In this episode, Kevin McCullough offers profound insights into the modern world’s challenges through the lens of faith and politics. With guests like Bishop Hugh Nelson, the discussion delves into the historical and current sociopolitical landscapes of Iran. The episode presents an in-depth reflection on the parable of the Prodigal Son, illustrating how its timeless lessons reveal the complexities of human nature and divine grace.
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straight ahead everything you need to know about the top headlines of the day and a perspective that will give you some eternity to it plus practical tips for family life spiritual life and good old regular life it’s kevin mccullough monday through friday on that kevin show And now, from the Connors & Sullivan Broadcast Studios, the man who is not what he wants to be, but is way grateful that he’s not who he used to be, here’s
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All right, welcome in. It’s Friday, That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com, and it’s true. I am so grateful that I am not the man I used to be, but I am so focused on yet not being the man I fully wish to be, and I hope that you will go on that journey with us every single day as we try to explore it ourselves here at That Kevin show, thatkevinshow.com for everything related. If you want to see the TV show, if you want to see, if you want to get the podcast, if you want to read my current column at townhall.com, if you want to be in contact with me, we’ve got every social media up there. And of course, on the weekends, we talk about travel and food and other things. And you can subscribe to those publications, Stacey Bone and That Passport Life, all included there at the homepage of thatkevinshow.com. Please go check it out. We’ve got a lot to get to on today’s broadcast. We’ll give you a little sneak peek of some fun things to do for your weekend. We’ll also talk about some of the biggest issues and stories. My guests scheduled to be Christine Nicholas, Bethany Mandel, Dr. Gina Loudon, and others as we go along. And Bishop Hugh Nelson is going to be back with us in just a minute to talk about how we live. That is all straight ahead. And it’s been a very, very fascinating week. with Bishop Nelson is we have dug deeper than I’ve ever dug before on the story of the prodigal son and seeing myself in some of the characters of that story in ways I’d never thought of before. And yet so, so deeply moving. And I just hope that you’ll join us for the, for the conclusion to that discussion. Cause it’s been a, it’s been a great week with Bishop Nelson. Lots going on in the news. Obviously, the war hasn’t gone anywhere. We are still watching, although I will say this. I am very pleased with how confident the president is about what we’re doing when it comes to our objectives. In fact, he has said that we are so much farther ahead than than where we anticipated being by this time. And that’s all good. My hope and request in earnest pleading is that we don’t lose pace, that we stay ahead of the game, that we have as little loss of innocent life as possible. If we need to kill all the Ayatollahs, I’m okay with that. Those people are not very interested in having peace with anyone. So maybe they should just go see Jesus who will bring them the reckoning on peace as they need to be. But if you’re going to kill loads and loads of innocent people, I don’t know that you should have a right to continue to live yourself. And that’s what the Ayatollahs have done for the last number of years. And I think it’s interesting. Friends, that you’ve seen kind of the people speak through the representatives this week, because last weekend when the war started, you had House members and Senate members both talking big, big talk about. kind of disciplining the president and making sure that he knows that he can’t declare war without congressional approval, or so they say. And they talked about how they were going to bring it to both bodies in the Congress this week and press for votes. You know, the effort to curb this failed spectacularly in both houses. It wasn’t even close. And at the end of the day, I think that’s partly because the voters, the people of the nation, have told their representatives, I want you to do the right thing. That’s why we’ve given you the job. The right thing is to do as is needed, to do as is conscience-driven, and to do the right thing is to protect innocent people. The actions that we are taking as being so significantly different than the ones that we took in Iraq and Afghanistan – And the global war on terror, as it’s now referred to often GWAT, but the GWAT era service people that know where some of those things went bad after we got the terrorists on the run are saying that we’re doing it so much differently. And it’s my hope. It’s not just a pie-in-the-sky wish. It’s my genuine, earnest, heartfelt hope that that the people of Iran are able to grasp the significance of what they’ve been given here. In Iraq and Afghanistan, let me just hit on this for a second. Those were different cultures. Those were cultures largely that never were. truly liberalized or modernized in the modern era. They didn’t really embrace an idea of republic government or democracy in any way prior to the liberations of the global war on terror. And in Afghanistan, because it’s all tribal and feudal and kind of internal, this gang against that gang and so forth, they never really had a founding vision for anything. But Iran is not Iraq and Iran is not Afghanistan. And before 47 years ago, they had the highest level of college educated women of any country in the world. Think about that. Think about the level of education that women enjoyed under a free and democratized Iran prior to the Ayatollahs taking over in the 1970s. And understand that when women did have the right to learn, they took advantage of it. And when they had the right to contribute to their culture, they did. You had female doctors and lawyers and all kinds of things. In the modern-day era of Iran, women have been disallowed from even going to basic education for many, many years. So this is a group of people that have a memory of what democracy looked like, of what free governance of themselves looked like. And I don’t know why, to be honest with you, the Carter administration insisted on bringing the Ayatollah back to the Iranian territory. We gave him a plane ride. We put him back in country. And then when the revolution happened, they took – those college students took our embassy workers hostage for 444 days, a year and a half. Beyond that, there was all of the – then the pursuit and the aggressive, aggressive hostility of weapons and opposing free cultures in the Middle East and beyond. So I think that what we’re going to see – and my prayer is this – That the memory of what self-governance and self-determination looks like in their minds will be something that they aspire to again. Because if the Iranian people do not embrace that, then they will not have a culture that that will elevate the least of those among them. They will not have a culture that elevates women. And if, God forbid, another power monger, another Ayatollah, another supreme leader rises up, then you have people being thrown off buildings. You have women being shot in the street for wearing blue jeans. You have all the atrocities and horrors that we have watched, that we have witnessed on global television sets for the last 40 years all over again. Friends, it’s my prayer that that is not what we are empowering, that the Iranian people, and I’m actively praying for this. Lord, please let the Iranian people, and if possible, the Iranian Christians, because there is a subculture of Christianity that is very, very much on the down low, but they are there. Lord, raise your people up. Let these people, as best they can, come to know and understand you so that they have real truth in their lives and that they are able to… lead the lives that you have for them, your best intentions. All right, we’ve got a lot to get to. How do we live? Bishop Nelson’s back with us, and then we kick off a great Friday show. Lots of news, lots of things to talk about. Hope that you’ll be here for all of it. It’s That Kevin Show.
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Here he is from New York. That Kevin. Kevin McCullough.
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All right, welcome. It is That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. And if you want anything related to the show, it’s all there, thatkevinshow.com. You can even listen to past discussions of what we’ve talked about in this segment all week long called How Do We Live? Specifically focusing in on the prodigal son in Luke 15. And Bishop Hugh Nelson is back with us from the Ebenezer Urban Ministry Center in Brooklyn. And Bishop, I say that we have taken a deep dive On the prodigal son this week, it is not an underestimated statement. I’ve never spent the amount of time thinking about the multiple layers of the personalities of the persons in this story the way you have forced us to think about them. And I said this earlier in the week. I see myself. in the, uh, brash and arrogant son that demanded his inheritance. I see myself in the father who felt injured by that arrogance. I see myself in the son who comes to his own demise and says, Hey, it’s better for me to, you know, at least eat some of the pig slop in my father’s service than it is where I’m at here. Um, I see him going home, uh, in understanding that humility and that kind of devastation and, and the father, of course, who can’t identify with a father who wants to do nothing more than rescue his son from all the disastrous damage that he may have done to his life. And at the end of the day, I think it’s really important that people understand that this is, this is a, this is a microcosm, right? Of, of how God looks at us. He, he, he loves us. He longs for us to come home. He And then we come to this other character that’s in it, the older son, the third character. I think it’s unexpected for a lot of people that the brother responds the way he does, but he is certainly not impressed with his brother’s repentance. And some people will say, well, that’s natural. I’ve seen people be unrepentant when they faked repentance before. But it goes a step further than that, does it not, Bishop? I mean, to the degree that the father is lavishing love and forgiveness and reconciliation, and the older brother, who rightfully or wrongfully has served dutifully his father the whole time he’s been gone, and he looks at his younger brother and he goes, well, who do you think you are to get that? I mean, there’s just no feeling from him.
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had absolutely no compassion no thought of celebration and i thought my god this older brother was unhappy he was the only one who did not rejoice about his brother’s return another interesting thing and this was for me was the cliff the cliffhanger because when jesus talked about the lost sheep there was closure The shepherd found the lost sheep, brought the sheep back to the fold. When he talked about the lost coin, the woman didn’t give up the search until she found the coin, and there’s a sense of closure. In this case, there was no closure. No, this was the part that really struck me, because the parable never indicated whether the son came in or stayed out. It never shared whether the eldest son, Even with the pleading of the father who came out to the field, met him and entreated him, come home. Your brother who was lost is now home. We’re literally left with the young man, not certain whether he stayed out or whether he came in. I thought, God, this is quite interesting because now this gives us an opportunity to write our own conclusion. How would we want to bring closure? to this parable, where the eldest son eventually, maybe reluctantly, came in and reluctantly embraced his younger brother, or whether he stayed away. And I thought, my God, there’s so much we could learn from this oldest son because it is possible for us to stay home and dutifully carry out our responsibility and still not have the heart of the Father. And there’s so many believers who have never left, have never acted shamefully, but still lack the heart of the Father. Another takeaway for me is that sometimes even as believers, When one wanders away and returns, and there is so much celebration, we resent the fact that we’re not in the limelight. No one is making a big deal about the elder son who was always there. All of a sudden, now the focus is on the son who had left and returned. And this is oftentimes where our true spirituality is tested. How do we respond? when the spotlight is not on the one who stayed home dutifully carrying out his task, but the one who wasted it but came back. And so sometimes, as believers, we can stay right in the house and still lack the heart of the Father. Interestingly enough, this eldest son who stayed home carried out his responsibility, but still did not have intimacy with his father. You know, and this was, maybe there was a part that really struck me hard, even as a pastor, it is possible to do the work of God and still lack intimacy with God. We work for God. but miss out on the fact that beyond what we do for him, he hungers to have intimacy with his children.
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Well, and at the end of the day, Bishop, is that not one of the greatest blessings of relationship with Jesus? that we can turn to a father who does love us perfectly, so much more completely than any of our earthly fathers can. And if we are just willing to put our pride to the side, if we’re just willing to put our expectations of perfection and others off to the side and allow him to, to, to love us, but also to change things in us that need to be changed. It’s not so much that the, that the older brother disliked his younger brother. It’s that he felt he was so much better than his younger brother.
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that’s right and you know i i thought of even mary and martha when jesus came to visit them yes was was so caught up with enjoying intimacy with christ while the other one was making sure the house was in good order and you know again the contrast that’s the thing i love about god he paints a picture makes this contrast and leaves us to see where we are
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So from a practical standpoint, what are some ways that we can help guard our hearts from becoming like the older brother and maybe pursue that intimacy with the father on a deeper level?
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And so I think in a practical level, it is so important that we nurture intimacy with God on a daily basis. When we recognize the love we experience from a God who loves us completely, we then can have patience even with those who fail. You know, when we come from a posture of love and that we are loved and that someone’s recovery is not at our expense, then we realize God’s heart is large enough to love all of us equally. And none of us suffer because he’s right now focusing on the backslider.
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Yeah, and I think that just from a practical standpoint, the more we look at others to judge them as backsliders, the more we miss the point. Like my focus this morning, today, tonight, as I walk through this weekend, as I go into next week, My focus should be, Lord, what are you wanting to change in my heart? What is it about where I’m at that could be better with you than before? And, you know, again, that’s where the older son missed it. He he felt like he was entitled to it. He was owed for his good behavior. Yeah. And in reality, the father just wants to have a deep relationship with both of his boys.
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A deep relationship. He wants them to enjoy his presence. And, you know, especially those of us in the professional clergy space who work as, you We can really get so tied up with the task of ministry that we miss out on the intimacy.
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Wow. What a great week, Pastor Nelson. And again, this weekend, you’re going to go deeper at Ebenezer Urban Ministry Center on this story. In fact, you’re going to spend the entire month of March looking at the prodigal and going deeper on this. What this story has in it. But friends, I hope we’ve wet your whistle just a little bit to to go deeper. And pastor, if people want to follow along with your message, they’re in Southern California or somewhere else. How can they how can they connect with you digitally?
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Yes. So we actually are located physically at six six zero. Powell Street, Brooklyn, New York. And we also can be aired on live stream as well as on the website, COGEF.org.
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COGEF.org. All right. Pastor Hugh Nelson, thank you for spending this week with us. And we will see you again soon. Thank you, my friend. It’s always a pleasure. Got it. Kevin McCullough coming right back on this Friday. Don’t go anywhere.
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And welcome back to Times Square. It’s Kevin McCullough from That Kevin Show. And as we have been telling you for some time, we are in the process of doing something very special. And when I say special, I think of… I just love the fact that we get to focus on helping children in this day and age, particularly in this way, particularly these children. You’ve heard me talking already for some time, for some of you, but for others of you that have just started in recent days hearing me, you’ve heard me talk about the work of Food for the Poor and the children that they reach and the lives that they touch. Well, I’m excited that once again we have the opportunity to actually feed a number of kids for the coming year and to make sure that they have clean drinking water in the days to come. It’s a very big lift to try to help 720 children. But that’s the list. That’s the names. That’s who we have this year. So I’m going to ask you, step into this with us. Go on this journey. Help us reach every one of these children in just the next few days. Danny Patino is back with us from Food for the Poor. And I always love checking in with he and Paul Jacobs and all the gang down at the Florida HQ, which he joins us from via satellite today. Danny, it’s great to see you and always fun to to talk about what God is doing. But when we’re talking about these children in particular, and I’ve been on some of the trips. where Food for the Poor would take us into the less glamorous portions of the Caribbean. Let’s put it that way. The countries and the portions of countries that the tourists don’t go to. None of the brochures advertise. But what you’re talking about is gross poverty, real true malnutrition, children that are just aching and hurting on a daily basis to have a little bit of something to eat. So talk to us about what kinds of conditions these kids are living in, whether it’s Guatemala or Haiti or wherever, and take us inside their life for a little bit.
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Well, Kevin, thanks for having us on today, and thank you to your audience for letting us in, not only into their homes, but also into their heart. And unfortunately, in the 15 countries that Food for the Poor serves, poverty really doesn’t have a different face. It’s almost the same one, and it is different. a kid’s face, a child’s face, where unfortunately he doesn’t know where the next meal is coming from. And those are the folks that we reach the most. Those are the folks that pray for a daily meal. We pray for, I pray with my children every morning that they have a great day at school, that they get to learn everything and then bring it back home so they can teach us. These families are praying for a daily meal. That’s that prayer for that daily bread. And it’s to get something a little bit different than they had yesterday, because probably yesterday they only had a handful of rice to share amongst four. Most of the families that we visited are a little bit more than four people living in a small shack. Think about a shed, a very shed that’s holes in the roof. The dirt that’s outside is the same dirt that you find inside of the home. Bugs come in and out. It’s not a living condition that you would have for anyone, let alone a child. And those are the families that we reach on a daily basis here at Food for the Port and through you, through the generosity of your listeners. And that’s what we want to reach to today. You said there was a number of 720 children. Well, imagine the faces on those 720 children when we get to tell them you get to eat today, tomorrow, the next day. And it’s only for a one-time gift. A one-time gift of $150 is going to feed two children for an entire year. That’s 365 days of relief. For a parent, I’m a parent myself, so relief on a parent’s shoulders and as well a child that gets to grow, be a child, not having to go to work with mom or dad or having to stay home from school because there’s not enough money to go around.
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Well, I want to point out, too, that a lot of… Thank you so much for having me. usually some form of rice and beans combined. I’ve been at the centers where we have prepared these meals and dished them out as the kids came through. And I will tell you that the impact that that makes, just giving that child two meals a day for the next year is the difference in them being on death’s doorstep now and a year from now being almost as healthy as like any other kid on the planet. Like it really is. The difference between what it can do for them, nutritionally speaking. And so, friends, as you’re listening, I would want to know for myself, if I’m going to give $75, how many meals does that provide? Well, think about that. 365 days, two meals a day. You’re talking about just under 800 meals for a child that’s for the next year is not going to go hungry. Yeah. 855-907-4673. food for the poor i’ve worked with them for a couple of dozen years i love these people i love their hearts i love everything that they do and we right now can impact 720 lives just like that little seven-year-old who had to give up his food for the day so his younger brother could eat because it was his turn we can impact that family where two brothers get to eat two meals a day And for $75, I would just recommend, friends, that you check your grocery bill, because I’m pretty sure that however many kids you have in your house, if you only had $75 for the year to feed them, I’m pretty sure you couldn’t do it. If you’re not serving invisible food or something like that, there’s no cheating here. This is going to be real food. But I’ve got three kids in my house. I couldn’t, for $450 or less than that, $225 or whatever, I couldn’t feed my children for that amount of money. And yet, Food for the Poor can give two meals a day, 365 days for the next year for a child with that gift. And if you give it now in the next 10 minutes, it will be doubled. You will reach twice as many kids. The impact will be twice as much because you choose to give it now. 855-907-4673. Take advantage of this match and make that gift right now. 855-907-4673 or text hunger to 51555 or go give online at thatkevinshow.com. Click the banner at the top of the page.
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Here he is from New York, That Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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All right, welcome back. It’s That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com for everything related, the podcast, the TV show, the columns, the social media, and we never put anything behind a paywall because we want you to have absolute access to it. On Fridays, I love to get together with my next guest because we do a little show in the evening here on local New York radio called Fun Friday for Radio Night Live. But Christine Nicholas is the CEO of Nicholas and Lentz PR, one of the most esteemed PR firms on the planet, much less just in our city. And Christine, always a pleasure to have you with us. It is getting to be that time as the year has started to unfold that people are really starting to think about America 250 in much more active ways than they have been. We’ve kind of known that America 250 was coming, but it’s really starting to unfold right in front of us now.
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It really is. And especially here in New York, Kevin, I think a lot of folks don’t really understand the historic value of New York City, the role that it played in the Revolutionary War and the build up to it. You know, it started and ended here, right? This is where the first battle was fought. And this is where George Washington came when he was departing, you know, his saying farewell to his troops. which happened in 1783. So it gives you a sense that this was a much longer battle than people think. And we’ve got a lot planned here in New York City for the celebration. We’re going to have tall ships. It’s called Sail Forth. And there’ll be 30 of them. And they’re coming from all over the world. which is incredibly exciting. And in addition to the 30 tall ships, there’s also going to be a naval review larger than anything we’ve ever had with the U.S. Navy and the Coast Guard will be present. We believe possibly the president will be coming in for an official Navy review, but it’s going to span from lower Manhattan, Staten Island area, up the harbor, up the East River and also the Hudson River through, you know, the George Washington Bridge. And there are smaller schooners that can go up as far as Westchester to sort of tell the story about the different battles that took place during the Revolutionary War. There’ll be the Blue Angels. They’re going to be doing a tribute as well. So that, you know, the ships are going to start coming in as early as July 1st. So if you have plans for the 4th, Just know that you can actually participate and see what’s going on all the way through July 8th. And then there’s also some schooners that will be open to the public for free. And then there are also some that will be for a fee. You can go on and have… you know, a tour, and they actually are operating. So you can find much of this on the Sail Forth website. You can find it on nyctourism.com. But that’s so exciting, and we’re really looking forward to it.
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Is that spelled Sail Forth? Is that S-A-I-L, the number four, T-H? Yes.
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Yes, exactly. And then at night, we have the Macy’s fireworks, and this is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Macy’s fireworks. And that’s not by accident, because that got started for the 200th, for the bicentennial. And I’m sure most people around the nation, they tune in to the Macy’s fireworks event. on July 4th evening. So this is really special for New York. We hope people will come. We are ready to shine, and we have our patriotism out loud and clear for all to enjoy.
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Well, and that’s kind of unusual for New York City these days, since we elected a communist mayor. But I’m hopeful that all this patriotism is going to rub off on some people.
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Well, I think it did. I mean, look back. It’s in 1976. One of the reasons why people remember it so well and why it was so important is because that is also at a time when our nation was in a difficult position. That’s true.
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The hostages.
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Well, before the hostages, but remember, you know, Richard Nixon, you know, left office, Ford was in, Carter, they were running, and it was just this turbulent time. President Ford said, you know, drop dead to New York City because we were in financial issues. So this was a grand celebration that captured the nation. And we hope to do the same thing. I think regardless of who’s sitting in City Hall, you’ve got to remember the importance of New York City, not only from a historical point of view, but keep in mind, we’re also Wall Street, and we fund a lot of people’s 401ks around the nation. So we need New York City not only to survive, but to thrive. It’s in all of our best interests.
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No, it’s the most important city in the world for a reason. And as much angst as I might have about the direction we’re headed at times, we have to root for its success. Speaking of which, there are some tools. If people do come to New York, there’s a couple of online tools that people can use to kind of trace the revolutionary trail that runs through lower Manhattan specifically. Give us some info on that.
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Yeah, and if you can tune in tonight to Radio Night Live, we have a fantastic guest. It’s Peter Ogner. He’s with the Gotham Center for New York City History, one of our colleges in lower Manhattan. But he came out with a Revolutionary Trail app, which is available right now. You can download it, Revolutionary Trail app. which really will allow you to do a walking tour at your own pace. And you’ll see the buildings. You know, unfortunately, Kevin, so much of our history has been buried or built upon, right? That is just the nature of New York City. You know, we plow and we build and, you know, but… This will put on your phone, it’ll tell you exactly where you are, and then it will show it in a historic, you know, during the days of the Revolutionary and what it looked like. So you’ll see a brand new modern office building, but then when you scan with your phone, all of a sudden you’ll see a two-story tavern, you know, that was once there. So it’ll really give you a better understanding of where you are and what it looked like 250 years ago. and then he’s got a new gaming um uh app that will be coming out later um or earlier this summer you know late in the summer or whatever we’re not quite sure maybe may maybe june we’ll see um but that’s another um element to try to make um i you know try to capture and grab The kids, you know, like so often the kids. It’s more immersive.
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It’s more. Yeah, that’s all great. And then final 10 seconds here. We just found out that American Express is going to occupy what is going to be World Trade Two. And we’re looking forward to that because it’s going to be nearly as big as the World Freedom Tower. So.
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It’ll be 55 stories. It’ll be a huge building by anyone’s standards, even lower Manhattan. But the fact that American Express, one of our oldest companies, keep in mind they’re 200 years old, they’re staying, doubling down and staying in New York.
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All right. Christine, great to talk to you. See you tonight on the radio.
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All right. Take care, Kevin.
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Okay, friends, we’ve got a lot coming up in hour number two. So grateful to have you with us. It’s That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. And this weekend, I hope you will check out That Kevin Show, the television version on Salem News Channel, Saturday morning at 8 o’clock, because we are going to be in a brand-new place. Do you have Amazon Prime? If you have Amazon Prime, we are launching our first weekend on Amazon Prime this weekend on Salem News Channel, and we would love to have you with us. So my encouragement is set your timers and get up and join us. We’re on the live TV section of Amazon Prime, so you want to pull down the – The live TV section, you’ll see the screens. And then save Salem News Channel as your favorite channel. And all week long, you’re going to get great things from Mike Gallagher and Hugh Hewitt and Chris DeGaulle and Larry Elder, all of our compatriots, plus people that you don’t hear on the radio like Josh Hammer. My buddies Alex Marlow and Scott Jennings are there as well. And it’s just a great way to go along through your day getting your news. But also on the weekends, I try to have a little bit of fun. And friends, we have got super fun stuff this weekend. We have got sketch comedy from Al Berry, the cartoonist, the puppet regime, which does really funny sketches related to the president and some of his adventures or misadventures in recent days. And then we’ve also got the Babylon Bee, who have a couple of really outstanding sketches this week. I get to preview everything before we before we we have it go to air. And I’m just going to tell you, we’ve got some of the funniest stuff we’ve ever had in the history of my show this weekend. So you do not want to miss it for that. And then Phil Wickham, who is the not up and coming anymore. He’s the established. He’s called Pastor Phil, actually, in some of the music circles where he runs. He’s got a couple of incredible collabs this week, one with the music group called Cane. And another one with a musician by the name of David Crowder. So it’s a couple of really great tunes in the new music spotlight. And then we’re going to be taking a look at what’s going on in the war, how we’re handling it. I’ve got military experts. I’ve got a former general, a former colonel, and a former captain that are all going to join us with different aspects of what’s going on in the war in Iran. And we’re also not going to lose track of the site that… There are some other important news things happening that we need to stay attentive to. I’m not joking, friends. When I say that, and I said it this morning in the pages of townhall.com, and I’ll tell you more about my thoughts on this coming up in the first few minutes of the next hour. But getting the Save America Act passed is more important than what we’re doing in Iran right now. And I’m supportive of what we do in Iran. We’ll be right back. the countries around the world like we wish to be then we have to we absolutely have to pass the save america act because if you don’t have integrity in your elections you can’t you can’t count on anything so anyway join us this weekend for that amazon prime uh you’ll find us there for the first time uh amazon prime salem news channel is where you go to look for that We’re on a bunch of other places, too. But if you haven’t been able to get us and you have Amazon Prime, it’s another place now where you can find us. And we’re having a lot of fun. And I hope you’ll come and be part of that fun as we join you every Saturday morning at 8 o’clock. We have two hours, two full hours of laughs, news, music. All kinds of good stuff for your weekend. Kevin McCullough, really glad to have you with us. And thank you for those of you helping us save and rescue children. The number is 855-907-4673. 855-907-4673. And help save a child right now. 855-907-4673. Thank you.
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Hey there, welcome in. It’s hour two of the Friday edition of That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com for everything related. And you’re not going to believe where I’m going to go with this, but I am going to say it. I know that our television screens are obsessed with what’s going on in Iran, but I cannot let us take our eyes off the ball of something that might be even more important. Kev, what are you talking about? I’m talking about the Save America Act because right now it is everything. Why would you say that, Kev, if we’ve got a part of the world that’s at war? Actually, a couple of parts. You’ve got Russia and Ukraine. You’ve got what’s going on in Iran. And as important as all of those are, the events unfolding in Iran right now are enormous. The collapse of a terror regime, the elimination of the Ayatollah’s leadership structure, the ripple effects across the Middle East, all of that’s going to reshape the balance of power for decades. I know this. America will benefit greatly from that outcome. We’re going to benefit from energy. We’re going to benefit from a safer Middle East. And a regime that funded terrorism, threatened Israel, destabilized Arab nations, and pursued nuclear weapons is no longer in a position to do so. I think that’s a really good starting point. That matters for world order. But as important as foreign policy victories may be, right now, nothing America faces externally is more important than protecting the integrity of our elections. Do you hear me on that? Let me say that again. Nothing that America faces outside of America is more important than protecting the integrity of our own elections. Nothing. And we got evidence of this yesterday from voters in the deepest blue state in the country, California, a state whose political leadership has spent years mocking election security efforts, just saw yesterday a voter ID initiative blow away a signature threshold to appear on the November ballot. In other words, in deep blue California, where Gavin Newsom and the Democratic Party run everything, The voters of that state just said by more than a million necessary signatures, they had a million over the threshold. They said that if approved, we’re going to require voters in California to present ID at the polls before casting a ballot. A policy already common in much of the rest of the civilized world outside the United States. Now think about what this means. Even in California, a state where Democrats hold overwhelming power, the people themselves are demanding something that Washington elites have spent years trying to dismiss, basic voter verification. According to reports, organizers gathered more than enough signatures to force a statewide vote on the proposal, and that means Californians themselves will soon decide whether voter ID should become the law in their state. And the polling tells us something remarkable. Across the United States, support for voter ID is not just strong, it is overwhelming. Polling repeatedly shows that roughly 84% of Americans support requiring identification to vote, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, all alike. In other words, the voter ID is not a partisan issue, it’s a common sense initiative. And yet the political class continues to fight it. Why? Because voter integrity threatens the political advantage some believe they gain from chaos and confusion. And let’s be clear about something. Requiring identification to vote is not radical. It is normal. You need ID to get on a plane, to open a bank account, to buy medicine, to enter federal buildings. to rent a car or to check into a hotel. But when it comes to deciding the leadership of our nation, suddenly some politicians claim ID is too much to ask? That argument collapses under the slightest scrutiny. Every developed democracy on the planet has safeguards to ensure that only eligible citizens vote. Nations across Europe require ID. Canada requires ID. Mexico requires ID. Come on! Yet somehow the U.S., the nation whose elections shape the rest of the global order, we’ve allowed the conversation to devolve into absurdity. And that is exactly why the Save America Act matters so much. It would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. That’s not complicated. That’s not burdensome. Proof that the person casting the ballot is actually an American citizen. Imagine that. The Save America Act does not take voting rights away from anyone. It simply ensures that those rights belong to citizens and that the people the Constitution actually empowers to govern this republic are the ones that make the decision. Opponents call this discriminatory. Chuck Schumer says it’s Jim Crow 2.0, which I hate. The claim is not only wrong, it’s insulting. It assumes minority voters are somehow incapable and too stupid to obtain identification. It assumes ordinary Americans are too incompetent to meet the same requirements they already satisfy in dozens of everyday situations. It’s a modern version of the soft bigotry of low expectations is what it is. Verification creates trust, and trust is the currency of democracy. Think about this. Without confidence in our elections, the entire system begins to unravel. When voters believe outcomes are manipulated, illegitimate, vulnerable to abuse, faith in the government disappears. Participation declines. Cynicism breeds. Political stability erodes things. Election integrity is not a partisan luxury. It is the foundation upon which every other political debate rests. Because if the public cannot trust the vote, nothing else matters. That’s why what happened yesterday in California is so significant. That’s why. It shows that ordinary Americans, even in states dominated by progressive leadership, understand what their leaders often pretend not to see. They want confidence in their elections. They want fairness. They want rules that apply to everyone. They want the assurance that the people choosing America’s leaders are actually Americans. The Save America Act delivers that. It aligns federal law with basic democratic principles. It reflects what overwhelming majorities of Americans already support, and it addresses the single most dangerous vulnerability in modern American politics, declining confidence in our elections. Washington may debate endless foreign crises and wars and conflicts. The American people are quietly insisting on something much closer to home. They want their vote to matter. I do. Don’t you? We want our elections to be legitimate. We want the system to work. Because in the end, the strength of America abroad begins with the legitimacy of America at home. And if we cannot protect the ballot, we cannot protect the republic. History teaches us that great nations rarely collapse because of enemies outside their borders. More often, they crumble because the people inside lose faith in the institutions meant to represent them. The Save America Act is not just legislation. It is a declaration that American elections belong to American citizens. And if we have the courage to defend that principle, the republic will endure. And if we don’t, no foreign victory, no matter how dramatic, will save us. Friends, it’s real simple. We can go obliterate the Ayatollahs, and I hope we do. We can give Iran’s people free elections, and I hope that we do. We can encourage them to self-govern and self-determine, and I hope that we do. But if we don’t self-govern, if we don’t take natural and understandable precautions to have integrity to our election system, here’s what you just cannot get away from. At the end of the day, we have to have the confidence that our vote counts in an election that’s honest. That’s the bottom line. Kevin McCullough, we’ve got a lot to get to this hour. Don’t change that dial. is from new york that kevin kevin mccullough all right welcome back it is the friday edition that kevin show that kevin show.com always glad to have with us bethany mandel who you see well sometimes she’s over on that hugh hewitt show but you know when she’s not slumming it in talk radio she’s over here with us at that kevin show bethany always good to talk to you thanks for being here
SPEAKER 14 :
Thanks for having me, Kevin.
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The attack last weekend and you and I spoke briefly on Friday, not on the air, but off the air. Did you have any sense that anything was up or that anything was going to be launched the next night?
SPEAKER 14 :
I had a feeling. There was enough sort of movement of American resources into the region that it seemed like something was imminent. And then the night before the attack started, the U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, who is a frequent guest on your show, gave the very clear warning that if you would like to leave Israel, you should do that right now.
SPEAKER 17 :
But we haven’t cleared the embassy or anything like that.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, but they had basically told all non-essential personnel, if you want to leave, this is your opportunity. And interestingly enough, the data came in of Americans who left on sort of emergency flights, and only about 115 did.
SPEAKER 17 :
I don’t think, to be honest, I don’t think a lot of Americans that are in Israel are all that worried about Israel because Israel’s gone through so much in the last three years and they’ve, they’ve held their ground. So it’s like, um, I, and I, I hope that that forebodes good things for the region all the way around. Let me ask you about the strategy that, um, Israel and the U S have taken in the Iran conflict thus far. Does it resonate with, uh, Israelis?
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Yeah, there was a beautiful, um, sort of set up on the beach in Tel Aviv, I think it was yesterday, a memorial to the five American service members who were killed so far in this conflict. There’s a lot of love and affection that I think generally is pretty mutual for the Americans for taking this fight on because we finally have a president who recognizes the This is in America’s best interest to do this. And so there’s an appreciation on part of Israel that we finally have a president sitting in the White House who understands the existential threat that Iran poses, not just to Israel, but also to the West more generally.
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Well, there’s no doubt. I mean, they killed 80 percent of the people that were killed in Iraq were killed by Iranian weaponry. And, you know, then there’s the thousand people that they’ve killed directly that are Americans. And that doesn’t even take into consideration the Americans that were caught up in October 7th. So you’re talking about, you know, we had the grounds alone. The U.S. did for 47 years to go deal with this. And we hadn’t done it. Let me ask you about the anticipated future. changes in the region. And when I bring up the region, it’s for this reason. Saudi Arabia, who looked like they were going to remain neutral, came to the side of Israel and the U.S. and saying that they support what’s happening. Evidently, the Abraham Accords have shown their endurance pretty vividly in this manner. And You know, even though the Republican Guard is dying slowly in Iran, it even seems like the Iranian people are ready to live at peace, not just with Israel, but with their neighbors, if they can just get the control of their government back. How do you anticipate that impacting the region post the military action?
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So it’s interesting. I have a friend who was approached by a random Iranian man sort of in the street. He had a yarmulke on, so it was a pretty clear indication he was Jewish. And the Iranian man said, when the dust settles and everything clears, the friendship that will emerge between Iran and Israel will put the Abraham Accords to shame. And that’s not a diss on the Abraham Accords. I think that the future is really bright in this region. with new Iranian government in place who actually respect the wishes of the Iranian people, because not many Americans and probably not many people in the world realize that one of the closest allies in 1978 was Israel and Iran. without that terror proxy in the region holding up Hezbollah and the Houthis and all of these terrorist regimes. This is the dawn of a new Middle East. And, you know, if America and Israel can thread this needle carefully, it’s very promising.
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Did Iran have to be dealt with before an ultimate solution for Gaza could be strategized? I’ve been thinking a lot about that recently, and just the fact that Gaza will be reshaped. It’s going to be reshaped into something else, but it won’t have Hamas backed by Iran sitting there propping it up. That impacts that recovery effort as well, doesn’t it?
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It does, but I’m not sure how much, if I’m being a little pragmatic and maybe too pessimistic. Hamas has the support of the majority of the people of Gaza. And so it’s not like Hezbollah where it’s going against the wishes of the majority. Gaza is a real difficult situation that is probably going to be harder to solve than these sort of bigger issues in the region. And I’m not so hopeful about that situation as I am about the wider Middle East.
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Okay. Well, that’s a fair observation. What’s the anticipation of the timeline in Israel? I know what Americans are thinking and kind of what they want to have be the timeline on this. They want it over in days, if not weeks. Are Israelis similarly impatient, or will it bother them if it drags on a month?
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So I’m actually hearing from Americans that it will be weeks, not days. Anecdotally, my friends who are in Israel who are talking to their schools said that they might not have regular school until after Passover. So that’s mid-April right there. So that kind of gives you a sense of what Israelis are anticipating. That said, the constant, constant runs to the shelters that people are doing. I mean, in Tel Aviv yesterday, I think my friend said it was 10. It’s exhausting, especially when you consider people with kids or who do not have a shelter in their apartment, which in Tel Aviv is 10. Most people don’t have a shelter in their apartment in Jerusalem as well. And so imagine having to pick up your baby and run into a shelter during a nap at 3 o’clock in the morning, then 4 o’clock in the morning, then 5.30 in the morning. It’s really, really physically and emotionally draining Israelis. They understand the necessity, but you really… I mean, this is an entire nation that is extremely, severely sleep-deprived.
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Yeah. Well, and I have to imagine that that’s… Are there any other ramifications of what we’re doing that are going to impact? Israel’s relationship with the broader region. It seems like the Abraham Accord countries are doing what they can. It certainly seems like Saudi Arabia, who could have stayed silent, who could have chosen not to say anything, has taken the position that they’ve taken. And what about Europe? Is there any implication about how Israel is viewed through European lenses as a result of this?
SPEAKER 14 :
So it has not been a great week for Spain because they refused to help America in even the most minimal ways of letting us use their bases. So it’s interesting, the clarity is much more present in the Middle East with much more clear-defined enemies of Israel than it is in Europe. The Saudi Arabians understand sort of the objective here. The Qataris even understand it. And Lord knows I’m not one to praise Qataris ever. But they really—I mean, they’ve been made to understand because the Iranians are sending suicide drones and missiles their way as well, so they understand this existential threat that Iran poses. I’m continually disappointed in Europeans. They seem to think that America and Israel will do the dirty work and that it doesn’t impact them. That’s not that’s not reality.
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Every time in world history where something like this is propped up, it’s usually impacted Europe pretty significantly. So you’d think they would have some sort of declared interest in it. Last question. Does this change in your mind the shape of the Ukrainian Russian situation? If Iran, who was kind of like a third wheel kind of stepchild to, you know, mommy and daddy, China and Russia, does this even impact beyond the region?
SPEAKER 14 :
It does. And so actually, my husband, Seth Mandel, wrote a really good piece at Commentary Magazine about this that folks should go read. And he made the case pretty convincingly, in my opinion, that this will have wider implications for that conflict. And I think he’s right.
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Well, I’m hopeful that everything that you have laid out for us just now is actually true, and I would like to see a benefit to Gaza. If that population is that strongly still pro-Hamas a year from now, I’m going to be pretty disappointed that we didn’t take care of business better in that region, but we’ve got to take it one step at a time, and I think that certainly Iran is the bigger and nastier of all the threats to everyone in the region, and it’s a It’s it’s an argument, I think, that Netanyahu and Trump may deserve the Nobel Peace Prize in another year or so. It’s just because you’ve had the guts to go do something about it, which for 47 years after Jimmy Carter brought the Ayatollahs in, we didn’t have the will to do anything about. So, Bethany Mandel, thank you as always. Thank you. Kevin McCullough coming right back to look away.
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Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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Welcome back from Times Square. It’s That Kevin Show, thatkevinshow.com. So glad to have you with us. You’ve been hearing me in recent days say thank you a lot. A bunch of you have jumped in and you’ve said, you know what, Kev, I’m not going to let those 720 children that you started telling us about a couple of weeks ago, we’re not going to let them starve. for 2026, and we’re going to make sure that they have plenty of clean drinking water. Rejoining me from the International World Headquarters of Food for the Poor is Paul Jacobs, longtime friend of us and working with us at Food for the Poor, someone I’ve traveled with somewhat extensively with Food for the Poor and Just appreciate his heart on all this. Paul, we started out with 720 kids. We have had 443 of those children spoken for. And I want to say, you know, that’s 443 kids that if they didn’t receive those two meals each day and the clean drinking water, what tell us what would likely happen to those 443 children?
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There are entire communities in places like Honduras and Guatemala where we’ve traveled together. Haiti, a great place that we have been and seen the work of Food for the Poor’s ministry partners on the ground and your efforts helping us feed and give clean water. And those children in those communities, whether it’s a school feeding center, it’s a nutritional center, it’s an entire community of children going days without water. And I don’t mean that as hyperbole. This is happening right now in our hemisphere and right now on the ground in the countries where Food for the Poor serves. that there are children routinely going days without eating. There’s children that are drinking water from water sources that are making them sick with every sip. When I was in Honduras, I asked the mayor of this small community as the ministry partner took us around to show us where the families live and how they’re living. And I asked him, I said, where are these families getting the water from? I was kind of curious because, you know, you see that there’s buckets of this water, but you realize they’ve got to get it from somewhere. He took us… on a drive, about 20 minutes down in a vehicle, 20 minutes in a vehicle, down the hill, down the mountain, and to a wooded area, quite frankly, where this water was coming from. It was filthy. It was not potable. You had everything running through that water. And this is what children are reduced to if someone does not step into their lives. And I want to say a special thank you because we’ve had some amazing gifts that have come in. Phillip from Whitesburg, Georgia, thank you. $100 gift today. We had a gift, an anonymous gift from Louisville, Kentucky, Possibility City. Thank you. One hundred and fifty dollars. Those are two children eating and having getting safe water every day for the next year.
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That is that is. And I love I love Georgia. I love Kentucky. I love people stepping up, especially those of you that are new to. What we’re doing here. And you may say, Kev, I noticed that, you know, you you talk about these things. Not a lot of other people talk about these things. But the reason we talk about them is because I feel like if especially if we are believers in Jesus and I don’t. operate under the assumption that everybody is that listens to me. But if we wear that label, if we carry that moniker in us, then we are commanded to care about children, especially orphans, that have no food to eat and no clean water to drink. And so if someone is thirsty, if someone is hungry, can we help them? And Paul, what I love about the program with Food for the Poor is that There’s a lot of other feeding groups out there that just roll up in the white truck and they drop off some food and then they’re gone. You guys are in these kids’ lives already. You’ve been there for 45 years. But there is a consistency to two meals a day that we’re talking about for the children that are going to be put into the program. So these 443 kids would go from having zero meals on their, let’s say, meal plan for 2026, and now they have two meals a day. That’s 730 meals in in 2026 and beyond that are going to be fed to them every day for that one time gift of seventy five dollars for the child. That is a remarkable achievement. If you think about it, friends, you’re talking about tens of meals for every dollar that you’re giving. And that is something that’s going to have a long-lasting impact. Two meals per day, the consistency that that will do to the nutrition system of the child. He’s going to be able to fight off disease. She’s going to be able to be healthier. And that enables so many other things for them, for their life. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
holistic help that uh what you’re providing right now the food the water it is in the it is helping break the cycle of poverty yes you’re providing food to fill children’s bellies yes you’re providing safe water so that with every sip they’re not becoming sick and needing aid and assistance. But we’re doing more than that. Here at Food for the Poor, your gift is helping us working hand-in-hand with these pastors to break the cycle of poverty, to provide them a hand up, not a hand out. We’re looking at, well, what we’ve been doing for the last 44 years, 44 years of Food for the Poor’s existence, working hand-in-hand with the local church, is making sure that we provide paths out of poverty in order to transform lives. And it starts with meals, and it starts with safe water.
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267 children still have not been spoken for on our original list of 720. We can’t let we can’t rest until every one of those kids is cared for. Will you help us? And we can’t do this without you. But 267 kids remain. Now, let me ask you, if you’ve already given a gift. Would you consider if you’ve given everything that you should and if that’s fine, I’m going to trust you. That’s between you and God. But would you consider making this a prayer item until we tell you that all 267 additional children have been met? Because I can only imagine that if if we have everyone giving what they can, but those that have given all that they can. begin to pray for those that are still not yet met in terms of the needs. We’re going to do this. God responds to the prayers of his people. So if you’ve already given your gift, please pray that these remaining 267 children will be met and that we will be able to feed them and give them the water that they need. along with the love of the gospel and all the other paths out of poverty that Paul was talking about. But if you’ve given, if you’ve not given, give 855-907-4673. If you’ve already given, pray 855-907-4673. You can also give online at thatkevinshow.com. Click the banner at the top of the page, thatkevinshow.com.
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Here he is from New York, that Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right. Welcome back. It’s the Friday edition. And per usual, we’re checking in with Dr. Gina Loudon, who you see weekday mornings on Real America’s Voice TV with America Mornings. And Gina, you’re doing a great job there. You’re watching the president. I just said earlier in this hour, as important as what we’re doing in Iran is, and I am fully supportive of his efforts, and I feel like we’ve really executed at a high level. The Congress is talking about the Save America Act, and I don’t care. If we don’t get that passed, all the great things we do everywhere else are going to be for naught, because without voter integrity, we’re not going to have reliable elections going forward. Your thoughts on where we are heading into the weekend?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it’s funny. You know, Kevin, I think that you and I both are people who love the president so much that we also see ourselves sort of as his accountability as he’s in a place where demonic pressure is so intense incessantly. And so you see things like MAGA people calling this all out and saying, hey, don’t forget, there was this campaign promise, there was that campaign promise, this is who we are as MAGA. It’s all in love. It’s all in love and it’s all in respect. But there is a lot of that right now. But I think this is also a time where we need to remember who we are. and that we need to stay banded together because as sure as the Democrats will circle wagons, we will circle fire because we are principled, because that’s who we are. And that’s a great thing about us. And I don’t want to lose that ever. At the same time, we want to be the president’s sounding board. We want to be the one that comes back and says, no, it actually needs to be Ken Paxton. It actually needs to be that we stand against transgender surgeries on children, as he started to sort of backstep on yesterday. But I think he’s turned back around, so that’s good. So there’s a lot of things like that where I think, you know, he wants to hear from us. He needs to hear from us. He wants to know these are still integral issues to us. So it’s okay to stand. It’s okay to take a really firm voice against perhaps things that are happening. But it’s very important that we don’t diminish one another in the process. I agree with that. United as a coalition.
SPEAKER 17 :
I saw Marjorie Taylor green go nuts on the truth social post. And to be honest, Dr. Gina, when I read that, I didn’t read that as a, as a justification for now, as long as parents sign off on it. Now we can just trans our kids. I think he, I just think he mistyped. Um, but I’m glad that he’s, you know, beginning to correct that publicly because I do think it ran the risk of being very misunderstood. Um, especially when you understand how strong his other actions have been on that issue.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Right. We all remember Kofei.
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He is human. He is fallible. And, you know, God has really put together something beautiful that is continuing to happen. And look, I saw what happened to all that stuff with Christina. You know, here’s the thing. I can’t fathom being in his position. I can’t fathom juggling the things he’s juggling every single day. And so will there be slight missteps? Yes. That’s why we’re here. Yeah. exactly that’s why we’re here that’s why God put us here it’s okay to speak up it’s okay or Tucker or Candace or whoever to say what they’re going to say doesn’t change everything. It changes only that we’re having a conversation and we still need to be strong enough together to say we can have really tough conversations and we can come back together and coalesce around the ideals that matter that are, by the way, in our platform, right? And where the Democrats, don’t forget, voice voted God out of their platform. We need to stand united for the things we believe in and we need to continue to believe in the things we believe in and to know that God is on his throne. Look, none of us would have seen back in 20, would have been 2020 when everything went wrong. that we could be standing where we are now, having the sort of negotiating power as a grassroots coalition who just started as a little tea party, right? Mad about Obamacare, mad about the constitutional government. We didn’t even understand deep state then. I’m still mad about Epstein I’m still all over Epstein I’m not for forever wars at all um there are certain things that I want to address Tina Peters Tina Peters Tina Peters um I’m not thrilled about the situation in Texas there are a lot of things we can say but the But the bottom line is we have to remember who brought us here, who sits on his throne, and why we’re really in this game to begin with.
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honest believers around him, I think has done nothing but serve him well. And there are some significant godly voices that are around him. And so when we see the missteps and when we see the stumbles, being able to say what we need to, look, I think it’s important. And look, I’ve been very disappointed with Tucker and Candace and even to some degree, Megyn Kelly in recent weeks, But I don’t think that the coalition falls apart because a few of us have disagreements. I think what, what you’re saying is ultimately true. And if we don’t pass the save America act and clean up our elections, there is no future for what we know of America as America currently is. And that’s why whatever these other conversations are about, we better, we better make sure that our senators and that our congressmen, uh, get that bill passed and get that to the president’s desk because we cannot keep having question marks over election after election after election.
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Well, that’s why it’s even more admirable what Ken Paxton said, that he was perhaps willing to entertain the notion of getting out of the race if the Senate leadership would commit to passing the Save Act. So I think that tells me a lot about Ken Paxton’s heart in terms of his loving America. And that’s what we as voters rose up for with Donald Trump. We said, you know, I remember, you know this, You and I differed on Donald Trump for a long, long time. And I would go into speeches and people would always say, you know, oh, he’s not my brand of Christian. You know, look how many wives he’s had. Look how many whatever improprieties he’s had. And I remember holding out hope in my heart that he just loved America. He loved America enough because I couldn’t see a motivation otherwise. I’ll say in this latest move with Ken Paxton, I can’t see a motivation otherwise. He might have his weaknesses. You know what? I’m no different. I have my own weaknesses. They might be in a different category, but there’s still weaknesses. And we all do. And I think that’s what God was talking about in the Bible when he said, you know, look for the rock in your own eye. And I think that’s really true still today. So let’s all keep a humble heart and stick together. And let’s see where we can take this next, because I think that I think you make a great point, Kevin. We have to stand by the biggest issues.
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Gina Loudon, always appreciate you. Watch her every weekday morning on Real America’s Voice. Dr. G, we’ll talk to you next week.
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Thanks, Kevin. Have a good one.
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Kevin McCullough. By the way, she was reporting live from Mar-a-Lago. That’s just kind of how cool she is. Kevin McCullough coming right back.
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All right, friends, it’s been quite a week. When I left this microphone last Friday at this same time, we did not know that we would be at war the next morning. There were a lot of things I did not anticipate, and there’s a lot of things that I am anticipating for this weekend. My daughter has musical rehearsals and a new show that she’s going to be doing, and my My boys are running off to youth group winter retreat and there’s a ton of things that I need to get done and focuses that I need to put on things. And I’m, I’m reminded that in a very, what I, what I hope is understood to be a humble way is that we can make all the plans that we want and we can say that we’re going to be about all the things that we want to be about. But at the end of the day, there is a verse that I think holds court over all of it. And it’s from the book of Psalms. It’s Psalms 115, verse 3. And if you ever get a personal note from me, this is what I put in my signature when I sign things and give them to people. I signed a personal letter or sometimes just an email. But Psalm 115, verse 3 is a verse that I think encapsulates not only the totality of the gospel, but the totality of what we need to know about life. And it says this, and it’s very simple. And we know this to be true, that our God is in heaven and does what pleases him. There’s a lot of things about that verse that are very important to understand. One, God is not ethereal and he is not mystical and he’s not mysteriously somewhere that we don’t understand. God is in heaven. He’s in the place of eternity. He’s in the place of eternal life. And he will not be removed from that because there is no one that can remove him from there. So the fact that he is at the helm. of what we need and where we want to be should give us great comfort but then to say not only is he there but that he does only not some not sometimes not every now and then if he feels like it or often or more often than not not none of those qualifiers he does only that’s an important word it’s a big word it’s a word that i don’t always think should be used very much actually in I’m a big believer that we use never and always far too much and only is in that same category. If we’re going to say something is only, then it should be truly the one. But the verse says that God is in heaven. the foundation of all of eternal life and does only. So he doesn’t do anything outside of whatever the follows the word only and what follows the word only what pleases him. So what takes place in your life this weekend, friend is something that pleased him for you to experience it, for you to walk through it, for you to be exposed to the temptation or the trial or the thing that you’re, you’re dealing with. It is used for his purposes. And the challenge for us is to respond to what is put in front of us from that perspective. Okay, God, if you only do what pleases you, then how am I working in conjunction with what you want to be done? That’s ultimately what our question should be. It’s a little bit heavy to end the week on, but I don’t really care. It’s something I think about all the time. You got work pressures. You got people stressing out about things and wanting to put all that pressure on you or stress on you. Friends, God’s not moved by any of that. He’s not taken by surprise by any of that because he’s in heaven. And he does only what pleases him. And the question becomes for us, not do we do what pleases us? It’s do we do what is necessary to be in alignment with what pleases him? Because if our life is in alignment with what pleases him, then we can handle whatever that is that he’s doing. And I take great comfort from Psalm 115.3 because it tells me that there is a God and he’s in control and I’m not. And that’s a good thing every single time. Kevin McCullough, I hope you have a great weekend. Drop me an email, thatkevinshowatgmail.com. And then join me on Salem News Channel tomorrow morning, 8 a.m. We’ll see you then.
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