In this episode of the National Crawford Roundtable the guys discuss the latest happenings with Iran, rising oil prices, the American economy, and Tucker Carlson.
SPEAKER 02 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
Welcome back. Another edition of the National Crawford Roundtable. I’m your host today, John Rush. Neil Boron with me today. Neil Boron live out of Buffalo, New York. Bob Duco not with us today. So Neil, just you and me today.
SPEAKER 04 :
hey let’s do this thing man let’s get it done there’s nothing to talk about though nothing no not at all nothing in the news these days it’s a really slow day i have to chuckle because if we don’t we’d be crying yeah and you know i mean you do a talk show every day i do bob does and sometimes you’re kind of like well what should we talk about today but man that has not been the case for the last few months for sure and definitely the last couple weeks
SPEAKER 03 :
No. So, of course, for everybody listening, there’s no getting around talking about what’s going on in Iran. We’re now into at least our second show on this particular topic. We’re in the second week as a country and lots of information out there. And what I think, Neil, I want to cover today is just how do people decipher what’s real versus what’s somebody’s opinion? you know, in other words, how do we, how do we delineate between the factual side of what’s going on versus the, the fiction side, I guess maybe is the way to say that. And when I mean fiction is, you know, people in Neil, you know, this people can put their own personal spin on everything. I, I’ll say this, you know, I’ll say this straight up. We all do, myself included, but Neil, I think I know you and myself and Bob, I try to look at things as rationally as I possibly can try to take the emotion out of, out of, you know, different topics and things, even though some things can be very emotional. I do try to look at things very rationally and look at the actual facts of what’s going on and try to not put too much of my own, you know, quote unquote spin on things. And I know sometimes Neil, that’s not always, easy to do and you had this conversation you often even with you know family members and others and what I’m gonna tell people is number one be careful of the news sources you’re following and that includes you know Fox News to your local news station to the Wall Street Journal to CNN to X to wherever you’re gathering your information from and as you gather that information Try to back up whatever is being said. Now, if it’s just simply a video and there’s some actual factual context to it, okay, that might be a little bit different. Although even with that, you got to be really careful today with AI and some of the other stuff that’s out there because there’s a lot of images, videos, and so on that are out there, folks, that quite frankly are not real. They have been AI generated and they’re not real. And it’s really difficult now, Neil, to really determine fact from fiction is part of what I want to go through today is just, and by the way, I don’t have any earth shattering facts to talk about when it comes to the war and where we are versus where Israel is at versus where Iran is at. I mean, all I can do is read some of the stories that are out there, Neil, like anybody else and try to gather enough information together to really determine what’s actually going on. And I will say this right now, Neil, it’s not easy. You do this on a daily basis. I do it on a daily basis. It’s not an easy thing to do.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I actually had a friend ask me this question the other day. We correspond back and forth a little bit. He’s the kind of guy that’ll send you an encouraging Bible verse or whatever. But he was saying, hey, man, where do you get your news? Because how do you know what’s real anymore? I also attended something over here at the University of Buffalo last week, the apologist, Abdu Murray, a former Muslim who came to faith in Christ was speaking to students there about his new book called fake ID. And I forget the subtitle, but it had to do with, you know, the erosion of reality, like that, that, identity lines have been blurred in so many different ways. And how do we know what’s real anymore? You mentioned the videos, you know, there’s deep fake videos. They’re called AI generated videos all over the internet and people grab a hold of one thing. They start reposting it. And John going back, I mean, I want to, I’m going to like a dinosaur thing here, but going back to when I was in school and from 1978 to 82, uh, studying communications at boston university and one of the first things they taught us was about hoaxes and there there was this old hoax that floated around forever it seemed that had you know madeline murray o’hare’s name in there and that she and she was an atheist there was no question about that but that she was masterminding this plot to get prayer out of public schools and the whole thing and of course prayer was already out of public schools by that point but But, you know, it was sort of the propagation of that story on steroids, and it kept floating around. And everything that was written in there was a hoax. One day I go to church, and the assistant pastor stands up and said, before we take the offering, I want to share something with you. And he starts reading this thing, and just the wording of what he was saying, I knew where he was going. I didn’t tell him at the moment, but I pulled him aside later and I go, that thing’s a hoax. The federal government, I was told at one time, had to build up an extra airport hangar kind of thing to handle all the documents because people were writing to the FCC to say, don’t take Christian broadcasting off the air. The same woman that got prayer out of schools was supposedly going after Christian broadcasting. Well, we’re still here today. But anyway, it was a hoax. Now it’s way harder to figure these things out because everything is flying at warp speed.
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Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
And, you know, one thing for sure they taught us in communication school. And by the way, I don’t think you have to go to communication school to be a good communicator. You know, I use very little of what I learned there, but a few things I think were really important. And one was check your sources like never just take something at face value that somebody says and put it on the air. Now, one time, I mean, I’ll just tell a quick story here. It’s a little bit off, but you’re fine. Take your time. But at one time, a close personal friend called and said, listen, there’s a problem. Somebody’s in desperate situation. There was some kind of a car accident or whatever. And People are needed to pray right now and maybe send some money to help with, you know, what are they going on? And I didn’t get too far into it, but I did mention it on the air only later to find out that that person had been tricked and whatever had been shared with them was inaccurate. It was a hoax. And I vowed, you know, never again, even from personal friends, always check your sources. Well, today. You got to check 10 times the number of sources because because you just don’t know what’s actually factual. And by the way, even if you look at some of what’s been said, and I’m sure we’ll get into these details in a minute, but even between Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, you know, you get differing accounts of how far we are along in this war with Iran. And sometimes changing within the hour, like, well, wait a minute, I thought you said the war was almost over, but now it might drag on. Wait, what? So I just think that the people of God, bearers of truth, right, the truth of God’s word really need to be vigilant in saying we want to defend the truth and we want to present the truth. So we’re going to be very careful about what we forward or spread online, you know, what we communicate to other people.
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All right, and back to our topics. And again, guys, what we’re really trying to get at is, and I really wanted to cover this today in this particular podcast is, again, I don’t have any earth-shattering news on where we’re at with the war. There’s lots of headlines on, you know, one of Fox News’ headlines this morning is an entire class of Iranian warships is now out of the fight after being wiped out by the U.S. military. On the same token, I was reading this morning that Iran is placing mines back in the straits. I was looking at the same thing. Of Hormuz. And so it’s like, okay, so which is it? I mean, are we taking out these ships? Are we keeping the strait open? There’s another news story this morning where it’s only Iranian ships that, in other words, if you’re against the United States and Israel, they’ll let your ships with oil pass through. If you’re on our side, they won’t. I mean, I’m hearing all these different things, Neal, and the reality is I think unless you’re on the ground there and can actually see for your own eyes what’s passing through, I don’t know who to believe, Neal. I know this. They’ve got to get that thing opened up. I think Trump does have a big challenge in front of him. And I think he’s really looking at this as to, OK, when do we exit? Israel wants to stay in this fight, of course, because they want to see Iran completely obliterated. I think President Trump has different goals at the end of the day than what Israel has. I mean, we’re there to support our allies, of course, Neil. But at the end of the day, we’ve got to do what’s best for us. And I love Israel greatly. But We cannot have Israel, you know, wagging the dog, if you would, wagging the tail. I mean, we have to be in charge of this no matter what Israel says. And again, as much as I admire and honor Israel, at the end of the day, we have to do what’s best for us and what we feel is best for the world, not what Israel feels is best.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And I’m pretty confident that Donald Trump will do what’s best for the United States. But, you know, the other half of the other side of that coin, the other half of the argument is that public relations matters when you’re headed into the midterms. Right. You know how the how the administration is perceived matters. And so on the one hand, you know, there’s that idea that maybe if we’ve been involved in this thing in Iran and quite frankly, I’m glad we have gotten involved. But uh that it could go either way i mean people could totally embrace that and you get the sense of sort of patriotic bravado that we enjoyed you know back in the early 1990s i think it was uh late 80s early 90s when we invaded iraq you know and right i i remember the buffalo bills played the oakland raiders in buffalo in a playoff game just after that war began and the bills of course were red white and blue and so there was a big patriotic thing they had the jets fly over before the game and um And then the bills, you know, walloped them 51 to three. But I mean, we were the country was teeming with patriotic pride and so forth. And there’s still some of that kind of thing today. But then you have, you know, a lot of groups that are countering this effort. Anything Donald Trump does, they’re going to be against. So he’s in an interesting position here because with oil prices going up, that’s not good for consumers. But you’ve got to realize that. Somebody wins and somebody loses whenever you’re talking about the economy. And if oil prices are going up, then maybe oil producers and manufacturers and people that have their teeth in that industry are making a lot of money. But it’s going to harm the economy. It’s going to harm people who really need to buy gasoline at the pump at an affordable price and come midterm time could have huge ramifications. So it’s a really… But you also have to do what’s right when it’s right to do it. And if we were seriously concerned about Iran having access to a nuclear weapon and potentially shooting that thing into Israel because they didn’t at least, you know, intelligence tells us we did. They didn’t have the ability to shoot it in the United States at this point, but shoot that thing into Israel. And with catastrophic results, I mean, think about what could have happened. So if if the intelligence was true, then we had to act in some fashion.
SPEAKER 03 :
But yeah. And I think, you know, along those lines, you know, yes, you have to do what’s right, regardless of politics. I do have a concern over politics. our midterms in you know politics matter at the end of the day in fact a lot of what we’re talking about right now involves politics because right now if we had a different leader in the white house you and i would not be having this conversation we’d be talking about i hate honestly folks we’d be talking about higher inflation higher gas prices period just because of who would be in office right now if kamala harris were in office right now trust me folks your oil prices would be exactly where they’re at now if not higher so let’s not forget that because we’ve just because we have a war going on that Donald Trump got involved in regards to Iran, which I think at the end of the day, when it’s all said and done, will make that area much better than it ever has been in the past. Let’s not forget that. But I want to make sure I remind everybody out there, and this is something that you could tell friends and family, if Kamala Harris were president, your gas prices would most likely be higher than they even are right now because they were under Biden.
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Yeah, I read an article, I think it was in the Wall Street Journal not long ago, about what happened in Venezuela and the ousting of Maduro. And of course, part of the messaging there is we got to get rid of this dictator. But others said this was a strategic move on the Trump administration’s part to secure needed oil, because if we did attack Iran down the road and oil became scarce, we’d need to have access to it. And so that maybe it was a brilliant sort of military strategy move before anybody, was really thinking about another attack on iran because we had been told right that their nuclear capability was completely decimated and now it appears like maybe that wasn’t quite the case who knows and they’re there again john is who do we believe on that you know yeah they have no nuclear capability whatsoever but six months later uh-oh they’re a couple weeks away from having you know a nuclear warhead so like wow okay that changes the game entirely
SPEAKER 03 :
But yeah, I think that you’re right. You’re right. No, everything you just said is spot on. And this is where I think we’re a lot of folks listening. And this is where, you know, Bob and I talk about all the time. I know you do as well. The messaging sides of things and what we on our side need to do to make sure that, you know, it’s the same message over and over again. The Democrats do well at that. We have got to get better even coming out of the White House right now. To your point, you know, depends on who you’re listening to on any given day and what’s being said. coming out of our current administration, coming out of the cabinet, where are we at in the war? Well, President Trump says one thing, Pete will say something else, or somebody else internally will say something else. And the reality is we need a consistent message coming out to the American public as to where are we at in the war, what’s happening, what’s the end goal. And I know the end goal is they want to see a regime change. Definitely, I can tell you right now that that Israel wants to see regime change. In fact, personally, I would like to see regime change. I mean, I’m one of those where I was, you know, I went to school. I think I’ve said this story before. I said it on my own program, but I went to school with folks, with kids that actually escaped from Iran right before it went into the regime that’s there now. This was about 1978. They barely escaped in time to come to the United States of America, great Christian family. And they were just solid and just super people and smart and wise and did very well here in America, by the way, they were one of those immigrant families that you want to welcome with open arms. And, and yet, yet at the same time, telling, you know, telling us all what was happening in Iran at that time. And I think Neil, for somebody like myself, that’s older, that can remember the, Being around people and meeting people where you take some of these, you know, next generations that didn’t have that experience. They don’t understand what Iran was like prior to 1979. All they’ve seen is since. And the reality is it was at one time an absolutely beautiful ally country. It was very Western, just like we are. And the Islamics, along with Marxism, came in and destroyed all of that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and what we’re dealing with is a theological and, I would add, political cult, ultimately, hell-bent on bringing about Armageddon, really.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and what I just said, Neil, proves the point. When you take the Islamic, extreme Islamic end of things, which is a political ideology, and you add Marxism into that, which is also, again, another political ideology, you mix those two together, and what you just said is exactly right.
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Yeah, Tulsi Gabbard the other day was talking about, I hope I can pronounce this word, the Islamatization of the U.S. and actually the Islamic, radical Islam strategy around the world to infiltrate countries, set up populations there, run for public office. and begin to bring that radical Islamic ideology to other parts of the world, including, by the way, the United States of America. So we have to look at the threat, not just because they might have a nuclear weapon, but how are they eroding American values or Western values, the whole idea of constitutional republics, democracy kind of ideas, like how are they trying to erode that around the world? This is a really dangerous situation with that. I’m talking about the leadership that’s been there for the last, whatever, 47 years. And I think I also know somebody who was in Iran, was born there and escaped and came to Canada. And, you know, her story is just unbelievable. But her family remains there. And they’re under that, you know, dictatorship, really. And heavy oppression that comes from the Islamic regime there. And the people of Iran are crying to go back to what you’re describing prior to 1979. They want a return to that kind of, you know, lifestyle. And I pray that it comes to that. But by the way, you know, when Donald Trump because we talked about sort of the inconsistent messaging, like okay well uh look we’ve we’ve only begun to fight it was one of the messages we heard recently just a few days ago hey this thing ain’t over we’ve only begun to fight wait do you see you know what’s coming next but then you know somebody from cbs asked president trump when’s this thing going to be over he said i think the war is pretty much complete it’s you know very complete uh pretty much he said um and so you know we have to look at that whole thing which is it but he also made the claim that Iran was going to need to surrender unconditionally. Well, these are people that don’t surrender unconditionally. Literally, they counted a privilege to die as martyrs for their cause. So I can’t imagine that that regime, maybe if you took a popular vote amongst the people of Iran, you’d get that kind of a, you know, yeah, whatever you say, Donald Trump, whatever you say, America, we’ll do what you say. And Israel too, you know, we’re going to follow your lead on this. Well, but if you’re talking about the leadership, of the Islamic cult that runs that country, they’re not going to ever surrender. The last man standing will still be fighting with his finger on the trigger if he has an opportunity. So I think you have to take that into account. And I don’t know that any politician should ever fall for the trap that… I mean, they already did this six months ago when we bombed out their nuclear site where they were supposedly putting together nuclear warheads or enriching uranium and the whole thing. And it was like, okay, you know, we’re done. Yeah, we got them, but we didn’t get them. And they’re not going to stop. So this thing has to be total and complete. And I pray that we press on until we’re assured of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and agree. I appreciate all that you just said there, Neil, and you’re right on the money. And in the second half, I want to talk a little bit about some of the folks here in America that I feel are not helping us in that area. One of those being Tucker Carlson. We’ll get onto that because part of what’s also happening right now, and I know we talk about this a lot, on all of our programs i do it almost daily i know you guys do as well we’ve done it here on on ncr i know where our our leader you know don crawford senior where he comes into play on all of this and believe me we are all in unison in this whole anti-semitic movement here in the united states of america which goes along neil with what you just said it’s exactly what the marxist movement and an islamic movement you combine those two together that’s exactly what they want to see happen in the United States of America. And it’s just, it’s, it’s bothersome to me that we’ve got crackpots like, you know, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and others that are on that side that frankly have large followings. And again, I’ll get into that in the second half, but it’s just, it’s, it’s, it’s sorrowful. I guess maybe Neil is the way to say that, that more people can’t see what’s going on in light of what happened in in iran some 50 years ago they can’t see the exact same correlation as what’s going on here in the united states of america right now yeah and you know i as we get into this thing we’ll be able to break it down a little bit but
SPEAKER 04 :
People have, and I’ve said this before, kind of an idealistic view of Israel, for one thing. And they think, well, I’m just talking about a certain element of believers here in the United States have thought in the back of their mind, oh, everybody must be walking around with prayer shawls on in Israel and focused on the things of God, you know, trying to keep the law, of course, because they haven’t received the message of the gospel unless they’re Messianic Jews. But either way, you know, these people have this idea that God will take care of them, etc. Well, some may have that tucked away in the back of their mind, but Israel is a very liberal country. They make mistakes. They have a pro-gay population. They’ve got a pro-abortion population. And some of that doesn’t sit very well with people here in the U.S. when they come to find out what Israel’s actually about. But the idea that God himself has put his stamp of approval on Israel and said, these are my chosen people, and those who bless Israel will be blessed, et cetera. The United States has continued to stand alongside Israel, and can you name a more blessed country in the world? than the United States of America. And Jesus one day is going to return. He’s going to put his feet down in Jerusalem. And, you know, there’s no escaping the fact that our Messiah happens to be a Jew. I’m not saying we need to accept everything that comes out of, you know, Israel lock, stock and barrel and agree with them on every point and do everything they say. Not about that. But on the other hand, opposing them openly. Yeah, I don’t want any part of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
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Welcome back. Second half, National Crawford Roundtable. Myself, Neil Boron. Neil Boron Live. Bob Duco cannot be with us today. I, of course, your host, John Rush. My show is Rush to Reason out of Denver, Colorado. All right, Neil, this is one of these that just is near and dear to me because there’s just so many… You know, crackpots. I’m going to say for what it is, crackpots. I mean, I’m talking Tucker Carlson, who at one point in time I had a lot of respect for, and I say this on my program a lot. When he left Fox News, everybody was shocked. The entire conservative movement, I think, was shocked. And some even canceled their, you know, Fox News subscription or cable or whatever they had because they were so upset that they would, you know, part ways with him. Well, Neil, what I’ve learned throughout all these years is is typically, not always, because I’m not always on management’s, the business owner’s side, but typically speaking, when there’s a parting of ways like that, somebody knows something that the general populace doesn’t. And my feeling with Fox News or the corporate, the parent company there and all of that, they knew something about Tucker Carlson that nobody else did, and they saw the handwriting on the wall and wanted to separate themselves from him because he is, in fact, nothing more than a crackpot.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I don’t know why exactly he was removed from Fox News. You know, you get the public sort of press release kind of information that always beautifies a situation to try to make everybody look good and act like nothing was going on behind the scenes. But you may be right, John. I can’t say for sure. I don’t have any personal inside information, but. you know tucker carlson used to deal uh with more mainstream conservative issues but all of a sudden he seems to be the purveyor of every kind of you know um what do they call it conspiracy theory you know and and as if they’re all true and and we should all pay attention to everything he has to say and i’d warn against that i don’t think we should ever just accept at face value what know whatever anyone has to say on any particular issue even if we’ve got a long track record of track record of listening to what they have to say but i i’ve been interested in some cases to hear what he’s talking about and like utterly disturbed by some of the other things he’s talking about and yeah i don’t i don’t really know what to think about tucker carlson right now but he is not the individual that i first began to listen to on fox and really just appreciate his show i thought he was fair and balanced and and had a very strong conservative leaning which i appreciated of course but yeah i don’t know really what’s happened to him but it seems as though there’s an awful lot of people in the us that will latch on to some podcaster some commentator somewhere and receive at face value everything they have to say and that’s not healthy no matter who we’re talking about
SPEAKER 03 :
Agreed. Agreed. All right. Now, just so some of you may or may not know this, Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz, man, he is really going after Tucker Carlson, which, by the way, I can’t blame him because somebody needs to shut Tucker down because he does have a voice. He does have a large reach. He does have a lot of following. Yet the guy is saying just stupid things like he basically insinuated the other day that if, in fact, there was a complete surrender of Iranian troops, he went on to say that that means American troops would rape Iranian women if the Iranians surrendered unconditionally. I mean, again, Neil, the guy is just an absolute idiot. crackpot. And if you’re one of our listeners, I’m going to say this straight up. If you’re one of our listeners and you’re following a guy like Tucker Carlson, stop, stop. And by the way, one of the first things that I realized with Tucker, even when he was on Fox News that really gave me pause to listen to him. Anybody that believes in aliens the way this guy does has a screw loose because Neil, you and I both know they don’t exist. So anybody believing in something that’s as weird as that has other screws loose. I’m sorry to say.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, I got news for you. I’ve never really told you where I came from. Well, you know, and we talked about aliens. We did a whole show on it three, four years ago. And, you know, there’s some weird anomalies that you see in outer space and things that happen. We talked about demonic activity, and the Bible’s clear that demons are real. I think there’s a lot going on.
SPEAKER 03 :
And really quick, just to jump in there really quick, Neil, I feel personally that that it’s those activities that people aren’t really even seeing anything in space. They’re seeing that, visioning that in their own mind, if you would, or maybe that demon is putting something in front of them at that point in time. Because, yes, I feel, as you, that if there is, in fact, quote-unquote, you know, alien-type things, which there’s not, those are very demonic. Yes, the demons are here on Earth. They were unleashed, as we know. I’m not going to get into all the details of that right now, Neil, but at the end of the day, Yes, they have been been unleashed for a time. And yes, they can do all sorts of things that that would mimic. And by the way, good or bad, when it’s all said and done, you really have to have discernment. And this is where I just look at guys like like Tucker and, you know, supposedly a Christian supposedly came to Christ and all of that. But at times I just wonder because the guys his belief system is just screwed up.
SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
well you know tucker did leave fox news and went out on his own and while he’s got some major sponsors and you know he appears to be doing all right financially the reality is you have to keep the listeners the viewers coming you’ve got to feed them something that will keep their interest And it gets really tempting to just compromise your values and put just about anything on air if you feel you don’t have a whole lot to say on any particular day. I’m not criticizing everything he’s ever talked about. I’ve actually learned a lot from Tucker Carlson over the years. But I think we really need to be careful to make sure we’re listening to things that are right and doing our homework like we talked about earlier to make sure that they’re even accurate or true in the first place. Well, Don Henley, he was with the Eagles that went out on his own for a while. And while he was doing the solo thing, He wrote a song that I’ve talked about here before over the years called Dirty Laundry, but it included the line in the song. He was talking about newscasters and how they always paint the bleak picture because it’s alluring, right? When you see a train crash, you can’t look away. That’s right. so the the lyric in the song said uh the bubble-headed bleach blonde comes on at five she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye it’s interesting when people die give us dirty laundry and you know if if you can gain millions of followers by just salaciously feeding people stuff that somehow scratches their itch to be in the know, even if the stuff isn’t entirely reputable, isn’t 100% true, and it’s conspiracy oriented and people are allured by that thing. You better be really careful because that should not be our focus. And the other thing I wanted to say, has to do with you know the word of god which encourages us in colossians 3 to set our mind on things that are above not on things that are on the earth for we have died the word says and our life is hidden with christ in god and the reason i bring that up is because john you know as well as i do that the enemy one of the enemy strategies for believers today is to distract us and there’s a million distractions we’re getting pop-ups on our computers all the time our phone is buzzing you know notifications there there’s a million images flying at us every single day you’ve got the whole gaming industry and it it’s just a lot of noise and distraction but jesus said and i’m not trying to over spiritualize but he said john go and make disciples of all nations baptize them in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit teach them to observe all that i commanded you and lo i’ll be with you always to the very end of the age so what i’m saying is here Let’s not forget that our primary calling as believers is to represent truth. And by that, I mean Jesus, because he said, I am the way, I am the truth, and I am the life. And that we got to represent him well and not be distracted, not be thrown off course by every wind of doctrine or every salacious story that’s out there. And I think it’s really easy when you get to following a podcaster or becoming part of some kind of anti-government or anti-church or whatever movement, get sucked right into that. And the enemy would like nothing better than to deactivate Christians, take us out of the game by getting our focus in the wrong place.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and you just said something I talk about constantly on my program. Folks, please, and maybe a little instruction. Let me do this because I don’t think a lot of people really understand how the whole social media end of things work. Maybe people do, and maybe I’m not giving folks enough credit, but I think there’s a lot of folks that listen to us, Neal, that really, for whatever reason, they don’t understand how The whole, you know, podcasting, social media, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and so on, Facebook even. And folks, let me tell you, as influencers and anybody that’s on those platforms that has any kind of following and typically, and you can do this for yourself, typically the number is, is it can be as little as 50,000 followers, but when you get to 100,000 followers or above, and keep in mind, there are folks like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens that have millions of followers, so it doesn’t take much to do the math. And what I’m getting at, folks, is for every video they put up, it could be a 30-second clip, it could be a five-minute video, it could be something on YouTube that’s an hour or more long. At the end of the day, the way they make money is by people viewing, liking, and then sharing or bookmarking those particular videos. And the more of that they get, the more cash ends up in their pockets. So to Neil’s point a moment ago, for all of you listening, the more salacious something can be and the more controversial something can be, guess who wins at the end of the day? Not you as the follower, but they do because the more you view and share and listen and bookmark and whatever, and repost, by the way, the more of that you do, the more money goes in their pocket. And so at the end of the day, I can tell you right now that Tucker is probably making more money now than he was on Fox News because of what I just said. And I don’t think, Neil, most people really understand the dynamic there when it comes to social media and how people get paid. And folks, let me tell you what, these aren’t like some trinket tokens. This is real cash that gets deposited into your account on a monthly basis. And there’s millions upon millions of dollars that some of these guys are making all off of you following their nut job conspiracies.
SPEAKER 04 :
it’s a business there’s no way it’s a business yes thank you absolutely a business and the other thing now tucker carlson obviously has a background in journalism he’s well read he’s got that he’s forgotten i believe well yeah you could be right on that candace owens a very well-educated woman and so forth but a lot of the people that are social media influencers are just kids that want to have a following. And sometimes I’ve looked at some videos where somebody says, hey, you think you know what’s going on in Iran? Let me tell you. I’m like, who are you? Where did you come from? And it’s just some 23-year-old girl or some 18-year-old kid that he’s going to drop the hammer of truth and we all should follow him. Well, you know, the Bible says, don’t look down on your youth, et cetera. And God has used young people for great things. But in reality, you know, what are the credentials of this individual? What’s their background? Who is this? Why would I listen to them? What ulterior motives might they have? And we live in a world now where we’re willing to listen to just about anybody that can capture our attention for more than five seconds, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think the other thing to look at too along those lines, Neil, this is my problem with Tucker Carlson’s and Candace Owens and lately even Megyn Kelly because she tends to be influenced by Tucker. I don’t know why. I thought she was smarter than that. I’ll be just straight up honest. I thought Megyn was smarter than that, but she tends to be influenced by Tucker. And what I mean by that is, folks, let me tell you what. The first two especially, Megan is teetering on this and I don’t know why, but they are very anti-Semitic. They are very much, let me just say it this way, they are Israel slash Jew haters through and through. Candace Owens is, Tucker Carlson is, Megan is teetering on this and I don’t know why because she’s never been that way in the past. And let me tell you what, these are individuals that they may not come right out and say it, but this is where Ted Cruz is going against Tucker right now because he’s calling him out on this. He’s a Jew hater through and through. And for me, Neil, when I know that’s somebody’s core, why would I listen to them at all?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. What is Ted saying, by the way?
SPEAKER 03 :
He’s coming after Tucker and basically saying, listen, I am coming after you. I am not going to put up with this. You are spewing a bunch of anti-Semitism and it’s not right. And I’m coming after you and calling you out because you’re wrong. I’m paraphrasing what Ted Cruz said, but that’s essentially what he’s telling Tucker.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, interesting.
SPEAKER 03 :
And you know what? Rightfully so, because here’s the thing that everybody forgets. Tucker claims to be a solid, you know, conservative Republican, even Christian, if you would. And yet he’s as anti-Jew as you’re going to find. And to me, those two don’t mix. There is no part, in my opinion, there is no part in our party that allows these individuals to exist inside of our party. And we need to extradite them, if you ask me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, you know, there’s that replacement theology thing where some people think that the U.S. or, you know, the church, really, the church has become the new Israel, you know, and that Israel doesn’t really exist anymore. I know. Well, it does still exist as a nation, and Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and all these things matter in terms of end times Bible prophecy. And I don’t want to get into that because there’s 20 different versions of what people believe about the end times. But the reality is Jesus said, I’m coming back again. And when he sets his feet down on planet Earth, he’s going to make a visit to Israel. In fact, that may be the first place he sets down his feet, and I don’t know where else he plans to go. But Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords, our Savior, is a Jew. And, you know, when he came to Earth in bodily form, the Incarnation, God placed him in Israel. He was born a Jew, born under the law. And then, of course, ushered in the age of grace. Thank God for that. We’re no longer under the law. Christ is the end of the law. And, you know, our righteousness is found in him alone. But how do you divorce your if you’re saying you’re safe, if you’re saying that you have that you’re a Christian.
SPEAKER 03 :
well how do you how do you remove judaism from jesus right i mean how exactly how do you don’t you know it’s very clear and i’ve had this argument with you know quote unquote you know libertarian which by the way most libertarians are very anti-jew that’s why i’m not one i have those leanings and i think that way but i am definitely not one of them because i am not at all you guys know this anti-jew any way shape or form and scripture, Neil, you know, this is very clear that we Gentiles have been grafted in. If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have salvation in the first place.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And so it was God’s plan. God himself orchestrated this whole idea that salvation would come through the Jews. And, you know, if you’ve got a problem with that, take it up with the Lord, because that’s how exactly he planned it. But, you know, the idea of talking about Christianity with you cannot do it. You cannot talk about Christianity without talking about Judaism. That’s right. Because ultimately we came from Judaism. from judaism and while while i’m not saying that any of us need to go back and follow the law or move to israel and become jews i’m not saying that at all but um but to cast them aside as though they don’t matter you know god made a covenant with them and then the new covenant that he made you know that god ultimately would be our lord and our master that he would rule our hearts and that ultimately we would give our lives to him that was offered to all people christ died once for all the just for the unjust in order that he might bring us to god but uh but the whole story of the gospel begins in israel and jesus is going back to israel and he’ll be proclaimed king of kings and lord of lords probably while he’s standing either on the temple mount or in jerusalem somewhere And all of this is significant. So to be anti-Israel is very suspect. And I think the enemy would love that we would make it our effort to discount the people of God and Israel rather than focus on who Jesus is and what the truth is really all about.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. And again, in my opinion too, Neil, these are very much people that, I get it, Tucker’s a young Christian, but he’s been influenced in very much the wrong way on all the things that we just got done talking about. And the other thing that I think these individuals do, and I don’t know why, I mean, I think I do know why. It’s a deep-rooted problem that we even have as conservatives in our nation when it comes to the whole anti- semitic movement but at the end of the day neil these are also individuals that i feel try to de-jewish if you would de-juicize maybe is a way to say that jesus christ himself in other words he was through and through a jew he was a rabbi he started his ministry at a certain age because he was a full rabbi there’s people today though neil that i think either a don’t know that have forgotten that or want people to not understand that well and all of the first believers were jews
SPEAKER 04 :
all correct so like the foundations of our faith are rooted in judaism paul wrote half the new testament he had persecuted christians but he was the ultimate jew trained under gamaliel like there was never a more astute jewish Pharisee than the Apostle Paul, who at the time was known as Saul. But, you know, the reality is, like, the foundations of our faith are rooted in Judaism. At what point then would somebody say, well, yeah, but we decided to unhook from Judaism? And they might say, well, the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, that all of that ushered in, you know, the new covenant and this
SPEAKER 03 :
new understanding of what truth is all about no it’s a consistent understanding really quick to jump in this is something that these people don’t understand christ came to fulfill complete and make the law better he didn’t come to wipe it out yeah he didn’t abolish the law he fulfilled it the person of christ filled it and made it he made everything better meaning he didn’t wipe out the jews as being god’s chosen people he made that better
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly. And by the way, we’re not under the law in the sense that we have to try to keep the law. Jesus did it for us. But, you know, Jesus did instruct us to do the very things that he commanded, and that’s to love God and to love others. He never said, love the God who didn’t send the Jews, love the God who hates the Jews. I mean, think about it. How do you construct a theology that takes the Jews out of the salvation plan in the first place? And it’s heresy if you try to. That’s right. You can’t.
SPEAKER 03 :
And my point with all those folks, again, just to kind of bring things back into what we started here, is when you listen to people, and I encourage you not to because they’re all making money off you listening, but when you listen to people like a Tucker Carlson or a Candace Owens, and there’s many others, by the way, that I could throw into that as well, that claim to be experts. They’re experts on what’s going on in the Middle East. They’re experts on Iran. They’re experts on Israel and so on. And the reality is, no, they’re not, because their basic foundational belief system is is flawed now i get it a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and again and they probably can as well but all in all you have to really discount the majority of what they’re saying neil because their foundation once again is flawed and again it’s not to say that just because somebody has a different belief than me that i can’t listen to them but when their entire foundation is off base, it’s hard to believe anything else they’re saying because their mind isn’t where it should be. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 04 :
A hundred percent.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And all of this, again, I’m not discounting these kind of conversations, but all of this creates further distraction. If we really love God, why don’t we get into his word and fulfill his plan and purpose for our life and tell others that what they’re really going to need if they’re ever going to see God is Jesus, because he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. So, you know, salvation is not accomplished by works. It’s not by works of righteousness, which you have done. But by his mercy, he saved us. And and I just think that I thank God that through the Jewish people, salvation came to all of mankind. And I’m going to continue to honor that reality for as long as I’m alive.
SPEAKER 03 :
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Episode 349-Iran, SCOTUS, and Virginia Gerrymandering