The Churchill Society of New Orleans, Rats Are Getting High, Bike Lanes and More!

Hy and Christopher are joined by Ben Capshaw of The Churchill Society of New Orleans to talk about teaching about how their 2024 essay contest keeps alive the memory of the great historical leader to high school students.

MORE INFORMATION: The Churchill Society of New Orleans

Then, Hy and Christopher move on to talk about “high rats” & a new NOPD headquarters, the practicality of bike lanes New Orleans East, the looming third-party challenges in the presidential race, and Chuck Schumer‘s criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu (and how it’s really criticizing the entire Israeli political structure) - yet we also observe that no one really knows what’s gonna happen in 2.3 million homeless Palestinians are crowded on the Gaza beaches with nowhere to go.

We even throw in a miracle at the end that is scientifically proven!

Episode Transcript

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Even as Biden and Trump get thenumber of delegates they need for their
respective party nominations, Robert F.Kennedy Junior is about to chose a running
mate. He's running at thirteen percent, and No Labels is right behind and

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looking at the upcoming legislative session.Jeff Landry is going after the jungle primary
again and closer to New Orleans.We're going to actually talk about bike pass
in New Orleans East and whether ornot they're the NPD deserves the new headquarters
because rats are eating all of themarijuana. All of that and more.
Garrett Graves and the am bill andthe fact that Mike Johnson thinks there's going

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to be a bill going off forUkraine very shortly. Chuck Schumer's problem is
not with net and dal you inIsrael, and this and a little look
into the essays on Winston Churchill.All this and more on this edition of
the Founder's Show, And God blessyou all out there. You are now
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Chaplain Hi mcenry. Who Christopher Tidmore, you're roving reporter, resident radical moderate

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and associate editor of the Louisiana Weeklyat Louisiana Weekly dot com. But before
we get into any of the politicalissues we were talking about briefly, we
need to turn to a wonderful opportunityfor high school students here, not only
in the New Orleans area, butfor out Louisiana and Mississi. Scholarly though
scholarly thoughts, but not so muchlove. One of the great heroes of
all time, Winston Churchill, Ohmy goodness. And we're joined by Ben

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Capshaw. He's a board member,as we like to call it, cabinet
member of the Winston Churchill Society ofNew Orleans, and he's in charge of
the high school essay contest. AndI can tell you hi, having done
the high school, having been incharge of the high school essay contest,
Ben has done more in a monththan I've been I did in three years.
He's absolutely exceptional getting kids to signup. And you've spread this message

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about this essay contest where the firstprize is fifteen hundred dollars and there's cash
prizes all the way down on writingan essay and in Winston Churchill. Tell
us Ben, what is the howdoes the essay contest work? Well,
first of all, the Churchill Societyhas been in existence for twenty years and
for the last seventeen years the societySociety has sponsored an annual essay contest and

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the purpose of that is to encourageyoung people to learn more about Sir Winston
Churchill and thereby to absorb some ofhis wisdom, his courage, and his
masterful use of the English language.And like you said, there are some
very generous cash prizes. We havea first place prize of fifteen hundred dollars.

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And incidentally, these are paid incash, these aren't scholarships. Second
place prize is five hundred dollars andthe third place prize is two hundred and
fifty dollars. And in addition,the teacher of the first place winner will
also receive five hundred dollars. That'sincredible. And if there are five or

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more entries from a particular school andnone of them qualify as first, second,
or third place winners, then thebest entry from that school will receive
an award of one hundred dollars.Over the years, there have been winners
from Ben Franklin, Saint Martin's NewmanJesuit, a New Orleans Military and Maritime,

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Northlake Christian, and so many others, and a lot of homeschoolers as
well. And this year there's apretty compelling topic for this essay contest,
Ben, could you share that withus? Sure? The topic this year,
and I'm going to quote it sothat I get completely correctly. Quote
Churchill mused as he took the helmof Britain in May nineteen forty. Quote,

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I felt as if I were walkingwith destiny, and that all my
past life had been but a preparationfor this hour and this trial. I
remember that whatught for some and thisis the mission? What were some experiences
that prepared him? And why washe the right man to take the job.

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So that is the say talk,and this is for all high school
students. It is open to everyhigh school student, not just in the
nature New Orleans area in Louisiana,Mississippi. And in order to find out
more about the essay contest and submitit, they can go to our website.
If they're not mistaken for the ChurchillSociety could give out that website if
you would, okay, It isChurchill Society New Orleans dot com, all

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one, all one word, ChurchillSociety, New Orleans dot com. And
on there it has a special sectionfor the essay contest and it gives all
the rules. And I just wantedto point out to Clare to amplify what
you just said. We have.Last year we had forty four entries and

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five area high schools were represented,two high schools in Mississippi. And we
have three homeschoolers, two from Mississippiand one from Texas. And our winner
last year was a homeschooler from southernMississippi. Second place was a home schooler
from Austin, Texas. And thirdplace was a tie between a student from

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Jesuit High School here in New Orleansand another student from Long Beach High School
in Mississippi. Wow, that isincredible. And Ben Capshaw is joining us.
He's a board member of the ChurchillSide of New Orleans. The Churchill
Side New Orleans is not just aplace that discusses history. It tries to
get the message of how the lifeof Sir Winston Churchill not only changed the

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world but remains an example for youngpeople. I mean to this day,
Churchill, you know, the greatwordsmith, the great military leader, the
great military hero. That's almost likewhen you read about him in the Boer
War, in the River War.It's like you're reading about Indiana Jones sometimes
and then but the point that's interestingof the Cuban, the Cuban or any

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of this, or the Northwest Frontierin Pakistan. Whenever you read this,
you got to remember Churchill. Benwhat always fascinates me, was not a
genius in school. He almost failedout of school. He was somebody who
had to work harder than most people, and yet he was the man who
saved the world, and he remainsan example of overcoming and becoming that we

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try to use as an example andone of the points you're making in this
wonderful essay contest, well, onelittle interesting note. He didn't do well
in school, and therefore he wasnot allowed to take Latin. He had
to take English, which was forthe not so bright students, and as

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a result, he put all thefell in love with the English language,
and he then became what he ultimatelybecame, the wordsmith and excellent writer that
we know, the major demo ofthe English language. The men who took
the English language and sent it towar, and ladies and gentlemen. How

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did he become walking with destiny?That's the subject. The more information is
available at Churchill Societynew Orleans dot com. And for the adults listening in that
audience, of course, you canjoin the Churchill Society at Churchill Sidingnew Orleans
dot com. We've got two eventscoming up, one this very week on
Wednesday night that is open to membersif you join the Churchill Society. It

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is free. If you join theChurchill Society on Churchill's experiences in the River
War. It is in a fantasticevening that is available, or all you
have to do is join Churchill SocietyNew Orleans dot com. And another one.
We actually will have what we callwine, Wit and Wisdom in the
beginning and in the beginning of May. And that is not only where we

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share Churchill quotes, but actually thewinners of this concept contest ben will be
able to read their essays before someof the most distinguished people in New Orleans.
This is great. I just acouple of comments. One is that
I was throwed out to hear aboutthe home schools because it was very involved
in the homeschool movement from the verybeginning of it. And I want you
to know my first knowledge of churchHill came from a very brilliant kid that

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was one of my best friends.We were the same class, same age,
but he was homeschool before he everwent to kindergarten first grade, and
by the time he was eight yearsold, he was reading and digesting and
pontificating on English metaphysical literature. Theguy was uncanny, and a lot of
that came from his homeschooling experience beforehe ever got any kind of formal education.

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And my first knowledge of Churchill camefrom him, and it thrilled me
when I learned about him. Iwas six years old. The other's got
to be the greatest man that everlived. It's been a real education since
The contest is open not just tohomeschoolers in Louisiana, Misissippi, but from
around the region as well, sobecause it's not geographic, it's another point
about our society here. We area young society. I mean, Churchill

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site has been around for long andmaybe close to eighty years or something.
We're new, but never and Iwas one of I wasn't Christopher, I
believe you were a charter member.I can well, okay, I came
to a couple of years after itstarted, so I'm an old, old
member. But what I've noticed overthe years is that we have risen to
be maybe the number one rated chapterin the entire world for many reasons,

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because of the speakers we get,because there's the size of our club,
and also because of the amazing partieswe put on. People come to this
thing from all around the world justto come to our parties. Folks,
I mean, this is a hotorganization. You better check it out and
go to the website and join anytimeyou want. The Churchill Society was founded
twenty years ago by Hill Riddle,Ted Martin and Bill Reeves, and it

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has grown been, as it canattest, to the largest Churchill chapter of
the International Churchill Society in the world. And why I was speaking about Churchills
And we're getting ready to conclude thisconversation, but hopefully we can go a
little longer. I'd like to putin my final or not my final,
but maybe almost my final comments here. And it's about Churchill as a wordsmith
and his great knowledge of the Englishlanguage and English grammar. One of my

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favorite quotes is, Madam, insolenceis something up with which I will not
put Now. That's good grammar.Sounds a little weird, but that is
proper. It's also very humorous,so I love that one too. Yeah.
Ben Capshaw has been joining us fromthe Churchill Society of New Orleans.
He's talking about high school essay contest, which you can find out more information

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if and ladies and gentlemen, let'slet's talk your children, your grandchildren.
They are open to get into thiscontest. There is plenty of time.
Ben, When is the deadline toturn in the essays. Well, it's
actually a little over three weeks fromnow, it's April the eighth. But
we we usually don't get our bulkof our entries until the very last week

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because most students put it off untilthe last minute. So there's still plenty
of time. So we've got it. It's it's not a long paper.
It's it's it's it's an essay.No, the in fact, it can't
be more than a thousand words,so uh, it's five hundred to one
thousand words, is over we're lookingfor. So it's we're not looking for
long, a long dissertation. Itis so folks, fifteen hundred a thousand

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word essay, fifteen hundred dollars firstprize and for second and third prizes,
and the hundreds of dollars. Getyour children, your grandchildren to enter.
They can find out more at ChurchillSocietynew Orleans dot com. And they get
to present their essays. They ifthey so choose, if they were one
of the victors before the Churchill Society'sannual Wine Witten Wisdom Meeting at the beginning

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at the end of April, beginningof May. But Ben Capshaw, thank
you so much for joining us,give us one more time, give out
the essay topics if somebody is interested. Churchill mused as he took the helm
of Britain in May nineteen forty quote, I felt as if I were walking
with destiny, and that all mypast life had been but a preparation for

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this hour and this trial. Whatwere some experiences that prepared him? And
why was he the right man totake the job? Perfect to more information
at Churchill Societynew Orleans dot com.Bencapshaw, thank you so much for joining
us. We found to show anyother contact information for Ben, Ben.
Would you do you have any othercontact information? Do you like that if
I can be reached at My phoneis five four seven four nine nine nine

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and my email is bcap zero threeone zero four seven at gmail. Thank
you, Ben, Ben Capshaw,thank you for joining us. We'll be
back with more of the Founder's showhere in w R and O and w
SLA after these important matches. Staytuned whereas we develop into the topics.
The presidential race is right on itsway. But what will R FK Junior

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Founders So and I want to tellyou something. New Orleans has a great
reputation for having fun. We arethe party city of America, and we
are so strong in this area thateven our rats know how to party dot.
Do you realize that New Orleans hasthe only intoxicated rats in all of
America? Christopher, you know somethingabout that. I got to tell you,

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Hi, McHenry, it's our ratsknow how to get high. Oh
what can they say? Party rats? Party rats, folks. Before we
get before we get into the presidentialrace, we got we gotta address the
punch line that's been going through atthe Broad Street NPD headquarters. The rats
got into the evidence room and they'rethey're so prevalent. They were eating to

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marijuana and so everybody's been laughing aboutthis. So the criminals are getting off.
There's no evidence, there's no evidence. It's the you dirty rats.
Well in this case literally, butof course they were cutting their supply.
They had to save those drug dealers. So there how they're gonna keep going
and they don't get the drugs.So the subtext of this is why you're
hearing about this entire story, isn OPD wants to move their headquarters seventeenth

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and eighteenth floors of the old FreeportMacmaran building, and they're gonna they want
to rent those floors about forty eightthousand square foot for seventy for about seven
million dollars. It ends up beingabout sixteen dollars sixteen bucks a square foot,
which is actually not that expensive.But one of the questions I keep
getting was, well, couldn't shebuild a building with the mortgages seven million

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dollars per year? Isn't that?Couldn't you just like build a building for
that amount? Couldn't you do that? And so I was looking at this,
and my publisher in at Hall andI were kind of looking at the
proposal, and I said, well, you need forty eight thousand square feet
for the offices and so on andso forth, and she brought up,
well, what if you're trying totalk to like a detective or something waiting
for an elevator, where you geta park? My question was, I

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said, well, I guess they'regonna put the evidence floor up there.
Now we find out that the evidenceroom will not be in the new headquarters,
I'm even sure how that works.They're going to try to find another
place to put all the marijuana sothe rats could get it there. I'm
not miss my point being that,yes, NLPD is their Broad Street headquarters
is in desperate need. I mean, the place is unsalable. It would

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cost thirty fifty million dollars whatever,a ridiculous amount of money to try to
fix it up. But I'm watchingthis whole disaster area of a conversation about
where NPD's headquarters, and I startedasking myself the question. I said,
if you could to spend seven milliondollars, which is more than the city
spends for all of its offices aroundthe region, it's about three or four

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million dollars less than the state spendsin Louisiana, then is this the best
opportunity. Oliver Thomas, the councilmanfrom New Orleans East, former council president,
basically said, now, I don'tthink this is the right option.
But En Kirkpatrick, the new headof the NPD, the new superintendent,
points out that, you know,you got to have a headquarters that people

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want to be in where the ratsaren't coming out, and whether spending seven
million dollars on an office building notto buy it, just to rent two
floors a million, So it endsup being sixteen dollars a square foot,
which is actually a competitive are.Basically it's forty eight thousand when you factor
in all the square foot and itworks out to about seven million per year.

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And so the question is is thatthe best bang for our buck right
now? An OPD is at ahistoric low force level a little over eight
hundred we as recently as fifteen yearsago, we had sixteen hundred NLPDU forces.
They're saying that right now they cannotremodel the current So no, it's

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it's it's it's what you're really nicefor, say, to go to They
can if everyone left and they guttedthe place, but it would be so
many millions of dollars for a buildingthat has no historical I mean, it's
it's it's a pretty ugly building.Yeah, after the argument is in Niceville,
I used to, like I say, I used to visit there and
I used to use the gym whenI was on the Blue Knights football team,
which was nlpd's football I used toteam in the country. How long

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ago, semi pro? Oh,this was back in the eighties fist.
Well, that's my point, youknow. And by the way, for
those that say, you know it'sin the eighties, oh, twenty years
ago, I hate to tell youthis because I this occurs. It's forty
years ago. It's forty years ago, years ago. And that's the last
time. It was the beginning ofthe nineteen eighties of the last time any
infrastructure work was done in this building. So you had a good gym,
a good workout gym. Well,and so this is one of the questions,

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what is the best one of thethings we're wondering is one of the
best use of money right now.We have a lot of downtown buildings.
I'm even I'd even be open tobuying the Freeport Macmaran building and moving all
of city Hall into it. Ithink that would be maybe a good idea.
It's in a good condition. We'vetalked about but why are we doing
want two floors? And is thisthe best area to access the police force?

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And that's one of the questions that'scoming out in new in there,
and it leads to a bigger questionhigh about use of money. And I
was trying to debate this. Inmy head. New Orleans East was always
the promise that you could have asuburban living in the city of New Orleans.
But post Katrina, even before that, it's undergone some severe urban problems.

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So we just the city just gotsixty one million dollars under the Infrastructure
Bill to put to try to increasewalkability and particularly bike paths under the Interstate
in New Orleans East. And thatfundamentally is something that draw that's supposed to
draw people, and usually does fora neighborhood. But I'm wondering if sixty
one million dollars in New Orleans Eastis going to make that much of a

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difference. And I don't mean tosound callous, I'm curious our bike paths
in New Orleans East is really goingto be used. I mean, they're
playing people with bicycles. This soundsreally pejorative and almost racist, and I
apologize in advance because I don't meanthat at all. But right now,
New Orleans East is sparsely populated,and the question is is this the best

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bang for our buck with a sixtyone million people will say, well,
it's federal money, so we don'thave to spend it. We still have
to match part of it, andit raises a bigger issue. Do we
spend our money the most effective ways? In New Orleans, we seem to
spend the money when we need somethingas an emergency, but we don't look
at the long term implications, whetherit's at headquarters or a bike path.

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And you know, Christopher, becauseNorth's East is maybe the crime center of
the city right now, where mostof the crimes. I mean it's all
over the city, but it's moreconcentrated Nords East. I don't know that
people would want to use quiet,peaceful, lowly populated bike paths because it
could be very dangerous. That's wherethey would be hanging out, waiting for
some bicycles to come by easy takedown. But then again, it was because

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New Orleans's used to be a verysuccessful suburban neighborhood, and we have seen
neighborhoods in Orleans transform themselves. Gentiliused to be a pretty rough neighborhood twenty
five years ago before Katrina. Nowit is essentially Uptown South or Uptown North.
It has become a highly gentrified highlyvibrant neighborhood. Its Lakeview has essentially

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gone all the way into Gentilly.So that's sort of the promise. As
housing costs have gotten so absurd inthe city it cost eight hundred thousand dollars
to buy a two bedroom house uptownthat the fact is New Orleans East could
be if you build the bike paths, if you build that level, the
ideas people will start reinvesting in thecommunity. And I get that, and

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and it's it's I've been weighing thiskind of argument because you don't want people.
You don't want to say, well, it's a crime living things,
let's let's wash your hands of it. You're trying to contribute to it.
But it's one of those things thatwhere how are we spending our money in
this city? What do we whatdo we do? What are I'll give
you an example. A lot ofpeople were talking about the bike paths we're

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talking about bypass here that were builtin Jefferson along Severn, and I asked,
I said, I don't have aproblem with these really beautiful bike paths,
Well, except they started and endednowhere. They started at Veterans,
they ended at the levee and Isaid, well, why do just connect
them to the levee and that intoand then into the bike the path that
went down Bonnible. They've got agreat bike path on the levee on the

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west west. Well, but here'sbut here's the thing. The reason why
it was not connected is because peoplein the neighborhoods didn't want bike paths.
So there's a flip side to thisargument. Some people are like, look
at bike paths as at best aa danger to traffic and at worst a
way people come into their neighborhoods thatthey don't want, which is I think

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I've always thought, you trust me, if somebody wants to come into your
neighborhood, they'll find a car.It's still right, right. I've always
thought that was they steal cars.They've got all cars they want. They
don't know. But it's it's oneof those questions that we don't really have
a master plan, even though we'vespent all this time doing a master plan
for the neighborhood, we don't reallythink about how we spend our money,
how we spend our time and somethingin it, you know, hy mc

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kenry, Christopher Tidmore here in thefounder show try to bring up but speaking
of spending their time on Tuesday,the presidential race, at least for the
Republicans and Democrats, were set.Georgia ended up being the place where both
Trump and Biden got the requisite numberof delegates they needed for their nominations.
But another interesting thing happened on thatsecond Super Tuesday. Robert F. Kennedy

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Junior, who's running it thirteen percentin the national polls. So let me
explain this. That is stronger thanany third third party presidential candidate since Ross
Perro. That is a serious,serious days it would call up right now.
He's gotten on the ballot in Georgia, in Michigan, in Arizona,
in several key states. He's onhis way to being on enough ballots to

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affect the presidential race. He wouldqualify for the debates if we have a
presidential Commission debates. He announced heis going to choose his vice presidential candidate
by the twenty sixth of March.Trump and Biden, well, Biden already
has Kamala Harris, but Trump's he'llcome out for RNIS and then no Labels
meeting, said they will come upwith a potential presidential candidate by the middle

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of April. And right now,I mean they're talking about the lieutenant governor
of Georgia. But there's I'm hearingthat there are actually a few candidates that
could of sufficient weight that may makethis interesting. Could this be a four
way presidential race? No Labels islooking for a Republican to top their ticket
RFK Juniors. Of course, youknow Kennedy. He's a Democrat and he's

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looking for a Republican running made ora Libertarian running mate he'd like to be
on this. You also have CornellWest on the left, who's still part
of this. And so we're lookingat when seventy percent of the country has
said they don't want either Trump orBiden. Every single poll says basically it
parks on both of your houses.Is it possible that we are now looking

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at a presidential race where, frankly, it could break through. There could
be a breakthrough. I mean we'vesaid this time and time again. Set
it with Piro, we set itwith George Wallace, said it John Anderson
in nineteen eighty. Could this bethe year that you actually see everything pushed
into states that haven't been competitive indecades be competitive? I don't know.

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It's something to analyze. And inthat context, everything in Washington High is
kind of in this weird position.One thing happened this week that a lot
of people didn't pay it time tobut they should have is ken Buck.
He's a Republican from Colorado. Hewas part of the original five that took
down McCarthy. He's a conservative member. He had announced he was going he

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was going to not run again atthe end of his term. Well,
he announced this week that he'll beout of Congress by Palm Sunday, which
means that leaves Mike Johnson with amajority of exactly one yeah, one person,
and that means basically that he hasto make some compromises. And the
compromise he came out with this weekis he's going to put a Ukraine bill

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on the floor. The question iswhat which bill? And the reason he's
doing it is because he was facingan exit petition from the Democrats. He
was hesitant to do it. Hewanted a bill that involved some kind of
border controls. One came up withit, which was not only the Senate
bill, but a House bill thatactually would have put Title forty two and

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remain in Mexico in law. Andwhat happened was Marjorie Taylor Green and some
of the people on the right saidthey would oppose that bill, which was
Trump's policy, because it included fundingfor Ukraine. And Johnson's basically said,
wait, we said we'd put abill protecting it. This actually has about
eight or nine Democratic votes. Itwould make the difference while are you opposing

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it? And it was just thispurest position that you put on anything on
the floor. I posed he's finallygiven up. He's thrown in this that
he said, look, we're goingto do it, but it requires a
two thirds majority to be what's calledthe suspension of the rules in the House.
This is inside US House Representatives baseball. But if he does that,
we could actually see a Ukraine billcome out on the floor, an Israel

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bill come out on the floor,and potentially a border bill, all in
the next couple of weeks. Thequestion is, can you get two thirds
of the House of Representatives to agreeto any of those factors? And I
don't know, you can't get twothirds of Americans to agree on anything these
days. I don't think you gettwo thirds of Americans degree that on Apple
pie or baseball or what or MickeyMouse. I don't it's it's impossible.

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So we'll see how all this playsout. But I gotta tell you the
most interesting thing I watched was onThursday. Did you see Chuck Schumer's speech?
No? I didn't. Okay,you didn't miss much. Yeah,
I heard a little bit about it, but I didn't say anything. Well,
Schumer came on the floor and hetalked about the word his name,

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Schumer being the Hebrew word for protectoror guardian, and that he had been
a friend of Israel, and essentiallyhe essentially came out and said, you
know, he supported the Israeli movesin the Gaza, what happened in October
sixth was the killing of children,and then basically turned around October seventh.
October seventh, sorry, but thenturned around and said that Israel needs a

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new government of nett and Tayu hasgone too far and you need a two
state solution. What was interesting aboutthe speech was it was pretty much an
anti net In Hoalia speech. Andlook, if you got a problem with
Beb fine, I can see thathe's not an easy person to get along
with. The problem is, ifyou know anything about Israeli politics right now,
he's got a war cabinet's comprised ofthe left and the right, Benny

(30:06):
Gantz yell Apid, who is actuallythe Defense minister. The fact is there
is no opposition in Israel to goin in Aratha and to go into southern
Gaza's. And I ask yourself tothink about this for a second. If
you Israel lost almost basically half asmany people as we lost in nine to

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eleven, but when you're a countryof six million people as much higher percentage
of the population, we leveled Iraqand Afghanistan for it, right, I
mean, we went to war withtwo countries to ask the Israelis to stop
before Hamas is taken out. Mayhave international support. I'm getting all this
stuff, but it's kind of likeI watch this thing and said, this

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is against Nett and Nau and it'spolitically it's probably only thing Schumer could say
because he's caught in the middle becausethe Democratic Party increasingly has you know,
it is becoming anti Zionist, ifnot anti Semitic. And I don't think
that the Democrats are any Semitic,I think, but the idea of Israel
being able to things. It's it'samazing, it's amazing to equate Israel with

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Russia. But that's how people aredoing it, and it's it's wrong because
you know, we would if thisposition were reversed, we would we would
go after terrorists till there was nobodyleft, and we did. And so
I'm watching this whole situation Washington.Everything, this entire vote for Mike Johnson
and on Ukraine and Israel is nowin the context of what happens in southern
Gaza and the Frankly and this ideaof Biden putting a dock in to bring

(31:37):
in two million meals a day.No, I mean that's because it kills
some people when he did an airdrop. This guy's gotta now quite a
capability of killing our friendly Say,you can't bring in that much food by
air drops. That's two million mealsa day, bringing much more on it
is. Let me let me putthis in context. Two million meals a
day is three times what we broughtin in the Berlin airlift. I mean,

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it's a huge amount. But theidea that the Pentagon came in and
said put a dock in there,it will require a thousand US troops to
people on the ground, and youhave to distribute the food. The thing
that nobody was talking about is thefact that the Israelies notting value, but
the entire spectrum from the left ofthe right are opposed to this. Didn't
gods already have a harbor? Guysare for the most part, doesn't.

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It's it should have. We've spentso much money in Gaza. Gaza.
One of the things people forget.Gaza is basically today an open air prison.
But it's basically it's about the samesize as Singapore by their own hands
or a person well. But thefact is Gaza could have been an economic
boom, being on the being onthe med and has spent all their money

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on tunnels and military weapons and whatnotand rockets to destroy Israel if they just
spent some of that money on positivethings. But they didn't. It all
went for the bad stuff. Wejust gave them a whole lot of money
to create terrible things. But thereis one criticism that comes in, and
the criticism on this is what isthe endgame of this? Not just of
Gauza, but everybody's going to theTwo States solution. I got news for

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you Israel is not going to agreeto a situation that's going to put Hamas
or Hamas like body back into astrategic position. The reason why the Palestinian
authority is still in power in Fada, you know right now Munda Boss is
on the twenty ieth year or nineteenthyear of a four year term, is
because everybody's afraid of putting terrorists incharge, and they're afraid of the alternative,

(33:29):
which is essentially you have a onestate solution and Palestinians and Israeli has
become one state and guess what youend up with a population that's about fifty
to fifty and the Jewish state doesn'tlike that either. So what is the
end of it? And the answeris nobody knows except genetically. The Palestinians
like to say that they're descended fromthe Canaanites, they predate the Israelis.

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No, most of the genetic informationsays they're they're descending from No, no,
no, They're not Arabics. They'rePhoenicians. They have the same basic
breakdown as the Phoenicians. And interesting, unfortunately, there is a there's a
rather notable Phoenician city that is goinggoing exactly what goz is going. It
was called carthage, right and rightnow it's Godza delendio st because there's not

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going to be anything two thirds ofthe properties and gods that have been destroyed.
Once Rafa is crowded, there willliterally be no standing structures in two
and a half million people. Whatdo you do then? And I have
no idea how do you rebuild?How do you rebuild when you're afraid?
When you get walls around, youcan't even get food in. What do
you do? We go? We'rethe ones that go and do it.

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And Israel probably helped to also.And by the way, the Jews.
You know, collateral damage is oneof the horrifying things of war. Up
and war folks, and I knowhow terrible war is. And then one
of the worst things of all iscollateral damage. That means you're shooting at
something to hit a lethal target,and yet when it's hit hits they are

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innocent people nearby who get injured orkilled or whatever, and that's called collidal
damage. Or their house goes downeven though it wasn't supposed to go down.
And so, and the U.S. Militar is very strong about
protecting the population. I know becauseI did that the US military operation Chris
would listen to me. Okay,but we did train the Jews and they
followed much of our training. They'rebetter than anything I've ever seen done by

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the US militar First of all,they send emails text messages to all the
inhabitants of the area they're going toattack, saying there's an attack coming,
police clear the area, and thenthey send drop leaflets everywhere saying the same
thing. It's like a day beforethe attack, maybe two days. And
then and then right before the attack, like ten minutes, they drop a

(35:42):
little tiny bomb on top of thebuilding that is like a big giant fire
cracker. Doesn't hurt anybody, buteverybody hears it. And what that means
in ten minutes, that building's comingdown. You better get out of it.
And you know who's on the groundfloor, the plow, the you
know, the militant terrorists, hamas. But I want to make sure people
know that they're terrorts. Some peopledon't know that, and this is amazing.

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People are not. I'm serious,you'd be surprised. But by the
way, my point is, thesemilitant terrorists, Palistinian terraces and of course
Christopher gave the name, gave usa name. Hamas are surrounding the building,
guns loaded, telling anybody that comesout that Bill is gonna get shot
down. So the poor people aredriven and held into the building by the
terrorists, and then they want toblame the Jews to this. If they

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follow all of this, that meansit has to just let this sept this
sewer of evil and darkness and violencegrow there. They've got to go in
and take it out. He's justlike we had to do. We did
it world War two. Uh,we did it, and recently, like
Christmas talking about in Iraq and otherplaces during the war and terror. So
folks, we don't really get achoice, and they don't get a choice

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on this. Well, and it'svery tragic that their own people are the
ones who are really killing them.It is not the Israelis. Well,
here's what it comes down to.One point eight million people have been displaced,
yeah, right there already, andthat's the largest population displacement since the
Second World War. I'm not surprised. I mean even in counting Sub Saharan
Africa with tens of thousands of peoplein tribal warfare, by this time,

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by if we're fall, if we'reoff a and the in southern Gaza is
taken on which it looks like itwill be in the next few days.
The fact is we're going to seetwo point three million people put into an
area roughly the size, if youwant to be precise, of Lakeview.
I mean, we're not talking abouta huge area. We're talking about maybe

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the coastal area of New Orleans beforeyou get to Gentilly. It is going
to be horror with no food,no kids, and all of that may
be necessary to get rid of Hamas. The question is what then, Because
these rallies have made it very clearthe it's the reason I brought the bridge.
They don't want anybody else going in, including us, and they said
absolutely not. And there's no Americanattitude for foots on the ground, despite

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what Biden say. And because ofthat, who brings in the materials to
rebuild it? There is no one. The Egyptians have closed the border.
Their friends are not their friends,their Islamic friends are not there. Well.
First of all, Might and inNieja want nothing to do with the
situation, right, And so whathappens is you got two point three million
people starving in an area the sizeof basically buck Town to Gentili and Chris.

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So let's say about this. ThePalestinians and back when Israel was established
as a nation, were considered bythe other Arab nations and Islamic nations as
being like from the wrong side ofthe tracks. They were real racists toward
the Palestinians. They didn't like them. They looked down on them, and
they were quite happy to see thembeing so mauled and torn up, and

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they didn't care until they could usethem as pawns in their game. Then
all of a sudden they were goingto back the Palestinians, and they built
a refugee camps where these were militarytraining bases to train terrorists. That's what
they did. That's the only youththey had for the Palestinians. It's one
of the greatest tragedies in the twentiethcentury, and it's an ongoing tragedy to
this day. And all. Rememberthey don't like Never forget, the other

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Arab nations and Islamic nations around themdo not like the Palestinians because they consider
them to be on the wrong sideof the tracks beneath their dignity. They
do not like them. They practicethe extreme types of social condescension against them.
Well, the fact is they're nottaking the Palestinians in And the question

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is a proven point. Yeah,I mean, I mean that comes to
it. The question is will anybodyThere have been a couple of South American
countries that have expressed an interest,But for the most part, what I'm
getting at is what no one's talkingabout. And I might as well come
out and say it is. Theendgame of the Israeli assault in Southern Gauza
is the fact that you can havetwo point three million people in a small

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space that has no coverage houses.That we're talking about ethnic cleansing, good,
bad, or indifferent, whether it'sintended. I don't think the Israelis
in hinted that, but I thinkthat's the only way you can destroy.
I'm not blaming them. I don'tknow how else you destroy. No,
I don't know how well I understand. But what I'm saying is there's an
ethnic cleansing. There's not gonna beany buildings left. In fact, your

(40:13):
new practices ethnic cleansing the Palestinians thatthe Hamas big time. No, they
got to kill every If they're goingto follow the Karin, they have to
kill everything. They have to do. If there was a case of ethnic
cleansing, that's it right. Firstof all, as you know, hobbyism
is not conventional Islam, you knowbetter than anybody. No, it's following
the Karan literally, yeah, literally, Okay, I follow the Bible literally

(40:34):
right, stop it much better.My point being, if there's no buildings
left, and you have a peopleand their only choice is to somehow leave
to eat, which is the endof this, and we and you cleared
the area of people, what doyou call that? You call it the
tragedy of war, Christopher, that'swhat you call it. That's exactly what

(40:59):
you call it. I'm saying citizenson Okinawa went and jumped off the cliffs,
the Japanese. That was a greattragedy. We didn't make them do
it, but because of their culturethey did it. That was a great
tragedy. But it wasn't like somethingwe wanted to see. We weren't trying
to ethnically clean the island of theGia. If I were, if I
were an Ideaf commander is Raeli DefenseForce commander, I would be going after

(41:19):
Hamas the only way that they're doing. And so I'm in this same you've
said that, my point being thatit's not I don't think what is what
we are not talking about in theWest is the fact that there will be
no place for these people to livein Gaza. Yeah, and I'm sorry,
I know the term is so polarized, but basically because once the once

(41:40):
they leave, once they leave Gaza, do you think these Raelis will let
them back? What do you callthat? I wouldn't be surprised that no,
you call that good defense. Mypoint. You call that keeping your
people safe, do you understand?And it keeps them safe? You know,
the worst place for these poor palletCitians to live is there now control.
This is what I'm getting at.They're not a free people. It's

(42:02):
a small group of terrorists, acontrol on the main population who aren't supporting.
What I'm getting at in the lastminute is this. Listen to me,
I'm Asking's fault. It's not theirfault, it's Hamas's fault. Listen,
I'm asking you for something. OnceHamas is just no hold it.
Once Hamas is destroyed and there's nobuildings left standing in Goza, which is

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what it's going to end up happening, because we saw it in the North
and it's gonna have this house ofthe season. Why you do it?
What are you going to What areyou going to do with this people?
Christopher us in the West, That'sjust it. Nobody has any answer of
what happens except for them to leave. And that is the one thing that
nobody is acknowledging. And it's notjust tragedy. It is something that will

(42:43):
stain the Israeli reputation in the worldfor the next generation. No. Yeah,
well with staining the people's reputations whatthey did to the Jews that started
this whole nightmare scenario. Have youbeen paying attention to the news, Yes,
very much so I got news foryou. I get one of the
things that the Biden administration wants todo something is to ask the question what's

(43:04):
next, not whether you can builda dock to bring food to people who
will be starving on a beach.And to be honest with you, folks,
I don't think anybody on any sideof any political spectrum, right or
left is answered that question. Folks, will be back with pre yeah right.
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chaplain by by patriotic moment. Wewould just take a brief moment to remind
you of the biblical foundations of ourcountry, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And

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today we want to talk about,of all wonderful people, Sir Winston Churchill,
who had a very quiet but neverthelessvery deep belief in God, Christopher.
What do you know. I'm gonnalet Chrisopher do this because he is
the Churchill expert. And remember itfor those that say, well, he's
not an American, he was halfAmerican. He covers his mother, Jenny
Jerome, is from New York.He was very love coffee versus tea.

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He's not very British, he said, well tea, he said, that's
something my wife drinks, so anyway, but he loved other things besides coffee.
A little bit more excellent. ButWinston Churchill, it's worth remembering,
took a stand after the First WorldWar that was not incredibly popular in the
Middle East, and that was theestablishment of the state of Israel. The
battlefour Declaration nineteen seventeen had said thereshould be a national homeland of the Jews.

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But it was just a statement untilhe became Colonial Secretary after the First
World War and said that the Jewishpeople should have their own land. And
he actually went to Israel March twentysixth, nineteen twenty one and said planet
a Trea what would become Hebrew University, and said, my heart is full
of sympathy for Zionism. The establishmentof a Jewish national home in Palestine will

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be a blessing to the whome world. It is manifestly right that the Jews
should have a national home where someof them may be. Where else could
that be but in this land ofPalestine, which for more than three thousand
years they have been intimately and profoundlyassociated so powerful folks. By the way,
that is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. What he did right there,

(47:13):
and he went on, we don'thave time a quota. But he went
on to say several times he didn'ttalk a lot about God. He was
quite about a typical Episcopaalian type,you know, Church of England Anglican,
but occasionally he let out some thingsthat made it very clear that he believed
that Biblical values were the key tothe great success of the West of Europe

(47:35):
and of course of America. Andso there we go more evidence that America
had very powerful biblical foundations, eventhough it was given to us right there
by a foreigner, Winster Churchill.But he did impact America enormously and has
to this day. Well, folks, you know what, you can know
all these things, You could bethe greatest patriots that ever lived, the

(47:57):
biggest biblical patriots that ever lived.So what good does it all do you?
If you die and go to hell, It does you no good,
folks. And so right now we'regoing to take just a brief moment to
mind you and show you how youcan know that. You know that,
you know you're safe from Helen,you're guaranteed heaven. And it all comes
down to Jesus. It's all abouthim, folks, because he's a guy
who did it. He's the onewho took the wrath of God upon himself

(48:21):
on the cross, which is tooenormous for me to even try to describe.
We're all the sins of the worldfor the entire history of the world,
past sins and future sins, sinsthat heavenue been committed. He took
them all on himself. The Bibblesays, they went into him he was
turning into sin, and then hepaid for all that sin. His blood
has washed away all of our sinsbecause of that. I mean, from

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the day you're born, in theday you die, you Titians, to
your greatest sins have been bought andpaid for by Jesus. When he died,
he said to tell stay, andthat meant so a Greek word,
accounting word that meant paid in full. When you paid your bill off,
they'd stamp it with that and itwould say, Okay, his bill's paid.
It's paid in Folks, you don'thave a sin problem. You have
a belief problem. Because it's yourlack of belief. You're failed. You're

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to believe these truths that will damnyour soul to hell. You know,
the Bible says, believe on theLord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved. Folks, all you gottado is believe that Jesus really did die
for all your sins, I meanall of them, that he was buried,
and that he rose from the deadto win for you his precious free
gift of resurrection. Everlasting life isone other thing you have to believe,

(49:29):
and you actually do that first.Jesus kept saying repent and believe repentance is
part of your belief. It meansyou believe you cannot save yourself. You're
not good enough, smart enough,religious enough, holy enough, or whatever
enough to ever make it to heaven. You're just not good enough. That's
okay, folks. God still lovesyou. He still wants you to go
in to heaven. So don't worryabout it. Forget it. Quit trying

(49:49):
to earn your way to heaven inany way, shape or form it.
The second you do that, youkill the contract, totally give up on
it. Believe with all your heartyou can't save yourself. You're hopeless and
helpless. It's destined to a burninghell. When you come to that point,
you just repented godly sorrow, gripyour soul, which the Bible says
makes repentance. Now, to repentancemeans changed your mind. Now you can
believe that Jesus is the only way. He is the door. He's the

(50:14):
one who made it, so youget to go to heaven. Take that
door right now, folks, walkinto it. Believe that Jesus really did
die for all your sins, wasburied and rose in the dead, and
God guarantees you everlasting life. Ifyou've never done this before, please do
it now. Don't wait till it'stoo late, like the old country preacher
said, and the Word of Godsays, now today is the day of

(50:36):
salvage. Well, folks, it'snot time for us to go to our
chaplain by bah testimony time. Andtoday again I'm going to call on Christopher.
He is a beautiful testimony for us. Christopher. Twice in my life
I've seen the evidence of miracles thatcan't be explained by conventional science. The
second one we're going to talk aboutnext week a wonderful staircase. But the

(50:58):
first one I was reminded of asI was in Santa Fe this past week,
and it's our lady of Guadaloupe andMexico City. The famous into is
Juan Diego has the apparition of VirginMary. She puts flowers in a mantle
and he brings it as evidence.But what's interesting about this, folks,
is a science looks at the imageof the Virgin Mary, which hasn't deteriorated
on this cactus fabric for five hundredyears. The colors are not made of

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things that are found, not inMexico on the earth. Really, the
temperature is always ninety eight point sixdegrees, even if it's freezing outside.
It is amazing that there are actualphysical elements of things that our science cannot
explain. That the evidences and miraclesthat you could go and I went to

(51:45):
see our Lady of Guadagoupe in theactual Manto in Mexico City, and I
understand why people came, because there'ssomething about it that doesn't relate to actual
anything you see in this world.It looks like something that comes beyond and
seeing. And I got to tellyou that not only did this transform the
Christianity came because of this apparition,not because of the Spanish who were oppressing

(52:08):
the people. It was because theysaw that this was the defender. And
the point I'm making about this isif you're looking for evidence of faith in
this world, sometimes the evidence isactually physically there. We talk about faith
as being the evidence of things hopedfor, the evidence and things not yet
seen, the classical polyantite definition.But in this world there are elements of

(52:30):
things of the divine that our sciencecannot explain. This is one we're going
to talk about, an even morefundamental one next week. Great Christopher,
I love that, and I've seenthings like that also, like the staircase
in New Mexico that's they can't describeit, which is next week's topic.
Yeah, who's going to tell youall about it next week? I've seen
it, I've been there. Anyway, Well, folks, it's unfortunately it's

(52:52):
time for us to go, butwe leave you with a fine farewell and
looking forward to seeing you in thenext show. And so this chaplain High
mcenry closing the show, and Godbless you all out there is we now
listen to our mind Saint Martin singinga creole goodbye? Does this have to
be the end of the nerd?You know I love you. In the

(53:15):
pam Land, I can see acrossa million stars when I look in,
we can mosey it's the sun time. I suppose you couldn't call little cray.

(53:43):
If we take just a little littlelonger to see our good night,
you call it creel good