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A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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"Pot of soup where we like to take samples from time to time. Well, thank you for explaining. All right, take care now and be well. You too. Bye bye. Bye bye. What are the language collisions in your house or your neighborhood or your city? Let us know 877-929-9673 or send your stories about language in email to words at wayward radio dot org. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi. This is Madison calling from Wilmington, North Carolina. Hello, Madison. Welcome to the show. Well, I was calling to ask you about something that my grandfather used to say. Which is that he would tell us to take Churchill's advice. And I wanted to see what I could learn about that phrase. Take Churchill's advice. Oh boy, a Churchill had a lot of advice. Some of it good, some of rascally. What was it? So when he would tell us that we knew that he was basically telling us to go try to use the bathroom while you have the chance. Churchill device says, go to the bathroom every chance that you get. So if you're on a road trip and you're stopping for gas and you're like, well, I don't really have to go right now, but you know, I may as well take Churchill's advice. We're here. Or something like that, you know? Yeah, yeah. Why would Churchill say that? I have no idea. Like you said, Churchill was known for saying a lot of wacky things. So I was just wondering, is that something like do other people say that? Is that something that, you know, where would he have gotten that from? Is that something his family made up? Because I've never heard anybody or run into anybody else who knows what that means. First of all, Madison, I would say that's excellent advice, wouldn't you? Yeah, you know, it does come in handy. Right. Carpe p.m.. But it didn't come from Churchill as you might have suspected. Okay, there is a quotation floating around that a lot of people repeat that goes something like never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom, and it often gets attributed to Churchill, but it sort of like one of those memes that go around the Internet like, you know, you see a picture of Abraham Lincoln, which says, don't believe everything you read on the Internet. The source of that quote. Yeah, so that's not advice from Churchill, but there is a bit more to that story, isn't there grant? Yeah, there really is. There was a contemporary of Churchill. One of the biggest scandals of the age in the late 1940s was when the king of England abdicated the throne to marry the American Wallace Simpson, who had been divorced twice. And Edward wrote a book that was first serialized in newspapers across the English speaking world. And in that book, and in those serialized articles in the newspapers, he uses an expression that's very similar to that. He says, perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplies by an old courtier who observed only two rules really count, never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself, never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. And this is from his book called a king's story, 1951, and at that point he was no longer king who was his official title as the duke of Windsor. And there's a British scholar called Nigel Rhys, who for a very long time has been researching quotations. And he has a fantastic newsletter called quote unquote and a great website by the same name. And he believes Nigel Rhys believes that it may go back even further among the royals, the royal families. He thinks it may have been said by the very first duke of Wellington Arthur wellesley as always make water when you can. Because it's attributed to that first duke of Wellington, but I don't have a date on that. But it is possible that instead of Churchill, it comes from other British August figures of note. Who have to make lots of public appearances. I mean, this makes sense to me. Yeah. Yeah, you're always being shuttled around from important event to important event and people always wanted to catch your eye or catch your arm and talk to you and don't forget that you have very human needs that are private that don't involve other people. Well, that makes sense. Madison, thank you so much for calling today. And it doesn't matter that your grandpa didn't get it quite right. It was still really good advice to pass along to you. It is, and you know he had a lot of good advice. Thank you for letting me ask about that. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was. All right, take care. Call us again sometime. Bye. Take care. Bye bye. And you know if there's a famous saying or quotation that you've been repeating for years and now you're wondering, do I have that right? Is that really the person who said it? Do I even have the words right? Let us check that for you. 877-929-9673 email words at wayward radio dot org or find a dozen other ways to reach us at wayward radio dot org slash contact. Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, and quiz guy John Chanel. We'd love to hear from you, no matter where you are in the world, go to wayward radio dot org slash contact. Subscribe to the podcast here hundreds of past episodes and get the newsletter at wayward radio dot ORG. Whenever you have a language story or question, our toll free line is open in the U.S. and Canada, one 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three, or send your thoughts to words at wayward radio org. Away with words is an independent production of wayward Inc, a nonprofit supported by listeners and organizations who are changing the way the world talks about language. Special thanks to Michael Brest Lauer, Josh eccles, Claire grating, Bruce rogo, Rick seidan worm and Betty Willis. Thanks for listening. I'm Martha Barnett. And I'm grant Barrett until
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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"Show recently. And they said that so and so thought he was all that and the plate of witch crackers. Yeah, there are other people have played around with it, a plate of fries, a plate of chips, a plate of green beans, a plate of biscuits and gravy. They've done a variety of different things, but usually all that in a bag of chips is the more common. But yeah, it comes from black American English and like a lot of terms left the speech of black Americans and entered the mainstream to the usual channels of popular culture and it's a little dated now just so you know, and it's that used, but it's out there. Of coming back around too, so who knows? Maybe much younger than people start saying it. Thanks to you kind of. Maybe other than maybe we're transcending right now. As we speak. Maybe. Maybe not. We are all that in a jumbo bag of chips. Thank you so much. I was very hopeful. All right, take care. All right, bye bye. Bye. Thanks for calling. Bye bye. Well, if you're slaying as new or as slaying as old, we'd love to talk about it 877-929-9673. Our team includes senior producer Stephanie Levine, engineer and editor Tim Felton, production assistant Rachel Elizabeth weisler, and quiz guy John Chanel. We'd love to hear from you, no matter where you are in the world, go to wayward radio dot org slash contact. Subscribe to the podcast here hundreds of past episodes and get the newsletter at wayward radio dot org. Whenever you have a language story or question, our toll free line is open in the U.S. and Canada, one 8 7 7 9 two 9 9 6 7 three or send your
Your Daily Prayer
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"Recovery. Or our disaster relief efforts. Will we also produce a network of Christian shows you can listen to when your favorite podcast store or even local radio station. One of those shows, words of life is a weekly 15 minute show featuring powerful testimonies. Like me, Laura, do you know my engaging conversations about topics impacting the church today? The number one reason people give for wanting to work for an organization is trusted leadership. And deep dive Bible stories. In genesis chapter two, we have only one perspective going on that's got perspective got perspective love. Listen to words of life on your favorite podcast store or visit Salvation army radio dot org to learn about more shows, produced by the Salvation army. Who are the leaders that change the world, their fathers and mothers, their innovators and business owners. They're people willing to take risks and believe. They strive toward a goal with purpose willing to sacrifice in order to build something greater. This is what you can expect with our exceptional degree programs. Equip yourself with the skills and Christian character that prepares you to lead with significance. Say yes to your purpose, visit regent dot EDU
Your Daily Prayer
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"Recovery. Or our disaster relief efforts. Will we also produce a network of Christian shows you can listen to when your favorite podcast store or even local radio station. One of those shows, words of life is a weekly 15 minute show featuring powerful testimonies. Like me, Laura, do you know my engaging conversations about topics impacting the church today? The number one reason people give for wanting to work for an organization is trusted leadership. And deep dive Bible stories. In genesis chapter two, we have only one perspective going on that's got perspective got perspective love. Listen to words of life on your favorite podcast store or visit Salvation army radio dot org to learn about more shows, produced by the Salvation army. Who are the leaders that change the world, their fathers and mothers, their innovators and business owners. They're people willing to take risks and believe. They strive toward a goal with purpose willing to sacrifice in order to build something greater. This is what you can expect with our exceptional degree programs. Equip yourself with the skills and Christian character that prepares you to lead with significance. Say yes to your purpose, visit regent dot EDU
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"Husband Christopher Myers as the driver of the brand's growth. He had owned multiple restaurants and kind of understood how to take something from one and kind of keep growing it. So he got involved after we started dating and was really able to help us focus like what works at the bakery and what is scalable what allows us to replicate and so he is the main motivation and impetus for us to open a second bakery. And then once we opened a second, the third and the fourth and then just kind of kept following along. And the great thing about having your partner as a business partner as well as a life partner is that you have at least for us we have entirely aligned goals like we are always. We might not agree on everything all of the time. In fact, a lot of times we have very different opinions, but we both know that we're both wanting to make the business as strong as possible. While working together may not be conducive for a lot of couples, Myers and Chiang are a well oiled team. While she enjoys handling the food and creative vision, Myers excels on the entrepreneurial side. There are naturally ups and downs in the business, but Chang says she wouldn't change a thing. I sometimes talk to people who are trying to figure out the next step in their career or in life and they're so hesitant to make the wrong decision. And I think you learn as the more decisions that you make and then you make wrong ones. You realize that there's no true wrong decision because you learn from every decision. And so even like the worst decisions, you learn from that and it's really helpful to make sure that the next decision you make is a little bit better informed. So I'm not saying that you should just launch without thinking into your next thing, but to be fearful that there's this right path in this wrong path, I think, holds a lot of people back. It's never too late to follow a passion or dabbling something new. To find out more about this topic at our guest Joanne Chang, visit viewpoints radio dot org. You can learn more about Chang and flower bakery by heading to flower bakery
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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"Means with his hands behind his back. I mean, you've seen this guy outside. The universal and the world over. He's retired. He's got nothing better to do, but look to see what these young his youngsters are up to and just kind of just, you know. These ultra cockers in New York just standing there and just kept saying from the behind the fence. Giving advice. Yeah, the word is from a dialectal word that means little man, and it was popularized by writer danilo mazzotti. Perfect. We love hearing the new words from other languages. What languages do you speak? But there's something new happening in them, 877-929-9673. Words at wayward radio dot org, Twitter, at WA, WOR D. Beer listening to away with words, the show out language, and how we use it. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Grant, have you been watching severance on Apple TV? Watch the first episode with my family, and I have to say that is some of the most striking called it filmmaking or show making I have ever seen. Yes, it is the weirdest show with an amazing cast. I've been describing it to people as sort of Twin Peaks meets the office meets 2001 a space Odyssey. It's a fascinating program that raises the question of what if the person you are at work knows nothing about the person you are at home. You don't know who your Friends and family are or what you do in your spare time. And when you're at home, you know nothing about who you are at work and what you do. And as you know, from that, just that first episode is sort of creepy and dystopian, but sometimes it's laugh out loud funny. And I keep wanting to talk about it and now I have an excuse to because it includes a teachable moment of etymology. Oh boy, let's hear it. Yeah, once you get farther into it, there's a book that claims to give the origin of the word camaraderie. And it says most linguists agree that it comes from the Latin camera, which means a device used to take a photograph. And of course, the best photographs are not of individuals, but of groups of happy friends who love each other deeply. Not exactly. That was actually a laugh out loud, lined for me because in Latin the word camera means room. And that eventually gave rise to the French ward camarade, which means somebody who shares a room, a friend or a comrade, and that gave us camaraderie. And when you're talking about the modern photographic device called a camera, that's a shortening of an earlier term, as you know, probably grant from doing this in an elementary school, people knew for centuries that you could use a black box with a lens at one end to project images of external objects in that box was called a camera obscura literally a dark room in Latin, and then later when modern photographic technology came along, camera obscura was shortened to just camera. And I have to say that in defense of severance, the book that professes to have the etymology of this word is sort of this flaky self help book to begin with. But it gives me an excuse to talk about the show, which I can't seem to stop doing. It is funny how often on television, particularly obviously not the nonfiction shows, but the analogies are wrong or off. And irritates me because I'm like, well, with a little bit of effort, they could have gotten that right. And then all the people who watched this would have had the correct etymology. Yeah, we're available for consultation. Within the universe of this weird weird show, it fit because the book was junkie and so maybe that was chunky too. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, I'm going to go back and rewatch the whole thing, I think. We'd love talking about etymology and word origins, 877-929-9673 is toll free in the U.S. and Canada 24 hours a day, and you can email us words at wayward radio dot org or try us on Twitter at WA. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi, this is Kathy. Hi, Kathy. Where are you calling from? I'm in San Antonio, Texas right now. Wow, welcome to the show. Thank you. What would you like to talk with us about Kathy? Well, I was calling about the topic of the relationship between culture and language and I think you all put out a call about that and I just think that it's interesting. I mean, we know that language is a manifestation of the culture, but I think it's interesting that language kind of helps to maintain and translate the culture. Here in Texas, I guess in many parts of the country where so concerned about losing our ethnic language, our ethnic culture, but the language associated with that. And so here in Texas, I'm at the Hana and part of the mejia culture, the Aztec nation as it was renamed in the 1880s, but that she too make a Tribeca tribes were all here, still. And we're concerned about losing the language of the conquerors. The language of the conquistadores, which is Spanish, but really our language goes further than further back than that. And I think it's interesting to me that not well language is preserved in the Spanish language. The TL at the end of a lot of the words that were spoken by the mahia nation were taken into the Spanish language, but they end in TE, so words like tomato, aguacate, these mean tomato and sweet potato, avocado, all these words are in the Spanish language, but they actually even go back to the meal language. And we use them every day in our saints. We call them beaches. The details are the saints that we have. Yes, yes. So one that I mean, our family uses almost every other day as men as wood as much. Which is fewer donkeys more corn. Corn, but that's one of the words that was taken into the Spanish language from the mejia. There's an interesting how often the words are food words.
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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"You're listening to away with words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. Grant, we've gotten a lot of reaction to our conversation with Haley. She's the poet in Minnesota who wondered if there weren't more terms for the seasons than just winter spring summer and fall. The times between the seasons where something weather wise is happening, but it doesn't really fit the other categories. And it turns out that there are lots of terms for those mini seasons. We heard from David Alice in Burlington, Vermont, who says in his state, they also have something called stick season. And stick season is once the leaves of all fallen and there's no snow on the ground yet, typically in November. David says, I suppose, because autumn is so spectacular here that it's quite the contrast when the leaves are suddenly down the forests look like big sticks. And he says he'd never heard of that until he moved to Vermont, and we also heard from Linda lavalette, who lives in rural upper Michigan, and she said, we refer to the time between winter and spring as mud season. We heard that from more than a few listeners, Muncie's in his very popular around the country. I don't think they throw parties, but they don't look forward to it. No, not at all. And it reminds me that in old English before we started using the term February for that second month of the year, there was the term Saul monath, which may mean mud month, which makes a lot of sense. Yeah, at least in the northern hemisphere mud month. Oh, this is good. What do you call the other seasons of the year, not winter spring summer fall or autumn, but the times in between? Let us know 877-929-9673 toll free in the U.S. and Canada or email your thoughts ideas or questions about anything having to do with language to words at wayward radio dot org or talk to us on Twitter at WA Y O RD. Hello, you have a way with words. Hi. How are you? My name's Natalia. I'm calling from Rhode Island. Yeah, we're glad to have you, Natalya. What's up? I had a question about a phrase that we always used to use in my family, and it's when you're driving behind a car for a really long time on the highway. And you develop kind of a relationship with them. And it's always for a car that's really reliable and they're driving the speed limit and they're very safe and you can just kind of follow them for a long time sometimes hours. And we are always used to call them the follow John, like, oh, you know, we've got a great follow, John in front of us, or looks like our follow John is exiting. So we're going to have to find another one. And every time that you have to leave or they had to leave a kind of felt like you're breaking off a relationship. And I just realized that we might be the only people in the U.S. who use that phrase. It kind of came to asana in a funny path. And I didn't know if there was another word for it that we could use that maybe other people will understand and relate with. You said there's a story about follow John and how it became a family expression? Yeah, so the world originally from Poland. And before we moved to the U.S., my family lived briefly in Sweden. And they had a friend who owned just like a little sailboat. And every time that he found the sailboat, that seemed to actually know what they were doing. And how to navigate in the water and where to go. He'd always yell out. Follow John. And so then it caught on with my family when we moved to the U.S.. We kept it, and when we would use the phrase on the highway, it was always the only English phrase in what was otherwise a Polish sentence. And for years, I thought that that's just what Americans call that car. Oh my gosh. And I no longer think that's the case. I have never heard it, Martha. No, this is follow John in, right? Like JO 8 ten well, I mean, I don't know because it came from a Swedish person into our Polish family and into the U.S.. So I don't think there's a correct spelling. We only ever said it in the car. Oh, okay. But it's like somebody's name, it sounds like. Yes, although it was never John, it's always the name of the car was follow John. Right. Yeah. Like a compound. It's like a compound, right? Gosh, no. I have never heard of this. It does remind me of I have a friend from childhood who was on a really long drive to Florida, and he and this other woman kept passing each other and they would serve as, you know, to use your term, they would serve as each other's follow John, and it got to be kind of funny, and they started waving to each other, and the gas gauge got lower and lower, and at some point, my friend John scribbled the term coffee with a question mark on a piece of paper stuck it up in the window. They go to a truck stop in the next thing I know a few weeks later, his family is talking about freeway Jane and I'm saying, who is freeway James? And my friend John and freeway Jane got married. Oh, that's awesome. Oh my goodness. Wow. I mean, it really is like a relationship that you develop. Just a whole nother level. Yeah, but you may have given us a word for this because grant, I'm not aware of any term follow John. I mean, I use terms with less kind of story behind them like road buddy or pace car, pace car coming from car racing. And it's come up a few times on Reddit, I remember, and people there say things like car buddy or travel buddy, but these are all to be expected. These are all terms that you would create for that kind of person. But this is a shared experience. A lot of people have. That you talked to Natalia about the reliability of the other car. That's so important when you're in it for the long haul. They're making good lane choices, and they're doing a lot of passing. And that's what you want to do too. So you don't tire yourself out. Exactly. Exactly. They make the drive easier. And then when they leave, it's like a little part of your drive leads to. Yeah. There's a term coined by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram, familiar strangers. This was in his 1972 paper called the familiar stranger and aspect of urban anonymity, and it's about this these people that you see in your life constantly, but you don't really know. You know them and their behavior and where you encounter them regularly and maybe even you nod or do a little hand wave or a chin jut or something like that. But all they are is still strangers, but you're a little more likely to talk to them, should you be sitting next to them, say, in the theater or encounter them in line for food at a restaurant, just because they're I love that. Familiar strangers. Well, Natalia, if anybody else listening uses a term or uses follow John for this kind of relationship, I know we'll hear about it. And I'm so glad you brought up this topic. Yeah, thank you so much for having me on. I would love to hear what other people call that car. Me too. Take care. Bye bye. All right, thank you. Bye. Take care. Bye bye. If you've got a word for Talia's experience of having a road buddy or a car body, this vehicle that you follow and they become your friend, even though you don't really know them, but you're following them for hours. If you have a name for that, let us know 877-929-9673 email words at wayward radio dot org or tell us on Twitter at hello, you have a way with words. Hello, this is Diana. From Socrates, New York, in the Hudson valley. Oh, nice. What's on your mind, Diana? Well, I really, really love hearing about the derivation of words.
Native Opinion Podcast an American Indian Perspective
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"The mohawks, and the 1800s. And the 501 105 acre tract excuse me known as my mana hunt. Along the chickahominy river in Virginia, has been purchased by the chickahominy tribe with 3.5 million in state funds provided by outgoing governor Ralph northam. I wonder if there's any strings attached to that money. The land creates opportunities for their cultural preservation and interpretation and repatriation of ancestral remains tribal officials say. And in our racism in America segment, an Arizona man. Mister Allman brewer was surrounded by police after a manager at an Apache junction credit union, doubted the authenticity of a check. He got from a woman who bought his boat. Yeah, insane. Yeah. Absolutely insane. All right, here we go. Let's do it. Now, in New York, a judge rightfully ruled that New York took Mohawk land illegally in the 1800s. And this was written by the north country public radio dot org site. And penned by their news director David summerston or summer Stein. Now, an issue or at issue was land known as the hogansburg triangle..
The Friends of Israel Today
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"Thank you for joining us for this. Two part series on the book of fijian's next week we have our executive director. Jim showers with us. Yeah so we mentioned in the program that we're going to be running our jerusalem in prophecy online conference and gyms going to be coming in to share about his vision for this conference. Why it's on his heart that we talk about jerusalem and to to convey the truth of what jerusalem means in the scriptures were believers so. I really hope that our audience comes back and find out what's coming for the jerusalem prophecy conference but to hear from our executive director. Dr jim showers. Yeah and to register for that conference visit sa conferences dot org our host teacher. Is chris. kataoka. Today's program was produced by tom. Gaglione our theme music was composed and performed by jeremy. Strong mike kellogg apples of gold. And i'm steve con over executive producer. Our mailing address is f. o. Radio pillbox nine one four belmar new jersey zero eight zero nine nine once again. That's f. o. I radio po box nine one four belmar new jersey zero eight zero nine nine one last quick reminder to visit us at fox radio dot org. The friends of israel today is a production of the friends of israel gospel ministry. We are a worldwide evangelical ministry proclaiming biblical truth about israel and the messiah while bringing physical and spiritual comfort to the jewish people..
On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts
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"A lot of the other ones maybe too slowly but i think in good faith are now looking for ways to change their policies and especially their platform designs in ways. That will be more pro social and will reward sharing stuff. That's true instead of stuff. That's false that will try to root out the fake identities the bots in the trolls. And i'm especially interested in facebook's oversight board which is kind of a supreme court that's trying to set accountable rules for how people behave on facebook and social media. That's how we got out of this one hundred years ago We set up rules of the road. We had institutions in journalism and elsewhere. That said you know what. Let's have ethics codes. let's have guidelines. Let's be transparent. Let's set expectations for how you behavior and overtime. That actually worked because it created an environment people wanted to be a did not feel manipulated by if anything works. It's going to be that. So i see these. Companies as potential allies that have to be drawn even deeper into the process of reform. If an only facebook uses the judgment of the oversight board as precedent setting and to end would apply them off facebook rather than the case by case basis basis. Which is seems to me. They're approaching this with. I mean i. Maybe i should have you back to the debate. The oversight board here but with that. I'm so afraid that we've we've run out of time. The new book is called the constitution of knowledge and defense. Truth we've got an excerpt of it at on point radio dot org jonathan row. It's been a great pleasure to speak with you. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I enjoyed it so much. And i'd be happy to come back anytime. I'm meghna chakrabarti. This is on point.
The Friends of Israel Today
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"We've been going through the different characteristics of the messiah in the psalms. And that's why today. I wanted us to focus on a devotional qualities of the psalms as well and at the friends of israel. We've been selling dr charlie dyers book thirty days in the land of the psalms. And i couldn't think of anybody. Better then to have dr charlie dyer on with dr dire. Great to have you my friend. Hey chris is great being with you. Thanks dr dire look at. If we read your whole resume would take up the amount of time that we have here. But i see on here. You are in israeli official israeli tour guide. Well technically i am no longer was they had a very religious guiding license and in the the other guiding license. I had a religious guiding licencefour. Well actually about twenty years Unfortunately they no longer let protestants have that license. So i was one of the last to lose mine but for twenty years it was It was great. I still love going to israel Every chance i get. But i'm no longer allowed to be doing all the official guiding. Take the group's everywhere. I wanted to go and just share. What was on my heart rhythm which I said i had the best job in the world. I could sit in the front of the bus and just talk about everything. We were looking at As it came into view And the teacher and be just Was in in my element at that point. Now we're taking decades of experience leading trips to israel and we're applying it to this book thirty days in the land of the psalms and we're gonna look at psalm today and most people know psalm. Twenty three wouldn't you say dr dire they do or they think they do and what i love about this. It's such a beautiful psalm. Everybody can get something out of it But unless they've been to israel People don't catch all the nuances. That david did it. It has the smell of sheep all over it from david's time in the wilderness. The song starts off. The lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me and passive righteous. Righteousness for his namesake. Dr dire the idea of a shepherd in our modern era is something that i don't think many people can connect you but does it still apply the god being a shepherd. Does it still apply to the life of a christian today. Oh absolutely you know what we need to do is transport ourselves over there into the wilderness of judea and realize what the role of a shepherd was especially david who's writing from experience because he spent time as a shepherd The shepherds goal goal over there is to lead and feed the sheep To protect them to watch out for them and when he says Because the lord's my shepherd. I'll not be in want With goddess as one taking care of me he will provide all. I need The the green pastures describes. I grew up thinking of the meadows in pennsylvania and then went to israel and saw the the greenery in the winter And so those are just feels covered or hillsides covered in green grass. And realize that david thanks. God led me to the very spot where i could have just what i needed It was that kind of experience that just amazed me and even as he goes on and talks about Walking through the valley of the shadow of death during the evil To realize that those the wilderness with those deep dark valleys. That's where the wild animals. That's even today. There are still some wild animals in that area and For a sheep in that area would have been incredibly fearful except he knew the shepherd was there to protect him and care for him. Can you mention that too. For a moment dr dire in the psalm probably a section of the psalm that most people connect with even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil. You mentioned in your devotional the word for valley there that there's two different types of words for valley. What what is the one word. That's being used here in psalm. Twenty three the word is using is the one that describes a Very steep narrow valley. It's it's not. The one that describes a broad valley like the valley of jezreel this valley. That's gorgeous probably the word we would use in english to describe it And it pictures. Perfectly what the judean wilderness is like Those twisting serpentine valleys. That snake their way up into the hills towards jerusalem and It's interesting he says The valley of the shadow of death But that word is is really just a a single word in in hebrew. He's he's picturing this deep dark valley with With all the the dangers that come from being in that region and recognizing that god is going to be there standing guard. I i love it. He's he's not saying we're not going to have problems you say god's gonna either shepherd them through this him through this process of the deep dark shadow the deep valley but i want to end with this of the psalm. Twenty three is that it ends with with david saying surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and i shall dwell in the house of the lord forever. A doctor dire. Do you think that david. I feel like when i read this throughout the psalms david really had a confidence in the lord seemed to be able to take the promises that god made to him and to reconcile them with with honesty with real life. Circumstances do you think. That's what david was doing here. completely And i think they've experienced as a shepherd. In fact i i love it. I think this song comes out of his early experience in the wilderness. And he he learned a lesson there that he carried with him when he moved from the sheep full to the royal palace. He knew the guy who took care of him as a shepherd was going to continue to take care of them in those Prosperous times that were ahead all the days of his life. so yeah he mastered that lesson early and it stayed with him his whole life my friends. We are speaking with dr. Charlie dyer who is recently released thirty days in the land of the psalms we are. We're selling this book here at the friends of israel and we want you to get a copy of it. You can do that by simply going to. Foia radio dot org that's f. o. I radio dot org and they're right on our homepage will be a link for you to click on an order. Your copy of dr. Charlie dyers book thirty days in the land of the psalms. It's a holy land devotional doctor. I'm looking forward to next week. Thank you sir so.
A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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"I thought i was crazy and imagining things. I had to like. Look it up and show my husband the recipe see. It's not a pie. It's actually a soup but we still you know. But he was like. I'm from the midwest. You can't call it a pie. Would like to encourage her husband to do is just say you know what sometimes words have more than one meaning. I think the other point that that grant and i would circle around to the fact that boy anytime we talk about food on this show. There are so many different opinions. We were just talking about long johns donuts. We've gotten so much email about what you call Those bar doughnut just accepts that words have more than one meaning when it comes to food words often have. You cannot rely on even just across the county line that word. It's to have the same meaning at all. So it's essentially just people in central pennsylvania. Colin it what they want and yeah mainly mainly central pennsylvania. The north midland's okay. Well david thank you so much for calling appreciate it. Thank you for taking my call. Sure tell your husband. If he can't stand the heat that's right take care. Thank you bye-bye well. If you have a dispute in your household over a word or phrase we'd love to hear about it eight seven seven nine two nine nine six seven three or send us the whole story in email. That address is words. Wayward radio dot. Org hi there. You have a way with words. Yes this is robert pill from oklahoma city. High robert what's going on. Well i had a question about something. I ran into when i was traveling..
The Friends of Israel Today
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"The truth of messiah at for years and years decades their own religions were outlawed. people couldn't practice their religions and and so folks now at this stage are a really open to the gospel in a way in eastern europe. That that you know is unprecedented and so we have so many opportunities for teaching about the bible and teaching about christ. We do holidays with the bible for adults and for families. We do summer camps for ukrainian kids where we bring them over. The border from ukraine into polish is in an easy thing to do especially now right and and we bus these kids in and we give them all these supplies and and clothing and we get to teach them their own their own truth from the old testament about messiah. Yeah let me ask you this to really quick before we go to our break are any of these holocaust survivors too. That they're ministering to. Yes absolutely they are and some of these. These holocaust survivors are are some of the the major focus of some of our reps ministries going into Into homes where these folks live and and trying to to be able to minister to them where they are just reading the bible with them praying with them and reminding them that there that there are people out there christians who love them now. Listen if you're just joining us. I'm speaking with dan. Price is the assistant to the international director for friends of israel. He helps oversee the international outreach. We're specifically talking about the eastern european outreach that we have if you want to be a partner with the friends of israel in our eastern european outreach as we continue to advance the ministry of friends of israel advanced the gospel in these areas to help our jewish friends. I want to encourage you to give to our eastern european outreach. Steve can you let our listeners know how they can give. How can tangibly give how they can prayerfully give to the eastern european outreach ken to learn more about friends of israel's international outreach or to give visit us at epo radio dot org that's f..
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"We've been listening to. Jonathan kraft share his stories of how he ministers and the jewish community. And can i tell you something. z. Cancer is is a holocaust survivor. Who who really took the first step in israel for the friends of israel to make messiah known to everyone and his story is such an amazing story. He is a holocaust survivor. That at a very young age was left to navigate the holocaust at the age of twelve all by himself only to land on the shores of israel to ultimately have to defend his new country and then through that the lord used him to minister to many israelis to administer the gospel to them. You need to know the story of cal. I actually had the privilege of sitting and listening to him. Tell these stories in person. He's now with the lord but these stories live on in dr ellwood mcquaid's z. The miraculous story of triumph over the holocaust. This book will detail all of the accounts that he had navigating his way as a young boy through the holocaust. An amazing experience. Steve how can our listeners. Get their hands on this book you know to purchase your copy of see the miraculous story of triumph over the holocaust. Visit us at f. Y. radio dot org that's f. o. Radio dot org or you can call our listener line at eight eight three four three six nine four zero and someone will return your call during our regular business hours. That's eight three four. Three six nine four zero to order in canada. Call eight eight eight six four two five eight four again in canada. That's eight eight eight six four five eight four. Welcome back. everybody we are with. Jonathan kraft a field ministry's representative with the friends of israel gospel ministry in las vegas. A fun place to be. I've ministered with jonathan out there many many years ago. It's fantastic jonathan. We're talking about a lot of the tangible things that you do. Serve the jewish people in las vegas As as a as a minister of the gospel with the friends of israel. I'm interested to know you have a fantastic story about the warsaw memorial ghetto in las vegas. Can you share a little about that story. Sure i'll tell you. The warsaw ghetto memorial located on the campus of temple. Bet shalom a conservative. About a mile. From our home it commemorates the four hundred thousand jewish people that were crammed in there and a one point three mile area. Three hundred ninety two thousand of them lost their lives for bullets gassing to starving a friend of ours a jewish friend henry kronenberg. You're going to be a hundred and two years old this year along with another jewish man saw a advertisement from the holocaust museum in washington. Dc and it offered paving stones from that memorial. Anyone who could plan and put together a memorial to the worst ghetto they applied they got the stones they built structure. It's about it's around structure about thirty five feet in diameter It has Stones mounted beeston's these actual paintings stones mounted in the walls and the floor and it also incorporates two gates iron gates from that ghetto it has six claims that represent the six million that died and the in the gas chambers and burned and It it's an amazing place and it became a musi for our church. Youth groups that came to work with us and henry kronenberg usually comes and he tells his story as survivor and over the course of time Talking with henry. I discovered that When he was liberated at the nordhausen internment camp. My father was in patton's army. I mean it's an amazing story. And how he got connected with las vegas and you know it's just amazing how god works those things out but there was a day you know chris i i i go up and i helped to maintain that and make it ready for You know people coming to see That At the memorial one day. I went up there. I wanted to do. I needed a quiet place. My my wife does bible study and and her bible studies a little noisy out there and There's a buddhist janitor that works there and She volunteered to water the roses. When we were going to be outta town She volunteered to do that for us. And i was up there that morning. My quiet time and it so happened. She took that time to come out and we ran into each other. And i thank you once again for watering the roses. But you know. I had my bible there and explained to her how she was a blessing to the jewish people for what she was doing there and i also took the opportunity to share with her About what the bible explains about sin. And how the jewish messiah your shula died in our place for our sin and that he didn't stay dead but he resurrected in order to prove to us that he had power over. Send out and you know that morning with tears. In her eyes she prayed she confessed their sin and she created to receive the payment crisis had made for her sin man and so you know sharing the good news with her that morning with this janitor. The next day. I went up there. I took her a bible. I showed her where to begin. Reading and You know to but to be honest with you. She has since quit working there. And and i've not had contact with her. But you know chris. God orchestrated that moment in time for her to come and place her faith in the messiah so we praise god for yes and you know. I want our listening audience to please be praying for her. If you're listening. Please be praying for her right now. Listen it's been fantastic talking with jonathan. I told you he had a great story. Here is a gentile. that loves the jewish messiah. I think about this loves. The jewish messiah serves at a local synagogue at a at a memorial a memorial and is able to share the gospel to a buddhist who comes to faith in. Jesus christ the jewish messiah. It's amazing this is exactly what god had planned all along from the scriptures. It's an amazing testament to god's faithfulness in kindness and jonathan. Thank you so much for dedicating your life to the lord to serve him through the friends of israel jonathan. Thank you for being with us. Thank you chris. I i enjoy being here and and god bless you and thank you all to the listeners. For the support the prayer Here amazing thank you so glad you chose to join us today for the friends of israel today a quick reminder you can purchase ellwood mcquaid's compelling biography on the life of fee by going to f. o. Radio dot org that's f. Y. radio dot. Org or you can call our listener line at eight eight eight three four three six nine four zero in canada. It's eight eight eight six six four two five eight four steve. I have our radio production. Calendar open here. And i'm looking at the next four weeks and i'm excited about it because we're gonna be looking at the kings of israel you know. There's a lot of application for the life of a believer with these individual kings and the stories that we can pull for them and how we can apply them to our lives through are actually going to be looking at second chronicles of four weeks. We're going to pull out some of the kings and we're going to look at how god is speaking to us today as believers our host teacher. Is chris kataoka. Today's program was produced by tom. Gaglione our theme music was composed and performed by jeremy strong. Buy kellogg red apples of gold. And i'm con over executive producer. The friends of israel today is a production of the friends of israel gospel ministry. We are a worldwide evangelical ministry proclaiming biblical truth about israel and the messiah while bringing physical and spiritual comfort to the jewish people..
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"Even the demons believe that and tremble with fear listen as believers. We have the holy spirit in us convicting us and challenging us and guiding away from the influence of satan and his demons. We have nothing to fear because the god that we have total access to through jesus christ. Our high priest is the same god. The demons fear as james says. I want to share with you about the origins of satan. But before we do this. Listen burgess scratching the surface of the study of demons. We only have a few moments to talk about it but there is a rich deep doctrine and study of and demons. And it's important. Because i have my the the my bible opened in front of me here and i wanna read from you from equations. Chapter six verse twenty. That says this for our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the powers and against the world rulers of darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. Do you hear what. Paul is writing to the church in ephesus. He saying if you're looking around at what's going on in the world and you only see humans acting or you only think of it from a humanistic perspective. You're missing the big picture because the battle isn't against flesh and blood. The battle is what's going on in the background. The battle is what's going on in the things that we can't see it's the forces working those spiritual forces of evil are working and i think it's important for us that we must know who our enemy is. We must know what the battle is. Beyond what our eyes can see and to do that. I want to encourage you to get dr rennie showers book. Those invisible spirits called angels. If you want to deepen your study of the things that we cannot see and understand how god is at work. I want to encourage you to get this book. Those invisible spirits called angels. Steve hopkin our listeners. Get a copy of rennie's book you can purchase your copy of those invisible. Spirits called angels by dr reynolds showers. When you visit us at f. y. Radio dot org that's f. o. Eill radio dot. Org or you can call our listener line right now at eight three four three six nine four zero and someone will return your call during our regular business hours. That's eight eight eight three four three six nine four zero to order in canada call. Eighty eight six six four two five eight four again in canada. That's eight six. Four two five eight four. We've been talking about demons and up front. I wanted to talk about demons. And i did this on purpose because i wanted to dedicate some time to talking about satan's origins. Listen there's a tension that we experience right away in the scriptures between god and satan now the difference between god and satan is that god was an is an is to come. god is the alpha and the omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the creator of everything and satan on the other hand. well he's just created. I always like to say satan can only copy and corrupt with god is already created. Why because he's created himself now. Satan wasn't created evil. That's what's interesting in fact. listen to how. The prophet ezekiel. explains it. The prophet ezekiel is talking about the king of tyre in ancient city during ezekiel's day and he dives into who the true king of tyre is and it's not just the human it. Satan and ezekiel launches into satan's creation is origins. Listen to what ezekiel twenty eight says. The lord's message came to me. Son of man singh a lament for the king of tyre and say to him this is what the sovereign lord says. You were the sealer of perfection full of wisdom perfect in beauty. You were in eden. The garden of god every precious stone was. You're covering the ruby the topaz an emerald the crystal light the onyx jasper sapphire turquoise and barrel. You're setting and mounts were made of gold on that day you were created. They were prepared. I placed you there with an anointed guardian cherub. You were on the holy mountain of god. You walked about amidst fiery stones. You were blameless in your behavior from the day you recreated until sin was discovered in you in the abundance of your trade were filled with violence. And you send so i- defiled you in banished you from the mountain of god that guardian cherub expelled you from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was proud because of your beauty your you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground. I placed you before kings that they might see you. Listen satan the temperature the slander. The deceiver was created as probably one of the highest rank of highest class of angelic beings. He was full of beauty. He was full of wisdom. He stood in the presence of god and yet he sinned. Isaiah the prophet and isaiah. Fourteen says this look how you have fallen from the sky. Oh shining one son of the dawn. You have been cut down to the ground. Oh conqueror of the nation's you said to yourself. I will climb up to the sky above the stars l. That's god i will set up my throne. I will rule on the mountain of assembly on the remote slopes of i will climb up the top of the clouds. I will make myself like the most high but you were brought down to all to the remote slopes of the pit. Satan lost his angelic status because of his pride. Did you hear what i said about him. You said to yourself. I will climb up to the sky above the stars. I will make myself like the most. Hi this is exactly how satan deceived adam and eve. He essentially told them that they could be god. By eating. from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they could be the arbiters of good and evil. Like god if not better satan lead adam and eve a stray. But can i tell you something. He didn't lead jesus straight. Jesus remained obedient. He defeated satan in the wilderness. He defeated satan in the garden of get seventy. He defeated satan in his death and resurrection and he will defeat satan once and for all at his second. Coming and satan's destiny is not power. It's in the lake of fire. And for that reason. I want to encourage you as we close here for that. Reason take peace. Jesus says i have told you these things. Jesus rights through that in me. You may have peace in the world. You have trouble in suffering and who controls the world. Satan controls the world right now. The prince of the power of the air as paul says in chapter two. But jesus says in the world you have trouble in suffering but take courage. I have conquered the.
The Friends of Israel Today
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"Called the common thread. Welcome to the friends of israel today. I'm steve conover over with me as our hosting teacher chris kataoka. We're so glad you chose to join us today. Chris were in a series covering the different jewish cultures and ethnicities and in earlier episodes. We talked about the oscar. Nause jewish community the sephardic community. Last week was the mizrahi community. What are we talking about today. Yeah so we looked at those different Groups of ethnicities of jewish people in the diaspora. Jewish people that are spread all throughout the world at the asper juice. Somebody that lives outside of the land of israel. But what's been amazing. It got is always preserved. A jewish remnant if you will in the land for the last two thousand years and we're gonna talk about those jewish people that have lived in the land of israel now for our listeners. Encourage our radio and podcast listeners. To be sure to visit site o. Radio dot org. Yes we have all of chris's teachings about scripture israel and the jewish people plus interviews with our field workers both locally and internationally you'll hear about all the amazing ministry friends of israel's doing around the world and don't forget while you're there you can support a ministry if you like what you're hearing by clicking on the donate button to help us continue teaching biblical truth about israel and the jewish people.
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"All the time. We are apples of gold. At the back end of our program people loves vs stories testimonies and we have a book. Actually that's written about vs testimony about his history. You know. He grew up in warsaw poland. He was a young jewish boy who was really impacted by the holocaust by hitler's final solution. And so as as timothy rabbinic was talking about the history of the european jewish community i help. But think of zeke alisher. I want to encourage our listeners to get v. the miraculous story of triumph over the holocaust by our previous executive director. Dr ellwood mcquaid. Dr mcquaid does a fantastic job of of telling you the story of how v left the holocaust. He escaped the holocaust and made his way over to israel to find actually the freedom and the lord. Jesus christ as he was over there v became one of our very first ministers for the friends of israel in the land of israel. It's an amazing story of vs triumph over the holocaust. Yeah you can purchase a copy of speed the miraculous story of triumph over the holocaust by visiting f. o. Radio dot org that's f. o. Radio dot org there. You'll find a link on our homepage and it will direct you to the book or you can call our listener line. And that's eight three four three six nine four zero again. That's eight eight eight three four three six nine four zero and someone will return your call during our regular business hours to order in canada. Call eight six six four two five eight four again in canada. That's eight six six four two five eight four. Welcome back everybody. In the last segment we were talking. A about providing physical and spiritual comfort to the jewish people in eastern europe through our eastern european relief fund. Which i hope that you go to foia radio dot org to find out more information about and we introduced you to timothy rabbinic. Who's in warsaw. Poland which prior to hitler and his final solution walsall was the largest. I believe timothy largest jewish city with the largest jewish population in it is that right Certainly one of the biggest yup definitely a very influential city with a with a with a influential jewish community prior to hitler's final solution. The holocaust and timothy. You were mentioning about how those who are suffering are they could be holocaust survivors. There are victims of antisemitism which is the hatred of jewish people and yet that same antisemitism that existed in the twentieth century still remains today in europe. And it's actually on the rise and timothy. This is what i love about. Your ministry is that you're working to combat that anti semitism in eastern europe by raising awareness about israel and the jewish people to young adults through your living bridges ministry timothy. Can you share about the living bridges ministry that you have the sure chrissa pleasure in the ministry. We call the living bridges. A really really want to focus on the next generation of youth as you said and as the name suggests we want to build a symbolic living bridge between the christians of eastern europe and jewish people. How do we do it. This is a big question. First step is in my opinion. Is education both historical and biblical. Those things are very important. We can't forget what has happened here. In eastern europe the holocaust is part of our history and in an age where memory of this brutal crime is being forgotten or even denied. We must each the truth Over the years. We have organized seminars. For you from poland ukraine the czech republic russia and of course israel who together we visit They concentration camps the death camps the history and held discussion. Panels were many stereotypes. Were broken for me The most valuable part of this program. It's always the informal interaction of Of the members of the program the friendships that develop between believers and non-believers where weakened cher why will have the jewish people if we talk about education. Of course the most important education is the biblical education and so we tried to do it by reaching churches and individual christians itching the literal history historical and grammatical interpretation of the bible. And you know chris. We don't need to make a special exercised teach about israel who make people realize the importance of israel. All we need to do is really teach the bible as at this rhythm. That's of course. Of course you know during covid nineteen era. We can't organize big events and conferences. Whatever we use the technology that we have a each month now we organize online meetings for believers where which is the bible. Thanks to the connections we have developed with israel every time we have a speaker from israel. Who's a believer. The conferences are free. We don't need to pay a speaker for israel to come to poland so in a way it has become a tradition. Now and i believe we will continue those online meetings after You've got allows of course the covid nineteen crisis is over so timothy. Say what you do. Is you organize groups but living bridges to show you the the young adults in eastern europe. A what happened. You're you're right there near the death camps the concentration camps you you do tours there but then at the same time you bring these the these adults over to israel as well to show them. The land of israel is that right. that's correct kris. Yeah well i'm interested to know what's the response you know you and i were writing back and forth a little bit and you say that a person that travels to israel is a changed person. Sometimes i would have people on my trips at did not like israel so much but wanted to see the places anyway because of the biblical importance you right in so many ways. They returned to poland becoming true fanatics for israel and sharing and churches. How wonderful this country is timothy. What changes the mind of that young adult when they step foot in israel. Well yeah. it's it's a little bit funny situations dodge that people that are very static of israel after the trip. They become so loving of israel's than i even sometimes so it's it's amazing the at really haven't analyzed that so much shit but i think it's usually the whole package. You know the the whole experience of being in the land though loved by god. It's the personal friendships with israelis and their nature to always tell if the food of course the diverse countryside from snow on mount hermon to that in the desert. I will tell you a secret. People from eastern europe feel a little bit like kobe in israel and say that i say that because so much culture from eastern europe has been imported by the jewish settlers who israel that you can always find something that you know if you know ration you can speak it israel in russian you can find russian food. You can find russian restaurants no problem so amazing all packets. That's great mike you know you. We've traveled to israel. You and i like timothy and i'll be honest. I firmly believe that once a christian steps foot in the land they become what's called a christian zionist by us. That's a christian zionist christian. That believes that god has given the jewish people the right to exist in their ancient homeland. And i believe the reason that they become christians. I is because they are literally seeing and touching the faithfulness of god and you can see god's faith at work right in front of god's reality right in front of them when they step foot in the land. You know i'm interested to know from you. How important is it for young adults whether they're in poland or the united states or anywhere from around the world to walk in israel to experience israel firsthand. Oh well i think that's a great question. I would start with It helps with bible interpretation young people as they look at their bible it turns from black and white to color for one and they're actually living And in the place where the gospels took matthew mark luke and john and so it all begins to make a little more sense so it helps them in interpretation but also think that it helps them to get excited and and also understand. It's realistic about the prophecies being fulfilled. You're in israel is predicted. It was gonna come back one day. And you're standing at the mount of olives and you're looking down on the old city of jerusalem and you can visualize how the prophecies will be fulfilled. And i think that creates some excitement. And i do think when young people come back or even older folks lot like me for the first after the first time there's a measure of spiritual growth that can happen Because they have had this experience. But i think another critical part of that is it helps change any false narrative. They've had about israel once you go. At least it helps begin that process you know. There's the narrative that israel is the bully and israel mistreats. The arabs excetera. That and i think they over there and they find out that's not really the case and their mind begins to change and they have an openness crack in their hearts so to speak to love israel and to love the jewish people. So i think that's an important thing you know. It's interesting that you say that. Because i'm thinking of timothy in eastern europe where there is a rise of antisemitism especially on college campuses going over and experiencing the land seeing both the biblical perspective and the reality in israel to actual political reality and experiencing that so their minds change their minds. Change in. timothy's doing a great work of changing people's minds about israel and the jewish people from a biblical perspective. Timothy is doing the living bridges program and also ministering to people in eastern europe through our eastern european relief analysis to our listeners. Go to fm radio dot org there. You're find out. More information about the eastern european relief fund where we actually provide physical and spiritual comfort to the jewish people that are in need in eastern europe and through that able to minister to them to share the good news of jesus the messiah yoshua hamas sheikh. And then also you'll be able to find out more about the living bridges ministry that timothy has.
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The 'On Point' Iowa Caucus: Where Do Voters Stand?
"This is on point Magneto Birdie. We're doing something a little bit different this hour. Were experimenting with an on Point Mini Caucus. Because the Iowa caucuses or about three weeks away now and so we're kind of we've created this metaphorical room in our minds. Eye Radio version of a Iowa precinct. Here and seeing what Iowa voters think as they look towards basically casting their first votes In this presidential election season we started out the hour hearing from supporters of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders before the break. We I heard from two neighbors in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Who won who was all in for Mayor Pete Buddha Judge and another and Solomon who is still going to stand the corner for Cory Booker and wait to see who might convince her to move somewhere else and now? Let's talk about people tussling over Vice President Joe Biden. Here's the moment yesterday from the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines. Where former vice president Biden really noted his broad support? He said that he has nationally so here he is look. I've been the object. She's affection now more than anybody else. I taken all the hits. He can deliver. And I'm getting better better in the polls my going up and by the way I have overwhelming support from the African American community overwhelming more than everybody else in this operation Vice President Joe the last night and when he said I've been the object of his affection now more than anybody else on the stage. The vice president was referring to President. Donald Trump. Let's go to Jane Who's calling from Fairfield Iowa Jane. You're on the air what who do you think you're going to be caucusing for thank you very much for your show My my husband and I have had The same issues as I think it was very league. Who wasn't sure who she was going to vote for In the caucuses who she was gonNA side with And Our experience was that there were a lot of good ideas out there that you know when we went to see each candidate we thought yeah. That's a good idea. Or that's a good idea. And that's a good idea and then about two weeks ago we went into See Joe Biden in Grinnell and we realized by you know listening to him being with him. Yeah that we were for sure going to call 'cause for him and The reasons I mean I know I have to be sync but One thing is that he can take the reins of the government immediately He doesn't he's completely capable. Oh and he's he's He's very cogent. His answers were extremely informative and comprehensive comprehensive. He's very competent and other reason is that he he wasn't ranking about anything he was. We felt much better or from being with him because we feel that the ideas presented by most of the candidates will find their way to policy in the united the states. But this is a man who is kind is only mentioned his generous of heart and he's very competent. So we I feel like he has the best chance of unifying that country anything else important. It's unify the country's right. Well Jane thank you so much for your call. Let's go to Robert. WHO's calling from Grinnell Iowa Robert? You're on the air. Hello yes we're we are definitely definitely caucusing for Bernie the last time around we caucus for burning. We knew eight at vowed. Second Amendment voter never voted re- democrat in his his life he caucus for Bernie. It was about healthcare Bernie is willing to make changes. People voted for trump. Because they wanted a change they. I didn't want things as they were. Which is what Hillary is not going to change anything? They wanted changes so they voted for trump. Because it was it it was a vote for either no change or vote for change and they voted for trump. That's why we've caucusing for Bernie Bernie is willing to change things. So that means that you definitely wouldn't caucus for senator. Sorry doing that. Vice President Joe Biden not definitely not Biden. Okay okay. We'll Robert. Thank you so much for your call now. Okay we've heard from various folks who have their mindsets on their on their candidates but it turns out that about right now in Iowa. Iowa seems as if undecided voters undecided. Iowans might be forming the biggest block of Iowa caucus goers. Let's talk to go back into our own point caucus caucus room and talk to to currently undecided Iowans. The Real Wenzel joins us from Waterloo Iowa. She's Laura's director of marketing for Ymca of black of county and is currently decided perhaps leaning towards Andrew Yang Laurel. Welcome to you. Hello it's great to have you and also also from Cedar Rapids Iowa. Tom Fuller joins us. Tom is a retired maintenance supervisor. For the city of Cedar rapids. Tom Is currently undecided. As well did did have his heart on senator or his mindset on Senator Kamala Harris before she dropped out of the race so Tom Welcome to you. Okay so Laura let me ask you first here here. Whoa what's keeping you undecided right now? What have you not found in any of the candidates that you feel like you can throw your full support behind a unifying presence? I think is what I don't see in any of the candidates especially last night on the debate stage age. I was really disappointed that there is nobody that was wanting to come by Ya with the rest of the candidates and be like. Let's do this together because is inevitably. That is what is GonNa Happen. Ray Inevitably we're GONNA have one candidate and it's going to be Democrat versus Republican. But I don't feel like anybody is on the same page on that stage and it's frustrating. Because I want a unified spirit within the party which is why I go to caucus because I go to caucus for the policies of the Party as well as the policies of the individual. Okay so tom you actually truly still undecided or you kinda trying to be leaning one way or the other well I'm still undecided. I am I to me. It seems like we have a a large field of very qualified qualified people and so That makes the decision harder because they're all good so what I'm considering going to is Someone that can immediately restore our credibility With the world We think we're the laughing stock now. And I think we need to regain our The Mantle of leadership and respect and get our credibility back back and a friend of mine who was a cory booker supporter. Very adamant he just the next day went to Joe Biden very strongly and so I've been looking at Ah Biden That would pretty much. I hope restore credibility with the world pretty much outta the gate and it seems to me that when you have this confusing Mass of people that having somebody with the roots being with Obama and all of his is years in the Senate That sort of a direct line with all these other candidates kind of warming around rounded doesn't let me if I may just let me just tip toeing here again Because Lorenzo did I hear you Kinda side it was very strong side regarding regarding Joe. Ab Thinking about Joe Biden. But you're it sounds like anybody but joe I mean I think that it's a fallacy to assume that his credibility outside of the United States is going to provide any sense of security when he's an office I think that unfortunately impeachment aside the The investigation that trump was going going for it has really broken thy confidence in Joe Biden. And that's something that we haven't really heard at least I haven't heard much about Out You can be darn that he's GonNa late into that on the debate stage if Biden becomes the nominee. And and. I'm concerned I'm concerned. It's going to be another Hillary Clinton where you know you supporter. You'll like her and then all of a sudden this thing comes out and it's like Oh okay so. Let's listen coin to unify unify the party. So let me ask both of you got a couple minutes left with the two of you and Tom. I'll start with you. Is there anything that you heard from your fellow Iowans this hour. That might convinced you one way or the other not yet the to women's that go to the same church or re really really Enlightening and I'm going to re listen to this and Listen carefully to what they had to say. Cedar Rapids Nothing you know. No no we pick for many yet. it's still not three weeks certainly very interesting points. They made I still think maybe I'm I'm leaning towards Biden Haydn The reason that trump went after him I feel like trump thinks that he's the strongest candidate and and that's why he attacked him. I'm hurry everybody thinks he's the strongest candidate. I mean you can see it on the debate stage last night. They wanted to give Elizabeth Warren the last word and then all of a sudden Biden was able to rebuttal before the commercial break. I mean everybody expects Joe Biden to win this nomination Shannon I I think that's the disappointing thing is that We we have all of our hopes and dreams and this guy that is just. She's tired he looks tired. He looks you know like like he has so much that he wants to give by. He physically is just not going to be able to do it. And I I understand. Stay on that So that's why I'm just like you know you are. You are a great idea and if you could just throw your support against another our candidate I feel like that would be best in the end but you know that's not GonNa Happen for alcock Laurel. Did you hear anything this hour. That might have helped clarify in the direction. You're going to go in a couple of weeks. You know I did I. Did you know I've been. I've been fighting with my interest in Elizabeth Warren. Because I remember when I first saw her on the daily show with John Stewart and she reminded minded me of my history professor. Because that's what she wants and I have been fighting with that instinct to feel you know cast down in by her in a sense like she knows everything but at the same time I do feel like she has the best candidate on that stage and that her policies are really about the people they impact. They will impact me and my family with my son who needs long-term long term care Because he's disabled I just I'm ready for a woman. I'm ready for that feminine touch so I really if you like between the debate last night and what I heard today Elizabeth Warren seems like the best win and if I might interject I thought thought we'd be passed having I've having to think about either having a man or woman and that we would just be at the place where or we would pick. The best person is really. We've never we have that. We're not that far down the road yet. We shouldn't gender shouldn't matter it should just be the best person and it's I'm I'm pretty disappointed that we haven't gone on that far yet. Well Tom Fuller from Cedar Rapids Iowa. Tom Thank you so much for joining us in our little mini any caucus here really appreciate supporter and definitely go back. And listen on radio DOT ORG. That's where you're gonNA find it okay. Let us know what you think about. What an libby had to say and and Laura Wenzel from Waterloo Iowa? Thank you so much for joining us in our little mini caucus room here seeing you. It was a great opportunity and I hope that everybody everybody that's the thing goes out and caucus on February third. Yeah same here definitely and everybody should always participate in the electoral process as much as they possibly awesome. Cancel Laura thank you again okay. So that that was worthy more fascinating hours that I've had a chance to listen to so let me turn back to our on point news analyst Jack Beatty the Marvelous Jack Beatty. Who's been listening in from Hanover? New Hampshire Jack. We've got about two and a half minutes left here. What did you hear well? Well I heard voters who were just not only interested but intensely interested and and and and Laurel we actually. We heard an informed. Cy I mean even her. Cy was informative. We knew what she meant. And and it you know the one of the knocks on the caucus focus is undemocratic he to the no secret ballot. You've got to stand at a at a at a place for polling placer church basement for hours you've got to do it in public but on the other hand that encourages people to talk in public and look how these people talked to each each other. Not Past each other met. The arguments met the objections. Saw The merit In the other person's point of view it seems to me it modeled old Iowa's citizenship at its best. I I would agree right. I mean hearing hearing and in Libby and Lorella Lorella and Tom and and Barney and Mike all engage with each other was really inspirational. But as you said the actual caucus itself I mean I read someone described it a sort of like. It's almost a student council student president election because it can be so wild but to your original. Appoint though Jack was made at the beginning of the hour we've got about thirty seconds left here. Is there anything that you heard in these voters. That changes your your concern that you know. The Iowans wins. Don't really pick winners. Well their concern to pick a winner and that may matter as much as anything I mean. I didn't hear here purity. I didn't hear someone saying well. My commitment is to this candidates ideas above everything. Everyone seemed to hedge. I want onto winner. Maybe they'll pick one right. That definitely came through loud and clear with with all of our Iowa state but the reasons why they think their candidates might be a winner. We're quite different from one another which was absolutely fascinating so Jack Beatty Point News analyst with us from Hanover. New Hampshire the New Hampshire primary hot on the heels of the Iowa Caucus. Jack ackward diving all in now. Thank you so much for joining us today.
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