September 8, 2025 • 36 mins
/// Support The Scalpel with Dr. Keith Rose - Experience a Healthier You with LifeWave Phototherapy Patches. These non-transdermal, drug-free patches capture infrared light emitted by your body, reflecting it at specific wavelengths. Visit https://lifewave.com/RoseMD to learn more or call 866.202.0065 ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Keith Rose joins Debbie Farenthold and discusses various topics including parenting, morality, and societal issues. He emphasizes the importance of setting boundaries and teaching children emotional maturity, independence, and self-reliance. Dr. Rose defines love as prioritizing one's highest good, not giving in to every desire or want. He critiques a society that values ease and comfort over hard work and responsibility, warning that this approach can lead to societal decay. In the face of adversity, Dr. Rose encourages individuals to look beyond their circumstances and trust in God's promises. He stresses the value of making tough decisions and taking personal responsibility for one's actions. Throughout the conversation, Dr. Rose emphasizes the need for individuals to prioritize their values, faith, and self-improvement over material comfort and external support. His insights provide a thought-provoking perspective on parenting, morality, and societal issues. /// The Scalpel is proud to partner with Brickhouse Nutrition. Dr. Rose uses and highly recommends Field of Greens. Your purchase through this link supports The Scalpel Podcast. /// https://scalpeledge.com/brickhouse ---
Connect with The Scalpel:
Website: https://scalpeledge.com
Email: KFR@scalpeledge.com
TruthSocial: @scalpeledge
Rumble: @TheScalpel
X: @TheScalpelEdge
Instagram: @TheScalpelPodcast
Connect with The Scalpel:
Website: https://scalpeledge.com
Email: KFR@scalpeledge.com
TruthSocial: @scalpeledge
Rumble: @TheScalpel
X: @TheScalpelEdge
Instagram: @TheScalpelPodcast
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Scalpel with doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Keith Rose, cutting down to the truth through history and experience.
Subscribe to The Scalpel wherever you listen to podcasts, follow
us on Instagram at the Scalpel Podcast, on x at
the Scalpel Edge, or the website scalpel Edge dot com.
The next episode of The Scalpel starts now.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I was listening to Megan Kelly, like, for I don't know,
fifteen minutes the other day, and I think it was
her was she was going off about the fact that
I think it was the Cowboy Game, the Thursday night
game on Friday. She's going off that they did this
great deal. Everything was you know, raw raw raw, and
(00:49):
you know, flyovers and flags and blah blah blah, and
then they play the black national anthem and she's like, really, really,
you just ailing in it. I thought you were past
all that we're Americans that we don't have two. So
there's no Chinese national I mean, I mean, there's no.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There's no white national anthem.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
There's just the US national anthem.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And what's her name, Jordan Hudson played it Sune today,
So you know, I just I'm with her. I'm with her.
I don't want to see all that. I don't want
to hear all that. I don't want to know all that.
I don't want to see.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
End racism in the in the in the end, zones, just.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Freaking play football and get rid of the crappy new
kickoff rule that you have.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, they can't just play football now because.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Well a bunch of women are running it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Whoever's investing in it is telling them what to do.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And well, I feel like people want to watch sports
just to watch sports. It's the opportunity to get away
from Paula, right. And now that like politics and sports
have just kind of like blurred together. I think people
are less well for you.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
To watch football because it's always been football and basketball
have always been.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Not about race. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You know, can you imagine if you said, in basketball, look,
we're going to have to have equal representation of everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know we want you know, five ten Hispanic guys
playing major league basketball basketball?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And look, it's always been about the best player plays.
I mean it's the ultimate meritocracy. Yeah, major league sports.
And then then you got the women NBA and they're like, well,
they should make the same as men. Now they shouldn't
because they don't provide the same value.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Kaitlyn Clark's awesome. But I mean, but I'm saying is.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
If you, okay, what do they they're a subsidized league,
and that they're saying, well we should be the same.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No, you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
So this is my question about that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Did you We didn't want We were going to watch
the closing ceremonies for the US Open for the guys.
The woman winner, I can't remember. I want to say Shapova,
but that's not her name, but it's something like that.
She won, She got five million bucks. She got a
check for five million dollars. Good for her, great for her.
I wonder what the guy got. I wonder what al
(03:32):
Alcarez got.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But I also interesting that we're going to talk about
this for five seconds. But I watched Hope Solo versus
US Soccer this yesterday. It's like a Netflix documentary and
one of her big things, you know, she was a
she was a wave maker. She was a troublemaker, according
to US Soccer, and they basically fired her for some
(03:58):
ridiculous statement she made with Wi was the Italians are
cowards and she got.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Fired for saying that.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And she went on this GHD for you know, better
pay and for a one case and insurance, you know,
all that stuff, all that stuff that your employer provides you.
That's what she was saying. US soccer should be want upon.
You know, I don't disagree. They won't how many World
Cups they wont how many for the females, whatever, metal,
(04:27):
gold medals, the whole deal, and they were getting paid nothing, nothing, zero,
and US Soccer is making.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Million, but they don't have to play for you as soccer,
well that's right, they can just say we don't want
to play. I mean, look, as an employer, if you
can afford to get for a one case, if you can,
you know you want.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
To, and that's how you get good people. If you
choose not to and you can't get good people, then
you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's my point is I guess if they're gonna tell
people like I Hope Solo what to do so that
she can continue to play, and then she should be calmed.
It's to me it's almost the same argument. I'm not
saying she should get paid the same as the men,
although the men were losing everything and getting paid lots
(05:19):
and lots, and I can't remember the exact amount of money.
But it's just but this is the point, right, It's
just like college football. If we're gonna go down this road,
then we're gonna go down this road.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, I played college football.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I know you play anything.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We didn't get Jack and I played for a Division
one team and we were constantly ranked in the top twenty.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
And I started Did you play for Baylor?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes? And I started for Baylor for two years.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And by the way, the Baylor SMU game was apparently
fabulous this weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, you know they what they did is they they
dealt with the situation in the worst way possible and
went overboard.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It's I was all for you need to do something
to subsidize because I was on full athletic scholarship, which
means I can't work by NCAA rules, I could not
go get a job to supplement my income. They paid
for my school, my books, my room, and my food.
But everyone knows that you still got to put gas
(06:22):
in your car, you still got to travel, he still
got to you know. It's it's not like you you're
a robot, and it's just the minimum amount. And so
what happened is you have my parents, My allowance was
fifty dollars a month. That was for gas. Wow, that
was fifty bucks a month. That's all my parents could afford.
They could have never afforded Baylor. Yeah, and there were
(06:43):
guys on our team that came from very poor families.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They couldn't afford that.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Now, I'm sure the coaches helped them out with little
gas money every now and then. I don't know that,
but I would imagine they did. But it wasn't egregious.
It wasn't they weren't buying a maserat. They were helping
them put gas or so they could or you know,
whatever they could do to get you know, food, like
on the weekends, right, you know, you want maybe want
to go to a movie or something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But what happens is I said from.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
The beginning that we should have lifetime muscular skeletal.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Medical care for playing football.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I mean, because your your body is is beat up
pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And the schools were making bank.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, now they've come in and they're paying guys millions
and millions of dollars Now, what could be worse than
giving a nineteen year old kid millions of dollars. I mean,
let's let's let's start with that, that genius move. And
then all these kids have to have agents. And I
can tell you I saw this when I was playing.
(07:53):
When guys were going pro. Agents aren't like the best
people on the planet. They they would you know, you
had lots of guys that signed multimillion dollar contracts that
were broken a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And that's after they graduated or were at.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
School and they changed college into a mercenary. You know,
we're we If I'm not happy, I'll just leave and
go in the portal. There's no loyalty, there's no school spirit,
there's no anything. And and and I I'm thankful I
got to go to Baylor. It was a good time
(08:29):
for me. It was a lot of hard work. I
was pre med. There was no writing an essay to
get into med school kind of thing. And you know,
I don't regret it. But we we've we've gone overboard.
We everything we do is designed. It is an overshoot
because and then it pushes so much money out there
(08:49):
for the people that are that are just gonna come
in and take it right. And these kids are not
gonna I don't see them doing better in life by
getting multimillion dollar contracts. You're not help them.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No, I agree.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And you're listening to Kuka Driscold Texas Corpus Christie's retro
country radio station one O five nine one O three
three are on the app Retro Radio CC wherever you
download the app. You're listening to the Morning Waves show
with Debbie Morgan and doctor Keith Rows, who's in the
WaveMaker studio. It's a little cleaner, Huh, we're.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Getting I love Blake, but you guys are so organized.
I walk in here and I'm not digging through wires
to find something, and everything is like you got a
new board. Everything makes sense where you're just like I
just come in, I pull up a chair, and everything's fine.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
We're trying to get this little mess over here clean.
We worked.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Let's worked on that, and I'll tell you what. You
guys don't have done a great job, but there's.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So, uh, what do you before we get into our
usual stuff, I'm kind of curious what you're thinking about
all this water shenanigans, all of I just I I
don't even know what to think anymore about this now.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't know. I think the same thing I've always
thought about this town.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It's they take they're not solving problems, They're creating problems
that can't be solved to spend more money on the
unsolvable problem. Yeah, instead of just going, Okay, we have
this issue, let's let's let's solve it. And if we don't,
(10:28):
and and it's the answer is not always have a
bond issue, Let's hire another buddy buddy construction company or
wink weak no, no, make a deal.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It's it's not right.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And Corpus Christy has just insane property taxes, I mean insane, and.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They're talking about raising them more and there and there,
and they're and they're they don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's it's it's it's wrong, and people eventually are just
gonna go, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I don't get involved in local politics, but I've been
very disappointed in the lack of leadership and the lack
of vision and the lack of you know, I A
lot of mistakes have been made. But I remember back
when we said, hey, let's do the package channel, and
what do we we did the package channel.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Mm Hmmpeline, Oh we did it, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Now it's like, let's let's start to do something and
fight about it. And and it's just it's the people
that you want to know. Who are they representing?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Yes, I mean what what.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
What is there? What is their creed, what is their oath?
What is their moral compass pointed to? And it's can't
just be pointed to a title company, No, And it
can't just be pointed to a construction company. And it
can't just be pointed to an architect firm. It needs
to be pointed to what's best for the citizens of
Corpus Christy. Back in the day, I was on the
(12:06):
Charter Revision Committee and I was also on the Crime
Control Board, and I worked with some really I think
great citizens that just I mean I was just a
member of these things. I wasn't the driving force. But
the people that were, they did a great job. Guys
like Brian Smith who aren't even in the community. Moore
was a former police chief. Oh, did such a great
(12:29):
job with Crime Control Committee. Just great job, so detailed,
so into the budget. He would call me, Hey, we
got this, buddy, we got to figure this out. We
got to get the you know, the police more and
now it was right and we have great leaders. We
got Chief Markell great leaders.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I adore him.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Sheriff Hooper great leader. Are County judge Judge great leader?
I mean we have good leaders.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Connie Scott, Connie Scott, I mean I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Have good leaders, but what we have to do is
get them good support, good staff. And the infighting, the bickering.
There just needs to be a goal and an obtainable goal.
And it can't be Hey, let's do this and just
have another bond issue and raise taxes.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well, I think also it can't just be I don't
believe what you're telling me. So I'm going to go
out and do my own deal right right, because now
I can't even keep track of all the water deals
that all the separate council members are just going out
and doing on their own without staff, I mean the staff.
(13:37):
I don't need staff. I'm elected. I can go do
whatever I want. Really, when did that happen? When did
all of that happen?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
When did that happen? When was there not?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I mean, if I'm elected on the city council and
being paid six thousand dollars a year or whatever it is, whatever,
ridiculously absurdly low amount of money.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Sure, I'm going to go out and look for a
deal where I'm going to get part of it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Why would I not? Well, because you're moral.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I mean, you don't look, when you run for counsel,
you recognize it's only six thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And by the way, I'm not even talking about water.
I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Throughout the years. I know, throughout the years.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Well that's my point that should that should clue people
in is when people run for council at six thousand
a year, it's been half a million dollars to be
elected to counsel.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Why are they doing that? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I don't understand that, but.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Hey, you know it's it's not you know, I know,
it's not like sixteen candles, king of the dip stuffs,
you know.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I mean, it's like, I don't know, but hey.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
But anyway, I agree.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I think I think we've got a leadership problem.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I think.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I think that's really at the core is there's no
there's an Okay, I don't know if you know this word.
I told it to Morgan the other day, I followed
this elite recruiter and I get an email from her
or whatever, and she's really interesting. But she threw out
this word ikiga. It's like, it's a Japanese word for
(15:27):
basically your purpose in life, your being, what you're being
is in your purpose and how it connects with the
world or the community, and how you can make money
off of it. Basically how you know how you you well.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Everyone everyone has a purpose, right, and the way you
define that purpose, I mean God's placed that inside you. You
have an assignment, purpose, a gifting right. And I don't
use ikey guy, I use purpose. But the ideal purpose
will have three things intersect with it. Something you're good at,
(16:04):
something you love is something that you can make a
living with.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Yes, and what the world needs it. Those are the
four things.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But the same thing thing is what the world needs.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I would differ with the And I studied in a
Japanese martial arts school for like growing up like for
a long time, I was really immersed in the culture.
But they have no God in the culture. They have
lots of gods, not one in particular. And the thing is,
we think what the world needs, we tend to tie
(16:40):
our needs.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
To what the world needs. And that's why.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm well, I think what it's saying is making a
positive impact on others, but so it.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Does impact your world. I get it, but not the
world I know. But it's at the same time going
down this rabbit hole and I want to I want
to make a positive impact, but on that on a
bigger scale. But then we realize that, you know, God
has placed a purpose in a design in all of us,
(17:14):
and like, we're a design in a design in a design.
Good example, you're a mother, mm hmm, your wife, you're
a nurse, you're a nurse, you're a grandmother, you're a
talk show host. You're a design in a design and
a design and we have a designer. The interesting thing
is what you're seeing today is people are stepping outside
(17:38):
of their design. And when you get outside of that design,
you get outside of your mind. You know, you say
a guy is a girl or a girl is a guy.
You're outside the design. When you try to drive the
father out of the house through welfare or whatever you're doing,
or take to parents already away from raising their children,
(18:02):
you're outside of the design.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So what do you have? You have people that are
out of their.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Mind, that become out of design, and so that they
they're not following the design that God gave them. They're
following the design the world has hurted them towards right.
And when that happens, they become out of their mind.
You have, and that's what societies are. Unscrupulous leaders in
(18:27):
societies have used throughout the ages to divide the populace.
And when you divide the populace and create chaos, then
you absert power and that's when you get real totalitarian
type governments. And what you're seeing today is you're seeing
the same thing play out with whatever you want to
(18:49):
call it, the deep state, you want to call it,
you know, there's a lot of different names for it.
But you have a group of so called experts talking
about the sign talking you know they know best, the
teaching experts, the climate experts, all these people, and it's
designed to create a problem and chaos that makes no
(19:13):
sense because it's so far out of the natural design
that God did that it doesn't work. But it does
raise more money to throw at the unsolvable problem, so
you have a massive wealth transfer. COVID was a great example.
All the data coming out now and COVID shows that
the shot and you can do your own research. Should
(19:35):
never have been approved. It should never have got emergency
youth authorization because there were already treatment methods for COVID
that you didn't have to have. It was the trillions
of dollars of wealth transfer to nameless bureaucrats and their
proxies around the world. We lost a ton of people
to the wrong treatment because again the science drove it.
(19:58):
And so again as physicians, we got outside of our
design what we understood true medicine. We got outside of
the scientific process. We didn't go through the right testing.
We went straight to the results that they told us
we had to, and they.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Drove us through fear.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yes, and fear is the number one way to get
out of your design.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It's the number one.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
And you could break it down to something simple like
during a war when you have a platoon or a
group of guys and they're going into battle and the
leader goes, okay, we have strategy, we have tactics that
we're going to do that if you if they become afraid,
if they fall apart, then they they don't and they're
(20:40):
not trained, well, then they get outside the design that
they and they get defeated, they get routed. Because fear
is insidious. It gets in and all of a sudden,
you can't think clearly. All of a sudden, you're driven
by words instead of by actual reality, right, And that's
what we're seeing today. We're seeing people say, you know,
(21:01):
your kid's going to kill themselves if you don't affirm
when they're four years old that if they say that,
if their boy and they say they want to be
a girl, and they literally tell parents, your child could
commit suicide because you're not affirming them. That's fear and
that's way outside the design. And so what they do
is the government has come in and tried to do that.
(21:22):
They tried to do it with COVID, they do it
with climate change. Oh we're not going to have polarie
caps or polar bears. I mean, like I have a
place up in Montana near Glacier National Park and they
had to sign up there every year that the glaciers
will be gone in twenty years. Well twenty years hitting
had to take down the sign because glaciers are still there.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, if you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Go back and look at all the climate predictions, none
of them have ever come true. But you have people
that are driven by fear and not by facts. You
have people that are driven by emotions and not reality,
and that is outside their design right. And so the
big challenge today, and that's one of the reasons that
(22:04):
when President Trump came in and spoke plainly to the
American people, he was telling don't be afraid. You know,
he's not a perfect person, but he came in and
he spoke truth and he called out the obvious lies.
He was basically the kid that said, yeah, the Emperor
has no clothes, but no one would do that. And
it's and and they call it mass psychosis. And we
(22:27):
saw the mass psychosis during COVID. I saw it. And
if you're not if you don't know who you are,
and you don't have a strong faith in the reality
of who you are, and then it goes back to
the ikigu, your design, your purpose. God designed us all
for a purpose. We are called to that purpose. It
(22:48):
doesn't mean it's going to be easy. I'm going through
a terrible time in my life, but I know that
I'm called to a purpose and I trust in the
goodness of God and that purpose. And yes, there's going
to be bumps along the way. There's going to be
all kinds of attacks because we live in a fallen world.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
But if you.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Stay true to the purpose you're called to, you will
have a peace. I think the Bible says a piece
that passes all understanding, because in the natural.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
People go like, how can you become?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You know, everything's falling apart, and then the supernaturally you're like, well,
because God has a purpose, you know the Japanese w
well call it the ikagu. But that purpose also may
be something that I can't see, something that God sees
that's part of his plan, not my plan, because my
plan's not anything special.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
His plan is eternal.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
So God sees outside of time, space and matter, so
that we may not always understand what's happening, but we
can respond to what's happening based on our moral compass,
based on our faith, based on truth. And when people
get into trouble is they start reacting out of fear,
(23:59):
they start react acting out of lack of faith, they
start reacting out of emotion.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know, it's you.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Get what they call soul ish, where your soul is
I think, I want.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I feel you know this, this is.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
What drives me my emotions. You know, I'm just emotionally driven.
And that's why the Bible is very clear they say.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You know, you have to trust in God. You go
to the.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Spirit because we all have a spirit. We're a spirit
and a body with a soul, and our spirit is
how we talk to God. Our soul is our emotions,
and our body is how we deal with the everyday.
You know, sight, sound, touch, and once you understand that,
you can walk in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Your purpose or what they will call it, could go
and you start seeing things clearly.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
And the most successful people are the people that are
calm during the storm. The most successful people are the
people that rise out of chaos. The people that don't
and the people that filment the chaos want to rise
by shoving people down. The people that rise out of
the ca chaos went to rise by lifting people up.
(25:03):
And that's what that's the difference between a leader, yes,
and a politician.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Apssolutely absolutely yes, lift people up. I don't understand, and
I've worked for I've worked for bosses that didn't allow
for that transformational leadership style, that didn't allow for people
(25:32):
to be the best they could be. When I have
an associate come to me and say hey, I want
to do X y Z, And if they left, it
would devastate it would be really hard on my department.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I'm like, yeah, go for it, go for it. I'll
support you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You go for it.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Because it's like, I don't know, don't you kind of
equate it to kids? You know, you raise them so
they can spread their wings and go forth and have their.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Purpose so that they're not dependent. And see, here's the
hard part. Doing the right thing doesn't always feel right
to the other person, i e. Raising kids, right. You know,
we talked about this before. The Hebrew word for father
means restrainer, right. The Hebrew word from mother is nurturer.
(26:20):
You have to have both the restrainer and the nurture.
Restraining my kids isn't always fun for them when they
were growing.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Up, telling them no, and when people think, oh.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't want to hurt their feelings, No, you're going
to destroy your kid if you tell them yes all
the time. Yes, it doesn't mean that you don't give
them a yes, it doesn't mean you don't want their best.
But you have to have the right definition in anything
in life. If you're going to get to the right destination.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, you have to have boundaries that you know. That's
the other thing. You call it.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
What getting outside of the plan whatever, Right, it's really well.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The boundaries, well, the boundaries show the boundary is you're set.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But why Okay, you have to have boundaries.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But again, I always say, the wrong definition will take
you to the wrong destination. So the first definition is
I love my kids.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
What is love me?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I told my kids this, I said, because they say,
if you love me, you'll buy me this candy. If
you love me, you'll let me stay up all night. No,
love is my highest good for you. That's the definition.
That's a biblical definition of level. What's my highest good
for you? I love my wife. What is my highest
good for my wife? I love my children. What is
(27:33):
my highest good? My highest good for my children is
not giving them everything they ask for. My highest good
for my children is not biting and not supporting every
one of their ideas. My highest good for my children
is to speak truth to them. Sometimes that looks terrible
to them because it's not giving them what they want.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But I love them and I want their highest good.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
It's like when a kid comes in and says, I
want to poursh at sixteen that I asked.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
My dad for that. He said no, and we couldn't
afford it anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
But I thought you got to ask, right, Yeah, I
ask every year and had he gotten me one, how
he could afford it. He wouldn't have given me one anyway,
but he knew I would take it and wrap it
around a tree because I had no control over the
idea of how fast I could go. My highest his
highest good for me was to keep me alive. When
my parents used to when I was younger, I say,
your bedtime is seven?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, like what seven? You need your sleep?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Well, that was my highest good because I grow during sleep.
It's better for me. It's like my parents will say,
you need to be home at ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Why because I told you so?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
And I would argue with it because what does a
fourteen year old need to be doing after ten o'clock
at night? Nothing productive, I can promise you, like a
Shenanigan central.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And so it's our highest good.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
So you have to have the right definition to get
to the right destination, and then if you do that,
then you create. That's why the family is so important.
That's why father mother raising children now some people don't
have that luxury. But a good raising a child with boundaries,
(29:15):
not arbitrary boundaries just because I say so, but telling
them it is because you say so, but you have
a reason. Yeah, when you raise a child with boundaries,
then you have an adult that has emotional maturity at
an early age.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
You have kids at inner college and they're told no,
and so they scream and yell and yell for a
safe space.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
There were no safe spaces in my home growing up.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
There were no space.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
There were a lot of ass whippings. There were zero
safe spaces.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
There were no safe spaces at the University of Texas,
I can assure you in the seventies and eighties there.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Were none Baylors.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I mean there was no There was no This teacher,
I don't think my grade is fair, you know, Yeah,
you got a.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Grad show up, so you don't.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I mean med schools now pass fail most of them
back then, and when I took it was great from
zero to one hundred and just for things. You want
your doctor to be graded on their merit. I'm just
going to throw that out there. But you know, life
is tough and you have to make tough decisions. We
just made a recent tough decision. I closed the clinics.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Oh you, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I did not want to, but the way that insurances
are paining and the way that EMR's you know, I
have to fight those battles with the EMR. But I
can't fight on a two front more with insurance companies.
And I didn't want to, but I didn't have a choice,
and I had to make a tough decision. It's not
a fun decision, but it's a decision of you can't
(30:42):
continue along and take the hits that you're taking. And
there's going to be times in life that you're going
to have attacks. You're going to have to make these
tough decisions and then roll with them.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
So did you? My mother always said to me my father.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Mom and dad used to say, when God close, the
door opens a window.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
When God closed one door, another door opens. But here's
the thing we seemed that we try. There's there's a
thought process out there. Doesn't live in my house that
everything's going to be great. There's a and everything's not
always great. There's going to be where I'm going through
a terrible season in my life. But I have a
lot of joy. Yeah, I'm going through. I know God
(31:25):
is who he says he is. I trust in his promises.
His promises never fail, but they may not look like
what you want him to look like at the time. Right,
And we seem to think that life goes on without difficulty.
And we've had a really You and I grew up
in the best times in the United States.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We really did the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I'm sorry they didn't get to grow up an they
were freaking awesome. You did not have this division, you
had true patriotism. You had But what happened during that
time is that the church writ large, big evangelical churches,
decided to grow their name, but not grow the principles,
(32:13):
the foundation and the name of Jesus. They did not
decide to grow the tenets of the Bible. They just
grew the parts of the Bible that brought more people in,
and they grew buildings, I believe, and then they essentially
became captured by the culture. So when we went from
good times to difficult times like COVID financial bubbles. When
(32:39):
we things started becoming difficult, people were like, I've been
prosperity gospel of this that, and You're like wait, I'm
so thankful that Jesus died for me, and I celebrate that,
but I'm celebrating a murder, okay, because he overcame that.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
But he still had to go through that.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
You know is going to be difficult, and if you
don't raise your kids to understand that, I'm thankful my
parents did or being impossible to get through this time.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I'm thankful my dad told me.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You know, it's not always great, no, but God is
always who he says he is.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Well, He's always there.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And it's that footprint in the sand kind of story,
that that thing you know.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Where you look back and you go, well, where were
you God?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I just went through this awful time and you know,
I think you could arguably say him having my own.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
You're having a heck of a time.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But it's your worst, your worst times, you are going
to be your best stories because you're going to say
this is how God rescued me, this is how God
saved me. And it's a season, right, and we and
the seasons that you see winter, spring, summerfall are just
like the seasons that you're going to have in your life, right,
and that if you really understand the Bible you understand
(33:53):
the word of God, the breath of God, the Holy
Spirit speaks to you through the word of God, then
you'll get through those seasons because you'll have something to
give you, that piece that passes all understanding. But if
you put your faith in quote the science, the climate,
the politicians. Look, we have been as a society driven
(34:19):
in such the wrong area. We've become immoral, ungrateful, and
passionate only about what we want and not looking to
what we were designed for. And you have people that
are working a job that they hate because yeah, you know,
it gets me to the next You have people that
(34:40):
aren't working. We've created a society of people that would say, hey,
why should I work when someone else will support me?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Right, this is not your design.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
No one was designed to live off of someone else
in perpetuity.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Now I think there's even parables in the Bible of it.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
There is no You should help the people that are down,
but you shouldn't help them to where they can never
rise up again. And that's what you get, the tough love,
that's where you get. You know, you help your kids
if you can, you help them with college, but your
job is not to help them every step of the way.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Your job is.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
To give them advice, to give them wisdom, and to
speak truth to you.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And sometimes they hate that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, I'm dealing with that right now, and sometimes they
don't like that truth.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
But I didn't like it, Tod, do you when you're working?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
No, I still don't like it, but I know the
reality of it.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Cutting down to the truth through history and experience. This
is the Scalpel with Doctor Keith Rose. Consider giving us
a five star rating on Apple Podcasts. Connect with the
Scalpel on x at the Scalpel Edge, on Instagram and Facebook,
at the Scalpel Podcast, or the website scalpel Edge dot com.
Another episode is coming soon. Subscribe and share today wherever
(36:00):
you listen to podcasts and let's keep freedom rolling.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
H
The Scalpel with doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Keith Rose, cutting down to the truth through history and experience.
Subscribe to The Scalpel wherever you listen to podcasts, follow
us on Instagram at the Scalpel Podcast, on x at
the Scalpel Edge, or the website scalpel Edge dot com.
The next episode of The Scalpel starts now.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I was listening to Megan Kelly, like, for I don't know,
fifteen minutes the other day, and I think it was
her was she was going off about the fact that
I think it was the Cowboy Game, the Thursday night
game on Friday. She's going off that they did this
great deal. Everything was you know, raw raw raw, and
(00:49):
you know, flyovers and flags and blah blah blah, and
then they play the black national anthem and she's like, really, really,
you just ailing in it. I thought you were past
all that we're Americans that we don't have two. So
there's no Chinese national I mean, I mean, there's no.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There's no white national anthem.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
There's just the US national anthem.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
And what's her name, Jordan Hudson played it Sune today,
So you know, I just I'm with her. I'm with her.
I don't want to see all that. I don't want
to hear all that. I don't want to know all that.
I don't want to see.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
End racism in the in the in the end, zones, just.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Freaking play football and get rid of the crappy new
kickoff rule that you have.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Well, they can't just play football now because.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Well a bunch of women are running it.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Whoever's investing in it is telling them what to do.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And well, I feel like people want to watch sports
just to watch sports. It's the opportunity to get away
from Paula, right. And now that like politics and sports
have just kind of like blurred together. I think people
are less well for you.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
To watch football because it's always been football and basketball
have always been.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Not about race. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You know, can you imagine if you said, in basketball, look,
we're going to have to have equal representation of everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You know we want you know, five ten Hispanic guys
playing major league basketball basketball?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And look, it's always been about the best player plays.
I mean it's the ultimate meritocracy. Yeah, major league sports.
And then then you got the women NBA and they're like, well,
they should make the same as men. Now they shouldn't
because they don't provide the same value.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Kaitlyn Clark's awesome. But I mean, but I'm saying is.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
If you, okay, what do they they're a subsidized league,
and that they're saying, well we should be the same.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
No, you shouldn't.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
So this is my question about that.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Did you We didn't want We were going to watch
the closing ceremonies for the US Open for the guys.
The woman winner, I can't remember. I want to say Shapova,
but that's not her name, but it's something like that.
She won, She got five million bucks. She got a
check for five million dollars. Good for her, great for her.
I wonder what the guy got. I wonder what al
(03:32):
Alcarez got.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But I also interesting that we're going to talk about
this for five seconds. But I watched Hope Solo versus
US Soccer this yesterday. It's like a Netflix documentary and
one of her big things, you know, she was a
she was a wave maker. She was a troublemaker, according
to US Soccer, and they basically fired her for some
(03:58):
ridiculous statement she made with Wi was the Italians are
cowards and she got.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Fired for saying that.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And she went on this GHD for you know, better
pay and for a one case and insurance, you know,
all that stuff, all that stuff that your employer provides you.
That's what she was saying. US soccer should be want upon.
You know, I don't disagree. They won't how many World
Cups they wont how many for the females, whatever, metal,
(04:27):
gold medals, the whole deal, and they were getting paid nothing, nothing, zero,
and US Soccer is making.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Million, but they don't have to play for you as soccer,
well that's right, they can just say we don't want
to play. I mean, look, as an employer, if you
can afford to get for a one case, if you can,
you know you want.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
To, and that's how you get good people. If you
choose not to and you can't get good people, then
you know.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's my point is I guess if they're gonna tell
people like I Hope Solo what to do so that
she can continue to play, and then she should be calmed.
It's to me it's almost the same argument. I'm not
saying she should get paid the same as the men,
although the men were losing everything and getting paid lots
(05:19):
and lots, and I can't remember the exact amount of money.
But it's just but this is the point, right, It's
just like college football. If we're gonna go down this road,
then we're gonna go down this road.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Well, I played college football.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I know you play anything.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We didn't get Jack and I played for a Division
one team and we were constantly ranked in the top twenty.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
And I started Did you play for Baylor?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yes? And I started for Baylor for two years.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
And by the way, the Baylor SMU game was apparently
fabulous this weekend.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, you know they what they did is they they
dealt with the situation in the worst way possible and
went overboard.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It's I was all for you need to do something
to subsidize because I was on full athletic scholarship, which
means I can't work by NCAA rules, I could not
go get a job to supplement my income. They paid
for my school, my books, my room, and my food.
But everyone knows that you still got to put gas
(06:22):
in your car, you still got to travel, he still
got to you know. It's it's not like you you're
a robot, and it's just the minimum amount. And so
what happened is you have my parents, My allowance was
fifty dollars a month. That was for gas. Wow, that
was fifty bucks a month. That's all my parents could afford.
They could have never afforded Baylor. Yeah, and there were
(06:43):
guys on our team that came from very poor families.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They couldn't afford that.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Now, I'm sure the coaches helped them out with little
gas money every now and then. I don't know that,
but I would imagine they did. But it wasn't egregious.
It wasn't they weren't buying a maserat. They were helping
them put gas or so they could or you know,
whatever they could do to get you know, food, like
on the weekends, right, you know, you want maybe want
to go to a movie or something like that.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
But what happens is I said from.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
The beginning that we should have lifetime muscular skeletal.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Medical care for playing football.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I mean, because your your body is is beat up
pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And the schools were making bank.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah, now they've come in and they're paying guys millions
and millions of dollars Now, what could be worse than
giving a nineteen year old kid millions of dollars. I mean,
let's let's let's start with that, that genius move. And
then all these kids have to have agents. And I
can tell you I saw this when I was playing.
(07:53):
When guys were going pro. Agents aren't like the best
people on the planet. They they would you know, you
had lots of guys that signed multimillion dollar contracts that
were broken a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And that's after they graduated or were at.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
School and they changed college into a mercenary. You know,
we're we If I'm not happy, I'll just leave and
go in the portal. There's no loyalty, there's no school spirit,
there's no anything. And and and I I'm thankful I
got to go to Baylor. It was a good time
(08:29):
for me. It was a lot of hard work. I
was pre med. There was no writing an essay to
get into med school kind of thing. And you know,
I don't regret it. But we we've we've gone overboard.
We everything we do is designed. It is an overshoot
because and then it pushes so much money out there
(08:49):
for the people that are that are just gonna come
in and take it right. And these kids are not
gonna I don't see them doing better in life by
getting multimillion dollar contracts. You're not help them.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No, I agree.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And you're listening to Kuka Driscold Texas Corpus Christie's retro
country radio station one O five nine one O three
three are on the app Retro Radio CC wherever you
download the app. You're listening to the Morning Waves show
with Debbie Morgan and doctor Keith Rows, who's in the
WaveMaker studio. It's a little cleaner, Huh, we're.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Getting I love Blake, but you guys are so organized.
I walk in here and I'm not digging through wires
to find something, and everything is like you got a
new board. Everything makes sense where you're just like I
just come in, I pull up a chair, and everything's fine.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
We're trying to get this little mess over here clean.
We worked.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Let's worked on that, and I'll tell you what. You
guys don't have done a great job, but there's.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So, uh, what do you before we get into our
usual stuff, I'm kind of curious what you're thinking about
all this water shenanigans, all of I just I I
don't even know what to think anymore about this now.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't know. I think the same thing I've always
thought about this town.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
It's they take they're not solving problems, They're creating problems
that can't be solved to spend more money on the
unsolvable problem. Yeah, instead of just going, Okay, we have
this issue, let's let's let's solve it. And if we don't,
(10:28):
and and it's the answer is not always have a
bond issue, Let's hire another buddy buddy construction company or
wink weak no, no, make a deal.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
It's it's not right.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
And Corpus Christy has just insane property taxes, I mean insane, and.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
They're talking about raising them more and there and there,
and they're and they're they don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's it's it's it's wrong, and people eventually are just
gonna go, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I don't get involved in local politics, but I've been
very disappointed in the lack of leadership and the lack
of vision and the lack of you know, I A
lot of mistakes have been made. But I remember back
when we said, hey, let's do the package channel, and
what do we we did the package channel.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Mm Hmmpeline, Oh we did it, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Now it's like, let's let's start to do something and
fight about it. And and it's just it's the people
that you want to know. Who are they representing?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Yes, I mean what what.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
What is there? What is their creed, what is their oath?
What is their moral compass pointed to? And it's can't
just be pointed to a title company, No, And it
can't just be pointed to a construction company. And it
can't just be pointed to an architect firm. It needs
to be pointed to what's best for the citizens of
Corpus Christy. Back in the day, I was on the
(12:06):
Charter Revision Committee and I was also on the Crime
Control Board, and I worked with some really I think
great citizens that just I mean I was just a
member of these things. I wasn't the driving force. But
the people that were, they did a great job. Guys
like Brian Smith who aren't even in the community. Moore
was a former police chief. Oh, did such a great
(12:29):
job with Crime Control Committee. Just great job, so detailed,
so into the budget. He would call me, Hey, we
got this, buddy, we got to figure this out. We
got to get the you know, the police more and
now it was right and we have great leaders. We
got Chief Markell great leaders.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I adore him.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Sheriff Hooper great leader. Are County judge Judge great leader?
I mean we have good leaders.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Connie Scott, Connie Scott, I mean I don't.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Have good leaders, but what we have to do is
get them good support, good staff. And the infighting, the bickering.
There just needs to be a goal and an obtainable goal.
And it can't be Hey, let's do this and just
have another bond issue and raise taxes.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well, I think also it can't just be I don't
believe what you're telling me. So I'm going to go
out and do my own deal right right, because now
I can't even keep track of all the water deals
that all the separate council members are just going out
and doing on their own without staff, I mean the staff.
(13:37):
I don't need staff. I'm elected. I can go do
whatever I want. Really, when did that happen? When did
all of that happen?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
When did that happen? When was there not?
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I mean, if I'm elected on the city council and
being paid six thousand dollars a year or whatever it is, whatever,
ridiculously absurdly low amount of money.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Sure, I'm going to go out and look for a
deal where I'm going to get part of it.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Why would I not? Well, because you're moral.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I mean, you don't look, when you run for counsel,
you recognize it's only six thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And by the way, I'm not even talking about water.
I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Throughout the years. I know, throughout the years.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Well that's my point that should that should clue people
in is when people run for council at six thousand
a year, it's been half a million dollars to be
elected to counsel.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Why are they doing that? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I don't understand that, but.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Hey, you know it's it's not you know, I know,
it's not like sixteen candles, king of the dip stuffs,
you know.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I mean, it's like, I don't know, but hey.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
But anyway, I agree.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I think I think we've got a leadership problem.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
I think.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I think that's really at the core is there's no
there's an Okay, I don't know if you know this word.
I told it to Morgan the other day, I followed
this elite recruiter and I get an email from her
or whatever, and she's really interesting. But she threw out
this word ikiga. It's like, it's a Japanese word for
(15:27):
basically your purpose in life, your being, what you're being
is in your purpose and how it connects with the
world or the community, and how you can make money
off of it. Basically how you know how you you well.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Everyone everyone has a purpose, right, and the way you
define that purpose, I mean God's placed that inside you. You
have an assignment, purpose, a gifting right. And I don't
use ikey guy, I use purpose. But the ideal purpose
will have three things intersect with it. Something you're good at,
(16:04):
something you love is something that you can make a
living with.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Yes, and what the world needs it. Those are the
four things.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
But the same thing thing is what the world needs.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I would differ with the And I studied in a
Japanese martial arts school for like growing up like for
a long time, I was really immersed in the culture.
But they have no God in the culture. They have
lots of gods, not one in particular. And the thing is,
we think what the world needs, we tend to tie
(16:40):
our needs.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
To what the world needs. And that's why.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I'm well, I think what it's saying is making a
positive impact on others, but so it.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Does impact your world. I get it, but not the
world I know. But it's at the same time going
down this rabbit hole and I want to I want
to make a positive impact, but on that on a
bigger scale. But then we realize that, you know, God
has placed a purpose in a design in all of us,
(17:14):
and like, we're a design in a design in a design.
Good example, you're a mother, mm hmm, your wife, you're
a nurse, you're a nurse, you're a grandmother, you're a
talk show host. You're a design in a design and
a design and we have a designer. The interesting thing
is what you're seeing today is people are stepping outside
(17:38):
of their design. And when you get outside of that design,
you get outside of your mind. You know, you say
a guy is a girl or a girl is a guy.
You're outside the design. When you try to drive the
father out of the house through welfare or whatever you're doing,
or take to parents already away from raising their children,
(18:02):
you're outside of the design.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So what do you have? You have people that are
out of their.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Mind, that become out of design, and so that they
they're not following the design that God gave them. They're
following the design the world has hurted them towards right.
And when that happens, they become out of their mind.
You have, and that's what societies are. Unscrupulous leaders in
(18:27):
societies have used throughout the ages to divide the populace.
And when you divide the populace and create chaos, then
you absert power and that's when you get real totalitarian
type governments. And what you're seeing today is you're seeing
the same thing play out with whatever you want to
(18:49):
call it, the deep state, you want to call it,
you know, there's a lot of different names for it.
But you have a group of so called experts talking
about the sign talking you know they know best, the
teaching experts, the climate experts, all these people, and it's
designed to create a problem and chaos that makes no
(19:13):
sense because it's so far out of the natural design
that God did that it doesn't work. But it does
raise more money to throw at the unsolvable problem, so
you have a massive wealth transfer. COVID was a great example.
All the data coming out now and COVID shows that
the shot and you can do your own research. Should
(19:35):
never have been approved. It should never have got emergency
youth authorization because there were already treatment methods for COVID
that you didn't have to have. It was the trillions
of dollars of wealth transfer to nameless bureaucrats and their
proxies around the world. We lost a ton of people
to the wrong treatment because again the science drove it.
(19:58):
And so again as physicians, we got outside of our
design what we understood true medicine. We got outside of
the scientific process. We didn't go through the right testing.
We went straight to the results that they told us
we had to, and they.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Drove us through fear.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yes, and fear is the number one way to get
out of your design.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It's the number one.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
And you could break it down to something simple like
during a war when you have a platoon or a
group of guys and they're going into battle and the
leader goes, okay, we have strategy, we have tactics that
we're going to do that if you if they become afraid,
if they fall apart, then they they don't and they're
(20:40):
not trained, well, then they get outside the design that
they and they get defeated, they get routed. Because fear
is insidious. It gets in and all of a sudden,
you can't think clearly. All of a sudden, you're driven
by words instead of by actual reality, right, And that's
what we're seeing today. We're seeing people say, you know,
(21:01):
your kid's going to kill themselves if you don't affirm
when they're four years old that if they say that,
if their boy and they say they want to be
a girl, and they literally tell parents, your child could
commit suicide because you're not affirming them. That's fear and
that's way outside the design. And so what they do
is the government has come in and tried to do that.
(21:22):
They tried to do it with COVID, they do it
with climate change. Oh we're not going to have polarie
caps or polar bears. I mean, like I have a
place up in Montana near Glacier National Park and they
had to sign up there every year that the glaciers
will be gone in twenty years. Well twenty years hitting
had to take down the sign because glaciers are still there.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, if you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Go back and look at all the climate predictions, none
of them have ever come true. But you have people
that are driven by fear and not by facts. You
have people that are driven by emotions and not reality,
and that is outside their design right. And so the
big challenge today, and that's one of the reasons that
(22:04):
when President Trump came in and spoke plainly to the
American people, he was telling don't be afraid. You know,
he's not a perfect person, but he came in and
he spoke truth and he called out the obvious lies.
He was basically the kid that said, yeah, the Emperor
has no clothes, but no one would do that. And
it's and and they call it mass psychosis. And we
(22:27):
saw the mass psychosis during COVID. I saw it. And
if you're not if you don't know who you are,
and you don't have a strong faith in the reality
of who you are, and then it goes back to
the ikigu, your design, your purpose. God designed us all
for a purpose. We are called to that purpose. It
(22:48):
doesn't mean it's going to be easy. I'm going through
a terrible time in my life, but I know that
I'm called to a purpose and I trust in the
goodness of God and that purpose. And yes, there's going
to be bumps along the way. There's going to be
all kinds of attacks because we live in a fallen world.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
But if you.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Stay true to the purpose you're called to, you will
have a peace. I think the Bible says a piece
that passes all understanding, because in the natural.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
People go like, how can you become?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
You know, everything's falling apart, and then the supernaturally you're like, well,
because God has a purpose, you know the Japanese w
well call it the ikagu. But that purpose also may
be something that I can't see, something that God sees
that's part of his plan, not my plan, because my
plan's not anything special.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
His plan is eternal.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
So God sees outside of time, space and matter, so
that we may not always understand what's happening, but we
can respond to what's happening based on our moral compass,
based on our faith, based on truth. And when people
get into trouble is they start reacting out of fear,
(23:59):
they start react acting out of lack of faith, they
start reacting out of emotion.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
You know, it's you.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Get what they call soul ish, where your soul is
I think, I want.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I feel you know this, this is.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
What drives me my emotions. You know, I'm just emotionally driven.
And that's why the Bible is very clear they say.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
You know, you have to trust in God. You go
to the.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Spirit because we all have a spirit. We're a spirit
and a body with a soul, and our spirit is
how we talk to God. Our soul is our emotions,
and our body is how we deal with the everyday.
You know, sight, sound, touch, and once you understand that,
you can walk in.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Your purpose or what they will call it, could go
and you start seeing things clearly.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
And the most successful people are the people that are
calm during the storm. The most successful people are the
people that rise out of chaos. The people that don't
and the people that filment the chaos want to rise
by shoving people down. The people that rise out of
the ca chaos went to rise by lifting people up.
(25:03):
And that's what that's the difference between a leader, yes,
and a politician.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Apssolutely absolutely yes, lift people up. I don't understand, and
I've worked for I've worked for bosses that didn't allow
for that transformational leadership style, that didn't allow for people
(25:32):
to be the best they could be. When I have
an associate come to me and say hey, I want
to do X y Z, And if they left, it
would devastate it would be really hard on my department.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
I'm like, yeah, go for it, go for it. I'll
support you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You go for it.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Because it's like, I don't know, don't you kind of
equate it to kids? You know, you raise them so
they can spread their wings and go forth and have their.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Purpose so that they're not dependent. And see, here's the
hard part. Doing the right thing doesn't always feel right
to the other person, i e. Raising kids, right. You know,
we talked about this before. The Hebrew word for father
means restrainer, right. The Hebrew word from mother is nurturer.
(26:20):
You have to have both the restrainer and the nurture.
Restraining my kids isn't always fun for them when they
were growing.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Up, telling them no, and when people think, oh.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't want to hurt their feelings, No, you're going
to destroy your kid if you tell them yes all
the time. Yes, it doesn't mean that you don't give
them a yes, it doesn't mean you don't want their best.
But you have to have the right definition in anything
in life. If you're going to get to the right destination.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Well, you have to have boundaries that you know. That's
the other thing. You call it.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
What getting outside of the plan whatever, Right, it's really well.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
The boundaries, well, the boundaries show the boundary is you're set.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But why Okay, you have to have boundaries.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But again, I always say, the wrong definition will take
you to the wrong destination. So the first definition is
I love my kids.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
What is love me?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I told my kids this, I said, because they say,
if you love me, you'll buy me this candy. If
you love me, you'll let me stay up all night. No,
love is my highest good for you. That's the definition.
That's a biblical definition of level. What's my highest good
for you? I love my wife. What is my highest
good for my wife? I love my children. What is
(27:33):
my highest good? My highest good for my children is
not giving them everything they ask for. My highest good
for my children is not biting and not supporting every
one of their ideas. My highest good for my children
is to speak truth to them. Sometimes that looks terrible
to them because it's not giving them what they want.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
But I love them and I want their highest good.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
It's like when a kid comes in and says, I
want to poursh at sixteen that I asked.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
My dad for that. He said no, and we couldn't
afford it anyway.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
But I thought you got to ask, right, Yeah, I
ask every year and had he gotten me one, how
he could afford it. He wouldn't have given me one anyway,
but he knew I would take it and wrap it
around a tree because I had no control over the
idea of how fast I could go. My highest his
highest good for me was to keep me alive. When
my parents used to when I was younger, I say,
your bedtime is seven?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, like what seven? You need your sleep?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Well, that was my highest good because I grow during sleep.
It's better for me. It's like my parents will say,
you need to be home at ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Why because I told you so?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
And I would argue with it because what does a
fourteen year old need to be doing after ten o'clock
at night? Nothing productive, I can promise you, like a
Shenanigan central.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
And so it's our highest good.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
So you have to have the right definition to get
to the right destination, and then if you do that,
then you create. That's why the family is so important.
That's why father mother raising children now some people don't
have that luxury. But a good raising a child with boundaries,
(29:15):
not arbitrary boundaries just because I say so, but telling
them it is because you say so, but you have
a reason. Yeah, when you raise a child with boundaries,
then you have an adult that has emotional maturity at
an early age.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
You have kids at inner college and they're told no,
and so they scream and yell and yell for a
safe space.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
There were no safe spaces in my home growing up.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
There were no space.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
There were a lot of ass whippings. There were zero
safe spaces.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
There were no safe spaces at the University of Texas,
I can assure you in the seventies and eighties there.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Were none Baylors.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
I mean there was no There was no This teacher,
I don't think my grade is fair, you know, Yeah,
you got a.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Grad show up, so you don't.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
I mean med schools now pass fail most of them
back then, and when I took it was great from
zero to one hundred and just for things. You want
your doctor to be graded on their merit. I'm just
going to throw that out there. But you know, life
is tough and you have to make tough decisions. We
just made a recent tough decision. I closed the clinics.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Oh you, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
I did not want to, but the way that insurances
are paining and the way that EMR's you know, I
have to fight those battles with the EMR. But I
can't fight on a two front more with insurance companies.
And I didn't want to, but I didn't have a choice,
and I had to make a tough decision. It's not
a fun decision, but it's a decision of you can't
(30:42):
continue along and take the hits that you're taking. And
there's going to be times in life that you're going
to have attacks. You're going to have to make these
tough decisions and then roll with them.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
So did you? My mother always said to me my father.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Mom and dad used to say, when God close, the
door opens a window.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
When God closed one door, another door opens. But here's
the thing we seemed that we try. There's there's a
thought process out there. Doesn't live in my house that
everything's going to be great. There's a and everything's not
always great. There's going to be where I'm going through
a terrible season in my life. But I have a
lot of joy. Yeah, I'm going through. I know God
(31:25):
is who he says he is. I trust in his promises.
His promises never fail, but they may not look like
what you want him to look like at the time. Right,
And we seem to think that life goes on without difficulty.
And we've had a really You and I grew up
in the best times in the United States.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
We really did the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
I'm sorry they didn't get to grow up an they
were freaking awesome. You did not have this division, you
had true patriotism. You had But what happened during that
time is that the church writ large, big evangelical churches,
decided to grow their name, but not grow the principles,
(32:13):
the foundation and the name of Jesus. They did not
decide to grow the tenets of the Bible. They just
grew the parts of the Bible that brought more people in,
and they grew buildings, I believe, and then they essentially
became captured by the culture. So when we went from
good times to difficult times like COVID financial bubbles. When
(32:39):
we things started becoming difficult, people were like, I've been
prosperity gospel of this that, and You're like wait, I'm
so thankful that Jesus died for me, and I celebrate that,
but I'm celebrating a murder, okay, because he overcame that.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
But he still had to go through that.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
You know is going to be difficult, and if you
don't raise your kids to understand that, I'm thankful my
parents did or being impossible to get through this time.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I'm thankful my dad told me.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
You know, it's not always great, no, but God is
always who he says he is.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Well, He's always there.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And it's that footprint in the sand kind of story,
that that thing you know.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Where you look back and you go, well, where were
you God?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I just went through this awful time and you know,
I think you could arguably say him having my own.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
You're having a heck of a time.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But it's your worst, your worst times, you are going
to be your best stories because you're going to say
this is how God rescued me, this is how God
saved me. And it's a season, right, and we and
the seasons that you see winter, spring, summerfall are just
like the seasons that you're going to have in your life, right,
and that if you really understand the Bible you understand
(33:53):
the word of God, the breath of God, the Holy
Spirit speaks to you through the word of God, then
you'll get through those seasons because you'll have something to
give you, that piece that passes all understanding. But if
you put your faith in quote the science, the climate,
the politicians. Look, we have been as a society driven
(34:19):
in such the wrong area. We've become immoral, ungrateful, and
passionate only about what we want and not looking to
what we were designed for. And you have people that
are working a job that they hate because yeah, you know,
it gets me to the next You have people that
(34:40):
aren't working. We've created a society of people that would say, hey,
why should I work when someone else will support me?
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Right, this is not your design.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
No one was designed to live off of someone else
in perpetuity.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
Now I think there's even parables in the Bible of it.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
There is no You should help the people that are down,
but you shouldn't help them to where they can never
rise up again. And that's what you get, the tough love,
that's where you get. You know, you help your kids
if you can, you help them with college, but your
job is not to help them every step of the way.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Your job is.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
To give them advice, to give them wisdom, and to
speak truth to you.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And sometimes they hate that.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, I'm dealing with that right now, and sometimes they
don't like that truth.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
But I didn't like it, Tod, do you when you're working?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
No, I still don't like it, but I know the
reality of it.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Cutting down to the truth through history and experience. This
is the Scalpel with Doctor Keith Rose. Consider giving us
a five star rating on Apple Podcasts. Connect with the
Scalpel on x at the Scalpel Edge, on Instagram and Facebook,
at the Scalpel Podcast, or the website scalpel Edge dot com.
Another episode is coming soon. Subscribe and share today wherever
(36:00):
you listen to podcasts and let's keep freedom rolling.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
H
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.