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"Welcome back. I'm talking to Robert Netsley right now, who is with Inspire Investing. Robert, I can't help but get excited about what you've created, an opportunity for people to find out if their money is funding wicked things, if they have money in a 401k or retirement from whatever it is that is invested in companies that are doing evil things. That is promoting pornography, promoting abortion, promoting any number of things or ideologies with your money, folks. So Robert Netsley has created something where you can get a free report that tells you where your money is, and they will help you get your money into companies that are doing good things. So you have to go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. You get a free report, but this is something I, you know, Robert, I guess it just gives me hope that it's possible to turn things around in America. Cause when I think of how much money people have invested out there, if they would understand what's going on and shift that money to good stuff, it's just huge. It's just absolutely monstrous. Like what is enormous. It's enormous. And we are seeing, uh, fruit from that labor. Uh, it's, it's remarkable. Um, it doesn't have to even be trillions of dollars to change things. I've been on the phone, you know, in recent weeks, you know, with, uh, investor relations and CFOs and whatnot, we regularly engage with companies that we invest in or are, uh, like to invest in or kind of just speaking biblical truth to corporate power. And, you know, one of the things we hear is often that, number one, these people have never heard. They tell us they've never heard from a faith-based investor before they've been doing their job for 20, 30 years. You know, executive major organizations never heard from a faith-based investor. So number one, they need to hear our voice. Number two, they're thankful to hear it. Even in some of these sort of, you know, woke businesses, you think that this don't care. There are people in them, in those businesses of influence that actually do care about what we have to say. And oftentimes have enough influence to change things. So for instance, Costco stopped giving money to gay pride parades, Chevron stopped giving money to Planned Parenthood. There's a laundry list of other organizations that have changed things. That is unbelievable. That is unbelievable. It is so wonderful. I want to tell people folks what you do and don't do. You can change the world. If you take an interest in this, when I hear that a company like Costco would stop giving money to something like that, or Chevron, these are huge, huge companies. And you shop there. Your money may be invested there. When we get involved in these things, we can change the world. So I want to say the action point is go to invest, I'm sorry, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, inspire advisors.com slash Eric, you'll get a free report that will help you figure this out. And I know Robert, that you guys will help people if they want to transition to invest in companies that believe in their values. But this is a gigantic thing that we have. I mean, it's to me scandalous when we have power and we don't use that power. It's like when I say, I'm not going to vote, I'm not going to do this, I'm not going to do that. When you don't do those things, people who don't share your values, who share opposite, who have opposite values, they're going to prevail. So I just want to say to you, Robert, thank you for taking this on, because it is game changing. Like you said, it's a movement. The more people that do this, it's an amazing thing when we think of the money that is out there that many people of faith with traditional values have invested in woke companies. Ladies and gentlemen, you've got to do something about it. You've just got to do something about it. This is like a mandate that we've got to live our faith out in every sphere and where your money is, that's a big deal. So please go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. This is a free report. Inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. Robert Edsley, thank you. Pleasure. Thank you, Eric. Not compatible with lease offers or with any other consumer incentive offers 6,960 average based on 10% below average MSRP from all 2023 Wrangler four by E models in dealer stock residency restrictions apply tech retail delivery from dealer stock by 1031 Jeep is a registered trademark.
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"Well, there's a number of things here. First of all, there's 100 to 200 Israeli hostages still being held by various factions of Hamas. And so the Israeli hands, it may not be tied. I mean, obviously we've seen Israel has already retaliated and they've gone to a state of war and they have mobilized their reserve troops and so on and so on. But there's no question that by taking those hostages, Hamas knew they would make it difficult for Israel because if they drop a bomb on their own people, that's going to be very hard to sell in Israel. At the same time, I don't have to suppose what their objectives are because they tell you over and over again what their objective is. It's never changed. It is simply stated as the annihilation of Israel. They do not want the state of Israel to exist. What is different this time is that you can actually see that possibility. It's actually within view. And people may say, well, that's ridiculous. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who think that that's ridiculous. Maybe they think that Israel is so powerful that that's never going to happen or Israel has such powerful allies and so on. We're in a very different world right now. The world that we knew during the first, second and third intifada is where the United States was this staunch, immovable ally of the state of Israel. I mean, I'm just not sure that that's still a reality. I know that Joe Biden came out and said, we stand with our ally, Israel, but already there are people in this country who are saying, well, why do we need... Israel is just another foreign war. Why do we need to be involved in just another foreign war? They're equating Ukraine and Israel. Now, to me, that's a fundamental misreading of history. You have actual Nazis in Ukraine. You want to talk about the SS? Okay. Western Ukraine was the headquarters of the SS. You have actual Nazi battalions that fly the Nazi flag who have been getting billions of dollars in US aid and support and weapons, support from all over the world, from NATO countries. Well, now you're going to ask all of those NATO countries to follow a completely different policy in defending Israel. Look at what the Biden administration, the lengths that this administration has gone to to appease Iran is really unimaginable. It's hard to avoid the conclusion, forgive me for interrupting, Laura, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that President Obama, President Biden, many on the left are genuinely anti-Semitic, genuinely anti-Israel. Everything that I see leads me to believe that. Then the question, of course, is why. When you talk about whether America would stand with Israel, we know that if Donald Trump were president, there would be no question. In fact, I think if he were president, this never would have happened because Iran wouldn't have gotten $6 billion and on and on and on. The question is, what America are we talking about? Yeah, it's a very good question because look at the rallies yesterday. Look at Chicago, look at Philadelphia, look at New York. You have people who are emboldened to go out onto the streets and celebrate the death of Israeli civilians and also applaud the actions of terrorists because they know that those in power, this administration can say what they like about standing with Israel, but those people know, right? They know that the money started flowing. They know that the Iranians have been really, they have prevailed over US interests all over the world. Remember when Qasem Soleimani was killed by Donald Trump, there were actually people that were criticizing the United States for taking out the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Quds Force, who was the person orchestrating and spreading terrorist tactics and terror attacks all over the world, who had been responsible for the death of American soldiers inside of Iraq. And you had leaders in the United States government and in Congress who were standing up and criticizing the President of the United States for taking that action. I mean, that's the United States they know they have at their back, right? The United States that when I came across a paper that was written about jihadis in Libya and they were talking about how they needed to make a deal with the Obama administration because they had unprecedented support from the American side to form an Islamic government in Libya. This is not just about giving money to Iran. This is about sending a message to Islamic terrorist groups all across the Middle East and beyond, right? That the Obama administration, the Biden administration, that these people do not really stand staunchly with Israel as they have in the past. They opened that door. And when they gave Afghanistan to Islamic terrorists in the Taliban, you know, I don't have to look very hard. I put some of this historic paperwork out on my Twitter feed and people can go on Twitter and look at it. The Islamic Emirates of the Taliban in Afghanistan have pledged their support to the cause of the Palestinians and to the annihilation of Israel for years now. The Biden administration knows it. The State Department knows it. And what did they do? They left $80 billion worth of hardware in the hands of those people. But what else did they give them? They gave them the green light. They gave them their own state. They gave them intelligence assets. They gave them, you know what they gave them? They gave them the tarnishing of the ideal of freedom and justice.
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"The question is, what do we suppose the enemies of Israel are trying to achieve in this? I want to say before we go to the break, ladies and gentlemen, you must understand this is satanic. This is not warfare where you have young men fighting other men in uniform. This is like SS going into Poland and murdering civilians, murdering women. This is terrorism, utterly terroristic. This has nothing to do with normal warfare. We need to make that clear that these are the equivalent of SS troops, the worst of the Nazis doing evil, evil things. We need to be very clear about that. We'll be right back talking to Laura Logan. You know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your 401ks, IRAs, and other investment accounts. Folks, this is a huge problem, and we need to do something about this to send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspireadvisors.com and get a free Inspire Impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts, like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspireadvisors.com to connect with an Inspire Advisors financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel today. Go to inspireadvisors.com. That's inspireadvisors.com. Advisory services are offered through Inspire Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor with the SEC. When the government used emergency edicts during COVID to restrict the gathering and worship of churches, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines, and their own churches being ripped apart took a courageous stand and reopened their doors in the face of a world that chose to comply. The Essential Church is a feature-length documentary that explores the struggle between the church and government throughout history. This fascinating story uncovers those who've sacrificed their lives throughout history for what they truly believe in. We discover why the church is essential and how we prove that this stand remains true from a scientific, legal, and most importantly biblical perspective. This is not your typical movie. It'll change your life. You need to see this movie with your friends and family. The Essential Church is streaming today exclusively at salemnow.com. That's Essential Church, streaming at salemnow.com. Folks, welcome back to the Air Command taxes show. I'm talking to Laura Logan about the horrors, the nightmare of what's just happened in Israel. And I was asking before the break, Laura, what do you suppose is the goal of the enemies of Israel? Clearly, you just said they knew that an attack, this evil, I mean there's no other word, utterly evil, evil, evil attack, sadistic, cruel, that Israel would and should retaliate brutally. The question is where do things go from there? Because we've not seen anything like this in a very, very long time. I mean, does this open the door to World War III? I don't know how it doesn't because it is just so unprecedented.
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"I've been following this from the very first moment when it started, at least when the news hit. There was a concert in the desert that you may have heard about, but it was a music concert. There were a lot of younger Israelis and other foreigners, actually, who were attending. It was not that far from the border with Gaza. Well, this is one of the main areas that was hit by Hamas terrorists who were in these mechanical gliders. They came across the border. There's footage of them now, people dancing and still enjoying the music. It was around 6.30 in the morning, so some people were sleeping, some people had stayed up all night. These terrorists fly over with gliders. What followed at that music festival, it was an unbelievable slaughter. According to the Israeli government, they removed 256 bodies from that site alone. That is young people that were out in the desert. There's nowhere for them to hide. They're in an open area. There was actually one young man who described in his eyewitness account, he described he was an officer or soldier in the IDF, but he was off duty. The moment he saw this happening, he said to his friends, hey, we need to get out of here. They managed to get out. They were stopped and surrounded. They were fired on repeatedly. They ended up running through fields to escape, but they heard that other people got stuck in a car. One of the young girls who was at the concert has been identified through a tattoo on her leg as being one of the bodies in the back of a vehicle that Hamas drove through the streets. I believe it was in Gaza when they returned. Of course, one young man in the video spits on the bodies. In other videos, they're beating and hitting the bodies in the back of the vehicle. It's hard to tell if these people are dead or not. They certainly look dead, but this young girl's mother said that her daughter was unconscious that she was sent this video. It was possibly just wishful thinking on the part of the mother because that's a pretty horrific scene to see your daughter half naked in the back of a vehicle in the hands of terrorists and know that she's either dead or very likely dead. The scene at that concert in the desert, which seems to have been the primary target for those people who glided in now, more information could come to light. They may have hit other targets, but we know as well that Hamas terrorists landed on the top of buildings and they went into apartment buildings. Some of them came from the ground and some of them came from the top. You imagine what it was like for the people in their homes. I've seen a number of photographs where people have been murdered on their couches, one man falling half off his couch, drowned in blood with terrorists on either side of him. It's just people in their own homes. One of the videos actually that has become harder and harder to find is a bomb shelter. You see these terrorists, you can hear them, they open the door to the bomb shelter and people have already been killed, but they keep shooting. This is just a sea of blood and bodies, tangled bodies all across the floor. These are videos, Hamas is putting out a lot of these videos, so you can see them on their sites, you can see them on Al Arabiya and others, but mostly I've captured them to make sure that they don't get censored. If you hide the reality of what is happening on the ground in Israel right now, then my sense from talking to people, even Jewish people that I know all over the world, they're like, my family's fine or I spoke to this one, that one. I'm not sure that people really understand that this is a very serious... What concerns me is that Hamas knew Israel would retaliate, Iran knew that Israel would retaliate. All of their allies knew that it would come to this. I find it very hard to believe that they didn't have a plan for that retaliation. I just have some concern. What I'm watching for over the next few days and weeks is what happens to Israel as they get sucked into that retaliation? That's my question. In other words, it seems clear to me that... Well, first of all, we haven't said it. This is the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war. This has been planned for a very long time. This is not a small operation.
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"Folks, welcome back. As I promised, we have as our guest, I'm thrilled to say Laura Logan. Laura, welcome back. So good to see you. Thank you, Eric. Good to see you too. You, you're a real encouragement to a lot of people because you are an actual journalist. People don't believe that there are such things anymore in America or in the West. You, you always were a journalist, but as most journalists have gone over to, I don't know, opinion or lunacy, you're actually a journalist. We can trust what you say. And of course, today we want to talk about the nightmare of what just happened in Israel. Very difficult for us to fathom. What is your perspective on what is happening? You know, Eric, the thing that disturbs me about this, so I have spent quite a bit of time in Israel. I've spent time in Gaza, in the West Bank, you know, all over the Palestinian territories, but also all over the Israeli towns and cities. I was there for the war against Hezbollah and for second intifada, parts of the first and third intifada. So it's not, you know, it's not, it's not unfamiliar to me, but there's something very unfamiliar about what is going on right now that I don't think any of us covering that conflict have ever experienced. And it's got to do with, so we've seen the transformation of Hamas from an organization that would lob, you know, randomly lob a few rockets here and there against the Israelis to a much more sophisticated operation. I mean, when you're talking about a barrage of 5,000 rockets that is designed to penetrate Israel's defenses, they know that the Iron Dome has its limits. They know that their, you know, their counter missile defenses don't last forever. And so what they're calculating is that they can break through that by wearing it down. And that means they know something about the limits of those defenses. It also shows you coordination. You know, it's hard to overestimate the degree to which coordination indicates real planning and sophistication in an operation, because that is a very difficult thing for just the average guerrilla force or the average insurgent force to achieve. You know, this really indicates when you have people going in by land and by air and by sea, as ridiculous as those air incursions were in the gliders and the mechanized gliders, you know, at the same time, it shows you that these are people who are capable of coordinating all of that to great effect. Because when you combine that with the barrage of rockets, now it's the picture starts to look very, very different. And what you're seeing here is you saw a sustained attack where Hamas was actually able to take control of Israeli territory and hold it for a significant period of time, something that the Hamas of old, it would have been unimaginable for them. It also shows that they had target packages and they knew specifically what their targets were. And that in itself requires intelligence and forethought and again, planning. So planning, coordination, training, having enough weapons to carry out your objective. Where are you going with this, Laura? I'm guessing that you're saying that Iran is behind helping them with it. Well, I mean, it's, you know, from the first moment it happened, you could see the fingerprints of Iran, right? I mean, some of the most sophisticated coordinated attacks I ever witnessed unfolding were in Iraq, on the Iraqi battlefield where Iran had a hand in that. So we know that Iran has a hand in this. In fact, Hamas has come out and said that they did this in coordination with Iran. So that's not a secret. But what disturbs me is that the Persians have very long memories, and they're very good at proxies. But we've never seen them pick a fight on the of this scale with Israel. And, and they have stated repeatedly that their objective is to wipe Israel off the earth. And you now have an administration in power that can say they can kick and scream and they can say whatever they like. But they have followed a policy of open appeasement with Iran and with Hamas. And with I mean, you know, people conveniently forget that Hamas is still legally and officially a terrorist organization. And this administration had its had people within the State Department who were writing when they said they were going to unfreeze the aid and the you know, that that Donald Trump had frozen President Trump had frozen aid to Palestinians, and they were going to unfreeze that there were people even within this administration who said, Oh, you know, a little bit of a little bit worried that that some of that aid is going to go to to fueling Hamas. And you know, the administration can, they can say whatever they like about whether 6 billion is in a bank account, it's frozen, it's not quite, we all know that that's nonsense, right? I mean, people are not that stupid. They can twist themselves in knots trying to explain away their policies. But the reality is right before us that the world today, Iran is emboldened. Hamas is emboldened. And if you start to look at where do they have so these are Shiite organizations, right? Shiite Islam is the religion that Hamas sorry, that Hezbollah and the Iranians follow. Where else do they have allies and proxies throughout the region? You know, they have them in Syria, they have them in Yemen, they have them all over the Middle East. And now these organizations are equipped and armed with much more sophisticated weapons. I mean, in the in the era of appeasement that really began under Obama, and that was halted under Trump, because he came down like a stone, you know, wall, and obliterated many of these policies. But what he wasn't able to do was to stop them completely. And so you're now seeing the aftermath, right? I mean, this isn't just the 6 billion from the Biden administration to the Iranians. This is all the billions of dollars that Obama gave them as well. The Iranians have been the number one state sponsor of terrorism for decades now, across the globe. What does that mean to people? Well, what it means is that they train people like Hamas, they finance people like Hezbollah, you know, they they are directly involved in these terrorist attacks. And of course, you know, it's very frustrating when you see people say, well, you care about Israelis dying, but don't you care about Palestinians? Well, of course you do. That's ridiculous. I don't want to see Palestinian children, you know, his body's being pulled out of rubble any more than I want to see Israeli children being murdered in the hundreds at a music concert. You know, it's these aren't they give us false choices. You know, your choice is not between care about an Israeli child don't care about a Palestinian child. Listen, I just want to cut you off and say that anyone with common sense understands this is nonsense. These are satanic lies. This idea that Hamas would launch this kind of attack and then people are worried about the retaliation is so insane. It's so maddening. We realize that you're dealing with people that there's no common sense. There's no sanity. They're just crazy. They will say anything which to my mind betrays their animus against Israel. I mean, the idea that somebody would do something like this and that you would not immediately think, what can we do to defend them? How did this happen? And you know, when you talk about Biden and Obama, how how is it possible to avoid the conclusion that Joe Biden made this happen? How is it possible to avoid the conclusion that Joe Biden made this happen by giving six billion dollars to Iran, the policies that you mentioned? I don't know how how does one get around that? Well, the only people who don't believe that are those who don't want to look at the reality of the Democratic Party's in America's policy towards Israel. I mean, you know, if people remember, Obama's relationship with Netanyahu was very frosty, right? I mean, this is this is something that because so many Jewish people in the United States are Democrats or vote Democrat, they have refused to acknowledge for years that the real threat to Israel today comes from the left and not from the right. And it is a threat that has been rising and rising. And you only have to look no further than the Democratic Socialists of America or the squad. You know, look at what Rashida Tlaib has said about Israel in the past. Look at what Ilhan Omar and others have said about about the Palestinian cause. I mean, the mere fact that all of these people called for rallies, which they said, oh, we're not supporting Hamas, we're not supporting terrorism. And they tried to separate the rallies that took place. These rallies were a celebration of Israeli death. They were a celebration of the death of Israeli children and women and men from the from babies who were captured to the elderly. Right. And right now, there are still Israeli hostages. So I don't recall at any time anywhere when there is a, you know, an operation by Israel, anyone who's pro Israeli, rushing onto the streets to celebrate the death of Palestinians. This is exactly this is exactly the issue. And that's why people have to wake up and stop listening to the mainstream media.
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"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest, Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome back. I want to remind you, we have shifted all over Salem media. We were doing a fundraiser for the Alliance Defending Freedom, who are total heroes, but they join us in asking you to give to what's going on in Israel right now. If you go to my website, MetaxasTalk.com, I should say my radio website, MetaxasTalk.com, you'll see a banner for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Please give there. Please give generously. Obviously, you know the situation is about as dire as it conceivably could be. You know that when I find a solution to a problem, I get very excited. If you've been listening to this program for a while, you know that I talk about people of faith being active in their communities, in how they spend their money, in how they vote, in every way. And one of the things that got me really excited when I discovered Robert Netsley, he's with Inspire Investing. He is helping people do something, which I guess we can talk about it, is even better than just spending your money in good places and not spending your money in bad places. But where is your money invested? Is it invested in companies that share your values? Is your money invested in companies that are working against your values, and I would say against God's values? And so, we bring him on now. Robert Netsley, welcome back. It's a pleasure to be here, Eric, as always. Thanks for having me. It's, I get excited to talk to you just because there's a solution, you know, because this is the kind of thing that I would want to dream up. I would say, can't somebody figure out a way, when we talk about all the money that's out there, people of faith in America, what's that? No, it wasn't saying anything. Yeah, people of faith in America have a lot of money. It's not just they spend a lot of money, but they have a lot of money invested and retirement funds, whatever. And a lot of that, as I've learned in talking to you, is with companies that are really bad, that are really woke, that are working against everything we believe in. So, then the question is, how do I figure that out? How do I get my money out of those places? And you have come up with a solution, and I should tell people, I'll repeat it again and again, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. That's the website, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. If people go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, Robert Netzle, what will they find there? How have you solved this problem? Well, yeah, they'll find an offer that our staff has done for, I don't know how many, countless of thousands of investors around the country, around the world. And we're making a special offer here for your listeners is to just help you understand what you own. It's first step. And so, my personal story, I was working at one of the big four Wall Street investment bank in the investment department. And long story short, I just realized one day, here I am, president of our local pro-life pregnancy center, and I own three stocks of companies manufacturing abortion drugs. So, every time a young lady goes across the street to plant parent who has an abortion, I just made money on that transaction. I literally profited from that transaction. And then you go down the laundry list of all sorts of other things that are going on in the portfolio, LGBT activism, human trafficking, et cetera. And I'm investing in these businesses, I'm profiting from these businesses, and likely so are you, right? And I'm not here to be your moral police. That's not my position. But what we want to do is help people understand what it is that they're putting their money into. It's not just a mutual fund ticker symbol with some dollars attached. There are real companies doing real things, some of which are incredibly evil and immoral, and it would turn your stomach if you realized what the money is that they're putting into your pocket and what you're helping to fund. And basically, so this report will show you exactly down at the nitty-gritty of on this date, this company gave this much money to plant parenthood, let's say, or what have you. And so that you can then be informed and then make informed decisions about how you want to invest your money, which we believe is God's money in a way that honors him, helps society thrive, stops undermining your deeply held values, the list goes on. So that's, in a nutshell, what we do with Inspirer. And this is, I mean, this is God's mandate is his commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength. And the idea is that if you kind of act like, well, that doesn't matter, everything matters. And it's only inertia, which is, you know, the devil owns inertia. When you don't do anything, the devil wins and his values win. So here is an opportunity, folks, for you to take your money out of these companies or to even know where your money is invested. What is your money, which you're responsible for? It's God's money. Who's it helping? What are you invested in? So if you go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, I'll say it again, inspireadvisors.com slash Eric, you can get a report. You can learn, this is free, obviously, Robert, this is free. Right. Yeah, complimentary, totally complimentary. We're passionate about spreading a movement. There are millions of Christians and others around the world who are moving their money by the billions of dollars out of the woke investment firms that are doing everything they can to, frankly, ruin our cherished ways of life in many ways and just put it into investments that are just as equally wise and financially viable and everything else. They just happen to be in companies that are just doing their job. If they're making shoes, they're making shoes, not sponsoring abortion legislation or what have you. So yeah, totally free. And man, I want to stress the size of the movement too. There is a movement of people. You're not alone. This is kind of ringing true, like, oh my gosh, I wonder what I should do. But by God's grace, we've been one of the fastest growing investment firms in the nation and the top three fastest growing investment firms in the nation for the past number of years. We're managing over $2.3 billion and we're not the only firm here. We have colleagues that are working, laboring alongside. This is a movement and you get to be a part of that. If you go to aspiredbio.com and figure out how easy it is to just be intentional instead of conforming to Wall Street's recommendations for your life, which might not be in your best interest. So please consider that. Ladies and gentlemen, look, this is game changing stuff. I want to be really clear. This is game changing stuff. If everybody listening to this program would do this and you would take your money out of the funds that are doing evil things, it is a game changer in America because not only are you defunding these companies from doing bad things, but you're giving companies an incentive to do the right thing. You're saying, you know what, we better be careful. We shouldn't give our money to Planned Parenthood or to whatever evil things they're doing because you know what, there's going to be pushback. We're going to lose people. People aren't going to invest in us. So I'm asking you to go to inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. It is free folks. It is free. Please do this. Resist the inertia. Inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. Inspireadvisors.com slash Eric. Check it out.
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"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest, Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome back. I want to remind you, we have shifted all over Salem media. We were doing a fundraiser for the Alliance Defending Freedom, who are total heroes, but they join us in asking you to give to what's going on in Israel right now. If you go to my website, MetaxasTalk .com, I should say my radio website, MetaxasTalk .com, you'll see a banner for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Please give there. Please give generously. Obviously, you know the situation is about as dire as it conceivably could be. You know that when I find a solution to a problem, I get very excited. If you've been listening to this program for a while, you know that I talk about people of faith being active in their communities, in how they spend their money, in how they vote, in every way. And one of the things that got me really excited when I discovered Robert Netsley, he's with Inspire Investing. He is helping people do something, which I guess we can talk about it, is even better than just spending your money in good places and not spending your money in bad places. But where is your money invested? Is it invested in companies that share your values? Is your money invested in companies that are working against your values, and I would say against God's values? And so, we bring him on now. Robert Netsley, welcome back. It's a pleasure to be here, Eric, as always. Thanks for having me. It's, I get excited to talk to you just because there's a solution, you know, because this is the kind of thing that I would want to dream up. I would say, can't somebody figure out a way, when we talk about all the money that's out there, people of faith in America, what's that? No, it wasn't saying anything. Yeah, people of faith in America have a lot of money. It's not just they spend a lot of money, but they have a lot of money invested and retirement funds, whatever. And a lot of that, as I've learned in talking to you, is with companies that are really bad, that are really woke, that are working against everything we believe in. So, then the question is, how do I figure that out? How do I get my money out of those places? And you have come up with a solution, and I should tell people, I'll repeat it again and again, inspireadvisors .com slash Eric. That's the website, inspireadvisors .com slash Eric. If people go to inspireadvisors .com slash Eric, Robert Netzle, what will they find there? How have you solved this problem? Well, yeah, they'll find an offer that our staff has done for, I don't know how many, countless of thousands of investors around the country, around the world. And we're making a special offer here for your listeners is to just help you understand what you own. It's first step. And so, my personal story, I was working at one of the big four Wall Street investment bank in the investment department. And long story short, I just realized one day, here I am, president of our local pro -life pregnancy center, and I own three stocks of companies manufacturing abortion drugs. So, every time a young lady goes across the street to plant parent who has an abortion, I just made money on that transaction. I literally profited from that transaction. And then you go down the laundry list of all sorts of other things that are going on in the portfolio, LGBT activism, human trafficking, et cetera. And I'm investing in these businesses, I'm profiting from these businesses, and likely so are you, right? And I'm not here to be your moral police. That's not my position. But what we want to do is help people understand what it is that they're putting their money into. It's not just a mutual fund ticker symbol with some dollars attached. There are real companies doing real things, some of which are incredibly evil and immoral, and it would turn your stomach if you realized what the money is that they're putting into your pocket and what you're helping to fund. And basically, so this report will show you exactly down at the nitty -gritty of on this date, this company gave this much money to plant parenthood, let's say, or what have you. And so that you can then be informed and then make informed decisions about how you want to invest your money, which we believe is God's money in a way that honors him, helps society thrive, stops undermining your deeply held values, the list goes on. So that's, in a nutshell, what we do with Inspirer. And this is, I mean, this is God's mandate is his commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength. And the idea is that if you kind of act like, well, that doesn't matter, everything matters. And it's only inertia, which is, you know, the devil owns inertia. When you don't do anything, the devil wins and his values win. So here is an opportunity, folks, for you to take your money out of these companies or to even know where your money is invested. What is your money, which you're responsible for? It's God's money. Who's it helping? What are you invested in? So if you go to inspireadvisors .com slash Eric, I'll say it again, inspireadvisors .com slash Eric, you can get a report. You can learn, this is free, obviously, Robert, this is free. Right. Yeah, complimentary, totally complimentary. We're passionate about spreading a movement. There are millions of Christians and others around the world who are moving their money by the billions of dollars out of the woke investment firms that are doing everything they can to, frankly, ruin our cherished ways of life in many ways and just put it into investments that are just as equally wise and financially viable and everything else. They just happen to be in companies that are just doing their job. If they're making shoes, they're making shoes, not sponsoring abortion legislation or what have you. So yeah, totally free. And man, I want to stress the size of the movement too. There is a movement of people. You're not alone. This is kind of ringing true, like, oh my gosh, I wonder what I should do. But by God's grace, we've been one of the fastest growing investment firms in the nation and the top three fastest growing investment firms in the nation for the past number of years. We're managing over $2 .3 billion and we're not the only firm here. We have colleagues that are working, laboring alongside. This is a movement and you get to be a part of that. If you go to aspiredbio .com and figure out how easy it is to just be intentional instead of conforming to Wall Street's recommendations for your life, which might not be in your best interest. So please consider that. Ladies and gentlemen, look, this is game changing stuff. I want to be really clear. This is game changing stuff. If everybody listening to this program would do this and you would take your money out of the funds that are doing evil things, it is a game changer in America because not only are you defunding these companies from doing bad things, but you're giving companies an incentive to do the right thing. You're saying, you know what, we better be careful. We shouldn't give our money to Planned Parenthood or to whatever evil things they're doing because you know what, there's going to be pushback. We're going to lose people. People aren't going to invest in us. So I'm asking you to go to inspireadvisors .com slash Eric. It is free folks. It is free. Please do this. Resist the inertia. Inspireadvisors .com slash Eric. Inspireadvisors .com slash Eric. Check it out.
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"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome back. I have as my guest, Vincent Wagner, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom. You know that we are asking you, every one of you, to get involved this month in fighting for liberty. People always ask me, Eric, what can I do? What can we do? You can do this. This is a small thing, but please step up. Go to MetaxasTalk.com. Folks, please. This is just like you can do this right now. Vincent Wagner, you've been with ADF for a while and you're aware that this is ultimately like a national thing. This is not you're fighting these battles all over, but it's the nation is at stake. That's right, Eric. We've talked already about cases in Indiana, Wisconsin, but you brought up California, which is trying to pass very dangerous anti-parent laws. We know of cases that we're involved in in Florida, in Massachusetts. We've heard stories of parents from states everywhere in between. Even states that I imagine your listeners living in Texas think they're safe from these threats, but we hear stories from families in Texas even. It's just a national movement against parents and against religious freedom that we're working as hard as we can to defend Americans against. Well, again, I say to people that it's a lot of times people wonder, what can I do? They say, gee, what can I do? And sometimes there are many things we can do, but in this case, it's teed up for you folks. What you can do is you can help those who are already at the forefront in this war. Against liberties that we have. Patriots have died. Patriots have given their blood and their lives for the very things that are under attack right now. And so the least we can do is to help the Alliance Defending Freedom do this. They do. They're not getting rich off of this. OK, they're doing this because they believe it's right. They believe in it and they are doing this pro bono. So so when somebody comes to them and says, I am being fired, I'm being attacked, I'm being what do I do? They don't say, well, can you pay? They say we will take this on because we actually believe in this. And the only reason they can do that is because you give to the Alliance Defending Freedom. So I know there are folks out there who can give a lot of money. I know there are people who can barely give anything, but I'm asking you folks, whatever you can give, do your part. It's between you and the Lord. This is this is not a contest. This is about an opportunity to stand up and to fight for what is right and true and good. And it is going away if we don't fight. And I think a lot of us have been inured to these evils over time. We kind of think, well, there's nothing I can do. That's the voice of the devil. There is plenty that you can do, but you must do it. So if you go to our website, it's MetaxasTalk.com. You'll see the banner there. When you click on the banner, it gives you all kinds of options to do whatever you like. But we're talking about issues of religious liberty, issues of free speech, parental rights, life in the womb, marriage. Remember marriage between a man and a woman? All of this stuff. If you don't fight in the courts, you lose automatically. You lose by default because that's kind of where we are. And so we've just got to do this. So we have a short opportunity. So I'm exhorting you. You should be inspired, folks, that ADF exists and is doing this. And that's why they come to us to say, help us to do what we're already doing. So again, you go to MetaxasTalk.com, you'll see the banner, the phone number. You can call right now, 855-385-0596. Again, it's 855-385-0596, 855-385-0596. Or again, MetaxasTalk.com, you'll see the banner. Vincent Wagner, God bless you and God bless your colleagues at ADF. We are just proud to work with you. Thank you so much. Thanks so much for having me on, Eric. Thank you for being with us today.
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"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome back to the Airman taxes show. Talking to Laura Logan about the horrors, the nightmare of what's just happened in Israel. And I was asking before the break, Laura, what do you suppose is the goal of the enemies of Israel? Clearly, you just said they knew that an attack this evil. I mean, there's no other word utterly evil, evil, evil attack, sadistic, cruel, that Israel would and should retaliate brutally. The question is, where do things go from there? Because we've not seen anything like this in a very, very long time. I mean, does this open the door to World War III? I don't know how it doesn't because it is just so unprecedented. Well, there's a number of things here. First of all, there's 100 to 200 Israeli hostages still being held by various factions of Hamas. And so the Israelis hands may not be tied. I mean, obviously, we've seen Israel has already retaliated and they've gone to a state of war and they have mobilized their reserve troops and so on and so on. But there's no question that by taking those hostages, Hamas knew they would make it difficult for Israel, because if they drop a bomb on their own people, that's going to be very hard to sell in Israel. At the same time, I don't have to suppose what their objectives are because they tell you over and over again what their objective is. It's never changed. It is simply stated as the annihilation of Israel. They do not want the state of Israel to exist. What is different this time is that you can actually see that possibility. It's actually within view. And people may say, well, that's ridiculous. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who think that that's ridiculous. Maybe they think that Israel is so powerful that that's never going to happen or Israel has such powerful allies and so on. We're in a very different world right now. The world that we knew during the first, second, and third intifadas, where the United States was this staunch, immovable ally of the state of Israel, I mean, I'm just not sure that that's still a reality. I know that Joe Biden came out and said, we stand with our ally, Israel. But already there are people in this country who are saying, well, why do we need Israel is just another foreign war? Why do we need to be involved in just another foreign war? They're equating Ukraine and Israel. Now, to me, that's a fundamental misreading of history. You have actual Nazis in Ukraine. You want to talk about the SS? Western Ukraine was the headquarters of the SS. You have actual Nazi battalions that fly the Nazi flag who have been getting billions of dollars in U.S. aid and support and weapons, support from all over the world, from NATO countries. Well, now you're going to ask all of those NATO countries to follow a completely different policy in defending Israel. Look at what the Biden administration, the lengths that this administration has gone to to appease Iran is really unimaginable. It's hard to avoid the conclusion, forgive me for interrupting, Laura, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that President Obama, President Biden, many on the left are genuinely anti-Semitic, genuinely anti-Israel. Everything that I see leads me to believe that. Then the question, of course, is why? When you talk about whether America would stand with Israel, we know that if Donald Trump were president, there would be no question. In fact, I think if he were president, this never would have happened because Iran wouldn't have gotten six billion dollars and on and on and on. So, you know, the question is, what America are we talking about? Yeah, it's a very good question, because look at the rallies yesterday. Look at Chicago, look at Philadelphia, look at New York. I mean, you you have people who are emboldened to go out onto the streets and celebrate the death of Israeli civilians and also applaud the actions of terrorists because they know that those in power, this administration can say what they like about standing with Israel. But those people know, right. They know that the money started flowing. They know that the Iranians have been really they have prevailed over U.S. interests all over the world. I mean, remember when Qasem Soleimani was killed by Donald Trump, there were actually people that were criticizing the United States for taking out the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Quds Force, who was the person orchestrating and spreading terrorist tactics and terror attacks all over the world, who had been responsible for the inside of Iraq. And you had leaders in the United States government and in Congress who were standing up and criticizing the president of the United States for taking that action. I mean, that's the United States they know they have at their back. The United States that when I came across a paper that was written about jihadis in Libya and they were talking about how they needed to make a deal with the Obama administration because they had unprecedented support from the American side to form an Islamic government in Libya. This is not just about giving money to Iran. This is about sending a message to Islamic terrorist groups all across the Middle East and beyond, right, that the Obama administration, the Biden administration, that these people do not really stand staunchly with Israel as they have in the past. They opened that door. And when they gave Afghanistan to Islamic terrorists in the Taliban, you know, you don't have to look very hard. I put some of this historic paperwork out on my Twitter feed and people can go on Twitter and look at it. The Islamic Emirates of the Taliban in Afghanistan have pledged their support to the cause of the Palestinians and to the annihilation of Israel for years now. The Biden administration knows it. The State Department knows it. And what did they do? They left 80 billion dollars worth of hardware in the hands of those people. But what else did they give them? They gave them the green light. They gave them their own state. They gave them intelligence assets. They gave they gave them you know what they gave them? They gave them the tarnishing of the ideal of freedom and justice. We have so much more to cover in our two. We will have more with Laura Logan, also Joel Rosenberg. Do not go away, folks. Lots more.
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"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Laura Logan, an actual journalist, very difficult to find in this day and age. Laura Logan, welcome back. Thank you so much. It's so disturbing discussing what happened in Israel. You mentioned some things early on. I think you're you know, you've been so as a journalist, you're so involved. In the details that you don't realize a lot of people maybe don't know these details. You mentioned a coordinated attack by Hamas that was really unprecedented. In other words, this was not lobbying a few missiles, but it was very coordinated to overwhelm the Iron Dome system. And also, you said you mentioned gliders. I hadn't heard about that. Oh, yeah, there's lots of pictures of it. And I mean, when you're a journalist like me, you know, I see this happening in Israel and every instinct I have is to rush to that fire. Of course, I can't do that now. But so I've been following this from the very first moment when it started. Well, when at least when the news hit and, you know, there was a concert in the desert that you may have heard about, but there were a lot of it was a music concert and there were a lot of younger Israelis and other foreigners actually who were attending. And it was not that far from the border with Gaza. Well, this is one of the main areas that was hit by Hamas terrorists who in these mechanical gliders and they came across the border. There's footage of them now, people dancing and still enjoying the music. It was around six thirty in the morning. So some people were sleeping, some people stayed up all night. And these terrorists fly over with gliders. And what followed at that music festival was an I mean, it was an unbelievable slaughter. The according to the Israeli government, they removed 256 bodies from that site alone. So that is young people that were out in the desert. There's nowhere for them to hide. They're in an open area. And when there was actually one young man who described in his eyewitness account, he described he was an officer in the or soldier in the IDF, but he was off duty. And the moment he saw this happening, his friends say, we need to get out of here. And they they managed to get out. They were stopped and surrounded. They were fired on repeatedly. They ended up running through fields to escape. But they heard that other people got stuck in a traffic jam trying to flee the concert and that it was it was a bloodbath, basically. And one of the young girls who was at the concert has been identified to attack two on her leg as being one of the bodies in the back of a vehicle that Hamas drove through the streets. I believe it was in Gaza when they returned. And, you know, of course, people were well, one young man in the video spits on the bodies in other videos. They're they're beating and hitting the bodies in the back of the vehicle. It's hard to tell if these people are dead or not. They certainly look dead. But this young girl's mother said that her daughter was unconscious, that she sent this video. And it was it was possibly just wishful thinking on the part of the mother, because that's a pretty horrific scene to see your daughter half naked in the back of a of a vehicle in the hands of terrorists and know that she's either dead or very likely dead. But this scene at that concert in the desert, which seems to have been the primary target for those people who glided in now, you know, more information could come to light. They may have hit other targets. But we know as well that Hamas terrorists landed on the top of buildings or they and they went into apartment buildings. So some of them came from the ground and some of them came from the top, you know. And so you imagine what it was like for the the people in their homes. And I've seen a number of photographs where people are have been murdered on their couches falling. Here's one man falling half off his couch, drowned in blood with terrorists on either side of him. So this is people in their own homes. One of the videos actually that has become harder and harder to find is a bomb shelter. And you see these terrorists, you can hear them. They open the door to the bomb shelter and people have already been killed. But they they keep shooting. And this is just a sea of blood and bodies, tangled bodies all across the floor. These are videos. You know, Hamas is putting out a lot of these videos so you can see them on their sites. You can see them on Al Arabiya and others, but mostly I've I've captured them to make sure that they don't get censored, because if you hide the reality of what is happening on the ground in Israel right now, then I my sense from talking to people, even Jewish people that I know all over the world, they're like, ah, you know, I mean, you know, my family is fine or, you know, I spoke to this one, that one. And I'm not sure that people really understand that this is this is a very serious. What concerns me is that Hamas knew Israel would retaliate. Iran knew that Israel would retaliate. All of their allies knew that it would come to this. And I find it very hard to believe that they didn't have a plan for that retaliation. So I mean, I just have some concern. What I'm watching for over the next few days and weeks is what happens to Israel as they get sucked into that retaliation, because that's my question. In other words, it seems clear to me that, well, first of all, we haven't said it. I mean, this is the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war. So this has been planned for a very long time. This is not you know, this is not a small operation. And then the question is, what do we suppose the enemies of Israel are trying to achieve in this? And I want to say before we go to the break, ladies and gentlemen, you must understand this is satanic. This is not warfare where you have, you know, men, young men fighting other men in uniform. This is like SS going into Poland and murdering civilians, murdering women. This is terrorism, utterly terroristic. This has nothing to do with normal warfare. And we need to make that clear that these are these are the equivalent of SS troops, the worst of the Nazis doing evil, evil things. We need to be very clear about that. We'll be right back talking to Laura Logan.
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"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"We're going to go to a break talking to Laura Logan. Folks, I need to remind you, we need to help the Alliance Defending Freedom. It's your job to go to Metaxas talk dot com Metaxas talk dot com. You'll see the banner give anything you can give generously. They are heroes and they need your help. Metaxas talk dot com. We'll be right back. Tell me why Relief Factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question. Well, the owners of Relief Factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right. Designed to heal. And I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated Relief Factor for them selected the four best ingredients. Yes, 100 percent drug free ingredients. And each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only nineteen ninety five to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70 percent of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more on one of them. Go to relief factor dot com or call 800 for relief to find out about this offer. Feel the difference. Hey, folks, you've all helped support my pillow and their employees in these tough economic times. Mike Lindell knows this and continues to give back to listeners with deals on his most popular products. You've heard me recently speak about the my slippers, the geezer sheets, my pillow two point oh and more for a limited time. The my pillow six pack bath towel set is back in stock. Take it from me. These towels are highly recommended. They're luxuriously soft and super absorbent, meaning they actually function like a towel should. With a special deal, you'll get two bath towels, two hand towels and two washcloths, a complete set normally seventy nine ninety eight. But for a limited time for all my listeners, go to my pillow dot com. Use promo code Eric to snag this set for just thirty nine ninety nine. That's a 50 percent discount. Visit my pillow dot com today or dial eight hundred nine seven eight three oh five seven to grab this deal with promo code Eric. Act fast. It won't last. Use promo code Eric for more specials. Eight hundred nine seven eight three oh five seven. Use promo code Eric or my pillow dot com.
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"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And that in itself requires intelligence and forethought and again, planning. So planning, coordination, training, having enough weapons to carry out your where you're going with this. Laura, I'm guessing that you're saying that Iran is behind helping them with. I mean, it's you know, from the first moment it happened, you could see the fingerprints of Iran, right to meet some of the most sophisticated coordinated attacks I ever witnessed unfolding were in Iraq on the Iraqi battlefield where Iran had a hand in that. So we know that Iran has a hand in this. In fact, Hamas has come out and said that they did this in coordination with Iran. So that's not a secret. But what disturbs me is that the Persians have very long memories and they're very good at proxies, but we've never seen them pick a fight on of this scale with Israel. And and they have stated repeatedly that their objective is to wipe Israel off the earth. And you now have an administration in power that can say they can kick and scream and they can say whatever they like. But they have followed a policy of open appeasement with Iran and with Hamas. And with I mean, you know, people conveniently forget that Hamas is still legally and officially a terrorist organization. And this administration had had people within the State Department who are writing when they said they were going to unfreeze the aid and the you know, that that Donald Trump had frozen President Trump had frozen aid to Palestinians and they were going to unfreeze that. There were people even within this administration who said, oh, you know, a little bit of a little bit worried that that some of that aid is going to go to to fueling Hamas. And, you know, the administration can they can say whatever they like about, well, the six billion is in a bank account, it's frozen and it's not quite. We all know that that's nonsense, right? I mean, people are not that stupid. They can twist themselves in knots trying to explain away their policies. But the reality is right before us that the world today, Iran is emboldened. Hamas is emboldened. And if you start to look at where do they have. So these are Shiite organizations, right? Shiite Islam is the religion that Hamas, sorry, that Hezbollah and the Iranians follow. Where else do they have allies and proxies throughout the region? You know, they have them in Syria. They have them in Yemen. They have them all over the Middle East. And now these organizations are equipped and armed with much more sophisticated weapons. I mean, in the in the era of appeasement that really began under Obama that was halted under Trump because he came down like a stone wall and obliterated many of these policies. But what he wasn't able to do was to stop them completely. And so you're now seeing the aftermath, right? I mean, this isn't just the six billion from the Biden administration to the Iranians. This is all the billions of dollars that Obama gave them as well. The Iranians have been the number one state sponsor of terrorism for decades now across the globe. What does that mean to people? Well, what it means is that they train people like Hamas. They finance people like Hezbollah. You know, they are directly involved in these terrorist attacks. And of course, you know, it's very frustrating when you see people say, well, you care about Israelis dying, but don't you care about Palestinians? Well, of course you do. That's ridiculous. I don't want to see Palestinian children, you know, bodies being pulled out of rubble any more than I want to see Israeli children being murdered in the hundreds at a music concert. You know, it's these they give us false choices. You know, your choice is not between care about an Israeli child. Don't care about a Palestinian child. Listen, I just want to cut you off and say that anyone with common sense understands this is nonsense. These are satanic lies. This idea that Hamas would launch this kind of attack and then people are worried about the retaliation is so insane. It's so maddening. We realize that you're dealing with people that there's no common sense. There's no sanity. They're just crazy. They will say anything which, to my mind, betrays their animus against Israel. I mean, the idea that somebody would do something like this and that that you would not immediately think, what can we do to defend them? How did this happen? And, you know, when you talk about Biden and Obama, how how is it possible to avoid the conclusion that Joe Biden made this happen? By giving six billion dollars to Iran, the policies that you mentioned? I don't know how. How does one get around that? Well, the only people who don't believe that are those who don't want to look at the reality of the Democratic Party's in America's policy towards Israel. I mean, you know, if people want to look at the reality of the Democratic Party's in America's people remember, right? Obama's relationship with Netanyahu was very frosty, right? I mean, this is this is something that because so many Jewish people in the United States are Democrats or vote Democrat, they have refused to acknowledge for years that the real threat to Israel today comes from the left and not from the right. And it is a threat that has been rising and rising. And you only have to look no further than the Democratic Socialists of America or the squad. You know, look at what Rashida Tlaib has said about Israel in the past. Look at what Ilhan Omar and others have said about about the Palestinian cause. I mean, the mere fact that all of these people called for rallies, which they said, oh, we're not supporting Hamas, we're not supporting terrorism. And they tried to separate the rallies that took place. These rallies were a celebration of Israeli death. They were a celebration of the death of Israeli children and women and men from the from babies who were captured to the elderly. Right. And and right now there are still Israeli hostages. So I don't recall at any time anywhere when there is a, you know, an operation by Israel, anyone who's pro-Israeli rushing onto the streets to celebrate the death of Palestinians. This is exactly this is exactly the issue. And that's why people have to wake up and stop listening to the mainstream media.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Thank you so much for having me on, Eric. Thank you so much for having me on. Thank you so much for having me on. Thank you so much for having me on. Logan, Laura, welcome back. So good to see you. Thank you, Eric. Good to see you, too. You you're a real encouragement to a lot of people because you are an actual journalist. People don't believe that there are such things anymore in America or in the West. You you always were a journalist, but as most journalists have gone over to, I don't know, opinion or lunacy. You're actually a journalist. We can trust what you say. And of course, today we want to talk about the nightmare of what just happened in Israel. Very difficult for us to fathom. What is your perspective on what is happening? You know, Eric, the thing that disturbs me about this. So I have spent quite a bit of time in Israel. I've spent time in Gaza, in the West Bank, all over the Palestinian territories, but also all over the Israeli towns and cities. I was there for the war against Hezbollah and for the second intifada, parts of the first and third intifada. So it's not, you know, it's not it's not unfamiliar to me, but there's something very unfamiliar about what is going on right now that I don't think any of us covering that conflict have ever experienced. And it's got to do with, so we've seen the transformation of Hamas from an organization that would lob, you know, randomly lob a few rockets here and there against the Israelis to a much more sophisticated operation. I mean, when you're talking about a barrage of 5000 rockets that is designed to penetrate Israel's defenses, they know that the Iron Dome has its limits. They know that their, you know, their counter missile defenses don't last forever. And so what they're calculating is that they can break through that by wearing it down. And that means they know something about the limits of those defenses. It also shows you coordination. You know, it's hard to overestimate the degree to which coordination indicates real planning and sophistication in an operation, because that is a very difficult thing for just the average guerrilla force or the average insurgent force to achieve. You know, this really indicates when you have people going in by land and by air and by sea, as ridiculous as those air incursions were in the gliders and the mechanized gliders, you know, at the same time, it shows you that these are people who are capable of coordinating all of that to great effect, because when you combine that with the barrage of rockets, now it's the picture starts to look very, very different. And what you're seeing here is you saw a sustained attack where Hamas was actually able to take control of Israeli territory and hold it for a significant period of time, something that the Hamas of old, it would have been unimaginable for them. It also shows that they had target packages and they knew specifically what their targets were.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"But but you I want to say that we we we we if you read my book is atheism dead, you read the chapter on Stephen Collins and the discovery of the biblical Sodom. It is next level insane. It's amazing proof that the Bible is history. It is just astonishing proof. It's a chapter in my book is atheism dead. But for me to get to interview him at a Socrates event, I'm very excited about this. So that's going to be happening Thursday. I also want to encourage people. Well, you can follow my schedule at my website, which is Eric Metaxas dot com. Eric Metaxas dot com. This week, as I said, today, we have Laura Logan and Joel Rosenberg talking about what's going on in Israel. We have John Smirack, of course, coming up this week. We have Larry Taunton coming up this week. We also have Megan Basham. She is another journalistic hero, absolute hero reporting on the dark side of Christianity today, which is most of it. That magazine has gone over to the dark side. It is heartbreaking, frankly, but we'll be talking to her about that. I want to I want to play an interview that I did with somebody from the Alliance Defending Freedom. As you know, people say, what can I do? What can I do? You can please go to Metaxas dot com and give to the Alliance Defending Freedom. They are heroes in all of these battles we're fighting. So before anything, why don't I play that right now when we come back, Laura Logan. But let me play that right now. Here it is. I have as my guest, Vincent Wagner, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom. You know that we are asking you, every one of you, to get involved this month in fighting for liberty. People always ask me, Eric, what can I do? What can we do? You can do this. This is a small thing, but please step up. Go to Metaxas talk dot com. Folks, please. This is just like you can do this right now. Vincent Wagner, you've been with ADF for a while and you're aware that this is ultimately like a national thing. This is not you're fighting these battles all over, but it's the nation is at stake. That's right, Eric. We've talked already about cases in Indiana, Wisconsin, but you brought up California, which is trying to pass very dangerous anti-parent laws. We know of cases that we're involved in in Florida, in Massachusetts. We've heard stories of parents from states everywhere in between, even states that I imagine your listeners living in Texas think they're safe from these threats. But we hear stories from families in Texas even. It's just a national movement against parents and against religious freedom that we're working as hard as we can to defend Americans against. Well, again, you know, I say to people that it's it's a lot of times people wonder what can I do? They say, gee, what can I do? And sometimes, you know, there are many things we can do. But in this case, it's like it's teed up for you folks. What you can do is you can help those who are already at the forefront in this war against liberties that we have. Patriots have died. Patriots have given their blood and their lives for the very things that are under attack right now. And so the least we can do is to help the Alliance Defending Freedom do this. They do. They're not getting rich off of this. OK, they're doing this because they believe it's right. They believe in it. And they are doing this pro bono. So so when somebody comes to them and says, I am being fired, I'm being attacked, I'm being what do I do? They don't say, well, can you pay? They say we will take this on because we actually believe in this. And the only reason they can do that is because you give to the Alliance Defending Freedom. So I know there are folks out there who can give a lot of money. I know there are people who can barely give anything, but I'm asking you folks, whatever you can give, do your part. It's between you and the Lord. This is this is not a contest. This is about an opportunity to stand up and to fight for what is right and true and good. And it is going away if we don't fight. And I think a lot of us have been inured to these evils over time. We kind of think, well, there's nothing I can do. That's the voice of the devil. There is plenty that you can do. And but you must do it. So if you go to our website, it's MetaxasTalk.com. You'll see the banner there. When you click on the banner, it gives you all kinds of options to do whatever you like. But we're talking about issues of religious liberty, issues of free speech, parental rights, life in the womb, marriage. Remember marriage between a man and a woman? All of this stuff, if you don't fight in the courts, you lose automatically. You lose by default because that's kind of where we are. And so we've just got to do this. So we have a short opportunity. So I'm exhorting you. You should be inspired, folks, that that ADF exists and is doing this. And that's why they come to us to say, help us to do what we're already doing. So again, you go to MetaxasTalk.com, you'll see the banner, the phone number. You can call right now, 855-385-0596. Again, it's 855-385-0596, 855-385-0596. Or again, MetaxasTalk.com, you'll see the banner. Vincent Wagner, God bless you and God bless your colleagues at ADF. We are just proud to work with you. Thank you so much. Thanks so much for having me on, Eric.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"lara" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood-curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. It is Columbus Day. Because of the horrors that have happened in Israel, we're not going to talk about Columbus Day today. We'll talk about Columbus Day tomorrow a little bit with my guest Terry Schilling tomorrow. Today, we are privileged to have Laura Logan on the program coming up in a couple of minutes. Laura Logan is an absolute hero. Amazing, amazing journalist. After that, we have our friend Joel Rosenberg who lives in Israel and who's going to report to us on what is happening over there. Very tough to conceive of what just happened and what it means for the world. So it's great to have Laura Logan on in a couple of minutes and Joel Rosenberg after that today to help us process what is happening and what we're to think about it. I want to say I've been on the road. I am on the road. I am right now in a hotel room in Dallas. Today, I'm flying to San Antonio. I'm speaking tomorrow night at a pregnancy center gala in San Antonio. Excited. I haven't been in San Antonio for a little while. After that, I'm coming back here to Dallas because we're doing Socrates in the City in Fort Worth this Thursday. Very exciting. My guest is Stephen Collins, the archaeologist who discovered biblical Sodom. You can live stream that. So it's already sold out. Even if you live in the Dallas area, it's totally, totally sold out in a week, which is insane. But if you go to SocratesintheCity.com, you can live stream it. And I want to encourage you to do that. It's kind of a fun thing to do. It's like you're there. It's before we edit it. So anything could happen. Anything can happen there. No, don't. Children should never watch Socrates in the City, because it's a lot like a Red Fox performance. We work blue. That's just the kind of a thing it is. Yeah, well, everybody's carrying down there. So, you know, nothing too crazy will happen. Everyone has good manners in Texas. That's what I like about good manners and guns. So but that's OK. So that's this Thursday. But you have to go to SocratesintheCity.com for the live stream. But I just want to encourage you folks. It's a fun thing to do to live stream it. It's super cheap. It's like 10 bucks or whatever. It's like nothing. You know, people told us you can charge a lot more. It's like, no, we want people to we want we want as many people as possible to watch it. So it's kind of a cool thing. If you're watching the tracksuit, you can you don't have to get dressed up, you know. Right. That's right. You can you can sit there in your robe or your slank it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from At Least Theres a New Black, Lesbian, Abortion-Loving California Senator from Maryland with Lara Logan
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, the next D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Hey everybody, I'm Charlie Kirk show a new senator from California. We introduce you to her and then we also discuss with Laura Logan the border and January 6. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Become a member of the Charlie Kirk show at charliekirk .com and click on the members tab. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks.
Veteran on the Move
"lara" Discussed on Veteran on the Move
"I asked me something Maybe I'll give it to you and I tweeted him back I said Gary I'd like an autographed book of crush it and he said good ask and he sent me his autographed book And I think I gave it to a veteran friend of mine But he's the one who inspired me and he inspires me every single day. That's cool I've listened to him a few times, but I haven't listened to him in a long time Like what what is he up to these days? Is he still doing? Well, he's oh my gosh, he's doing everything. He's got V friends NFTs trading cards. He just hosted a huge conference. I think was up in Indiana. And so yeah, he's Definitely out there social media Everything and just I love the guy. I really do. Yeah, so You're listening to Gary Vee you get motivated. You start thinking about this entrepreneurial thing certain new business. Where does it go from there? Well, it's funny because I want a flip camera at a conference just an old time You know, this is before cell phones really came out Yeah, and because I was a travel I was also a travel agent on the side So I would go on a lot of cruises and I'd use my flip cam Hi Scott Lehrer Scott Lehrer 1961 on Twitter on the carnival fascination March 15th 1999 and we're going to Bonaire whatever was and my motive for doing that show was to make my family and friends jealous That's why I did it on Twitter and on my Facebook page and on YouTube. And so then I started getting Calls and people and I I got a call from a local TV station here in Jacksonville, Florida Wjxt channel 4 and they said Scott we'd like you to come on, you know Once a month or once every other month to talk about travel cool So I yeah, so if you if you google Scott Lehrer la ra wjxt and click on video you'll see my videos I mean being on TV and then from there the cruise lines reached out to me And so then I was you know promoting them and then kovat hit And when kovat hit the cruise lines shut down Oh, yeah And so I immediately Pivoted to all-inclusive resorts and a very close friend of mine said Scott you gotta try these all-inclusive Resorts and I said I spit on all-inclusive resorts you get there They put an anklet bracelet on you. They they close the doors and you're stuck inside the resort. Just stop. That's not true I said, okay, she goes listen, I'll send you go ahead. I'll pay your way. So I went to the Palladium hotel group Palladium Riviera Maya just south of play at the Carmen and Joe for a day and a half. I was speechless and Joe, you know me I can talk But for a day and a half, I was speechless and I'm walking around Palladium Riviera Maya and a day and a half later it hit me Garden of Eden that's what this place is and so I started sharing that and then The management at Palladium hotel groups at Scott we would like you to go to all our resorts a point of a yarta, Jamaica Costa Mujeres Dominican Republic I said, okay, and so when the cruise lines were shut down I couldn't report on them except they were shut down. So I went to all these Palladium resorts and It's I just shared my passion for them and what I tell you something Joe when you share your passion of whatever it is like, you know on several of your other guests that I've seen on the podcast if it's about entrepreneurship or if it's about Helping veterans or whatever people hear that passion And so that's what I'm passionate about is travel and that's where it's kind of led and now I a couple weeks ago I got a an email from a gentleman and he says Scott I'd like you to be the president of military affairs calm. Yeah, I'm blending my veteran status with my love of travel and military affairs calm very similar to orbits or Travelocity Expedia, but we're for veterans and so we get we get veterans discounts on airfare Cruises all-inclusive resorts and you just click on that and we can help get you those discounts And so now I'm the president of that and having a lot of fun with it Yeah, so what's that like being being on the entrepreneurial role for so long and now now you see you over travel company It's huge. I mean, I'm just I'm coming through the phone right now I'm just so excited about it because I've worked hard for a long time and Joe. I'm 62 I know I don't look at but I am and I've worked a long time, you know, like chopping these trees down, right? Yeah, and now finally I've landed a Very very good. I don't even want to say a job I've landed this opportunity where I can share my passion of Travel with fellow veterans to help them save money and everybody wants to save money and that's why I just I'm so thankful To have this opportunity with military fairs calm to to share that. Yeah, so talk a little bit about military fairs like You know, I don't know. How do they how do they get the discounts that are? Awarded to veterans and what are the benefits of the military community going to military fairs? well, the thing is is that we negotiate with cruise lines with hotels with You know airlines all these different, you know vehicles where we are you know helping people with their travel because like if you sit there right there's lots of Opportunities there's lots of ways to book your travel right people ask me this all the time You know, should I book directly with carnival? Should I get a travel agent or should I got to go to Costco? Well, you go to Costco that guy behind the desk isn't gonna know about Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Martinique, St. Bart's, St. Kitts. Well, I've been out to all those places So with military fairs they do get access to me where I am able to share My super secret tips to make their vacations better give an example this past Saturday I was on the carnival elation here in Jacksonville taking a media travel agent tour and as I'm walking toward my car One of the staff the port staff came up to me and she goes you're Scott Lara, aren't you ago? Yeah, I am and she goes can you play I happens all the time and I Can tell you a story about that too the wife and I were in St. Thomas and a lady came up to me and said you're Scott late Hi, nice to meet you. My wife does not like me being a celebrity, but it's fun Anyway, so the thing is is that I'm walking out and she goes, can you please share with the with your audience? To please print out your boarding pass because just having it on your phone we can't do XYZ I said not a problem. So I walked to the front of the ship and if you look at my Twitter at Scott Lara 1961 you'll see my video on that one of my youtube shorts talking about you know printing out your boarding pass and so That you know, that's what military fairs calm does we give tips we give Discounts We give help to those veterans. I'm actually gonna be working with some passport companies to help because with passports They're still on backorder, right? So some passport companies and I have been talking about promoting them on our blog the military affairs calm blog About you know getting the passports back quicker because my best friend he was getting ready to go to Cancun and he looked at his passport, oh my gosh, my passports expired and the tip I gave him was call our congressman here in Jacksonville and The member of Congress was able to move it along quite a quite a bit quicker, too But these congressional offices are totally overwhelmed with this And so those are the tips and tricks we give to the hidden gems. That's the other thing people Scott What are the hidden gems? So yeah, no kidding okay, so How many cruise ships actually go out of Jacksonville, Florida? Just one just a carnival elation. Yeah, I've never heard that Yeah, well the bridge, you know really Prevents like oasis from the seas or these larger ships that to come but back when we had the Super Bowl here in Jacksonville Holland America sent a couple of their ships that were able to go into the bridge and they were basically floating hotels for the Super Bowl so yes, we only have one but you know the port port Canaveral they've now Just obtained the highest, you know port now for cruises It used to be Miami and so poor Canaveral I think MSC is gonna be going there celebrities going there and so poor Canaveral which is only like a Two hour drive from Jacksonville is a great port and of course, you know, Miami and Fort Lauderdale Yeah, because we've gone out of Canaveral a couple times and then the last one we did MSC out of Miami But um, you know, it was a lot closer drive. So I was like going there instead You know Joe, I think we need to do a veterans on the move podcast live from a carnival ship. Let's do that. That's awesome Yeah, I always wanted to do a traveling podcast. So yeah, maybe we can make that happen draw a crowd My primary website is the cruise genius calm that's where I started my journey and then You know with my Twitter and then of course my youtube channel just type in Scott Lara la ra like and subscribe I'm over a million one hundred thousand views on my youtube channel, which it's just I Love it and it's great and of course the YouTube shorts have really blown that up quite a bit and just sharing my passion sharing the tips and tricks of Travel because a lot of people haven't traveled Joe. Did you know that only 10% of Americans have ever cruised? And I know a lot of people don't want to cruise. Yeah only 10% of Americans and so that's the thing, too I love sharing my passion of cruising being a Navy veteran. I love being out to sea I actually if you look at my youtube channel You'll see that my wife and my two grandsons and my daughter and son-in-law and I were on the Carnival Liberty several weeks ago and We just had a blast and this is my grandkids. They're six and four It was their first cruise and they had a blast and they were total VIP, too I made a phone call and my great. Yeah, my grandson Reid also known as the cruise kid I got a tour of the bridge. He got to sit in the captain's chair He said he took a galley tour and we has a blast and thanks to carnival for that by the way, but Yeah cruising. It is very special for me and just to give you a heads up I'll be going back to Cancun to the Palladium hotel group a Palladium Costa my hat s slash TRS coral the end of September reporting from there sharing the benefits and sharing the fun of that because Okay, super secret, you know telling you what's going on there's this thing called family selection and the family selection of the select Palladium hotel group resorts are family friendly and It's you'll see it on my youtube channel one when I went to Viarta a Palladium Viarta kids are really special and so I'm going to TRS coral Grand Palladium coastal Harris because they have a family selection area there and it's gonna be opening up it Kentonaw down in Riviera Maya in December So I'm gonna be getting video getting commentary a drone video all that kind of stuff from coastal Harris Just kind of previewing what's gonna be happening at Kentonaw and it's gonna be a lot of fun. And again being a grandpa myself Sharing that with with veterans if your grandparents to go with your grandkids and it's a lot of fun. Yeah, so Trying to think of it. So like when I was on active duty, you know Believe it or not we didn't travel that much most of the most a lot of in a lot of military families were this way like when you're at A if you're in a active fleet unit, you know deployable unit You might be there for two three years You don't take a whole lot of vacation because you're your tip of the spear so to speak And then you then you get orders to move somewhere So a lot of times during the PCS you got a bunch of leave built up you get travel proceed I got a bunch of we're gonna go on a vacation as we move from one station one base one post to another Hearing you know thinking back on that for your nine years in the Navy like what are What are some of the top travel tips that come to mind as far as those military families? It might still be on active duty and haven't gotten out yet you make a very good point a very good friend of mine is a lieutenant colonel in the army and He travels, you know when he gets his vacation He actually comes with me to the Palladium hotel group and we get to see and we've known each other forever But yeah, I mean if you're an active dude now, I mean we're talking about different branches, right? I mean if you're in the Navy, you know, you got two or three weeks vacation You may want to go home and see family. I get that but you know when you're home with family You know, what are things to do like in in the neighborhood or around there? And of course people, you know like Navy folks You know some say I don't want to ever go back on a ship again Well, god bless you but I will tell you when you go on a cruise the food the entertainment the Accommodations are night and day from you know, Morrison FFG 13 or Ticonderoga CG 47 So, you know do it for your wife and kids have a good time and you'll have a blast And then you get to see some different ports like, you know If you can sail on Jacksonville you go to Nassau if you sail out of Port Canaveral you go to Bimini So, yeah, even if you're on active duty and you have those vacation days definitely take advantage of those Yeah, cuz we used to say so I spent a lot of our leave and vacation going back home where we were from To see the family and I'm like, right that's not vacation It's not that taking your kids or family members on a cruise ship or going to a nice resort. That's vacation You're still with your family, but like going back home and spending time with families not vacation Well, you know family wants you to come home your mom or dad or whoever wants you to come back I want to see the grandkids I get it but being a grandfather now to my six and four year olds I want to give them memories. I want to give them experiences And so that's like, you know going back to my saying about the Palladium hotel group as soon as his family selection Opens up in Canton on down there Palladium Riviera Maya. I'm taking my grandsons and you know I'm not gonna just do it just for fun and I'll be doing it for video and for for work Definitely gonna do some drone video my grandkids playing in the beach in the sand, but it's that's what I'm saying I mean you have fun and you know, we only have one shot and this goes back to Gary V one in four hundred trillion that we get to be humans and You know, I'm gonna take this life that that God's given me and You know have fun and do things and do things with my family and have those memories My dad died at 66 years old of prostate cancer He was an army veteran and I learned right then that you know We only have a short period of time here. And the other thing I'll say real to Joe is that You got to do this before you're frail and feeble and old when you're young you're able I cannot tell you how many times I've told people people will say it's kind of like when they say You know, I'm gonna wait till I can afford kids. Well, you can never wait to afford kids And it's the same way with travel If you're gonna travel you need to do it when you're able and you're mobile and you're fit and you're ready to go Because if you wait till 60 70 80 90 years old team crutch wheelchair, it's gonna be It's too late. Yeah, I do. I I do have friends that are that are older that are mobility limited and it's it's no fun to be able to go to beaches and do fun things when You can't. Yes. Yeah, I even on cruise ships, you know I see a lot of people going around in wheelchairs and stuff and it's as crowded as they get sometimes and the elevators are packed It's tough to tough to get around on a cruise ship With the wheelchair and everything even though they're accommodating to you. It's it's still tough and Yeah, you make a good point because Holland America line Holland America line I refer to as the AARP cruise Ethel Myrtle Gertrude That's their persona and if you are older that's perfect but you know carnival, you know when I was on the carnival ship There are a lot of people driving around in these little go-go machines You know running over people's feet is they're coming out of the elevator So yeah, but but the thing is is that it's the kids, you know saying come on grandma Of course grandma and grandpa's pride pain. But yeah, definitely travel when you can. Yeah, absolutely so Your travel business has been an entrepreneurial venture for so long And then somebody comes along whether you're a competitor or a partner for many years and all of a sudden they put you in charge of the company, I mean you know, what kind of experience is that like, you know, Running running a travel company now that really belongs to someone else, but it's it's right in your wheelhouse It's overwhelming. First of all, just the gratitude I have for The person who who owns it to reach out to me and say hey Scott, you know, I see you on LinkedIn I see you on TV. I see you out there number one, you're a veteran number two, you're a travel agent you understand travel and You know, I would like you to be the president of military affairs calm. I just was like, oh my gosh This is kind of the perfect gig because you're like with with cruising, you know Somebody you haven't been in much contact with before no, absolutely not. He reached out to me and You know, we we had talked and gone back and forth and I said absolutely I mean originally, you know, I was talking regarding, you know, doing social media branding that kind of thing He goes Scott. I want you to be the president and it's like oh my gosh and to be able to It's like what I'm doing right now being on this podcast and reaching out to the cruise lines and being you know Covered in the travel press Because my goal is to send people to the military affairs calm, you know veterans Active duty family members to give them the discounts for travel and it's like kind of a win-win Wow, yeah, that's awesome Well, we're getting close to the end of our time. So I do want to give you the last word put it put in one more plug for for military affairs calm and then After that, I want you to address, you know Talking to somebody getting out of the military veteran out there military spouse that wants to get in entrepreneurship start to own business What kind of advice you have for them? Well, let me do the advice first. First of all folks Thank you for listening to the podcast. Please share this podcast with your family and friends subscribe tweet about it Just let them know how much you appreciate Joe and his podcast Secondly what I would do jump on LinkedIn get on LinkedIn if you're a veteran Get that free one-year premium any courses that are there take those and they just start whatever your passion is Right if it's travel if it's entrepreneur, you know Whatever and start reaching out to people who do what you do or do what you like and you know Kind of follow their lead number three follow Gary V Gary Vaynerchuk learn Everything he's got YouTube Instagram everything and he's gonna give you inspiration every day To continue this journey because I mean people can be in a dark place You get out of the military your wife's looking at you your kids now what you thought you can land a job So every day you got to get up and act like finding your job is a job Like don't wait till 10 or 11 don't go to the beach You know get out there and get it because the sooner you get it you're gonna be able to get back on track So those are my top tips. And again, I will say reach out to Joe or myself We would love to help point you in the right direction You can follow me at Scott Lara scot t la ra 1961 on Twitter Go to the cruise genius calm. I go to YouTube type in Scott Lara la ra You'll see all my stuff there and of course military fairs calm If you're a veteran, you're a member of the military your family member military fairs calm We will get you the best deal on travel Awesome. Well said Scott. Thanks for sharing your entrepreneurial success story and look forward to your future success Thanks so much Joe appreciate you and thanks to all the veterans out there. God bless you and your families All right, these two veterans are Oscar Mike Thank you for listening to veteran on the move your pathfinder to freedom if you like to show leave us a review in iTunes Reviews are always greatly appreciated.
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"Scott Lehrer president of military affairs comm is a US Navy veteran taking his passion of traveling and serving fellow veterans He was recently appointed president of military affairs comm an online travel website giving deep discounts to veterans coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that Trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success and now your host Joe Crane As a member of not-for-profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org Alright today we're talking with Navy veteran Scott Laura who is a president of military affairs comm Scott You and I've been in you know in loose touch for several years now You've been following the podcast like almost way back since the beginning if I remember correct Absolutely, just a huge fan of the podcast and appreciate everything you do Joe for our veterans and family members of veterans Yeah, so let's start off like we usually do take us back and tell us what you did the Navy Oh my gosh back in 1979 I was working at the Kmart camera department in Aurora, Illinois Just outside of Chicago and I was about to graduate from high school and my assistant manager there said Scott What do you want to do after high school? I said I have no clue, but I don't want to go to school You know don't want to go to college and he goes well join the Navy see the world Well, the problem is he didn't tell me that the world was 75% water. So I joined the Navy When I went into Chicago to get all registered They said, you know, what do you want to be? I said, I really don't know and they said well What about a fire controlman? I said, well, I don't want to fight fires and the guy laughed He goes well about like being a radarman and it's like that sounds cool and they said, okay Well, you'll go to boot camp here in Chicago in a couple weeks. I said I'm going to San Diego They said you're going to San Diego cuz I mean I joined in set in September and it was starting to get cold So I went to yeah, I went to boot camp in San Diego at 79 then I went to a school at Damnet, Virginia Went up to Maine to get my ship the Morrison FFG 13. It was in three pieces in Bath, Maine They put it together. We sailed down to Boston and Was commissioned there went to Mayport Went to church there in Jackson, but here in Jacksonville met my wife I'm married 39 years to grown kids and two grandkids And so I love the Navy and all over the world Italy Spain France Panama Canal off the coast of Iran and Iraq and I love the Navy but I stayed in nine years It was just really hard on my wife with two small children So I got out and then I went on my entrepreneurial journey. We'll talk a little bit about that What was your transition like when you got out of the Navy you get a job right away? Was the entrepreneurship thing already there? Well, fortunately and the one thing I want to share with the audience. It's who you know, and You've got to be out there you and it's not even the internet It's just like who do you know? Because I knew some people and I was able to get a job with a division of driver's license in, Florida So I got out I immediately had a job I wasn't making a ton of money but I was an employee and I worked there and then I of course I got a couple other jobs to as Other things opened up. But yeah again for those folks that are listening to the podcast you got to get out there There's no one who's gonna promote you but you and you got to be professional. You got to look good You got to speak good and it's who you know, and I will just say for anybody listening reach out to Joe or myself We would both love to help anybody to to move into that transition the only thing I would caution you about is that a lot of people will try to come after veterans and say hey Join this franchise and you know 50 $100,000 and a lot of us don't have that kind of money A lot of us don't have time to go back to school Now a lot of guys do have the GI Bill or other Opportunities like that, but I always love helping fellow veterans get on the path to a good job and success Yeah, it's so true it's who you know and unfortunately if you've been in the military like you were for nine years You may not have a big civilian network But you might have a network of veterans that got out before you and keep in touch with them but I hear I've heard stories were like I applied for a thousand jobs and didn't get one response from anybody and it's like Well, that's pretty typical these online job boards most of the time you don't get hired from them unless you know somebody on the inside and Then you still got to apply through the job board and then because you know somebody your Application gets pulled and then you find your way in it's it's it's all about who you know Definitely one super secret tip. I'll share Joe is that veterans get one free year of LinkedIn premium so just go on LinkedIn you know let them know you're a veteran and There's lots of free courses on LinkedIn and that that's my secret. I mean, that's how I know people Being in the travel industry getting to know the CEOs of these travel of these cruise lines And once you're on LinkedIn and you reach out to them and be humble be nice. I am so-and-so and But again, the problem with the military is they really don't prepare us for civilian work We veterans think well just because we're a veteran or we work hard and we're dedicated. We should automatically get the job Well, the job market is so tight now that they're being very selective on who they hire Yeah, they want they want somebody to have all the qualifications that they already need They don't want to train somebody like the military always does train people from scratch In the civilian sector, they don't they don't have time to train you They they need you making them money from day one And but there are there are some good skills military guys have as far as you know The soft skills the leadership the motivation You know, they show up to work on time They're not late, you know, those kind of things can be huge Some some people like to view those things as maybe the givens of a typical good employee But if you don't have some of those basic skills that the job requires, it's it's really tough for civilian companies You know to hire you and bring you in because they can't afford To train people for months or years on end like the military does well Joe You make a very good point in addition to that guys. You can't go in. I want 80. I want 90 I want a hundred you may need to go in for 25 or 30 thousand get your fee You know be trainable be open listen learn and once they see that then you can go up But I think so many people Joe think, you know I deserve 70 80 90 100 and maybe your wife or your spouse wants you to make that money To bring it in but you got to be realistic absolutely As a member owned not-for-profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing that they do Low fees and great rates resources to help you crush your financial goals 24-7 access to stateside member service representatives with award-winning customer service earnings and savings of four hundred seventy three dollars per year by banking with us an average credit card APR that's six percent lower than the industry average a Market leading regular savings rate nearly two times the industry average I'm still with Navy Federal after 33 years and not going anywhere Navy Federal is insured by NCUA NFC you reserves the right to change or just continue promotions and rates at any time without notice Dollar value shown represents the results of the 2022 Navy Federal member give back study credit card value claim based on 2022 internal average APR assigned to members Compared to the advertising industry APA average published on credit cards comm value claim based on 2022 internal regular savings rate average compared to 2022 industry regular service average rate published by FDIC gov learn more at Navy federal org In a startling description the UN food chief warned the world with words knocking on famines door He called what we're facing a perfect storm of a perfect storm He's not alone parents published that a food shortage could be coming even in the u.s.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from MilitaryFares.com with Scott Lara
"Scott Lehrer president of military affairs comm is a US Navy veteran taking his passion of traveling and serving fellow veterans He was recently appointed president of military affairs comm an online travel website giving deep discounts to veterans coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that Trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success and now your host Joe Crane As a member of not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org Alright today we're talking with Navy veteran Scott Laura who is a president of military affairs comm Scott You and I've been in you know in loose touch for several years now You've been following the podcast like almost way back since the beginning if I remember correct Absolutely, just a huge fan of the podcast and appreciate everything you do Joe for our veterans and family members of veterans Yeah, so let's start off like we usually do take us back and tell us what you did the Navy Oh my gosh back in 1979 I was working at the Kmart camera department in Aurora, Illinois Just outside of Chicago and I was about to graduate from high school and my assistant manager there said Scott What do you want to do after high school? I said I have no clue, but I don't want to go to school You know don't want to go to college and he goes well join the Navy see the world Well, the problem is he didn't tell me that the world was 75 % water. So I joined the Navy When I went into Chicago to get all registered They said, you know, what do you want to be? I said, I really don't know and they said well What about a fire controlman? I said, well, I don't want to fight fires and the guy laughed He goes well about like being a radarman and it's like that sounds cool and they said, okay Well, you'll go to boot camp here in Chicago in a couple weeks. I said I'm going to San Diego They said you're going to San Diego cuz I mean I joined in set in September and it was starting to get cold So I went to yeah, I went to boot camp in San Diego at 79 then I went to a school at Damnet, Virginia Went up to Maine to get my ship the Morrison FFG 13. It was in three pieces in Bath, Maine They put it together. We sailed down to Boston and Was commissioned there went to Mayport Went to church there in Jackson, but here in Jacksonville met my wife I'm married 39 years to grown kids and two grandkids And so I love the Navy and all over the world Italy Spain France Panama Canal off the coast of Iran and Iraq and I love the Navy but I stayed in nine years It was just really hard on my wife with two small children So I got out and then I went on my entrepreneurial journey. We'll talk a little bit about that What was your transition like when you got out of the Navy you get a job right away? Was the entrepreneurship thing already there? Well, fortunately and the one thing I want to share with the audience. It's who you know, and You've got to be out there you and it's not even the internet It's just like who do you know? Because I knew some people and I was able to get a job with a division of driver's license in, Florida So I got out I immediately had a job I wasn't making a ton of money but I was an employee and I worked there and then I of course I got a couple other jobs to as Other things opened up. But yeah again for those folks that are listening to the podcast you got to get out there There's no one who's gonna promote you but you and you got to be professional. You got to look good You got to speak good and it's who you know, and I will just say for anybody listening reach out to Joe or myself We would both love to help anybody to to move into that transition the only thing I would caution you about is that a lot of people will try to come after veterans and say hey Join this franchise and you know 50 $100 ,000 and a lot of us don't have that kind of money A lot of us don't have time to go back to school Now a lot of guys do have the GI Bill or other Opportunities like that, but I always love helping fellow veterans get on the path to a good job and success Yeah, it's so true it's who you know and unfortunately if you've been in the military like you were for nine years You may not have a big civilian network But you might have a network of veterans that got out before you and keep in touch with them but I hear I've heard stories were like I applied for a thousand jobs and didn't get one response from anybody and it's like Well, that's pretty typical these online job boards most of the time you don't get hired from them unless you know somebody on the inside and Then you still got to apply through the job board and then because you know somebody your Application gets pulled and then you find your way in it's it's it's all about who you know Definitely one super secret tip. I'll share Joe is that veterans get one free year of LinkedIn premium so just go on LinkedIn you know let them know you're a veteran and There's lots of free courses on LinkedIn and that that's my secret. I mean, that's how I know people Being in the travel industry getting to know the CEOs of these travel of these cruise lines And once you're on LinkedIn and you reach out to them and be humble be nice. I am so -and -so and But again, the problem with the military is they really don't prepare us for civilian work We veterans think well just because we're a veteran or we work hard and we're dedicated. We should automatically get the job Well, the job market is so tight now that they're being very selective on who they hire Yeah, they want they want somebody to have all the qualifications that they already need They don't want to train somebody like the military always does train people from scratch In the civilian sector, they don't they don't have time to train you They they need you making them money from day one And but there are there are some good skills military guys have as far as you know The soft skills the leadership the motivation You know, they show up to work on time They're not late, you know, those kind of things can be huge Some some people like to view those things as maybe the givens of a typical good employee But if you don't have some of those basic skills that the job requires, it's it's really tough for civilian companies You know to hire you and bring you in because they can't afford To train people for months or years on end like the military does well Joe You make a very good point in addition to that guys. You can't go in. I want 80. I want 90 I want a hundred you may need to go in for 25 or 30 thousand get your fee You know be trainable be open listen learn and once they see that then you can go up But I think so many people Joe think, you know I deserve 70 80 90 100 and maybe your wife or your spouse wants you to make that money To bring it in but you got to be realistic absolutely As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing that they do Low fees and great rates resources to help you crush your financial goals 24 -7 access to stateside member service representatives with award -winning customer service earnings and savings of four hundred seventy three dollars per year by banking with us an average credit card APR that's six percent lower than the industry average a Market leading regular savings rate nearly two times the industry average I'm still with Navy Federal after 33 years and not going anywhere Navy Federal is insured by NCUA NFC you reserves the right to change or just continue promotions and rates at any time without notice Dollar value shown represents the results of the 2022 Navy Federal member give back study credit card value claim based on 2022 internal average APR assigned to members Compared to the advertising industry APA average published on credit cards comm value claim based on 2022 internal regular savings rate average compared to 2022 industry regular service average rate published by FDIC gov learn more at Navy federal org In a startling description the UN food chief warned the world with words knocking on famines door He called what we're facing a perfect storm of a perfect storm He's not alone parents published that a food shortage could be coming even in the u .s.
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A highlight from UNCHAINED: With Execs Leaving and Market Share Declining, Can Binance Survive?
"This is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. Binance US, obviously the first thing on their mind is sort of trying to fight the SEC and figure out a way forward. I mean, there is a world where Binance can exist where it's not quite as big as it was before. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago, and as a senior editor at Forbes, I was the first mainstream media reporter to pick up a cryptocurrency full -time. This is the September 15th, 2023 episode of Unchained. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by fails, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. 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There have been a number of news events related to Binance over the last several months, to the point where there are now a number of questions swirling around the exchange in its future about potential regulatory and possibly even criminal actions against the exchange and its founders. And then, of course, what all of this could mean for the crypto industry if the exchange that has been the biggest crypto exchange for the last six years either falls or at the very least loses its top spot. So, Stephen, can you start by giving us kind of the main events or highlights of what has been happening with Binance over the last several months, including, you know, another big, you know, event this week that have brought Binance to really what feels like an existential point in its story? Sure. How much time do you have? Because I think this is just a 30 -minute show. But no, I mean, in crypto, we kind of feel like every day is a week, every week is a year, every year is a decade. And for Binance, there's been no shortage of big news. When FTX collapsed in November sort and of left CZ as like the big 800 -pound gorilla that really was kind of lording over all of crypto, there were a lot of thoughts that, hey, maybe this is Binance's moment. It was already the biggest exchange in the world by a large margin, and it just became so much bigger and even more systemically significant. It's been a very difficult year for Binance. I mean, just beginning with the fact that in the 60 days post collapse of FTX, more than $12 billion worth of customer deposits left the exchange. A colleague of mine, our terrific Director of Data and Analytics, Javier Paz, put together a report just talking about these massive investor outflows that Binance has really worked to try to stem ever since. I mean, then the hits kind of kept coming. I believe it was in February that the New York Department of Financial Services forced Paxos, which was the issue of Binance's stablecoin, BUSD, which at one point I believe reached over $20 billion in market cap and was seen as a legitimate competitor to Circle's USDC and the biggest stablecoin of all, Tether, which has a market cap of $83, $84 billion or so. But DFS forced them to with something that came out of the SEC as well. And that was a really big hit for Binance. It might not have been quite as flashy as the suits from the CFTC and SEC that came in later. But if you're just talking about dollar terms and financial impact, it was massive because Binance was really trying to make BUSD the biggest stablecoin in the world. They had incentives to encourage trading with BUSD. And in particular, think about what people do. And obviously, Lara, you know this and many people in your audience do as well. When you have $20 billion or $40 billion or $80 billion in cash, you can invest it in treasuries or money markets that are paying 5 % annual returns. And that's an incredible amount of money that you can make virtually risk -free, especially in a market like today where trading volumes are dwindling, reserves are dwindling. It's a really nice way to sort of supplement assets. So, that's one thing that happened. In March, the CFTC sued Binance for a suite of charges. A lot of it stemmed from the CFTC's allegations that Binance was operating as an FCM, a futures commodity merchant, basically saying that they're offering options and futures contracts at various digital assets without registering with the agency, which is required to do in the United States. And then in particular, and this much like the SEC's suit, which came out in June, they both talked about efforts Binance went to not only let US customers participate on the exchange, but actually help them find ways to get around geo -blocking activities that they put in to make sure that the best customers could still trade on the exchange. So, there's the CFTC lawsuit in March. There is the SEC lawsuit that came in June. There are rumors that the DOJ is investigating Binance and they would bring criminal charges. CFTC and SEC are sort of civil endeavors, which would kind of lead to fines and maybe bars from trading and certain activities. But obviously, DOJ could bring criminal penalties if they bring such charges and are able to get CZ into custody. And then, I mean, there's other aspects too as well. I mean, Binance has been losing payment and the banking partners around the world. Binance US in June had to become a crypto -only exchange because they lost their banking partners in the US, so they couldn't handle US dollars anymore. They lost their auditor in January. And then on top of that too, just a wave of executive departures going from the C -suite to country managers. So, this is a lot for one particular exchange, any company really, but an exchange as consequential as Binance to deal with. It's really been just an onslaught of bad news after bad news. I mean, there's been a few glimmers of new product initiatives and things like that. But a few other steps I want to throw in there are that spot volumes, like in terms of its market share, it had about 60 % of all crypto exchange volume market share at the beginning of the year. Now, for the last few months, it's been at 45%. And they laid off a thousand people. And then actually, let's also now mention the executive departure this week that was at Binance US. Tell us about that. Right. So, Binance, as you rightfully said, has been losing market share. They remained the largest crypto exchange in the world, but they are losing market share in this dwindling market. I actually believe the latest numbers that came out from CC Data put Binance's spot market share at least at around 37%, 38%. And if you're just looking at their spot volumes, I mean, they were comfortably still above $20 billion daily, even at the beginning of the year. Now, it's down to about $5 billion. At the peak 2021, it was over $60 billion. So, I mean, just think about exchanges make money by taking small cuts of every exchange. And if your volume goes down 80 % or whatever, I mean, that's money that you're no longer getting. And obviously, that's very consequential. And then with the executive departures, as you said, that's something that I know CZ has tried to gloss over. I know when we've reached out to some of the departed executives and they've either responded to us or to just public Twitter postings, et cetera. I mean, they kind of said things like, we want to take care of our family, the time is right. There was no acrimony involved, so on and so forth. But at some point, all of this takes a toll. And at least with regards to Binance US, which is the US I think franchise is the term that they like to use for that particular exchange, they're in a very tenuous situation right here. I mean, even before, and I'll talk about Brian Schroeder's departure in a second. I believe right now, I just checked the numbers before we recorded this, they're averaging about 20 million, not billion, not 200 million, but $20 million a day in transaction value. 10 million of which is Bitcoin. I believe that I think they charge something like 10 basis points per trade. So if you think about that, like 20 million times 0 .1, I'm not really good at doing math in my head. I use a calculator for that despite the fact that I'm a financial journalist, but you can just think about how little money that actually is coming in. And then obviously since Binance US was created in 2019, there's always been issues and questions about its independence from the larger exchange and would it actually be able to find that sweet spot of separating itself in the eyes of regulators while maintaining the super sauce that is made by Binance, a love brand by many customers. And they've gone through three CEOs at this point, Brian Schroeder just resigned. I was speaking with some sources familiar with Binance US and I was basically told that this was not a planned departure, that the 100 person layoff was, but the removal of CEO Brian Schroeder, the exit of him was not. I've also been told that it's important to kind of keep an eye off some of his key lieutenants now, because remember when he joined, one of the first things that he did was raise a $200 million actually seed round at a $4 .5 billion valuation. That's something Brian Brooks, his predecessor had wanted to, but he wasn't able to finish it. Brian Schroeder did. And then for part of that, that kind of saw Binance US as a growth company, he brought in some key lieutenants, chief legal officers, chief risk officers. And I think that now that Binance US is kind of moving away from obviously growth, like any exchange to sort of conservation, it's important to look at some people he brought in and they may be looking to leave. And actually one of the sources I was speaking with told me that their chief risk officer is Sydney Majala, and I want to look at my notes to make sure I don't get the names wrong, and head of legal, Krishna Jubelty, have actually emails that have been sent to them by some of the other rank and file, have started to bounce back. So I don't know if that necessarily means that they may have already left, but it certainly, I think it's important to, now that Brian has gone, see if some of people that he brought in after he raised this big round with a lot of high expectations, if they are going to follow suit. In a moment, we're going to talk about some of the potential regulatory or potentially even criminal actions against Binance and its executives. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Psychological Operations Hiding in Plain Sight With Mike Smith
"Talking about the all important new movie into the light dot movie, I want to play the trailer here. Let's play cut 11, please. If you know yourself but not the enemy for every victory gained, you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. You need to understand you're being manipulated, and if you don't understand how you're being manipulated, you're never going to be able to fight it. You can get tickets into the light dot movie. So, Mike, expand on that trailer. Knowing that you are manipulated is the first step towards enlightenment. Correct. And that's really a teaser because I didn't want to give away what the movie was until we actually launched it. Out of Shadows was one type of film, but this was a little deeper. This is more factual. It's very apolitical, and it's just these are the facts. This is how it works. The way I look at this is if you're a police officer or you're in law enforcement, you understand that world. If you're a lawyer, you understand the legal world. If you're a physician, you understand the medical world. But I come from media, and I spent 30 years from the bottom to the top, and I have a perspective of how media is used to, because I know this, if you give me money and time making films, I can make you believe anything I want you to believe. So knowing how that works, it's easy for me to understand how all this really works. But for the public, the average person who's worried about just going to work from Monday to Friday, and they get time with their children on Saturday, or they go to church on Sunday, and they're back to work, they don't have the perspective to understand some of the ways that they're being manipulated. So unless somebody like myself or Dr. Rose or General Flynn or Lara, one of the best journalists in the world, goes out and explains to you, we've all been manipulated. And what I mean by that is, I mean, for me for 30 years, I didn't see it. And if I worked in it for 30 years and couldn't see it, how's the average person in the population going to see it? How are they going to understand this unless somebody shows them?
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
At the End of the Day, Fox News Is Lost
"Share with you what I shared on newsmax earlier today. Because I believe that at the end of the day, Fox News has lost. They do not have a vision. They did not understand that roger ailes when he created Fox News channel and let it for so many years. Before he was fired and then he died. When roger ailes was leading that network, he created something that appealed to everyday Americans in a roger grew up born and raised in Ohio in a working class family, and he knows what it's like. To live paycheck to paycheck. He really did believe in those ideas of God and country and family and whether or not you agreed with everything he did. This was a brilliant man. And roger was always careful, always careful never to allow a candidate to get too close to the network. And of course, we now saw what happened when one did. And Fox didn't know how the new leaders at Fox did not know how to deal with all of that. Now the other big problem at foxes is a major divide within the company. The news side is run by a leftist. And you can see that in a lot of the programming, especially on the weekends. And that's a big problem, because they think that people are watching Fox because of the news. Now, I suspect if many of you would call in and say that's just ludicrous and I would agree with you. The people paying the bills for Fox News channel, it's not that newsroom, it's Tucker and Sean and Lara and Fox and Friends. Those are the people paying the bills. Over at Fox.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Kansas Enacts Transgender Athlete Ban, Overrides Governor Veto
"The house of or the Republicans in the state house, and Kansas have overturned a veto, they voted to override a veto from democratic governor Laura Kelly, and Lara Kelly was pro transgender and the bill would have protected girl sports in the state of Kansas. And so anyway, Republicans, they got together, they joined forces and they took down the democratic governor and the good news is that biological girls are going to be able to play sports in the state of Kansas. So good for you folks, all of you good people. By the way, here's what the and this is the legislation. Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex. And that's what triggered the left. And the bill covers students from kindergarten all the way through college. So I say good for you. By the way, there was a state representative Susan Rouen. Democrat foul mouthed vile woman. Stood up on the House floor and called Republicans full of excrement. But you did use that word. She's very upset. Well, you know what, you can be upset. Good for you, Republicans. And this is what we need to be doing at every state House across the country where Republicans have majorities fight, fight, fight.
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Lara Trump: Continue to Pray & Stand Together
"A person of faith, and I am as well. And it seems to me I just sense evil and all of this, something almost Supernatural, but I mean, we do believe that there are good and evil forces at work in this country. Do you see, do you see that something is going on in the spiritual realm here? Oh, I mean, I think there's no doubt. I don't think it's a mistake able. I think everyone has felt it. You know, over the past several years, it's not anymore that it's just Republican versus Democrat or left versus right. It really has felt like good versus evil in so many respects. And, you know, for all of us in our family, since the day my father in law decided to run for president, an interesting thing has happened to all of us. I feel like wherever we campaign on both campaigns, and even if I go to the drug store to a restaurant, dropping my kids off at school, people will come up to us and say that they're praying for us. And I have to tell you, it gives me chills every time we all feel it, it means the world to us, but there is no doubt in my mind that God has played a role in all of this. There is no doubt that the only reason that my father in law has been able to withstand all the attacks against him all the incoming and still come out on top is because God is in control and I truly believe that he has had a plan for so much of this for so long. And so I just want to say thank you to anybody who has prayed for our family for my father in law. It truly means so much to us. And we have to continue. We have to pray for the future of this country. If we lose the United States of America, we are at we are all that is left. We are the ultimate symbol to those around the world facing communities here in the tyranny and if we fall, that is there's nothing else left. So we have to all continue to pray and stay together in this.
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Lara Trump: Many People Continue to Support Donald Trump
"These striking images coming out of out of Palm Beach, where the roadways are just lined with hundreds, if not thousands of people waving American flags, the Trump flags wearing the maga hats, so that has to be such an encouragement to the president. Oh, it really is. And you know, I actually saw over the past couple of days, my father in law a couple times. I went over to Mar-a-Lago with my kids and every time we drove over there, starting on Friday. It was the same scene. People out on the street corners lining the streets on the bridge there on the way over to Mar-a-Lago. And I think it means so much to him to see that the people are still behind him. I think it's palpable. It's in the air. Anyone who maybe for a second that you know what, I don't really know about Donald Trump, maybe he's not the guy in 24. People can clearly see this now Todd. And people are saying, wait a minute, if this is what they can do to one of the most powerful men in the world, Donald Trump, think about what they could do to me. If this government decides that they don't like the way I'm operating, the things I'm saying, the way I'm conducting myself. And so I think a lot of people see themselves maybe in a way and Donald Trump's place. I mean, look at the way the conservatives have been treated over the past two years in this country, whether by big pack and social media, whether in front of abortion clinics, people who are praying or singing the next day have their door busted in by the FBI, parents, of course, targeted as domestic terrorists who just wanted to go to the school board meeting and find out about what their kids are learning in school. And so I think a lot of people have sadly had to maybe get shaken awake in a way. To see that this isn't just about Donald Trump, it's about the future of our country. And if you can weaponize the justice system against your political opponents, then we are no better off than authoritarian communist countries. And
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The latest in sports
"AP sports, I'm Bruce Morton. Iowa sent shockwaves through the women's college basketball world. It held off previously unbeaten defending champs, South Carolina, 77, 73. AP national player of the year Caitlin Clark led the way for the hawkeyes with a semifinal record 41 points and said this game wasn't just a win. It was a showcase for her sport. I'm sure so many people wish this was a series of 7 games. That would be really, really fun. And I think we continued the series. It might go one way or the other every single time. The game Crocs aliyah Boston said this wasn't the way they wanted to finish, but they still had a season to remember. Just winning. 36 games. I feel like that's unbelievable. Sunday, the hawks will meet LSU, which took over in the fourth quarter and a 79 72 win over Virginia tech. Alexis Morris was game high with 27 points for a Bayou Bengal team that made it to the championship game for the first time in program history. Maybe the standing champions at the end maybe I can just let go and just be like, ha. Next up, the men's final four on Saturday with Florida Atlantic facing San Diego state followed by Miami versus Yukon. Pro basketball, the Celtics continued their push for the top seat in the east by besting shorthanded Utah one 22 one 14. Jason Tatum came through with a game high 39 points. Each game presents a different challenge. And so whatever we went through today was probably not going to be as hard as what the players are going to be like. Other NBA winners included the Knicks, grizzlies and sons. Baseball Jorge solar and jazz Chisholm each Homer to give Miami a two one decision over the mets. Dave ferry has details. So Lara put Miami ahead in the second inning in Chisholm provided insurance in the 8th. Jesus luzardo combined with three relievers on a four hitter with lizardo yielding two hits over 5 and two thirds. The Astros came from behind to beat the White Sox 6 three, and the rockies won at San Diego four to one. First Martin AP sports
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Schumaker gets 1st win, Marlins top Mets 2-1 behind Chisholm
"Homers by Jorge soler and jazz Chisholm carried the Marlins to a two one win over the mets. So Lara put Miami ahead in the second inning in Chisholm provided insurance in the 8th. Jesus luzardo combined with three relievers on a four hitter with luzardo yielding two hits over 5 and two thirds. Let's first baseman Pete Alonso homeward, but only after lozardo left the game. You got us to chase and then when he needed to get a quick contact out, he was able to do so. I mean, he had everything working as tough not to hit. Garrett Cooper had three hits for the Marlins who reached Metz starter and loser David Peterson for 8 hits over 5 innings. I'm Dave ferry.
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Looking for a Final Four edge? Think offensive efficiency
"It will be Yukon against Miami and San Diego state versus Florida, Atlantic in the NCAA men's final four on Saturday. None of the teams is among the top three seeds with a number four, two number 5s and her number 9 advancing this far. That doesn't surprise Miami coach Jim Lara, who entered the tournament as a 5th seed. There's too much parody in college basketball. There's too many changes in rosters every year now. The transfer portal has created that. FAU is the 9th seat, but don't tell coach dusty may, his team is a Cinderella story. When you've done what our guys have done with so much longevity and consistency, they don't consider themselves a flash in the pan. FAU San Diego state tips off the semifinals. I'm Dave ferry.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Laura Ingraham: Fans of Reparations Want to Stereotype You As Jerks
"Lara Ingram last night on Fox News channel weighing in on this. Let's take a listen. But fans of reparations want to suck you into the debate in order to stereotype all of you as unfeeling uncaring jerks. Have been struck by the overheated and irrational response to this draft report. Those are my constituents who lost their minds about this proposal. It's not something we're doing or we would do for other people. It's something we would do for our future for our collective future and the generations to come. Wow. It would benefit our collective futures. How could anyone be against that? Now, reaching into your wallet to apologize for slavery is the least you people could do. Well, and of course, money talks. Just enhance for a law professor at Howard University, put it this way. If you're going to try to say you're sorry, well, you have to speak in the language that people understand. And money is that language. Recall that this debate began on college campuses decades ago. And then the idea really gained traction in recent years, especially after the death of George Floyd. And now, even African Americans who've enjoyed huge success in America, they think they deserve cash.
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Lara Trump: China Wanted People to Take Notice of the Spy Balloon
"How embarrassing for America, how frightening for America and it wasn't just a balloon. It was a balloon that could be seen by the naked eye. In my opinion, the only reason that China would be that bold to do that is because they wanted people to take notice because they wanted to test the waters and see what the response would be. And because they wanted to probably send a message that America is not the strong America that we have always been that we are in a weakened state and in a weakened position and they kind of wanted to send a sign out there to the rest of the world. Look what we can do and get away with it right now in the United States of America, but I think you're right when president Trump was in office, it was peace through strength because we had no new wars under president Donald Trump despite all the hysteria by folks on the left when he was running. They all said that he would bring us World War three. We've never, by the way, been closer to World War three than we are right now with Joe Biden and the Democrats running the show. And you saw the way that things were moving in the right direction in so many respects with my father in law. We had peace agreement signed in the Middle East. He had two meetings to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula with Kim Jong-un. He had trade deals signed with China of all places. So it was a much different situation not too long ago. And I think we all know the situation between Russia and Ukraine would have never happened had Donald Trump been in The White House for a number of different reasons. But it is frightening because you see how quickly things can go downhill and how quickly they can go in the wrong direction and after having that balloon to traverse the entire country a couple of weeks ago, I think Americans say, are we really safe? Is our government looking out for us? Are they doing the right things? You look at the southern border. You look at the balloon and people say, gosh, I don't think they are. And it's a frightening time for a lot of Americans. They're
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Lara Trump: Donald Trump Isn't Worried About Nikki Haley, Opponents
"We're just really getting cranked up in the election season, but president Trump out there on the campaign trail. We know Nikki Haley's already thrown her head into the ring. Even though she said she would never run against the former president. But it looks like president Trump not all that concerned, especially with the low polling numbers. Yeah, I don't think he's concerned at all. And actually, if you look at the numbers themselves, the more people who get into the race on the Republican side actually may benefit my father in law because he's garnering about 50% of the Republican support at this point. Any time he is matched up against a potential opponent for the primaries and the more people you have get in actually they're going to split that other percentage of the vote and it looks like it could be an easy win for him to become the Republican nominee if that's the case. Obviously Nikki Haley has thrown her hat in and I'm sure we'll see many more do the same thing. But I think he probably not concerned because he knows that the American voters are really smart Tod and at this point we have seen the degradation of our country in such an extreme way over the past two years since Joe Biden and the Democrats took over the country and I think as we head toward 2024 my goodness if we have a country left at that point, people want somebody in there who has done the job before who they know can execute, get things done quickly and quite frankly has faced the swamp head on like he did for four years and despite all he had against him look at all the accomplishments he had. So I think he's running on his record and I think he is relying on the common sense of the American people to know that there is no time to waste. We got to get to work on day one and get this country back on track.
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Lara Trump: Someone Knew Joe Biden Had Classified Documents
"Biden clearly violated U.S. code by harboring those documents in his garage and in his office, which was funded by the Chinese. That's right. And I love how they keep saying that they were discovered. As though somebody is like, you know, in Egypt, combing through student comments, too, and a big discovery made. Someone knew those were there. That person is Joe Biden. He knew those documents were there. I'm sure there were several other people who knew that those documents were there. And it just really blows my mind that then you had Joe Biden out there a couple months ago on 60 minutes ranting and raving about how appalled he was that Donald Trump could possibly consider taking any documents in question. Meanwhile, Joe Biden got him by the gas guzzling Corvette locked in the garage. I mean, come on. That sort of thing, I think, to people, is really upsetting. But then you look at what was in the documents. And even The Washington Post, we know how much they hate my father in law. They'll go out of their way to say anything possible negative. Even they had to admit a lot of the things that were found at Mar-a-Lago were kind of keepsakes. I think there was like a handwritten note from Kim Jong-un to my father in law when he was president. You look at that versus the document that were found. That we know of so far with Joe Biden's treasure trove of things. What was in there, Ukraine? Well, let's think about Ukraine. What implications does that have? What's going on in Ukraine? What happened with Ukraine and the Biden family burisma Hunter Biden? I mean, we know all of the ins and outs of that and how slimy and deep it is. Why did he keep those documents documents on Iran, the Chinese connection to the Penn Biden center as you just pointed out? There are so many more questions and answers. And I think the American people at this point deserve to have full and complete transparency, especially about the person who's the leader of this country.
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Lara Trump: Unfortunately, the FBI Isn't Raiding Biden's Home
"Is it that the FBI has yet to jump in there and stage a raid on President Biden's many homes? Yeah. Yeah, I don't think any of us need to hold our breath on that, by the way. You should never think that that's coming because I'm sure it is not. It was unprecedented back in August when the FBI raided the home of a former president at Mar-a-Lago and everybody remembers how shocking a thing that was and not only did they go to the area where they knew as directed my father in law had locked up these documents in question, which as you just pointed out Todd, the president of the United States has the ability to declassify and my father in law has maintained from the very beginning of any question about anything that all of these documents were declassified as when he was president before he left The White House. But that said, then they went throughout the entirety of Mar-a-Lago. Remember rifling through the closet of the former First Lady, Melania's closet, baron, it is very violating whenever you think about coming to anybody listening, consider having anyone you don't know, go into your home, go through your things, but then to know that the FBI was going through all of them. And then as you point out, Todd, very, very correctly, the double standard that exists because we haven't seen nor will we see this happen to Joe Biden and yet as you also pointed out, it is far worse what Joe Biden arguably did and what Donald Trump was ever accused of doing because again, he had the ability to declassify as president. My father in law and of course Joe Biden took these documents when he was vice president, but we should all relax because Joe Biden told us he had a locked in the garage by the Corvette. So I don't know why we're all getting so upset about it. That's for Joe Biden. He thinks we should all just come on down. And Lara,