051724 Steve Strang

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Have you here? You know thebest part of watching that Denver Nuggets basketball
game last night? Nothing, there'sno uh. Actually we ordered in Dave's
Hot Chicken. I've been talking aboutthis. It's a great change that's came
out of California and we haven't inColorado. Now Dave's Where are Dave's Hot
Chicken on the Grubhub? And wesmoked cigars. That was That was pretty
much. That was a highlight ofit. Other than that, we're like,

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why are we watching this game?It was a It was a debacle
if you were a Nuggets fan.I'm sorry about that if you did have
to watch them. But at leastI got Dave's Hot Chicken and cigars out
of it. That was a goodthing. Real quick, before I go
to my first guest of the morning, I want to remind you my brand
new podcast is up, the CriticalMission Podcast. It's it's not about politics,

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not about the stuff we do onthe radio show. That's a separate
podcast. This is it's just aboutyour WHII in life. The two most
important days of a man's life,a person's life, the day you're born,
the day you figure out why.And we tell the stories of people
that have figured out maybe are onthe journey to figure out there why in
lit and tell those stories. Thisweek is say, an interview with a

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young lady that's now speaking on behalfof the Riley Gaines Foundation. But she
went through her own hell on Earthat the University of Cincinnati because she used
the phrase biological woman in the paperand ended up giving up med school and
everything to fight the fight that she'sin now. Her name is Olivia Krolchick.
And matter of fact, some ofthese Harrison Butler Butcker comments about she

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espouses them. She's like, man, I'm looking forward to having kids.
I'm looking forward to getting married.Well, they're going to be very offended
by Libya. As an interview withme, she's do great job. A
fantastic strong young lady. She's twentyyears old and she's kicking button, taking
names and her faith. That's whatwe're learning of this Critical Mission podcast is
how important faith is to a lotof these that we've already recorded for the

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podcast. If you want watch avideo version that's linked up. That's a
YouTube channel the Critical Mission Podcast.Go to my Facebook page, Facebook dot
com slash Jimmy Lacky fan page,The audio. I recommend the iHeartRadio app,
but they're available everywhere. Podcast thisthis episode is doing, it's kicking
button taking name. It's been aboutforty eight hours and a little bit of
loving Olivia. But yeah, we'vetalked about a lot of these people have

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faith is a center of their story. We talked to Evan Todd twenty five
years past the Columbine massacre and hetalks about how his faith has He turned
to the Bible during the after thatand faith became a huge part say we
didn't. It's not necessarily a Christianor religious podcast, but it is.
It's you'll find it. It's allbased on the story of my own saga

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of life, you know, radiohost and just all around nice guy.
But now I work in Africa andthat's my life's passion and take care of
the orphans and the widows there,built building legacy Christian academy there and that's
what matters. That's my why inlife, and that's what this whole podcast
is about. It's called The CriticalMission. Just search my name on the
iHeart Radio app and you'll find itThe Critical Mission podcast on the iHeart Radio

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app. And of course we wantto move about my charity. I always
like to tell you about that.Riverspromise dot org. Riverspromise dot Org.
All right, let's dive into someback to the politics, back to the
politics of the thing. I amgoing to read for you some of the
excerpts from the Harrison Butker speech,and people are feigning all this. Oh
my god, I'm so shocked bythis. Shut up. He said great

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things in this speech. Is fantasticspeech and reads with the quotes for those
of you who have not heard them, and you'll judge for yourself. Donald
Trump and Joe Biden have agreed toa debate. I want to welcome into
the programming guy who's written a bookabout Donald Trump. His name is Stephen
Strange and he's with Charisma Magazine,Charisma Medium. He's the founder of Charisma

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Media. They publish the Charisma Magazinemodern English version of the Bible. And
his book was called God and DonaldTrump wrote it back in twenty seventeen.
It was featured on CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC and he's on the hotline
now. Stephen String, welcome intothe program here in Colorado. Nice to
have you, well, thank you, it's good to be with you.

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It's a pleasure to have you hereon the radio program. I grew up
with that Charisma magazine. My churchalways had copies of it in their church
bookstore, so we always grew upon the Charisma. So it's good to
talk to you. Recognize your namefrom many many years ago, many years
ago, but not that you're oldor anything, but I just recognize your
name. Thank you very much forcoming on. Well, ask my kids,
they think I'm old. But wealso publish Jonathan Kahn, who wrote

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to Harbinger that's probably kind of ourclaim to same that I've actually written four
books on the president, all ofthem while he was president, but they're
suddenly more. There's a lot ofinterest in it now, so I'm glad
to be on your show. Well, a pleasure to have you. This
Trump Biden debate has been set historicallyearly. I have thoughts as to why

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they're going to do it so early. I think President Biden has heard a
lot of rumors about him being replacedon the ticket, so he wants to
jump in and say you can't replaceme. I've already debated the guy.
I think there's some probably some smartpolitical play on his part. How interested
though, do you think Americans arein watching a Trump Biden debate? They
know about Biden, know about Trump. A lot of polling data says Americans
wish they had two different candidates tovote for. How interested do you think

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people will be? People are absolutelyinterested. The fact is expected. If
there aren't debates would be the firsttime since Kennedy and Nixon back in nineteen
sixty and it would show real weaknesson Biden's part. And of course that's
his main problem is he looks soweak. So I'm glad that they're doing

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it. I heard a talking headdiscussed the same question and said that the
Democrats may have him on early sothat if he really really bombs, they
still they have time to replace them. I'm not sure I agree with that,
but I thought it was a prettyinteresting hypothesis. Yeah, it's kind
of the converse of the reverse ofmine. I thought that they're putting them

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up early just so he can thatthey can hedge off at the past.
Anybody wanting to come in? Hesays, no, I've already done the
debate. I'm sorry, I'm thecandidate. If that's the case, I
think a smart move Sometimes these debatesdon't talk about things that the average American
or the flyover country or just peopleare really thinking in their heart. A

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lot of times it's filled with talkingpoints and platitudes by political parties. What
are the issues that we really thinkin just over a month from right now
should be discussed at this debate.Well, the Democrats are going to bring
up January sixth, They're going tobring up all these stupid trials, you
know that, especially with CNN beingthe moderator. But people are more interested

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in the economy, inflation, thecrisis at the border, and you know,
a lot of people have made uptheir mind. I've made up my
mind. There's not one thing thatBiden could say that would change my mind.
A lot of people know, Butthere are a lot of people who
haven't made up their mind, orthey watch the leftist media and everything they

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hear is filtered through that they needto hear Donald Trump. You know,
he's not the best debater in theworld, but he's a whole lot better
than Biden. But really it's thepolicies. They need to realize that we
need to talk about policies. Weneed to get away from the personalities,
we need to get away from therhetoric, and I'm glad they're having these
debates, but there's a good possibilitythat Biden will find some reason to back

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out at the last minute. Now, you've written four books on Trump,
so you probably have Steve's obviously studythe guy quite well. You know,
some of his news coverage is justbias from the leftist media. Some of
the problems he's had regarding women inthe way women view him and his demeanor
in his tweets. His problems arealso self inflicted. He's brought about some

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of these on his own and someof them have just been created out of
whole cloth. So you have amix of things. Do you think that
Trump Donald Trump is going to beable to soften his demeanor or become more
likable to those moderate voters, becauseevery poll data shows that he still struggles,
especially with the moderate women, thesoccer moms out there. It's still

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kind of an achilles heel for him. Do you think he's going to be
able to make the adjustment. Well, let's be clear about this. When
you meet Trump face to face,as I have when I interviewed him,
he's very likable and if he likesyou he's very, very winsome. Why
would one hundred thousand people more orless go to watch him in New Jersey,

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which is anything but a red state. You know, they love him,
They love the man. The thingis that she stands up to the
other side. Nobody, no otherRepublican stands up to the other side and
speaks truth, and they just goballistic. But there's also a double standard.
What about John Kennedy or Lyndon BainesJohnson in the White House? You

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know, all the stuff that theydid Bill Clinton, even stuff has come
out on Obama, nobody holds himto a standard and everything that Trump did
while as a Bible believing Christian,you know, I don't agree with those
standards. It was a long timeago, and he has said that he
has asked for forgiveness. I believethat he's accepted Christ in his own way.

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You know, he kind of keepsit quiet, but almost all the
politicians keep their religion very quiet,except for Biden, who's a Catholic and
espouses anything but Catholic values. Ijust think that there's a double standard the
left. The people who attack himof that they live in moral lifestyle themselves.

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If they point fingers at Trump.I think it's the height of hypocrisy,
and I think that people know intheir hearts that Trump is saying the
truth. But the left is justso intent on changing the narrative in this
country and changing our values. Imean, why would a speech at a
Catholic university be so controversial when they'rejust talking about things values that we all

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grew up with. But we havepeople wanting to change the definition of marriage,
the definition of as a man anda woman. I mean, it's
crazy. And Trump is the onlyperson strong enough to try to slow this
down or turn it around, andat least half the country once it turned
around. And I think a lotof other people are reasonable. There may

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be left wing on some policies,but overall the reasonable people and they don't
want the country to become this leftistnightmare. That will happen if the people
who are demonstrating for hamas and allthe other things we've been talking about actually
get their way and form the policies. We need more conservative policies, and

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Trump represents that, regardless of hispersonality. Steven Strang is my guest.
He's a CEO and founder of CharismaMedia, publishes the Charisma Magazine modern English
version of the Bible. They alsohave a Charisma House Publishing out there as
well. A lot of books,including seventeen New York Times bestsellers, have
come through the Charisma House Publishing company. And he's my guest here for just

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a few more moments. He's writtenfour books himself on Donald Trump. His
most recent is actually called Trump Aftershock. And you just mentioned this speech made
at the University of the Harrison Butker'sspeech, and I find that intriguing that
on Sunday we all gave our mother'scards and flowers and accolade from Hallmark and
American Greetings, talking about the bestpart of them being a mother in this

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sacrifice they made, in the commitmentthey made. Harrison Butker said, that's
a great value. And now we'recriticizing this kicker from the chiefs for saying
everything that was important on our mother'sDay card, now it's that we throw
it out of the window at aspeech in the hypocrisy of that's amazing.
It's a very tiny minority, butthey're a minority who have a megaphone,
and the few people that agree withthem magnify it again and again, most

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Americans do not believe that people really, you know, even a lot of
these leftists have just been hurt forsome reason. And I really think there's
a very deep longing for truth andfor traditionalism, and that's why people rally
to Donald Trump. There's a lotof things about him not to like,
uh, you know, which wehear again and again and again. But

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I believe that he's going to win. But I'm very concerned about this country
because we saw how crazy they wentin two sixteen when he won, and
he'll they'll be even crazier this timearound. You've written a book called Trump
Aftershock, and I know in thebook you talk about the kind of a
clash of worldviews. We're seeing thatwith Harrison Bucker right now, this clash

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of worldviews that happened in the schoolcampuses regarding the biology of men and women.
That we do have a class ofworld views, and it's a pretty
I guess it's a Defcom three orDefcom seven or def content. I mean,
it's off the charts right now,this clash of worldviews. Talk about
the importance of understanding that this isexactly where Rare and I come from.

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A faith perspective as you do.I don't leave me wrestling against flesh and
blood, but powers and principalis allthat stuff. But we're pretty serious times
right now. The clash of worldviewsis in. It's pretty distinct right now,
it absolutely is. And even peoplelike Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck are
saying there's something spiritual about all this. But you know what, for the

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last forty years, it hasn't beencool to bring up the Bible. That's
one of the reasons why Harrison gotin so much trouble. He was bringing
up the Bible. How dare someonebring up a religious book? But the
pendulum has got to swing the otherway. It's just got to our America
is over as we know it.And I believe that, for good,

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bad or ugly, that Donald Trumpis our best hope. And I hope
that people that are listening understand thatand see around all the rhetoric that's going
on, we have got to getback to the truth and to basic values
of right and wrong. And gladthere's people like you out there in the

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media who are trumpeting this far andwide. Stevens training to my guest again,
Charisma House. Charisma media and alsoCharisma House publishing his latest book about
Trump, He's written four of them, is called Trump Aftershock, And he's
my guest here for the next coupleof moments. You know, you said
something that I've never met Donald Trump, I've met his kids, I've never

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met him, But everybody says theDonald Trump that they had portrayed in the
media, that he's a very affableguy. Let me ask you a different
question about that, because you saidyou met him for the interviews of the
book. Is he aware that heis sometimes viewed as brash, sometimes viewed
as a bully, that sometimes histweets were not necessarily appreciated. You think
he has a I'm guessing he hasa pretty self aware out there. But

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give me your take. Is heunderstand that that there's an achilles heel as
I called it earlier, in certaindemographics, that maybe he needs to bridge
that gap with Of course he's selfaware. He wouldn't have made it in
New York real estate if he wastough, but if he wasn't also able
to cajole people and to negotiate andget them to do what he wanted to

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do. But do you know whyif he became mister Rogers, he wouldn't
be Donald Trump. We don't needmister Rogers. We need a strong leader.
Always in times of crisis, strongleaders have raised up, whether his
time of war or with Abraham Lincoln. I mean, there's a lot of
examples. You get. He's veryself aware. He knows what he's doing,

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and people need to see around allthe rhetorics that comes from the left.
And when I met him, Ihad a ten minute interview. He
was very respectful. I had hisattention. I had the opportunity to interview
George W. Bush with some otherjournalists, and George W. Bush was
looking at his watch the whole time. With Donald Trump, for those ten

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minutes, I had his attention.When I came into the interview, there
was some transition. He got himselfa bottle of water, and he offered
me a bottle of water, Andthere was no protocol that would have demanded
that. He was just being thoughtful. Of course, I told him no,
thank you, But I mean,right from the get go he was
being friendly and he gave me verythoughtful answers. I actually have the transcript

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in one of my books. Ithink Gone and Donald Trump and that was
my experience, and I was justone of many journalists. There was no
reason he needed to impress me.But I think that his true character was
coming out. I think he's anice guy. I think he's got deep
religious values, I really do.And I think he's good for America.

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And I'm just glad he's tough.Anybody else would have crumbled. And you
know what, if he was notrunning, there would not be one of
these trials, not one. Theydid this because he's running. Yeah,
Steven Strange, my guest, Steven, I'm almost out of time. I
love to have you back on anytime. The copy of the latest book written
for on Donald Trump. It's calledTrump Aftershocks through Charisma House Publishing. Where

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can folks in the last seconds oftime together, Where can they get a
copy of Trump Aftershock? They cango to my Charisma dot com or go
to Amazon dot com, My Charismadot com or Amazon dot com. Steven
Strain, thanks for all of thework you've done for many years. I'm
very familiar with Charisma and Charisma HousePublishing. God blesh. I look forward

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to having you back on Steven Strang, My Charisma dot com or Amazon.
The name of The book is calledTrump Aftershock. Everybody stand by. Lakey's
on the radio, Good Morning Colorado. Six hundred K cool