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"Seward survives. And because of that, Vladimir Putin says, we won the Cold War. Why? Because Alaska, right? This is your trip. Putin makes the point that if Russia had retained in 1867, what was known then as Russian America, they would have had missiles there and everything would have been different and Russia would have won the Cold War. He said this in the anniversary of the purchase of Alaska, which was Alaska's first in 1867. So because of William Seward surviving through this strange thing, obviously Alaska is called Seward's Folly. Right. And again, it's a very big part of the emergence of Seattle, too, because where we are, Seattle, the Klondike Gold Rush, all of the travel to Alaska came through Seattle just like you. But Seward, Seward basically had to overcome tremendous opposition because basically Alaska didn't have anything. Horace Greeley, the editor, called Alaska, he didn't nickname it, it hadn't been named as Alaska, it was just Russian America. He called it Walrusia, as in walrus, because they said that there were more people who lived there than walruses. More walruses than people. Pardon me, more walruses than people, that's right. But in any event, Seward, and okay, one last thing, and this is just a punchline. You're trying to wrap it up. We're getting bored.Okay. No, this is, come on, this is so beautiful, please give us. While he is in the middle of negotiating with this corrupt Russian count, who wasn't even really Russian. Okay, we're talking about William Seward. William Henry Seward. Who freakishly survives four stabbings with a Bowie knife because he happened to have, I mean, honestly, and you, there's more to it. When I grow up, I want to work for a woke company, like super woke. When I grow up, when I grow up, I want to be hired based on what I look like rather than my skills. I want to be judged by my political beliefs. I want to get promoted based on my chromosomes. When I grow up, I want to be offended by my coworkers and walk around the office on egg shells and have my words policed by HR words like grandfather, peanut gallery, long time no see, no can do. When I grow up, I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long. When I grow up, I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the route. I want to be a conformist. I want to weaponize my pronouns. What are pronouns? It's time to grow up and get back to work. Introducing the number one woke free job board in America, red balloon dot work.
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"Walter McDougall, who's a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, actually he's now just a professor emeritus, but Walter McDougall says that if you look at the history of humanity for the last 500 years, the most significant development that has impacted everything in 500 years has been the rise of the one who could have predicted. There was no one, not Nostradamus, not anybody who actually said, hmm, in North America, where there was a, yes, there was an indigenous population, but it was not a large population, nor was it a particularly advanced population. I know that's terrible, and you can't say that, but the point being that the entire story of America is so unlikely that you either have to come to this conclusion of unique guilt or unique greatness. And by the way, one of the other stories, you know who agrees with me about this and agrees with you? Vladimir Putin. I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Because one of the stories, the story with which I begin the second book, which is called God's Hand on America, and again, it's one of those things I remember waking my wife up when I found out some of the medical details involved here. The night that Lincoln was murdered. Oh, this, yes, please, go ahead. The night that Lincoln was murdered, his Secretary of State, who would become virtually his best friend, who had a house that he was renting right across from the White House, William Henry Seward, the plan was by a conspiracy, and it was a real conspiracy by John Wilkes Booth, to murder President Lincoln, which he succeeded in doing, and the same night to murder the Vice President, where the fellow who had been assigned to do that got drunk and didn't do it, and then to also murder Secretary Seward, who was the most important, the leader of the cabinet. And that's in the sequel to this. It is. It's the very first story, and the idea is Seward had literally nine days before the end of the war, and Lincoln had come to visit him, because he had a terrible carriage accident. He was going out with his son and his daughter on a spring day. It was April, like now, and they went out on a carriage accident. The horses got out of control. He tried to stop the horses because he was afraid his daughter would get hurt. He fell down. He broke multiple ribs and completely shattered his jaw. This is nine days before the assassination. Before Lincoln is assassinated. Correct. Seward has this carriage accident, horrifying accident, and again, I had never heard this, and it begins the sequel to the American Miracle, but the details of that are crazy. So what they did, he cared about being able to speak again. The doctors all thought he was going to die, and what they did was they fashioned a metal plate that fit underneath his jaw, tried to set his bones so they would come together again. By the way, Seward would never allow himself after this to be photographed from the left side, because the jaw was so distorted, and they wrapped this metal plate in canvas. The night that Lewis Payne, a Booth's chosen assassin, forced his way into the Seward household, went up to the top floor, took his revolver. His revolver he had fired at Seward's son, who was trying to protect his father. The revolver misfired, which doesn't happen that often. So he took the revolver and broke it over Frederick Seward's, the younger Frederick Seward's head. I just want to tell you, you need to buy, after you buy this book, you need to buy the sequel, because this story, which again we cannot do justice, it's a mind-bending story. We're just getting the top of it. So Frederick Seward, who is the son of William Henry Seward, who was the Assistant Secretary of State, a little nepotism, he was in a coma for five weeks afterward and could not speak here and thought he was going to die. Payne comes up to the old man, who is lying in bed with this contraption on his neck that is metal and he can't speak, he can't eat, and so he doesn't have the gun because he broke that over the son's head. He takes out his Bowie knife, comes down four times, stabbing for the jugular vein. There is a metal plate there. The knife blade breaks off.
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"And that was an amazing thing. What I didn't know until researching this book, one of the last things he wrote before he died was why I was wrong. Henry Wallace. Henry Wallace. When I read that, my heart leapt because I thought, you never hear that kind of a story. A guy who was outrageously, wickedly wrong, who at the end of his life effectively repented. And talks about how he was brainwashed, literally, by Russians when they gave him tours, and they hid the prison camps. And in any event, it's extraordinary how these things turned. And the conspiracy, and it was a conspiracy, and they all happened to be Catholic believers, to replace Henry Wallace with Truman, who they knew that Truman was someone, and this is 1945 we're talking about, who was right about Stalin and about what the Soviet state was. Unfortunately, we're out of time, but I want to say, on behalf of Socrates and the city, Michael Medved, we are just hugely grateful to you. Not just for appearing here with us and telling us these stories, but for writing what are two genuinely great books. We cannot survive as a nation, as a free people, unless we know this history and celebrate it. And for your part in that, Michael Medved, I say thank you. Thank you.
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"There will be a movie based on the American miracle. And two of the principal producers are here with us tonight, Ralph and Tim. And many potential investors. But no, the film will be available in 2025. And it takes the first chunk of the American miracle. And I hope with enough success so that we continue the rest of the stories. And again, we're working with people at heroic pictures and patterns of evidence. People probably have seen some of the patterns of evidence films. And my hope for the film is that the people who see it can feel as excited and inspired and literally touched, sometimes electrified, as I felt in finding this material. On a morning from a forgot movie. In a country where they turn by time. You go strolling through the crowd like Pete DeLorean contemplating a crime. Both of us had the fortune and misfortune of attending Yale University. And I have to say, I don't know what it was like when you were there. But when I arrived there as an innocent patriotic son of immigrants, I was introduced for the first time in my life to the idea that America was a force for evil that patriotism was for suckers and rubes, naive people who live in flyover country. And that the sophisticated view, of course, was that there's nothing glorious about America. And that idea, of course, it's unfortunately no longer just among some cultural elites at places like the humanities departments at Yale, but it has worked its way into the culture. You mentioned the 1619 Project. No, it's poison and the national blood screen. It is. And the point is that I think it's very important that people understand it, is that if you don't learn the truth that America is exceptional and blessed, then you will embrace the falsehood that America is exceptional and cursed. And again, people take some satisfaction in listing our national shortcomings. And the point is, it's the same sort of thing that I think that people find raising children, is if you want your children to be happy and successful and positive and things to work out for them, then obviously having those children emphasize the positive, not the negative. Nothing worse than a complain... I shouldn't say nothing worse. Complaining children can be... And of course, all children do, but they don't complain based upon, oh, mommy and daddy and grandpa and grandma and everybody. They're so guilty. They basically had anything they had because they took it away from other people, and they didn't work hard for it. Again, there is so much in our history that is glorious. And if I can just borrow for a moment, this is the most successful book of history ever written. It was by George Bancroft, who was a Republican politician. And he did a ten-volume history of the United States, which was ubiquitous. It was published in 1876. And what he said in the beginning, in the very introduction to those ten volumes, it is the object of the present work to explain the steps by which a favoring providence, calling our institutions into being, has conducted the country to its present happiness and glory. When you're learning history like that... By the way, I had, and I do want to mention it, I had three or four history professors at Yale who were great American patriots and poets. Edmund Morgan, a colonial historian. C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South. John Morton Blum, who was an American historian of the turn of the century, the Progressive Era. These guys were like old-fashioned guys. The old time had that idea of teaching history, that the reason that it's so infectious to play those little board games with all the different presidents and basically to learn the details of American history, on the Liberty Bell, the inscription on the Liberty Bell, which is from the Book of Leviticus, Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof. All of this stuff is magical and all of the major leaders of our country, including people who weren't conservative, like Franklin Roosevelt. In some ways he was conservative. But he understood and spoke meaningfully about America's destiny and what a miracle this country was. What a miracle it was, by the way, that he survived as needed to survive. That's another story. We almost had Henry Wallace as President of the United States. This is another thing. When I read that in the sequel to this book, it is, again, I'm repeating myself, almost unbelievable. Henry Wallace, when you read who he was and what he believed, the idea that all logic would say that he would have become the President of the United States, and where in the world would we have been? Correct, because he was a Stalinist. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I want to be very, very clear. Any red communists here, we love you and we want you to come back. By the way, in fairness, and this is something honestly I didn't know, I did not know, at the end of his life, Henry Wallace, who had been Vice President, and then Roosevelt threw him off the ticket and replaced him with Harry Truman.
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"If you talk to economists, and we probably have some here, part of what made America an economic power was the gold from California, because it was the largest collection stash of gold that anyone had ever found anywhere. And you know, in California, within the first year after the discovery of gold, 300,000 people had moved there, and from all over the world. And again, I hate to be glorified in California in any way, but it is part of the United States of America. It was. It was. It was. No, but I have to say that that story, that's one of the stories. When I read it, I sort of couldn't believe it. I said, this is outrageous. This seems inescapably planned by God. God, you know, a zillion years ago, puts gold ore under what today we call California, and works it out so that, you know, when the United States of America kind of needs a boost, we get California, we discover gold, and it changes. I mean, the story of how gold, the discovery of gold changed America's fortunes and strengthened us. I never knew that story. No, and again, there's so much of this. I mean, one of the things that I'm obsessed with is the, I'm sure we have other people here, use the term freak before, who are Civil War freaks, right? And the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Antietam, which allowed Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation, he had been waiting for a union victory, or something that looked like a union victory. The Battle of Antietam was won, and again, this is not even in doubt. This is not argued. It was won because a corporal who was marching to try to head off Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland had fallen asleep, then he woke up because they had to march again. They were looking around. They were trying to get some coffee. He was looking for some pieces of wood so they could eat the coffee, and he found a bunch of papers wrapping four cigars. Cigars looked pretty good. Those cigars had Lee's entire battle plan on it. It was general order number 181, and it was because of the discovery of the four cigars and the fact that a general who had served alongside Lee's chief of staff in the peacetime army before the war, that general recognized the handwriting and was able to confirm that this was authentic. That allowed them to win the Battle of Antietam, and again, that was in September 17, 1862. January 1, 1863, the slaves are emancipated with the Emancipation Proclamation, at least the slaves who were living under the Confederacy, but changed the world. You can't, and now I just have to say, and I knew this would happen, but you really can't do these stories justice in a form like this because it's the details. It is, you know, we kind of think, oh, that's a coincidence. When you provide the details, as you do, beautifully, it is nothing less than impossible to believe except you know it's true. But I mean, these are moments in history, you know, when we think what if he hadn't been looking for firewood? What if he hadn't? What if he just smoked the cigars and used the general orders to light them? That's a normal thing to do. The discovery of those plans, I remember when I had interviewed you about the book on my radio show a few years ago, that's the one that took my breath away, or one of them that took my breath away. But it goes, Michael, it goes on and on and on. And Lincoln, Lincoln recognized it. Lincoln recognized it because he had a deep sense of providential purpose, and understood that he had a purpose. Because the whole story of Abraham Lincoln, we've had presidents who have not been wealthy, but people who have been absolutely destitute. He didn't own a pair of shoes until he was 11. You know, again, you're talking about dirt floors in those log cabins. I know their reconstructions are cheerful, but Lincoln's life is a miracle. How did this happen? He's certainly one of the greatest writers of prose in the English language. And phenomenal. And again, and then, of course, the end of Lincoln's life, where on Palm Sunday, 1865, Lee surrenders to granted Appomattox. And on Good Friday, after Holy Week, Lincoln is killed and dies on Good Friday. And everyone at the time recognized the religious symbolism, and understood that there was a message here. And that there was a purpose for which all of the dying and the suffering had taken place, which is the theme of Lincoln's second inaugural address, which he had just delivered six weeks before. It's now you have to trust me on this, folks. There's an entire book full of these kind of stories. It's not just a couple because sometimes people will have two or three interesting stories, and they can stretch it into a book. I've done that. But you have become aware of so many of these. And I, I really part of me in reading this book and the sequel, which is equally fascinating, I'm shocked to say, it's kind of like, what are the odds Godfather two would be as good or better? It doesn't, it doesn't make any sense. Thank you. The idea that there are this many stories, and I think, Michael, what, what makes me, it thrills me, and then it makes me angry at the same time. It's like, why don't we all know these stories? These stories are true. And how does it fall to you at this late date in our history to bring these stories to people? I mean, why don't we all know this? Like you, Eric, and I know this because, again, your book, If You Can Keep It, is wonderful and obviously working on the same themes. We live at a very difficult time. We live at a time when Americans have a fundamental choice to make about the way we view our country. Should we view our country with guilt or gratitude? And again, America is so extraordinary. I mean, and the history of America is so amazing. You basically have a core choice. You can either say it's because America is corrupt and evil and vicious and exploitative and racist and selfish and sexist and despoiling the environment. There's all these terrible things. America has gotten rich and powerful and gone from being a largely uninhabited, and it was, wilderness continent to being the center of the world economically and culturally and militarily in every way you can find. It's either that, because America is guilty, or there's another aspect, which is non-accidental. And it seems to me that the most important point we can make with our children in teaching history is America is no accident. It's not, and then people say, well, it's a pattern of happy accidents. One of the things that I think the most important line in the book is a pattern of happy accidents is still a pattern! Because normally, if all of a sudden you're playing with dice and you keep rolling number seven or any other number, you think, well, there's a pattern here. And the pattern here was enunciated by one of my favorite quotes ever, and it's from, not an American, it's from Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor of Germany. He said, the good Lord has special protection for lost dogs, imbeciles, small children, drunkards, and the United States of America. You quote that in one of these books. I do, yeah. But the fact is that, I mean, this is, many things are like this, where if you dare to look at the facts, you're going to be troubled because there's only one conclusion. So you have the opportunity to avoid the facts, or you're pretty quickly overwhelming as a conclusion. But you practically gild the lily by telling one story after the other. It's almost funny to me, because it would only be a handful of these, and you'd say, that settles it. It's obvious that America came into being in a way that it doesn't seem conceivable. It's a coincidence. It just seems like God's hand. I guess the point is that even these stories would make you believe in providence, would make you believe in the hand of God in history. But there are so many of these stories, that's what astonished me. That's why it seems to me that they're important, because the other alternative is this idea of the 1619 project, or any of that work, that whole worldview that suggests that America really has a terrible and unique guilt. And by the way, this is not to say that America hasn't done terrible things. Of course we have. And of course there have been flaws. But the idea that America is uniquely guilty, not uniquely great. Everyone agrees America is great.
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Michael Medved Reveals the Source of America's Economic Power
"Economists, and we probably have some here, part of what made America an economic power was the gold from California, because it was the largest collection stash of gold that anyone had ever found anywhere. And you know, in California, within the first year after the discovery of gold, 300 ,000 people had moved there, and from all over the world. And again, I hate to be glorified in California in any way, but it is part of the United States of America. It was. It was. It was. No, but I have to say that that story, that's one of the stories. When I read it, I sort of couldn't believe it. I said, this is outrageous. This seems inescapably planned by God. God, you know, a zillion years ago, puts gold ore under what today we call California,
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"No, but I remember being three years old and my dad taking me to see the Liberty Bell and six years old, the first time they allowed me to go trick or treating, I dressed up as George Washington. I mean, this has been a lifelong obsession and honest to God, I think, for anyone to seriously read American history, and I majored in American history at the time. It's a purposeful universe. America is a purposeful country, and not as a reward for our goodness, but because we have been chosen as an instrument. It's what Abraham Lincoln says, I write in the book about Lincoln speaking to the state legislature in Trenton, New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia, that Lincoln described America as the almost chosen people. And not chosen for special privilege, but chosen for special responsibility. That was one of my questions. You know, what does it mean to be chosen when we talk about Israel being chosen? It doesn't mean you win a prize. It means you've been given a burden, a tremendous responsibility. And it seems inescapable when one reads your book that America has been chosen, like it or not. I've written about this myself in a couple of books, but it comes with tremendous responsibility. But I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It where I mention a few of these miraculous things, which make it seem unavoidable that America is, you know, chosen by God for his purposes in history. But when I read your book, I just couldn't believe how many other stories, extraordinary stories, you had discovered. What was that process of discovery? Because I really do mean that it is almost unbelievable how many of them there are in this book and then crazily in the sequel, which goes on. How did you find these stories? Well, they're stories I grew up with. I mean, again, I've been obsessive compulsive about this stuff my whole life. I mean, the one board game was a board game with the presidents of the United States. I used to do tricks of memory when I was a kid, and I don't have all the stuff anymore. It doesn't state, but memorizing the secretaries of the treasury and the vice president. Well, who doesn't know them? We can go down the room. We all know. There have been some pretty great. All the way back to Sam and Pete Chase. Right. Well, to Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, in any event. You're basically saying you're a freak? Yes. That's the explanation. You're a freak. You know all this stuff. No, and it's also because if you are sensitized to it, I'm one of those people, and I know you've had these conversations with many of your other guests. My father was always, and my mother, were always conscious of God in terms of two countries, America and Israel, and it was something that they felt deeply, but they weren't and to become more personally religious in my early 20s. It just, I began to start looking for exactly what you're talking about. Those proofs that something is very weird here. I'll tell you one of the proofs, one of the stories in this book is about how it is that America, well, got, for better or worse, the state of California, and a great deal more. It's mind-boggling. Look, it is mind-boggling. It's why I got to tell you, you've got to read the book, because you won't believe it until you read it, and that story, I mean, tell it if you can, because it is unbelievable. Briefly, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which was the treaty by which Mexico and the United States ended the Mexican War, and America agreed not to do what a lot of people in Washington wanted, which is to take over all of Mexico, but to just get a big chunk of Mexico, and it was signed on February 2nd, 1848, and they had no idea when they signed the treaty, because the treaty was signed in disobedience to President Polk. There was a guy named Nicholas Trist, who had been private secretary briefly to Thomas Jefferson, who had been sent down to Mexico because he knew Spanish, and he was a clerk in the state department at the time, and he insistently negotiated this treaty and was very focused on California, making America a continental country, from one ocean to the other ocean, and they signed the treaty. They did not know at the time the treaty was signed, that three days before, they had discovered gold in California.
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"That fog was considered by the pastors at the time, by the non-believing military people to be an act of God, because it allowed George Washington to use John Glover and his Marblehead Regiment, which was a bunch of fishermen, and to row the army, including the general in chief, they didn't lose a single person. They escaped, and the British officers believed it was the hand of the Almighty. Well, just in case anybody's not been boning up on the Battle of Brooklyn recently, it really is, it's extraordinary. The more you learn, the more fascinating it is. But the idea that, if you're familiar with the geography of New York, that, you know, Queens, Brooklyn, the entire American Continental Army is on that side. They've just suffered this horrible battle. And I don't remember the details, but it's a crazy idea that Washington has that if we can take the remainder of the army and sneak it across the East River, and by the way, the East River is not a river, it's an estuary, but it's called the East River. But that idea alone, to try to pull that off, it's crazy. Nefarious, the number one movie at SalemNow.com is available to rent today. Nefarious is like a modern day screw tape letters ripping back the curtain on evil. Pastor Jack Hibbs says the movie captures what is going on today in America. Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, loves this movie so much. He watched it three times in just five days and says it's one of the most important films of the last decade. Matt Walsh, the filmmaker behind What is a Woman, calls it excellent. Dinesh D'Souza calls it captivating, suspenseful and profound. Father Martins from The Exorcist Files calls it excellent. You've probably heard friends talk about nefarious because it's that good. Sean Patrick Flannery and Jordan Belfi give Oscar level performances in this movie based on the book by Steve Dace. You don't want to miss nefarious. The movie is the anti-woke antidote to Hollywood. The woke critics hated it, but audiences loved it, giving it a 96 percent approval rating. What movie gets 96 percent approval? Visit SalemNow.com or your favorite video platform to rent it today, even though it's still in theaters. If you want to rent it for your church or large group, visit MovieNight.com to rent it today or go to SalemNow.com.
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"To God, I think, for anyone to seriously read American history, and I majored in American history at the time. It's a purposeful universe. America is a purposeful country, and not as a reward for our goodness, but because we have been chosen as an instrument. It's what Abraham Lincoln says, I write in the book about Lincoln speaking to the state legislature in Trenton, New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia, that Lincoln described America as the almost chosen people. And not chosen for special privilege, but chosen for special responsibility. That was one of my questions. You know, what does it mean to be chosen when we talk about Israel being chosen? It doesn't mean you win a prize. It means you've been given a burden, a tremendous responsibility. And it seems inescapable when one reads your book that America has been chosen, like it or not. I've written about this myself in a couple of books, but it comes with tremendous responsibility. But I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It where I mention a few of these miraculous things, which make it seem unavoidable that America is, you know, chosen by God for his purposes in history. But when I read your book, I just couldn't believe how many other stories, extraordinary stories, you had discovered.
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America Is No Accident With Michael Medved
"To God, I think, for anyone to seriously read American history, and I majored in American history at the time. It's a purposeful universe. America is a purposeful country, and not as a reward for our goodness, but because we have been chosen as an instrument. It's what Abraham Lincoln says, I write in the book about Lincoln speaking to the state legislature in Trenton, New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia, that Lincoln described America as the almost chosen people. And not chosen for special privilege, but chosen for special responsibility. That was one of my questions. You know, what does it mean to be chosen when we talk about Israel being chosen? It doesn't mean you win a prize. It means you've been given a burden, a tremendous responsibility. And it seems inescapable when one reads your book that America has been chosen, like it or not. I've written about this myself in a couple of books, but it comes with tremendous responsibility. But I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It where I mention a few of these miraculous things, which make it seem unavoidable that America is, you know, chosen by God for his purposes in history. But when I read your book, I just couldn't believe how many other stories, extraordinary stories, you had discovered.
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"So before we get into the details of what are these miracles in American history, I guess the question that I have had as I've been reading, rereading the books, is how did you come to know these magnificent stories? Because I was astonished not to have known most of them myself, to discover them in your book. How is it that you found yourself discovering these almost unbelievable but true stories? It started with my dad because my dad's story was unbelievable. My dad's story, to put it briefly, my grandparents were from Ukraine. And my grandfather came over to earn enough money to bring his wife and his six children over from Ukraine. And unfortunately, by the time he had earned enough and sent money back so that they had steamship, steerage to come here from Bremen, World War I had just begun. So my grandmother and her father and six children were riding in the train, and then they came to the border with Austria-Hungary, which was a combatant, of course. It's World War I. And in September, right after the guns of August, no passage, they had to go back. My grandparents were separated for 10 years. And my grandmother lost five of her six children because of the violence and the revolution and the civil war and the horrors. I mean, one of the fine books about that part of the world is called Bloodlands. This was a place where the horrors of communism were first visited. In any event, she came over to the United States. She reunited with my grandfather after 10 years of separation. And then immediately she got sick and badly sick, and she became very concerned about her own survival. She wasn't unable to keep any food down. She was 50 years old. And she had seen so much death with her five daughters, my aunts, as it turns out. But she went to the doctor, and she told the doctor of her symptoms. He examined her. He said, sit down. I have to talk to you. And she started crying. She said, why are you crying? She said, it's a tumor, right? He said, no, it's not a tumor. It's a baby. And she said, not possible. I'm 50 years old. My husband is 50 years old. He said, your name is Sarah, isn't it? And my dad was so aware of this story, because his older brother, the only survivor from the Ukraine, my uncle Moish, was 21 years older than my father. My dad always viewed his life, the fact that he was born in the United States of America, in Philadelphia, as a miracle. My dad was born in the sesquicentennial year, 1926. My grandfather, who had been born in Ukraine, was born in 1876, the centennial year. My dad was the most natural, spontaneous patriot, because he understood that everything he had, everything that he had achieved, was a gift from God, because he could have been together with his sisters, who he never knew, who died on the other side. And my dad was born in Philadelphia. I was born in Philadelphia. Now you're making this stuff up.
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"Seward is going through his papers. It's about three weeks before they sign the bill of purchase on Alaska. And he's going through his papers and he sees there's this opportunity under the Guano Act of 1854. The Guano Act, yes, the Guano Act had provided that if American sea captains find islands with guano, which was very valuable and used for farming, if they can find that kind of island and no other nation has claimed it, Americans can take possession of it. OK, guano is the excrement of? Yes, and there is a Guano Act that was passed in 1854. Because of the Guano Act of 1854, Seward sees that there are these little three islands that are exactly halfway between the United States and Japan. OK, so he signs the paper to to take those for the United States. It's the Midway atoll. And most people, I'm guessing, aren't going to get this. I certainly didn't get this until it was put together for me. Have I mentioned that there are two books that you have to read? But I'm not kidding. It's it's almost unbelievable stuff. The Midway atoll, these are nothing islands in the middle of nowhere. A total of two and a half square miles. OK, so William Seward somehow, because of the Guano Act of 1854, decides to acquire these. Now, why? And because he knew somehow mystically, magically, maybe he didn't. But let's say he knew that Admiral Yamamoto would say that if he is pushed by Tojo and the emperor to actually do the attack on Pearl Harbor, he said that for six months I will run wild, but after that, America will destroy us. And six months after Pearl Harbor, do the math, Battle of Midway and the Battle of Midway in five minutes, my chapter on Midway. And again, everyone involved with this, including Chester Nimitz, who was the admiral and commander, who was an atheist. He was not a religious person, said this is the hand of God. There's no other way to explain it. That in five minutes, they sank four Japanese aircraft carriers. And and again, and this was at a time after our Navy had been largely just pulverized at Pearl Harbor, and it was exactly six months, as Yamamoto said. And if the United States did not own Midway Island, which was with an American base in the island, American planes at the island, the Battle of Midway would not have happened. And who knows who would dream that the Guano Act of 1854 would be dispositive.
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How the Guano Act of 1854 Helped Shape American History
"Is going through his papers. It's about three weeks before they sign the bill of purchase on Alaska. And he's going through his papers and he sees there's this opportunity under the Guano Act of 1854. The Guano Act, yes, the Guano Act had provided that if American sea captains find islands with guano, which was very valuable and used for farming, if they can find that kind of island and no other nation has claimed it, Americans can take possession of it. OK, guano is the excrement of? Yes, and there is a Guano Act that was passed in 1854. Because of the Guano Act of 1854, Seward sees that there are these little three islands that are exactly halfway between the United States and Japan. OK, so he signs the paper to to take those for the United States. It's the Midway atoll. And most people, I'm guessing, aren't going to get this. I certainly didn't get this until it was put together for me. Have I mentioned that there are two books that you have to read? But I'm not kidding. It's it's almost unbelievable stuff. The Midway atoll, these are nothing islands in the middle of nowhere. A total of two and a half square miles. OK, so William Seward somehow, because of the Guano Act of 1854, decides to acquire these. Now, why? And because he knew somehow mystically, magically, maybe he didn't. But let's say he knew that Admiral Yamamoto would say that if he is pushed by Tojo and the emperor to actually do the attack on Pearl Harbor, he said that for six months I will run wild, but after that, America will destroy
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"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% 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 $19.95 to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more on one of them. Go to ReliefFactor.com or call 800-4-relief to find out about this offer. Feel the difference. Legacy Precious Metals has a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online. In a few easy steps, you can open an account online, select your metals of choice, and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. You'll have access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time, anytime. You'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit LegacyPMInvestments.com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver no matter how small or large with a few clicks. Visit LegacyPMInvestments.com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's LegacyPMInvestments.com.
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"It's I think Furtick. Steve Furtick is the pastor, whatever. They're in North Carolina. And they recently, I read, had decided to leave the Southern Baptist Convention over this issue because they don't like this issue of the of, you know, that they're not able to have a woman pastor. And I think in the from what I know of that church, I believe it's Elevate, but it's in Charlotte, North Carolina, where I was recently. But I think some of these churches are just leaning woke. And this is what I talk about in Letter to the American Church. And so they're using this thing of ordaining women as an excuse to kind of kick out of the Southern Baptist Convention. But I just think that that that this church Elevate, which is a huge church in in Charlotte, I think they're basically going woke. I think Saddleback is basically going woke. The new pastor Saddleback, who replaced Rick Warren, put some stuff online recently, so there were some comments put online. I was shocked. I was absolutely shocked. And so I think a lot of these evangelical churches are leaning woke or they're being silent in the face of evil. They're trying to be hip, trying to go with the crowd, trying to go with the culture. That's not God's calling on the church. It's why I wrote my book Letter to the American Church. So I think that's the real issue here. That's the deeper issue. And they're using the women's ordainment thing to kind of, you know, as as an excuse. But the reality is that they kind of want to do their own thing. And I'm not cool with that, man. Dig. Thanks for listening. 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. Legacy Precious Metals has a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online. In a few easy steps, you can open an account online, select your metals of choice and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. You'll have access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time. Any time you'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver, no matter how small or large with a few clicks. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's Legacy PM Investments dot com.
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"He's the author of many other books, a number of which are truly extraordinary. He was for over a decade on TV, co-hosting sneak previews, so he's the triple threat, right? TV, radio, books. He's widely considered the Jewish Sammy Davis Jr., except once Sammy Davis converted, you know, Sammy Davis Jr. is now considered the Jewish Sammy Davis Jr. So that title has been ripped away from Michael Medved. I have to say it's a great privilege to introduce my friend, Michael Medved. Michael, please. Hello, hello. And I can't believe you got both Sophie Tucker and Sammy Davis Jr. in the audience. Michael, Michael, Michael, listen. I try not to gush too easily, but when I read the book, I didn't say it in my introduction, but the substance of the book is astonishing, and we're going to cover that. But the writing of the book, I'm a writer, and most of the books that I read that have important information in them, part of me feels like I wish I could rewrite it a Your book is gloriously written. Thank you. The sequel to it is gloriously written, so I just wanted to say that up front. Nefarious, the number one movie at salemnow.com is available to rent today. Nefarious is like a modern-day screw tape letter ripping back the curtain on evil. Pastor Jack Hibbs says the movie captures what is going on today in America. Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, loves this movie so much he watched it three times in just five days and says it's one of the most important films of the last decade. Matt Walsh, the filmmaker behind What is a Woman, calls it excellent. Dinesh D'Souza calls it captivating, suspenseful, and profound. Father Martins from The Exorcist Files calls it excellent. You've probably heard friends talk about Nefarious because it's that good. Sean Patrick Flannery and Jordan Belfi give Oscar-level performances in this movie based on the book by Steve Dace. You don't want to miss Nefarious. The movie is the anti-woke antidote to Hollywood. The woke critics hated it, but audiences loved it, giving it a 96% approval rating. What movie gets 96% approval? Visit SalemNow.com or your favorite video platform to rent it today, even though it's still in theaters. If you want to rent it for your church or large group, visit MovieNight.com to rent it today or go to SalemNow.com.
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"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments.com. That's LegacyPMInvestments.com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Sounds like you made up that that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. Yeah, but anyway, no, but we thought we would pre record a segment, which that's this segment right now, because people write us letters and things. And I thought some of which we can share, some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me let me read them. So this one says this is from Tori. It's well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read. And you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and, of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky, who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? Sure. But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light. But that's that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in. That's high cotton for context. This person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War Two during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame. It's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book as a German. Your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened. You're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really. Talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War Two. She writes, even in the 70s, 1970s, the subject was too raw in the past few years. I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church. That's the new book in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them, but that it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that letter to the American Church. I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing. It's 2008. I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking this. I feel like this could happen in America because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right. Right. So I kind of felt like I could sort of see this happening in America, and I felt it a little bit when I was writing the book. But in recent years, it's become really clear to me that, oh, yeah, that's exactly what is happening now. People want to know how evil took over in Germany was because of the silence of the German church. And often it was the German church, good people who felt like the smart thing to do is to be silent. And they were wrong, but that doesn't mean that they were evil, but they were complicit with evil. At the end of the day, they were very, very wrong. At the end of the day, they were complicit if they didn't repent. And so I wrote a letter to the American church, kind of like what this woman, Tori, is saying, that it's a you could you could feel that the Bonhoeffer story was becoming our story in America. And so I just felt I talked about on the Jordan Peterson podcast and in many other places I've never, ever, ever, ever felt God calling me to write a book. Now, to some people, that sounds loony. I you know, I don't know what to tell you, but it does feel to me like. I I had never felt I had never felt that feeling before that I've got to write this in obedience to God because this is happening now and I need to write this and I need to reach the Christians and the Christian leaders that are capable of being reached. Some are not. Some have just somehow tuned this out permanently. They're doing their own thing. Yeah. We also get a letter which is asking a question. So I'm going to read this if we have the time. This is about the concept of women pastors. It says, Eric, recently, the Southern Baptist Convention removed Saddleback Church from fellowship because Rick Warren ordained a woman pastor. Next year, the SBC convention will move to exclude from fellowship all Southern Baptist churches that have women pastors. They're using the scripture First Timothy, chapter three to say that being a pastor is limited to men. It seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. Paul wrote Timothy within the context of a patriarchal society. What's your position on this issue? Thank you. And I think the name of the person who wrote this is Ivan. Well, this is a complicated one for me. I don't know what I think about this. I don't have a really, really firm views on this subject. When somebody says it seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. That's really vague. I don't know what that means. You know, God cannot call a man to give birth. There are certain fixities in what we call reality. So to say that God can call someone to do anything it's just too vague for for me. I don't know what that means, whether women can be ordained as pastors. I speak at churches where they have the husband and his wife or pastors, so and so and so and so. And I don't have a particular problem with that. But what I find interesting is the idea where people get upset when somebody does have a view on it and they just say, well, that's not right. Like you should you should. In other words, if the Southern Baptist Convention has a fixed view on this, you don't need to be a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. But if you want to be a member of Southern Baptist Convention, you have to go along with with their rules. And don't be shocked if they say if you break our rules, you can no longer be a part of the club because those are the rules of the club. And it's the same thing with the Catholic Church. You know, you've got people angry about Catholic. It's like, look, the doctrine is the doctrine. And if you don't like it, you don't have to be a member of that that denomination. So I'm always but because I don't I don't know what I what I think about this. I mean, I feel like I can see both sides of it. And I and so I've I've never really been been clear on it. It's not it's not a deal breaker for me. And I think it all depends on what one means by being a pastor, because obviously women can do ministry. And so what are the limits of that and how does that work? I don't know. I don't know. But it's interesting because there was another church that's I think it's called Elevate.
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"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments .com. That's LegacyPMInvestments .com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. I'm not here. Chris, I'm not here. It seems like you're here. Well, it seems like I'm here now. But when we air this, I will not be here. I will be away, far, far away. I'm going to Ultima Thule. Do you know where that is? Because I don't, but the captain of the ship knows, and he's taken us to Ultima Thule. Wow. Sounds like you made up that that name. Yeah, I think it's mythical. Yeah, but anyway, no, but we thought we would pre record a segment, which that's this segment right now, because people write us letters and things. And I thought some of which we can share, some of which we can share. So I wanted to read this one. Someone wrote, well, we've got a few here that are kind of cool. And so I thought, let me let me read them. So this one says this is from Tori. It's well, it says, Hello, Eric. I read your biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few years back. It may be one of the most impactful books I've read. And you are in serious company among Thomas Sowell, Wendell Berry, and, of course, Dostoevsky. Of course, Dostoevsky, who wouldn't compare me and my writings to Dostoevsky? Sure. But seriously, I read something like this and I just say, you know, because I joke around and I try to be light. But that's that really means a lot to me that somebody would read my Bonhoeffer book and put it in. That's high cotton for context. This person writes, Tori writes, I was raised in a small town of mostly German Americans in Wisconsin, and my high school managed to avoid studying World War Two during history classes. Now, that is interesting because the shame. It's why I wrote the Bonhoeffer book as a German. Your shame for the Holocaust, for what happened. You're trying to process that. And so in a sense, I wrote my book to help Germans and others understand that there were many good Germans. I was going to title the book, actually, The Good German, because I thought to myself, nobody really. Talks about the fact that there were Germans like Bonhoeffer who stood up in the face of evil, who spoke out for the Jews. It really I felt it was a story that needed to be told, and it's why I wrote it. But it's interesting that that Tori writes that, you know, growing up in Wisconsin, among so many German Americans, they didn't even study World War Two. She writes, even in the 70s, 1970s, the subject was too raw in the past few years. I felt a profound sense that Bonhoeffer's story was pressing on us, on our culture. It felt as if you wrote Letter to the American Church. That's the new book in response to my own yearning. Thank you and may the peace and power of God's presence be with you always Tori. So we get a lot of letters. We don't get to read all of them, but that it just means a lot to me. And I do think that I want to say that letter to the American Church. I probably said this before, but when I was writing the Bonhoeffer book, this is amazing. It's 2008. I had no clue what I would discover. So as I'm writing the story of what happened to Germany, I'm kind of like smelling the future, like I'm thinking this. I feel like this could happen in America because the church during his time, they didn't really respond in it. Well, they didn't understand what was happening, and therefore they didn't do what could have been done to change things. Right. Right. So I kind of felt like I could sort of see this happening in America, and I felt it a little bit when I was writing the book. But in recent years, it's become really clear to me that, oh, yeah, that's exactly what is happening now. People want to know how evil took over in Germany was because of the silence of the German church. And often it was the German church, good people who felt like the smart thing to do is to be silent. And they were wrong, but that doesn't mean that they were evil, but they were complicit with evil. At the end of the day, they were very, very wrong. At the end of the day, they were complicit if they didn't repent. And so I wrote a letter to the American church, kind of like what this woman, Tori, is saying, that it's a you could you could feel that the Bonhoeffer story was becoming our story in America. And so I just felt I talked about on the Jordan Peterson podcast and in many other places I've never, ever, ever, ever felt God calling me to write a book. Now, to some people, that sounds loony. I you know, I don't know what to tell you, but it does feel to me like. I I had never felt I had never felt that feeling before that I've got to write this in obedience to God because this is happening now and I need to write this and I need to reach the Christians and the Christian leaders that are capable of being reached. Some are not. Some have just somehow tuned this out permanently. They're doing their own thing. Yeah. We also get a letter which is asking a question. So I'm going to read this if we have the time. This is about the concept of women pastors. It says, Eric, recently, the Southern Baptist Convention removed Saddleback Church from fellowship because Rick Warren ordained a woman pastor. Next year, the SBC convention will move to exclude from fellowship all Southern Baptist churches that have women pastors. They're using the scripture First Timothy, chapter three to say that being a pastor is limited to men. It seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. Paul wrote Timothy within the context of a patriarchal society. What's your position on this issue? Thank you. And I think the name of the person who wrote this is Ivan. Well, this is a complicated one for me. I don't know what I think about this. I don't have a really, really firm views on this subject. When somebody says it seems to me that God can call whomever to do anything. That's really vague. I don't know what that means. You know, God cannot call a man to give birth. There are certain fixities in what we call reality. So to say that God can call someone to do anything it's just too vague for for me. I don't know what that means, whether women can be ordained as pastors. I speak at churches where they have the husband and his wife or pastors, so and so and so and so. And I don't have a particular problem with that. But what I find interesting is the idea where people get upset when somebody does have a view on it and they just say, well, that's not right. Like you should you should. In other words, if the Southern Baptist Convention has a fixed view on this, you don't need to be a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. But if you want to be a member of Southern Baptist Convention, you have to go along with with their rules. And don't be shocked if they say if you break our rules, you can no longer be a part of the club because those are the rules of the club. And it's the same thing with the Catholic Church. You know, you've got people angry about Catholic. It's like, look, the doctrine is the doctrine. And if you don't like it, you don't have to be a member of that that denomination. So I'm always but because I don't I don't know what I what I think about this. I mean, I feel like I can see both sides of it. And I and so I've I've never really been been clear on it. It's not it's not a deal breaker for me. And I think it all depends on what one means by being a pastor, because obviously women can do ministry. And so what are the limits of that and how does that work? I don't know. I don't know. But it's interesting because there was another church that's I think it's called Elevate.
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"Now we don't, we don't have time because the sun is setting and the Sabbath is arriving. We don't have time for me to go into the glorious history of this club. But since we are on the subject of Jewishness, I have to tell you, I can't believe this is true. It's something I would make up. Sophie Tucker. Most of you don't, you don't know who that is, but Michael, I think you might know. Sophie Tucker was called the sweetheart of the Arctic club. She doubtless performed right here with her risque red Fox type humor. And it's unbelievable to me. Literally every bathroom in the rooms here has a picture of Sophie Tucker. So I just thought this is, I feel like this is meant to be. I'm schvitzing, you know what I'm saying? All right. What is Socrates in the city? At Socrates in the city, we've been doing this for years. Most of you know, we ask the big questions, the big questions. What are the big questions? Those are the questions that, you know, you don't talk about at a cocktail party, certainly not in Manhattan. I don't know, but maybe Seattle, you're a little more thoughtful, but the big questions, questions like, does life have meaning? If it does, what would it be? What is the meaning of life? And can I make money off of it? Questions like that. No, we asked, we do ask the big questions. Tonight, we're sort of asking the question with Michael as my guest, does history have meaning? If there is a God, does God operate in history? Does God, what does it mean to be chosen by God? So we ask the big questions.
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"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? 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. Welcome to Socrates in the City in Seattle. Yes. Listen, you're wondering how this happened, all right? The question is, what am I doing in Seattle besides this? Well, here's the bottom line. I was invited to speak in Alaska. I've never been to Alaska before. And for a New Yorker, Alaska is very exotic. And so when I was invited to speak in Alaska, my daughter who pretended not to be my daughter just a moment ago, she and I thought we're going to go to Alaska. And I got to tell you, I said, are there any direct flights from New York to Alaska? And there aren't. And so I said, well, can you get me a flight through West Palm Beach? And these travel agents, let's be honest, they don't want to work. I don't think she tried. I don't think she tried. She made it sound like the only way you could get to Alaska is through Seattle. And I was tired of arguing because people just don't want to work these days. Okay. So, so I found out that in order to get to Alaska to speak there this Sunday, I would be passing through Seattle today. And I got this crazy idea. I said, hey, hey, maybe that would be a good time to have a Socrates event. Turns out I was very wrong. I thought, wait, who can we get? This is this is extraordinary. And I have to tell you for quite some time now, I've wanted Michael Medved to be my guest at Socrates in the city. The problem is we would have to do the event on a Friday night. Turns out Medved is a Jew, not just, not just a Jew, but an observant Jew, observes this thing they call the Sabbath. I don't think he's more gracious than he normally is in agreeing to do this tonight. He's going to be whisked away from here by rickshaw, I believe is the, that's the biblical. Okay. In scripture, they use rickshaws. You can look up the original word. It's rickshaws. Anyway, why are we in this club, in this hotel? About 12 years ago, I was invited to speak. Seattle only put me up at this hotel and I was so enamored of it. I was stunned by it. I wandered up to this room and I said, wouldn't it be amazing to have a Socrates in the city event in Seattle in this room? And here we are.
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A highlight from Michael Medved
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Don't Miss Eric's "Socrates in the City" Event With Michael Medved
"Okay, the first question, what are you most interested in talking about with Michael medved at Socrates in the city? Are you are you excited to be in Seattle? Yes, that's tomorrow. We are doing a special soccer team in the city with Michael medved. I guess this is my cue to say, if you want to watch it live, you can watch it. We're live streaming this. People have often said, well, you live stream it. Well, now we're live streaming it. It costs a little bit for us to do that. So we hope you'll avail yourself of it. You go to Socrates and city dot com. You got to sign up soon because it 45 minutes before the actual event is too late. But I'm interested in talking to him about the subject of his book, the American miracle. It is going to be, I promise you, I rarely, I'm not a big reader. People think I'm a big reader, but when I read books like this, I am blown away. I'm talking about his book, the American miracle. Miracle story after miracle story in the rise of America, it's basically unbelievable. You just say this can't be, but then when you realize that it's true, you think God has had his hand on America. It makes no sense. So it's really amazing. Anyway, Socrates in the city dot com.
Mark Levin
The Irony of Rep. Jim Jordan's Doctored Texts by a Committee He Was Denied Entry
"You know we were talking about how they changed Jim Jordan's statements as tax created them out of thin air I am remembering when Nancy Pelosi pulled the unprecedented move of denying the Republicans the ability to see Jim Jordan on the very committee that wound up falsifying his statements That's right This was something that was in the works for a long time This wasn't a spur of the moment oopsie thing They had to keep him off of there in order for them to present this report to MSNBC and whoever else to say look at all these terrible things to the whole country They did it at the committee They did it in the committee and they had to keep him off of there They had to get Liz Cheney in there They had to end mister medved called them squishy rhinos I think he was being very polite Mandel mister mandel Mister Mandela we have unicorn flaws that are not standing up for Republican for constitutional Republicans like Jim Jordan and I think that's should be a wake-up call to the rest of the country that we need to be all right
The Hull Show ? 1310 KFKA
Atlanta Braves legend and civil rights icon Hank Aaron dies at age 86
"Longtime major league baseball home. Run king hank. Aaron dies at the age of eighty six Hall of fame slugger seven hundred fifty. Five career home runs long stood. As baseball's goldmark has passed away. He was again eighty six years old. georgia governor. Brian kemp said our family is heartbroken to hear the news of hank. Aaron's passing hank. Aaron was an american icon. And one of georgia's greatest legends. His life and career made history and his influence was felt not only in the world of sports but far beyond throughout his important work to advance civil rights and create a more equal justice. -iety we ask all georgia to join us in praying for his fans family and loved ones that we as we remember hamrin. Hank incredible legacy
Michael Medved
Vatican halts Mexico abuse prevention mission, cites virus
"Reporting Mexico's bishop said Friday the Vatican is suspended clerical sex abuse fact finding that assistance mission to Mexico due to the spreading coronavirus bush Mexico which was announced Monday was known to have alarmed some of the Mexican hierarchy and abuse survivors said they died of the virus was the real reason it was
Michael Medved
Trump visits CDC for coronavirus update, praises scientists
"East coast president trump visited CDC headquarters in Atlanta Friday CDC director Dr Robert Redfield says doctors will soon be able to turn to commercial laboratories but a coronavirus test is warranted they're going to begin to roll out the steps now four so as the president said the issue now is whether the commission believes that this test is indicated in the I see that it's not going to be about the availability twenty one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast have tested positive for the new virus including nineteen crew
Michael Medved
Singaporean named to head intellectual property agency
"A Singapore universal has handily defeated a candidate from China in a leadership contest for the U. N.'s intellectual property body the race for the post because a new rift between Washington and Beijing over U. S. claims of Chinese theft of intellectual property Darren Tang the C. E. O. Singapore's intellectual property office won a crucial nomination to become the next director general of the world intellectual property organization Tang defeated China's candidate who was a veteran of the agency horse wanted
Michael Medved
Trump campaign sues Washington Post for libel
"Tell us about president trump The Washington Post yes so it's very important to clarify this is the campaign and this is not president trump in his official or elected or personal capacity this is the campaign that filed a lawsuit for libel and defamation against the Washington post so this is our second to last week we filed against the New York times and this is the campaign pushing back and saying you know Hey we're fine with a pinion were fine with the first amendment freedom of the press is a valid thing but when you step over the line and you are making and publishing intentionally willfully false statements of fact that actually harm and damage not only the campaign but also mislead your readers at that point you're not protected by the first amendment and we're coming after you because the law allows that and that's where remedy is sought and so so I just want to be very clear that you need to push back has been well these are opinion pieces well it's absolutely not true in the law that you can couch a full statement just as an opinion yes and then you're inoculated from
The Michael Medved Show
Trump Nominates John Ratcliffe To Be Director of National Intelligence
"President trump has again naming congressman John Ratcliffe for the position of director of national intelligence to oversee seventeen US agency in a tweet earlier Mr trump says quote I am pleased to announce the nomination of representative reckless to be the director of national intelligence would have completed the process earlier but John wanted to wait until after the IG report was finished John is a man of great talent unquote the president had nominated the two term Republican congressman from Texas last summer at that time the president's subsequently withdrew the nomination amid some questions about reckless qualifications for the job in the field of intelligence George ones on a
Michael Medved
Scientists gather to study risk from microplastic pollution
"Scientists say microplastics of turning up everywhere in oceans dozens of scientists from universities government agencies aquariums and even water sanitation districts across the U. S. west will gather this week to discuss the problem their goal is to create a risk assessment for microplastic pollution similar to plans developed for disasters like earthquakes research into the impact of these tiny bits of broken down plastic is just getting under way the largest of these plastic bits are five millimeters long roughly the size of a kernel of corn and many are much smaller and invisible to the
Michael Medved
Box Office: 'Sonic' Narrowly Beats Harrison Ford's 'Call of the Wild'
"A little ball of support in the story is based on a video game it seized control of the box sonic the hedgehog brought in more than twenty six million dollars in its second weekend the state number one in theatres but close behind how do you feel about it the call of the wild provide reviews of it C. G. I. dog debut in second earning nearly twenty five in its third week birds of prey the third one the horror flick roms the boy to open support hi Ben
Michael Medved
Eight dead in Turkey, others trapped under buildings as earthquake strikes western Iran, Turkish interior minister says
"Turkey's interior minister says eight people have been killed in Turkey and a magnitude five point seven earthquake that struck
Michael Medved
Greyhound to stop allowing immigration checks on buses
"The greyhound bus company is announcing it will no longer allow border patrol agents to do immigration checks on buses once they have a warrant we get the details from correspondent Jackie Quinn the nation's largest bus company greyhound had said that he didn't like agents conducting immigration checks on its vehicles but said it didn't have a choice under federal law the Associated Press revealed from a leaked memo from border patrol that agents aren't allowed to board private buses without the company's consent greyhound says it will also tell homeland security searches are not permitted in its terminals for company offices critics say the sweeps have become more common and searches are intimidating several other bus companies have already stated they won't allow warrantless searches
Michael Medved
U.S. existing-home sales drop in January
"National association of realtors says sales of existing homes slipped in January down one point three percent from December but over the last year sales have climbed nine point six percent that's in large part thanks to low mortgage rates but the supply of homes is low just over one point four million homes were on the market at the end of January down more than ten percent from a year ago that gives would be buyers fewer options and prices are now rising faster than wage growth the median sales price of a home in January was two hundred and sixty six thousand three hundred