes some of the cheese as well, but really it's real focused on Bordeaux, Loire, Côte d 'Iron, Burgundy or Bourguignon. And there's probably a couple that I had missed, Champagne, for example. But where are you in relation to one of these wine regions? Like, are you close to any of those? Loire's in the South of France, right? I'm not sure. Now you've caught me out there. I think it's on the left -hand side. We're right in the middle, completely in the South, near Montpellier and Nimes. So there are vineyards around here, but they're not the famous ones. But I think in France, there is a whole culture of smaller vineyards that are super good, but less well -known. But I'm not the expert. And that's the point is I've been living in France for 35 years. I know so many people who know so much about wine and I eat cheese and I eat food and I love the food and the cheese. That's my thing, not the wine.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Worldcoin Iris Scanning Shut Down in Kenya
"Welcome back to The Breakdown, with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, August 5th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends. Happy weekend. Today, we are doing a full on grab bag. We are going to touch on a bunch of different topics, some updates from stories from earlier in the week or last week, some things we haven't had a chance to cover yet. And where we start is with the latest in Worldcoin, and to kick it off, a quote from Maya Zahavi. On Wednesday, she tweeted the most predictable blowback against crypto colonialism. No government would allow its citizens to risk their biometric data to a company that has shown no remorse in blitz collecting data. So far, France, Germany and Kenya are investigating Worldcoin. Now Maya was far from the only person talking about this. The same day, Mohamed Hersey, the former chairman at the Kenyan Tourism Federation, wrote a foreign firm can just walk in and set up office in Kenya and start harvesting iris scans. The iris is the only unique identity a human has, so with a small token, Kenyans are falling over each other to allow their iris to be scanned. And we think it's just a cool, harmless thing. It's the duty of the state to interrogate such firms, so the desperate Kenyans are not duped into something they hardly understand. Cabinet Secretary, you need to step in. Personal data should be a security concern, and the state must be convinced that it is a good clean thing. These chaps can't just walk in and start scanning the iris of gullible Kenyans. So indeed, Worldcoin operations have been suspended in Kenya. The nation's Ministry of the Interior said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that and how the harvesters intend to use the data. The Ministry added that it was, quote, Now, prior to the shutdown, Kenya's Minister for the Digital Economy, Eliudawalo, defended Worldcoin's practices in a television appearance. He stated that Kenya's data protection regulations may need an overhaul, but that Worldcoin were acting within the law. Of course, since the very early days of Worldcoin before the formal launch, critics had raised concerns that the project would be taking advantage of citizens in Africa and across the global south. Kenya has been one of the largest markets for signups. In December, Worldcoin boasted that over a quarter of a million people in the capital of Nairobi had handed over their eyeball scans to one of the 45 orbs in the city. At launch, Worldcoin claimed to have two million users, primarily made up of residents of the global south. Alfred Matua, the Kenyan Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, said, Now, outside of Kenya, several European regulators have also opened investigations into Worldcoin, primarily on data privacy grounds. Last week, the UK's Information Commission's Office, which regulates personal data, said that it would be making further inquiries into the project, but had not yet opened an investigation. It noted that organizations, quote, Now, although investigations into Worldcoin are more widespread, Kenya is the first nation to take the step of shutting down operations within their borders. Kenya's Capital Markets Authority also issued a cautionary statement on Wednesday, stating that neither the project nor the tokens were regulated. The statement warned of, quote, That said, the CMA said it was willing to work with Worldcoin through its regulatory sandbox. Now, Worldcoin said it would pause Kenyan operations in a statement, but appeared to be more concerned with crowd control after one location was shut down by police earlier this week. They said, Now, separately on Wednesday, Reuters reported that Worldcoin intends to allow governments and corporations to use its iris scanning based ID technology. This, of course, raised further concerns regarding the organization's data privacy policies and longer term intentions. Ricardo Masierra, the general manager for Europe at Tools for Humanity, explained, Boy, I got to tell you guys, it is very hard to keep up the normal level of breakdown. objectivity when it comes to this, not because of any big belief that anyone who's at Worldcoin believes anything other than exactly what they're saying, but more because the combination of biometrics and around and find out thinking just seems really, really dangerous. Moving on to our next topic, Coinbase announced a strong earnings beat for the second quarter. The company exceeded analyst revenue estimates by 12 .7%. Now, of course, revenue contracted for the quarter, falling by about 18 % compared to Q1, but estimates had called for a 22 % collapse in revenue. Losses were also significantly less bad than expected, coming in at 42 cents per share compared to analyst estimates of 76 cents per share. This is the sixth straight loss -making quarter for Coinbase, however, the company appears to have stemmed the worst of the bleeding. During the second quarter of last year, for example, Coinbase chalked up a loss of almost $5 per share. Now, the big story was the shift in business model that has taken place during this bear market. Trading volumes on Coinbase continued to collapse. Volume fell by more than a third to hit $92 billion for the quarter after holding steady in Q1. Interest income also fell by 16 .5 % to reach $201 million. This line item is primarily driven by earnings from an interest sharing agreement on USDC stablecoin holdings, which brought in $151 million for the quarter. However, revenue from blockchain staking services increased by 18 % for the quarter and now stands at $87 .6 million. Quarterly staking -related revenue has increased by almost 30 % compared to last year. In fact, for the first time, Coinbase brought in more revenue from subscriptions and services than it did from trading fees. That means that in aggregate, staking services, custodial fees, earned interest, and subscriptions made a larger contribution to the bottom line than the exchange. There's also the potential for a major tailwind to hit the relatively small custodian arm of the business should BlackRock be successful in its ETF application. Remember, Coinbase will be custody -ing all of the Bitcoin held on behalf of the BlackRock ETF. CEO Brian Armstrong heralded the quarter as a success, but foreshadowed that there was still more work to do, stating that, Q2 was a strong quarter for Coinbase as we executed well and showed resilience in a challenging environment. We've cut costs, are operating efficiently, and remain well positioned to build the future of the crypto economy and help drive regulatory clarity. Coinbase shares were up over 10 % in aftermarket trading following the release of earnings. Continuing on to a super weird one. Zach Guzman, the founder of Coinage Media, writes, I don't think I've seen this before. The New York Times just submitted a letter to the court in Sam Bankman -Fried's case about why he was fined to share Carolyn Ellison's diary entries with them and why the judge shouldn't revoke bail and detain him now. So what's going on is that the New York Times has submitted a filing in SPF's criminal case arguing that the court should defend First Amendment rights related to free speech. You will undoubtedly remember that Sam recently came under fire after leaking parts of Carolyn Ellison's journal to the newspaper as part of a story. Ellison was of course the Alameda Research CEO at the time of the FTX collapse and is a material witness in the case. Following that, prosecutors had asked for Sam's bail to be revoked and for the court to issue a gag order, thus preventing him from making public statements or communicating with journalists about the case. Their concern was that Sam had been attempting to intimidate Caroline by releasing her private writings to journalists and would be likely to make further attempts to manipulate public opinion via the media as his trial date approached. Despite those specific concerns, the judge issued a broad gag order rather than one that restricted Sam's communication only in relation to interfering with the trial. This is what provoked the response from the New York Times. After the gag order was issued last week, they wrote a letter to the judge addressing freedom of the press issues. They argued that the public had a right to know details in the case and should not be restricted by the court without due consideration of free speech issues. Their letter claimed that the gag order, quote, However, in a filing late on Thursday, the DOJ reiterated their position that Sam had gone way beyond making, quote, They stated that, quote, Prosecutors pointed out that SBF had created a, quote, What is clear, regardless of whether the defendant was the first source for stories regarding Ellison, is that the defendant, rather than deny his guilt as he correctly now says it is his right to do, shared materials with the press obviously designed to intimidate, harass, and embarrass someone he knows is slated to testify against him and provoke an emotional response and color a potential juror's view of that witness. The DOJ also noted a bizarre fixation with the comments of current FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who took over the firm after bankruptcy. They wrote, In all the years of bail revocation hearings I did, never did anyone or any organization claim a First Amendment right to facilitate witness intimidation. And for good reason. That's not how the First Amendment works. Autism Capital summed up, Not because they feel bad, but because they don't want to scare off their pipeline of juicy leads from other suckers. And now they have to deal with the backlash of the optics of defending SBF. I don't know, man. It seems pretty hard to me to be in the New York Times seat here and actually trying to defend this, especially as the prosecution revealed that there had been something like over a hundred calls between Sam and New York Times reporters. As the prosecution said, that's not just Sam making comment to the effect that he's not guilty. That's an intentional strategy carried out by press, with the press's complicity because they get a juicy story. Now certainly the New York Times is well within its rights to take advantage of a defendant who wants to talk that much. But the idea that that somehow justifies leaking someone's personal journal and trying to pass it off as an essential and material to the case is just ridiculous. Speaking of ridiculous, lastly today, Ilya Dutch Liechtenstein and his wife, Heather Rosilcon Morgan, entered guilty pleas on Thursday in relation to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Liechtenstein pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering and, in admitting to the prosecution's facts in the case, identified himself as the Bitfinex hacker for the first time. Liechtenstein had only been charged in relation to the money laundering, not the hack itself, leading some to speculate whether there was an additional unknown person that carried out the hack. Prosecutors said, The stash of nearly 120 ,000 Bitcoin was worth around $70 million at the time of the hack, but swelled to a value of over $4 .5 billion over the years since. This made the Bitfinex seizure the largest ever recovery of stolen cryptocurrency when law enforcement arrested the pair in February of this year. 94 ,000 Bitcoin are known to be recovered from the heist. Liechtenstein faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but his assistance in recovering additional funds since his arrest could mitigate that penalty substantially. Now Liechtenstein's wife, Heather, aka Razzle -Kahn, an amateur rapper, also pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and defrauding the U .S. government. The self -proclaimed Crocodile of Wall Street faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for her role in the crime. Cleanup year continues, and good lord, we can't get through it fast enough. That is going to do it for today's episode. Thank you for hanging out and listening. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"dutch" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"You got to go to give him 15. You can get the app. We'll be right back more with Dutch sheets. Hey, folks, we've got more coming up with Dutch sheets in the next segment. And then after that, we've got Clay Clark, who's a real firebrand. Wait till you hear him. A lot of stuff coming up this week. Tonight, I mentioned I'm going to be on Newsmax on the Eric Bolling show. But before we get continue the conversation with Dutch sheets, I want to remind you that this month we're doing a campaign with food for the poor. We really need your help, folks. So before we get back to Dutch sheets and his amazing message, because he is amazing and I thank God for him. I want to ask you again to go to Metaxas talk dot com. Click on the emergency relief supplies banner. I mentioned at the beginning of the show, we're in our third day of my summer campaign to raise money for food for the poor, to raise money for the poorest of the poor in our own hemisphere. So I'm inviting you to donate the food for the poor. It's a Christian nonprofit relief organization that provides life saving food. Imagine they're hungry kids. Just imagine. And they're in our own hemisphere, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, many of the poor countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. So I'm asking you to do this today because we really need your help. Your money goes a long way when you give to food for the poor. I also want to throw this out there. Well, before I say that, let me just say our goal is to get everybody to participate. So if you listen to this program, I'm asking you, you can do it any way you want. You can go to Metaxas talk dot com on your computer, your phone. You can text my name, Eric, to nine one nine nine nine. That's correct. I'm looking at it here. You can just check. You can do this right now. Before we go to my next segment with that sheets, you can just text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. And I hope you will do that. If you have a phone, if you prefer to call, you can just dial eight four four eight six three hope. That's eight four four eight six three hope. Again, the number is eight four four eight six three hope. We need you to step up. I know that we all know that we've got to give out of you know, we've all been blessed and we can we can all give something. We can all give something. The question is, where do I want to give my money? Whom can I trust with my money to do God's work? Food for the poor is someone that we trust deeply. It's why we do this every year and why we're doing it right now. But if you don't donate, we fail. And so we need you who listen to this program, who have a heart for the poor to step up. Please go to Metaxas talk dot com. You can click on the banner there. You can see, just so you know, a gift of one hundred dollars provides emergency kits that include tarps, first aid, hygiene, first aid and hygiene supplies and blankets. Two hundred forty dollars provides that plus a number of weeks of food and water. Now, by the way, the reason we're doing this in this month of August and this is to push you to give today is because hurricane season is coming. These folks go through hell and food for the poor wants to be prepared in advance because they know this is coming. It happens every year and they want their response time to be able to be immediate and not a number of weeks later because these people really suffer. So this is a this is a big deal. There is genuine pressure to do this now. And so I'm asking you again, go to Metaxas talk dot com, give whatever you can. You can text my name, Eric, to nine one nine nine nine. You can do it right now on your phone. We're going to go to a break. We'll come back with more with Dutch sheets, but you can just text Eric to nine one nine nine nine nine. Nine one nine nine nine is the number text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. If you prefer to call, please do that. Eight four four eight six three hope eight four four eight six three hope. We'll be right back with Dutch sheets.When I grow up, I want to work for a woke company like super woke. When I grow up, when I grow up, I want to be hired based on what I look like rather than my skills. I want to be judged by my political beliefs. I want to get promoted based on my chromosomes. When I grow up, I want to be offended by my co-workers and walk around the office on eggshells and have my words policed by H.R. Words like Grandfather, peanut gallery, long time no see, no can do. When I grow up, I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long. When I grow up, I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the crowd. I want to be a conformist. I want to weaponize my pronouns. What are pronouns? It's time to grow up and get back to work. Introducing the number one woke free job board in America. Red balloon dot work.
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"I'm talking to Dutch Sheets, Dutch, you were just talking about what you have on Give Him 15. That's your app that I read this morning about this kind of difficult thing for us to process, that God would harden the heart of Pharaoh because because we know that it's like God doesn't cause us to sin. So what is that when God hardens the heart of Pharaoh? And you explain it in your Give Him 15 this morning, but say it now because you were just making this point. Well, 19 times from Exodus four through 14, it says Pharaoh's heart, Pharaoh's heart was hardened. But sometimes it says he hardened his heart, as in Pharaoh himself. Sometimes it clearly says God hardened Pharaoh's heart or I will do this, he said to Moses. So the point is clear, we know from the Book of James, God tempts no one to sin. He cannot do that and he never forced anyone to do that. But what happens is when a person crosses that line that only God has the right and the ability to decide when it is. But when they cross that line, that hardness and evil becomes something that's irredeemable. Then God, then that's what happened with Pharaoh. God will use that or God will deal with them differently. But there was no saving him at that point. There was no repentance for him. He had reached a point where that wasn't going to happen. So God said, now I'm going to use his hardness and I'm going to harden his heart further because God wanted to do more than deliver Israel. God wanted to expose the false gods of Egypt. And he wanted and there are two verses I mentioned in the post where it talks about God revealing to the Egyptians. This is a mercy from God. Yahweh wanted to show the Egyptian people these gods are not gods. I'm the true and living God. So he said, I'm not only going to deliver Israel, I'm going to use his arrogance, his pride, his hardness of heart. And I'm going to expose these false gods and I'm going to judge them. And that's what he did. And the correlation I made was that I see this happening in America. And this is why I feel like God began to speak to me in this way. But I believe leaders in America are reaching that point. And I did not say they have and that God can no longer save them. I just I don't go there because only God knows that. But I did say I believe my conviction is some leaders in America have reached a point of evil. Eric, when you allow a baby to be born and say, kill it on the table. That is evil. That is that is a highest level of evil. I can't conceive of mutilating a confused kid child that's 12, 13, 14 years old mutilating his or her body because of my political beliefs or my, you know, whatever or money. And so there are some that have reached a point of evil and hardness of heart in this nation. And I believe what we're seeing now is God is using that. He's using it to show America how ridiculous, what fools we have in positions of power. And he's making a mockery of them, just like he said he would do to Pharaoh. And he did it. And I make the statement in the Post and I believe it. God is using the hardness of their hearts now and the pride and the arrogance because they believe they won. And they believe it's irreversible. They own America now, the left, and they believe there's no reversing it. And I said that and I believe they are running pale male toward the Red Sea. God is going to show them that I can do this. So that's where we're going. That that's you know, I resonate with everything. You're right. But this struck me so hard this morning, just, you know, two hours ago, as I was looking at this, I thought, wow, this is exactly right. This is what God is saying. And to clarify again for my audience, folks, you know, the Germans in the 1930s and my book letter to the American church, I keep making this comparison. The Germans in the 1930s had no clue of the evil. Most of the evil of what the Nazis were doing. They had no clue. They had hints. They looked the other way. They're guilty. But we have infinitely more evidence. It is a chilling thing when we know we know that young people are being mutilated by greedy doctors, by people that are ideologically insane. That is happening. We know it. If you don't speak up or you go to a church that's looking the other way. God's going to judge you for looking the other way. God's going to judge you for giving your money to a pastor. That seems indifferent to this because these young people are having their lives destroyed. Babies are being murdered in the womb. We have leading political figures that you just said this advocating for killing children in the womb to the ninth month. Now, let's think about that. Does anybody in the world think that's not a human being in the ninth month? And then they go this step farther, even potentially after the baby's born. There's a level of wickedness here that I guarantee you the Germans did not know what Joseph Mengele was doing. They didn't. There was propaganda. There was a media blackout in this country. We can see what these folks are doing and God will hold us responsible. So, you know, Dutch, when you when you said this, I thought I haven't thought of it this way. But but there does seem to be a lot of our political leaders and cultural leaders there in bed with evil in a way that we've never, ever seen this before. It has. And you talk about this, that when God gives them over, in a sense, to to to say the things that they used to not say, it used to be hidden. They are now saying it. There's a brazenness. We had Target openly glorifying Satan on shirts for kids. This is like you'd make that up. No, that was real.
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"What would you say to the idea that people that that we have been shaken? In other words, that what we've been going through, because I do sense that people are waking up, that it seems like there's a daily or a weekly something that you just think I cannot believe this. What happened with Donald Trump being indicted yesterday on the January 6th? I just thought I I didn't think it could get worse or more insane that the deep state, the forces of evil, people that just hate. We the people that hate the American voter continue to do absolutely anything to take out Donald Trump, which I think makes people that are on the fence like him or love him because they say, I've never seen anything like this in my life. I cannot imagine the way they have gone after him and his family. It looks like two tier justice system. In other words, I see people seeing this and waking up. But you're you're saying that in a sense, or I guess are you hearing from God that there is a new level of shaking that's coming? Yes, but I don't I don't believe that that is just more corruption and people seeing the government do this or that. I believe there is something coming that is either an event or a series of events that will bring discomfort to the American people. I don't know what that is. I just don't know. But I believe it's something that will scare America and make them realize. We better wake up fast. I don't know if China is going to do something or Russia is going to do something. There is some terrorist attack that's worse than 9-11, but something is coming to this nation that is very difficult. Now, I'm not prophesying that. I prophesy at times. I'm not afraid to do that. But I'm not saying I know what it is and that I know that I know it's going to be at that level. That's just what I sense in my heart. I believe something that difficult is coming because I believe we need something. It's almost like put the pad, put the pads on and shock this guy and get this heart beating again. That's what I feel is coming. But it will be to awaken us. You know, today's post I wrote about Pharaoh and because God had been talking to me or I say that casually, God had been prompting me in my heart. That's what I mean when I say God speaks to me. Thoughts have been coming to me for days about Pharaoh hardening his heart. And so I began to think about it, pray about it. And I went to the passages, of course, in Exodus 19 times from Exodus 4 to 14. Go ahead. Hang on one second. We're going to go to another break. This is a key point. I read it myself this morning. Don't go away.
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"This is the right. Folks, welcome back. I have the privilege of speaking with Dutch Sheets, a man of God, a prophetic voice in America to whom I go almost on a daily basis for hope and truth. That's not a small thing that you were just sharing about. And I guess part of the reason I get excited when I read what you write on Give Him 15 every morning, which I have on my phone, is that I am tracking with you. I go, yes, yes. That's what God is saying to me. That's what I know the Holy Spirit is saying right now, trying to wake people up, trying to give us hope amidst the battle. And you just said that, you know, something a lot of people don't want to hear that that we are. It seems due for a shaking. And I think a lot of people like me would say, well, what do you mean we've been through a shaking? It's been pure hell. But most people in the church. That's why I wrote my book, Letter to the American Church. Most people in the church are still not awake to the moment. They are still not understanding that they've got to get involved. They've got to do things. So you were just talking about what are God's purposes? One is is to wake up his church to a relationship with him that we haven't had. And secondly, it concerns the nation. So talk about that, because I cut you off just before we went to the break, because I'm sensing exactly the same thing, that that God is trying to get us back to our Christian roots, back to the founders vision. And we've drifted so far from that. And to get back there is going to require it seems more of a shaking even than we've had. Well, America, we in America, we have been the proverbial frog in the kettle. We are the frog. We have very slowly been lulled into a slumber, a passivity, and we've allowed this to happen. And sometimes human nature is such, as you know, that when that happens, it does take something strong or radical to bring people out of that stupor and awaken them. And that's unfortunate, but it's the case. And so God is going to do that. Something is coming to this nation, and I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's an attack from elsewhere. I don't know if it's something another nation does. I don't know if it's turmoil within. But it will be more enough to shock the American people into a sense of we better react and do something and shift before it's too late. That is coming to this nation. I'm confident of it. And when you think about it, when God talks about there are numerous references in Scripture, but when he talks about the shaking that the most prevalent or known passages, Hebrews 12, where it talks about the mountains and the kingdom that can be shaken, kingdoms and his can't be. But that begins with him speaking about how a father disciplines children he loves. He's not coming to shake. He's not doing things that are somewhat difficult or alarming because he doesn't like us. He didn't bring discipline to Israel because he hated Israel. It's because he loved Israel. And this is the way I have this is what I have to do to save them. That's what he's going to do with America. It is for our good and it is coming. I believe it will be laced with mercy and redemption, but it's going to wake up this nation. And God is not finished with America because he's not finished reaping the great harvest in the earth.
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"Folks, welcome back. If you haven't given to Food for the Poor yet, you do not have permission to listen to my unbelievably important conversation with Dutch Sheets. You got to go to MetaxasTalk.com and give to Food for the Poor. Folks, I'm begging you, OK? On the other hand, I get to talk to Dutch Sheets. So Dutch, I've been telling my audience, first of all, welcome, my friend. And I've been telling my audience a lot of times I bump into friends who they clearly aren't getting the memo. They clearly aren't listening to you or to me or to a handful of people. And they don't see why I have hope, why you have hope, why we're in a battle, but we have hope amidst the battle. And I tell people part of the way that I keep my head on straight is I go to the app that you have called Give Him 15 every morning with my wife. And I read it and we pray. And there are lots of people getting genuine hope, not baloney hope, not pie in the sky hope, but genuine hope. And I said, I've got to get you on the program as soon as possible so that my audience is among those who are hopeful and fighting and praying amidst this battle. So I just wanted to say that up front that I'm excited to have you on because you've given me real hope in the midst of the hell of the last three years. So thank you for that. And why don't you tell my audience to start. What is Give Him 15? Well, that's a podcast I do every day in which I write a devotional dash slash teaching, but one that moves us toward prayer and one that moves us toward hope and faith for the nation. I try to make them somewhat prophetic in nation. It's not a prophecy for 15 minutes. It's what I'm sensing and feeling from Holy Spirit for the nation. And I weave it into a teaching on prayer and just try to encourage people that God's not finished with America. And then we, of course, end with prayer. And we are having literally hundreds of thousands of people that view this and that's encouraging to know on a daily basis that many people are agreeing in prayer together for revival and for the nation and the nations. And the nations. Well, first of all, I got to ask you a question that has nothing to do with anything. Why do you say Holy Spirit and not the Holy Spirit? You have heard that many times, you know, I don't know, just something I started doing a while back because it's his name. Sometimes scripture, you know, calls him the Holy Spirit, but sometimes he's referred to as Holy Spirit. And to me, I don't say the Eric, I say Eric. So I started saying, making it more personal. It was a thing for me to try to make it more personal when I talk to Holy Spirit, but I have no problem with people saying the Holy Spirit. Well, I guess I had, you know, those are the kinds of things that questions that I want to ask you. No, seriously, Dutch. What's interesting to me is I talked to a lot of people who are conservatives. Many of them are conservatives and Christians, but they don't have the hope that I have and that you have. They don't. They seem to be just troubled. You have for a long time talked about how God has spoken to you about we need to fight for this nation. And when you shared this, it was I don't know, like last year when we were with Hank Kunneman and Company in Omaha, Nebraska. And I heard you share that story. You've shared it many times, but how God spoke to you at a certain point that you need to you need to battle in prayer for this nation. In other words, God was saying, I need you to to fight and to pray and to hope not to give up, not to say it's over and let's just go back to our caves or let's just, you know, hope we're raptured before it gets bad. When did the Lord speak to you in that way? That was in 2000, September of 2000, and I didn't expect it. I mean, I had been in a place with the Lord where he was really dealing with me about the nation in my prayer times. But the Holy Spirit came over me in a powerful way to Wednesday night service and I began to weep and didn't know why. It was strange. I mean, you should be sad or something, but I just felt something come on me and I began to weep. I can barely talk about it without it happening. And instantly it intensified into these sobs and for three and a half hours, I couldn't stop it. And it went, Eric, the only way I know to describe this, it went from my emotions down into my heart. And I thought at one point I was going to die. I never I finally realized why we have the phrase a broken heart or because mine was breaking inside of me. And but the Lord threw that in the last a long time and I could say a lot about it. But what he said to me at one point was, I must have this nation. And it wasn't that he loves America more than any other people or country. It wasn't some nationalistic pride. It was what I intend to do. And I knew I knew he was referencing harvest, the end gathering of, I believe, a billion or more souls. He said, I must have this nation. And when you think about it, that's why he raised up America. No one, no honest person can study the history of America and what our founders said, and not believe that God was in the raising up of America for the purpose of the gospel being sent around the world. And he said, I must have this nation. And I didn't feel anger, although I can imagine God's pretty angry with America at times. I felt his broken heart as a father. And he said, I must have America for what I'm going to do around the world. And since then, I've realized it's true. If America goes, if America is taken over, if America doesn't survive, it's over for all of us. I'm going to change my theology and believe in a rapture any minute now, because there's no other hope for the world if America is taken out right now. But God is not going to allow that, Eric. Well, that's the thing, is that you, my friend Mike Thompson, just a handful of others have been very clear on this. And that's why I listen to you and I listen to Mike Thompson, because not only do I believe that what you're saying and what Mike Thompson is saying is true, but both of you are deeply seasoned, sober figures. You're not just you know, because some people the flesh gets in and you're not sure what are they saying and what is echo chamber and what? And as soon as that happens, it becomes polluted. You don't know what to believe. When I hear you, when I hear Mike Thompson, I know that you're alone with God. I know you wouldn't say something just to say it because it feels good. It's not your emotion. And that's very important, Dutch. You know that because we're going through a tough time and people are looking for reality. People were living in a world of lunacy and people are looking around. Who do I listen to? Whom can I trust in this time? And so I've heard you say just what you said a number of times that God spoke to you clearly. And it's I say the same thing every time with Mike Thompson. If you say something or Mike Thompson says something, I know it's real. I don't have to filter it. When you say that God spoke to you and said, I must have this nation. I have no doubt that the Lord who created this world and who sent Jesus and says that he spoke that we know he speaks. But I know that he spoke that to you. And I think it's important for people who are just despairing right now. I don't know what they're doing. Maybe they're just watching Fox News and they're just freaking out to understand. No, no, no. Do not give in to the negativity and the hopelessness. That's the that is the voice of the devil. The voice of God says, fight, pray, stand for what is right. Rejoice in me in the midst of these things. And so that is the message of give him 15 every day. And, you know, before we go to a break, I just wanted my audience to understand that if you're not getting that, give him 15. I don't I don't know, you know, if you want to live in despair or whatever. But do you have a sense, Dutch, of what's going to happen in this next year? Any sense of any details? Well, I do. I feel like there's coming a. Some kind of shaking to this nation that is beyond what we've been experiencing. People talk about judgment. America's been judgment is reaping. That's what judgment is. And we've been reaping negative, horrible things for a long time. And but I think a phase is coming that will be sort of what I would maybe call the final wake up call. I don't know what it is, but I believe a very difficult season is coming. I've been saying for a long time it's going to get a little worse before it gets better. And I believe God in his mercy. I call it a merciful shaking because God is not coming to destroy America. He's coming to awaken this nation to our true condition and what needs to happen. And it's over. People are already waking up. There are a lot more people that get it now than did in 2016, 2020. But not enough. We are moving towards something and I do not know what it is, but something is coming that will will awaken this nation, not destroy this nation, but awaken this nation. And I believe it's going to be the push we need for two things there. It's going to be the push we need for a spiritual awake to awaken people to the fact that we need. Hey, we're in trouble. We need God. We have rebelled. We've left God. We've resisted God. We need God. But also then to the true condition of our nation in general. We've got to get rid of the foolishness, the lies, the corruption. We're going to forgive me, Dutch, for cutting you off, going to a break. We'll be right back talking to Dutch Sheets. Every day we hear about another familiar brand selling out their customers and going woke. 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"And my guest today, my next guest coming up in the next segment is Dutch Sheets. If you want to know why I have hope, why I am genuinely hopeful, it's because of a handful of figures like Dutch Sheets. So I thought how great it would be to get that sheets on the program. I'm thrilled we got him for today. I'll be talking to him in the next few minutes. And I'm very I'm very excited that I get to talk to him because he's been a voice of encouragement. I've never been so outspoken in the sense that I think that we really have to look to God in a way that most Americans have not done. Most people who say that they're Christians, they say we simply haven't been driven to this point of desperation where we really genuinely understand we have no hope outside of God. But to have hope in God is everything. It is God is God. And I think Dutch will help us understand that when we talk to him in the next. In this hour, in this hour today, we've got a lot coming up, I should say tonight, I'm going to be a Newsmax with Eric Bolling. I think that's in the 8 p.m. hour, but Eric Bolling is one of the good guys, Newsmax. They're the good guys. So I'm going to be on that tonight. Coming up this week, we've got amazing guests coming up this week. We've got Jason Jones, Sam Sorbo, Brian Gadhawa has written an amazing book, Clay Clark. If you don't know who that is, hold on to your hat. We have John MacArthur on this program. There's a there's a film featuring him coming out that I have seen. It's terrific. So we've got John MacArthur coming up either tomorrow or the next day and China Phillips. So a lot of great guests. I want to mention before we get the food for the poor. All of the month of August. So we're now today's August 2nd. I can't believe it. Here we are. This month, all month, NutriMedx is offering a 30% discount. That's a very big discount, folks, if you use the code Eric. They don't do that often. I use their products every single day. I use their vitamin C, their magnesium, their vitamin D, their melatonin and other things that I won't even mention because it's going to get tiring. But they are a top notch company. They give half of their profits to overseas missions. They are you know, they're the heroes. They're good people creating a fantastic product. And I would love you to patronize them because they help support this program. So if you go to NutriMedx dot com, it's N-U-T-R-A M-E-D-I-X NutriMedx dot com and use the code Eric. You get 30 percent off this month. Please take advantage of that. I have to mention also we're doing a fundraiser. We do this every summer for food for the poor. This is a big deal, folks. We are today in our third day of the summer campaign to help feed the poorest of the poor here in our hemisphere. By inviting your donations, please, to our friends at Food for the Poor. It's a Christian, openly Christian nonprofit relief organization, provides life saving food to hungry kids in Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, many other poor countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Hard for us to believe that children in our own hemisphere today are hungry. But it's true. But we can do something about it. And that's good news.
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"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the Airways, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to the program. I got to tell you, Chris Himes, I'm talking to you. Hello. I am very angry today. I have to say, it's rare that something hits me the way this indictment of Trump last night, yesterday, is so sick and so evil. Everything before has been sick and evil. What they've done to him, the way they've treated him, really the way they treat the American people. The way these self-appointed leaders treat the American people. But this last indictment from yesterday, over January 6th, is deeply despicable. It is objectively wrong. And the worst part of it is that Mike Pence, this is the worst part for me. The former Vice President, Mike Pence, came out with a statement utterly shameful, utterly shameful and really despicable. Basically saying that Trump, as he said this before, but not quite so strongly, that Trump had asked him to choose between the Constitution and between personal loyalty to Trump. That is such garbage. I have not spoken so strongly because at one time I thought of Vice President Pence as a friend. But this is beyond belief that he would say something like that and say that somebody who would ask you to choose between the Constitution and personal loyalty to him, which, of course, is made up garbage, that that person should never be president. Just the lack of loyalty to Donald Trump. Nobody would be even mentioning Mike Pence ever if he had been chosen by Trump to be Vice President. So it's kind of astonishing that he wouldn't give Trump the benefit of the doubt and that he would cast things this way. But I have to say it's pathetic, but it's worse than pathetic. It is it's a it's a grievous thing when you think of someone like Mike Pence, whom I always thought of as a basically good man for what looks like political calculation, say something like this. So his political career was already dead. Maybe he was trying to resurrect it by saying something like this. But to get to the real issue, what's happening to Donald Trump, this is being done to America and to the American people. This is not being done done to Donald Trump. He is just the figurehead, the person that they know if they don't get him out of the way, they can't get us out of the way. And by the way, that's what Donald Trump himself has said many times. I firmly believe that the truth will come out, that Trump will be vindicated.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Dutch Sheets
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now here's your Ralph Cramden of the Airways, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to the program. I got to tell you, Chris Himes, I'm talking to you. Hello. I am very angry today. I have to say, it's rare that something hits me the way this indictment of Trump last night, yesterday, is so sick and so evil. Everything before has been sick and evil. What they've done to him, the way they've treated him, really the way they treat the American people. The way these self -appointed leaders treat the American people. But this last indictment from yesterday, over January 6th, is deeply despicable. It is objectively wrong. And the worst part of it is that Mike Pence, this is the worst part for me. The former Vice President, Mike Pence, came out with a statement utterly shameful, utterly shameful and really despicable. Basically that saying Trump, as he said this before, but not quite so strongly, that Trump had asked him to choose between the Constitution and between personal loyalty to Trump. That is such garbage. I have not spoken so strongly because at one time I thought of Vice President Pence as a friend. But this is beyond belief that he would say something like that and say that somebody who would ask you to choose between the Constitution and personal loyalty to him, which, of course, is made up garbage, that that person should never be president. Just the lack of loyalty to Donald Trump. Nobody would be even mentioning Mike Pence ever if he had been chosen by Trump to be Vice President. So it's kind of astonishing that he wouldn't give Trump the benefit of the doubt and that he would cast things this way. But I have to say it's pathetic, but it's worse than pathetic. It is it's a it's a grievous thing when you think of someone like Mike Pence, whom I always thought of as a basically good man for what looks like political calculation, say something like this. So his political career was already dead. Maybe he was trying to resurrect it by saying something like this. But to get to the real issue, what's happening to Donald Trump, this is being done to America and to the American people. This is not being done done to Donald Trump. He is just the figurehead, the person that they know if they don't get him out of the way, they can't get us out of the way. And by the way, that's what Donald Trump himself has said many times. I believe firmly that the truth will come out, that Trump will be vindicated.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Clay Clark
"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. Back again, eh? Glutton for punishment, eh? When will you ever learn? Now, here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Mataxas. I continue my conversation with Dutch Sheets. And Dutch, again, people ask me, where do I get hope? There are a few voices, you, my friend Mike Thompson, and a tiny handful of others that I believe are saying what God is saying and are trying to encourage us in the midst of these things, that we are to fight, we're to stand. It's actually a rare opportunity that we get to be the church. We get to stand and live out our faith in a way that for many decades we didn't need to. We could just play happy, clappy, safe church. The Lord is not allowing that. That's absolutely right. No longer, we can't do it. This is winner take all. I tell people, this is David and Goliath. He made no bones about it. He said, we're going to fight and whoever wins gets it all, the land, your wives, your kids. That's what we're fighting for right now. We're fighting for our inheritance as a nation. We're fighting for our children, our grandchildren. There is no more middle ground and God has moved us there, but he didn't do it without our help. He just allowed us to exercise our free will and we're there now. He sort of lifted, pulled back his covering and said, okay, that's what you asked for. You didn't want my involvement in your schools. You didn't want my involvement here in government. Now you're going to see what happens when that takes place. Now we need rescue. That's what's going to happen. But we must be rescued. I say this in my post, I know you've heard me say it, there is no hope for America apart from supernatural a intervention. We must be involved. We must have people rise up in government. We must have a change in education. In other words, we have to reform, but we could never reform America now without a supernatural empowering from heaven. We have to have something happen. The people can't see me, but I'm pointing down here, a change of heart. There must be an awakening that writes his laws on our hearts. Too many Americans don't care what God thinks. They don't care about the things we care about. But when they are saved, when this outpouring of Holy Spirit comes that we call revival or awakening, the conscience comes alive. He writes his laws in our hearts and suddenly we care what God thinks and we want to know what the Bible says about it. And so he's going to do both in his mercy. He's going to bring revival and that will give us the strength we need to reform and change the laws and the schools and all of these things that will get us back to sanity.
Bankless
A highlight from The New DeFi Meta with Paradigms Head of Research, Dan Robinson
"Welcome, Bankless Nation, to State of the Nation, where we dive down into a topic that is currently floating around the world of crypto. This week on State of the Nation, we are talking with Dan Robinson, Head of Research, GP at Paradigm. And recently across my Twitter feed, I saw a tweet thread from Dan Robinson about how there are five big ways that Uniswap X changes the game for swapping in DeFi, swapping in crypto. And I learned a ton in this tweet thread, and I thought it would be super useful if Dan Robinson came onto the show and explained each point himself here. And so that is what you are about to get here today. Because Uniswap X doesn't just stop at Uniswap X, it also brings with it a bunch of new changes for the DEX landscape that impacts so many other things across DeFi, across Ethereum. It impacts its bridges, it impacts roll -ups, it impacts MEV, it impacts market makers. And so there's about to be, perhaps, if you believe in this new intent -based paradigm, which is something that we will define in the show, it flips a lot of what it means to be a DEX or to be a DEX swapper on its head. So you're going to learn about all of these details in this coming new meta for DeFi, as well as what it means for you, the user, you, the swapper, and also perhaps you, the LP, if you are an LP in this world of DeFi as well. And then we also open up some other doors as to what does the future of LPing yields in Uniswap look like? What can Uniswap v4 do for LPs, while Uniswap X is focusing on swappers, and why swappers and LPs are the two parts of a DEX that need to be held in the highest regard and why everything else is secondary. And then also we open the door to what FlashBoss is working on with SWAV, which is at the very end of this episode. Overall, you're going to learn a ton about the DEX landscape. That is changing quickly, both with Uniswap v4 and with Uniswap X, as well as some other things in the intent -based world, which is a hot topic in the DEX and DEV landscape. Quickly before we get into our interview with Dan, Uniswap is a main focus of this episode and Uniswap is also a sponsor of Bankless. Bankless also holds a supply of UNI tokens, which you can see at bankless .eth and also bankless .com slash disclosures. So let's go ahead and get right into our episode with Dan Robinson from Paradigm. But first, a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible, especially Kraken, our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023. Before you get to Uniswap on chain, you first have to bridge your money from off -chain from the trad world. Consider using Kraken, our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023. If you do not have an account with Kraken, consider clicking the link in the show notes to get started with Kraken today. 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What's missing is a value layer that lets anyone exchange, store and program value. That's where Polygon 2 .0 comes in. Polygon Labs has unveiled a series of innovations that will radically alter the Polygon ecosystem and Web3 as a whole. By leveraging groundbreaking ZK innovations, such as Polygon ZK EVM, the next iteration of the best -in -class Plonky 2 proving system, and a first -of -its -kind ZK -powered interoperability layer, Polygon 2 .0 will give users and devs unlimited scalability and unified liquidity. Right now, there is a Polygon improvement proposal regarding a potential ZK -powered upgrade of Polygon Proof -of -Stake. If approved, Polygon Proof -of -Stake would become a layer 2 ZK EVM validity. So make your voice heard on this proposal by joining the Polygon Discord today. You have a chance to help the Polygon community give the internet the value layer it deserves. Are you planning to launch a token? Is your token already live? 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So if you want some help navigating the complex world of token compliance, go to Toku .com or click the link in the description below. Bankless Nation, I would love to introduce you to Dan Robinson. He is GP and head of research at Paradigm. He, over the years, has done a lot of deep thinking about markets, auctions, and liquidity in DeFi, with a particular focus, I'd say, on Uniswap, Uniswap, and Uniswap v3. Recently, Uniswap Labs released Uniswap X, a new Dutch auction mechanism that Dan thinks changes the meta for swapping assets in DeFi and also MEV, chain interoperability, and many more things. The last time we had Dan on Bankless was September of 2020, almost three years ago. If you've ever heard Ryan or I say the phrase, Ethereum is a dark forest, it came from that episode. Dan, welcome back to Bankless. Thanks for having me. Dan, you recently wrote a thread which triggered my imagination and was the impetus for bringing you onto this podcast that was titled, Five Reasons I Think Uniswap X Changes the Game for Decentralized Exchange, MEV, and Interoperability. And this already kind of gave me a model, an agenda for this episode, which we want to get into, but just I really want to start at the highest of levels. Can you maybe define the landscape for why something like Uniswap X is needed in the DeFi sphere? What are the current variables or the current things that are producing this need for Uniswap X? Yeah. So, I can talk about that, and I think it'll also talk a little about Uniswap v4 and why I see where I see that fitting in. So, from my perspective, decentralized exchange research, which is where I've spent a lot of my career and my research focus has been at paradigm and with Uniswap, decentralized exchange research, in my view, has to be about reducing the amount of value that leaks out of the system, the decentralized exchange system. And so, when you're in a decentralized exchange, particularly with automated market makers, you have, on one side, liquidity providers, and on the other side, swappers. And swappers are coming in because they can get the best prices from your decentralized exchange. And liquidity providers are hoping to earn the best returns from trading fees being paid.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from No Love of Country
"Dennis Prager here. Thanks for listening to the daily Dennis Prager podcast to hear the entire three hours of my radio show Commercial free every single day become a member of Prager topia You'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives as well as the daily show prep subscribe at Prager topia Hey everybody Dennis Prager here. Hope you're well And say I hope you had a good weekend I've got a good Wednesday It's very hard for me not to root for American teams in world competitions it never even occurred to me that I would not a Who will I root for if not be how could that be I love my country But I I hope the women's soccer team loses I'm not only not rooting for them. I hope they lose They have contempt for me and my country so in turn I have contempt for them It's not a complex issue. I Don't root for you just because you are American and Stand for the opposite of everything that I treasure about being an American So this though the story is worldwide, but here it is from the Daily Mail the British website US women spark fury with another listless rendition of the star -spangled banner at the World Cup as Holland's players proudly sing their anthem with arms wrapped around each other so when I was in Europe last month, I wrote like a column my weekly column about how much better I felt in Europe now to be honest that was Eastern Europe But this would be an example We Were talking about the Netherlands which is a pretty woke country I might add But apparently it's women's soccer team Loves their country more than our soccer team Women's soccer team loves their country The Dutch were involved in colonialism and imperialism and all that stuff But apparently the women of the Dutch Soccer team do love their country Gleefully singing Their national anthem with their arms wrapped around one another our team looked For the most part there were exceptions like they were About to undergo Life -threatening surgery What am I doing here with this crappy piece of Lyric and music being played for a place for which I have contempt Well, how many are on the team 15, I don't know how many are on the team Of the luckiest human beings on the face of the earth Only Six players held their heads to their chest when the star -spangled banner was playing and Not all of them were singing most were not Those who did such as Alex Morgan Julie Eretz and Lindsey Horan Appeared to mumble the words rather than sing loudly along they wouldn't sing loudly along because The truth is it took some courage just not to be silent With the ugly human being talking about ugly in a moral sense Megan Rapinoe in the lead with her contempt for the United States of America By comparison the Dutch team that's a team against which the US women played and they I think they tied the Dutch team sang proudly to their anthem Wilhelm Wilhelm us With the players wrapping their arms around each other before the game began in Wellington New Zealand all 11 Dutch women sang their anthem Too bad.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Michael Thompson
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. It's a nutritious smoothie of creamy, fresh yogurt, vanilla, protein powder, and a mushy banana for your mind. Drink it all down. It's nummy. I want vanilla. I want vanilla. Here comes Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. It is my privilege and joy to have as my guest right now for the whole hour my friend, Pastor Mike Thompson. Pastor Mike Thompson, welcome back. Oh, I'm so glad to be here, Eric. Wow. It's a great day to talk about wonderful things in the United States and about the power of the kingdom of God here. Yes. A little excitement and encouragement is not a bad thing, especially when it's not phony. And it's not phony. You're not blowing smoke. I tell people this whenever they ask about you. attracted What initially me to you and kept me listening to you on YouTube is that you are very sober -minded. When you say something positive, I know you're not putting it on. I know that it's real. It's true. I want to tell people, if they're not familiar with you, that you've just written a book, which I recommend very highly. It's called Third Heaven Authority. I want to talk about that in a few minutes. But I think so much of you and so much of the book, Third Heaven Authority, that, of course, I wrote the foreword to the book because I really want people to be familiar with you. And they can be familiar with you by reading the book because there are tons of stories in there of who you are and things you've experienced and about the concept of Third Heaven Authority. So I want to be talking about that. But you, I believe I've said it before probably a few times, that you were one of those very, very few people, in some ways the main one, who gave me hope during the darkest days after the stolen election of 2020 and all of the things that were happening. And voice your from your pulpit on your YouTube channel gave me hope because it didn't feel like you were in some kind of an echo chamber telling people what they wanted to hear or what they hoped was true. But you were really saying what you'd heard from God. Now, I'm sure there are people listening who say, heard from God? What are these people, nuts? Turns out we're not nuts. you're Turns out mistaking us with people who are nuts. This is serious. But we do take it so seriously that we understand that it would challenge some people. They say, well, that's, you know, that's a bridge too far. I'm not sure I can go there. Well, stick around or you can read Mike's book, Third Heaven Authority, because these are important things that we know that we can hear from God and we know when we hear from God and when we don't hear from God and then we don't make it up and say we did hear from God. So but you've been encouraging, Mike, very encouraging to me because you have said over and over that God is not done with this country. And he has spoken to you in various ways explicitly about that. So I want to talk about that a little bit. What why do you say that, you know, God is not done with America and that it is his will that we pray America back to God? Oh, absolutely. You know, I firmly believe that in the natural realm, so to speak, I mean, you got to understand, of course, we're human beings. We live in the natural realm, but we also live in the spiritual realm because, you know, we have a human spirit on the inside that it receives Jesus as our Lord and Savior when we accept him. Holy Spirit lives on the inside of us. That's the eternal part that when we go through physical death that goes on in to heaven to be with the Lord. So there's a natural realm and there's a spiritual realm. My point being, Eric, is that it's easy sometimes because of our training to see what the devil is doing in the natural realm to see what's going wrong. And if we just focus in on that, then of course, we're going to be discouraged. But we're also spiritual beings. And so we have the capacity to be able to see the form of the Lord, to see what God is doing, to hear it by revelation from the scripture. And, you know, the Lord, I'm one of those guys, you mentioned it, you know, very prophetic, been having those encounters all of my life, 45 years of ministry. And I just I see things, I hear things, I know things in the Spirit, and they're all encouraging when you see what the Lord is doing in the circumstances that may be ominous, that may be dark. We focus on what the Lord is doing. And that kind of faith is what brings us to the point where even I wrote the book on Third Heaven Authority, a prayer book to teach people how to see in the spiritual realm, to see the form of the Lord. And then with the spiritual authority to be able to engage in that and help God. A lot of people say, well, help God? God doesn't need any help. He does, because it is God moving through his body, his believers, those who have accepted him. Let's be clear. The Lord designed it that way. So, you know, on some level, God doesn't need help, but he chose us and created us in his image to be a part of what he wants to do. So if we don't do his will, he has given us the freedom because we're made in his image to not do his will or to do his will. He's given us that freedom. And so he exhorts us to do his will to participate with him in what he is doing. So when people act, as you just said, like, I don't need to do anything. It's like, well, that's not God's design. God's design is that he created you to do something, but he can't force you to do something. So it's an amazing privilege that we have as those made in his image and born again and filled with his Holy Spirit, that we actually get to participate in his will and in being a part of what he wants to do in history. And I think that's a big it's important that you brought that up, because a lot of people have a misunderstanding on that. You get people that are really fatalistic and they think, oh, it's all over. And they act like there's nothing they can do, even potentially, to make things move in the right direction, like it's been decided. And and you I know that that's that's not right until the Lord decides he hasn't decided. And they're acting. They're putting themselves in the role of God and saying, oh, it's done. It's got we're under judgment. It's over. And God hasn't said that. No, not at all. I believe that God's hand is still on America. You know, Jesus gathered his disciples together and he said, go into all the world and preach the gospel. He didn't say go home, make bologna sandwiches and wait for me to do it all. He said, go. And in Matthew 16, you know, where he said that I've given unto the ecclesia of the church, the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whatever they bind on earth is bound or shall have been bound in heaven. And whatever they loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. So he uses us. He flows through us and hence your book on the letter to the American church. You know, it's activate. Believers need to be activated. They are the enforcers in the earth realm of the kingdom of heaven. When I wrote the book, Letter to the American Church, I'm not prophetic, obviously, in the way that you're prophetic or or or Chris Reed or Dutch Eats or Hank Kunneman or, you know, but I do know that the Lord called me to write that and spoke through me in that in a different way than he speaks to you and to others who are gifted as prophets in the office of prophets who move in the prophetic as we as we say. But I don't believe the Lord would have called me to write Letter to the American Church unless it was his will that people would read it and be activated by it. Brought to repentance because of their inaction and say, you know what? I got it wrong. I believe God is exhorting me to to get involved, to speak out, to be part of God's solution and stop being apathetic and really selfish and doing nothing because so many lives depend on it. We're going to go to a break, but we've got the whole hour with Pastor Mike Thompson. I want to encourage you folks, please, to get to know Mike Thompson, to follow him on YouTube. He and his wife, CK, have a channel and to get his book Third Heaven Authority. As I said, I wrote the forward to it because I believe that God speaks through Pastor Mike Thompson. And I want you I want you to be encouraged, as I have been encouraged by his ministry. So the book is Third Heaven Authority, and we'll be right back every day. 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A World of Difference
A highlight from Emotional Health: Becky Castle Miller on Understanding Oppression's Impact on Emotional Health
"Hi, podcast listeners. Welcome to the A World of Difference podcast. We have so many guests on this show making a difference in our lives, making a difference all around the world with the expertise that they bring. And yet so many of you are reaching out to me saying, you want more? It's not enough. Just what we're putting on these podcast episodes for you. And so I am here to extend a very warm welcome to you to our Difference Maker community where you can join for as little as $5 a month to get all this extra content out the gate. You're going to get 30 plus minisodes of exclusive content not available for the regular podcast listeners and an exclusive minisode every month. And you'll get exclusive voting power to help us pick podcast topics and more. And that's at our Changers tier. There's three different main tiers and then an extra larger tier. But whatever tier that you join at, you will be included in this extra content. And I know that many of you are wanting to go a little bit deeper. And so even though it gets a little wild in there sometimes because of how deep we go, I want you to join us there. This extra content is very special. It means a great deal to me to be a part of this community with you. And I would love to just exchange ideas or perspectives that you have around these different episodes. And that's the place where we do it. So please show up to our Difference Maker community. Give us $5 out of your pocket every month. And I think that you'll have a lot of fun in there because we do. And I would love for you to join us. So go to patreon .com slash welcome to the A World of Difference podcast. I'm Lori Adams Brown, and this is a podcast for those who are different and want to make a difference. Today starts our brand new series where we are starting to talk about emotional health and happiness. And our guest today is Becky Castle Miller. Becky is a PhD student at Wheaton College studying New Testament with Esau McCauley. And her dissertation research is about emotions in the scriptures, specifically the Gospel of Luke. She writes and speaks on emotional, mental, and spiritual health in the church. She graduated from Northern Seminary where she studied with Dr. Scott McKnight, who is a friend of the show and has been on for a couple of times. And I know many of you have read his books. She actually also has written a book with Dr. Scott McKnight, a discipleship workbook, and it's called Following King Jesus. And she is also working on another project with him. She and her husband and their five kids and cat returned to the U .S. in 2020 after living in the Netherlands for eight years where she served as discipleship director at an international church. Today we're going to dig into some issues around emotional health in the church and specifically I'm going to be asking her about her perspective on what has gone on in recent days in the Southern Baptist Convention here in the United States. There are a lot of people around the world that have been watching this, both who are in the Christian community and outside of it. We've seen a lot of things on the news lately around women pastors. There's been a lot of, I would say, very emotionally unhealthy situations that people are trying to process in the aftermath of that. So we're going to ask her perspective on that and many other things around her research and how we can learn to move forward in a more emotionally healthy way in all of our spaces, whether it's our faith spaces, just regular neighborhood community spaces, government spaces, business, education, wherever we work and live and play and find our spiritual community. Becky has something to say to us around how to welcome the emotions that we have and what her research is showing her around how we can do that better together. So I am so excited to welcome for our first guest in this new series, Becky Castle Miller. Hello, Becky, and a very, very warm welcome to you to the A World of Difference podcast today. I'm so excited to be here, Laurie. Me too. I'm glad we're finally getting to meet. Yeah. There's so much we have in common, some mutual friends and just international experience and being women in the evangelical or post evangelical church. There's just a lot of crossover in our circles. And so I'm very excited about the things we're going to talk about today and hopeful that they can help us both be emotionally healthy, spiritually healthy about these conversations, but also find some calls to action where we can come together and really make a difference. But just right out the gate, a lot of people listening to this podcast are reeling from some of the things that we all watched, either. I mean, just even on regular news channels here in the United States and even globally, things being covered around the Southern Baptist Convention this week and a lot of nuance there for many of us. But I think for women to see that women pastors were used sort of as this sort of pawn, I guess, in a lot of ways to distract from abuse of women and men, but also to have what appears to be not an emotionally or psychologically or even physically safe place for women as they kind of took this backseat to a fight by these domineering men in our news feeds. And so I would just love for, first of all, to give you the opportunity to say, how do you feel as you have been watching this yourself? And do you have any things that, as you express how you feel, would be important for us to understand about how to kind of move forward? Yeah. Well, I think Beth Allison Barr had some really good commentary. So I would point people to her substack. She is formerly Southern Baptist, and so she's a little bit more connected to that world personally than I am. I've never been in a Southern Baptist church. I've been in many, many diverse churches and some kind of non -denominational, loosely Baptist, but never Southern Baptist. So it feels a little removed from me directly. So people like Beth Allison Barr are great to speak into that. One of my biggest concerns is Rick Warren's posturing of himself as this late convert to supporting women, but not really supporting vulnerable women. He put out a statement before the convention that he's changed his mind on women pastors, but I think he's still withholding eldership from women. And yet at the same time, he appointed a successor at Saddleback who has some pretty serious allegations of abusive leadership from his former church. And that has not been satisfactorily addressed. So there's a disconnect there between what Rick Warren says he wants to be as a champion for women, and yet he seems to be turning a blind eye or intentionally maybe even covering up abuse. So that's one concern I have about the stories coming out of the convention. I am glad that Barber won the presidency because he's a marginally better candidate than the other guy. But Barber has really been a lot of talk and not a ton of decisive action against abuse, and he is still against women in embracing their full ministry gifts. So it's like some small victories, but yet also it's been a platform for women to be demeaned publicly, like just to hear so many negative and critical things said about women in ministry. So I understand why a lot of women are leaving Southern Baptist churches, and I think that's actually a really healthy decision for those who make that choice. Yes, amen to that sister. Yeah, you know, having walked through abuse at the hands of Andy Wood, that is Rick Warren's successor, and at Saddleback, and, you know, being not the original whistleblower because there were two before me in the news last summer, but, you know, also knowing because I don't have an NDA, right, and my husband doesn't either, we refuse our NDA tied to severance and medical insurance. And so that's, you know, why I can speak, but I just personally know so many stories, and I know the stories that we told to the faux investigation at Saddleback last summer, and I say faux because a hiring agency is not a third -party investigation that just happens in a couple of days, you know, that needs months, it needs grace ministries, it needs a Wade Mullen, or it needs somebody with an expertise in, you know, something like an evangelical church with abuse allegations that are credible, and, you know, and their image management around that, you know, that's definitely something that's a specialty. And so when you're not willing to do the substantial work, I think that what I saw at Saddleback was, unfortunately, oddly consistent with what I've seen in Southern Baptist as a whole. I was a Southern Baptist for 45 years, right? I was a missionary kid all my life, and I married a missionary kid who was a Southern Baptist, too, and went to Southern Baptist University, went to Southern Baptist Seminary, worked as an IMB would at his previous church, Echo Church, before Saddleback, and walking through that, you know, multiple different types of abuse, you know, emotional abuse, physical, psychological, not physical, sorry, that does exist in the stories, but not mine. But I think that understanding emotional abuse, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse is a conversation to have in the church, but also in our society at large, and I think it's an opportunity for us to lead the way. And I think that it was not shocking that Saddleback was kicked out. I think that what is sad is that they were kicked out for women pastors and not for abuse, and therefore, Rick Warren and Andy Wood, you know, Andy being my abuser and Rick Warren being the one that covered up my abuse, and that of many others, are seen now as heroes and martyrs for the cause of women. And, you know, that was sort of disturbing to watch, even though I'm not a part of the Southern Baptist anymore. So I also, I love the work Beth Allison Barr is doing. I think many of us calling from the outside for women to be free, and also warning them about the places to go and silent complicity in bystanders and watching abuse happen to women over the years might be tempted to believe a Rick Warren or an Andy Wood if they start some new denomination or whatever happens in the wake of all this and whatever the point of all this was, to just be warned that there are some faux egalitarian spaces out there, and that's the conversation that's really going to be helpful, I think, going forward. I'd love for you to tell us more, though, about your research around emotions. We don't often talk about that, and I think what you're doing is really fascinating. You're doing research in the emotions of the Gospel of Luke. What led you to this particular era of study, and how is it relevant even to the conversation we're having right now? Yeah, I feel like I have dual interests in abuse and trauma and healing from those things and emotional health, and they're often viewed as two separate issues, but they overlap really significantly. They interweave with each other. Of course, they are different academic fields. You can do a dissertation in abuse. You can do a dissertation in trauma. You can do a dissertation in emotions, which is what I'm doing, but I'm hoping to bring those conversations together a little bit in my dissertation. I just finished my first year at Wheaton College in a PhD in New Testament, which is fantastic, and I really appreciate Wheaton supporting me in doing a multidisciplinary dissertation. So it is a New Testament project, but I'm leaning really heavily on some neuroscientific and psychological models of emotion, which is one thing that's been lacking in biblical studies is really the latest scientific research on emotion, so I'm excited to get to do that work. So I'm going to be taking some trauma and neuroscience classes in the counseling school and in the neuroscience department to supplement my New Testament work, and then I'm also hoping to bring in the impact of trauma and abuse on emotions. We'll see. It's only one dissertation, but I think those are really important aspects. When we look at emotion in the Gospels, we're looking at the emotions of an oppressed and traumatized people who are drawing on the history of oppressed and traumatized peoples over hundreds and thousands of years. So the emotions that Jesus' disciples learned from their culture are drawing from a culture of oppression, repeated you know, the slavery in Egypt and the Exodus, the Babylonian captivity, and release from that, and then in their current day, the occupation by the Romans. So I think we have to consider what impact trauma might be having on the emotions that they're constructing. When I did an analysis this past year on the emotions mentioned in the Gospel of Luke, I found 158 instances of emotion, and it depends how you categorize them, but so many of those instances were talking about fear. Jesus and angels are saying over and over again, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Well, why do they need to say don't be afraid? Perhaps it's because they're talking to people dealing with hypervigilance who are constantly feeling afraid in their bodies because they live in dangerous circumstances. So I think fear is a big component of gospel emotions. Jesus also talks about worry or anxiousness, and he talks about terror. So it's just a lot going on with fear -based emotions in the Gospel of Luke, and I think that the trauma of the people he's serving might have something to do with that. So that's one angle that I'm hoping to take, and we'll see where the rest of it goes. I think your work is so fascinating and so needed. I mean, you and I both spent time overseas, and so we understand in different cultures people express their emotions very differently. I was just in Abu Dhabi and Dubai earlier this year in March, and it's not the first time I've been to anywhere in North Africa in the Middle East, but we largely know that the way emotions are expressed in Middle Eastern culture versus white evangelical North American culture or even the Dutch, like very different expressions, right? And so we read sometimes things from the lens of maybe sitting in, I don't know, Wheaton, Illinois, right, with a bunch of white people around us reading it in a particular English translation, and we read things like sackcloth and ashes. Well, that's weird, you know, or with these like imprecatory Psalms that are just so full of like, wow, like, can we pray those things? Like, that's a lot. It's just, you know, we have books, you know, like Pete Scazzero's Emotionally Healthy Discipleship. We have all these things that are just, there's things that are happening right now, and the call to more lament, you know, the call to look back in our history and ask God to forgive us for our sins, not individually, but as a people. How have we been complicit? How are we currently complicit in abuse in the SBC, in racism, in what is, you know, started under racism because of, you know, enslaved peoples on forced labor camps, and how have those decisions, the root of that, produced the fruit of lording over and dominating people for the purpose of white male supremacy or patriarchy and things that are not helping any of us. So when we dig into emotional health as individuals, we have to look at it collectively too, and I think that our Western individualistic culture really makes it hard. We're very, we have a lot of blind spots if we only stay there. So the global church has really taught me so much about this. I'm so excited that you're studying under Esau McCauley. It's such a great opportunity for you. As you look into some of this area of emotional, mental, and spiritual health in the church, what are some common challenges that you find or misconceptions that you've come across, and maybe how could churches better address these issues? There's a lot of misunderstanding of emotion in just typical church conversation, and there's also a lack of knowledge of trauma, and those intersect again as well.
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"Back, we're talking to Larry Loftus, the author of the watchmaker's daughter, brand new book, very exciting. The whole story of Corey ten boom, you thought you knew the story well. It turns out we didn't. But the idea, Larry, that there are all these other books that came out after the hiding place in 1971 and that you were able to augment the story. I'm trying to remember Corey ten boom died in what the 70s no, I think it was 91. Oh, you're kidding. Wow. Yeah. Incredible. Because I know that I knew people who knew her, but it's an extraordinary thing to think that she went around the world telling this story. And again, for people who don't know any of the story, just the nutshell version of Corey ten boom. She's at ravensbruck concentration camp. This family has been hiding Jews, the Nazis catch them, take them to ravensbruck, this women's concentration camp, and there's so much that goes on there. But. Her sisters killed, I don't remember the details. But the idea that Corey ten boom does the ultimate. If you want to know, like does God exist. She forgives the people who've murdered her sister. Like, this is where it goes next level because most of us say, I don't get that. I can't do that. That's why we need to read these stories. We need to understand the power of God and the reality of God, but it is so amazing because what you said earlier is most people would think, hey, why should I get involved? I'll just keep my nose clean. I'm not a Jew. Let the Jews suffer. Well, if you care what God thinks, you can't behave that way. If you do behave that way, you're working for the devil. Sorry to break the news to you. So here we have these heroic figures, but her story is just one of those, it's a signature story of heroism. As was Bond hoffers. In fact, if you look at the front of the book, the epigram is a bahnhof for quote, which I pulled from letters and letters and papers from prison, which I'm sure you used in your research. So she is the sort of the Dutch version of bahnhof for doing what she can because of her faith. Fighting the Nazis because of her faith. So that's an integral part of the story.
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