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You're listening to radio looks lucid. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 82 The title of tonight's episode is the truth is truth is the first casualty of war the conflict between Russia and Ukraine Well, thanks for joining me here this evening
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Again, I'm gonna have to apologize to you I don't think I had the opportunity to really prepare for this Program as much as I would like to I had a another podcast
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Interview that I had to do earlier today and I just got done doing the edit and it's running kind of late here
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But I still wanted to get a podcast in for you. So I Would do the best that I can here tonight and we'll see what happens
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I think they've got some some things that are at least Mildly interesting maybe there's certainly some interesting things going on in the world here right now
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So why don't we get down to business and talk about some of that? But hey, you know before I do that My just observation for the week is you know, it's starting to look a bit like spring for the first time here today
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I went out took a walk this afternoon and went down to the the lake to Winton Woods and took a little walk around and You know,
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I saw some signs of spring. The first one I ran across was there were a couple of Canada geese out there on the walking path
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Now when it comes to to harbingers of spring, I would say Canada geese are probably my least favorite
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You know, those aren't Just nasty birds. I mean those things are Aggressive they're big and and they're definitely have a go at you, you know,
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I remember a few years ago There was a nesting pair that decided to take up residence right at the front door of the office building where I worked and they would actually attack people as they would come in and out of out of the building and I don't know they did something to To kind of shush them away.
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So they finally got rid of them But then I I don't know if it was the same pair of birds or not But then they went they nested there were some of these
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Canada geese They nested in this culvert this drainage ditch right next to the parking lot and I go out and I take a walk around the building for for breaks just to get a little exercise and you know it would invariably
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I'd go out there in the spring and one of these birds would pop up out of the out of the culvert and and start
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Following me hissing, you know, it'd be all You know, I could hear the feet that that that that that behind me
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You know I don't think I ever wanted to choke out a bird as much as I did that thing
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Just nasty tempered things and they they go around and they make a big mess if you know what
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I mean They live these little green presents Around for us all and we get a dodge those as well.
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So yeah I wasn't super happy to see the Canada geese back if they they stayed in Canada or wherever it is
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They come from I'd be quite happy with that Another sign of spring that I noticed too when
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I was down here in the lake today There was no ice on the lake now the last really for most of the year up to this point every time
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I've gone down here. It's the the surface of the lakes been iced over. There was no ice in sight today we had a few days this week where it was around 60 degrees and It was it was in the low 30s here today
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But that 60 some degree weather or a few days, I guess took care of it Also, that was pretty nice to see there.
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So there was no ice. That's that's progress and then finally we've got some Daffodils that are coming up here around the house
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So those are always some of the first flowers that in crocuses, you know The first ones to come up now.
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I had somebody on Facebook. Tell me. Oh, well, they're in full bloom where I live well, I guess this this this person lives in Georgia, so they're they're kind of ahead of us and we're kind of Bringing up the rear here in Ohio.
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So so they're probably a few weeks ahead of us on the whole spring thing But anyway, you can see it's not spring yet.
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It's still officially winter You know, it's not I guess officially spring till March 21st, but even if it's not spring you can kind of see it from here
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So anyway, that was that was encouraging Also, I wanted to say something too. I mentioned before that I just was finishing doing a an edit a podcast edit
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That's why I'm running a little bit late and didn't have any much time to prep here this week Well, I had a very interesting conversation with a couple of gentlemen from Berean beacon
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Berean beacon is an organization was founded by the late Richard Richard Bennett.
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He had been a Roman Catholic priest and He was saved. He left the church and he founded this organization as a as an evangelistic and also as an apologetic
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Organization and it's very interesting to talk to to the gentleman from from Berean beacon
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I spoke with Greg Bentley and I spoke also with Stuart Quint They're both very smart fine scholars good writers and they've actually spent the last couple years
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Tackling an aspect of this whole kovat pandemic that you very rarely hear and that is they talk they've written specifically about the
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Jesuit involvement in in bringing this about Then we also talked some about the
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Great Reset as well. Very interesting conversation there. You know, there are so few Christians that seem to Seem to get this at least people who are out there publicly talking about it and I think both
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Greg Greg Bentley and Stuart Quint have done some really exceptional work in this area we also talked some about the the doctrine of Antichrist the reform doctrine of Antichrist that it it has historically identified the office of the papacy as Antichrist That doctors almost completely forgotten in today's church even among people who are
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Bible believing evangelicals and This has put us at a serious disadvantage because all this stuff, you know once you understand
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Who the Antichrist really is? You can see him at work all over the place.
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You know, there are a lot of people They're always scanning the future for for Antichrist Well what they don't realize those people who believe the
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Antichrist is to come in the future what they don't realize is that's actually some a Take on eschatology a false take on eschatology.
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There was originally propagated by the Jesuits you know, these are the very people out here who are running this whole plandemic or maybe call it a
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I call it a plandemic or plandemic or scandemic scam that has been foisted on us over the last two years
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But people don't see it they don't see this as the work of Antichrist which is what it is and the reason they don't see it is because they don't have a proper reformed understanding of End -times of what's called eschatology eschatology just a
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Greek word. It means end times Generally involving the study of Revelation, of course, there's a little bit more than Revelation But when you think about in time study, of course naturally would think about Revelation anyway
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I don't want to go too far down that route But I do want to say it was a very interesting Conversation and I'm going to put a link in the show notes want that once that links available
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I don't think it's even up on on the Trinity Foundation website yet to even have a link at this point
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I just sent it over not too long ago, and it's probably not up I have a check but once I do see it
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I will put a link to that conversation show notes and I think you'll find it pretty interesting I say it was it certainly was was interesting and informative to me as well
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So anyway, there's there was that going on Today I was busy with that what
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I wanted to talk about here today, and this is kind of the Way you can tell from the title here.
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I want to talk about the the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine obviously that was the big news of the week this past week was the the
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine I think was that start on Thursday was that Wednesday or Thursday?
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I can't remember now, but that has been all in the news and deservedly so and you know
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There's an old saying I got my title from this old saying there's an old saying that the truth is the first casualty of war
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And we saw an example of that for instance. I was watching saw a little bit of Sean Hannity on on Thursday night and He was repeating a story that I had heard earlier in today
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It was a story about these 13 Ukrainian soldiers on this this island called Snake Island And I guess apparently they were confronted with a
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Russian warship and the warship told them you know We're gonna we're gonna attack your position. You know surrender now, or you're gonna be killed and supposedly these
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Ukrainian soldiers told the Russian ship, you know, no, we're not going to surrender and and they died and and this was being
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Circulated in the news media as oh, you know This is great heroic act by these Ukraine brave Ukrainian soldiers who stood up against the
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Russians even though the odds were against them And then they lost their lives, you know for their country and that's how
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Sean Hannity reported it Well is interesting today or I should say it was on Saturday.
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I believe it. Yeah, it was Saturday the 26th That this there was this discussion that I that I saw out there and apparently it's it's been confirmed although who knows with war,
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I mean these things can always change but apparently That's not how it happened.
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Apparently these 13 soldiers actually did surrender and they're alive, you know I'm glad for their sake that that they are alive
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But it just goes to show you how quickly reports can
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Can can be put forth and seized upon as news and truth and then later Oh, well, it wasn't exactly that way.
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So truth is the first casualty of war And there was an example of it right there. Now. I have a little bit of connection with Ukraine I want to show you something here if you're watching on the the podcast.
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I don't know if you can see this This is a coffee mug and you may recognize that there's a one of the the pictures on there
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It's a church in Kiev or Kiev as they're saying it now. It's st.
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Sophia's Orthodox Church there in in Kiev and I picked that mug up When I was was in Ukraine back in 2004
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I had a wonderful opportunity to go over with my church and we actually did a short -term mission trip in the summer of 2004 in Ukraine basically what we did is we held a essentially a vacation
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Bible school for a church a Baptist Church in in Western Ukraine. It was a wonderful and amazing experience
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It was really one of the the highlights, you know, and I talked about things that I memorable trips in that I mean that was that was just amazing to me to go over to Ukraine Yeah, I I never
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I guess the first thing was just the fact that I was even there I mean I have talked about this some on the podcast, you know,
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I grew up during the Cold War I was born in 1960. So I grew up in the 70s and the 80s, you know, and I remember watching on TV You know, they'd have these
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Soviet military parades, you know, and they'd have all these guys, you know marching past the review stand they're by the
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Kremlin and you know, there's Leonid Brezhnev and all of his generals and you know Politburo chiefs or whoever these guys were all standing there looking very serious and looking down and you know as the the troops and the tanks and the missiles and all this would go by and You know, it was all it was pretty scary
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You know, there was always this talk of nuclear war and you know, there's salt negotiations
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I think salt stood for strategic arms limitations treaty and there was talk about the free world and and the
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Soviet bloc and and You know, I just remember you all the language of of the
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Cold War because it was everywhere I mean and I grew up in that period and anybody who who grew up in that time knows exactly what
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I'm talking about And and these are things we don't hear anymore. In fact, it was interesting. I was watching When I was watching that bit of Sean Hannity the other day, he used the term free world.
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I Hadn't heard anybody use the term free world to describe the West in forever You know now maybe back back in a day.
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Maybe there were some truth to that although I I'm not really sure how free the free world is anymore with all the censorship and in all in what not that has been
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Foisted on us particularly over the last two years with kovat, but but even before that So I was in Ukraine I was in Ukraine here for about a week that doesn't make me an expert on Ukraine I'm not claiming that I'm an expert on Ukraine but I know a little bit about it and Really just as someone who considers himself a bit of a student of current affairs of foreign policy that type of thing
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I think I also have have some knowledge just because of reading in that that I've done over the years and You know another thing
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I think is very interesting before I get off and talk too much about the the current conflict is
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Is pronunciations and I've said this before and this is a real pet peeve and annoyance of mine it seems like every time a particular location gets in the news the standard pronunciation all of a particular place always shifts like when when the
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United States when the US went into Afghanistan back in the early 2000s I had always heard in all the news broadcasts.
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They always talked about the capital of Afghanistan was Kabul It was Kabul Kabul Kabul with the the the accent being on the last syllable
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Then all of a sudden when the Afghan war started it suddenly became Kabul, you know with the accent on the first syllable
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You know, it's like you fool How can you be such a hillbilly from flyover country and say Kabul all the cool kids say
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Kabul, you know? And so somewhere that that shifted, you know And all sudden it became like like the inside cool kid thing to say to say
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Kabul and it's the same thing That's going on with Kiev You know when I was growing up, it was always pronounced
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Kiev, you know, two syllables Kiev Sort of an emphasis on the last syllable now all the news reporters to say
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Keeve You know, just just one one single syllable is over spelled K EE V Keeve.
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That's the way they say it I think it's interesting looking at at the the mug that I have here
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You can't see it because it's too small the way it's written here, but it's actually spelled KIEV Kiev which is the standard way of of spelling it and in pronouncing it that I always saw growing up and now it's spelled
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K Y K Y V or K Y IV or K Y EV something like that and it's pronounced
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Keeve and I guess that's the the cool kid Pronunciation of Kiev. So if you go around saying
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Kiev, I guess that means you're some hillbilly from flyover country If you want to be a cool kid and be in the in crowd you say
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Keeve I'm gonna be stubborn. I'm gonna say Kiev just to be stubborn just to be a hillbilly from flyover country,
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I guess anyway So so that having been said You know with all the coverage, you know that you know that you see in the press and it doesn't matter where you watch
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You can go to New York Times. You can go to CNN, you know liberal outlets You can go to conservative outlets such as say
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Fox News or other conservative news outlets
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Republican news outlets there's pretty much only one acceptable narrative and that is 100 % pro
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Ukraine and Fully against Russia, you know Ukraine is Has never done and can do no wrong
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Russia's the black hat Vladimir Putin, you know, they claim pitler I guess some combination of Putin and Hitler.
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I saw that today for example some writer had put that on Twitter and In this is the only acceptable opinion, you know, and this is where we've gotten to in the so -called
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Free West You know, we have an acceptable opinion You think back about what Justin Trudeau said about the truckers, you know
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When the the trucker convoy was still in the process of of heading east, you know They hadn't even gotten to Ottawa yet.
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This was in late January and he said well, you know these these people they have unacceptable opinions they're the unacceptables, you know the same kind of similar kind of turn to what
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What Hillary Clinton used for to describe Trump supporters back in 2016 years. You called them deplorables
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And I guess maybe the deplorables are also unacceptables and the unacceptables are also deplorables
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We're all kind of the same sort of people, you know We have opinions that aren't popular with a ruling class and the ruling class is gonna make darn sure that those opinions are not given to hearing or they're certainly gonna do their best to make sure that they don't and of course, that's why everybody's getting kicked off of YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and in all of this stuff because they they want to enforce the establishment narrative
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But you know, there's a lot of problems with the establishment narrative and I just I've got got a few things
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I'd like to ask you about for example Did you know that the u .s.
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Under Obama? overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine Ukraine in 2014
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It was during the Sochi Olympics that they were his thing called the maid on Revolution and this revolution was sponsored by the
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United States government They were deeply involved in that had it not been for us involvement I think it's safe to say that that government would not have been been overthrown now
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You hear all this talk about democracy democracy democracy You know, I mean these people they they can't they can't stop talking about democracy and yet the
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US government the very people are up Of the US federal government the State Department etc who like to endlessly talk about democracy overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine and stalled a
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US friendly puppet government which is still in place today Did you know that the the rebel forces that the u .s.
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Backed in 2014 had significant neo -nazi ties? There is a long history of Nazism in in Ukraine Particularly in in Western Ukraine.
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In fact during World War two there was an entire army of Ukrainians that joined with with the with the
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German army and fought against Russia and There's also significant from from what
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I've read and from what I consider reliable sources There's a significant neo -nazi presence in the current
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Ukrainian government But again, that's not something that's reported on the evening news
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You won't find that in in mainstream news reporting. Did you know that George Soros was part of the 20?
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2014 overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine now you have to ask yourself
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When was the last time George Soros was was a good guy? Yeah, I I don't remember
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George Soros ever being on the right side of anything I mean the man is is is a pretty evil fellow and and if George Soros is
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Operating for a particular cause I think it's fairly safe to say it's probably an evil cause
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But yes, George Soros was involved in the the overthrow of of the Ukrainian government
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John McCain was actually over there egging on the the overthrow of the Ukrainian government again
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John McCain is not somebody that that I have Whose views I have a lot of regard for either
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You know, sometimes it's presented as oh, you know, it's it's something that you know that you know
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Mega conservative Republican should be supporting Ukraine and all this. Well, there's a lot of very good reasons not to do that But let's continue
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Did you know that the Ukrainian military? Equipped by the US has been shelling ethnically Russian civilians in the
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Donbass region since then you may have heard this term the Donbass What that refers to there's a couple of there's an area in far eastern
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Ukraine Ukraine borders directly on Russia and in the far eastern part of Ukraine they there is a substantial maybe even a majority of people that live there are actually ethnically
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Russian they speak Russian and they have have wanted to to get out of Ukraine and And they have been continually attacked since 2014 and the the
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Ukrainian military has shelled this particular area and it's killed a lot of civilians and Again, they've been doing this with with USAID Did you know that contrary to the promises at the end of the
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Cold War? The u .s. Just pushed NATO eastward and that if Ukraine were to become a part of NATO This would allow for forward military bases and potentially missiles even nuclear missiles
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Right on Russia's border you know when when the When the
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Cold War was ending, you know, there was you know, you remember you may recall me. I remember this very well It's very interesting. It was in the
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I think it was in December. Certainly. It was in the the fall late fall or so in 1989 I was still a student at the
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University of Cincinnati and interestingly enough I was studying German at the time and this is when the Berlin Wall fell and it was seemed unbelievable at the time you know that this could actually happen it was unthinkable and and It was a really joyous time for some of the
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German students who were there in the the German department And and as well, it should have been
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I mean that was that was a terrible thing. That was was inflicted on Germany and And it was it was a wonderful thing to see that fall.
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Yeah, I never thought in my lifetime I would see that but you know sometimes You know, it can you know things that seem like they can never happen all of a sudden do
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And that was an amazing thing to watch but you know as part of the reunification of Germany There were promises made to to make a
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Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch to the east Well, I mean
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NATO has in Subsequent to that. Well, you know NATO has broken those promises and made
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NATO has continually moved east and it's to the point where The there's been a concerted effort recently to bring
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Ukraine in into NATO and This has been a source of serious concern to Russia and if you stop and think about it
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That's not an unreasonable position to have Now I wasn't alive during the
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Cuban Missile Crisis, but my parents were and I've I've heard them talk about that I remember mom, especially, you know talking about, you know
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She knew where she was and and remember to remember those days and there was real concern
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Among people that they could be nuked at any moment because they parked these missiles were parked 90 miles off the u .s.
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Coast in Cuba things were very tense and That's really the closest analogy that there is to what
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NATO what the u .s. Is Proposed doing or certainly setting themselves up to be able to do in the future is put
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Nuclear missiles right on Russia's border now, I remember a few weeks ago,
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I talked about the the foreign policy of of of Millard Filmore and how
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Millard Filmore said that the golden rule should have a a Political as well as a personal application and Millard Filmore was exactly right
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You know what Millard Filmore was saying is that we should as as Americans we should treat other nations
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With the same Concern that was the same deference with the same
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Respect maybe that's the right word. We should accord them the same respect the same consideration that we would expect them to to show to us
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And as Americans, I mean would would you or I be comfortable if if the Russians parked missiles in?
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Cuba again or let's say Russia came and fomented a revolution of Mexico and installed a a pro -russian government in Mexico and You know threatened to say put
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Russian military bases or Russian missiles in Mexico I mean, you know as as Americans we would look at that we would say, you know
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That doesn't make us feel very secure. In fact, that's a real threat we would perceive that as a threat and I think rightfully so and In the same way,
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I think Russia perceives US military bases or potential military bases in Ukraine the same way
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And again, I don't think that's unreasonable For them to to take that stance did you know that Russia has tried for years to come to a diplomatic solution to this whole crisis in Ukraine and Has made their concerns known to the you to us and to to other
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NATO members and at the US and NATO has has refused to even consider their concerns and In fact, it's really gotten bad here over the past couple months to the point where I mean in my opinion it really almost appears that The the
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Biden regime has has wanted to To provoke a war with Russia, I Mean that that's how it looks to me anyway, because they have been so aggressive in In their retorts and in their stance toward Russia every time
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Russia has expressed a concern the US has doubled down on the provocations so the
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The truth is this conflict that we have going on right now with Russia is entirely avoidable
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But it's come about principally because the United States is and has for a very long time pursued an interventionist foreign policy in which the
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US says well We're the exceptional nation and we have a right to tell the rest of the world how to live
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Now that's a special sort of megalomania, you know, I've talked some I've done some videos on a book that John Robbins wrote called
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Ecclesiastical megalomania and he's talking about the economic and political thought of the Roman Catholic Church and of course the
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Pope and the the whole Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church has a serious case of megalomania.
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I mean they think they have a right to rule the world Well, you know, there are a lot of people in the American foreign policy establishment that think the same thing
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I think they have a right to rule the world by force, you know, and if somebody says no to them
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Well, they're gonna find some way to if necessary apply force to get them out of the way
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There was a piece that I saw and this was written by by Daniel McAdams If you're familiar if you ever watch
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Ron Paul's Liberty Report, you probably know Daniel McAdams Ron Paul's co -host and Daniel McAdams has written he's
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I guess you would you would really call him sort of an expert on foreign policy That's really a strong suit of his and he writes very well on the subject he's got a piece and I'm gonna go ahead and do a screen share here
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Just a moment No, that's not what I wanted to do. Let me try that again
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Got to get this, right? I'm gonna get it here. I'm gonna make this happen. There we go
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Okay, yeah, there we go, here's the piece in this is in this is on the
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Blow that up a little bit here. Yeah, this is on the Ron Paul Institute website and the title of it's called
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Washington's crocodile tears over Ukraine Ukraine's destruction He says as of this writing
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is hunkered down his bunker somewhere in Kiev as the sound of encroaching war gets closer and closer a grim scene to be sure and Let's see here
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He says this is this is what McAdams says He says Zelensky has now learned the bitter truth which previously favored foreign leaders also learned
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Most of their lessons have been even harder than Zelensky's at least to this point The bitter truth is the
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Washington's foreign policy established never actually considered Zelensky or his predecessor Poroshenko to be allies or partners of the
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United States overflowing with a toxic mix of ignorance arrogance and extreme cynicism Washington's elites have always viewed
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Ukraine as a tool to regime change or Russia that After its post Yeltsin recovery would no longer take its direction from them the false gods of American exceptionalism are jealous ones indeed and Let's see what else he has here
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Well, it's oh he says this Most Americans will not have heard and those who have likely do not care that twice
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Twice when the Ukrainian people elected a president who was in favor of maintaining good relations with its
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Russian neighbor The u .s. Intervened and overthrew the government first time in 2004 2005 orange revolution and then the fateful 2014
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Madan revolt, which was explicitly and overtly supported by senior US government officials on the ground
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Including Victoria Nuland and the late neocon warmonger senator John McCain Yeah, Victoria Nuland.
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She was a high -ranking Official in the Obama administration State Department. She was actually caught on the phone basically hand -picking the the new government for Ukraine once once the
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The current government was overthrown I mean, there's no question that the
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State Department was deeply involved with this and I'm sure some other aspects of the US government as well but certainly the
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State Department was in the meantime tens of millions of dollars flow from the
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US taxpayer to favored think -tanks civic organizations and media outlets via the National Endowment for Democracy and numerous
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US funded related organizations The goal is the same manipulate Ukraine so that it remains on Washington's preferred path toward conflict with Russia So I mean what the u .s.
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Has done over the past almost 20 years now is basically use
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Use Ukraine as an attack dog use it as a battering ram to attack Russia That's that's what the u .s.
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Has been doing now you hear all the stuff Oh Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine, you know We're all in favor of Ukraine you've got these people raving you craving
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Ukrainian flags What's not told to people is that the u .s. Government has cynically used
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Ukraine and the people of Ukraine to attack Russia and And this has been explicitly against the the will of the voters of Ukraine who have voted to install governments that were
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That took a favorable stance to Russia or at least a peaceful stance to Russia They wanted good relations with Russia we didn't want that the
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United States did not want that You know, and so now when when Russia's hitting back, you know, who's taking the blow for this?
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well the people of Ukraine who have had twice had their Democratically democratically elected government overthrown and had a
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US puppet installed and let's see what else
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Daniel McAdams has to say here. I just read the concluding paragraphs of his article.
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He says this this is Daniel McAdams whether American the EU like it or not the era of We're an empire now and when we act we create our own reality is well and truly over Now that quote that Daniel McAdams has there
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Quote, we're well, we're an empire now and when we act we create our own reality end quote That was a quote that has been attributed to Oh goodness.
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What's his name Carl? Yeah, I should for some reason
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I'm Getting I'm drawing a blank here. Here's the guy he was he was
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Who's George Bush's chief of staff Karl Rove, yeah Karl Rove I think it was Karl Rove who said that and that's always been kind of held up as sort of a supreme example of Imperial arrogance and I think that's correct to view it that way.
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It's a very arrogant statement that that he made there And Danny McAdams continues
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He says its end is not to be mourned that is the end of the US Empire is not to be mourned but celebrated the only
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Pro -american foreign policy is non -intervention in the affairs of others and that's exactly right Non -intervention is the historic
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American foreign policy that goes all the way back to the founding fathers all the way back to George, Washington and in all of the early presidents and Intellectuals and thinkers of the
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United States they all as far as I know to a man Held the idea that it's not the job of the
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United States to be involved in foreign wars that by the way is also not only is it a historically
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American, but it is I believe a Christian foreign policy.
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I think that can be biblically proven As well. I mean when you look in the Old Testament, you know, you think about this
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You know Israel wasn't told to go and interfere in all the affairs of its neighbors Now, I mean the
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Israel had They had the Covenant. They had the Word of God. They had the prophets They had the temple and you know, they could have said well, you know, we've got this temple.
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We've got the prophets we have All the blessings of God and we're gonna go impose this on all those those heathen
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Egyptians or those heathen You know all these other these heathen nations, but I mean
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Israel's job really was to Take the promised land take the take the land of Canaan and to dwell there and to mind their own business
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I mean minding your own business is one of the real principles of a Christian foreign policy
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But that's not the that's not the stance that that our leaders like to take and in fact There's a couple of really good articles out there on the
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Trinity Foundation website That were written by John Robbins in the the early 1990s
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And this was when the the first Gulf War was was gearing up way back in 1990 a couple of really good articles and I think
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I would like to put those I'm not gonna Read them here to this evening just due to time but they're great articles and I would really encourage you to read them if you want to get a sense of not only the false thinking that that then and now really
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Has captivated the American foreign policy establishment, but also get an example of Where he talks about what a
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Christian foreign policy looks like So anyway, let's continue here with Daniel McAdams Ukrainian president
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Zelensky is unlikely to survive his turn being America's cat's paw to wrong -foot Russian while he sits in his bunker
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Contemplating his fate he may well be visited by the ghosts of Saddam and Gaddafi and all those who preceded him in this position
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God help him So that's that's Daniel McAdams assessment of of the situation again.
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I'm gonna put that Put a link to that Particular article in the show notes as well. Well, that's all
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I have here for you this evening I know it's a little bit short, but you know time being as it was
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I that's that's the most that I can do here This evening. I got to get this edited and get this post as well.
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Thanks so much for joining me tonight I really appreciate that and I look forward to seeing you again next week until then