1 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer and this is the Josh Hammer Show. Well, 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: hope you've had a great week. You're looking forward to 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: a great weekend. We are looking forward to a potentially 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: fiery weekend. We'll see what transpires in the Middle East, 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: where a sixth US warship has now just arrived in 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf in the broader Arabian Sea Northern Indian 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: Ocean area. President Trump apparently has offered something of an 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: off ramp to the Molas, to Iatola Kameny, essentially saying 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: that if you Mouls, if you agree to get rid 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: of your nuclear program, and if you Molas agreed to 11 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: get rid of your ballistic missile program, and if you 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: Mullus agree to stop funding all of your various terrorist 13 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: proxies all throughout the Middle East, then we the United States, 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: are not going to bomb you, to which it appears, 15 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: based on all the reporting available, that the Mules responded 16 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: by essentially flipping two middle fingers to Donald J. Trump, 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: a man. Lest you forget that US attorneys have indicted 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: various Iranians for trying to assassinate him for a chesting 19 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: down to how do you think he's going to respond 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: to that, especially when he has a red line to 21 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: back up. We'll see what happens there. But I have 22 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: a steak shibiion that come Monday, this kind of Monday, 23 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: I have a steak in susbision that things are potentially going 24 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: to look fiery and not necessarily super peaceful over in Iran. 25 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: We'll check back on that, of course, on Monday. Later 26 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: on in this episode of the Josh Hammer Show as well, 27 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: we're going to bring on Rabbi Pinchross Taylor, who is 28 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: instrumental in Jewish Christian bridge building. He is a thinker, 29 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: a YouTuber, and just a good man lost to impact 30 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: when it comes to that particular front. But for now, 31 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: the main domestic story really continues to be the situation 32 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 1: in Minnesota and where we go from here in this extended, 33 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: now weeks long standoff between the federal government and the 34 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: various state governments when it comes to immigration enforcement. So 35 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: earlier this week you had Greg Bavino, who had emerged 36 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: as the public facing spokesperson, the figurehead for US Border Patrol. 37 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: Greg Bavino essentially sidelines and in his place Christy Nooam 38 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: of d DHS, the Secretary as well as President Trump 39 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: essentially giving Tom Holman, who has been the borders are. 40 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: Borders are is not a real term. It's essentially just 41 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: an informal title. It's not a Senate confirmed position. But 42 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: they told Tom Holman, okay, you go ahead, and you'd 43 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: be the point person for us on the ground here 44 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,839 Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Now, Tom Holman has said very straight up 45 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: since arriving Minnesota, he said, this is very interesting. He said, 46 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: let's not pretend that mistakes have not been made. He's 47 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: been very candidate that even from his perspective, the mistakes 48 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: actually have been made. So on the one hand, he's 49 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: throwing something of a bone, throwing something of a bone 50 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: to Tim Wall's two Keith Ellows and to Jacob Fry, 51 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Democrat establishment. On the other hand, on 52 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: the other hand, tom Holman also making clear that the 53 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: administration is not just going to pick up and run 54 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: and that they're going to see this mission through. For instance, 55 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: here is Tom Holman making that pretty darn clear outside. 56 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: We are not surrendering the president's mission and immigration enforcement. 57 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 2: Let's make that clear. Prioritization a criminal, let's mean that 58 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 2: we forget about everybody else. That's just simply ridiculous. Well, 59 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: when you have a criminal standing here and a non 60 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: criminal standing there, that criminal always should be targeted per 61 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: because he's a significant concern to the safety and security. 62 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 2: Administer of the community by at lars for decades, icensed 63 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: CVP have carried out their duties with integrity, professionalism, and compassion. 64 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,079 Speaker 2: That remains the expectation of a President Trump and we 65 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 2: will I will hold our agents and officers to that 66 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 2: standard and. 67 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: To their credit. The administration just today, on Friday, January thirtieth, 68 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: has indeed issued some very high profile arrests when it 69 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: comes to some of the extended anarchy from this now 70 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: weeks long standoff in Minnesota, I speak, of course about 71 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: the delectable, the delectable arrest of Don Lemon, one of 72 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: the least likely people in all of media, Don Lemon, 73 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: who was fired from CNN for allegedly not being a 74 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: particularly nice guy, allegedly some forms of personal misconduct there 75 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: around CN's office. Don Lemon, lest you forget, two weeks 76 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: ago or so, bombarded a search a church Saint Paul, Minnesota, 77 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: bombardered a church, went in there with a group of agitators, 78 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: of obstructionists, of trespassers. Yes, they actually disrupted an active 79 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: warship service on a Sunday in a church because they 80 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: heard that someone in the church had some secondary or 81 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: tertiary connection to Ice. And they said that they had 82 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: a first man right to journalism. No you don't. So finally, 83 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: Attorney General Pambondi and the DOJ have gone ahead and 84 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: actually arrested Don Lemon, to which I say, Hallelujah, amazing. 85 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: Don Levon thought that he was above the law. He 86 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: thought that he was better. He thought that he could 87 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: get away with this whole dog and pony show of 88 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: just peacefully protesting. You trespassed, dude, You trespassed, and you 89 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: violated at least two statutes. You violated at least the 90 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: Face Acts in his nineteen nineties era Bill Clinton statute 91 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: that says very clearly that you cannot obstruct worshipers' proparishioners 92 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: in a house of warship. You can't do it. Evolated 93 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: that he also violated the Ku Klux Klan Act in 94 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 1: eighteen seventies, there a reconstruction or attachment that basically says 95 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: that you can not conspire to deprive others of the 96 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: constitutional rights. In this case, you have the first women 97 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: right to free exercise to pray to your God, Don 98 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: Lemon and his instruction is definitely definitely violated that when 99 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: they went into the city's church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. 100 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: Pambonni announcing on social media that various others have been 101 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: arrested as well, at least three others in connection with 102 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: this coronat attack. Look, you know, is Don Lemon going 103 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: to benefit from this? Maybe? I mean, maybe it kind 104 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: of burnishes his left wing resistance whatever credentials, his bona 105 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: fide is based on the fact that he has now 106 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: been arrested. He could play the victim card. Maybe he's 107 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: going to get a nice book deal whatever. Honestly, I 108 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: don't particularly care why, because this was the right thing 109 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: to do. A lot of the left wing crowd that 110 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: calls himself civil libertarians are now up in arms. How 111 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: could you arrest a journalists because he's not doing journalism. 112 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 1: This is not journalism. This is trespass. I mean, this 113 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: is not old school bootstrap, leather shoelace journalism where you 114 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: go and you investigate, you have a beat, you do 115 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: your due diligence there. That's not what this is. This 116 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: was obstruction and frankly, for years as the Democrat law 117 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: fair conflicts led by Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and so 118 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: called special counsel Jacksmith. For years as they were prosecuting 119 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and many others there we heard this refrain 120 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: no one is above the law. Well, is no one 121 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: above the law? Or is Don Lemon above the law? 122 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: Turns out that Don Lemon is not above the law. 123 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: So I say tremendous kudos to the DOJ for this 124 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: particular arrest. It is indispensable more generally, not just with 125 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: the arrest of Don Lemon to solidify this no one 126 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: about the law mentality. It is indispensable in general. Now 127 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: what Tom Holman said actually ends up being the case. 128 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: Don Trump is now increasingly being very diplomatic when it 129 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: comes to the video, the controversial video from the fatal 130 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: shooting of Alex Pretty. This has Sunday in Minnesota, Donald 131 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: Trump calling for an honorable investigation there. Tom Holman now saying, 132 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: let's not pretend the mistakes Havening made. The tone has shifted. 133 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: The administration is now giving some ground being a little conciliatory. 134 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: They're being a little concessionary when it comes to the 135 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: Democrat insurrectionists, maybe that's prudential, maybe that's wise. In fact, 136 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: I think there's a strong case we made for that, 137 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: But there's a stronger case still being made that you 138 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: have to see this thing through that you cannot. Do 139 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: not let them equivocate, Do not let them go back 140 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: and forth. Do not let Tim Walls speak out of 141 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: one side of his mouth and say, we're actually helping 142 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: the FEDS when it comes to detainers for ice to 143 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: grab the criminal Alians. Now, on the other hand, he's 144 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: actually not. So are you helping the Feds or are 145 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: you not? I don't know. Speaking of Pam BONDI, what 146 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: I definitely know is that the DOJ really ought to 147 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: start conditioning more funding to local police departments in these 148 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: so called sanctuary states on the condition that they end 149 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: their sanctuary status. They self impose a wilful end to 150 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 1: their own sanctuary status. Another way, the Minneapolis Police depart 151 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,559 Speaker 1: for instance, shouldn't get another penny of your taxpayer dollars 152 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: unless they stop blatantly not really not cooperating, but obstructing 153 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: federal enforcement operations. These local penitentiaries, these state jails, they 154 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: should all be forced be forced to cooperate with the 155 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: FEDS when it comes to enforcing our laws as a 156 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: condition of receiving any federal tax payer dollars when it 157 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: comes to their own enforcement operations. E seees me that 158 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: this is pretty straightforward stuff. The alternative if you let 159 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: Minnesota get away with this, the alternative is that this 160 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: becomes just a blueprint for Brandon Johnson in Chicago and 161 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: for Zormamzani in New York City to run one thousand 162 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: miles of this. You can't let them do that. More 163 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: generally speaking, a question that's now being raised that I 164 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: really want to answer to. I want to know who's 165 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: behind all this rigue, who's been funding all this. The 166 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon, a wonderful outlets, had a report about 167 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago where they found a group 168 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: called Sunrise Movement is a left wing group focused on 169 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: so called climate change that has gathered a lot of 170 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: money from the Soros Open Society, Foundation, for Foundation, Ties Foundation, 171 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: various others funding a lot of this grassroots anarchy. This 172 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: ice Watch group really funding a lot of these people 173 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 1: like Alex pretty there. So there's actually an interesting guy 174 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: that I happened to see over on Fox News by 175 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 1: the name of Andrew Tricawski, foreign federal prosecutor, who was 176 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: asking the exact same questions. They're really important questions to ask, 177 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: I think at this exact time. Let's go ahead and 178 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: watch Andrew Jikowski on Fox News. 179 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 3: Well, it's undeniable that the protests that are going on 180 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 3: in Minneapolis are supported by organizations or groups of people 181 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 3: that are essentially collaborating to get these folks out there 182 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 3: and engage in what turns out to be repeated acts 183 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 3: of criminal misconduct. And in investigating that type of criminal misconduct, 184 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 3: you can start from the bottom or you can start 185 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 3: from the top. Either way, the whole idea is that 186 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 3: a criminal prosecution or at least an investigation should be 187 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 3: looking not only at people who are assaulting police officers 188 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 3: or committing crimes on the scene, but every single person 189 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 3: that aided and abetted and aiding and a betting is 190 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 3: actually just the encouragement of this type of activity. So 191 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 3: when you kind of pull back the onion and you 192 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 3: get to the core of what's going on, there is 193 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 3: undoubtedly a lot of money behind this. There's a lot 194 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 3: of structure and personnel payments going out where is that 195 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 3: money coming from who are the people behind it, and 196 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 3: is it coming from overseas beyond our borders. I think 197 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 3: that the answers are piling up right now that say 198 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 3: that the answer is yes. Mister Singham is one of 199 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 3: I think many people who the FBI, even the CIA 200 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 3: should be looking at very carefully, because any effort from 201 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 3: essentially a foreign government or people connected closely to foreign 202 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 3: governments have certain registration requirements. That's farah. But beyond even 203 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 3: farah and the registration requirements that occur, we must look 204 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 3: at things that are much more serious. On the most 205 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 3: serious end are things like treason, sedition, insurrection. All of 206 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 3: these ideas have to be examined in light of the 207 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 3: fact that people are putting so much effort into supporting 208 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 3: these protests and these protesters to understand what specifically the 209 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 3: intentions were, what they knew, and what the end goals are. 210 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 1: And we really do deserve to know these answers, don't we. 211 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the Deminstration will be looking into this. 212 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: None of this stuff is particular organic the twenty seventeen 213 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: Women's March or twenty twenty Black Lives Matter and TIFA riot, 214 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: the pro hamas garbage on canvas pans for years and 215 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: now this, now, this neo Confederate insurrectionary uprising in Minnesota 216 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 1: and increasingly throughout the country. Who's funding it? We deserve 217 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: to know, just like we deserve to know Frankly answers 218 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: to the SMALLI fraud scandal, billions of taxpayer dollars wasted. 219 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: I do think that Theminstrration is going to deliver the 220 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: goods on this, but it's imperative that they not back 221 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: off the gas pedal. Tom Holman, I think, is not 222 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: a guy to mess around. I take him out his word. 223 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: I would not trust Tim Waltz and the Minnesota Democrats 224 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: and I would definitely, definitely, definitely verify them. That is 225 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: for sure. Stay with us to the break votes. We'll 226 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:18,480 Speaker 1: be right back the other side. Welcome back. So, speaking 227 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: of left wing anarchy, and yes, this is leftist anarchy, 228 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: there's a very long, long and sordid history of leftist 229 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: anarchy in the United States. By the way, a lot 230 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: of this goes back to the late nineteenth century into 231 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 1: the early twentieth century. The assassin of President McKinley was 232 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: a well known anarchist. There's a long inglorious and yes, 233 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: violent history of anarchy in the United States. So when 234 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: we see this violence on the streets of Minnesota, when 235 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: we see this very near violence, certainly illegal and outrageous conduct, 236 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: when it comes to the Don Lemon led storming of 237 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: the city's church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's very difficult 238 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,559 Speaker 1: to not think at time some of the worst episodes 239 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: of American history. Now anarchy, not necessarily just wokeismor Marxism, 240 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: but outright anarchy was partially put back into the news 241 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: cycle just about a year ago or so when you 242 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: had the horrific, horrific assassination of the United Healthcare CEO 243 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: Brian Thompson on the streets on the streets of New 244 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: York City in broad daylight in Midtown Manhattan from Luigi Mangoni, 245 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: a name that now is going to go down, I 246 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: think in American history as one of those names that 247 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: really just launches a broader conversation. You see, Luigi Mangoni 248 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: is the punk, the absolute evil son of a you 249 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: know what, who ended the life of a father, a husband, 250 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: and someone who had the crime of simply being the 251 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: CEO of a private health insurance company. That's not a crime. Certainly, 252 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: what Luigi Mangoni did is an outrageous crime, but nonetheless 253 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: because the Left has this incorrigible, inveterates violence streak, a 254 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: street that goes back all the way to the origins 255 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: of the modern left, as we've argued repeatedly on the show, 256 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: going back to the French Revolution itself in the late 257 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: eighteenth century with rose Pierre, the Jacobin, the rain and terror. 258 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: You see, the revolution always ultimately eats its own, yes, 259 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: and also ends in the blood of the guillotine or 260 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: in this case, the blood of Luigimanngoni's firear. There's been 261 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 1: a whole cottage industry of Luigi Mangione and Myers. It's 262 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: been a reported increase in people who are naming their 263 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: children Bleachee after this murderer, someone who deprived a wife 264 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: of her husband and deprived children of their father. It's sick. 265 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:57,239 Speaker 1: It is absolutely revolting and sickening, sickening behavior. It bespeaks 266 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: everything bad and nothing good about where certain swaths, only 267 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: certain as we'll get to you later the show, but 268 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: certain swaths of American society. Now Luigimanjoni, one of his admirers, 269 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: is an actually crazy story. Just on Thursday, on January 270 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: twenty ninth, one of Ligi's many amyers apparently from this 271 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: from Minnesota. By the way, what is going on in Minnesota? Like, 272 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: what are you guys doing there that you have the 273 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: George Floyd riots there that's where it started. You have 274 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: the smaller fraud scandal. You have all these these Hamas 275 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: complex martyrs like Rene Good and Alex Pretty and now 276 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: you have a Minnesota man who went all the way 277 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: to New York City impersonated an FBI agent to attempt 278 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: to free from jail Luigi Mangioni. At his prison is 279 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: a federal penitentiary. He's being charged of federal crimes in Brooklyn, 280 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: in New York City. So this lunatic from Minnesota shows 281 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: up with a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter, and 282 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: he walks into jail. He's dressed like an FBI agent, 283 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: he's got the costume, and he says that he's there 284 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: under court order two free Liegi Mangoni. I mean, some 285 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: of these guys just think, I mean, it's hard not 286 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: to laugh start like this, right, I mean, does he 287 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: actually think this is going to work? Does he actually 288 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: think that his little pizza cutter is gonna free this 289 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: psychopath murderer out of federal jail. I mean, it's comical. 290 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: So this guy, say he's thirty six years old, he 291 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: shows up, tries to free Luigi Manjoli from jail. He 292 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: himself is is arrested for in personing FBI officer and 293 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: now he's actually standing for his own crimes also there 294 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: in New York City. But it goes to show you 295 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: the state of the mental state of some of these 296 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: folks who have Luigi Mangoni craze. What it's worth. My 297 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: strong stance is that if you take if you stalk someone, 298 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: you seek them out, and you take an innocent life, 299 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: such as United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the proper penalty 300 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: for that is death. There absolutely are crimes in this 301 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: society where the death penalty is appropriate, and sure enough, 302 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: federal prosecutors have been pushing for that in the Legia 303 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: Manjonie case. Unfortunately, we just found out on Friday that 304 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,479 Speaker 1: that is not going to happen. So a leftist Biden 305 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: nominated judge in the southern dishes of New York the 306 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: name of Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed two of the four 307 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: federal accounts against the Legia Manjoni, including the only murder 308 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: count she tossed, murder through use of a firearm. That 309 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: was the only one of the counts that had a 310 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: possular death sentence. She tossed it. She tossed it. Essentially, 311 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: they said that the relevant statute requires that you murder 312 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: through another crime of violence, and the prosecutor's theory of 313 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: the case was that the stalking of Brian Thompson was 314 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: the other crime of violence. This judge, being a little 315 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: bit of a hyper literalist, I guess there, says that stalking. 316 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: Stalking is not an act of violence. The judge writes, 317 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: quote the analysis contained and the Bounce's opinion may strike 318 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: the average person is tortured and strained, and the result 319 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: may seem contrary to our intuitions, but represents the court's 320 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court. 321 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 1: Long story shorty're saying that the stalking is not a 322 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: crime of violence ficient to ultimately get death here, I'm 323 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: not buying this for a second. The beginning us out 324 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,719 Speaker 1: of of the legal leads for second here because this scumback, 325 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: this horrific, this monster, this monster that has spawned a 326 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: whole little cottage industry of Moloch worshiping pagan monsters themselves, 327 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: like the pizza cutter dude, like all the little mini 328 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: robespiers who are now running around naming the children Luigi 329 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: after the guy who murdered the healthcare ceo. What do 330 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: you think is going to happen that Aligi Manngoni is 331 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: now not going to get the death penalty. He'll be 332 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: able to appeal and appeal and appeal and appeal this 333 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: there is even gonna spend any time in jail. I 334 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 1: don't know if we're just tossing a murder charge situation 335 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: on this, how can I have any confidence all that 336 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 1: isn't he that he'll even spend time in jail. But 337 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: for a situation like this, if this is not deserving 338 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,120 Speaker 1: of the death penalty, then what is I think about? 339 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: These Sarnaa brothers a lot to this day? Do you 340 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: remember them? They were the Boston Marathon bombers from the 341 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: year twenty thirteen. That was horrific stuff horrific, a pre planned, 342 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: premeditated bombing of a celebrated event of the Boston marathon 343 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: taking out innocent people permanently ending their lives, depriving wives 344 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: of husbands, husbands of bibes, children, etc. And they're still appealing. 345 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: A society that does not have the death penalty at 346 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: all is contrary to what you might hear fundamentally and 347 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 1: unjust society, because a society that properly judges human life 348 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: as being the most precious, that properly believes in Genesis 349 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: one twenty seven that man is me and the image 350 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: of God, understands that there are some crimes. If we're 351 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: all made in the divine name to always spark of 352 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: the divine, then we all have a spark of holiness. 353 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: Think about what it takes to willfully deprive that holiness 354 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: and to take it out of this world. Your committee 355 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: really enact against God? Are you not to take an 356 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: innocent human life an The penalty for that from a 357 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: moral retreatist perspective surely ought to be your own life. 358 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: Anything less than that, by definition, you're not properly valuing 359 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: human life. Now, there's something of a pro life argue tear. Certainly, 360 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: many of my Catholic friends I've heard make it that 361 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: the consistent pro life stance is to oppose death no 362 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: matter what, from in utero in the womb to the 363 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: worst the worst defenders. There I viewed a little differently. 364 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 1: To me, the pro life thing to do is actually 365 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 1: to support the death penalty situations like this, because it 366 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 1: indicates that you are so valuing innocent human life that 367 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: you're willing to take a not innocent properly adjudicate in 368 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: a court of law life to show to the rest 369 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,199 Speaker 1: of the country and for generations to come. But this 370 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: is a society that values innocent human life. It says 371 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: nothing good about our judges that this judge ruled the 372 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: way she did. It says nothing good about our culture 373 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 1: that they are running around named their children after this 374 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: god forsaken psychopath who murdered an innocent husband, an innocent father, 375 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: and says nothing good whatsoever. This will be appealed, and 376 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 1: I look forward to hopefully the Second Circuit trying to 377 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: reverse this ruling. There If Luigi Manngoni does not get 378 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: the death penalty, that is an eyesore, an absolute eyesore 379 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: in the American just system. I hope, indeed I pray 380 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: this is reversed on appeal. Stay with us, folks with 381 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: Rabbi Pinchast Taylor, coming up on the other side of 382 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: a short commercial break. Welcome back. So we're thill to 383 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: welcome back here to the Josh Hammer Show. A friend 384 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: of the program, friend of mine on a personal level, 385 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: that is Rabbi Pinchrast Taylor. He is the founder and 386 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 1: director of American Faith Coalition, a good man and a 387 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: key bridge builder when it comes to building these bridges 388 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 1: between the two biblical religions. Judaea is man Christianity. So 389 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: Rabbi Taylor, welcome back. I want to get to that 390 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: a little bit later in the conversation, the very fraud moment, 391 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: the importance kind of zooming out to building these interfaith bridges, 392 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: But for now, I wanted to start at the micro 393 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: before getting to the macro. In our annual journey through 394 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: the five Books of Moses through the Torah, we're at 395 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: a very exciting point here. We are now very much 396 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: in the climax of the second of the five books, 397 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: in the Book of Exus. There, in fact, the weekly Parsha, 398 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: the tour portion in this week Parsha Beschelach is really 399 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: about the parting of the sea, the parting of the 400 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 1: Red Sea. There so tell us a little bit about 401 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 1: what is happening in the Parsha this week. I was 402 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: really struck the other day when I noticed Rabbi that 403 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: one of the earliest verses in this week's Parsha, in 404 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: this week's tour A portion is about Moses taking Joseph's bones. 405 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: Joseph's bones out of Egypt, and the parallel to getting 406 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: the final hostage out of Gaza was not lost to me. 407 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: Rong Gavilli. They're literally going in to take his bones there. 408 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: I am someone who does not really believe that there 409 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: are such thing as coincidences. I presume you probably don't 410 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: die there. Just talk a little bit about. 411 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 4: That if you can, sure, and it's great to be 412 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 4: back with you. So so certainly there are no such 413 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 4: thing as coincidence. And really there's there's a message every 414 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 4: every week when we open up the tour portion. The 415 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 4: idea of living with the times from a Jewish perspective 416 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 4: is not opening up the New York Times and seeing 417 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 4: what's going on in the news. It's opening up the 418 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,719 Speaker 4: tour A portion and watching the world around it, around 419 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 4: us sort of operating in the same way of what's 420 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 4: going on that week. It's no coincidence. That Jewish communities 421 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,440 Speaker 4: worldwide are reading the same tour a Portion on any 422 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 4: given week. It really creates what I like to call 423 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 4: the energy of the week. Right whatever week we're on Jews, 424 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 4: whether you're living in Australia, South Africa, China, or America, 425 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 4: are all reading that same portion, creates an energy of 426 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 4: what's taking place. And so if you and I want 427 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 4: to know what's going on or what lessons we need 428 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 4: to be kind of focusing on that week, we look 429 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 4: to the tour a Portion and certainly the idea of 430 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 4: the bones of Joseph who were sort of held hostage 431 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 4: in Egypt until the enslavement was over, being released now 432 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 4: and being brought with the Israelites eventually to the land 433 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 4: of Israel. It is certainly something that we see parallel 434 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 4: this week. There's a lot going on this week actually, 435 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 4: and there's certain there are certain moments that in the 436 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 4: in the Torah, in the Bible in general, that people 437 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,119 Speaker 4: really have in their mind. There's there's the the dream 438 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 4: that Jacob has with the latter going into the heavens 439 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 4: where artistic, artistic paintings and and and whatnot has been 440 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 4: has been expressed for centuries. You have the burning bush. 441 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 4: But another key moment it happens in this week's tour portion. 442 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 4: That's the splitting of the sea. And there's really a 443 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 4: universal message in the splitting of the sea. One thing 444 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 4: that's outside of the text is that our tradition teaches 445 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 4: that it's not like it was in the movies. It's 446 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 4: not like Moses lifts up his hands and the sea splits. 447 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 4: And that's what happened, was that when you had the 448 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 4: Egyptians behind the Israelites who were now fleeing, and the 449 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 4: sea in front of them, the Israelites didn't know what 450 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 4: to do. Some of them wanted to just surrender, go 451 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 4: back to Egypt, better to be a slave and to 452 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 4: be killed. Some want to just commit suicide, jump into 453 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 4: the sea and let be done with it. Some wanted 454 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 4: to pray to God. But there was one man. His 455 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 4: name was Nashan Nashan, then Ami Nadov, and he started 456 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 4: just going into the water, not to commit suicide, but 457 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 4: he said, if God has sent us in a direction, 458 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 4: if God has spent all this time bringing plagues upon 459 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 4: the Egyptians, he didn't just bring us here to die. 460 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 4: There's got to be something. There's got to be more 461 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 4: to this, and so he went in and he said, 462 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 4: God's going to handle this. And the water got up 463 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 4: to his ankles, then his knees, and his hips, then 464 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 4: his neck, and once it got over its head, once 465 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 4: it got over his head, that's when the seas split. 466 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 4: And that is a key message I believe for people 467 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 4: of all faiths. When you're going in the right direction, 468 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 4: when you're going on the godly path, when you're fighting 469 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 4: for the right values, you just got to keep going forward. 470 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 4: And there's going to be seas in front of you, 471 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 4: there's going to be Egyptian arms behind you. You're going 472 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 4: to feel trapped sometimes, but if you're on the right mission, 473 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 4: you just need to keep going forward and eventually those 474 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 4: sees are going to split in front of you. 475 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: You know. There's a line in the in the tour 476 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: portion this week that talks about how Pharaoh with the 477 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: chariots that they're pursuing the Israelites there and the Israelites 478 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: where we're proceeding with an upraised arm. Is roughly the 479 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: English translation, and there's numerous commentators that interpret this verse. 480 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: To me, the way that I at least interpret it 481 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: is it seems to me that the children of Israel. 482 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: The Israelites are confident that God has their back, that 483 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: they have faith. They and munachuse the Hebrew word, they 484 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 1: have betaarne, which is the Hebrew word for trust. They 485 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: know that God is there lean them out there. And 486 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: as you correctly know, there's a lot of universal's messages, 487 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: not just particular as messages, really kind of universal messages 488 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: I think to take out out of these demonstrations of faith. 489 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: So again, Rabbi Pinhos Taylor is the director of the 490 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: American Faith Coalition. I want to spend our main time, 491 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: Rabbi very much on that note. You like me in 492 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: our own various ways, are are deeply committed to Jewish 493 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: Christian relationship building. There are a lot of provocateurs out 494 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: there right now. I don't need to name names. It 495 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: should be pretty obvious to the viewers and listeners of 496 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: the show that there are any number of folks out 497 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 1: there who are trying to drive a tremendous wedge through 498 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 1: the heart of this ecumenical biblical alliance that really built 499 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: and still to this day sustains Western civilization. What is 500 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: our role as Jews? Just speaking as Jews, I think 501 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: Christians obviously have their role to maintain these connections as well. 502 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: But for Jews, what is our role in making sure 503 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 1: that this alliance stays strong amidst all the provocators who 504 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: are trying to tear this down. 505 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 4: Well, I think the guiding the guidepost of life is 506 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 4: to be a lamplighter and to be a shining light 507 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 4: rather than combating the darkness. I know there are a 508 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 4: lot of Jewish organizations that are out there that their 509 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 4: mo is to sort of combat the darkness and to 510 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 4: call out the anti Semlites and to make protests. And 511 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 4: again that's I'm not saying that's good or bad. I 512 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 4: don't think that that's our number one priority. I don't 513 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 4: think that's gonna be the number one thing that's most effective. 514 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 4: I think the most effective thing is for us to 515 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 4: keep being the lamplighter and just just keep saying the 516 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 4: truth and not to get not to get too embroiled 517 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 4: in the nitty gritty of combating and debates and and 518 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 4: trying to one up the other and making protest. Just 519 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 4: just keep speaking the truth and the truth the truth 520 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 4: will prevail. Light overcomes darkness in every situation, and sooner 521 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 4: or later, like nacshin, right, we just keep walking, We 522 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 4: just keep walking. Eventually, this this C two will will 523 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 4: pass as well. 524 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: I share your your optimism. I'll be at times it's 525 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: very easy to get lost and to get black people, 526 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: so to speak, given a given a lot of just 527 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: the just the vile smearing that just really just the 528 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 1: awful stuff that is that is out there right now. 529 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: You know, from your situation as someone who again is 530 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: so invested in in interfaith Jewish Christian relations, I'm sure 531 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: you get a a lot a lot of your Christian allies. 532 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: I get a lot of my Christian friends as well 533 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: who are deeply upset with what they hear from people 534 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: like Candice So and Stucker Carlson there. They're just deeply 535 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: upset that this is being done in the purported name 536 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: of Christianity. I'm sure you hear that quite a bit 537 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: as well, right. 538 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 4: One hundred percent. And and each each one comes with 539 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 4: their own flavor and their own motives behind. And one 540 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 4: thing I can say is that I'm very appreciative of 541 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 4: Christians that do express their support outright for the Jewish people. 542 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 4: It's a very it's a very comforting thing. It's a 543 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 4: very special thing to hear that reinforced despite the fact 544 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 4: that there are these voices in the background, in the 545 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 4: foreground wherever they are, that that are trying with all 546 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 4: the strength that they have to to sort of break 547 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 4: that and dig up the same old nonsense that has 548 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 4: been that has been put out there for centuries. Like 549 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 4: they come at it as if they're discovering something new, 550 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 4: that this has been very for centuries and all of 551 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 4: a sudden, we're going to expose the truth, like this 552 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 4: is the same nonsense, the same garbage that has been 553 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 4: rehashed since the Middle Ages, been dealt with, been refuted, 554 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 4: it's all debunked stuff, it's all nonsense, but they dig 555 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 4: it up as if it's this is the first time 556 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 4: that humanity has ever been exposed to any of this stuff. 557 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 4: And so those that have a sharper sense of reality 558 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,400 Speaker 4: and know that the only two people, the only two 559 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 4: groups of people to ever share the same religious book 560 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 4: is that is found in the Hebrew Bible, should strengthen 561 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 4: each other's connection with no motives on the other, no 562 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 4: side looking for anything else but then the support of 563 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 4: creating a moral society in a stable society, and truthfully, 564 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 4: the society that America was found to be. 565 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: That's right, Oh a hearty a man to that look. 566 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: Roughly seventy five percent of the Christian Bible is the 567 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: Hebrew Bible. It's an a sheer numerical level that is 568 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: an overwhelming shar inherentons It's a very basive point that 569 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: I make over and over again. Folks, follow Rabbi Pinkoss Taylor. 570 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: He's the director of the American Faith Coalition. A prolific 571 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: YouTube present by a prolific YouTuber really puts yours truly 572 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 1: to shame. Rabbi Taylor. We really appreciate the conversation. God 573 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: bless you to talk to you very soon. I hope 574 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: it's a pleasure stay with us. To the brave folks. 575 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: Josh Hammer will be right back and get out of 576 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: a short commercial break. Welcome back. Well, thanks again to 577 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: Rabbi pink Coast Taylor for joining us. Rabbi Taylor, the 578 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: director of the American Faith Coalition. Go ahead and watch 579 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,479 Speaker 1: his stuff all over the Innet's YouTube Instagram. You name it. So. 580 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: We are both very passionate, as you can tell about 581 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: building these bridges between Judaism and Christianity, between Jews and Christians. 582 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: We've had a number of guests on the show who 583 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: are very passionate about that exact topic. We had Luke 584 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: Moon a few months back, who is an ordained Baptist minister, 585 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: to talk about the New Testament, specifically case the New Testament, 586 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: case for Jewish Christian relations, for the Jewish people, and 587 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 1: for the contempt capitalized the state of Israel. We've had 588 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 1: on Tenessiha Suza, that's Seth Dylan, both of whom actually Genesian. Seth. 589 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: We're both over in Jerusalem this week at the International 590 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 1: Conference to Combat Anti Semitism. I was actually invited to 591 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 1: speak at that conference, like I couldn't make it for 592 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: the reason that I will elaborate here in just a second. 593 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: It looks like a really, really great conference there. So 594 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: we're huge here on this show of building these bridges 595 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 1: between the two biblical religions, because really, folks, we share 596 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 1: so much more in common than we have that is 597 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: not the same. And I'm not trying to downplay those differences. 598 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: There are very real differences when it comes to the 599 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: nature of God himself and of the Creator. These are 600 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: big difference things that you can't just whitewash on the 601 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: other hand, as I was saying, a rat by tailor 602 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: what seventy five percent roughly give or take based on 603 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 1: just page numbers and books and chapters of the Christian 604 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: Bible or of the Hebrew Bible or of the Old 605 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: Testament there. And it's so easy sometimes if you're in 606 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,640 Speaker 1: the line of work that I am in, or you 607 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: follow the news as closely as you probably do, if 608 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: you're watching and listening to the show, it's very easy 609 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,479 Speaker 1: to get black pill. It's very very easy to go 610 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: online in the social media discourse, and it's very easy 611 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: to look at the comments and see all the garbage 612 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: is saying there. I mean, look these days, folks, I 613 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 1: could literally tweet out the sky is blue, and I 614 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,879 Speaker 1: would have a bunch of Nazis in my social media 615 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: mentions say know you more, and it's actually red or orange. 616 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,839 Speaker 1: I'm barely exaggerating. I mean, sometimes you look at social 617 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: media and you want to just run away, and there's 618 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,160 Speaker 1: this whole debate is social media real life? Is not 619 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: real life? There? So I want to tell you a 620 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,359 Speaker 1: little bit about the really wonderful experience that I had 621 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: on Thursday. So on Thursday of this week, on January 622 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: twenty ninth, So I mentioned that I was invited to 623 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: this conference over in Jerusalem, this conference that was put 624 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,799 Speaker 1: on actually by the Israeli government. They invite a lot 625 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,919 Speaker 1: of dignitaries, Americans, Europeans, everyone to speak about anti Semitism. 626 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,640 Speaker 1: A lot of good folks were there, as I mentioned, 627 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: Nasa Suzas, Seth Dylan, many many others as well. I 628 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 1: was invited, couldn't make it, and the main reason I 629 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: couldn't make it because I had a pre existing speaking 630 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: commitment and on Thursday I was in Seabring, Florida. Seabring, 631 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: Florida is a town of between ten and twenty thousand people. 632 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: It's a small ish town honestly, which is really well 633 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: known in a very niche circle of auto racing fans. 634 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 1: I'm actually a lifelong auto racing fanatic, so I actually 635 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 1: know of Seabring, Florida because the town is known as 636 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: the home of the twelve Hours of Seaburn. They have 637 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: an international raceway. It's one of the three most prestigious 638 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,440 Speaker 1: sports car endurance races in the world, along with the 639 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: twenty four Hours of Lamon's and France and the Rolocks 640 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: twenty four at Daytona. In any events, I nerd out 641 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,399 Speaker 1: I digress, so I had heard of Seabring. Most people 642 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: have never heard of Seabring. So it turns out this 643 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,800 Speaker 1: past August I got an invitation. Actually, if your memory certainly, 644 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: I got the invitation. Why. I was actually at in 645 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,720 Speaker 1: the Hamptons in New York at the now infamous Charlie 646 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: Kirk Bill Ackman Hampton's retreats. Candice Owen's altic conspiracist really 647 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: went off on that one. So I was there for 648 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,280 Speaker 1: this thirty five to forty person Aldi Kirk organized retreat, 649 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: the last time I ever saw Charlie Kirk in person. 650 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: And I got invited from YAFF, from Young America's Foundation 651 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: to speak at Seabring High School. It's my first time 652 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:14,439 Speaker 1: hearing that YAFF, which is a venerable sixty plus year 653 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: old Conservative camps orization. I had no idea that they 654 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 1: had high school chapters. I've done a number of YAFF 655 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: events over the years. When it comes to colleges, I 656 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: spoken at their national conferences in washing d C. I 657 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,760 Speaker 1: spoke out in Santa Barbara at the Reagan Ranch Center 658 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 1: as part of my book launch this past March. So 659 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 1: I've done Yaff events for years. I had no idea 660 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 1: they had high school events. So I of course said yes. Seabring, 661 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 1: Florida roughly just a three hour drive from me, so 662 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: don't even have to get on a plane. So I 663 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: went on Thursday, and I drove roughly the three hours 664 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 1: to and from in the same day, from where I 665 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 1: live in South Florida to Seabring, Florida, which is a 666 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: little south of Orlando. If you know Florida geography, well 667 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: it's between Lake Okechobee, this big fat lake in south 668 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 1: central Florida. Seabring is between Lake Okachobee in Orlando. So 669 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: I drive up there and I was really touched, and 670 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,920 Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to talk about. The faculty advisor 671 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: is a man by the name of Virgil Biatto. He 672 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 1: is a teacher there at seep Bring High School who 673 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 1: teaches government and ap us history. And I was just 674 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: so struck at what he said. He said that my book, 675 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,319 Speaker 1: the Book Behind Me is Real and Civilization, the book 676 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: that I wrote this past March. He said this was 677 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,479 Speaker 1: one of his favorite books he's read in his entire life. 678 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: And he said that much of what I run that 679 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,320 Speaker 1: book makes its way into his day to day lessons 680 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: when it comes to government in US history, when it 681 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,680 Speaker 1: comes to everything from the biblical foundations of America to 682 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 1: contemporary American foreign policy to the specific topic of US's relations. 683 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: He could not have been kind or could not have 684 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: been more gracious. The faculty advisor for this high school, Yeah, chapter, 685 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,480 Speaker 1: and we're you know, we're taking photos, I'm signing book 686 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 1: copies there. Everyone just super generous and gracious. And then 687 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,840 Speaker 1: it comes time for these students to introduce the faculty 688 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,960 Speaker 1: adviser and ultimately ultimately introduced me to speaker. But before that, 689 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: there was a benediction. And you know, these benedictions are 690 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,160 Speaker 1: always interesting, right because as a Jew, you never know 691 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: whether a Christian giving a bendiction is going to is 692 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: going to end the bendiction with a specifically Christian invocation 693 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,280 Speaker 1: reverencing Jesus, in which case, as a Jew, by definition, 694 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,920 Speaker 1: I cannot say amen. But if it's an ecumenical prayer 695 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 1: just about God Almighty, etc. Then I of course can 696 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: say I'm men. So you know, I'm kind of she's 697 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: talking and I'm kind of wondering exactly where it's going. 698 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,719 Speaker 1: And then she gets to a really really beautiful part. 699 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,240 Speaker 1: This student leader, one of the secretaries or vice presidents 700 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,239 Speaker 1: of the Sebring High School YAH chapter, and she starts saying, 701 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: how we're here to pray for this country, for this, 702 00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,200 Speaker 1: for that, And then she says, but above all, today, folks, 703 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,239 Speaker 1: we're here to pray for Josh Hammer. We're here to 704 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 1: pray for his safety, for his well being, for his 705 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,879 Speaker 1: continued knowledge, for his continued capacity to do that which 706 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 1: he is able to do. And we are praying that 707 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 1: the truth that Josh Hammer speaks and writes reach as 708 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,160 Speaker 1: many hearts and minds as possible and maybe say i'men, 709 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 1: and I've said I'm men, of course, And I was 710 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,279 Speaker 1: just so touched by this. Again, it's so easy to 711 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,200 Speaker 1: just get lost in the online black pill. I mean, 712 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: you can blackpill yourself from from here to Mars and back. 713 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,040 Speaker 1: It's a lot harder to white pill yourself. But Thursday 714 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 1: in Sea Bring, Florida was a real white pill for me. 715 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,520 Speaker 1: There were a lot of older folks from the community, 716 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,960 Speaker 1: donors to the APT chapter, Folks who were involved in 717 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,040 Speaker 1: their local Republican Party of Florida State Committee, things like that. 718 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 1: They are just lots of local activists and yes, lots 719 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: of student even the school principle actually showed up there, 720 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 1: and she was very gracious and warm. I got the 721 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,680 Speaker 1: sense that she was she was on our side. These 722 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:14,759 Speaker 1: were just good salt of the earth, Christian Americans who 723 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,120 Speaker 1: are praying for America, who are who are praying in 724 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: this case for the Jewish people, who are praying just 725 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,279 Speaker 1: for goodness and that which is good and that which 726 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,200 Speaker 1: is right, and praying against that which is bad and 727 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:34,799 Speaker 1: that which is wrong, Praying for Western civilization, praying for 728 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:40,360 Speaker 1: the continued preaching and dissemination of our millennia long biblical inheritance, 729 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,920 Speaker 1: Praying against those who seek to Subjain, destroy us, Bolkhism, Islamism, 730 00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:53,360 Speaker 1: blibal neoliberalism. It was really just an extraordinary moment. And 731 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,400 Speaker 1: in many ways, these are the kind of things that 732 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 1: make this line of work really worth It is that 733 00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:04,399 Speaker 1: in seeing that exuberants, that excitement someone who's really been 734 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,600 Speaker 1: impacted by what you've had to say or what you've 735 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: had to write. And one of the student questions after 736 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: we got to q and A said to me, Josh, 737 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,600 Speaker 1: you know, how can I make the biggest impact there? 738 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,840 Speaker 1: What can I do to change hearts and minds, and 739 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 1: I said, look, I mean here too, there's a bit 740 00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:28,200 Speaker 1: of a lesson from the Bible. There's Jeremiah chapter twenty nine, 741 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,920 Speaker 1: verse seven, which exhorts us to focus on the welfare 742 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 1: of our own city, our own locality, because there you 743 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,439 Speaker 1: should find welfare. So I told this student focus on 744 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,759 Speaker 1: the most local level change hearts and minds in the 745 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,319 Speaker 1: locker room at the barbecue after church on Sunday, in 746 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,600 Speaker 1: the Facebook comments section, if you want to write, that's 747 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:52,280 Speaker 1: where you really kind of become. That's where you really flex. 748 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,640 Speaker 1: The sinews of lowercase are republican self governance, those Tokvillian 749 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,840 Speaker 1: burkeyan little platoons, civil society. That's what it's all about, folks. 750 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,160 Speaker 1: So again, my sincere gratitude to Yaft to see bring 751 00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,080 Speaker 1: high school to Virtual Biado, who is the faculty advisor there, 752 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,720 Speaker 1: for a genuinely uplifting experience. I won't forget that anytime 753 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,279 Speaker 1: soon there, and I'm gonna take that positive energy into 754 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,920 Speaker 1: the weekend. I hope that you also take this very 755 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,440 Speaker 1: positive energy, folks, into this weekend. Wishing you all a 756 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: wonderful weekend. I'm Josh Hammer signing off. Have a great 757 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 1: rest of the evening in the great weekend. We'll see 758 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 1: you on Monday