LIVE WEEK 146 November 3 2023

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And welcome to another edition of DiggingDeeper with Brian Hana, brought to you
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Hail Multimedia dot com. Now listenin and join me online at Diggingdeeper dot
US. Welcome to week one.All right, wow, six weeks and

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we really I think we have overone thousand total podcasts that we've done since
we made up our minds three yearsago to do this. Yeah, really
gotten busy, haven't we. Thanksfor hanging in there with me. I
remember in the beginning, I keptforcing you to answer the question are we
are we going to do this fulltime or not? Are we going to
do this? Are we gonna doit? And we said, yes,

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let's do it. So let's doit. Here we go. It is
eight pm Mountain, nine pm Central, and that'd be seven pm Pacific and
ten pm Eastern, but anyway,who's counting. And then there are a
lot of international time zones where folksare listening, and we want to welcome
all of our all of our internationallisteners. Can't believe how many people all

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across the United States and the worldlisten to this podcast. So how doy
y'all get Canada. We have listenersin India, We had listeners in Pakistan,
Russia, Japan, Yeah, Japan. The other day it was a
heavy listener. It's all kinds ofgood stuff going on. Anyway. For
tonight's episodes, we have four greatsegments as usual, and before we get

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started, I just want to saya little bit about that intro music.
Before we got started, if you'reon our channel, prior to the program
tonight, we were playing some videosfrom some of our favorite independent artists,
and one of those on the lasttail end of things there the Bryson Gray
video where he was using the Lord'sname in vain. We don't agree with
that, and we're sorry that wehad played that. Rest of stuff is

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fairly censor free, but we docarry a warning for language on our channel.
On Digging Deeper. This is latenight radio, late night podcasting.
And so here we are in weekone and in the first segment, here
are we going to turn into Barbieand Ken? Yeah, healthy living.
We're talking about becoming Barbie and Ken. Yeah, Okay, that kiddle odd,

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But you know, I'll let youknow a little more later. I
can imagine what that might be,but we'll be interesting. So on segment
number two, then we have theTruman's Matrix, the craziest headlines from around
the world. And if you recognizethe picture on the screen there, that's
mister X himself and you'll hear fromhim tonight. What we're doing now on

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Truman's Matrix as we've set a patterntonight, we're gonna set this pattern with
the Master himself. Tonight. We'regoing to feature all tweets from his account,
and we're going to tweet to him, back to him, at him
and try to get his attention.Yeah, because first of all, I
want to really try to get hisattention because I would really mister Musk if

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you would please unfreeze my account DiggingDeeper TV that's at sign Digging Deeper TV.
It'd be really awesome because we supportyou all this stuff that you're listening
to and that we've rebroadcast that you'vedone, especially down at the Border and
everything else is about supporting what you'redoing, and we're all in this together,
So please do unfreeze my account.It'd be great. Right now,

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we're at Digging Deeper US that's atSigned Digging deeper us, but it would
be great to get that those thousandsand thousands of followers backs anyway, So
that's Truman's matrix. We're going tolook at some quotes from him, and
then on segment number three. Segmentnumber three is a hot so to speak.
Yeah, and it's a really serious, serious topic. Yeah, and

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we try to make as much lightof it as we can. This is
a grueling, just amazing job thatthese people have to do. Our firefighters
and rural agencies, rural firefighter agencies, firehalls across the country are hurting for
volunteers. And we are going towatch a feature film that was put out

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by Nebraska Public Media and they actuallydebuted this, premiered this just last week,
and we're going to show it inits entirety in case you missed it
from the other night. This ison YouTube and it's also on NPR.
It is being viewed tonight. We'reshowing it to you tonight under the Fair
Use Act, and we're going totake advantage of that ability to show you

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this film at length and then commenton it at the end. Some really
really great coverage in there, andwe really appreciate what the folks did to
create that documentary, So more onthat when we get to it, yep.
And then on faith Matters, Yeah, we're going to finish and we're
going to go on to chapter threeon the Great Disappearance by doctor David Jeremiah.

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It's our book thirty one Ways toPrepare for the Rapture. The rapture,
of course, is highly misunderstood,but clear in the Bible if you
follow it closely. And what we'retrying to do is help you understand all
of the different things that there arethere. So we'll take a look at
that on segment number four. That'sgoing to do it for our four segments.

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we can help the body help itselfthrough natural healing with plant medicine and other
non pharmaceutical alternatives. Welcome to healthyliving. So healthy living is tonight is
about turning into Barbiancan. And Idon't really mean referring to perfectionism because a

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lot of people think, you know, Barbiancn is perfect blah blah blah.
Right now early talking about perfectionism,I'm referring to their genetic makeup. They're
DNA, so to speak. Cannon, Barbie are made primarily of plastic,
right, and it's becoming clear thatwe are being riddled with the same foreign

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substance microplastics. Have you heard ofthem? Uh? Not really? Okay,
well, what are our microplastics?Microplastics refer to plastic debris that is
less than five millimeters or about thesize of a sesame seed. Most microplastics
are sorted into two categories based onhow they form, primary microplastics and secondary

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microplastics. Primary microplastics are made forcommercial use, such as microbeads in cosmetics,
lotions, toothpaste or microfibers, andtextiles or netting. Although the Microbead
Fair Waters Act of twenty fifteen prohibitsmanufacturing microbeads in cosmetic products in America,

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primary microplastics are still accumulating in theenvironment. Secondary microplastics are particles that are
broken down from larger plastic products likecontainers and water bottles, usually through environmental
means like erosion. Most secondary microplasticswill not decompose decompose completely. The prevalence

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of microplastics in the environment is welldocumented, along with their negative impacts on
marine life. However, only ahandful of studies have examined their potential health
impacts. According to studies, microplasticshave turned up in Arctic sea ice,
in snowfall in the Arctic, andin human stool samples across the globe.

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We found that a lot of microand nanoparticles were released from plastic food containers,
and we also found we as inthe scientists found the potential toxicity of
these released plastic particles on human kidneycells. Microwaving released the high amount of
both micro and nanoplastics in food.Then the other used conditions, with some

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containers releasing as many four point twotwo million microplastics and two point one one
billion nanoplastic particles from just one squarecentimeter of plastic area within three minutes a
microwave heating. So what about thosehot drinks? Would they affect the release
of plastics and chemicals. We're gonnawatch this video and see with how she

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explains it. Here, you guys, if you drink Starbucks, watch this.
A paper cup, by nature,should absorb water. If it's not
absorbing water, then that means theremust be a barrier in between the paper
and the liquid, and that barrieris polyethylene plastic. A study found that

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in fifteen minutes of contact with hotliquids, these twenty five thousand microplastic particles
into your cup. But no one'squestioning this, No one's really thinking about
it because it's just part of ourdaily lives. Are we very good at
metabolizing plastics? No plastic is aforeign body, it's a foreign particle.
In fact, it'll break down intonanoplastics, and nanoparticles in general have the

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issue of being able to penetrate cellmembranes, so it can penetrate very deeply
into the cell. It can causeinflammation. Your body doesn't know how to
deal with it. It's a foreignobject, so you'll get the inflammatory response
when you encounter these. But tomake things worse, the microplastics themselves are
a foreign body. But they alsorelease plasticizer chemicals when they're in contact with
your body, and they can alsocarry toxic chemicals into your body. The

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fact that they can basically invade andintegrate into our cells and you are what
you eat. Are we turning intoreal life barbiing condems? We could be,
because there's actually microplastics that have beendetected in human lung, blood,
and placenta, and who knows howmuch of this is getting into babies.
Are babies being born with plastic intheir bodies? I would guessimate? Yes?
Okay, so did you catch that? Even the paper cups that they

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use for delivering hot coffee and hotchocolate are lined with plastic and the heat
leeches out the chemicals. So microplasticsaccumulate in the brain and cause behavioral changes

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associated with dementia. A recent studyfound that microplastics can latch on the outer
membranes of red blood cells and maylimit their ability to transport oxygen. The
particles have also been found in theplacentas of pregnant women and in pregnant rats.
They pass rapidly through the lungs intothe heart, brain, and other

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organs of the fetuses. This factinspired Jamie Ross, a professor from the
University of Rhode Island, to conducta study on the effects of microplastic exposure.
For her study, the researchers exposedyoung and old mice to different levels
of microplastics through their drinking water forthree weeks. The results showed that microplastic

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exposure induces behavioral changes and alterations inimmune markers in liver and brain tissues.
After being exposed to microplastics, theresearch team noticed that the mice began to
move and behave peculiarly exhibiting behavior similarto those caused by dementia in humans.

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The results were more profound among oldermice, okay brain dementia. What else,
microplastics alter the shape of human lungcells. FSU researchers analyzed the health
risks of inhaling and ingesting microplastics.They conducted experiments on human lung cells in

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a petrie dish that were subjected toenvironmental concentrations of polystyrene particles. Within several
days, the scientists observe some unusualchanges. The tiny plastic particles cause the
cells metabolism to slow down and hampertheir proliferation and growth. So it's getting

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into the cells. It's not justgetting into tissue. It's extra small nanoparticles
that are actually changing the cells.This is also this is also causing also

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causing other health issues. This isreminiscent of all of our talk against the
masks, because the masks also havemicroplastics in them. Microplastics also accumulate in

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all organs. Researchers in Ross's studyfound that microplastic particles had started to bioaccumulate
in every organ, including the brainand even in bodily waste, because of
the microplastics got inside the animal's bodiesthrough their drinking water. Ross and our
colleagues expected to find microplastics in thegastrointestinal tract as well as the liver and

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kidneys, but they noted that thepresence of microplastics in the heart and lungs
indicates that they spread beyond the digestivesystem and potentially undergo systematic circulation. This
is dangerous because the blood brain barrieris supposed to be difficult to permeate.
Mm. Yeah, well we alreadydiscovered that that's not happening with these other

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things they're trying to put in ourbodies, right, But now microplastics have
been found in human blood for thetime. Microplastic pollution has been detected in
human blood for the first time,with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost
eighty percent of people tested. It'severywhere. The discovery shows that the particles

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can travel around the body and maylodge in organs. The full impact on
health is not as yet known,but researchers are concerned as microplastics cause damage
to human cells and air pollution particlesare already known to enter the body and
cause millions of early deaths a year. The scientists analyzed blood samples from twenty

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two anonymous donors, all healthy adults, and found plastic particles in seventeen Half
of the samples contained pet plastic,which is commonly used in drinking bottles,
while a third contained polystyrone styrene usedfor packaging foods and other products. A

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quarter of the blood samples contained polyethylenefrom which plastic carrier bags are made.
Now, why do we care aboutthis? Because not only are the particles
getting into our blood and changing theshape of our tissues and causing problems within
our cells, they also emit chemicalswhen they are heated. A lot of

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these the polystyrene effect, especially polystyrenepolyethylene. They actually release chemicals and if
you ingest those chemicals, those cancause cancer as well. So there are
several reasons why we don't want microplasticsor the chemicals from the microplastics in our

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food. So let's look at sometips to reduce exposure. We're not going
to get rid of it, itis too prevalent, but let's lick at
some tips to reduce exposure to microplastics. Don't purchase ready to heat products such
as the boil in the bag riceor the ready to steam vegetables. Don't

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buy fruit sealed in plastic. Avoidheating anything plastic. I think that one
is key. If anything else,stay away from heating in plastic. Avoid
consuming food or beverages that have comein contact with plastic. That's kind of
hard. Avoid food grade nylon usedfor food packaging and as liners in slow

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cookers. If possible. Drink filteredtap water before you drink bottled water.
When buying clothes or furnishings, choosemore natural fabrics if at all possible.
If you're buying carpet, look forsomething made of wool, not polyester.
While natural fibers are usually more expensive, you can save time and money with

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secondhand carprits. So what is thefirst step. Well, I want ahead
and put together a list of themost common culprits that are in the American
kitchen today, and maybe if youfocus on one or two of these,
you can at least start to walkyourself back away from plastics. Salt,

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which was surprising to me. Saltis very often has microplastics in it,
so it's best and it's because alot of especially sea salt, comes from
the ocean, and that's where mostof the microplastics are going, is in
the ocean, so it's best touse the salt from Utah. It's an

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ancient sea bed isolated from the ocean, so it's less likely to have microplastics,
and the unrefined version is not bleachedand has all the minerals we need,
okay, including natural iodine and othernatural minerals. This next one really
surprised me. I know, Iwas kind of sad about this too,

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although I have seen that thing aboutthe plastic bottles getting hot in your car,
and I thought, you know,and we've been warned about that before
me. But you do some moreresearch on that. Yes, stop using
single use bottled water, not becausenot just because you don't know how it

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was filtered, but also you don'tknow what temperature flux these bottles have gone
through. Extreme heat can cause theplastic to leak chemicals. Extreme cold can
leak microplastics. Drink filtered tap waterin refillable bottles that are not plastic instead.
Number three is tea. I didn'trealize this either, but most tea

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bags are now made of plastic mesh, so opt for paper tea bags are
better yet by loose leaf and usean infuser. And in other words,
we're going back to how grandma didit? Right? Yeah, really that's
what this is all about, right, Yes, next, cutting boards.

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This makes sense if you think aboutit, but I never would have thought
about it unless somebody said something Aplastic cutting board. I have all plastic
cutting boards. Great, I knowwhat you're getting for Christal glass. I
have one glass one. Yeah,cutting boards. Don't use plastic cutting boards.
Just cutting your food on them addsmore microplastic to your meal. Instead,

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opt for bamboo, wooden or glasscutting boards. The reason people started
stop or stopped using wooden was becausesalmonilla it was hard to clean the would
So if you're worried about that,use a glass cutting board. But wooden
is much nicer to your knives,so you can still use the wooden for

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your vegetables and things that you don'thave to worry about. Oh, very
good. Okay, have a coupleof cutting boards. Yeah, have a
couple cutting boards around. Another oneis nonstick cookware. We've been warned about
this for a long time. Yeahyou switched. Yes, we all know
that coating on the nonstick cookware getsgross after continued use, starts peeling away,

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but is also a big culprit inadding plastic to your diet. The
best thing instead use cast iron.Yeah, I know, you just want
to bang me over the head.You know. In the sixties, from
the thirties to the sixties, reefermadness, you know. Yeah, but
the kid smacking his mom with thecast iron frying pan because he wouldn't let

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her drive the car. Oh geez, you know it was refer madness.
Yeah. Anyway, so cast ironis heavy. I can yes that it's
very heavy and it's hard to swing. You've got to be burling and I
know you don't really want to hitme with it. I'm just there are
a lot of cartoons, you know. Then we watched his kids. Yeah.

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Well, cast iron also will giveyou back a little of the iron
that you're missing in your diet.And stainless steel is much better than aluminum,
as we've talked to before, talkedabout before. So cast iron and
stainless steel are your best options.Okay, next microwaves safe containers. Well,

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first of all, microwave is abad name. Right, we already
know we have to use microwaves atleast use safe containers. Right, Well,
don't use microwave safe containers because they'realways plastic. It's a misnomer when
it comes to plastic exposure. Thatwhen reheating your food in the microwave,
use glass containers. Better yet,avoid the microwave and use the stover oven.

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There you go. Yep, anotherone. Plastic utensils. So even
on low heat that plastic spoon orthe flipper you have, really you you
could melt it or you could belosing microparticles off of it into your meal.

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Use stainless steel, bamboo or woodeninstead m and single use plastics.
This is this is one that wouldbe harder for me to do, just
because I'm so used to using ziplocksand uh cling wrap and oh yeah,

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you know all of all of thoseyeah yeah, stuff to use and throw
away. Instead of using the singleuse plastics like plastic wrap, baggies and
plastic plates in silverware, opt forwe use beeswap, bees wax rap,
I've heard of it, but I'venever used it before. But bees wax

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rap reusable containers and paper goods andsilverware. Just use good old silver war
and wash it after your picnic.Yeah. And even though barbon can,
barbi and can are so cute.Yeah, I don't want to be them.
They're popular too, but I don'twant to be them. I know.

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I can't eliminate plastic form my life, but I can make choices every
day to help reduce it a littlebit more. By the way, recycling
as a red herring. Oh oh, do you know that only about nine
percent of all plastic thrown away isactually recycled, recycled, no, not
thrown away. Nine percent of allplastic put in the recycle bin is actually

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recycled. Oh yes, it endsup overseas well. Don't let it deter
you. Try and stay away fromplastics as best you can. And you
know who started the plastic revolution?Wasn't that DuPont as well? We'd have

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to do some deeper research, butit was definitely one who leans to the
left. It is a petroleum basedproduct. Oh that's true too. I
could have been anyone. It couldhave been any of those richies. Yes,
yes, of those men north ofRichmond. Right, it's not going
to do it for healthy living.That's all I have for healthy living.

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Look at that. We're at nineto twenty nine Central, eight twenty nine
Mountain. You're right on time.Yep, yep, yep. Are we
going to go ahead? And isthat everything? We're going to close it
on out? I think we'll goahead and we'll close it on out.
All right, here we go.Once again, Thank you for joining us

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Welcome to Truman's Matrix, a podcastbuilt around the craziest headlines around the

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world. The production of Digging DeeperMedia owned by Hale multi Game where you
don't know who's watching who or who'scontrolling you. All right, Welcome to

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Truman's Matrix, the craziest headlines fromaround the world. This is another original
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What we're gonna do now with Truman'sMatrix is we are going to pick
one Twitter account, one X accountor Twitter account each week and we're gonna

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highlight what we think are the mostincredible tweets or xes from them. And
so last week we actually featured Inversionism, which is a concept and a Twitter
account, and so give them ashout out for giving us the idea.
But this week we're starting with misterX himself. That's Elon Musk, the

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one who purchased Twitter. He saidbecause it was a cesspool of lies and
he wanted to clean things up.Yep. So that's pretty interesting. So
we're going to take a look atsome of the tweets that that were some
of my favorites. And what Idid here is I want ahead and labeled
these or tagged these with hashtag xfiles volume four, So it's x files

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Vol four, number four, sox files Vol. Four And that's how
you can find these tweets right onour Digging Deeper us account. And yes,
you'll hear me in a lot ofthese tweets here, ask mister musk
himself, mister X, if he'llgo ahead and unleash my account, because
for some reason, no explanation ithad, I was locked out. I

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had about six thousand followers and nowI have, you know, a couple
hundred or whatever it is. Soit is going to be a fun time
going through these. So here wego. Let's get started. Number one
here. If this was a reallyinteresting video and I thought that I had,
I'm going to go ahead and seeif I can pull his tweet right
here. Do we get that tweetitself? Yeah, there we go.

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This is that video and I won'tnecessarily put the sound on, but I
just want you to watch this whileI'm talking. This account called end Wokeness
on Halloween on October thirty first,excuse me, had tweeted that while they
have US distracted, a massive caravanis marching to storm our border. This
is not a crisis, it's aninvasion. So my question was in my

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retweet when Elon said yes to that, I believe is what he said.
Elon says, it's not a crisis, it's an invasion. Do you agree?
Because he agreed with it, hesaid the scale of illegal immigration across
the US other border is staggering.So do you agree. I do,

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it's staggering. It's how many cities. I mean, we could create twelve
twelve states that states states, Onlytwelve states in the Union in the United
States have a higher population today thanthe number of illegal immigrants that have come
across the border since Joe Biden tookoffice. And that's not counting the swarm

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that's coming from that tweet. Hejust showed us right, no, boy,
here we go. Here's some morehere. I say, people should
listen to Elon, just relax andlisten, compute, think what he says.
He's so smart, Listen to him. He's humble and a genius in
our opinion. So tonight, righthere he was talking about on Joe Rogan,

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let's just go ahead and pause thisday. I'm gonna go ahead and
turn this one on so we canhear this one here. Here we go.
I'm gonna shut myself off and we'lllet we'll let him talk here that
like, because that, to me, that was the most bizarre was the
Twitter files when you let Shallenberger andMatt Tayibe and all those guys get into

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Twitter and the response where Matt Taibigets audited, I mean, which is
just wild. I mean just soblatant and so in your face. Yeah
no, I mean yeah, thedegreally which and by the way, Jack
didn't really know this, but thedegreally which Twitter was simply an arm of

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the government was not well understood bythe public, and it was there was
no it was whatever the official government. It was like Pravda. Basically,
you know, it's a state publication. It is the way to think of
old Twitter. It's a state publication. And was the justification from their perspective
that they are progressive liberals. Theyhave the right intentions. It's important that

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they stay in power. The progressiveliberals stay in government and power because this
is this is there. There wasthere was basically oppression of any any views
that would even I would say couldbe considered middle of the road, but
certainly anything on the right. I'mtalking about, like like far right.

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I'm just talking mildly right. Thepeople like Republicans were suppressed at ten times
the rate of democ right. Now, that's because old Twitter was fundamentally controlled
by the far left. It waslike completely controlled by the far left.
And of course we knew that,right. Of course we knew that I

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tweeted here that we love the Elonhas a great sense of humor. He
had suggested a while back that ifWikipedia would change their name to Dikipedia,
that he'd give them a billion dollarsand they had to keep that name for
two years. And they, ofcourse posted on their left leaning website Wikipedia,

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they posted Wikipedia is not for sale, Please donate. So it was
the fun account from the Babylon bthat had tweeted that Elon had offered Facebook
the same thing if they would changetheir name to face boob, and Elon

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actually said it would be much better. So he actually agreed to with agreed
with that. Yeah, so buthold on a minute, that is pretty
cool. This is one I hada comment on. Elon had tweeted excited
to announce that SpaceX Starlink has achievedbreak even cash flow. Wow. Excellent

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work by a great team. Imean, for the people that look at
the skies at night and watch thosego across everywhere in the world, it's
just incredible. They are flying aroundin lower Earth's atmosphere where all spacecraft have
been able to fly and not beyond, and they've been out there just with
all these satellites. And I don'tknow what they're doing, whether it's good

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or bad. And I think Itweeted that, I said, I don't
know if he's good or bad,but I said, well, that's pretty
dang cool, impressive. I hopethey are for the good of mankind.
Wait, that's a dangerously overused marketingslogan, for the good of mankind.
We love you, Elon, youare human, right, you are for
the humans. Right? We knowyou're for the humans. Right. And

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Starlink is now a majority of allactive silos. They will have launched a
majority of all satellites cumulative Earth bynext year. They have like four hundred
missions. I think it is Wow, just unbelievable number of missions with that
rocket. So if you wanted towatch that. It is going to be

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on our Facebook and Twitter page andalso in the archives of our articles because
tonight was another launch. They werescheduled for another launch tonight, and they
had six different or eight different windowsto choose from if it didn't work out
on this first one, but theywere scheduled for launch tonight, probably as
we're broadcasting. So anyway, let'smove on to the next one. Yes,

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let me click this and see whatElon was talking about. Elon,
Oh, yeah, this is important, guys, this is important. Look
at this. See this line ofpeople. Are we looking at that line
of people? This is the thingthat Okay, so Elon has said a
lot of different things about the spendingand the wars, and the Twitter files

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and the fakedness of everything Elon AIand all that. Elon's warned us about
a lot of things. But lookat this. He's going to get banned
off of Twitter if he keeps retweetingthese kind of things. He's going to
have to ban himself because this iselection fraud. It is this is straight
up election fraud. So did Twitterabsolutely turn the corner from censorship to free

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speech? I don't know, becausewe're saying election fraud, election fraud,
election fraud. And we see ifit gets taken down. What are we
looking at here as we pull thisup, same basic thing. It looks
like the same drop box. Everybody. Look at all those people doing the
right thing. They're waiting to waitright, right, So this is a
maroon dress woman or is this somebodyelse? Yeah? Is that your mual?

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So this is a mule in frontof everyone. Okay, look,
everybody's sitting there watching like what sothis is right now? As she opens
it up up, can't figure outto open up because they won't fit right.
Felony at what point after the firstyear? Now it's a felony.
So this is a felon. Threefelons at one drop box, everybody,

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I we need to think about thatone after the other. And the broad
daylight I mean now you could alsoget drivers, you know, license plate
infoe and stuff. Right, Yes, so she and broad Daylight while everyone
else was watching, just violated Georgialaw. Yeah, And it is the
same basic thing over and over andover. The operation that took video of

(36:51):
the twenty twenty election has over onemillion minutes of video. Yeah, through
the vote, and all are likethis yes, all of these felons eighty
five million. Yeah, it didn'thappen. We're going back here. Yeah,
all right, and I think thatis going to just about do it.

(37:15):
We have two left exposing this willchange the world. Mister Musk,
you are a world changer. Thankyou. Please don't suspend my account.
Let's look at what he had here. Oh this seed. This is another
one of those things. This iselection fraud. In Bridgeport, Connecticut.
There was an election and the courtoverturns the win, calling the evidence of

(37:40):
fraud shocking. It was blatant,just like he was in twenty twenty.
Yeah, it was absolutely blatant cheating, fraud and corruption. And the judge
says, I'm not having it.Anybody got time for that. We're turning
that one back and Elon is tweetingthis and he is saying, judge orders
a new election in Connecticut town assurveillance videos showed ballot stuffing and dropboxes.

(38:07):
This is what happened here, andit's beyond reasonable doubt. The only question
is how common it is. Andwe know how common it is, mister
Musk. Watch two thousand mules,right and you will see. I'll tweet
that to you in just a secondhere, so check your email and check
your tweets here in the second,mister musk, because I'm gonna tweet you
that two thousand mules. Yep,he needs to watch that. Yeah,

(38:29):
you probably know about it. You'veheard about it, I'm sure. And
the last thing we're going to finishup with this cartoon. This is a
good one. This is something thatElon cares a lot about, and that's
AI. Now, quick backstory.He used to be really good friends with
Larry Page, co founder of Google. Google was getting super huge, of
course that happened really fast, butlike super super huge into AI, and

(38:52):
Elon used to be friends with him. They were talking and they came to
a full disagreement when it came toslowing things down, looking at safety precautions
at all costs first before advancing thetechnology of AI. Elon was for that.

(39:13):
Excuse me, Elon is for thehumans. Elon is for slowing it
down and keeping the human safe.Larry Page says, no, we're going
full speed ahead. He's not forthat. It's advancement at all costs.
So that's why Elon did this.It looks like he actually did he do
this himself. I don't know.I don't know if he drew this,
but it's he says cy. Wedeclare that AI, says the lion poses

(39:37):
though potentially, says the Indian girlfrom Europe, I don't know, catastrophic,
says the dragon from China and theUS is risk to humankind. So
we declare that AI poses a potentiallycatastrophic risk to humankind. And everybody knows
this, and so what do theydo. I want to be first,

(40:00):
That's what they want to do.Every single one of them is thinking,
I cannot wait to develop it first, yep. And that is dangerous and
that is what Elon is warning usabout and that maybe this next thing may
be a hoax. But I didsee some news that could be good news.

(40:22):
You never know coming out of thisWhite House. But it has been
told that Biden is getting ready toor did sign some legislation that clamps down
on AI advancements and puts into placeor asks to have some safety precautions to
put into places. And there's actuallya video on the White House account that

(40:46):
shows the Secretary of AI or whateverit is, the czar or the AIS
are saying what they're going to do. So might be worth visiting. Next
week we'll find out if everything.We'll just take a look at that later,
but for now, that's gonna doit for our Truman's Matrix segment,

(41:06):
the craziest headlines from around the world. Today, we looked at Elon Musk's
account mister X himself. Next weekyou're in for a treat. We're gonna
feature Cat Turd. We like him. He's funny. Cat turn is a
funny Twitter account, and uh,maybe Clinton after that, but anyway,
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(41:30):
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Hard to listen to, but impossibleto ignore. Welcome to the Ugly Truth.
This is an episode that we didnot right ourselves. This is done

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by Nebraska Public Media in PR asyou know the original company name in PR.
But Nebraska Public Media has put togetherthis documentary and fighting fires and working
fires and the fact that there isa volunteer fire department crisis in this country
and so not just in Nebraska.Oh yeah, it was featured in Nebraska

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and the footage is from Nebraska,but it is all across the country.
So they had a premiere broadcast ofthis November sixteenth at seven pm Central,
But if you missed it, youget to see it again tonight. It
is also on YouTube. You canwatch it on YouTube anytime. You can
just search up the working fires,volunteer fire departments in crisis, or just

(44:37):
go to our channel right now,or if you're watching, just sit tight
and you're going to see this.So in more than four hundred and fifty
Nebraska communities, volunteer firefighters and medicalteams stand by, ready and willing to
protect citizens in this state. Ninetypercent of firefighters are volunteers, but volunteers
are harder to come by each passingyear. What is going to happened to

(45:00):
the small rural communities if the spiritof service dies with the next generation.
And I want to second that questionand just say it has already, yeah,
And what are we going to donow that the spirit has died in
this generation? I'm sorry to say, excuse me, but there's not also

(45:21):
not only a loss or a lackof spirit of service in this generation,
but in our generation and the generationbelow, there is a lack of desire
to go when there's a call.There is a serious problem here, folks,
and we are going to do ourbest here at Digging Deeper Media and

(45:44):
Panhandle Scanner to make sure that youunderstand. We appreciate our firefighters and we
appreciate those who serve, and wewant to do what we can to help
the recruitment of young men and womenin this industry because we need you.
What if it was your neighbor's houseand your family lived next door and nobody

(46:09):
showed up for over an hour andyou couldn't get them out because they just
didn't have enough help. You canmake a difference. You can save a
life. We're gonna go ahead andwatch this entire fifty eight minute documentary courtesy
of Nebraska Public Media as they explorethe alarming situation of volunteer fire departments in

(46:37):
crisis. It seems the history ofevery small town bears the scars of some
massive, memorable fire, the onethat changed Main Street, changed lives.

(47:02):
Bristow, Nebraska, near the SouthDakota border, does not forget the time
disaster arrived ten years ago. Thisyear was the Great Bristow Fire twenty thirteen.
As we dubbed. Joe Mshannick isBristow's unofficial historian over at to Nebraska
State Bank. This was the oldlumberyard building here. Of course, things,
I mean, things progress quickly.Yeah, it's why this town,

(47:29):
with only seventy people, hopes therewill always be a local fire department on
duty, even when the time betweencalls is measured in months. Well,
we had a fire we fought backin March I believe was actually at my
dad's place. It's hate file caughton fire, and that's the only fire
I've fought since I've been on thedepartment since twenty fifteen. Yeah, yep,

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Bristow's fire department faces an uncertain future. Only six volunteers stand by to
answer a fire call. Most areover sixty and it's tough to find anyone
younger to sign on equipment. Foryears, they've relied on outdated protective gear
and a fifty year old fire truck. It's not just Bristow. Volunteer fire

(48:17):
departments all over Nebraska, big andsmall wonder if enough people will show up
when the fire sirens silence. Anyonein rural America should pay attention because a
lot of your volunteer fire departments andambulance services may have a crisis on their
hands. Good I need that fiveyard well apartment too. For well over

(49:10):
one hundred years, there is agroup of people who just show up to
risk their lives put out fires andnever expect to get paid. Volunteer fire
departments in America an insane system thatshould not work right right, It shouldn't.
Fire service is the only service thatrelies on volunteers across the nation.

(49:31):
You know, and it shouldn't work, but it does. It works.
In Gearing, Nebraska, the departmentmaintains a fleet of well kept fire trucks
and rescue units. It's a financiallystable department able to keep all that equipment
up to date paid for with acombination of tax dollars, grants, and

(49:52):
donations. It's actually two departments.They respond to emergencies inside the city limits
and in the rugged terrain of theGerring Valley Rural Fire District, site of
some of the biggest wildfires in thestate. Nate Flowers serves gearing as one
of the few paid fire chiefs workingfor a volunteer fire department in Nebraska.

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I would say it is unique.I don't know too many other departments that
have that throughout the state of Nebraska, but I do know that it works
for us. Everyone else on thedepartment's roster, forty five of them volunteer
to be on call twenty four hoursa day for reasons that seem difficult to
comprehend for most of their friends andfamily. Ah. I think it's a

(50:37):
little bit crazy, a little bitof love for adrenaline and fire, and
also community, a sense of acommunity. Most have paid jobs, mechanics
and nurses, internet providers, technicianswith a gas company, farmers, teachers.

(50:57):
I have come from a fire family. My dad's been a chief for
over twenty years. My mom's allan apartment, my sister's so it is
very rewarding. You're protecting somebody's house, you're protecting your community or your next
door neighbor. You wouldn't do itif you had to do that. You

(51:17):
volunteer. You volunteer for a firedepartment because you want to, and that's
where the heart is. The volunteerfire service saved my life. I found
where I belonged. Gearing is oneof four hundred and seventy two fire departments
in Nebraska, fifteen thousand volunteers.That's nine out of every ten firefighters.

(51:39):
Upwards of eighty seven percent of thedepartments in Nebraska a volunteer, so each
local community rather they be a volunteerdepartment, which means there's no compensation.
They don't get paid for fire calls, they do not get paid for time
spent training. The GUARANTEAM trains atleast once a week preparing for a full

(52:02):
range of emergencies out of the twelvemonths every year. We are so busy
we offering different classes and opportunities forour members, but our members are the
ones that drive that. They geta taste of that and they want more.
Training improves how quickly a team canrespond to a fire. Hopefully reducing
the amount of damage or even savinga life. The speed and skill of

(52:24):
your local fire department can lower theamount you pay for homeowners insurance. Here's
something that may shock you. Nebraskalaw does not require any specific training for
fire departments or individual firefighters. Eachlocal fire chief is responsible for their own
community. Departments will focus on thethings they need to do the most because

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of what they most commonly run onwildland call or a car accident and agricultural
emergency who have not met to Thereare recommended standards from a national fires safety
group that departments use as guidelines,but unlike police officers or emergency medical responders,
there's no license. A national certificationprogram is available, but not required

(53:12):
for volunteers. Training times precious andlimited in many departments because people volunteers in
particular, have a lot of thingsgoing on. It's pretty much up to
the city of Geng and the firechief to decide how to plan and budget
for emergencies. And this is avery busy department. The number of fires

(53:35):
and rescue calls climbs year after year. Twenty years ago we were running two
hundred and fifty calls. Even tenyears ago, you know where you were
running three to four hundred. We'renow flower nine hundred and I think we
were in nine hundred and eighty sixlast year or something like that. It
gets very, very taxing on thepeople. Twenty twenty two became the busiest

(53:57):
year in the department's history, twelvethousand hours spent on fire and rescue calls.
The general consensus of the public isas well, there's two or four
people down there, and there's trulynot They don't understand that, Like Grant
say, you know, we arewaking up at the middle night, we
are coming from our homes and stufflike that, getting out of bed and
coming out of the station to respondto calls. It's physically arduous and mentally

(54:23):
exhausting, and it's definitely not foreverybody. That's the life of a volunteer
firefighter. I guess. Despite beingwell regarded with solid funding, the Gearing
Department faces the same unavoidable truth asevery other department. There are not enough
firefighters to answer the steadily increasing numberof emergency calls. I'll be honest,

(54:46):
you know, we don't have peopleknocking on our doors coming in. Those
who are willing are not always able. On average, volunteer firefighters are getting
older. We kind of did justa look at our department into early and
seeing our average age was forty nine. Being a firefighter inside a structure fire
at forty nine years of age canbe a little challenging. Side scaring is

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not alone. Sixty two percent ofthe departments find recruiting new members difficult.
How do we know? We askdepartments across the state. Using a survey
conducted by Nebraska Public Media and cooperationwith the Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighters Association.
One out of six departments told usif the current recruiting trend continues, the

(55:32):
quality of emergency service in their communitieswill decrease. Many call it a crisis
risking public safety. Seconds count ina structure fire, wildfire, things of
that nature, and when you lackthe volunteers, Yeah, yeah, seconds
count, and that becomes pretty challengingand pretty endangering. You know, there's

(55:54):
a couple fire departments, you know, speaking the truth, that no longer
have the people. When they're smallvillages and they end up dissolving their volunteer
fire departments or there's nobody that showsup anymore. They're still showing up in
Madison, Nebraska, just not asmany as there used to be. How

(56:15):
many volunteers do you have on theroster right now? I believe right now
there's thirty eight. How many arereally active? Really active? Twelve twelve
to fifteen. They made time earlyon a Saturday morning when the department burnt

(56:36):
down a house on purpose, afarmhouse ready for demolition. Veterans and new
members get a sense of responding toa working fire. They make me feel
that I can do this, andI don't know if that's really understood.
How much that we come together andhave each other's back. Gina Spitler came

(57:00):
a new recruit four years ago whenshe moved to the area after a career
in the military. That's where Ihad done a lot of drills in the
Navy, and this just kind offit into it. And I enjoy something
that is active. I'm single,and so nothing holds me back, so

(57:20):
I can be available at any time. And the other side of it is
it's kind of morbid. But ifI die helping my community, I'm okay.
That's how I feel. Oscar Calderoneworks at New Course Steel, where
he serves as a bilingual emergency medicaltechnician. With the Plants on site Response

(57:45):
team. He decided to use thoseskills after hours on the Madison volunteer squad.
It's a big commitment, and Iunderstand why people were kind of scared
of the commitment. He discovered theunpredictable demands on his top as a volunteer
can be a struggle. I feelguilty sometimes too, you know. Sometimes

(58:05):
I get off of work, comestraight to training night, I get home
and my kids are sleeper ready,so I go on the whole day without
seeing him. And that's a partof guilt that I get sometimes, is
I can I'm volunteering for this,I choose not to be with my kids
because I'm choosing to go hope otherpeople, you know, strangers more emotion
of the time. Our survey offire departments revealed the demands on the volunteer's
time is the most likely reason peopledo not join a fire department. Modern

(58:30):
work schedules impact how effective a volunteeris within a department. Small town main
streets were once lined with local businesses, which understood and employee volunteer might take
off for a fire call in themiddle of the day. These days,

(58:51):
that can't happen on a production lineat a packing house, or if you
work half an hour away at achain retail store during the day in town,
do you have a call? Youdon't know what you're gonna get for
people? Could be two, couldbe three. Our survey of fire departments

(59:14):
around Nebraska revealed that fire departments hadthe lowest number of volunteers respond between eight
in the morning and four o'clock inthe afternoon. We don't have anybody when
everybody's working. A lot of peoplein our department workoutside of town, so
we don't have a handful of peoplethat can respond to a cost spressure for
E and T or ems college duringthe day. Public service, some say

(59:39):
has fallen out of fashion. Onlyabout a third of Nebraska's volunteer for any
local groups or organizations. According toAmeriCorps, we've got a lot of old
people on the department, you know, not many young kids. There's not
much interest, and nobody wants tovolunteer. You know, you know,
you don't get paid, why wouldI do that? At Nationally, one

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out of every four volunteer firefighters areover fifty years of age. In Nebraska,
seventy five percent of the departments wesurveyed said the age of a volunteer
was one of the top three reasonsfor losing members. Madison is losing guys
like Ray Keefer still showing up atfires in Madison after nearly fifty years seventeen

(01:00:24):
of those as chief. My wifesaid, you don't have to go home.
But I still beat most of themup here first one up here a
lot of time. So losing veteranmembers means losing a resource. For instance,
with Ray Keefer, the mentorship ofthe knowledge that they have isn't always

(01:00:46):
passed along. I'm just trying tobe a sponge. She said, Who's
going to do it? Ray,You're going Who's going to do this?
That's right. A lot of theguys might want to step up and do
anything. I love it, likethe corner. It's deeper than passing along

(01:01:07):
tips on using ladders and hoses.A lifetime in the fire service highlights the
great honor that comes with public service. Ray also faced some of the worst
realities and understands the toll it cantake on a first responder. I sat
down one they encounter the fatalities we'vehad in our district here. I think

(01:01:28):
I got up to fifty four thatI could remember, just in our district.
So there's a lot of fatalities,you know. Saved a couple of
lives and carried a few out ofthe houses and lost the three year old
three year old boy one night inthe house, for he was a same

(01:01:52):
age as my daughter. Worst onewe had we got called out to Humphrey
one Night's six of them killed inone accident. So that and some of
the Humphrey, some of the Hemphreyfiremen couldn't take it. But we do
lose people because of that, andthey're just they don't want to see what

(01:02:15):
they've seen. They can't do itanymore. That was a couple of weeks
into the department and I had anencounter a fatality in the highway and it
was to a non English speaking personthat was involved in that accident. And
I was asked by the sheriff departmentto tell the husband that his spouse has

(01:02:37):
passed away. So for me,after that call, I went home and
I really thought about it. Iwas like, I'm not sure if this
is not what I sign up for, I'm not sure I can do this.
I can't handle it, you know. I mean the mentally and physically
demanding work, the schedule, attitudesabout public service. That's just the beginning
of the list of reasons that alladds up to towns facing a public safety

(01:02:59):
emergency. If fewer people are goingto be stepping up, what happens to
a town like Madison. I don'tknow, It's going to be tough to
keep them. It's a bad scenario, and I hope it don't happen.
I put that out to the leadership, you know, the city and city
council and mayors and rural board,that someday this is going to be a

(01:03:21):
problem. How you man these trucks. The demand for volunteer emergency services has
never been greater. It's not becausethere are more fires. Nationally, two

(01:03:42):
thirds of the emergency dispatches were medicalcalls and accidents. The increasing number of
calls driven in part by the medicalneeds of an aging population. This community
that we live in. There areso many independent elderly people. That's a
huge component of I think the numberof medical calls. Obesity, diabetes,

(01:04:03):
all the other kind of cumerabidities thatare creating a population that's unhealthy but able
to live longer. When an ambulancearrives on scene. In Nebraska, eighty
percent of the responders are volunteers.Mull In, Nebraska, the only town

(01:04:24):
in Hooker County. About five hundredpeople live at the crossroads two highways and
a freight rail line. The EmergencyMedical Services operates independently from the fire department,
so our district is roughly seventeen hundredsquare miles, a little bit larger
than the state of Rhode Island.We're in the sand hills, so even

(01:04:45):
in a four wheel drive sometimes thesand can be challenging. It could be
ninety minutes before the EMTs get tothe patient. Maybe a rancher thrown from
their horse, someone with hypothermia canoeingthe Dismal River, a heart attack on
a desolate dirt road. Last yearwas a record. I think we had
seventy two calls and knew it waswe were flying to meet everyone's needs.

(01:05:12):
We had both ambulances out at times. Retired school teacher Sukie Marx began answering
emergency calls in nineteen eighty nine.It varies so much. We can have
five in a week and then gofor a month and not have any,
and there's no rhyme or reason toit. We have a service of nine

(01:05:34):
EMTs. Nine doesn't sound like alot, It isn't. No, we
need more. Sarah Harden is ascience teacher at the high school. Growing
up, her dad had been anEMT, but I also knew there was
a need in our community. Itwas a veteran member of the Mullen squad

(01:05:56):
who made a convincing case, andhe just quite only said to my husband
and I, we need young people, and we need young people that are
willing to commit to this. Today, the kids in her class are learning
about buoyancy by building boats. Theyknow if her pager goes off, Miss
Harden might be called away if therearen't enough EMTs answering the call. Truthfully,

(01:06:19):
Without places like the school and thebank in our community, we wouldn't
have daytime help. The Mullen teamtrains together a lot, preparing for whatever
gets thrown at them. Keeping volunteersin rural areas up to date on best

(01:06:40):
practices and responding to emergencies can bea challenge. The Mullen Ambulance Service called
in the Simulation in Motion Team fromthe University of Nebraska Medical Center. This
program does thousands of hours of trainingfor small rescue squads in need of continuing
education. Half of the semi trailerduplicates the back of an ambulance. On

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the other end is a convincing mockupof a hospital emergency department. Robot patients
stand by to simulate dozens of medicalemergencies, anything that would make them really
have to think quickly and how tohandle that on a EMS ride that might
last an hour or more before theycan connect with another service instructor. Kelsey

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Miller programs Lucy. The computerized patientsoftware alters Lucy's blood pressure, respiration,
and even the dilation of her pupilswhen the instructor wants to make a point.
Oh, and Lucy expects the mulland rescue squad to deliver her baby.
Delivering a baby in the back ofan ambulance that scares folks. People

(01:08:00):
take this serious, and it reallyis a different way of training, and
there's a different mentality with the folkswhen they're doing this training. Okay,
I'm so cute. And those momentswhen you know you have trained and trained
and trained, that's what's important forthe rule providers. I think is that

(01:08:23):
continuous training and I think if myloved one were in the back of an
ambulance, I would want to knowthat the person providing their care has done
everything that they can to be thebest medical provider that they can be.
Beautiful baby boy, the instructors said, the bull and crew did a pretty

(01:08:44):
good job. A few years ago, a report prepared by an independent agency
found the Mullen Ambulance Service to bewell run, successful, and collegial.
In Maulin. We have a verygenerous community. When Mullen needed a new
ambulance. A recent round of grantsfrom the State of Nebraska to local EMS

(01:09:05):
squads only covered half the cost ofthe vehicles. Raising The two hundred eighty
one thousand dollars for the ambulance justseemed overwhelming to us when we started,
and we've gotten amazing donations. Yetthe Mullen Service still fears for its future.
Older volunteers are ready to step aside. Few of their neighbors appear willing

(01:09:29):
to take on the responsibility. Thereare consequences. There's probably a number of
people that would really have to thinktwice about living in a community that didn't
have this kind of service this closeby. If people in your community don't
understand the importance of that. That'swhat happens. I think people die,
and there's no nicer way to putthat. People die and if you have

(01:09:50):
to wait for medical care, everyminute that you're waiting is life or death.
Seventy miles to the northwest of Mullen, the town of Merriman will give
you an idea of what happens whenvolunteers stop volunteering. Sandiel's Rescue is currently

(01:10:12):
out of service because we don't haveenough EMTs to run the service. The
power inmurder has evidently died. TheSandhills Rescue Ambulance has less than a thousand
miles on the odometer, but itsits in the back of the fire station
under a thick coat of dust.I am the only EMT and have been
since twenty seventeen, so it iscurrently waiting for more volunteers. Rose Chapel

(01:10:40):
and Jamie Simmons have been trying toget the community motivated to help out and
save their ambulance service, and wecan't run the ambulance with just one EMT.
The census puts Merriman's population at aroundninety Those still here are getting older,
making the search for volunteers a challenge. You know, the people that

(01:11:01):
have kind of been willing to expressat least a little bit of an interest.
Part of their hesitation is they're alsoprobably sixty seventy years old. We
really have not had any interest fromthe younger generations, and I think that
the reason for that is the youngergenerations are further out of town. So

(01:11:23):
without that working, it drains thebattery completely, so we have nothing.
The ambulance operates independently from Merriman's fifteenmember fire department. Jamie and Rose launched
their effort to jumpstart the rescue squad, shadowed by a host of long simmering
problems. An independent assessment prepared bythe Paramedic Foundation found ineffective leadership was a

(01:11:47):
primary reason for the failure of thesystem. The budget was a mess,
the community lost trust. Once therewere eight EMTs, most left in twenty
seventeen, the service collapsed. Merrimanmust now rely on distant towns or a
hospital ambulance driven from South Dakota.There's been several deaths that we know of

(01:12:11):
that have happened because they couldn't getems there fast enough, or they couldn't
get them to a hospital and thereare still people unaware they don't have a
service running. I think some ofthe individuals have gotten the idea, we've
lived this long without it, wecan survive, and I think that's a
very dangerous opinion. The Merriman Squadmight have attracted fresh EMT volunteers, but

(01:12:36):
some recoiled at the cost and lengthyprocess needed for certification and that course of
training, that level of commitment,I think makes people very nervous. A
lot of our people don't want totake the class because they don't have the
time. I think the prices haveincreased for that type of training, They've

(01:12:58):
went up significantly. Sure. Sure, in Norfolk, when an ambulance arrives
from the fire department, everyone onthe ambulance who touches a patient must be
certified to be a paramedic or EMTemergency medical technician. So there's different skill
sets there in different trades that eachperson has, but everyone's serving the same

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purpose helping citizens in a time ofdistress. This is a full time pay
job for the Norfolk paramedics and EMTs. Any volunteer EMT in Nebraska must meet
the very same requirements. When arural ambulance service has authorization to transport the
sick and injured to a hospital.From a response perspective, we're all doing

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the same things. It doesn't matterif you are a career fire department and
run one hundred calls a week orif you're in a volunteer department and you
run fifty calls a year. Theyneed the same training, they need the
same skill set. These aren't doctorsand nurses, but when small town squads
transport the critically injured to hospitals,they are the healthcare providers keeping a patient

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alive. I'm well than ninety ninea ogilola. It's a long trip to
the hospital and before you get highermedical care. So it's very nerve wracking.
And if I had to take somebodyan ambulance for fifteen minutes, that
was a long time. Here.These folks could be in the back of
an ambulance with a credible patient foran hour or more, and so that's

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a whole different ballgame. Hey,we're in good job. Community colleges in
Nebraska are the most common provider ofclasses for paramedics and EMTs. By state
law, before treating patients, EMTsmust be certified and tested by a national

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organization. Keeping that certificate requires anothertwenty hours of approved continuing in education every
two years. Nationally, only aboutone in four students past that EMT exam
on the first try, and it'sintimidating. The test is hard. We've

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had people go through the class anddo well in the class and not pass
the test and never become licensed.So I think all those things are big
challenges for especially small communities, toget the number of people to try it.
So it's crazy. It's not justus demanding that, but it's everywhere.
It's a standard. Unlike firefighting volunteers, there is no free, state

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funded training for those providing volunteer emergencymedical care in the field. And somebody
takes an EMT class, you know, fifteen twenty years ago, I don't
know, sixty to fifty hours onenight a week for three months you obtain
your certification. Now it's about twohundred hours. The demand on that just

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on a simple EMT license has quadringrupled in the past twenty years. School
whereas the EMT programs are run throughcolleges and you have tuition expenses and departments
have to you know, if theywant to incentivize that and pay for your
students to go to school, itgets pretty expensive. Many small volunteer ambulance

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services can't pick up the tab forEMT training. Many others have that kind
of cash. In Mullen, theyhave the money and made it a priority
if anyone in our community wants totake the class and become a part of
our squad, that we offer topay for the education for the EMT classes
as well as their mileage. That'sthe impossible trade off when requiring hours of

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training in highly specialized skills. Thoseskills can save lives and those moments when
you know you have trained and trainedand trained, that's what's important for the
rule providers. I think is thatcontinuous training of Okay, we've ran the
scenario, here's what we need todo. But there's always anxiety about that.

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Some state policy makers argue the solutionmay be relaxing the standards for medical
care in the field. It isa tough call for me, but I
think the rigor is important and thecontinuing at hours are important. In Merriman,

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the rescue squad could not recruit enoughvolunteers willing and able to commit to
the training necessary. The service officiallyended operations in fall of twenty twenty three.
As ems, we always say thatthat first hour is the golden hour.
You want to have them in thehospital being treated by then, so

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it's a great loss. It's likea death. It is life and death.
Literally, a wildfire is a differentcreature than a house fire. Using
tabletop exercises, some fire departments rehearsehow to deploy when one busts loose,

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so who wants to be Engines,weather, terrain, and fuels all figure
into how a fire behaves. Becauseno one department can handle a complex wildfire
alone. There are strategies to considerwhen working with other agencies on the scene,
so it's not chaos. They're verymuch aware of how to respond.

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Many of the departments mutual aid witheach other, which means they assist each
other in their fellow communities. Ithelps me because it realizes the things that
where I'm weak at and things thatI can improve on as well. Most
wildfires begin as grass fires. Thegearing fire department does what it can to
reduce that risk of grass fires,staging controlled burns of dry grass. There's

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an understanding that wildfire prevention and planningare no longer optional. It seemed like
March and April the weather patterns.We were out every day on grass fires
the last three years. Last yearalone, we increased our call volume by
eighteen percent, and that was becauseof the amount of fires that we had
last year in twenty twenty two.All right, we'll take another line.

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The phrase climate change may not gettossed around the firehouse, but you can
hear talk of crazy weather all thetime. Our volunteer fire departments aren't ready
for the world that we live intoday, and I think a lot of
that is the wildland fire environment.The long term outlook on the Great Plains,
as with the planet, concerns climatologists. Warmer seasonal temperatures appear to be

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moving north. The climate in centralNebraska thirty years from now is going to
look more like southern Kansas. Idon't think that Nebraska on the whole is
prepared for the changes that are tocome. The science indicates the warming of
the planet amped up extreme weather.It's arrived with a vengeance. Since twenty

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fifteen, there have been twenty fourclimate related disasters in Nebraska, each one
with losses exceeding one billion. Dollarseach one challenged volunteer responders, the floods,
the windstorms, and increasingly the fires. The severity of wildfire seasons is

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going to be amplified in the future. Not every year is going to be
worse than the previous year, butwe will have significant wildfire years. That's
just the nature of how things arechanging. Whichever aisle you sit on with
climate change, I always tell them, I say, I don't care.
You just cannot deny that the climateis changing in some fashion because we're not

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having fire seasons anymore, We're havingfire years. Nebraska saw one of the
worst outbreaks of wildfires in history intwenty twenty two that the Nebraska Forest Service
backed up volunteer departments on fifty fourgrassland and forest fires two hundred and fifty

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thousand acres burnt. Each of thosefires shared the common elements that contribute to
longer severe fire seasons low humidity,more dry fuels, high winds. Our
Weather Service reported that they had daynear more high wind warning and watches in
the last twelve months than they've issuedprior since they started collecting data. Of

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those who responded in our survey,seventy five percent of Nebraska volunteer fire departments
anticipate the risk of extreme weather willincrease. With changes that we are seeing
and that are projected to happen inthe future, we won't have a good
sense of normals. That'll make thingsdifficult in terms of planning and preparedness,

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especially for emergency responders. Yes,now everyone has a plan until get put
the face, you know, andthen you get punched in the face and
there goes planing. You know.I don't know if you can truly plan
for something that crazy. The CarterCanyon Fire was that kind of crazy.
In the rugged Wildcat Hills at theWyoming border. One of the largest fires

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in the state's history. Began ona windy one hundred and three degree day
at the end of July twenty twentytwo. The Carter Canyon Fire was worse
than any of us could have expectedwith the with the fires that were out
here. When gearing firefighters Skip Kellyand Ken Hawk drove back into the canyon
a year later, the memories remainedvivid. It's like mass chaos inside of

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an oven. The location of yourBird Street. Yeah, I'm in Banner
County and you got two wildfires thatjust started based on lightning. Everyone in
the canyon heard that thunderclap. Afew were surprised by what happened next.

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Robert Clost Banner County. We've gotthree fires out here now. I think
probably better get some bis late.Were you come again? Anath? The
hell firefighters in the Panhandle knew thedrill, get suited up and head for
the smoke through fire actually tied togetherthe running or tower, the gearing Volunteer
Fire Department trains for wildfires. ChiefFlowers was given incident command and Ken Hout

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drove his pumper into the hills.Well, it looked very much like a
long hanging thunderstorm, you know,with big cumulous clouds. But it wasn't.
It was a fire and it wasgrowing very rapidly. How are you
guys doing over there? Look likeblue up there. Let's getree so it
might get a little kitchy hear ina bit. It was kind of a
oh crap moment. You see thatmuch smoke coming from the hills. My

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twenty three years of being on thefire service, I've never seen a fire
and move this fast, this latin this area. Vacation's not going to
help people like there's still people inthe houses up here. There's a jump
the road already. They should probablyget people out of there. Tucked along
the Carter Canyon Road was the Endlow'splace on the property that had been in

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the family four generations. The familyand their neighbors knew the risks of fire
in the Wildcat Hills. Gary hadbeen trimming limbs away from their propane tank
just that morning. Would it's wonderfulto live in the pines and the cedars,
but don't let them catch on fire. As they finished dinner, they
saw the smoke, thanks for readyto burn, and it had the opportunity,

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and that's just what it did.Heading up the canyon, Gary watched
as the fire pushed up the ridge, throwing red hot embers into the pines
and cedars miles ahead. When yousee these things just explode and black smoke
going in the distance where you cansee it, you're pretty sure you've got
a problem coming here. Hey,guys, gotta get your own orchard.
Help me protect this one house.I can't control the fire. I'm fought

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out of water. There are nohydrants in the hills. By nightfall,
everyone wondered if any of the fifteenhomes in the canyon could be saved.
The end loss. Sun called nineone one wanted fire support out here.
I don't want my parent's house toburn down. I know the fire's coming

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over the hill, coming straight frommy parents' house. We need fires support
out here. When you see thatplume fire, you know it's growing very
rapidly. It's going to start creatingits own weather. You know, it's
creating its own way, and itcould move even faster. It was scary
actually that night, because that's thefirst time in all my years of fighting

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fires that ever had hot ambers goingdown in my back. There was no
control in it that night. Youjust tried to protect what you could and
move on and hope for the best. Manager has quarter of evacuation for all
residents. Fire crews from multiple departmentsdid what they could, but they couldn't

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be everywhere. There's a Mintil twentytwo on the fire. There is a
house on Quire Canyon Road, andthe people on a property will not leave.
They're trying to fight the fire offthemselves. Gary did what he could
with the three hundred gallon water tankhe had available. The fire crew arrived
and he evacuated it's kind of likea snowstorm out there with embers and sparks

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and a thing like that. Ifyou've been in a snow sattom of a
blizzard. At that time, itwasn't the main thing else he could do
zero visibility twenty one. What doyou think the hell out of? Dozens
of firefighters and air support from theNebraska Forest Service contained the fire after a

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week on the end Low's property.Most of the trees they loved won't be
back for you years. But otherthan a melted plastic fence, the house
shows few signs of being surrounded byan inferno. Just one fire, fifteen
thousand acres burnt, including prime grazingland for cattle ranchers, thirteen buildings lost,

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including two homes. I think we'regoing to see that trend continuing to
where we do see some significant growthin fires. Possibly. I hope it
doesn't, because you know, that'sdestroying people's lives. Some firefighters, skeptical
of the climate scientists believe this isa normal, short lived cycle. I

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don't know that. I directly believein climate change, and that's what makes
this country great. We're all entitledto our opinions. The prospect of more
intense wildfires has some Nebraska fire departmentsrethinking their training priorities. Nebraska Forest Service
does red card training focused on wildfirehistorically of interest to departments in the drier

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and windier regions. Firefighters to theeast recognize it's time to pay attention,
and a lot of them are like, well, we saw what happened there
last year, and we'd never seenanything like that this close to us,
so we decided we better start takingthe training and stuff too. So they
want to know about what influences thefire in the wildland fire environment, and

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they also want to know strategies andtactics to keep themselves safer than what they
were doing in the past. Overfour or five days. It's all about
fire behavior, weather and being awareof situations that can put a firefighter's life
in danger. It's like moths toa flame with volunteer fire departments whatnot,
and they always run to the headof the fire. They got to go

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put the fire out, and sothey go to where the flames are the
biggest, and that's the most dangerouspart of the fire. So I think
that's why it's important to have thistraining, especially with our state being covered
with one hundred percent wildland fuels.And I remember rule number six. It
is buelert, stay calm, thinkclearly, act decisively, And I really

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like that. I think it resonateswell with kind of what the firefighters do
here. One half of the firefighterdeaths in twenty twenty two were attributed to
over exertion and stress, according toa study by the National Fire Protection Association.
In Nebraska, the record number offires that year put unprecedented pressure and

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firefighters rushing to help neighbors in theregion. From twenty twenty through twenty twenty
two, the Gearing City and ruraldepartments responded to eight major wildfires, blackening
tens of thousands of acres. That'sour challenge is trying to find people to
help with these extended events. Thirtyfive departments came to the aid and the

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Carter Canyon fire, some driving threehundred miles to help. It's the system
known as mutual aid, just tobring some of our resources to help out,
to basically make us a larger department, you know, coming together and
we've all worked together really closely.We will actually reach out a very long
ways. I mean, for one, hundreds of miles away on a large

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fire for mutual aid. There isabsolutely no way we could handle the size
of these fires without it. Threeexamples from Nebraska's worst fire season. In
April twenty twenty two, sixty departmentsrushed to contain the ferocious Road seven oh
two grass fire. That fall fireswept through the Nebraska National Forest, and

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twenty two departments left their hometowns tohelp. Come spring, when a fire
threatened homes around Lake Wakonda along theMissouri River, forty five departments responded from
across eastern Nebraska. After these firesgo on for days, these individuals are
not getting paid. They are takingoff time, which is costing them money,

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and so we all have bills thatwe have to pay, so it
does become an issue. And sogetting kind of called over and over and
over for all these fires, itwas. It was exhausting. It was
hard. You know, every otherday you're like, oh, here,
there's a grass fire. Here,there's a grass fire. Here. You're
like, oh my gosh, again, like what are we doing. As

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predictions point to more extreme weather,there will likely be greater demands on the
network of volunteer first responders, soit seems like we're going to request more
from our mutual aid partners, Sothere are call volumes going up. Their
requests from us are call volumes goingup. Because everybody's in it together and
we're relying on everybody. And there'sa greater toll after Nebraska's worst wildfire season

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that can be found in the namesnow etched in granite of the three firefighters
who died in the line of duty. John Trumbull, Cambridge Volunteer Fire Department,
Darren Cruel Ellwood Volunteer Fire Department,Michael Lee Mooning Furdom Volunteer Fire Department.

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Vegetation will grow back, crops willgrow back, Homeless can be replaced,
but those firefighters we lost that werepart of that response last year will
never replace those firefighters. Maybe arecord number of wildfires stretching across the state
provided people with a bet or understandingof the importance of the service provided by

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volunteer fire departments. But until youhave something of that magnitude, I don't
think it really sets in. Andthen it's like everybody wants to support the
department, Like, oh, theseguys are exhausted, working their butts off
and they're bringing everything you could everimagine into the fire hall. I think
that's when they realize how important thesepeople are to their community. And the

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Nebraska Public Media Survey completed this summer, six out of every ten responding fire
services told us their communities fully supporttheir work. The firefighters themselves will tell
you once a volunteer gets hooked,there's no turning back because it's a tradition
that you want to keep alive andbe a part of. You hear it

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in Madison, just fun helping people, real warning. You hear it in
Garrett. Your community loves this department. They they are for this department,
like it's so nice to be appreciatedwithin the community. You hear it in
Mullen. Maybe it's a big thingto some people, but it's a little,

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tiny thing that we can do togive back to the other people in
our community. It is interesting forme to hear you say restarting somebody's heart
is a little thing. Yeah,it's when you put it that way,
it's it's not a little thing.When you're talking about solutions to the recruitment
crisis, you really don't hear anyonecalling to end the volunteer system. In

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favor of putting fire crews on thepayroll. No one's showing up to get
paid obviously, so I don't knowwould that attract people that otherwise wouldn't volunteer?
Is that who we want? Ithink if you add strictly a paid
fire department, or even a combinationpaid volunteer, I think you can see
your volunteers drop off. Do youlose your volunteers? Can you lose the

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people that matter? You know?The minute you start paying people, things
just get really complex. Now.It's worth noting that Gearing shares a boundary
with the City of Scott's Bluff,which has full time paid firefighters. The
volunteers will tell you they are justfine with a system that doesn't require them

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to change jobs while still providing afew financial perks for staying so. Our
department is one of the few thatI know offers an incentive program with a
retirement and we usually get a checkat the end of the year. In
Gearing that can be up to sixhundred dollars depending on how much time a
volunteer devotes to in service and trainingtime. It's a choice for individual departments

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made possible in state law because ina day's world, people want to be
rewarded for what they provide. Atthis point, it has to work itself
out, just because in these ruralcounties, we just do not have the
financial means to obviously pay some individualsto do some of these things. And
you definitely don't hear much talk ofturning to state government to take on a

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big role in managing local fire protection. I think that we definitely would not
want the state to take over,only because just like school districts, everyone
is different, and there you haveit. If there's a common threat in
Nebraska's emergency universe, it's that everydepartment is different. Four hundred and fifty
combinations of different personality, community priorities, and landscapes. That's reflected in our

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survey. When we asked for specificsabout the challenges facing individual departments, they
told us in dozens of anonymous repliesthat our members are burnt out, there's
a lack of support from local government, and in some cases poor leadership within
their departments. Specific departments will needto find specific solutions, but everyone seems

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to need help. Recruiting recruitments shouldalways be a crisis. Then it's going
to come to a point where you'reyou're screaming for help. At times,
a fire department may need to lookat itself. Town leaders might ask if
there are reasons people in town arequitting or not volunteering. They gave this
to me two thousand and one whenI retired from cheap after fifty years fighting

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fires. Ray Keefer knows there's somehistory to that, and he's glad that
there have been changes to our departments. Used to be kind of you know,
I don't know how you said.They weren't open like they are now.
Anytime somebody wants to come in here, they come in and show them
open. But you never used tobe that way. Private club, kind

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of private club. And when yougot downe at the fire, the doors
come down, and that was it. The biggest misunderstanding. And you hear
little lot is the fire when we'reprobably at the bar or sitting down at
the fire halt drinking beer. Again, there hasn't been alcohol in this building
for fifteen years. I think that'sa thing of the past. At a

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time when departments unanimously say they neednew members, younger members, the old
ways will have to give way.Your fire department reflects your community. Yeah,
one hundred percent. And if yourcommunity is diverse and has different various
backgrounds, I think your fire serviceis going to be so some volunteer departments
are finding new recruits by turning tothose in town who might have been excluded

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in the past. I'm trying toalways reach out and get other women to
come on because I think they'd havea great experience. They just it's hard
to get in when it's always beensuch a male dominant field. A woman
on a fire department on an EMScall, it's going to be able to
deal or handle call of a womanwho was just assaulted in domestic violence situation

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versus a man a Hispanics who mightknow Spanish is going to be a very
helpful if it's a Spanish speaking person. There isn't data specific to Nebraska,
but Hispanics and Native Americans seem underrepresentedat a time when those groups make up
twenty percent of Nebraska's population. Iknow that Madison has a huge Hispanic population,

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so at least if I can helpout with the language Burger for me,
that was like, I'll do mypart in that. At least several
departments found a path and attracting highschool students interested in firefighting and emergency medical
response through a cadet program. Weengage them right away. We make them
feel like they're a part of thisdepartment right off the bat. We get

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them into the tasks and we showthem this is a nozzle, this is
the radio, these are subas.We get them in there and we engage
them hands on. It's something thatthe kids have never experienced before. So
they're like, wow, this isthis is awesome. So they feel like
they belong and that's a good thing. There may be a recruiting opportunity at
every fire scene. This is great, what you guys do you know?

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And I should probably help out thistown more? Do you need any help?
And always need help? Second inair here, second in air.
It's the same for training exercises outin public, those opportunities to show off.
In fact, training doesn't just recruitnew members, it also keeps current
members engaged. Statistically speaking, traininghelps keep people on board, not only

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within Nebraska, but we know basedon national surveys that have been conducted by
other organizations. Training becomes a greatretention tool. Paying for training is one
of the biggest contributions state governments providefor local departments. The big thing is

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always safety for us, you know, being able to watch over our control
it, manage it. The StateFire Marshall's office provides training to any department
free of charge, in the classroomand in the field. I think it
becomes an opportunity for people to understandhow different departments work. I'm more comfortable

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overall going in and doing the jobthat I'm supposed to do. You can
make training fun. Man be carefulwith him. He's very delegate, very
fragile. Some departments, Madison included, at times train independently of the Fire
Marshal with the same goals in mind. When we train, we try to
make actual scene. Well, anybodycan go out there and hook the hoses

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to the truck and take five minutesdoing it. But if you got two
minutes at the most, you know, to pull everything out and hook it
up, that's when you find theproblems. No, we got to figure
it out, and that's where Iwant to be prepared when I'm out there,
because it's not only my safety,but it's everybody's safety. When you

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go into that structural fire, youhave to look at everything. You can't
just jump in you have to firstidentify what is needed so that everyone can
be safe. Training, if doneright, is something that's interesting and creates
unique friendships in a small town.There's a lot of camaraderie in the fire

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service fellowship, and when you spendtime training together, learning new skills,
there's that sense of bond that's createdbecause we did it together. You become
a fire department family, and thatbrings us back to Bristow, the town

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on Nebraska's northern border, small firedepartment, aging volunteers, old equipment on
the smallest of scales. Bristow foundsolutions to keep the department alive. They
remembered public safety as a priority.When three of the aging firefighters retired,
it was not surprising that three otherguys stepped in to fill their boots.

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It could be a matter of savingone life that we got there five minutes
sooner, having us right here.When it was clear the nineteen seventy two
Ford F six hundred firetruck needed toretire, the entire town stepped up.
I think the town gets us.Just recently, when we got our new

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truck purchase, the town put upfive thousand dollars to help purchase the truck,
so they understand the need to keepstuff updated and keep us around too.
So I mean this community supports uspretty well that way. I'd say
it's a four wheel drive eighty threeGMC Sierra bought used from a fire department

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in Oklahoma, almost new by Bristowstandards. The town chipped in enough money
to buy fresh bunker here, handme down coats and boots and helmets bought
in an online auction from a Germanfire crew. Pretty good that way.
We don't have a big budget.We don't need a big budget. It's
a source of pride for Bristow thattheir own volunteer fire department remains on duty,

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but only because some people in towntook on the responsibility to show up
when needed. There are over fourhundred volunteer departments in Nebraska hoping someone is
standing by to do the same.So that was pretty interesting and yes,

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and they are going to continue toshow that on YouTube, on their YouTube
channel and on their website Nebraska PublicMedia, and on their Facebook page.
You can get a link to itthere. And we have an article as
well, the need for firefighters.It's called Firefighter Shortage exclamation point. That's
an article in our blog at diggingdepertnet and that's going to do it.

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As we look at the different creditshere on the screen, a big shout
out to all of the folks atthe Gearing Fire Department as well as the
rest of them in different departments there. Appreciate everybody's input on that. We
also saw Brandy Ahlers was one ofthe panelists at the showing down at the
Midwest Theater as well as Nathan Flowers. So really great to see all those

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folks participating in that educational time ofletting folks know how desperate they are for
help. And so go down,call, go see, get in touch
with someone at your local fire departmentor ambulance service and please volunteer. Yes,

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and thank you for listening to thetruth because they get us, because
we're ready fight God. Why Bubbly, while that raido dies, the whole
world's rain everybody picking gems on thewrite in the streets, the whole world's
rain way gets them and you willcatch me The ugly truth hard to listen

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to, but impossible to ignore.Now. Faith is the assurance of things
hoped for, the conviction of thingsnot seen, and without faith it is
impossible to please God, because anyonewho comes to him must believe that He
exists and that he rewards those whoearnestly seek him. Seek ye first the

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Kingdom of God, and all thesethings shall be added. Unto Him.
Everything is possible for one who believes. Welcome to Faith Matters. Welcome again
to Faith Matters. This is segmentnumber four. We're just about right on

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time. A little longer segment thereobviously on the Ugly Truth, but and
that was an important video. Again, just want to reiterate the fact that
the local fire departments in rural areasof the country are really needing your help.
Paramedics are needed, people's lives areon the line. So thank you
for all those who watched and commentedand for shared that in the last hour

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there, and for all those whoattended and participated and produced it. Everyone,
Thank you working fires the crisis inrural firefighter halls. Yeah, that
departments, departments, departments. Thatwas worth Okay, we're live here and

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it is segment four Faith Matters.For it is by faith you have been
saved. But you got to doa few things to get ready. And
doctor David Jeremiah here lays out thirtyone ways to be rapture Ready. This
is The Great Disappearance, Chapter three. In our weekly reading, we're going

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to use the utilize the fair UseAct and analyze what doctor Jeremiah has to
say here. We never ever disapproveof it, but we do want to
break it down, read through itverbatim, and then comment on it as
we go, and really just encouragefolks to buy his book. You can
just click on his website or anywebsite or our website, just to click

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somewhere and buy this book. It'scalled The Great Disappearance. We're in chapter
three and this is called the Ruleof three. You know, really cool
graphic up on the screen here,I see sun moon and stars three.
And so what do we have forthis chapter? I know it's a pretty
short chapter. Tonight. On Maythirteenth, nineteen forty, Winston church Hill

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delivered his first speech as Prime Ministerof the United Kingdom. The nation was
already in the early stages of WorldWar II, and Churchhill's speech, Like
the Man Himself, was a powerfulcombination of the practical and the inspirational.
It was during that speech that Churchilldelivered the now famous promise to wage war

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by sea, land and air,with all our might and with all our
strength that God can give us,to wage war against a monstrance monstrous tyranny
never surpassed in the dark, lamentablecatalog of human crime. But there's a
moment earlier in that same speech thatI want to focus on right now.

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Speaking both Parliament and the nation abouthis qualifications for leadership, Churchill said,
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Linguists
have identified that moment as the likelyorigin of the phrase blood, sweat and
tears. You might be wondering,well, where did the toil go?

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How did blood, toils, tears, and sweat compared down to just blood,
sweat and tears. The most likelyanswer is what communication experts call the
rule of three Ah, that makessense. Speaking generally, The rule of
three states that ideas or concepts aremost understandable, relatable, and retainable when

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expressed in groups of three. Thisis what we teach in our marketing.
Yes, and what most pastors aretaught, and what most speech people who
are in speech get taught. Yeah. And in restaurants they always have the
medium. Everybody works medium yeah.So for example, here's three things life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Things calm, cool, and
collected. Yeah, there you go, or I came, I saw,

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I conquered. Part of the reasoningbehind this rule is based on the way
human brains are constructed. We havelimited short term memory, which means we
often find it difficult to hold orprocess more than three separate blocks of information
at the same time. Ideas presentedin groups of one or two can find

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feel boring or unappealing. Yeah,I actually, we've really studied this,
So this is great work here bydoctor Jeremiah. Perhaps that's why most plays
are written with three acts. Perhapsthat's why the best speakers often build their
presentations around three points, right,And perhaps that's why Dale Carnegie famously said,

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tell the audience what are you're gonnasay? Say it, and then
tell them what you just said.Yep. By the way, even Jesus
used the rule of threes in hisstories and the parable of the Good Samaritan.
For example, first a priest,then a levite, but it's the
Samaritan who stopped and helped the beatenman on the side of the road.

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And Jesus as parable of the sewer. He described the good soil as that
which produces a crop some thirtyfold,some sixty and some one hundred, and
probably the most famous of all isLuke fifteen, where Jesus strung together a
story about a lost sheep, astory about a lost coin, and a

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story about a lost son to showGod's love for the wayward and the wandering.
Three seems to be the chosen numberfor effective communication. How interesting,
then, that God provided a triad, triad, triad, triad of passages

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in scripture that outline his prophetic planfor the rapture. Those passages are found
in John fourteen, First Krink fifteen, and First Thessalonians four. Jesus provided
the executive summary for the rapture inthe first passage, and Paul filled in
the details in the two epistles.There are four there, excuse me.

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There are other verses that mention orreflect the rapture, of course, but
these three chapters contain the core ofGod's teaching about that event. For that
reason, these three chapters will serveas the foundation for this book. Let's
look at those three John fourteen onethrough three. We began in John fourteen
where Jesus talked with his disciples inthe Upper Room just four days before his

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crucifixion. His words were filled withcomfort, instruction, and emotion. In
the middle of that message, Jesussaid, let not your heart be troubled.
You believe in God. Believe alsoin me. In my Father's house

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are many mansions. If it werenot so, I would have told you
I go to prepare a place foryou. And if I go and prepare
a place for you, I willcome again and receive you to myself.
That where I am there you maybe also highlight those words, I will
come again and receive you to myself. That's rapture talk, kind of like

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the rap talk we had earlier.Rapture talk during one of the most confording,
comforting messages Jesus ever gave to hisfollowers, including us, the rapture
was at the forefront of his mind. To give some context, our Lord
Jesus opened his public ministry with theSermon on the Mount in Matthew five seven.

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Three years later, he closed hisearthly work with the Upper Room Discourse,
which was recorded in John thirteen throughseventeen. Remember, Jesus knew everything
that was about to transpire, hisarrest, the false accusations, the trial,
his crucifixion, his resurrection, andhis ascension soon after. The disciples,

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on the other hand, knew nothingabout the chaos they were about to
endure. Therefore, Jesus sought toprepare them and comfort them in advance.
As we read the Upper Room Discoursetoday, it's apparent that the rapture was
heavily on Jesus thoughts. In fact, he spoke eagerly and wistfully about his
future absence and his eventual return.He told his father. He told his

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followers, little children, where Iam going, you cannot come in John
thirteen thirty three. That disturbed thedisciples, and Peter asked him about it,
Lord, where are you going?In response, Jesus told them about
his father's house and it's many rooms. He told them about preparing a place

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designed specifically for them and for us. Then Jesus spoke those wonderful words,
I will come again and receive youto myself John fourteen three. Shortly after,
he prayed, Father, I desirethat they also whom you gave me,
may be with me where I amJohn seventeen twenty four. How Jesus

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loves us, Oh how he lovesyou. Don't let your thoughts about the
Rapture be confined to people vanishing ortrumpets sounding. Instead focused on the truth
that Christ came and died to saveyou, returned to heaven to prepare a
place for you, and is shortlycoming to receive you to himself. Why

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because he wants you to be wherehe is, to see and to share
in his glory. Wow. Okay, so you caught me there dot Com
Jeremiah and miss Andy. You caughtme thinking too deeply. That's why we'll
paused there for a second. Iwas you caught me I think too much

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that way. I'm like, Okay, rapture, I think I see a
sky scene and I hear the trumpets. Yeah, that's that's what I think.
That's just what I think. Imean, like I almost did that.
When you said we can't think thatway, I'm like, no,
that's how I think of it.So we've got to think beyond that,
Okay, Right, It's more thanjust a trumpet, blairer. Oh,

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It's just much more than that momentin time, which we won't even probably
remember, because it's this life andit's it's this in a moment, it's
on this side. Well, yeah, right, will be on the other
side as long as that happens,and then it'll be for infinity, right
and beyond. So let's look atfirst Corinthians fifteen fifty one through fifty eight.

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Now that was really good, Doctorj. Here we go. So
next time we come to Paul's firstletter in the Corinthians, where the apostle
connects the resurrection of Jesus Christ withthe future resurrection of Christians. At the
time of the rapture, he wrotethis. He says, Behold, I
tell you a mystery. We shallnot all sleep, but we shall all

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be changed in a moment, inthe twinkling of an eye at the last
trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed. Forthis corruptible must be put on incorruption,
and this mortal must be put onimmortality. So when this corruptible has

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put on incorruption, and this mortalhas put on immortality, then shall be
brought to pass the saying that iswritten, death is swallowed up in victory.
Yeah, oh, death, whereis your sting? Right? Yeah?
Oh, Hades, where is yourvictory? The sting of death is

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sin, and the strength of sinis the law. But thanks be to
God who gives us the victory throughour Lord, Jesus Christ. Therefore,
my beloved brethren, be steadfast,immovable, always abounding in the work of
the Lord, knowing that your laboris not in vain in the Lord that

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is one. Corinthians fifteen fifty onethrough fifty eight, whoa. This is
the second scripture passage that provides thefoundation for our understanding of the rapture.
More broadly, Paul wrote for Corinthiansfifteen as a response to people connected with
the Church in Corinth who doubted thereality of a physical, bodily resurrection for

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believers without the completed New Testament.Some of the early believers held mistaken views
about the future, and they wereoften vocal about proclaiming those views. You
know, some things never change.Truthfully, the Church in corinth was confused
about many theological and doctrinal issues.That church was the problem child among Paul's

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congregations, which I'm sure was frustratingat the time, but as a result
of their need for correction. Christiansthroughout history have access to important teachings we
wouldn't have received otherwise. Many Biblescholars call One Corinthians fifteen the resurrection chapter
of the Bible. From Paul defendedthe resurrection of Christ, explain the nature

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of the resurrection body, and endedthe chapter at the zenith of prophecy.
His description of the rapture three things. Again, No, well, he
is a pastor, and they getused to doing that. Right, he
did a lot of threes. Weall seem to do that. So let's
look at the third First Thessalonians fourthirteen through eighteen. Finally, we find

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are most detailed and I think mosthelpful depiction of the rapture in First Thessalonians
four thirteen through eighteen. But Ido not want you to be ignorant,
brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have
no hope. For if we believethat Jesus died and rose again, even

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so God will bring with him thosewho sleep in Jesus. For this we
say to you by the word ofthe Lord, that we who are alive
and remain until the coming of theLord will by no means precede those who
are asleep, for the Lord himselfwill descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel,and with the trumpet of God, and

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the dead in Christ will rise first. Then who are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with him inthe clouds to meet the Lord in the
air. And thus we shall alwaysbe with the Lord. Therefore, comfort
one another with these words interesting.So once again context is helpful for fully

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engaging these verses. Act seventeen describesthe moment Paul planeted a church in the
Great City of Thessalonika, located inthe northern region of modern day Greece.
According to Acts seventeen two, hewas with them for only about three weeks
three weeks, three weeks before hewas driven away by persecution. Paul didn't

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have ample time to plant deep spiritualroots to answer all the thessalonians theological questions,
but he did speak often about theLord's return as he presented the Gospels.
As a result, the Thessalonians weregripped by the reality of Christ's return
to think they would see the Lordface to face. He was coming for

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them. They knew they needed tobe ready for Christ to come at any
moment, and they looked for himevery day, as we all should.
Yet there was also confusion when someof their church members died. The others
grieved because those members hadn't lived longenough to see Christ come again. They

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were afraid their deceased loved ones hadmissed the rapture, indeed that those loved
ones had missed Heaven itself. Paulwrote back to reassure them, teach them,
and offer the comforting answers they needed. He introduced his message by saying,
for this we say to you bythe word of the Lord. That

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indicates Paul's teaching on rapture was adirect communication received from Almighty God. The
apostle told the thessalone Thessalonian believers notto grieve like people who haven't been discovered,
like people who haven't discovered the hopeJesus gives us. And then he

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went on with the powerful passage Iquoted previously, saying God will bring all
his children to himself, even thosewho sleep in death. The dead will
rise first on the day of therapture. Those still alive on that day
will be caught up together to bewith Christ. We shall always be with

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the Lord our God. I findit helpful to compare the first and last
of these three passages John fourteen withThessalonians four because they offer several powerful parallels
in comforting collaborations. There's a charton page twenty one of his book that
shows those comparisons, and I thinkit's pretty obvious. I'll probably read through

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some things that see what he sayshere. Try to imagine what it would
be like to receive these incredible teachingsin the ancient world. Put yourself in
the upper room hearing Jesus' matchless wordsabout his father's house. Visualize yourself among
the crowd in Corinth hearing Paul's lettersfor the first time. Think of what

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it meant to be the Thessalonians torealize the Lord himself would descend from the
sky and that his coming is eminent. As we'll see in the pages to
come, the message of the Raptureis just as urgent for you and me
today, in fact even more so, and the concepts on the previous chart

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will become more clear. I've alwaysenjoyed news stories about overseas military members returning
home early or unexpectedly to surprise theirloved ones. One Florida elementary school conspired
with the military to surprise ten yearold Evan Eleanor right before Christmas break during

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an all school event in the cafeteria, Principal Andrea Hall called Evan to the
front and asked him what he wantedfor Christmas. Evan said it was to
see his brother, Private First ClassJames Eleanor, whom Evan had missed so
badly it had affected the whole family. The little boy said, it felt

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like his brother had been away forthree hundred days, although it hadn't actually
been that long. You know whatthat happened next? Hmmm. As the
principal chatted with Evan, suddenly thelights flickered and the stage curtain opened,
and there was James, dressed inhis fatigues and standing with a bright smile
and a classic army stance. WhenEvan saw him, he jumped over a

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table, clambered on stage, andleaped into his brother's arms, hugging him
so tightly he almost had to bepried off. There wasn't a dry eye
in the room. In the earlydays of reality TV, there was a
series called Surprise Homecoming that highlighted thosetear jerking clips. The host would profile

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a wife or children who were wistfulor lonely for their loved one, and
then he would rip the yellow ribbonfrom around the tree in front of their
house and say, what these lovedones don't realize is the weight is over
in many ways. That is themessage of these three key passages from God's
word. Jesus is coming. Hewill bring us to himself, and I

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believe the weight is nearly over.The Lord's reunion of his people and with
his people is close at hand,and he has prepared a place for us.
He has. That's what I mustremember, that he has prepared a
place for us. Rather than thinkingabout the cloud encounter. Yes, it's
not about the cloud encounter in thesky, no, but it is about

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wanting everybody around you to be therewith you. That's the truth. That's
the truth. That's what we need, and that's what we need to pray
for as we close out our programtonight here at eleven eleven Central time.
And remember November eleventh is Veteran's Day. For all those who have died serving

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our country. We ask for theirblessing this Veteran's Day. Period, Lord
we thank you for this program.We thank you for doctor Jeremiah. We
thank you for those who will nowhonor that and pick up his book and
read it and take it to heartand be ready continue to listen to this
podcast for the next twenty nine weeks. And also, Lord, just to

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thank you for giving us the strengthand the voice and the heart to speak
doctor Jeremiah's words into the microphone sothat others can hear them. Lord.
Maybe those there might be those whodon't like to read, or those who
don't understand things. Hopefully, Lord, we will have brought some light to
that. We hope Lord, thatwe can bring a service to doctor Jeremiah

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and his words and to your word, your precious whole word. Lord.
We love you, and we thankyou for this Faith Matter segment and will
go ahead and close out our program. Lord, we thank you and we
appreciate everything that you have given us. Every single day. Don't worry about
anything. Instead, pray about everything, Tell God what you need and thank

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him for all he has done.Then you will experience God's peace, which
exceeds anything we can understand. Hispeace will guard your hearts and minds as
you live in Christ Jesus, andnow, dear brothers and sisters, one
final thing. Fix your thoughts onwhat is true and honorable and right and
pure and lovely and admirable. Thinkabout things that are excellent and worthy of

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