WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:04.480 Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:08.640 not Bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:12.320 documented to prevents and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:32.679 to the right. Here's your Conservative but Not Bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.600 Well, a very good morning to all of you again on the home of 6 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:43.880 Conservative not Bitter, the Todd Huff Radio Show. This is Chris Dunham filling 7 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.960 in for my dear friend Todd Huff, and I hope that as you listen, 8 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:52.799 we will take a walk down memory lane into the history of this great 9 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:58.240 nation. Many of you have been kind in your little emails to me or 10 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.719 your comments to me on LinkedIn, which is the only social media platform I 11 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:07.280 think I'm on besides a small YouTube channel that seems to have grown on its 12 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:11.760 own, whatever little it's going to grow. But the other day, when 13 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:17.239 I was asked to fill in for Todd, I decided that of the three 14 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.959 shows he asked me to do, I would spend one dealing with immigration as 15 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.560 a legal immigrant. I hope you've had the chance to listen to that. 16 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.920 If not, go back into the archives and see if you can find it. 17 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.719 Today, we're going to take a different trajectory and look at some of 18 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:37.680 those momentous moments in history. And I'm a motivational speaker. I'm known as 19 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:42.560 an apologist. I'm known as a trainer. I'm known as a evangelist. 20 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.879 I have many different hats I wear. I've written books, etc. Etc. 21 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.680 But the thing that I like most is every once in a while to 22 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.879 give a little bit of hope to people in these dark, gloomy days where 23 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:59.000 despair seems all around us. It looks like the dust that is settling is 24 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.159 not settling around us, but on us, and we are unable to share 25 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:07.840 it. Shake these cobwebs of misery, so to speak. What was once 26 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:14.240 this great and glorious republic that boasted so many amazing people, that in its 27 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:19.080 very founding, in its infancy, had people who would memorize the entire New 28 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:24.080 England primer in the first grade and do some yeoman things. But now here 29 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.039 we are, and as you're listening to me, you're looking at the news, 30 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:34.759 the broader news that precedes this show, maybe follows this show. The 31 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:39.400 conservative outlets that all cry foul, the liberal outlets that all cry shame, 32 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:46.159 and we are caught in the midst asking ourselves that proverbial question of Francis Schaeffer, 33 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:51.159 How dan shall we live? Where does our hope come from? How 34 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:57.400 do we move forward? Harvard is ushering in new terminology called volatility, uncertainty, 35 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:01.360 complexity, and ambiguity, and many corporations are saying how do we live 36 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:07.919 in this BUCA world and creating acronyms that actually are giving more names to the 37 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:14.360 disease than cure for the ailments. So here we are. There are more 38 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.840 illnesses being discovered every day, and more people seem to just go online and 39 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:23.439 every little symptom they have, they suddenly discovered they probably have a disease that's 40 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:28.199 not yet been invented. So into this mayhem, into this madness, we're 41 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.360 going to interject a little bit of hope. And this hope stems from the 42 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:36.159 history of this nation, some of its more populous leaders, some of the 43 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.599 people you may not even know. One such person who does not get enough 44 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:45.759 recognition in my mind, the greatest orator of all time, Daniel Webster. 45 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.000 I remember some years ago I was asked to come up and speak and conquered 46 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.120 Massachusetts and when they went online and saw that I was one of those flag 47 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:59.680 waving gung ho patriots who leaned to the right and had a moral bent and 48 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:04.560 a more a lawgiver and a moral law that I espoused the Judeo Christian identity. 49 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:09.960 They gave me some caution, saying, would you mind addressing the crowd 50 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.000 with a little more genteelness, a little more finesse. After all, we 51 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:18.079 are a social service organization here. So if you can refrain from politics, 52 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.399 or religion or relationships, and somehow managed to still talk about the greatness of 53 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.879 this unique nation, we would be grateful. And I thought to myself, 54 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.120 how far we have come. This is the very cusp of Revere's ride. 55 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.600 This is the thread where the militia men stepped out of the church and the 56 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:42.639 shot that was heard around the world began the revolution that ushered in the freedom 57 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:46.680 that is these here United States of America. So I remember standing in conquered 58 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:49.680 Massachusetts in front of the people and saying, Hey, I'm just a dumb 59 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:55.759 immigrant, but I heard that some of our founding fathers and our great orators 60 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:59.560 came from your neck of the woods. Would you be so inclined as to 61 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:03.920 listen to an immigrant quote one of your founding fathers, almost as if to 62 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:08.720 give me a pass of platitude, you know, like they would. Or 63 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.199 you're an immigrant, maybe you don't understand the language. You don't understand, 64 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.600 so we got to lower our standards to accommodate you. They almost applauded when 65 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:19.600 I said, can I quote one of your founding fathers? And then I 66 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:25.759 went on to say, that's spake, Daniel Webster. If we and our 67 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:31.720 posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the principles of eternal ethics, trifle 68 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:38.439 on moral injunction, and recklessly destroy the political constitution that upholds us, no 69 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:43.160 man can say, how sudden the catastrophe that will overwhelm us and bury all 70 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:47.480 our glory in profound obscurity. As soon as I said that, they erupted 71 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.560 because I had covered some ground, I had given them some moods, I 72 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:57.800 had painted a motif, and of course they were also marveling at the fact 73 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:01.959 that an immigrant like myself would not only remember, but able to recite those 74 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:08.000 profound words. When the talk was over, the organizer came to me and 75 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.879 he says, why you violated almost every one of my edicts. But you 76 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.560 seem to have done it with immunity, And I thought to myself, isn't 77 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.720 that what the First Amendment was designed for. Our immunity is not so that 78 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.560 you can say anything that is rude, crude, mean, and nasty. 79 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:30.399 But our immunity granted under that freedom of that First Amendment, was that freedom 80 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.480 of speech, the ability to share and to be, ability to articulate, 81 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:42.000 the ability to do something that profoundly stirs you. Later on in the Q 82 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.240 and A session, some of them asked, why did someone like me want 83 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:50.560 to memorize speeches? Wanted to understand American history, why it was important? 84 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.879 And I thought to myself, I said, my love for American history did 85 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:58.240 not begin when I came to America and found out it had a history. 86 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:01.160 My love for American history instilled in me by my father, who, when 87 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:04.879 I was in India aspiring to come to America, said son, I want 88 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:09.399 you to learn about America, her history, her heroes, her revolution, 89 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:14.319 her imports, her exports, her wars, What were popular, what was 90 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:17.839 unpopular, what was done when it was done. I was already studying European 91 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.560 history and Indian history as part of course curriculum in India. So I was 92 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:25.800 kind of perturbed and I asked my pop. I said why that was important? 93 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:28.639 He said, well, you aspire to go there and one day you 94 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:30.920 land there, and when you do, I do not want you to be 95 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:33.959 a second class citizen to anybody. And I thought to myself. Unless we 96 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:39.079 go back and understand the tenets and the ideals and we actually teach history that 97 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:43.439 is not a revisionist, we will never create in our people. And it's 98 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:47.839 populous, a pride that is built on the foundation. The three things that 99 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:53.439 I always believe are important for anybody to have hope is always be proud of 100 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:57.199 where you stand, Always have a support of where you can lean on, 101 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:01.759 and always have an umbrella under which you're covered. So this is the God 102 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.240 you look up to who covers you, a family who leans you lean on, 103 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:09.600 that loves you, and a country whose foundation you stand on, that 104 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.319 gives you that gumption and that oaf. So as we look at it, 105 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.240 let's look at why we need to study it. Then we look at the 106 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.639 revisioning that is going on that is changing the tenets of it. We look 107 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:26.560 at the truth and the lies and the pandering that goes on. Now. 108 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:33.519 One of the finer stories of American history is the story of Thomas Jefferson and 109 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.759 John Adams. Both had been president of these yere United States, and one 110 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:41.840 was the other's vice president. I think they seem to have had some amount 111 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:46.519 of issue during their own presidencies, and as a result, the silent treatment 112 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:52.240 seems to have and you ensued. At least that's what history says. David 113 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.120 Barton from Wall Builders tells the story of how one doctor Benjamin Rush, a 114 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:01.559 Methodist preacher, said he had a vision that God had reconciled both Thomas Jefferson 115 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:07.639 and John Adams together and that they were too important to the history of this 116 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:15.279 nation, and it's founding for them not to partake in each other's dialogue. 117 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.039 And so they began writing letters, I think for the next thirteen or fourteen 118 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.399 years, and most of those letters are in the Library of Congress. As 119 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:28.000 true came, as truth does reveal itself to those that believe in it, 120 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:33.240 and who believe that it is unequivocal that truth by nature is exclusive. Both 121 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.080 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, fifty years to the 122 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.159 date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the fourth of July eighteen 123 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.159 twenty six. Both of them passed away. Now one of the stories told 124 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:46.720 around it, and you'll need to do your own research around, but it 125 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:50.000 sounds good. And as one of my late friends used to say, if 126 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:54.200 it's not true, it should be, is that when John Adams died that 127 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:58.519 afternoon at one o'clock, he says, thank God, this nation still has 128 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:03.559 Thomas Jefferson, knowing that Thomas Jefferson had passed away earlier that morning. Now 129 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:09.399 the irony is that on August tewod of eighteen twenty six, Daniel Webster was 130 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:15.879 asked to eulogize these two giants. So when you look at the sources of 131 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.360 online and all that, it basically says Daniel Webster speaks at the momentous occasion 132 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:24.039 of the funeral of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom died on 133 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.840 the fiftieth anniversary of the Union. Webster goes on to praise both Jefferson and 134 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.679 the declaration, and then he offers an analysis of Adams, including a representation 135 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.399 of words that Adams might have spoken of the Congress of the Revolution. The 136 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.919 words that Webster spoke were so stirring that one might believe that Adams himself had 137 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.720 spoken them. Now, I'll just give you a preamble to this, and 138 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:50.360 when we come back, maybe we'll go into the actual speech of Daniel Webster. 139 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:54.080 I think this is a great time to have hope and go back into 140 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:58.279 the archives to see what stirred the soul of a nation and what words actually 141 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:05.320 provided people that opportunity to look forward and march. Part of his speech goes 142 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.080 this way, Adams and Jefferson are no more. And we are assembled, 143 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.720 fellow citizens, the age, the middle, aged, and the young, 144 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:15.440 by the spontaneous impulse of all, under the authority of the municipal government, 145 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:20.440 with the presence of the Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth and others its official representatives, 146 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:24.080 the university and the learned societies, to bear our part in these manifestations 147 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:30.480 of respect and gratitude which pervade the whole land. Adams and Jefferson are no 148 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.639 more. On our fiftieth anniversary, the great day of National Jubilee, in 149 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.279 the very hour of public rejoicing, in the midst of echoing and re echoing 150 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.840 voices of thanksgiving, while their own names were on all tongues. They took 151 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:48.600 their flight together to the world of spirits. I love how over and over 152 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.720 again he keeps saying Adams and Jefferson are no more, but he invokes God. 153 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:58.559 He invokes God and his eminent blessing, early given and long continued through 154 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:03.440 their agency. When we come back after the break, we'll unpack some more 155 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:09.080 of this amazing, amazing speech and maybe we can take from it some lessons 156 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.879 of how amidst disagreement can come union and how through that union can come a 157 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:20.639 wisdom that can save a republic. Well, welcome back after that break. 158 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:26.000 This is Chris Dunham filling in for Todd Huff on the Home of Conservative Not 159 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.639 Bitter, The Todd Huff Radio Show. We talked a little bit on the 160 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:37.759 previous session about the founding fathers Adams and Jefferson, and kind of ended that 161 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.600 with part of the introduction to the speech given as a memorial. I don't 162 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:45.200 know whether this is as much fun to you as it is to me, 163 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:48.960 but in the early days as an immigrant to this country, when I read 164 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.159 some of these speeches, if you go down through history, like Daniel Webster 165 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:58.960 and Thomas Jefferson and go back to some of those early revival speeches of Jonathan 166 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:05.879 Edwards and George Whitfield, and the sermons of sinners in the presence of an 167 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:09.159 angry God. And these things stirred me because now, as an orator and 168 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:13.759 a speaker, I do rely on some of these things to amp up my 169 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:20.519 own presentations. But I think everybody needs to get fascinated by the word phraseology 170 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.720 of some of these giants and luminaries who not only shaped our land but wrote 171 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:31.120 the very edicts and the charters that guide us two hundred plus years later. 172 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:39.000 Here's how Webster continues that, but the concurrence of their death on the anniversary 173 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:46.200 of Independence has naturally awakened stronger emotions. Both had been president, both had 174 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.919 lived to great age, Both were early patriots, and both were distinguished and 175 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:56.200 ever honored by their immediate agency in the Act of Independence. It cannot but 176 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.840 seem striking and extraordinary that these two should live to see the fiftieth year from 177 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.120 the date of that act, and they should complete that year, and that 178 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.559 then, on the day which had fastening forever their own fame with their country's 179 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:15.759 glory, the heavens should open to receive them both at once as their lives 180 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:20.120 themselves were the gifts of Providence, who is not willing to recognize in their 181 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:24.799 happy termination as well as in their long continuance, proof that our country and 182 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:31.039 its benefactors are objects off His care. I don't know if that gives you 183 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:35.799 chill bumps or goose bumps or god bumps or whatever you call. As their 184 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:41.440 lives themselves were gifts of Providence who is not willing to recognize in their happy 185 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.600 termination as well as in their long continuance, proof that our country and its 186 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:50.600 benefactors are objects of His care. Folks, I truly believe that when we 187 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:54.519 say one nation under God, we truly are one nation under God. But 188 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.879 as you've heard me say repeatedly in my own rally cry or my own trumpets, 189 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:05.600 that maybe we need to stop saying God bless America. This nation has 190 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:09.720 been blessed beyond the wildest imagination of any nation that has ever existed on planet 191 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:15.720 Earth. Maybe it's time for us, collectively, as a citizenry, everybody 192 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:20.080 within the sound of my voice who are hearing these airwaves, to say, 193 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.559 God Save America. He gave us our chance, and maybe we have spit 194 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:31.159 in the face of that blessing. We have turned our back on providence because 195 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:37.399 we thought that prejudicial ideas and attitudes by some will forever link everybody else. 196 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:46.799 Somehow, apparently we cannot be collectively unionized with the benefactors of the past and 197 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.519 the good they did. But forever we are only going to be linked by 198 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.720 the evil of our ancestors and what they did. How can it be? 199 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.480 That is logically a fallacy. It is an inconclusive argument. If you say 200 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.759 that I'm going to forever vilify you and hold you accountable for what your ancestors 201 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.559 did to my ancestors, but I'm never going to give you the glory and 202 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:12.519 the goodness. If your ancestors actually made an invention that solved the problem, 203 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:18.000 If your ancestors actually invested in something that created employment, which is one of 204 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:22.120 the great tragedies of our time. Today, as we try to eradicate history, 205 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.519 you can topple a monument, and you can topple a statue because somehow 206 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:32.559 it links itself to your own past and pain. But what about the hospitals 207 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:36.039 those people built? Why don't you go tear them down? In England, 208 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:40.600 for example, the word cecil Rhodes is forever linked with the atrocities committed in 209 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:44.559 the diamond minds of South Africa and the blood diamonds that flowed from there. 210 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.879 But the Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford that gave some of the great luminaries their start, 211 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:53.799 including presidents of the United States, governors of states, here award winning 212 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:59.559 anchors. What about the scholarship? Do these people now rescind it and give 213 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.919 it all? And if they did, would they have the same notoriety they 214 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.640 now do? So these are some very interesting things. What do you throw 215 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.880 out and what do you keep? What do you attach yourself and what do 216 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:14.240 you subtract? This is important to understand. And so now what we're going 217 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.240 to do is start looking at something called truth. Truth by nature is exclusive. 218 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.839 Truth cannot be a one ended stick, and if you're thinking about one, 219 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:26.519 don't think too hard. It'll hurt your head, because there's no such 220 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.640 thing as a one ended stick. But somehow we seem to have our arguments 221 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:33.640 firmly planting us in mid air. There is no foundation to the rationale. 222 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:40.920 Anytime you ask somebody three questions that be dives deep into their foundational beliefs, 223 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.440 you begin to realize that it is built on an ash heap of feelings, 224 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:49.400 and it has no shred of evidence of concrete foundations upon which they can say 225 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.559 this is my bed and I'm going to lie in it. So here's the 226 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:57.359 irony of ironies that we are facing when you look at what Webster said. 227 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:02.960 Do we truly believe that this is a God ordained nation? Do we truly 228 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:06.680 believe that we are a people who have a moral law that came because of 229 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:10.599 a moral lawgiver? Do we truly believe that the rights we have that was 230 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:15.680 given in the Declaration are inalienable rights, and that that life and liberty and 231 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:19.039 the pursuit of happiness are truly those things that we not only deserve, but 232 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:23.960 were endowed by a creator. Or are we going to now rescind ourselves to 233 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:30.400 the mumbo jumbo of popular rally crist saying that you know what, evolution has 234 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:33.839 been proven, creation is a bunk and in which case you and I just 235 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:37.799 need to go to the zoo and look at the monkeys and ask ourselves if 236 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.599 they are having an existential crisis, saying which meeting did we miss? That 237 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.000 we are stuck in this cage and these guys are paying money to throw bananas 238 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.519 at us. The world is topsy turvy, folks, because you can only 239 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:52.960 go so far back in rhetoric before you realize that unless it is anchored in 240 00:18:53.079 --> 00:18:57.319 truth, the comparison, the correlation, and all of the things that are 241 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:02.319 built on it is just a serial reason of lies. When you look at 242 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:06.160 the political ruling class right now on both sides of the island, in any 243 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:10.400 part of the country or any part of the world, their simple goal does 244 00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.799 not seem to be the care of the people. It is to get elected 245 00:19:12.839 --> 00:19:17.519 again. I cannot tell you as a conservative, and many of you who 246 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:22.200 are conservatives probably get the same email and text we get it from people who 247 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.039 are now serving their third and fourth term. They say, if you don't 248 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:29.400 save money right if you don't send money right now, my campaign is at 249 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:33.119 risk. And the reason my campaign is at risk is the polls are saying 250 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.920 that this state is too close to call. I live in the great state 251 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:41.200 of Texas, where at one time we had a governor that was a Democrat. 252 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.039 Since then we've had a Republican. But what they say is every year 253 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.039 it's too close to call because we have this mass migration from other places that 254 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:52.000 are bringing their politics with us, to which I would look at the politicians 255 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.440 and say, how is that my fault? How is it my fault that 256 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.880 if I don't send you money, somehow your election becomes too close to call, 257 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.599 maybe it is time for you to go, and maybe someone else needs 258 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.480 to come in there if you've not been able in eighteen years to solidify and 259 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.799 fortify your position and fight for the people to the degree that it is never 260 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:18.359 too close to call. But that self survival, that whole desire to always 261 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:23.319 promote their own individual identity ahead of the needs of the people is what frustrates 262 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:27.400 people to no end. So one of the things I want us to look 263 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.039 at as you look at these things, that I'm giving it to you in 264 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:36.160 a broader perspective and taking you down this journey. What is the starting point? 265 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:40.519 What is the foundation of your belief? What is the definition that begins 266 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:44.200 to shape your ideas as to who you vote for and why you vote. 267 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:48.319 I understand when you look at it from the conservative point of view or the 268 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:49.960 liberal point of view, we say, hey, just vote up and down 269 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:55.000 conservative down the ticket. It saves our time, and it probably does. 270 00:20:55.720 --> 00:21:00.000 But maybe the time has come for some introspection if after forty years of doing 271 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:06.759 this post Ronald Reagan, why are we where we are? If this man 272 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.319 was able to win forty nine of the fifty states and coalesce US this raic 273 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.839 and Republican revolution, end the Cold War? Why is there even a question 274 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:22.279 about the fact about taxation? Why is it even a discussion when half the 275 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:26.920 people don't pay taxes and the other half seemingly are the ones that are going 276 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.240 to be penalized because this part that doesn't pay taxes saying hey, you're not 277 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:37.160 paying your fair share. These ironies are just that, they're a bunch of 278 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:41.559 lies. And unless you look at it through the lens of truth, it's 279 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.039 not about what others are doing. Are you doing your fair share? Are 280 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:49.079 you working? Are you serving? Are you solving? Are you saving? 281 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:55.440 Are you giving? Are you participating? Are you volunteering? Unless you do 282 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.640 that, I don't think we can point a finger at anybody else. When 283 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.880 we come back after the break, we will talk a little more about truth 284 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.880 and how these lives are replacing it. Hopefully you're having fun as i am. 285 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:11.000 Good luck, God bless see you after the break. Well, hope 286 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:15.720 you're still tracking with me. Welcome back after the break to the Todd Huff 287 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:21.319 Radio Show, The Home of Conservative not Bitter and True. In the line 288 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:23.519 of what Todd and I talk about often, I just wanted to give you 289 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:27.720 a history lesson, maybe take you down a different path, interject a little 290 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:32.759 bit of hope, ask us to look at issues that we can control. 291 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:37.039 One of the old things on which I train is every day we wake up, 292 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:38.599 there are three things, you know. One is the givens, the 293 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:44.440 second of the uncontrollables, and the third is the negotiables. The givens maybe 294 00:22:44.480 --> 00:22:48.759 the laws of the land, the policies and procedures the government, the municipality 295 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:52.240 you live in, the regulations of your zoning committees, your own professions. 296 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:57.279 The uncontrollable may act of God, a wrath of nature nine to eleven, 297 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:03.279 or whatever, something happens that alters the landscape as we view it. And 298 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:06.759 the third is the negotiable. And that's what I'm talking about. When I 299 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:10.200 look at the history of this nation, when I look at the historicity of 300 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:12.519 this nation, when I look at the motivation that comes from the history of 301 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:17.839 some of the great pioneers, that's my negotiable, that's my go too, 302 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.359 that's my Francis Scheffer moment, how then shall we live? Shall I look 303 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.680 at the heavens above and still believe that God who is the architect, as 304 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:27.960 Ben Franklin said, he who will not allow an empire to rise in his 305 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.799 absence, or he who will not allow a bird to fall in the wilderness 306 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:36.160 and his absence, will he allow an empire to rise without his presence? 307 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:41.359 Or some such narrative therein do we truly believe? Folks? I'm an old 308 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:45.920 fashioned gung ho flag waving patriot, and I really do believe that maybe the 309 00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:49.799 time has come to go back to those tent revivals. Maybe we need to 310 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:53.119 go back to the days of Mordecai am and Billy Sunday and say, you 311 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:56.240 know what, We're going to invoke the name of God, and we're going 312 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:02.000 to revive the families of the very foundation of faith. We're going to invoke 313 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:07.240 that there is a truth about marriage. There is a truth about identity. 314 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.160 There is a no Sunday identity and Monday identity. There's only one twenty four 315 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.599 to seven God given identity. This is the truth that we need to be 316 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.119 clamoring for. This is the hope that will ask us to look at the 317 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:23.440 heavens and say, on that beautiful day in eighteen twenty six, fifty years 318 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:27.440 to the date of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, that God reconcile 319 00:24:27.519 --> 00:24:33.599 two of his servants together who had inspired a nation to form? Do we 320 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:36.960 truly believe that? Do we believe the words of the patriot who said, 321 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.200 I have only one life to give for my country, and that's a regret. 322 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.559 Do we want to hearken back to Revere's ride? Do we want to 323 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:48.640 look at the magnificent speech of Patrick Henry given in the House of Burgesses in 324 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.039 Richmond, Virginia, And he says, gentlemen, cry peace, peace, 325 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.759 But there is no peace. The war has already begun. The next gale 326 00:24:56.799 --> 00:24:59.720 that sweeps him from the north will bring to our ears the clash of his 327 00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:03.559 resid arms. Why stand we hear, idle, What is it that gentlemen 328 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.599 wish? What would they have for his life so dear? Or peace so 329 00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:10.559 sweet that it be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery? Forbid 330 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:12.920 it, Almighty God. I know not what path others might take, but 331 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.880 for me, give me liberty, or give me death. And an entire 332 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:22.000 nation rises and marches forward. Do we have that fortitude, do we have 333 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:26.119 that gumption? Not a rebellion, not a retaliation. If, as Adrian 334 00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:30.880 Rogers said, if you just raise a generation based on rights, you'll have 335 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:34.400 a revolution, a counter revolution. But if you raise them based on responsibility, 336 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:37.839 we may have that revival. And maybe that is the truth. I 337 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:41.799 think that we need so desperately. We need a revival in the land. 338 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:47.079 We need mother and father, husband and wife, and father and daughter, 339 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:49.799 and brother and sister to get on their knees in the morning and say, 340 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:53.240 thank God for this nation. But we say, God, save this nation. 341 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.839 Give us our directive, give us our edict o, Holy One, 342 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:02.519 Oh Heavenly One. I founders of this country and the pioneers of this nation 343 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:07.680 could kneel in prayer and actually defeat the mighty imperial armies of Britain. What 344 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:12.319 can we do in our own communities to get rid of the filth that is 345 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:18.799 occupying our corner, To start arresting the vile and the vulgar that is coming 346 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:23.359 across our airwaves in the evening channels and is actually being portrayed as normalcy. 347 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:29.599 Paul Harvey called this many moons ago, and when he says, you know, 348 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:33.279 this dam that is breaking right now is opening the floodgates of God's wrath 349 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.759 on a nation. Now. I don't want to be diabolical, and I 350 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:41.200 don't want to be a doomsday prophesier, but I do believe that unless we 351 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:45.799 cry back to him and say, God, we ask you, we ask 352 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:51.759 your affairs to be governed, or ask our affairs to be governed by you. 353 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:59.000 It is no joke that in the early days when Congress was first established, 354 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:02.799 that the person who give them the charge as soon as they were sworn 355 00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:07.319 in and seated was a clergy member. But today we disagree with who that 356 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:11.119 clergy should be. All gods are the same gods, and what happens is 357 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:17.720 we are diluting our standards for ourselves. I'll go back to what east Stanley 358 00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:22.000 Jones once asked Mahatma Gandhi, that great Indian patriot. When he asked Matma 359 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.720 Gandhi that question, Stanley Jones, an evangelist, he said, what does 360 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.319 Christianity have to do to be a mainline accepted worldview and not considered a white 361 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:34.240 man's import Because this was in the context of India in the nineteen twenties, 362 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:38.279 and Gandhi gave him these four statements. He said, live like him, 363 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:42.119 love like him, understand other world views, and don't water down your own. 364 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:47.440 What does live like him mean? Amy Carmichael said, we all profess 365 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:49.880 to be strangers and pilgrims in search of a land we can call our own, 366 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.599 and then settle in the most unstranger like fashion, exactly as if we 367 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:57.000 were at home and intended to stay as long as we could. I don't 368 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:03.400 believe Apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living surely has. Are we Christians in 369 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.359 name only? Are we Easter and Sunday only? Do we just go to 370 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:11.240 church and say our hallelujahs and praise the Lord and tell people I'll pray for 371 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:15.319 them? And then don't rely on the God of the heavens to guide us 372 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:18.000 in our actions and in our mercy. We need to live like him. 373 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:22.319 And second comes the most important thing that I will talk about in my time 374 00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.559 with you, This word love. What would Jesus do? Would he not 375 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:30.519 love everybody? Folks? We do not understand God's love because we have never 376 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:36.519 allowed ourselves to be loved by Him completely. As the sinners we are. 377 00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:40.640 He loved us, and he saved us while we were still sinners. If 378 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:44.920 that is true, then that unconditional love is impossible for us to have. 379 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.119 That's why when C. S. Lewis professed his four great loves, he 380 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:52.759 says, the Philo, which is the brotherly love, is possible in a 381 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:57.079 relationship. The store gay, which is the relational or parental love, is 382 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:02.279 possible. The Eras, which is the physical love, is possible. But 383 00:29:02.440 --> 00:29:06.759 none of them kind of fulfill their fruition unless they are under the guise of 384 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:11.319 Agapi, that unconditional love. So when you look at everything I have carried 385 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.400 you through on just today's program, and we now land on truth and this 386 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:21.519 word love that is being tossed around with reckless abandoned by both church and clergy 387 00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:25.720 alike. What would Jesus do? Are we not supposed to love everybody? 388 00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:29.799 Love the sinner, hate the sin. But what if the sinner doesn't consider 389 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:33.319 what they are doing sin as is in Holy rit What if they don't consider 390 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:38.720 themselves worthy of repentance because they don't think they've done anything that warrants repentance. 391 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.039 Well, if there's no sin, there is no savior. So that argument 392 00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:45.640 of what would he do doesn't even enter the picture. We need to be 393 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:49.640 careful of how we toss this word love around. When we come back, 394 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:53.720 I'll talk about how this love has now led to lies and the pandering, 395 00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:57.519 and we can then close out today. Hope you're having fun. I am. 396 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:06.680 We'll see you after the break. Welcome back to Conservative Not Bitter, 397 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:11.559 The Todd Huff Radio Show. This is your guest host Chris Dunham filling in 398 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.119 for my dear friend Todd Hoff. Today we talked about Daniel Webster, a 399 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:19.079 little bit about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, a little bit of a history, 400 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:25.119 lesson some of the speeches that were given, the words that surrounded those 401 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:30.240 speeches, and maybe I got caught up in a rant of my own doing. 402 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.480 Hope you'll forgive me, and hopefully it was interesting and entertaining or at 403 00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:38.160 least kept you motivated and gave you a little hope. But as we talked 404 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.599 about truth and the lies that now surround the truth, we left it with 405 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:45.960 the word love. I'm going to go back to that speech, and here's 406 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:51.160 how that speech continues. Adams and Jefferson, I have said, are no 407 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.400 more as human beings. Indeed, they are no more. They are no 408 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:59.519 more as in seventeen seventy six bold and fearless advocates of independence, no more 409 00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:04.160 as a subsequent periods the head of government, nor more as we have recently 410 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:10.039 seen them aged and venerable objects of admiration and regard. They are no more. 411 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.680 They are dead. But how little is there of the great and good 412 00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:18.599 which can die to their country? They yet live and live forever. They 413 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.640 live in all that perpetuates the remembrance of men on earth, in the recorded 414 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.799 proof of their own great actions, in the offspring of their intellect, in 415 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:32.400 the deep and grave lines of public gratitude, and in the respect and homage 416 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:36.519 of mankind. They live in their example, and they live emphatically and will 417 00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:41.240 live in the influence which their lives and efforts, their principles and opinions now 418 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.759 exercise, and will continue to exercise on the affairs of men, not only 419 00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:51.000 in their own country, but throughout the civilized world. How would you like 420 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:55.279 that set about you? How would you like that said about your legacy? 421 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.079 What is our legacy going to be? What we inherited? We listen to 422 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:07.279 radio shows on conservatism. We look for ideas that energize the base We scroll 423 00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:14.799 through endless reels of little clips from seapack speeches made by truckers saying we are 424 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:20.440 not going to deliver to a city. We look at the rallies and the 425 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:23.759 big rallies and wonder how one person with a small rally could have got that 426 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:28.920 many more votes. And these are our doubts, These are our debates. 427 00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:35.519 But what will future generation say about the forty years the biblical generation that we 428 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.680 were at the helm. This is one thing I do to the youth of 429 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.680 this nation when I travel around the length and breadth of this country in the 430 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:44.799 world, and I speak to them. First, I said, on behalf 431 00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:47.960 of my generation, I want to apologize to you. We were so busy 432 00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:52.680 carving out a little place for ourselves, erecting our little fences in suburbia, 433 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:57.759 raising the fences to the degree that the neighbors can pry in, so we 434 00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:02.480 could raise our offspring with our own little ideas in our own little fiefdoms. 435 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.000 And then when we sent our children into the world, the world swallowed them 436 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:12.519 up because we prepared them not for the absolute lunacy that existed out there. 437 00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:16.200 What we thought was normalcy, and the way we raised the moment they went 438 00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:22.000 into the world the school, and the teacher said, is bigotry. What 439 00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.200 we thought was moral and Christian and the way we raised our children by sending 440 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:30.680 them to Sunday School. They went out into the world that said all religions 441 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.319 are the same, all gods are the same, and there's no difference between 442 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:38.720 the God of the Bible and the devil that's on earth. Our children left 443 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:44.480 confused, an entire generation of people looking at us saying, you didn't give 444 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.720 us the whole picture. You were myopic in your teachings. Yes, we 445 00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:52.839 were myopic in our teachings. One plus one will always equal to But now 446 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.920 there's a clip I watched the other day when someone said what is one plus 447 00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:59.799 one? And one guy answered to and the teacher said wrong. The other 448 00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:02.400 guy I said multiculturalism, and some of the teachers said yes. The other 449 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:07.119 guy said one plus one is intersectionality, and the other guy said yes, 450 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:12.800 that's where we are debating basic one plus one. While it may be tongue 451 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.119 in cheek and in beb physicious, that is not too far from the truth. 452 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:20.519 You stop any John Doe kid who is under eighteen today on the street 453 00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:23.960 and ask them some poignant questions maybe as simple as what is the capital of 454 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:30.360 this nation? And unless the word has racism or bigotry or prejudice around it, 455 00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:36.639 none of them will be able to articulate because they have been sold a 456 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:42.000 bill of goods that anything that stands for something is on the backs of something 457 00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:46.599 wrong. As a result, unless those definitions are couched by this useless stuff 458 00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:52.480 that permeates around it, that is why you cannot have a conversation with these 459 00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:55.119 people as they scream and shout at you. When I go on to a 460 00:34:55.159 --> 00:35:00.000 college campus, people always say, are you afraid. I'm not afraid of 461 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:05.519 the debate of ideas. I'm just afraid that we have let an entire generation 462 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:12.320 down that believes that screaming and screeching and spray painting priceless artifacts in the name 463 00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:16.840 of climate change is the way of the world. Their rebellion is actually so 464 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.880 nonsensical that they do not understand that when you deface something that has stood for 465 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:30.119 hundreds of years in a museum, you're not making a statement. You're actually 466 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:37.199 erasing something that was so beautiful and presented as part of God's amazing intellect given 467 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:40.039 to a very select few. How many people can come along and paint a 468 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:45.880 Mona Lisa. How many people can come along and sculptor David? How many 469 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:50.360 people can paint the Sistine Chapel. We will not have many more of those 470 00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:53.800 if we keep going through this place. Not only are there revising history, 471 00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:59.719 replacing it with lies, but now they are defacing the very things that have 472 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:04.880 been the anthems of history, that have talked about creativity and beauty. We 473 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:08.559 are in for a very stark surprise. Especially when I stand in front of 474 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:14.039 this generation and apologize to them. They look at me like I'm some clueless 475 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:21.920 or relic from the past with but they cannot challenge me on anything. None 476 00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:25.559 of them have gone really far back to read anything that is of historical value. 477 00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:30.880 None of them can answer questions about morals and morality. None of them 478 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:37.519 can answer questions about geography and divisiveness. Everything is about the fact that unless 479 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:40.320 there is a victim, and unless I can paint myself as that victim, 480 00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:46.679 you are part of the problem. So here we are talking about history. 481 00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:52.159 I know when we talked about immigration, I gave my perspective as an immigrant. 482 00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.440 But these are the days where I don't know how many more times I'll 483 00:36:55.480 --> 00:37:00.079 get behind the microphone to share my thoughts and articulate my fear. But I 484 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.920 truly am grateful that every once in a while Todd gives me this platform, 485 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:08.360 and he gives me this card blanche to paint the picture of history. I 486 00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:13.800 hope those of you are listening are motivated to go back and uncover for yourself 487 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:17.239 in the pages of your own life. Ask yourself some poignant questions, and 488 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:22.760 maybe we'll close this session by the three questions that are asked. Often these 489 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.920 questions, of course, come from Bob Townsend, who wrote up the down 490 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.639 organization. What am I doing? What would I like to be doing? 491 00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:35.679 How will I know when I get there? The role and identity I presently 492 00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:39.000 occupy, the destiny I want to choose, and the benchmark that will give 493 00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:44.000 me the difference. Unless we are able to ask these questions at a poignant 494 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:47.039 foundation level, I don't think we'll have much to leave, and I don't 495 00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:51.360 think we'll have much to celebrate when we come back. Let me give you 496 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:53.800 two minutes of motivation at the back end of this. Thanks for hanging in 497 00:37:53.840 --> 00:38:00.119 with me. God bless well to close out today. In the last minute 498 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:04.199 and a half we have together I'm going to introduce to you the word that 499 00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:08.559 has bothered me more than anything else, and probably more for conservatives than anybody 500 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:14.519 else. The left is always pandered to its base and has pandered without shame. 501 00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:21.000 But unfortunately the right is incapable of doing that. Our pandering is almost 502 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.280 is almost shameful. Now I go back to these emails I keep receiving from 503 00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:30.000 some of these great people who I've admired and voted for time and again, 504 00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:34.079 and they always come with the stark alarm, Oh, this race is too 505 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.559 close to call. Will you support me or will you allow the other side 506 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:40.199 to win? I have not allowed the other side to win. The reason 507 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:45.320 the other side is winning is because the side we keep putting up there is 508 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:50.119 not fighting for us. They're fighting for their own re election lives. And 509 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:52.960 I may not be very popular in saying this, but I think, over 510 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:57.360 and over again, I really do believe that maybe in the business world we 511 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:00.800 have terms limits when you're not effect If it's something you get a chance to 512 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:04.800 do it once, you get a chance to do it twice, and then 513 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:08.320 third time the shareholders and the stockholders make their point and they show you no 514 00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:13.599 mercy. Maybe within Congress. We need to say you have four terms of 515 00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.280 two years apiece, and if in eight years you cannot get it done, 516 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:20.639 step aside. Thirty years, thirty five years is just a joke and a 517 00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:22.760 Senate. Maybe you give them two runs of six years a piece and then 518 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:25.559 twelve. If they can do it, they step aside. Heck, we 519 00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:29.599 allow our president only to be there for eight years. I don't know why 520 00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:32.360 we allow all these other people incapable of getting a law that he's going to 521 00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:37.599 be able to sign to last forever. I'm a big advocate of term limits, 522 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:39.559 as you can see, and I tell people when they ask me, 523 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:43.639 are you going to run for office, Well, if this is the situation 524 00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:45.880 and it's not going to change, I'm not going to run. The only 525 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.760 thing I'm going to run for is city limits. So when we come back 526 00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:52.760 after tomorrow or next day, we'll talk about something else and hope you'll track 527 00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:54.760 with me, Hope you'll stay with me. Good luck, God, Bless 528 00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:55.679 God, bless health.